> Communication should be done via a package-specific mailing list. The
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> This mailing list could be used as target for the bug reports against
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On Thu, 29 May 1997, Vincent Renardias wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > Is it correct, that we are currently working on ports to the following
> > platforms (the abbrevs should be the ones that dpkg is using in the file
> > names):
> > i386
> > alpha
> >
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> I had problems making it work because darned qmail won't parse a full
> RFC822 address on the command line
What were you trying to achieve ? --- it might be simpler than you think.
I just discovered that most of my alias handling under qmail was drivel, and
could be dom
On May 29, Bruce Perens wrote
> There actually is a packages.debian.org domain aliased on "master", I
> had problems making it work because darned qmail won't parse a full
> RFC822 address on the command line (it wants you to remove the
> comments). If someone wants to spend some time on a simple m
Hi,
I have had a very quick look at the aegis README. It has a
baseline (main trunk in CVS; no mention of multiple independent
branches and back merging that I could see). It implements a per
change test rquirement (thought: what tests? that the package build?
could be done with a comm
I must admit to not understanding what that qmail alias file is for.
I do _all_ of my aliases with .qmail-* files .
What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without
messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I wanted
to have a .qmail-packages-default fil
From: "Christian Hudon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Just tell me what you want qmail to do for you and point me at the
> sh/whatever scripts you started working on.
I think we already have Joey (Martin Schulze) working on this today.
Please check with him.
Bruce
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Aegis looks interesting. I'd like to see how it works on top of a
physically-distributed development using CVS. Do please package it
when you have time, Phil.
Thanks
Bruce
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Hi,
You keep talking about using Qmail - when will it be released for
Debian? Is the experimentation over? How stable is it? The file in
project/experimental is dated Apr 24th so it's been over a month of
testting.
Thanks,
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> What I was trying to achieve was to have qmail forward a message without
> messing around with the headers any more than necessary. Thus, I wanted
> to have a .qmail-packages-default file to handle the packages.debian.org
> domain, and that would look up the package name and map it to the maintai
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi! I subscribed a few days ago, (and have been somewhat overwhelmed
> by the quantity of mail on this list; is there a digestified version?)
> and would like to propose that I package up Inform, Frotz, a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 27.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There are ways to avoid this. For example, modify dpkg not to include any
> line with "config=yes" in it in the md5sum of certain files.
This is a troll, right?
Or maybe you have forgotten how conffiles are actually handle
I'm using dpkg-dev 1.4.0.17. The problem is that not just with
source packages I create. It is with all source packages I'm
downloading, e.g., hello.
The type of error I'm getting is as follows:
dpkg-source: failure: remove patch backup file
hello-1.3/debian/substvars.dpkg-orig: No s
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> That seems simple enough.
>
> I think your best bet is this:
>
> 1) make sure control/locals does not contain packages.debian.org
But make sure it's in control/rcpthosts, of course.
> add this line to control/virtualdomains:
> packages.debia
Short question inbetween:
Why is the Debian /etc/inittab different from one use on Watchtower?
Mrvn
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>
>What's the Right Way(tm) to include the output of a perl script into a web
>page?
Why not just use
Works for me...
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> I have had a very quick look at the aegis README. It has a
> baseline (main trunk in CVS; no mention of multiple independent
> branches and back merging that I could see).
It relies on RCS or CVS for its version control, so you get access to most if
not all the features of those (or at
Hi developpers,
I'm planning to package htdig, a www search engine
(http://htdig.sdsu.edu/). I have two questions :
- is someone already working on this package ?
- what is the status of lib gdbm and libc6 ? . Htdig uses gdbm but
libc6 provides db and sometime a
On Mon, 26 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Yep. How about a verbose mode that tells you when you connect, or if it
> > > cant, says so, and then when its done, prints xxx bytes downloaded in yyy
> > > seconds, at foo kb/s.
> > >
> > > something like:
> > > $ snarf -v http://linuxos.org/i
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> also get this directory. but only linux/ and asm/ shoud override
> /usr/include, not net/ (because : net/ is buggy !). what shall i do ?
> ok, i know how to fix this, but with the next libc or kernel header
> update i will have to fix it again... a
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now, I have looked through the man page for patch and it seems that
> the option "-b" should be replaced with "-z". When I make the
> substitution, all works well.
>
> Am I behind the times, or is this a bug?
This *is* a bug. The `patch' command recentl
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> As I'm working on a new Policy I'm handling the request to include a
> policy for "correct architecture spec strings". However, I've discovered
> _several_ threads here on debian-devel without any (obvious) results.
>
> Is it correct
On Wed, 28 May 1997, Yann Dirson wrote:
>
> Has anybody postulated to take over maintainance of the package ? If
> not, I'm a volunteer... Please let me know.
If you do take it, please try to get the e2compr patches into it. I have
requested that I take it to do this work on it. However, e2compr
On Mon, 26 May 1997, David Frey wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> On Sat, May 24 1997 11:40 +0200 Andreas Jellinghaus writes:
> > there are three tools : cfgtool (lars wirzenius), nod (winfried
> > truemper), dcfgtool (mine). and someone is working on a _real_ tool (all
> > three have flaws, and if t
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Short question inbetween:
>
> Why is the Debian /etc/inittab different from one use on Watchtower?
Why should it be the same?
I don't know what the Watchtower one was like (I've never had the misfortune
to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> - what is the status of lib gdbm and libc6 ? . Htdig uses gdbm but
> libc6 provides db and sometime ago I'seen a post of Ulrich Drepper (glibc
> maintener), he said that he was unable to find a maintainer for ligdbm. So
>
On 27 May 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Anyways, e2fsprogs seams to have a lot of open bugs. Is this package
> > actively maintained?
>
> Probably not. Last maintainer is Michael Nonweiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> but he is looking for a new mainta
I got Debian installed on a clean disk now using the base1.2tgz and the
instfiles.tar, but I run across some problems:
The /etc/inittab from instfiles.tar gave errors and failed to execute
some program (like dselect). Also the inittab it restored after it was
run was taken from watchtower by t
On Fri, 30 May 1997, Mark Baker wrote:
> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:58:00 +0100
> From: Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Goswin Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Problems with inittab
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Goswin Brederlo
Well.
Anyone want to venture any opinions?
Mike.
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Jesse Thilo writes:
> On Thu, May 29, 1997 at 09:18:48PM -0400, T.E.Dickey wrote:
> > > To the terminfo.src maintainer,
> > c'est moi
>
> Since when? (Seriously)
Mr. Dickey appears to have decided that hijacking one projec
On 27 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> Is anyone else running the latest unstable kernels on a uniprocessor?
> I have noticed that with many of the recent kernels (including
> 2.1.40), time appears to be stopped. With these kernels, on my
> machine clock never returns anything but zero, and things
Recently, I grabbed the newest ibcs source (ibcs_970513-2) and compiled it
sucessfully on my machine (running hamm and kernel 2.0.29). I then
proceeded to try the same thing on two other debian machines (running 1.3)
using the same source for ibcs. It choked because
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/mod
On May 30, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> Where is it?
> I've just looked both in ftp.debian.org and in master, but man_ is only
> in rexx .
>
> Or maybe it has been just removed?
Hmm, either that or we are looking at a bug in dselect herebecause it
certainly was in the package list when I upg
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 30 09:49:58 1997
>Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 09:42:11 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Debian Development
>Subject: confusion regarding kernel-source and ibcs source
>
>Recently, I grabbed the newest ibcs source (ibcs_970513-2) and compiled it
>s
I've got packaged a program which provides a midi plugin for Netscape.
The name of the program is Rick's Cheesy Midi Plug-In.
Does anyone mind?
Thanks
Paul Serice
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On May 30, Tom Lees wrote
> We are planning on expanding the scope of deity to include a few more
> features than "just a GUI" after the initial release though. Including
> getting a decent library set together for other developers to use. Making
> the config-tool part of this would seem pretty log
Hi,
Mark Eichin:
> 2) the xdm shadow support doesn't fall back in any sane way,
> and it's more than just dropping a check -- a bunch of code needs
> rearrangement. (If you run xdm-shadow on a non-shadow system, you *lose*...)
Well, I just did that with xbase-3.2-6:
# mv /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
> I'm using dpkg-dev 1.4.0.17. The problem is that not just with
> source packages I create. It is with all source packages I'm
> downloading, e.g., hello.
>
> The type of error I'm getting is as follows:
>
> dpkg-source: failure: remove patch backup file
> hello-1.3/debian/substvars.
> # mv /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm-shadow /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm
> I can switch back and forth between shadow and non-shadow passwords,
> and can login via xdm just fine. Nothing bad happened, my machine
> hasn't exploded yet, etc. :-)
Ah, I see, it just logs an error, but doesn't actually fail. (The
code on
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On May 30, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
>
> > Where is it?
> > I've just looked both in ftp.debian.org and in master, but man_ is only
> > in rexx .
> >
> > Or maybe it has been just removed?
>
> Hmm, either that or we are looking at a bug in dselect her
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Paul Bame wrote:
> = > Should this CVS repository be mandatory, i.e. does every Debian
> = > package have to be there?
>
> A brief word of warning... (I tried CVS on dpkg a while back)
>
> The natural CVS model is to name the directory for the package,
> for example .../dpkg
Any new work I do will use slang rather than ncurses.
Bruce
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes:
> Any new work I do will use slang rather than ncurses.
Can't say as I'd blame you.
RMS has stepped in. I can't quite decide if that's likely to foster
resolution or small-arms usage.
Mike.
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Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
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> RMS has stepped in. I can't quite decide if that's likely to foster
> resolution or small-arms usage.
>
Stepped in on whose side?
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> It's not officially dropped, it's just not currently maintained; I don't
> think there's any plan to drop it totally.
Umm, it's not maintained *upstream*; I maintain the debian package.
It is worth porting the code to use db, even using the dbm-style
interfaces, but since there's no data-level
Debian developers:
ESR has, IMHO, decided to start a pissing match about ncurses
development. I have no desire to participate or watch.
My frank recommendation is that we ditch ncurses entirely, go back to
BSD curses and termcap and encourage authors of free packages to use
slang.
I enclose my
Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> > RMS has stepped in. I can't quite decide if that's likely to foster
> > resolution or small-arms usage.
> Stepped in on whose side?
No ones in particular, though I suspect ESR could see it as being on
Tom Dickey's side,
Yann Dirson writes:
> * that's not complete either. As already mentionned, the manpage tells
> about undocumented runlevels 7-9. It also poorly tells about those
> AaBbCc I never really understood.
I just tried those runlevels 7-9, with sysvinit_2.71-2. It just need
few modifications to have th
Hi all:
I just downloaded the enlightenment window manager (see
http://www.cse.unsw.EDU.AU/~s2154962/enlightenment/). It is somewhat slow and
requieres a lot of memory and disk, but is very funny to see, anyway.
I didn't resist the temptation and packaged it for Debian (together with its
comp
Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
>
> Debian developers:
>
> ESR has, IMHO, decided to start a pissing match about ncurses
> development. I have no desire to participate or watch.
>
> My frank recommendation is that we ditch ncurses entirely, go back to
> BSD curses and termcap and encourage authors o
When the machine I have that's tracking unstable is rebooted, the xdm
login screen will not appear until I use ssh to remotely connect to
the machine. Until then the screen is blank. I don't know what's
causing this, or I'd file a bug with the responsible package, but
removing ssh makes the prob
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