Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > > The Debian packages, however, are *not* found in the GNOME ftp > > site. Why aren't they included and mirrored? > > Because nobody did contribute them. Every binary on the site was > contributed by someone. For example, rec

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Miguel" == Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The Debian packages, however, are *not* found in the GNOME ftp >> site. Why aren't they included and mirrored? Miguel> Because nobody did contribute them. Every binary on the site Miguel> was contributed by someone. They could be mirr

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-21 Thread Miguel de Icaza
> Hello Miguel, I would have prefered to know you taking some "tapas" > in Madrid, oh welll.. A large group went on my last day in Madrid for tapas ;-) > I disagree. The fragment is not "completely wrong", > however, I read it now and find a *big* mistake. > Where I said GNOME developers

Re: noninteractive upgrades of packages

2000-03-21 Thread Robert Thomson
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:02:31PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > I'm interested in being able to upgrade packages noninteractively, > assuming that the postinst script itself is noninteractive. Search as > I might however, I can't find any easy way around dpkg's handling of > conffiles. I'm quite

noninteractive upgrades of packages

2000-03-21 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I'm interested in being able to upgrade packages noninteractively, assuming that the postinst script itself is noninteractive. Search as I might however, I can't find any easy way around dpkg's handling of conffiles. I'm quite happy to blindly accept the one provided in the newer package, but can

Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-21 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Hello, I am running the lastest potato version and since sometime ago my key E (yeah, E upcase) stopped working. But only in bash. If I run csh or ksh, it works. What happens is the following, I type and I dont get the key displayed. It works as a dead key, waiting for any other key. When

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-21 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:38:12PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 20-Mar-00, 01:46 (CST), Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using the Space and the Backspace keys for up and down movement is absurd, > > it's even stupid. Backspace is back-space. Those keybindings where thought

Re: Novell: NDS eDirectory for Linux

2000-03-21 Thread Erik
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:59:49AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Lauri Tischler wrote: > > > Load NLDAP.NLM on one of your Netware servers. > > I did just that and wrote some WEB-applications with php3 to get phone and > > mailinggrop information from NDS. > Please excuse my

Re: ITP: GOB [Was: Re: GOB package?]

2000-03-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:26:37PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:38:50AM -0500, Peter Teichman wrote: > > > A quick search through debian-devel and wnpp yields no ITP for > > Indeed. I'd been wondering if it were packaged under an unusual name or > something. > > > gob..

Re: SuSe proxy suite

2000-03-21 Thread David Coe
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What happened to the ITP for it? I didn't see a package yet. I started working on it, but didn't get very far (due to lack of time, not any particular problem). If you'd like to take it over I'll pass what I've done to you; otherwise I will get back t

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-21 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:03:25PM +0100, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote: > [2] Logging in is still impossible: my password is accepted but > apparently I cannot connect to the X-server (here is my > .xsession-errors:) > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Clie

ITP: GOB [Was: Re: GOB package?]

2000-03-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:38:50AM -0500, Peter Teichman wrote: > A quick search through debian-devel and wnpp yields no ITP for Indeed. I'd been wondering if it were packaged under an unusual name or something. > gob.. Maybe someone would like to pick it up? I'll do it myself if nobody else h

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-21 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if > one somehow had a corrupt index.bt file. Could it be that a partially > completed install produces such a corrupt file (i.e. could it be that > whatever mandb does in the background is

Re: Non-Debian Debian Packages (maelstrom and libsdl)

2000-03-21 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:42:52PM +, Christoph Baumann wrote: > Hi! > > I just came across some strange debs on > http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/download-1.0.html > > and > http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/binary.html > >

Re: Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Stefan Gybas
Andreas Tille wrote: > java.lang.NullPointerException: > where line 70 is something like > > rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM Table"); This simply means that stmt is NULL at this point, i.e. the previous call to Connection.createStatement() failed. We can't help you unless you post th

Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > garabik> > lynx has the same problem. hyper links are blue on black, which > makes it > garabik> > very difficult to see where you are going. fixed with: > garabik> > > garabik> > COLOR:1:cyan:black > garabik> > COLOR:5:brightcyan:black > > The same can be sai

Re: blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-21 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:40:53 +0100, de profundis Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritas scribat garabik> > lynx has the same problem. hyper links are blue on black, which makes it garabik> > very difficult to see where you are going. fixed with: garabik> > garabik> > COLOR:1:cyan:

PDQ?

2000-03-21 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, There is apparently a printing system out there that is designed to replace lpr-based ones, called PDQ. I notice this is not yet in Debian. Is anyone planning to package it? Does anyone have any experience with it? If so, how do you like it? Thanks, John

Re: OT: Transmeta

2000-03-21 Thread Steve Gore
esoR ocsirF wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:15:02PM -0800, Scott Simmons wrote: > > > > Note: Since this message is of a commercial nature, we cleared it > > with Wichert Akkerman first and we're also donating $1000 to > > Debian. > > > Wowzers! Wouldn't it be swell if every commercial email

Re: Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hello, > > I've run into big trouble since I updatet do the latest Apache and > Jserv packages: > ... > For JDBC access to an MS SQL 7.0 server I use freetds-jdbc. This > works well in standalone Java applications but fails in servlets: Furthermore I'

Re: Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Lauri Tischler wrote: > > For JDBC access to an MS SQL 7.0 server I use freetds-jdbc. This > > works well in standalone Java applications but fails in servlets: > > Would some knowledgable guru do Debian package on freetds. > It would make nice addition to database access, p

Non-Debian Debian Packages (maelstrom and libsdl)

2000-03-21 Thread Christoph Baumann
Hi! I just came across some strange debs on http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/download-1.0.html and http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/Maelstrom/binary.html I downloaded and extraced them. They aren't policy compliant and contain evil dependenc

Re: Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Andreas Tille wrote: > > For JDBC access to an MS SQL 7.0 server I use freetds-jdbc. This > works well in standalone Java applications but fails in servlets: Would some knowledgable guru do Debian package on freetds. It would make nice addition to database access, php3-freetds comes to mind :)

Re: Libc6 functions such as wprintf() (widechar/multibyte/UNICODE support)

2000-03-21 Thread Jerry Lundström
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:26:34 +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >From: Jerry Lundström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Libc6 functions such as wprintf() (widechar/multibyte/UNICODE support) >Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:29:29 +0100 > >> Ive been looking around the manual pages of

Re: Novell: NDS eDirectory for Linux

2000-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Lauri Tischler wrote: > Load NLDAP.NLM on one of your Netware servers. > I did just that and wrote some WEB-applications with php3 to get phone and > mailinggrop information from NDS. Please excuse my ignorance about LDAP. I really don't know how it works and how can I prof

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manoj> One of the feature I like of a monolithic patch, as you call Manoj> it, is that when upstream incorporates changes previously made Manoj> by me or others, it is automatically handled on upgrade; the Manoj> monolithic patch just gets s

OT: Transmeta

2000-03-21 Thread esoR ocsirF
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:15:02PM -0800, Scott Simmons wrote: > > Note: Since this message is of a commercial nature, we cleared it > with Wichert Akkerman first and we're also donating $1000 to > Debian. > Wowzers! Wouldn't it be swell if every commercial email that made it to this list was als

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-21 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Hello Miguel, I would have prefered to know you taking some "tapas" in Madrid, oh welll.. On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:17:56AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > > Hello guys, > > I just got forwarded a few messages from a discussion that is going > on at the Debian lists, let me reply: >

Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I've run into big trouble since I updatet do the latest Apache and Jserv packages: Package: apache Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 651 Maintainer: Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.3.9-12 Package: jserv Status: install ok installed P

Re: Novell: NDS eDirectory for Linux

2000-03-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Lauri Tischler wrote: > > > Load NLDAP.NLM on one of your Netware servers. > > I did just that and wrote some WEB-applications with php3 to get phone and > > mailinggrop information from NDS. > Please excuse my ignorance about LDAP. I really don't k

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-21 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:33:13PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > For instance I push the up arrow numerous times to get my editor to go > to the top of the file, and all of a sudden, the escape comes detached > from the [D, and I suddenly end up altering my file, inserting invalid > data, perhaps witho

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Heath
On 21 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > > "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How would you create these diffs? Please reread the mails. I said it only extracts. I've said nothing about building anything yet. > Also, have you considered how such a system could be integrated >

Intent to package: eieio

2000-03-21 Thread Takao KAWAMURA
Hi, I am working on the package eieio, an Emacs lisp program which implements a controlled object-oriented programming methodology following the CLOS standard. Eieio is licensed under the GPL. You can get more information about eieio at http://www.ultranet.com/~zappo/eieio.shtml -- Takao KAWA

Re: ITP: solfege

2000-03-21 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, Gary Willis (www.garywillis.com) did a little ear training thing on his web site; he is a master level bassist (really, master among masters) and is also very generous with info about how to play. The ear training drills are geared towards the instrument, and go primarilary to a "hear note ==>

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How would you create these diffs? Also, have you considered how such a system could be integrated with CVS? I guess cvs could be used to automatically generate the required diffs, given labels of key versions... Who would this work without

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
> "Nicolás" == Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nicolás> Using the Space and the Backspace keys for up and down Nicolás> movement is absurd, it's even stupid. Backspace is Nicolás> back-space. Those keybindings where thought for keyboards Nicolás> without arrows,

Re: ITP: texguy

2000-03-21 Thread Masayuki Hatta
[Currently I'm not on this list. Please Cc: me] Hi there, I heard Ryuichi Arafune has ITP'd texguy, which has been already ITP'd by me(I guess around in the early March). After uploaded vflib3 my laptop got trouble and had been under repair for several weeks, but it's back now, so new tex-guy

Transmeta

2000-03-21 Thread Scott Simmons
Come work with the Linux development team at Transmeta. We're looking for Linux developers interested in working on Mobile Linux (which is based on Debian) and related projects. Linux software developed at Transmeta is open-sourced under the GNU Public License. We are interested in hiring Linux de

Re: Novell: NDS eDirectory for Linux

2000-03-21 Thread Lauri Tischler
Stephen Zander wrote: > > AFAICT, eDirectory either provides a complete LDAPv3 implementation or > at leats provides an LDAv3 front-end to NDS. Now, while I'd like LDAP > access to the NDS direcorty currently in place where I work, it > doesn't strike me as anything new or outlandish. > > Have a

Re: FreeBSD suggests not to use lynx.

2000-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Tille wrote: > > if [ -f /tmp/$$.html ]; then > > rm -f /tmp/$$.html > > fi > > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/dsearch $1 | \ > > sed 's/\/doc/\/usr\/share\/doc/g' > /tmp/$$.html > Could you be so kind for unclever people like me to explain this > anywhere (may be on devel) how this w

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> In the transcript, it is mentioned that I wrote dbs. It is a Adam> multi-tarball, multi-patch system, that is currently in use by Adam> several pkgs. However, it has its drawbacks, the 2 most Adam> glaring that it hides the source in s

Re: ITP: Netrek Vanilla server and COW (Client of Windows)

2000-03-21 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:13:49AM +0800, Neil Hunt wrote: > I intend to package the Netrek vanilla server, and the COW client. Cool. Are you also going to include instructions on how to play it from behind a masquerading firewall? That would be the kind thing to do. -- Luca Filipozzi pgpHzJ7s

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-21 Thread Daniel Martin
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is > running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message, > in case it gives anybody else some ideas. I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if on

ITP: Netrek Vanilla server and COW (Client of Windows)

2000-03-21 Thread Neil Hunt
I intend to package the Netrek vanilla server, and the COW client. These are available from http://vanilla.us.netrek.org/ and http://cow.netrek.org/ respectivly. Netrek is a 16-player graphical real-time battle simulation with a Star Trek theme. The game is divided into two teams of 8 (or less),

Re: Libc6 functions such as wprintf() (widechar/multibyte/UNICODE support)

2000-03-21 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, From: Jerry Lundström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Libc6 functions such as wprintf() (widechar/multibyte/UNICODE support) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:29:29 +0100 > Ive been looking around the manual pages of wprintf and > include files of the latest potato. > Widechar/Multibyte support exist (w

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Heath
On 21 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: > I am not sure I like (or understand for that matter) the input tar.gz > files: > > 93c152103ca081bd993bb216952a61be 293809 xawtv_3.07.orig.tar.gz > 49d09b3edefb8279dc0ae1df3a42d15b 15908 xawtv_3.07-2.debian.tar.gz > fbb0a2fdc26934037ad11553f8f19814 2624 xawtv_

Re: Novell: NDS eDirectory for Linux

2000-03-21 Thread Stephen Zander
Andreas recently commented elsewhere about Novell's latest foray into directory management and Linux. See: http://www.novell.com/lead_stories/2000/mar13/linux/index.html> for details. My question, after reading various documents attached to that URL, is: Does this really matter? AFAI

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> The script looks for all files matching the pattern Adam> *.diffs.tar.gz(yes, it allows multiple patch archives. This Adam> could be used to share between sources), then everything Adam> else that matches *.tar.gz is pla

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:38:12PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > There's a *lot* of history of using the space bar to "do the next thing" > in Unix console programs (more/less, most news readers and existing mail > readers). And there's no reason *not* to use them -- what else would you > bind to

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-21 Thread Brian May
> "Andreas" == Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andreas> On 20 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: >> I have to agree with Jason here, I was confused. In this case >> the error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was >> generated by dpkg. >> >> I will take J

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-21 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:41:45AM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote: > [sth] > > Is it just me or did something make this message go out like 12 times? > > Each time it had more and more of these: > > MBOX-Line: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 20 13:55:55 2000

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Heath wrote: > I say again. This is a .dsc unpacker, in the same way dpkg-source is. I really think you're going about this backwards, or at least sideways.. If you have an idea for a new source package format, write up a document explaining it in detail. Let people consider the implication