It seems the simplest solution is to just use
http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/aptrsync.html
But why does he do at the bottom
# Get anything we missed due to failed rsync's. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Mar 2002.
os.system('apt-get update')
# Used to have a call to apt-cache gencaches here, but I th
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:56:32AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote:
> xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8
> documents.
In my experience, either AbiWord or KWord is able to read these
documents. But of course, libwpd can't be perfect... you give some and
take some :)
-J
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Philip Charles wrote:
> > And pester wordperfect^WCorel to use libraries from the current millenium.
>
> Or pester openoffice.org for a WP filter and booklet printing.
I was going to mention OOo, but since I don't know what it can currently do,
I wasn't about to put my foot
On Jun 18, Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:55:53 -0400, Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > On Jun 13, Daniel Jacobowitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >> Certainly you have not broken Debian; but I maintain that this
> >> short-sightedness does damage D
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Philip Charles wrote:
>
> > xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8
> > documents.
>
> Note that the packages won't be removed from your system, they will simply
> no longer be in the Debian archive. Thi
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Philip Charles wrote:
> xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8
> documents.
Note that the packages won't be removed from your system, they will simply
no longer be in the Debian archive. This *may* become a problem if you
clean-install a future v
Andreas Metzler wrote:
Mark has uploaded it yesterday in the evening. The bad news is that
4.3 seems to be broken on m68k, ia64 and alpha, "make test" fails.
I do not believe it is actually broken, at least not on alpha; I'm
assuming the problems on the other architectures are similar.
It does no
* Anthony DeRobertis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030618 10:11]:
>
> On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 11:59 US/Eastern, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> >
> >Description: audio player for geeks, by geeks
> >
> >...is just right.
>
> Well, except that it doesn't actually describe the package well. Maybe
> inse
[Setting followup to -legal]
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Russ Allbery wrote:
> but if someone can recommend alternate wording that would preserve
> the same spirit but avoid the potential problems that you've seen, or
> alternately something that I can add that explains those potential
> problems for mod
xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8
documents.
Phil.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> Someone could already know this amazing bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196015
>
> IMO it's a good moment to drop all t
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:25:20PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:54:11AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:39:40PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > > Ugh. Since when does the developer's ref
Hello,
I must admit, I am pretty annoyed with TeX on my system, because I simply do
not need it, and more and more packages depend on it.
But I have chosen to ignore this problem, which is not that easy, because
ever so often I get an update of all those zillion tex related packages,
which is sur
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From the long -legal thread[1], many acknowledged this as a possible
> problem, and recommended where possible that upstreams be made aware of
> the flexibility of interpretation of the perl style copyright/licensing
> clause.
I'm one of the maintainers
Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello Debian-devel,
>
> I try to code the following in perl
>
> struct flock fl;
> if (fcntl(fd,F_GETLK,&fl) == -1)
>
> to query the dpkg lock.
>
> I have tried the above
>
> fcntl DPKG_LOCKFILE,F_GETLK, \%fl;
>
> but it does not seems to wor
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Marc Haber wrote:
> I have just had a package rejected by ftpmaster because the copyright
> file contained
> |This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> |modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See
> |/usr/share/common-licenses and /usr/share/doc/
Hi,
I have just had a package rejected by ftpmaster because the copyright
file contained
|This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
|modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See
|/usr/share/common-licenses and /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright.
ftpmaster basically says that
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:31:52PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 11:59 US/Eastern, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >Description: audio player for geeks, by geeks
> >
> >...is just right.
>
> Well, except that it doesn't actually describe the package well. Maybe
> ins
Hello Debian-devel,
I try to code the following in perl
struct flock fl;
if (fcntl(fd,F_GETLK,&fl) == -1)
to query the dpkg lock.
I have tried the above
fcntl DPKG_LOCKFILE,F_GETLK, \%fl;
but it does not seems to work. In fact the documentation
is unclear whether a struct flock can be pa
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:25:44PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I just want to thank the security team for doing such a stellar job
> lately, with both the enormous kernel fixes, and the constant stream of
> advisories on other packages. Though I kinda hope that will taper off
> sometime, or we're go
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Someone could already know this amazing bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196015
I've seen this before; it seems that sometimes when the package is
built from source, the resulting library is missing some symbols for
s
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:17:43PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages
> which are libc5 related:
> zlib1
This is going to vanish shortly anyway unless the libc5 bug is fixed
since it breaks zlib builds. I'd only been co
On Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003, at 10:50 US/Eastern, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:22:54AM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
Yep. That's the point of my proposal. They would be. When you changed
a
package to use the new c103 (or whatever the next ABI is), you'd
change
the library dep
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > Yep, i took the one from the Quark 3.0 announce, which i suppose was the
> > one of a previous version and should have been replaced by the one from
> > the web site.
>
>Also, you could remove the leading "an" from the short desc
On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 11:59 US/Eastern, Branden Robinson wrote:
Description: audio player for geeks, by geeks
...is just right.
Well, except that it doesn't actually describe the package well. Maybe
insert "FIFO controlled" before "audio player."
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:54:11AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:39:40PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > > Ugh. Since when does the developer's reference recommend this? The
> > > article most definitely belongs...
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages
> which are libc5 related:
>
[SNIP]
>
> and others, partially.
>
> This could impact potentially very old (commercial mostly) binaries,
> Comments, ideas, complaints?
I a
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:46:44PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Sven Luther wrote:
> >> Also, you could remove the leading "an" from the short description,
> >>as recommended by the developer's reference.
> > Description: audio player, for geeks, by geeks.
> > Mmm, doesn't sound all t
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:12:13AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:37:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > Description: audio player, for geeks, by geeks.
>
> > Mmm, doesn't sound all that descriptive.
>
> Ug
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:55:43PM +0200, Edelhard Becker wrote:
> RTAI is a realtime extension with a broad variety of services which
> make realtime programmers' lifes easier. Some of them are
The plural of "life" is "lives".
You may wish to run your package descriptions by the debian-l10n-engl
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:39:40PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Ugh. Since when does the developer's reference recommend this? The
> > article most definitely belongs...
>It is in 6.2.2:
>
>Since the synopsis is a c
Hi.
Sven Luther wrote:
>> Also, you could remove the leading "an" from the short description,
>>as recommended by the developer's reference.
> Description: audio player, for geeks, by geeks.
> Mmm, doesn't sound all that descriptive.
But hardly because of the removal of the "an".
(i.e. what busi
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:37:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> >Also, you could remove the leading "an" from the short description,
> > as recommended by the developer's reference.
> Description: audio player, for geeks, by geeks.
It surely doesn't depend on the absence of the heading "an" :-)
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Ugh. Since when does the developer's reference recommend this? The
> article most definitely belongs...
It is in 6.2.2:
Since the synopsis is a clause, rather than a
full sentence, we recommend that it neither sta
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:37:09PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > > Yep, i took the one from the Quark 3.0 announce, which i suppose was the
> > > one of a previous version and should hav
Some of you might remember my script to summarize the excuses list for
package migration from sid to testing. I've posted it twice already.
The updated list is available from
http://developer.skolelinux.no/info/cdbygging/distdiff-all.html.gz>.
The situation is a lot better now then it was in apr
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
>
> > Yep, i took the one from the Quark 3.0 announce, which i suppose was the
> > one of a previous version and should have been replaced by the one from
> > the web site.
>
>Also, you cou
Hi all
Someone could already know this amazing bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196015
IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages
which are libc5 related:
libc5
libc5-altdev
libc5-altdbg
altgcc
libdb1
libdb1-altdev
libdl1
libdl1-altdev
zlib1
ld
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> Yep, i took the one from the Quark 3.0 announce, which i suppose was the
> one of a previous version and should have been replaced by the one from
> the web site.
Also, you could remove the leading "an" from the short description,
as recommended by th
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:58:44PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:21:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > Quark is an audio player, for geeks, by geeks. It runs in the
> > background with access provided via a FIFO in the filesystem.
> > It uses GStreamer for playing
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:21:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Quark is an audio player, for geeks, by geeks. It runs in the
> background with access provided via a FIFO in the filesystem.
> It uses GStreamer for playing music, and can therefore play any
> file format supported by GStreamer.
>
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-18
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: quark
Version : 3.0
Upstream Author : Ben Jansens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Moynes <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>, Nick Jansens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://quark.nerdnest.org/
* Lic
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-18
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: kernel-patch-adeos
Version : 2.4r6
Upstream Author : Philippe Gerum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karim Yaghmour <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.nongnu.org/adeos/
* License
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-18
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: rtai
Version : 24.1.11
Upstream Author : RTAI development team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.rtai.org/
* License : LGPL, (and still some) GPL
Description :
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-18
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: rtai
Version : 24.1.11
Upstream Author : RTAI development team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.rtai.org/
* License : LGPL, (and still some) GPL
Description :
Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-18
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: rtai
Version : 24.1.11
Upstream Author : RTAI development team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.rtai.org/
* License : LGPL, (and still some) GPL
Description :
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:06, Antonio Pérez Pérez wrote:
> A "little" question from an user:
> What could Debian do to be supported by Oracle?
> Is there any way to contact them and become a supported distribution?
I am not aware of what might be necessary for this, but I imagine it to be
similar to
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:15:43PM +0200, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> El día 18 jun 2003, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar escribía:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:11:56AM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote:
> > > Your package require a manual action in oder to enter into the pool.
> > > That's why a progress
El día 18 jun 2003, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar escribía:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:11:56AM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote:
> > Your package require a manual action in oder to enter into the pool.
> > That's why a progressing web page or something like that is not
> > available.
> >
> > Once your pac
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:05:13PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:51:46PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
>
> > Oracle will refuse to give you any support unless you run redhat. They
> > do tell you privately that it works nicely on debian, but no official
> > support will be g
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:09:55AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Sure, "you don't need to know the date, as you are using sid and did
> apt-get update, you are assured it's the latest version". Well, one
> doesn't need the maintainer field either etc.
Here is a good reason for wanting to know the
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 07:02:10PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> I have a new package called fprobe and it's in the new package queue. It
> was uploaded on 14 June as you can see from the message below.
The NEW queue needs manual intervention, so it only gets processed every
now and then
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:11:56AM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote:
> Your package require a manual action in oder to enter into the pool.
> That's why a progressing web page or something like that is not
> available.
>
> Once your package get into debian, then you can have an overview of its
> stat
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:33:55PM +1000, An?bal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> Is there a web page where I can see how my packages are progressing in
> the new packages queue?
I'm afraid not. You said you only uploaded it four days ago; I wouldn't
be at all worried about anything less than a week.
--
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:26:18AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Is isn't in the Debian archive anymore for unstable..
>
> $ madison libsensors1
> libsensors1 |2.6.3-5 |stable | i386
> libsensors1 |2.6.5-4 | testing | i386
>
> KDE needs to be recompiled (see e.g. #196370 to
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 19:02 +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:33:55PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> > > Is there a web page where I can see how my packages are progressing in
> > > the n
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:04:59AM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:33:55PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> > Is there a web page where I can see how my packages are progressing in
> > the new packages queue?
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org
I don't think http://
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:33:55PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> Is there a web page where I can see how my packages are progressing in
> the new packages queue?
http://packages.qa.debian.org
Cheers,
--
Pierre Machard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is there a web page where I can see how my packages are progressing in
the new packages queue?
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 22:55:53 -0400, Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Jun 13, Daniel Jacobowitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 06:02:02PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:20:37 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz
>> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> >
>>
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:22:51AM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:39:20PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > How? It always fails to link for me.
> I have compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 with gcc 3.3 (not Debian's) a couple
> of times now. I only had trouble with i2c a
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:39:20PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> How? It always fails to link for me.
I have compiled 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 with gcc 3.3 (not Debian's) a couple
of times now. I only had trouble with i2c and lm-sensors, though.
Marcelo
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:29:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> He wants to know when a particular package was last updated, without
> having to download it and examine the gzip time stamp and/or changelog.
It is unfortunate, that there is no easy access to the changelog, I know of,
but all other inf
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