Re: Removing Gnome [was: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1]

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Stephen Crowley wrote: crow>That is ridiculous, there is no reason to remove gnome before the freeze, if you FWIW, one of the slashdot commenters on the slink-freeze, commends slink for including gnome ( he did install the packages, too) . John Lapeyre <

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread John Lapeyre
symbolic links referencing the shared library. N: N: Refer to Packaging Manual, chapter 12 for details. N: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-16 Thread John Goerzen
for i386! So if I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha, the Alpha will have the current versions, and perhaps the Sparc and m68k too, but i386 will be obsolete! Fix anybody? John Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 12:30 +0200 1998-10-14, Paul Slootman wrote: >

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-18 Thread John Goerzen
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 i386! So if > > I suddenly do all

Re: what about Pine's license?

1999-01-18 Thread John Hasler
g CD's. Unless those CD's contain something which is neither free-of-charge, shareware, nor non-proprietary software. > Why does non-free == no modified binaries? It doesn't. There are many other reasons why a pacakge may be non-free. -- John HaslerThis postin

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-19 Thread John Hasler
This is just the sort of company I would love to participate in. I have cross-posted this to debian-devel. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread John Hasler
Edward Betts writes: > Are you sure it was /usr/doc/copyright/base ? hasler/~ ll /usr/doc/copyright/base total 2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1197 Dec 31 1969 debian.README -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-20 Thread John Hasler
daemons that run as root? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread John Hasler
ine was upgraded from 1.3: maybe it's a leftover. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-21 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Would you say the same of daemons that run as root? Avery Pennarun writes: > Coming from you, that sounds like a trick question. It isn't. My chrony package includes a daemon that runs as root. I've looked it over and don't see any holes, but I'm not a

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-21 Thread John Hasler
. I looked around in the code a bit more and found a few dubious looking sprintf's. What else should I look for? I already checked for 'system' and 'execve'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-21 Thread John Hasler
o calls to system or its ilk. I know how to fix the sprintf's. My plan now is to analyze the path followed by strings from input to consumption. The control port is protected by a password: I'll look for holes in the password checking. What else? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:24:37PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > On 1999-01-21 19:32, Ben Collins wrote: > > > All 4 of the Debian systems I run use 2.1.13x or 2.2.0-prex without any > > changes to the basic setup. 3 of these are slink, one is potato. So i > > say yes, it is stable with Debian. >

Re: Bug#27050 (fdutils): A cause for security concern?

1999-01-22 Thread John Hasler
x27;t finished figuring out how he handles it, but it looks sniffable to me. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-24 Thread John Hasler
Andrew G . Feinberg writes: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a _logo_? We don't. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from i

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-24 Thread John Lapeyre
good idea, because a full time employee could do quite a bit for the installation process in a few months, and contribute back to the project. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-24 Thread John Lapeyre
I guess I should add this to my last post about how bad the installation is. The boot floppies themselves and apt are quite good. Getting the base system on is easy for someone who knows what is going on. Probably not for a beginner. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread John Hasler
n stuff and grant individual licenses on a case by case basis. I doubt that you will be swamped by all the requests. What does FreeBSD do about their logo (or mascot, or whatever)? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do

Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-25 Thread John Hasler
year would enquire about using a logo which has not been offered to them? > I will be rather happy to see a permanent license in place. Fine. Propose one and I'll second the motion and vote for it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Way, way off-topic was: Re: Debian logo & its license

1999-01-26 Thread John Hasler
he US and the UK, act in accordance with the laws of their respective nations, which require them to obey the civilian governments. It is those governments, not the "military", that are signatories to treaties (not that I know of any that require nuclear disarmament). -- John Hasler

Re: Way, way off-topic

1999-01-26 Thread John Hasler
and if the UK is signatory to a treaty which requires that it destroy its nuclear weapons then the responsibility for failing to comply lies with Parliament, not the UK military. In those nations where the military are not subservient to the civilian government they are the government, and thus

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
expensive modem link. I guess I don't care too much about the cachet of having 2.2 in slink. I wonder if we'll put 2.4 in slink -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread John Hasler
ee86 Project. The license looks DFSG-ok, but I wonder if Red Hat really means to delegate that power to XFree86. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can;

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:32:28PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: > > > > I guess I should add this to my last post about how bad the > > installation is. The boot floppies themselves and apt are quite good. > > G

spectremu - zx spectrum emulator.

1999-01-27 Thread John Travers
Hi, my name is John Travers, I have been using debian for about 8 months and have also been using a zx spectrum emulator called spectremu. It is distributed under the GNU GPL. I was wondering if anyone was packaging this (they are not according to the docs) and if not if you think it a good idea

Re: [Re: spectremu - zx spectrum emulator.]

1999-01-27 Thread John Travers
The url is: http://www.inf.bme.hu/~mszeredi/spectemu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:41:42PM +, John Travers wrote: > have also been using a zx spectrum emulator called spectremu. Does it have an URL? > It is distributed under the GNU GPL. Great. > if n

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-27 Thread John Hasler
Santiago Vila writes: > I intend to package all the dummy packages we have been talking about. Go for it. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can

Re: GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-28 Thread John Lapeyre
ftp1.us.debian.org now has everything to install all the gnome stuff libgtop0 is there too. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Branden Robinson writes: > John Hasler might like it but there are about 400 other people to ask. I look forward to hearing from them. I just want to see the damn thing fixed. Santiago has proposed a workable solution and offered to implement it. > Barring a better solution, I will be t

Re: [Re: Call for mascot! :-)]

1999-01-28 Thread John Travers
>On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Waters wrote: >> 1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC) >> 2. Octopus (my own suggestion) >> 3. Monkey >> 4. Ant >> 5. Bee >Ants and Bees are probably the easiest to do cool 3d raytracings with, if >that's any thing. I'd have to take ants. Lots of little creatures

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread John Hasler
*can* see dragons. You just have to look in the right direction. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

intent to package xzx

1999-01-29 Thread John Travers
I wish to take over the orphaned package xzx. I have notified the WNPP maintainer. I am just checking that this is OK with everyone... To dmarion: please send me any relevent files/info if it is ok. More than just email--Get you

package for X11 or svgalib ??

1999-01-29 Thread John Travers
I have just started to package spectremu, it comes in two versions for X11 and SVGAlib, should I just to X11 or both and in one or seperated packages? Also, how do I make a menu entry start a program in xterm? because spectremu for X11 must be started from xterm. _

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Hasler
bout this? This can be read as "You are forbidden to charge a fee for copies" or as "I do not require that you pay me a fee for copying". The author may intend the latter. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Hasler
Ben Pfaff writes: > That doesn't make it non-free. It's in the standard BSD license. The word 'fee' does not occur in the standard BSD license. It does not mention money at all. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Intent to package gbdk.

1999-01-29 Thread John Lapeyre
There have been several packages allowed into main with a license like this. Some people don't like it however. Perl's license is even slightly more restricive. Except that now it can be licensed under the GPL as well. From: John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-30 Thread John Hasler
Scientific Workstation profile. The following additional packages may be of interest ..." -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don&#

Mail Being Lost Again

1999-01-31 Thread John Goerzen
shed light on this? It is a very serious problem. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the

Re: Mail Being Lost Again

1999-01-31 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:15:07PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously John Goerzen wrote: > > Also, whenever I shut down the client (an Alpha box), it displays: > > lockd_down: no lockd running > > What kind of NFS server are you using? Linux? User or kerne

Re: dinstall can now announce packages & close bugs for you

1999-01-31 Thread John Goerzen
Also, would somebody please document this in the Packaging manual? Otherwise, it won't be terribly useful as anybody that didn't see the message won't know about it. On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 12:19:33PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:10:11AM -0800, Guy Maor wrote: > > dinst

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Republic and the United States government. > - hawks Eaters of mice and baby rabbits (the red-tails around here, anyway). Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. Joseph Carter writes: > That's been taken... Has been taken by... ? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-02-01 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Power, speed, and freedom: a wild horse. Erick Kinnee writes: > Stampede Linux Stampede? I would have expected something to do with cattle. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: x11amp

1999-02-01 Thread John Goerzen
Why should it be non-free if it's GPL? On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 09:51:35PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > I saw the new alpha version, that has acceptable licence (GPL). > Although it's alpha, I'd like to see it packaged. If you aren't > interested, I'll do it. > > For the -devel readers: s

Re: x11amp

1999-02-01 Thread John Goerzen
eb 01, 1999 at 04:02:13PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > > On 01-Feb-99 John Goerzen wrote: > > Why should it be non-free if it's GPL? > > the mp3 patent

Re: x11amp

1999-02-01 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:14:38PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > I don't see why we ought to let some lawyers trying to make a good bluff > > scare us. > > Fraunhofer institute holds the patent, we shouldn't take any chances. The fact that they hold *a* patent does not put Debian in any sort of

Re: x11amp

1999-02-02 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > The fact that they hold *a* patent does not put Debian in any sort of > > jeopardy. If anything, it would be the authors; Debian is complying with > > GPL completely. > > Well, yes, but we still have to abide by the patent laws, do

Serious Debian website problems

1999-02-02 Thread John Goerzen
OK, I've written on both of these topics before, and nothing has happened for months, so I'm writing here. First, Debian's list archives will most likely die a horrible death on January 1, 2000. That's right, folks; lists-archives is not year-2000 compliant. Not only will dates in indexes appear

Re: Intent to package KerberosV

1999-05-09 Thread John Lines
component, and as their open source versions are generally developed by international groups the main effect is to deprive the US developers of the opportunity to participate in the cryptographic components. John Lines p.s. wnpp - please consider this a request to have a kerberised LDA

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread John Lapeyre
d with this statement. AFAIK, no tentative freeze date has been set. Also, the problem of how to introduce the new package has been debated since before the slink freeze. It is apparantly a difficult problem. I imagine that, if the problem is solved before the freeze, perl 5.005 will be insta

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-09 Thread John Lapeyre
rate, I predict that, perl will be uploaded, dependent packages will be uploaded, and then months will pass before the release, during which time, the perl problem will be fixed and forgotten. ( I suggest keeping this message so you can repost it when it is found that perl 5.005 has destroyed t

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-10 Thread John Lapeyre
ly. I even improved the perl version and ruby still won. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: KDE debian stuff

1999-05-10 Thread John Lapeyre
ed > or was a "god it would be nice" Is the debugging info necessary ? I wonder if it slows things down. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-11 Thread John Goerzen
ible to the user should never be > embedded within the source code. All string literals should be placed in a > separate header file to ease the pain of possible future translation. Well, if you're going to be doing localizat

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread John Lapeyre
machine and installed from them. For a single machine it is relatively painless. John -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Please adopt: prc-tools

1999-05-13 Thread John Goerzen
ying again. The reason I'm giving it away is that it is i386-only and I do not have an i386 system on which to maintain it. Thanks, John

possibly broken X development environment

1999-05-14 Thread John Lapeyre
ibICE.so.6: undefined reference to _sigjmp_save' /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6: undefined reference to _setjmp' -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-14 Thread John Hasler
Dale Scheetz writes: > The only thing that looks strange here is the Bcast: and Mask:, but I > didn't set them. It isn't clear that this is the failure either. The ifconfig output looks fine. What does 'route -n' say? -- John HaslerThis posting is in

Re: Please adopt: prc-tools

1999-05-15 Thread John Goerzen
By all means go right ahead and upload :-) -- John Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>>>> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the > John> perso

y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

1999-05-17 Thread John Lines
) John Lines p.s. Anyone who is running Debian in a corporate environment is probably being nagged by their management about year 2000 issues. (all our Windows NT stuff is Year 2000 compliant - it must be because they keep releasing updates to make it be ;-)

Re: y2k compliance - release goal for potato ???

1999-05-18 Thread John Lines
ittle look at adduser, which was OK, and base-files, which had a subtle documentation problem (the GPL says you should write a license with 19yy as the date, though this is fixed in the LGPL), which is why it is marked OK? Most of the packages need someone who knows their inner workings, to look th

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
ounce that here to. This > is to prevent others from possibly investigating the source with an > eye towards taking over maintenance. I thought the same thing. An announcement of change of maintainership is appropriate for this list. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
I really like the how-to-install-gnome page. Other packages that could use similar pages are X, emacs, and communicator. I and people I have talked to can get confused trying to decide which packages to download and install. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuc

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
rk for it. If enough (like Manoj) don't care, then we won't get commercial support and recognition. It's probably OK either way. They can't drive us out of business. -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: evan leibovitch and the LPI certification tests

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
erested in making headlines for Debian because > we actually accomplished something cool rather than making them just to > make the average Slashdot reader think that Debian is as good as Redhat. A couple of salaried positions would be nice. Full time PR staff, ... -- John Lapeyre <[

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
g on ? > > The only contributions to our packaging systems today are done with C++ > (apt), and perl (install methods). > -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-20 Thread John Lapeyre
*Marek Habersack wrote: > Yes, yes. But you won't be able to use perl with C++ libraries. If you use the C interface to the C++ libraries, and reimplement OO in perl, yes you can. And the C++ wrapping has improved to the point that people are using it directly for some projects.

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
ug. This is an > automated system that spits out messages with NO content of use to the > developer, and adds nothing but bulk to the already functional system. The person already asked for a fix, and generally deserves a timely fix. Why not close the bugs instead of complaining about those

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAI

LinuxExpo report, Day 1

1999-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
closed), we all moved over to the "IBM free beer/food/soft drinks" area with the loud band. Sat around for awhile, talked about how silly it is to complain about the BTS nag messages, and chatted with a newspaper editor and his MS-land friend about how Debian works, how the hacker culture

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
a7fvUcVGt/Ou1knNq33KXfBMY+MU8XdW53k5P2iTcoAxY > wzk/sGKck5M= > =MXjZ > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > --cmJC7u66zC7hs+87-- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] &g

Debian in a phrase

1999-05-22 Thread John Lapeyre
Well here is a little good press... http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/personal/19990524/tech.html Says, Caldera Makers of OpenLinux. Debian High-quality volunteer Linux. Linux Pro Corporate-aimed implementation from WorkGroup Solutions.

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> No one needs to take on that job, as the BTS already reports all open bugs > >> twice a week to every developer. > > John> I don't ge

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone wishing to have a reminder of bug status may choose to subscribe > to a report. > > Closing bugs just because you can't fix them is wrong. I *NEVER* said that one ought to do that, and AFAIK, nobody else did either. -

LinuxExpo Report, Days 2 and 3

1999-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
id LinuxCare. * Linux.com looks really nifty, will be supporting us. * There was a lot of interest in our non-i386 distros, especially Alpha (there were lots of Alpha vendors there) and, to a slightly lesser extent, Sparc. * Big thanks to LinuxCentral for for donating CDs. -- John

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
Well put, Dale. I think you have done the correct thing here. If the vi emulation is not sufficiently complete to work as expected of vi, and esp. if it's really bad, remove it. -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Li

Re: request to kill nag messages

1999-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 21 May 1999, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > No one needs to take on that job, as the BTS already reports all open bugs > > > twice a week to ever

building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
The 2.0.x kernels do fine in the same situation. I tried to find this issue in the archives, but did not find much. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris> chris>>Is it possible to build 2.0.x kernels under a reasonable chris>> potato build environment ? I tried "make CC=gcc272", but chris>> I still get failures f

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris> chris>>The link to suse doesn't work at the moment, but I'll give it a try. chris>> The blurb at cygnus does not look encouraging. I think it is claiming chris>

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-16 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: herber>John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: herber>> herber>> Hmm. Well my two potato systems are slightly different. One just herber>> compiled 2.0.36 with the patch. But the other one failed with the herber>> messa

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Herbert Xu wrote: herber>On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:57:54AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: herber>Try herber> herber>make "CC=gcc272 -D__KERNEL__ -I`pwd`/include" zImage I love this man ! Well, I had tried messing around with the /include fi

Move proftpd to contrib

1999-09-17 Thread John Goerzen
involved taked whatever steps necessary to do that. We absolutely cannot release a distribution with such a bubbling security hole as this. -- John

Re: building kernel 2.0.x under potato

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Chris Rutter wrote: chris>On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote: chris> chris>> The 2.0.37 and 2.2.x kernels keep hanging on my AMD K6-2. chris> chris>This sounds *bad*, BTW; have you checked around to see if anyone chris>else has had these kinds of f

Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-17 Thread John Lapeyre
to put together a working system. 11 kernels is probably too much, but a couple of each might be OK. We (someone !) could also package the patches, which is a bit more of a pain for the user, but we could get all 12 new kernels without adding so much bulk to the archive. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-20 Thread John Lapeyre
ernel, and the source size is not too big. I never use the debian source packages; there are probably additional technical issues. John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

Re: is Wayland/Weston mature enough to be the default desktop choice in Buster?

2019-04-12 Thread John Scott
> Even then, AFAIR Qt does not enable Wayland support by default, and it > might need the following environment variables Having installed the packages, I'm able to choose KDE's Wayland session from SDDM and it works out-of-the-box. Applications don't run with Xwayland, and I've stumbled on some

Re: Bug#927725: Please build with --enable-mmdblookup

2019-04-23 Thread John Goerzen
n-light vs. exim4-daemon-heavy? Maybe have two rsyslogs, one of which has all the deps enabled and the other doesn't. John

Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2

2019-05-10 Thread John Goerzen
ile size limit that's rather lower than the ar limit, due to its interpretation of tar headers. I believe I filed a bug on this but I'm not able to find it right now, unfortunately. John

Re: Consensus Call: Git Packaging Round 1

2019-08-31 Thread John Goerzen
es through it is mirrored in public in numerous places already. That history is, in effect, safe. As a conceptual matter, having some of the history of development be in a git tree, and other history available only on a website, is a pretty weird setup. -- John

Bug#1035318: ITP: golang-github-bemasher-rtltcp -- Go library interface to an rtltcp daemon

2023-04-30 Thread John Scott
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Scott X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Control: block 1025210 by -1 * Package name: golang-github-bemasher-rtltcp * URL : https://github.com/bemasher/rtltcp * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-31 Thread John Goerzen
have the added benefit of a screen, keyboard, and battery all integrated in a small device. Not everything from that age was power-hungry. I guess the question is: is this use case too niche for Debian to continue supporting? I would suggest that as long as we have 32-bit ARM, are the challenges for 32-bit x86 really worse? - John

Strange Error After Update

2023-08-13 Thread John Darrah
today is the second time I have seen this in the last week. I'm tracking Testing and always update in a Linux console so I can view the update progress as it happens. I have seen no errors or failed packages. The logs also don't indicate any issues and everything works fine. Thanks -- john

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-13 Thread John Goerzen
ason is that however much we work on our bespoke tooling, we cannot hope to match what the rest of the world combined is doing. That doesn't mean we give up on .deb and adopt RPM or something. But, in an ideal world, would gbp-pq need to exist? I don't think so. A world in which it doesn't should be our target. - John

Re: Potential MBF: packages failing to build twice in a row

2023-08-13 Thread John Goerzen
gies on things that matter more. > Should we give up on requiring a 'clean' target that works? After all, > when 17% of packages are failing, it means that many maintainers don't > depend on it in their workflow. Yes. - John

Bug#1052280: ITP: erlang-hex -- Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem

2023-09-19 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@paladyn.org * Package name: erlang-hex Version : 2.0.5 * URL : https://github.com/hexpm/hex * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Elixir Description

Bug#1055134: ITP: golang-github-bits-and-blooms-bloom -- Go package implementing Bloom filters, used by Milvus and Beego.

2023-10-31 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen * Package name: golang-github-bits-and-blooms-bloom Version : 3.6.0-1 Upstream Author : Will Fitzgerald * URL : https://github.com/bits-and-blooms/bloom * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Go

Confusion over t64 migration

2024-02-09 Thread John Goerzen
kworm-backports? Thanks! - John

Bug#1063906: ITP: monitoring-plugins-check-smart -- check S.M.A.R.T. storage system monitoring plugin for nagios compatible monitoring systems

2024-02-14 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: monitoring-plugins-check-smart Version : 6.14.1 Upstream Contact: Claudio Kuenzler * URL : https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/monitoring-plugins

Bug#1064667: ITP: roundcube-plugin-carddav -- carddav plugin for Roundcube Webmail

2024-02-25 Thread John Lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Lines X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, j...@paladyn.org * Package name: roundcube-plugin-carddav Version : 5.1.0 Upstream Contact: Michael Stilkerich * URL : https://github.com/mstilkerich/rcmcarddav * License

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