Bug#696987: ITP: lasem -- MathML and SVG rendering library

2012-12-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" * Package name: lasem Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Emmanuel Pacaud * URL : https://live.gnome.org/Lasem ; http://blogs.gnome.org/emmanuel/category/lasem/ * License

Re: ITO: xkeycaps

2005-02-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:00:03 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: > I'm using this package and I'd take it. Thank you Christoph, it's yours. Ray -- "My golden rule of computing is reboot your system every morning." Jon C.A. DeKeles, Technical Director, ZDNet AnchorDesk in http://www.

ITO: xkeycaps

2005-02-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
I intend to orphan xkeycaps. xkeycaps is no longer maintained upstream (see http://www.jwz.org/xkeycaps/) and I haven't changed the Debian package in over two years, The package is in reasonable shape, but there are a number of bugs on record (http://bugs.debian.org/src:xkeycaps) which could be ad

Re: Trouble Compiling Simple Glade.

2003-11-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 15:44:54 +1100, Peter Gatt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Projects/project1$ ./autogen.sh > \**Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments. > If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the > `./autogen.sh' command line. > > processing . > Running ac

Re: Gcc 3.3 help needed

2003-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 21:53:10 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > The critical line is: > > FILE *yyin = {stdin}, *yyout = {stdout}; Replace that with FILE *yyin, *yyout; ... in main() ... yyin = stdin; yyout = stdout; > wnlex.c:75: error: initializer element is not cons

Re: docbook kernel docs and debian unstable

2003-06-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
AFAICT debian-user would have been a more appropriate place for this. On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 16:25:54 -0400, John F Davis wrote: > I am trying to read the docs in the Documentation/DocBook directory of a > linux kernel. > > I do this: make pdfdocs and I get an error about need to install docbook

Re: Kernel 2.5

2003-04-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 21:37:06 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > I've configured and built the kernel, using gcc-2.95, I've not followed 2.5 development, but I'd suspect the recommended compiler for building it ought to be gcc 3.2 or 3.3 rather than 2.95 by now - check the documentation carefull

Re: W3C recommendations

2003-04-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 19:44:35 -0500, Thomas Bliesener wrote: > Do you consider the recommendations of the W3 Consortium as binding or > optional for the Debian project? I'd say having our documentation conform to W3C standards and recommendations is desirable, but not a binding requirement. If

Re: Dependencies on -dev packages

2002-09-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:58:10 -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > but if libfoo opaquely wraps libbar, why have libfoo-dev depend on > libbar-dev? How opaque is that opaque when considering the case of linking against a library statically? Ray -- "The problem with the global village is all the glo

Re: compiling clamav with pbuilder

2002-08-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 18:12:54 +1000, Brian May wrote: > So I wonder what is different about my system that means it doesn't work > here, but it works everywhere else? > > Could it be related to devfs or something? It might be. You may want to do "pbuilder login --distribution woody" and try bu

Re: compiling clamav with pbuilder

2002-08-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:52:44 +1000, Brian May wrote: > Wehn compiling clamav in a woody chroot with pbuilder, I get > the following error: I can't reproduce that here (freshly generated woody chroot for pbuilder; clamav 0.24-1). > (cd docs && ps2pdf clamdeb.ps clamdeb.pdf) > Unable to

OpenSSL-linked exim

2002-08-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 16:19:48 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Exim is GPL, so the author currently does not allow the distribution of > binaries which also contain OpenSSL code. Quoting the NOTICE file from the Exim 3.36 source: :Copyright (c) 1999 University of Cambridge : :This program is free

Re: HELP - Screen is flooded with DHCP messages.

2002-08-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 20:56:48 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Now flooded with screens full of > IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:04:76:de:b9:53:08:00 SRC=0.0.0.0 > DST=255,255,255,255 LEN=328 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 > DPT=67 LEN=308 > on all machines. > > Advic

Re: Notes on current sid and libpng

2002-08-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 14:51:04 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Indeed. Try recompiling the latest Evolution, for example. Gnumeric is another; see my messages in the "New gnome-libs package build against libpng3" thread on debian-gtk-gnome. Ray -- [...] computer source code, though unintelligib

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 13:27:24 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > This is not how Debian has done similar transitions in the past: libc4 to > libc5, and libc5 to libc6, did not cause this breakage in Debian. Old > programs continued to work without user or operator intervention (in fact > libc4 b

Re: g++ 3.2 on woody ?

2002-08-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:12:41 -0500, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Does anyone have thoughts on a Debian-wide migration towards GCC 3.2? > (Or, for that matter, towards *anything* in the 3.x line). The upcoming ABI change from 3.1 to 3.2 is the reason we've not switched to 3.1 as the Debian-wi

Re: g++ 3.2 on woody ?

2002-08-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 22:06:12 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:57:24AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Please note that the C++ ABI has been changed with gcc 3.2. > Again? *sigh* "The main point of the GCC 3.2 release is to have a relatively stable and common C++ ABI f

Re: c++ and unrecognized -D option on ia64

2002-04-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 18:03:14 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm asking here because the failure seems to be due to the "c++" > compiler that doesn't recognize the "-Dsomething" option. The toolchain was fubar on an IA64 build daemon host; see http://bugs.debian.org/140969 . HTH, Ray -- T

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 22:40:07 +0100, Anders Jackson wrote: > Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aren't the brits complaining about the US wanting to execute terrorists, > > because of conflicts with EU declaration of human rights? > (This is of toppic, isn't it) Quite, but still I li

Re: Two sets of binary packages from one source package?

2001-09-03 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 16:19:47 -0400, James LewisMoss wrote: > So can i have two sets of bin packages (xemacs-non-gnome and misc packages > vs gnome bin packages) coming from the same source package? Sure; see e.g. the vim source package for an (extreme?) example. Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of

Who uses ccmalloc?

2001-05-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 19:31:43 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ccmalloc To the best of my knowledge, there's no upstream for ccmalloc anymore. I'm not using it myself, and there are several (possibly better) alternatives available.

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 19:03:45 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > > - x25tap > > - kerneli crypto patches > > - ReiserFS > In that case ReiserFS is a really bad example, it might never be in 2.2 > and Linus said

Re: egcs/gcc?

2001-01-05 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 17:16:43 +0200, Taneli Vähäkangas wrote: > To me it seems that gcc272 will become obsolete once 2.4 kernel gains > popularity. s/gains popularity/offers the functionality that a very large majority of people rely on in 2.2/. For me, 2.4 currently lacks - x25tap

Re: ITP: Linux

2000-04-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 10:39:34 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > There's a project under way out of Finland to develop a POSIX compliant > kernel (see ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/PEOPLE/Linus/) I don't know if > it will go anywhere as it based on an obsolete monolithic design but some > people se

Re: xfce package

2000-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 21:19:36 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we > should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as > suggested in the bub report #60258. I'd second that suggestion. Unlike the old ver

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:50:03 +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide > (do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies), > and perl-5.005. > Package: g++ (debian/main). > Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <[EMA

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 15:06:57 -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > A possibly naive question: apt-get will refuse to install packages if > their dependencies aren't met. Why can't dinstall do the same? It could do so. > It wouldn't help with out and out buggy programs but at least it would > catc

Re: A "progressive" distribution

2000-03-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 14:12:49 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > try this hypothetical release method out: > > there are two trees. let's call them devel and production. debian saavy > folks (maintainers) run devel. new packages are uploaded to devel where > they are tested extensivly. when a package

Re: WANPIPE X.25

2000-03-14 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 21:54:09 -0500, Brian White wrote: > Is there anybody here using the Sangoma WANPIPE cards to do X.25? X.25 isn't particularly popular under Linux, but people do use it. Your best bet for information is probably the linux-x25@vger.rutgers.edu list. HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben

Re: NcFTP is free again?

1999-10-01 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 01:41:18 -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > So we can't do squat with NcFTP 3 until Mike includes a license. I switched to lftp myself at the time of the previous ncftp license issue, and haven't looked back. Is there anything in ncftp that lftp doesn't have? If there isn't, I'

Re: Funding for a Crazy Idea

1999-09-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 13:59:16 +0100, Helen McCall wrote: > What is needed is for someone to compile a list of all Debian Developers > and their geographical addresses. We're already doing that - see https://db.debian.org . Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messa

Re: BTS "feature" comments

1999-09-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06 -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > - Forwarded message from Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Non-developpers should not be allowed to *manipulate* bugs IMO. It would be nice to have a mechanism available to ensure this if there is indeed abuse of the BTS b

Re: Invalid cross-device link

1999-09-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 11:13:31 +0300, Edvard Majakari wrote: > update-alternatives: unable to rename /usr/man/man1/w.1.gz to > /usr/share/man/man1/w.1.gz: Invalid cross-device link This is a known bug in update-alternatives: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/42/42559.html > I do know the reason -

Re: ProFTPd being lame

1999-09-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:46:52 +0100, Chris Rutter wrote: > Most people I know prefer using the OpenBSD-derived server, because it > seems to be more stable and less buggy than the rest -- why is it being > deprecated by Debian (or Herbert, I don't know) in this way? Speaking of FTP servers, has

Re: Move proftpd to contrib

1999-09-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 22:42:36 -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and > indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. SuSE have indicated they're dropping it: http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=10124 . > Our Policy states that packages tha

Re: Hosed system during package build

1999-09-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 20:26:15 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > I saw much talk about fakeroot not working with the new glibc, much talk > about it being difficult to fix, and no talk about it being fixed. Actually, AFAIK most of this talk was about /libtricks/ which was a new approach to doing w

Re: linux includes / inet includes

1999-09-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 02:44:47 +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > hi, i'm trying to fix up vrweb, and if successful will apply for adoption > and all that (already talked to the original maintainer). > > anyway, the current problem is the conflict between the linux includes and > debian's netinet inclu

Re: GPG trusted signatures, dpkg-buildpackage & gpg

1999-09-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 00:02:10 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Given that this key only seems to have been signed by Ray Dassen and > itself, Even with the updates Wichert mentions, the web of trust for Debian GPG keys is still a lot sparser than the PGP one. I've pointed out one possible approach

Re: ITP: gphone

1999-09-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 14:16:14 -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > and is also compatible with the speakfreely program for Windows and Unix. Erm. Speak Freely employs crypto (it's in non-US/non-free). If gphone employs crypto as well, shouldn't we find a non-US maintainer and a non-US download l

Re: APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:59:40 +, Frederic CELLA wrote: > They publish next week a magazine. they need 300DPI DEBIAN LOGO. At http://www.debian.org/logos/ you can find the logos as xfig source and as postscript. (Use ghostscript to produce the logo in your favourite bitmap format at your fav

"NDN" flood

1999-05-25 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:33:06 +1000, Ed Breen wrote: > Why am i continually getting this stupid message: Because a subscriber's system/provider has braindead mail software installed. I've just notified the Debian listsmasters of this problem; hopefully it'll get fixed soon. Ray -- Tevens ben

Re: Request for package: mcrypt

1999-05-23 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 19:17:15 -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > mcrypt is a replacement for the old unix crypt(1). It uses the block > algorithms DES, TripleDES, Blowfish, 3-WAY, SAFER-SK64, SAFER-SK128, > TWOFISH, TEA, RC2, RC6, IDEA and GOST in CBC, OFB, CFB and ECB modes. I'd love to see it sp

Re: Information to at talk about Debian

1999-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 17:01:31 +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > I'm going to promote Debian on some meetings at the local LUG > (www.sslug.dk). I would like to bring on some statistic about Debian > but I wonder how I find the canonical numbers of developers and > packages? I'm not aware of canonic

Re: correct apt deb line for non-us?

1999-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 02:16:39 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > Erf, is unstable/non-US self-sufficient without stable non-US? It works for me without an entry for stable. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new sy

Re: correct apt deb line for non-us?

1999-05-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:55:19 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with > apt-get? Yes. Use deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are th

Re: locale problem with latest packages

1999-05-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 18:08:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > I just updated libc6 and locales to the latest packages and now my locale > de_DE does not work anymore. Perl tells me it's falling back to default. > Others like date just refuse to use it. What's wrong? The requirements have been st

Re: (FINISH) Correct non-US solution

1999-05-17 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 01:12:20 -0700, Jonathan Walther wrote: > Since the main (but not exclusive) use of non-US right now is for crypto > software, we might want to create a Crypto-Regulations package which > contains references to which countries restrict import and export of > crypto, and how,

Re: Intent to pollute namespace: standards

1999-05-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 13:28:48 -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Objections? See subject. Please consider something less generic like "gnu-standards" instead. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 14:08:13 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Who decides weather a non-US package goes in non-US/main, non-US/contrib or > non-US/non-free? Are there any guidelines available? This is the subject of current threads in debian-policy; please follow those. Ray -- Obsig: de

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:40:31 +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > What should be put in sources.list files? deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Compilation problems

1999-05-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 09:50:11 +0300, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > checkin.o: file not recognized: File truncated > /usr/bin/ld: cuddZddGroup.o: invalid string offset 285212672 >= 89 for > section `.shstrtab' > I would expect the problems more in egcs, libc6 or the kernel itself (the > system reboote

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 17:07:30 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > You might have included my suggestion to prevent having to move libraries > in the first place: creating a libc6-specific directory right now, instead > of installing libraries in /usr/lib and having to move them into another > direct

Re: xxgdb should get pulled

1999-01-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 16:34:58 -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: [my rant deleted] > I have yet to learn how to navigate this area, and am often surprised > at how strongly an offhand comment is taken. Smilies might have helped. In this case, your comment really triggered me. I seldomly flame, but in

Re: LSH (GPL'd SSH)

1999-01-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 16:49:57 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > NOTE: For those that are on the ball, they do seem to be considering > removing idea from the base source and having it as a seperate module > (similar to GnuPG's approach). Another freeness issue (albeit a relatively minor one) is that

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 20:26:12 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Laurent Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say, > >even if they can't or do not have the time to

Re: xxgdb should get pulled

1999-01-22 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:28:29 -0500, Daniel Martin wrote: > Is my only other choice for a graphical debugger the "lesstif-induced > segfault" ddd? Glad to see my work is appreciated. Perhaps this is where I need to point you to the power of having the source? You could e.g. try fixing LessTif a

Re: COLA

1999-01-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 20:56:52 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > Does anyone know how to place an announcement on cola (or whatever is en > vogue nowadays) with having news access? Quoting the sig on COLAs: "Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" HTH, Ray -- POPULATION

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:22:05 -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > Perhaps the best way for cracklib support in PAM is to redefine PAM's > > packages into "base" and "non-base" ones. The "base" ones sh

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:39:12 -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 09:46:21AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > > I'm now preparing an upload that'll mark PAM as orphaned. > > Ack! We need pam to be maintained if we want to enable it's use in potato.

Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)

1999-01-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 22:38:15 -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > At the moment, everyone who installs ppp-pam (like me) will be forced to > install cracklib, and suffer with daily emails to root. We need to fix > libpam0g. Unfortunately, the maintainer seems to be inactive, and we're > dependent on

Re: Intent to package: jikes

1999-01-18 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 16:14:59 +0100, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann wrote: > There's one package in particular that I'd like to see in future debian > releases, namely jikes (a rather fast Java compiler by IBM which is > written in C++ An intent to package Jikes by Mike Goldman was announce in December;

Re: freetype1 is gone from slink, imagemagick still depends on it

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:56:02AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Which brings me to a general question. Let's say I maintain software A > version 1.0 and it has open bugs during freeze. Then shortly after it I > find time to look at it and find that version 1.4 has been out already > which among o

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > While you're all on this thread, what about mozilla? The current Debian package doesn't work with the current libc (#27181, severity: grave). > I was going to ask Brian for an extension for mozilla as I won't make > 00:00 Saturday

Re: pgp => gpg

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
how to sign your gnupg key with your PGP one. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid.

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-15 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
upgraded > sysvinit which then decided to run through all the init scripts etc ;-( Still, personally I wouldn't trust it. If I needed/wanted to compile a 2.0.x kernel with egcs, I'd apply the patches at http://www.suse.de/~florian/ first. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen

Re: Rocks'n'Diamonds up for grabs

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 10:26:07AM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > The author is very friendly, but he doesn't reply instantaneously to mail. Nice understatement :-) Anyway, I seem to remember that the author reacted favourably to a request to change the license of Rocks'n'Diamonds (and another gam

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

1998-10-13 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work] On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:05:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Nobody has moved on getting libstdc++2.8 back in slink, even without a > -dev. Daniel Jacobowitz (drow) is working on this IIRC, Personally, I'd rather see the packages that still depend on

Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:13:33PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > gnome-mico > gnome-mico-dev Replaced by an ORB written by the GNOME folks themselves, "orbit". Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISH

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 01:20:34PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > I can see pcmcia (28-Sep-98 is needed) and netutils (so that IPv6 is > supported), but not "a lot of packages". IIRC, libc6 doesn't support IPv6; you need a beta version for that. So this is only an issue if we intend to release one

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 06:40:54AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In light of the perl issues (see my last message) A bug report has been submitted to ftp.debian.org to put the previous version back, which means the perl issues need not be dealt with in the current development cycle. > and the