Re: Bug#32156: anacron: It ran unnexpectedly!

1999-01-20 Thread Christian Schwarz
reports (there was another bug report on anacron which was also sent to me a some time ago). Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D

Craig Small here?

1998-10-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
oes someone have a working address? Thanks in advance, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian

Re: xntp3: init script is not very policy-compliant

1998-06-14 Thread Christian Schwarz
explicitely in the documents, but it was meant that way. Perhaps someone should clarify the text in the policy manual?) If xntp3 doesn't support reloading, the "reload" option should fail (or not be implemented at all, which would make the script display the usage text).

Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-02 Thread Christian Schwarz
an has been a lot of fun to me and I've learned a lot. I want to thank your support and also for your participation on the project! Keep up the good work! Cheers, Christian Schwarz PS: The Linux community will not lose me! I'm planning to join Bruce' effort to set up a new base d

Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?

1998-04-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
r/bin/telnet (from netstd, they should be moved to > netbase) > - /usr/lib/perl5/Net/DirHandle.pm (from perl, it should be moved to > perl-base) [snip] Please file wishlist bug-reports--if you haven't done so already. Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz

Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-20 Thread Christian Schwarz
Packaging Manual, which I just took over a few days ago. Also note, that I just sent a proposal of a new `maintainer policy' to debian-policy. Everyone is invited to take part of the discussion. Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PR

Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-19 Thread Christian Schwarz
[I reduced the list of recipients.] On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > It's up to you which guidelines you want to follow--but if you want to > > maintain packages for our distribution, you'll have to fo

Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-19 Thread Christian Schwarz
e from the details below.'--section 3.3.8) while in other places no exceptions are allowed (e.g., `No package may include device files in the package file tree.'--section 3.3.6). Guy, please don't install the debian-keyring package into hamm or slink until we&#x

RFC: splitting debian-project off debian-devel

1998-04-11 Thread Christian Schwarz
beta-testers or users of "unstable"), and would make it much easier for the `busy Debian developers' who don't have time to follow every single mail on debian-devel. Comments are appreciated! Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz

DEBIAN POLICY WEEKLY, #6 (April 11, 1998)

1998-04-11 Thread Christian Schwarz
the policy manual that manual pages for X11 games should be installed into `/usr/man/man6'. -------- -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] P

Re: Number of Maintainers

1998-04-11 Thread Christian Schwarz
anks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ /

Re: future development of doc-base

1998-04-10 Thread Christian Schwarz
This discussion belongs to debian-doc, not debian-devel. Please send any follow ups _ONLY_ to debian-doc. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian has a logo![EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-10 Thread Christian Schwarz
ut about `shared libraries being linked dynamically against other libraries', that is, if you, say, build the libmysql.so shared library, this requires linked against libc of course, which can be done either statically (libc code is included in libmysql.so too) or dynamically. (Is a

Re: bo-updates coordination

1998-01-10 Thread Christian Schwarz
ome packages for bo and have currently placed them on other ftp servers. It would be good if these maintainers could re-upload the relevant packages for debian.org too. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EM

Re: please tell me about release-critical bugs

1998-01-10 Thread Christian Schwarz
hanged (i.e., has been fixed). Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.perl.com http

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-09 Thread Christian Schwarz
fter, I think). This is not only a problem with /etc/crontab, but with even more important files like /etc/passwd! Does someone know how COAS interferes with this discussion? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/

please tell me about release-critical bugs

1998-01-09 Thread Christian Schwarz
ystem. Any comments/critics/suggestions are welcome! Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C

Re: Uncompress /usr/doc/copyright/GPL.gz please

1998-01-09 Thread Christian Schwarz
ore 2.0 is released. (Otherwise, we'd have to drop base-files, which would probably be a bad idea ;-) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] V

Re: we need a Package Checker

1998-01-08 Thread Christian Schwarz
t days. We two decided to work on a framework to do such tests. If more people are intrested in joining the discussion we should probably move it to a public list. Anyone intrested? Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PRO

Re: Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-08 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > All applications registered to menus > > > > The menu package included in the Debian distribution stores > > information about which applications are instal

Debian 2.0 release requirements

1998-01-07 Thread Christian Schwarz
t binary format for few releases now, a.out development packages have still been provided. As a.out binaries have become rare lately, the development tools for this binary format has been dropped. However, run-time support for a.out binaries is still available. - Ple

Debian Release Roadmap

1998-01-07 Thread Christian Schwarz
comments, critics, and suggestions about this web page to Christian Schwarz or to the Debian Development mailing list. -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit

Re: Self Referencing depends

1998-01-07 Thread Christian Schwarz
tered with the authorative > list. Yes, this would be good. But remember, that not every "Provide:" has to be registered (see above). I think you can exclude virtual packages which have a corresponding "real" package (like in the case of unzip), and also virtual packages whi

Re: Self Referencing depends

1998-01-07 Thread Christian Schwarz
t a package may "Conflict:" with something it provides: Package: sendmail Version: 8.8.5-1 Provides: mail-transport-agent Conflicts: mail-transport-agent, smail Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don'

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-07 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 6 Jan 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Schwarz) wrote on 06.01.98 in <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>: > > > (b) We set up a certain directory (say /usr/lib/cronjobs) where each > > package can install its own crontab file (/usr/lib/c

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-06 Thread Christian Schwarz
k. Note, that the install-cronjob script should be smart enough to handle commented-out cron entries correctly (they should stay commented-out during package upgrades). Comments? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAI

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-06 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > However, the `non-maintainer' part of this discussion is totally > > unimportant. What matters is the question `in which cases has the version > > number to be incremented

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
ssful--i.e., the fules got truncated.) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA

Re: Intent to package amiwm; DFSG ramblings

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
e is on the CD, etc.). Sorry, but I think the amiwm package has to go into "non-free" for now. Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
hy should we treat sources different from libs, binaries, documentations, etc.? Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
seful to get some "background" info about the version one has installed. Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 5 Jan 1998, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian> The solution presented in 3.3.7 is that the "owner" of > Christian> the conffile (cron in that case)

Re: autmake & debian? (was: Re: cron jobs more often than daily)

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 03:02:38PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > > Thus, the use of debstd is depreciated. Note, that I've removed debstd > > from all of my packa

Re: Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
ntation policy we could perhaps start working on the menu registry with doc-base to get some experience in this area. If someone wants to do this with me, just drop me a note. I'm just waiting for volunteers... Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTEC

please upgrade your packages to current standards

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
2.1.2.0 Nov 96 * Some changes WRT shared libraries 2.1.1.0 Sep 96 * No hard links in source packages * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation * Shared libraries must be installed stripped 2.1.0.0

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-05 Thread Christian Schwarz
td. Note, that I don't know if debhelper is any better regarding the cron policy--I hope so. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 3 Jan 1998, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > By changing the dependencies you changed the source package before, > > or? > > Technically, no. The dependencies are build by dpkg-shlibdeps, so for > all intents and p

Re: Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
an add them. We need another system anyways to convert between different documentation formats on demand. Since every online documentation has to be registered to that system, we shouldn't we do the "menu" registration through the same system? Everything else looks like doing the same w

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-04 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 3 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: > 'Christian Schwarz wrote:' > > > >On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: > > > >> '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > >> > > >> >Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with

Re: Linking shared libraries with -lc

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
e time for this.) Thanks in advance, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://ww

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 27 Dec 1997, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 17 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote: > > [snip] > > > If the binary changes, the version number should change. > > > > Completely agreed. Everything else wil

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
hear a few comments regarding the "Immediate-Configure" solution. (Other solutions are welcomed too, of course!) Cheers, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit

Re: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-03 Thread Christian Schwarz
her he/she prefers dhelp, dwww, or both, etc. I'm currently working on a draft for this interface. It looks like we're going to implement that together with a new "Documentation Policy" for Debian 2.1. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know

Re: So where is the bo-unstable directory?

1997-12-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
cessary steps to get the bo-unstable directory set up have been performed. We have an executive decision to create that directory and we also have a policy. I just reported a bug against "ftp.debian.org" and I hope Guy will have time for this in the next few days. Thanks, Chris -- _,,

Re: Intent to split mysql package

1997-12-22 Thread Christian Schwarz
The problem is that all packages are built from a single source package (I think) and that package will have to be in non-free. Thus, we would not have full source for the contrib packages. We haven't decided yet how to handle this situation. Thanks, Chris -- Christian

Re: Can I take wml and eperl?

1997-12-22 Thread Christian Schwarz
l package? None. The upstream author included these for WML ports to other (non-GNU) systems which are likely to have no m4 (or atleast a different one). There is already an eperl, m4, etc. package and we should use these. If special versions are required, you could use versioned dep

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
il folders--or implement a compatible mechanism. Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D

Re: ppp & ppp-pam

1997-12-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
P daemon included in the ppp-pam package, as it includes a more general way to specify your local security policies.'' (Some native englisch speaker should improve this, of course :-) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [E

Mule trademarked?

1997-12-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
I've just discovered that "The MULE" is a trademark. Check out http://www.hello.co.uk/altek/mule.html Does this mean we could get problems if we distribute emacs20 ? If so, I guess someone should contact RMS about that. Thanks, Chris -- Ch

Re: Changelog policy being ignored

1997-12-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
e that they fix > each problem that was fixed in the non-maintainer release. > > Perhaps this should be incorporated into our policy ? I'll include your request in the next policy weekly posting. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PR

Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?

1997-12-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
posting. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA CS Software goe

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
this directory. (For all that have missed the previous announcement: Debian 2.0 will use FSSTND and we are expecting to switch over to FHS for Debian 2.1.) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Moving topics from debian-private (was Re: SPI money out)

1997-12-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
s at all cost or > whatever, but could you please give some explanaion why you think this > way? Please check out http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html . The page contains several arguments against the use of "Reply-To". I fully agree to what Ian said. Thanks, Chris

Re: news gateways

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
some pages... Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http

Policy for bo-unstable uploads

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
;. In case of a new upstream version in "hamm", the version number is taken from the new "hamm" version with Debian revision 0, concatenated with "bo" and the Debian revision of the "hamm" package. (I hope everyone can follow :-) --

Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
m not sure if we should treat static libraries the same way, since some people might need the symbols for debugging. Could someone comment on that? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian has a logo![EMAIL PR

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
bian system. Completely agreed. After all, we are working on an operating system (I don't like the term "distribution" too much) and _not_ on a set of packages which should compile on _any_ UNIX. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: packaging agrep

1997-12-13 Thread Christian Schwarz
ra package ? Yes, probably a good idea. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC

Re: Is "cp -a" allowed in debian/rules?

1997-12-12 Thread Christian Schwarz
;, so I don't see a reason for not using the `-a' option. (I'd prefer the `-a' solution over the `tar' hack since it's much easier to read.) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian h

Re: Uploaded libtermreadkey-perl 2.09-1 (source i386) to master

1997-12-12 Thread Christian Schwarz
se libterm-readkey-perl for the Debian package. (Why hasn't this package not been discussed on debian-devel? Or did I miss something?) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Logo Page updated

1997-12-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
d to all people that gave us feedback! Cheers, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14

Re: Future security problem (was Re: be careful with Replaces, please)

1997-12-01 Thread Christian Schwarz
n to have the same package names). Comments? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 D

Next approach: Documentation Policy

1997-06-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
d the html.gz/fixhtmlgz issue completely. The only possible way, as it seems to me, is to support a compressed filesystem, but these are not ready for real use, yet. Any comments? (I'm sure ;-) Thanks, Chris (Debian Policy Manager) -- Christian Schwarz

Re: Summary of the html/info/webserver/whatever mess

1997-06-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Christian Meder wrote: [snip] > [to Christian Schwarz: Sorry, that I brought the topic up again without > proposing better paragraphs, will try to work on a proposal in the > coming week] Sorry, to be so rude, but this summary does not bring us forward. Some of yo

Re: why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

1997-06-29 Thread Christian Schwarz
suggest we revert them to 644. > > Is the policy editor reading this? Yes, I am. (I initiated this thread :-) I fully agree to Christian. If there are no objections, file permissions will be reverted to 644. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL P

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > >Hi! > > > >Christoph, please tell us why using "fixhrefgz" on "html.gz" files does > >not work with our web servers. > > Pleas

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: > Christian Schwarz writes: > > > > > The situation looks completely different if the server has its own > > > > package, like `msqld' for the server and `msql' for the client. > > > > > > Not

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > "objections" this times. If you can't live with this proposal, you'll have > > to present another formulation of a paragraph or of the whole text. >

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
;t "boa" be extended to uncompress "foo.html.gz" on-the-fly when _this_ file is requested, just as "foo.html" would have been requested and that file does not exist? Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PRO

Re: RfD: Debian is not randomly installing services

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
;. I think it is pretty safe to start "lpd" on every machine, since the default configuration would not accept queries from foreign hosts. If I install the "lpd" package, I would not like to be asked whether this daemon should be started! Thanks, Chris --

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
;s HTML::Parser class and is thus independent of any specific HTML tags. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian is looking [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a logo! Have a look at our drafts PGP-fp: 8F 61

End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread Christian Schwarz
,info 68) ./tex/latex2html_96.1.h-6.deb: 651 (doc 651,info 0) ./tex/tetex-base_0.4pl8-2.deb: 647 (doc 3,info 322) ./text/lout_3.08-1.deb: 3517 (doc 3517,info 0) ./utils/ftape-2.0.30_3.03a-1.deb: 581 (doc 473,info 54) ./web/arena_1.0b3-1.deb: 701 (doc 701,info 0) ./x11/9term_1.6.6-3.deb: 551 (doc 551

NIS and libc6/hamm?

1997-06-27 Thread Christian Schwarz
ce, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mat

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
[Sorry, Alex, I wanted to send this to you _and_ the mailing list in the first time. So here it's again.] On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: Hi folks! Please let me quote from my last mail, first: > My prediction is that while a few people will like option 3) very much, &

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote: > > Even if we are, I'm sure it would be easier if every package `foo' had > > one or more associated `foo-doc' packages. > > From: Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
oo-doc' > packages. We are currently planning such a thing for our own manuals. The discussion was on debian-doc a while ago. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EM

Re: Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
der moving to Maildir delivery as our default, with > dot-locking as a required alternative (for backwards compatibility). I don't know the "Maildir" locking technique yet. Could you please describe it with a little more details? Thanks for your input, Chris --

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
; Motif, only *source code* compatible! Is this true? Then there would be no reason to create the "motif-libs" virtual packages! (The only use for them would be to allow drop-in replacements of the compiled shared library packages.) Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz

Re: Packaging questions regarding plan

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
major versions? (You can't use "versions" of a virtual package, yet.) Thanks, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !

Documentation Policy

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
just have to specify the limit.) (BTW, I'm assuming that *.info.gz requires the same amount of disk space as *.html.gz. I'm sure we find a way to use .html.gz files somehow.) Any comments are welcome, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NFS lockfiles etc: alpha implementation

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
e existing Perl module if it is compatible to this library and adopt it if necessary. This should be packaged up, too. Anyways, _many_ thanks for writing this lib! Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Copyright question

1997-06-23 Thread Christian Schwarz
not sure if we can make exceptions for a "doc-only" package. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
the documentation belongs to the package itself. > I don't want to install another package just because I need some > documention. Some users from not installing the documentation. For example, I run Debian on lots of computers here and at work. I don't want to have the bash manual i

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- > On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > > > The documentation will be distributed via several

Documentation Policy

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
package. Otherwise, the will have to be distributed in seperate packages, one for each format. Any comments? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit

Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
l to support NFS safe locking? A: A lot of people use Debian in a network with other UNICES. As such, we'll have to choose a locking mechanism which is implemented at "application level" so that the involved programs (mail daemons, mail clients, etc.) on other platforms can be fixed to apply to our mechanism, as we

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
On 20 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Christian> This is buggy since it's not working over NFS. (I'm > Christian> running into problems every few days sin

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Christian Schwarz
lock/unlock/test a file. In addition, we could create a new "lockfile" binary (just as in procmail) that can be used by shell scripts or other programs (via "system"). We'll also provide "modules" for Perl/Python/etc. Any comments? (I feel like I presented thes

Re: Re^2: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-20 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: [snip] > However, Christian Schwarz asked me to do html as well. That will be some > work as HOWTO packages comes as tar.gz files with no surcompassing > index.html. I'll have to do some perl hacking. No promises for the June > r

Re: File Locking

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Schwarz
SWIG would do > that easily enough? I now Perl too, so I can take that part or help you with it. Someone else around here mentioned--hey! I just discovered that the Perl code I've here was written be you! Ok, this part seams to be ready. :-) We just have to make sure it is compatible to o

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

1997-06-19 Thread Christian Schwarz
l! Perhaps his home page can give more info (I didn't have a look, yet). Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB

Re: Debian-Policy Manual

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
ile. Or did I got your question wrong? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC

Re: File Locking

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
inted out that it would be good to maintain this library as a new "upstream library" (non-debian specific) so that others can use it too (on other distributions or systems). Of course, we'd need a good upstream maintainer for that. So, if someone is intrested to help, please contact

RFC: Virtual Package Name List (was bug #10676)

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
Provides: X11R5, xr5shlib, aout-x11r6lib, X11R6 - -- Please tell me what you think of it. If there are no objections, these changes will be incorporated into the next release of the Policy Manual. Thanks, Chris - -- _,, Christian Schwarz /

Re: Obsolete package CGI-modules (hamm)

1997-06-18 Thread Christian Schwarz
depends on how frequently CGI.pm is updated relative to Perl itself) This would be called libcgi-pm-perl then. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > > > TOPIC 7: new definition of ``free software'' > > This is only about the "main" section. > > In addition to that, I wonder why we are support

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-17 Thread Christian Schwarz
d always be mentioned in > > the "README.debian" file, as you propose. This field is important if the package is handed from one maintainer to another. The second usually does not know where to get the upstream sources! And of course, the users probably would like to know

Re: Obsolete package CGI-modules (hamm)

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
e care of this please? Guy is responsible for such things. However, he said he's offline for 4 weeks. I suggest you file this as a bug report against the package "ftp.debian.org" so he doesn't forget about it when he cames back. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Sc

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
the documentation > under dwww in a way similar to the Info docs (sectioning, layout, > etc.). Anybody some thoughts on this? I think Jim was working on such an enhancement for dwww. We should ask him when his is back. Cheers, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread Christian Schwarz
ck and we should decide that the registering method really has to be changed, we can simply adopt the Policy again. Joost, is the proposed text correct? Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux?[EMAIL

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