Re: Redhat not in favor of Qt & KDE - documented?

1997-12-20 Thread Sten Anderson
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I remember reading here that even Redhat is not really in favor of kde > because of it's non free componente - Qt. Is this really documented > anywhere? Other than by the fact that it hasn't been included:-)? Some Redhat developer stated this policy in

Redhat not in favor of Qt & KDE - documented?

1997-12-20 Thread David Welton
I remember reading here that even Redhat is not really in favor of kde because of it's non free componente - Qt. Is this really documented anywhere? Other than by the fact that it hasn't been included:-)? Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debi

menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

1997-12-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
It occurs to me that the menu files ought to have fields for: Xresources to get `xrdb -merge'd when the program is launched. (lazy eval) (and removed perhaps, on the delete window hook? Does the X server gc?) Menu font, color, icon, a predicate for when it's greyed off (think scwm) XTerm

Intent to package: `cvsweb-1.0'

1997-12-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I'm planning to package `cvsweb-1.0'. Q: Where does it go? Experimental, or unstable/web? Here's the README, the copyright follows. README Description: Binary data # Copyright (C) 1996 # William C. Fenner. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, w

debhelper: suggestions

1997-12-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I find that if you put: .EXPORT_ALL_VARIABLES: ... into debian/rules, the DH_VERBOSE=1 starts to function. Also, to put a version string into a program, I use: VERSION=$(shell dpkg-parsechangelog 2>/dev/null \ | gawk -F:

"/etc/ld.so.conf" ordering

1997-12-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I was just trying to compile `browser-history', and the following thing happened: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/debian/Work/browser-history' gcc -ansi -O -Wall browser-history.c -o browser-history \ -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXmu -lX11 ld: warning: libc.so.5, needed by /usr/lib/libc5-compat

Re: problem with libmime-perl_3.204-1.deb in hamm

1997-12-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Tim> I am in the process of upgrading my system to run current with hamm Tim> and had a problem with the libmime-perl pkg relating to the Tim> libwww-perl pkg that prevented both pkgs from configuring. "Hm, not good" says the libmime-perl maintainer (that would be me :-( ) Tim> First

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-20 Thread David Frey
On Thu, Dec 18 1997 12:16 CST Rob Browning writes: > /* On GNU/Linux systems, both methods are used by various mail > programs. I assume that most people are using newer mailers that > have heard of flock. Change this if you need to. */ > > #define MAIL_USE_FLOCK > > And here's th

Re: problem with libmime-perl_3.204-1.deb in hamm

1997-12-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Tim Ferrell wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading my system to run current with hamm and > had a problem with the libmime-perl pkg relating to the libwww-perl pkg > that prevented both pkgs from configuring. > > First libwww-perl requires libmime-base64-perl which does no

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread john
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Error configuring $package: /usr/src/linux-$version does not seem to > be a symbolic link, possibly from an old package or a left-over > from a user installed kernel. Please remove > /usr/src/linux-$version and try to reconfigure $package. I suggest you

IconPath, menu

1997-12-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I've created a directory "/usr/X11R6/icons" for my own use. I think that we need to have something like that, and a keeper of the icons. All of the mini icons and whatnot from the various packages ought to be consolidated into one icon package. I think it should be someone who likes to draw

Intent to package synaesthesia

1997-12-20 Thread Martin Mitchell
Hi, I intend to package a program called synaethesia. It is a cd player with graphical effects, and is quite compact. The license is GPL, the section would be hamm/sound. Martin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-

gone for a week

1997-12-20 Thread James Troup
Hi, I'm going home for a week or more, if any serious[1] bugs in my packages come up, please feel free to do non-maintainer uploads of them. Happy Christmas and all that larky. [1] And, please, I do mean serious, i.e. not whether /x/y/z should or shouldn't be a conffile. -- James -- TO UNSUB

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread Bart Schuller
On Dec 20, Manoj Srivastava wrote > > "Bart" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bart> Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and > Bart> configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . > > Bart> * Poof * > > No it does not! Would you please look at what the

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-20 Thread Radu Duta
On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 12:15:29AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Radu Duta writes: > >RD> On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> dpkg --get-selections >> dpkg --set-selections I noticed; well it's a start, that's for sure. There is a lot of info missing from t

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-20 Thread hollen
>> Radu Duta writes: RD> On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 1) Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to >> a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical >> installations. RD> There is a twist to this. Allong with all the

check out Captain Blue-Eye

1997-12-20 Thread James A . Treacy
The web pages should all be utilizing Captain Blue-Eye in a reasonably good way right now. The changes ended up occurring sooner than I'd hoped so I had to rush. I'm pretty sure all the major problems are fixed, but I'd appreciate it if people could thoroughly look through the pages and report any

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Bart" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bart> Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and Bart> configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . Bart> * Poof * No it does not! Would you please l

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-20 Thread Radu Duta
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 09:29:17AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >1) Once all packages are selected, be able to dump the selections to >a file that could be later read in for subsequent identical >installations. There is a twist to this. Allong with all the installed packages will com

problem with libmime-perl_3.204-1.deb in hamm

1997-12-20 Thread Tim Ferrell
I am in the process of upgrading my system to run current with hamm and had a problem with the libmime-perl pkg relating to the libwww-perl pkg that prevented both pkgs from configuring. First libwww-perl requires libmime-base64-perl which does not exist. I figured that libmime-perl provided this

Re: how to handel version numbers for upstreap updates.

1997-12-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Radu Duta wrote: > I've got a package version 1.5.0-1 that I've already packaged. > There is a new upstream release 1.5.1. > Should the new package be named 1.5.1-1 or 1.5.1-2 or is it up to > my discretion. > > Since it's an entirely new source tree it would make sense > to

how to handel version numbers for upstreap updates.

1997-12-20 Thread Radu Duta
I've got a package version 1.5.0-1 that I've already packaged. There is a new upstream release 1.5.1. Should the new package be named 1.5.1-1 or 1.5.1-2 or is it up to my discretion. Since it's an entirely new source tree it would make sense to use 1.5.1-1. Are there any official policies on thi

Re: Xfree86 3.3.1

1997-12-20 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Given that the current build constructs either libc6-only (for some non-x86 ports) or libc6+altdev-libc5 trees, arranging it to build for 1.3.1 would be a fair amount of painful work. Someone else may be willing to do this. However, I think the effort is better spent actually getting Debian 2.0 o

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Bart" == Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bart> Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and Bart> configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . Bart> * Poof * Perhaps the `kernel-headers' install script ought to look for an existing /usr/src/linux

dselect/dpkg dependency problems

1997-12-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if they should be reported as bugs. Timezone: Version 7.48-3 of timezone was installed and tim

Dselect stops and repeats unpacking of packages

1997-12-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if they should be reported as bugs. During the installation, dselect stopped with the followin

Re: Minor error installing login_970616-1

1997-12-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
OOPS - staring at this console too long! I ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard)) wrote: > The perl system contained login 1.45a-3 . . . __ should read "rex system" Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Missing fsck

1997-12-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if they should be reported as bugs. The rex system had e2fsprogs v1.06-3 installed, and versio

Minor error installing login_970616-1

1997-12-20 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if they should be reported as bugs. The perl system contained login 1.45a-3, which was replace