Re: free choice in installer?

2014-11-10 Thread John Goerzen
, desktop support, editors, web browers... the list is vast.) Again, this message is not about saying what option is preferable. It is about pointing out that reasonable people can have different opinions. And, most importantly, that what happens in the end is that the project is still here, Debian still rocks, and the world moves on (or at least ought to.) John

Re: A plea to worry about what matters, and not take ourselves too seriously

2014-11-10 Thread John Goerzen
On 11/10/2014 02:13 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, John Goerzen wrote: >> Debian is a making-the-world-better project, a caring for people >> project, a freedom-spreading project. Free Software is our tool. > [...] >> My plea is that we each may get an

Bug#639214: Find aa paartner aand get laaid t0night!x

2012-04-11 Thread JOHN ROJAS
Find aa paartner aand get laaid t0night!x https://docs.google.com/document/d/159mFk7o0zdB7WGup7dpCC_cYqDIuQbKTe7cF4X96iQw/edit - To stop rexceiving mesxsages from us pleasxe send an email to oeqz0215 [at] gmail [dot] com with the worxd REMOVE in the suxbject line. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: MIA check for John Francesco Ferlito (johnf)

2012-04-25 Thread John Ferlito
Howdy, I'm around, I was married recently so the last few months have been a bit chaotic. I'll look over all my stuff over the weekend. Feel free to upload an NMU in the meantime though and I'd be more than happy to have another maintainer. Cheers, John On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 0

Bug#673212: ITP: haskell-ncurses -- Haskell bindings to the GNU ncurses library

2012-05-16 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: haskell-ncurses Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/haskell-ncurses/ * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Haskell Description

Bug#673601: ITP: haskell-patience -- Haskell implementation of the Patience Diff algorithm

2012-05-19 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: haskell-patience Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Keegan McAllister * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/patience * License : 3-clause BSD Programming Lang: Haskell Description

Bug#673916: ITP: haskell-options -- Haskell library for parsing command-line options

2012-05-21 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: haskell-options Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/haskell-options/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description

Bug#674417: ITP: haskell-knob -- Haskell library for memory-backed handles

2012-05-24 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: haskell-knob Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/knob/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Haskell

Bug#674418: ITP: haskell-chell -- Haskell library for simple and intuitive automated testing

2012-05-24 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: haskell-chell Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/chell/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Haskell

Bug#674420: ITP: chell-hunit -- HUnit support for the Chell testing library

2012-05-24 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: chell-hunit Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/chell-hunit/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description : HUnit

Bug#674428: ITP: haskell-chell-quickcheck -- QuickCheck support for the Chell testing library

2012-05-24 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: haskell-chell-quickcheck Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/chell/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Haskell Description

Re: MIA check for John Francesco Ferlito (johnf)

2012-06-03 Thread John Ferlito
Hi Dimitri, Just noticed you uploaded a new package. WOuld you like to officially take over maintainership? On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:50:09AM +1000, John Ferlito wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm around, I was married recently so the last few months have been a > bit chaotic. I'll

Bug#678701: ITP: haskell-dbus -- Haskell implementation of D-Bus

2012-06-23 Thread John Millikin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Millikin * Package name: haskell-dbus Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : John Millikin * URL : https://john-millikin.com/software/haskell-dbus/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Haskell Description

Bug#712821: ITP: libtiger -- Kate rendering library

2013-06-19 Thread John Stumpo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Stumpo * Package name: libtiger Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : Vincent Penquerc'h * URL : http://code.google.com/p/libtiger/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Kate rendering li

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-16 Thread John Hasler
theory. A casual reading of the legislative history of this (execrable) law indicates that it was not the intent of Congress to criminalize such things as violation of TOS. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#646059: ITP: speedpad -- ncurses tool to test, train, and increase typing speed

2011-10-20 Thread John Feuerstein
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Feuerstein * Package name: speedpad Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : John Feuerstein * URL : http://feurix.org/projects/speedpad/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : ncurses tool to test

Is anyone using the Units program in a script?

2011-11-20 Thread John Hasler
Ok, I;m sure someone is. If you're that someone are you using the "--terse" option? If not how much hassle would it be to have add it? Upstream is considering non-backward-compatible changes. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Re: Is anyone using the Units program in a script?

2011-11-22 Thread John Hasler
It's the best way I could think of to alert those members of the Debian community who might be impacted by the change. I have suggested that this particular change be applied only in the interactive mode. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Represent My Company.

2011-12-27 Thread John Plate
Good Day How are you today? I just want to introduce you to a job if you don't mind. *Simply , You will Receive Instant Money Transactions through Bank direct transfers from our customers in Australia. *You can easily withdraw the money at the bank or ATM. *You will keep Up to 10% of the total

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2013-02-23 Thread John Moser
Daniel Burrows debian.org> writes: > Note: I'm not subscribed to the list, and pulling this old thread through Gmane; please CC directly to me. The purpose of this is to cross-examine Daniel's thoughts and bring new thoughts to the surface. Daniel's thoughts are valid; however my thoughts

Re: Adoption of Nix?

2013-02-23 Thread John Moser
On 02/23/2013 07:45 PM, Daniel Hartwig wrote: Hello Just some quick notes related to this, without jumping in to the discussion (yet?). On 24 February 2013 01:28, John Moser wrote: Daniel Burrows debian.org> writes: Note: I'm not subscribed to the list, and pulling this ol

Bug#737077: ITP: zfsnap -- Automatic snapshot creation and removal for ZFS

2014-01-29 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen * Package name: zfsnap Version : 1.11.1 Upstream Author : Aldis Berjoza * URL : https://github.com/graudeejs/zfSnap * License : See below Programming Lang: Bash Description : Automatic snapshot

Bug#738285: ITP: zetaback -- ZFS thin-agent snapshot, backup, and restore tool

2014-02-08 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen * Package name: zetaback Version : 1.0.6 Upstream Author : OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc * URL : https://labs.omniti.com/labs/zetaback * License : BSD Programming Lang: Perl Description : ZFS thin

Bug#738740: ITP: simplesnap -- Simple and powerful network transmission of ZFS snapshots

2014-02-12 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen * Package name: simplesnap Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : John Goerzen * URL : https://github.com/jgoerzen/simplesnap * License : GPL Programming Lang: bash Description : Simple and powerful

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread John Holland
I got some debs built for E 18 not 17 gby oing from the source on enlightenment.org and building them on Wheezy. They've been working pretty well for me on a couple machines. You might want to look at the E18 situation because many of the dependencies for E17 have been combined into one tarball th

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread John Holland
ote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:51 PM, John Holland > wrote: > > > I got some debs built for E 18 not 17 gby oing from the source on > > enlightenment.org and building them on Wheezy. They've been working > > pretty well for me on a couple machines. > >

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-12 Thread John Holland
r given at enlightenment.org due to dependencies. Advice on how to do this right would be welcome! John n Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:26:00 -0500 John Holland wrote: > I thought they would be set up automatically when I made the repo. I > just tried to get source with apt-get source from my repo and it

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-13 Thread John Holland
I set up my repo with debarchiver. Is mini-dinstall a better way to go? Maybe I should redo it that way? On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:56:20 -0600 Jeff Epler wrote: > If you have a local apt repository (e.g., with dput and > mini-dinstall), then after building each package you would install it > to y

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread John Holland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How about something completely different: Enlinghtenment? No, I'm not kidding -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTPz/PAAoJEPCIPbSVUc8t+JMH/j+XBHlroA4pXgEFtzWl2FuI Ah18G6h5kbdqNQgEabwX/sQDCY15ThxM/W

Multi-codename Debian archives: how to uniquify packages?

2014-05-26 Thread John Morris
event conflicting package file names? I found documentation of such a convention for Ubuntu, where e.g. '~precise1' is appended to the version, but that looks peculiar to Ubuntu. What do we do in Debian? Thanks- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.de

Re: Multi-codename Debian archives: how to uniquify packages?

2014-05-26 Thread John Morris
On 05/26/2014 09:02 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:32 AM, John Morris wrote: What do we do in Debian? Upload to Debian unstable, wait for migration to testing and then upload to backports. http://backports.debian.org/ Makes sense now that you gave me the right idea, and

Re: Multi-codename Debian archives: how to uniquify packages?

2014-05-26 Thread John Morris
On 05/26/2014 10:22 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:11 AM, John Morris wrote: Fedora packager here, accustomed to a third approach. How do they do it in Fedora? Brain-dead compartmentalization: separate package repos containing separate builds for each distro release

Bug#633749: ITP: python-hl7 -- Python library for parsing HL7 messages

2011-07-13 Thread John Paulett
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Paulett * Package name: python-hl7 Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : John Paulett * URL : http://github.com/johnpaulett/python-hl7 * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Python library for

GUI Configuration tool for main Debian window managers

2015-01-05 Thread john Lutz
I was wondering how one would one go about buildinga GUI tool to cover every imaginable setting via a GUIinterface for the majority of standard live and other installedDebian distribtion?.. And what tools / standards are required by such? John

Bug#775246: general: Debian does wake from suspend. It either hard reboots or remains unresponsive.

2015-01-12 Thread John Ammerman
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? Suspending this computer. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I put my computer t

Re: CUT rolling release debian BUT a cautionary comment

2015-03-06 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: I've been using Debian since Potato. So have I. > I love it, but you should have at least two computers running Debian, > and be able to spend a few hours or days with one of them > non-functional I've never had that problem. -- John Hasler jhas...@

Re: State of Roundcube packaging in Debian?

2015-03-15 Thread John Goerzen
On 03/14/2015 07:36 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 14 mars 2015 11:11 +0100, Dominik George : > >> I found out today that roundcube was removed from Debian testing due to >> some unfixed bugs. I investigated a bit further and found that: >> >> - 1.1.0 has long been released upstream, but: >>

Bug#790814: ITP: kanboard -- A PHP project management system with a kanban workflow style interface and various integrations.

2015-07-01 Thread John Hackett
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Hackett * Package name: kanboard Version : v1.0.16 Upstream Author : Frédéric Guillot * URL : http://www.kanboard.net/ * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: PHP Description : A web based project management

Bug#792101: ITP: gogs -- Gogs is a self hosted service aiming to provide a similar set of features to gitlab and github.

2015-07-11 Thread John Hackett
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Hackett * Package name: gogs Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : lu...@gitea.io * URL : https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea * License : MIT Programming Lang: Golang Description : Gogs is a self hosted service

Re: Debian with HiDPI / 4K displays

2015-08-11 Thread John Goerzen
are just the start. What about taskbars and taskbar icons, which become tiny at certain DPIs? We seem to be using pixel heights in these a lot. John > graphics card with 4K support and a relatively new monitor. The > graphics card and monitor both support DisplayPort 1.2 so I just hook >

PalmOS programs

1998-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
ne so far instead of starting from scratch since I really don't know how to compile a gcc that compiles for a different platform... Can you point me to the original sources? They seem to have disappeared from project/orphaned. John -- John GoerzenLinux, Unix programming [EMA

sendmail 8.9.0

1998-06-06 Thread John Goerzen
ceive any sort of response from either of these bugs. Can somebody please take a look and fix the problems? John -- John GoerzenLinux, Unix programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debia

kpilot -- help sought

1998-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
t, if there is a way to do it that requires less Makefile hacking, that would be good. Thanks, John Goerzen -- John GoerzenLinux, Unix programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debia

Re: Stop vi discussion

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
ld be very nice to see it on the rescue disk. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > andreas writes: > > ae is nice, if want a crippeled, but very small editor. > > > what then ? > > joe. > > Just tried it. It's good enough for rescue disk use, but so is ae. And &g

FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
or something similar will always get incorrect times. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
laces, provides, and conflicts the previous gcc-m68k-palmos-coff and current binutils-m68k-palmos-coff packages. Again, is this correct? Thanks, John -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.d

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
ill be happy to incorporate it into the tzconfig > script. I'd say something like: "If your time changes for daylight savings time, use these options. Otherwise, use these." Something needs to be done on the bootdisks, too. -- John

Re: License question

1998-06-16 Thread John Goerzen
hat did you leave out in > the ...? (Or is there a literal ... in the license?) Nothing of consequence. The README file (from which that came) says at the top "PilRC" is freeware, and then down below, it has those other two lines. It says nothing else about any license issues.

Re: License question

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
clarification. I have already sent him an e-mail encouraging the use of GPL since it seems that's pretty much what he wants anyway. > We need the right to distribute (including commercially) modified binaries > and sources. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [E

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 07:54:42AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > I'd say something like: "If your time changes for daylight savings > > time, use these options. Otherwise, use these." > > > >

Re: License question

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Thanks to those of you that commented on this. The author replied to my e-mail, saying "GPL is cool for me!" so our problem is solved :-) John Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I've already written to the author, but can y'all tell me if the >fo

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> etc. packages for Debian. The package name is prc-tools and > John> should be in Incoming by the time you read this. It was > John> quite a chore to package but it is quite exciting what can >

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-17 Thread John Goerzen
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> I'd like feedback on it. I have opted to package it as it > John> is done upstream; that is, all the programs in one thing. > > Okay, here's a bit of feedback. :) > > prc-tools includes almost a

Re: kpilot -- help sought

1998-06-18 Thread John Goerzen
question is: will it work? :-) Also I am having difficulty in coaxing it to link with the system's shared libpisock library instead of it's own, but I will leave that go at the moment I think. John -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-18 Thread John Goerzen
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:13:27PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > Therefore, I believe that I will just dump the tar.gz's of binutils, > > gcc, and gdb into the toplevel of the package's tar file (or maybe the > >

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-18 Thread John Goerzen
e so these things can get out of otherosfs, which doesn't really apply very well. John Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen wrote: > > > > pilot-manager -- Perl/TK hotsync tool (waiting for me to download and > > try it out) >

Fate of binutils-m68k-palmos-coff

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
question I asked its maintainer but haven't heard back yet. My reccommendation would be to remove binutils-m68k-palmos-coff. In any case, the gcc and gdb m68k-palmos-coff packages can be removed from the wnpp list since working versions now exist. John -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consultin

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
It's probably going to stay like that until the upstream kpilot maintainer fixes the build process, which is a mess at this point. I spent a couple hours trying to fix it but got nowhere so I will just leave it as-is at the moment :-) John Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exciting Pilot/Debian news

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Goerzen wrote: > > > > pilot-manager -- Perl/TK hotsync tool (waiting for me to download and > > try it out) > > pilot-manager is already packaged. In fact I've been using it for weeks >

Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
Further, there is no documentation anywhere that indicates that debstd may corrupt files. > I do not consider this to be a bug in debstd. You are welcome to reassign it to the appropriate package (binutils?) then, but it is not fixed and should not be closed. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix c

Re: Bug#23618: debmake: debstd corrupts .a files!

1998-06-19 Thread John Goerzen
eassigned this one to binutils then. Closing it is not appropriate since the problem has not been dealt with. Also, file corruption is not a documentation issue only. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerfu

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
=== > pn timezone (no description available) > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-20 Thread John Goerzen
entral,Mountain,Pacific} timezones do use DST > and the US/{Arizona,East-Indiana,Hawaii} timezones don't. I'm not > sure about the others, but I'd bet that they are correct also. > > David > -- > David EngelODS Networks > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
; > Dwarf > -- > _-_-_-_-_- Author of "The Debian Linux User's Guide" _-_-_-_-_-_- > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 > Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talla

Re: FIX FOR HAMM: timezone problem

1998-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
ls, SD 57104 Cool; my uncle lives just outside Sioux Falls and works there. He also is a volunteer chairman for the Minn-Kota sale in the Arena each year, if you've ever been to it. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/L

in.tftpd: Missing a critical feature

1998-06-25 Thread John Goerzen
I'm sure there are others that use the -s in the Sun version. Here, then, is the patch against tftpd 8.1 in netstd 3.07: --- tftpd.c.origThu Jun 25 17:26:53 1998 +++ tftpd.c Thu Jun 25 18:29:55 1998 @@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ * This version includes many modifications by Jim Guyton *

Re: An X version of dselect for slink

1998-10-02 Thread John Lapeyre
m not to do too much at once. A working GUI couldn't hurt in any case (unless it's buggy and trashes systems !) 15 days of testing isn't much. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre
xstab.html John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

intent to package tochnog

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre
License: GPL tochnog is a finite element analysis program. http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c8/c813/tn_release/tnhome.html The author calls the executable 'tn' . I should probably change this to 'tochnog' or 'tng' or something.

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
h is nearly drop-in gsstar>compatible with libforms. I was under the impression that it was not really a drop in replacement. But I see that you are the maintainer... I guess I can give it a try. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
going non-free, but there is a September 23 release which is still under the GPL . John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Should Package Web page be changed for non-free (Re: glimpse on CD?)

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
in the Galbra>path. I have built packages and uploaded them to main only to find later that they depend on non-free libraries that appeared free when I found them on the web page. (note that when the lib later shows up as a dependency, it is listed as non-free) . John Lapeyre <[EM

Re: dh_make

1998-10-05 Thread John Lapeyre
and what you-all are talking about,... but doesn't policy require compiling with -g and then stripping ? Last time I read the policy manual, this was the case. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
-1_i386.deb John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
hough some path-related bugs are introduced. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: problems with the resolver in glibc 2.0.7u

1998-10-06 Thread John Goerzen
I've encountered times when every single address (out of hundreds) on the distribution list for a mailing list bounced for that reason, minutes after successful delivery of mails. I was unable to deduce a cause. I use sendmail 8.9.1. John Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-06 Thread John Goerzen
. That is not acceptable. John Christopher Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution > and custom kernels then surely it won't sweat a little bit of bzip2 > decompressing... and since you spend a lot less time dow

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread John Lapeyre
ackage ? Thanks. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Raphael Hertzog wrote: rhertz>Well it doesn't work out of the box as I expected it. First the rhertz>@INC isn't correct, it doesn't contain /usr/lib/perl5. Please rhertz>Darren can you correct it ? I downloaded the upstream source. It looks like the omission of /usr/li

perl5.005 installation structure

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
x27;t come because its not a bug. btw. Looks like some really cool stuff in the new perl. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl5.005 installation structure

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
nted to make extra-special sure before I dig into my perl packages, some of which need help bad in any case. John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl policy for managing modules ?

1998-10-07 Thread John Lapeyre
ems silly to require that they be rebuilt. I posted a message on perl5-porters asking for advice. We need to set a policy quickly, as quite a bit of slink has just become unstable. (Unfortunatley, I was using slink for daily science work. I don't have two machines.) John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-08 Thread John Lapeyre
opment strategy, it would be good to hear from them. I don't know if the perl people really expect everyone to redo the 'perl Makefile.PL ... ' process for every perl package evertime perl is upgraded, but it certainly looks that way. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucs

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-08 Thread John Goerzen
dpkg remains the primary bottleneck in the setup, and apt calls dpkg anyway, so the different is not really significant, and apt-get update is slow too. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [1 ] > On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:50:01PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > > Th

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
Re: installing in /usr/lib/perl5/debian . I have an uneasy feeling about it, but no concrete objections. My guess is that Darrin has a better idea about it than me. It may be ok, I'll follow it if its set. Just to summarize, I think we have to either go back to 5.004 , or push the fr

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
perl, a feature that debian is not interested in. Why they (perl guys) did not leave /usr/lib/perl5 in the search path is not clear to me. Perhaps because they assume that othe modules will install in site_perl or local. But systems with package managers, like ours don't use these dirs.

Re: Perl

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
(Brian White) olet>[EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet> olet> olet>-- olet>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] olet> John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Perl

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
On 10 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: olet>*-John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> olet>| olet>| Perl 5.004 was in Incoming yesterday. You can get it from a olet>| mirror of incoming or wait a day or two and it will be installed. olet> olet>I can only find the orig source pac

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
ieces of GPL code. To do it right, you need to get each copyright holder licensing her code under GPL to allow the code to be distributed under another license, ie, the GPL+caveat. If you have a lot of code and a lot of sources, this could be a PITA. John John Lapeyre <[

KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
) of Lyx. For instance, these binaries use .h files from libforms. Unlike KDE, it may be all original code, so that a single change of license from the developers will do. Am I missing something ? John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
r/doc/lyx/copyright definitly says that it is distributed under the GPL. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-10 Thread John Lapeyre
is no canvas widget. (I don't know if lyx uses one) The fltk author says that he is not working towards compatibility with forms. I can't get through to the site now to get the exact statement. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: dhcpcd should probably be in base and on the boot floppies

1998-10-10 Thread John Lines
t the details of IP than that they should answer "Yes" to "Does your network use DHCP ?" John Lines

Re: [conrad@srl.caltech.edu: ANNOUNCE: Fulcrum scientific plotting tool update]

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
ew incarnation of yorick, which is already packaged .... John John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Shaya Potter wrote: spotte> spotte>-Original Message- spotte>From: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spotte> spotte>> Lyx is currently in contrib. spotte>> Lyx is licensed under the GPL (version 2) . It is dynamically spotte>&

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-12 Thread John Lapeyre
torin>>5.00[34], of course). torin> torin>That's good enough for me. I have boatloads of respect for Andy and his torin>understanding of Perl Install issues. That's how it will be for torin>5.005.02-3. Good, I think that will cause the least problems for

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread John Lapeyre
smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) This one also refers to the version of perl which has been removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson

Re: Gnome 0.30 fix?

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
sappeared (!). This is characteristic of reading and writing outside of array bounds. (as determined by malloc) John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Odd "build" behavior...

1998-10-15 Thread John Goerzen
ased Mark Bug# 16416, mentioned in lincity_1.10-4_i386.changes, as done? Y/n -- 16416 marked as done. This occurs after it uploads the files to master. Any ideas why it does this? Apparently, it's trying to CC me a copy, which is failing, but the copy sent to the list goes. Thanks, John

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
FAQ-O-MATIC ! (Excuse my yelling, I just wanted to advertise ;) ) Why don't you put an entry in this nice, underutilized tool. And reward Mr. Grobman for his effort. See: http://www.debian.org/fom/1.html John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://

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