Bjoern Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Taking the risk to burn like hell: I think the "exhaustive exploration"
> of ANY political theory and practice is VERY misplaced in ANY Linux
> distribution. I would say the same thing about "The top 1000 FAQ on
> home-made apple pie", but nobody has pack
I'd love to go to the conference. Let's go to Redmond and infiltrate
Microsoft, or to the Portland area and infiltrate Intel.
I'll hike there if I have to. I don't mind sleeping bag
accomodations; I'm in Portland, OR, USA.
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when doing a package search for "gpg" from the main page, I´m
> getting some hits, where two pages
> (http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-idea.html and
> http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-rsa.h
I need an entry level systems admin or programmer assistant job to
pay for night school so I can get a degree. I am willing to
relocate for the right job.
Karl M. Hegbloom
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i18n of man pages is made by a lot of independent authors
and everyone translates termset differently so i
think developers of every single language should get
consensus about translation of common headers
I suggest these ones:
NAME
USAGE
DESCRIPTION
SYNOPSIS
BUG> these is the biggest problem
As I mentioned, I will be returning to work soonish... within a week
or two. I just verified that an anon CVS will work from "master".
If anyone would like to have a look (please do), you can copy my
setup from master and see it. There's a script you'll need, ala Joey
Hess' "sshanoncvs". T
Amigos, he vuelto a actualizar la pagina pero esta vez vine bastante
vircioso ya que puse un seccion de mIRC bastante grandes, tiene 2
secciones, una son todo comandos y como funcionan y la otra es un manual
del mIRC y es tan preciso que hasta explica una base de como crear tu
propio Script
Hi,
when doing a package search for "gpg" from the main page, I´m
getting some hits, where two pages
(http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-idea.html and
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-rsa.html) point to
sources where I´m getting error 404.
For both pages, the mis
On Tue, Sep 21 1999, Christian Kurz wrote:
Hi,
> I intent to orphan bvi and penguineyes. I will orphan bvi, because I
> don't use it much anymore and penugineyes will get orphaned, because I
> gave gnome I try, but I don't like it much and so I want to remove it,
> which makes packaging penguine
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This brings up another issue. Both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 provide
> perl5, but it was my understanding that these two versions were
> "substantially" different, at least during installation I got a long
> story about how I would need to convert database
"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> understanding that this was, in fact, the reason for
Dale> constructing the package names so that they could both be
Dale> installed at the same time, yet they both claim to be perl5!
Well, "perl5" enough for most purposes. The packages t
Le Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:22:08PM +, Dale Scheetz écrivait:
> was my understanding that this was, in fact, the reason for constructing
> the package names so that they could both be installed at the same time,
> yet they both claim to be perl5!
Of course ! Perl 5.004 is perl5 and perl-5.005 i
Mark Brown wrote:
> IIRC, it was this very package that prompted the last discussion about
> setting up a data section. What came of that?
I got no reponses from the following post to debian-policy two
weeks ago:
To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org
Subject: Data section accepted a while ago.
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz écrivait:
> > After looking over things, both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 replace perl and
> > provide perl5, but neither of them provide perl!
>
> This has been done so voluntary. And perl-5.005-ba
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> I agree with you, and wish we'd toss all non-relevant packages
> out, or at least move them into the data section.
> (That said, I think stuff like coastline data that we could use
> to make maps would be okay for the data section; Where do I draw
>
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:52:41PM +0200, Bjoern Brill wrote:
> Taking the risk to burn like hell: I think the "exhaustive exploration"
> of ANY political theory and practice is VERY misplaced in ANY Linux
> distribution. I would say the same thing about "The top 1000 FAQ on
> home-made apple pie"
On 23/09, Marco d'Itri wrote:
| I see no point in checking signatures if you don't also reject unsigned
| messages.
For me, a message with no signature is a message with a bad signature :)
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"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> happens. Nothing indicated that I should upgrade those packages.
Root of problem: using dpkg manually.
Dale> We seem to have mixed feelings about supporting "incremental
Dale> upgrades".
I think our stance is, "we support incremental upg
On Sep 21, Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, IMO, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] should.
I see no point in checking signatures if you don't also reject unsigned
messages.
--
ciao,
Marco
On 23 Sep 1999, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon
> > perl.
>
> This is incorrect. Current versions of libnet-perl do not require
> perl.
But the versions in slink _do_, and it is t
I agree with you, and wish we'd toss all non-relevant packages
out, or at least move them into the data section.
(That said, I think stuff like coastline data that we could use
to make maps would be okay for the data section; Where do I draw
the line? Well, can you at least compute the stuff? Or
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> I suggest renaming anarchist_7.7-1.deb to
> anarcho-communism_7.7-1.deb or throwing it out of distribution
> cause it have nothing to do with real anarchy
> and make mess in peoples' minds
> someone who doesnt really know what anarchy is after rea
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 02:38:46PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does sash support the standard -c command line
> option yet? If not, I wouldn't really consider pushing it as a root
> shell since it will break a lot of scripts (from cron and elsewhere).
$ sash -c date
Thu Sep
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:53:45AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
> > match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
> > things?
>
> I don't h
I suggest renaming anarchist_7.7-1.deb to
anarcho-communism_7.7-1.deb or throwing it out of distribution
cause it have nothing to do with real anarchy
and make mess in peoples' minds
someone who doesnt really know what anarchy is after reading
this doc will found anarchy stupid and anarchist morons
Le Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz écrivait:
> After looking over things, both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 replace perl and
> provide perl5, but neither of them provide perl!
This has been done so voluntary. And perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl
... you should upgrade your pack
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +, Dale Scheetz was heard to say:
> Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev,
> who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005,
> but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use
> --auto-deconfigur
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon
> perl.
This is incorrect. Current versions of libnet-perl do not require
perl.
Mike.
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:23:27PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> Of course not, but only the package maintainer is supposed to close bugs on
> her package. Even other Debian developers should use the fixed state.
>
Unless somebody's changed something while I wasn't looking, Debian accepts
submit
Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev,
who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005,
but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use
--auto-deconfigure on several packages that depended upon perl. When the
smoke cleared, after inst
Joey:
> I've been thinking about this for a while, but it always seemed like a crazy
> idea. But it seems other people were thinking about it too, and others like
> the idea, so I had better post about it.
>
> Wouldn't it be great if all the debian developers could be flown in to a
> convention si
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:52:49PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> >
> > I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
> > Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
>
Aack. I write www.debian.org so often I guess i
| As a non-developer who has manipulated bugs..
[...]
| a bug anymore and should be closed. However, in a few cases I never got a
| response from the maintainer and decided to just close a bug myself.
[...]
| Are these shooting offenses? If so, I guess I should start keeping an eye
| out
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Darren Benham was heard to say:
> What do you think?
> - Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
>
>
> On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote:
>
> | And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian
> keyring..
>
>
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:45:16AM +0100, Phil Hands wrote:
>
> As it happens, I just got an Epson Stylus Photo EX, so should be able
> to a pretty decent A3 version.
>
> Is the image it uses for the Earth actually scalable up to that size,
> or is it likely to go blobby? If it's not up to it, a
>> Darren Benham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do you think?
well, for one, the submitter doesn't have to be a developer, and it's
perfectly ok for the submitter to manipulate "his" bugs. I've always
thought the rule "only the maintainer and the submitter are allowed to close
bugs" to be a
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06 -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
> - Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
> Non-developpers should not be allowed to *manipulate* bugs IMO.
It would be nice to have a mechanism available to ensure this if there is
indeed abuse of the BTS b
What do you think?
- Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
On 21/09, Darren Benham wrote:
| And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian keyring..
Non-developpers should not be allowed to *manipulate* bugs IMO.
- End forwarded message
At Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:24:27 +0200 (MET DST),
Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Previously Raul Miller wrote:
> > > Would it be possible, for this case, for the package to conflict
> > > with the specific versions which are known to cause problems?
> >
> > Unless I'm very mistaken, y
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
> match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
> things?
I don't have enough confidence in Debian's pam, yet, to insist that
everyone that
On Thu 23 Sep 1999, Paul Slootman wrote:
> >
> > I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
No, you should have used https://db.debian.org/ ...
> I get 'connection refused by the server'...
... because db.debian.org does accept https connections, while
www.debian.org doesn
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:06:48AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> and (here is my proposal)
>
> d) sash will create a locked sashroot account with useradd, and
>display the message to use sashpasswd above as soon as possible.
That's an interesting idea. I'll think about it.
> By th
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Raul Miller wrote:
> > Would it be possible, for this case, for the package to conflict
> > with the specific versions which are known to cause problems?
>
> Unless I'm very mistaken, yes.
>
> Wichert.
I've a similar problem. I use Debia
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) writes:
>
> > > I think you should just use useradd to edit the password file.
> >
> > You mean without ensuring that the password is useful?
> >
> > I've already elected to give the ad
* "Paul" == Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul> On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
>>
>> I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
>> Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Paul> I get 'connection refused by the server'...
Yeste
Hi.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) writes:
> > I think you should just use useradd to edit the password file.
>
> You mean without ensuring that the password is useful?
>
> I've already elected to give the admin a choice (whether or not to add
> the account -- t
> > Where is Oldenburg geographically? E.g. how far from Holland? :-)
>
> Groningen is about 100km. It's 50km south of the coast, where
> the coast makes its way to the inner country. (difficult to
> explain.)
_
(_)
_
On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
>
> I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
> Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
I get 'connection refused by the server'...
Moreover, I tried updating my info on the non-secure page, but
my postcode
Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
> >
> > Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
>
> : The dnsserver returned:
> :
> : DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found
> : (authoritative).
>
> Doesn't look like the DNS is set up yet. Al
On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/
: The dnsserver returned:
:
: DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found
: (authoritative).
Doesn't look like the DNS is set up yet. Also no reference from
www.linuxtag.de ...
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:43:01AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> "dpkg-source: error: Expected ^@@ in line 4569 of diff"
>
> "\ No newline at end of file"
This bug is already known, reported, and is promised to be fixed in
the next dpkg(-source) upload.
--
enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronou
> It would be nice to have a mail server command `resurrect', or
> similar, that would bring a dead bug back to life (if it were found
> not to be dead, or whatever; several reasons were listed above).
You mean "reopen". Existing feature. Presumably "reopen" now also
works for bugs closed longer
"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
> Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
The certificate has got the fingerprint:
B5:48:B4:F8:A5:A9:E6:AE:91:AF:52:EA:AB:60:99:DB
is this correct?
Please ans
"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Indeed.
> >
> > It would be especially good if people could try to get their info in
> > there in the next week or so, since we appear to have a stand at an
> > Expo in London (http://www.itevents.co.uk/exhibitions/linux/default.htm)
> > on the 6t
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 05:14:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:46:36AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > [description removed]
>
> I have made most of the changed required for my redesign of diskless.
> Amazingly, it looks like no changed are required for dpkg. I haven't
> yet t
At 16:42 -0700 1999-09-22, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
allow it, even encourage it.
The FHS neither allows nor encourages /usr/etc; that would be against
one of the stated goals of the FHS, which is that /usr is static, an
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I may add a comment to the coords file describing how the image is created
> so people can create their own. Hopefully someone has a printer that can
> print a large version.
Can you send them to me? I will include them in the man page for ud-xearth
Martin Schulze writes ("Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?"):
>Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
>> Just a quick inquiry --
>>
>> Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
>
>Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
That, and I didn't see /usr/etc listed in the F
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:53:23AM +0100, Phil Hands wrote:
> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:26:19PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
> > > Check out the new map showing developer locations:
> > > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.map.jpg
> >
> > N
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:54:10AM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
> > "BC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> BC> No because the .la files only go into the -dev package for the
> BC> library,
>
> Section 4.2 of the policy manual, according to my reading, seems to
> dis
> "BC" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BC> No because the .la files only go into the -dev package for the
BC> library,
Section 4.2 of the policy manual, according to my reading, seems to
disagree...
Packages that use libtool to create shared libraries must include the
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 09:40:21AM +0800, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
> Hmm - it strikes me that there may be a potential problem with
> including .la archives with library packages. The filename for the
> libtool file is independent of the version number of the library. ie,
> libfish2 will ship wit
Hello all,
I installed gnumeric 0.32-1 and gnome-print 0.4-1
but gnumeric does not run with messages;
-
Cannot read file /home/kohda/.gnome/fonts/fontmap :
gzopen failed: No such file or directory
Cannot read file /usr/share/fonts/fontmap :
gzopen failed: N
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
> Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
Yes, this is definately the best way to enter the data right now.
Encrypted LDAP is comming in many months though.
> A
Hmm - it strikes me that there may be a potential problem with
including .la archives with library packages. The filename for the
libtool file is independent of the version number of the library. ie,
libfish2 will ship with a libfish.la, and so will libfish3. This might
be an obstacle to install
Hello all,
I tried yesterday 'apt-get source nethack' and failed with message
"dpkg-source: error: Expected ^@@ in line 4569 of diff"
There is written in line 4569 of nethack_3.2.2-16.diff.gz
"\ No newline at end of file"
(perhaps postinst ends without newline, I think)
I am not sure which of
Previously Raul Miller wrote:
> Would it be possible, for this case, for the package to conflict
> with the specific versions which are known to cause problems?
Unless I'm very mistaken, yes.
Wichert.
--
==
This combina
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
> Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
And because configuration is dynamic, while things in /usr are not.
Wichert.
--
==
This combination of bytes forms a message written to
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 06:49:46PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail.
> Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL.
>
> Additionally, I have asked for a page to be linked from
> db.debian.org to describe what those wh
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:30:55AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> The problem here is that dpkg doesn't support versioned provides.
> If you install libgnome-perl you have a virtual libgtk-imlib-perl
> on your system. However since virtual packages don't have versions
> dpkg cannot satisfy the ve
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> Just a quick inquiry --
>
> Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period.
Regards,
Joey
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