Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Marek Andricik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had some HW problems with my computer which resulted in many > hangups and long fsck each boot, so I decided to switch to ext3. There > were no problem except that root fs was still mounted as ext2. Kernel > is kernel-image-2.4.17-586tsc version

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jan 11, 2002

2002-01-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * > > |libqt3-psql (#127709), orphaned 7 days ago > > Uhm, shouldn't Daniel Stone or Cheney (sp?) take this one as well, I > guess it builds with the rest of qt3. I'm not sure if Chris is taking this along with libqt3. > |

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-11 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:14:21AM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > There appears to be a list named debian-kde. PLEASE use that. -devel > is already clogged enough, and should be reserved for extremely > general or miscellaneous discussion. Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 17:17:08 +1100 From: Daniel Stone <[

Re: Installed wajig 0.2.11-1 (i386 source)

2002-01-11 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Steve Kowalik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > That's a bug in python2.{1,2} then. What's the point of having a platform > > neutral 'compiled' version of a script if the format changes every time the > > wind changes direction? > FUD. Pure FUD. I don't care what FUD is, but appar

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Joerg Wendland
Will Lowe, on 2002-01-11, 16:12, you wrote: > Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda > imposing. Of course you are right. > Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh to do the > authentication. I have a network of ~80 Debian boxen, and I do > something rougly like this: > > f

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 10:30 am, Saturday, January 12 2002, Rob Bradford mumbled: > I'm now a happy evolution user, to converyt my mail i did cat > Mail/lists/* | cat /var/spool/mail/rob > Congratulations, you get today's "Most Useless Use Of cat" award. Plague, and LART will be forthcoming. --

Re: Help with configure failure on ia64 [ogle: misdetect libxml2 version]

2002-01-11 Thread Joe Drew
On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 20:37, Bdale Garbee wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Hedin) writes: > > > ogle doesn't build on ia64, and I don't understand what's causing it. > ... > > The configure script stops when testing xml2-config, but the correct > > version is on the system. > > This often ind

Re: Help with configure failure on ia64 [ogle: misdetect libxml2 version]

2002-01-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:36:19AM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote: > ogle doesn't build on ia64, and I don't understand what's causing it. > See > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ogle&ver=0.8.2-2&arch=ia64&stamp=1010455931&file=log&as=raw > for the latest build log. Also look at > caballero.d.o

Re: Help with configure failure on ia64 [ogle: misdetect libxml2 version]

2002-01-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Hedin) writes: > ogle doesn't build on ia64, and I don't understand what's causing it. ... > The configure script stops when testing xml2-config, but the correct > version is on the system. This often indicates that the configure script is trying to run a small test pr

wnpp page down?

2002-01-11 Thread J.E. Starr
Hi all, As of a of minutes ago, the wnpp page shows no packages up for adoption, none orphaned, none withdrawn, none being worked on, etc. If this is true, it's a milestone for Debian.-:) Cheers, JimS

Re: Libtool, plugins and static libraries

2002-01-11 Thread Joe Drew
> *** Warning: libtool could not satisfy all declared inter-library > *** dependencies of module libsmpeg_xmms. Therefore, libtool will > create > *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening > *** application is linked with the -dlopen flag. > > Now, I only have direct access t

Re: Scheduled downtime for murphy.debian.org(lists.debian.org)

2002-01-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:08:13AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Brainfood is scheduling downtime for murphy.debian.org(which is also > > lists.debian.org, and runs all the mailing lists), to do a disk upgrade. > > This > > is just the addition of a new drive, with no copying of the existing d

Re: Should I rename scalable-cyrfonts?

2002-01-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:26:00PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > I'am the maintainer of the package scalable-cyrfonts. It's purpose was > to contain all free scalable Cyrillic fonts I know about. However > recently the upstream of most of these fonts has added many non-Cyrillic > letters to them

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 12:17:48AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > my concern is, that a timely uploaded python-gnome package wanting to > be built with libfoo-dev/libfoo2 get's built by an autobuilder which > has libfoo-dev/libfoo1 available (the python-gnome source gets built > before the new li

Help with configure failure on ia64 [ogle: misdetect libxml2 version]

2002-01-11 Thread Mikael Hedin
Hi, ogle doesn't build on ia64, and I don't understand what's causing it. See http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ogle&ver=0.8.2-2&arch=ia64&stamp=1010455931&file=log&as=raw for the latest build log. Also look at caballero.d.o:~micce/ogle-0.8.2 for my test configure (e.g. config.log). The

Re: Temporary(?) orphaning of netsaint and my other packagen

2002-01-11 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Turbo" == Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Turbo> I'd be interested in net saint... The bugs don't look that Turbo> grave... Well if you don't want it, I do. -- Stephen "So if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood."... "And therefore?"... "A witch!"

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Will Lowe
> - Package installation, upgrade, deinstallation over the net[2] > [2] think of 'apt-get --host webserver.my.org install apache' > or security updates to be done on numerous machines Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda imposing. Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh t

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Matthias Klose
Ben Collins writes: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:15:07PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > binary of the newest package of each build dep available in unstable > > > > before building the package. If that is not the case I wou

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 05:32:13PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Most people feel that not keeping older soname libs around for a certain > period is a bad idea, just for this reason. You as the package builder > shouldn't have to worry about it. Okay, thanks! cu Torsten pgp1j3ZQuywdc.

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:34:56PM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > Sounds good. Maybe we should provide a description of this technique > > somewhere within webml or ddp. > > > > WWW/doc folks: any hint about sponsorship uploading practices? > At least an FAQ would be apropriate in my opinion. > A

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jan 11, 2002

2002-01-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* |libqt3-psql (#127709), orphaned 7 days ago Uhm, shouldn't Daniel Stone or Cheney (sp?) take this one as well, I guess it builds with the rest of qt3. |qt-embedded (#127696), orphaned 7 days ago | Description: Embedded version of QT | Reverse Depends: libqt-emb-dev | |q

Re: Bug#122342: directory-administrator: Not installable

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:20:59PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:14:05PM +0100 > > Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This was fixed in 1.1.1-9, uploaded 2001 - Nov 27. > > > > > > Please do a 'apt-get

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:15:07PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > binary of the newest package of each build dep available in unstable > > > before building the package. If that is not the case I would have to > > > depend on

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:05:02PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > binary of the newest package of each build dep available in unstable > > before building the package. If that is not the case I would have to > > depend on at least the library version installed on my system it seems. > > If the bu

Re: SHUTDOWN: Re: Scheduled downtime for murphy.debian.org(lists.debian.org)

2002-01-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > Well, it's that time. I'm leaving to go to the colo where murphy is located. > I'll be shutting it down from there. This is the warning about it's > shutdown. It's been back up for 30m now.

Re: Do not link GNOME1 apps with libpng3

2002-01-11 Thread Chris Waters
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:16:30PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Moreover, nobody has produced a compelling reason to make the > switch other than "libpng3 is newer than libpng2". I have one, but I won't present it, because I think there are more compelling reasons NOT to switch. I say this b

Re: Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:38:00PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi *, > > I got a bug report on python-gnome because a) I did not yet conform to the > new python policy (missed the dep, thanks Matthias), and b) I did not > depend on at least 1.0.0 of libgtkhtml-dev. > > Now I am wonderin

Re: Bug#122342: directory-administrator: Not installable

2002-01-11 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Damyan Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:14:05PM +0100 > Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This was fixed in 1.1.1-9, uploaded 2001 - Nov 27. > > > > Please do a 'apt-get update'... > > But directory-administrator 1.1.1-9 depends on libldap2 (>= 2.0.

Re: Temporary(?) orphaning of netsaint and my other packagen

2002-01-11 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Ben Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've had to take a job where they are a lot less sympathetic to me > working on Open Source projects. Ouch. Sorry to hear that... Ah, well. They probably pay good :) > Therefore if anyone wishes to consider netsaint*, toppler or anything > else I have up f

SHUTDOWN: Re: Scheduled downtime for murphy.debian.org(lists.debian.org)

2002-01-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Adam Heath wrote: > Brainfood is scheduling downtime for murphy.debian.org(which is also > lists.debian.org, and runs all the mailing lists), to do a disk upgrade. This > is just the addition of a new drive, with no copying of the existing data. We > expect downtime to be mi

Build dependencies, libs and buildd

2002-01-11 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi *, I got a bug report on python-gnome because a) I did not yet conform to the new python policy (missed the dep, thanks Matthias), and b) I did not depend on at least 1.0.0 of libgtkhtml-dev. Now I am wondering if I have to make all dependencies of shared libraries more strict... I would e

Temporary(?) orphaning of netsaint and my other packagen

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Bell
Hi all, I've had to take a job where they are a lot less sympathetic to me working on Open Source projects. I am hoping that things will improve in a few months but for the time being it is unlikely I will be able to do much work on my packages. Therefore if anyone wishes to consider netsaint*, t

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Please tell me one good reason not to use the init.d script interface to > > muck around with daemons _in maintainer scripts_? > > The --exec option for start-stop-daemon. This option is very useful: i

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:17:13PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > if not, the i would not recommend the use of auto in that case. > > It is a patch for mkinitrd well, you answered my questions! it seems then ``type auto'' would be fine, especially since the patches in question don't affect the

WARNING: xmkmf/imake broken in xutils 4.1.0-12

2002-01-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:49:12PM +, James Troup wrote: > Package: xutils > Version: 4.1.0-12 > Severity: serious > Justification: breaks other packages from building from source > > xmkmf appears to have been broken by 4.1.0-12; packages which built > fine with xutils 4.1.0-11 no longer buil

Request for gs-fonts-virtual package

2002-01-11 Thread Erich Schubert
We really should add some gs-fonts-virtual package, gs is depending upon. LOTs of People (even some Debian Developers) wonder why their printer does not work, just because they forgot to install some gs fonts. So i'd suggest gs depending upon some fonts. If a really experienced user knows that he d

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include John H. Robinson, IV wrote on Fri Jan 11, 2002 um 09:49:12AM: > > All this will be easier if you use "auto" as fs type and WHEN Herbert > > Xu finally applies MY PATCH submitted a while ago. > > would type auto work with a fresh, hand compiled kernel from kernel.org? Why not? On mounti

OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi fellows, today I heard about OpenPGK[1] and read its feature list. Unfortunately OpenPKG describes itself as "...the world of cross-platform RPM-based Unix software packaging". It is RPM based but cross-platform. It came to my mind that having a distributed APT would be a great help to administ

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 03:44:54PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > All this will be easier if you use "auto" as fs type and WHEN Herbert > Xu finally applies MY PATCH submitted a while ago. would type auto work with a fresh, hand compiled kernel from kernel.org? if not, the i would not recommend t

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Please tell me one good reason not to use the init.d script interface to > muck around with daemons _in maintainer scripts_? The --exec option for start-stop-daemon. This option is very useful: it gives start-stop-daemon the ability to verify that it

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-11 Thread Rob Bradford
I'm now a happy evolution user, to converyt my mail i did cat Mail/lists/* | cat /var/spool/mail/rob Then just check your mail and using the filters setup in evolution to filter it in the boxes again. Maybe not the best way, but i didnt lose any mail. -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Chief Editor/Lead d

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:49:19PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > > You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX > > > may not exist (and I would guess that it doesn't on the HURD). > > > > If OPEN_MAX is undefined you could always

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:49:19PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX > > may not exist (and I would guess that it doesn't on the HURD). > > If OPEN_MAX is undefined you could always use INT_MAX :-) . I bet INT_MAX does not exist on Hu

Re: [kde] and, for my next trick ...

2002-01-11 Thread Aaron Lehmann
There appears to be a list named debian-kde. PLEASE use that. -devel is already clogged enough, and should be reserved for extremely general or miscellaneous discussion.

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Adam Olsen
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:49:19PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:34:18AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > > You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX > > may not exist (and I would guess that it doesn't on the HURD). It's > > completely reasonable

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:34:18AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX > may not exist (and I would guess that it doesn't on the HURD). It's > completely reasonable for a daemon to that doesn't open any extras to > assume that only std

postfix & reiserfs ??

2002-01-11 Thread Michael De Nil
Hey I have a strange problem in here and I don't know exactly what's wrong... Regularry my /var/spool/postfix directory gets corrupted, then I get errors like the following in my console: --- find: /var/spool/postfix/deferred/1/0/10416306DA: No such file or directory fi

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Jan-02, 08:45 (CST), "Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, but it is really a bug that should be filed. The daemon will > be killed by SAK otherwise (look at #92277 for further enlightenment). You can't, in general, close *all* open file descriptors. OPEN_MAX may not

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > In quota.postinst rpc.quotad is started using start-stop-daemon. This > > > works > > > > Don't, please. This will be forbidden in the future (right no

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Michael Meskes wrote: > > In quota.postinst rpc.quotad is started using start-stop-daemon. This works > > Don't, please. This will be forbidden in the future (right now this is ok), > you should use the /etc/init.d interface. Wh

Re: kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
reopen 126889 severity 126889 wishlist tags 126889 + patch quit #include Marek Andricik wrote on Fri Jan 11, 2002 um 11:05:09AM: > I have had some HW problems with my computer which resulted in many > hangups and long fsck each boot, so I decided to switch to ext3. There > were no problem except

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:45:22AM -0500, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: > Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Or has called the standard daemon() function which doesn't close all the > > file descriptors. > Yeah, but it is really a bug that should be filed. The daemon will > be killed by

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Stefan Hornburg Racke
Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:40:28AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Ah, it looks like you need to have a db_stop BEFORE you call > > start-stop-daemon or the initscript. Looks like the daemon is dumb and does > > No, the ordering is unimpor

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:40:28AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Don't, please. This will be forbidden in the future (right now this is ok), > you should use the /etc/init.d interface. If you need extra functionality, Sorry, I wasn't precies enough. It does call /etc/init.d/quotarpc

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:40:28AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Ah, it looks like you need to have a db_stop BEFORE you call > start-stop-daemon or the initscript. Looks like the daemon is dumb and does No, the ordering is unimportant. db_stop stops debconf no matter when you call

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Michael Meskes wrote: > In quota.postinst rpc.quotad is started using start-stop-daemon. This works Don't, please. This will be forbidden in the future (right now this is ok), you should use the /etc/init.d interface. If you need extra functionality, you should request the mai

Re: Installed wajig 0.2.11-1 (i386 source)

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 11:17 am, Friday, January 11 2002, Adam Heath mumbled: > That's a bug in python2.{1,2} then. What's the point of having a platform > neutral 'compiled' version of a script if the format changes every time the > wind changes direction? > FUD. Pure FUD. --

Re: IBM "Key alliances" ?

2002-01-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Eric Van Buggenhaut | Helas, AFAIK, when IBM sells Linux, it sells RH. Nope. My T21 came with Caldera OpenLinux on it. Bought about a year ago. -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:04:25PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Mark Brown] > > You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by > > calling db_stop. debconf causes child processes to have an extra > > file descriptor open and waits for these to be closed before exiting > >

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:04:25PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Is this the case for all postinst scripts? db_stop is not mentioned > in my /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html, which I use as my > debconf reference. No. If your postinst does not leave processes running then there wo

Re: squirrelmail: apache/php and register_globals

2002-01-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote: > lucky it. it's a vanilla install with register_globals being the *only* > thing i changed (to off) in php.ini. Hmm... > php.ini | dconf | .htaccess || master | local > Off| On | On || Off| Off // NOT OK >

ifupdown front-end

2002-01-11 Thread Sergio Rua
Hello, I was working on a ifupdown front-end. I finished the first alpha release and now I need beta-testers. This version only support ethernet interfaces. Available at: deb ftp://esware365.net/pub/updates ./ Greetings! Sergio Rua <[EM

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 11:58:47AM +, Mark Brown wrote: > You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by calling That's it. Thanks a lot. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! pgpfJMEeIzDdh.pgp D

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mark Brown] > You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by > calling db_stop. debconf causes child processes to have an extra > file descriptor open and waits for these to be closed before exiting > and the daemon doesn't know it has this file open so doesn't close > it. Is

Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:44:39PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > In quota.postinst rpc.quotad is started using start-stop-daemon. This works > as longs as I know the package. Now it doesn't anymore. That is the daemon > is correctly started but quota.postinst does not return anymore. It remains >

problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon

2002-01-11 Thread Michael Meskes
I'm currently working on adding debconf to quota. Well in fact Torsten Lnadschoff did that and send me the patch. However, during my tests I found a strange problem. In quota.postinst rpc.quotad is started using start-stop-daemon. This works as longs as I know the package. Now it doesn't anymore.

Re: Musixtex not going into testing?

2002-01-11 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > I have just uploaded for powerpc. Thanks. Hamish wrote me he did it for hppa and I just did for sparc. Kind regards Andreas.

kernel-image-2.2.20-udma100-ext3, initrd and ext3

2002-01-11 Thread Marek Andricik
I have had some HW problems with my computer which resulted in many hangups and long fsck each boot, so I decided to switch to ext3. There were no problem except that root fs was still mounted as ext2. Kernel is kernel-image-2.4.17-586tsc version 2.4.17-1 from the distribution. The loadmodules s

Re: Do not link GNOME1 apps with libpng3

2002-01-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:16:30PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:07:26PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > On 09 Jan 2002 15:09:08 +0100 > > Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Now, the question is: should GNOME move to libpng3, and how? T

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > Since the person who upload the package is not the maintainer, it is actually > a > non-maintainer upload, isn't it ? No, the maintainer of the package is the person who gets sponsored (he's the maintainer of this package although he isn't yet an

Re: libgd-perl: can't build on ia64

2002-01-11 Thread Piotr Roszatycki
> Package: libgd-perl > Version: 1.38-0.2 I'm sorry. Another time I choose the wrong entry from my addressbook. -- Piotr Roszatycki, Netia Telekom S.A..''`. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `'

Re: We still need sponsors!

2002-01-11 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:18:05AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > So, dear co-developers, please join debian-mentors@lists.debian.org and > > respond to future maintainers, and sponsor those who are asking it. > > Also check out the sponsor page tha