Maintainer for fftw 2.1.3 requested

2006-03-14 Thread James A. Treacy
1.5 years without a maintainer is too long. Although orphaned in Aug 2004 no one has yet stepped forward to package fftw version 2 (as well as its cousins k6fftwgel, k7fftwgel and p4fftwgel which should be maintained by the same person). I am surprised, as fftw is an excellent fft package and is

Re: Packages still shipping schemas in /etc

2005-11-16 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:02:40AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >gramps Fixed in gramps 2.0.8-5. -- James Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-27 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:52:48AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > I think the point is we don't want to be stuck we xpm till eternity. > Especially because we have window/desktop managers that support better > formats like png or svg for example and programs supplying them. svg icons are already a r

Re: SVG icons

2004-12-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:06:26PM +0100, Lo?c Minier wrote: > Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Wed, Dec 08, 2004: > > > To summarize, I think recommending SVG would require a change to the policy. > > It's defined in the _Menu_ Policy. I think the people maintaining the > Debian menu system

SVG icons

2004-12-07 Thread James A. Treacy
SVG use is increasing and I have seen nothing in Debian about how they should be handled. So, What is the proper way to handle svg icons? For example, where should they be placed? How well are they supported? Should a non-svg icon also be included? -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnucash-sql?

2003-10-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:35:40AM -0700, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > I think there used to be a packaged called gnucash-sql which allowed > gnucash to save data to a postgres database. That package doesn't seem > to exist any longer. Has the functionality of gnucash-sql been merged > into gnucash

Problem with autobuilders installing python

2002-08-24 Thread James A. Treacy
All the autobuilders failed in building gramps 0.8.0-3 giving the following: Checking for source dependency conflicts... /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get --purge $CHROOT_OPTIONS -q -y install debhelper python-dev python-xml python-gnome python-glade docbook-utils scrollkeeper gettext Reading Pac

Re: CGI bug scripts

2000-08-30 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:43:29PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:53:46PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Anthony, > > > > Is it my imagination, or is bugreport.cgi *really* slow? I think that > > we should really investigate the possibility of using mod_perl. It's > >

Re: Web Page needs updated

2000-08-17 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:31:51PM -0700, esoR ocsirF wrote: > Hello all, > I was going to submit a bug reprt but I wasn't sure which virtual > package the web page was listed under. > > The main Debian web page still points to the slink info under > "Distribution" -> Installation Instructions >

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 31, 2000

2000-03-31 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:15:03AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: > > Package: glut-doc (debian/main) > Maintainer: James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 61366 /usr/doc symlink not made > New glut packages are being uploaded to fix. Note that glut-data was the cause of

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Richard Braakman wrote: > > Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 59592 grmonitor needs to depends on libgl1 instead of mesag3 > > Is this release-critical? Not sure. It's only a recompile btw. > > > Pa

Re: mesag3 vs libgl1 (Utah-GLX)

2000-03-09 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 03:08:31PM +1100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > > I hardly think lack of hardware acceleration support warrants making these > > bug reports release-critical. Please set them to 'normal'. > > Actually they were already filed as release-cri

Re: xplanet project - volunteers sought

1999-10-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 11:55:10PM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > Have you all seen the nice developers' map at > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc ? > > Here's your chance to help make it better! > > The map is generated by xplanet. However, we have a few slight problems > > 1) xpl

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-25 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:29:35PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:39:41AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during > > > landfall > > > and ta

Re: Getting 404 for gpg-rsa 2 and gpg-idea 2

1999-09-23 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Colin Marquardt wrote: > Hi, > > when doing a package search for "gpg" from the main page, I´m > getting some hits, where two pages > (http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-idea.html and > http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/utils/gpg-rsa.h

Re: Use https://db.debian.org/ [was Re: Add your location ...]

1999-09-23 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:52:49PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 22 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > > I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail. > > Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL. > Aack. I write www.deb

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-23 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:45:16AM +0100, Phil Hands wrote: > > As it happens, I just got an Epson Stylus Photo EX, so should be able > to a pretty decent A3 version. > > Is the image it uses for the Earth actually scalable up to that size, > or is it likely to go blobby? If it's not up to it, a

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-23 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:53:23AM +0100, Phil Hands wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:26:19PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > Check out the new map showing developer locations: > > > http://www

Use https://db.debian.org/ [was Re: Add your location ...]

1999-09-22 Thread James A. Treacy
I should have used https://www.debian.org/ in the original mail. Sorry. Everyone who can (legally) use ssl should use that URL. Additionally, I have asked for a page to be linked from db.debian.org to describe what those who have lost their password should do. Someone else will have to explain wh

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 06:26:19PM -0400, Hugo Haas wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999, Philip Hands wrote: > > Hugo Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have the feeling that I missed something, but anyway as I don't manage > > > to > > > find it in the archive: how can we find out what our passwo

Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread James A. Treacy
Check out the new map showing developer locations: http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.map.jpg The marker file used to generate this can also be viewed: http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.coords *** As was decided when discussing the developer database, developer names are not shown. ***

Re: For the Abolishment of "Ports"

1999-09-15 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:48:35AM -0700, David Bristel wrote: > While I agree that being completely i386 oriented on the web page, I will > point > out that the vast majority of systems out there are x86 based(I don't like the > i386 since I've prefered AMD CPUs over Intel since the 486 days). T

Re: dependency of magicfilter

1999-05-10 Thread James A. Treacy
Note that the same problem occurs when using magicfilter with gs-aladdin. Jay Treacy

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program

1999-01-30 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:08:49PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:52:07AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > The copyright files are already available. > > The changelog and copyright file links do not seem to work for all > packages. Tryin

Re: suggestion: www.debian.org package list show the URL of the program

1999-01-30 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:13:38AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >how hard would it be to have the Packages pages on the Debian web site > show the >packages home URL, i.e. where the author is? A few times I have been > hunting >for this because I ne

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread James A. Treacy
I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task. I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria I remember off the top of my head are: Works in B+W (the official version may, of course

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 06:20:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Or don't license it: just use it on Debian stuff and grant individual > licenses on a case by case basis. I doubt that you will be swamped by all > the requests. > I'm glad to see you volunteer to take respond to requests that come

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:32:27PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > The existence of a recurring discussion usually indicates an unsolved > problem. A vote might or might not resolve the underlying issue. > Let's hope that there is enough interest generated that we actually do solve the problem. >

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:42:30PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > > We shouldn't license our logo by any license that does not comply > > > with the DFSG. To do so would be hypocritical. > > James A.

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 11:44:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Robert Woodcock wrote: > > "You are licensed to use and distribute modified versions of this logo to > > refer to or advertise debian." > > > > Note that this fails DFSG point #6. I believe this was the original intent. > > We shouldn't

Re: packages.debian.org

1999-01-21 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose > indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best one > for our purposes? > Once I removed a few conditions for removing words from indexing that weren'

Re: packages.debian.org

1999-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:45:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Yes, gdb works now. I followed the murphy's law, and tried > packages.debian.org/ae. You know the story... :) > Once again, it doesn't find 'ae' (or bc), but finds aegis{-doc}. > It seems to be only the search error because ae's page

Re: packages.debian.org

1999-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
Try again. The system installed version of the indexing program was being used instead of my custom job. This has been fixed so it should work correctly now. Jay Treacy

Re: packages.debian.org

1999-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 10:53:43PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:40:01PM +0100, Vincent Renardias wrote: > > > One more feature (or a bugfix since it pointed to 404 before :) has > > > been added: you can call http://packages.debian.org/some_package and > > > it will redire

looking for new italian translation coordinator

1999-01-18 Thread James A. Treacy
The current italian translation coordinator no longer has the time. We are therefore looking for someone to replace him. Being fluent in Italian would be an asset. :) If you are interested, contact me. To keep a translation project alive requires multiple people or the interest fails. If you are

Re: Logo license update?

1999-01-18 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:27:50PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The Debian logo license is expired. Is there a plan to update it or > > automatically roll it over again? > > Now that we have the constitution we can just vote on the license so we > don't

Re: updates to Debian pages

1998-10-12 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:09:34AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote: > Also, developers_corner.wml has been moved/renamed to devel/index.wml (also > affecting templage/debian/menubar.wml and template/debian/navbar.wml as well > as > one of the news files in News/1997 (19971125.wml) > One thing I forgo

updates to Debian pages

1998-10-12 Thread James A. Treacy
This is just to help translators keep up to date with changes to the Debian pages. - distrib/distrib.wml was renamed to distrib/index.wml This caused changes to template/debian/menubar.wml and template/debian/navbar.wml I believe those are the only links affected, but

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-12 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:48:43PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > James A. Treacy wrote: > > > A number of people would like to see a 3dfx package of mesa. This can > > not be done unless there is a legal package of glide (under the > > current license I can't even get

Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:47:20PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Galbra>What I find strange if that I managed to download it without realising > it > Galbra>was non-free. I only *now* noticed that it's non-free by putting the > Galbra>cursor on the

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 04:48:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This proprietary commercial software and if it is on any Debian servers it > must be removed *immediately*. No waiting to see if they might change the > license. It must be removed *now*. > A number of people would like to s

Re: New web pages are finally up!

1998-06-26 Thread James A . Treacy
Bdale wrote: > The link on the developer's corner page that I think should go to the list > of developers instead brings up the xearth image. The "visit the sponsor" > image on the home page just brings the image up in an image browser, it does > not actually take me anywhere. > Good catch. This

Re: New web pages are finally up!

1998-06-25 Thread James A . Treacy
> Very cool. How can I add the translated version? > > I have some Japanese translations (based on the previous version, > though). I'd like to catch up the latest version and release them. > I'd like to keep the different language versions in sync as much as possible. Only translations based on

translations of the web pages to begin

1998-06-25 Thread James A . Treacy
With the new web pages up, it is finally time to begin translation of the pages. What I'd like to do is to get one person to start with. This person should be familiar with CVS (putting everything under CVS is next on my list and I've never used it before). The reason for having one person to star

New web pages are finally up!

1998-06-25 Thread James A . Treacy
The latest version of the Debian web pages are complete. They are being mirrored to www.debian.org as I write this. The new pages use content negotation to decide what version should be served when there is more than one choice. This is used to automatically give a document in a users prefered lan

looking for gold-CD producers of Debian 2.0 beta

1998-06-24 Thread James A . Treacy
When the new web pages are up (hopefully within a day) I'd like to add a list of people who are producing gold CDs of 2.0 beta. If you are, please send me the following: Name: e-mail: material cost: shipping cost (mention if ship internationally): URL (optional): Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: install.txt looks weird

1998-06-24 Thread James A . Treacy
> On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > > > * Maarten Boekhold (Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:50:13PM +0200) > > > Hi, > > > > > > The install.txt that is refered to from the web-site looks weird. I don't > > > know if this is intentional, but section-titles are displayed like: > > > >

it is your responsibility to provide Debian news

1998-06-23 Thread James A . Treacy
Bruce was very good at making announcements on events affecting Debian. These were the main source of entries to the news section of the web page. Items posted to debian-announce still are included, but their rate is much slower than in the past. If you know of any good Debian news items, please s

annual update of Maintainer Contacts

1998-06-23 Thread James A . Treacy
As usual, the list of Maintainer Contacts has become a bit dated. Please go through http://www.debian.org/devel/maintainer_contacts.html and report any changes you know of. Also, Bruce was still listed as the contact for hardware donations in donations.html so I changed it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] te

Debian and gnuhoo.com

1998-06-23 Thread James A . Treacy
Last week I received mail from the people at gnuhoo.com asking that we submit an entry for Debian. It sounded like a good idea and put it (low down) on my list of things to do and didn't give it another thought until today. Slashdot has an article about gnuhoo.com that people might want to read (h

need help from Korean users of Debian

1998-06-22 Thread James A . Treacy
The contact I have for the Debian web mirror (www.kr.debian.org) is Lee, Ho-sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He has not answered any of the mail I've sent him in the last 6 months and I am hoping that one of the Korean users of Debian know him or anybody else that works on www.kr.debian.org (134.75.7.22).

Re: Need artistic type to create a Debian ad for LJ

1998-06-16 Thread James A . Treacy
Eloy A. Paris wrote: > James A.Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In making enquiries to LJ about the cost of advertising, > > Debian was given an offer of 2 one-half page ads if > > we do some work on some Linux docs that the LJ is > > maintaining. This is an opportunity we shouldn't > > let

Re: Building a connection with Kachina Tech.

1998-06-15 Thread James A . Treacy
> > What do people think of creating a new ftp directory called say, > > "sci"? Many of the packages in Scientific Applications for Linux > > don't fit cleanly into "math". > > > > I would leave it the way it is. "Scientific" is not well defined. To a > certain extent it's not defined at all.

Need artistic type to create a Debian ad for LJ

1998-06-15 Thread James A . Treacy
In making enquiries to LJ about the cost of advertising, Debian was given an offer of 2 one-half page ads if we do some work on some Linux docs that the LJ is maintaining. This is an opportunity we shouldn't let pass. We are looking for a person, or a group of people, who are willing to work on th

mirroring policy

1998-06-11 Thread James A . Treacy
Philip Hands wrote: > BTW Any chance of installing the latest rsync on va ? The anonymous rsync > stuff works well for me, and it would save the encryption overhead of using > rsync over ssh. > Some background: the latest rsync allows anonymous connections. It also allows you to restrict who can

Re: Doh! Developers Reference rendering..

1998-06-10 Thread James A . Treacy
Just thought I'd mention that the version on the web pages are grabbed directly from the ftp archive (only if they have changed). Within a day of the ftp archive getting the new version the web pages will be fixed. Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-05-01 Thread James A . Treacy
Raul Miller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:32:00AM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > The patent expires in August. > > Rev. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You think nobody is going to try and snatch it then? > > Er.. how do you snatch an expired patent? > Patents have a finite

disappearance of dists/stable link from ftp archive

1998-04-28 Thread James A . Treacy
The link dists/stable -> ../bo has disappeared from the ftp archive. According to the dists/README, this is supposed to be the canonical way to access the different distributions. Having something like the stable link disappear without any notice makes it rather difficult to keep the web pages wor

Re: Mirror of Incoming

1998-04-24 Thread James A . Treacy
> ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming > Actually it was already on the list... Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mirror of Incoming

1998-04-24 Thread James A . Treacy
> There's one here: > > ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming > Added. > Maybe some list of such mirrors could be added to the Developper's > Corner ? > from developers_corner.html: There are a number of mirrors of Debian's Incoming directory I am working on reorganizing the Developer

Re: Intent to package moxa radius

1998-04-23 Thread James A . Treacy
> If you ask RMS, MANY licenses are not "free enough", including BSD, > Artistic, and others. DFSG is not free enough for him, yet you can do > more with one of the other licenses. Interesting how that works out. > > RMS is pushing an ideal more than anything. > Please don't get into an argument

Debian GNU/Linux: Best of the Web! (fwd)

1998-04-21 Thread James A . Treacy
For those few of you who don't read http://slashdot.org, the Mining Co has posted their Linux "Best of the Net" site awards. Debian was number 1. I'd never heard of this company before, but am not adverse to any good publicity for Debian. The awards page is at http://linux.miningco.com/library/awar

Re: Install doc ready for testing ;-)

1998-04-20 Thread James A . Treacy
The web version should be hierarchical. I have created a sample version which can be viewed at http://www.debian.org/~treacy/install/ . This has some additional changes to better describe the different possible installation routes. Note that it does not include all the changes you made. Hopefully

Re: Blender 3D

1998-04-19 Thread James A . Treacy
Maintainer: James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Filename: dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/graphics/mesa-doc_2.6-3.deb

Re: Blender 3D

1998-04-19 Thread James A . Treacy
I maintain the mesa package. As no packages (before this) depended on a libc5 version of mesa, I stopped including them. Adding them back seems like a step backwards. It would be much better if you could get blender recompiled with libc6 based libs. Jay Treacy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Aiding the constitutional procedure [was Re: Automation of the constitutional procedure]

1998-04-17 Thread James A . Treacy
Ian Jackson wrote: > Section 4.2(5) is violated only if the Secretary requires developers > to propose motions &c by mailing their bot in a special format, rather > than by posting a normal message to debian-devel (or whatever other > list we end up using). > > The Secretary can of course maintain

Re: Aiding the constitutional procedure [was Re: Automation of the constitutional procedure]

1998-04-09 Thread James A . Treacy
> While I agree with the merrits of your previous arguments, I don't see > what this has to do with the constitution. The secretary has "powers" > which allow the secretary to execute that office. > As long as section 4.2.5 is not violated then you are quite right. I was simply over-reacting to t

Aiding the constitutional procedure [was Re: Automation of the constitutional procedure]

1998-04-08 Thread James A . Treacy
When you have been through hundreds of meetings, one of the things you learn is that communication is extremely important. It is critical to know what people's intentions are. Critical to know what the current state of affairs are. It is the normally the job of the chair of a meeting to make decisi

Re: Automation of constitutional procedures

1998-04-08 Thread James A . Treacy
> This is precisely the aspect I disagree with. There are a number of > problems with this kind of thing. > > Firstly, with an automated system developers' abilities to do things > will be dependent on the bot's interpretation of what is allowed - the > bot becomes the governor of the procedure r

Re: Constitution - formal proposal (v0.6)

1998-04-07 Thread James A . Treacy
> > 3.) A minor modification to section A.1 will make the order of > > events cleaner and easier to code regarding acceptance of formal > > amendments. I suggest the following: > > 3. If a formal amendment is not accepted, it remains as an amendment > > and is voted on. > > 4. If

Re: New official mirrors

1998-01-10 Thread James A . Treacy
> >Debian has it's newest official mirror. This one is in Korea. We now > >have a mirror on the mainland of Asia (yeah, I know that > >Japan in in Asia too). South America and Africa are > >being difficult. It'll be really be nice when we get > >our first official mirror in space though. > >Anybody

faqomatic needs a leader

1998-01-10 Thread James A . Treacy
I used the term leader for lack of a better term. For those that don't know, faqomatic is a program for creating web pages to distribute information. What makes it interesting is that users can add information to the pages if the creator wishes. Each page has a 'maintainer' who has total control

New official mirrors

1998-01-10 Thread James A . Treacy
Debian has it's newest official mirror. This one is in Korea. We now have a mirror on the mainland of Asia (yeah, I know that Japan in in Asia too). South America and Africa are being difficult. It'll be really be nice when we get our first official mirror in space though. Anybody got connections w

Debian logo license still not resolved

1998-01-09 Thread James A . Treacy
Another person has requested use of the Debian logo. As most people are pretty happy with the license I added a clause saying the logo is usable under the current license (http://www.debian.org/logos/logo.html. Update should reach there soon) until 31 January 1998 and told him he could use it under

Re: GGI first release

1998-01-09 Thread James A . Treacy
Now that they have something running, one thing I'd like to know is how fast it is. Have they done any tests comparing it to XFree86? - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Is there a maintainer for the install doc?

1998-01-08 Thread James A . Treacy
> > One change that is needed is to change lines such as > > rawrite2.exe > > to > > rawrite2.exe > > I am afraid this is the shortcoming of debiandoc-sgml which generates the > text > and html versions. Should I manually (using a script) change the URLs after > generating the html version? >

we need a Package Checker

1998-01-08 Thread James A . Treacy
Suggestion: package checker It is currently possible to have packages installed which do not comply with Debian policy. A lot of these could be avoided if we simply did some kind of check on every package before we allowed it into the distribution. Here is the framework for a simple, flexible wa

Re: perl5.004 for bo

1998-01-08 Thread James A . Treacy
David Morton wrote: > On 08-Jan-98 Martin Schulze wrote: > > If all people who have noticed the lack are behaving like you did, no > > wonder why there isn't such a perl update. > > > EXCUSE ME?? Ok, I already said I was not attacking anyone, but stating > that I was upset. Maybe it's not

Re: Is there a maintainer for the install doc?

1998-01-08 Thread James A . Treacy
> > Is anyone maintaining the Debian installation manual? > > I know that Sven is no longer doing it. If not, > > we will need a volunteer. > > I'd like to maintain it. I plan to be active on the [snip] Great! One change that is needed is to change lines such as rawrite2.exe to rawrite2.exe T

Re: driver for Epson Stylus 300

1998-01-07 Thread James A . Treacy
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 10:38:15PM +0100, David Frey wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 6 1998 12:18 +0100 "Meskes, Michael" writes: > > > I'm not sure about uniprint but the stcolor driver usage in magicfilter > > > is outdated, i.e. it uses options no longer avalaible in gs-aladin.

Re: driver for Epson Stylus 300

1998-01-06 Thread James A . Treacy
> Yes, I could try that. Can the 600 use color and black ink at the same > time? > yes. It has 2 cartridges: one black and another which has 3 bays. When I print latex documents containing color images the black is black and the colors come out just fine. > Also would you mind sending me your gs

Re: Debian and the millenium bug

1998-01-06 Thread James A . Treacy
> > Where did you get this 4000 years figure anyway? 33 bits would just > > Oh, having become hopelessly confused by the original posting, I came > up with some additional errors (the 16x10^18 is just as wrong, too; > 584,942,417,355 is more like it...) Comes of posting to debian lists > in my s

Re: Debian and the millenium bug

1998-01-05 Thread James A . Treacy
Bruce, You are causing me all sorts of trouble. The post used the word 'effected' when 'affected' is what you wanted. Some of the letters I'm getting are quite detailed in their explanation of why effected is incorrect. Want me to send them to you? ;) The best part is that none of these anal ret

Is there a maintainer for the install doc?

1998-01-05 Thread James A . Treacy
Is anyone maintaining the Debian installation manual? I know that Sven is no longer doing it. If not, we will need a volunteer. - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: driver for Epson Stylus 300

1998-01-05 Thread James A . Treacy
> Does anyone know if there is a ghostscript driver for this new printer > available? Yes, I can use the other Stylus drivers, but that means the > printer tries to print black by mixing the other three colors, not by using > the black ink. > There may be another way, but you can by installing gs-a

check out Captain Blue-Eye

1997-12-20 Thread James A . Treacy
The web pages should all be utilizing Captain Blue-Eye in a reasonably good way right now. The changes ended up occurring sooner than I'd hoped so I had to rush. I'm pretty sure all the major problems are fixed, but I'd appreciate it if people could thoroughly look through the pages and report any

Debian web pages need help

1997-12-16 Thread James A . Treacy
The Debian web pages need the help of someone who follows bugtraq. Currently the security web page is updated at random times (and not very well). If you already follow bugtraq then you could help Debian a lot by sending updates to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you already follow bugtraq, then this won't b

Re: syslogd taking up lots of CPU..

1997-12-12 Thread James A . Treacy
> Hm. For some reason, today, syslogd started taking up more than its > share of CPU. (About 20% on a P200.) > I wonder if this is related to a problem I've been having recently. Every console has been getting messages like the following at random times > Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Thu Dec

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread James A . Treacy
I agree with everything Ian wrote. Might there be an exception for debian-user though? This is the one group for which we should welcome a wide exposure. - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: WWW bug monitoring

1997-12-05 Thread James A . Treacy
> Why don't we create a new psuedo-package for the mirroring problems, > or one for problems with the content ? Please discuss this with Mike > and I or Guy can arrange this easily enough, and I'll make my script > report the bugs in whatever is the appropriate psuedo-package. > www.debian.org is

Re: regarding the recent problems with http://www.debian.org

1997-12-02 Thread James A . Treacy
> Watch out, they haven't done the IP number change yet. Hopefully I can get > it done tomorrow. > No problemo. No DNS changes will be made to www.debian.org until everything is stable and va.debian.org's IP i changed. The only rush is to get a fully working www.debian.org - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: too many directories in /usr/doc?

1997-11-30 Thread James A . Treacy
> I'm taking over maintaining the linux-gazette packages from Christian > Schwarz, and I would prefer to just have /usr/doc/lg/copyright, rather than > having one in each /usr/doc/lg-issueXX directory. There will not be anything > else in /usr/doc/lg-issueXX as the issues are installed in /usr/doc/