Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Kevin Dalley
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote: > > BugScan reporter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Package: sane (debian/main) > > > Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 60923 sane: Broken with Gimp 1.0 > > > > I up

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:55:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I suggest you close bugs filed by such people without comment. > Call it the Malicious Blacklist User Behavior Modification System. Of course, you could always just get the work done and email back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; since it'l

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote: > BugScan reporter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Package: sane (debian/main) > > Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 60923 sane: Broken with Gimp 1.0 > > I uploaded a possible fix to this program a few days ago. Th

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi Anthony, On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:37:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:02:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at least three minutes > > > on

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Kevin Dalley
BugScan reporter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: sane (debian/main) > Maintainer: Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60923 sane: Broken with Gimp 1.0 I uploaded a possible fix to this program a few days ago. The problem is that various versions of sane and xsane were not compiled with

Re: ITP: gnome-db

2000-03-31 Thread Adam Keys
gnome-db is a a shot at something like the ODBC api's available under windows. I proposed the idea on gnome-list many moons ago, and it was picked up by Michael Lausch, who I believe is the main developer. gconf is a shot at something like .ini files, or the windows registry. On Fri, Mar 31, 2000

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-03-31 Thread Seth R Arnold
* Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000331 12:23]: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote: > > The ballots came from: > > 216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active > developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al... Wouldn't this be

Re: ITP: gnome-db

2000-03-31 Thread Dan White
Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Dan White wrote: > > gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is "a framework for creating > > database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back ends > > to different database sources as well as various specialized widgets for > > handling ma

New Mailing-Lists

2000-03-31 Thread Martin Schulze
>From the we-are-everywhere department: Debian proudly presents: F I V E N E W L I S T S C R E A T E D List: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org This mailing list is designed to help coordinate the maintenance of the teTeX packages and related software in

Re: ITP: gnome-db

2000-03-31 Thread Jacob Kuntz
gnome-db is more intended to be a replacement for MS Access than for the windows registry. gconf is one of the may attempts to create a centralized configuration system for linux. Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Previously Dan White wrote: > > gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db)

Re: ITP: gnome-db

2000-03-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Dan White wrote: > gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is "a framework for creating > database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back ends > to different database sources as well as various specialized widgets for > handling many database tasks." It's also par

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:06:19PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > 216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active > > developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al... > > It think it just clearly shows typical lack of election interest. FYI, > Echelon has con

Re: woody mutt users, please read

2000-03-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 30, Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Eh? My understanding is that you probably can get rid of "lists" >altogether if all the entries in "lists" are duplicated in >"subscribe". Yes, you are right. >The only difference between "lists" and "subscribe" is that >"subscribe" entri

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-03-31 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > 216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active > developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al... It think it just clearly shows typical lack of election interest. FYI, Echelon has confirmed a total of 346 developers

ITP: gnome-db

2000-03-31 Thread Dan White
gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is "a framework for creating database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back ends to different database sources as well as various specialized widgets for handling many database tasks." It's also part of gnome office (http://www.gnome

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-03-31 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote: >> The ballots came from: > >216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active >developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote: > The ballots came from: 216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al... > N: Marco D > N: Rapha > N: Stig Mathis These names are incorrect (perhaps

Processed: foo

2000-03-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 50577 project Bug#50577: package fan list wanted Bug reassigned from package `lists.debian.org' to `project'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database)

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:36AM -0800, Ossama Othman wrote: > Hi, > > > Package: libtool (debian/main) > > Maintainer: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 61314 libtool build hack breaks ports > > I'm currently away attending a conference so it's a bit hard for me to > work on this. An N

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:19:39PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Package: gap4-doc-dvi (debian/non-free) > > > Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 60695 gap4-doc-dvi depends on nonexistent package > > > > > > Package: gap4-do

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, > Package: libtool (debian/main) > Maintainer: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 61314 libtool build hack breaks ports I'm currently away attending a conference so it's a bit hard for me to work on this. An NMU would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I'll do my best to get this fixed

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:15:03AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: > Package: imlib-progs (debian/main) > Maintainer: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60052 imlib-progs: imlib_config segfaulting without /etc/imlib/imrc This should have been fixed with the imlib 1.9.8-4 packages. Can som

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:15:03AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: > > Package: glut-doc (debian/main) > Maintainer: James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 61366 /usr/doc symlink not made > New glut packages are being uploaded to fix. Note that glut-data was the cause of this problem and also ne

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > Package: gap4-doc-dvi (debian/non-free) > > Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 60695 gap4-doc-dvi depends on nonexistent package > > > > Package: gap4-doc-html (debian/non-free) > > Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTE

Packages offered for adoption

2000-03-31 Thread Lalo Martins
Hi. I'm dropping all my packages. That is dcd (a console CD player) and lletters (a children game). Freeciv has already been adopted by Jules Bean. []s, |alo + -- Hack and Roll ( http://www

Re: What's changed in su/bash? "bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable"

2000-03-31 Thread Eric Weigel
I just logged in on console as root, and ulimit -a reported 256 processes max. So I don't think the problem is with su. Maybe it's PAM? I wonder where this gets configured? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Brian Greenfield wrote: > >On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uek

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
> Package: siag-common (debian/main) > Maintainer: Davide Barbieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 61174 siag-common: deps on arch any packages too strict to allow binary > only recompiles Fixed version was installed last night by the maintainer. > Package: silo (debian/main) > Maintainer: Davide Barbi

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread John Goerzen
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you don't correct this at once I will be forced to re-evaluate my place > within a project that is nominally devoted to free and open communication > among > its members and the rest of the world. Your complaint against us using the DUL is valid.

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
> Package: kaffe (debian/main) > Maintainer: Ean R. Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59420 kaffe_1:1.0.5e-0.3(frozen): bad register names on m68k NMU'ing this one (again) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic vo

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
> Package: ivtools (debian/main) > Maintainer: Guenter Geiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 57250 ivtools_0.7.9-5(frozen): build errors Changelog for 0.7.9-6 says this is fixed, so I've closed it. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins --

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
> Package: gcc (debian/main) > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 58412 r-base: Can't build from source > 61258 missing header files in include/asm on non-i386 architectures I'v reduced the severity of these two bugs. The first has a workaround in the bug report. Since

Re: Packages removed from potato

2000-03-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 06:07:57PM -0700, Randolph Chung écrivait: > ok, some misunderstanding here. someone had said that he was going to do a > nmu for me because i've been rather busy with other stuff, but i guess > that didn't happen :( Yes, I said to you that I may NMU gnudip, unfortunetaly I

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread Ben Collins
> Package: gap4-doc-dvi (debian/non-free) > Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60695 gap4-doc-dvi depends on nonexistent package > > Package: gap4-doc-html (debian/non-free) > Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60703 gap4-doc-html depends on nonexisten

[fpolacco@debian.org: [ man-db_2.3.15_i386.changes INSTALLED]]

2000-03-31 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
As anybody has reported problems with this version or the followers, I presume that the problem was inside that package (I unpacked it and rebuild and I got a .deb with two bytes of difference in size, so something had happened during that build). I'm closing those bugs. fab - Forwarded messa

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread Diana Galletly
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone > > else to listen. > > I think Branden's whole point was that he doesn't like to be forced to > listen to someth

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:43:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > why? it's his mail server, he can do what he likes with it. he is > entitled to reject or defer mail delivery to his system for any reason > he chooses, regardless of

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:43:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I'm fighting with iwj about this in private mail, and won't trouble > the lists further about it at this time. > > I do have a better idea of what's going on now, but I still feel his > MTA is presuming my box guilty of spam genera

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > html2latex tetex, perhaps? > eaudio Um, xmms I think. > gtkbrowser Hmmm. No idea. Mike.

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chip, how did it come to be that you are so cool and Tom Christiansen > so...isn't? :) Isn't it obvious? Doses of MST3K that would make a normal man into a pile of quivering jelly. :-) Mike.

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After upgrading my machine I found some obsolete packages. Before purging >them I'd like to know if there are replacements: > >html2latex Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote a free reimplementation of this, gnuhtml2latex, so html2latex was removed. >lde >gtkbrows

Re: wnpp@debian.org still alive ?

2000-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:08:57AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] still alive and maintained ? During the last few months, > I sent several ITP's and a request to remove a package from the list to this > address, but AFAICS all of them were ignored. > > E.g. I requested to re

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-03-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > intlfonts-european # apt-get install intlfonts-european Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package intlfonts-european has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the pa

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-31 Thread Robert Hunter
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:22:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The ones you called "weenie dos programmer" were not so "weenie", because > the old Ms-dos worked on PCs with a Ibm 80x25 terminal in the 90-95% of > cases. > Then that assumption was a standard "de facto"... True, but there wer

Re: need POSIX Shared memory and message queues on Linux ?

2000-03-31 Thread Christoph Rohland
GOTO Masanori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:57:27 +0200, > Computing For Industry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I've an application wrote for a POSIX OS, using "messages queues", and > > "shared memory" and I'd like to port it on a Linux OS. > > Could you t

eximconfig: Option 4, Local delivery only

2000-03-31 Thread Jose Marin
I was wondering if eximconfig is doing the right thing for this option. I have machines which are connected on a network, and I want to have a MTA but only for the benefit of apps like cron or debconf which need to send local mail. I expected that Option 4 of eximconfig (Local delivery only) woul

Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-31 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:04:58PM +0200, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote: > "Thomas R. Shemanske" wrote: > > > > At *no* time are any messages printed to the terminal windows (to > > indicate power failure, warning logouts imminent, power resumed, etc). > > So I am rather confused. apcupsd collects

Re: need POSIX Shared memory and message queues on Linux ?

2000-03-31 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:57:27 +0200, Computing For Industry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I've an application wrote for a POSIX OS, using "messages queues", and > "shared memory" and I'd like to port it on a Linux OS. > Could you tell me if you have a Linux Operating System distribution

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: > But this does not change the fact that this has not been made policy. > Policy just talks about using symlinks during the transition phase. That was intentional, it was decided that mentioning release names in policy and making the document contingent upon which release we w

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody, > > they just talk about using symlinks during the "transition". > > > > We may well drop the symlinks in woody if we decide to do so. After all, > > we agree th

Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-31 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
"Thomas R. Shemanske" wrote: > > At *no* time are any messages printed to the terminal windows (to > indicate power failure, warning logouts imminent, power resumed, etc). > So I am rather confused. apcupsd collects valid data but > /usr/sbin/powersc doesn't act on it. > Do not know about apcup

need POSIX Shared memory and message queues on Linux ?

2000-03-31 Thread Computing For Industry
Hello, I've an application wrote for a POSIX OS, using "messages queues", and "shared memory" and I'd like to port it on a Linux OS. Could you tell me if you have a Linux Operating System distribution for an iX86 platform, that supports these (or some of these) Standard POSIX specifications: _POSI

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: >On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:34:05AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: >> b) use uucp-over-tcp (requires uucp account somewhere) >> c) use smtp-over-ssh (requires shell account somewhere) > >Can someone point me to any references on setting up either of these. >I ha

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Santiago Vila wrote: > Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody, > they just talk about using symlinks during the "transition". > > We may well drop the symlinks in woody if we decide to do so. After all, > we agree that we will tell our users to look in /usr/share/doc

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > - In woody, /usr/share/doc will be used, and all packages will be updated > to use it. Packages will still provide /usr/doc links for backwards > compatability. Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody, they just talk about

Re: "GNU/Linux" vs. "Linux"

2000-03-31 Thread Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar
-> Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"? Because Debian is a lot of GNU packages with linux (and possibly hurd, freebsd, solaris) kernel. -- Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRCNET admin of *.sk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ ; h

Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:50:09PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > If you wish to email me about any of my packages, do so from an address > which does not reject my mail as coming from a "dialup" IP. My IP is > STATIC and your ISP is run by morons who can't tell the difference, even > though I am n

Obsolete packages

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Meskes
After upgrading my machine I found some obsolete packages. Before purging them I'd like to know if there are replacements: html2latex eaudio 2utf lde intlfonts-european manpages-net gtkbrowser I hope anyone here knows. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-S

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:10:34AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > Oh, you're entirely right. People _are_ too tied up in 'freedom' to > focus on the software. But that's because, as a body, the Debian > project is all about freedom, as _expressed_ in software (and other > things, too). > > You

wnpp@debian.org still alive ?

2000-03-31 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] still alive and maintained ? During the last few months, I sent several ITP's and a request to remove a package from the list to this address, but AFAICS all of them were ignored. E.g. I requested to remove "dgs" from the list of packages needing a new maintainer, and I sent a

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:32:49AM +0100, Stephen Early wrote: > All of the recent discussion about various blacklists, dial-up user > lists, etc. seems to have frayed people's tempers. I see a lot of > messages from angry people, with little useful content. I suggest > everyone takes a step back a

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:44:24PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > Is there any kind of database to filter out time-wasting, vitriolic > arguments full of personal attacks, about things that have nothing to > do with Debian? Sure: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.* /dev/null -- G. Bra

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-31 Thread Julian Stoev
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:12:10PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: | |Before all useful points are lost in the flamage, may I suggest that a |X-Filtered-By: DUL |or similar header be added to all list mail? The problem is, that qmail can't do this easilly. I think this would be a perfect s

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-31 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Richard Braakman: > > Package: gcc (debian/main). > > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 58412 r-base: Can't build from source > > 59819 gcc_2.95.2-7(frozen): fails to compile itself on m68k

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Joey Hess
Franklin Belew wrote: > People seem to be too caught up in other people's "freedom" to help us > create the best distro with the least problems. Example: > /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc transition voted to be held because potato was > supposed to freeze back in november. > Freeze got delayed, and 4+

daemontools and dnscache source debs available

2000-03-31 Thread Adam McKenna
I have packaged dnscache and daemontools, two utilities by Dan Bernstein, as per my ITP last week. The packages are located at http://www.flounder.net/debs Please download them and test them out and let me know what you think. Thanks, --Adam

Re: "GNU/Linux" vs. "Linux"

2000-03-31 Thread Miles Bader
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"? To annoy all the uptight "Linux" fanboys. Duh. Cheers, -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice

Re: how about a real unstable?

2000-03-31 Thread Peter Moulder
John Haggerty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Plus integrating the e2compr kernel patch into the standard kernels > provided with debian would also be a plus. As an alternative, I'll release a kernel-patch-e2compr package in a couple of days. Put the following in /etc/apt/sources.list (if you don'

Re: Packages removed from potato

2000-03-31 Thread Randolph Chung
> Package: gnudip (debian/main). > Maintainer: Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 59248 gnudip: Gnudip prerm script fails with error `groupdel: group gnudip > does not exist' ok, some misunderstanding here. someone had said that he was going to do a nmu for me because i've been rather busy wi

Re: Emacspeak and t-gnus in potato

2000-03-31 Thread robbie
This also happens with gnus, after the group buffer appears, but before it's mode is changed from fundimental. -- Rob Murray

Emacspeak and t-gnus in potato

2000-03-31 Thread robbie
Hi I'm having problems using emacspeak and t-gnus from potato. I get: Symbol's value as variable is void: define This only happens when emacspeak is loaded. I also get the same error in rmail with the 'm' command, after the mail buffer appears, but it is empty, ie no to: or subject:. It also

Re: xterm and gnome-terminal have diferent defaults? [was: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors]

2000-03-31 Thread Pedro Guerreiro
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:22:13PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Thus spake Pedro Guerreiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I know the problem is with gnome-terminal, so the question is how do I > > change the default binding of DEL in gnome-terminal? I've browse through > > /usr/share/doc/gnome-termin

Re: how about a real unstable?

2000-03-31 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:30:58PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote: > This started me thinking. Someone earlier lamented the > difficulties in using experimental. I would like to see experimental > moved into the same tree as stable, frozen, unstable and have a > Packages file generated. experimental