Re: killall is removed from procps

1998-01-01 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > will NOT HAVE KILLALL. I think this is probably a Bad Thing. > > Two options: > I merge the psmic into procps > I create a new package called psmisc. The second, and make procps recommend or suggest the new psmisc package. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM T

killall is removed from procps

1998-01-01 Thread csmall
[I emailled the talk about procps and colors on debian-private, but on second thoughts it probably should go here] Ok, so I have patched procps so it now does colors, and compiles and works. But, killall is no longer in procps. It is now part of a package called psmisc. This was done by the aut

Re: Looking for a reason to not orphan my howto

1998-01-01 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 08:23:04PM +0100, Meskes, Michael wrote: > libc5-dev for hamm??? And what's wrong with libc5 in hamm? > > IMO it's a waste of time to upgrade the bo version now that we're close > to completing hamm. No it's not. If we don't have a working libc5 for hamm people can't upgr

Re: Re[2]: My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I nee

1998-01-01 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eloy A. Paris) wrote on 01.01.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : Well, when the original maintainer asked on -devel, I said that I'd take > : it over, and I did. I have no idea why it landed on that list. > > Did you let the maintainer

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
> 18970 pacman_10-4.1_i386.deb Libc6! and doesn't segfault! > There was an error in the source. A struct was referenced after it was freed. > I am surprised that it worked on libc5. It should have segfaulted with that. > Maybe that is a bug with libc5? I am in win right now,

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
What's going on is that we will have an alpha-testable system by the weekend with any luck, and we can then set deadlines. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

RE: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed before hamm. It's not yet clear to me that we can make this automat

Re: Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Adam wrote: Adam> | On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 3:17:38 PM | Boris wrote about Adam> "My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an Adam> account on master!" > On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Adam wrote: Adam> Adam> Adam>> wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1_i386.deb

Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
| On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 3:17:38 PM | Boris wrote about "My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!" > On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Adam wrote: Adam>> wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1_i386.deb Libc6! 88624 xinetd_2.2.1-1_i386.deb Adam>> Libc6! New upstream version

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On 1 Jan 1998, James Troup wrote: Troup> > And if there was a deadline for me to convert my packages I Troup> > would of made it. Troup> Troup> Ah of course; it's our fault for not setting a deadline. Silly Troup> me. Listen, I am not looking for somebody to blame. I am just saying:

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Boris D. Beletsky
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Adam wrote: Adam> wu-ftpd_2.4-27.1_i386.deb Libc6! 88624 xinetd_2.2.1-1_i386.deb Adam> Libc6! New upstream version I think I already told you. Xinetd is not orphaned, I am going to release the libc6 package in a few. thks, borik __ Boris D. Beletsky

Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
| On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 10:34:00 AM | Guy wrote about "My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!" > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> OK, I put all of that stuff in Incoming. > It's going to get rejected if his key isn't in the keyring. YEs, that is th

RE: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread Meskes, Michael
I'm sorry, but where's the problem with libc5-altdev? Also, the kernel. I think we should do our best to get a 2.0.33 kernel into hamm ASAP. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager| topystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROT

RE: Looking for a reason to not orphan my howto

1998-01-01 Thread Meskes, Michael
libc5-dev for hamm??? And what's wrong with libc5 in hamm? IMO it's a waste of time to upgrade the bo version now that we're close to completing hamm. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager| topystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
Richard, Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: kernel headers---FAQ

1998-01-01 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "adavis" == adavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: adavis> I was able to install using adavis> --ignore-depends=linux-kernel-headers-2.0.32. I had to do the similar thing, and found that I also had to update the symlinks "/usr/include/{asm,linux}" by hand. I have the symlink "/usr/

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread Richard Braakman
I started compiling libc5 with Ray Dassen's patch. It will probably take a few hours to complete. I changed the patch a bit more. I added the following lines to the control entry for libc5-dev: Conflicts: libc (<<4.6.27-11), libc-dev Provides: libc-dev Replaces: ppp (<<2.2.0f-22) I took

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread Marco Budde
Am 31.12.97 schrieb borik # isracom.net.il ... Moin "Boris! "BDB> Do we have any dates for Debian 2.0 "BDB> release/code-freze/dead-line/anything? No. "BDB> If not, shouldn't we schedule one already. What are we waiting for? Are really good question. We should hurry a litte bit. cu, Marco --

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 05:58:30PM +, James Troup wrote: > > > Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as > > > our default MTA? > > > > Well... Please take a look at > > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/ and > > test the smail inside. > > Woul

Re: Dependencies

1998-01-01 Thread Yann Dirson
Kai Henningsen writes: > Plus, dpkg isn't thorough enough with dependencies. This is what leads to > dselect install-configure-remove-install-configure-remove cycles, and > sometimes to installs breaking the system - dpkg doesn't take into account > how dependencies etc. change during pac

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread James Troup
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as > > our default MTA? > > Well... Please take a look at > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/ and > test the smail inside. Wouldn't that be better tested if it w

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 05:10:09PM +, James Troup wrote: > Oh really? What about such inessentials and trivialities such as our > default MTA? Well... Please take a look at ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/soenke/debian-beta/ and test the smail inside. > > And if there was a deadline

Re: Re[2]: My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I nee

1998-01-01 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : Well, when the original maintainer asked on -devel, I said that I'd take : it over, and I did. I have no idea why it landed on that list. Did you let the maintainer of the list (I think it was Phillipe Troin) know you were taking maintenance of this p

Re: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-01 Thread fog
Hi Marco, On 31 Dic, Marco Budde wrote: > Moin Moin! > > Today I've released the latest version of my HTML online help system for > Debian. Bugs reports are welcome :). > > dhelp I like it but... 1) How about dwww? (Yes, I know dwww needs a web server...)

Re: My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I need a master account!

1998-01-01 Thread fog
Hi Adam, > 418408 tkdesk_1.0b4-2.1_i386.deb Libc6! 1.0b5 is out, and has some nice stuff added. Why don't you package that? > Please someone give me an account on master so that I can spread my work to > the > debian public. Why dont you upload to chiark? If you PGP is in maintai

Re: debian 2.0 - any dates?

1998-01-01 Thread James Troup
"Boris D. Beletsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gee, I dunno, maybe it's, at least in part, for the developers who > > still haven't upgraded their packages to libc6, despite it being > > available since April. > > It will be available in the next few days, Like Jed was going to be done "thi

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 07:08:44AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing > the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone > pretty please do this? I've tried to, but it missed a description for the -d

Re: Re[2]: My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I nee

1998-01-01 Thread Kai Henningsen
Hi Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) wrote on 31.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > | On Wednesday, 31 December 97, at 2:18:00 PM > | Kai wrote about "My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I > > need a mas" Hi Adam, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Heath) wrote on 31.12.97 in > > <[EM

Re: GIF patent issue

1998-01-01 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 31.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Please be aware that the GIF patent issue is for WRITERS only. Readers > do not use the patented algorithm. Often you can put the writer in non-free > and leave the rest of the program in main. Indeed. The problem is the compression

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 07:34:00AM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > OK, I put all of that stuff in Incoming. > > It's going to get rejected if his key isn't in the keyring. He has already submitted his new-maintainer request. Please wait until has been finished. Regards

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Guy Maor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > OK, I put all of that stuff in Incoming. It's going to get rejected if his key isn't in the keyring. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Processed:

1998-01-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 16391 patch Bug#16391: Patching the kernel leads to segmentation fault Bug assigned to package `patch'. > reassign 16439 general Bug#16439: dselect removed nolonger available Bug assigned to package `general'. > merge 16440 16444 Bug#16440:

kernel headers---FAQ

1998-01-01 Thread adavis
I apologize profusely for this posting. Here it goes again. Before I get started, yes, I have read the nice mail from Linux about the kernel headers, and I have respectfully read the many emails I have received on this topic from thoughtful developers. But I am still confused. I am sorry, but I

mysql won't compile with libc6-2.0.6 (Debian)

1998-01-01 Thread Scott Hanson
Please pardon the cross-posting to two unrelated lists, but I'm not sure if this is a mysql problem or a libc6 problem. I suspect the latter. After working just fine with libc6-2.0.5c, I'm not able to compile mysql under the new libc6-2.0.6 packages. The first noticable symptom is that the configu

need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone pretty please do this? Also, it looks to me as if libc6 depends on versions of kernel-headers and kernel-source that are _not_ in hamm at the moment.

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread bruce
OK, I put all of that stuff in Incoming. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-01 Thread Adam Heath
13526 bulkmail_1.6-2.1_i386.deb Libc6! 34084 chord_3.6.1-1.1_i386.debLibc6! 9980dbview_1.0.3-3.1_i386.deb Libc6! 290268 defrag_0.70-3_i386.deb 25474 grmonitor_0.53-2.1_i386.deb Libc6! 40024 lurkftp_0.99-1.1_i386.deb 288158 majord

Re: libnfslock (or dftp?) install dangerous...

1998-01-01 Thread Roberto Lumbreras
On 30 Dec 1997, Mark W. Eichin wrote: : From: "Mark W. Eichin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org : Date: 30 Dec 1997 22:04:51 -0500 : Subject: libnfslock (or dftp?) install dangerous... : : I was just upgrading a system from [hamm a few weeks old] to [hamm : today] using, fo

netcat update & intentions

1998-01-01 Thread Robert Woodcock
After getting in touch with Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the current maintainer of netcat, I've decided to make a non-maintainer release of netcat with the version 1.10-3.1. It should let us close all the distribution-specific bug reports for that package: * #5304: missing man page