Re: stop abusing debconf already

2003-04-21 Thread David B Harris
On Mon Apr 21, 10:05am -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 19-Apr-03, 11:44 (CDT), David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From debconf-devel(8): "low: Very trivial items that have defaults that > > will work in the vast majority of cases; oinly contro

Re: irssi-text - Not quite a release-critical bug

2003-04-23 Thread David B Harris
On Wed Apr 23, 09:35pm +0200, Wilmer van der Gaast wrote: > Bug 183186 seems to be stopping irss-text 0.8.6 from entering Sarge, but > IMHO the bug is not quite release critical. Botti is just a small part > of irssi, not used by 90% of the package users (at least, I think so). > (Maybe it should b

Re: Time to package simpleinit?

2003-04-26 Thread David B Harris
On Sat Apr 26, 07:36pm +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > * The /etc/init.d/ scripts would need to add "need otherscript" (and > sometimes "provide something"). As I think it is a very bad idea to edit > these scripts in our post-install (and try to reedit them in > pre-remove)) one would have to fi

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread David B . Harris
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Local Sid/unstable repository.

2001-04-28 Thread David B . Harris
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Re: discrepancy in ISO 3166-1 country codes

2001-09-20 Thread David B Harris
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Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread David B Harris
spiffy, if you ask me. And like I said, it'd be nice to be able to 'apt-get source quake2' and read what they've written. -- .--=-=-=-=--=---=-=-=. /David Barclay HarrisAut agere, aut mori

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread David B Harris
data. Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but I think that, at least morally, it's allright to put Quake2 in main. -- .--=-=-=-=--=---=-=-=. /David Barclay HarrisAut ager

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 00:44:39 +1100, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:35:34AM -0500, David B Harris wrote: > > Come on ... this is a cool-factor thing, at least partially :) > > Having Quake II source in Debian would be pretty spiffy, i

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2001-12-23 Thread David B Harris
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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: Debian.rpm

2002-01-04 Thread David B Harris
On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:56:58 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it would be possible, you know. an RPM that basically substitutes > every installed RPM by the corresponding DEB. that would rock ;) Well, what you're suggesting isn't really feasible ;) But it would be feasible to pac

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-05 Thread David B Harris
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Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-06 Thread David B Harris
till call it nontrivial, and rather extraordinarily difficult to automate. -- .--=-=-=-=--=---=-=-=. /David Barclay HarrisAut agere, aut mori. \ \Clan Barclay Either action, or death./ `---==-=-=-=-===-=---=--=' pgpPTsGtFjnbL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#143548: ITP: ipm -- PHP-based tasklist/project management

2002-04-19 Thread David B Harris
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-19 Severity: wishlist * Package name: ipm Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : phlux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://udpviper.com/project.php?project=ipm * License : GPL Description : PHP-based tasklist/project ma

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List

1998-06-12 Thread Adam P. Harris
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 11:40:30PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > Package: bootdisk (pseudo) > > Maintainer: Maintainer Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 20779 Debian 2.0 won't boot of a hard disk after install > >

Re: p3nfs (was Bug #21488: p3nfs linked against libc5)

1998-06-12 Thread Adam P. Harris
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:35:47PM +0100, Chris Reed wrote: > >As listed in The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08, p3nfs is still > >linked against libc5, and the maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billy > >C.-M. Chow) cannot be contacted. > > > >I have

Re: About 2.0.34 not being perfect

1998-06-13 Thread Adam P. Harris
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "There's always one more bug" > I got it. At least, I got one... > > Adam P. Harris writes: > > I know there were a few cyrix-specific fixes introduced in 2.0.34. > > Maybe some of the people experiencing

Re: About 2.0.34 not being perfect

1998-06-14 Thread Adam P. Harris
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never had the kernel glitch on any of these (thankfully!) Sounds like > there may be some obscure problems - I know the pre-patches did not work > well on master. Perhaps we should chuck .34 on murphy and master and see > how it handles there? - Le

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-14 Thread Adam P. Harris
Anthony Towns writes: > On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 01:07:33AM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > > > [Yeah, it's new software -- it's also the best way to keep the hamm > > > upgrade from completely breaking an existing debian installation.] > > The autoup.sh script also does the job well, doesn't it? >

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-15 Thread Adam P. Harris
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > > > (a) we need specific installation instructions for upgrading. Igor, > > is this supposed to be part of the install.sgml document, or is it > > separate? > >

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > > Interesting. Apparently, there's going to be coverage of these topics > > in the release notes, not the install.sgml document. > > > > Volunteers? I'm a bit overc

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
At 16 Jun 1998 11:42:39 -0400, Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes: > > > > > Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I will be out of town after tomorrow for about a week, so I won't >

Re: Bug#23522: man-db installs foreign language manpages

1998-06-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
Peter Maydell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> man-db installs Spanish, Italian and German versions of its manpages, > >> as well as English ones. > > > >This is one of the goals of Debian. > >It is surely t

Re: RFC: worth packaging apache-modperl ?

1998-06-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will do, then. This leaves me one big question, though. This is going > to require mixing four things: > (A) apache 1.3.0 > (B) netgod's massive apache diff > (C) mod_perl upstream -- probably going to version it by date and use > the CVS tree instead

PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: > I asked once earlier, but no one responded: > Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? Gregory, I'm sorry I cannot provide good technical information. I do know that we had backed out PAM-ifying hamm sometime last year. I think we shou

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-22 Thread Adam P. Harris
Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What sorts of things can pam do? I only know that for example a long > program that uses PAM works regardless of weather the password file is > shadowed or not, but can it do more advanced authentication, ie. could it be > used to replace radius? PAM, a

Re: libc6_2.0.7 release notes...

1998-06-22 Thread Adam P. Harris
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 22 Jun 1998, Rob Browning wrote: > > Good luck. It would be great if you come up with one, but I fear it's > > going to be a lot of work for essentially a *really* minor aesthetic > > gain. > > > > One way this could almost be handled is with and addi

texconfig runs (was Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures)

1998-10-04 Thread Adam P. Harris
I suspect strongly that many packages are doing full 'texconfig init' runs rather than running texconfig only for their relevant packages. An example in this case is jadetex. It runs (it's own copy of) 'texconfig init' rather than just generating .fmt's for what it is installing (jadetex and pdfj

Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-05 Thread Adam P. Harris
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:32:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava écrivait: > > I agree. > > I do not. Perl 5.005 and the new perl-thread seems to interest a lot of > people. But if we don't switch to perl5.005 right now, they would presumably > download

Re: Right way to sync

1998-10-05 Thread Adam P. Harris
Marc Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)? > I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for > installing new packages than keeping in sync with the most recent > versions. > > The main thing I'm trying to avoid

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Adam P. Harris
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > > I thought 2.2 was going to be "rc", and 3.0 would be "woody". Johnnie > > > Ingram was pushing for that one, as were a few others. > > > > But didn't an even earlier discussion c

Re: How can tell what priority a bug is?

1998-10-09 Thread Adam P. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale E. Martin) writes: > I maintain cdparanoia, which has bug #23236 filed against it. This is an > alpha version of the software, and the bug is that a feature isn't yet > implemented. > I don't want this to keep this package out of the new > release, as its base functionalit

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
FWIW, I think having McAfee .debs, even in non-free, would be a win. However, another thought occurred to me. Stephen, could you ask them to clarify the licensing of their DAT files? If they are indeed free, as http://www.nai.com/download/updates/whatdat.asp> seems to imply, someone oughta look

Re: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work within fakeroot

1998-10-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
Roberto Lumbreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday, October 9 1998, at 21:19:38, James Troup wrote: > : Look at fakeroot's shlibs file. This is not a bug (or certainly not > : the one you're claiming it is). > Ok. Of course, you are right ;) I've added (>= 2.0.7u) to > /var/lib/dpkg/info/

Re: updates to Debian pages

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
"James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >A link has been added from all the /Pics -> ../english/Pics on > master. >They weren't added to CVS as it doesn't handle special files very well. >Its only important that master have them anyway, so the pages the public > sees >have t

SUMMARY -- (was Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs)

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One wonders why you don't. Thisporting effort seems to lead to a lot of > bitter people being involved in it. One wonders why. Anyhow, TTFN. Well, I think I can see why. Because porting is a thankless and gruelling task. You come head to head with every li

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
"Christopher C. Chimelis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is true, and this should be fixed, IMO. If "Debian", as an entity, > is making a decision to become multi-arch supportive, then maybe it's > time to update the older rules that were made when x86 was the only > arch, and time to implemen

Re: Uploaded sysklogd 1.3-29 (source i386) to master

1998-10-18 Thread Adam P. Harris
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I introduced a severe bug. Could you try the next prelimnary > version and tell me if it works for you? > ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/sysklogd_1.3-29.2_i386.deb Works for me. I was getting hangs

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-18 Thread Adam P. Harris
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But >> nobody > goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for

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