> "Herbert" == Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Herbert> Unfortunately dpkg does not handle the case where a
Herbert> conffile ceases to exist in a later version of a package.
Herbert> The conffile will be left on the system even after
Herbert> purging.
That's why package
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Colin> Assuming you're <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you have
Colin> four open release-critical bugs, none of which have had any
Colin> response, and three of which have been open since October.
Nope, that's a screwup on my part. The bu
> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> cadaver
Andrew> You get ten of these to the penny.
Actually, cadaver shouldn't be on that list. The current maintainer
is continuing to support it and doesn't want to give it up unless
someone else ports it to GnuTLS (I aske
Ok, I should stop reading mail at 3am...
> "Simon" == Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Simon> I think the autobuilder argument is valid. Autobuilders
Simon> need the classes, but not the VM. If at all, you can make
Simon> the VMs depend on the core classes, so people can
> "Simon" == Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Simon> I think the autobuilder argument is valid. Autobuilders
Simon> need the classes, but not the VM. If at all, you can make
Simon> the VMs depend on the core classes, so people can depend on
Simon> the core classes for c
> "Ola" == Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ola> This is false. If the package provides the core classes it
Ola> should provide java1-runtime but NOT java-virtual-machine. If
Ola> it provides the virtual-machine it should provide
Ola> java-virtual-machine. If this is no
> "Ola" == Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ola> This is false. If the package provides the core classes it
Ola> should provide java1-runtime but NOT java-virtual-machine. If
Ola> it provides the virtual-machine it should provide
Ola> java-virtual-machine. If this is no
> "Stefan" == Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stefan> Currently the following packages in testing provide
Stefan> java1-runtime: gij-3.0, gij-3.2, orp-classpath and
Stefan> sablevm. All of them include (or depend on) a Java virtual
Stefan> machine so if I add this depen
> "Jan" == Jan Niehusmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jan> Time will tell. I fear that some day, the only way to use
Jan> email productively is to block all email with invalid sender
Jan> adresses. And I don't know a way do valdiate a (not yet
Jan> known) address but to try it a
> "Georg" == Georg Lehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Georg> ... What would be wrong with multiple A records in this
Georg> case?
The fact that forwrd DNS != reverse DNS. That is, the PTR record
won't necessarily match the name that produced the A record. While
not broken, it can ha
> "sean" == sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sean> i would guess not...
/proc/cpuinfo.
Of course if the user doesn't start out using an smp kernel, they
clearly don't need one.
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"So if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood."... "And
therefore?"... "A witch!
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> errr... shouldn't you decide on the name first, then file
Brian> bug reports?
A reasonable point & I'll do so. I don't, however, expect the name to
change as that would introduce a third virtual package into the mix.
Tow, java-
There are a significant number of lib*-java packages whose only
dependency is on java-common. While the java policy has condoned this
behaviour in the past, it is non-sensical to do in the same way it is
non-sensical of C libraries not to depend on libc. This is due to the
use of standard java.*
> "Jaldhar" == Jaldhar H Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jaldhar> Not me but I did spend quite a lot of my childhood with
Jaldhar> my arm held out rigidly in front of me saying,
Jaldhar> "EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!"
See, it's the little things that bring us together...
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Stephen
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Branden> /me wanders off, laughing maniacally and regressing to
Branden> childhood Saturday nights watching PBS...
Did you call your dog K-9 and and build a phone booth out of cardboard
boxes too?
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You will be a l
> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andrew> Recommends and Suggests are not considered when installing
Andrew> build-dependencies.
And packages aren't supposed to be built staticly either. Packages
that do build staticly could explicitly Build-Depend on whatever
I wrote a longer response to this but then thought about what you
wrote a bit more and deleted it.
> "Henrique" == Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Henrique> The lack of symbol versioning, about 90% of the time.
Then why not mandate symbol versioning instead; that
> "Ray" == J H M Dassen writes:
Ray> How opaque is that opaque when considering the case of
Ray> linking against a library statically?
That need might reasonably be met with a Recommends: or Suggests:
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To Republicans, limited government means not assisting people they
wou
What is the thinking behind always requiring libfoo-dev to depend on
libbar-dev when libfoo depends on libbar? I understand the need when
/usr/include/foo.h contains
#include
but if libfoo opaquely wraps libbar, why have libfoo-dev depend on
libbar-dev?
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"Farcical aquatic ceremo
> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> That's one hell of a figment of my imagination. Although,
Joseph> it does seem the plugin is the only thing which uses
Joseph> libstdc++.
And I asked originally were you refering to plugin code or a JDK.
plugin != JDK
> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> Sun's JDK.
I know for a fact there's no use of dynamic C++ libraries in any JDK
prior to 1.4.1 and I just check the latest 1.4.1 beta & find no
mention of libstdc++ in any of the executables. If there's C++ code
in there, it'
> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> Well there's the proprietary JDK, but it already uses a
Joseph> -compat package library.
Eh? Are you refering to java plugins for mozilla et al, or any actual
JDK?
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Stephen
To Republicans, limited government means no
> "Junichi" == Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Junichi> I have had an impression that debconf is part of base as
Junichi> well, which means a Pre-Depends is not required.
Ah, no.
pooh% apt-cache show debconf
Package: debconf
Priority: important
Section: admin
No base ther
> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> What the fuck is going on! When in this insane world did
Ben> Branden become the polite well mannered one, and I become the
Ben> asshole!
That's ok. If Branden is going to be polite someone has to assume his
former flame-from
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> getpwnam.passwd = x as it is written in /etc/passwd.
Martin> getspwnam.passwd = encrypted password.
Perl doesn't supoprt getspnam(). It used to do a getspnam under the
covers in the getpwnam call in 5.00404 (I wrote the
> "Hin-lik" == Hin-lik Hung Shell writes:
Hin-lik> Hi, I am going to upload the libcrypt-des-perl, is it ok
Hin-lik> to upload it to non-US ?
Actually, that's the only place you could put it. AFAIK, the
crypto-in-main discussion has not yet reached a conclusion.
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Stephen
"A duck
> "Turbo" == Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Turbo> I'd be interested in net saint... The bugs don't look that
Turbo> grave...
Well if you don't want it, I do.
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Stephen
"So if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood."... "And
therefore?"... "A witch!"
> "Peter" == Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> There is nothing in the DFSG saying the a licens can't
Peter> require you to give the original autor all rights to you
Peter> changes. So that single part of the license I refered to
Peter> does not makes it even more
> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marcus> Let's promote when we have something to promote.
Does this count as something to promote?
http://psdoom.sourceforge.net>
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Stephen
"A duck!"
> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Colin> I suspect Junichi's point may be that the normal way to ask
Colin> about the progress of an ITA is to ask the people who did
Colin> the ITA and cc that discussion to the appropriate bug
Colin> report. (If it isn't his
> "Ola" == Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ola> Hi I have a simple question. Is it possible to run dpkg -r
Ola> foo from within a postinst-script when using dselect or apt?
No. Dpkg will complain about the existance of a lock file. The lock files
exists to avoid corruption
CC's to me please...
Do such things exist? Trying to build a package for powerpc/sparc on
i386 is a little difficult and I explicitly want to build for
woody/testing.
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"A duck!"
[Try this again, something's been eating my emails.]
I'm trying to track down why some of my packages have not made into
testing. update_excuses shows one of them as out of date on hppa, but
doesn't give a buildd log showing why. Do hppa buildd logs exist
online anywhere?
--
Stephen
Please ignore; just trying to see why my posts aren't getting through
>>>>> "me" == Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
me> This makes it rather difficult to build a chroot testing
me> environment that makes sense :/
Nevermind.
apt-get install build-essential dpkg-dev
gets round my problem.
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Step
Consider this:
pooh% apt-cache show build-essential dpkg-dev
Package: build-essential
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, gcc, g++, make, dpkg-dev (>= 1.4.1.19)
Fi
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> 1. use xemacs mule latin input mode. It doesn't work for
Brian> me, have to try and find out why. Maybe I need to include
Brian> something in my .emacs file, or maybe I need to unstable
Brian> version of xemacs.
Try usin
Late, by hey, what the hell...
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> In other words, if you can have a religious war over it, we
Joey> need an alternative. I have never seen a religious war over
Joey> man. :-)
Tom Christiansen has been known to get into them. B
> "exa" == exa writes:
exa> bug report? BTW, I'm not a professional ignorami whatever
exa> that means, dear literary pioneer of the list.
Correct. You are (or would be) a professional ignoramus. Ignorami is
the plural form, just like hippopotami & radii are the plural forms of
hip
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 05:43:52PM +1000, Jason Henry
Hamish> Parker wrote:
>> ``Banks *are* bastards.'' -- John Laws
Hamish> Err, yeah.. takes one to know one?
Stop it. You're both making me home-sick :)
--
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Note that I specifically said it should reset the flag *just
Joey> before* bombing out.
Hmm, why then does the following snippet
if [ -f /etc/tripwire/tw.config -o -f /etc/tw.config ]
then
db_input critical tripwire/upg
> "Russell" == Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Russell> Right. The s/[0-9]+$// should do it.
s/\d+$// not s/[0-9]+$//. The former will continue to work in Unicode
capable file-systems (assuming Linux ever supports such).
Nothing to see here, move along...
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Stephen
"An
> "exa" == exa writes:
exa> I use bash. Is this zsh better? :)
Yes.
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Stephen
"A duck!"
> "Piotr" == Piotr Roszatycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Piotr> ITO: libapache-asp-perl
Piotr> ITO: libapache-filter-perl
Piotr> ITO: libapache-ssi-perl
Piotr> ITO: libcgi-pm-perl
Piotr> ITO: libdbd-csv-perl
Piotr> ITO: libhtml-clean-perl
Piotr> ITO: libhtml-simplep
> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> It's still mention in Suggests: etc. but the package is
Michael> not listed in the Packages files anymore. Just a
Michael> temporary situation or a real problem?
Bit of both. prc-tools failed to build on sparc so B
> "Michael" == Michael Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> If you like the package :-) Of course. The package lacks
Michael> a good example /etc/aide.conf. If someone has a nice
Michael> example, please send it to me. I will include it in the
Michael> package.
Let me know
> "Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bdale> Some folks at work saw similar weirdness with the
Bdale> negotiation on some HP switch products, their solution was
Bdale> to configure the switch to not do the auto discovery
Bdale> protocol, but instead have each por
Andreas recently commented elsewhere about Novell's latest foray into
directory management and Linux. See:
http://www.novell.com/lead_stories/2000/mar13/linux/index.html>
for details. My question, after reading various documents attached to
that URL, is:
Does this really matter?
AFAI
This is my intent to package the lvs-gui code written by Horn at VA
for their web-server farm demo. Unless someone else already did it of
course. :)
http://ultramonkey.sourceforge.net/> if you care.
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Stephen
"If I claimed I was emporer just cause some moistened bint lobbed a
scimitar at me
>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Package: prc-tools (debian/main) Maintainer: Stephen Zander
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 51647 prc-tools: fails building on sparc
Ben> This is going to either require me to port s
> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joseph> Only 6000? We must be getting lazy. 6000 is way too
Joseph> easy. Better try for 8000.
Now one ever thought the Dow would break 10k: took 'em 10yrs to get
from 3k to there. I'm sure we can do it in 2yrs (which is about
> "Thomas" == Thomas Schoepf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> Did you /run/ lilo, too? Or just installed it?
Yep, the postinst automatically reruns lilo assuming you take the
default answers to all the questions it asks.
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"If 8-year-old boys discharging loaded firearms
> "Vincent" == Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Vincent> short summary: lilo v22 works only with 2.0 kernels; it
Vincent> won't boot a 2.2.x or a 2.3.y. a v21 version has been
Vincent> reuploaded to master this morning.
Hmmm, sure?
$ dpkg -l lilo
ii lilo
Unless someone else is working on this, I intend to package the
Font::Metrics::* modules for perl. libhtml-tree-perl needs them to
successfully use HTMMML::FormatPS.
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---
"If 8-year-old boys discharging loaded firearms into their own legs
isn't necessary to the maintenance of a well
> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Should Debian move to GRUB as our [15]default boot loader?
Joey> After all, since GRUB is used by the Hurd, this would
Joey> standardize the boot system used for Debian Linux and Debian
Joey> Hurd.
Just a passing observat
> "John" == John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> A couple of salaried positions would be nice. Full
John> time PR staff, ...
Now *that* is something I could see value in.
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> "jim" == jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
jim> If this is the case,
It is & I'm awaiting Sun permission to distribure the jdk with a
licence that allows redistribution in some form.
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> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> The NICs are EtherLink III cards connected through a hub
Dale> using twisted pair cable.
Two idle questions: are you sure you have straight-through cables,
have you tried directly connecting the machines to each other with a
cr
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the
John> person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm
John> trying again.
Well, if you're happy for me to have it (again :/), I actually have a
-2 package b
> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> I will actually point out that although the exact number
Daniel> 80 is arbitrary, the general number "about 80" is not.
The reason for 80 chars is the Mr Hollerith decided that 80 columns
was all he needed to do the US cen
> "Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Remember that the person who is most qualified to test any
>> piece of code is the person who wrote it.
Wichert> I can argue about that. But I won't :)
I can & I will. :)
The person who wrote the code is almost always
> "Steve" == Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steve> But on the filesystem, the i686 directory is a symlink to
Steve> the i586 directory, and i586/green_threads is empty.
Steve> Perhaps this is a bug in dpkg? (I suspect that if you
Steve> remove the jdk1.1 package and r
> "Brian" == Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> My versions of dpkg claim that --force-overwrite isn't on
Brian> be default (otherwise it should have [*] after it):
As does mine: and it lies! I've been testing package upgrades & dpkg
itself is very definately using --force-o
> "Scott" == Scott K Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Scott> On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
>> What is a close(-1) supposed to do? The http program does one
>> and I'm curious as to why...
Scott> IIRC, close(-1) closes all open file handles. I'm not
Scott> ce
> "Dale" == Dale E Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> I'd say it's grave too - despite being non-free, this _is_
Dale> the only decent java virtual machine available and java
Dale> isn't exactly unpopular.
I'm here... and there are a couple of other problems with jdk that I
o
> "David" == David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Well, what happens when lots of people try it, see that it
David> is broken, and associate Gnome with being broken and
David> unstable? That said, I don't think that will happen if it
David> is loudly declared to be *
> "Michael" == Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Same things happens to me. Today I upgraded two things
Michael> sendmail and syslogd (what a coincidence! :). After few
Michael> minutes I found that `ps ax' shows a lot of sendmail
Michael> processes. Everyt
> "Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> Could I get some official word on which architectures wish
Brian> to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks!
I don't think sparc is ready to go, though Johnnie or Eric may see it
differently.
Ultrasparc definately
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Do we have some special permission to redistribute Java?
John> From my reading of the license, we are not allowed to give
John> it out to anybody else:
John> 1. Limited License Grant. Sun grants to you ("Licensee") a
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hamish> Why doesn't jdk1.1 provide java-virtual-machine? That's an
Hamish> officially listed virtual package and would have avoided
Hamish> this problem, and would also solve two bug reports filed
Hamish> against guavac.
> "Andy" == Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
That's what I hate about you, Andy. You always have such clear and
rational explanations for things :)
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20 minutes a day for the rest of their c
> "John" == John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Hi, I have packaged several modules for Debian Linux.
John> We are currently discussing how to handle your new
John> installation hierarchy. I'd appreciate comments. We
John> currently have about 80 packages that
> "Raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raphael> Hello everybody, The perl package is in incoming. So here
Raphael> is the list of the 33 packages that need to be
Raphael> updated. The maintainers are listed. The list corresponds
Raphael> to package which con
> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shaleh> libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime (>= 1.1.3.v2-1) jdk1.1
Shaleh> conflicts with jdk1.1-runtime jdk1.1 provides
Shaleh> jdk1.1-runtime
Shaleh> jdk1.1-dev depends on jdk1.1 (= 1.1.6v4a-3)
Shaleh> So I cant install
> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shaleh> libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime (>= ??.??).
Shaleh> jdk1.1-dev provides jdk-runtime. However the dependency
Shaleh> resolution tries to install jdk1.1-runtime because of the
Shaleh> versioned depends and jdk-runtime
> "Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shaleh> The libpgjava depends on jdk1.1-runtime, which tries to
Shaleh> remove the -dev files needed to actually write Java apps.
Shaleh> The jdk1.1-dev provides the runtime, but is not able to
Shaleh> provide the numeric versio
The kernel in the latest base2_0.tgz seems to have a couple of small
problems.
Firstly, the PCMCIA modules can't find a number of symbols
on start-up (no big deal to me but important to others).
Secondly, and more importantly, support for the nfs file-system has
been removed. This makes using t
> "Darren" == Darren/Torin/Who Ever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Darren> Hmm. You're right. Any ideas on when this changed or was
Darren> I just on too much sleep-dep when I last looked at this.
Darren> (a while back)
Been that way for quite a while AFAIK. Till very recently, tho
> "Yann" == Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yann> Seems like it doesn't work:
Yann> $ dpkg --compare-versions 2.07pre8-1 '<<' 2.0.8 && echo yes || echo
no no
Eh? Not when I try it.
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all coders are created equal; that they are endowed with certain
unalienable r
Sorry for a late response, been on holidays...
> "Darren" == Darren/Torin/Who Ever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Darren> This is the case if you use the tie interface in Perl.
Darren> This is not the case if you use dbmopen, at least it
Darren> didn't use to be. Hamm should just ge
As the proud owner of that particular patch, I guess I should say
something... :)
> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin at cush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> Ok, I've looked at it.
Daniel> I really don't know quite what to do with this. On the
Daniel> one hand, automatically reading
> "Bear" == Bear Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bear> You're assuming that this rule applies everywhere and in
Bear> every situation. In the US the assumption often goes the
Bear> other way; anything not explicitly forbidden is permitted
Bear> (up to the limits of lawful act
> "Corey" == Corey Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Corey> After upgrading to hamm, I have experienced the two
Corey> following problems. First, gpm no longer seems to work with
Corey> my mouse. I have a PS/2 M$ Intellimouse, which used to work
Corey> fine as type ps2. I
> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Of course I could have just put both feet in my mouth too
Martin> Thing is that bash behaves different if called as sh or
Martin> bash.
You mean I was right about my feet? Cool! :)
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> "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dale> /bin/sh is provided by bash, but doesn't come with its own
Dale> man page. How does one determine the differences between sh
Dale> and bash?
On my system /bin/sh -> bash, so I guess there aren't many.
Of course I could h
> "Vincent" == Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Vincent> No it won't AFAIK. I've orphaned it more than 1 year ago
Vincent> and no-one uploaded it, so I've asked it to be removed
Vincent> from the distribution (the current 0.7.1-2 package is old
Vincent> and buggy) a
> "Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bdale> Because jstation depends on JDK 1.1, it will go to contrib
Bdale> despite being GPL'ed itself. This might change if a free
Bdale> Java implementation for Debian can replace the JDK
Bdale> dependency. This is my first
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> Indeed. It happened to me again today.
While watching my laptop shut-down last night, I noticed that mountd & nsfd
*do* get stopped prior to the PCMCIA shutdown.
Maybe they're just not getting stopped hard enough :)
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Stephen
> "Heiko" == Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Heiko> Feel free to change dupload ...
It's on my list of things to do... right after beating mirror
into submission :)
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> "Marcelo" == Marcelo E Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marcelo> On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
>> Apart from that, I thought that gcc and tools are intelligent
>> enough to only link routines and libraries to executables if
>> there are routines from them used
> "Heiko" == Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Heiko> You can.
Heiko> But why does dupload fail?
It's timing out while ftping through my fire-wall.
I would *really* like to see all the debain packages using perl that
attempt FTP to do so through the Net::FTP package!
> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
John> not umount local drives. Therefore, I believe it would be
John> prudent, as a temporary workaround for the kernel bug, to
John> umount all local drives before umounting network drives. It
No, that won't work if the
What's the appropriate procdure when dupload fails? Can I just
manually ftp the files to the appropriate directory on master?
I can't use scp 'cause I'm behind a brain-dead fire-wall.
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> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Craig> if this results in a new Qt license which meets the DFSG
Craig> (specifically the items regarding modifying source and
Craig> non-discrimination) then both KDE and Qt can go into debian
Craig> main. i hope that this i
Anyone care to comment?
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Given the .sig on that message, the packages were suprisingly appropriate :)
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Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know, however it would allow people to much more easily install and
> maintain their own kernel sources for these includes.
Surely if they're clever enough for that, they're clever enough to
override a Recommends (not a Suggests) heading. Maybe that
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Shortly put, most of the test are appropriate for SunOS 4 but not for Debian
> (GNU libc2, gcc, POSIX.1 and nearly X/OPEN compliant) and are a waste of time.
> Of course, some m4 guru could put together an Debianized set of autoconf
> macros...
If I get som
Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Why does libc6 depend on kernel-header ?
>
> It's libc6-dev that has that dependency.
> Perhaps weakening the dependency to Suggests might be the best solution.
No, you can't. Their are multiple header file
Have tried a couple of times to subscribe to debian-sparc using
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