Re: RFS: libnet - orphaning libnet

2009-03-27 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Stefanos, if you need help, I could lend a hand now and then. I don't have the time to maintain the package on my own, but I have a faible for old and/or undocumented C code and some experience in delving through networking code in particular, so I could e.g. help hunting bugs. Regards, Jan

virtual package 'editor' revisited

2008-06-12 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi, I'd like to bring up that topic again[1][2][3], just in time for Lenny. Although there's been some talk about this time and again, I am still waiting for a final settlement... Summary: * Usage of virtual package 'editor' (taken from today's sid): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# for DEP in Provides Depe

Re: New PAM in experimental needs testing

2007-08-06 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Marc, > Does it help when I try installing unstable, upgrading to new pam and > then check whether login and ssh server still works? i canont do this > before tomorrow night, and can only do very basic testing. sure. On a side note, when you do so: pam upstream has introduced symbol versioning

section for screen and screenie (cf. #418520)

2007-07-31 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Tomas, > Rationale: I think screen is a shell in the best IT-sense of the word. > So I ask you to please move it to a more specific section. screen is not a shell in itself but more some kind of terminal emulator like xterm IMHO - it provides an interface to an arbitrary number of shells, just

Re: Bug#398752: nvi package should provide virtual package editor

2006-11-22 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
severity 398752 wishlist clone 398752 -1 reassign -1 debian-policy retitle -1 (Re-)Add "editor" to virtual package list block 398752 by -1 thankyou (adding CC:d-policy, last time to CC:d-devel) Hi Eddy, > Well, some people provided some (good) counter examples, but they seem > unreplied. > Look

Re: Bug#398752: nvi package should provide virtual package editor

2006-11-18 Thread Jan Christoph Nordholz
Hi Eddy, (CCing d-devel, joining Christoph Haas' thread) > The nvi package is an editor, but in spite of that it does not provide > the virtual package "editor". > > Please add this Provides. please see this discussion thread[1] back in 1996 about the virtual packages list that is included in th