Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

1999-09-16 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:30:18PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:08:22PM -0500, David Welton wrote: > > I think that as many packages as reasonably possible should > > migrate towards them. They work pretty well, but I don't believe &g

Re: Increasing regularity of build systems

1999-09-15 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 01:30:20PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > > Joey Hess' debhelper scripts are a good API, maybe it would be > > > > good to standardize on them to some degree. > > > No. > > > > I didn't say "make them THE standard" > What did you mean then? I think that as

Re: Bug o' the week

1999-09-15 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 03:55:43AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote: > I've had another early-morning idea. I think a metric called a "bug > index" should be invented. It would be calculated like this: every > severity of bug would be given a weight, say: Sounds like an interesting idea - are you goin

Debian, money, marketing

1999-05-21 Thread David Welton
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:07:25PM +0930, Ron wrote: > Hmm.. I'd have said full time QA staff. If we are gonna have hired > guns, let em blast at the bugs, then we *all* get value for our > money... Yeah, it's probably more worth it to have hired people do the 'boring' stuff that people are les

VA Research and linux.com

1999-05-19 Thread David Welton
Wow... Debian gets *lots* of publicity on linux.com. Very cool! -- David N. Welton< Sors immanis - et inanis - rota tu volubilis, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> status malus - vana salus - semper dissolubilis, http://www.efn.org/~davidw < obumbrata - et velata - michi quoque nit

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-18 Thread David Welton
> RedCrap already has everyone where they want them; in their back > pocket, filling their wallet more and more everyday. Alongside VA > Research. So, if this really bothers you, do something about it. Make a company and start marketing the hell out of Debian. That's most of what Redhat is - mar

Re: fixing the wnpp was ITP rx(v)p

1999-05-14 Thread David Welton
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 02:29:09PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date. > > > What can we do as a group to fix this? > One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS Good idea! We just have a w

Re: stupid stats (was Re: xfree86_3.3.2.3a-9 (source i386 all) uploaded to master)

1999-01-29 Thread David Welton
chulze > 347 Manoj Srivastava I think you'd "win" anyways, though:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: The Debian Logo-team

1999-01-29 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 07:40:28PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > * Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * James Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, these guys are obvious... Nils has done a *great* job at getting lots of Debian press releases out there, and James is o

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-01-28 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 06:14:17PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: > Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings. Ants with wings would look like termites. Ick... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread David Welton
ld' fly! And that doesn't stop us from loving them;-) Although, personally, I think the BSD demon is way cooler than the penguin... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Intent to package : xmem

1999-01-28 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:01:09PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less ^ longer Sorry...:-/ -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian G

Intent to package : xmem

1999-01-28 Thread David Welton
I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less 'elementary' X package, so I'm offering to package it. Is it generated from the X sources (in which case, maybe I'll just limit myself to pestering Branden:-), or proc, or is it its own thing?

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread David Welton
s many proposals... Maybe we should take this debate to debian-publicity. Infact, I have a feeling that the logo debate should probably migrate there, as well. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread David Welton
ible to create multiple swap partitions though? Infact, this makes more sense, in some ways, because you are utilizing different devices, and, if you can swing it so that you put your main swap on a different disk than the one that gets the most use, you can speed things up... Correct? I

Re: Debian booth at linuxworld, volenteers wanted

1999-01-26 Thread David Welton
or > > more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if you'll be attending > > LinuxWorld. > > Call me ignorant if you like, but when/where is it? San Jose - www.linuxworldexpo.com Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Debian booth at linuxworld, volenteers wanted

1999-01-26 Thread David Welton
hat I think of the conference, what my boss thinks, etc.. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: DFSG: list restrictions, not freedoms

1999-01-26 Thread David Welton
e what it would look like when fleshed out a bit more... It might be more susceptible to loopholes, though... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: DFSG v2 Draft #5

1999-01-25 Thread David Welton
, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Debian history timeline

1999-01-25 Thread David Welton
I recall some interest in generating a debian history timeline sort of thing here - does anyone know the status of that? A friend of mine is interested in putting it on a poster... Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux

Re: filters: Licence problems

1999-01-24 Thread David Welton
as DFSG-free. If you are indeed serious... technically, you are right, of course, but I think people are really going to think we are just a bunch of grumpy party-poopers if we seriously start to get anal about obviously silly licenses like this..:-> -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-23 Thread David Welton
ow this might work financially, and have it still be Free (which is one of the things it might be interesting to talk about on a debian-business list). -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-23 Thread David Welton
end all day working on it/for it. However, I'm not sure that that aspect of things has been sorted out yet... it should be an interesting couple of years:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Debian-sci-fi :-> (seriously off topic)

1999-01-23 Thread David Welton
thing/touchy-feely woo woo crud;-) > i better stop now before debian-devel detours into an sf crit list > for a while. Better than, to quote you, the 'legal bullshit' :-> Heh, that was fun... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-23 Thread David Welton
urce package. As I said several messages back, a note to this effect in the package, and during the install ought to suffice to notify people that "THIS SOFTWARE IS INCLUDED AS A SERVICE TO OUR USERS, BUT IS NOT GUARANTEED TO FUNCTION WITH DEBIAN" (or something like that:-) Ciao, -- David We

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-21 Thread David Welton
e for anything at all..." Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: agreeing with the DFSG (was Re: non-free --> non-dfsg)

1999-01-20 Thread David Welton
they are too thin skinned anyway. There are a lot of things Debian needs - another flamewar on another silly issue isn't one of them. Go write some code. -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-19 Thread David Welton
an speakers can see what it's all about:-> Alessandro Rubini (who wrote Linux Device Drivers, as well as the Kernel Corner column for the Linux Journal) is one of their employees. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: what about Pine's license?

1999-01-19 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Pine doesn't want a company making money from Pine/Pico/Pilot... > > This makes it (paradoxically) non-free. There is no paradox, because we mean 'free' in the sense of

Re: non-free --> non-dfsg

1999-01-18 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:13:09PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously David Welton wrote: > > Well, even if RMS doesn't care for it, you can pull out the Open > > Source definition, which is definitive and specific, and generally > > used as the benchmark for w

Re: Bugs with X

1998-10-16 Thread David Welton
t have 2 computers linked via ethernet (so that I can get back in and do clean reboots). 1.2 megs is big, but nothing compared to the whole source distribution...:-> Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Bugs with X

1998-10-16 Thread David Welton
hole bloody source package:-/ Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Sources consisting of multiple tarballs

1998-10-16 Thread David Welton
work towards this. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
as the representative of the aforementioned Project in such contexts where an Image may be deemed appropriate, and termed proper by the party of the first part (the Developers). Are we going to make a debian-creative list? -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
ktop > environment Well, what happens when lots of people try it, see that it is broken, and associate Gnome with being broken and unstable? That said, I don't think that will happen if it is loudly declared to be *ALPHA SOFTWARE*, and I think everyone will benefit from more copies bei

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
ative sizes of things, and then output something based on that. I don't have time for this, so feel free to can the idea of no one is interested in doing it. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Bug#26065: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
though, it seems like a big ugly mess:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

New packages that might cause X to lock up?

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
d to figure this out quickly. I kind of wonder if the motherboard is wacked... I don't need more stress:-( Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Interesting article by Alan Cox

1998-10-13 Thread David Welton
This definitely has some relevancy to us. It's worth reading, IMO. http://slashdot.org/features/98/10/13/1423253.shtml Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

xmem ?

1998-10-11 Thread David Welton
pard it through to slink. Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: yagirc bugs - new maintainer or not?

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
least for now, I think that most users of yagirc are interested in the GUI. Non-gui people are most likely using epic, or something similiar:->> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
ost reasonable course of action. "We are supplying 2.2.0, but please be aware that it may cause problems with your system, and some packages may not work with it." Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Slashdot on the KDE stance

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
at least the complete URL? http://slashdot.org - it's a pretty good source of Linux news. The comments have degraded though, don't bother with them.. Used to be people like Alan Cox occasionally posted.. no more (afaik). -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~da

Re: Does debian have an official "standard" scripting language ?

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
faik. I really wish we had a bit more minimalistic base, but I don't have much time to work on it. Having Perl as necessary is also kind of ugly, IMO. Oh well.. Back to the netwinder... -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Consensus on source packages for ports?

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
So, is there any consensus on how to upload source packages for ports? I have some things like strace that I would like to upload for arm, but the source is fairly different... Hrmm... pondering.. maybe I can get around it.. hrmmm Thanks, -- David Welton http

Re: I2O specs mailed to webmaster

1998-10-08 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:18:01PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > Version 2.0a of the I2O spec (dated 3 Feb 1998) has been sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this the same version that was made available > before? Did it come from anyplace interesting, out of curiousity? Ciao, -- Dav

yagirc bugs - new maintainer or not?

1998-10-08 Thread David Welton
nts -End of forwarded message- -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw --Debian GNU/Linux--

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-07 Thread David Welton
contacted wrt his software? So do we put Linus' address for the kernel packages?:P Seems like a decent idea, but I think there are other things to do. Your time though, if you really see the need, go for it:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread David Welton
create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Yes, please - "debian-creative". For logos, names, and other things of that ilk that are fun to discuss, but that we shoudlnt force on people who just want to do tech things. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread David Welton
Little Blue >From http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Peter_and_Barbara_Barham/breed.htm Or we could use the scientific names.. Aptenodytes Pygoscelis Eudyptes Spheniscus Megadyptes Eudyptula Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 01:59:15PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: > > > As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been > > popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be > > good. Lakes? Seas?

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:53:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: > : Debian 2.2, on the FTP site, is called sid. If you guys want to > : discuss this, at least make it clear that you are talking about 2.3 or > : 3 or whaterver. > : &g

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
to discuss this, at least make it clear that you are talking about 2.3 or 3 or whaterver. hamm - slink - sid 2.0 - 2.1 - 2.2 For example, those of us doing the arm port are already using Sid. We won't have anything for slink. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.or

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread David Welton
bian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). There is an ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid, with such recent things as debian-arm, so.. I think that's next:-> -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: Something is corrupting `wtmp/utmp' again.

1998-06-14 Thread David Welton
too.. Good luck, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
loper.redhat.com/bugs/index.phtml Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
code. The Debian project thanks James Troup and Igor Grobman for pointing out this problem, David Welton for taking the time to contact and query the past and present ircII coders about changing the license, and, most of all, Michael Sandrof, Troy Rollo and Matthew Green, first and foremost for t

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
ortly. Woooah.. hold on.. First of all, this is chronological. I dont think that's the appropriate style for a press release. It could still be condensed a lot. I'll send this now so you dont send it off without a bit more discussion. Let me try and write something.. -- David W

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread David Welton
oot 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs :-) -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread David Welton
are pumping 1000's of dollars into Gnome development instead of taking the easy way out and paying troll-tech... Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:22:46AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 10:50:56AM -0700, David Welton wrote: > > Ok, after a lot of emailing, ircII-current has the following license: > > (from ircii.warped.com/pub/ircII/ircii-current/ircii/doc) > > &g

ircII is now free.

1998-06-08 Thread David Welton
dvertising clause. This means that ircII, epic, epic4, tkirc and bitchx can stay in main. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Code crusader for debian?

1998-05-02 Thread David Welton
uted under Debian, I'll be happy to integrate the patches. John -End of forwarded message- -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:05:19PM -0400, Stephen Carpenter wrote: > That might not put it in contrib isn't there a "Free" version > of DOS that someoen other than Micro$loth made? i fsomething like > that works with DOSemu... Caldera makes one, but it's not

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
nd provide more of a challenge than creating another distribution. Anyway.. ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why is dosemu in contrib?

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
799 > > Maintainer: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Version: 0.66.7-10 > > Depends: libc6, slang0.99.38, xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) > > ... Does it possibly depend on having a working copy of DOS around? That would put it in contrib. -- David Welton

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread David Welton
hey really don't care whether software is really free or not, as long as it works. Hrm.. you really need to set up a different list.. this being Debian, how could you not know that it would start a big long thread?:-) -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw

xmem ?

1998-04-29 Thread David Welton
ugh the cracks of xcontrib and xproc. Will it be packaged seperately? Should it be part of one of those humongous X builds? Thanks:-) -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: why not mingetty??

1998-04-28 Thread David Welton
tually a way to do this from inittab, although it *is* a control char, and thus might be less than perfect as far as a variety of systems. I think the man page explains it. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To

Boot Disks

1998-04-28 Thread David Welton
ssed out.. I'm frustrated that it doesnt work, and I couldnt help a friend install debian, and I'd like to do something about it, other than just whining. Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNS

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-25 Thread David Welton
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:49:10PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So why haven't we seen this enforced, or has it happend but quietly? > > I do note that there is no kemacs.., but there are things like > > krpm.. hrm.. I

Re: Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-25 Thread David Welton
On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 08:16:58PM -0700, David Welton wrote: > > So why haven't we seen this enforced, or has it happend but quietly? > I do note that there is no kemacs.., but there are things like > krpm.. hrm.. I'd have to look at the list, but... one would think tha

Licensing, was elvis package

1998-04-25 Thread David Welton
or has it happend but quietly? I do note that there is no kemacs.., but there are things like krpm.. hrm.. I'd have to look at the list, but... one would think that at least RMS would enforce things under the FSF's protection. So are we missing something? Ciao, -- David Welton

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-22 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 04:15:51PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > David Welton wrote: > > One of the things I like about Linux, and Unix in general, is that it > > doesn't try to be smart where you don't expect it to. > > But when you say, 'less binfile', wh

Re: less: extra entries for lesspipe

1998-04-22 Thread David Welton
an do those things. nm binary | less, or whatever.. Let's leave the default alone:-> Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-20 Thread David Welton
upport in their build scripts for debs. Every morning they get some rpm's generated automatically. I was wondering if it might be feasible to do this to make some debs too, or if it would be just a waste of time:-/ -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw

Intent to package 'bezerk'

1998-04-20 Thread David Welton
lable. Zircon: very very slow Tkirc: still slow K.*irc: not free So I'd like to package this, even if it is still alpha'ish. Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Gnome debs?

1998-04-20 Thread David Welton
rpm's? I would like to take a peek at some of the development going on, and maybe have a crack at fixing things here and there... do the rpm's install well with alien? Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org

Re: elvis package

1998-04-17 Thread David Welton
I don't know the licensing though.. Powered by emacs;-) -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-15 Thread David Welton
ue respect, this seems more like a matter of local configuration on your part rather than what the standard for Debian should be. If we have decided that we want ctrl-alt-del to take the system down, then it should do it consistantly. Speaking of systems going down, anyone heard more than what i

Re: vim, help files and vimrc

1998-04-15 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 09:40:30AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Sat 11 Apr 1998, David Welton wrote: > > > Notwithstanding my dislike for things vi;-), vim is a nice program > > used by a lot of people, so I though I'd try and fix some of the more > > serious bug

Re: Processed: reassignment pftp and netscape!?!

1998-04-13 Thread David Welton
om package `netscape4' to `pftp'. What does netscape have to do with pftp? Perplexed in Portland, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw --Debian GNU/Linux-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vim, help files and vimrc

1998-04-12 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:40:07PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's no simple way to > >announce what the significance of a changed conffile at administrator &g

Re: vim, help files and vimrc

1998-04-12 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. Ask the user if it is ok to fool with vimrc ,and script the > > necessary changes. This strikes me as being ugly and something that > > we might be stuck with f

vim, help files and vimrc

1998-04-12 Thread David Welton
is in frozen. Powered by emacs;-P -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install editor lisp files?

1998-04-09 Thread David Welton
> both emacsen? I think /usr/doc/emacsen-common has some info.. also take a look at some of the other emacsenified packages, like mailcrypt, to see how they do it. I'm certainly not an exper though, just some leads:-> -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~dav

Re: was default prompt debate - system defaults

1998-04-08 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 10:24:42PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > >>"David" == David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> If we won't even set a default prompt, what business do we have > David> doing things like: > [Setting u

was default prompt debate - system defaults

1998-04-07 Thread David Welton
t of protection against spoofing attacks. If we are going to go with what we think are reasonable defaults, fine, but let's be consistent. Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

bo-updates coordination

1998-01-10 Thread David Welton
ploaded though) epic lftp mutt patch Please look over the relevant section in the policy manual. Pkg-order, for those interested, is a perl script, so it's (tahnkfully), easy to install on bo. Suggestions are very welcome David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ef

Re: Packaging irc clients

1997-12-27 Thread David Welton
Speaking of which, will we be seeing the new ircII 4.4 anytime soon? Happy Vacationing, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Redhat not in favor of Qt & KDE - documented?

1997-12-20 Thread David Welton
I remember reading here that even Redhat is not really in favor of kde because of it's non free componente - Qt. Is this really documented anywhere? Other than by the fact that it hasn't been included:-)? Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.o

Re: Paranoia, "pristine sources", turnkeys, compiling, configuration

1997-12-18 Thread David Welton
as well. I would like to look at their binary package tool as well, but it dumps core on my 2.2-RELEASE Fbsd... Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: writev questions - epic maintainer speaks

1997-12-18 Thread David Welton
n appropriate place, or, better, tell me to forget it because it is being worked on:-) Grumble.. it's frustrating to run into this stuff:-( -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

writev questions - epic maintainer speaks

1997-12-17 Thread David Welton
SD, and that my dependance on this "feature" was not conforming to linux's behavior. 2) writev() on linux isnt behaving as it "should be" with respect to writing all of the iov's in a single atomic write. -- Ciao, -- David Welton

sun_len - what is it and why doesnt it exist?

1997-12-17 Thread David Welton
developed on a SunOS box, I believe). Could anyone send me a sockaddr_un definition from a BSD box, or shed other light on this problem? Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING L

writev broken in linux?

1997-12-17 Thread David Welton
, (is there *anywhere* on the internet where you can find untarred linux source code suitable for perusing via ftp?) i just had to determine that there was something wrong with writev() on linux and switched to using sprintf() to generate the output. Thanks, -- David W

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:11:37AM -0500, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, David Welton wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 1997 at 01:44:51PM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > > Isn't this the whole point of compiling hamm packages for bo? Ie, the > > bo-updat

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread David Welton
the whole point of compiling hamm packages for bo? Ie, the bo-updates, bo-current or whatever directory that we have been discussing for some time? Ciao, -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: Porting DPKG!

1997-12-09 Thread David Welton
be familiar with Mindspring, it is a national level provider in the US with local access in 200+ cities. According to their press release, their total earnings for the 3rd quarter were $13,967,000, with aproximately 224000 subscribers. I'm impressed:-)) -- David Welton

Maintainer of procps?

1997-12-08 Thread David Welton
I have written a 'tmem' program, similiar to tload, and would like to see if there is interest in including it in procps. So.. since Helmut Geyer seems to have dissappeared (anyone know if he is ok?:-(, I'm curious who I ought to be sending this to... Thanks, -

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