Re: xinetd and portmap (fwd)

1998-06-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi again Norbert, just one question: do you know if xinetd will continue to listen at traffic in a service's port after it has already forked the server for that service and wait=no? Let's forget about the flags=RESUSE workaround. If this is the case nmbd gives this error message and exists: bin

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread john
Dale Scheetz writes: > To be able to do an install with the rescue disk the space priorities > don't allow anything but ae in that environment. When you can get vi's > binary size down to the footprint of ae, I will be glad to replace it. > Until then all talk of superior usability are nothing but

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bdale> Perl5 now. However, he got really over-zealous and changed a Bdale> lot of other things, too, so that I'm sure how well what he did Bdale> would transfer back. Heh, that's unavoidable when adapting the system for use at a NOC or Helpdes

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I've had it packaged since the first week of January, actually -- just : never uploaded it because its too flaky even when using its own copy : of perl4 (included with the package, stolen from Ian's home dir). It : seems that two files, process and erro

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
"David" == David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> They now have something. I'm not sure about the quality, or David> the backend, but.. they recently instituted a bug tracking David> system. Hehe, I've seen it, and thats what I mean. :-) - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing >ae? $ ll elvis-tiny -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67244 Feb 22 15:45 elvis-tiny* $ ll /bin/ae -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root24012 Apr 13 15

Re: xinetd and portmap

1998-06-10 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:59:10AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi Norbert, > > > It used to be there, but then it was rejected :) I am fixing it now as we > > speak (along with some other fixes). It should be uploaded again by > > tomorrow at the latest (tonight is more likely). > > Great, I

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 06:08:36PM -0300, Johnie Ingram wrote: > >From what I've seen, RedHat needs something like debbugs bad. :-) They now have something. I'm not sure about the quality, or the backend, but.. they recently instituted a bug tracking system. http://www.developer.redhat.com/bug

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:49:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's a typo in README.samba, though: it says > "flag=RESUSE" when it should say "flags=REUSE". I'll test this further > just to be sure. flags is the correct keyword according to the xinet.conf man page, this will be fixed in

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Yann" == Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> What about another one: building a deb of it ? I would be of Yann> interest to people basing a new dist on Debian - it would also Yann> make it easy for people willing to study it and submit small Yann> patches (eg. the "Fixed" severity) I

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Ian Jackson writes: > Current tasks include: > * Indices of bugs by submitter. > * Implement `interested list' for each bug. > * Given `interested list', a way to submit a bug that puts you on > the interested list, so that you get notified of any status change > and not just cl

RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in -devel, once in -private; mainly there is no automated way of tracking them. Most of the time I try to keep this in mind when I feel I may need to contact the author of

Re: Intent to package newscache...

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 02:16:41PM -0700, Tom Lear wrote: > I intend to package newscache a free cache server for the USENET News > system available under the GNU General Public License. > > It's home page is http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/~gschwind/NewsCache/ > > Hope there aren't any objectio

Re: p3nfs (was Bug #21488: p3nfs linked against libc5)

1998-06-10 Thread David Frey
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:35:47PM +0100, Chris Reed wrote: >As listed in The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08, p3nfs is still >linked against libc5, and the maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billy >C.-M. Chow) cannot be contacted. > >I have looked on ftp.uni-elargen.de:/pub/psion3/local/uti

Re: Intent to package newscache...

1998-06-10 Thread wnpp
"Tom" == Tom Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I intend to package newscache a free cache server for the USENET Tom> News system available under the GNU General Public License. Tom> Hope there aren't any objections... - Tom Just one: newscache has been in Incoming for 14 days now. _

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Christopher C Chimelis wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing > > ae? > > I guess not, then... > > > To be able to do an install with the rescue disk the space priorities > > don't a

Intent to package newscache...

1998-06-10 Thread Tom Lear
I intend to package newscache a free cache server for the USENET News system available under the GNU General Public License. It's home page is http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/~gschwind/NewsCache/ Hope there aren't any objections... - Tom

Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-10 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey, I'm currently applying for being a Debian maintainer (using the Debian Developer's Reference). I created a package of the Webalizer software: Package: webalizer Status: install ok installed Installed-Size: 108 Maintainer: Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.12-1 Depends: libc6

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-10 Thread Russell Coker - mailing lists account
>> It shouldn't be that difficult to install *copyright* but not any other >> files in that directory. If the aim is to have all the copyright files on >> every system then some option to skip all the other doco would achieve this >> by >> not making it worth-while to do "rm -rf /usr/doc/*" aft

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-10 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Russell Coker - mailing lists account wrote: >Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says "do not install > >> /usr/doc files"? This way those who do not want the docs

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-10 Thread Russell Coker - mailing lists account
Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says "do not install >> /usr/doc files"? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o >> them. >And /usr/doc//copyright? We still need that for every f

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing > ae? I guess not, then... > To be able to do an install with the rescue disk the space priorities > don't allow anything but ae in that environment. When you can get vi's > binary

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-10 Thread Martin Mitchell
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says "do not install > /usr/doc files"? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o > them. And /usr/doc//copyright? We still need that for every file, as part of policy. Martin. -- To UN

Re: Doh! Developers Reference rendering..

1998-06-10 Thread James A . Treacy
Just thought I'd mention that the version on the web pages are grabbed directly from the ftp archive (only if they have changed). Within a day of the ftp archive getting the new version the web pages will be fixed. Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > Like I said, overall, I think this issue is being discussed on a comfort > level right now. I think we should really be hashing out whether or not > we want to cater to newbies (ae) or to experienced systems admins (vi). > I'm for the latter,

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote: > > PS: If you say that a sysadmin expects "vi" to be there, link vi to ae on a > > rescue disk. He *will* have an editor, this should be sufficient. > > Argh! > > Please don't do this. It used to drive me nuts to type vi and get ae > (whether > in ae

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Philip Hands wrote: > > Please don't do this. It used to drive me nuts to type vi and get ae (whether > in ae or braindamaged-vi mode). If there is some vital reason for removing > vi, it should be replaced with a script that says something along the lines > of: > > VI is missing from this r

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. Obviously additional development of the bug system would be good. > This can be done either by the person doing 2., or independently. > In any case the patches generated need to be sent upstream to me. I'm interested in taking a look at this. I don't wan

Re: Unsatisfyable dependency for pinepgp

1998-06-10 Thread Raul Miller
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a compromise I could think of adding a paragraph to the description > for pinepgp. > > . > As we are not allowed to distribute a pine package you > have to install pine-src and pine-diff in order to compile > a pine packge out

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 02:31:10PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I will volunteer to work on: > > 1. Reading and responding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail, and > 2. Actual administration and maintenance of the bug system (to the > extent of my capabilities - I will yell quickly if I get stuck). >

Re: Intent to package (several)

1998-06-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Rafael" == Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rafael> As my application to become a Debian developer is Rafael> underway, let me state my intentions of packaging. You Rafael> will find below short descriptions of the following Rafael> packages: bibindex (take ov

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
I will volunteer to work on: 1. Reading and responding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail, and 2. Actual administration and maintenance of the bug system (to the extent of my capabilities - I will yell quickly if I get stuck). I would prefer to share these functions with someone else, since I w

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Philip Hands
> PS: If you say that a sysadmin expects "vi" to be there, link vi to ae on a > rescue disk. He *will* have an editor, this should be sufficient. Argh! Please don't do this. It used to drive me nuts to type vi and get ae (whether in ae or braindamaged-vi mode). If there is some vital reason fo

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 04:30:42PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jim wrote: > > > > Vi is a standard. Everyone who considers themselves a 'systems > > administrator' should learn how to use vi. This is because even on very > > ol

Re: Doh! Developers Reference rendering..

1998-06-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > The rendering of the developer's reference appears buggered, so that the > HTML versions both in the package, and on the WWW sites have incomplete > section 1s. I think the same applies to the policy manual, section 3. And they are orp

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 04:30:42PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jim wrote: > > Vi is a standard. Everyone who considers themselves a 'systems > administrator' should learn how to use vi. This is because even on very > old systems, you will find vi on the base system. When it c

Well, please ignore the precedent (was Re: Documentation/License freeness)

1998-06-10 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 06:41:25PM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 08:42:14PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > >

Doh! Developers Reference rendering..

1998-06-10 Thread Jules Bean
The rendering of the developer's reference appears buggered, so that the HTML versions both in the package, and on the WWW sites have incomplete section 1s. You will gather, if you read them, that I discovered this whilst checking which email address to send my new-maintainer application to :-) J

Re: ANNOUNCE: Debian NetWinder Porting Project

1998-06-10 Thread Behan Webster
Jim Pick wrote: > > I'm helping to organize an effort to port Debian GNU/Linux to run > on the new Corel NetWinder NCs ( http://www.corelcomputer.com/ ). On this note, Alan DeKok (one of the oclug people who has a Netwinder already, and was on the team of oclug members who helped Corel get the Ne

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Jules Bean
Put me down as a 'volunteer of last resort'. There are other debian related tasks I'd rather do, probably, but if no one else steps up, I will fill any of the above roles. I probably have the necessary expertise (I know perl4/5 well, I understand m4, I know SMTP related issues reasonably well).

LyX

1998-06-10 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I have an old version of LyX on my bo system that I know I loaded off the official 1.3.1 CD. I wanted to get the source package for LyX off the hamm directory on the ftp site but I can't find it. If fact LyX doesn't seem to be listed in the packages file for hamm, slink, or even bo! What happene

VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-10 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jim wrote: > What is it people see in vi in terms of _using_ it? My opinion FWIW is that > vi's presentation rivals that of dselect in general, with vi inching dselect > out for not forcing one to follow a set path without saying what that set > path should be. So, why do the

Re: xinetd and portmap

1998-06-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi Norbert, > It used to be there, but then it was rejected :) I am fixing it now as we > speak (along with some other fixes). It should be uploaded again by > tomorrow at the latest (tonight is more likely). Great, I got it and installed it. Using it right now. > Hurray, hurray ! > > I find

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-10 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > * James Troup (Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 07:47:21PM +0100) > > > > Blah. An even quicker ldd reveals this is already not the case. > > > > 20:45:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ldd /usr/bin/perl | grep gdbm > > libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (

Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-10 Thread Richard Braakman
Vincent Renardias wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > Every three months (fixed date) we copy the current `unstable' into > > > `frozen'. At this point `stable', `frozen' and `unstable' should all > > > stay interoperable both in source and binary form. > > > > This is stil

Intent to package (several)

1998-06-10 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
As my application to become a Debian developer is underway, let me state my intentions of packaging. You will find below short descriptions of the following packages: bibindex (take over), ibrazilian, recdescent, tipa (these four packages are done, ready for uploading), as well as plplot and ipor

Re: guavac bug #22325

1998-06-10 Thread Brian White
> Bug #22325, marked important, says that my package guavac has an > unsatisfied suggestion on java-virtual-machine. I need your > advice on what to do about it. > > My thoughts are: > > 1. It's a suggestion only, so nothing will break if it doesn't exist. >Unfortunately dselect is a bit pick

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Meskes
Yann Dirson writes: > I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source > form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/. > >From these source packages, the binary packages would be generated for > the various binary kernel images shipped with Debian (presumably

Re: Official CDROM

1998-06-10 Thread joost
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds. > misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so > distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source). > b) 4 cd set : highly integrated. > it will not be possible

Re: Official CDROM

1998-06-10 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:53:56PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > I can work in two directions : > > a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds. > misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so > distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source). > b) 4 cd set

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread peloy
Hi again, Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great, I didnt have time to install smaba yet, this saves me some work :) > > Did you try the fix posted in this list (same thread)? I got your new xinetd package from Incoming, installed it and started testing. With the fix provided in READ

Re: Official CDROM

1998-06-10 Thread Eduardo Diaz TSC
Hi! > a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds. > misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so > distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source). My vote for the 5 CD set. Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: mkdosfs

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 09:10:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote: > > who maintains the mkdosfs package > There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into > 'dosfstools' which is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED

Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Ian Jackson
I'd like to offload some of the admin stuff for the bug system. I don't know how Guy (the other admin of the bug system) feels, but I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend running the bug system. So, I'd like one or two volunteers to take over some or all of the following tasks: 1. Reading

Official CDROM

1998-06-10 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
I can work in two directions : a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds. misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source). b) 4 cd set : highly integrated. it will not be possible to split the m68k or a

Re: tools/ on ftp.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Anselm Lingnau
> unz512x3.exe is a self-unarching zip, and can be unpacked with Linux unzip > > gzip124.exe is a self-unarching lharc file and can be unpacked with > Linux lha It might be a good idea to add a note in the README to that effect. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau . [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Documentation/License freeness

1998-06-10 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 07:56:31PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Hello Fabien! Hello Marcus! > > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:41:38AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > I'm not sure I understand you well but here is my opinions about freeness > > of Documentation: > > > > Documentation descri

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread peloy
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was the maintainer for awhile. The torch has now been passed on. I had > moved it to non-free because of a bug report(which has been closed for > awhile now, and already purged from the database). I was in irc with the > new maintainer recently and I di

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread peloy
Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great, I didnt have time to install smaba yet, this saves me some work :) > > Did you try the fix posted in this list (same thread)? Do you mean adding "flags = REUSE" to the nmbd service in xinetd.conf? Yesterday I was trying it from home (we no luck)

Re: tools/ on ftp.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Philip Hands
> the cdroms will ahve such a layout : > /boot boot binaries > /debian (parts of) the debian ftp mirror > /toolsunpacked programs from tools/ (no source) > > a) are gzip124.exe and unz512x3.exe necessary to be included ? > is there a way i can unpack the

tools/rawrite1.zip

1998-06-10 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/export/mirror/debian/tools# unzip -Ll rawrite1.zip Archive: rawrite1.zip LengthDateTimeName ("^" ==> case -- conversion) 15196 09-08-92 11:08 ^rawrite3.com 2017 09-04-92 07:23 ^rawrite3.doc ----

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

1998-06-10 Thread Marco Pistore
Hi, thanks for your comments on this problems! I am sorry for the delay in the answer: there have been problems with the my mail server during the week-end... SUMMARY: the problem is that libpaper depends on libpaperg, which is bad, since it can create problems when upgrading from bo. The depende

tools/ on ftp.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
the cdroms will ahve such a layout : /boot boot binaries /debian (parts of) the debian ftp mirror /tools unpacked programs from tools/ (no source) a) are gzip124.exe and unz512x3.exe necessary to be included ? is there a way i can unpack these files on linux ? b)

Away for ~ a week

1998-06-10 Thread James Troup
Hi, [ I don't like sending these semi-spam announcements, but I guess it's important that, in the unlikely event, of a security/important bug in one of my packages, people don't waste any time waiting for me to respond ] I'm off down south this afternoon for roughly a week (I hope no more),

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

1998-06-10 Thread Marco Pistore
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote: > > SOLUTION 4 > > Let the programs be in both packages, but use dpkg's diversions to "move > away" the libc5 binaries when libpaperg is installed and remove the > diversions on remove of libpaperg. Only drawbac

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

1998-06-10 Thread Marco Pistore
On 5 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > 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 li

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 06:47:57PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source > > form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/. > > This sounds excellent. O

Re: ftp server layout

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Michael Meskes writes: > Could anyone please tell me why mysql (including the server) is located > under devel? > > Postgres is under misc which is not so good IMO either. How about adding a > new subdir database or somesuch? Seconded. This lack has already been pointed out to without succe

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Dale Scheetz writes: > > Will this upgrade not imply that we recompile and test the whole of > > the dist, to make it sure hamm is self-compilable ? If not, every > > bugfix upload will possibly break something because of a possible > > glibc change... > > You may be confusing 2.0.7 with 2.

Unsatisfyable dependency for pinepgp

1998-06-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! Wrt http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/db/23/23323.html. I wonder how we should cope with this: pinepgp depends on pine and pgp There is no pine package. This prevents dselect from installing it. There is pine-src and pine-diff which can be assembled into

Re: RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source > form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/. This sounds excellent. On one machine I am running 2.0.33 and have the appropriate ntfs package in

RFC: packaging kernel modules

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
It does not seem that we have currently any conventions regarding the packaging of kernel modules. I just tried the new alsadriver from slink, and, for the same reason I could not use the packaged joystick driver, this one too is useless to me. Here are the main criticisms I have regarding how m

Re: RETRACTED msql 2.0.3-4

1998-06-10 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 07:49:48AM +0200, Scott Hanson wrote: > > > The problem is that the _preinst_ might use the programs useradd and > > > groupadd. These are not in the base system nor essential. They're > > > included in the passwd package. They might use configuration files > > > that mi

ftp server layout

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone please tell me why mysql (including the server) is located under devel? Postgres is under misc which is not so good IMO either. How about adding a new subdir database or somesuch? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mkdosfs

1998-06-10 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote: > who maintains the mkdosfs package There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into 'dosfstools' which is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] . HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other peop

Re: RETRACTED msql 2.0.3-4

1998-06-10 Thread Scott Hanson
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 12:55:53PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: ---snip--- > > The problem is that the _preinst_ might use the programs useradd and > > groupadd. These are not in the base system nor essential. They're > > included in the passwd packa

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jim wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> The editor expert who cannot even break his lines at 80 characters .. > >So shoot me; I'm using exmh, which appears to wrap words and doesn't get aro >und >to actually inserting the carriage returns... > That's a preference setting:

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:16:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The bug report pretty much says: > > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configura

(Re)intent to package

1998-06-10 Thread Brian Almeida
Hello, I'd like to take on eMusic as a package once more. I've finally managed to find the time to do it. If there are no objections, of course. :) Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.terminus.cicat.com PGP Key: pub 1024/3A800C65 1998/04/20 Brian M. Almeida

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
--- Michel Sandrof, Troy Rollo, and Matthew Green are putting the ircII code under the following license (BSD without the 'advertising' clause), retroactive to all versions of ircII, past and present, in order to indicate that it is Open Source without a doubt (the previous license, while intending

mkdosfs

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi all, who maintains the mkdosfs package & why is there no alpha port? infact i tried to port it but it coredumps. i narrowed down the bug to a funny part of the code too long to explain here. so i would like to help here. -- see header -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: burning debian 2.0 cdroms

1998-06-10 Thread Michael Shields
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > given that one day we will be able to release debian 2.0 : > we will have official cdrom images on some ftp servers. > > a) who could burn these iamges and test them ? many cd distributors don't have > alpha and m68k

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > According to the bug tracking system, he still is the maintainer. > /usr/doc/xinetd/changelog.Debian.gz says that xinetd was moved to non-free > at version 2.2.1-3. This was done on "Sat, 14 Mar 1998 03:31:50 -0500". I > think it is a bad thing that t

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:08:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:04:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post... > > And once again... :) > > I've talked to Igor, somewhat appropriately, on IRC [irc.debian.org, > #debian],

Re: Release management - technical

1998-06-10 Thread David Engel
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Q. What are we trying to achieve ? > > A. There are two possibilities that I can see > - Timely and good-quality releases, or > - Releases which meet some predefined set of goals. > > I think we can only do one of these. With

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:04:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post... And once again... :) I've talked to Igor, somewhat appropriately, on IRC [irc.debian.org, #debian], and have modified my draft somewhat in response to that. Since there haven't

Re: gcc problems with /usr/lib/crt1.o

1998-06-10 Thread Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I recently upgraded to the hamm distribution. Ever since the upgrade > I have not been able to compile anything with gcc. It seems part of your upgrade wasn't completed... you probably need to install libc6-dev. -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-10 Thread Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The editor expert who cannot even break his lines at 80 characters .. So shoot me; I'm using exmh, which appears to wrap words and doesn't get around to actually inserting the carriage returns... And I'm no expert... I just wanna know what all the furor is over vi :)

Re: sendmail 8.9.0

1998-06-10 Thread Richard A Nelson
Ack... Been out of town, no computer access. Sorry for the delay, but I'm looking at these now... -- Rick Nelson On 6 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote: > Date: 06 Jun 1998 11:49:57 -0500 > From: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: sendmail 8.9.0 > Resent-