drivers optional? If ndiswrapper moved to contrib would this package
have to move to?
I am not providing an opinion here, but I didn't notice these issues
being discussed earlier.
back to your regular program...
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What does the "block" command do? I have never seen it documented
anywhere, including at http://bugs.debian.org/>. Did I miss
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2. is it possible to list all bugs that are not blocked?
3. does blocking imply any action will automatically be taken
appear that NEW is blocked for some reason.
However, no changes in my upload are critical (at least none that I am
aware of), and there are no known security bugs, so I am not
complaining. Just curious.
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un, and this meant I
couldn't run any executables that required libc6.
Eventually I was able to run ldconfig from a preexisting chroot, and
my system was fine.
Maybe it has changed now, but it didn't look like the applications
were falling back to ld.so.conf when this happened.
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trchr(lang,"_");
if (ptr) *ptr='\0';
memset(buffer,'\0',sizeof(buffer));
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new packages with known source code end up in the
NEW queue?
The source code has already been examined for the US export
legislation.
e.g. if soname changes on shared library, it requires the package be
renamed which appears as a new package.
Could be an issue if such an upload contained securit
treated equally to the
other candidates, despite her superior, bossy, know-it-all cat
attitude.
Wouter> Besides, I don't like cats anyway.
You should be expelled instead! ;-)
Wouter> ... then again, maybe this isn't.
Huh ? ;-)
Wouter> Get over yourself. Please.
No! T
have done this, realize there is only one thing left to
do. Find the guilty party. There is only one guilty party. IT WAS ALL
TUX' FAULT! TUX IS EVIL! EXPEL TUX NOW! BURN TUX!
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cpu.
What the heck? Are you implying that would be a suitable well-formed
patch suitable for inclusion? Or did I miss some sarcasm?
Apart from the NULL pointers, strdup only takes one parameter...
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ven "make him go away"? Would it make him lose
interest? Or would the arguments continue either with Sven (from
outside the project) or somebody else to take his place?
Would the next step be to ban Sven from participating in our public
mailing lists?
Has the world gone completely crazy?
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machines that use a non-Intel based CPU, as it makes me nervous that
Intel and AMD have such a huge monopoly.
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fact the source code is in Debian would imply that
the ftpmasters have already checked the licensing, legal issues, and
other things?
In contrast it is possible to upload packages containing new upstream
source code (but no new packages) that has no manual checking.
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> I just received this from Brian. The feature of dpkg to skip certain
> directories when unpacking a .deb has been discussed already. How easy can
> this be implemented?
In fact, as part of the Deity project, I'd like to do something a little
more elaborate. I'd like to b
o currently it is either group read/write or world read/write.
If somebody knows CVS well enough to tell me how to overcome this, I'd
appreciate some advice.
Brian
of the dependant packages
would have to do something or lose the ability to include their own
packages.
Perhaps we could integrate this with the "new developer" screening. To
become a new developer, you must take over one of the orphaned packages.
Brian
ackage updates are few and far between. Anything that other packages
depend on are generally refused outright unless it is extremely important.
"Leaf" packages are only allowed in if the existing package is non-functional
for some reason.
ny effect on Bo and this
should be easily done before Hamm gets released, I don't see how this
will accomplish anything as far as the "public" user base is concerned.
in the world could also submit code via one
of the people in the group.
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dy is free to take it if they want. I think you overestimate the
amount of bandwith used, though. Unless we're archiving the entire
source tree with all developers using it, I sincerely doubt there will
be any problems.
Brian
free, 'cause it has restrictions on profit-making. I think Frotz
> could go in the main distribution, but I'll have to check on that...
None of the Infocom games can be distributed, however. You have to
buy them.
-dozen years or so. The "infocom" program handles all the games
I've ever tried with it, so I don't see why it is obsolete.
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eview you speak of. When it passes that, you can merge that back to
the main tree for use/release. At least, this is one way...
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See the "apple2" package description for an example.
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edistributable code not being
suitable for the primary distribution. I've never seen how it helps any
cause other than sticking a finger in the eye of those who might like
to keep some medium of control over their work.
proves_ the overall quality of the product for
everyone.
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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
ck to the author is a separate issue, and
> one that we've already promised to do.
But your promise in not the point. The author wants this promise from
everybody. It's the best way to be assured that improvements get
distributed to everyone and not just a select gr
at none of the core system will
depend on such packages, but I don't see any advantage to simply disallowing
such copyrights from the main distribution.
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> How about a description on www.debian.org on how to submit a bug report? With
> a link that will
> download software (f.e. the bug package) to make a bug easier etc etc.
Having a form that can be filled out on the web would also be a good idea.
t time.
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> available for libc6, then you'll have to continue to upload libc5
> versions.
>
> Uploading libc6 versions of dynamic libraries is the first priority.
I'd like to set a date after which all new uploads must be libc6. How
does July 31st sound?
nt? I
think this would be a good idea since otherwise things are going to get
pretty messed up. We might want to do all three immediately.
I voiced this idea once before and got some support for it.
Bri
There are some maintainers that must keep their machines on the stable
tree (and thus libc5) for various reasons.
Is there a machine somewhere these developers can log in to for the sole
purpose of building release packages?
Brian
macs have their own timer support, therefore I
> believe this is also obsolete.
I've removed this from hamm and will remove it from Bo when the next
release gets made. (assuming I remember ;-)
Bri
ot; is frozen. (later?)
Yes, they should be. When do we remove all the non-libc6 packages, though?
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indices/Maintainers.gz file,
> >you maintain the following packages:
> >
> >itimer
> >repair
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whose directory does not appear in tarfile
Hmmm... I'm not sure what to do about this. The version of tkgnats
I built is significantly different from what was in the original
archive. If 'patch' isn't smart enough to create a directory that
didn't exist originally, wh
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> Do we have a netscape 4.0 install package? I cannot connect with master
> right now so I cannot check it.
There used to bea 4.0-beta installer, but it didn't work for the later
betas, so I removed it.
Brian
;t remember which section
I got a specific package from. Was xgalaga in X11 or games?
>From a "use" point of view, the user knows what package documentation
he's looking for when going into /usr/doc, so why does a large directory
make any difference?
Let's leave it the way it
know if I'm wrong on that or anything. I should have a
package ready in about a week or so.
Thanks,
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Brian
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote:
>
> [Brian Bassett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> > I was wondering if anyone was working on packaging the University of
> > Michigan's LDAP server and client sui
. I didn't think it was a Cygnus project. Does anybody know
why it's just not "gcc 3.0"?
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> Brian> Morality is a touchy subject and (in my opinion) the _only_ place to
> Brian> draw this line is all or nothing.
>
> Agreed, except that clearly illegal stuff should be banned, of
> course. I doubt anyone would condone a child_pornography.deb package,
> for instanc
e2fsprogs", and just make it
> conflict with old "dump" and "quota" packages. There's not much
> chances anybody else will complaint, except for people having build
> local packages depending on it.
>
> Anyone has objections to this ?
S
As far as I can tell from the Packages files, this is his current list
>> > of packages:
>> >
>> > Source fortune-mod:
>> > fortune-mod, fortunes
>> >
>> > Package chos
If Helmut's packages are being orphaned, I think I'd like to pick up
>>>>> Brian Mays wrote:
>> This is the rxvt maintainer here. Rxvt has many optional
>> compile-time features, one of which is the behavior of the
>> backspace key. Normally, I avoid modifying as many of the
>> "upstream"
Hello all,
I've got a package which sets up firewalling/forwarding for kernels
with that support compiled in. These scripts started life in a howto,
and are GPL'd. Would anyone object to me uploading it to master for
inclusion?
Thanks,
Bri
Sounds like a good idea.
Brian
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Gergely Madarasz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Here is the description:
>
> rinetd redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another.
> rinetd is a single-process server which handles any number of connections
>
releasing a "spam filter" packages into experimental within the
next few days. That should help some people.
Brian
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I think this is a very good idea. I know that the ipmasq package would
greatly benefit from this kind of arangement.
Brian
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Adam P. Harris wrote:
>
> Maybe I should submit this as a wishlist to the bug system, but I was
> interested in getting some comments firs
Perl CGIs.
Any advice is welcome.
Brian Bassett
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I stand corrected. DebAdmin looks dead before it gained life.
A note to whoever is now maintaining the WNPP list: You probably want to
remove the mention from section 7 about the need for an admin tool.
Brian
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Joe Emenaker wrote:
>
> On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Brian B
g started when I dial into my ISP.
For example, I have configured my ip-up script to start fetchmail (in
daemon mode) and grab articles for my local news spool unless the file
/etc/no_mail exists. Therefore, if I need to quickly dial in, say to
fetch a file, I create this file before starti
that name.) If so, could not both emacs19 and xemacsnn both
"Provides: emacs"?
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Hi all,
In response to my "Debian Administration Tool" post, I was told that it
had been decided that Caldera's COAS was to be the tool of choice. I was
wondering if anyone was working on packaging it. If not, I'd like to do
it.
Thanks,
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en I happen to use 2.20 instead of the 2.4.x versions.
Of course. I, the Debian maintainer of rxvt, am packaging the new
version. Actually, I've already assembled the package. I am currently
testing it, so it should be uploaded sometime this week when I'm satisfied
that I have work
aintainers must be aware of this copyright change
because the latest stable rxvt release is under the GPL.
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have just bought a
> CD. And many users are forced to use new kernels because of their new
> hardware drivers.
> These package are already a working feature of hamm... why would we remove
> it?
The 2.1 kernel is not part of Hamm and so these packages are _not_ a working
feature o
e 2.2 kernel, they can download the latest
packages.
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should be as problem free as possible. If people
start mixing things from different CDs, they have to realize things may
not work "out of the box".
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.1 kernel that do _not_ have any sort of internet
access? Also, how likely are the current versions of these programs
to work with future versions of the unstable 2.1 kernel and the 2.2
kernel that will eventually come from it?
Brian
t will eventually come from it?
>
> What about people who need such support now (before the cd is released).
Get it from "unstable", just as you have in the past.
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> acquire them as I run dselect?
Yes.
> Or, more generally, am I supposed to not use dselect to manage these
> packages?
The subject in question is whether to include these packages in "stable".
"unstable&quo
> Brian, here in Germany, every Megabyte you have to download is costing real
> money. A lot of money. Please put as much on the CD as possible. Declare it
> extra, put it in an unstable dir, put warnings all over the place, but
> please include it.
>
> We already exclude non-f
o see this because
I want to encourage fixes from everyone -- not just the maintainers. Thus,
I would have to include debian-devel even though it is obviously just
for the second list you describe.
Brian
thing, but just that you should think at least
once before installing it.)
Acceptable?
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I'd like to coordinate so we can use the same wrapper scripts, plugins, etc.
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> 2. Netscape Communicator - Binaries downloaded from
> http://home.netscape.com/ and repackaged in .deb format.
Don't forget "netscape installer".
Brian
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> but if you think it is appropriate...
I was thinking "project/experimental" would be better, but I don't think
that goes out on many CDs.
aths in
its files.
> Also, another point I am worried about. Included in the tarballs are hooks
> into an automated software update mechanism. I have that disabled, as that
> would not fit well with the debian way of maintaining things. Anyone else
> have id
the backbones out there who are already getting under
the load and doing the work. You know who you are.)
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"Reboot" button will
reboot (useful if you also have Windows 95 *yuck* on your computer).
In my opinion, this is much more useful than Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
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anyway. Perhaps including project/experimental isn't such a good idea
after all.
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ey those packages would be
there.
As release manager, I don't have a problem including project/experimental
as long as there is room.
The choices are: don't ship them, ship them in contrib, or ship them
in project/experimental.
My preference would be the first or the thi
it can be installed is someone
cd'ing there and running dpkg by hand.
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> already stored in the .nif files by netscape. I will most likely be getting
> around the problem with symlinks. Anyone see any problems with that?
What symlinks do you mean?
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correctly.
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> > So, when will Hamm be released? You decide. It's up to the devolpers
> > to set the date by fixing the problems that are currently holding up
> > the release. As soon as the last release-necessary bug gets closed or
> > downgraded, we'll probably be ready
a good idea. I'll talk with the testing group and see when they
think this would be feasable.
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>=1.2) and fnlib. Both imlib and fnlib are
already packaged for Debian, and are both GPL free.
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Then they will start testing
all the actual packages. They hoped to have it done earlier, but something
about exams getting in the way... Sheesh! Where are their priorities?
Testing Debian is a monster job!!! The best way to hurry the release is
to join the testin
> Brian, this is a useful list, but please sort it by Maintainer or by Package
> rather than by bug number:
Several people have asked for this, but maintainers already get separate
reports about their packages and reports by package are available on
the web site, so I don't really und
> are considered critical to the release then you can stop sending it along
> with those nags.
The message is intended to inform _others_ of the problems that exists
in order to encourage them to help solve those problems. When people
whine about "Whe
rmine where help is needed, as well as
> possible.
True.
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#x27;t observed anything like this behaviour with devfs, so I
suspect this is udev specific.
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On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:20:05AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> @Bernard, I intend to package swsusp2 for Debian, just letting you
> know...
>
> * Package name: kernel-patch-swsusp2
> Version : 2.1.5.15
> Upstream Author : Bernard Blackham
removes all these potential nasty flame wars about the
pros/cons of various licenses.
I wanted to verify the license, but the upstream web page of
http://www.example.org/> didn't work for me. I suspect contacting
the upstream author at "Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" would
> Brian, are you listening ?
Yes. I get my reports directly from the bug system so if it gets updated
there my reports will reflect that.
Brian
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l packages in the filesystem structure of a
Jorge> remotely-booted machine.
If a package directly uses /etc/init.d/ in its scripts, file a
bug report.
It should use invoke-rc.d instead. man invoke-rc.d
It should work for chroots, and does work for pbuilder.
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:53:57PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Debian currently ships two ODBC driver managers, unixODBC (source
> package "unixodbc") and iODBC (source package "libiodbc2"). These
> basically do the same thing. Every package that wants to provide
> database access through
>>>>> "Joerg" == Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joerg> You know, our userdir-ldap manages ssh keys. You dont need
Joerg> to put them manually in .ssh dirs.
How do you set the ssh key in LDAP?
I can't see any settings in db.d
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Fathi BOUDRA wrote:
> I'm looking for a sponsor for my qt4lab package.
> The project seems already promising, and there's a collaboration
> with qwt project.
>
> You can find my package here :
> http://fboudra.free.fr/debian/
>
> best regards,
>
> Fathi
free software based there. Just look at the
ITPs here.
Unfortunately the website doesn't seem to be working right now.
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:03:07AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:31:52AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > If you really want to retain your "everything is software" point of
> > view, think about the consequences and work on them _before_ starting
> > the removals - and pr
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