On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
> Sorry, but don't we keep on agreeing that the <--- key generating DEL is the
> right thing to do ?
No, we don't.
> I could have sworn that I've been in several discussions that resulted in
> that
> conclusion, with the caveat that people should be abl
David Frey wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 6 1997 21:50 +0100 Richard Braakman writes:
> > David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > pax-2.1-3(Not DFSG-compliant?)
>
> Hmm. I uploaded pax a few weeks ago into non-free (this was Mark H. Colburn's
> version)
Let's see... I checked my archives, and I f
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 07:42:56PM +, James Troup wrote:
> Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I'm going to package cftp (full screen FTP client) - upload on
> > Monday :-)
>
> Umm, a little more information would be nice.
I've only tried it for about a minute, but it basically
On Sat, Dec 6 1997 21:50 +0100 Richard Braakman writes:
...
> David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> pax-2.1-3(Not DFSG-compliant?)
Hmm. I uploaded pax a few weeks ago into non-free (this was Mark H. Colburn's
version)
But anyway,
if I manage it to compile the Open-BSD pax, we'll have a
> On Sun Dec 7 09:15:28 1997 +
>(Sekmadienis, 1997 m. gruodio 7 d. 11:15:28 +0200),
> Mark Baker wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
> >
> > > Okay. I'm building a new unstable version of rxvt with backspace set
> > > to
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until
> > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the
> > packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. Is there an easy way to
> > do this? (Also,
> How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until
> a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the
> packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. Is there an easy way to
> do this? (Also, if pentium clones also work with the ecgs compiled
> pac
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> This is one area where Windows has got a far better solution that Unix. I'm
> sure it's for technical regions, but I have at least ten different areas in
> which I set proxy servers and I'm fed up with it.
>
> We should have a standard place for thes
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If nobody objects (i've cc'ed this message to the original
> maintainer "Fernando Alegre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>") i'd happily like
> to take over maintenance of this package.
Do you have a libc6 setup? A package with a maintainer who can't do
uploads for un
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes:
> So why did you add the call to ldconfig?
Because it's necessary. Duh. As I say, try removing it from
libreadline2's postinst. Why do you think the upgrade of bo -> hamm
is still so problematic? It's because we don't have a method for
selective im
Greetings,
I am looking for a Washington, D.C. (USA) area Debian developer to
sign keys with. (Actually, I am in Annandale, northern Virginia).
The xearth file only has 49 entries, so there is a good chance that
there are nearby develops not listed.
Unless I hear from anyone closer, I will conta
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Now that ecgs has ben officially released, maybe it's time to think (again)
> about pentium/pro/K6/... specific packages. I think it would be good to have
> a section i586 which would contain pentium specific packages. I don't know
> how this conflict w
On 07-Dec-1997 12:43:00, Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which easily leads (for me) to actually missing them - because of
> duplicate suppression, they do not show up where they are expected (with
> the mailing list).
One of the reasons I *don't* use duplicate supression (I leave
> (@debian.org??) I'll raise something I thought about a while
I think it's [EMAIL PROTECTED] actually, but I'm not sure; I
only occasionally get mail to it -- all of it inappropriate
(everything I've gotten to xbase@<> in particular should have either
gone to debian-user or to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 10:12:29AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> Well, I guess then libc5 machines dedicated to backporting should have
> dpkg-dev from hamm installed. And upload newer dpkg-dev to bo-unstable
> for consistency.
As well as patch from hamm, so that it is possible to unpack hamm
I'm going to package cftp (full screen FTP client) - upload on Monday :-)
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Now that ecgs has ben officially released, maybe it's time to think (again)
about pentium/pro/K6/... specific packages. I think it would be good to have
a section i586 which would contain pentium specific packages. I don't know
how this conflict with the current dpkg* tools (such as dselect). I kno
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 08:46:36PM -0600, David Engel wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:59:27AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > David Engel wrote:
> > >
> > > I only know of one real bug so far. They didn't apply the fix needed
> > > to use the NIS module from autofs with glibc. I found that prob
On Sat, Dec 06, 1997 at 02:26:26PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 6 Dec, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> > Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the
> > Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct
> > Dirk> proxy server.
> >
Now that we have email addresses for the packages
(@debian.org??) I'll raise something I thought about a while
ago.
Currently the only way that a maintainer knows about a new package is:
a) they keep checking the sites
b) someone tells them (often through a bug report)
c) they have a progra
James Troup wrote:
> And please don't judge other maintainers by your own standards, I for
> one, won't add gratuitous program calls to my postinsts just because
> someone said I should. Perhaps you would, that doesn't mean that 90%
> of the shared library maintainers would.
So why did you add t
On 7 Dec 1997, Ed Donovan wrote:
> Some people on debian user had been sharing user-versions of mrtg; I got
> the wrong idea, and thought I was facilitating further packaging work .
> I'm much happier to see that you *are* still working on the project; do
> excuse me.
It's okay. Since I left my p
On 07-Dec-1997 12:43:00, Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There don't seem to be many that match your definition of "decent".
> (Incidentally, that's part of why I'm still thinking about writing my
> own.)
>
> Maybe we should make a list. You seem to like GNUS; obviously, that's no
Will> A package I'm maintaining, rosegarden, has come out with
Will> dependencies on xlib6 AND xlib6g. I didn't do this by hand, I left
Will> the "shlibs" stuff in the control file.
Happened to me once with an X11 package of mine. You probably have a mixed
libc5/libc6 system, and/or have
On 07-Dec-1997 12:43:00, Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's true. The problem, however, is that better solutions are next to
> non-existant - I sure don't consider something that only works for a very
> small number of mail clients a "solution".
"Reply-to-all" + editing is ava
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Since XEmacs-20.3 has finally been released on Nov 30 it would be
> really nice to have this included in Debian-2.0 instead of the now
> obsolete XEmacs-20.2, especially since some nasty bugs have been fixed
> with this release.
Please tell me that the co
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes:
> > Take a look at the postinsts for every package with a shared
> > library.
>
> I did. But why assume they are correct? Someone reports a bug and
> says "package should run ldconfig", maintainer says "okey I'll do
> that".
I maintain and have done
> > > Although dpkg-dev from hamm works fine on bo since it is not libc
> > > dependent, it's still not possible to backport on a completely-bo
> > > given this factor, unless I am missing something ..
> >
> > As far as I understand, you just told that you can use dpkg-dev from hamm
> > to produce
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 08:44:06AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
> > One problem with doing backports of libc5 packages is that
> > dpkg-dev in bo doesn't seem to support pristine sources;
> > it complained that the original wasn't in the .orig subdirectory.
> >
> > Although dpkg-dev from hamm work
> One problem with doing backports of libc5 packages is that
> dpkg-dev in bo doesn't seem to support pristine sources;
> it complained that the original wasn't in the .orig subdirectory.
>
> Although dpkg-dev from hamm works fine on bo since it is not libc
> dependent, it's still not possible to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tyson Dowd) wrote on 06.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Even the mail RFC (I forget the
> number) suggests using Reply-Tos for mailing lists.
You forgot because it's not true. No such thing in any of RFC 821/822/
1123.
MfG Kai
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 04.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Personally, I still think that reply-to is a bad solution; we
That's true. The problem, however, is that better solutions are next to
non-existant - I sure don't consider something that only works for a very
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dermot John Bradley) wrote on 06.12.97 in <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
>
> > ftp://gated.merit.edu/net-research/gated/gated-R3_5_5.inet.tar.gz
> >
> > (is that the right one ?) and found this in README.license
>
> THe current one is gated-3-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 06.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> If I set a reply-to address for the list manually, then having
> it munged is not just being less pleasing, it is *broken*
> behaviour. Why should we break perfectly standard mail processing
> because some m
On Sun Dec 7 09:15:28 1997 +
(Sekmadienis, 1997 m. gruodÅio 7 d. 11:15:28 +0200),
Mark Baker wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
>
> > Okay. I'm building a new unstable version of rxvt with backspace set
> > to ^H. From this
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> I ended up having so much trouble that I switched to sendmail. I
> received a message that the latest exim now understands -ooe .
you mean -oee ? That means that any errors are forwarded to
the sender (seems like it means the address in "Sender
Sorry, I was having hassles with my local mail system & broken reverse
DNS here and accidentally resent an unstable upload announcement
to debian-devel-announce instead of debian-devel-changes.
:-(
hamish
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Dermot -
(Just caught up with the list again; my Gnus setup caught your mail to
the list first and put the direct reply in the 'duplicates' bin.)
As the one making the speculations about your absence, I'm extremely
sorry. I didn't mean to put you in a position of explaining yourself.
Some peopl
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On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 11:21:36AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Ulf" == Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Ulf> Hello,
>
> Ulf> when I use dpkg-source on an unchanged source tree it complains
> Ulf> about "unrepresentable changes". dpkg-buildpackage exits with an
>
One problem with doing backports of libc5 packages is that
dpkg-dev in bo doesn't seem to support pristine sources;
it complained that the original wasn't in the .orig subdirectory.
Although dpkg-dev from hamm works fine on bo since it is not libc
dependent, it's still not possible to backport on
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Mark Baker wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes:
>
> > Recipes generators and the linux system 'random', which is the longer
>
> Do you mean the library call random? No, that isn't brilliant, though if you
> try other un
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (G John Lapeyre) writes:
> Recipes generators and the linux system 'random', which is the longer
Do you mean the library call random? No, that isn't brilliant, though if you
try other unixes you'll probably find them worse. Apparently /dev
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
> that do this, and file a bug report against them. You should mention that
> tail +4 is dangerous since the behaviour of crontab -l might change , and
> recommend something like:
>
> crontab -l | sed -e '/
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) writes:
> Okay. I'm building a new unstable version of rxvt with backspace set
> to ^H. From this point on, Debian's rxvt policy will be to use ^H as
> backspace by default.
Couldn't you force it to ^? instead? That would be
On 06-Dec-1997, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Tyson> Considering most mailing lists seem to be configured to reject
> Tyson> email that isn't "From" the person on the list, I find this is
> Tyson> a pretty feeble argument. But it's the strongest argument for
> Tyson> not munging
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote:
> What are the considerations for choosing a system random number
> generator? What if debian were the first unix to have a good random
> number generator ? (is there another?) At least I should upload GPL'd
> versions of the good generators (ther
I just had occaison to test random number generators in my work.
I also read a review paper from the physics literature on the subject. I
did extensive tests (on my problem) on all four of the best Numerical
Recipes generators and the linux system 'random', which is the longer
period ge
CKaduc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was hired and paid to take a photograph of a collage basketball team they
> then took the photo and mass produced thousands of copies of it and gave them
> away at a ballgame they were not given the negative or a copyright do I
> have any legal recours
James Troup wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes:
>
> > > The packaging manual is wrong; this is a long standing bug.
> >
> > Can you explain, or refer to a bug number that explains it?
>
> No. I have neither the time nor the inclination to trawl through the
> hundreds of bugs f
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 11:59:27AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> David Engel wrote:
> >
> > I only know of one real bug so far. They didn't apply the fix needed
> > to use the NIS module from autofs with glibc. I found that problem
>
> Does there rpc.nfsd (or squid) leak?
Wasn't that caused by gl
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Would anyone mind particularly if I took the GNU standards.info out of
autoconf and made a new package for it, and added maintain.info and
tasks.info to this package? I think it is the right thing to do;
autoconf is not particularly suited for this.
On another note, is there a magic way to get th
David Engel wrote:
>
> I only know of one real bug so far. They didn't apply the fix needed
> to use the NIS module from autofs with glibc. I found that problem
Does there rpc.nfsd (or squid) leak?
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Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A package I'm maintaining, rosegarden, has come out with dependencies on
> xlib6 AND xlib6g. I didn't do this by hand, I left the "shlibs" stuff in
> the control file. I would purge xlib6 from the system, but a lot of
> packages I need on a daily basis
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Richard Braakman wrote:
> (orphan):
> addressbook-0.6.1-2
Is anyone working on addressbook? If not, maybe I'll give it a shot and
see if I can package it. There's a new upstream version 0.7. :)
Thanks. :)
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 05-Dec-1997 10:32:37, Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The fact that the three lines added here ever get seen in the output of
>>
>> crontab -l
>>
>> is a bug IMO:
>
>Actually, I got a better understanding o
Hi!
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> xcdroast-0.96-1
Just a quick note to discourage non-maintainer uploads:
I am still waiting for the 0.96c release of xcdroast. I've got
a packaged version of the fourth beta which seems to work just
fine.
Wichert.
On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote:
>
> > After several hours of effort, I have majordomo working with exim.
> > I never even knew what the different MTA's were , much less how to use
> > them. However, I think all the changes to the major
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