[debian-installer] microdpkg

2000-08-20 Thread Joey Hess
The debian-installer is an effort to redesign and rewrite debian's installer for woody. It's just getting started. We've decided that the new installer will be modular, where modules are maintained by separate people, and can be installed into the installer itself while it is running, to give it a

Re: Japanese mailer

2000-08-20 Thread Takao KAWAMURA
Sorry, wrong ml.

Re: Japanese mailer

2000-08-20 Thread Takao KAWAMURA
> I want to use Xemacs for Japanese emails (read/send). I'm not sure which > package to use: vm, gnus, vh, rmail. Suggestions? As the maintainer of cmail, I believe it works fine with XEmacs. Cmail has the manual in GNU info format written in English. -- Takao KAWAMURA

Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On 19-Aug-00, 18:56 (CDT), Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for things like querying (dpkg -s and such) install dlocate it solves > that problem the Right Way. (unfortunatly it got removed from potato > for less then critical bugs) * "Steve" == Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: ITP: vlc (VideoLAN Client) & vlms (VideoLAN Mini Server)

2000-08-20 Thread Samuel Hocevar
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000, Malcolm Parsons wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:53:48PM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote: > > Description: VideoLAN Client - a free MPEG2 and DVD player > > VideoLAN is a free MPEG2 software solution. > > . > > This is the VideoLAN Client. It plays MPEG2 files, DVDs, or MPEG

Re: ITP: vlc (VideoLAN Client) & vlms (VideoLAN Mini Server)

2000-08-20 Thread Malcolm Parsons
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:53:48PM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote: > Description: VideoLAN Client - a free MPEG2 and DVD player > VideoLAN is a free MPEG2 software solution. > . > This is the VideoLAN Client. It plays MPEG2 files, DVDs, or MPEG2 > streams from a network source. Can you make it cl

CUPS (cupsys) 1.1.2 Available

2000-08-20 Thread Jeff Licquia
CUPS 1.1.2 packages have been installed into woody. I know, I know: if you wanted package updates, you'd subscribe to debian-changes. But, I've received several requests via private E-mail as well as in the BTS, so I thought a more general announcement was warranted, since it seems to be in some

Orphaning Tcl/Tk Packages

2000-08-20 Thread David Engel
In order to allow me to concentrate on other things, I intend to orphan most of my Tcl/Tk packages. These include the following: task-tcltk tcl8.0, tcl8.0-dev, tcl8.0-doc tcl8.2, tcl8.2-dev, tcl8.2-doc tcl8.3, tcl8.3-dev, tcl8.3-doc tk8.0, tk8.0-dev, tk8.0-doc tk8.2, tk8.3-dev, tk8.2-doc tk8.3, t

ITP: vlc (VideoLAN Client) & vlms (VideoLAN Mini Server)

2000-08-20 Thread Samuel Hocevar
I intend to package vlc, a DVD and MPEG2 video player, and vlms, a broadcasting server application which reads the same files as the vlc and can send them to it on the network. Although they can easily be interfaced with it through a pipe, neither vlc nor vlms contain DeCSS code. I'm working

Re: Learning dpkg/apt

2000-08-20 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Aug-00, 18:56 (CDT), Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for things like querying (dpkg -s and such) install dlocate it solves > that problem the Right Way. (unfortunatly it got removed from potato > for less then critical bugs) man apt-cache. (Assuming you're using apt-get either di

Re: Braille devices (the problem was DOSemu)

2000-08-20 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, VZW AUDIO/BRAILLE wrote: > Hi all, > In my specific case where I wasn't able to run a Alva ABT280, this was the > hardware problem + this should be the solution: > - the problem: the DB9 connector on the rear panel didn't have the function > of serial connection for the devi

Re: Installed black-box 1.3-1 (source i386)

2000-08-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:52:16PM -0400, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Description: > > black-box - Find the crystals > > Changes: > > black-box (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low > > . > >* Initial Release. > >* Upload sponsored by Tony Mancill <[

ITP: Class::MethodMaker

2000-08-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I ITP Class::MethodMaker which is a module for creating generic methods. It is needed by GnuPG::Interface. Upstream source can be found at http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Class/ Author: (Original) Peter Seibel (Organic Online) Current Maintainer

ITP GnuPG::Interface

2000-08-20 Thread Peter Palfrader
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I ITP GnuPG::Interface, a Perl interface to GnuPG. It is distributed under the GPL. Upstream sources are at http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/GnuPG/ Upstream Author is Frank J. Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'll contact him wheter including GnuPG::Interface is

Re: Non-US Incoming

2000-08-20 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:54:53AM -0700, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Michael Sobolev wrote: > > Is it possible to access this for non-developers? > > No. Hmm.. And what's the reason of that? -- Misha

incoming is strange! (REQUEST)

2000-08-20 Thread Michael Beattie
The following was once heard around here... > > I've uploaded some packages that have been stuck in incoming for 3 > > weeks. The automatic from the installer claims that someone must edit > > the override file. So who is this person ? Is that normal ? > > One of the FTP admins has to do it.

Re: xpdf-i obseleted by xpdf

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:59:57AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > xpdf already conflicts and replaces xpdf-i. Am I correct in saying that > > there's no way I can cause an automatic upgrade from xpdf-i to xpdf? > > Hmm... I'll take the oportunity to ask an old doubt of mine: > > Will it w

Re: xpdf-i obseleted by xpdf

2000-08-20 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > xpdf already conflicts and replaces xpdf-i. Am I correct in saying that > there's no way I can cause an automatic upgrade from xpdf-i to xpdf? Hmm... I'll take the oportunity to ask an old doubt of mine: Will it work if xpdf-i is made an empty packag

slink -> archive?

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, When will slink move to archive.debian.org site? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification

Re: NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 03:06:55PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > The second reason I chose to cut a lot of NMU changelogs was that you > took it upon yourself to load them with vindictive, personal and > unprofessional statements. Editing changelogs is `modifying history' - do not do that. -

Re: [PROPOSED 2000/08/16] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into non-US/{main,contrib}

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:04:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > A dependency on non-us will also land a package in contrib. > > I think there was a proposal to change that, so that packages which depend > > on packages in non-US/main remain in non-US/main. > > Actually, there doesn't seem to

Re: Braille devices (the problem was DOSemu)

2000-08-20 Thread VZW AUDIO/BRAILLE
Hi all, In my specific case where I wasn't able to run a Alva ABT280, this was the hardware problem + this should be the solution: - the problem: the DB9 connector on the rear panel didn't have the function of serial connection for the device; so the only way for the ABT280 was the parallel port. (

Re: ITA: netscape4

2000-08-20 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Ryan Murray wrote: > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:56:04PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > netscape4.08 (slink) (parts exist in woody, but not in potato) > > netscape4.72 > > netscape4.73 > > netscape4.base > > I intend to adopt all of the netscape 4 related packages. May you have

Re: howto (apt-)get only ./debian dir of a package?

2000-08-20 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >there is >$ apt-get source pkg >but usually i just want to peek at the >./debian directory to learn from others doing, >or i want to try the official ./debian stuff on >a cvs version, ... It's usually the case that debian/ directories are entirely added by Debian maintain

Re: ITA: netscape4

2000-08-20 Thread Ryan Murray
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 07:56:04PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > netscape4.08 (slink) (parts exist in woody, but not in potato) > netscape4.72 > netscape4.73 > netscape4.base I intend to adopt all of the netscape 4 related packages. -- Ryan Murray, ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROT

xpdf-i obseleted by xpdf

2000-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi debian-develers, I maintain xpdf and xpdf-i. xpdf-i is xpdf with some non-US-only decryption patches applied. Given the revised US laws, xpdf now includes those patches so xpdf-i is obselete. xpdf already conflicts and replaces xpdf-i. Am I correct in saying that there's no way I can cause an

Re: Bug#69229: [PROPOSED 2000/08/16] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into non-US/{main,contrib}

2000-08-20 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:04:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The principle: packages that are DFSG-free, depend on packages in > non-US/main, but are otherwise candidates for main should go into > non-US/main also. That way they're still a part of the official > distribution, but they don't com

howto (apt-)get only ./debian dir of a package?

2000-08-20 Thread zw
there is $ apt-get source pkg but usually i just want to peek at the ./debian directory to learn from others doing, or i want to try the official ./debian stuff on a cvs version, ... the question is can i? (i know i can check on the packages.debian.org, but can i get 'em without the need of a brow

Re: Braille devices

2000-08-20 Thread Joseph Carter
/* I'm not on l-k at the moment, please Cc replies */ On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:48:03PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > I've seen the request for braille device support during installation here > on debian-devel for many times, and IMO the best approach would be to > support these devices at kernel

Re: Implementing "testing" (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:17:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello world, > So, on -devel-announce, I mentioned: > > * New "testing" distribution > [...] So some more details. The way testing is supposed to work is to have three distributions at any one time: a stable tree, a testing tree