Re: intent to package palo

2001-05-01 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 01 May 2001 10:10:09 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: > > palo is the PA-RISC/Linux (architecture specific) boot loader Hello, this is not the right way of doing an ITP... you should send it as a bug to wnpp and include aditional information... (like its web page, its license and so on

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-29 Thread David Schleef
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:32:59AM +0530, Viral wrote: > > As long as it isn't too bothersome for you, would you mind explaining why > > the kernel doesn't activate it by default? Or why it isn't a `make config' > > option? And why is a daemon needed for it? > > No, its not bothersome to explain.

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-29 Thread Viral
> As long as it isn't too bothersome for you, would you mind explaining why > the kernel doesn't activate it by default? Or why it isn't a `make config' > option? And why is a daemon needed for it? No, its not bothersome to explain. This extract comes from 2.4.4's Documentation/i810_rng.txt. I als

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-28 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:15:39 +0530 Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:14:22PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > Isn't there a kernel driver for that? > > Yes, but one needs the daemon to use the driver. One could activate it > from /proc, but that was removed and move

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-25 Thread Viral
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 01:14:22PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:35:37 +0530 > Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am working on packaging intel-rng-tools. It is the daemon to utilise > > the RNG on i810 boards. Let me know if anyone is working on this. I > shall >

Re: Intent to package intel-rng-tools.

2001-04-25 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 14:35:37 +0530 Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on packaging intel-rng-tools. It is the daemon to utilise > the RNG on i810 boards. Let me know if anyone is working on this. I shall > otherwise upload it tonight. Isn't there a kernel driver for that? Regards,

Re: intent to package countrycodes

2000-09-08 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
> Until these basic packaging paradigms are mastered, I don't think > this package is fit for uploading yet. Perhaps you should ask for > more help in debian-mentors (which is for helping new maintainers)? Besides, there's the little fact that the package is totally useless =). $ grep ^AR /usr/s

Re: intent to package countrycodes

2000-09-04 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 03 Sep 2000, Dr. Guenter Bechly wrote: > I intend to package Country Codes 1.0.3, a text-based ISO3166 country code > finder (yes, I know there is a Perl module that does the same, but this > little tool is easier and more flexible). The package is actually already > made > and lintian cl

Re: Intent to Package: Lopster

2000-09-03 Thread Colin Mattson
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Re: Intent to package: src2tex

1999-05-27 Thread Takao KAWAMURA
> > Licence: > > > > Permission to use, copy, and modify this software and its > > documentation is granted under no conditions. > > > > I will upload it to master in a few days. > > "..is granted under no conditions" reads like 'is not granted'. > > I.e., there are no conditions under which su

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-26 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:37:15PM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > The reason for a seperate directory is for ease of mirroring and CD > building. It gives us also an easy way to check if a package can be > on data. > > I will really like to see this one at least second. It's an old thread > that I

Re: Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-26 Thread shaleh
Seconded, this seems a good solution.

Let's Debian blow... gracefully! [was Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages]

1999-05-26 Thread Fabien Ninoles
Quoting Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:35:57AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > I changed the description so it does not say it is a mirror anymore: > > > > [..] > > > > Does that help at all? > > Not really, but if enough people really think I'm wrong on this I wo

Re: Intent to package: src2tex

1999-05-26 Thread Jules Bean
Takao KAWAMURA wrote: > Licence: > > Permission to use, copy, and modify this software and its > documentation is granted under no conditions. > > I will upload it to master in a few days. "..is granted under no conditions" reads like 'is not granted'. I.e., there are no conditions under which

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Having said that, and thought about the packages I maintain, 'jargon' > clearly fits in the above category, and will be withdrawn until there is > an appropriate archive. nah, don't do that. Wait for wichert's proposal when the lo

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-May-99, 04:35 (CDT), Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > I have the same objection to this I had to the anarchist thing: You're > > trying to package their website. I don't think we should be doing that. > > I changed the description so

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-May-99, 01:47 (CDT), Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > > There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the ESR > > utilitarian arguments). Some Debianers might agree with one philosophy, > > others another. If you're going to

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-May-99, 22:06 (CDT), Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the ESR > > utilitarian arguments). Some Debianers might agree with one philosophy, > > others another. > > > um.. Debian GNU/Linux > ^^^ > I'd say that's reason eno

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:35:57AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > I changed the description so it does not say it is a mirror anymore: > > [..] > > Does that help at all? Not really, but if enough people really think I'm wrong on this I won't press the issue. I also didn't press the issue with the

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-26 Thread Ron
> And if you want to you can package the ESR view point and upload it. Anyone taking bets as to which will be the first to add a depends on the popularity-contest package ;-)

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Ben Pfaff
Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why should they include the GNU view of free software when there are others around? Maybe because we're Debian _GNU_/Linux?

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
Another thought, here is the current doc-base file: Document: gnu-philosophy Title: Philosophy of the GNU Project Author: Richard M. Stallman, Georg C. F. Greve, Tom Hull, Kragen Sitaker, Loyd Fueston, Michael Stutz, Bjørn Remseth, and others Abstract: Ideas about free software, and the reasons

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 23 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > I have the same objection to this I had to the anarchist thing: You're > trying to package their website. I don't think we should be doing that. I changed the description so it does not say it is a mirror anymore: new debian package, version 2.0. s

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 06:59:47PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > > Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free > > software? It is all explained in this package. > > Indeed. > > > If your objection remains, I will not uploa

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 24-May-99, 12:59 (CDT), Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free > > software? It is all explained in this package. > > There are other reasons that free software is good (e.

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Peter Makholm
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I don't like Documentation-only packages if they are not specific to Debian. It's the 40 MB atromonical dataset in a smaller scale. > Hmm... perhaps a more catching name like "why-free" would be better? > No-one's going to read "gnu-philosophy" :-) I

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Ron
> > Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free > > software? It is all explained in this package. > > There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the ESR > utilitarian arguments). Some Debianers might agree with one philosophy, > others another. um.. Debi

NDN(2): Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Post Office
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NDN: Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Post Office
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Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 06:59:47PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free > software? It is all explained in this package. Indeed. > If your objection remains, I will not upload the package. Why? Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian g

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-May-99, 12:59 (CDT), Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free > software? It is all explained in this package. There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g. the ESR utilitarian arguments). Some Debianers might

NDN: Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-24 Thread Post Office
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: Jorge Araya (Mailbox or Conference is full.)

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-24 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 23 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > I have the same objection to this I had to the anarchist thing: You're > trying to package their website. I don't think we should be doing that. > > Granted I'd rather see this website packaged before one trying to tell me > all about the good politic

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-24 Thread Joseph Carter
I have the same objection to this I had to the anarchist thing: You're trying to package their website. I don't think we should be doing that. Granted I'd rather see this website packaged before one trying to tell me all about the good political and philosphical things resulting from anarchy, bu

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-23 Thread Richard Braakman
Hmm... perhaps a more catching name like "why-free" would be better? No-one's going to read "gnu-philosophy" :-) Richard Braakman

Re: Intent to package KerberosV

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
Bear Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My plan, back when I was exploring the idea of a US-only package > and/or derived distribution, was to use shared libraries and create > a special null Kerberos package which would return error codes, something > very close to the Kerberos 'bones' packag

Re: Intent to package: GREED

1999-05-23 Thread Greg Stark
Leon Breedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Regarding curl, I'll be packaging an SSL enabled version only, as it seems > that policy doesnt cover a source package building for both US & non-US. There are a couple packages which do this, mutt-i etc. I think they all make some minor alteration lik

Re: Intent to package: tuxeyes

1999-05-22 Thread Philip Hands
William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tuXeyes is a X toy that works like xeyes. It is licensed under the GPL > but uses Qt, so it will go into contrib. If it is under the GPL, and is dependent upon Qt, then it has an invalid license, and cannot be distributed. As such it will not be allowe

Re: Intent to package: tuxeyes

1999-05-22 Thread Chris Waters
William Ono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tuXeyes is a X toy that works like xeyes. It is licensed under the GPL > but uses Qt, so it will go into contrib. Um, no, if it's licensed under the GPL, but links to Qt, then it suffers under the same self-cancelling license issues that KDE does. And we

Re: Intent to package: gtk-doc

1999-05-22 Thread Steve Haslam
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 11:23:36AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > > gtk-doc is the upstream name, but a more distinct name may be > > preferred to distinguish it from gtk+-docs, libgtk1.2-doc, gnome-docu, > > gnome-dev-info... Perhaps "gt

Re: Intent to package: tuxeyes

1999-05-22 Thread William Ono
My appologies for following up to my own post. Although I checked the WNPP [Work-Needing and Prospective Packages] and the debian-devel archives before posting, I was informed by the upstream maintainer that an intent-to-package has already gone out for this package. I checked the archives more c

Re: Intent to package: gtk-doc

1999-05-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > gtk-doc is the upstream name, but a more distinct name may be > preferred to distinguish it from gtk+-docs, libgtk1.2-doc, gnome-docu, > gnome-dev-info... Perhaps "gtk-doc-tools" ? Maybe keep the source > called gtk-doc and call the bi

Re: Intent to package: gtk-doc

1999-05-22 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:08:00AM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > Maybe keep the source called gtk-doc and call the binary gtk-doc-tools... > Suggestions welcome. That sounds good to me, so there's one vote in favor of it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |

Re: Intent to package: device3dfx

1999-05-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Francesco Tapparo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 09:04:18PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > device3dfx is a kernel module to allow user-space applications (quake > :}) access to 3Dfx cards without needing to be run as root. > > This package consists *only* of a GP

Re: Intent to package: device3dfx

1999-05-19 Thread Francesco Tapparo
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 09:04:18PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > Hi people, > > device3dfx is a kernel module to allow user-space applications (quake > :}) access to 3Dfx cards without needing to be run as root. > > This package consists *only* of a GPL'd kernel module. As such it can > IMHO go in

Re: Intent to package: apcupsd

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Mitchell
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Remco van de Meent wrote: > Leon Breedt wrote: > > apcupsd is a package to monitor and control APC UPS's. > > May I ask you where I can download its source code? :) http://www.brisse.dk/site/apcupsd/index.htm#TOP > I was looking for it some time ago and wasnt able to find a

Re: Intent to package: apcupsd

1999-05-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
Leon Breedt wrote: > apcupsd is a package to monitor and control APC UPS's. May I ask you where I can download its source code? :) I was looking for it some time ago and wasnt able to find any sources of relatively new versions of apcupsd. Anyways, great to have this package in Debian. Regard

Re: Intent to package: device3dfx

1999-05-19 Thread Steve Haslam
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:52:11AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > One other problem, it needs big warnings, anyone with access to the > device can crash the machine no problem... > > Its vaguely possible that it could also allow more, however I've never > seen anyone mention such.. Someone nee

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > > Justin, can you find out if those machines are binary compatible. > > I've heard that there are two general types flying around (5i and > > 3i, iirc). I wonder if one new architecture is enough or if we > > need both - like for mips. > > which two machines? the ones the p

Re: Intent to package: device3dfx

1999-05-19 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
One other problem, it needs big warnings, anyone with access to the device can crash the machine no problem... Its vaguely possible that it could also allow more, however I've never seen anyone mention such.. Zephaniah E. Hull.. On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 09:04:18PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: > Hi

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:56 -0400 1999-05-18, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:45:04PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: well, for the cross compilers, i'm doing /usr/lib/parisc-xxx e.g, /usr/bin/parisc-egcs /usr/bin/parisc-as etc. You should really use standard gnu style, such as parisc-linux-{gcc,as,ld,...}

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 01:45:04PM -0500, Justin Maurer wrote: > well, for the cross compilers, i'm doing /usr/lib/parisc-xxx > e.g, > /usr/bin/parisc-egcs > /usr/bin/parisc-as > etc. You should really use standard gnu style, such as parisc-linux-{gcc,as,ld,...} and /usr/parisc-linux/{lib,bin,incl

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Justin Maurer
>> (me saying a bootable kernel is still quite aways off) > I wonder if this ITP is a little bit early then... well, sort of. i can still package the cross compilers and such, so that we will all be ready for it. but the new arch obviously is still another relase or two away. i have binutils pa

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel, > when > one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those > who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan > to order myself a machine when

Re: intent to package PortSentry

1999-05-16 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Am Sun, 16 May 1999 schrieb Samu: > i'd like to make the debian packages of portSentry by www.psionic.com > is there another one working on it ? I did it already and I am working on logcheck now. However, I am not a registered debian developer at the moment (I'm planning to register). If you have a

Re: Intent to package Gnofin

1999-05-15 Thread Darin Fisher
thanks!! i will send you mail whenever i update the source. darin On Sat, 15 May 1999, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi Darin! > > I was seeking for a tiny finance tracking tool to make better use of my money > and found Gnofin on freshmeat. I learned that there is no Debian package for > it s

Re: Intent to package: ttfprint

1999-05-15 Thread Anthony Wong
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:15:42PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: | |On Sat, 15 May 1999, Anthony Wong wrote: | |> The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload: | |Interesting... Is it specific to Chinese, or can it do other truetype |stuff ? E.g. Russian ? Yes, ttfprint is specific to Chinese beca

Re: Intent to package: reportbug

1999-05-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 14, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > >* Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) > > Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, > -MM-DD. > >- Jim Van Zandt Done in 0.2. Chris --

Re: Intent to package: reportbug

1999-05-15 Thread James R. Van Zandt
>* Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, -MM-DD. - Jim Van Zandt

Re: Intent to package: ttfprint

1999-05-14 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Anthony Wong wrote: > The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload: > > Package: ttfprint > Version: 0.9-1 > Section: text > Priority: optional > Architecture: i386 > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1), ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung > Installed-Size: 246 > Maintainer: Anthony W

Re: Intent to package t-gnus

1999-05-12 Thread Takuro KITAME
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "ADC" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... ADC> Are these two JP specific? I noticed from your uploads that the ADC> install fails if LANG is unset or set as "C". This kinda warned me ADC> that maybe it wouldn't work for english? No. Not JP

Re: Intent to package ogonkify

1999-05-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:56:34PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > Description: Package for printing ISO-Latin-2 on PostScript printers This is already part of the a2ps package. Are you coordinating with the maintainter of that package? Mike Stone pgp4ABRu59oOQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Intent to package t-gnus

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Takuro KITAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi,I'm packaging software, t-gnus. > (ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/GNU/elisp/chamonix/gnus/) > > t-gnus is latest branch of Semi-gnus. > Semi-gnus is "Replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI." > and Debian package is available. (main/news). > > SEMI is "L

cdgrab on hold? read this (Re: Intent To Package: cd-discid)

1999-05-11 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:06:27PM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: > Hmmm, now that I've uploaded cd-discid I guess I better write an intent to > package for it :) > > cd-discid has long been bundled in cdgrab, but since cdgrab changes so much > more quickly, and is a simple shell script, the other

Re: Intent to package KerberosV

1999-05-09 Thread John Lines
> > Meanwhile, I've identified the following additional packages which can > be Kerberized immediately via compile-time flags: > > IMAP (get your mail from the site you expected; prevent snooping) > LPRNG (network print to the site you expected; prevent interceptions) > POSTGRES (grant ac

Re: intent to package gcpegg

1999-05-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Since the sources include an explicit copyright assertion but no explicit > distribution license The upstream maintainers indicate in email that the GPL is their choice, which is wonderful news. Now that this is resolved, I'll upload a package to main

Re: Intent to package KerberosV

1999-05-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Randolph Chung wrote: > fetchmail can also be kereberized via compile time flags, and i know of a > number of people who would be interested in seeing a kerberized fetchmail. Same for ssh. A pam_kerberos also exists I think. Wichert. -- ===

Re: Intent to package netStreamer

1999-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: : : On 01-Feb-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: : > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: : > : > [ intent to package snipped ] : > : > Is there a URL for this, or is the code only available via supernatural : > revelation? : : Only the truly blessed may wonder

Re: Intent to package GoldED

1999-02-01 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 06:04:45PM +0100, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:24AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes > > > > > > From freshmeat appindex: > > > GoldED is a very nice console full-screen m

Re: Intent to package netStreamer

1999-02-01 Thread Shaleh
On 01-Feb-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > [ intent to package snipped ] > > Is there a URL for this, or is the code only available via supernatural > revelation? Only the truly blessed may wonder upon its blessed page .. No (= http://flits102-126.flit

Re: Intent to package GoldED

1999-02-01 Thread Andreas Plesner Jacobsen
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 08:23:24AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > > I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes > > > > From freshmeat appindex: > > GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for > > Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind fo

Re: Intent to package GoldED

1999-02-01 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:16:39PM +0100, Andreas Plesner Jacobsen wrote: > I intend to package GoldED when my developer-application processes > > From freshmeat appindex: > GoldED is a very nice console full-screen mail/newsreader for > Fidonet and Internet. It is one of the best of it's kind f

Re: Intent to package netStreamer

1999-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: [ intent to package snipped ] Is there a URL for this, or is the code only available via supernatural revelation? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Intent-to-package: XGGI

1999-01-31 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:22:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > > XGGI is an X server based on XF86 code that will run under any supported > > libGGI target. > > Currently, other than a few XF 3.3.3.1 compliance points, XGGI > > works fine; it's been tested with the

Re: Intent to package : xmem

1999-01-30 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm pretty sure xmem was in procps or xproc at one point, and got dropped because it wasn't being maintained upstream, or something like that...

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Lapeyre
There have been several packages allowed into main with a license like this. Some people don't like it however. Perl's license is even slightly more restricive. Except that now it can be licensed under the GPL as well. From: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 29 Jan 1999 12:44:5

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Ben Pfaff writes: > That doesn't make it non-free. It's in the standard BSD license. The word 'fee' does not occur in the standard BSD license. It does not mention money at all. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Hasler
> The reason for non-free is this in copyright: > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any > purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is ^^^ Have you contacted the author about this?

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread Masato Taruishi
At 29 Jan 1999 08:48:54 -0500, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any >purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is > ^^^ > That doesn't

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:01:28PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > I intend to package all the dummy packages we have been talking about. > > They match the packages that changed its name in the great X > > reorganization. > > You'll do no such thin

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
Masato Taruishi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The reason for non-free is this in copyright: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose, subject to the provisions described below, without fee is ^

Re: Intent to package : xmem

1999-01-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:01:09PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less > 'elementary' X package, so I'm offering to package it. Is it > generated from the X sources (in which case, maybe I'll just limit > myself to pestering Branden:-), or proc

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-28 Thread Anthony Wong
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 12:00:43PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote: |> Adam Klein wrote: | |>> Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those? | |Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: | |> Well, they are there for a reason, aren't they? | |Some of the patches will not need to be added, unless you are

Re: Intent to package : xmem

1999-01-28 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 02:01:09PM -0600, David Welton wrote: > I think it's kind of silly that we no have this more or less ^ longer Sorry...:-/ -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.or

Re: Intent to package manpages-fi

1999-01-28 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
Teemu Hukkanen wrote: > > from the README: > ->8-clip->8- > This package contains a first, fixed release of Linux man pages in Finnish. > > There are 132 pages from sections 1 and 6. > > If you want to contribute, point your browser to > www.redhat.sot.com/Man-pages-fi.shtml > > Copyrights: The

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-28 Thread Brian Mays
> Adam Klein wrote: >> Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those? Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Well, they are there for a reason, aren't they? Some of the patches will not need to be added, unless you are also planning to make a Kanji, Greek, or Chinese version of wterm.

Re: Intent to package: olex

1999-01-28 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:33:30PM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote: > While doing my necessary daily check of Slashdot and Freshmeat, > I noticed two programs I will most likely use - one is irssi, a > GTK IRC client that runs in the panel, but I can't package it > now because none of my GTK-1.1 stuff is

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:18:22PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: > oldpackages="$(dpkg --get-selections > | egrep '^(xfntbase|xfnt75|...)' > | awk '{print $1}')" Oops. I was thinking this part but didn't type it. Yes, of course -- we don't want to select newpackage f

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:53:30PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > I mean the debian patches. Some of them are incorporated upstream, some are > > not. > > Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those? Well, th

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Branden Robinson writes: > John Hasler might like it but there are about 400 other people to ask. I look forward to hearing from them. I just want to see the damn thing fixed. Santiago has proposed a workable solution and offered to implement it. > Barring a better solution, I will be the one t

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-28 Thread Avery Pennarun
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:43:30PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > * "There should be some better way". > > > > Fine. Which one? > > Is there a way to have a dpkg --set-selections call lurk in the background > until the current dpkg process ends, like update-menus does now? That > would be a

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:01:28PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > I intend to package all the dummy packages we have been talking about. > They match the packages that changed its name in the great X > reorganization. You'll do no such thing or I will take drastic measures. Those packages are MIN

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-27 Thread John Hasler
Santiago Vila writes: > I intend to package all the dummy packages we have been talking about. Go for it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I do

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I mean the debian patches. Some of them are incorporated upstream, some are > not. Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those? Adam

Re: Intent to package: PARI/GP and STL Documentation

1999-01-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:19:35PM +0100, Jonas Rathert wrote: > Second the html-documentation of the Standard Template Library. I > saw this on WNPP an wrote an email to the maintainer, but did not > get any answer. Do you mean this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:58:40]:~$ dpkg -s stl-manual Package: stl-ma

Re: Intent to package: olex

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
I decided not to package or help this project because of the original license -- "either GPL your code or dont use Olex". The author is a good guy and is just trying to promote free software and make sure his work is not used to make proprietary software. I think this license is free enough. The

Re: Intent to package: olex

1999-01-27 Thread Lalo Martins
[#include ] Shaleh hinted that I might want to look at the Olex license. It does put some restriction on output - which, differently from the "buttonware" discussion a while ago, seems legitimate to me since Olex output is full of code written by the Olex author. So, this is the actual LICENSE.GEN

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Stephen Crowley
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:40:18AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > While at it, why not add monitor detection, like windows can do? I plan on doing that, but the VESA DDC specifications are not freely available, I'm going to call VESA today and see if I can find out anything about the specs, I wou

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Kenneth Scharf
While at it, why not add monitor detection, like windows can do? Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:23:29 -0500 From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intent to package: Xconfig

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:40:47AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:17:39AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > > > > > wterm is another Rxvt hack. It is designed for use with Window Maker, > > > alt

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