Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Michael" == Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I don't know. I thought: 1) Manoj took over the package with my Michael> blessings, and 2) he did so with the specific intention of fixing the Michael> bug. And I did. I uploaded a package, and closed all bug

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gnus 25609 Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to > upgrade/pruge [64] (Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > We should not ship without although it's technically not essential. > We'd better find somebody to fix this bug.

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> gnus 25609 Gnus: prerm script failure make it >>impossible to upgrade/pruge [64] >>(Michael Alan Dorman >><[EMAIL PR

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
thread... == It's alpha software, but it's free and doesn't break your system. Let's ship it. If we are going to remove all packages which are buggy, we have to ship an empty CD ROM. Bug free software doesn't seem to exist per definition

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Let's look a bit further at those bugreports.. > balsa 27726 balsa cannot be run [0] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. > Tetlie)) > balsa 27894 balsa is linked against ancient version of gtk [0] > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie)) A new balsa has already been uploaded (0

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > While you're all on this thread, what about mozilla? Please keep it in, too. This one's another major visibility package for free software. > I was going to ask Brian for an extension for mozilla as I won't make > 00:00 Saturday GM

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:46:58PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > While you're all on this thread, what about mozilla? The current Debian package doesn't work with the current libc (#27181, severity: grave). > I was going to ask Brian for an extension for mozilla as I won't make > 00:00 Saturday

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Schulze wrote: > I vote for "leave them in". I feel much in favour of presenting > them to the world. Basically they work. Please remove gnome, esp. gnome-freecell and gnome-mahjong. My productivity has severly dropped since I discovered them. They are just too darned good and

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Michael Meskes wrote: meskes>On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: meskes>> libmagick4-dev19332 libmagick: ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67 [217] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott K. Ellis)) meskes> meskes>I wish I would understand a message li

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Stephen Zander
> "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 *

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:24:23PM -0700, David Welton wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:18:21AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Marc Singer wrote: > > > I installed it yesterday to get a glimpse at what they are doing. I'd > > > say it should be left out because it doesn't really work. It is

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:18:21AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Marc Singer wrote: > > I installed it yesterday to get a glimpse at what they are doing. I'd > > say it should be left out because it doesn't really work. It is a > > fine demonstration, but it doesn't add value to Debian until it

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Marc Singer wrote: > I installed it yesterday to get a glimpse at what they are doing. I'd > say it should be left out because it doesn't really work. It is a > fine demonstration, but it doesn't add value to Debian until it can be > used either a) to hack against, or b) to provide a workable des

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wednesday 14 October 1998, at 12 h 19, the keyboard of Brian White > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The following are packages I feel we can remove: > ... > > netatalk 25598 netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64] > > (Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PR

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The > > > current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of > > > things don't work. It sounds like there will probably be a 1.0 > > > release coming up in a few months that will be thoroughly

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White Michael> wrote: Brian> libmagick4-dev 19332 libmagick: Brian> ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67 [217] Brian> ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott K. Ellis

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > libmagick4-dev19332 libmagick: ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb > LI#67 [217] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott K. Ellis)) I wish I would understand a message like that. :-) > libpgjava 27753 libpgjava: depends on jdk1.1-r

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Richard Braakman
Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > This is my fault, I should have had more time to fix this (move it > into non-free) with a new upload, but I don't know how to do this? File a > bug against ftp.debian.org? Just upload the package with section non-free/whatever, and it will be taken care of

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > vrwave23436 vrwave should maybe go in contrib? [124] (Javier > Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > xswallow 25932 Xswallow should be in contrib [55] (Javier > Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Marc Singer
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > > Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs > > and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have > > release-critical (i.e. critical, grave,

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? > > > > The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The > > current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of > > things don't work. It sounds like there will pro

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > What do you think we should do with the Gnome stuff? Keep it in! > The Gnome 0.30 stuff is still under rather heavy development. The > current packages in Slink are pretty much alpha-quality. Lots of > things don't work. It sounds lik

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] > > (Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report and > found no explanation. Darn. I downgra

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Jim Pick wrote: > > Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs > > and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have > > release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. > > What

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wednesday 14 October 1998, at 12 h 19, the keyboard of Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following are packages I feel we can remove: ... > netatalk 25598 netalk: several problems (and the solution) [64] > (Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) As a new developer, I just wa

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Brian White
> smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > This one also refers to the version of perl which has been > removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) I knew about it, but not which bugs it affected. I'll

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:33:22PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs > > and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have > > release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 15 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > > strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] > > (Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report a

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Jim Pick
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs > and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have > release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. What do you think we should do with

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:52:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to take a look at bug #27395 because pcmcia-modules works for > me. The report says not that they don't work, but that some things are not so good. They seem to be valid concerns although I'm not sure they are release-crit

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello, On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: > strace26065 strace confused about sigaction flags [51] (Wichert > Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Hmm. Why is this bug important anyway? I've looked at the bug report and found no explanation. I think strace is t

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian White wrote: > mount 27421 mount: fails to parse existing /etc/fstab [10] > (Vincent Renardias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) I've just fixed this in a non-maintainer upload with prior negotiation with the official maintainer. -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's f

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread peloy
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following are packages I feel we can remove: > > pcmcia-modules-2 27395 pcmcia-modules are totally broken out of the box > [11] (Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > pcmcia-source 26657 pcmcia-source: Needs this patch to work on 2.1.118+ > kerne

Re: yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > | After the first crash it run but wasn't able to display the icons. > > Hehe. I complained to the author about the same thing. He told me that > I was lucky because the current pixmaps were so ugly. Then I got > suspicious and did: > > my_favourite_image_viewer /usr/share/

Re: yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | > *-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | | > | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | > | | > | Davide isn't maintaining this package anym

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: > htdig 25412 htdig: htdig ignores config file stuff/absolute > pathnames compiled in [70] (Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Fixed last week, remembered to close it today :) -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: > *-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin > and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) > | > | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking > | care of this one, t

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread John Lapeyre
smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) This one also refers to the version of perl which has been removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.phy

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too? Yelp! This bug is now closed,

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too? Already uploaded. Closing bugs

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
> > perl 27604 Perl @INC needs /usr/lib/perl5 [7] (Darren > > Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > perl 27738 perl: @INC does not contain /usr/lib/perl5 [0] > > (Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > This doesn't affect the current perl version but the version to be >

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi! > perl 27604 Perl @INC needs /usr/lib/perl5 [7] (Darren Stalder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > perl 27738 perl: @INC does not contain /usr/lib/perl5 [0] > (Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) This doesn't affect the current perl version but the version to be used in

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Samuel Tardieu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Brian> ada-rm 27918 ada-rm: This large package should be architecture: Brian> all [0] () This is fixed and the bug has been closed. Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: lat