Re: Any reason why I'm not CCed by bugs of my packages?

2005-02-25 Thread John Hasler
me a couple of times a year. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#297233: ITP: wmansied -- An ANSI/ASCII editor.

2005-02-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe Wreschnig writes: > I don't know what the official standards for the character set and > terminal specifications are... Whatever IBM said they were. I believe they are in the IBM PC Technical Reference Manual: I've got one around here somewhere. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUB

Re: Let's stop feeding the NVidia cuckoo

2005-03-07 Thread John Hasler
t hard to tell the difference between appalling style and deliberate obfuscation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#299008: ITP: torrentflux -- a PHP based, feature-rich Torrent download manager

2005-03-10 Thread John Kolovos
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Kolovos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: torrentflux Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Qrome (to contact use: http://www.torrentflux.com/contact.php) * URL : http://www.torrentflux.com/ * License

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-12 Thread John Hasler
I fix up the latter in Exim. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > The much larger consequence of this meeting, however, has been the > crafting of a prospective release plan for etch. The release team and > the ftpmasters are mutually agreed that it is not sustainable to > continue making coordina

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:45:09PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > The much larger consequence of this meeting, however, has been the > crafting of a prospective release plan for etch. The release team and > the ftpmasters are mutually agreed that it is not sustainable to > continue making coordina

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
the main release, even if they didn't track testing along the way. When there are divergences, they should be small and minimal. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
manner Debian does* have been well demonstrated. Other projects -- for isntance, Gentoo and NetBSD -- have been able to do it sucessfully. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
lot of ports. (Of course they have far fewer > packages than we do so their problem is on a much smaller scale.) > Do they release new versions on all ports at once? Gentoo also has quite a lot of ports, and have quite a lot of packages, also. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
ct. I agree, and I too am quite sad that a number of DPL candidates signed off on this without asking hard questions about it or even putting it out for discussion and feedback first. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
to SCC for non-technical economic reasons (such as no new hardware being sold), and thus doomed to a slow, painful death in Debian. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
nother. Now, having said that, some people have raised good points about the continued viability of unstable for these archs, namely the tendency of a number of maintainers to ignore arch-specific bugs until they become RC, and such. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
their updates. But the proposal as given takes a far more draconian approach. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: COUNT(buildd) IN (2,3) (was: Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting)

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
quot;all arches in sync" rules for testing a bit; maybe it's OK if some archs aren't in sync. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
er-2 arches so it only has to be > done once. You know, the irony in all this is that the effort required to support these SCC archs is greater than what would have been required to support a non-free section outside of ftp.debian.org. It seems that we find it easier to remove Free softwar

Re: Questions for the DPL candidates

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
on a technical project is to get the technology right. Agreed. But like you said, this was handled sub-optimally and I'm not surprised at the resulting reactions. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:04AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > What that actually means is that when porters want to stabilise, they'll > be able to simply stop autobuilding unstable, fix any remaining problems > that are a major concern, and request a snapshot be done. That'll result > in a n

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:57:40PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:06:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > I have no objection to releasing security updates for the 4 "main" archs > > with announcements, and the rest as soon as they're c

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:46:51AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:27:50PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > If I had to think of a rationale for it, the only one I could think of > > would be "the architecture needs to be fast enough not to block security > > updates". >

Re: SCC proposal (was: Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
m model. > >3) For the release problem: not requiring all archs to release at once > > Uh, that's what we're doing. No, you're not permitting most archs to release at all. That is different from allowing them to release, but at different times. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCC proposal (was: Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:14:47PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:02:05PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > Really, I don't really understand all the difficulty of running > > apt-get -b source, or pbuilder, or some such for n+1 archs as opposed &g

Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
t. So: * Make sure yuo rnu it as root (no support for fakeroot/sudo yet) * It can't resolve dep loops * It can't handle !arch strings in deps accurately * It spews debugging info to stdout * It uses /var/cache/srcinst for its working area. Make sure /var is free enough. So, w

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:42:32PM +0100, Lech Karol Paw?aszek wrote: > On Tuesday 15 of March 2005 18:25, John Goerzen wrote: > [...] > > More on srcinst: > [...] > > So, what do you think? Could this work? > > What's a difference between srcinst and apt-buil

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:57:00PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, John Goerzen wrote: > > > 1) Difficulty with, and speed of, buildd systems > > > > 2) Difficulty of syncing testing across all archs given #1 > > 2a) Bugs on "small" arch whic

Re: Restrictive SMTP server

2005-03-15 Thread John Hasler
ake the necessary adjustments before delivering the mail to my ISP's smarthost. The only change I've ever found necessary, though, is to forge the HELO command used by my MTA when talking to the smarthost. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
ould serve your users better. Yes, but I hope that this proposal, or other suggestions, can help us avoid dropping ports. This specific proposal, for instance, is meant to provide us with a way forward that addresses the main concerns while still producing a quality, usable result for our us

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
ns while > > still producing a quality, usable result for our users. > > ...and may encourage development of new architectures as the overhead > for each would be much smaller. Exactly. If we were doing this, there would have been no reason to keep amd64 out of sarge, for instance. --

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
this work? > > Nice idea, but I do not really see the benefit, more than on ftp disk space > and security update speed. Also with the testing synchronization. But then, these three are the main problems we've been told about, right? :-) -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alternative: Source-Centric Approach [w/code]

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:14:50PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, John Goerzen wrote: > > > This specific proposal, for instance, is meant to > > provide us with a way forward that addresses the main concerns while > > still producing a quality, usable result for

Re: *seconded* Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
t these tasks are, so they know whether or not they'd be qualified, and could gain experience? -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: arch-specific packages and the new SCC requirements

2005-03-16 Thread John Hasler
onfig is not kernel-specific. It's just a little Perl program that edits some PPP files. While I have never tried it, I see no reason why it wouldn't work on Solaris or BSD. I'm quite surprised that the Hurd still doesn't support PPP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-22 Thread John Hasler
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt writes: > I'd like to know if anyone cares about using these binary signatures I do. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Marc Haber writes: > So, most of the DD's do not care about security at all. I think that DD's do not use dpkg-sig and debsigs because they believe them to be hard to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by policy. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Olaf van der Spek writes: > Security is more than package signatures. What is your specific proposal? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-sig support wanted?

2005-11-23 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I think that DD's do not use dpkg-sig and debsigs because they believe > them to be hard to use and not supported by the infrastructure or by > policy. Marc Haber writes: > dpkg-sig is harly "hard to use". Please re-read what I wrote. -- John Hasler -

GPG keysigning in Bangalore, India, next month

2005-11-23 Thread John Walther
/ Forward this email to anyone you think should see it. I have not joined the BLUG lists because they require a Yahoo account to access them. John -- It's not true unless it makes you laugh, but you don't understand it until it makes you weep. Euk

Installation directory for modules

2005-11-24 Thread John Talbut
directory? Or is this a bug (i.e. the default behaviour of the kbuild Makefiles should be to install modules in /lib/modules/`uname -r` to be consistent with modprobe)? John Talbut Makefile: ifeq ($(KDIR),) KDIR :=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source endif EXTRA_CFLAGS := -DNDIS_MINIPORT_DRIVER

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Erinn Clark writes: > Surely flaming people on mailing lists as a way to get things done is not > something people want to encourage in NMs... right? Right. After all, as we all know, no DD would ever do such a thing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-10 Thread John Hasler
e pointless than it already is. I don't see why we need to concern ourselves about it, though. Intel has lawyers. If they have to disqualify some candidates for legal reasons they can do so without our help. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-11 Thread John Hasler
ncern ourselves about it. BTW the US is not the only country with such laws. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#344913: ITP: hdbc -- Haskell Database Connectivity

2005-12-27 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: hdbc Version : 0.99.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen * URL : darcs get --partial http://darcs.complete.org/hdbc * License : LGPL Description : Haskell Da

Re: Size matters. Debian binary package stats

2005-12-28 Thread John Hasler
and uses '.' where you would use ',' in numbers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Archive architecture qualification

2005-12-30 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:32:43AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Anyway, that's the general idea; hopefully it'll become clearer > later. Given release architectures have de-facto requalified, candidates > for archive (re)qualification are ttbomk: > > * arm, m68k, s390, sparc > * am

Bug#345591: ITP: joy2key -- Translate joystick movements into equivalent keystrokes

2006-01-01 Thread John Wright
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: joy2key Version : 1.6.1 Upstream Author : Peter Amstutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://interreality.org/~tetron/technology/joy2key/ * License : GPL

Re: Need for launchpad

2006-01-13 Thread John Hasler
o do so, but > in my experience Ubuntu developers have been very cooperative when they > have been approached. So I don't see a big problem. I don't either. After all, most users don't file bug reports, and Ubuntu is (in my view), a user. It would be nice to have their feedback

Re: Emphasize teams, not packages

2006-01-15 Thread John Gee
This must constitute the perfect post. I too care about Debian's future. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-16 Thread John Hasler
sent in Ubuntu sounds like spam to me... It doesn't to me. I am pleased when downstream distributions notify me that they are using my packages. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ad-hominem construct deleted]

2006-01-17 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > I am pleased when downstream distributions notify me that they are using > my packages. mdz writes: > Have you ever received such a notification? Yes. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-18 Thread John Hasler
g is likely to be present in the corresponding Debian package. If you are wrong once in a while it's hardly the end of the world. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Derived distributions and the Maintainer: field

2006-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Ubuntu should be sorting out whether such problems are present in Debian > before sending them to the Debian maintainer. Ubuntu should certainly first try to make sure the problem is not theirs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backports

2006-01-20 Thread John Gee
So is it safer for me to use backports or to get ubdated software from testing? Which will be more stable on my stable system? _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636

Re: new mplayer 1.0pre7try2 package

2006-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Andrew writes: > Aren't we in a similar situation with other stuff that is in main > already? rsync springs to mind. Don't forget the Linux kernel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: For those who care about their packages in Ubuntu

2006-01-23 Thread John Hasler
is, or is it just libel? > ...what's stopping us from officially discouraging Ubuntu's existence? The fact that most of us are interested in cooperation or at least peaceful coexistence. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread John Goerzen
s, but we are > also not being honest with ourselves and our users, as this is in > contradiction with the spirit of the social contract, even if some like to > play with words. I agree with that. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 03:57:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:35:02AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > That's not correct. The project simply voted not to removed it at that > > time, by defeating the GR. There was no affirmative vote to keep >

Re: Honesty in Debian (was Re: Amendment to GR on GFDL, and the changes to the Social Contract

2006-02-13 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 04:35:31PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:23:41AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > I don't see what that has to do with the simple fact of what the vote > > was about and how it turned out. > > So, you think that the vote

Re: Size matters. 7zip. Again.

2006-02-15 Thread John Goerzen
at some of these don't matter for source archives. That is true to a certain extent, but security does matter there still. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#353277: ndiswrapper in main

2006-02-18 Thread John Hasler
and/or redistribute them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#354269: ITP: libghc6-http-dev -- GHC 6 libraries for the Haskell HTTP client library

2006-02-24 Thread John Goerzen
you don't intend to build Hugs versions for these Haskell packages you are ITPing. libhugs-http exists in unstable already, so there is no technical reason to avoid it. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop goals

2006-03-05 Thread John Gee
Sven Luther writes: On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:34:07AM -0500, Frans Jessop wrote: I was wondering where I could read some goals for the Etch Decktop. What is the plan fram here. What versions of gnome and KDE do you hope to have. Any chance gnome 2.16 will be in Etch? :) Also what is this HA

Unidentified subject!

2006-03-08 Thread John Gee
marc writes: "Joseph Smidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Once every three months the new "Pre-Stable" distro will upload only those packages from testing that have had 0 RC bugs for at least month and have been flagged by their maintainers as a good version to entet stable. In other words: If y

dpkg update

2006-03-11 Thread John Gee
ng on pre-historic machines here. There needs to be at least a little looking toward the future in our blood. John _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today -

Re: for those who care about Debian supporting namecalling

2006-03-13 Thread John Gee
On 3/13/06, John Gee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Forwarded message --From: John Gee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mar 13, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: for those who care about Debian supporting namecallingTo: debian-devel@lists.debian.org -- Forwarded message --

Re: for those who care about Debian supporting namecalling

2006-03-13 Thread John Gee
On 3/13/06, John Gee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/13/06, John Gee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Forwarded message --From: John Gee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mar 13, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: for those who care about Debian supporting namecalli

Re: for those who care about Debian supporting namecalling

2006-03-13 Thread John Gee
On 3/13/06, John Gee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/13/06, John Gee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/13/06, John Gee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Forwarded message --From: John Gee < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mar 13, 2006 1:41 PM Subject: Re: for tho

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread John Hasler
Pierre Habouzit writes: > I strongly oppose to such an expulsion. So do I. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Request of expulsion of Zeke the Cat from the Debian Project

2006-03-15 Thread John Gee
do I don't want you crawling back to me.  I've already heard your arguments for and against me running one of the teams I'll not mention, but whoever does shouldn't worship another DD like Pierre Habouzit and others are.     John Gee

Man-Db and Man both in Frozen???

1997-05-29 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, There appears to be a package "man" in frozen that shouldn't be there since man-db is the new name for that package. Somebody needs to take it out; otherwise, it is confusing to users. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&

Re: Man-Db and Man both in Frozen???

1997-05-30 Thread John Goerzen
On May 30, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > Where is it? > I've just looked both in ftp.debian.org and in master, but man_ is only > in rexx . > > Or maybe it has been just removed? Hmm, either that or we are looking at a bug in dselect herebecause it certainly was in the package list when I upg

Copyright question

1997-06-01 Thread John Goerzen
send your contributions, bugreports, hints etc. to the author. Thanks ! Should this go in contrib or non-free? -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-02 Thread John Goerzen
27;t think that we should make lack of modification permission to be a reason to not include in non-free (after all, isn't this what non-free is for?) -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAI

Proper section?

1997-06-02 Thread John Goerzen
What is the proper section for Perl modules? Should they go into devel, interpreters, libs, what? I am a little confused about this since Perl modules kinda fit the descriptions for all of those. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming

Re: anyone working on updating mgetty?

1997-06-03 Thread John Goerzen
-academ ... > > > > Heiko > -- > email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 > finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [2 ] > -- John Goerzen | Runni

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-03 Thread John Goerzen
ree? (It appears his intent is basically to keep companies from charging for it...) Below is the copyright file I'm distributing with it: This package was debianized by John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 31 May 1997 13:05:05 -0500. It was downloaded from ta.twi.tudelft.nl/pub/dv/lemmens.

Possible Xaw{3d,95} bug / Re: Debian freeciv bugs

1997-06-04 Thread John Goerzen
standard widget set). I don't know which package is causing this... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Sackett) writes: > John Goerzen writes: > > > > Well, I don't know if the new server coredumps. But the new client > > coredumps every time I load it. > > > >

Re: 1.3 installation report

1997-06-04 Thread John Goerzen
w release debian and in the package xyz > ."). Perhaps this is something that gnats can be used for. I know FreeBSD is using gnats in this way. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

mgetty Needs Maintainer!

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, Some time ago, I handed mgetty over to Siggy Brentrup. However, I have not yet seen any mgetty uploaded by him and have not received any response to my e-mails. So...would somebody be willing to take over mgetty? Right now, it doesn't have any maintainer... -- John Go

Postgres95/PostgreSQL

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
. If it will require a tremendous amount of time, I probably won't be able to do it; otherwise, I can give it a try. John -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: mgetty Needs Maintainer!

1997-06-10 Thread John Goerzen
, unless Christoph Debianized a newer version of mgetty without letting me know... -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How do we encourage bug reports?

1997-06-10 Thread John Goerzen
; > What else? > -- > Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double > logarithmic diagram. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fixing X problems for 1.3.0...

1997-06-14 Thread John Goerzen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes: > 3. 3.3 to stable > >I really don't see why this should not happen in due time. Agreed. -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THI

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread John Goerzen
ight now, I am using sendmail. (What, BTW, is the reason for not using sendmail?) -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PRO

XEmacs maintainer gone???!!

1997-06-18 Thread John Goerzen
I just sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This transforms (correctly) into [EMAIL PROTECTED] scsn.net reports that there is no dres user on their system. Does this mean that the maintainer for XEMacs is gone? -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom

xemacs orphaned [Todd Walker ] RE: Account dres@scsn.net (was Re: Mail System Error - Returned Mail)

1997-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
s a bit of a simplification), xemacs is basically GNU emacs plus a lot of freely-available goodies and an enhanced X interface (toolbars, colors, etc.) Xemacs is probably the best editor I've ever used and I would really like to see somebody maintain it. I unfortunately cannot at this time

Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Why are we using dotfile locking only? There are much better mechanisms (flock, etc.) that should be used instead. I can see no place where dotfile locking would work and flock-style locking would fail... -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why are we using dotfile locking only? There are much better > > mechanisms (flock, etc.) that should be used instead. I can see no > > place where dotfile locking woul

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
However, why is it bad if a given program (like Elm-ME+ which I maintain, which brought the issue to my attention this time) uses *both* locking mechanisms? Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why are we using dotf

Re: mgetty Needs Maintainer!

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xemacs orphaned [Todd Walker ] RE: Account dres@scsn.net (was Re: Mail System Error - Returned Mail)

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
eally should keep it up! Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 18 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > It appears that James LewisMoss, previous maintainer of xemacs, is no > > longer around. > > I just did a `grep LewisMoss

Re: Installing XF86 3.3-1 crashed XEmacs 19.15-3

1997-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
a copy of this mail to his address anyway...) -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: leap second

1997-06-21 Thread John Goerzen
em using "real" time. On June 31, its idea of time would be > wrong until the next software upgrade. Then, all time stamps would > suddenly change by one second (possibly causing FTP server remirroring and > other unpleasant effects). > > This is completely unacceptabl

dc and bc in Important?

1997-06-23 Thread John Goerzen
It seems to me that dc and bc aren't vital to the workings of a system (when I deselect them, dselect doesn't warn about any dependencies), yet they are in Important. Why? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

Policy wrt Important (was Re: dc and bc in Important?)

1997-06-25 Thread John Goerzen
policy doesn't quite apply correctly. James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > It seems to me that dc and bc aren't vital to the workings of a > > system (when I deselect them, dselect doesn't warn

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-27 Thread John Goerzen
fo 0) > ./x11/9term_1.6.6-3.deb: 551 (doc 551,info 0) > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > -- Christian Schwarz >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PGP-fp

Re: Policy wrt Important (was Re: dc and bc in Important?)

1997-06-28 Thread John Goerzen
Who said anything about "working"? Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * gcc should be in Important because everybody expects a C compiler > > Maybe they expect it, but these days, they don't *get* one... none of > solaris, hpux, irix ship with a

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread John Goerzen
printed output from documentation done in HTML. This is, in large part, due to the fact that HTML documentation tends to be split up into many small files. There also can be no real index for the printed copy. While HTML is good for online viewing with certain conditions, it is not suited to a

Re: End of Documentation Discussion

1997-06-28 Thread John Goerzen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > >>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> * GNU Info has an awkward interface and is difficult to > John> search. It is also nearly impossible to print an ent

Re: Does it conform our demands?

1997-12-08 Thread John Goerzen
card available on the market) We use some 3COM cards. We have had best luck with cards based on Digital's chipset. These include Kingston and SMC cards. -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free

what is Debian's mailing address?

1997-12-21 Thread John Hasler
o response. Can someone who is not going on vacation please supply the appropriate address? John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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