Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Evidently CPAN has a Term-ReadLine package that makes the Joey> standard Term::ReadLine module in perl actually have Joey> readline features. I wonder if someone familiar with CPAN Joey> packages would be interested in pac

Re: Bug#27697: auto-include-dependency failure case

1998-10-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:47:14PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > What I have been doing of late is generating the .d file when the .o file > > is built. Nothing depends on the .d file but if it exists it is included. > > This makes the .o file d

wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
Evidently CPAN has a Term-ReadLine package that makes the standard Term::ReadLine module in perl actually have readline features. I wonder if someone familiar with CPAN packages would be interested in packaging this up for debian? I'd do it myself but I don't know much about CPAN, and I maintain t

nfs security problem, debian missing

1998-10-13 Thread M . Dietrich
'got a mail about this mountd bug today. you see the list of vendors - but as you can see: debian is missing. why? how can we get on this list next time? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Appendix A - Vendor Information Below is a list of the vendors who have provided informati

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-13 Thread Drake Diedrich
d) Try using NFS. This slows down the i/o bound resource hog enough to leave the machine usable for interactive tasks. Yes it's ugly, but scheduling in 2.0 is suboptimal, and nice doesn't have much effect on i/o, only CPU. An extra disk dedicated to the i/o hog would probably be better than an SM

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
[ Moving this to debian-devel, discussion doesn't belong in the bug report. ] James Troup wrote: > There is no i386 port in as much as i386 maintainers 99.5% of the time > _don't_ compile packages from scratch, which is when over 50% of the > problems (at least on m68k, and judging by the diff's I

Re: gtop

1998-10-13 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >Michael Meskes wrote: >> Where is the gtop binary nowadays? > >It has been moved outside of gnome and has its own cvs directory. >Unfortunately the new maintainer has problems compiling it so it's >not likely to meet the fre

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
> > "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I > Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. > Martin> Not even worth mentioning. > > Ben> Er, in which file? The file that errored out was

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "BG" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin> Not even worth mentioning. BG> Er, in which file? The

Changing emacs20 to use latin1 encoding by default.

1998-10-13 Thread Rob Browning
There has been a discussion (Bug#27399) about making latin1 the default encoding for emacs20. Since I don't use anything other than the standard encoding, and since I'm not an encoding expert, I wanted to see what everyone else thinks about this. The claim is that this is just a superset of the

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I > Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. > Martin> Not even worth mentioning. > > Er, in which file? The file that er

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin> Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c and it doesn't

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Gertzfield wrote: > I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. > > (snip) > > gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include > -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/glib/include -c util.c -o util.o > gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/che/src/gdselect/gdselect-a3/include > -I/usr/X11R6/includ

Alarming Pine/remote netscape problem

1998-10-13 Thread Colin Telmer
(Perhaps I shouldn't post this to -devel, but I find this problem quite alarming and thought others should be aware of it) I have recently discovered that if I send mail from my work computer (SunStation) using Netscape 4.05 to my home computer (Debian slink) that if I reply to the message, the or

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:05:19PM -0700, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > > I noticed that some packages disappeared from the site. Could anyone > > > enlighten me whether they are superceeded, not needed or whatelse happend? > > > > > > xadmin > > > > My

Re: Interesting article by Alan Cox

1998-10-13 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 11:44:21AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > This definitely has some relevancy to us. It's worth reading, IMO. > > http://slashdot.org/features/98/10/13/1423253.shtml AFAICS, Alan is right on. This is the same approach taken by the IETF and has been very productive. It is m

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Tom" == Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ Tom> today. The next release will have all features present. This Tom> is primarily a last testing phase. I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werro

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-13 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Helmut Metzdorf wrote: > Hi, > > knowing my impatience i nevertheless dare rising my case here after > only three days without answers on debian-users (worse off with > Debian 2.0) because i think that its clearly a development issue. > > The situation:

Re: Bug#27697: auto-include-dependency failure case

1998-10-13 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:47:14PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > What I have been doing of late is generating the .d file when the .o file > is built. Nothing depends on the .d file but if it exists it is included. > This makes the .o file depend on all included files and the .c file > automatic

Re: A little question about Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Marc Singer
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:43:48PM +, Matthias D wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know if there is anything like usable with API or Corba > technology or even Java (I know all that is Sun's property..) > availaible with Debian or if someone plan to develop similar > technologies... > Or to

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-13 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 02:46:35PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Maybe the subject is a bit harsh, but currently users trying to > install Debian on a Notebook face more problems than users installing > it on a desktop computer. Compared with other Linux distributions > Debian fails to install on

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ray" == Ray writes: Ray> Personally, I'd rather see the packages that still depend on Ray> libstdc++2.8 recompiled for libstdc++2.9 . Of course, of course, nobody's arguing that. APT will be recompiled for libstdc++2.9. However, commercial apps and apps that are not part of Debia

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> About the "approved method", I guess it is through the Enrique> bug tracking system, but I don't mind downloading a Enrique> patch, and it means less "administrative work" for me Enrique> (it's a pain to deal w

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ? [binary only support != good support]

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
---Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I recognise how important > good hardware support is to Linux's success, I don't >consider binary-only > support good support at all. I'd hate to be stuck in >Company X's position. > I'm sure you'd feel the same way if it was your >business o

Bug Report?

1998-10-13 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Hi, knowing my impatience i nevertheless dare rising my case here after only three days without answers on debian-users (worse off with Debian 2.0) because i think that its clearly a development issue. The situation: a self written programm (i'd like to run 24 hours a day) renders my computer u

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Tom Lees wrote: > I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. This looks quite impressive. Good work! One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses strange size. The y-stretch was about 5 times of the title bar. That looks ugly. I'd rather like it to

Interesting article by Alan Cox

1998-10-13 Thread David Welton
This definitely has some relevancy to us. It's worth reading, IMO. http://slashdot.org/features/98/10/13/1423253.shtml Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread john
Ben Collins writes: > Can you explain to me what "parts" of the kernel can or cannot allow > "closed source" modules? Even the way the system is setup now, any > developer can create a module, and distribute it in compiled form without > source code. I'm not sure how Linus could or couldn't prevent

Re: strange sendmail behaviour (bug?)

1998-10-13 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Thanks! It works (of course :-). [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > That's a bug in sendmail. Or at least in the wrapper script that is > now installed that checks to see if sendmail needs to be started > with the SOCKS wrapper (ugly, ugly..). > > For now you can just do the

Re: dropped from private? (was Re: Packages that disappeared)

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a single mail on > > private for at least two months. Could anyone please check whether I'm still > > listed there? > > > > Me too. I haven't gotten mail from private s

dropped from private? (was Re: Packages that disappeared)

1998-10-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: > I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a single mail on > private for at least two months. Could anyone please check whether I'm still > listed there? > Me too. I haven't gotten mail from private since about august. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 07:58:58AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > > x11amp-static > > > > mp3.8hz > > > > > > You didn't watch the 100 messages thread on debian-private? > > > > I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a single mail on > > private for at lea

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why do you get the kernel version from files? make-kpkg >> provides the kernel version in the environment var KVERS, as well as >> the location of the kernel source, and the maintainers name and email >> address. Hamish> What if

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, As a counterpoint, my laptop, Digital HiNote VP 575, I could install the kernel-image-2.0.35 and the pcmcia images from the slink distribution, and they worked flawlessly. So there is some justification in having the pcmcia binay .deb files in the distribution. manoj --

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ? [binary only support != good support]

1998-10-13 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > If the day ever comes that some hardware maker decides to write his > own driver for Linux (say a maker of a win-modem decided to write a > linux driver and throw the disk in the box) but did NOT license under > the GPL, choosing to

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On 11 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Santiago> Well, kernel-package is a single package but it would be surely > Santiago> a lot of work, since there are a lot of new drivers. > > What does not work for you using kernel-package on newer > kernels? I have never had a problem, so far,

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 07:58:58AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > x11amp-static > > > mp3.8hz > > > > You didn't watch the 100 messages thread on debian-private? > > I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a single mail on > private for at least two months. Could anyone please ch

Developers in Virginia USA

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm looking for a developer in VA, USA, that would be willing to meet me and sign my pgp so I can submit the app for becoming a maintainer. I can give more details in private email or by phone. Thanks - Ben Colli

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:51:11AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > As long as such software came with the hardware, I can see no > difference between that, and buying a copy of Wordperfect for Linux. > We already have commerical X servers and sound drivers available which > are NOT licensed under t

Re: gtop

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: > Where is the gtop binary nowadays? It has been moved outside of gnome and has its own cvs directory. Unfortunately the new maintainer has problems compiling it so it's not likely to meet the freeze date. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunat

Re: [larsbj@ifi.uio.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 08:29:00PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > The problem here is that we can't distribute it under the terms of the GPL > (read the kde announcement) while they say it is plain GPL, so they say > they can include other people's GPL-ed stuff. glibc2 doesnt have a > contradicto

Re: office package

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:02:37PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > Seriously, take a look at gnumeric if you haven't already. It looks > awesome and is in very active development. It's part of Gnome. I did and I'm really impressed. However, I had some problems with it until I discovered that it work

gtop

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes
Where is the gtop binary nowadays? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Use Debian Unternehmensberatung AG |

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:05:19PM -0700, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > I noticed that some packages disappeared from the site. Could anyone > > enlighten me whether they are superceeded, not needed or whatelse happend? > > > > xadmin > > My package/program... Removed because it broke to many of t

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 07:44:55PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Michael Meskes wrote: > > xadmin > > Request by maintainer=author, iirc. I see. > > x11amp-static > > mp3.8hz > > You didn't watch the 100 messages thread on debian-private? I never got it. In fact I was surprised I didn't get a

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If the day ever comes that some hardware maker decides to write his own driver for Linux (say a maker of a win-modem decided to write a linux driver and throw the disk in the box) but did NOT license under the GPL, choosing to keep it propritory would that be so bad? As long as such software came

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-13 Thread David Damerell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 07:59:14PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: >>Joseph Carter wrote: >>>It's irrelevant. Lyx is free code using a license that does not allow us to >>>link it with non-free code. We can't distribute it if they won't modify >>>their license. But like KDE, the

Intend to package `GtkAda'

1998-10-13 Thread Samuel Tardieu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This is a gtk binding for GNAT. Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNiN834FdzKExeYBpAQGOAwP/ZcF3PJOKO+WIdjbr9eJ3pDuFzKSmT2jv KSGE8yYZ4EhNhXVB4AQ/HijF33t0vMOEaGfrOxWxQRf2gQNEv3fj

Intent to package: formula and circ

1998-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, to simplify the handling of physical symbols I wrote the style formula some time ago. It is used in our research group but because of broader interest I putted it on CTAN (for instance at: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/formula ). Furthermore Sebastian Tanne

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-13 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:28:06AM -0400, Roderick Schertler wrote: > > Andy Dougherty, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > >> > >> After some thought, I think I'd recommend that perl5.005_xx retain the > >> same directory structure that perl5.00[34]_xx did. (with 5.005 in place of > >

Intent to package: paul

1998-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, for some special purposes I wrote a kind of an image viewer named paul = _P_rogram zur _A_uswertung und _U_mwandlung von _L_aserbildern (for non German speakers: Program to evaluate and convert laser images). The background is that I take some pictures of crystals using a highspeed fil

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Philip Hands
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's say I write a Qt program (and confirm that it works by linking > > it against Qt in the privacy of my own home) and then I include it > > (the source code) in a book as a programming example, and I GPL

Re: Rocks'n'Diamonds up for grabs

1998-10-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:26:07AM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | > The author is very friendly, but he doesn't reply instantaneously to mail. | | Nice understatement :-) Anyway, I seem to remember that the author reacted | favourably to a request

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Daniel James Patterson
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 01:00:52PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > This won't be the case for regular machines. It might be the > case for boxes that use crappy hardware where the manufacturer > holds back the specs and doesn't allow development of free > drivers. > I can picture manufacturers

gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Tom Lees
I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. The next release will have all features present. This is primarily a last testing phase. -- Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.c

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Raul Miller
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say I write a Qt program (and confirm that it works by linking > it against Qt in the privacy of my own home) and then I include it > (the source code) in a book as a programming example, and I GPL the > whole book. > > Will people be allowe

A little question about Debian

1998-10-13 Thread Matthias D
Hello, I would like to know if there is anything like usable with API or Corba technology or even Java (I know all that is Sun's property..) availaible with Debian or if someone plan to develop similar technologies... Or to use this do you recommend to directly jump into Solaris (the fact is that

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Can you explain to me what "parts" of the kernel can or cannot allow "closed source" modules? Even the way the system is setup now, any developer can create a module, and distribute it in compiled form without source code. I'm not sure how Linus could or couldn't

Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Maybe the subject is a bit harsh, but currently users trying to install Debian on a Notebook face more problems than users installing it on a desktop computer. Compared with other Linux distributions Debian fails to install on some Notebooks (for example IBM Thinkpad 770) or requires handcrafted bo

re-installing the same package in APT

1998-10-13 Thread Russell Coker
What is the suggested proceedure for when a package is damaged and needs to be re-installed? For example I have accidentally deleted a binary from a package and I want to re-install the package. I type "apt-get install package" but it tells me that the latest version of the package is already ins

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Actually, since yo have done it, you have way more experience > with the process than I (I just do the make-kpkg end). Could you > please document what you did? I shall chime in and add what make-kpkg > provides, and what targets it calls. Darn, I had

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Matthew Parry
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 13:00:52 +0200 From: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Matthew Parry wrote: > > I think a much more important implication of the KDE debacle is > what problems t

Re: Odd dependancy situation with libc6 and libc6-dev

1998-10-13 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > > I'd had the latest hamm versions of libc6 and libc6-dev (2.0.7t-1) > > installed. I installed the slink version of libc6 (2.0.7u-2) without a > > hitch. But then I realized I should have been forced to upgrade > > libc6-dev at the same time! > > FWIW, I r

Antwort: Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread
>Dan Jacobowitz tried to make a libstdc++2.8 package, but he ran into >strange linking bugs. The generated library appears to be missing >some symbols. > >Please look at the packages in http://master.debian.org/~dan/ if you >think you can help. Sorry, no time to do that. >> movemail > >I do

Re: New Debian maintainer Jakob Borg

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Please ensure that it's not illegal to distribute replay. 8hz.mp3 was removed due to patent/license problems. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.

Re: Does debian have an official "standard" scripting language ?

1998-10-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Bill Mitchell wrote: > As of debian 2.0, mawk and sed are `required' packages, so they should be > present on any debian system. Only the essential flag (or the base-files trick) guarantees a package to be present in the system and allows a package not to have an explicit de

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthew Parry wrote: > > I think a much more important implication of the KDE debacle is > what problems the GPL might make now that Linus is allowing > proprietary drivers to be loaded into the kernel. Isn't this > effectively the same as linking against a library? Err. a) The free kernel li

Re: 1st unpacking, 2nd dependency checking

1998-10-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > > But occasionally I notices that dpkg first unpacks and installs > > > the files in a particular package and checks dependencies afterwards. > > > > > > This means that wrong dependencies are discovered when it is > > > too la

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Philip Hands
Raul, A question for you: Let's say I write a Qt program (and confirm that it works by linking it against Qt in the privacy of my own home) and then I include it (the source code) in a book as a programming example, and I GPL the whole book. Will people be allowed to copy and modify my c

KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Matthew Parry
I think a much more important implication of the KDE debacle is what problems the GPL might make now that Linus is allowing proprietary drivers to be loaded into the kernel. Isn't this effectively the same as linking against a library? And even if it isn't, what are we going to do if proprietary

uudeview dependencies

1998-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, today I had to uudeview a bas64 coded file. I consider it to be very boring that I have to install tk4.2 and tcl7.6 to get it working. In my opinion package maintainers should think about using the latest libs (tk8.0 and tcl8.0) if there are no importand incompatibilities. In the uudeview

Re: Thoughts on installation

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> The second problem was installing X (an issue which I get the impression > is already being addressed). Basically the X configuration process died on > me all 4 times I tried it during install, leaving .dkpg-new files > everywhere, so the only option was to install only the base system, and > th

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-13 Thread Richard Braakman
Michael Meskes wrote: > I noticed that some packages disappeared from the site. Could anyone > enlighten me whether they are superceeded, not needed or whatelse happend? > > libstdc++2.8 > libg++2.8 > > I know these are special cases since there is no source. But as long > as we need

Re: Rocks'n'Diamonds up for grabs

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:26:07AM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > The author is very friendly, but he doesn't reply instantaneously to mail. Nice understatement :-) Anyway, I seem to remember that the author reacted favourably to a request to change the license of Rocks'n'Diamonds (and another gam

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > similarly, i am tired of pointing out the errors in your > > misinterpretation of the GPL. > > Er... could you at least back up your assertions with quotes from the > GPL which support your position? i have don

Re: GNotepad

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > wget + ./configure + vi src/main.c + make just finished. It looks > > nice, it seems to work. We should include it. However if I push > > the exit button I get a "Gdk segfault" message. > > Please upload

Rocks'n'Diamonds up for grabs

1998-10-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
I hereby announce that rocks-n-diamonds is available is someone wants to take it over. I'll keep maintaining until someone wants it though. The package currently has around four bugs (I think). The biggest problem is that it allows both writing highscores and new levels, which brings in some secur

(sin asunto)

1998-10-13 Thread jrivas
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Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-13 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 03:42:45PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote: > I posted a patch to the boot-floppies package with changes to the help > screen. Since I didn't get feedback on it I wonder if this is not the > approved method of making changes to other people's packages. > > The edits, if you're i

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work] On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:05:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without a > -dev. Daniel Jacobowitz (drow) is working on this IIRC, Personally, I'd rather see the packages that still depend on

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I posted a patch to the boot-floppies package with changes to the help | screen. Since I didn't get feedback on it I wonder if this is not the | approved method of making changes to other people's packages. I guess most developers prefer a bug being reported

Re: new package suggestions and offer to take over others

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ben Collins wrote: > I spent some time setting up packages for 2 pieces of software i use since > I really like having all my stuff installable/uninstallable thru dpkg. > They are: > > Abacus Sentry v0.61: Port Scan detector > > [snip] I am interested in this one. Thanks. -Mitch

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:07:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Actually, since yo have done it, you have way more experience > with the process than I (I just do the make-kpkg end). Could you > please document what you did? I shall chime in and add what make-kpkg > provides, and what

Re: Odd dependancy situation with libc6 and libc6-dev

1998-10-13 Thread Joey Hess
FWIW, I ran into the exact same thing today and apt corrected it. Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Wow. I was installing some slink packages today with dpkg on > my hamm system, and I got myself into a wacky situation. > > I'd had the latest hamm versions of libc6 and libc6-dev (2.0.7t-1) > installed. I i

Odd dependancy situation with libc6 and libc6-dev

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Wow. I was installing some slink packages today with dpkg on my hamm system, and I got myself into a wacky situation. I'd had the latest hamm versions of libc6 and libc6-dev (2.0.7t-1) installed. I installed the slink version of libc6 (2.0.7u-2) without a hitch. But then I realized I should have b

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wichert> Could you please document somewhere how to do this? I've Wichert> just implemented this for the ALSA packaged after someone Wichert> described the process in a bugreport.. and I have to say Wichert> it's a royal PITA to g

[] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without a -dev. Is anyone going to do this? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters F and E and the number 5. "Nerd. Loser. Jerk. Moron. Worm. Scum. Idiot. Fool." -- Pkunk, SCII Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http

Re: September LJ

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:08:08PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > This is one reason we choose the Debian distribution to > use in our office. ^^ >that's US! > > Whoa! RH take that! eh eh eh Act

Re: GNotepad

1998-10-13 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:18:47PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > wget + ./configure + vi src/main.c + make just finished. It looks > nice, it seems to work. We should include it. However if I push > the exit button I get a "Gdk segfault" message. Please upload it. I'd like to get a look at it.

Re: GNotepad

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:58:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Is anyone packing gnotepad? > > > > [ Sorry if anyone tried to a post of mine and bounced. I played with > > exim.conf and forgot to "unplay" the rewrite. ] > > Since nobody stepped forward, I take it for now. It in the process

Re: LyX & KDE

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 04:38:45PM +0100, mummert&[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I might be able to get a similar license agreement for KDE as the one I > send for LyX. Would that be enough to get at least major parts of KDE back > on the site? I have no idea how much we would have to keep out. I know

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:56:22PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why are the sound modules not included with the kernel? Afaik they are in > Redhat. They are. The intent is to package binaries for the standard kernels already made... pgpltzRfWWC4i.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:44:18PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > people to distribute LyX in both source and binary forms. This permission > > certainly includes linking against GUI toolkits like XForms, Motif, GTK, > > Qt > > or Win32. > > `... and distributing the resulting binary

Re: [ettrich@troll.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:58:16AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > How about this one? > > I told him I would remove the first sentence but other than that it looks > okay to me. > > Michael > > - Forwarded message from Matthias Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > If we do something like this

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-13 Thread Raul Miller
Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > similarly, i am tired of pointing out the errors in your misinterpretation > of the GPL. Er... could you at least back up your assertions with quotes from the GPL which support your position? Thanks, -- Raul

IGNORE Re: Need some help determining which package owns a perl bug

1998-10-13 Thread Colin Telmer
I quickly realized that this is an artifact of per5.005 - I'll downgrade. Cheers. On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Colin Telmer wrote: > A perl script called sync-plan included in pilot-link calls both MD5.pm > (from the libmd5-perl package) and and PDA/Pilot.pm (from the > pilot-link-perl package). Both of

Re: [larsbj@ifi.uio.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-13 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:25:12PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > I agree that by using XForms in development, and XForms *is* needed to > > > > compile and run LyX, we have implicitly allowd all users to link Lyx > > > > with XForms. > > > > [...] > > > > > > I don't think s

Re: problem with new icewm

1998-10-13 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> > Also I would prefer an alternative setup for these two packages with > > icewm-gnome getting the higher one. Or even divided into three: > > icewm-common, icewm-gnome, icewm-nognome. > This should be kept as `icewm' imho. Or we can bet on a Gnomeish future and have xxx.deb and x-nogno

new package suggestions and offer to take over others

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Collins
I spent some time setting up packages for 2 pieces of software i use since I really like having all my stuff installable/uninstallable thru dpkg. They are: Abacus Sentry v0.61: Port Scan detector OSF's DCE Runtime: Runtime and libs/headers for developing DCE applications. This is based on the pub

Re: Thoughts on installation

1998-10-13 Thread Tom Lear
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: > lilo.conf there and then in some manner. I would also like to say I think > the default lilo.conf is a mess, to put it mildly. It is badly > structured, makes the process of adding other images less than obvious and

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