Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:14:17PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > May you should consider VMware's current beta of 3.1? That might have been an option if my VMWare sessions weren't "suspended". To upgrade, they first have to be restarted with version 2.0 and shut down properly. Then they can be u

[Sid] SSMTP and LF bug ??

2002-04-08 Thread null
Hi all, I use ssmtp and mutt but I'am unable to sign mail with GnuPGP I always have the following error : sendmail: 451 See http://pobox.com/~djb/docs/smtplf.html so is it a bug in ssmtp or in GnuGP (I dont think so because pgp signature works fine with sylpheed) ? thanks best regards -- R.

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
I asked: > Were there any other important debates about the GFDL > that should be read? To answer my own question: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html Off to read about 100 messages ... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:01:15AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > Why? What freedoms are important for software that aren't for > > documentation? > > Revisionist history, for one. I'm sure the FSF wouldn't appreciate the > GCC document being modified to make it look like Linus Torvalds wrote >

Re: Orphaned packages in testing which were never in stable

2002-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Michael Stone | On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:08:10AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: | > I have this sneaking suspicion that we need a tool more appropriate than | > the BTS to handle the WNPP. The BTS seems rather fragile for this | > purpose - the format for bug titles and to a greater extent the way

Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-08 Severity: normal Sorry, folks, but it is clear I have not enough time to work seriously on a package like dupload, which is important and should be handled with care. I leave it to someone more active. There are many bugs reported but most are mino

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.08.1943 +0200]: > | we're talking about the PreservePermissions configuration option, > | which is something different. i should have been more clear. > > Uhm, that is actually just not enabled. I might enable it post-woody. really? are yo

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lun 08/04/2002 à 19:12, Dale Scheetz a écrit : > So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain > clauses that can be used, and will be considered non-free. > I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of > the license are not exercised. Using thi

Re: Bug#141686: xbase: name clash with old XFree86 package

2002-04-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:24:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Package: xbase > > Version: 2.0.0-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > xbase |2.0.0-1 | unstable | source > > xbase | 3.3.6-11potato32 |stable | all > > > > This seems pretty broken to me ... it's a source

Bug#141858: ITP: cccp -- Console frontend to DCTC - Direct Connect (peer-based file-sharing)

2002-04-08 Thread Grzegorz Prokopski
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name: cccp Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Hampus Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://members01.chello.se/hampasfirma/cccp/ * License : GPL-2 Description : Console front

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-08 Thread Thimo Neubauer
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 05:44:32PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > > As much as I like to have woody released soon, I'm quite confused > > because I don't understand why masqmail has to go: > > This is "had had to go". > AJ mailed "over the past few weeks". note the plural. Well, the last RC bug o

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:28:19PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The GNU FDL violates the DFSG ? > > > > > > In case this is true, nearly all KDE packages have to be moved to > > > non-free as they use the GNU FDL for the docum

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 05:22:53PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 09:29:27PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > IMO, an FDL-licensed document with invariant sections is non-free. As a > > > user of Debian, I'd like to know that they're not installed on my system > > > if I'm

creating package.substvars

2002-04-08 Thread Shaun Jackman
I'm packaging a library that includes three separate binary packages. 1) the shared library (libnjb0) 2) the dev library (libnjb-dev) 3) sample code (libnjb-samples) I would like debhelper to create three separate package.substvars files, but it's only creating the one substvars. I've read all th

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:00AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > > Let's replace movl %eax,%ebx with xorl %ebx,%ebx ;-) Apply > > ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz. > > It fixes issue for VMware 3.0 an

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Bruce Stephens
"Bao C. Ha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:03:11AM -0500, Donald J Bindner wrote: > > Hi Donald, > >> >> Let me see if I understand this. I am running VMWare 2.0.4 and >> this morning I discovered that it dies with: >> >> VMware Workstation PANIC: >> AIO: NOT_IMPL

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Mark Eichin
> As far as I can see neither the gcc nor the binutils documentation has > invariant sections. I don't know about KDE. Gcc 3 docs do: gcc-3.0/gcc/doc/gcc.texi has (1) the GPL itself [which we already need some way of dealing with, the text of the GPL isn't DFSG but we include it...] (2) the three

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It's your own fault. You choosed to run non-free software, now you get > the consequences. Debian doesn't support vmware, so go somewhere else > with your vmware problems. (Debian does support plex86 and bochs, BTW) > > Jeroen Dekke

Re: Dependencies on libpgsql2.1

2002-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:09:49PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > update_output.txt says: > > trying: postgresql > skipped: postgresql (134+2) > got: 46+0: a-46 > * alpha: courier-authpostgresql, dbf2pg, ddt-server, gda-postgres, > gphotocoll, gtksql, guile-pg, libapache-mod-auth-pgsq

Re: Bug#141070: ITP: aptconf -- debconf infrastructure for setting up apt sources

2002-04-08 Thread Mark Eichin
> That is Horms-versioning. He starts version numbers at 0 instead of I was questioning the "exactly one release which hasn't been touched in 14 months", rather than the actual number; it is a general rule that the first public exposure of something is *not* good enough for real use, and I find it

Re: [Sid] SSMTP and LF bug ??

2002-04-08 Thread Jason Thomas
it is an error reported by qmail, NOT ssmtp, so it is either mutt or gpg's fault. maybe it is just a setting in mutt as it works fine here for me with mutt, gpg, ssmtp and postfix. On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:18:15PM +0200, wrote: > Hi all, > > I use ssmtp and mutt but I'am unable to sign mail wi

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* martin f krafft | also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.08.1943 +0200]: | > | we're talking about the PreservePermissions configuration option, | > | which is something different. i should have been more clear. | > | > Uhm, that is actually just not enabled. I might enable

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 09:01, Richard Braakman wrote: > > On the other hand, by taking action we might be able to stop those projects > > from taking such a misguided course of action. I think the FSF is making > > a big mistake with t

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:24:44PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > The FDL is not DFSG-compliant, but that doesn't make it non-free. > > > > By the definitions we have given "non-free", it is exactly that. > > If it was software, it was non-free. Our definitions are only about > software. The

Re: Dependencies on libpgsql2.1

2002-04-08 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il mar, 2002-04-09 alle 00:49, Colin Watson ha scritto: > To clarify, not all of these packages are buggy in sid. The ones (by > source package) that have a problem appear to be something like this at > the moment: > > courier-ssl dbf2sql ddt gql gtksql guile-pg libch libnss-pgsql > netsaint-

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >I wrote this up last night after getting fed up with this thread, then >modified it this morning after reading the thread on -legal that was >referred to. Flame away. > >http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdl.html Of course, I meant http://people

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ola Lundqvist wrote: >On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:57:42PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdg.html > >Well written. Thanks. > >One issue though: >The license may not require a royalty or other fee for such sale. > --^^^ > >Should

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:53:54AM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > DFSG stand for "Debian Free Software Guidelines". > > > > Yes, and since Debian is 100% Free Software, that applies to everything > > in Debian. > > Documentation isn't software. Neither are conffiles, icons, etc. So, > if we'

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.09.0112 +0200]: > | really? are you aware how buggy it is? > > No. According to the stuff I've seen it gives problems on non-UNIX > platforms, but that shouldn't be a concern to us. okay, well then i'm misinformed. good for us. PreservePer

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Dale Scheetz wrote: >So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain clauses >that can be used, and will be considered non-free. > >I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of >the license are not exercised. Using this lan

Re: GNU FDL

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:09:11PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > Documentation isn't software. Neither are conffiles, icons, etc. > > > > When I buy software, all of that is part of what I buy. Foldoc says > > that one definition of software is "programs plus documentation though > > this do

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:50:21PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > A work licensed under GNU FDL, version 1.1, which consists entirely of > "Invariant Sections" either has no license or is wholly unmodifiable. > Most people on debian-legal agree that this renders the work DFSG-free.

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:17:28PM -0400, Thomas Hood wrote: > I asked: > > Were there any other important debates about the GFDL > > that should be read? > > To answer my own question: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html > > Off to read about 100 message

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-08 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:34:36PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Software." Therefore, for something to be part of Debian, it must be > Free Software, even if it's documentation. Now, this may be an It must be free software, even if it's documentation? So any documentation, if included in Deb

Re: creating package.substvars

2002-04-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > I'm packaging a library that includes three separate binary packages. > 1) the shared library (libnjb0) > 2) the dev library (libnjb-dev) > 3) sample code (libnjb-samples) > > I would like debhelper to create three separate package.substv

Re: creating package.substvars

2002-04-08 Thread Brian May
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:46:48PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I'm packaging a library that includes three separate binary packages. > 1) the shared library (libnjb0) > 2) the dev library (libnjb-dev) > 3) sample code (libnjb-samples) > > I would like debhelper to create three separate package.s

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-08 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:39:31AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 04:34:36PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Software." Therefore, for something to be part of Debian, it must be > > Free Software, even if it's documentation. Now, this may be an > > It must be free software,

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Thomas Hood
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200112/msg7.html > Off to read about 100 messages ... ... and a tedious experience it was. I would like to make the following points which I didn't see mentioned in the hundreds of messages (many of them snipes and flames). 1. Document

Re: Please see the GNU FDL discussion on debian-legal

2002-04-08 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Hood wrote: > Several people said that they didn't want Debian documentation to be > full of political rants. They would like to reserve the right to > delete the parts they don't like from the manuals they package. But > what is this but censorship? And how is censorship compatible with

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