Re: Bug#124624: foiltex: Spelling error in description

2001-12-28 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#124624: foiltex: Spelling error in description Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 17:21:17 -0500 > --- orig/foiltex Mon Dec 17 15:52:33 2001 > +++ corrected/foiltex Mon Dec 17 15:59:03 2001 > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > Package: foiltex > Description: A colle

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread Neil Spring
from "man make-kpkg": --flavour foo This option is now deprecated in favour of --append_to_version. --append_to_version places modules in the place you expect, and coexists well with modules. I use it all the time. -neil On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:25

Bug#126716: ITP: quake2 -- popular 3D first person shooter game (engine only)

2001-12-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: quake2 Version : 3.21 Upstream Author : iD Software (unmaintained) * URL : ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/q2source-3.21.zip * License : GPL Version 2 Description :

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-28 Thread Simon Law
I just got this message from debian-devel: If you are running gnome-terminal, then can we merge the two bugs together and call it fixed? Simon -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 14:54:59 -0800 (PST) From: Michael P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Bug#126567: libreadline4 no longer respects directory separators in tab-completion

2001-12-28 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:40:28AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > This leads me to suspect that you might have the same problem. > > Can you test to see if it works in the console or not? As well, can you > > test to see if you've been getting double tabs in your terminal? (Which > > termina

Re: Debian Weekly News - December 27th, 2001

2001-12-28 Thread David N. Welton
Christer Gundersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tried FreeBSD? Seen the ports? Take a look at www.freshports.org, > what about something like that? that will help people a lot. at > leased me :) I made an attempt to create a 'Debian Package of the Week' page, but I don't have time to maintain it

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-28 Thread Davide Puricelli
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 05:20:30PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > Perhaps a per-maintainer listing would be helpful here, then: [snip] > Davide Puricelli (evo) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > xchat Version affected by this issue were 1.8.6-1 and 1.8.6-2, 1.8.6-3 comes with a patch that fixes the problem.

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:31:01AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: [...] > > my %virtual1 = {}; > > while (<>) { > chomp ; > s/#.*//; # strip comments > s/^\s*|\s*$//g; # stri

Re: Build systems (was Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.))

2001-12-28 Thread Matthias Klose
Adam Heath writes: > On 27 Dec 2001, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > * Adam Heath > > > > | dbs(doogie build system, debian build system) > > | > > | See autofs, apache, x(contains a pre-alpha version of dbs). > > | > > | Do NOT see glibc, gcc. Those use dpatch, which was around before dbs. > > Db

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 10:53:24AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:49:12PM +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 09:19:16AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > My own approach? Write your own parser for a simple 'key = value' style > > > confi

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:31:01AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: [...] > > you can verify that this does what you want by using the Data::Dumper > module. e.g. by adding something like the following lines to the script: > >

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:29:49PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > The last time I checked the maximum sentence for treason in Great Britain > was death... Hmm, that can't be right. Aren't the brits complaining about the US wanting to execute terrorists, because of conflicts with EU declaration of huma

ITP remstats, ITP bcp

2001-12-28 Thread Robert Jördens
retitle 77533 ITP: remstats -- RRDtool-based network-monitor that can launch alerts retitle 113051 ITP: bcp -- Copies files over links so lossy TCP does not work pgp33O6D5iCT4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Wolfe) writes: > Actualy, I believe that the mkisofs maintainer should have seen that a > new option was created and notified the maintainers of anything that > depended on mkisofs ... That's pushing it, I think. I've had several experiences as a maintainer where somet

Bug#126747: ITP: pload -- a program to monitor network device statistics

2001-12-28 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package: pload Version: 0.9.5 Author: Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/ License: GNU General Public Licence Description: a program to monitor network device statistics Pload is a program to monitor ppp network devic

Bug#126748: ITP: wmpload -- a program to monitor network device statistics

2001-12-28 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Package: wmpload Version: 0.9.5 Author: Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.engr.utk.edu/~mdsmith/pload/ License: GNU General Public Licence Description: a program to monitor network device statistics Wmpload is a Window Maker dock application to mon

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread Guy Geens
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: martin> *except*: kernel-image-2.4.17+fishbowl writes its modules to martin> /lib/modules/2.4.17, but e.g. the pcmcia-modules package that martin> i generate puts its modules under martin> /lib/modules/2.4.17+fishbowl. This was a bug i

Re: RFP: EVMS

2001-12-28 Thread Kevin Corry
> > The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled > > flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for easy > > expansion or customization of various levels of volume management. > > > > Think of it as LVM done right. > > I heard about this at Linux Kong

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.28.1648 +0100]: > This was a bug in kernel-package, but it should be fixed now. > > (kernel-package 7.75) okay, i got 7.76 yesterday because of the failure to build kernel-source. nevertheless, it isn't fixed: [abridged...] piper% dpkg -l ke

Re: orphaned packages in DWN?

2001-12-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Adam! You wrote: > I agree. Although we should perhaps have a second mailing to > debian-devel listing packages that have been unmaintained for a while, > and are getting old enough to remove. I'm currently working on this. See also the threads on -qa on this (some weeks ago). -- Kind rega

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:02:29PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > my %virtual1 = {}; [...] > $virtual1->{$user[0]}->{$fields[$_]} = $user[$_]; [...] > When running the script using this module, I get this error: > > mrmime_SLASH:/# install-slashsite > Global symbol "$virtual1"

Bug#126775: omniorb-doc examples don't compile

2001-12-28 Thread W. Borgert
Package: omniorb-doc Version: 3.0.4-2.4 Tags: patch I have adopted the examples to autoconf/automake. This works very well. Maybe one can push this to the upstream developers? What I did: All files dir.mk, dir.mak, GNUmakefile, *.module, *.pkg, and the obsolete directories lifecycle and partcl

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
What do people think? Please copy mails that you consider important in this context to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] so they get recorded properly. Regards, Joey Florian Weimer wrote: > Package: klogd > Version: 1.4.1-8 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: security > > The package i

from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Tom Jongsma
Hello,   I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian Woody, but I don't have a free internet connection. Can I update my potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine at home? I can't find cd-images (iso's) of debian woody. Aren't there cd-images of

Re: Bug#124624: foiltex: Spelling error in description

2001-12-28 Thread Ingo Saitz
MoiN On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:44:19PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - font, options for setting normalsize at 20pt (default), 17pt, 25pt or > > + font, options for setting normal size at 20pt (default), 17pt, 25pt or > > I got an above reports and I

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:58:34 +0100 "Tom Jongsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian > Woody, but I don't have a free internet connection. Can I update my > potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine at > home? I can't

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Eric Lammerts
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Tom Jongsma wrote: > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian > Woody, but I don't have a free internet connection. Can I update my > potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine at > home? I can't find cd-images (iso's) of debian

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:58:34PM +0100, Tom Jongsma wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian Woody, > but I don't have a free internet connection. > Can I update my potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my > machine at home? > I can

visual c

2001-12-28 Thread Ing. Luis Chávez Romo
I am tired of been a windows user. Let me know if there is an easy way to move  an aplication developed in visual c to linux. Thank you for your help. Luis Chavez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#126798: ITP: sjog -- A program to use the "Jog Dial" on Sony Vaio Laptops

2001-12-28 Thread Hugo Haas
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: sjog Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Sylvain Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sjog.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A program to use the "Jog Dial" on So

Re: visual c

2001-12-28 Thread Erik Steffl
> "Ing. Luis Chávez Romo" wrote: > > I am tired of been a windows user. Let me know if there is an easy way > to move > an aplication developed in visual c to linux. it depends on libraries used, if the libraries are not available for linux than it might be quite hard. Another option is to h

Re: An alarming trend (no it's not flaimbait.) (fwd)

2001-12-28 Thread Brian Wolfe
This is why I labeled it as "if it were me". Of course I tend to take a harder view of whats the programmers responsibilities when releasing a package than most people. Maybe it has to do with my overbuilt sense of getting things done right and not being blamed for breaks too frequesntly

Re: from potato to woody without a free internet connection

2001-12-28 Thread Ganesan R
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:58:34PM +0100, Tom Jongsma wrote: > Hello, >   > I'm running debian potato right now. I want to upgrade it to Debian Woody, but > I don't have a free internet connection. > Can I update my potato by burning a cd on school. And Install it on my machine > at home? > I can't

Re: WARNING: Jack Howarth is an agent of destruction

2001-12-28 Thread Herbert Xu
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, that can't be right. Aren't the brits complaining about the US > wanting to execute terrorists, because of conflicts with EU declaration > of human rights? But the terrorists (well, except for any British nationals among them) can't be tried for tre

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Herbert Xu
> Florian Weimer wrote: >> Package: klogd >> Version: 1.4.1-8 >> Severity: wishlist >> Tags: security >> >> The package installation scripts should offer to run klogd from >> inittab, since klogd regularly dies in OOM situations and is not >> restarted if the current mechanism is used. This is bo

Re: Bug#126750/749: klogd/sysklogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Martin Schulze wrote: > What do people think? Go for it. The OOM killer will hit just about anything which is not a kernel thread, and losing syslogd and klogd is a major no-no. I do thing one should warn about the change on upgrades through a debconf high-priority note, tho

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Herbert Xu wrote: > This is bogus, anything can die in an OOM situation. Are you going to > put all daemons into inittab? True, true. However, sysklogd and klogd are logging daemons. They deserve some special treatment IMHO. Actually, I am pondering doing such a thing to ssh

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-28 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 10:53:06AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Several emulators (apple2, atari800, gnuboy, gsnes9x, gtkiemu, nestra > pose, uae, vice, and xtrs) from contrib should also move to main > immediately then, as you can't argue that there will never be free > ROMs for those either. Fu

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-28 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Quake and doom have been released for ages. I am not aware of any > way to play them without using non-free data files. There was a group > that was trying to put together free data for Quake, but I don't > think they're close to

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:11:15PM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > print Dumper($virtula1); > > I spent some time try to understand why it was failing ;) oops. yeah. i should have cut-and-pasted the script i got working in /tmp instead of what i originally typed in the message. there

anyone interested in maintaining cvsweb?

2001-12-28 Thread Joey Hess
I wonder if anyone has any more interest in maintaining cvsweb than I do? I feel viewcvs has thoroughly superceded it in functionality, and if I could come up with a transparent rc file converter, I would just make the cvsweb package sidegrade to viewcvs. Failing that I'm still looking for some way

Re: RFP: EVMS

2001-12-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 10:28:47AM -0600, Kevin Corry wrote: > > > The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled > > > flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for > > > easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume > > > management. > >