Re: bumping the version number

1995-12-08 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bruce Perens writes: Bruce> Yes, a code name would be a good idea. Let's hold off on that until Bruce> Ian Murdock can do it - I've stuck my neck out enough today. We could also "hide" in private/project. -- Dirk Eddelb|ttelhttp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Re: solving some of our FTP problems

1995-12-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bdale Garbee writes: Bdale> This solves the problem, since Pending wouldn't allow uploads, and Bdale> only things that look like packages with changes files for which all Bdale> the pieces look intact would be copied. Scripting this doesn't seem Bdale> hard, either... wake up once in a

Re: bumping the version number

1995-12-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Michael Alan Dorman writes: Michael> Although they could mirror if they had a special userid/password Michael> (as I believe has been set up)---they would just have to do it in Michael> multiple parts... As the maintainer of the mirror package, I am happy to confirm that you do not need

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Robert Leslie writes: Robert> Package: efax Robert> Version: 07a-2 Robert> Robert> 1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should Robert> probably now say /etc/efax.rc instead. Thanks, I will modify that for the next release. Robert> 2. /usr/bin/fax should prob

efax-07a-3

1995-12-16 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
This release fixes the bugs from #2033. If you are using efax-07a, please install this and let me know what you think about, esp. the interaction between preinst and postinst. This is required to save changes that a user could have made to /usr/bin/fax from efax-07a-{0,1} before the sourcing of

Bug#2041: efax errors on installation

1995-12-17 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Karl Ferguson writes: Karl> /var/lib/dpkg/info/efax.postinst: [: too many arguments - Weird. I tested this a bit yesterday while I implemented it, and of course tested the installation on my box before I shipped efax --- in short, it doesn't do this on my computer. Can you trigger the er

efax-07a-4

1995-12-17 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
I am indebted to Robert Leslie and Karl Ferguson for spotting two stupid errrors in yesterday's release of efax-07a-3. Thanks, guys. So here's a new one and it'll hopefully last longer than 24 hours ... Date: 17 Dec 95 22:39 UT Source: efax Binary: efax Version: 07a-4 Description: efax: Progr

Re: New ftp method for dselect

1995-12-18 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Ian Jackson writes: Ian> Right. In order to avoid having to rename lots of packages or change Ian> their version numbers I propose the following naming scheme for files Ian> on the FTP site in the `binary' directory: Ian> Ian> --[-].deb Ian> Ian> Note the two hyphens. Could

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-28 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
hangeLog: Sun Dec 17 16:34:41 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * efax-07a-4 release * debian.rules: include missing debian.preinst (bug#2041) and really create the directories in /var/spool/fax * debian.postinst: quoted strings (bug#2041) Sa

Bug#2069: GNU last doesn't use ut_addr

1995-12-29 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new acct code (last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold your breath. -- Dirk Eddelb|ttelhttp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

mirror-2.8-1

1995-12-29 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 29 Dec 95 17:18 UT Source: mirror Binary: mirror Version: 2.8-1 Description: mirror: Mirror script for keeping ftp archives up-to-date. Priority: Low Changes: * mirror-2.8-1 release * mirror.pl: applied patch by Michael Alan Dorman to fi

Bug#2083: machine hangs when ftping large file

1996-01-03 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
The problem is due to your Intel Etherexpress. That card is _evil_. They are to slow for fast LANs and get out of sync. I tried to use one (given as a loan) for some months last year, There were zillions of similar bug reports on comp.os.linux.networking. While I agree that this answer is unsatis

Bug#2069: GNU last doesn't use ut_addr

1996-01-03 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: Miquel> There is a last with the GNU copyright in sysvinit. It isn't Miquel> compiled and installed by default, but it is small and fast. That sounds good to me. As your sysvinit package is part of every Debian installation, we could use this 'last' binary an

Bug#2069: GNU last doesn't use ut_addr

1996-01-03 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Marek Michalkiewicz writes: Marek> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dirk> I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new Dirk> acct code (last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold Dirk> your breath. Marek> How about using last from util-linux? It has the stand

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1996-01-03 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
[This goes to debian-devel only.] Raul Miller writes: Raul> It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and Raul> that it did originally have some executables in it. Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl Berry's kpathsea in the package

Re: file naming convention for debian package files (was: Re: dselect FTP method ...)

1996-01-05 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bill Mitchell writes: Bill> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ian> * dpkg and other packages written especially for Debian don't have a Ian> revision number because a revision number would be meaningless and Ian> confusing. [...] Bill> I'm not religious on this issue, but I'd pre

Bug#2100: Efax: errors in /usr/bin/fax

1996-01-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
b c writes: Brian> Package: efax Brian> Version: 07a Brian> Revision: 4 Brian> Brian> 1) The security hole still exists because the "&C0" command is still Brian> present when going into "answer" mode on systems that will accept Brian> incoming data connections. The string "&C1" sh

Bug#2100: Efax: errors in /usr/bin/fax

1996-01-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
b c writes: Brian> (4) The /var/spool/fax is of the "dialout" group. Should this be Brian> the "fax" group instead? Also, how about setting the permission of Brian> this directory and those under it to "drwxr-s---" so only people in Brian> that group can send/view faxes. The 's' would

Bug#3307: ddd-smotif does not replace ddd

1996-06-16 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: ddd-smotif Version: 1.4d-2 I had ddd installed, and a simple dpkg -i ddd-smotif-1.4d-2.deb failed with the "Conflicts: ddd" + "Provides: ddd". I think that adding a "Replaces: ddd" would do the job. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

2.0 kernel in buzz, but not in unstable

1996-06-18 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
I think it is a bug that the 2.0 sources are only in buzz/binary-i386/devel, and not in buzz/binary-all/devel. Moreover, they are neither in unstable or in rex. Here's the output from a find on master: $ find . -name kernel-source\*deb ./unstable/binary-alpha/devel/kernel-source-1.99.7-0.deb ./

Re: color ls (fwd)

1996-08-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Thanks for forwarding this note by Jim Meyerding. I like his ignoring of /etc/DIR_COLORS, I always found that filename rather ugly and kept my own file /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc for these colour settings. IMHO, two things remain: - the fileutils maintainer should patch dircolors so tha

Re: f2c-960717-0 uploaded to master

1996-08-01 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Right, I know that lapack-linux website too. Note gcc-2.7.0 and g77-0.5.17 were used, more recent ones are available. g77 got better with 0.5.18, but also slower (according to some very casual measurements I did on one piece of code). Also, Jacob Schiotz doesn't say anything about compiler version

Bug#4000: emacs can't initialize x window

1996-08-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Erick> Package: emacs Erick> Version: 19.31-2 Erick> Erick> I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error Erick> occurs. Erick> Erick> Loading hilit19... Error in init file: error: "X windows are not in Erick> use or not initialized" That is your fault, not em

Re: uploaded babel 3.6-4 to master

1996-08-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Erick> * added latin1.sty: Michael Meskens requested See the documentation in /usr/doc/latex/ltnews0[23].tex.gz, this is no longer needed since about last June. I used to use latin1, but now prefer \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % Umlaute -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel

Bug#4063: magicfilter has wrong path

1996-08-07 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: magicfilter Version: 1.2-5 There is one serious problem which prevented magicfilter from working here, and some small glitches. 1. The executable is installed as /usr/sbin/magicfilter, but the (rather well done) /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig extracts a filter, in my case /usr/sb

Bug#4063: magicfilter has wrong path

1996-08-08 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk> 2. There is another problem with extracting the filter from the set Dirk> of filters in /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/filters/filters.tar.gz as Dirk> the extracted file is not registered with dpkg --- upon removal of Dirk> the package a useless file will remain on the machine. a if

Re: xpdf needs an entry in mailcap

1996-08-08 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk> As the priority of mime-support is "standard" and therefore higher Dirk> than the one of xpdf ("extra"), I'll add a "Depends: Dirk> mime-support". If anybody has a problem with that, mail me soon, or Dirk> file a bug report later ... Brian> If you put the "if" clause around the c

Re: xpdf needs an entry in mailcap

1996-08-08 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. I'll do that today. As the priority of mime-support is "standard" and therefore higher than the one of xpdf ("extra"), I'll add a "Depends: mime-support". If anybody has a problem with that, mail me soon, or file a bug report later ... -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel

Re: Could we use gunzip -c instead of zcat?

1996-08-08 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Yves Arrouye writes: Yves> Hello, I'd like to suggest that scripts, debian.rules etc... use Yves> gunzip -c instead of zcat when the intent is to get the contents of a Yves> gzipped file on stdout. No way. Yves> This is because if binaries from a BSD compress package (not Yves> ne

Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

1996-08-14 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Thomas> PACKAGE: motifnls Thomas> VERSION: 2.1-1 Thomas> Thomas> A commercial application (Maple VR3) does not run correctly under Thomas> X11R6 even with motifnls installed. It complains abut unknown Thomas> keysyms osf* (for example osfCopy), even though these are defined Thom

Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

1996-08-14 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
[...] Thomas> Same thing here (same version, I suspect), only it doesn't work. [...] Thomas> Hmm... I just found that particular string in libX11.so.3.1.0 and Thomas> in libXt.so.3.1.0, under /usr/X11R5/lib. Strace verivies that they Thomas> are indeed used, so that's probably where that

Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change

1996-08-14 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Ian> 2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we Ian> should mandate compressed manpages. In this case the guidelines are of. Bruce waved his hand a while ago and allowed parallel existence of compressed and uncompressed manpages. Some maintainers, yours truly included,

Re: Source directory name

1996-08-14 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Michael> I'd like to name the modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz, Michael> the binary modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb and the directory in which the Michael> source is stored IMO should be modules_2.0.0. As the saying goes: You can't have the pie and eat it. There are conflicting goals: e

Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

1996-08-14 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Thomas> But they're loaded by irisVxm, the graphical front end: Which I don't use ..., I use the xmaple shell script (see below). Thomas> (Dirk, it might be a good idea to check wether you have something Thomas> like this in your environment; another suspect is the XKEYSYMDB Thomas> env

Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

1996-08-14 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Ahem, I am sorry. I also get the [...] Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfDelete: delete-previous-character()' errors which I must have missed before when I started xmaple out of my .fvwmrc. So you're right, one need

Re: Shadow problems

1996-08-18 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bruce Perens writes: Bruce> Let's plan on having "shadow" be part of the base for 1.2 . We Bruce> should thus have the default "login" be aware of it, etc. Let's not forget about xdm, please. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change

1996-08-22 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Yves> I remember that a long time ago it was said that it was okay to gzip Yves> manual pages because the manual reader did handle them nicely? Lars> Our man seems to handle them OK. Since there can be tens of Lars> megabytes of manual pages (I have 18 MB), I think compressing them Lar

Bug#4231: acct(2) man page refers to nonexistent acct(5) man page

1996-08-22 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Richard> Package: manpages Richard> Version: 1.11-4 ... Richard> No manual entry for acct in section 5 I wrote a realy minimial acct(5) for the acct package which basically refers back to acct(2), see below. As acct.h is in the kernel source, and hence in libc5-dev, this acct.5 (or an impr

Bug#4260: "\n" missing in m4 Description

1996-08-24 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: m4 Version: 1.4-4 The last lines of the extended description read as follows: An experimental feature, which would improve `m4' usefulness, allows for changing the syntax for what is a "word" in `m4'. You should use: ./configure --enable-changeword . if you want this feature compi

Bug#4238: mirror requires perl

1996-08-24 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Susan> Package: mirror Susan> Version: 2.8-6 Susan> Susan> The control file for mirror should be changed to show that it Susan> requires the installation of the full Perl package, not just the Susan> small package included in the base system (what's missing is a Susan> timezone.pl

Bug#4271: emacs has no "debian-rundir"

1996-08-25 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: emacs Version: 19.34-1 /etc/emacs/site-start.el, after upgrading from 19.31 to 19.34, contains (load "debian-rundir") (debian-run-directory) which fails as there is no debian-rundir.el in the package. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qe

Re: Do we ever retire packages?

1996-08-27 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk> May I humbly suggest that we establish some sort of policy regarding Dirk> packages that obsolete and can be retired? Guy> Propose that the package be made obsolete on debian-devel. After the Guy> discussion is resolved, file a bug against ftp.debian.org to make the Guy> change.

Bug#4315: xfishtank problems

1996-08-27 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
PACKAGE: xfishtank VERSION: 2.2-1 1. The package contains nothing but the binary. It *must* contain at least the copyright file. Docs would be nice. 2. It has no Depends: on libc5 or elf-x11r6lib. 3. It uses the old VERSION and PACKAGE_REVISION format which is obsolete. -- Dirk Eddelb"utte

Bug#4315: xfishtank problems

1996-08-28 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk> 1. The package contains nothing but the binary. It *must* contain at Dirk> least the copyright file. Docs would be nice. Christoph> There is no copyright. The packages origin are unknown. I can Christoph> just generate a file with "Unknown" in it. Are you sure there is nothing in

Bug#4346: Essential LaTeX style files missing

1996-08-30 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Thomas> Package: ltxmisc Thomas> Version: 1.0-1 Thomas> Thomas> In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do Thomas> serious work with it, at least for me (I work in German). Hardly Thomas> any of the often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty, Th

Re: Do we ever retire packages?

1996-08-31 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Ian> Unless enscript provides programs a2gs and a2ps which emulate their Ian> command line interfaces then it is not a complete replacement. That is a valid point, so I rest my case. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Bug#4387: mirror doesn't provide do_unlinks as executable

1996-09-03 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Martin> Package: mirror Martin> Version: 2.8-6 [...] Martin> The Debian mirror package only provides this script as an example. Martin> I would appreciate movin it into the /usr/lib/mirror direcotory and Martin> linking it to /usr/bin/do_unliks. No, because you need to first edit do_de

Bug#2037: bibtex not searching $TEXINPUTS

1996-09-05 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bibtex has nothing to do with TEXINPUTS. As you can see here from the file /usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, bibtex is supposed to listen to its own variables: % BibTeX bibliographies and style files. BIBINPUTS = .:$texmfloc/bibtex/bib//:$TEXMF/bibtex/bib BSTINPUTS = .:$texm

Bug#4447: manfnt.mf missing in mfbasfnt-1.05

1996-09-09 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: mfbasfnt Version: 1.0-5 Building a tex.fmt fails, as a new debian user here just experienced, because the file "manfnt.mf" is in the "buzz" release 1.0-3 of mfbasfnt, but not in the "rex" release 1.0-5. I remember that this was reported some days ago, sorry if I duplicate it, but i

Bug#4387: mirror doesn't provide do_unlinks as executable

1996-09-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dirk> No, because you need to first edit do_deletes locally to adapt the Dirk> $del_only variable to your site. Or change your $max_delete_files Dirk> setting. Chris> Could reasonable defaults be provided? If not, then certainly Chris> there are more trivial questions asked by postins

Re: Making date timestamp the changelog

1996-09-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dale> Ian, how do you do this? Anybody? Just Use the 822-date Ian provides with dpkg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> 822-date Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:38:13 -0400 I'd rather use the emacs changelog mode, though. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package

1996-09-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Christoph> tcpdump and traceroute are essential network diagnostic Christoph> tools. But only for root. Christoph> Somehow they need to fit into the scheme. Before the netdiag Christoph> package I manually changed permissions on all machine I Christoph> installed because our administr

Bug#4446: usr/games/fortune needs recompilation

1996-09-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Buddha> The executable should be recompiled. There are a few outstanding Buddha> bugs on the fortune package, some dating back over a year, that Buddha> could easily be fixed by a repackaging. I could be wrong, but it Buddha> seems as if the maintainer has abandoned it. Raul> More lik

Bug#4487: auctex needs to reflect new emacs dir /etc/site-start.el

1996-09-13 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: auctex Version: 9.4g-1 Auctex installation fails on a fresh "rex" system as the line (require 'tex-site.el) is written to /etc/site-start.el. With emacs-19.34 and the new /etc/emacs/ directory, it should be written to /etc/emacs/site-start.el. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel

Bug#4489: apmd prerm stops kerneld

1996-09-13 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Herbert> Package: apmd Herbert> Version: 2.4-1 Herbert> Herbert> The prerm script of the apmd package executes Herbert> Herbert> /etc/init.d/kerneld stop Herbert> Herbert> Instead, it should call Herbert> Herbert> /etc/init.d/apmd stop Gosh, how ugly! I'll fix t

Bug#4489: apmd prerm stops kerneld

1996-09-14 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Fixed in version 2.4-2 of apmd. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Bug#4500: kernel-package fails when used on kernel-source

1996-09-17 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: kernel-package Version: 2.03 I have kernel-source-2.0.6 installed (which patches cleanly with Linus' patches for more recent kernels) and used to role my kernels with the scripts from the kernel-source package, eg cd /usr/src/linux make xconfig ./debi

Bug#4502: xautolock has no copyright file

1996-09-17 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: xautolock Version: pl10-2 The package lacks a copyright file: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -c `locate xautolock` drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jun 30 11:37 1996 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jun 30 11:37 1996 usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jun 30 11:37 1996 usr/X11R6/ drwxr-xr-x

Re: ae as default editor?

1996-09-23 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Martin> Why is ae the default editor for vipw/vigr even on a completely Martin> installed system? It's not a default, it's a fallback which is used when you have not set the EDITOR variable. Just try $ EDITOR=vi vigr -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.q

Bug#4561: dpkg-genchanges puts bad Maintainer: in changes file

1996-09-23 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Yves> Package: dpkg-dev Yves> Version: 1.4.0 Yves> Yves> It appears that the Maintainer: field in control is ignored, so the Yves> Maintainer: field in the changes file is made with the name of the Yves> user calling dpkg-genchanges and the name of the host the file is Yves> built

Bug#4568: a2ps binary still a.out

1996-09-24 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Yves Arrouye writes: Yves> I'd like to take the a2ps package if its maintainer does not plan to Yves> maintain it anymore: I have patches to make it work with libpaper Yves> that I'd like to see in the Debian version. To best of my knowledge, a2ps and a2gs are orphaned. Casual inspection

Bug#4583: popclient compiled without APOP support

1996-09-25 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: popclient Version: 3.05-3 Popclient doesn't work in APOP mode (which md5 hashes passwords so that they don't travel in cleartext anymore) which is too bad as I just installed it to get APOP ... There are two problems in the package. First, configure has to be told that APOP is desire

Bug#4587: ncftp has no online documentation

1996-09-25 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dominik> Package: ncftp Dominik> Version: 2.3.0-6 Dominik> Dominik> This package has neither manual nor info pages. That is fixed in both versions -7 and -8. Please upgrade. Dominik> It also does install the copyright file as Dominik> /usr/doc/ncftp/copyright instead of /usr/doc/

Re: Rescue disk for Debian?

1996-09-26 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Bruce> The boot floppies make a reasonable rescue disk set now. When I last used them, e2fsck was missing. Can you can squeeze it in? -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Bug#4649: Soft link missing for slang0.99.34 dynamic lib

1996-09-30 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: slang0.99.34 Version: 0.99.34-1 Slang does not install a link /usr/lib/libslang.so.0. [1] as it is specified in section 12 of the Programmer's Manual. [1] Here's an annotated session log: Saving the old list from ldconfig: miles:/mirror/debian/incoming [root] # ldconfig -p>/tmp

Bug#4653: smail doesn't set owner/group/mode in savelog call

1996-09-30 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: smail Version: 3.1.29.1-23 Oddly, /var/log/smail/logfile had zero length even though mail had been processed on the system after the last savelog rotation (which is run by /etc/cron.daily/smail) . The file had group "root". After changing the group to "mail", smail again added logs to

[ANN] Quantian: A Knoppix remastering for Scientific Computing

2003-05-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
an/ and a Quantian overview page, including a recent paper, is at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html Plans for future versions are not set in stone but may entail support for OpenMosix clustering. Comments, questions, feedback are more than welcome! -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EM

Re: [ANN] Quantian: A Knoppix remastering for Scientific Computing

2003-06-01 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
qOn Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > [ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject. > > Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ] > >

Bug#198570: [ITP]: r-noncran-hmisc -- Misc. R functions by Frank Harrell

2003-06-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
ds: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libg2c0 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), r-base-core (>= 1.7.1) Installed-Size: 4304 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: hmisc Description: GNU R miscalleneous functions by Frank Harrell The Hmisc library contains man

Bug#198569: [ITP]: r-noncran-design -- Regression modeling strategies

2003-06-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
ackage: r-noncran-design Version: 1.1.6-1 Section: math Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libg2c0 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), r-base-core (>= 1.7.1), r-noncran-hmisc Installed-Size: 3244 Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTEC

time(1): Return value and sys/wait.h macros

2003-08-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I've been asked (#203804) to supply an entry in the Debian manual page of my GNU time package (which, btw, is orphaned upstream, any takers ?). The main() function ends on if (WIFSTOPPED (res.waitstatus)) exit (WSTOPSIG (res.waitstatus)); else if (WIFSIGNALED (res.waitstatus)) exit

Re: Bug#321178: ITP: x3270 -- IBM 3270 terminal emulator for the X Window System

2005-08-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Lior Kaplan guides.co.il> writes: > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Lior Kaplan guides.co.il> > > * Package name: x3270 > Version : 3.3.4 > Upstream Author : Paul Mattes > * URL : http://x3270.bgp.nu > * License : other > Description : IBM

Re: Bug#333392: ITP: rkward -- A KDE frontend to the R statistics language

2005-10-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Thomas Friedrichsmeier gmx.de> writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thomas Friedrichsmeier users.sourceforge.net> > > * Package name: rkward > Version : 0.3.3 > Upstream Author : Thomas Friedrichsmeier users.sourceforge.net> > * URL : http://www.exam

Report from DSC 2005 in Seattle

2005-10-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Several weeks ago, I attended the 'Directions in Statistical Computing 2005' (or DSC2005 for short) conference in Seattle that was hosted by the Biostats department of U of Washington. [1] This email is meant to provide a brief report back to Debian. I. Well what is this anyway? DSC 2005 was t

Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

2008-02-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:06:22PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Well, if we advise users to compile their stuff on their own > > something is broken. If we can not provide the latest upstream > > version of a certain end user application because we are miss

Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

2008-02-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Miles Bader necel.com> writes: > Vadim Zeitlin wxwidgets.org> writes: > > if you appreciate using Debian as a development platform, the fact > > that CodeBlocks can't be built on it is IMHO a pretty critical > > problem. > > Why? Maybe "because not being able to build" and "development platform

Re: Proposition: 'NMU' upload of wxwidgets 2.8

2008-02-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Miles Bader necel.com> writes: > Dirk Eddelbuettel debian.org> writes: > > Differently put, why do you think that NOT having current versions > > of a popular library, here wxwidgets in version 2.8, is a feature > > and not a bug? > > I don't. I'

Re: Are Sha* checksums accepted by dak ?

2008-04-14 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Raphael Hertzog debian.org> writes: > Anthony Towns has applied a fix to dak and Format: 1.8 is accepted now. > He also resurrected the uploads which have been rejected due to this check > only. I am seeing my uploads rejected too as of right now. I just got back from a short trip and was tryin

Re: Bug#477732: libgsl0ldbl must conflict with libgsl0

2008-04-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 25 April 2008 at 10:45, Julien Cristau wrote: | On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:02:51 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: | | > Hi, | > | > I'm adding debian-devel as I would like input from other DD. | > The main question is "Do Debian support partial upgrade between | > etch and lenny ? Or are onl

Bug#478689: ITP: getopt -- Command-line parsing for GNU R

2008-04-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: getopt Version : 1.12, 1.14 Upstream Author : Allen Day * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/getopt/index.html * License : GPL Description : C

Bug#478690: ITP: jit -- Just-in-time compilation support for GNU R

2008-04-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: jit Version : 0.0-5 Upstream Author : Stephen Millborrow * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/jit/index.html and

Re: Bug#478690: ITP: jit -- Just-in-time compilation support for GNU R

2008-04-30 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 03:32:39PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:54:00AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > * Package name: jit > > Same here. Please name the source package r-cran-jit. > > > Package: r-cran-jit > &

Bug#479233: ITP: r-base-core-ra -- Ra patch for just-in-time compilation of R code

2008-05-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-base-core-ra Version : 1.0.9 Upstream Author : Stephen Milborrow * URL or Web page : http://www.milbo.users.sonic.net/ra * License : GPL Description : Ra patch fo

Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
I have packaged the Ra extension for just-in-time compilation to GNU R (see ITP #479233 for details). It comes as a tarball to be installed on top of the GNU R sources. So I created a new hybird tarball of the two sources. Not elegant as it creates a 16mb tarball containing a copy of GNU R's 16

Re: Can I use 'apt-get source' from debian/rules ?

2008-05-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:29:38AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have packaged the Ra extension for just-in-time compilation to GNU R (see > > ITP #479233 for details). It comes as a tarball to be installed

Bug#486371: ITP: r-cran-nws -- GNU R package for NetWorkSpaces / Sleigh

2008-06-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-nws Version : 1.6.3 Upstream Author : REvolution Computing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with support and contributions from Pfizer, Inc. * URL or Web page : http://nws-r.sou

Bug#534862: ITP: r-cran-iterators -- GNU R iterator support for vectos, lists and other containers

2009-06-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-iterators Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : REvolution Computing, Inc * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/iterators/index.html, * License : Apache License 2.0

Bug#534865: ITP: r-cran-domc -- GNU R parallel excution backend for %dopar% using multicore

2009-06-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-domc Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : REvolution Computing, Inc. * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doMC/index.html * License : Apache License 2.0 Description

Bug#542860: ITP: r-cran-dosnow -- GNU R parallel execution backend for %dopar% using snow

2009-08-21 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-dosnow Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : REvolution Computing * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doSNOW/index.html * License : GPL-2 Description : GNU R

Bug#551131: ITP: r-cran-nnet -- R package for feed-forward neural networks

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-nnet Version : 7.3-2 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package for feed-forward neural networks This has been

Bug#551132: ITP: r-cran-spatial -- R package for spatial statistics

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-spatial Version : 7.3-2 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package for spatial statistics This has been in

Bug#551129: ITP: r-cran-mass -- R package Modern Applied Statistics with S

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-mass Version : 7.3-2 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package Modern Applied Statistics with S This has

Bug#551130: ITP: r-cran-class -- R package for classification

2009-10-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-class Version : 7.3-1 Upstream Author : W N Venables and B D Ripley * URL or Web page : * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Description : R package for classification This has been in Debian

Rebuilding all 100+ r-cran-* packages for R 2.10.0

2009-10-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
R 2.10.0, due out October 26, will switch to an internal html converter from the latex-alike Rd format coupled with an internal webserver. See below for the section on 'Significant user-visible changes' in the NEWS file from 2.10.0 -- taken from the Oct 13 beta currently in unstable. This means

Re: Rebuilding all 100+ r-cran-* packages for R 2.10.0

2009-10-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 17 October 2009 at 01:29, Cyril Brulebois wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel (16/10/2009): | > This means we "should" rebuild all packages or else they will upon | > load trigger a nagging message 'package foo was built under R | > version x.y.z and may not function prope

Bug#560347: RFP: ncl -- Nexus Class Library

2009-12-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: ncl (Nexus Class Library) Version : 2.1.08 (dated 2009-11-30) Upstream Author : Paul O. Lewis * URL or Web page : http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/ncl/ * License : GPL-2 Description : Nexus Class Library The NEXUS

Bug#503754: ITP: rglpk -- GNU R interface to the GNU Linear Programing Kit

2008-10-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: rglpk Version : 0.2-5 Upstream Author : Stefan Theussl and Kurt Hornik * URL or Web page : http://R-Forge.R-project.org/projects/rglp/ * License : GPL-2 Description

Re: ITP: mpi-defaults -- Meta-packages depending on appropriate MPI -dev and -bin packages for each platform

2008-11-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 November 2008 at 09:40, Adam C Powell IV wrote: | Package: wnpp | Severity: wishlist | | Package name: mpi-defaults | Version: 0.1 | Author: Debian Science Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | License: Undetermined | | This new source package will produce two binary meta-packages: | default-mpi-dev

Bug#507622: ITP: rpy2 -- Python interface to the GNU R language, version 2

2008-12-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: rpy2 Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Laurent Gautier * URL or Web page : http://rpy.sf.net * License : LPGL Description : Python interface to the GNU R language, v

Bug#507941: ITP: r-cran-rcpp -- GNU R / C++ interface package

2008-12-05 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-rcpp Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Dominick Samperi and Dirk Eddelbuettel * URL or Web page : http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html * License : LG

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