Bug#348607: ITP: gtkedit -- Notepad clone based on GTK+

2006-01-17 Thread Chris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gtkedit Version : 0.1/b1 Upstream Author : Daniel Guerrero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://gtkedit1.sourceforge.net * License : MIT Description : Notepad clone based on GTK+ GTKEdit is a lightw

Bug#561961: general: add a language-selector like ubuntu

2009-12-21 Thread Chris
Package: general Severity: normal Add a language-selector like ubuntu to check and verify if available translation packages for installed applications, dictionary to check spelling or change system language. Regards. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT poli

Bug#561962: general: On desktop enviroments open .deb files with "gksu gdebi-gtk" by default

2009-12-21 Thread Chris
Package: general Severity: normal On desktop enviroments open .deb files with "gksu gdebi-gtk" by default, like ubuntu. Regards. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cor

Bug#561964: general: add the user also in scanner group by default

2009-12-21 Thread Chris
Package: general Severity: normal By default doesn't enabled my user to use the scanner. Please add this by default. Regards. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)

Bug#561966: general: Centralized configuration for the hinting style and dpi

2009-12-21 Thread Chris
Package: general Severity: wishlist Centralized configuration for the hinting style and dpi so you do not have to worry about installing applications to different desktop environments. example: on gnome I had to install "kcontrol" package to set dpi and hinting style for my kde applications li

Re: Bug#582831: ITP: png2ico -- png2ico converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files.

2010-05-25 Thread Chris
On Wed, 26 May 2010 03:46:40 +0200 Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 18:38:26 -0500, Chris Silva wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Chris Silva > > > > > > * Package name: png2ico > >

watch file help

2010-08-21 Thread Chris
?format=raw Simply having http://www.foo.com/ihave/files/here/foo-(.*)\.tar\.gz in the debian/watch files downloads an html file. Can someone please advise on the proper way to get a file with the ?format=raw Thanks in advance. -- Best regards, Chris 1AB5FEF8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Chris
still very new to this process. If I can, I would be glad to help out during the Freeze process if any kind soul would be willing to discuss this off list with me. Again, I am limited but willing to do and learn. -- Best regards, Chris 1AB5FEF8 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re [RFD] optimized versions of openssl

2002-09-04 Thread chris
ng in with ssh on an Ultra1 (SPARCv9) by > a factor of 6, IIRC. See the debian-sparc archives for details. I have a Sparc 5 and would never dream of attempting to use ssh without rebuilding openssl with the -mv8 optimization. I can definately state that it is an added benefit. Chris > >

Virtual package lua should be provided by lua5.1.

2012-02-11 Thread Chris
rtual-package-names-list.txtso I am wondering whether this is the appropriate venue. Chris

Bug#701506: ITP: osrm -- high performance routing engine for shortest paths in road networks

2013-02-23 Thread Chris
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris * Package name: osrm Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Dennis Luxen * URL : http://project-osrm.org/ * License : AGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : high performance routing engine for shortest paths

glibc and crypt

1998-06-11 Thread Chris
I'm after a simple way to get it working without rewriting too much code :) The call is like this: blah = (char *) crypt (pass,pw_salt); Thanks for any help, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X-tended input

1998-06-23 Thread Chris
Hi all, Where are the extended input modules for X in hamm? I mean the files that lived in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules with bo, like xf86Wacom.so? I need to have that module to run my Wacom tablet! Please get back to me! Thanks very much, Chris

wheres in.talkd? Also perl5 update error...

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
Hi all, Just updated my slink machine, and now I've lost in.talkd. Anyone know where it's gone??? Also, I got an error with perl5.004-04-2 overwriting a manual page owned by data-dumper2.09-1. Thanks al

Re: suggestion - AntiVir for Linux

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
to expand our distribution area. Since when did linux get virus's You'd only get them on a really bad system - which debian is not (or if you did EVERYTHING as root). Weird Chris -- -- REALITY.S

Re: HELP!! binaries not executed (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
ibc5 / libc6 problem > > Is this an nfs share? Have you tried using exec option when mounting? Chris

Re: more trouble with deleted root partition please help !!!!! (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
sn't work out I am willing to > pay to > restore my machine > > George > Hmmlove to help but I'm not in london. I suppose an airfare from down under is out of the question? (lol!) :) Chris -- --

Re: HELP!! binaries not executed (fwd)

1998-10-08 Thread Chris
e use -t msdos) # ls /mnt2 (you should see base2_0.tgz in here) Switch back to the curses screen (?) Now try specifying the base location as an "allready mounted partition", /mnt2/. Let me know how that goes. Chris

Re: lack of wstring in libstdc++2.8-dev

1998-10-10 Thread Chris
td::basic_string sString;" ?? > The string class is best used as #include// Make sure this is before any other #includes // (due to a problem with g++2.7.x compiler void main(void) { string hello; string byebye;

Ropes in stl (was Re: lack of wstring in libstdc++2.8-dev)

1998-10-12 Thread Chris
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:42:20PM +, Rob Browning wrote: > Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > See http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL for the current STL implementation. > > And see > > http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/string_discussion.html > >

Re: Ropes in stl (was Re: lack of wstring in libstdc++2.8-dev)

1998-10-12 Thread Chris
against libc++2.9-dev chris On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 02:14:30PM +1000, Chris wrote: > InterestingI cant seem to use ropes with libc++2.9-dev > > I tried this: > > #include // Also tried #include > > void main(void) > { > rope r; > } > &

Re: Bug#1074175: netkit-rwho: remove for trixie?

2024-07-06 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
t analyzed what rwho(d) implementations are out there. I see > NetBSD/FreeBSD has one still in -current, but OpenBSD removed it during > 5.x. Are people aware of any other implementations worth considering? IMO we should follow OpenBSD's 2015 (or earlier) decision. Chris

Intent to MBF: move from fuse to fuse3

2024-08-13 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Fellow developers, fuse (2.x) is long obsolete, yet we still have a long tail of packages (Build-)Depending on it. Given fuse and fuse3 are not coinstallable, IMO we should get packages off fuse. Below is my proposed MBF wording, and a dd-list. Chris --- Subject: SOURCE: move from fuse to

Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-17 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
hundreds of developer machines [git fails horribly > on the upstream/ → upstream/latest change]. I want to echo this pain. When changing the layout it seems almost better to start from scratch. Additionally, in my opinion debian/latest is a mistake we should not recommend. Chris

Re: Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-17 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
the face of the DEP18 spirit. Maybe there is no issue with changing git-buildpackage after all then. Chris

Re: Re: Accepting DEP14?

2024-08-17 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
latest? Packaging for unstable? For experimental? What if both evolve in parallel? Yes, some packages do that. Chris

Re: Removing more packages from unstable

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
oint out that often I picked packages that saw no maintainer uploads for many years (think 5 or more). I suspect that many maintainers do not actually receive bug mails at all. For the usrmerge NMUs (all with 10 day delay and nmudiff mail etc), a lot of maintainers were surprised to find out about the bug via the ACCEPT mail. Chris

Re: Intent to MBF: move from fuse to fuse3

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
gt; which is what the majority of new installs already have [1]. > > [1] compare https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fuse > and https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fuse3 Does that sound good? Chris

Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
new ways of representing Debian stuff in git, I think it would be a good idea to learn from all the other distros and distro-like systems successfully using git [1]. Debian is not the only distro that wants to use git to capture changes and encourage contributions to its packages. Chris [1] alpi

Re: Representing Debian Metadata in Git

2024-08-21 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
> enabler for good production operations practices. Don't get me wrong. Yes, we should use git to do what git is good for (tracking changes, etc). We should not invent new ways of using git that no one else uses. I'd like to reduce the delta of "how Debian uses git" to "how everyone else uses git" to, hopefully, zero. Chris

Re: Intent to MBF: move from fuse to fuse3

2024-08-25 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, * László Böszörményi (GCS) [240825 18:30]: > Thanks for adding me, I can't follow -devel. Sorry for not thinking about that earlier > On Wed, Aug 21, 2024 at 11:24 PM Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Updated MBF text proposal: > [...] > > Does that sound good?

Re: Community survey on network stack for Trixie

2024-09-04 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
rs sites are currently migrating away from ifupdown to networkd, and they don't need or want an intermediate layer. For the desktop(-like) systems, NetworkManager works nicely, again without a need for an intermediate layer. Again, having the option is nice. But I don't see netplan as a useful default. Chris

Re: Intent to MBF: move from fuse to fuse3

2024-09-08 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
* László Böszörményi (GCS) [240829 20:55]: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2024 at 11:14 PM Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > Yeah, I agree. Do you want to upload a new src:fuse package dropping > > the fuse binary package? > > fuse3 already Provides: fuse, so that should be fine. > T

Re: ifupdown maintenance

2024-09-16 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Thing doesn't break all of the > existing systems that are running perfectly well with ifupdown and which > clearly don't need a new thing. Existing install can stay on ifupdown as long as it exists or maybe even longer. Changing priorities (at least to "standard") of a package does not magically install it on existing systems. Chris

Re: an idea for next generation APT archive caching

2004-10-25 Thread Chris Halls
the unstable version of the package. Early versions of v2 from Ranty had this behaviour, but I fixed it a while ago. apt-proxy (1.9.12) experimental; urgency=low [...] * Fix max_versions to work in the same way as version 1 did, taking distributions into account (part of #242197) -- Chris H

Re: software updates file in /usr -- policy bug?

2004-10-29 Thread Chris Cheney
le, READ-ONLY DATA. That means that /usr should be > shareable between various FHS-compliant hosts and MUST NOT BE > WRITTEN TO." dpkg should not put files in /usr when it extracts programs either if /usr MUST NOT BE WRITTEN TO... ;) Chris

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-01 Thread Chris Waters
in there is from upstream's website, except my own note on how I put the pieces together. Do I need to remove that note? That seems like a really bad idea. Anyway, I was upstream project leader for most of the last year, up until about a week ago, when I stepped down in favor of s

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-01 Thread Chris Waters
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:47:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:39:44 -0800, Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm not at all sure how this rule would apply, for example, to my > > own pilot-manager_1.107.0pre108.orig.tar.gz. Every

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-01 Thread Chris Waters
hoose is, or should be, irrelevant. I think the tarball I created should be acceptable in any case. I think it's quite clear what I created, and I don't think there's any intent to confuse our users, and I think that should be sufficient. -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra-osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico-to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku

Re: Documentation on handling of orig.tar.gz files for Developer's Reference or for Debian Policy

2004-11-04 Thread Chris Cheney
Why doesn't dpkg use the -a flag to diff? Chris

Re: Which 2.6 kernel for Sarge on a Via C3?

2004-11-10 Thread Chris Cheney
h could > possibly match. > > Somebody knows? I seem to recall the C3 is missing the CMOV instruction which would require that you use a kernel < i686, so in this case the i386 kernel. Chris

Re: MPEG in general Was: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Cheney
t; Regards, > David Balazic Its all encumbered, there is a separate organization MPEG-LA that strictly deals with the licensing. It is quite surprising to me that ffmpeg was allowed into main. Chris

Re: list what's in the NEW queue?

2005-02-06 Thread Chris Cheney
> [0] No attack on Branden, but it's the largest package I could think > of. You already don't have to build any arch packages, just indep. Its just not widely publicized that it works, oops now it is. ;) I don't know if it was ever actually technically required that you upload a

Keine Sorgen mehr !

2005-02-14 Thread Steffi &amp; Chris
Hallo User, Ihr habt Sorgen wegen Geld oder ähnlichen. Hier habe ich die Lösung, - wie man mehr Geld verdienen kann. ( als Arbeitsloser, Rentner, Mutter und Hausfrau, Sozialhilfeempfänger und Arbeiter das alles Nebenbei) - wie man Geschäftsverbindungen erweitern kann. - wie man selber Selbstä

Re: Bug#292539: xdslusb: please update to the latest upstream version

2005-02-19 Thread Chris Walker
ution after sarge will be released. That thinking makes sense to me - though I don't use the package in question. However can I urge you, and other package maintainers in a similar position to mention this in the package description - and README.Debian. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Remove

2005-11-24 Thread Chris Boyle
es like this one? -- Chris Boyle - http://cmb.is-a-geek.org/ GPG: B7D86E0F, MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ: 24151961, AIM: kerneloops, Yahoo: kerneloops, IRC: cmb on irc.uwcs.co.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use lsb init-functions

2005-11-29 Thread Chris Lawrence
I should do, or is there another solution I am overlooking; or > do we need more functions; or does the whole system need to be reworked? I think if you have a serious worry about stderr, you probably should 2> to a temporary file, then cat it after the failure message if necessary. e.g. something like: f=`tempfile` log_action_begin_msg "Will do foo" foo 2>>$f log_action_end_msg $? if [ -s $f ]; then cat $f >/dev/fd/2 fi rf -f $f That idiom might be worth putting into a function in init-functions; I dunno. Hope this helps... Chris -- Chris Lawrence - http://blog.lordsutch.com/

Re: bits from the release team

2006-01-09 Thread Chris Bannister
L's kernel, or collaborate with them to maintain a > stable kernel tree, or something? or http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ -- Chris. == Reproduction if desired may be handled locally. -- rfc3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#347849: ITP: easychem -- Draw high-quality molecules and chemical 2D formulas

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Peterman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: easychem Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Francois-Xavier Coudert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://easychem.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : Draw high-quality molecules and chemical 2D formula

Bug#347880: ITP: r-cran-eco -- GNU R routines for Bayesian ecological inference

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Lawrence
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: r-cran-eco Version : 2.2-1 Upstream Author : Kosuke Imai and Ying Lu * URL : http://imai.princeton.edu/research/eco.html * License : GPL Description :

Re: Packet radio and foul language

2006-01-13 Thread Chris Bannister
ays take the path of least > resistance are *precisely* how the world got so fucked up in the first > place. Sacrificing "long term gains" for "short term pleasures", perhaps, rather than "*always* taking the path of least resistance." -- Chris. == Re

Re: Bug#320119: sysklogd: Large file support is broken in the sarge version (fwd)

2006-02-22 Thread Chris Stromsoe
/bugreport.cgi?bug=320119 -Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to identify distro, lsb-release is broken

2006-03-01 Thread Chris Lawrence
my identification mechanism is now broken on etch. > > Can anyone suggest a more reliable mechanism? Running 'lsb_release -cs' doesn't work for you? Chris

Re: How to identify origin [Was: How to identify distro, lsb-release is broken]

2006-03-01 Thread Chris Lawrence
dpkg --status includes the Origin: header for those packages that specify it; reportbug already uses this to decide what BTS to use, but it could also be included in the report. Chri

Re: Env-varaibles

1997-06-03 Thread Chris Fearnley
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Ole?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgen?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tetlie=22?= wrote:' > >Hello, > >for SmallEiffel (which I am packaging) to work at all, it needs an >env-variable to be set. Should it be set with a preinst-script? I >wouldn't like that to happen to my system, but I don't see any o

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-17 Thread Chris Fearnley
sendmail also helps. Hence I would appreciate it if the MTA debate could focus on design criteria other than ease of configuration. I'm more interested in performance and design considerations that impact on security and the ability to configure (flexibility). Chris "Just flabbergasted that

Re^4: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-23 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jun 22, Mark Eichin wrote > I don't think he's kidding. Lynx is *awful* for searching (it doesn't > even have a keystroke for "same pattern, next occurance"...) Eh? 'n' seems to do a pretty good job. Seems lik

Re: Libc6 progress: 1997-12-06

1997-12-10 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Hamish Moffatt wrote:' > >> Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> dome-4.60-1 > >Compiled fine but appears to segfault on execution. Hmm, are there problems with g++? I'll be upgrading to hamm RSN and hope to have time before the code freeze to deal

Re: packaging agrep

1997-12-12 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Sven Rudolph wrote:' > >G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I am planning to package agrep, a grep-like tool that allows to >> >> We have it already. I think it comes with glimpse . > >So it should be split into an extra package ? No. -- Christopher J. Fearnley |

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-12 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Scott Ellis wrote:' > >On 12 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote: > >> Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > >Huh? The upgrade path is quite clear: install a newer libc5 (5.4.33-7) >> > >from hamm, then you may install libc

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-12 Thread Chris Fearnley
Moved to debian-devel 'Scott Ellis wrote:' > >On 13 Dec 1997, Martin Mitchell wrote: > >> Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > > Huh? The upgrade path is quite clear: install a newer libc5 (5.4.33-7) >> > > from hamm, then you may install libc6. >> > >> > Maybe we can fix this by

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-12 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Rob Browning wrote:' > >Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you don't upgrade anything that deals with utmp to libc6, you >> don't have any problems). > >The problem is that maybe *you* know what packages those are, but most >users expect to be able to upgrade without major system servic

Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken

1997-12-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Martin Mitchell wrote:' > >Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Is breaking easy upgradeability really better than corrupting utmp? > >Yes, it means the system should work properly at all stages of the upgrade. Still, the fact that libc5-5.4.33-7

revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Martin Mitchell wrote:' > >If they want to remain with a libc5 development environment, they have two >choices, stay with bo, or use altdev from hamm. You regard utmp corruption >as a minor issue, I would not, especially if I expected that staying with >mainly bo would give me a stable system. No

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-14 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Scott K. Ellis wrote:' > >On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote: >> Why can't we do the following: >> >> In both bo-updates and hamm: >> libc5: No conflicts, no depends (predepends on ldso, of course) >> (solves the problem of no

Re: revised proposed solution (was Re: Bug#15859: libc6 in stable is horribly broken)

1997-12-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Remco Blaakmeer wrote:' > >On Sat, 13 Dec 1997, David Engel wrote: > >> Definitely not! libc5-dev implies that libc5 is the default >> compilation environment installed in /usr/include. > >Sorry, I must have been half asleep when I wrote the above. libc5-altdev >doesn't have to conflict with eith

Re: I'll take radiusd-merit

1997-12-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Roberto Lumbreras wrote:' > >Hi! > >I'd like to maintain package radiusd-merit (orphaned in 1.61 >version of prospective-packages), if nobody is working on it yet. Excellent. Maybe you can find the buffer overflow when shadow support is included? -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/In

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread Chris Walker
There is a project "Deity" to produce a dselect replacement, but I'm not sure how near to release they are. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
nice to Joe User and not clobber their /etc files without asking :-)... And this probably does need to be advertised better (especially since I've been using /usr/src for everything under the sun). Chris -- ==== |

Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy.

1997-12-31 Thread Chris Lawrence
s for each port (which have constant locations) this wouldn't be a problem. Of course, this is further complicated because the kernels that aren't developed in the master tree don't have consistent release timetables, so they tend to skip master tree versions. Chris == Chris Lawrenc

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Chris Fearnley
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' > >Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely >is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we >should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed >before hamm. It's not yet clear to

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-03 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Christian Schwarz wrote:' > >On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Chris Fearnley wrote: > >> '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' >> > >> >Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There >> >definitely >> >is a dependency cl

Intent to package amiwm; DFSG ramblings

1998-01-05 Thread Chris Lawrence
restrictions, or any other laws" (per Policy) and would not compromise the ideological purity of the DFSG. Chris == Chris Lawrence Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Political Science Major University of Memphis Contract Programmer Memphis, Tennessee, USA FedEx

Re: netpbm status?

1998-01-08 Thread Chris Lawrence
hat I dug out of my mail archives: >From quango Mon Mar 17 17:50:24 1997 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 17:50:24 -0600 From: Chris Lawrence To: "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Debian netpbm Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text

Re: netpbm status?

1998-01-10 Thread Chris Lawrence
4 years of nothing happening with it. Chris -- ==== | Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | ht

Re: Uploaded mc-4.1.28-1 (source i386) to master

1998-04-08 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Paul Seelig wrote:' > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Format: 1.5 >Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 17:23:15 +0100 >Source: mc >Binary: mc >Architecture: source i386 >Version: 4.1.28-1 >Distribution: frozen unstable >Urgency: low >Maintainer: Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Description: > mc

Re: Upgrading from bo to hamm

1998-04-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Guy Maor wrote:' > >"LeRoy D. Cressy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I question the purpose of leaving broken symbolic links when >> upgrading the libraries. For instance libreadline2 leaves >> the following broken links reported by ldconfig: > >Those symlinks are part of libreadline2-dev. If

April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks. This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with the floppy drive light lit after displaying "Loading root.bin..." Note the three dots. I take the same boot disk and it works like a charm on another system. Th

Re: April 11th bootdisks - major failure

1998-04-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
On Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 11:02:51PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hoo boy, I've been having bad luck with the bootdisks. > > > > This time, After I hit [ENTER] to load the ramdisks, the system hangs with &

Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-19 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Santiago Vila wrote:' > >Please, tell me how much harm does to add a Pre-Depends field on libc6, >ncurses3.4 and libreadlineg2 for netstd. I can tell you how much >inconvenience does *not* to add it and then we can make a comparison >between those two inconveniences. Too much, IMHO. -- Christop

Rescue disk crashes with mem=128M or mem=32M or mem=64M

1998-04-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line option "mem=128M" (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the same way (see below)). This system has 128M of RAM, but the BIOS only reports 16M to Linux. When I try to correction this on the boot disk command-li

Re: Rescue disk crashes with mem=128M or mem=32M or mem=64M

1998-04-27 Thread Chris Fearnley
ue Zanardi wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 1998 at 11:53:19AM -0400, Chris Fearnley wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The April 11th boot disk crashes when I enter the kernel command line > > option "mem=128M" (I also tried mem=32M and mem=64M -- all crashed in the > > sa

Re: xmem ?

1998-04-29 Thread Chris Reed
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am, however, curious what happened to xmem, it seems to have slipped > through the cracks of xcontrib and xproc. Will it be packaged > seperately? Should it be part of one of those humongous X builds? > The xm

Intent to package: xitalk

1998-04-29 Thread Chris Reed
xitalk is a useful program that enters itself into utmp and listens on a pty for talk requests/ write(1)s. It can then be configured to start a ytalk session automatically (taking the username from the talk request) or perform some other action (e.g. play a sound).

Re: first proposal for a new maintainer policy

1998-05-01 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Manoj Srivastava wrote:' > > Well, I think if one is not constrained to follow policy, nor > required to do so, I see no reason to actually follow policy. Why is > it so bad to require policy to be followed? How would you enforce it? Why require something which your police force cannot enf

Re: intent to take mawk and gawk

1998-05-03 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Santiago Vila wrote:' Sorry, I seem to be perpetually several days behind in reading debian-devel. >If nobody objects, I intent to take mawk and gawk. I intend to keep these two. >[ There have been no maintainer uploads since March 1997, is one year > enough? ]. Sorry. I promise to learn PG

Bug#292667: ITP: autoreply -- A safe, rate-limited autoresponder

2005-01-28 Thread Chris Sacca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: autoreply Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Giles Lean * URL : http://www.nemeton.com.au/sw/autoreply/ * License : BSD Description : A safe, rate-limited autoresponder Autoreply is a simple autoresponder u

Re: Ubuntu and its "appropriation" of Debian maintainers

2005-05-01 Thread Chris Boyle
n copied from Debian) and for others Silly Ubuntu Person In Question <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the maintainer of this package (based on work from Debian) or the team that did it or whatever. -- Chris Boyle - http://cmb.is-a-geek.org/ GPG: B7D86E0F, MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ: 24151

Bug#308255: ITP: r-cran-bayesm -- GNU R package for Bayesian inference

2005-05-08 Thread Chris Lawrence
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: r-cran-bayesm Version : 0.0-2 Upstream Authors: Peter Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rob McCulloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. * URL: http://gsbwww.uchicago.e

Re: unrar version confusion

2005-05-27 Thread Chris Anderson
> unstable at the moment. > >> RMs, please review unrar-nonfree 1:3.5.2-0.1, restoring a new version of >> the unrar that was in woody to sarge. > > Approved. > > I had rather hoped to see some feedback from the current unrar-nonfree > maintainer about this package name ch

Re: New Nokia device is Debian-based?

2005-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
atents in a voting for which an absolute majority is needed. Such a majority is hard to come by in a parliament with a low attendance level. Doesn't look good :-( -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#312794: ITP: r-cran-pscl -- GNU R package for discrete data models

2005-06-10 Thread Chris Lawrence
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: r-cran-pscl Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Simon Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pscl.stanford.edu/ * License : GPL Description : GNU R

Re: Canonical and Debian

2005-06-11 Thread Chris Bannister
omination. I really decided to start the > process of becoming a NM after Branded told me about his plans for total > world domination :-) Nothing like a good session of planning to take > over the world to wake you up in the morning. > > (Just kidding, Branden) While there's Microsoft the Borg won't dare come near us :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFA: A few packages

2005-06-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
aving both lsb and lsb-release with one maintainer will simplify things. Chris -- Chris Lawrence - http://blog.lordsutch.com/

relocation error(s) with various binaries

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Gorman
library? Or possibly some other function to _Xglobal_lock? Any suggestions on how to fix this? Please CC me directly as I am not subscribed to this particular list. Thanks Chris Gorman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Halls
s spent in the dynamic linker, so reducing the number of symbols that need to be resolved will make a big difference. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: relocation error(s) with various binaries

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Gorman
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Chris Gorman] > > + exec /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox > > /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin: relocation error: > > /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1: undefined symbol: _Xglobal_lock > > Try reinstalling

Re: relocation error(s) with various binaries

2005-06-20 Thread Chris Gorman
t I need a working system ATM, so it won't be too soon. Thanks to all those who made suggestions. Chris On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Chris Gorman wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Chris Gorman] + exec /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox /usr/lib/mozilla-fire

Re: Firmware poll

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Lamb
> mobo, on high-performance NICs, etc. I disagree, or I am not understanding the difference between the two. FSF/GNU devotees would much prefer to use a free BIOS[0] or EEPROM code if they had a choice imho. [0] http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html -- Chris Lamb, Cambs, UK

Re: Media players in Debian (was: new mplayer)

2006-09-22 Thread Chris Lamb
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:03:44 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > I've heard these claims (“player X should be more than good enough, > what do you need mplayer for these days?”) for at least the last five > years Not, "This cannot be played on record^Hmedia player X" ?

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