Problem with tcpdump in 1.2.17

1997-06-06 Thread branden
for people, and this would be sort of an embarrassing bug to send out the door. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Re: Problem with tcpdump in 1.2.17

1997-06-08 Thread branden
tch it. It was only after I looked in Packages.gz that I knew it was there. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problem with tcpdump in 1.2.17

1997-06-08 Thread branden
t it out. If I thought it was the end of the world I'd file a bug report. :) > The ChangeLog is actually listing _source_ package names, so there is > only one entry for "libpcap0". I will improve the format for bo when > it will be edited automatically. Oh ah (he s

Re: leap second

1997-06-21 Thread branden
the time, right? I do know that they do that very thing here at Purdue. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread branden
t; it works! > > boa is also very small and really fast. i think should be the default > httpd of choice for a small debian system. I haven't tested this myself, but it looks like the ideal solution, because: 1) You can compress documentation, like we want to, without having to hac

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-28 Thread branden
idea for the web site (which is what I hope you > meant, rather than massively changing man just for Debian systems). Right. I would think /etc/alternatives handles things just fine for end-user systems. -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~b

Re: Re^6: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-28 Thread branden
for a file fitting the traditional spec. If that fails, look for a .gz version of that file in the same directory. If that fails, return the usual 404 error. Does anything already implement this? If not, why not? -- G. Branden Robinson Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ecn.purdue.edu

PGP -kc forgets a key, has corrupt output?

1997-06-28 Thread branden
the problem is. Newsgroups: comp.security.pgp.tech Subject: PGP -kc forgets a key, has corrupt output? Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:05:01 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 96 Sender: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NNTP-Posting-Host: cartoon.ecn.

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread branden
ifying the source to do this myself. Perhaps it should look for a certain flag in its config file before behaving this way, which we can call "debian_gz_flamewar" or something. Anyway, I know what happens when you step in between quarrelling giants, so I think I'll don both a ha

having trouble with xdm/xfs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9?

2004-12-14 Thread Branden Robinson
testing or unstable, please bookmark the following site: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert

Re: Bug 295175 followup

2005-02-20 Thread Branden Robinson
he buildd admins on this via IRC, but it is good to give this cleanup procedure broader exposure. [1] also available at http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/xfree86-common_postrm_buildd_fix.diff > -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it requir

Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-12 Thread Branden Robinson
Wanted: Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/ and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something. This would be great to have for 2.0, but that's probably not realistic, so it would probably go in 2.1. -- G. Branden Rob

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

1998-04-13 Thread Branden Robinson
a, GTK+, GIMP, and GNOME will have been hacked on enough to make outsiders drool just by looking at them; etc. Who knows, kernel 2.2 may even be out by then. Quite a bit of change for a "minor" version increment. -- G. Branden Robinson | Kissing gir

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

1998-04-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:40:57PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > > Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/ > > and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something. > > Perhaps we could

HELP WANTED with XFree86

1998-04-15 Thread Branden Robinson
at package, and see if any of the ancient bugs against that server have in fact been closed, or are no longer reproducible, please send me a report about that and I will close the bug. The URL for the X Strike Force is: http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html -- G. Branden Robinson

X Strike Force homepage up

1998-04-16 Thread Branden Robinson
le of the roles available, but I don't want to volunteer you without your consent. Please check it out. http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html -- G. Branden Robinson | The first thing the communists do when Purdue University | they take over a country

xbase: xbase: fails to fail when told not to stop xfs/xdm

1998-04-17 Thread Branden Robinson
ge install (which it obviously did, as the message about methods of starting X is in xbase's postinst script). I am reassigning this bug to dpkg. -- G. Branden Robinson | We either learn from history or, Purdue University | uh, well, something bad will

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-19 Thread Branden Robinson
;t > have to take a decided stance any time soon. :-) It just so happens that with XFree86 we "can't use pristine source anyway". XFree86 source ships like the X source itself does -- in three chunks. It would probably make a lot of people very happy (including me) to bzip2 the X

Re: x 3.3.2-4

1998-04-24 Thread Branden Robinson
ght, but I'm not letting anything with bugs that bad sit around with *my* name on it. :) The truly masochistic (with accounts on master) can get the stuff from /debian2/tmp/branden/ . The fixed xbase-configure script is in my home directory. Any one interested in helping with the postmortem on xt

fakeroot and dpkg

1998-04-25 Thread Branden Robinson
. -- G. Branden Robinson | Human beings rarely imagine a god that Purdue University | behaves any better than a spoiled child. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgp4EKFhZtpYR.pgp Description: PGP signature

another question

1998-04-25 Thread Branden Robinson
ib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6.1 (0x4000b000)' -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University | Never attribute to malice that which can [EMAIL PROTECTED] | be adequately explained by stupidity. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpx

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
ve to depend on xbase for this to work. Is there any reasonable scenario in which a user would have a window manager installed but not xbase? Comments very much welcome. -- G. Branden Robinson | I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Purdue University

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
iders sane. I don't think this is being needlessly interactive. If invoked as in my example (register-window-manager /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2, for instace), all the user has to do is press enter once. And until we get our magic "interactive" flag, we can of course default to the non-in

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 11:19:36AM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Branden Robinson writes: > > The long-term plan is: > > > > 1) ship an empty /etc/X11/window-managers with xbase > > 2) mark it as a conffile > > 3) separate twm into its own p

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
ctice for a package to go about mucking with files belonging to another package. Providing a front end, as this suggestion does, is the preferred solution. -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially good Purdue University | idea, because it tends t

Re: CERT* VB-98.04: Vulnerabilities in xterm and Xaw

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
it to true. Is it the consensus of the project that xterm should have its setuid removed until this bug (#20685) is fixed? Let me know quickly (especially if any of you know any additional reason xterm is setuid). If I turn it off then I will want to do so for -5, which I'd like to relea

Re: How Debian Linux could be made more secure

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
critical" user privilege exploits are severity "grave" denial-of-service attacks are severity "important" -- G. Branden Robinson | Measure with micrometer, Purdue University | mark with chalk, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How Debian Linux could be made more secure

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Apr 28, 1998 at 07:59:49PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > I thought lintian already detects setuid binaries and needs > confirmation by the author that it needs to be setuser or > not. Yes, it does. -- G. Branden Robinson | The first thing the communists do wh

Re: FWD: CERT Vendor-Initiated Bulletin VB-98.04 - xterm.Xaw

1998-04-28 Thread Branden Robinson
I have put some hopefully helpful information regarding this bug up on the X Strike Force page. http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html -- G. Branden Robinson | The key to being a Southern Baptist: Purdue University | It ain't a sin if you don't

The latest XFree86 (3.3.2-4)

1998-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
urity problems with xlib and xterm was released just after I finished -4, so -5 will be coming out very, very soon. Anybody interested in accelerating this process should see the X Strike Force page <http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html>. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
now, this looks like a job for update-alternatives. Maybe we should >have a /usr/X11R6/bin/sensible-window-manager, or some such thing? > > Actually I like that a lot better myself. Could we do it that way > instead, Branden? Uh, I've never played with alternatives before.

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
indow-manager ] elif [ -x /usr/bin/X11/window-manager ]; then exec /usr/bin/X11/sensible-window-manager else xmessage -nearmouse -button "Quit X Windows" "No window manager installed!" fi fi -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is

Re: X and Window Mangers

1998-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 10:53:36AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > (add a "xterm -sl 500 -sb -ls -fn 10x20 -j &" line before the exec if you Wow, that's a mighty Byzantine xterm line. But to each his own. :) -- G. Branden Robinson |If you make peopl

Re: x 3.3.2-4

1998-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
annoying, idiotic bugs. I urge those who'd like to see -5 come out quickly to visit http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html and see what you can do to help. -- G. Branden Robinson | Purdue University |Music is the brandy of t

Re: installation report of hamm 26.4.

1998-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
> ok, at least xbase-configure changed the xdm/Xserver file, after i added > the "xdm-start-server" line. > btw: this seems to be redundant information to me. All this is changed in XFree86 3.3.2-4. The xdm-start-server option has been placed in limbo, and nothing edits /etc/X1

Re: xfsft deb package

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
I wouldn't > > care if it was implemented as a separate font server. Could you contact > > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (the XFree86 maintainer) about this? > > Why is xfs in xbase at all? It's not required to use X. I would suggest > just pulling

Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
rest. Pipe dream, or can we make it real? Or does this suffer from some horrible conceptual flaw that I haven't thought of? I must also say that I am sure I do not have the coding expertise to implement much of this at all. If I did, I'd be on it. -- G. Branden Robinson | Never underestimate the power of human Purdue University | stupidity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpB9vw3vWfBE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The latest XFree86 (3.3.2-4)

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
(blackshark is a host name). But this one was easy to fix also (just to change > the corresponding line in startx script). Ditto. This time the dumb bug was in programs/xinit/startx.cpp. -- G. Branden Robinson | It was a typical net.exercise -- a Purdue University

Re: Ease of use and configurability

1998-04-30 Thread Branden Robinson
I was unaware of that list. We have a lot of them. > > 2) The KDE (and Gnome) approach of several little config programs will not > > work, > > Obviously, this was not what Branden suggested. Well, perhaps someone should become a liaison between the Gnome Control Panel perso

Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
evelopers who utilize the IRC channel, and it does not strengthen your argument. To what extent the policy manual should be a "guideline", and to what extent it should be a "standard", is an issue to which IRC has no relevance. -- G. Branden Robinson | W

Re: dists/{bo,stable} temporarily unavailable

1998-04-20 Thread Branden Robinson
> deb http://.../Debian stable/binary-i386/ > deb http://.../Debian non-free/binary-i386/ > > etc. (note the trailing slash) > > This is documented in sources.list(5) Whee! My manpage is actually good for something! -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wi

Re: interest in xfstt package

1998-04-21 Thread Branden Robinson
others on debian-devel) think does this > package seem like a bit much for a first package? if not...what do I > do next (yes I read all of the info on how to get started but...that > confused me just a bit... course thats probbaly just me :) ) Well, I'd like to invite you to join, o

Re: Bug#302138: incorrect Description line wrapping with bullet lists

2005-04-06 Thread Branden Robinson
ected. So here are source packages grouped by maintainer. > Data is from /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages on an i386 sid box. [...] > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > twofish Go ahead and file a bug for this one, please -- twofish sees so little activity that I'm likely t

Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-05-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 25 avril 2005 à 01:03 -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project > Leader a écrit : > > Woody Security Update Challenges and Progress > > - > > The ARM

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
een. In my opinion, DFSG 4 somewhat clumsily lumps together two related but distinguishable issues -- one is a presentation format for distribution, the other is a means for the work to identify itself. -- G. Branden Robinson| Religious bondage shackles and Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Editing history... (about debian/changelog in experimental)

2005-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > Branden Robinson told me that he does changelog editing of past > revisions continuously for X, for reasons of being able to correctly > lookup when a certain bug was fixed. Especially typo's in bugnumber for

Re: static user IDs

1999-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
thown out without mercy I nominate this guy for Debian's Most Promising Newcomer Award. :) -- G. Branden Robinson | "Why do we have to hide from the police, Debian GNU/Linux | Daddy?" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Because we use vi,

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread Branden Robinson
DOS. > The marker file used to generate this can also be viewed: > http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.coords Hmm. I get a 404 on this. Great work, thanks to everyone responsible for this, it is cool. We probably should whack the old xearth stuff from the site now. -- G.

possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Branden Robinson
3 apocalypse ~ > ls -dl /usr/bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 23 22:02 /usr/bin/perl -> perl-5.005 [0] 1014 apocalypse ~ > ls -dl /usr/bin/perl-5.005 -rw--- 1 root root 534844 Aug 19 04:29 /usr/bin/perl-5.005 -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-25 Thread Branden Robinson
to interfering with a receiver even 10 feet away. But the airlines don't expect flight attendants to comprehend such things and don't have to, since their passengers don't raise enough fuss to get the policy changed. As portable computing devices become ever more ubiquitous, this

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
y tight lid on RFI generated by portable devices. Household appliances, on the other hand... -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux |Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] |with remaining eye. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpiv2fqJar7l.pgp Description: PGP signature

Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ot ask the development community of such a tool is truly needed? Why not take a look around the existing distribution, which is very large, and see if something that can do the job is already present? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | It tastes

Re: Hysterical Onanistic ITP's (was: ITP: Country Codes)

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ake exception to that reasoning. I can understand someone not wanting to type all that, but it would really be cake to write a shell alias or function that can accomplish the same thing. iso3166 () { grep -i ^$1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab; } -- G. Branden Robinson | &quo

Re: Conference! - around the world with Debian

1999-09-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 09:04:46PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:57:31PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Mind you, I'm not cheering for the FCC here -- in fact that I think their > > restrictions on output power for private radio transm

Re: [RHSA-1999:035-02] Updated XFree86 3.3.5 packages available

1999-09-28 Thread Branden Robinson
My apologies if you replied to the mail quoted below; I never received one. As far as I can tell, Red Hat's webpages have not been updated with the corrected information. Are there any plans to do so? On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:30:04AM -0400, branden wrote: > Hi Preston, > >

Re: ITP: actx

1999-10-02 Thread Branden Robinson
u." "Originally inspired with" should probably be "Originally inspired by". But the most important thing is to tell the user what a "window sitter" is. I think I'm up on my jargon, but I don't know what you're talking about here. -- G. Bra

Re: recompile needed for xlib6g (>= 3.3.5-1) instead of (>= 3.3.2.3a-2) ?

1999-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
ecompile their packages against the latest versions of the potato libraries shortly before the potato freeze? Mixed slink/potato systems are temporary things. Potato will be around for a long time. So let us please make it internally consistent. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man&#x

Re: Consistant Keyboard Configuration (was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
from kdebase, and another reason people should be assiduous about filing bugs against the KDE packages. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, well, something bad will happen. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Bob C

Re: Packages to remove from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Branden Robinson
> efficacy of their connection? SSH doesn't tell me the key length of > connections *except* in this one case--which is not consistent, and > which is not unambiguously "*right*" behavior. I disagree with your analysis, but nevertheless... Use the Source, Luke. Quit whi

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:19:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > As I understand it, pdftotext is a new tool available in 5.5 but not 5.0. > > AFAIK pdftotext is included in xpdf - it's

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:59:01AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Eh? There would be no real code changes at all. As I understand it, the > > license on 5.5 is all that has changed. So why not move it from non-free > > to main

So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
lled. This is inconvenient, but it is better than clogging up the Depends/Replaces/Provides/Conflicts/etc. lines with cruft from an experimental series of packages. These initial experimental versions will only be available from the official Debian homepage of XFree86 development, the X Strike For

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
Today's news flash: omitted words can really change the meaning of a sentence. On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 01:16:55PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > They're not available yet, so I am sending this message to apprise Debian > users my fellow developers of the situation. ...use

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
out errors on a potato system and I am basically deep in the guts of it right now, figuring out how I need to break it up for packaging. -- G. Branden Robinson| I am sorry, but what you have mistaken Debian GNU/Linux | for malicious intent is nothing more [EMAIL

Danger, Branden Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:18:25PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: [...] > - X 4.0 drivers (but probably just X servers, to minimize changes; Branden > has huge reorganizations in mind for X) Ha ha ha ha. "Just X servers"? You haven't been reading the news. :) There is only

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
w anybody who is using > one. But, I did use X 3.3.x on a EGA card for a while, I see that xega is not > even in the archive now.) I still have an old DOS game called EGATREK lying around someplace. I sure would like to play it again sometime. I wonder if dosemu can give you ega graphics

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Branden Robinson
c/X11/app-defaults. > I remember that me being against something actually serves to you as an > endorsements to do it, Heh heh heh heh heh heh... -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that he is Debian GNU/Linux |half an animal is only hal

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-14 Thread Branden Robinson
7.0 are anyone's > guess and who knows what has broken. > > So, Dark, what should I do? Let's boycott the fuckers! Drop the package and swear to never support Real until they discard their patents and free their software! G! P! L! G! P! L! CHAGE! -- G. Brand

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-15 Thread Branden Robinson
ease come up with more, if there are any, and I'd be happy to make a new policy proposal incorporating your suggestions. -- G. Branden Robinson| I've made up my mind. Don't try to Debian GNU/Linux | confuse me with the facts. [EMAIL PR

Re: priority of x-window-manager

2000-03-16 Thread Branden Robinson
what I'm saying is this: I think a Debian window manager policy should say that window managers should be given higher priority if they DON'T mangle localized information that they are intended to pass along to the user. And that is what I understand internationalization of computer sof

Re: xfs question

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz Like Unix shell login sessions, which are customized by a file like Like the Unix filesystem, windows in X are laid out like a tree with a FontPath "unix/:7100" Yup. I sometimes wonder why I bother maintaining that FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson

Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
t; Kernel Version: Linux shasta 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 > unknown > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Branden Robinson| If you make p

Re: [dickey@clark.net: Re: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=59191]

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
ckage > really seems to be a `wild beast'. Tom Dickey is also the upstream xterm maintainer. He and I have exchanged mails several times over the past couple of years. -- G. Branden Robinson| We either learn from history or, Debian GNU/Linux | uh, we

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Branden Robinson
sages going to -devel-announce or -announce. -- G. Branden Robinson|Murphy's Guide to Science: Debian GNU/Linux |If it's green or squirms, it's biology. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |If it stinks, it's chemistry. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~bran

Re: cannot login in xdm anymore (upgrade potato -> potato)

2000-03-22 Thread Branden Robinson
rge all X packages and reinstall... Please see the section in the Debian X FAQ[1] about the XAUTHORITY environment variable. [1] /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz -- G. Branden Robinson|It was a typical net.exercise -- a Debian GNU/Linux |screaming mob poundin

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
Yann Dirson has the default keymap set to some French thing -- this affects every Debian user in the world, and most of the world isn't France. I guess some people take the figurative expression "lingua franca" too literally. :) -- G. Branden Robinson|Software engineer

Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
n eliminated from recent XFree86 packages. Potato will ship without it. -- G. Branden Robinson|Any man who does not realize that he is Debian GNU/Linux |half an animal is only half a man. [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-- Thornton Wilder roger.ecn.pu

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
ood reason to accomodate you in the Debian defaults. Read that FAQ. Features have been added to xterm by Thomas Dickey, but the only changes that break compatibility have been bugfixes. I'm sorry if you've grown attached to some of X11R5's bugs. Please keep replies out of my person

Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
lor change escape sequences should be enabled. The default is ``true.'' -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux | road from capitalism to capitalism. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Russian saying r

Re: Bug#32888: marked as done (base: Removing "Obsolete" package base kills a system)

2000-03-26 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:53:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Yes, because Santiago Vila doesn't want it and because it looks like > a crude hack. There is no correlation there. Or if there is, it is a negative one. -- G. Branden Robinson| If a man ate a pound o

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
t; Package: netbase > Depends: vim > Conflicts: nvi, emacsen > > and leaves everything else the same. You can only achieve fairly petty > vadalism with this, but it would still be nice to avoid it, IMO. What a deliciously evil idea. -- G. Branden Robinson|

Re: Potato - update-alternatives (Ian Jackson) and window managers - doubt (and Slink to Potato Success)

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
anager virtual package and alternative. Session managers and window managers are different things. See the Debian X FAQ. -- G. Branden Robinson|You don't just decide to break Kubrick's Debian GNU/Linux |code of silence and then get drawn away [EMAIL P

Re: ITP: tinydns and dnscache

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
ools", (which is required for > running tinydns). Since the letters "djb" appear here, I guess it goes without saying that these will have to go in non-free, but please mention the license when posting ITP's. -- G. Branden Robinson|If yo

Re: woody mutt users, please read

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:38:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > You have to change all "lists" commands in your ~/.muttrc in > "subscribe". I have both. Do you mean I can get rid of "lists" altogether? Last time I read the docs, they appeared to do s

Re: keyring-maint@debian.org

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
-- G. Branden Robinson|It's not a matter of alienating authors. Debian GNU/Linux |They have every right to license their [EMAIL PROTECTED] |software however we like. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Craig Sanders, in debian-devel pgplft

Re: first draft "aptitude howto"

2000-03-28 Thread Branden Robinson
n' for navigation. (As a die hard vi user, I suggest making 'j' and 'k' also perform navigation operations as well. :) ) > NOTE: with aptitude 0.0.4a (included in potato) you will find it confusing if > you dont have support for colors in your term, since

Re: Is someone working on Jazz++ ?

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
tive, if you get it working, you'll a get a "avoid-Overfiend-bitch-out-for-free" card. This offer is valid for a limited time only! Not for pets or small children. -- G. Branden Robinson| Communism is just one step on the long Debian GNU/Linux |

Re: WNPP

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
etaps, key escrow, and other acts of urination on the Fourth Amendment. -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men are venerable Debian GNU/Linux |because they are more fruitful than the [EMAIL PROTECTED] |truths of little men. roger.ecn.purdue.e

Re: Encryption Builds

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
stribute crypto in the U.S. I posted another message to -devel a few minutes ago with more information. -- G. Branden Robinson|Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux |redeemed. God loves us, so He makes us [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Paradise

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
eel free to CC me. Sounds great, but the first thing we need to know is: What's the license on Paradise Netrek? If it is DFSG-free (and it is if it uses the GPL, LGPL, MIT, or BSD without advertising clause licenses), then you're bound to generate enthusiasm. :) -- G. Branden Robinso

Re: MiniVend Debian package

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:11:57AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > OK, now as MV 4.03 is out, there is a Debian package available now > for testing. Excellent. I've long been awaiting an upgrade to the mv command. -- G. Branden Robinson| A committee is a life form

Re: MiniVend Debian package

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:53:12PM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:11:57AM +0200, Stefan Hornburg wrote: > > > OK, now as MV 4.03 is out, there is a Debian package available now > >

Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
Mar 29 15:20:15 apocalypse sendmail[7886]: e2T8qEi03048: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=branden (1000/1000), delay=11:28:01, xdelay=00:00:21, mailer=esmtp, pri=6332789, relay=chiark.greenend.org.uk. [195.224.76.132], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 Site not yet trusted, try later [Irritated] Maybe

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
y remind me of Creationists, who will marshal "facts" in defense of their position, but when those "facts" are discredited, will simply fallback on repeated blunt assertions of their conclusion, not caring that their premises have been obliterated. -- G. Branden Robinson

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
about ORBS are still valid, no matter what DUL is. I wasn't talking about ORBS, I was talking about DUL. I haven't visited the DUL site in quite some time, but IIRC it is <http://maps.vix.com/dul/>. -- G. Branden Robinson|The errors of great men

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Branden Robinson
been intimidated into using a smarthost, which might run just such a broken MTA. The anti-spam bigots enjoy seeing catch-22's like this. DoS attacks in the name spam prevention is their favorite sport. After all, no REAL people (read: people with single-user machines and naile

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:58:22AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] Why did you CC me? I read the list. Please control yourself. -- G. Branden Robinson| The basic test of freedom is perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | less in what we are free to do than in [EMAIL

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:25:03AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: > > Branden: You might consider getting a static. > > The only way to live, imho. ;-) You guys can stop CC'ing me any day now; I read the lists. And BTW, I've stated several times that I *do* have a static IP.

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:34:05AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:55AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: NILS JEPPE, CRAIG SANDERS: PLEASE STOP CC'ING ME ON LIST MAILS. -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is human Debian G

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-31 Thread Branden Robinson
dev/null -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into laser [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with remaining eye. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpoZgurLvGPn.pgp Description: PGP signature

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