Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and
> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,
> it looks rather pretty, it's slightly more functional than dselect but
> that's about it.. It doesn
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > What do you mean by "break"? If you restart syslogd you have to
> > > restart some other programs as well (squid, teergrube, inn, named come
> > > to my mind.)
> >
> > Can you explain this? This doesn't sound very "normal" to
Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > > > What do you mean by "break"? If you restart syslogd you have to
> > > > restart some other programs as well (squid, teergrube, inn, named come
> > > > to my mind.)
> > >
> > > Can you explain this?
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 06:48:24PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> > Are we going to include "apt" in the base system? Its package
> > ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but
> > currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A "multi-cdrom-ap
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 11:39:28AM -0700, David Welton wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:31:59PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> > "What would you like to see on the first CD"?
>
> Why don't we look at what the most popular downloads have been? Some
> Perl/Python type person ought to be abl
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> That said, multi-CD support in APT would make me an extremely happy
> camper...
This is being worked on, it's a bit of a tricky problem and got caught up
in the Big Rewrite :< So it will take a bit to arrive, maybe before
release, depending how long t
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
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hmm. The revision can be passed through the env var
> DEBIAN_REVISION, and possibly pcmcia is aware of that and uses that?
From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the
correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian revis
Replying to one's own message on the same day... sign of not enough
research having been done on my part. Sorry; here's the update:
On Oct 15, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> At the top of /etc/X11/Xsession, a comment is given:
>
> # global Xsession file -- used by both xdm and xinit (startx)
>
> Howeve
Avery Pennarun wrote:
> I can whip up something like that if someone can feed me the FTP statistics.
One set of stats is available at
http://www.lh.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/debian/toplist.packagesnoversion.txt
that's only for one ftp mirror, though.
--
see shy jo
Anyone give any thought to packaging Secure Locate 1.2? Is there any way to
package this without it conflicting with the standard locate provided in
findutils?
This seems like a much better way to enhance privacy without running
updatedb as nobody and thus making users unable to 'locate' files in
If the package replaces the utilities from findutils and is commandline
compatible, you might want to find out how dpkg-divert and update-alternatives
work. I'd vote for update-alternatives. In any case please negotiate with
the findutils maintainer.
Regards,
Joey
Brian Ristuccia wrote
The APT team is proud to announce release 0.1.7 of the next-generation
packaging tool, APT, which enables users to easily upgrade their whole
system of Debian GNU/Linux packages to the latest versions on the
world-wide network of Debian HTTP and FTP mirrors.
This release covers a few issues with l
Ok, fine, then please insert a pointer to the patchs in the description,
Sorry for that..
But that still leaves the rest of my argument fully intact, and someone
stated in past messages that they sent the patchs directly to the
maintainer and NOT through the BTS, for a binary only NMU.
Zephaniah
Martin Schulze wrote:
> I brought it up already but nobody jumped on.
Great, this time people were sensitively watching.
> Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images.
Everybody agrees?
> Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
> that supp
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:34:54PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:08:46PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard.
> > I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6...
>
> The Debian standard
All I can say, Joey and Heiko, is congratulations. :) Debian's needed
this for a long time, and now we've got it! :)
Ben
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Philip Hands wrote:
> > So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This
> > does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib,
> > non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds.
> >
> > This needs to be addressed quick!
> >
> > Heiko Schlittermann has written
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
> > that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
> > it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
> > to support a new field for each packag
I know this question is slightly off-topic but I don't know where else to
ask.
There are some files which are required in multiple places in the CVS
such as debian/kderules. When I find bugs in such files I'd like to fix them
all at one go (otherwise I'll surely miss some and make things more of a
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > > Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method
> > > that supports multiple cds.[1] The reason why he hasn't uploaded
> > > it yet is that it depends on a hax0red version of dpkg-scanpackages
> > > t
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the
> > first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each
> > CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fits with the URI
>
> Please implement
On 16-Oct-1998, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I don't much care for the notion of a single master package file on the
> > first CD.. I rather was intending APT to read the package files from each
> > CD and use that to determine what is on which CD. (This fi
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:56:56PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we
> Dan> should?" right now. It's "does anyone but Dan have the time
> Dan> to look at http://maste
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
> files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
> method when it reads in the CD info.
Indeed, why don't we do that instead of complicating the CD making
process with
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tyson Dowd wrote:
>
> > There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
> > files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
> > method when it reads in the CD info.
>
> Indeed, why don't we do that instead of
> "Dan" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dan> See, it's not "Is anyone going to?" or "Do we agree we
Dan> should?" right now. It's "does anyone but Dan have the time
Dan> to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and figure out why
Dan> the compiled libstdc++2.8 pa
On 15-Oct-1998, Joao Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
|
| > Hurrying before the slink freeze, here is my intention to package:
| >
| > Package: octave-plplot
| > Version: 0.3-1
[...]
| > [This will be a great improvement for Octave, IMHO.]
| >
| > Actually, I
> > 3. Porters needn't to ask maintainers for permission
>
> No-one has to ask for permission for a NMU. That's the point of a NMU. You
> file a bug, you wait a reasonable time, if it's not closed, you do a MNU.
^^^
Ahhh! No
Hi,
>>"Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm not sure if it's a good idea to release them as a part of a
>> "stable" distribution, as they really aren't. There aren't any
>> guarantees that the stuff that runs today is going to run tomorrow.
Brian> I would agree with you.
Hi,
>>"Wichert" == Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wichert> From what I saw pcmcia parses $(KSRC)/debian/changelog to get the
Wichert> correct version. And since make-kpgd didn't pass the Debian revision
Wichert> I needed to parse that file anyway. So I just changed the regexp
Wic
Hi all,
At the moment I am using pgp2i, but I would like to try and change to
gnupg. My question is - will I need to generate a new public/private key,
or is it possible to use my pgp one with gnupg?
I would really prefer to keep my old one, as otherwise I'll have to
distribute a new key, not t
Hi,
>>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and
>> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the latest version,
>> it looks rather prett
On Thursday 15 October 1998, at 17 h 31, the keyboard of Michael Stone
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files. Magicfilter will print them, as
> will a2ps (maybe some others will too, haven't tried it.) Netscape reads
...
> will grep them. vim reads them just fine. I'm
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 04:06:18PM +1000, Chris Leishman wrote:
> At the moment I am using pgp2i, but I would like to try and change to
> gnupg. My question is - will I need to generate a new public/private key,
> or is it possible to use my pgp one with gnupg?
Technically it is possible to use y
On 16 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> If we are going to staret removing packages because of the quality of
> the software, wonderful. I move to remove all traces of the travesty
> of editors, vi, from Debian, since obviously as editors they are less
> than alpha quality software.
and we shou
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:51:45AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> emacs
M-x toggle-auto-compression
M-x auto-compression-mode
depending on your Emacs. Somebody will probably know how to put this
into a .emacs. My Elisp is quite ... rusty.
Antti-Juhani
--
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:40:38PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't
> > work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe
> > that
> > the best thing that can be done to support laptops
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
:
: There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
: method when it reads in the CD info.
... but not, if the first CD contains all packages files
Is there anyone out there who could do an upload for me?
I have a new better iceconf package ready for upload but I´m sitting on a
mail-only account. So I could mail the package to someone who then copies
it to incoming on master.
Michael
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Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> Ahhh! Now you have it! This is very bad! Because: low on time, low on hd
> space,
> low brain :-), and so on ...
>
> Forget it then. This is not possible. (Reminder: porters (i) talk about > 200
> packages, and after my list 'work for developers' only two people get in
> On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:56:06PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote:
> >
> > The bootstrap compiler is distributed (mostly) as assembler
> > source, so they're clearly platform dependant. The sources
> > for the rest of the system are distributed as Modula 3 source
> > code, so they're clearly platfor
i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as a
message or in the boot disks).
when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the prompt
1FA: comes up, but the system will not boot off partition 1. the disk
controller is AHA-2940. any solutions t
Hi all,
I was just working away on my machine, and using xv to display the latest
results from my raytracing project. The pic came out too small, and so I
went to press shift '>' to zoom it up, only I missed and hit shift '<'.
Low and behold my xserver crashed.
I've since tested and found that
Probably a pretty dumb question:
dpkg-shlibdeps got the dependencies wrong for a single deb in the
python package (tkstep8.0 instead of tk8.0).
The package is already DONE; is it possible to reupload just that
single python-tk with a fixed control file and the same revision, or
do I have to reup
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote:
> i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as
> a message or in the boot disks).
>
> when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain systems, the
> prompt 1FA: comes up, but the system will not b
Hi,
Doesn't the version number convey the alpha nature to people?
Like, it isn't even version 1.0?
Anyway, seeing that it is the maintainer who is asking for the
removal, and the fact that I am not that much of a GNOME user (I fail
to see the point, so far), I withdraw my obje
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:19:22AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Probably a pretty dumb question:
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps got the dependencies wrong for a single deb in the
> python package (tkstep8.0 instead of tk8.0).
Hi, I am the maintainer of tkstep. Can you please make your package
to depend o
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:21:06PM -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> FWIW - I have the same problem. No idled. No logoutd.
> No lines in /etc/porttime. Still get booted off the console
> after several hours.
Perhaps it's your shell; tcsh has auto-logout functionality.
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt VK
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:52:12PM -0400, Seth M. Landsman wrote:
> Hmm, I'm going to have to add a negative data point here. Debian
> installed almost perfectly on my laptop (a Gateway 2300SE) right off of a
> CD. I did have to recompile the kernel for APM stuff and pcmcia
> utilities, whi
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 04:02:41PM -0500, Stephen Crowley wrote:
> That is ridiculous, there is no reason to remove gnome before the freeze, if
> you
> dont like it dont use it. There are several programs that wont run without it,
> including GtkICQ which is about the only usuable icq replacement
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
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:29:11PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Whether or not a program sucks or is alpha has never been a criteria for
> inclusion or noninclusion in Debian, as far as I know. Debian evaluates
> only the quality and policy conformance of the *package*, not the
> *packaged prog
Does anyone know where to find the patches for the infra red serial port?
At least I think there are patches floating around somewhere
Michael
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Fire!
Mu
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> Hmm. We have zless to less gz'd files.
zless nothing, a simple lesspipe.sh works great, for bigger stuff a not
so simple lesspipe.sh (Can give a real complete one if you want, its
what I use) works GREAT...
Gives file listings for
On 16-Oct-1998, Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> :
> : There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
> : files on the CD -- that information could be stored by the multi-cd
> : method when it reads i
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:24:53PM -0700, Marc Singer wrote:
> IMHO it is not appropriate to ship beta software under the guise of
> release software. If it is really desirable to ship gnome, it sould
> be categorized as ALPHA and installed only when a user explicitly
> requests it.
I wonder wh
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
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:39:05PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> Will try to do an upload before the freeze.
Which brings me to a general question. Let's say I maintain software A
version 1.0 and it has open bugs during freeze. Then shortly after it I find
time to look at it and find that version
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:10:20PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
: On 16-Oct-1998, Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:39:38PM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
: > :
: > : There is no reason why the X-Media field has to be in the Packages
: > : files on the CD -- that
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > theone wrote:
> > > Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after
> > > userfriendly characters.
> >
> > Oooh.. that means our releases would even h
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:56:02AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Which brings me to a general question. Let's say I maintain software A
> version 1.0 and it has open bugs during freeze. Then shortly after it I
> find time to look at it and find that version 1.4 has been out already
> which among o
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:19:22AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> Probably a pretty dumb question:
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps got the dependencies wrong for a single deb in the
> python package (tkstep8.0 instead of tk8.0).
>
> The package is already DONE; is it possible to reupload just that
> single
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:52:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this..
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has the
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved and
> >> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked
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
Agreed. To think otherwise is silly.
As I am about to swith to Alpha, I have a conern: I maintain some
dozen or so packages, currently under i386. There are people that go
around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody
goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs fo
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
> James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs
> X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/16743
>
> [Want to know how Debian violates the GPL all the time? Check how
> many GPLed packages in Debian have modifications yet don't obey 2(a).
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote:
> > Michael> Perhaps an incremental approach is good: a good gui for the
> > Michael> existing product in this release, other features in other
> > Michael> releases. Maybe apt will be better, but we haven't seen it
> > Michael> yet (referring to the U
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:26:38PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 01:56:06PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote:
> >
> > Couldn't you extract the arch dep parts in different subdirectories and move
> > them to the correct place in the debian/rules file just before building?
> > So
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill concieved an
> d
> >> is ultimately going to hurt our image. I've looked at the
I may be clueless, but could someone explain to me why this license is
automatic ticket to non-free?
6. Legal
This software can be used freely for any purpose. It can be distributed
freely, as long as it is not sold commercially without permission from
Tomislav Uzelac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Howe
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > 1. binary-only NMUs breaks policity
>
> Probably.
Wrong.
--
James
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If you're building foobar 1.1-3, do you really recompile from a
> > freshly unpacked foobar_1.1-3.dsc?
>
> Yes.
Congratulations; you're in the minority.
> > > Binary-only and normal NMU's are the same thing,
> >
> > No they're not. Why do you insist
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Each day you autobuild say, 30 packages from Incoming.
Building (especially auto-building) packages from Incoming is a bad
idea, please don't encourage it.
--
James
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> James Troup wrote:
>
> > Who said [binary-only NMU's for i386] were bad?
>
> You did.
No, I said binary-only NMUs as a whole were not ideal; I didn't say
anything about binary-only NMU's for i386. Please try to stick to the
facts.
> > They are very rarel
I wrote:
> It occurs to me that upgrading a package should delete old versions
> of user-uncompressed doc and info files.
Santiago Vila wrote:
> The package system is not supposed to read your mind.
>
> You should never uncompress files "in place" because then dpkg will be
> unable to remove t
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:20:02AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs
> > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/16743
> >
> > [Want to know how Debian violates the GPL all the time? C
[Cc'd to debian-devel and the findutils maintainer]
In debian-devel, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Anyone give any thought to packaging Secure Locate 1.2?
Yeah, I posted an intent to package about the same time you posted this.
BTW, at least version 1.3 is out now.
>Is there any way to
>package this
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > >>"Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Michael> Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > >> I think this idea of 'lets quickly do something fast' is ill c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > [Want to know how Debian violates the GPL all the time? Check how
> > > many GPLed packages in Debian have modifications yet don't obey 2(a).]
> >
> > I think there should be a /usr/doc/emacs20/README.Debian what says that
> > /usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/startup.
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:54:53PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Are you trolling? As I've said 3 times already (at least): because
> they only affect one architecture. And because there are perfectly
> valid reasons to do binary-only NMUs (which you seem
Hi,
I agree with the enclosed copyright notice.
Octave's author also has no objections.
Please correct, if still possible, my e-mail address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks,
Joao
Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Ola Joao,
Thanks for your prompt reply.
> "JC" == Joao Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...and as of yet, no libssl09 on non-us.debian.org.
(there's a 180 day old bug report on this one)
-Thomas
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:21:06PM -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> > FWIW - I have the same problem. No idled. No logoutd.
> > No lines in /etc/porttime. Still get booted off the console
> > after several hours.
>
> Perhaps it's your shell; tcsh has auto-logout functionali
Hi,
I've (finally) packaged Xbat. The licence is GPL. Here's some info
pasted from the debian/control file.
Package: xbat
Architecture: any
Section: games
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: A classic shoot-em-up game for X11.
Xbat closely resembles th
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> maybe a compromise would be to leave the packages in slink, make sure
> the Description: field highlights their alpha status, and automatically
> close all non-packaging bugs (and forward them upstream if it makes
> sense to do so).
>
I hope this is
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
On 16-Oct-1998, Joao Cardoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I agree with the enclosed copyright notice.
| Octave's author also has no objections.
|
| Please correct, if still possible, my e-mail address: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > The files in the source distribution have no copyright notice, but by
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 01:51:25PM +, Jakob Borg wrote:
> I may be clueless, but could someone explain to me why this license is=20
> automatic ticket to non-free?
I may be just a clueless however let me highlight..
>
> 6. Legal
> This software can be used freely for any purpose. It can be di
Hi,
>>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> I think there should be a /usr/doc/emacs20/README.Debian what says that
Peter> /usr/share/emacs/20.3/lisp/startup.el was modified to load
Peter> debian-startup.el at startup.
a) You must cause the modified files to carr
Hi,
>>"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Peter> So, at least Craig Sanders and Santiago Vila are so engrained
Peter> into Debian that they now think the original usable file is
Peter> the gzip'ed one, not the author's original text. I disagree.
Count me in with C
"John W. Eaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Do other Debian packages that are supposed to be released under the
terms of the GPL include `All rights reserved' in their copyright
notices? If so, can you tell me which ones?
What I have heard is that `all rights reserved' is just a generic
Hi, Enrique!
> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 02:40:38PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> >
> > 1. Official booting disketes - DOES NOT work (tecra also!)
> > 2. Official kernel 2.0.34 - DOES NOT work (constant reboot)
> >
> > The only thing that work was loadlin thru Win95 :(
>
> To identify the
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information
> usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Jstk.so
> I have always gotten this error. I don't know how to fix it, but it
> doesn't seem to hurt anyone.
Well, this isn't a shared library that's going to be linked to,
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:18:23AM +, Duncan Thomson wrote:
> > i've seen postings about this before, but as yet no solution (either as
> > a message or in the boot disks).
> >
> > when debian is made bootable from the hard disk on certain system
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:26:38PM +1000, Stuart Lamble wrote:
> Doing things this way would entail a new source package each time a
> new architecture is bootstrapped. Probably the cleanest way overall,
> though, when all's said and done.. and no doubt Guy (or whoever's
> currently maintaining th
James Troup wrote:
> i.e. "I can't actually respond to this, so I'll dismiss it as flames."
> Good effort.
Ie, you weren't talking to me and I have better things to do with my life.
One wonders why you don't. Thisporting effort seems to lead to a lot of
bitter people being involved in it. One won
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:24:21PM +1000, Chris Leishman wrote:
> I am running XF86_SVGA server, at 1280x1024 res, 16-bit. I am
> running slink and have updated everything to the latest releases.
Interesting - how exactly does it crash? What card do you have?
I have gleaned a bit more informat
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