Re: ITP: ardour -- professional multitrack audio editing tool

Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:22:16PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: > > > > Please be careful with ladspa.h > > It's currently not free. > > Why do you say this? http://www.ladspa.org/ladspa_sdk/la

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess that the o with four little tick marks must be some sort of > currency symbol in some country... Iirc, it's not a currency symbol anywhere... it's just sort of a generic symbol. Yes, so says Bringhurst... it's a generic symbol to provide a placehol

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

> "Josip" == Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> so _everyone_ should be showing it as the "o with four little >> tick marks". (What a weird character... it has to have a name, >> right?) Josip> Hmm, Josip> % echo -n ¤ | od -t d2 000 164 001 Josip> %

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

>> My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢) > If you're going to try to use the euro, you should be posting as > "iso-8859-15", not "iso-8859-1". Sorry. My mailer is not set correctly. (this is intentional, but for something not related to this discussion). Actually I set it back to -1 because some mail servers are direc

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢) If you're going to try to use the euro, you should be posting as "iso-8859-15", not "iso-8859-1". -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Today you'll start getting heavy metal radio on your dentures.

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:32:14PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: >> Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio >> format. > > no there not, they are in a goofed up customized cpio format that > cpio no longer recognizes. http://www.

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:18:05PM -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > es_ES ISO-8859-1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 > > Since ISO-8859-15 is basicall ISO-8859-1+euro+some other characters. > Why is the "@euro" needed ? For LC_CURRENCY. If you don't care about that - I can't think of

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

> I know that Debian is a volunteer organization. After all I'm in the > middle of the NM process ;-) I only want to ask people (or at least > European people) if someone is doing something, or thinks that something > must be done. What I don't want to do is to start fixing those things by > hand,

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

> es_ES ISO-8859-1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 Since ISO-8859-15 is basicall ISO-8859-1+euro+some other characters. Why is the "@euro" needed ? Wolfgang

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0800 wrote: > this choice of using the rpm binary format should be reconsidered > IMNSHO. i don't really care whether you use the debian ar+tar+gzip, > or just plain .tar.gz, just use something i can extract *anywhere* > with the most basic and standard tools, with

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:44:17PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, 9 May 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > > > Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio format. > > $ cpio -idv -F gnocatan-client-0.6.1-2.alpha.rpm > cpio: warning: skipped 61098 bytes of junk > cpio: war

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio format. $ cpio -idv -F gnocatan-client-0.6.1-2.alpha.rpm cpio: warning: skipped 61098 bytes of junk cpio: warning: archive header has reverse byte-order cpio: [binary garbage output snipp

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:32:14PM -0400, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: > Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio format. no there not, they are in a goofed up customized cpio format that cpio no longer recognizes. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpSK7KOzX

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:47:00PM -0500, Sam TH wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > this choice of using the rpm binary format should be reconsidered > > IMNSHO. i don't really care whether you use the debian ar+tar+gzip, > > or just plain .tar.gz, just use

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

Its been a while, but if I remember correctly, RPMs are in cpio format. Tim Ethan Benson wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Albert den Haan wrote: The LSB's LCD ("Lowest Common Denominator") is working on a simple package system that is the *intersection* of capabilities the major one

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > this choice of using the rpm binary format should be reconsidered > IMNSHO. i don't really care whether you use the debian ar+tar+gzip, > or just plain .tar.gz, just use something i can extract *anywhere* > with the most basic and sta

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:08:21PM -0400, Albert den Haan wrote: > The LSB's LCD ("Lowest Common Denominator") is working on a simple package > system that is the *intersection* of capabilities the major ones in current > use. Yes the RPM V3 [1] package archive file format is being used (as > *.ls

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El 09 May 2001 23:27:39 +0200, Hasso Tepper escribió: > [...] > > > As I said something is done already. > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0105/msg00712.html > > Oh, sorry. I read your mail, and later I forgot it. > > > iso-8859-15 is very important for E

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

El 09 May 2001 23:27:39 +0200, Hasso Tepper escribió: [...] > > As I said something is done already. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0105/msg00712.html Oh, sorry. I read your mail, and later I forgot it. > > iso-8859-15 is very important for Estonian users as well. Of course > there

Re: kernel-source

Matthias Berse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I mean a way to go from let's say kernel-source-2.4.3 to > kernel-source-2.4.4 without the need to download the whole big .deb, There's no point in doing that as you can always maintain your own upstream kernel source by patching, then you can apply

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El 09 May 2001 15:36:59 -0500, David Starner escribió: > > This is a volunteer organization. No one's going to object if you > > submit bugs on the packages with patches to make iso-8859-15 > > versions. (Remember that iso-8859-15 differs from iso-8859-1 by > > more

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

El 09 May 2001 15:36:59 -0500, David Starner escribió: > > This is a volunteer organization. No one's going to object if you > submit bugs on the packages with patches to make iso-8859-15 > versions. (Remember that iso-8859-15 differs from iso-8859-1 by more > than just the Euro.) (Bugs without p

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:08:42PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El 09 May 2001 13:51:15 -0500, David Starner escribió: > > Yep. If you go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/, there's a number of files > > with locales listed in them. Add [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > to them. (Th

Re: script for on-disk configuration file backup

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:50:15PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > The script, below, really has two functions. One is to make a > backup copy of any changed file in /etc. I used "savelog" to > keep the last few revisions of the files. The second function > is to keep /etc a little more tidy

Bug#96900: ITP: id3ren -- batch mp3 renamer

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I have packaged and intend to upload id3ren, an id3 tagger and renamer. id3ren is used to rename batches of mpeg3 files by reading the ID3 tag at the end of the file which contains the song name, artist, album, year, and a comment. The secondary function of id3re

Re: cvs not updating correctly

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 05:29:30PM -0400, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > > I use cvs in Debian for lots of things but I'm still a newcomer in > > > this field, I think I am not being able to get new created directories > > > and files from the cvs repository

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > There are two ways to handle those packages on Debian systems > now: one is using alien, and the other is using Albert's dpkg-rpm > patch which makes it possible for dpkg to use those packages > directly. Um, where is this patch?

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

El 09 May 2001 13:51:15 -0500, David Starner escribió: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: [...] > > > In XF86config I have the "XkbLayout" "es" in the InputDevice section. > > This must include the euro symbol in AltGr+e. > > This must, or this does? Un

script for on-disk configuration file backup

Hi, A couple days after first installing debian a couple years back, I managed to mess up the passwd file in some way. I was very pleasantly surprised to find a backup version of the file on-line in /var/backups. I was quickly able to un-do whatever it was that I did. There are also backups of d

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not everyone. It's a square here, on the console. Just like good ol' > > pong. > > Right, because you're using a limited mailer which can't show > different charsets. 8^) (A rather dec

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:26:02PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > with the right font, -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15, and the right > keystrokes, compose+o+x, you can get the proper euro symbol. If you're running in a properly set-up iso8859-15 locale, you'd be using /usr/X11R6/lib/X11

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:08:54PM -0500, David Starner wrote: > > And? Due to the limitations of your technology, you're misdisplaying > the character in the iso8859-15 rxvt. no, it was user-error. since i don't see the content-type header, i did not think to change it to the -15 revision that i

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:04:17PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > nope. your content-type was the same; and i opened it up in two > > different rxvt's one (the smaller one) spawned like this: > > You're using an iso8859-15 font to display is

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 11:47:03AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Your Content-Type was " > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > so _everyone_ should be showing it as the "o with four little tick > > mark

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > nope. your content-type was the same; and i opened it up in two > different rxvt's one (the smaller one) spawned like this: You're using an iso8859-15 font to display iso8859-1 messages. Don't you see how that's wrong? -- Alan Shutko <[EMA

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mutt is pretty good about displaying different charsets, maybe even > better than some of the "graphical" mailers. Cool! Useful thing to know. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! The less time planning, the more time progra

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:34:44PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not everyone. It's a square here, on the console. Just like good ol' > > pong. > > Right, because you're using a limited mailer which can't show > different charsets. 8^) (A rather dec

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > Hello, I have been trying to set Debian to display Euro symbol in X > Window, but I have found some problems. > > First of all, I have uncommented in /etc/locale.gen this two lines: > > es_ES ISO-8859-1 > [EMAI

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > > four little tick marks on it) >

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > > four little tick marks on it) > > Your Content-Type was " > > Content-Type: text/plain

Re: 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference: Call for Papers

Martin Schulze wrote: > If you would like to give a talk or tutorial at ALS please drop me > and Tiffany a line > > Regards, > > Joey > > Tiffany Peoples wrote: > > 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference (ALS 2001) > > November 6-10, 2001 > > Oakland, CA USA > > http://www.linuxshowcase.or

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

Gordon Sadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not everyone. It's a square here, on the console. Just like good ol' > pong. Right, because you're using a limited mailer which can't show different charsets. 8^) (A rather decent reason for preferring a "graphical" mailer over mutt, though I don't kn

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:09:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > > four little tick marks on it) >

Fwd: Re: 2.4 kernels - security hole?

Thought I forward this to -devel, just FYI. It seems kernels >=2.4.3 start up with umask set to 000 instead of 022. |>If I have understood the man pages, it looks as though the simplest |>solution would be to use an initscript. | |Correct. I tested and implemented that solution today, and wonder w

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the > sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with > four little tick marks on it) Your Content-Type was " Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 s

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

I can't speak for Debian on the LSB in general but I am the moderator of the taskforce working on the LSB's "Lowest Common Denominator" first try at a common packaging system. We do have a FAQ online in the archives of our mailing list that w

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > Does anybody knows where is the problem and also how this can be > solved? it depends upon the font that you use. the latin-9 font contains the sideways quake two symbol, ¤, (some fonts will show that as a o with four lit

Re: ITP: ardour -- professional multitrack audio editing tool

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:23:22AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:22:16PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: > > > > Please be careful with ladspa.h > > It's currently not free. > > Why do you say this? http://www.ladspa.org/ladspa_s

Re: ITP: ardour -- professional multitrack audio editing tool

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:22:16PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: > > Please be careful with ladspa.h > It's currently not free. Why do you say this? http://www.ladspa.org/ladspa_sdk/ladspa.h.txt contains the standard LGPL stuff at the top. And http://ww

virtual-package names, ladspa-host and ladspa-plugin

Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist I would like to propose ladspa-host and ladspa-plugin as names of virtual packages which ladspa-host: application capable of using ladspa-plugins to process audio data ladspa-plugin: provides plug-in libraries in accordance to the ladspa specification

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > And also the Euro key doesn't work at all (it is not only the > problem of not having any font wich displays this symbol, something > which also must be worked). Ville Hallik modified some fonts to display all Latin0 glyphs and euro symbol as well for Estonian u

Re: Installed screen 3.9.8-1 (i386 source)

I know, it was a mistake (it should not have been uploaded to "stable"); I have talked to James Troup and the current version of "screen" will be removed from updates ASAP. Sorry, -- .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'' Juan Cespedes / \ /

Re: support for older distributions

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:36:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Craig> why is application bar any *more* reliable or trustworthy > Craig> just because it is compiled against an old version of libc6 > Craig> in potato? > > It

Re: kernel-source

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:41:46PM +0200, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Matthias Berse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > No, I mean a way to go from let's say kernel-source-2.4.3 to > > kernel-source-2.4.4 without the need to download the whole big .deb, > > but a patch similar to those pa

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:07:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > I agree. The LSB should contrast/compare features of both and come up > > with a superset of both (possibly favoring ones implementation over the > > other). Most importantly, the metadat

Re: kernel-source

Hi, Quoting Matthias Berse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No, I mean a way to go from let's say kernel-source-2.4.3 to > kernel-source-2.4.4 without the need to download the whole big .deb, > but a patch similar to those patches found on kernel.org, but as a > debian package which the patches the installe

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:26:35PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > I think it makes more sense for the LSB to define an intersection of > required features, and use only that for their stuff. Then other people can > easily implement this minimal interface or convert to/from it. > > The LSB do

Re: kernel-source

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:26:20PM +0200, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > Quoting Matthias Berse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > expand vanilla-debian kernels for let's say xfs. Since the > > kernel-source package is rather large compared to the usual > > kernel-to-kernel patch why do not provide a ker

Re: kernel-source

Quoting Matthias Berse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > expand vanilla-debian kernels for let's say xfs. Since the > kernel-source package is rather large compared to the usual > kernel-to-kernel patch why do not provide a kernel-patch packet which > can patch the kernel up do date? I think you're either

kernel-source

Hi *, while I do compile my own kernel from source, I do like infarstructure from debian packages like reiserfs userspace progs; same for xfs and lvm. If I grep a vanilla Kernel from kernel.org I usually get the patches and patch my kernel up-to-date. Same methods are used to expand vanilla-debia

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:03:28PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: >... > And also the Euro key doesn't work at all (it is not only the problem > of not having any font wich displays this symbol, something which also > must be worked). When I press AltGr+e the cursor does not move. But the

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > The LSB doesn't need the full power of a complex packaging system, and it is > unlikely they would get it right without really using it. I disagree with that. The people who are involved with that particular bit of LSB happen to be a dpkg maintainer, the apt au

[PATCH] kernel-image-2.4.4-i386's flavours

If you have not read #96854, please do so now. With that in mind, here's the following patch. IMHO this is the right solution, the only other one I could think of is having kernel-headers-2.4.4-i386-common, providing all except config-specific files, and kernel-headers-2.4.4-$(flavour), providing

Re: how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

El 09 May 2001 12:03:28 +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo escribió: > Hello, I have been trying to set Debian to display Euro symbol in X > Window, but I have found some problems. [...] I have posted this to -devel because I think this is not an issue that each Debian user must solve. The Euro is

Re: Installed screen 3.9.8-1 (i386 source)

Quoting Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 23:26:40 +0200 > Source: screen > Binary: screen > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 3.9.8-1 > Distribution: stable unstable It seems like this is compiled on a Unstable/Testing machine... - s n i p - Sorry, but the f

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:07:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > I agree. The LSB should contrast/compare features of both and come up > with a superset of both (possibly favoring ones implementation over the > other). Most importantly, the metadata format needs to be standardized. > That is the key

how can Euro symbol be displayed under X [4.0.3]?

Hello, I have been trying to set Debian to display Euro symbol in X Window, but I have found some problems. First of all, I have uncommented in /etc/locale.gen this two lines: es_ES ISO-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 When I run locale-gen, this two locales are generated: es_ES

Re: London next 2 days

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today, Florian Lohoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > i am going to be in and around London on Thursday and Friday probably > even the Weekend - I would like to meet other Debian developers and > drink a couple of beers. I'll be reading ema

London next 2 days

Hi, i am going to be in and around London on Thursday and Friday probably even the Weekend - I would like to meet other Debian developers and drink a couple of beers. I'll be reading email as normal (I love uucp over ssh) Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5

Re: support for older distributions

> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> why is application bar any *more* reliable or trustworthy Craig> just because it is compiled against an old version of libc6 Craig> in potato? It is not so much the new application I was thinking of, but all the old sta

Re: support for older distributions

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:49:04PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > You say stable is "old". That is exactly Russell's point. Some people > want a mostly stable system, but need some up-to-date packages from > woody. that's a choice people have to make. you can have an old 'stable' release, or you can h

Re: 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference: Call for Papers

If you would like to give a talk or tutorial at ALS please drop me and Tiffany a line Regards, Joey Tiffany Peoples wrote: > 5th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference (ALS 2001) > November 6-10, 2001 > Oakland, CA USA > http://www.linuxshowcase.org > > Sponsored by USENIX and the Atlanta L

Re: debian-new-packages-announce@l.d.o ?

* Fredrik Steen | On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:40:56PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: | | Previously Fredrik Steen wrote: | | > I think that is a great idea. I support it. | | | | So you're volunteering to actually implement that? | | I could give it a try. Don't really know where to start. | Wher

Re: support for older distributions

On Wednesday 09 May 2001 02:32, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Currently there are two usable repositories of Potato packages. > > There's a repository of kernel-related packages to run 2.4.x kernels > > on Potato, and there's a repository of LDAP related packages and other > > things that Wichert is mai

Re: debian-new-packages-announce@l.d.o ?

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 03:40:56PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: | Previously Fredrik Steen wrote: | > I think that is a great idea. I support it. | | So you're volunteering to actually implement that? | | Wichert. | | -- | |

Re: [FLAME WARNING] Linux Standards Base and Debian

Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last version of the LSB > says: > Currently the LSB does not officially specify a package format; > however, the recommended package format is RPM (Version 3) with some > restrictions li

Re: support for older distributions

> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Craig> debian provides mechanisms for easy upgrade between release Craig> versions, and we always have provided that - why complicate Craig> matters with branched sub-releases of old versions? You say stable is "old". That is

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

>>"Sam" == Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> We already have a process for packages that actually do Manoj> need kernel headers, and are thus dependent on particular Manoj> kernel versions. Sam> We do? please explain what it is. Manoj> We call these packages kernel modules; an

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

>>"Sam" == Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sam> We are making active decisions related to this problem. Ben is Sam> actively removing headers not used by libc6-dev; For what it is worth, I do not agree with this process. I still think that libc-dev should come with a snapshot