On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:37:15PM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
> The reason for a seperate directory is for ease of mirroring and CD
> building. It gives us also an easy way to check if a package can be
> on data.
>
> I will really like to see this one at least second. It's an old thread
> that I
On 26-May-99, 04:33 (CDT), Martin Kahlert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found a very small vi-clone named levee on
> http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code
> its exefile is 36K. Would that be small enough?
That's small enough, but consider these points:
If we are going to appeal to non-Unix-w
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Edward> 'Why does Debain have a gimp package and a gimp-non-free package?'
Edward> 'Because of the problems with GIFs.'
Edward> 'What problems?'
Edward> 'Install gn
Steve Greenland wrote:
> Why? While I like the jargon file, how is it different than the
> gnu-philosophy pages or Anarchist FAQ: An interesting (set of)
> document(s), but not really an appropriate part of an OS Distribution?
>
> Someone (Ben Collins?) mentioned that they treat it as a dictionary
On 26-May-99, 16:16 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Edward Betts wrote:
> > I noticed that Steve Greenland sayed he was going to remove his
> > jargon package because he did not think that it should be part of
> > Debian. I disagree, I think the jargon file is an important part
> > o
check http://linuxtoday.com/
also, my expo pics are up at http://158.59.192.56/le99/
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Arl
Craig Sanders wrote:
> maybe esr could be convinced to use dict as the 'source' format and
> generate html or whatever else from that?
It'd be nice if he could be convinced to use *any* format that is
flexable to generate all the other formats. SGML and XML come to
mind.
--
see shy jo
Darren O. Benham wrote:
> Just as an aside, wouldn't a "dict foo" work if dictd had a jargon
> dictionary?
Sure, that'd work fine. In fact, it does work fine except that dictionary is
out of date.
My point about keeping the "jargon" command around with the same interface
remains, though.
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see
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:11:49PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May, 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > Just curious really, but which format does the dict-jargon package
> > use?
>
> None, I forgot about that one, it uses its own format. So that is
> ANOTHER version of jargon, I presume it is
Seconded, this seems a good solution.
> Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > [1 ]
> > From: Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: PROPOSAL: automatic installation and configuration
> > Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:01:57 +0200 (MEST)
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have done a few experiments about automatic configur
Quoting Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:35:57AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> > I changed the description so it does not say it is a mirror anymore:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > Does that help at all?
>
> Not really, but if enough people really think I'm wrong on this I wo
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:16:37PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> The main thing I don't want to see change is the current "jargon" command.
> I'm used to being able to type "jargon foo" and get to the definition of
> foo. I don't really care if it continues to use info, or some other viewer,
> just so
Edward Betts wrote:
> ESR's perfered format is html. The jargon file is now avaliable as a single
> 2Mb html file jargon.html, which works quite well, if it does take a little
> while to load into lynx. The other option is a .tar.gz file containing all the
> html but each entry is a seperate file.
Chris Okasaki says:
"I am pleased to make the first public release of Edison, a library of
data structures for Haskell. See
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~cdo/edison/
for details."
It has a highly free licence.
Giuliano Procida.
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Hello,
I noticed interest in levee, the tiny vi clone. I have
a somewhat tamed version available at
http://rn082110.mrs.umn.edu/levee-update.tar.gz
It is based on Levee v3.C. Major changes include cleaning
up many error messages, replacing the old function
declaration style, and some bug fixes.
Hello.
Short question: Does anyone of you have experienced apache
forking children that do not get killed again after a period
of time? We have 70+ processes on "_" (/server-status) and
this is unusual, to say the least.
It happened after an update to the latest glibc in potato
where it was glibc
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:03:44PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I am orphaning the ALSA package, since I don't have the time to properly
> maintain a package of that complexity. I did this before and somebody
I'll take it if nobody else already has. (I have sound cards at work that
don't seem
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:10:04AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>
> It seems that there is a rewriting in the headers from
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> to
> Return-Path:
No. It isn't a rewriting. The mail came from debian-devel
and was bounced back to debian-devel.
> I sus
My jazip package is almost ready to be uploaded (jazip is an X tool to
easily mount and unmount Iomega Zip and/or Jaz drives). It is
suid-root and gives all users the ability to mount and umount zip and
jaz devices. I'm contemplating creating a group jazip as a means to
let sysadmins control user
Sure, no problem. It'll have to wait until the weekend though.
Thanks,
Ardo
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just uploaded libunicode-map8-perl a couple of days ago. Also my
> wdg-html-validator uses a private copy of I18N::Charset because the
> authors said they had modified
On Wed, 26 May, 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:
> Just curious really, but which format does the dict-jargon package use?
None, I forgot about that one, it uses its own format. So that is ANOTHER
version of jargon, I presume it is still 4.0.0 and not yet updated to 4.1.2
--
I consume, therefore I am
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:43:11PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond has released version 4.1.2 of the jargon file, but it is not
> released in info format. The text version is broken, it does not work
> correctly with Volks-hypertext browser and the spacing is messed up.
>
> ESR's perf
Well, I just finished my first real program. A random dot
stereogram generator. It takes a function, e.g. sin(xy) and
makes an rds of that surface as seen from ...hmmm... below I
think.
For some previews http://pedgr634.sn.umu.se
So I want to apply to be a maintainer. As I understand it, it
is pr
Just curious really, but which format does the dict-jargon package use?
Cheers
Dave
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 15:43 +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> Debian has at the moment the packages:
>
> jargon 4.0.0-3 maintained by Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> jargon-text 4.0.0-3 maintained by
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 03:43:11PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> ESR's perfered format is html. The jargon file is now avaliable as a single
> 2Mb html file jargon.html, which works quite well, if it does take a little
> while to load into lynx. The other option is a .tar.gz file containing all the
Catalog is a perl program that allows to create, maintain and display
Yahoo! like directories. The user interface is 100% HTML. It
requires a MySQL database to run.
--
Christophe Le Bars - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
10001101010111001010110001101010111001010100011010101110010
Debian has at the moment the packages:
jargon 4.0.0-3 maintained by Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
jargon-text 4.0.0-3 maintained by Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (me)
The first is in info format, the second in an odd hypertext language with a
viewer called Volks-hypertext browser (
On Tue, 25 May 1999, you wrote:
>Russel Coker wrote:
>
>> I intend to release a package of a little library I'm working on
>> called "fakedate". This will wrap the time() system call and make
>> applications think that they are running on a different date.
>
>You might also be interested in these t
Stevie Strickland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was digging back through the mailing list, and found this message
> from around the first of April... the list of packages below caught
> my eye...
[...]
> > OpenXML (should be free)
> > XML4j (not sure if utterly free, but close)
> > Cacoon
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:42:35PM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Not daring to upgrade my machines to glibc 2.1 yet for lack of
> stability, I was hoping I'll be able to upgrade my package on
> master.debian.org but now see that it is also based on glibc 2.0.
>
> Is there any debian glibc 2.1 machi
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 06:40:09PM +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> > Of course, these are all very nice ideas... but we currently don't
> > have any PLACE to put the list (where it'll get used by dpkg* tools),
> > whether it is manually or automatically generated!
> >
> > IIRC Ben Collins had mad
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:42:35PM +0300, Amos Shapira wrote:
> Is there any debian glibc 2.1 machine (actually a "potato" machine)
> available for Debian developers to compile their packages on?
pandora.debian.org
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%%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%
Would it be feasible to have a /bin directory on the base cd and in
there store some binaries of vi and some other basic utilities that could
be used along with the rescue/install disk? Anyone who is installing will
have access to the media in some form. Anyone just using it as a rescue
disk
On Wed, 26 May 1999, you wrote:
>on linux-kernel there was once a posting for an app, that could trap any
>system call and make the kernel return different results.
>think like strace, but allows to reprogram system calls.
>
>i'm sorry, i don't know where the program was,
>but maybe you like to sea
Hello,
Not daring to upgrade my machines to glibc 2.1 yet for lack of
stability, I was hoping I'll be able to upgrade my package on
master.debian.org but now see that it is also based on glibc 2.0.
Is there any debian glibc 2.1 machine (actually a "potato" machine)
available for Debian developers
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On Wed, 26 May 1999 13:38:11 +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>no, but vi as been standard unix editor since times immemorial, and people
>expect to find it on any unix system.
Here's one person who doesn't. Blows your theory, doesn't it?
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On Wed, 26 May 1999 12:49:03 +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>after the emacs vs. vi flamewar, you want to start a unix still editor (vi or
>emacs) vs. microsoft still key binding thread ?
Sven... Joe is UNIX. WordStar is not Microsoft. Get your fac
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On Wed, 26 May 1999 12:44:26 +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>Every Unix system is distributed with a working vi, and most people know how
As has been pointed out, several times, FreeBSD does not.
- --
Steve C. Lamb | I'm your pr
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:04:47PM +0200, EXT Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:46:41PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> >
> > So it would be nice to have a some kind of wrapper library that patches the
> > open and such function from glibc, and log the accessed files (the one that
> > a
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:00:00PM +0200, EXT Martin Kahlert wrote:
> Quoting Sven LUTHER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Will try at home, if it works fine, i could package it.
> > Do you have any idea about the license of this stuff ?
> > there seem to be no mention of it in the sources.
> Sorry, no.
>
As I recall someone(s) posted an intent and nothing came from this. I am able
to compile and use this app, so it will now be packaged.
This will likely be a few weeks away as various things are comig up and I need
to get gtkmm happy again first (GNOME deps, eee).
From: Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xfree 3.3.3.1 for slink anywhere?
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 12:23:26 +0200
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:43:40PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> > I've spent quite a while trying to find out but the only reference I could
> > see doesn't have any pack
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 07:13:46AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Every Unix system is distributed with a working vi, and most people know
> > how to
> > use vi. So finding a non standard editor on the base system is not so nice,
> > and
> > can cause lots of confusions. and
I get a similar problem, but only when compiling pcmcia-source for
that kernel package:
gcc -MD -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -pipe -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I.
./include -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.7/include -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.7
-c i82365.c
In file included from ../include/pcm
Sven LUTHER wrote:
> Every Unix system is distributed with a working vi, and most people know how
> to
> use vi. So finding a non standard editor on the base system is not so nice,
> and
> can cause lots of confusions. and ae is a lot confusing, and don't behave
Read the instructions on the top
Quoting Sven LUTHER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Will try at home, if it works fine, i could package it.
> Do you have any idea about the license of this stuff ?
> there seem to be no mention of it in the sources.
Sorry, no.
You will have to ask the author for it.
I looked into the sources a bit, and i t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes, this is one of the most infuriating thing with a base debian system, no
>true vi.
On the rescue disk, there's no true vi, but elvis-tiny is in the
base system and it's no vim but it still is a complete vi (and only 64K)
Sven LUTHER writes ("Re: An 'ae' testimony"):
>On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:27:39PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> >
>> > Sure this happened to me a long time ago, didn't try ae since because of it
>> > though.
>>
>> One question: how can you blame ae for not working, when you rely on
>> outdated inf
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:20:51AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:49:11PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:11:42AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:51:48AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > As for the editor that should go on the boot floppies? I'll stay out of
> > > that discussion, except: Should anyone com
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:49:11PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > > some version of vi is essential on a rescue disk, regardless of wh
Hi all,
Here are some DFSG-free packages I found during the last weeks, which
I feel would be great to have in Debian. Rush for them ! ;)
* HFM - Hamster Font Manager (GPL)
http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/se/service/hamster/index_e.html
HFM is a font manager for Unix systems. With
Hello,
I installed kernel-source-2.2.7 from potato and tried to compile.
I've got several
No such file or directory
errors. The `make zImage 2>` output is appended. Is the package
broken???
Kind regards
Andreas.
[X] Against war.
init/main.c: In function `start_kernel':
init/ma
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:51:48AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > As for the editor that should go on the boot floppies? I'll stay out of
> > that discussion, except: Should anyone come up with an editor
> > that emulates the old DOS "edit" program, and ta
Takao KAWAMURA wrote:
> Licence:
>
> Permission to use, copy, and modify this software and its
> documentation is granted under no conditions.
>
> I will upload it to master in a few days.
"..is granted under no conditions" reads like 'is not granted'.
I.e., there are no conditions under which
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:27:51PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:38:11PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > no, but vi as been standard unix editor since times immemorial, and people
> > expect to find it on any unix system.
>
> The boot disk is not a system at all - it is crip
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:27:39PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> >
> > Sure this happened to me a long time ago, didn't try ae since because of it
> > though.
>
> One question: how can you blame ae for not working, when you rely on
> outdated information about it?! (today we'd call that plain FUD :
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:19:48PM +0200, Martin Kahlert wrote:
> Quoting Sven LUTHER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I downloaded and tried it.
> >
> > it compiled fine on my solaris box here at work, but it didn't work so fine
> > (it
> > was 110k before i striped it, 67k after. using only libc)
> >
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:31:15PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> remove this help stuff, and have just some sort of help binding that will
> bring
> it up. That would be nicer, and let more space for editign.
That's okay too, as long as it is clearly written (e.g. like in joe,
"Ctrl-K H for help").
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 09:13:03AM +0100, Giuliano Procida wrote:
> > The major changes are as follows:
> >
> > /var/state is back at /var/lib, but using the /var/state
> [snip]
> > /var/mail is back at /var/spool/mail.
> [snip]
>
> ... and the people took to the streets and there was gre
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:38:11PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> no, but vi as been standard unix editor since times immemorial, and people
> expect to find it on any unix system.
The boot disk is not a system at all - it is crippled in every way.
And we don't have a vi that would fit in 25KB.
--
Quoting Sven LUTHER ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I downloaded and tried it.
>
> it compiled fine on my solaris box here at work, but it didn't work so fine
> (it
> was 110k before i striped it, 67k after. using only libc)
>
> i was able to open a new file, enter insert mode with i, type hello (it froo
Hi,
I have packaged src2tex, a converter from source program
files to TeX format files.
The author of src2tex introduce it in the release note as
follows:
Roughly speaking, src2tex [resp. src2latex] is a sort of
text converter from BASIC, C, C++, OBJECTIVE-C, COBOL,
FORTRAN, HTML, JAVA, LISP, MA
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:46:41PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > So, what's the problem? We don't autodetect all of binary dependencies
> > > either. Maintainers generally know what they need to build their
> > > packages;
> > > it should be trivial for them to list the dependencies explicitly
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 12:15:38PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hamish> What if we make the help text mode-sensitive? eg
>
> Do that, and still have the editor small enough (isn't ae like
> 25Kb or something?), and t
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 02:42:51AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 03:07:19AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > > Some of these can be detected automatically (#5 could be discovered with a
> > > grep on debian/rules, for example), but some can't.
> >
> > So, what's the p
Hi,
I have packaged trr19, a GPL'd type training program for GNU
Emacs.
Though the manual of trr19 is written in Japanese, I think
non-Japanese-speaking-people can play with it because it
talk to you in English by default.
More info about trr19 can be found at
http://tje12.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~y
Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [1 ]
> From: Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: PROPOSAL: automatic installation and configuration
> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:01:57 +0200 (MEST)
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have done a few experiments about automatic configuration of packages
>
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:54:57PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 09:47:33AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > that extra 30k (if it is actually available on the rescue disk) would be
> > better used either as part of the space needed by elvis-tiny (**) or by
>
> I still don't
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:05:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Joseph Carter wrote:
> > Okay, let me offer this a bit here... Do the rescue floppies currently
> > use libncurses at all? I think they don't. Okay, now then:
>
> Slang does have minimal ncurses support, you can link ncurses apps agai
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:21:02PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Sat, 22 May 1999, Michael Stone wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:49:11PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > > some version of vi is essential on a rescue disk, regardless of what some
> > > windows using loudmouth happens to th
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:51:48AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> As for the editor that should go on the boot floppies? I'll stay out of
> that discussion, except: Should anyone come up with an editor
> that emulates the old DOS "edit" program, and takes the same order of
> space on the boot floppy
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 11:33:08AM +0200, Martin Kahlert wrote:
> Quoting Jules Bean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > OK. We didn't really come to a consensus, be here's my what, IMO, best
> > summarises our opinions:
> >
> > 1) If we don't have vi on the disks, we shouldn't pretend to. So, the
> > v
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 08:53:06AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:49:11PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > some version of vi is essential on a rescue disk, regardless of what some
> > windows using loudmouth happens to think (and no, i'm not referring to
> > you here josep
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:51:03PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On 21 May 1999 22:38:14 -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
>
> >I think ee is a good choice, I'm not sure it's the right choice, I'm
> >not sure there is a right choice. If we put a vi on, w
Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Michel Kaempf wrote:
>
> > On Mon, May 24, 1999, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > > Wouldn't it be nice if dpkg would tell you what exactly has changed
> > > between the packages config file and what the difference to your
> > > confi
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 04:33:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On Sat, 22 May 1999 09:02:24 +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> >*i* know it's not really vi. but my fingers don't. hail eris!
>
> Well, according to that logic joe should be on t
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 03:09:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
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> On Fri, 21 May 1999 14:57:26 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> >Maybe joe or something? The standard joe package is way too big and
> >someone would almost certainly have to come up wi
on linux-kernel there was once a posting for an app, that could trap any
system call and make the kernel return different results.
think like strace, but allows to reprogram system calls.
i'm sorry, i don't know where the program was,
but maybe you like to search and look at this approach.
andrea
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:47:59AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> I don't want to start a flame-war, so be gentle..
>
> I was just mindlessly (in a tongue-in-cheek way) evangalising Debian on
> a mailing list I'm on, and I got a private response from a SuSE user.
> He had installed Debian from a CD (
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:03:33PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> But there seem to be enough C++ deevelopers around here, and more and more
C++ is mostly popular because microsoft is using it, ...
> will follow (if you haven't noticed, on universities they teach Scheme, Java
> , Perl and C+
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:43:40PM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> I've spent quite a while trying to find out but the only reference I could
> see doesn't have any packages there anymore (www.debian.org/~vincent IIRC).
>
> NB: I know that generally you can just grab the Xserver you want.
Just gr
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:04:53AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory
> > since long time ago, IIRC before hamm.
>
> No, it's not in policy yet.
Sorry, I meant to say "yes you can". But it should become policy soon,
so tha
I am orphaning the ALSA package, since I don't have the time to properly
maintain a package of that complexity. I did this before and somebody
volunteered, but apparently nothing has happened since and I forgot who
it was.
There are currently a couple of open bugs, none of which are really
diffic
I intend to package Gnome Toaster. Here is the description as taken from
freshmeat:
Gnometoaster is intended to be a full CD creation suite for X11. Although
it is in the very early stages of development, it can already be used to
copy data, audio, and hybrid cds on the fly or with prec
Quoting Jules Bean ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> OK. We didn't really come to a consensus, be here's my what, IMO, best
> summarises our opinions:
>
> 1) If we don't have vi on the disks, we shouldn't pretend to. So, the
> vi-compatibility mode goes. (Has gone.)
>
> 2) We choose between 'ae' and 'ee'
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Having said that, and thought about the packages I maintain, 'jargon'
> clearly fits in the above category, and will be withdrawn until there is
> an appropriate archive.
nah, don't do that. Wait for wichert's proposal when the lo
On Wed, 26 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Table of Contents
> > .
> > * About Free Software
> > * About the GNU project
> > * Licensing Free Software
> > * Laws
> > * Terminology and Definitions
> > * GIFs
> > * Motivation
> > * Speeches
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 06:43:12PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:32:16PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >[...regarding time-travel library...]
> >
> >Or a clever wrapper for shareware style trial packages for linux
> >that stop working after a certian time. I do
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:06:40PM +0900, Takuro KITAME wrote:
> Package: hns2
> Section: web
> Architecture: all
> Depends: perl, mail-transport-agent
> Recommends: apache, nkf
Should not at least apache be a Suggests instead of Recommends? I don't
have to use apache to use a CGI. In fact, I ca
Jules Bean wrote:
>
> I don't want to start a flame-war, so be gentle..
Oh well. I did, anyhow.
>
> I was just mindlessly (in a tongue-in-cheek way) evangalising Debian on
> a mailing list I'm on, and I got a private response from a SuSE user.
> He had installed Debian from a CD (he didn't say
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:01:41AM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> The major changes are as follows:
>
> /var/state is back at /var/lib, but using the /var/state
[snip]
> /var/mail is back at /var/spool/mail.
[snip]
... and the people took to the streets and there was great rejoicing!
Giuli
At 08:35 +0100 1999-05-25, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
No it won't, as the slang library on the rescue floppy is a stripped-down
version that includes only the symbols that are actually used. (Have a
look at generate-library.sh on the boot-floppies sources. It's a really
smart hack).
A hack that no long
--- begin forwarded text
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:35:07 -0700
From: Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FHS pre-2.1 draft #1 on web site
FYI - I just made a pre-release of FHS 2.1 on the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailing list. If you have any comments, please direct them to
On Tue, 25 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>OK, in that case we'll have to make a break between the boot _floppies_
>>and the floppy images used on the CDs. El Torito _only_ supports 720K,
>>1440K and 2880K. And I'm not sure about the last one...
>
>I'm pretty sure that it will also support a h
I was digging back through the mailing list, and found this message
from around the first of April... the list of packages below caught
my eye...
> Still to be packged:
>
> XML::Parser (perl expat frontend), other perl XML stuff
I've done XML::Parser already, and am now working on the others..
On 25-May-99, 04:35 (CDT), Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > I have the same objection to this I had to the anarchist thing: You're
> > trying to package their website. I don't think we should be doing that.
>
> I changed the description so
On 25-May-99, 01:47 (CDT), Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the ESR
> > utilitarian arguments). Some Debianers might agree with one philosophy,
> > others another. If you're going to
On 24-May-99, 22:06 (CDT), Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the ESR
> > utilitarian arguments). Some Debianers might agree with one philosophy,
> > others another.
>
>
> um.. Debian GNU/Linux
> ^^^
> I'd say that's reason eno
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