Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Feb 1999, Jim Pick wrote: > I'm not sure if you need to provide the original symbol - I think > ld.so is smart enough to pull the appropriate symbols from the > appropriate libraries (providing their symbol maps were set up > correctly). There's at least 50 pages of documentation explaining

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-02 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
Hi! > Jason Gunthorpe writes: >> There is apparantly an EGCS patch called libapi, available in the >> Debian egcs package, which is supposed to implement the above. >> Adopting and improving this patch would definitely solve your >> GNOME problems, Jim. JG> Can you give us some pointers

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-02 Thread Jim Pick
> > There is apparantly an EGCS patch called libapi, available in the > > Debian egcs package, which is supposed to implement the above. > > Adopting and improving this patch would definitely solve your GNOME > > problems, Jim. > > Can you give us some pointers? This sounds like a good thing for

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-02 Thread Jim Pick
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are currently 72 things that link against imlib. I suspect that > > > about half were linked with the 'old' imlib and half with the 'new' imlib. > > > > That's to be expected. The current situation demands that all those > > apps should be

Re: x11amp

1999-02-02 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > The fact that they hold *a* patent does not put Debian in any sort of > > jeopardy. If anything, it would be the authors; Debian is complying with > > GPL completely. > > Well, yes, but we still have to abide by the patent laws, do

Re: Proposal for new architecture support/distribution

1999-02-02 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:37:50PM -0500, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > Unless I'm severely mistaken, the userland for all lines of Power* CPUs > > should be identical, minus a few hardware-related programs. T

News site for Free Software people?

1999-02-02 Thread Lalo Martins
[Please don't follow up in debian-devel; I'm not subscribed to this one and also it's not the right place for this discussion. I'm only bringing it up there because more people read it, but people there who want to follow the thread may subscribe to debian-publicity which is the correct place] I'm

Serious Debian website problems

1999-02-02 Thread John Goerzen
OK, I've written on both of these topics before, and nothing has happened for months, so I'm writing here. First, Debian's list archives will most likely die a horrible death on January 1, 2000. That's right, folks; lists-archives is not year-2000 compliant. Not only will dates in indexes appear

[Fwd] Uploaded pam 0.66-1 (source i386 all) to master

1999-02-02 Thread Ben Collins
Just in case anyone missed this on the changes mail list, and so I can explain some of the changes, what I have done and why. First off, my goals were: 1) Upgrade to the latest version 2) Close as many bugs as possible (closed 10 or so that were lingering but already fixed, and actually closed

RE: Serious Debian website problems

1999-02-02 Thread Darren Benham
On 02-Feb-99 John Goerzen wrote: > OK, I've written on both of these topics before, and nothing has happened > for months, so I'm writing here. > > First, Debian's list archives will most likely die a horrible death on > January 1, 2000. That's right, folks; lists-archives is not year-2000 > com

Re: Proposal for new architecture support/distribution

1999-02-02 Thread Phillip R. Jaenke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > But assembler for one powerpc should work on another. If it doesn't, > then it should be fixed. We have a working mpg123. Indeed, but it won't work on an RS64 II, or a Power2. > Processor is not the issue. Tha

Re: Neat gtk/gdk-imlib pain

1999-02-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 1 Feb 1999, Jim Pick wrote: > > Ideally the devel GTK/etc -should- co-exist with the stable stuff, if it > > doesn't then I think that is a serious problem. I can tolerate apps from > > potato breaking left and right, but old apps from slink? Bleck. > > I'm becoming more convinced of the need

Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-02-02 Thread Martin Schulze
FYI: I have sent in two abstracts for talks at the Linux Tag, one of them is about Debian GNU. Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: x11amp

1999-02-02 Thread Stephen Crowley
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:50:01PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 03:30:41PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote: > > > But that is not the reason why my first guess was non-free. It was > > > the fact that mpg123 is in non-free, and x11amp is (according to > > > the docs) based on it

Re: Proposal for new architecture support/distribution

1999-02-02 Thread Oscar Levi
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 07:54:41PM -0500, Phillip R. Jaenke wrote: > I honestly cannot say I have seen a Linux system acting as a fileserver, > or a workgroup server of any sort, in the sense of handling user logins > and home directories, as well as applications. I have. The trouble is that Samb

Re: [Waaaaay Off-Topic] Bring out your dead!

1999-02-02 Thread Robert Donn
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:02:10PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 01:50:28PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > We could then have conversations like this with our users: > > > > CART DRIVER: Bring out your dead! > > LARGE MAN: Here's one! > > CART DRIVER: Ninepence. > > B