Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hi Joerg, I know I've gone MIA for quite a long time (graduated from university and got a full-time job). I don't know if I've gotten the WaT email yet, but I'd be glad to keep my email forwarding as an emeritus account. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to clean up all the accounts, and my ap

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Nov 12, 2003, at 7:38 AM, Eike Sauer wrote: As far as I know(*), the patent is still valid in Europe and Japan until mid 2004. Shouldn't this matter for an international project? This is true, I believe. Whether or not the main GIMP source (distributed in main) is even allowed in Europe and Ja

Re: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Nov 12, 2003, at 1:27 AM, Mathieu Roy wrote: So you confirm what I thought (yes, I checked this page before): - the support for GIF creation inside the main gimp package, in main, has been removed in favor of a package in non-free, that provide the same functionality (plus patented

Re: Bug#220363: gimp1.2: gimp package suggest non-free software

2003-11-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
On Nov 11, 2003, at 11:00 PM, Mathieu Roy wrote: Installed the gimp, I got a message suggesting me to install gimp1.2-nonfree Discussion aside, this is a nonissue, since the gimp1.2-nonfree package is gone in unstable. I would very much like to close this bug. Does this solve this issue to you

Re: Helping busy maintainers

2003-10-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Martin Michlmayr wrote: There are some developers who are clearly too busy to maintain their packages properly, but yet cannot be considered inactive enough so that their packages should be given away. I'd like to have a group of people who are willing to help those developers out by co-maintainin

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Richard" == Richard Atterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> While we're at it: How on earth can I get rid of those Richard> Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Richard> messages? I use LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 to get Umlauts Richard> etc in mutt. Un

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Paul" == Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> I think that *mutt* is definitely broken in this regard, Paul> because *no* other console program i know (e.g. mc or pine) Paul> breaks like this using the very same libc. It's not just mutt. GTK+ has the same problem. T

Re: gimp 1.1

2001-01-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Do we actually need gimp1.1 and associated packages anymore? Joey> gimp1.2 in in unstable. Nope, go ahead and toss it if we can get the other libgimp1.1 using packages out too.. Ben -- Brought to you by the letters F and E an

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ethan> pine is a lost cause anyway. i was thinking of GNUs which Ethan> seems to be the other big offender of ignorage of M-F-To. Ethan> (i am not sure if it respects Mail-Copies-To: never i just Ethan> started adding that.

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Kim" == Kim Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kim> could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos This is about the third or fourth time we've gotten this request. Does anyone know why? :) (Here's an earlier one I found.) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:06:26 +0100 From: Martin

Re: gtk-doc vs glib1.2-dev info file conflict

2000-12-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Svante" == Svante Signell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Svante> When upgrading libgtk-doc glib.info.gz conflicts with the Svante> same file from libglib1.2-dev. Which package is to remove Svante> the info file? That's weird. From the control file: Package: libglib1.2-dev Archite

Seems potato's now 'stable'! 2.2's out, then?

2000-08-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I guess nobody's actually announced it on the list, but the FTP sites seem to have moved the link for stable to potato! 2.2 must, logically, be released! Shocking. :) Congrats to everyone! (How come it wasn't announced on the list?) Ben -- Brought to you by the letters E and J and the number 6.

New LILO for >1024 cylinders in potato, PLEASE!

2000-03-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
According to lwn.net, there is a new version of LILO just released that finally, finally adds an option to fix the horrid, dreaded LI problem on hard drives with >1024 cylinders. http://www.lwn.net/2000/0309/a/lilo.html Can this make it into potato? :) Ben -- Brought to you by the letters Y an

Re: ARGH!!! Re: ITP: jnethack

1999-10-01 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Vincent" == Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vincent> Here we go again with package forks... Can you *PLEASE* Vincent> try to merge this patch with the upstream version 1st. Vincent> If the patch is done correctly, I see no reason the Vincent> upstream maintain

Re: ssh keys in ldap

1999-09-25 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> If nobody can see why this would be a bad idea I will Jason> deploy this system on db.debian.org and the debian.org Jason> machines in the near future. I hope that when lsh becomes Jason> usable a similar patch to

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
This is great, Joey! Can you show an example of how to use apt-get to *skip* configuration questions altogether? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters W and O and the number 14. "It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy." Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- http://www.

Re: Hosed system during package build

1999-09-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> I'm going to take my time "recovering" from this, as there Dale> are things still on hda1 that I am likely to want saved. Any Dale> helpful hints about how to keep such things from happening Dale> in the future would be

Re: w only giving `-' as the FROM field

1999-09-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Chris" == Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> For months now, `w' has only reported `-' (well, *almost* Chris> all the time, anyway) in the FROM field for any connections Chris> made through `telnetd'. Finally, with the update to PAMed Chris> `login', I once aga

Re: People at Usenix

1999-05-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "blackie" == blackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: blackie> Does anyone plan on attending Usenix ( 06-11 Jun 1999 )? I will be there. :) -- Brought to you by the letters A and J and the number 16. "HEY YO GYS!" Debian GNU/Linux maintainer of Gimp and GTK+ -- htt

Re: possibly broken X development environment

1999-05-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> I was trying to compile ssystem, which compiled a couple of John> weeks ago. Now libc5 compatible libaries are trying to be John> linked. Is this a potato problem, or my problem ? This may be related to the grave bug #376

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> "warning: ignori

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> "warning: ignoring unknown format `$$format_data{'format'}'" Joey> if $ENV{DOC_BASE_GRIPE}; } This is a nice solution. -- Brought to you by the letters G and B and the number 7. "When you had it, you didn't want it. Now yo

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> Geeze -- ok, I'll fix it tonight. Thanks! I didn't mean to sound concilatory, but it seems a lot of packages have a lot of doc-base warnings these days.. -- Brought to you by the letters N and P and the number 19. "You should b

doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I've been noticing that, even though we're all encouraged to use doc-base nowadays, that doc-base emits noxious and obnoxious warnings whenever it sees a format it doesn't recognize. I've just adapted libgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY install or removal, I get: Setting up libgtk1.2-doc

Re: A setuid bash doesn't give up root.

1999-05-11 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> Perhaps we should have a policy that says all of our shells Karl> should follow the Bash behaviour? This would help a *tiny* bit, but there are many many programs other than shells that will wreak havoc if they're made set

Re: GTK oops?

1999-01-31 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> Dear overworked gtk maintainer... Did you deliberately Jules> upload a version 1.1.14 of gtk1.1.13? Looks confused to Jules> me.. It was deliberate, but it was a mistake. The GTK+ maintainers told me 1.1.14 was binary co

Re: Conflicts in libgtk*-dev

1999-01-30 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ole" == Ole J Tetlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ole> Am I overlooking something obvious here? libgtk1.1.13-dev Ole> provides libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev Ole> but Ole> libgtk1.1-dev conflicts with libgtk-dev libgtk1.1-dev is really an obsolete package in potato. Think o

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> With Debian and Red Hat, it's totally the opposite. Moving Ben> libraries around is what leads to upgrades being possible. Alexandre> Then why do you find so much trouble with it? Because of -rpath. :) That's the

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandre> You might have included my suggestion to prevent having Alexandre> to move libraries in the first place: creating a Alexandre> libc6-specific directory right now, instead of Alexandre> installing libraries

-rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet/Open Projects IRC as Che_Fox. --- Start of forwarded message --- To: Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Manish Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [gimp-devel] gimp1.1 rpath hell Re

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am Jules> baffled that anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for Jules> drawing straight lines and ellipses. Wichert> Why is this a change in rules? I

slink's chameleon 1.0-2 depends on libgtk1.1.12, which is not in slink

1999-01-22 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dale> Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the Dale> unsatisfied suggests message, I have undertaken the Dale> examination of the main archives. Dale> Dale> The script that I am working on unpacks

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> In general, it is IMHO silly to rewrite, yet again, a macro Jules> substitution engine into a special purpose piece of Jules> software (doc-base) when we already have several good, fast Jules> macro substituters (cpp, m

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> I've recently looked into the doc-base control file Ben> format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does Ben> not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the Ben> 8 or 9 doc control files libgt

doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It seems pretty sane, except I realized since it does not provide for any macro expansion, I will have to edit the 8 or 9 doc control files libgtk1.1.13-doc (and 1.1.14, and 1.1.15, ad nauseum) provides EVERY SINGLE TIME there is a new rel

netstd split -- pseudo package for upgrades from hamm

1999-01-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Brandon" == Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Santiago> I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Santiago> Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose Santiago> functionality in the upgrade process. Brandon> Done in experimental changes file: * xb

Re: libgimp/glib/gtk weirdness...

1998-10-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> When trying to build my rather overdue debian package Jules> (libgimp-perl), I get this at the configure stage: The libgimp-dev 1.0 will not compile wih the libglib 1.1 and libgtk 1.1. libglib 1.0 comes with libgimp-dev 1.0.

Re: Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> I've installed the rvplayer package, but even something as Rob> simple as Rob> rvplayer /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm Rob> doesn't work. The app comes up, and then it just sits there. Rob> Does this work

Re: More interesting gnome/gtk software

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I found more than GXedit. There is a nice task timer Michael> available named gtimer. I might package that one Michael> too. Also there is a GTK mp3 player named replay. It is Michael> GPLed but based on amp.

Re: syntax highlighting in gtk

1998-10-18 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I read so much about a patch needed to get syntax Michael> highlighting. Do we have that patch in out gtk libs? If Michael> no, why not? I'm not sure what you mean by "syntax highlighting" (isn't that what Emacs do

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we Dan> should?" right now. It's "does anyone but Dan have the time Dan> to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why Dan> the compiled libstdc++2.8 pa

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Branden> Topi Miettinen has done some research on this. When we Branden> get SysV-style pty support in glibc, xterm can lose its Branden> root privileges altogether. I hear th= is will be in Branden> glibc 2.1? SysV

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent> operating systems. Couldn't it ask if you want to Brent> dual-boot with windows, or wha

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> Currently, that partition is marked as bootable just Enrique> after installing LILO and "mbr" (first a dialog is Enrique> displayed asking the user if he wants it so, something Enrique> like "If you want the De

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote: > > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as > > a message or in the boot disks). > > > > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain system

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information > usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Jstk.so > I have always gotten this error. I don't know how to fix it, but it > doesn't seem to hurt anyone. Well, this isn't a shared library that's going to be linked to,

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we Dan> should?" right now. It's "does anyone but Dan have the time Dan> to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why Dan> the compiled libstdc++2.8 pa

Re: Et voila! (was: Re: Slink not installable from CDs)

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
All I can say, Joey and Heiko, is congratulations. :) Debian's needed this for a long time, and now we've got it! :) Ben -- Brought to you by the letters D and O and the number 5. "I wanna be Twist Barbie!" -- Shonen Knife Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http://www.debian.o

APT 0.1.7 released!

1998-10-16 Thread Ben Gertzfield
updates today? Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Debian GNU/Linux APT Package Maintainer -- Brought to you by the letters J and C and the number 14. "I wanna be Twist Barbie!" -- Shonen Knife Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http://www.debian.org/ I'

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
tmp/ before you make the symlink from the .so.1 -> .so.1.2.3 . This is so dpkg can emulate what ldconfig does. -- Brought to you by the letters B and S and the number 3. "* denotes Hot and Spicy!" -- *Ben Gertzfield Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http://ww

Re: Which PGP?

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Dave" == Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de Dave> facto standard. I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a Dave> number of people use 2.6... Debian uses 2.6 for now. 5 is a bit incompatible with other versions,

Re: Anyone packaging snes9x?

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Dave" == Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> I've been considering packaging snes9x, and was just Dave> wondering whether it had already been done. It's been done. :) -- Brought to you by the letters Q and Z and the number 1. "Ha ha! I have evaded you with the aid of th

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we Dan> should?" right now. It's "does anyone but Dan have the time Dan> to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why Dan> the compiled libstdc++2.8 pa

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Heh, oddly enough the Term::ReadLine::Perl module's source Ben> name will have to be: Ben> Ben> libterm-readline-perl-perl Joey> Why not just call it libterm-readline-perl -- it's not going Joey> to conflict with

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Heh, oddly enough the Term::ReadLine::Perl module's source name will have to be: libterm-readline-perl-perl *grin* -- Brought to you by the letters N and C and the number 11. "You forgot Uranus." "Goodnight everybody!" -- Yakko and Wakko Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomo

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> I'm pretty familiar with CPAN packages. I can package up Ben> either Term::ReadLine::Gnu or Term::ReadLine::Perl, or Ben> both. They're currently the only modules available that make Ben> Term::ReadLine effective. Joey

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Evidently CPAN has a Term-ReadLine package that makes the Joey> standard Term::ReadLine module in perl actually have Joey> readline features. I wonder if someone familiar with CPAN Joey> packages would be interested in pac

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Fixed by moving "#include " five lines up. I Martin> fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin> Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file that errored out was deps.c and it doesn't

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Tom" == Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ Tom> today. The next release will have all features present. This Tom> is primarily a last testing phase. I cannot get alpha 3 to compile. (snip) gcc -g -Wall -Werro

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ray" == Ray writes: Ray> Personally, I'd rather see the packages that still depend on Ray> libstdc++2.8 recompiled for libstdc++2.9 . Of course, of course, nobody's arguing that. APT will be recompiled for libstdc++2.9. However, commercial apps and apps that are not part of Debia

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Enrique" == Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Enrique> About the "approved method", I guess it is through the Enrique> bug tracking system, but I don't mind downloading a Enrique> patch, and it means less "administrative work" for me Enrique> (it's a pain to deal w

Odd dependancy situation with libc6 and libc6-dev

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Wow. I was installing some slink packages today with dpkg on my hamm system, and I got myself into a wacky situation. I'd had the latest hamm versions of libc6 and libc6-dev (2.0.7t-1) installed. I installed the slink version of libc6 (2.0.7u-2) without a hitch. But then I realized I should have b

[] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-13 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without a -dev. Is anyone going to do this? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters F and E and the number 5. "Nerd. Loser. Jerk. Moron. Worm. Scum. Idiot. Fool." -- Pkunk, SCII Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomorrow? http

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
intain gnomehack, I'd be perfectly happy, so long as you use the same sort of debian/* files that I use in the nethack package, and if you find bugs in them you let me know :) -- Brought to you by the letters W and T and the number 3. "* denotes Hot and Spicy!" -- *Ben Gertzfield Debi

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Roderick" == Roderick Schertler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roderick> RESTRICTIONS: You may not: 1. Sublicense the Materials; Roderick> 2. Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Roderick> enclosed software; 3. Use the Materials for for any Roderick> platform or prod

mpg123 contains GPL code?

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
0:26 -0700 From: Jason Dale Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: debian freeamp package References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ben- Thanks for the info on th

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
harder one. :) xforms is in the non-free distribution of Debian, which technically makes it not part of the operating system. I'm not sure how that interacts with the GPL. Ben Gertzfield, Debian Developer -- Brought to you by the letters V and P and the number 9. "If you turn both pro

dhcpcd should probably be in base and on the boot floppies

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
This just came up on the #Debian IRC channel: a growing number of folks have cable modems and wish to install Debian over them. However, as it stands, they cannot get on the net from the base floppies, because they require a DHCP client to get their IP. I believe this is adequate need to get dhcpc

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Hmm, so I have 1.1 installed as well as 1.0-dev. Now if I Martin> compile, I compile against 1.0. So it's dynamically Martin> linked against 1.0. But 1.0 is not installed and even Martin> conflicts with 1.1. l

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> gnotepad+ does not work with gtk 1.1 while many Martin> application that come with Debian are linked against 1.1. Martin> Thus you can't compile gnotepad+ on that machine. Ben> Sure, but you can always remove lib

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> You cannot have libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev installed at the Ben> same time, but you don't need to. Martin> gnotepad+ does not work with gtk 1.1 while many Martin> application that come with Debian are linked again

Re: libgtk-dev and libgtk1.1-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Ole" == Ole J Tetlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ole> Is there an easy way to have both libgtk-dev and Ole> libgtk1.1-dev available? I have trouble with yagirc and Ole> libgtk1.1. It compiles but I get a sigsegv when I try to run Ole> it. I was hoping that linking with libgt

[comp.os.linux.announce] COMMERCIAL: Debian User's Guide Second Edition $38.95

1998-10-09 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Just wondering, Dale, but why didn't you announce this to the Debian lists as well as the c.o.linux.announce? Ben -- Brought to you by the letters M and J and the number 10. "XTC versus Adam Ant -- which one will survive?" -- They Might Be Giants Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go tomor

Re: bug in apt-get?

1998-10-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield Michael> wrote: Ben> I'm pretty sure policy states that a package cannot depend Ben> wholly on a virt

Re: bug in apt-get?

1998-10-07 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> When I run apt-get check I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo Michael> apt-get check Updating package file cache...done Updating Michael> package status cache...done Checking system Michael> integrity...dependency e

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that "woody" Bob> should be bypassed as it would be offensive to some people. Hamish> It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to Hamish> think so. Aren't th

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
>>>>> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenneth> After

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). Ben> I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) Daniel> I've been wondering why this w

Re: APT 0.1.6 is released!

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "M" == M Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Please test out this new release of APT; we hope everyone can Ben> enjoy it! M> this apt is really great! thnx alot for your work (just for not M> only sending bug-reports on apt)! it worked out to exchange M> sendmail f

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) -- Brought to you by the letters E and L and the

Re: Bug #23877: Include autoup.sh and apt in hamm/hamm

1998-06-25 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jens" == Jens Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jens> Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> filed this against Jens> ftp.debian.org: >> Subject: please include apt and autoup in >> hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/ To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Package: >> ftp.debian.org,apt,autoup Version: N/

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel> problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel> functions. Whenever these functions are called (and Daniel> assigned to a varia

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Rob" == Rob Tillotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> Kpilot comes with its own version of libpisock, which is Rob> built and statically linked independent of whether you have Rob> another one already on the system. I haven't looked deeply Rob> at the code, but I would ass

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Therefore, I believe that I will just dump the tar.gz's of John> binutils, gcc, and gdb into the toplevel of the package's John> tar file (or maybe the debian/ directory, I dunno), and then John> all I have to do is cha

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> kpilot -- KDE hotsync tool Hm.. kpilot seems to have been statically linked with libpisock. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% dpkg -l 'libpi*' 1:38PM Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/In

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi, I have now successfully built the GCC, gdb, binutils, John> etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and John> should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was John> quite a chore to package

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Hi, I have now successfully built the GCC, gdb, binutils, John> etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and John> should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was John> quite a chore to package

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Andreas" == Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The stock kernel mounts this CD (mount -t auto /dev/hdd cdrom) >> as joliet... it /spits: >> >> The writer is installed on a machine running 2.1.103 (the >> support for my controller is better with 2.1.10x)

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Philip" == Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the right place for this. Philip> Philip> Don't you mean: Philip> [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a separate mailing list just for CD burning software under

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Thomas" == Thomas Hohenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> I followed the discussion above. I have two SuSE Linux Thomas> 2.0.33/2.0.34 systems. The first system has my cdrecorder Thomas> attached. I patched this one with the Joliet patch and a Thomas> 2k blocksize p

Re: joilet fs for official cdrom

1998-06-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
(Cc:'ed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > "Ronald" == Ronald Lembcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ronald> I had the same problem with my selfburned hamm cd's... the Ronald> debian-hamm kernel seems to prefere joliet over Ronald> rockridge with mount -o nojoliet the symlinks Ronald>

Re: Intent to package (several)

1998-06-10 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Rafael" == Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rafael> As my application to become a Debian developer is Rafael> underway, let me state my intentions of packaging. You Rafael> will find below short descriptions of the following Rafael> packages: bibindex (take ov

Re: problem with dselect and the "dists" hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manoj> Umm. I don't know how to say this tactfully. I shall Manoj> try. It may be better, I think, in this and other tasks Manoj> (like modifying dpkg), that the new author be one able to Manoj> grok the original.

Re: problem with dselect and the "dists" hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "joost" == joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: joost> abstract: there might be a serious problem involving joost> dselect and hamm's new distribution format that threatens joost> to make Debian 2.0 cd's unusable. *snip* joost> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup is a shell scri

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
7;s been moved to http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/ now. -- Brought to you by the letters V and Y and the number 8. "O, Mentos Boy!" -- Guppy Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
- Brought to you by the letters L and I and the number 12. "Frungy! Frungy! Frungy!!" -- ZokFotPik, SCII Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
o you by the letters H and G and the number 10. "Disobeying me?" "No, I don't." -- Final Fantasy II Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intent to package: xfnt-URW gimp-extra-plugins

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
co> good plugins that are not included in the gimp vanco> distribution. Good luck! I'm the current GIMP maintainer, and I know what a pain in the butt those extra plugins are to compile and maintain. Have fun :) -- Brought to you by the letters W and G and the number 5. &

Intention to package x11amp

1998-05-08 Thread Ben Gertzfield
r half." -- They Might Be Giants Ben Gertzfield <http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/> Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why has ps changed it option syntax,or "where oh where has my - gone"

1998-04-25 Thread Ben Gertzfield
ar -zxvf and Shaleh> tar zxvf are the same and should be ok. Why is ps Shaleh> different? Read the man page for ps. It explains this in detail. -- Brought to you by the letters C and T and the number 1. "It is sad. *Campers* cannot *dance*. Not even a *party*." -- Orz, SCI

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