RE: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > > RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back > > > pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA > > > Research. > I find it offensive that you attack VA research, > who provides many of the resources we enjoy

RE: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

Title: RE: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests > > RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back > > pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA > > Research. > I find it offensive that you attack VA research, who provides many of the reso

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, 18 May 1999, David Welton wrote: > So, if this really bothers you, do something about it. Make a company > and start marketing the hell out of Debian. That's most of what > Redhat is - marketing. That's not a bad thing, necessarily - > marketing is what it takes to get your name out in

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine > are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. > Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): > > manpages-net

Re: intend to package 'country'

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Joel Klecker wrote: > > What does it use as a datafile? If it doesn't use it already, I > > suggest /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab. My data were extracted from the original ISO document, which includes more information. I know you can

Re: GNU finger

> is there already someone building a gnu finger package?? Hi. I posted an intent to package this a while back. I am in consultation with the author at present. Cheers, Matt / Matt Kern Tel: (01223) 366290 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://xanadu.pet.cam.ac.uk/~mwk20/ | O O

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

> RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back > pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA > Research. So, if this really bothers you, do something about it. Make a company and start marketing the hell out of Debian. That's most of what Redhat is - mar

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > I think prj has one such cd from Caldera and I can confirm that I've seen > one too. The person who had it wouldn't give it up unfortunately. > They're saving it for the same reasons I want it--to show people just > what kind of company Caldera really

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

Jonathan Walther wrote: > How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented > stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme > proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so > fine-grained that it disappears into the res

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, 18 May 1999, tony mancill wrote: > sorry feel compelled to dive into the fray, but... I gotta do it. If anyone's a geek in suit's clothing, I garauntee you it's me. And I find this funny, in a sick and twisted way. > > On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mark Mealman wrote: > > > > Well damn, I work

Re: email for bruce

On Tue, 18 May 1999, Bruce Perens wrote: > My DSL provider has gone out of business, apparently, leaving me with no > connection. Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you need to reach me. Hrm. Wow. *shudder* I'm very glad I opposed using LEC CoLos at work now. $100k/mo for a single rack. Add in DSL

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With my net script you can do that. Put your extra commands in the net_up() > and net_down() functions of each config file and they will be executed > automatically by the net command. > > Maybe we could handle also before_net_up() and after_net_dow

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:22:27PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > "Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and > > research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail > > and commercial fields." > > Wow, I always thought that this is was Microsoft says a

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:44:53AM -0700, John van V. wrote: > I personally had a really bad experience w/ Caldera after 3 years of preparing > to become a channel partner. [.. bad experience snipped ..] What do you expect from a company that was kind enough to release a binary only linux with a

gpm problems in potato

hi, All after switching to potato i dicovered strange message in syslog May 18 16:37:55 reboot /usr/sbin/gpm[109]: Error in protocol May 18 16:37:55 reboot last message repeated 12 times visually, both gpm and X mouse work just fine any ideas/advices ? thanks OK

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:26:09PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. > > If people don't use the tools, then they don't get the benefits of the > tools, which is hardly our fault. This is like saying

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

> On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:22:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I looked at the code (have not run it yet). > > > > Nice. Well documented, clean. The design seems sound. An up/down > > section is also handy. > [..] > > IMNSHO, any replacement for /etc/init.d/network must be able to al

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

> On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:15:48PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have written a generic network interface management command, net, which > > can be used to start/stop/show/configure network interfaces, and a smarter > > replacement for the /etc/init.d/network script. > > > >

Re: pending normal debian bugs for debian-devel@lists.debian.org

On May 18, Nag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >#20734 general autoup.sh > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/20/20734.html >#20743 general autoup.sh: wtmp, utmp and btmp > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/20/207

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

On May 18, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >IMNSHO, any replacement for /etc/init.d/network must be able to allow >config files which "do stuff" on start or stop of the service... Meaning That's easy: POSTUP=/some/script POSTDOWN=... PREUP=... PREDOWN=... The mai program will pass th

Re: glibc2.0-2.1 incompatibility: _xstat?

On May 18, Rene Hogendoorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What does the weak_alias of _xstat mean? It's explained in the gcc manual. >Is there a workaround, so that I can continue to use these libraries? Write a small shared library providing _xstat and preload it. -- ciao, Marco

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

On May 18, Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Howabout instead of having eth0, eth1, etc. have like home, work, etc. >the files could then have an extra section, called DEVICE or something, that You could make a symlink. -- ciao, Marco

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On 18 May 1999, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > Mr. Leibovitch is the executive directory of The Linux Professional > Institute, which is non-profit corporation attempting to provide > standardized certification across all Linux platforms. Normally, such > rhetoric as he spouts in this article (and a

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding > > another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): > Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. If people don't use the tools, then they don't

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:54:08PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i am going to have a little bit > > in the postinst that makes note that people really should roll their own, > > since it can use a lot of 2.2 kernel features and such. it was written >

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

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Re: request to kill nag messages

Adrian Bridgett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out. > Can the script please be disabled. There are better ways to find out bugs > you have open. Long-standing bugs are likely to be less important than > recent bugs too. No, these

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

sorry feel compelled to dive into the fray, but... On Tue, 18 May 1999, Mark Mealman wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > > > "Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and > > research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in

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Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

On 18 May 1999, Philip Hands wrote: > Perhaps a better goal (although significantly more difficult) would be > to design a system where we can have multiple symmetric masters, where > you can upload to any of them, and the propagate packages amongst > themselves. Perhaps I didn't explain it clear

Re: locale problem with latest packages

J.H.M Dassen wrote: > >> I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale >> de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. >> Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? > >The requirements have been strenghtened; a proper locale now loo

Re: request to kill nag messages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:32:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out. > > Can the script please be disabled. There are better ways to find out bugs > > you have open. Long-standing bugs are likely to be less important

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

At 15:22 -0400 1999-05-18, Ben Collins wrote: How about a 2.2 and 2.0 version? We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): Package: kernel-image-2.2.7 Version: tr.pre0 Section: base Priority: option

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

At 14:56 -0400 1999-05-18, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:45:04PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: well, for the cross compilers, i'm doing /usr/lib/parisc-xxx e.g, /usr/bin/parisc-egcs /usr/bin/parisc-as etc. You should really use standard gnu style, such as parisc-linux-{gcc,as,ld,...}

Re: request to kill nag messages

At 19:59 +0100 1999-05-18, Adrian Bridgett wrote: I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out. Can the script please be disabled. There are better ways to find out bugs you have open. Long-standing bugs are likely to be less important than recent bugs too. To me, thes

Re: intend to package 'country'

Joel Klecker wrote: > What does it use as a datafile? If it doesn't use it already, I > suggest /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab. I have to wonder if we really need a package for this, since grep suffices.. -- see shy jo

Re: request to kill nag messages

> > I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out. > Can the script please be disabled. There are better ways to find out bugs > you have open. Long-standing bugs are likely to be less important than > recent bugs too. > I would rather see the old bugs closed. An ol

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > "Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and > research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail > and commercial fields." Well damn, I work for one of the US's largest insurance brokera

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

> How about a 2.2 and 2.0 version? > > We really should have a policy for things like this. How about adding > another Provides: to kernel images (built by the excellent make-kpkg): > > Package: kernel-image-2.2.7 > Version: tr.pre0 > Section: base > Priority: optional > Architecture: i386 >

ITP: wavplay

Pending completion of my maintainer status, I would like to package wavplay. Planning on making a no_x and x version of package for the X interface. Package: wavplay Architecture: i386 Description: Play .wav files Includes two programs, wavplay and wavrec, which do exactly what they sound like

request to kill nag messages

I'm not the only one to be annoyed at the nag messages that are sent out. Can the script please be disabled. There are better ways to find out bugs you have open. Long-standing bugs are likely to be less important than recent bugs too. (or do we need a vote or something) Cheers Adrian email:

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:39:31PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: > oh, i probably should've mentioned this earlier, but i've been packaging > hftpd. i'm mostly done, but need to hack in an /etc/init.d script, and i > think > i'll be done after that. > > hftpd is a superb, linux-optimized ftpd. i

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > xfntbig I put a gun to its head and pulled the trigger, cackling with glee. Package: xfonts-cjk Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 2467 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sour

Re: Configurator Panel

Have you done this program, or have you packaged it? If you packaged it, could you package my Configurator Panel, because I tried, but it didn't work at all... :((( Diego Lages On 18 May 1999, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > "Diego" == Diego Delgado Lages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:45:04PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: > well, for the cross compilers, i'm doing /usr/lib/parisc-xxx > e.g, > /usr/bin/parisc-egcs > /usr/bin/parisc-as > etc. You should really use standard gnu style, such as parisc-linux-{gcc,as,ld,...} and /usr/parisc-linux/{lib,bin,incl

Re: lost packages

>> "MM" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> gtkicq is now gnomeicu MM> communicator/netscape*45 Was removed, *46 is now in the archive. MM> xadmin Was discontinued because of serious bugs IIRC. Ciao, Martin

Re: new arch required

> If you have a compiler packaged, somebody else is working on kernels, i am not sure when the kernel changes will be merged into the linus kernels. > I'm trying to aquire some machines as well, I wonder if it would be > time to start debian-hppa as porters mailing list with a roughly > periodica

Re: locale problem with latest packages

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 18:08:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale > de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. > Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? The requirements have been st

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

>> (me saying a bootable kernel is still quite aways off) > I wonder if this ITP is a little bit early then... well, sort of. i can still package the cross compilers and such, so that we will all be ready for it. but the new arch obviously is still another relase or two away. i have binutils pa

capabilities

What would you all think about a patch to start-stop-daemon to remove capabilities from spawned daemons? Whith this patch many daemons would not need uid=0 anymore. -- ciao, Marco

Re: locale problem with latest packages

Le Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:42:58AM +0900, Fumitoshi UKAI écrivait: > Did you install gconv-modules? No, but that wasn't the problem. My problem disappeared just after an apt-get upgrade. I had locales-2.1.1-3 and libc6-2.1.1-5. Now I have that : $ dpkg -l | grep 2.1.1-5 ii gconv-modules 2.1.1-

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:16:38PM -0700, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > > "Debian, so far, has been very popular in academia, hobbyist and > research circles, but doesn't appear to be a big player in the retail > and commercial fields." Wow, I always thought that this is was Microsoft says about Lin

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine > are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. > Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): > > gtkicq repl

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > gtkicq replaced by gnomeicu > communicator/netscape*45 new version is out(46) -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Systems Administrator CICAT Networks - The New Brand of Telecommunications Service Web: http://www.cicat.com/

Re: lost packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:53:07PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine > are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. > Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): > > conf > gtkic

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:44:36AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Not true with my version anymore. The files are only under > /usr/doc/gpg-rsa/examples. Hm, I still have a diversion from /usr/bin/gpg to /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg, where /usr/bin/gpg is a script to load the rsa/idea extensions and add the

Re: locale problem with latest packages

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 04:31:44PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > What environment variable did you set to de_DE ? It does work fine > for me with LC_ALL=fr_FR ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ printenv|grep DE LC_ALL=de_DE Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str.

lost packages

I just checked via dselect to see which packages on my slink/potato machine are not found in the potato archive. I wonder what happened to them. Here's my list (after removing the obvious ones like libgtk1.1.*): conf gtkicq libjpeg-gif communicator/netscape*45 snd xfntbig xadmin manpages-net Anyo

POP3 server for debian.org mailaddress

Do we have a POP3 or IMAP or whatever server running on the debian.org domain so I can fetchmail my debian related mail? Background is that I would like to get rid of my local provider and thus would lose my mailbox there. The new (cheaper) provider would only offer net connectivity but no mailbox.

email for bruce

My DSL provider has gone out of business, apparently, leaving me with no connection. Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you need to reach me. Thanks Bruce

Re: intend to package 'country'

At 20:37 -0400 1999-05-17, Ioannis wrote: I am ready to upload "country". country(1) is a tiny utility that finds the ISO 3166 codes for countries -- that's the two-letter TLD name. It will also work in reverse to find the name of a country if you know its code. I wrote this trivial program, as a

Re: Configurator Panel

> "Diego" == Diego Delgado Lages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Diego> I'm making something like a Control Panel for Linux (for Diego> Debian), and I would like you to test me and send me Diego> comments. Have a look at 'http://papadoc.strul.net/programs/xadmin/'. It's not fully Debi

Re: Package Maintainer Changed

Yoshiaki Yanagihara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Subject: Package Maintainer Changed Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I am very very hard in my main work. >> And I can not maintain some packages: >> canna, canna-utils, im, kon2, konfont, kterm, >> libcanna1g, libcanna1g-dev, l

qt2beta_2.0_19990516 for potato available

=> http://master.debian.org/~heiko/qt2/ Thanks to Ivan E. Moore II and Russell Cooker for giving me access to their potato systems. Best Regards from Dresden/Germany Viele Gruesse aus Dresden Heiko Schlittermann -- [internet & unix support - Heiko Schlittermann] [h

Package Maintainer Changed

I am very very hard in my main work. And I can not maintain some packages: canna, canna-utils, im, kon2, konfont, kterm, libcanna1g, libcanna1g-dev, locale-ja, mew These package maintainance is continued by ISHIKAWA mutsumi<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Thanks. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: new arch required

Justin Maurer wrote: > i'd like to request debian/pa-risc. i am packaging binutils as we speak. > after this, i will package egcs. however, there will not be a working kernel > for a number of months. with egcs and binutils, packages should be able to > built even before there is a working kernel

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

Gentlemen, that is what i got today Today, May 3, is last day for Pre-Reg Savings. Register at http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99 1999 USENIX ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE June 6-11, 1999 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, California NEW *BSD AND DEBIAN LINUX RELEASES GIVEN AWAY USENIX is

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

Justin Maurer wrote: > consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel, > when > one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those > who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan > to order myself a machine when

Re: How to create those "Packages" files?

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 06:17:40PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf was heard to say: > > How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a > .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? > I believe that dpkg-scanpackages, available in the dpkg-dev package,

Re: How to create those "Packages" files?

Thomas Schoepf wrote: > > How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a > .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? dpkg-scanpackages from the dpkg-dev package creates the Packages file. HTH, -Remco

How to create those "Packages" files?

How are those Packages(.gz) files on ftp.debian.org created? Is there a .deb package available for download that provides that functionality? TIA! Thomas -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer PGP public key http://www.debian.org/ KeyID 2EA7BBBD

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 > > > weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that > > > archive changes at any point in freeze

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham) wrote on 16.05.99 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >=20 > > > abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did that,

Re: weekly policy summary

* JH => Joey Hess JH> Let me know if you're finding these useful. Very useful indeed, thank you. I'm unsure about how to second formal proposal, I hope this message will suffice. JH> Bug: JH> Title: Patented software == non-free? JH> Posted: 10 May 99 JH> Proposer: Joseph Carter JH> Seconde

Re: locale problem with latest packages

At Tue, 18 May 1999 16:31:44 +0200, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have another problem with internationalization. In the gnome > panel (or any gnome apps that uses standardized strings, ie the name > of the menus), i've got empty string instead of the localized version. Did you i

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

Hi, >>"Jonathan" == Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> But I do know the power and effifacy of keeping your head Jonathan> down, chin tucked in, and staying mum. My scheme helps us Jonathan> tuck that chin farther in. Quite. Unfortunately, practicing law without a

Re: Debian coding style?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7 May 1999 15:45:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amy Fong) said: > > Amy> Query, is there actually a coding style guideline for debian > Amy> stuph? Basically I'm with the Corel Linux group and this is > Amy> what t

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

> > For the record, kaffe is *NOT* as good as the blackdown JDK. I > > have used both, and, as it is, kaffe crashes before my research system > > loads, yet the blackdown jdk works flawlessly. > > So report the bug to the kaffe people, and then they'll fix it, and then > kaffe will work f

Re: locale problem with latest packages

>>>Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Mon, May 17, 1999 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes écrivait: > > I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale > > de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. > > Others like date just refuse to use it. W

Re: locale problem with latest packages

Le Mon, May 17, 1999 at 06:08:01PM +0200, Michael Meskes écrivait: > I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale > de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. > Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? What environment variabl

Intent to package xmanpages-ja

Hi, everyone. I'm now packaging "Japanese translated version of X related manpages". These manpages has been translated by "X Japanese Document Project" (http://xjman.dsl.gr.jp. Sorry written in Japanese only). I'm member of this project. This version is based on XFree86 3.3.3.1 manpages. I

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:31:36AM +0200, Alexander N. Benner wrote: > >From /var/lib/dpkg/diverts: > /usr/bin/gpg > /usr/bin/gpg.gnupg > gpg-rsa > /usr/man/man1/gpg.1.gz > /usr/man/man1/gpg.gnupg.1.gz > gpg-rsa Not true with my version anymore. The files are only under /usr/doc/gpg-rsa/examples.

glibc2.0-2.1 incompatibility: _xstat?

I have motif 2.0.1 and xrt libraries that define _xstat. This symbol is not defined anymore in glibc-2.1; there, __xstat is defined. In glibc-2.0, _xstat is defined as a weak alias for __xstat. What does the weak_alias of _xstat mean? Is there a workaround, so that I can continue to use these l

Re: Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

>> "SB" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> The problem is the versioning. How to choose the version numbers SB> in the two sets so that users will automatically get the potato SB> package when they will choose to replace 'stable' by 'unstable' SB> (or when potato will become s

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

Hello, I am with the LXNY and other free software clubs in NY and we are 100% against certification, the sheer stupidity of evan's statement is all you really need to know. I personally had a really bad experience w/ Caldera after 3 years of preparing to become a channel partner. Below is a l

Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

[Please Cc: me when replying, I have difficulties reading debian-devel at this time - but I'll try.] I want to setup an apt-compatible directory of my Biology packages , so that users can use apt to install them, without waiting the relea

Uploaded gdb 4.18-1 (source i386) to master

All the standard debian patches have not been re-applied yet, but this version should already be a vast improvement on the current potato version (Fixes: #34839, #35574, #36661, #37700, #33868, #35952, #37420, #32586, #34055). I'm going to gradually integrate the other patches (objective-C suppor

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

Jonathan Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you figure Joey? Some countries will let us distribute patented > stuff... other countries will let us distribute crypto stuff... The scheme > proposed does do away with non-US, by making its original functionality so > fine-grained that it d

Re: optimisation??

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 08:05:04AM +0200, Horvath Akos Peter wrote: > 2. Why use just -O2? The egcs people have been working for years to make > the compiler better. For us (too). -O6 makes faster binaries. Because anything higher than -O2 can cause some problems not related to the compiler, but i

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

Joseph Carter wrote: > > > IMNSHO, any replacement for /etc/init.d/network must be able to allow > config files which "do stuff" on start or stop of the service... Meaning > I should be able to give it something that will be run before or after > the initial ifconfig-and-route-type stuff has bee

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:43:36PM -0400, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > I hereby officially propose that the education of Mister Leibovitch begins > with a sound *THWAPPING* upside the head using a hard-copy of both the GNU > Manifesto and the GNU GPL, and done in tandem by two very large and well >

Re: intend to package 'country'

In addition to the master.debian.org/~ioannis location, the 'country' package is also available at http://www.cse.fau.edu/~itambour/ . Both are temporary locations until 'country' is accepted by the distribution and thus fetchable by apt-get(1). -- Ioannis Tambouras Signed pgp-key on key ser

Re: y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:55:14AM +0100, John Lines wrote: > > Linux is almost completely y2k compliant BY DEFAULT. Any y2k issues that > > haven't been fixed by now will get fixed in SLINK, not just potato. We > > don't know of any that remain however. If something binary only in > > non-free

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

Since the main (but not exclusive) use of non-US right now is for crypto software, we might want to create a Crypto-Regulations package which contains references to which countries restrict import and export of crypto, and how, with references to appropriate legislation and document

Re: (LONG) Correct non-US solution

Package: ssh Export-Restricted: United States Import-Restricted: Russia, France ssh is a bad example, since it is non-free software everywhere in the world. It is restricted by its developers. Version 2 is even more restricted than version 1. However, the general idea seems like a r

Re: Unidentified subject!

ZHUANG, Hao spake thus: > unsubscribe > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I urge you to read the last two lines of each -devel message :)) Leon -- Leon Breedt | Develop

Re: jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

"Seth M. Landsman" wrote: > > > Basically, we're in BLATANT violation of the license currently. It states > > quite clearly that redistribution is prohibited. So, plain and simple, > > we're shit out of luck. As someone else pointed out, Kaffe is just as > > good, with better response. But either

Intent to package: Puzzle ([Biology] Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees)

[Please Cc: my personal address, I'm far from my normal mail and have difficulties reading Debian lists.] [Cc: to debian-legal because there is a small legal problem. Advices about it should go to debian-legal, not debian-devel.] I intent to package the Puzzle program, which is a biology prog

pending normal debian bugs for debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Maintainer: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Severity: normal Status: pending This mail is being sent to you because the indicated bug reports have been marked as overdue (i.e. has been open longer than 9 months). Overdue reminders are repeated monthly. #20567 general logo license

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