Re: WNPP

2000-03-28 Thread Joel Klecker
At 20:27 -0500 2000-03-27, Brian Almeida wrote: >...or maybe not. It's got cryptographic hashing algos (tiger, sha1, etc), so >I probably can't package it due to wonderful US laws. Drat. Hash algorithms aren't (and haven't ever been) export controlled.

Re: nasty slink -> potato upgrade problem

2000-03-18 Thread Joel Klecker
s that means that ssh has a buggy init script then, because I merely call it with an argument of "restart". I've also heard that some versions of ssh have an init script that kills all sshd processes on the system, so maybe I should not do it at all. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread Joel Klecker
e moved to non-free because they technically infringe on someone's stupid patent. Perhaps you are confused, ssh became non-free despite patents in 1.2.13, it is *NOT* the patents that make ssh non-free. Another thing, technically our ssh package is illegal to use in the US because it doe

Re: {R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

1999-10-01 Thread Joel Klecker
e license in the late teens, I obviously failed to go back far enough to find the free version. I'll probably end up calling the new package ssh-free Note that OpenBSD is also ripping out support for pretty much any other other OS as they go, and using library functions that are OpenBSD-spec

Re: NcFTP is free again?

1999-10-01 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:39 +0200 1999-10-01, J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) wrote: 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? Well, ncftp does display server messages without needing debug output on. -- Jo

Re: bash package removing /bin/sh on upgrade

1999-10-01 Thread Joel Klecker
can divert a symlink). The last thing we need is /bin/sh out of dpkg's control. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-09-23 Thread Joel Klecker
, and shareable between machines of the same architecture. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Which gcc builds potato?

1999-09-21 Thread Joel Klecker
possibility to build 'libstdc++2.8' or 'libstdc++2.9' on a glibc 2.1-based system due to ABI changes in libio. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.esp

Re: Guessing the date style from the timezone for postgresql postinst

1999-09-19 Thread Joel Klecker
e for your country, there's nothing I can do about it. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Move proftpd to contrib

1999-09-17 Thread Joel Klecker
oftpd, and that was said before the most recent security hole was discovered. Rather proving them right, wouldn't you say? -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/>

Re: Move proftpd to contrib

1999-09-17 Thread Joel Klecker
p, how do you call dpkg? No bug in dpkg has ever resulted in a a remote root exploit. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: fds_bits

1999-09-17 Thread Joel Klecker
URCE which should be used instead. See /usr/share/doc/libc6/NOTES.gz or info libc "Feature Test Macros". -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-17 Thread Joel Klecker
b for Debian. I replied privately because I didn't think answering on -devel was appropriate. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: libc6 is too large?

1999-09-16 Thread Joel Klecker
, you clueless idiot. Fuck off and die. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: GPG trusted signatures, dpkg-buildpackage & gpg

1999-09-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:39 +0200 1999-09-16, Wichert Akkerman wrote: I also noticed that the gpg-support is in dpkg-buildpackage is currently broken. Pardon me? In what manner is it broken? -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mai

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:55 -0400 1999-09-15, Chris Fearnley wrote: How does one generate an RSA key using the gpg-rsaref package? Why on earth would you want to do that? -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-26 Thread Joel Klecker
ck that no longer works, I might add. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Fwd: FHS pre-2.1 draft #1 on web site

1999-05-26 Thread Joel Klecker
le? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- end forwarded text -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Request for package: mcrypt

1999-05-23 Thread Joel Klecker
h the old unix crypt(1) and the solaris des(1). <http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/01/13/916266533.html> <ftp://argeas.cs-net.gr/pub/unix/mcrypt/> -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EM

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-20 Thread Joel Klecker
ppy with that. I will only say that "just filter it out" or "just press the delete key" are spammers' answers. I am well aware of my bugs, and I DO NOT need reminders of them. One last thing, the next nag message I get will be treated as spam. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-20 Thread Joel Klecker
n subscribe? None of us signed up for the fucking Joel> thing! You are subscribed to a mailing list debian-devel, aren't you? And that has what to do with nag? -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-20 Thread Joel Klecker
up for the fucking thing! -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-18 Thread Joel Klecker
: optional Architecture: i386 Suggests: lilo (>= 19.1), fdutils, kernel-doc-2.2.7 Provides: kernel-image, kernel-image-2.2 I've only added ", kernel-image-2.2" to what was already generated. I like it, I could have used it for the sparc glibc 2.1.1 packages I could use it for nscd to

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Joel Klecker
g.sub does not understand, the GNU tools use "hppa" throughout, changing it will require that we patch every config.guess and config.sub in the source packages that use autoconf. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-18 Thread Joel Klecker
not be nagged or killing nag altogether, I will begin to treat it as spam. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: intend to package 'country'

1999-05-18 Thread Joel Klecker
l program, as a script and as a C program. This is the first version. Please Cc me you comments, as I now only follow the devel-announce list. What does it use as a datafile? If it doesn't use it already, I suggest /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

Re: Star Office 5.0

1999-05-16 Thread Joel Klecker
not made it available to anyone else. See <http://lwn.net/1999/0513/>. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: GPG as a PGP replacement

1999-05-14 Thread Joel Klecker
--textmode --output "../$1.asc" else $signcommand -u "$maintainer" +clearsig=on -fast <"../$1" \ >"../$1.asc" -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Joel Klecker
world" architecture introduced with the iMac, Apple finally began relying on OF to boot Mac OS, thus it has to be stable. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Joel Klecker
Mac and Blue G3, hopefully OHCI will start to work in the in-kernel USB driver soon, then I will have just the Blue G3 stuff to deal with. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:02 +0200 1999-05-13, Richard Braakman wrote: Joel Klecker wrote: At 19:06 +0200 1999-05-10, Richard Braakman wrote: > * glibc 2.1 upgrade >As far as I know, this project is largely complete. There are one or two >bugs left in the backward compatibility code, and there's th

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Joel Klecker
from an arbitrary executable residing anywhere on the filesystem. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debian GNU/Linux Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.espy.org/> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-10 Thread Joel Klecker
r, many of the patches are sitting in the BTS and have yet to be applied. Potato Architectures: As far as I know it will be the same set as in slink, i.e. i386, m68k, sparc, and alpha. If any other architectures want to make a release they will have to decide soon. powerpc wishes to try for potat

Re: Dents v0.0.3 - DNS server

1999-05-10 Thread Joel Klecker
hm, number 1, also be implemented. Algorithm 2 is used to indicate Diffie-Hellman keys and algorithm 4 is reserved for elliptic curve. It was planned to use a free implementation of DSA and not bother to implement RSA until the patent expires. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)Debi

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

1999-05-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:17 -0400 1999-05-07, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:27:25PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: At 13:58 -0700 1999-05-07, Chris Waters wrote: >#ifndef DEFAULT_CONFIG_X_SERVER ># ifdef __i386__ ># define DEFAULT_CONFIG_X_SERVER "XF86_VGA16"

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:41 -0600 1999-01-29, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: The best solution I can come up with is to *always* change a library's soname when its dependencies change. I believe it was Joel Klecker who mentioned something about `libapi' patches for egcs that were supposed to implement this aut

Re: Packages I am orphaning.

1999-01-29 Thread Joel Klecker
At 17:11 +0100 1999-01-29, Remco van de Meent wrote: Joel Klecker wrote: pciutils - Utils for listing/tweaking PCI devices in 2.1/2.2 kernels Bug-free, lintian-clean There are some upstream alpha releases that would be nice to have packaged

Packages I am orphaning.

1999-01-28 Thread Joel Klecker
about the inability to deal with some proprietary archive formats) Lintian-clean Tarballs of my current devel tree for all of these are at: <ftp://ftp.espy.org/pub/debian/> [0] However, WNPP may consider knl and pciutils as "Packages you need a new maintainer for" -- Joel K

Re: linux 2.2.0: "System is 666kB"

1999-01-27 Thread Joel Klecker
pendencies). -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Joel Klecker
e # Paranoia touch $@ Then I have the target that generates the glibc-doc .deb depend on the debian/libc-doc.doc-base rule. And make of course takes care of making sure debian/libc-doc.doc-base is up to date with regard to debian/libc-doc.doc-base.in. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy)

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

1999-01-20 Thread Joel Klecker
I don't think that holds for PAM. NOTE: This naming scheme will reuire the ppp-pam package to be renamed, any problems with this? Uh why? `ppp-pam' is simply `ppp' with PAM support. [1] Stamp out and eliminate redundancy! ;-) -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.

Re: texinfo and texi2* in tetex-bin?

1999-01-20 Thread Joel Klecker
st bo, IIRC. I really think we should continue to provide separate "texinfo" and "texi2html" packages at least. Those were never separate binary packages. The texinfo source package generates `info'. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto

Re: LSB?

1999-01-19 Thread Joel Klecker
) as well. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) http://web.espy.org/> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>

Re: glibc 2.1 (test release 2.0.98) for i386 (was: Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!)

1998-10-19 Thread Joel Klecker
At 11:29 -0700 1998-10-17, Matt McLean wrote: The most obvious one is that not every architecture has an 'egcc', because egcs is the main compiler. So, we shouldn't be setting $CC. That is not correct, the latest egcs packages provide a 'egcc' symlink on every architect

Re: Bugs with X

1998-10-17 Thread Joel Klecker
t how. It's quite simple, pass -g in CFLAGS or whatever, and copy the libs (unstripped) into xlib6{,g}-dbg. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:02 -0400 1998-10-16, Branden Robinson wrote: Topi Miettinen has done some research on this. When we get SysV-style pty support in glibc, xterm can lose its root privileges altogether. I hear this will be in glibc 2.1? Yes, that's correct. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROT

glibc 2.1 (test release 2.0.98) for i386 (was: Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!)

1998-10-15 Thread Joel Klecker
eractive configure script to decide which protocols it should support) and recompile should offer IPv6 support. BTW, please be aware that this is only a test release, and you probably will find bugs. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian G

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-15 Thread Joel Klecker
he primary architecture is _not_ a port. To me it is a port, a port of Debian GNU/Linux. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/>

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-11 Thread Joel Klecker
aging should work fine for i386, but it hasn't been tested. I need to rebuild the source package and put it somewhere public though. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux user/developer on i386 and powerpc. mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: The freeze and IMMINENT 2.2.0p1!!

1998-10-11 Thread Joel Klecker
that from being necessary (in theory at least). alpha has libc6.1, but that is due to the fact that its original libc was glibc 1.99, which claims to be libc6, but is incompatible with glibc 2.0.x. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://web.espy.org/> Debia

Re: 2.0.34 and x-bit on libraries

1998-06-25 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:22 -0700 1998-06-24, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: >. 2.0.34 needs the x-bit on shared libraries! Actually, no, it's just the dynamic linker that needs to be executable. This is apparently a security feature, 2.1 kernels also require an executable dynamic linker, and thus 2.2 will as well.

Re: Important: Non-maintainer release flame!

1998-06-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 16:10 -0700 1998-06-15, Dermot John Bradley wrote: >Joel as you can see from the CC: headers above this email is going out to >more than just yourself. The point(s) I'm making below I consider to be >important to the Debian project as a whole. > >As can be seen from bug #23367, you sent me an em

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread Joel Klecker
At 05:54 -0700 1998-06-16, John Goerzen wrote: >Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > The boot disks should not offer confusing options. They should offer >> > the working one (CST6CDT for me) and no non-working ones. The same >> > goes for tzconfig. Otherwise, anybody using xntp or so

Re: Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-15 Thread Joel Klecker
At 07:56 -0700 1998-06-13, Remco van de Meent wrote: >Sounds reasonable. Though, in the copyright file of webalizer, the copyright >text of GD (1.2!) has been included by webalizer's author. Is it still >possible to have the webalizer-package in main instead of contrib? Yes, the copyright file doe

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-12

1998-06-13 Thread Joel Klecker
At 17:47 -0700 1998-06-12, Richard Braakman wrote: >Package: libc6-dev >Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[HELP] Dale Scheetz: "I have not had a chance to even read these > reports yet. Some outside help determining what should, or > shouldn't change would be helpful here."

Re: Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-12 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:39 -0700 1998-06-10, Remco van de Meent wrote: >Hey, > >I'm currently applying for being a Debian maintainer (using the Debian >Developer's Reference). > >I created a package of the Webalizer software: > >Package: webalizer >Status: install ok installed >Installed-Size: 108 >Maintainer: Remco

Re: Security problem - inetd.conf has rsh/rlogin/rexec "ON" as a default

1998-06-12 Thread Joel Klecker
At 06:34 -0700 1998-06-11, Amos Shapira wrote: >I do a lot of remote administration too (actually, almost exclusively) >using ssh. I know that ssh is not freely distributable with debian >(due to the crypto limitations) It isn't just the crypto, ssh isn't DFSG free either. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08

1998-06-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 18:29 -0700 1998-06-08, Richard Braakman wrote: >Package: login >Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore As I quoted in a reply to 22191: Here's what the author says in libmisc/chowntty.c: #ifdef __linux__ /* * Please don't a

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? Vincent Renardias is apparently working on an arm port of Debian (In bug #21327 against ftp.debian.org, he asks for a binary

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

1998-06-03 Thread Joel Klecker
At 23:38 -0700 1998-06-02, Tyson Dowd wrote: >Manoj addressed most of the big differences in his mail. One that he >missed (or glossed over) is the difference in generation of packages. Another one is that he didn't explain what dpkg-shlibdeps does. >dpkg encourages (practically enforces) buildi

Re: Linuxconf

1998-06-02 Thread Joel Klecker
At 07:40 -0700 1998-06-02, Craig Sanders wrote: >BTW, the fact that you don't understand sendmail doesn't prevent others >from doing so. sendmail really isn't that difficult, and is simpler in >some ways because you don't have multiple config files scattered across >multiple directories. FUD, exim

Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-02 Thread Joel Klecker
At 23:57 -0700 1998-06-01, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I strongly object to churning out junk CD's every month. If Think "developmental snapshots" ala FreeBSD. Though those are quarterly instead of monthly. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: Apt is cool (yay!) - What about bo?

1998-05-04 Thread Joel Klecker
At 12:24 +0100 1998-05-04, Jules Bean wrote: >The following packages on my system are in bo but not in hamm: > >--- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- >- Obsolete/local Required packages - >--- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- > *** Req

Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:11 -0400 1998-05-02, Raul Miller wrote: >Rev. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You don't need ftpd and telnetd. You probably do need an http server for >> documentation, but then again dhttpd is small and does the job nicely. > >Much better than a server would be a browser which s

Intent to do a non-maintainer release of shadow-980403.

1998-05-01 Thread Joel Klecker
hanged /etc/suauth to reference the group 'root' instead of 'wheel' (17593). -- Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:32:12 -0700 -- Joel "Espy" Klecker<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]><http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU

Re: Maybe alpha should be in hamm? (was: Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?)

1998-05-01 Thread Joel Klecker
At 00:31 +0100 1998-04-30, James Troup wrote: >Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [ ... ] ld.so doesn't apply [ ... ] > >Upgrade your quinn-diff :-) From 0.31's ChangeLog.main :- > >| Sun Apr 12 21:33:14 1998 James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >| >| * Packages-arch-specifi

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-23 Thread Joel Klecker
At 22:29 +1000 1998-04-23, Herbert Xu wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> I checked, Debian and Red Hat were not compatible. (e.g. libpng and >> libjpeg have different sonames.) > >How did this happen? 2 is the upstream soname for libpng 1.0, so we are doing the right thing there

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:30 +0200 1998-04-18, Falk Hueffner wrote: >Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote: >> >I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via >> >the -z option, just as if it would be gz

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote: >I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via >the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could >teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish >between the two. Debian tar has a patch w

Re: Debian Bug#20445 disagree

1998-04-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 01:07 -0500 1998-04-17, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Hi, >>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Marcus> Is gettext so unstable? I doubt it. > > Dpes not matter. We should be respecting the upstream authors > wishes. Already Debian has the reputation of not forwarding bugs

Re: Bug#21009: rvplayer: Namespace conflict

1998-04-13 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:47 -0700 1998-04-12, Joey Hess wrote: >> dpkg: error processing netscape4_4.0-7.deb (--install): >> trying to overwrite /usr/lib/netscape', which is also in package rvplayer >> Errors were encountered while processing: >> netscape4_4.0-7.deb > >I'm very confused by this, since I have netsca

Re: Bug#20587: libstdc++2.8-dev: std.h not found

1998-04-13 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:27 +1000 1998-04-13, Herbert Xu wrote: >> Regrettably, we don't have a libg++2.8.1.1 package yet. > >Well that means prcs should be moved out of hamm unfortunately unless we back >off to libg++272. One of the problems with a libg++2.8.1.1 package is that it would need to build libstdc++28 as

Re: Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07

1998-01-07 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Libc6 progress: 1998-01-07" of 6:22 AM -0800 1/7/98, Richard Braakman wrote: > vgrind-5.7-10 I have uploaded a libc6 build of vgrind, and have adopted the package. - -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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

1998-01-06 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy" of 8:09 PM -0800 1/5/98, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 11:54:14AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: >> Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Why

Fwd: package format standard

1997-12-30 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Received: by smtp3 for jklecker > (with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.21 1997/08/10) Tue Dec 30 09:59:08 1997) >X-From_: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 30 06:11:21 1997 >Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Received: from theta.pair.com (theta.pair.com [209.68.1.17]) by >sm

Re: 68k test machine?

1997-12-14 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding "Re: 68k test machine?" of 12:23 PM -0800 1997-12-13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There's a box in the garage here that says "Mac IIx". I've been holding on >to it hoping that it might someday support the 68k port. Any chance of >that? Yes. In fact, it

Notice of intent to package...

1997-12-01 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am working on the following packages: Orphaned packages: macutils mcvert opie New packages: hfs-fs (Macintosh HFS kernel module) zile (Emacs clone) For the time b