> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :)
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On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 10:35:54AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> Manley announced new crypto policies, and though the speech is low on
> detail, despite being particularly long-winded, it seems Canada may
> remain in the free world.
Very cool. It looks like they've really listened to the industry's
On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 10:31:09PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
> > "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Martin> I wonder why debian-java@lists.debian.org exists...
>
> At least one maintainer of a java related package (Hamish Moffat -
> guavac) is not on that list, the
Hi,
I read in an earlier mail that the main distro will no longer fit on one
CD. Since a standardised specialized tool is already required to install
a *.deb and this tool is installed on every Debian box, why not in the
next update of dpkg include support to decompress bzip2 compressed
*.debs? Th
> This doesn't sound like a problem relevant to debian-devel.
>
is this one? :)
when installing isdnutils from slink, MAKEDEV complains about
device names - something like 'don't know how t mail isdnctrl0' or
something (don't remember exact device name).
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p
> Please test out this new release of APT; we hope everyone can enjoy
> it!
this apt is really great! thnx alot for your work (just for not only
sending bug-reports on apt)! it worked out to exchange sendmail for
smail without any problem. ok, it trashed my nfs, but this may be a
packaging problem
> "M" == M Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ben> Please test out this new release of APT; we hope everyone can
Ben> enjoy it!
M> this apt is really great! thnx alot for your work (just for not
M> only sending bug-reports on apt)! it worked out to exchange
M> sendmail f
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Joey Hess, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>Do you have any plans to offer it as something like /usr/bin/perl-t? (or
>would modules need to be rebuilt too?)
It will be available as /usr/bin/perl5.00502-thread. I could manage the
/usr/bin/perl-t a
i lost the thread with this nfs-questing depending on the new package
nfs-server. i ran into the same problem while installing slink and
lost nfs this way. i then installed the new package and now got both
scripts in /etc/inint.d/ and all links (netstd_nfs and nfs-server). i
don't think, this is in
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Christopher Barry wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I read in an earlier mail that the main distro will no longer fit on one
>CD. Since a standardised specialized tool is already required to install
>a *.deb and this tool is installed on every Debian box, why not in the
>next update of dpkg inclu
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
> Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
>
> I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nicknam
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> It will be available as /usr/bin/perl5.00502-thread. I could manage the
> /usr/bin/perl-t as alternatives.
Well /usr/bin/perl-thread is probably a better name.
> Any debian packages and all architecture dependent packages will have to
> be recompiled.
Do you
> "Daniel" == Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
Ben> I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :)
Daniel> I've been wondering why this w
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new 'unstable'
> release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
If "Bug's Life" is any good, maybe we could snarf names from there...
Cheers,
- Jim
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:09:52PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > "Daniel" == Daniel Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
> Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
There is an ftp://ftp.debian.org/
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 08:10:43PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> KDE is still in the contrib section.
You can expect something to be done with KDE soon. Unless KDE changes their
license soon and applies fixes for the licenses they can't change, you can
expect KDE binaries to go away. KDE so
Hi, I'm with glibc development and I need to know about how some
headers are used by user code.
Specifically, for the 2.2 release of glibc (which is at least a year
away; we're in codefreeze for 2.1 right now) we are thinking about
modifying sys/syscall.h. I would like to know:
1. What packages
This is from the linux kernel mailing list. I find it pretty completly sums
op my thoughts on all the new constitution and voting and policy voting
stuff that we've been setting up. I haven't been vocal about this, but I
think we've been moving in the wrong direction.
Of course, this came up on li
Hi,
>>"Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
Ben> I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickn
Ean R . Schuessler wrote:
> This comes from the Apache-Jserv list.
>
> Now, what I am wondering is if JServ continues to ignore free Java VMs
> and Sun continues its irresponsible development of the Java "standard"
> in the same "secret" way it has been, should JServ be considered non-free?
>
> I
hmmm... Wonder if we can get the Canadian gov't go convince the US Gov't to
sell it the West coast of the US? California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington?
Break it into 2 Provinces, you think?
This would be cool because it'd put Silicon Valley in the Free World. Hmm,
I wonder if the Canadian gov't
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:20:29PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
> Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
>
> I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :)
I thought 2.2 was going to be "rc", and
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:09:18PM -0400, Steve Dunham wrote:
> For initial install on Intel, we could always use XF86_VGA16. That
> should work on all systems.
People who have recycled Sparc monitors? Even TEXT mode on those things is
an evil hack with svgatextmode!
pgpYkOcjfSEUt.pgp
Descript
> "Manoj" == Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Ben" == Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 o
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 10:06:24PM -0500, dsb3 wrote:
> >I read in an earlier mail that the main distro will no longer fit on one
> >CD. Since a standardised specialized tool is already required to install
> >a *.deb and this tool is installed on every Debian box, why not in the
> >next update of d
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>Spencer Aste Additional Voice
>
>
> so we really don't have that many more choices..
Hmm, I think debian 2.1 (additional voice) has a nice ring to it. :-P
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see shy jo
On 03 Oct 1998 00:41:50 +0100, James Troup wrote:
>Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 05:36:37PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> > Assuming, of course, that Debian will accept them as a developer.
>> Are people with legitimate packaging interests being rejected
Jeff McWilliams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Help. I've been trying to compile the lm_sensors source without much
> success. lm_sensors was written as a linux module that talks to the
> voltage and temperature sensors on a motherboard and lets you query
> /proc/sensors to view this information.
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> $ dpkg -l /usr/bin/printmail
> No packages found matching /usr/bin/printmail.
this is normal. you used "-l" (list packages) when you meant "-S" (search)
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/printmail
elm-me+: /usr/bin/printmail
btw, you may want to install jim pick's
Ian Lynagh wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
> >Ian Lynagh writes:
> >> So is it free or non-free?
> >
> >If the algorithm isn't patented you can do what ever you want with it,
> >regardless of what the inventor says.
>
> OK, that just leaves two questions answered
On Fri, 2 October 1998 22:25:35 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> It'd STILL be nice to be able to use bzip2 for package source on REALLY BIG
> packages (Mozilla, X)
I agree. It'd be fine for now if it's supported and then you can
still decide to use it for your own packages. You won't install X
or mo
>> "MD" == M Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MD> when installing isdnutils from slink, MAKEDEV complains about
MD> device names - something like 'don't know how t mail isdnctrl0' or
MD> something (don't remember exact device name).
I believe this is already reported as
http://www.debian.or
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:
>> (I said)
>> I think we already went through this discussion a short while back.
>> Unless I'm missing something new, it was pretty much decided that the
>> memory overhead of bzip2 was too great for low-mem or slow PCs to handle.
>>
>
>It'd STILL be nic
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:20:29PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > Kenneth> After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new
> > Kenneth> 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is).
> >
> > I think 'woody' would be an appropriate ni
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can, however, prove that one person has been told that they would
> not be accepted if they applied. That person is me.
Eh? You were *not* told that by the new maintainer team, so it has
absolutely zero relevance.
You've ``proved'' absolutely nothing
Xwhois is a small and fast query tool for the RFC954 whois service.
It's written with the GTK library.
Homepage: http://www.nexus.pp.se/software.html
Main distribution site: ftp://sangis.kalix.net/pub/nr/xwhois/
Regards,
Joey
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gtkfind-0.7 is a graphical file-finding program using the gtk toolkit
A screenshot can be found here:
http://www.oz.net/~mattg/gtkfind.gif
Regards,
Joey
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On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that "woody" should be
> bypassed as it would be offensive to some people.
It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to think so.
Aren't there children's stories with a character
I remembered, that there was some time ago some discussion about linuxconf on
the list. I just picked up, that Suse will support linuxconf (beside yast) in
Suse 6.0 (release date: end of 1998).
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote on 02.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This is from the linux kernel mailing list. I find it pretty completly sums
> op my thoughts on all the new constitution and voting and policy voting
> stuff that we've been setting up. I haven't been vocal about this, but
Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>
> I remembered, that there was some time ago some discussion about linuxconf on
> the list. I just picked up, that Suse will support linuxconf (beside yast) in
> Suse 6.0 (release date: end of 1998).
Please check our experimental such as
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/de
Brent Fulgham wrote:
> I am working on a project that could benefit from the GNU nana package.
It would be a cool idea if you would provide a description what
nana is or does.
Regards,
Joey
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Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> Joey Hess, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >Do you have any plans to offer it as something like /usr/bin/perl-t? (or
> >would modules need to be rebuilt too?)
>
> It will be available as /usr/bin/perl5.00502-thread. I could manage the
> /usr/bin/
This leaves the following possible names:
Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Here's what imdb.com says:
>
>Cast overview, first billed only:
>Don Rickles Mr. Potato Head
>John Morris (III) Andy
>Laurie Metcalf Mrs. Davis
>R. Lee Ermey Sergeant
>Sarah Freeman
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brent Fulgham wrote:
> I am working on a project that could benefit from the GNU nana package.
It would be a cool idea if you would provide a description what
nana is or does.
>From the README:
* GNU Nana - improved support for assertions a
Martin Schulze wrote:
> Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> > Joey Hess, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> > >Do you have any plans to offer it as something like /usr/bin/perl-t? (or
> > >would modules need to be rebuilt too?)
> >
> > It will be available as /usr/bin/perl5.00502-thread
I'm just about to become a debian developer, and i would like to package
BeroFTPD, and Telnet98
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> This leaves the following possible names:
>
> Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > Here's what imdb.com says:
> >
> >Cast overview, first billed only:
> >Don Rickles Mr. Potato Head
> >John Morris (III) Andy
> >Laurie Metcalf Mrs. D
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bob> But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that "woody"
Bob> should be bypassed as it would be offensive to some people.
Hamish> It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to
Hamish> think so. Aren't th
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:32:58PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> 2.2 potatoe
Please, PLEASE, no Dan Quayle reference. Please.
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Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Policy states:
>
> *Application defaults* files have to be installed in the directory
> `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/'. They are considered as part of the
> program code. Thus, they should not be modified and should not be
>
Hi !
Just an idea while I was (like so often) search the Web for some
Information:
Why not creating a Debian package that contains a huge html file with
links and some "bookmarks-file" converters for Netscape/IE/lynx etc.
The bookmarks could e.g. contain a folder with all (good) search engines,
Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 10:35:54AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> > Manley announced new crypto policies, and though the speech is low on
> > detail, despite being particularly long-winded, it seems Canada may
> > remain in the free world.
>
> Very coo
Christian Hammers wrote:
> Why not creating a Debian package that contains a huge html file with
> links and some "bookmarks-file" converters for Netscape/IE/lynx etc.
> P.S.: Yes, I would like to be maintainer - if all of you be contributers
> =;-)
I'd say: Go ahead.
First start for the s
Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 07:21:06PM +0200, Richard Braakman écrivait:
> Let's wait till *after* the freeze and do that in the new unstable.
>
> Frankly, I think it's a bad idea to just break all those packages. Isn't
> there some way to create a smooth upgrade path?
No. But it might no be a great
Le Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 10:08:01PM -0400, Roderick Schertler écrivait:
> One wouldn't want to switch /usr/bin/perl to have threading enabled at
> this point, as there is still a significant speed penalty (somewhere in
> the neighborhood of 30%, even if you haven't spawned any auxiliary
> threads).
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
[ snip ]
: That's from the credits, but there are some more :
: r.c. (mentioned previously)
: molly
: snake
: robot
: etch
: mike
: mr. spell
: lenny
: claw
:
: There were a few others, but I couldn't pick out the names from the
: soundtrack.
Kai Henningsen wrote:
> Linus is the main developer for Linux. That makes him a good benevolent
> dictator. Debian does not have a main developer; Ian has a political, not
> a technical, job.
Linus's position is just as political as Ian's, it's just not so obvious
because the difference in the
Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 08:51:53PM +0200, Christian Hammers écrivait:
> What is your opinion - would this be a good idea ?
Yes, I think so.
I propose you to have some "national" pages which would
held links for non-english speaking sites. e.g. french-links.html beside
links.html (english-speakin
If 'Woody' was offensive, do you think that Disney would have used the
name in their movie? Wasn't toy story rated G? Come on, who is more
sensitive to this than the mouse factory?
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On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ivan Stojic
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Telnet98
I've already taken that one.
Sorry :-(
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My poor mouse only has one ball.
Jim Pick wrote:
>
> Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Since it seems obvious that apt WON'T be finished (GUI bit I mean) before
> > freeze of slink, I have started writing an X clone of the Dselect tool.
> >
> > Although to be ready by 16th will make it pretty much a hack, I think it
>
hi, I have a question about the procedure to become a maintainer.
You should also include some mechanism by which we can verify your
real-life identity. For example, any of the following mechanisms would
suffice:
* A PGP or RSA key signed by any well-known signature, such as any
Please consider a compiliance to Japanese for slanglib
in the next release. The necessary work is only set
#define SLANG_HAS_KANJI_SUPPORT 1
in src/sl-feat.h.
I believe this doesn't affect to English.
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On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 05:43:14PM -0400, Kikutani Makoto wrote:
> Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ?
I'm not one of those who decide that, but I would find it quite
strange if it were not accepted. It's as formal as it could
reasonably get.
Antti-Juhani
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Antti
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 11:26:51AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> Hamish> It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to
> Hamish> think so. Aren't there children's stories with a
> Hamish> character named Woody Woodpecker?
>
> Actually, Woody Woodpecker is a cartoon, still sho
Just a small tar.gz. Not many features are implemented at the moment -
notably, it doesnt update the status file, and it doesnt lock the status
area, but I'm releasing it for testing of the rest of it.
To compile, cd gdselect, and run make. The binary is in gtk/gdselect.
One question: the core si
(for the purposes of this email, consider my sig my resume).
i am an admin at a local high school. our shell server is a p233
with 128m ram and 12gb disk. it will soon be upgraded to 256mb, and sooner
or later, a second processor. it sits on a t1, with incoming ftp supposed
Hi,
>>"Raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Raphael> Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 07:21:06PM +0200, Richard Braakman écrivait:
>> Let's wait till *after* the freeze and do that in the new unstable.
I agree.
>> Frankly, I think it's a bad idea to just break all those pack
Kikutani Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ?
Yes. [Though if there is any opportunity to meet another developer in
real life and cross sign each others keys, this is the preferred
method, where it's viable.]
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