Re: dinstall and PGP

md5 hash with md5sum, > manually edit the .changes file and sign it. I've got a little shell script I use that seems to work okay. I can send it to you if you'd like. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: another look at release-critical bugs: lpr

around already in place for this bug, but the maintainer left the > bug report intact because he wants to find a cleaner solution. > > Hence this discussion of lpr <-> lprng is pretty much off-topic, and > distracting to the point in question. > > He probably should have ch

Re: p2c 1.20-2.4 is now lintian-compliant and in Incoming.

eems the debian/rules > file predates debstd though. > > Can someone who *does* know exactly what 'old source format' means look at > and possibly close bug #9514? I just checked, and it's no longer in old source format. Someone should close #9514. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

to resolve prelease numbering > problems. (So what good is this thing anyway?) I've always read that section to mean that you shouldn't use pre-release numbering to begin with. Adam Klein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reality check!

On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 04:17:16PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote: > "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would see this as a RH-style - so a rather bloated kernel which includes > > lots of stuff as standard, and asks them the pertinent questions all at > > once at the beginning, and then

Intent to package wterm

wterm is another Rxvt hack. It is designed for use with Window Maker, although it will work fine with any window manager. It includes transparency, N*XTStep-like scroll bars, and colored shading. It is smaller and faster than Eterm. You can find it at .

Re: Intent to package wterm

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:17:39AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: > > > wterm is another Rxvt hack. It is designed for use with Window Maker, > > although it will work fine with any win

Re: Intent to package wterm

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > I mean the debian patches. Some of them are incorporated upstream, some are > not. Oh, fro the rxvt package? hmm. Do I need to incorporate those? Adam

Re: dinstall can now announce packages & close bugs for you

On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:10:11AM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: > dinstall, the software which installs packages into the hierarchy, can > now announce packages and close bugs for you. Hmm, is it really a good thing to have dinstall announce the uploads? I often depend on the announcements to alert me

Anyone have a slink box I could use?

I need to make a new frozen release of wmakerconf, but my system is potato all the way. Does anyone have a computer I could compile this on? Adam

Bug#34579: Removing ncsa from the dist?

> reply to bug in which ncsa exits with an error on startup (sorry it's been so long. this bug got lost in the shuffle somewhere) Apparently, this problem can be fixed by specifying a group to run as in /etc/ncsa/httpd.conf. However, ncsa doesn't seem to actually _run_ as that user/group. Really

Putting distributed-net back up for adoption

When Joey Hess decided to get rid of all his non-free packages, I snapped up distributed-net, but I was a bit too hasty. It has a rather large number of bugs filed against it, and it's been exhibiting some weird behavior (apparently caused by the glibc2.1 move). And being a binary-only package, i

Re: Putting distributed-net back up for adoption

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:41:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Klein wrote: > > number of bugs filed against it, and it's been exhibiting some weird > > behavior (apparently caused by the glibc2.1 move). > > Really? That's odd since it is a statically linked

Intent to orphan ncsa

The subject pretty much says it all. It's got a weird thing with glibc2.1 where the group must be set in the config file, and it doesn't seem to set[ug]id correctly. adam -- a jolly daemon kin

Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)

On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:52:31PM +, David Coe wrote: > Germano Leichsenring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > By the way, am I the only one grepping the "available" file?? > > No, and (for those of you who don't already know), there are > two nice packages that make doing so even easier and