HELP! (need to find Carl Streeter)

1995-11-06 Thread Matthew Bailey
? Otherwise I will send his mail to /dev/null until it can be fixed. Or bruce can you remove it from the mailing lists? that might be easier.. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views

Re: ftp.debian.org incoming.uk needs update

1995-11-07 Thread Matthew Bailey
ing connection part way through. be patient it will all arrive soon. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are pu

mirror update (fwd)

1995-11-07 Thread Matthew Bailey
Looks like it is all here now! -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:27:22 -0500 From: Charlie Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: mirror update Mirrored incoming (chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk:/pub/debian/private/Incoming -> /debian.org/ftp/debian/private/

Re: ftp.debian.org incoming.uk needs update

1995-11-07 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Peter Tobias wrote: > Matthew Bailey wrote: > > The UK machine keeps dropping connection part way through. be patient it > > will all arrive soon. > > Maybe we should try a different site. Please check if you get a > better connection to: >

Re: Where are the Updates

1995-11-09 Thread Matthew Bailey
ing the release of these updated packages? > Ian M. Are you moving files into the tree? Are you also moving the files from incoming.uk over into the tree as well? -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance be

Re: Where are the Updates

1995-11-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > > "deletes to 0%" ? Yes If I set do_deletes to 0% inside of mirror then say I mailed you the log file which could be parsed by procmail to delete the files that I retreived. Then they would stay on my end till Ian M. moved them. -- M

Bug#1836: expect core dumps

1995-11-10 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: expect Version: 5.16.3 Revision: 3 The following dumps core when put into a file and executed. I realize I should probably spawn su inside a shell, but I don't think expect should core dump even so. #!/usr/bin/expect -f # Give my roommate a way to safely turn off my machine without gi

Re: Where are the Updates

1995-11-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
t. I will have to coordinate with Ian J. on this one. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resem

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-12 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: kpathsea Version: 2.6-1 The presence of an up-to-date ls-R database, while not necessary, drastically improves the efficiency of the TeX system. The kpathsea package should create one on installation and have cron maintain it. All packages that install into the /usr/lib/texmf tree should

Re: kernels

1995-11-16 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > I'll try to build a kernel >= 1.3.40 today. I think the binary interface > for PPP has changed yet again, and I'm going to need to build a PPP package > for the 1.3 kernel series - ugh! Bruce ftp.cps.cmich.edu just received a 1.3.4

Unidentified subject!

1995-11-17 Thread Matthew Bailey
mine comes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway it is getting real late and I am going to bed CYA! Matthew S. Bailey TOTALS FOR SUMMARY PERIOD Thu Nov 16 1995 TO Thu Nov 16 1995 Files Transmitted During Summary Period 10910 Bytes Transmitted During Summary Period2407017672

Re: chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk's Incoming

1995-11-17 Thread Matthew Bailey
> > Matt: you can now stop mirroring Incoming.uk from chiark and delete > it on ftp.debian.org. GONE!!! Enjoy! -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my emp

Re: Unidentified subject!

1995-11-17 Thread Matthew Bailey
3 instead.. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own vie

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-20 Thread Matthew Swift
Ian Jackson writes: > > Matt Swift writes: > > > > # ensure proper permissions and ownership > > chown --recursive root:texmf $DIRS > > chmod --recursive ug=rwX,o=rX $DIRS > Our packaging guidelines say that the things should be owned by > root.root in general. Is there a good reason to us

Well folks...

1995-11-21 Thread Matthew Bailey
machine down now to fix the problem and unpgrade the OS to current released version. OR 2 I wait for Christmas break take the machine down for "3 Weeks" and do it up right. This also means the machine will have its ups and downs over the next three weeks while we wait. -- Matthew S.

Re: Well folks...

1995-11-21 Thread Matthew Bailey
27;t trust things anyway. I plan on building it over christmas unless people want me to do it now... I will change a few hard drives around on the next round and be adding some others. I just want opinions before I do anything. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan Universi

Re: Well folks...

1995-11-21 Thread Matthew Bailey
nt the thing where it needs to be :) Anyway -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resembl

Bug#1884: at 2.9a-1 Documentation error

1995-11-22 Thread Matthew Bailey
:) for the few of you that have IRC'ed before you will understand that :) Fixed the problem with drive space on debian.org there is now 270ish and will free up 70 more megs after my 4 day weekend... PLEASE don't asked me about this is was _really_ dumb :) -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 E

Re: [miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx: New Linux/SPARC snapshot] (fwd)

1995-11-27 Thread Matthew Bailey
ke to point out that I'm the maintainer of > PGP, which has assembler routines for some architectures. > LIBC will cause a major concern here considering the port is HUGE to make it all work. The kernel Source tree is not a big deal since it can configure most of itself. -- Matthew S.

Movement :/ OK OK :)

1995-11-27 Thread Matthew Bailey
would be so kind as to keep a copy. I am also under the impression that uploads are rather inmaterial as far as timestamps are concerned. By default mirror (from src.doc.ic.ac.uk) just updates the time stamps and does not re-retrieve the files... So Starting sometime tommorow I will be at play.

Re: [miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx: New Linux/SPARC snapshot] (fwd)

1995-11-27 Thread Matthew Bailey
dy so they are not all that far off. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance betwe

FTP status for december.

1995-12-01 Thread Matthew Bailey
to do this. Everything should "be back to normal" on monday early afternoon when I can put the drive back into this machine. When the machine comes back I plan on not making any changes again till summer or later. Work load here has been at the stressful edge and now I need time to play. :)

Re: Back...

1995-12-06 Thread Matthew Bailey
for at least 6 months ;) -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the abo

Re: Where 1.0 is

1995-12-09 Thread Matthew Bailey
ucking it down, I wanted a solution before this was retreived(SP?) by every site on the net again just incase it was going back to its original spot. The symlinks that were there can cause mirror sto go nuts. Atleast bruce set it so world could not read it. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Cent

Re: 1.0 on Infomagic CD

1995-12-09 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Fernando Alegre wrote: > release-0.93/ > not-released-1.0/ The whole problem is nothing more than hindsite now, so lets drop it an update of whats is going to happen is forth coming. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI

Re: Infomagic and 1.0

1995-12-09 Thread Matthew Bailey
permission as soon as I talk to Ian M. he seems to be all but off the face of the earth. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view o

Re: bumping the version number

1995-12-09 Thread Matthew Bailey
t. > Sounds fine to me but the account that goes with the development tree is alpha with password gnu/fsf This should suffice for the people who wish to mirror JUST the development branch. Ian M. if you move it out of ALPHA-TEST then _PLEASE_ let me know so I can make this account point to t

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-09 Thread Matthew Bailey
e. Bruce doesn't allow for downloads from his Incoming tree either the last I knew. He had to move them out to a directory called Debian instead. Please do not upload to ftp.pixar.com unless there is an absolute need. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasan

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
but I just got 5 bounced mail messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh well shit happens. Ian M. if you get this everything that I had mailed you has already been said on the devel list.. I was tring to get your opinion before I did such. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan Univer

Re: Infomagic and 1.0

1995-12-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Matthew Bailey wrote: > > > Bill: I will fix the upload permission as soon as I talk to Ian M. he > > seems to be all but off the face of the earth. > > I'm here--what do you need to talk to me about? &

Re: Downloading from US sites

1995-12-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
hen the archive maintainer moves the file into public view then it will get mailed to the mailing list. I am sorry to be an ass here but you have to understand these views. I am doing what is best for the University by not allowing for illegal software to be downloaded. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emm

Just FYI

1995-12-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
must need pacakge. Hope this helps a bit.. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any

Re: bumping the version number

1995-12-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
A-TEST to BETA-TEST then these people will have to download all of it again yet if they use my login then if I move the directory none of this can happen. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between

Re: Incoming directory

1995-12-12 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, brian (b.c.) white wrote: > Where precisely is the Incoming directory these days? > ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project/Incoming -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance betwe

Bug#2023: latex dumps core on -QUIT

1995-12-13 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: texbin Version: 3.1415-4 The following dialog with sh shows how to get latex to dump core. Between LaTeX's "**" prompt and the next line's "[1]+ Stopped...", I pressed C-z. - /var/tmp> ls -la total 3 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 2048 Dec 13 19:24 . drwxr-xr-x 13 r

Bug#2027: tiny bug in web2c debian.rules

1995-12-14 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: web2c Version: 6.1-3 In the following excerpt from debian.rules, it should be --prefix=$(prefix): prefix = /usr [...] stamp-config: cd kpathsea; ./configure --prefix=/usr touch stamp-config

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-27 Thread Matthew Bailey
For those out there that are interested. I will make space available for these ports, and allow each group to maintain uploads for the subtree. Please contact me if you are in need of an account for this use. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI

Re: bind-4.9.3BETA26-3 uploaded

1995-12-28 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Thu, 28 Dec 1995, Carl Streeter wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 1995, Robert Leslie wrote: > Just another side note beta 32 is out. And in a few days a 4.9.3-REL will be available for public consumption. just another FYI -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pl

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-29 Thread Matthew Bailey
sort down. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own vie

Re: ftp.debian.org is down.

1995-12-30 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Fri, 29 Dec 1995 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hope this event wasn't already announced, and I missed it, but the ftp > site seems to be down. > Nope :) just netscrapers getting the new beta. :) -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI

faulty mirror of Debian Linux at tsx-11

1995-12-31 Thread Matthew Swift
The stable, recommended components of Debian Linux are available in the directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93 but neither this directory nor its sister symbolic link "stable" are properly mirrored at tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian, and this has been the case for I'd

Re: ftp.debian.org?

1995-12-31 Thread Matthew Bailey
000 debian 512 Sep 28 16:09 project lrwxrwxr-x 1 1 debian 13 Dec 31 04:55 stable -> debian-0.93R6 drwxrwxr-x 2 1 debian 512 Sep 28 16:09 tools 226 Transfer complete. ftp> Looks fine to me *shrug* -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University

Re: ftp.debian.org?

1995-12-31 Thread Matthew Bailey
. Could someone > try to correct the buster login before the mirrors delete everything? > > Seeya. Didn't make any changes to the code. :( sorry -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the a

BIND 4.9.3-REL announcement (fwd)

1996-01-01 Thread Matthew Bailey
Thought the bind maintainer would like to know. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any

Re: FTP site hosed

1996-01-02 Thread Matthew Bailey
n there would not have been a problem. Anyway use buster if need be or after 6pm to 6am EST anonymous becomes a free for all at 1250 users enjoy -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Any resemblance between the above v

Re: FTP site performance low

1996-01-03 Thread Matthew Bailey
version are out I can not get out of their list. And I can not remove their software until this happens. So for now please use a mirror. Or get the files during the day when there is fewer users. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PR

Notice: Beta 5 Pending (fwd)

1996-01-05 Thread Matthew Bailey
JUST FYI ftp load should return to normal soon.. read attached message. (meaning when this goes out the door then I will not be in their list anymore.) -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message

Bug#2102: ediff.info missing from emacs

1996-01-07 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: emacs Version: 19.29-4 `M-x ediff-documentation' tells me that ediff.info is missing (it is) and that it is part of the Emacs distribution (I haven't confirmed). In any case, I think it ought to be part of emacs.deb.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:59:59PM -0500, SR, ESC wrote: > Le lun 2005-01-24 a 19:26:34 -0500, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a dit: > > > > I do not believe that being thick-skinned enough to cope with people who > > are very agressive or insulting should be a requirement for involvement >

Re: A few changes

1999-09-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
se of us who email from work, and have their PGP key at home... Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org/

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
uld just attend when it comes to > their city. > For those of us who attend in multiple countries we could book plane flights > together (hopefully get a good deal), play network Quake in the plane, etc. A laptop that'll do q3? m :) Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org/

Useless packages (was Re: anarchism_7.7-1.deb)

1999-09-27 Thread Matthew Vernon
ler or the IMAP development kit? > > Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't useful > to them, why don't we look at the popularity contest? A simple, bias-free > way of seperating programs on to the CD's, by actual use. That is what > it w

ITP: portsentry

1999-09-29 Thread Matthew Vernon
Please look at http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry/ for a closer > description. ISTR this being rather non-free... Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org/

Problem with the latest potato update

1999-09-30 Thread Matthew Vernon
ile processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > > The Priority: line is Priority: optionnal > instead of Priority: optional File a critical bug, if no-one has yet done so. Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org/

Re: warning: lilo 22dev0-1 can make your system unbootable !

1999-10-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
:53pm up 1:33, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 While we're at it: student:~$ dpkg -l lilo ii lilo22dev0-1 LInux LOader - The Classic OS loader can loa student:~$ uname -a Linux student 2.2.9 #1 SMP Sat Jun 12 17:10:55 BST 1999 i586 unknown Matthew -- &quo

Re: Embedded Debian (was: compaq iPaq)

2000-08-16 Thread Matthew Franz
configure which packages are to used but to configure the packages themselves. Lets say you were including apache (more likely boa!), you would be able to specify the initial document root and other essential variables. -mdf _

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Matthew Tuck
ownload, which will download before the lower priorities. Often I want to promote certain packages, because they're new or have important bugfixes or new features I want to see ASAP. -- Matthew Tuck: Software Developer & All-Round Nice Guy My experience is that in general, if

RE: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-27 Thread Matthew Reynolds
Sorry if I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm going to look into doing something similiar to what Dwayne's doing, with a heavy Java slant. Anyway, I wrote up a wishlist of sorts here : http://www.devel.e-plagiarism.com/~entropy/proposals/jam.html The ideas seem sound, but I haven't had too many p

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
r government (and, since you live in a "democracy" it truly is *your* government - remember, "of the people, by the people, and for the people", or some such) as overly friendly, I don't quite see the problem. -- --- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
if they take delibrate action to hurt _any_ > country, or its economy, they shall have to live with the consequences. Boycott us back. Considering the US government screws .au at every opportunity, I doubt we'd even notice. -- --- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: LDAP adduser/deluser

2003-05-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
folks to merge these scripts It's an adduser thing, best to keep it there. There's no need for totally separate adduser and adduser-ldap programs - the two co-exist quite nicely. -- --- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: LDAP adduser/deluser

2003-05-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Zed Pobre wrote: > > Could you elaborate on what ways yours works better than the original > > adduser? I'm sure Roland would love to hear about functionality > > improvements, and I'd certainly be keen for any improvements to the > > LDAP-specific code... > > My version

Re: LDAP adduser/deluser

2003-05-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Zed Pobre wrote: > > > > Could you elaborate on what ways yours works better than the original > > > > adduser? I'm sure Roland would love to hear about functionality > > > > improvements, and I'd certainly be keen for any improvements to the > > > > LDAP-specific code... > >

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
ll a future version of Debian, but you should be able to get the old xpm4.7 and it's dependencies from a Woody CD for some years to come. And pester wordperfect^WCorel to use libraries from the current millenium. -- --- #

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
------ #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
; is required depends on how much you want to achieve. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
o have the script available. Could you elaborate on your usage of maildirmake in this courier-less situation? [1] Arguments as to whether Debian should do this or not should be directed to /dev/null. > > Thanks Andreas > > -- ------

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, David B Harris wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 11:46:48 +1000 (EST) > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Now I'm wondering about it even more. IMHO `maildirmake' is _v

Re: maildirmake

2003-06-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
lly-debian-specific" utils in there already, although my aesthetic antennae are twitching... -- ------- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: Please don't misuse the debian/changelog to close bugs!

2003-06-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
"fixed" in that version of the package. It implies that versions less than the one in which the changelog entry appear have the bug - which they do not. -- ------- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Matthew Garrett
ures that are better supported by one than the other. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows macro virus

2003-06-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
tterly useless, and merely annoying. -- ------- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
e how the license shoudl be changed to be suitable for the non-free > section? I think the only thing needed would be to get an OK for Debian to distribute the program, in modified form. That'd get it into non-free. -- -------

Re: Windows macro virus

2003-07-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:07:25PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > That's odd, because debian-devel@lists.debian.org is a mailing list run on a > > Debian GNU/Linux machine, which is immune to windows macro virii. > > Yo

Re: inews path question

2003-07-02 Thread Matthew Garrett
ic binary that users run directly" and "platform specific binary that users don't run directly" division. Debian's not a BSD, regardless of the kernel that it's running on. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#199612: ITP: minido -- A simple, generic, multi-user, database free todo list manager / tracking system written in GTK2

2003-07-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
truments is a trademark. They may not like you using their name in apparent support for another product... -- ------- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

G++ 3.2 transition: How're we doing?

2003-07-02 Thread Matthew Wilcox
badly. http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/ i think technically these are all worthy of an RC bug, but i don't want to file them and you don't want to see them. if your name's on the list: http://people.debian.org/~willy/gcc-transition/maint-packages-2.95 then figure out which of y

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
rsal concept - UK law doesn't include it (the "fair dealing" provisions that deal with the same sort of thing are significantly more limited), and so any argument that something is "free enough" based on the existence of fair use provisions isn't a terribly strong one. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
ncee who routes her packets through it). But yes, there's probably more people utilising Debian boxes than there are Debian boxes, overall, I agree. -- --- #include Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
the Perhalia and G550 have closed drivers, and you need closed drivers to get reasonable functionality out of the G450) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
mes. Though unaccelerated 3D may not be an issue, unaccelerated 2D is massively painful. For a server it's not an issue, but in that case why bother with X? Health and safety regulations in various parts of the world require a vertical refresh rate that the VESA driver may not be able to

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Jamin W. Collins wrote: >On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:17:25PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> What's the alternative? > >A more responsive DAM, one that has time for the tasks that the job >requires. This would reduce the wait time for DAM approval and remove >the n

Re: Work-needing packages report for Jul 11, 2003

2003-07-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Jamin W. Collins wrote: >On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 10:51:56PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Someone who enters Debian is in a position to upload a package that >> could backdoor a very large number of machines. Attention to detail at >> the DAM stage is *more* important than

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:27:04PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 08:43:20AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 24-Jul-03, 17:56 (CDT), "Dwayne C. Litzenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Systems with large numbers of users (and normally use, for exampl

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 12:10:01AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > debconf (important) depends on liblocale-gettext-perl (standard). > Presumably liblocale-gettext-perl should become important. > Or debconf could be replaced in 'important' with cdebconf, of course. Ouch... > db2: > This

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:45:56AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >db2: > > This is pretty old... who still uses it, anyway? More specifically, > > does anyone use libdb2++, and if so, are they only things which > > aren't supposed to be transitioned? > > OK, this is an odd list: > Package

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:39:38AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:10:06PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > And, quite honestly, animals should probably disappear. When all of a > > maintainer's packages were NMU'd into stable, and they haven

Re: hey

2003-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
[It might also be a good idea to wrap your postings] On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:07:46PM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote: > It might be a good idea to reject MIME messages in -devel? Do we need > attachments? (patchs can be inserted in the message body) GPG/MIME is nice. And attached patches make thing

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 10:08:17AM +0200, Micha? Politowski wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:30:11 +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > > http://www.steve.org.uk/cgi-bin/debian/index.cgi > > > > If you're just scanning for binaries wit

Data loss: suggestions for handling

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
The latest upstream version of a package I've begun to maintain, IRM, has a problem in that a portion of the data in the system (relating to software and licence assignment) can't be upgraded along with the rest of the database - the schema is totally different. I've thought about it for a while,

Re: Bug#203588: acpid: Shell script has nothing to do in /etc

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew Garrett
Pierre THIERRY wrote: >I don't think the script is meant to be edited... So it should be in >/usr/sbin. You think wrong. The user should be able to choose whether the power button triggers shutdown or suspend to disk, for instance. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Data loss: suggestions for handling

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:59:43PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Matthew Palmer (2003-08-01 19:51:46 +1000) : > > > The latest upstream version of a package I've begun to maintain, > > IRM, has a problem in that a portion of the data in the system > > (relating to so

Re: Data loss: suggestions for handling

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 08:04:09AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > * Matthew Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - dump the old software tables and store the dump somewhere, giving > > pointers to the dump in all sorts of useful places. But if I put it > > some

Re: Data loss: suggestions for handling

2003-08-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:36:52AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:51:46PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > The latest upstream version of a package I've begun to maintain, IRM, has a > > problem in that a portion of the data in the system (relating

Re: [PROPOSAL] Debian Release Plan

2003-08-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:21:52PM -0500, Thomas Smith wrote: > architecture combination) release would be like at any time. It becomes more > complicated when dealing with RC bugs than it is with the buildds, because > they don't have architecture tags (some of them have [subject prefixes] but

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:10:08AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Adam Majer > > | My definition of MIA for DD: Doesn't fix release critical bugs for > | his/her package(s) within a week or two and doesn't respond to > | direct emails about those bugs. > > I guess I'm MIA, then, since I have

Re: NM non-process

2003-08-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:58:22AM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > IMHO, people should not package or take over a package that they > do not understand how it works. For example, a kernel maintainer [...] > People should maintain packages they are qualified to maintain Well, I see you're taking your ow

Re: Packaging some Redhat admin tools

2003-08-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:04:45AM +0200, C?dric Delfosse wrote: > So, I wonder if someone has already built a package from a SRPM package I certainly haven't, but surely you could use RPM to extract the source from the SRPM, then tarball it back up, and there's your .orig.tar.gz? Build as per no

Re: About NM and next release

2003-08-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
harder) for people to get the ability to upload packages? That way the people who do just want to claim to be a 1337 Debian contributor on their CV can do so without consuming as much time, but we don't risk anything significant as a result...) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 19th, 2003

2003-08-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
Jérôme Marant said: > Quoting Dagfinn Ilmari MannsÃ¥ker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> consensus >>n : agreement of the majority in sentiment or belief >>[syn: {general agreement}] >> >> unanimity >>n : everyone being of one mind >> >> >> A world of difference. > > No, no,

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