Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 09:49:22PM -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

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Oct-98, 18:02 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marc Singer writes: > > I was under the impression that putting hooks in to use crypto was enough > > to raise the hackles of the export hounds. > > Standing near the border and thinking about prime numbers is enough to > raise the hackles of

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:36:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I can arrange to have the debian version passed in the ENV > variable KDREV, or something. That would be clean. That sounds excellent. I will await it eagerly :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-17 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "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

Re: what is non-free in this license?

1998-10-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:47:16PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THIS PROGRAM - whatsoever. You use it entirely [..] > > > > What I hi-lighted I do believe violates the DFSG.. > > > > Zephaniah E, Hull. > > Huh? Where do the DFSG say this? > See http://www.debia

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread john
Steve Greenland writes: > While I agree in principle, you might want to ask Michael Elkins first; > it's conceivable that he could be brought into any litigation I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I don't use mutt at all, myself). > ...simply having to defend himself le

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-17 Thread Martin Mitchell
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody > goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for i386! So if > I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha, the Alpha will have > the current versions, and perhaps the

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: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:38:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Greenland writes: > > While I agree in principle, you might want to ask Michael Elkins first; > > it's conceivable that he could be brought into any litigation > > I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US residen

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:40:53PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Branden> Topi Miettinen has done some research on this. When we > Branden> get SysV-style pty support in glibc, xterm can lose its > Branden> root priv

Re: updates to Debian pages

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >A link has been added from all the /Pics -> ../english/Pics on > master. >They weren't added to CVS as it doesn't handle special files very well. >Its only important that master have them anyway, so the pages the public > sees >have t

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:02 -0400 1998-10-16, Branden Robinson wrote: Topi Miettinen has done some research on this. When we get SysV-style pty support in glibc, xterm can lose its root privileges altogether. I hear this will be in glibc 2.1? Yes, that's correct. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bugs with X

1998-10-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:53 -0400 1998-10-16, Branden Robinson wrote: I definitely want to build debugging versions of the X libraries, but as yet I don't know how to do it. The makefiles for X are byzantine. [snip] But I do want to get debugging versions of the libraries soon. As soon as I can figure out how. It's

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Fri, 16 October 1998 20:38:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I don't use > mutt at all, myself). Some time ago (can't remember any version numbers) the PGP version was hacked by Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> right after the

What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Christopher Barry
Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208&pid=128#147 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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: > > > > Na

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Christopher Barry wrote: > Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: > > http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208&pid=128#147 Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole bunch' of code names? scnr Joey -- GNU GPL: "The source will be with you...

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:34:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Brent" == Brent Fulgham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brent> I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base > Brent> disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple > Brent> operating systems.

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:25:57AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information > > > usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Jstk.so > > > > > I have al

syntax highlighting in gtk

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I read so much about a patch needed to get syntax highlighting. Do we have that patch in out gtk libs? If no, why not? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner

Intend to package gxedit

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I just found it and on first glance it looks great. It looks like a very nice editor. Also provided is a small tool to show some information about the system named xproc. If anyone else is interested I would give him the links but if noone is I will package it as time permits. Michael -- Dr. Mi

More interesting gnome/gtk software

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I found more than GXedit. There is a nice task timer available named gtimer. I might package that one too. Also there is a GTK mp3 player named replay. It is GPLed but based on amp. I wonder if this is correct. Anyway, since I seldom play MP3s I let this to someone else. I also wanted to try gqmpe

Re: [owner@bugs.debian.org: Debian bugs information: logs for bug#26827]

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:00:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo su -s /bin/sh nobody -c "ls /" > > Unknown option -s > > sudo? adding a unnessary layer here, but anyways.. Just to make sure I don't have to enter any passwords. :-) > It IS implied that its FULLY g

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Alexander Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some time ago (can't remember any version numbers) the PGP version > was hacked by Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> right after the > normal version came out. > Right now Michael Elkins has a job enslaving (sp?) him to use a > Mickeysoft OS any he do

gtimer

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I just notices that it has already be packaged. Great. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Use Debian Unternehmensbe

mutt

1998-10-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
Look like there is consensus to move mutt-i to main. In the next days I will upload it along with some fixes. -- ciao, Marco

g++ dependency problem

1998-10-17 Thread Shaleh
The latest g++ on debian.midco.net (2.9.57-4) depends on libstd++ (>= +2.9.57). The plus there seems to be causing a problem as all that can be found is 2.9.57.

RE: g++ dependency problem

1998-10-17 Thread Shaleh
Of course that should have read 2.91.57 (-: On 17-Oct-98 Shaleh wrote: > The latest g++ on debian.midco.net (2.9.57-4) depends on libstd++ (>= > +2.9.57). > The plus there seems to be causing a problem as all that can be found is > 2.9.57. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want > a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use > GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr being a high priority and/or > essential (can't remember if it is

intent to package xmeter

1998-10-17 Thread Bo Branten
Description: rstat display for X Xmeter displays a periodically updating histogram of the system statistics gathered by rstat(3) for the specified hosts. Meters can be displayed in a vertical, horizontal or rectangular arrangement. As statistics range between 4 user defineable levels (O

intent to package minfo

1998-10-17 Thread Bo Branten
Description: GNU Info file browser for X

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread john
Roland writes: > I don't understand, what the Author (Michael Elkins) ... Mr. Elkins should be innocent even by the standards of the anti-encryption kooks as long as he had nothing to do with the installation of the encryption hooks. > ...or the current Maintainer of the upstream version (Thomas

Re: mutt

1998-10-17 Thread john
Marco writes: > Look like there is consensus to move mutt-i to main. In the next days I > will upload it along with some fixes. Do you think we should check with ME first? While I don't believe he is at any risk of prosecution, we should respect his wishes. We should also consider moving any ot

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-17 Thread Christian Hammers
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:06:32PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: > As Linux becomes more popular the hardware manufacturers will start > giving away drivers with the hardware, as they do for WIN95/NT/Mac. > If we give them the option to release the drivers as closed source > then most of them will.

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread john
Joey writes: > Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole > bunch' of code names? I'd still like to use penguins. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Ma

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
john> I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. -- Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match. -- The Economist,

Re: mutt

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:42:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Marco writes: > > Look like there is consensus to move mutt-i to main. In the next days I > > will upload it along with some fixes. > > Do you think we should check with ME first? While I don't believe he is at > any risk of pr

/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs

1998-10-17 Thread Russell Coker
How are these files generated using dh_gencontrol? IIn the following file the version number of libkdeui should be 2. However it gets generated as 1 and I can't work out how I'm supposed to make it 2. Apart from this my kdelibs0g and kdesupport0g packages are coming along well. I got the impress

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi Roland. On Sat, 17 October 1998 10:36:48 +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > I don't understand, what the Author (Michael Elkins) or the current > Maintainer of the upstream version (Thomas Roessler) have to do with > us (Debian) offering their program on our US ftp servers. I meant it'd be nice

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Oct-98, 08:33 (CDT), Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:06:32PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: >> [forcing manufacturers to release device drivers as free software] > Maybe somewhen this will happen, but during the next few years, the > hardware manufact

SUMMARY -- (was Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs)

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One wonders why you don't. Thisporting effort seems to lead to a lot of > bitter people being involved in it. One wonders why. Anyhow, TTFN. Well, I think I can see why. Because porting is a thankless and gruelling task. You come head to head with every li

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > john> I'd still like to use penguins. > Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. Hmh.. no. ,-) I prefer comics and things like that.. argh, so to say. :-) Alexander -- "Matthias needs someone to smack him upside with an iron c

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is true, and this should be fixed, IMO. If "Debian", as an entity, > is making a decision to become multi-arch supportive, then maybe it's > time to update the older rules that were made when x86 was the only > arch, and time to implemen

apt: small download

1998-10-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, I would like to see a possibility to stop apt-get from downloading all necessarry packages. Eighter by breaking the download (like it is possible with dpkg-ftp ^c) or by giving the amount of files i want to download. This will give me the possibility to upgrade my system even with a small

Re: Bug with xv?

1998-10-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
>> >> 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'

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Bart Schuller
People, The fact that there even exist two debian versions of mutt should tell you that it was an issue for people. Looking through the changelogs, I see that mutt was moved to non-US in Feb. 1997: mutt (0.61.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. * Now non-US. (Bug #7257) --

Intent to package sart and panorama

1998-10-17 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Sart is a ray-tracer written in Scheme. Panorama is a framework for 3D graphics production from GNU. None of them are finished, but they could be quite useable before our next release. -- The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to its feet in the deepest part of a very deep lak

Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-17 Thread Rob Browning
I've installed the rvplayer package, but even something as simple as rvplayer /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm doesn't work. The app comes up, and then it just sits there. Does this work for others? (verson 5.0-6) Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B9

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:55:48PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > People, > > The fact that there even exist two debian versions of mutt should tell > you that it was an issue for people. Looking through the changelogs, I > see that mutt was moved to non-US in Feb. 1997: > > mutt (0.61.1-1) unstab

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Dave Swegen
> On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > john> I'd still like to use penguins. > > Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. Cool, a linux named Opus. Can it get better? Cheers Dave

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread john
Bart Schuller writes: > Has anything changed since then, or do we have a too short collective > memory? I had always assumed that everything in non-us contained encryption code, as do the few things in it that I have actually used. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domai

something is f***ed

1998-10-17 Thread Stephen Crowley
Ok, i just apt-get upgraded about an hour ago, to my horror i can no longer login, nor can I su, it just sits there doing nothing. I also cannot telnet to localhost. Someone on irc just upgraded also and got the exact same problem. What is going on!? -- Stephen Crowley Debian GNU/Linux Developer

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:57:50PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > john> I'd still like to use penguins. > > > Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. > > Cool, a linux named Opus. Can it get better? Chilly Willy was another

Re: something is f***ed

1998-10-17 Thread Stephen Crowley
I found out the problem is in sysklogd, not sure what is going on though. -- Stephen Crowley Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- pgp8zboM3TGbD.pgp Description: PGP signature