On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 03:44:04PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote:
> Rather than attempt to list all the freedoms that Debian guarantees,
> why not list the *restrictions* on freedom that we do allow, and say
> that any other restrictions violate our guidelines.
I like your idea - I wonde what it woul
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> that for all compliant distributions, /var/mail *MUST* be a valid way of
> reaching the spool directory (i.
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:18:05AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 11:43:33PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
>
> [ interesting solution to exercise 1, which I'm not quoting to avoid rule
> (2), but I have to comply with anyway because I want this message to make
> its
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 08:13:14PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Depends on the cat :-)
>
> Indeed.
>
> Now all we need is a way of petting /bin/cat, and we can automate payment.
This one is easy. Install this as your cron job:
grep straying /bin/cat; touc
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> > that for all compliant distributions, /var/mail *MUST* be a valid way of
> > reaching the spool dir
> but I haven't heard any technical reasons besides, "Moving spool
> directories is hard". When I and others have pointed out that moving
> the spool directory isn't required; just a symlink, I have heard dead
> silence. So the lack of technical discussion, but just a stony-silence
> "No!" is rat
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> If people really want to be able to verify package integrity we might as
> well go the whole way. Ian Jackson posted (1.5 years ago I think) a
> proposal that would secure the complete stage from building a package to
> distribution on the mirrors.
>
> One simple one - I want my mail on the spool disk. Its in the grows
> randomly, mostly crap, doesnt cause hassle if it fills for a while
> category
That, I believe, is not the majority opinion. At most industrial
sites, mail spool overflow is a major crisis.
> I have no problem with a "both pa
> 1. Interoperability with other systems.
10+ million Linux boxes use /var/spool/mail. Its also a spurious claim. All
existing tools assume linux uses /var/spool/mail. Other systems even sharing
via NFS dont get problems with this /var/spool usage
> 2. Disk space management.
We've proved between
Before I'm going to confuse people: I didn't mean to start the whole
voting procedure this soon; I should have worded that better.
After asking around a bit and seeing the reactions here it looks like
most people would like to see a new logo. The license is also
troublesome (and very hard to find
I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at the
LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still looking for
more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if you'll be attending
LinuxWorld. I'm also looking for a source to donate some CD's to give out,
Have you been looking at the current draft floating around? (latest revision is
at: http://master.debian.org/~gecko/dfsg.text). It does that in part. It
starts by listing the freedoms and then lists the acceptable restrictions.
On 25-Jan-99 Chris Waters wrote:
> Rather than attempt to list all
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at the
> LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still looking for
> more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if you'll be attending
> LinuxWorld.
Call me ignora
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:12:28PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at
> the LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still
> looking for more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if
> you'll be attending LinuxW
Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at the
> > LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still looking for
> > more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if you'll be attendi
On 25 Jan 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at the
> > LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still looking for
> > more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 08:28:40PM -0500, Dale E. Martin wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at the
> > LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still looking for
> > more volenteers to help man the
Alan Cox writes:
> > 2. Disk space management.
>
> We've proved between us that both views are held here. This therefore is a
> rather spurious claim. A (maybe) symlink called /var/spool/mail that points
> somewhere arbitary is all that is needed for this issue. The FHS need
> say nothing else
I
I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task.
I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a
logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria
I remember off the top of my head are:
Works in B+W (the official version may, of course
On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and
> another, more restricted logo for things like official CD's and so.
> To phras
Hi guys,
I just updated my potato system. The only two packages that were being
updated were debhelper and egcs-docs. I got a warning from dpkg that
debhelper (it seemed) was trying to overwrite /usr/bin/passwd. Due to all
of the trojan rumours flying around, I got a little scared. Also, I
cou
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Hash: SHA1
Why is the www data under /var/www, while ftpd's stuff is under
/home/ftp? Ain't ftp probably more `var'iable than www data
(incoming!)?
I personally thing either the ftp hierarchy should go to /var/ftp, or
the www data should move to /home/www (the
Quoting Juergen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I personally thing either the ftp hierarchy should go to /var/ftp, or
> the www data should move to /home/www (the latter I'd prefer).
/home/(ftp|www) is just plain ugly. (It's a real pain when you're trying
to share nfs home dirs between web server
Why don't we officially not have an official logo?
If 5 years from now, everybody likes a certain "unofficial logo"
(ie. Debian equivalent of the BSD daemon), we could go with that.
Cheers,
- Jim
In foo.debian-devel, you wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just updated my potato system. The only two packages that were being
> updated were debhelper and egcs-docs. I got a warning from dpkg that
> debhelper (it seemed) was trying to overwrite /usr/bin/passwd. Due to all
> of the trojan rumours flying
Hi Mitch,
> Could you please post the version(s) you have and which mirror you
> got it from?
Sure! chsh and chfn were also in debhelper! I got debhelper using
dselect/apt. Here is all the info you requested:
% cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contr
On 25-Jan-99, 21:11 (CST), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. It's creates a first-class and second-class logo.
"It creates", of course. I just love looking like an illiterate
boob in front of several thousand people...
Steve
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Hm, now theres a worrisome compile message. :-)
Anyway, for you early adopters, I've made source and debs available at:
ftp.netgod.net/linux/v2.2
Heres the checksums:
ca629746d5baa1f3024a780312c96e28 kernel-doc-2.2.0_2.2.0-1_all.deb
40d6ddb94ac0c0
The $1E6 question is now (a) why debhelper has symlinks pointing passwd/
chfn/chsh to sysdb-wrapper, and (b) where sysdb-wrapper comes from.
--Jeff
Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi Mitch,
>
> > Could you please post the version(s) you have and which mirror you
> > got it from?
>
> Sure! chsh and chfn were also in debhelper! I got debhelper using
> dselect/apt. Here is all the info you requested:
>
> % cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> deb http://http
Good greif. I'm sorry about this snafu. You weren't hit by an exploit
attempt, just by a debhelper package I managed to leave some junk in. This
is fixed in version 1.2.29, and it only affected version 1.2.28.
Background:
Yesterday I fixed a bug in dh_link, bug #23255. That bug concerns a
Hi Mitch,
> It doesn't look like a trojan (this weeks hot topic) because his pgp sig
> matches the md5sum of the tarfile, and the tarfile reproduces the symlinks
> in the resulting deb.
Great! That's good to know.
> So, I would just treat it as a bug. Please file a critical bug report
> agains
Hi Joey,
Thanks! I won't file that bug report now. :)
-Ossama
__
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26
In foo.debian-devel, I wrote:
> Well, I got the deb and source and dsc from the mirror you pointed out,
> and it _does_ have these files as symlinks in them pointing to
> sysdb-wrapper.
>
> It doesn't look like a trojan (this weeks hot topic) because his pgp sig
> matches the md5sum of the tarfile
Joey Hess wrote:
> I'd say installing debhelper 1.2.28 with --force-conflicts is a _very_ bad
> idea.
Unfortunatly, it looks like the current version of dpkg has
--force-overwrite (which is what I meant to say above) enabled by default.
And so anyone who ran dselect in the past 24 hours and upgrad
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On 26-Jan-99 Wichert Akkerman wrote:
[snipped the original]
I'm all for this, lock stock and barrel.
> To select the winner we should form a small group of developers to
> select a top-10 from all submissions and use those as the other options
> for the offic
Package: skkinput
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(B
(BHi,
(B
(BI try to use skkinput in my gtk application. Everything's OK with the
(Bexception of this:
(B- if skkinput is open when I close my application, then my application
(Bsigsegvs. If the skkinput has no windows opened, than my application
(Bexi
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On 26-Jan-99 James A. Treacy wrote:
> I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task.
>
> I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a
> logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria
> I rememb
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > You have yet to explain what will BREAK if people continue to use the old
> > font packages. Not in the future, RIGHT NOW.
>
> Oh, you have yet to explain why a clock bomb is *not
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 09:11:47PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> > logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and
> > anot
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:15:37 + (GMT)
> but I haven't heard any technical reasons besides, "Moving spool
> directories is hard". When I and others have pointed out that moving
> the spool directory isn't required; just a symlink, I have hear
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:09:34PM -0500, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> > that for all compliant distributions, /var/mail *MUST* be a valid way of
> > reach
Hello ,
Best regards,
Dmitry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote:
> I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task.
>
> I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a
> logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria
> I remember off the top of my head ar
Dale E. Martin wrote
> Then I tried to use idraw, which I've used in the past a _bunch_ of times.
> It keeps segmentation faulting on me, and so I went to look at
> bugs.debian.org and the bug report about this is over 100 days old.
... and it is solved now :)
Actually I have to say, if I would
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 07:26:19AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
> >What if someone gets hold of the Linux kernel and uses it to guide nuclear
> >missiles? (Well, at least they have to share their changes with us :))
>
> Only if they distribute the control systems :>
You'v
On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 04:20:51PM +, Robert Woodcock wrote:
> Many of you are painfully aware that there are some issues in slink that are
> impractical to correct before release.
>
>
> xbase -> xbase
>twm
>xterm
>xbase-clients
>xdm
>xf86setup
How abo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Hmmm. swinstall (HP-UX native I think) seems to support dependencies.
> It's pretty ugly though and I don't know if there's a command line version.
Yes, you can drive swinstall from the command line. It's not pretty, but it
works.
Unfortunately, there
GLADE is the implementation of the Distributed Systems Annex for GNAT,
the GNU Ada95 compiler.
Since there already is a GLADE (a Gtk GUI builder), I will call the
package gnat-glade since this is really a GNAT add-on.
Sam
--
Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:22:13AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. swinstall (HP-UX native I think) seems to support dependencies.
> > It's pretty ugly though and I don't know if there's a command line version.
>
> Yes, you can drive swinstall fr
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 09:33:16AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> hamm was released with a pre-selections wrapper, where you could chose
> certain sets of pre-selected packages. it works, but could use some
> improvement and probably needs to be updated for slink - there's a good
> place for you to
> At least that way applications that want to use the same dirctory as the
> vast majority of other Unix systems will work without needing a special
> case for Linux. However, I would much rather see us adopt the full,
> correct solution, rather than this half-measure.
How can changing from /var/
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:39:07PM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote:
> Hm, now theres a worrisome compile message. :-)
>
> Anyway, for you early adopters, I've made source and debs available at:
What about uploading everything but the kernel-image package for Slink,
now that Bryan has said he will acc
Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> (BTW, is kernel-headers still needed? libc6-dev ships with a full set of
> headers, doesn't it?)
Right, but those are for 2.0.36 and the ones that come with 2.1/2.2 are
different (and yes, I need those new ones thus I have to manually edit the
things in /usr/include everyt
The keyboard of Kragen Sitaker emitted at some point in time:
>
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> > that for all compliant distributio
> But I don't think the FHS should be specifying the actual location of
> the files at all. True, the FHS should not cause too much pain for the
Ok good we agree on this
> The only thing that really matters is what pathnames applications can
> count upon to work. Given that the rest of the wor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think it would be great for Debian to get 2.2 in to slink, even if it is
> priority extra.
I agree it should be included. We can change the priority so it's not
automatically installed and warn people that it is experimental/might break
things in dselect's descript
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > You have yet to explain what will BREAK if people continue to use the old
> > > font packages. Not in the future, RIGHT NOW.
>
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 16:49:57 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> NOTE: For those that are on the ball, they do seem to be considering
> removing idea from the base source and having it as a seperate module
> (similar to GnuPG's approach).
Another freeness issue (albeit a relatively minor one) is that
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 16:34:58 -0500, Daniel Martin wrote:
[my rant deleted]
> I have yet to learn how to navigate this area, and am often surprised
> at how strongly an offhand comment is taken.
Smilies might have helped. In this case, your comment really triggered me. I
seldomly flame, but in
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 10:33:27PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:09:34PM -0500, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> > > If we must back out /var/mail (for no good technical reason that I can
> > > determine), then at the very least I think we should state that there
> > > that for al
> I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and
> another, more restricted logo for things like official CD's and so.
This seems like a logical solution. Having the official "Debian" logo
could p
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:50:52PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 16:49:57 -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> > NOTE: For those that are on the ball, they do seem to be considering
> > removing idea from the base source and having it as a seperate module
> > (similar to GnuPG's appr
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> > logos: one logo with a liberal license that people can just freely, and
> > another, more restricted
> I'll give you one solid reason, uniformity across unix platforms is a
> must have if unix, especially free unices, are going to succesfully
If we are in marketing mode let me point out we are not Unix in the first
place and that C:\> is the standard
> I don't see a connection between /var/spoo
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:19:20AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> I'll give you one solid reason, uniformity across unix platforms is a
> must have if unix, especially free unices, are going to succesfully
> dominate the market. Sun/AIX/HP-UX/OSF/SCO are not going to change,
> but we could prove ou
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:42:18PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Upgrading a system from hamm to slink should make the system to be in the
> same state as if slink had been installed from scratch.
Indeed. All of my systems have remnants of base and timezone remaining.
(Actually I just discovered t
Thanks for the binary but...
when trying to boot with it the kernel uncompreses, gives the message
booting kernel and then stops. My machine is a cyrex 686 200. Does the
binary only work for intell chips? I noticed that specific suport for
non intell chips is a feature of 2.2.0. I guess this means
[I am cross-posting this to debian-devel and to the plplot mailing lists.]
Hi Geoffrey,
Thanks for the announcement of this much awaited new snapshot of PLplot.
Being the maintainer of both plplot and octave-plplot packages for Debian
GNU/Linux, I would like to add some comments to your message:
A package I maintain uses libtool. To remove the rpath stuff, I
apply this patch to configure.in. Now lintian tells me that the executables
have rpath set too! Is there an easy way to fix that?
Also, because this package (geda) includes a library, debhelper
is generating an shlibs file for it. Bu
Previously Steve Greenland wrote:
> 1. We have to agree on *two* logos :-).
No, we have to agree on a *set* of logos: we simply request that each
submission consists of two logos.
Wichert.
--
==
This combination of byte
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> A package I maintain uses libtool. To remove the rpath stuff, I
> apply this patch to configure.in. Now lintian tells me that the executables
> have rpath set too! Is there an easy way to fix that?
>
> Also, because this package (geda) includes a libr
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 01:27:13PM +, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'll give you one solid reason, uniformity across unix platforms is a
> > must have if unix, especially free unices, are going to succesfully
>
> If we are in marketing mode let me point out we are not Unix in the first
> place and that
Greetings,
We have just released auditd version 1.10 for linux.
Auditd is part of the linux kernel auditing toolkit. It
will capture auditing trails created by the kernel audit
ing facility from /proc/audit, filter them, and save them
in specific log files. For the moment,
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Steve Greenland wrote:
>
> > On 25-Jan-99, 19:06 (CST), Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I agree with James Treacy's observation that we will probably need two
> > > logos: one logo with a liberal license that people
Source: simulpic
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
Package: simulpic
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Description: Microchip PIC device simulator
This software allows to simulate the execution of any program
I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing
gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize
the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current
contest (dreams) ends. Details and submissions will be at the usual
site: http://c
I am trying to write a perl script that needs to make some
calculation based on free space in several partitions. What's the best
method for checking the free space in a file system using perl? Without
using backticks and unix commands, is there any better mean to do it?
--
Eduardo Marcel
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > an easy fix for that? Splitting the packages is a possibility, but
> > libgeda is of absolutely no use on its own yet, and I don't think there
> > is anything for a libgeda-dev.
>
> I have found this in
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Daniel Martin wrote:
>
> If we are going to have a gimp.org done contest, I would like to see
> that the rules allow people to use things that are not gimp, but that
> are DFSG free software. I find the command-line pnm tools very useful
> in manipulating images, and it woul
reassign 28850 general
thanks
This bug is now fixed in gettext_0.10.35-7.
However, somebody should check that every suid application in slink which
is statically linked against gettext is recompiled with the new gettext.
(Maybe doing "gettextize -f -c").
Thanks.
--
"6525d3e1b6548dd210c536bf09
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing
> gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize
> the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current
> contest (dreams) ends. Det
Hi,
>>"Ted" == Theodore Y Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ted> I keep hearing people claim that distribution folks are saying "ick",
Ted> but I haven't heard any technical reasons besides, "Moving spool
Ted> directories is hard".
Fine. Here are a few.
I, and a number of other
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, it's in San Jose California, March 1-4th.
Thanks. Then I can't volunteer, although I frequently seem to find myself
in San Jose :-)
Later,
Dale
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| Dale E. Martin | Cl
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:42:18PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Can you *guarantee* that the package now called xfonts-base will *always*
> have the same functionality and will always be *identical* to the one
> called xfntbase in hamm?
>
> Can you *guarantee* that the package now called xlib6g-s
This is getting WAY out of hand here. How about this:
The mail spool MUST be accessible through /var/mail AND /var/spool/mail,
and spool files MUST take the form /var/{spool/}mail/$LOGNAME. Either
/var/mail or /var/spool/mail, or both, MAY be symbolic links to another
directory. It is RECOMMENDED
"Guenter Geiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... and it is solved now :)
>
> Actually I have to say, if I would have been the one who was supposed to fix
> the
> bug, it would have taken me another hundred days, and probably I would have
> lost
> my last hair upon this ...
>
> But luckily, t
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Whilst I have no objections to such a change in rules, I am baffled that
> anyone could prefer xpaint to gimp, even for drawing straight lines and
> ellipses.
gimp won't run on smaller machines.
Also, there's Rick Hohensee's caligraphic patch for (if I reca
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> reassign 28850 general
Bug#28850: gettext: security problem when used in setuid programs
Bug reassigned from package `gettext, libc6' to `general'.
> thanks
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Andrew writes:
> You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any
> laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear
> weapons under their international treaty obligations)
On the contrary. The "military", at least in the US and the UK, act in
ac
Will some guru tell us what critical packages we need to update
in order to use 2.2 ?
kerneld is replaced by something else, etc.
I guess that if I'm asking that means I should wait for a proper
Debian upgrade. Or does kernel-image-2.2.0-i686_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
have all the dependencies sorted out
On 26-Jan-99 Randy Edwards wrote:
>One question I had was out of the two options you list above, which
> category do you see our present logo falling into: the liberal license or the
> official logo? Or would this new logo contest be used to choose logos for
> both categories?
>
Because of t
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:23:34 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
>/home/(ftp|www) is just plain ugly. (It's a real pain when you're trying
>to share nfs home dirs between web servers, for example.) I use /var/ftp
>on my own system (well, actually /var/local/f
Hi,
In response to an issue on -legal, I am reopening the debate on how free
those parts of debian which are not software (or not precisely software)
should be.
IMO, this debate should be conducted on -policy, and I ask all replies to
this message to trim the CC: line.
This issue was discussed i
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:33:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> > You've forgotten something. The military act as if they are above any
> > laws. (If they cared about obeying laws, they would be disarming nuclear
> > weapons under their international treaty obligations)
>
> On the contrary.
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Will some guru tell us what critical packages we need to update in order
> to use 2.2 ?
I'm not a guru I guess, but I can cut&paste something from
linux/Documentation/Changes:
- Kernel modules 2.1.121 ; insmod -V
- Gnu C 2.7.2.3
Branden Robinson:
> [...]
> Only now do you seem to be concerned.
No, this has been a frequently asked question for some time in
debian-user. I should probably add it to the Debian FAQ.
Please, note that I'm not blaming you for not having thought about this
problem *in advance*. I just want to se
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > modutils, gcc, binutils, libc5, libc6, ldso, procps, sysutils, psmisc,
> > hostname, loadlin, shellutils, autofs, nfs-server, bash, ncpfs,
> > pcmcia-cs, ppp, util-linux.
> >
> > If you get the versions of these packages that are in the currently
> > frozen Debian dist
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> I reiterate my challenge. Demonstrate to me a manner in which a
> hamm system upgraded to slink, which keeps the old X font and static
> library packages, will be broken.
I hope you will agree that sometimes we have to think about the future.
With
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