Re: Collaborative maintenance of mime-support (was Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support).

2012-07-17 Thread Brian White
> > Lastly, I would like to thank Brian for his impressively 16-years long > work on > mime-support. Brian, feel free to stay among the uploaders ! > Thanks. I wish I had the energy to make some of the much-needed changes but I'm just not involved with the project enough these days to have a goo

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Brian White
43 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Brian White a écrit : > > That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support > > package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do > not > > expect to have any fo

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Brian White
That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not expect to have any for the foreseeable future. -- Brian On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 CEST, Per Olo

Re: nut package freeze exception request (dependency based boot)

2008-09-21 Thread Brian White
Why is the symlink provided? Where is the definition of the ups-monitor virtual package written down? What is using this symlink? I assume a good solution should take into account the answers to these questions. :) It's there to be called by various parts of "init", though right now I think o

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-27 Thread Brian White
> Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I've avoided changing to OpenSSH at home because I'm unsure how to > > convert the keys from the SSH2 format to the OpenSSH format. > [...] > > Afaict ssh-keygen from OpenSSH can do that: > -i

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-26 Thread Brian White
> > SCP doesn't work (I suspect) because I'm using the "SSH2" package once > > found in non-free. > > Oh, ssh2 is broken, yes. Try 'scp -1', perhaps? I don't keep ssh1 installed for security reasons. > > I mentioned this (and the reasons why) some time back. > > Care to reiterate? I can't re

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing offerret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-25 Thread Brian White
> The queue daemon can no longer handle PGP 2.x keys; I don't know why > and since a) the number of developers still using these kind of keys > for uploads can be counted on the fingers of a mutilated hand, b) > there are alternative methods of uploads available to the few who do, > c) queued is in

Re: [cjwatson@debian.org: Re: Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes]

2003-09-22 Thread Brian White
> * Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-20 07:37]: > > Neither SCP nor anonymous-FTP methods work and I want to get that > > fixed. > > > > SSH works. SCP doesn't. > > Well, it works for everyone else. So it would be good if you'd find &g

Fwd: Processing of ferret_3.0-2_i386.changes

2003-09-01 Thread Brian White
What do I have to do to fix this problem? My key is valid, has been signed, and was uploaded to the keyserver via "gpg --send-keys". Why do I continue to get these messages? The only way I can upload packages is to use SSH to connect to ftp-master and then use wget to fetch the various files fro

WANPIPE X.25

2000-03-14 Thread Brian White
Is there anybody here using the Sangoma WANPIPE cards to do X.25? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- When you love someone, you're always insecure.

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > Hmmm... If things were installed by hand ("dpkg --install dpkglib...") > > or if install were to fail between the two packages, then you could have > > a problem where the install tool doesn't function, right? > > Right. But since libdpkg is still a part of the dpkg package we > shouldn't nee

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > > Previously Brian White wrote: > > > > apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files > > > > [0] (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > > > > > We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Brian White
> > You know, I don't see this as "grave". It means that a user can > > effectively "export to the world" any file readable by www-data. In > > general, this means only things that can be read by public. So, > > the user can't intentionally export anything that he/she couldn't already > > do by

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Brian White
> Previously Brian White wrote: > > apache32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files [0] > > (Johnie Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > We should just force SymLinksIfOwnerMatch for /home to solve this. You know, I don't see this as &q

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-28 Thread Brian White
> > To do so would indicate that Slink officially supports v2.2 of the kernel, > > which it does not. > > What about a README file that says: No, Debian doesn't officially > support 2.2, but for those people who hadn't enough bandwidth but > enough courage here are the sources. I don't mind so muc

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Brian White
> > We do not officially support the 2.2 kernel in Slink. People who want to > > use 2.2 will have to compile it themselves and may have to upgrade some > > packages. > But what about shipping an extra directory support_2.2 which > contains the kernel packages and the necessary utilities together

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Brian White
> > Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x > > compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen. > > I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago. > > Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol.com/~vincent/ > > (NB: there are _2_ binary packages to

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Brian White
> In my more than honest opinion, I think util-linux 2.9g should be included > in slink. Developments in the computer business are going fast, as everyone > knows, and on the day slink will get released, I think a lot of people who > are going to upgrade to slink, also want to have the newest kerne

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-23 Thread Brian White
> > Disclamers are of marginal use. It will appear as installable and tell > > people to "install me" just as an elevator buttun tells people "push me". > > Installing a kernel 2.2 source package just dumps a tar file in /usr/src. I > don't see how this could break a system. Actually building and

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-23 Thread Brian White
> > > > Including the source package I could be convinced of. At least then > > > > people have to think about what they're doing before causing potential > > > > problems. > > > > > > This "think about what they are doing" thing is precisely one of the > > > reasons the "extra" priority does exis

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
> > Including the source package I could be convinced of. At least then > > people have to think about what they're doing before causing potential > > problems. > > This "think about what they are doing" thing is precisely one of the > reasons the "extra" priority does exist. > > According to th

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
> > > There is precedent for this as there is a 2.1.125 package in slink now. > > > I think it's not a big deal if there are big disclaimers attached that > > > slink is not a 2.2 targetted dist. > > > > Disclamers are of marginal use. It will appear as installable and tell > > people to "install

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
> Brian> make any difference. Both will show up in dselect and it would > Brian> be trivial for someone to install the new kernel... and then > > Heh, thats the idea. :-) > > Brian> wonder why things don't work. > > Little things that few notice, apparently -- I would've sworn slink > and 2.2.

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
> > Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a > > kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel, > > would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of > > kernel 2.2 easily on a debian cdrom, and it would let us say tha

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
> > No. We had enough problems upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. This would > > be a major change and have corresponding reprocussions. I'm sure it's > > very stable, but it will have incompatibilities. > > No-one's saying this would be the default kernel. I think including a kernel > image woul

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
> On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a > > kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel, > > I'de really like to see a kernel-image too, atleast for the non-i386 ports > to use

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread Brian White
> Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a > kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel, > would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of > kernel 2.2 easily on a debian cdrom, and it would let us say that debian

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Brian White
> > dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains > > symlink ! > > 21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with > > --force-configure-any > > 28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks > > 28817 dpkg takes no

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Brian White
> >Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze > > > > After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it > > will go into the "deep freeze" on Wednesday, January 20th. > > Brian, will you please consider to do a ftp.debian.org bug hunting *before* > doing any deep

Re: Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-20 Thread Brian White
> > After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it > > will go into the "deep freeze" on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads > > will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be > > removed because of release-critical bugs still open against them: >

Debian v2.1 ("Slink") Deep Freeze

1999-01-19 Thread Brian White
tp://www.debian.org/Bugs/ The official release date is yet unset, but with luck it can be as early as the end of January. More likely, though, is mid-February. Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian Release Manager

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] > > (Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report and &

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
> > > Oh, i can generate a kernel-image_2.1.125-1_powerpc.deb along with source > > > and dsc files and upload it to master, but will you and the other arch > > > maintainer agree with this?? > > > > If it's a powerpc package only, I don't see why there would be a problem. > > It should get install

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
> > So far, Alpha is looking "near" ready and we are shooting to release with > > slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some big egcs > > issues SOON or else we can't release (as is, 1.1b will not compile two or > > three vital packages correctly). > > There is one, MAJOR, hug

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
> smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > This one also refers to the version of perl which has been > removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) I knew about it, but not which bugs it affected. I'll

Re: Removing Gnome [was: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1]

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
> What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? > > The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The > current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of > things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be a 1.0 > release coming up in a few months th

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > > We need a 2.1.x kernel source package, which isn't available for debian. > > > > I don't see why you couldn't create one just for the powerpc arch. Either > > way, v2.2 of the kernel should be available before v2.2 of Debian. > > Yes, last rumors say that linux-2.2 came out short before chr

Re: Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to > > master.debian.org's > > incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. > > > > The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new > > uploads will be processed after 18:30 GMT that day. > > Due to wor

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > > > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > > > PowerPC has more or less given up on making 2.1. We're moving well, > > but I'm of the inclination we shouldn't release until we have a truly > > stabilized libc - o

Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to master.debian.org's incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new uploads will be processed after 18:30 GMT that day.

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > perl 27604 Perl @INC needs /usr/lib/perl5 [7] (Darren > > Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > perl 27738 perl: @INC does not contain /usr/lib/perl5 [0] > > (Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > This doesn't affect the current perl version but the version to be >

Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
67 dhcp-client-beta has no /usr/doc directory [211] (Rich Sahlender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) freetype2-dev 27814 freetype2-dev: should not conflict with freetype1 [0] (Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) gnome-gnothello 27405 gnome-gnothello doesn't run here [10] (James Lewis

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included > > in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! > > So far, Alpha is looking "near" ready and we are shooting to release with > slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some big egcs > issues SOON or else we

Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Re: Reverting to Perl 5.004

1998-10-09 Thread Brian White
> > I suspect that it's in the best interest of the freeze to revert to Perl > > Thanks. > > > 5.004. I'm currently uploading the 5.004.04-6 release to master's > > Incoming. I'll file a bug on ftp.debian.org that the 5.005 release > > should be deleted and the 5.004 release installed. > > May

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-08 Thread Brian White
> Does this mean also "no new documentation"? No. > For slink, I plan to provide the texi2html-converted HTML for all my GNU > packages, which means a new package foo-doc for every GNU foo package. > Do I absolutely have to do this before the freeze? Will all my foo-doc > packages be rejected be

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-08 Thread Brian White
> > 1) Don't we have to recompile all our ncurses-based apps against 4.2? > > If we want all the ncurses-based apps to use the same version of ncurses, > yes. I'm not sure if we have to, though if I were the release manager, I > wouldn't release 2.1 before all ncurses-based apps used the same vers

Re: Hamm Beta: Delay #1

1998-06-23 Thread Brian White
> Thanks. From looking at your log, as I expected, the problem occurs > when you try to install emacs20 and cvs-pcl simultaneously. This is > because elib is not being properly "configured" (by the emacsen-common > script) before cvs-pcl. This is a bug, but I'm worried about having > time to fix

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-18 Thread Brian White
> > I was told that dselect has problems with hamm being distributed on > > more than one cd rom. Ian Jackson suggested that we should take a > > look at dpkg-mountable. This means that a) dpkg-mountable might need > > to be included in the boot floppies and b) we'll need at least one another > >

removal of dhcp-beta?

1998-06-17 Thread Brian White
There is a bug against dhcp-client-beta that is causing it to be removed from Hamm. Should all "dhcp-beta" packages be removed or is omitting just this one okay? I need to know asap. Thanks. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Bug Terrorism

1998-06-16 Thread Brian White
severity 23000 normal -- > The reason that sendmail broke is that you made a DELIBERATE modification > to procmail that sendmail wasn't expecting. While I agree that sendmail > should probably be more graceful about handling it, it is not a > release-critical error. A vast majority of people (li

Re: GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-16 Thread Brian White
> Debian 2 ships with Gimp 1 take that redhat :-) That's assuming that we can get Hamm ready and ship it before RedHat's _next_ release. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-06-15 Thread Brian White
> > The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current frozen Debian > > distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have > > been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to > ^

Re: guavac bug #22325

1998-06-10 Thread Brian White
> Bug #22325, marked important, says that my package guavac has an > unsatisfied suggestion on java-virtual-machine. I need your > advice on what to do about it. > > My thoughts are: > > 1. It's a suggestion only, so nothing will break if it doesn't exist. >Unfortunately dselect is a bit pick

Re: Weeding out slink bug reports from hamm release-critical list

1998-06-08 Thread Brian White
> > Can anyone think of an automated way to weed out bug reports on versions > > which haven't been released into hamm from the release-critical list? A > > quick fix would be to modify the priority of the bug report, but that > > would be The Wrong Thing. > > Automating this would be wrong, I thi

Twin Package

1998-06-05 Thread Brian White
I've heard that somebody is packaging "twin". Does anybody know who? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.04. For this and m

Re: Packages Removed from Hamm (!)

1998-06-04 Thread Brian White
Hmmm... You're a little behind the times here. > > hwtools 21288 hwtools: irqtune should be in /usr/sbin, or > > rc.boot script fixed [34] (Siggy Brentrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > Uhh, remove that package, and dozens of my machines go down or perform > very slowly. Please don't.

Re: Intent to fix base-passwd

1998-06-03 Thread Brian White
> Brian, are you listening ? Yes. I get my reports directly from the bug system so if it gets updated there my reports will reflect that. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-07 Thread Brian White
> > The message is intended to inform _others_ of the problems that exists > > in order to encourage them to help solve those problems. When people > > whine about "When is Hamm going to be released?" I can just point them > > to this weekly message and ask them what they've done to help. > > So t

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-07 Thread Brian White
> > > > Several people have asked for this, but maintainers already get separate > > > > reports about their packages and reports by package are available on > > > > the web site, so I don't really understand the usefulness of presenting > > > > it that way here. Is there something I'm missing? >

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Hamm

1998-05-01 Thread Brian White
> Brian, this is a useful list, but please sort it by Maintainer or by Package > rather than by bug number: Several people have asked for this, but maintainers already get separate reports about their packages and reports by package are available on the web site, so I don't really understand the u

Re: *** The Upcoming Release of Hamm ***

1998-04-30 Thread Brian White
> > > Make it harder! From now on no new upstream versions to frozen. Cleaning > > > Incoming. 1. May is 'early beta' and 1. June is release time (to have some > > > more time for arch maintainers and testers). > > > > Please let's not delay it that long if we can prevent it. I would > > very much

New "Stable Distribution Maintainer"

1998-04-30 Thread Brian White
This message is to inform everyone that Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> will be taking over the management of the "stable" Debian release. He will be responsible for deciding which packages are worthy of "stable" and when to make a new "point" release. I think Christian is well suited for the

Re: *** The Upcoming Release of Hamm ***

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> > So, when will Hamm be released? You decide. It's up to the devolpers > > to set the date by fixing the problems that are currently holding up > > the release. As soon as the last release-necessary bug gets closed or > > downgraded, we'll probably be ready to ship. > > Can I propose the foll

Re: *** The Upcoming Release of Hamm ***

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> > So, when will Hamm be released? You decide. It's up to the devolpers > > to set the date by fixing the problems that are currently holding up > > the release. As soon as the last release-necessary bug gets closed or > > downgraded, we'll probably be ready to ship. > > Brian: I would like to

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> >> Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or > >> assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from > >> the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.) > > You certainly can do that, check out bash/libreadline for instance

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> > Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or > > assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from > > the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.) > > Will this be nescessary? The libc5 thing is only temporary, and I do

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> > Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official > > CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)? > > gettext is in experimental so that it will *not* be included in CDs... > > If we start putting experimental things in CDs, then we should create > a

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> > From a logical point of view, I think project/experimental is the best > > choice. Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official > > CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)? > > Project/experimental is not part of hamm. Yes. That's exactly my

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> Marcus, I was just clarifying (once more) the status of gettext in Debian. > > It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it > "widely". This means that even if it is not accesable by dselect, we > should not put it on CDs yet. Ah. I had forgotten that. > If a packag

*** The Upcoming Release of Hamm ***

1998-04-14 Thread Brian White
There seems to be a lot of speculation about the upcoming release of Hamm. The date "April 20th" seems to be the favorite date that is getting passed around. I can guarantee everyone right now that no release will be made at that time. Because of the delays in freezing hamm and sheer lack of manp

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-12 Thread Brian White
> > > I intend to package the new communicator that allow free redistribution. > > > It > > > will go into non-free(no source), but at least the users won't have to > > > download the tarball themselves. > > > > That would be great! I posted a couple weeks ago asking for someone to > > help with

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> > 2.1 kernel-requiring stuff (and a current 2.1 kernel?) can be included > > under "contrib". This keeps it out of "main" and puts it into the realm > > of "user-beware". (Note: This is not to insinuate that everything in > > contrib is dangerous or anything, but just that you should think at

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> > Just so there's no confusion: you're refering to the Netscape-branded > > product, right? > > I think we should use the following nomenclature - > > 1. Mozilla - Sources and binaries compiled from the sources downloaded from > http://www.mozilla.org/ > > 2. Netscape Communicator - Binaries d

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> I intend to package the new communicator that allow free redistribution. It > will go into non-free(no source), but at least the users won't have to > download the tarball themselves. That would be great! I posted a couple weeks ago asking for someone to help with this because I don't have the

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> > > Also, how likely are the current versions of these programs > > > to work with future versions of the unstable 2.1 kernel and the 2.2 > > > kernel that will eventually come from it? > > True enough. But a Debian 2.1.x package and packages that works with it > could be good for seeing and try

Re: (RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> Currently it seems to me that debian-devel is serving two unrelated > purposes. On the one hand it is a forum for developers to pick each > others brains, and ask opinions of interested debian users. > > On the other hand, it also serves to monitor the status of the frozen and > unstable distri

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> Brian, here in Germany, every Megabyte you have to download is costing real > money. A lot of money. Please put as much on the CD as possible. Declare it > extra, put it in an unstable dir, put warnings all over the place, but > please include it. > > We already exclude non-free comlpetely for g

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > > How many of these people had problems from properly built packages? > > > > All of them. It was that the packages didn't work in certain situations. > > Were these "Extra" packages? One was X. I don't recall off hand what the other problems were. > > > What about people who need such su

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > I understand this and it is a good point. My concern is with people > > who are trying to install Debian and the difficulties they encounter. > > There have been several posts lately from experienced people who tried > > to install Debian and had it blow up in their faces. Such happenings > > c

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > > What if THEY GOT IT OFF A CD, NOT THE NET? Yes, there are people that are > > > going to buy CD distributions that include kernel sources, and these > > > distributions will include 2.1.x and 2.2 when it's released. WHAT DO WE > > > LOSE by putting support for them in hamm? > > > > I think

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > > They work if you're using a 2.1.x kernel. Since plenty of people can be > > > expected to get Debian on multi-CD sets which include kernel sources, I > > > still believe we should ship them. > > > > > > Also, what happens when Linus finally puts out the 2.2.0 kernel? I don't > > > think we'

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> They work if you're using a 2.1.x kernel. Since plenty of people can be > expected to get Debian on multi-CD sets which include kernel sources, I > still believe we should ship them. > > Also, what happens when Linus finally puts out the 2.2.0 kernel? I don't > think we're going to be making a

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-09 Thread Brian White
> > In this case, if somebody has the knowledge to build their own 2.1 kernel > > (since one didn't come on the CD), then they have the knowledge necessary > > to get packages from "unstable". > > It's very unpleasant to have to download things whn you have just bought a > CD. And many users are

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-18 Thread Brian White
> I've had a look at all the current packages, details are below (some > programs are probably fine). I think most of these packages should be > "fixed" is someway - either: >depending on emacs|xemacs >description includes "does not work with Xemacs" >description includes "already inclu

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Brian White
> > Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this > > would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and > > make it difficult for people to access information about the project then > > that is your problem. > > > > The gateway was set up after ap

Re: be careful with Replaces, please

1997-12-04 Thread Brian White
> > Nope, didn't seem to be flagged for install on my end. I would have > > suggested keeping the same name and conflicting with the versions of dump > > and quota that would have depended on the libraries. > > OK. I think I'll change the name back to "e2fsprogs", and just make it > conflict w

Re: not a first amendment question

1997-12-04 Thread Brian White
> Brian> Morality is a touchy subject and (in my opinion) the _only_ place to > Brian> draw this line is all or nothing. > > Agreed, except that clearly illegal stuff should be banned, of > course. I doubt anyone would condone a child_pornography.deb package, > for instance :-) Yes, "the law" is

Re: EGCS 1.0 is out

1997-12-04 Thread Brian White
> Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out > their first release! > > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0 > > It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right > now and is obscolecent. Interesting. I didn't think it was a Cygnu

Re: Sub-categorizing the /usr/doc directory.

1997-06-29 Thread Brian White
> > > I think it would be good to divide the "/usr/doc" directory into sub > > > directories. It should be divided in the same as the Debian ftp site, > > > and packages should put their documentation into the same slot as the > > > one they got ftp'd from. > > > > > > The directory is very larg

Re: netscape 4.0

1997-06-28 Thread Brian White
> Do we have a netscape 4.0 install package? I cannot connect with master > right now so I cannot check it. There used to bea 4.0-beta installer, but it didn't work for the later betas, so I removed it. Brian ( [EMAIL PROT

Bad Maintainer Addresses

1997-06-24 Thread Brian White
After almost two weeks of trying, the following maintainer addresses have bounced mail. All of these addresses come from the "Maintainers" file under the "indices" directory of the Debian archive. If the address in the actual package does not match what is provided here (and thus in the Maintaine

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread Brian White
> cfengine: tries to do "make distclean", but that target doesn't > exist. I've added a "-" in front of this call. > gnats: diff patches file > (gnats-3.101.orig/gnats/contrib/tkgnats/print/Description_Summary) > whose directory does not appear in tarfile

Re: xemacs orphaned [Todd Walker ] RE: Account dres@scsn.net (was Re: Mail System Error - Returned Mail)

1997-06-20 Thread Brian White
John Goerzen wrote: > > OK, I've sent an e-mail to that address. It's been about 24 hours > since that time now, so let's give him a few more days to respond. In > the mean time, let's get somebody willing to take over xemacs just in > case. IMHO, XEmacs is the most powerful editor in our syste

Re: PING of Maintainer Address

1997-06-14 Thread Brian White
> I've had these messages before, and followed the instructions for > stating that I no longer maintain the packages in question. But they > still keep appearing. These things tend to get overriden by the automated scripts. > Can somebody *please* sort this out, and tell me that they have don

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-14 Thread Brian White
> > Do we also want to remove all libc5 dependant packages at some point? I > > think this would be a good idea since otherwise things are going to get > > pretty messed up. We might want to do all three immediately. > > * all packages should be libc6 when "hamm" is frozen. (later?) Yes, they s

Re: PING of Maintainer Address

1997-06-14 Thread Brian White
> >Just to be clear... Are they obsolete (i.e. should be removed) or > >are they orphaned (i.e. no longer supported)? > > repair was a bug-reporting script I wrote a long time ago, it never > really achieve all the functionality intended and is probably out of > date with respect to the modern bu

Compiling with libc6

1997-06-12 Thread Brian White
There are some maintainers that must keep their machines on the stable tree (and thus libc5) for various reasons. Is there a machine somewhere these developers can log in to for the sole purpose of building release packages? Brian

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-12 Thread Brian White
> > I'd like to set a date after which all new uploads must be libc6. How > > does July 31st sound? > > I'd like to have 2 different dates: > - 1st deadline for libraries. > - 2nd deadline for other packages. > > That could make something like: > > * July 15th: All libraries *must* be libc6. >

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-12 Thread Brian White
> > What is the policy for uploads into unstable regarding libc6? > > Must all new programs goint into unstable be linked with libc6? > > Since Debian 2.0 is meant to be a libc6 system, the answer is yes. Of > course, if the libraries that the program depends on are not yet > available for libc6,

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