On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:29:13PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> In the excuses file a see a lot of :
> Unsatisfiable Depends: libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.22-4)
Actually, you see a lot of them for ia64 and m68k. libesd-alsa0 doesn't
exist on ia64 or m68k. On the upside, most/all of them are |'ed
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Laurent de Segur wrote:
> Things are getting confusing. Great Britain used to be called Britain by the
> Romans (so if someone still does on this list, he must be very old.) Great
> was not just added to include other places. Great Britain is just the modern
> and correct way
Yow!
Things are getting confusing. Great Britain used to be called Britain by the
Romans (so if someone still does on this list, he must be very old.) Great
was not just added to include other places. Great Britain is just the modern
and correct way to call it. This or you can use UK, a synonym wi
I would like to volunteer to maintain the documentation.
Paulo Ney de Souza
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>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 19 15:20:07 2001
>From: Boris Veytsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [Maxima] Future of maxima
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Branden Robinson wrote:
> AIUI, the island on which you find England,
> Scotland, and Wales is called Britain. I'm not sure how "Great" modifies
> that unless it's to include some of the smaller outlying islands, like
> the Shetlands and the Isle of Man.
>
The island where E
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > It works... Something's wrong with your system.
> > Try strace'ing ls.
>
> what shell are you playing with? I presume most people are using bash.
Zsh.
Phil.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:35:28PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:00:31AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> > Interesting. It just starts mallocing more and more memory, increasing
> > by 4 bytes at a time. gdb worked, but man wasn't happy, and neither
> > was top.
>
> Weird,
Stephen Stafford writes:
> en_UK doesn't exist as a locale AFAIK, it is en_GB I believe.
http://www.bcpl.net/~jspath/isocodes.html lists UK as United Kingdom and GB
as Great Britain but digitalid.verisign.com/ccodes.html lists only GB and
as United Kingdom. It lists nothing for UK. I guess UK is
Em Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:24 -0400
Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> It looks like more and more of these are popping up. It seems to me that
by the way, I think we're losing lots of the benefits our release/test cycle
is suppose to give us... I see many people making last-hour change
Boris Veytsman wrote:
> > From: Raymond Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: 19 Sep 2001 17:36:47 -0400
> >
> > I am willing to help with maxima, but don't think I can give it the
> > time it needs. I'd basically keep maxima running on cmucl and/or
> > clisp. Perhaps some changes to various other p
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:07:07PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:37:15PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Steve Langasek writes:
> > > en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom.
> >
> > While en_GB is english as spoken in Great Britain. Perhpas one of the
> > res
Previously Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> How it it done when the base system is istalled? It removes (it the
> user tells so) the pcmcia and ppp packages.
That's not run from dpkg but from a special script that is run during
system boot. Why not simply use Conflicts?
Wichert.
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Raymond Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Camm" == Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Camm> Is there any interest in forming a group to continue the development
> Camm> and maintenance of maxima? I for one would cer
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> packages such as diskless-image-secure, diskless-image-simple, xfsprogs-bf,
> e2fsprogs-bf should automatically qualify for grave or even critical bugs
> for breaking your system if installed.
read the description for xfsprogs-bf and
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:56:25PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Ok. Well what I wanted was a better way (more informative and
> flexible) way to remove packages that are insecure.
>
> It is in the harden-servers (and some other harden) packages I wanted
> this.
>
> How it it done when the base s
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On 19-Sep-2001 Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r foo
> from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
>
> What is the result?
>
> It whould be very helpful when creating the improved harden
> packages. :)
>
You just got nominated a
>
> It works... Something's wrong with your system.
> Try strace'ing ls.
>
what shell are you playing with? I presume most people are using bash.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Norbert Veber wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:31:44PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > > Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files
> > > (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)?
> > Should be there as of now, wi
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:03:02PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> However, even after I set it back to 80, via export COLUMNS=80, ls still
> fails, and it is set back to 49151 after I logout and log back in.
'stty columns 80' will fix it. purity is also setting rows to 64049.
Use 'stty -a' to see t
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:14:24PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Norbert Veber wrote:
>
> > Interesting. How did you obtain the environment dump?
>
> "set", with no arguments. May be a bashism, though. Not sure.
it is not a bashism.
-john
> From: Raymond Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 19 Sep 2001 17:36:47 -0400
>
> I am willing to help with maxima, but don't think I can give it the
> time it needs. I'd basically keep maxima running on cmucl and/or
> clisp. Perhaps some changes to various other parts when bugs are
> encountered.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:37:15PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes:
> > en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom.
>
> While en_GB is english as spoken in Great Britain. Perhpas one of the
> residents thereof can explain the difference.
Well, I'm not a resident thereof,
Previously Pekka Lampila wrote:
> Actually it's not.
Actually it is, your shell probably just sets COLUMNS dynamically instead of
using it as a normal environment vairable.
> Obviously purity shouldn't change these values.
No, purity can't change the environment settings for its parent process
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On Wednesday 19 Sep 2001 8:37 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes:
> > en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom.
>
> While en_GB is english as spoken in Great Britain. Perhpas one of
> the residents thereof can explain the differenc
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> Either finish the test, or abort it via ctrl-c or the "q" command.
>
> --> Now run ls.
Reproduced, and fixed... Problem with purity doing stty stuff...
Throughout, $COLUMNS never changes, but stty config does.
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, David Starner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:57:06AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On 19 Sep 2001, Gilbert Laycock wrote:
> >
> > > I believe that en_UK would be for Ukrainian english. The mind boggles.
> There's an en_DA, and someone was arguing for basically a en_SK
>> en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom.
>
>While en_GB is english as spoken in Great Britain. Perhpas one of the
>residents thereof can explain the difference.
Well, no. `GB' seems to be the ISO country code for the United Kingdom,
perverse as that might appear.
p.
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In Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:01:24 -0400 Norbert cum veritate scripsit :
> Why are such things allowed into the archive? Will these things ever
> even
> make it into testing given that they are uninstallable?
diskless-image-secure | 0.3.6 |stable | all
diskless-image-secure | 0.3.15 |
> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Camm> Is there any interest in forming a group to continue the development
Camm> and maintenance of maxima? I for one would certainly be interested in
Richard Stallman has asked for volunteers for a new maintainer for gcl
and maxim
On 19 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote:
> Steve Langasek writes:
> > en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom.
>
> While en_GB is english as spoken in Great Britain. Perhpas one of the
> residents thereof can explain the difference.
IIRC, the UK is England, Wales and Scotland, while Great Br
Greetings, and thanks for your posted fix. This has brought up an
issue I've been meaning to raise since the loss of our dear friend
Dr. Schelter.
Is there any interest in forming a group to continue the development
and maintenance of maxima? I for one would certainly be interested in
helping.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 02:01:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r foo
> > from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
>
> Yes.
>
> > What is the result?
>
> dpkg: Status database locked, aborting
>
> Or som
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Norbert Veber wrote:
> Interesting. How did you obtain the environment dump?
"set", with no arguments. May be a bashism, though. Not sure.
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:31:44PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files
> > (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)?
>
> Should be there as of now, without the etc.
Also without the .txt :)
Not Found
The requested URL /test
> "Ola" == Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ola> Hi I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r
Ola> foo from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
No. Dpkg will complain about the existance of a lock file. The lock files
exists to avoid corruption
Steve Langasek writes:
> en_UK is English as spoken in the United Kingdom.
While en_GB is english as spoken in Great Britain. Perhpas one of the
residents thereof can explain the difference.
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:57:06AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2001, Gilbert Laycock wrote:
>
> > I believe that en_UK would be for Ukrainian english. The mind boggles.
There's an en_DA, and someone was arguing for basically a en_SK recently.
It wouldn't be unprecedented.
> en_UK i
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:36:45AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> I posted the following to -user three days ago with no response.
> Can someone here help?
>
> I have the following command in a cron.daily script:
> rdate time.mist.god
>
> This has worked consistently for a
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:00:31AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> > --> Now run ls.
> >
> > Be prepared to abort it before it consumes all the available memory on your
> > system.
>
> Interesting. It just starts mallocing more and mo
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 06:11:53PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r foo
> from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
>
> What is the result?
You can't do it directly, as dpkg has locked the status file at that
point. The sgmltools
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:53:10AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote:
> brooks% echo $COLUMNS
> 49151
...
> purity seems to be causing this. No idea why or how, but it seems to be
> the culprit.
It would seem this is why:
diff -r purity-1/pt.c purity-1.fix/pt.c
792c792
< (void) ioctl(0,TIOCSWINSZ,&
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:32:34PM +0300, Pekka Lampila wrote:
> On 19.09.2001, Norbert Veber wrote:
> > The environment is unchanged, the aliases are unchanged,
>
> Actually it's not.
>
> ~/dbg$ diff env.before env.after
> 17c17
> < LINES=27
> ---
> > LINES=64218
> 24c24
> < COLUMNS=169
> ---
>
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looks like it's only the purity in unstable (1-11). In fact, it looks
> like it's the termios patch put in purity 1-10 that is munging stty
> settings.
Yep, a typo... it wanted to query the settings, but actually set
them. Oops.
Patch will go into BTS
Gustavo Noronha Silva writes:
> nah that's not it... if I understand it correctly, "united states"
> would map to es_US and "england" would map to en_EN(UK?)...
es_US would be spanish as used in the US, wouldn't it?
How about this: "United States" maps to:
Please choose a language
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:08:01AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
[...]
> It works... Something's wrong with your system.
> Try strace'ing ls.
What terminal are you doing this in? Ie. console/xterm/gnome-terminal/etc..
Thanks,
Norbert
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Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Get:1 http://debian.commerceflow.com woody/main purity 1-9 [25.7kB]
Looks like it's only the purity in unstable (1-11). In fact, it looks
like it's the termios patch put in purity 1-10 that is munging stty
settings.
(Aaron, if you haven't been follow
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:53:10AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote:
> Did you check the COLUMNS environment variable?
Ahh, I missed that because its not displayed by /usr/bin/env.
> brooks% echo $COLUMNS
> 49151
Yep, I get the same value. Whats interesting is that this environment
variable is (somehow
Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r foo
> from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
Yes.
> What is the result?
dpkg: Status database locked, aborting
Or something to that effect. Dpkg is not re-entrant when doing anything
that can modify
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:51:58PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> > Try this:
> > apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -off package is
> > # actually necessary
>
> What does that do? The description for the purity package is
> quite useless.
Its a pr
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:08:01AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> It works... Something's wrong with your system.
> Try strace'ing ls.
I don't know why your system is different, but it's been checked
by several people. (ltrace reveals it's trying to malloc a steadily
increasing amount of memory.)
Quoting Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Try this:
> > apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -off package is
> > # actually necessary
> What does that do? The description for the purity package is
> quite useless.
'purity tests' :)
Greets,
Hi,
Quoting Norbert Veber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -off package is
> purity list
> purity nerd # any test should do from the previous
> # list
> Either finish the test, or abort it via ctrl-c or t
On 19 Sep 2001, Gilbert Laycock wrote:
> > Em Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:11:06 +1000
> > Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
> > > I agree. This argument sounds reasonable. If spanish maps to Spain, then
> > > english should map to England.
> > nah that's not it... if I understand it correct
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:36:24PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Maybe the first problem is due to the chroot environment.
> Anyone can confirm/infirm it under a plain install ?
I noticed this a couble of times in unstable as well. Its a problem with
dselect, not the locales pacakge. It happens
On 19.09.2001, Norbert Veber wrote:
> The environment is unchanged, the aliases are unchanged,
Actually it's not.
~/dbg$ diff env.before env.after
17c17
< LINES=27
---
> LINES=64218
24c24
< COLUMNS=169
---
> COLUMNS=49151
Obviously purity shouldn't change these values.
And ls propably shouldn't
Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --> Now run ls.
Wow! That's really, really cool!
It's a purity package problem. It's messing around with stty settings
Script started on Wed Sep 19 12:24:51 2001
[12:24:51] wesley:~ $ stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 25; columns 80; line = 0;
[...]
Hi
I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r foo
from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
What is the result?
It whould be very helpful when creating the improved harden
packages. :)
Regards,
// Ola
--
- Ola Lundqvist ---
Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> This is probably the weirdest thing I've seen in debian so far.
>
> I was able to re-produce it on my home and work machines, and a person on
> irc also go the same results.
>
> Try this:
> apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:46:45AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote:
> --> Now run ls.
>
> Be prepared to abort it before it consumes all the available memory on your
> system.
Interesting. It just starts mallocing more and more memory, increasing
by 4 bytes at a time. gdb worked, but man wasn't happy,
> Try this:
> apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -off package is
> # actually necessary
What does that do? The description for the purity package is
quite useless.
Wichert.
--
_
/
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, "Norbert" == Norbert Veber wrote:
[snip]
Norbert> --> Now run ls.
I can reproduce this.
[snip]
Norbert> Be prepared to abort it before it consumes all the available
Norbert> memory on your system.
[snip]
Norbert> To me it looks like this would be a bug in ls, t
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:03:20PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote:
> xviddetect is (should be) gone from testing. it fact, it has been
> unavailable for woody for quite some time.
It seem to be the case, but I cannot understand how this package
end up in my package list. Maybe the mirror has not remo
[Please Cc: me on replies; I don't have time to read -devel.]
I have recently taken over ncbi-tools6, and am trying to figure out
why my latest upload has not made it into testing. According to
update_output.txt, it is blocked on powerpc by njtree, which is
blocked on powerpc by itself(!). I don
Hi,
In the excuses file a see a lot of :
Unsatisfiable Depends: libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.22-4)
Which is exactly the problem with libesd-alsa ?
I don't see any serious/grave/critical bug report.
Christian
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16/09, Bob Hilliard wrote:
>
> | This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past
> | week or two it returns:
> | rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused
> |
> | This message returns almost instantly - too qu
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:58:37PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> Thanks. No info there though. Isn't there an activity list somewhere
> also? Maybe this should be on some internal page? Or something like
> /org/README?
You can find such data in the Debian LDAP database (for example, by
loggin
Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Em Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:11:06 +1000
> Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu:
>
> > I agree. This argument sounds reasonable. If spanish maps to Spain, then
> > english should map to England.
> nah that's not it... if I understand it corr
Hi,
It looks like more and more of these are popping up. It seems to me that
packages such as diskless-image-secure, diskless-image-simple, xfsprogs-bf,
e2fsprogs-bf should automatically qualify for grave or even critical bugs
for breaking your system if installed.
From the description of diskle
Hi,
This is probably the weirdest thing I've seen in debian so far.
I was able to re-produce it on my home and work machines, and a person on
irc also go the same results.
Try this:
apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -off package is
# actually n
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's not publicly available for privacy reasons. Try
> /org/qa.debian.org/mia on pandora.
Thanks. No info there though. Isn't there an activity list somewhere
also? Maybe this should be on some internal page? Or something like
/org/README?
/Micce
(Btw, questions like this are best posted to debian-kde).
> kde: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.1-1) but 4:2.2.0-final-3 is to be
> installed
This tells you what's wrong; the newest kdelibs packages have not yet made
it to the FTP servers. Have another try tomorrow. :)
Ben.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:55:32PM +0200 , Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> In the last update of unstable:
kdelibs didn't get installed.
Petr Cech
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:49:37PM +0200, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> Hi, I remember there is some web page for maintainer activity. I'm
> looking at playmidi, and I suspect rsahlen is MIA. Shouldn't this
> kind of links be available somewhere?
It's not publicly available for privacy reasons. Try
/org
In the last update of unstable:
apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
ark kab karm kate kcalc kcharselect kcoloredit kcron kdebase
kdebase-audiolibs kdebase-crypto kdebase-libs kdelibs3-crypto kdepasswd kdf
k
hi,
does anyone backported latest postfix on potato ?
here I've some db3 > db2 dutties :/
bests,
jaume teixi.
Hi, I remember there is some web page for maintainer activity. I'm
looking at playmidi, and I suspect rsahlen is MIA. Shouldn't this
kind of links be available somewhere?
/Micce
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are there some people around who live on the Philippines? I have
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> On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 03:17:37AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> >
> > Interesting highlighting bug in mutt -- could confuse an unsuspecting person
> > into thinking Branden actually signed this.
>
> except for that long pause
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