Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
ibpoppler. > Looking forward to receiving your application, including a short, > handwritten resume and desired salary ;-), I'm not picky about salary, but I want a corner office with a view. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS De

Re: ITK debian packages

2006-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:30:35PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > For reference, VTK 5 builds using > > > SET(VTK_MAJOR_VERSION 5) > > > SET(VTK_MINOR_VERSION 0) > > > SET(VTK_BUILD_VERSION 0) > > > SET(VTK_VERSION > &

Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

2006-03-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:27:05PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For me, running the commands > > cd texk > > libtoolize -f -c > > cp /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 libtool.m4 > > autoconf > > works

Re: Looking for a autotools/libtool expert: Unnecessarily linked libraries

2006-03-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:59:05AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > cd texk > >> > libtoolize -f -c > >> > cp /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 libtool.m4 > >> > autoconf > > >

Re: Bug#353277: Please reject to rule on the ndiswrapper question

2006-03-04 Thread Steve Langasek
developer's understanding of the Social Contract; a matter such as that ought to be settled by GR instead. But that's not the question that has been put before us. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it

freetype pre-release packages: testing needed

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
es unstable. See http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/patches/rogue-patches.html for more information on this. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: freetype pre-release packages: testing needed

2006-03-06 Thread Steve Langasek
Follow-up to myself: On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:25:58PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > I'm happy to report that there's been some positive progress regarding > freetype's pending ABI transition since I last posted about it[1]. In > response to concerns from a num

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-07 Thread Steve Langasek
I don't use cross-compilation, > so I might be biased. Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always a sane thing to specify, and usually saves you from upstreams optimizing for the wr

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:15:46PM +0100, Pjotr Kourzanov wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >Well, you shouldn't pass --host *except* when cross-compiling; the > >autotools-dev package shows how to do this. But at least --build is always > >a sane thing to specify,

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
ll be friends? > This year the candidates are acting more like RL politicians than ever > (IMVHO). So you... > 1 - lobby (all of them) > 2 - get promises in exchange of votes > 3 - ... > 4 - profit! > Nah, just lack of iron talking. You should take irony supplements to replenish

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
the Architecture: field. Other tools need to support the same extensions before it can really be used, though. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ./configure in debian/rules

2006-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
gnu, not i686-linux-gnu -- the symlink i486-linux-gnu-gcc-4.0 *does* exist. If you're using anything other than i486-linux-gnu as your host string for a Debian package, then aside from just not working due to the missing symlinks, it won't be policy-compliant. We don't have a cross-c

Re: Adding dependencies to e2fsprogs: libdevmapperr, libselinux and libsepoll

2006-03-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:39:22PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:54:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > List the linux platforms. It is more likely some new non-linux > > > > platform shows up (like armeb, kfreebsd-amd64, .

Re: question for all candidates

2006-03-10 Thread Steve Langasek
key into the keyring does require new signatures from other DDs, so making "signed mail to keyring-maint" part of the process doesn't seem too onerous. Though as an additional practical consideration, doing gpg checks against a keyring is probably heavier than all other

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Greenland
> No, it is not. At least not with a compiler in hosted mode. In this > mode, the compiler is allowed to have any knowledge about the standard > library builtin. Not if the relevant header hasn't been included. No "#include ", no compiler messing with "strdup().&quo

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Greenland
ssing prototypes: they're trivial to fix, and they're all potential bugs. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: question on hurd-i386 Debian architecture

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
x; however, I fail to see > the need to restructure the hurd-i386 name. It's there, it works, and > heck, it's only a name; changing that name because it looks "wrong" > sounds like fixing a non-problem to me. OTOH, now (before it's a release-candidate archi

Re: for those who care about Debian supporting namecalling

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ing namecalling > > > > > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Please make this stop. Now. Looks to me like this request ought to be addressed to the listmasters... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer

Re: Question for all candidates: handle debian-admin more openly

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
me if I'm wrong. There is no release-critical need for them. I think it would be nice if the project had a 64-bit ppc porter machine, though, so that maintainers/NMUers of such 64-bit lib packages could test and debug when necessary. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek

Re: versioned symbols in shared libraries (upstream != Debian)

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
't, it's only severity: important, but either way all packages built against the previous symbol versions would have a release-critical bug requiring a rebuild. And changing the package name is actually the easiest way to make sure that no RC-buggy reverse-dependencies are overlooked.

Re: ITP: moleinvasion -- Jump'n run game with Tux

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Kemp
(buffer)); + snprintf(buffer,sizeof(buffer)-1,"txt/%s",getenv("LANG")); ptr=strchr(buffer,'_'); sprintf(ptr,"_%s",LONG_TXT_FILE); Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Mar-06, 15:27 (CST), Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Not if the relevant header hasn't been included. No "#include > > ", no compiler messing with "strdup()." > > You are misinf

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Greenland
um, there should *absolutely* be a message to d-d-a. It doesn't have to be a dissertation, just a quick "Because of the recent rapid growth in the repository size, we're temporarily throttling NEW processing to give the mirrors a chance to catch up." Steve [1] Unless the repo

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Steve Greenland
he same disease, and I still have the occasional outbreak, but I'm trying hard, and mostly getting better. I think. In and of itself, it wouldn't be reason to expell you, because there are several others around here who suffer similarly. But it doesn't make it easier for people to d

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Langasek
asters, I think that's the last word *I* have to say on that subject. But when did anyone ever try to blame you for *all* frustration with the delayed sarge release? Do you really think that it's wrong for people to point out when decisions you've made *do* cause delays to a team's sc

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-16 Thread Steve Greenland
accurate description of *my* tendency to respond excessively and repetitiously is "being a childish asshole", but YMMV. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the w

Re: Apache server-side includes questions

1997-05-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >What's the Right Way(tm) to include the output of a perl script into a web >page? Why not just use Works for me... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use Debian GNU/Linux - upgrade your Wind

Ultralib (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
bably the sound driver you should >be using! It looks extremely good, but I never tried it here with my gus >(no time :|) I'm using it here without problems - _far_ better than the OSS GUS support for most things. I've even volunteered to Debianise it, but it'll take some time

New 1.3 installation report

1997-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
g with DNS services for college and bootp/tftp services for the printers; it all worked out of the box. Congratulations everyone! -- Steve McIntyre, CURS Secretary, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Whenever you eat, chew" "Can't keep

Re: Editor wars considered harmful

1997-06-24 Thread Steve Greenland
ce it. I don't think the "base" editor needs to be able to do anything except insert and delete characters, and move the cursor using the arrow keys. But it's gotta be on the base disks. Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream A ecce

Re: Proposal to package propsel

1997-12-02 Thread Steve Dunham
use one mouse and keyboard with both displays. I have a copy of the latest version at: http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/x2x-1.26.tar.gz I originally got it from: ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/x2x/x2x-1.26.tar.gz Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILIN

Re: Config file management utility

1997-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
nce a day is to register a user, and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for every little package. I don't have any good ideas, though...:-( sg -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-04 Thread Steve Greenland
that use perl, bash and the "few other important goodies" still work the new versions? That's what a "stable" version is all about... steve -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: bo-updates packages

1997-12-05 Thread Steve Greenland
On 05-Dec-1997 02:11:22, Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Greenland) writes: > > And who is going to check and make sure that all the other packages in > > bo that use perl, bash and the "few other important goodies" still > >

Re: crontab

1997-12-06 Thread Steve Greenland
ng to make crontab -l NOT include the header on the next release. However, the existence of scripts that do "crontab -l |tail +4" make the removal a problem as well. Ideas? steve "the cron maintainer" greenland -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-07 Thread Steve Greenland
hat you're more likely to send personal mail the list, from which you can't recover. The other way, if you forget, you send list mail to an individual -- it's relatively painless to resend it to the list. steve -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Duplicate messages on this list

1997-12-07 Thread Steve Greenland
;re looking at (index, send, attach, etc) or if you're in the internal message pager. POP3 support. It's console based (ncurses or slang), it's fast, it has great support. Highly recommended. Checkout http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~me/mutt. steve -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: crontab

1997-12-09 Thread Steve Greenland
ts to CRONTAB_NOHEADER=Y crontab -l Later, I'll make the new behaviour the default. The advantage is that we get read of the sed call immediately, and people can set CRONTAB_NOHEADER in their login scripts and get the new behaviour. None of this will happen until after jan 1, as I'm

Question about cron behaviour (was Re: Bug#15258: cron shouts...)

1997-12-09 Thread Steve Greenland
, Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometime, Steve Greenland closed this bug with the comment: > > On 25-Nov-1997 19:02:24, Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: cron > > > Version: 3.0pl1-39.1 > > > Severity: w

Steve Greenland out of touch for a while

1997-12-11 Thread Steve Greenland
(I'm uploading cern-httpd-3.0A-1 as I write...), and should be acceptable for the moment (i.e. no critical bugs, I think), although cern-httpd could use some work if anybody is bored or ambitious. My packages are: cern-httpd cron ee jargon nvi Thanks, Steve Greenland -- Steve Greenland --

[PGP] RI keysigning

1997-12-15 Thread Steve Kostecke
Is there a developer in Southern Mass., Rhode Island, or Northern Connecticut who could sign my key for me? TIA -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dpkg help wanted

1997-12-18 Thread Steve Dunham
trol file, and Section: web at the top of the control file. Will this do the trick? Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Paranoia, "pristine sources", turnkeys, compiling, configuration

1997-12-18 Thread Steve Dunham
ides to work on a better source packaging system for Debian, they probably should look at "ports" for some ideas. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Missing libpthread0_7-1.deb?

1998-01-03 Thread Steve Mayer
machine) is 0.6-1. Anybody have any ideas on where the package might be found? I had posted a message concerning this matter to debian-user about three nights ago and as of yet, no response. I also posted a message to the package maintainer 2 days ago. Again, no response. Thanks, Steve Mayer

Re: Deselect problems.

1998-01-05 Thread Steve Dunham
l version easily (because of the already applied > patches). You should be able to install kernel-headers to satisfy it > and then dump the standard Linux source tree in for building kernels. Does anyone know why there is a dependency on kernel-headers? I was under the impression that glibc

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-06 Thread Steve Greenland
), but I also believe the update-crontab script is going to require more thought than most people think steve -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

xtar, xtar-smotif, xtar-dmotif orphaned

1998-01-07 Thread Steve Dunham
The source package "xtar" and resultant binary packages "xtar-smotif" and "xtar-dmotif" are now orphaned. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: interactive sound configuration utility

1998-01-08 Thread Steve Dunham
s it ok to change this if the software > is GPL? Otherwise it would look strange. If it's GPL. And Red Hat says any software they write themselves will be GPL'd. Aside from this, we should try to keep ours as close to theirs as possible so we can pass improvements back to them.

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-09 Thread Steve Greenland
no need for action in the postinst. I should be able to get this out this weekend. steve -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-09 Thread Steve Greenland
the next time distributed version changes (and thereafter, I think). There are *so* many issues in writing an update-crontab (think about upgrades from the existing system; user changes to individual lines vs. package changes, etc.). Letting each package have it's own conffile in /etc/cron.d

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-09 Thread Steve Greenland
b that's built from files in cron.d. In the first case, if I mod crontab, it doesn't get overwritten, and I have to go to cron.d to modify some things. In the second, if I mod crontab, it *does* get overwritten, and I have to cron.d to modify things. What's the difference,

http mirror (was Re: New APT Version)

1998-04-07 Thread Steve Hsieh
On 5 Apr 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Oh I'm all for switching to HTTP. Can we convince all our mirrors to > > switch? > > I'm going through the mirror list and building a sources.list of all the > possible sources. I have 8 sites already I have enabled http transfers on our mirror as well..

Re: Upgrading from bo to hamm

1998-04-10 Thread Steve Greenland
s, or whether this is something that needs to be added to policy (I guess I should go read the policy manual to see what it says...). Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-10 Thread Steve Greenland
on of "undefined behaviour" again -- "this standard imposes no requirment". It can corrupt memory, re-format your hard disk, or make monkeys fly out of your nose; all of these are ISO C compliant. Hmmm, I suppose anything further should go to comp.std.c. steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-11 Thread Steve Greenland
fact that it's an invalid FILE *, and then ignore the attempt to fclose(). This actually *is* almost worth asking on comp.std.c; I've never interpeted that sentence the way you're interpeting it, but I can see your point of view. steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-11 Thread Steve Greenland
uivalent of electric-fence or some such, which kept track of valid streams and validated everything before use, etc etc. I'd also hate to pay the price of those checks on a release build. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg memory usage

1998-04-11 Thread Steve Dunham
g a few thousand text files. And the text version is still prone to severe corruption. Mine was scrambled the other day when I upgraded the modutils package running a 2.1.x kernel - the machine locked up, and when I rebooted and tried to install more packages, dpkg mixed up a bunch of scripts an

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-11 Thread Steve Greenland
or ISO compliance -- > so let's fix the man page. Nope, you're reading that backwards. It says that if fclose() returns _EOF_ and _errno_ = _EBADF_, then that means that the stream is not open. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is this a bug in libc6?

1998-04-12 Thread Steve Greenland
libc functions for which it is possible to pass an invalid argument. Or at least all the ones that take arguments with properties similar to FILE * (which I'm not sure I can define in any useful way, but I know one when I see one). steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-13 Thread Steve Dunham
without breaking these apps.) If the second option is chosen, the designer should make sure that the it works on 640x480 screens. (Some people still use 640x480 laptop computers - this causes problems with some software, including the electronic eyes "About" box.) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dhcpcd

1998-04-15 Thread Steve Dunham
tem applied, has been made lintian-clean, and has me listed as the maintainer. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg memory usage

1998-04-15 Thread Steve Dunham
d rewrite the whole database after every update. Ok, I'll concede this on the atomic and error handling points. I didn't know that dpkg was designed that robustly. I guess a libdpkg would fix the startup time issues and if I want "dpkg -S" to work faster, I can always write

Re: Upgrading from bo to hamm

1998-04-18 Thread Steve Greenland
ts. The above list would be much longer, except that occasionally I go through and clean them out. Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lists archives outside debian.org

1998-04-22 Thread Steve Kostecke
gt; > Do others have an oppinion on it, too, or is it just Ray and Marco? Debian-private should not be archived by a third party. I'm undecided about the others. -- ||k || Steve Kostecke| Debian GNU/Linux ||__|| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| The OpenSou

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
bian, but this library is rarely used. (All of these were discovered when I tried to move a "stow" tree of XEmacs Beta 20.5 from a Debian system to a Red Hat system.) For now, most of these issues can be resolved by using symlinks. But sonames should be synchronized with Red Hat in the

Re: Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Dunham
n the future to prevent this from happening. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Synchronised sonames (was: Gnome debs?)

1998-04-24 Thread Steve Kostecke
s > right. And, if necessary, we should encourage the upstream maintainer to do the Right Thing. -- ||k || Steve Kostecke| Debian GNU/Linux ||__|| [EMAIL PROTECTED]| The OpenSource Operating System |/__\| http://kostecke.home.ml.org | http://www.

Re: What to do about checksecurity

1998-04-26 Thread Steve Greenland
On 19-Mar-98, 22:03 (CST), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18-Mar-98, 23:21 (CST), "Gregory S. Stark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > For NFS and AFS, why not just log a message listing volumes mounted without > > nosetuid and nodev.

Out of town for a week.

1998-04-26 Thread Steve Greenland
I'm going to be out of town from April 27th-May 2. If any critical bugs come up on my packages, please feel free to do a non-maintainers release. Note that I just uploaded cron-3.0pl1-45, which has a fix for bug 21426; I don't know how long it will take to make into frozen. Thanks, Ste

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
enifits of APT's > ordering sequencer, dependency engine, multi-source handing, (and > someday it's GUI too). > If #1 is really true there is zero point in making APT understand RPM, > 90% of it's functionality would have to be disabled. It's not true. Steve [EMAIL

Re: on forming a new Linux Distribution

1998-04-30 Thread Steve Dunham
much cheaper to generate than the Debian "Packages" files currently are. (Last I checked, this required a md5sum of every package.) But this should be discussed on rpm-list, not debian-devel. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-20 Thread Steve Dunham
t in their build scripts for DEBs, AFAIK the rpms are built by a third party, I don't even see any .spec files in the CVS tree. Either way, the people who build the RPMs can't build DEB files. Last I checked, Debian and Red Hat were not compatible. (e.g. libpng and libjpeg have differ

Re: Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-02 Thread Steve Dunham
available on as many platforms as possible. I've encouraged them to look at Ian's bug tracking system, which I feel would be well suited for a project like that. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
modify the source as long as the modified source is not distributed. == I'm happy that we can work with this license, as we distribute diffs. Thomas thinks otherwise. Thoughts? -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridg

Re: Bug#20914: seyon package copyright (fwd)

1998-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
an-policy/archive/debian-policy-2.4.1.0/ch2.html#s2.1.1 OK, I guess I'd better try and contact the author... I'll report any progress back here... -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~stevem/>My home page "

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-25 Thread Steve Kemp
in the db.debian.org database, or some other gallery of developers. It's been interesting seeing what a lot of people look like in the little headshots on planet.debian.org, and more would only be a good thing. Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NM queue and groups

2005-01-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;s probably true, but that >doesn't make you to the master of the interpretation of the SC. Ssh. The great Suffield has spoken... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.[EMAIL PROTECTED] You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but i

Re: Release update: kde3.3, upload targets, kernels, infrastructure

2005-01-27 Thread Steve Langasek
kernel prior to also upgrading libmysqlclient10 (or mysql-server). Cc:ed to the glibc folks, so they can consider how this should be handled. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#292183: ITP: gtkpizza -- Pizza takeaway managment program written in gtk

2005-01-27 Thread Steve Greenland
eppers, not with hot sausage! > > Words with similar spelling often have different meanings in different > languages. Such is the case here. It's true: The word "pizza" in the US doesn't mean the same thing as "pizza" in Italy. Steve, longing for the Piz

eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Langasek
that have still not been fixed. Since there are only 17 source packages total, I expect to be done by the end of the weekend. If you object to this plan, please speak up now. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer [1] http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html [

Re: Urgent

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Greenland
not to mention a model of correct grammar and spelling. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world. -- seen on the net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:17:18PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-01-28 sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:36:05PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:03:26AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >

Re: circular dependencies and dist-upgrades sarge->woody

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Langasek
rge. Do you know if this problem also occurs with woody's aptitude? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: scripts to download porn in Debian?

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Langasek
benefit of your efforts without impinging my moral standards, otherwise you are violating my freedom of choice". Please don't feed the redn^W troll. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-secure broke?

2005-01-30 Thread Steve Kowalik
hive GPG key expired ... Cheers, -- Steve "You have a fear of nothingness, or in laymen's terms, a fear of ... nothingness" - EMH, USS Voyager -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-interactive install proposal

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Dunham
f the file doesn't exist, schedule, via some yet to be determined mechanism, for the interactive configuration program to be run after the install. (So the "package" xbase would be "configured", allowing dependent packages to be installed, but "config_xser

Re: Differences of Debian vs. the Other Guys

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Dunham
extra magic at the beginning allows me to build as an ordinary user.) I agree that the old RPM way was hideously broken. (And this rather moot here, since we don't use RPM, and if we ever did, we would most likely rewrite the build process.) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intent to package v2html, license question

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Phillips
I intend to package v2html, the verilog to HTML converter. I have a question about the license though: Would the following be OK to allow it in main? -- Steve PhillipsPhone: (715) 830-1200 x109 Silicon Logic Engineering, LLPFAX: (715) 830-1887 131

Re: Buildd redundancy (was Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver...)

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:37:05PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> This allows the buildd administrator to take vacations, etc. > > This is at odds with what I've heard from some buildd maintainers that > > having multiple buildd maint

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-19 Thread Steve Langasek
se? Andreas never said anything about this being the criterion for RC architectures. He said it should be a *goal*. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
of the sparc porting team, but I would strongly encourage getting some geographic separation in place for your own benefit so that we don't find ourselves forced to drop sparc as a release architecture as a result of one of the above-mentioned failure scenarios that you haven't mitigated. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dropping lpr-ppd from sarge

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
lpr-ppd' to 'lprng' > or 'lpr' is a breeze There doesn't really seem to have been a question here. Are you looking for opinions about dropping lpr-ppd, or asking for someone on this list to act to remove lpr-ppd from testing? To get this package removed from the archive, you will need to file a bug against ftp.debian.org. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer

Re: Required firewall support

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Greenland
o config parameter for that. Use iptables rules. :-/ And that's what we do. But some other OSs (Solaris) do support strict multihoming with a config parameter, it would be nice if Linux did. Steve -- Steve Greenland The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating

Re: NEW handling ...

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
g positive action in the current mailing list climate is seen as encouraging that hostile climate. Thanks for that. http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/02/msg00213.html -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
dea for the Sparc porters to satisfy themselves with this arrangement given that it means any prolonged outage at Visi.net will mean immediately dropping Sparc from consideration as a release arch. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 05:46:44PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050319 03:50]: > > > On Mar 18, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > There would definitely be duplication

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

2005-03-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:06:56PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-03-15 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Aurélien Jarno wrote: > [...] > > > - there should be at least 2N buildd admins for this architectur

Re: Do not make gratuitous source uploads just to provoke the buildds!

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 12:35:28AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:43:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > the "more" or "less" aspect of the urgency is relevant here. We > > obviously have a system for classifying the severit

Re: my thoughts on the Vancouver Prospectus

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:10:51AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - While neither of the above concerns is overriding on its own (the > > ftpmasters have obviously allowed these ports to persist on > > ftp-master.d

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

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
; (OK, OK ... fewer mirrors anyway), which is something I don't think we'd > > want. > The whole point of SCC was to go without mirrors. *No*, the point is to not require all mirrors to carry all ports. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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