GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-05 Thread Edward Betts
Debian 2 ships with Gimp 1 take that redhat :-) -- Edward Betts http://www.hairnet.demon.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hamm install on laptop

1998-06-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Steve Tonnesen wrote: > I'm getting unresolved symbol errors when cardmgr tries to insmod the > 3c589_cs module for my 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card. Is this a problem with > the boot disks, and/or is there a solution for this? The laptop is an AST > Ascentia J series, and the ca

Hamm install on laptop

1998-06-05 Thread Steve Tonnesen
I'm getting unresolved symbol errors when cardmgr tries to insmod the 3c589_cs module for my 3Com PCMCIA ethernet card. Is this a problem with the boot disks, and/or is there a solution for this? The laptop is an AST Ascentia J series, and the card is a 3C589C. Steve. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Twin Package

1998-06-05 Thread Brian White
I've heard that somebody is packaging "twin". Does anybody know who? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.04. For this and m

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, in cases like this the order in which the deb files are > presented to dpkg is relevant. So if a novice is upgrading a large > set of packages, and the packages are not presented in the corect > order, the upgrade process issues ominous

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The only remedy is to remove the old libpaper, and then to install >> libpaper and libpaperg. James> Where *did* you get this idea from? It's 200% bogus. >> 14:20:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~/temp $sudo dpkg -iEG libpaper_1.0.3-9.deb >> l

Re: Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > This turned out to be almost trivial...simply a few mods, instead of servicing > requests after connect, it fork()s and lets the child service that connection > while the parent loops and waits fo rthe next connect. [I think I changed > 10 lines of c

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think I'm failing to follow something basic here. Does paperconf depend on the libc6 shared libraries? If so, there is no way one could use the binaries without loading libpaperg, right? Secondly, Hamm is supoposed to be libc6. >>"Marco" == Marco Pistore <[EMAIL PROTECT

Problems with the undead (zombies)

1998-06-05 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I was hacking around on xfstt earlier today. I decided that it was too limited in that it would only accept 1 simultaneous connection (ie for each xfstt you run you can only have 1 session of X using it as a font path) so I decided to see if I could make it accept multiple connections... This tur

Re: Bug#22942: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote: [libpaperg contains binaries also needed by libpaper -> libpaper depends on libpaperg, which is undesired] > The possible solutions are: > > SOLUTION 1 (Suggested by Wichert) > - > Create the packages: >libpaper -

Re: Documentation/License freeness (what RMS says about it) [rms@santafe.edu: Re: GPL itself non-free]

1998-06-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hello! > > This is thereply I got from RMS about the copyright freeness issue. > > I think it is clear that we should lay the license freeness issue ad acta. > Debian should include all licenses in whole, and the dfsg should not exactly > apply to

On holiday next week

1998-06-05 Thread Adrian Bridgett
I'm going on holiday until the 15th, feel free to make NMU of any packages I maintain for hamm (and slink if it's really that urgent). None have important bugs outstanding AFAIK. Cheers Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing.

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Raul Miller
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No; perl shouldn't depend on libgdbmg1. libgdbmg1 is obsolete and > deprecated. I asked the perl maintainer if he could fix this back in > March or so, apparently it hasn't happened. This close to hamm's release, we should probably rely on non-maintainer

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like libgdbmg1 should be required, [ ... ] No; perl shouldn't depend on libgdbmg1. libgdbmg1 is obsolete and deprecated. I asked the perl maintainer if he could fix this back in March or so, apparently it hasn't happened. -- James ~Yawn And Walk

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Raul Miller
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://master.debian.org/~dark/lintian/reports/depcheck.html#i386 :-) Looks like libstdc++2.8 and libgdbmg1 should be required, and that dpkg-dev, dpkg-perl, and libnet-perl should be standard. -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Richard Braakman
Martin Schulze wrote: > dark: Could you run your script that checks each priority for > completeness? (don't depend/... on packages of lower priority) http://master.debian.org/~dark/lintian/reports/depcheck.html#i386 :-) It's generated daily. I was going to announce it together with a number o

Documentation/License freeness (what RMS says about it) [rms@santafe.edu: Re: GPL itself non-free]

1998-06-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello! This is thereply I got from RMS about the copyright freeness issue. I think it is clear that we should lay the license freeness issue ad acta. Debian should include all licenses in whole, and the dfsg should not exactly apply to them. Note that we require the dfsg-freeness for the benefi

Re: Intent to fix base-passwd

1998-06-05 Thread Christian Meder
Hi, sorry for being such a nuisance :-/ On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 11:20:52PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote: > On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 10:18:40AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > while testing the base packages I hit the critical bugs surrounding >

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > According to Dale Scheetz: > > So, where do I find the source? Helsinki only has 2.0.33? > > I downloaded 2.0.34 from ftp.funet.fi yesterday morning (the patch that is, > I did not check to see if a complete kernel was there). It was, I did. Luis. -- Luis Francis

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
According to Dale Scheetz: > So, where do I find the source? Helsinki only has 2.0.33? I downloaded 2.0.34 from ftp.funet.fi yesterday morning (the patch that is, I did not check to see if a complete kernel was there). You can also find a copy of the 2.0.34 patch on ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/li

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Dale Scheetz
So, where do I find the source? Helsinki only has 2.0.33? On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > Well, our news server (Diablo, #threehundredsomething in the top1000) > > crashed regulary with all the 2.0.x kernels but with the later 2.0.34pre >

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread James Troup
Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SOLUTION 3 > > -- > > Well, we can also decide that to leave the situation as it is. In this > > way, however, users would not be able to install the new version of the > > library without also installing libpaperg (and libc6...) > > That isn't

Re: Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Roman Hodek
> SOLUTION 3 > -- > Well, we can also decide that to leave the situation as it is. In this > way, however, users would not be able to install the new version of the > library without also installing libpaperg (and libc6...) That isn't the real problem, but the upgrade from an old system (

Advice for release critical bug (WAS: Bug#22942: libpaper depends on libpaperg)

1998-06-05 Thread Marco Pistore
Hi! Recently, Santiago opened a bug against libpaper. This is one of the RELEASE CRITICAL bugs, and we were not able to find a satisfactory solution. Hopefully, you have some useful suggestion... Here is the history: On Thu, 28 May 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > Subject: Bug#22942: libpaper depend

Re: advantage of new kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Well, our news server (Diablo, #threehundredsomething in the top1000) > crashed regulary with all the 2.0.x kernels but with the later 2.0.34pre > kernels it has been rock-stable. 2.0.33 regulary hangs on newer Intel chipsets. I installed Debian on a frie

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 12:14:33AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 11:36:14AM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > The freeze of Hamm is about to become much more solid. The installation > > has been determined to be stable and now testing is proceeding to the > > individual packag

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-05 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 11:36:14AM -0400, Brian White wrote: > The freeze of Hamm is about to become much more solid. The installation > has been determined to be stable and now testing is proceeding to the > individual packages. This will start with the testing of those marked > "essential" and

Re: Debian Bazaar Politics (was: Debian Re-organization proposal)

1998-06-05 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Fabien Ninoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just split the subject of the previous to take more about politics in > Debian and let people discuss about the proposal. > > I think we too much mess up with wordin like democracy and government. > Debian are neither. It's a bunch of volunteers try

Debian Bazaar Politics (was: Debian Re-organization proposal)

1998-06-05 Thread Fabien Ninoles
I just split the subject of the previous to take more about politics in Debian and let people discuss about the proposal. I think we too much mess up with wordin like democracy and government. Debian are neither. It's a bunch of volunteers trying to work together. If voting let you think it's a de