Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-01-19 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
German?) > > > If possible it might be nice to organise a couple of things like a > > meeting for Debian developers and a BOF about Debian maintainership. > > Oh, and the obligatory PGP-signing session of course :) Here I am! > No problem. We're open to suggestion

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
gt; (C) 1995 The Debian Association I don't have that file either! -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-01-20 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:00:02AM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am thinking about being there (I'll come from italy). If you > > find something, Wichert,

Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-01-20 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 02:22:14AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:54:55PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > End of June.. soun

Re: Intent to package cygnus-stylesheets

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:52:44 -0500, Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > After comparing the sources closely, I don't think they have forked > the sources. All the diffs in the *actual* stylesheets are either > CVS stuff changing, since they reimported norm's stuff

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
xes, since we're also Sun resellers, and since the Sparc architecture has a lower TCO and scales better than x86. We operate out of Chicago and NYC (312 850-5200 and 212 254-0063). -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Debian goes big business?

1999-01-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
FTP archive maintainers, the security team, release managers). -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: doc-base control file madness

1999-01-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:18:21 + (GMT), Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 21 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote: >> > "Dale" == Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> I've recently looked into the doc-base control file format. It Ben> seems pretty sane, except I realized since it

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
me is Aedon, and is a generic set'o'rules. When we play (it's about 3 years we use it) we call it Ab Infinito and is a mix between H.P.Lovcraft and the Rork comics by Andreas. Slightly off topic this one!!! Ciao, Federico -- Federico Di Gregorio |

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
to these default methods due to inertia. Please, someone give me *one* technical reason how the dpkg-supplied acquisition methods are not obsoleted by dpkg-multicd or apt. Sorry, saying "I'm happy with the broken system and too lazy to try non-broken ones" does not qualify. Perhaps

Re: Announce (and question): Masquerading PPP server based on Debian

1999-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
nded. Thus, even your client will benefit (i.e., ask to get paid for the time!). -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: [Suggestion] Dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator

1999-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
TeX-based systems. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-02-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
of this report is to remove the 'cdrom' part of the disk methods, since it just absolutely won't work with slink. I have no clue why this issue wasn't raised months ago... However, we have a little time to do this now, and removing a broken method won't break anythi

Re: Article introducing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Adam Di Carlo
lly ratified that. > The package selection interface will be, for the moment, the same > that in the previous release of Debian, but apt has been added, a > program that handles dependencies resolution and package retrieval > in an easy and fast way. Work is being done in a n

Re: Freeze date for potato?

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
y joining [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lets make it sane on ourselves and have a (mostly) working CD set and boot-floppies *before* going into freeze. Well, a guy can dream, can't he? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
derstand why they are taking this approach, and it's a very common approach to take. It is *not* the approach of 'dbootstrap' at this point. That is, the 'setup-gui' is not just another shim to the pre-fabbed flow and dialog/content calls of dbootstrap. As such, it pretty much

Re: Setup API, The next step (Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal)

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ch makes installation, which is historically a very "high curve" area for Debian, a snap. I am very encoraged by all the feedback from Debian developers, and what seems to be the start of a very productive collaboration and symbiosis. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: ITP: Installer for IBM DB2 Database (Non-Free)

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
er the good of Debian. Next we need an Oracle/Linux installer pkg... -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Freeze date for potato?

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Package: www.debian.org Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 09:31:32PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now that's a good reason. Is there a plan for this? Is any help > &g

PROPOSAL: preparation for freezes, release coordination

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ven facility to deal with multiple CDs, and this cause significant delays. Numerous conflicts between the ports arose. I also think that porters, boot-floppies members, and the CD team felt a bit helpless in having a say about what needed to go into the frozen archive. Comments? -- .Adam Di [

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
pendantly by different Debian developers. In fact, I volunteer to take over the SGML environment task if we do move to this scheme. So -- lets have a little discussion period, and then decide, and perhaps start looking for volunteers. We need to jump on this quick so we can have it in place for freeze time, whenever that is. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-09 Thread Adam Di Carlo
-shot script to make a buncha packages. However, I'm not sure that would be worthwhile... Can we get a volunteer to work on this stuff, for proof of concept? All the volunteer would need is the file which described the tasks/profiles from the boot-floppies source package. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Freeze stuff, summary.. (perl 5.005, etc)

1999-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
you have a program that depends on certain internal stuff which it shouldn't be using anyway). Really, what is more important and has changed is CC from gcc272 to egcs. But again, it would probably be nice to recompile sometime over then next two months, but not really necessary AFAIK.

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
my new "Release Team" concept? If so, let's make the mailing list and troll the right people to join. BTW, I think it's good to set an *optimistic* freeze date, so people aren't shocked. I would set it at July 1, or maybe Bastille day (Debian pomme de terre?). -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-10 Thread Adam Di Carlo
eer (I'm in the US, NYC area, and only speak English and smidgeons of Spanish, German, and French). > P.S. > I think, and hope that the Debian is "open" project. It is -- don't get paranoid. The New Maintainer Group is just swamped a bit. I think it needs more people -- highly trustable people, of course. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do. Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make nice metapackages which play nice? -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: install report for Debian 2.1 and some comments on installation profiles

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
r the SGML environment task if we do move to this > > scheme. > > Why wait? You can build that metapackage now, and we may use it as a > "test case" to see if any strange problem arises. A "gnome" metapackage > would be a nice one too. Volunteers? Ugh, I guess I volunteered myself. Well, not biggie -- I've been maintaining an sgml metapackage internally for onShore for months now. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Intent to package t-gnus

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
is available. (main/news). > > SEMI is "Library to provide MIME feature for GNU Emacs." > Debian package is available. (main/mail). Are these two JP specific? I noticed from your uploads that the install fails if LANG is unset or set as "C". This kinda warned me that m

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-11 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > There is no requirement that I know of that any identification must be > > written in English. > > It is practically very important to know what is acceptable and > what

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
bgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY install >or removal, I get: [...] >Ugh! Geeze -- ok, I'll fix it tonight. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Adding a global UID/GID?

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
>>>>> "Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mitch> GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in Mitch> the 0-99 range added to Debian? Add a wishlist bug to 'base-passwd' I believe. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
SE_GRIPE}; } Ben> This is a nice solution. Well, actually, in tonight's upload, I only enabled this warning if the -v or --verbose switch it used. Much cleaner. I hate env vars anyway. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
xworld Expo in August. That would be cool. I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes in boot floppies (well, for anything in base) and in the CD system.

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ns into stable after release, generally, unless they are required for critical security issues. People, however, can provide well-advertised (but not part of official Debian) .debs for Gnome on slink if they like -- no one is stopping them. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-14 Thread Adam Di Carlo
should be publicized more. It's pretty much a "buyer beware" area. If anyone uploads to "stable", it gets moved into there. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan

1999-05-16 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ce side. I'll wait until dupload is updated first. In general, I do prefer these filed as bugs, because that ensures (or raises the chance) that I do deal with it eventually. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Hurray! and thanks! Re: Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
base and IRQ addresses and write them into the Dale> eeprom. Is this packaged? I have a 3c509, and it's reliable as hell, but I hate the DOS boot disk to configure aspect of it. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Hey, Y'all, check out my new improved "Free Software Research Paper Project" web site!

1999-05-17 Thread Adam Di Carlo
le list. brock> Interesting, what's the address to subscribe and such? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Receive future messages sent to the mailing list. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Stop receiving messages. These guys really know their shit -- they'll roast you even harder than I have. Or ignore you, which is maybe what I should have done. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I'd like to point out that expecting freeze to be shorter than 10 > > weeks is lunacy. We have 5 architectures now Consider that > > archive changes at any point in freeze imply changes

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ripts can't be easily disabled. > > mv /etc/network/eth0.postup.leafnode /etc/network/off.eth0.postup.leafnode Geeze, if we were going to do this, why wouldn't we just use run-parts(8), just like we do for /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d/ ? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Hints about future improvements

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
;t apt support rsync:// URLs? That would be the way to implement it. OTOH, I wonder how much benefit binary diffs could really give. Since every .deb is mostly gzip compressed data, wouldn't you often need to retrieve the whole thing again anyway? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Intent to maintainer change: canna

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
igating the source with an eye towards taking over maintenance. Of course, you can change maintainership without involving this list. For instance, it's pretty common, I think, for old maintainers looking to drop packages to solicit actuve bug reporters , asking them if they wanna take over

Re: Source for install program

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
point me to it? > > See the package boot-floppies. If you are interesting in read-only or read-write CVS source access, please contact . -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Listing of Debian hosted cutting-edge software

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
tain the page, someone preferably who is a debian developer, I betcha you could get the Debian webmasters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to give that person CVS access. Personally I think it's too transient to document, and that this mailing list is the perfect place to keep that info. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
gest the use of equivs... it seems just the ticket. I've still got to dig into equivs more deeply, specifically, to see how it interacts with my CVS-based workflow. [Brandon, this doesn't necessarily apply to you, since your metapackage is a backwards-compatability metapkg.] -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

LDP news (was Re: Hardware working with Linux)

1999-05-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
could give it enough time, what with my many packages, boot floppies documentation, developers reference, doc-base (languishing!), and now, SPARC porting and porter documentation. ] -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-21 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christian Meder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 08:32:29PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I suggest we all follow naming conventions, i.e., 'metapkg-*', so that > > it's easy to pick these babies out. > When this idea was tossed aro

Re: Pthread programming

1999-05-21 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
t; 2) Is there a mean for a thread to know in which state are the > other thread of the same program (ie running, waiting, killed, > stoped...) ? I think there is a function but I don't have docs here. Ciao, Federico -- Federico Di Gregorio

offered for adoption: addressbook

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ommand-line and gui versions so those who have console only systems can still install the package (in a reasonable size). I do still use the package, so if no one asks for it, I will continue to try to maintain it. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

intent to package: docbook-xml, simplified docbook-xml

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
x27;d be happy to "transfer my intent" to them. I already have source areas and some work done for these packages, so I can probably make it pretty easy for the blessed volunteer to step forward and do this. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
'lang/elisp', etc, and also allow pkgs to be in more than one section.] BTW, we still need a volunteer to do some serious task/profile -> metapackage conversion, based on Stephane Bortzmeyer's work in the boot-floppies pkg. I don't think my one little metapackage is going to be enough data to work with. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: Installing on old computers (WAS: Re: Time to rewrite dpkg)

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
he HD, it will all fail, because of the symlinks Eduardo> disappearing! On Red Hat, you can use one disk to get the Eduardo> ftp opportunity, and symlinks wont destroy it! So, what Eduardo> could I tell him, to grab each package by hand??? No, use the apt installation option. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: why one rescue & boot disk? (was Re: An 'ae' testimony)

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ies guys. Or not - Joey> if we used say, Tom's Root Boot as our rescue disk, we wouldn't Joey> have to maintain all that stuff and could devote more time to Joey> the basic install. I've heard very good things about Tomsrtbt.) Oh, I love Tom's Boot Disks -- they do really rock. I use and suggest them all the time. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
ions. How can you sit there, with your bare face hanging out, and say in one breath that you haven't tried it for a while, and in the other breath, claim it's broken? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
o agree, the ae maintainer agrees, and it's easy to implement, so I suggest this is the course of action we take. b) replace ae with something else, the only real contender AFAICT being 'ee' Dale, do you agree with (a)? Should we just go with that? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: CALL for PAM support

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
at all daemons include PAM support, that is, pop server, sshd, etc. Does PAM support also affect web servers? Can someone talk to us about this aspect? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: a question about scsi installs

1999-05-22 Thread Adam Di Carlo
acing the Rescue Disk Kernel" or some section like that. Daryl> if this is not the right list to post this question to, i Daryl> apologize and would appreciate a pointer to the correct forum Daryl> to address this issue. Probably . -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
hope for is an "expanded rescue" situation, i.e., an optional two- or three- floppy rescue image, or (Corel is working on this) a rescue system bootable from a CD or other media. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

why equivs won't (yet) work for metapackages

1999-05-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
lves the changelog, copyright, etc issues). . when you run dh_gencontrol, I suggest you run 'dh_gencontrol -u-isp' (I don't understand why this isn't the default) -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: SGML packages in debian (also ITP XML::*)

1999-05-26 Thread Adam Di Carlo
(see above), SAXON, and Koala XSL http://www.inria.fr/koala/XML/xslProcessor/>. This is just what I hear people using. My suggestion is that you just poke around at http://www.xml.org/> or http://www.xml.com/> or http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/> and play around with stuff, then

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-17 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
f their linux people to the thing as well.. Having a big convention would be really awfull, but it's difficult to get sponsors and much more difficult to gather developers from all over the world. What about a series of smaller conferences? We can have Debian Europe, Debian America (North a

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
#x27;s Reference so it can be maintained and distributed that way? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

boot-floppies status from an insider (was Re: Deficiencies in Debian)

1999-09-18 Thread Adam Di Carlo
fty stuff like TFTP and and serial console installation should be supported on all possible architectures (TFTP images may require some software in Debian which is not currently available) * update documentation (too early to do this) -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Bug#836811: RFP: notepadqq -- A lightweight text editor for developers

2016-09-06 Thread Daniele Di Sarli
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: notepadqq Version : 0.53.0 Upstream Author : Daniele Di Sarli * URL : https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A lightweight text editor for developers

Re: Accepted xrender 0.9.0-1 (i386 source)

2005-05-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stone wrote: > Format: 1.7 > Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 15:09:41 +1000 > Source: xrender > Binary: libxrender1-dbg libxrender-dev libxrender1 > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 0.9.0-1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Maintainer: Daniel

Re: Unofficial projects related with Debian.

2003-05-25 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Gustavo Franco wrote: > Hi, > > [1] = "Mono for Debian", ipv6 (is it official or unofficial?), > "ddtp", ... IPv6 is an official subproject founded by Craig Small, even if we host experimental packages outside Debian for various reasons. Thanks Fabio -- Our mission: make I

Re: Unofficial projects related with Debian.

2003-05-25 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 25 May 2003, Craig Small wrote: > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IPv6 is an official subproject founded by Craig Small, even if we host > > experimental packages outside Debian for various reasons. > > I think that might be way, way too

Re: Second experimental version of APT with DDTP Support

2003-05-31 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Otavio, On Sat, 31 May 2003, Otavio Salvador wrote: > The DDTP team and the Debian-BR project are proud to announce the > second public release of APT featuring support for translated package > descriptions. just for pure curiosity, when do you expect to have the full system integrated withi

Re: new bug tags

2003-06-01 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Guido Guenther wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 04:23:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > The BTS now has "lfs" (large file support) and "ipv6" tags. > > http://bugs.debian.org/tag:lfs and http://bugs.debian.org/tag:ipv6 will > > search for matching bugs. > Since we're using bu

Re: Second experimental version of APT with DDTP Support

2003-06-01 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Otavio, > > Hello Fabio, > > > just for pure curiosity, when do you expect to have the full system > > integrated within Debian? > > I think t

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

2003-06-18 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > IMO it's a good moment to drop all the following i386-specific packages > which are libc5 related: > [SNIP] > > and others, partially. > > This could impact potentially very old (commercial mostly) binaries, > Comments, ideas, complaints? I a

Re: Experimental: proftpd pre-1.2.9, for brave hearts

2003-06-21 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > Hi guys > > this is to announce a preview (off sid) for current (cvs) > version of proftpd. Testing and comments are welcome. > An (incomplete) IPv6 patch is also available. > > http://people.debian.org/~frankie/debian/sid/experimental/proftp

Re: Mass bug filing: Build-Depends on libgdbmg1-dev and/or imlib-dev

2003-06-30 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Daniel Schepler wrote: > For libgdbmg1-dev (excluding packages with Build-Depends on > "libgdbm-dev | libgdbmg1-dev"): apache-perl libapache-mod-perl We have this already done in our CVS. It should be uploaded in a relatively short time. Thanks Fabio -- Our mission: make

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-security in particular "5.8.5.3 Preparing packages to address security issues" will answer your question Fabio On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 06:36:06PM -0400, Matt Zimme

Re: Why back-porting patches to stable instead of releasing a new package.

2003-07-23 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:54AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-bug-security > > > > in particular "5.8.5.3 Preparin

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-30 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:22:57AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > Quoting Karsten Merker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Anyway, that could give the following schedule : > > > > Thursday-Sunday : LinuxTag at WhereverHeim, Germany > > Sunday evening : f

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-31 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Jesus Climent wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:29:27AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > > > > Some of us do not want/cannot go to linuxtag, but we could be in vienna > > > already friday evening or saturday morning. > > > &

Re: binaries provided by multiple source packages

2003-08-26 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Glenn McGrath wrote: > The following is a list of packages whose names are inconsistent with > accepted behaviour (plz correct me if im wrong) Sorry for my ignorance but which is the accepted behaviour? i couldn't find anything in the policies and in devel-reference (just had

Re: binaries provided by multiple source packages

2003-08-27 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
the 3 sources that you see in the pool. I think this should clarify everything. Fabio On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 20:38:12 +0200 (CEST) > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Glenn McGrath wrote: > &g

Orphaning 2 small packages

2003-09-04 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, since in the last few months i was not able to give enough love to them i intend to orphan libapache-mod-auth-radius and libpam-radius-auth The reason why i am not going trough the normal procedure is because quite a lof of people

Re: adam@debian.org ?

2003-11-14 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Samuele Giovanni Tonon wrote: > anyone has information regards him ? As far as I know he is still alive. I saw him a few days ago in irc. Fabio -- Our mission: make IPv6 the default IP protocol "We are on a mission from God" - Elwood Blues http://www.itojun.org/paper/itoj

Re: Archive link at the end of each post?

2002-08-12 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Carlos Laviola wrote: On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:34:31PM +1000, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: I think the problem is that at the point the mailing list is forwarding the message it has no idea where it is going to be archived so it cannot add a reference. In my original idea there is no suc

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-07 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Brian May wrote: > I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools, > available at: > > http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/bin2/>. > > These scripts will allow you to create and maintain a private archive > with multiple distributions, architectures, e

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Roland Mas wrote: > Brian May (2002-12-07 16:36:58 +1100) : > > > I have a set of scripts for creating private debian package pools, > > available at: > > Wonderful. We now have two tools providing almost the same > functionality, except only one does package pools (bin2) and

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002 15:38:26 +0100 (CET), Fabio Massimo Di Nitto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for > >handling archives instead? > > Have you ever looked at katie, jenna and the other girls? They

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Phillips wrote: > > /me wonders whether some concept of namespaces in package names would > be useful before we make it too easy for world + dog to run large > repositories of .debs - Ximian was bad enough on its own, last I had to > recover a system from someone using it.

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Nick Phillips wrote: > On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 10:48 am, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > I do not agree with you for different reasons. First of all noone > > forces > > people to add private archives to their sources.list. If users do t

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-09 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Joey Hess wrote: > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > Why noone have ever packaged the actual debian set of scritps for > > handling archives instead? > > Probably because it's too complicated to be of use unless you're > managing something

Re: [desktop] Draft proposal for a new debian menu system

2003-04-10 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Ciao Enrico, On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Enrico Zini wrote: > The advantages would be to adhere to an existing, open standard (and > push it), to provide a better system (with multiple cathegories and menu > translations) and to better integrate with the desktop environments we > package. The latter i

Bug#189689: ITP: libapache-mod-auth-radius -- Apache module for RADIUS authentication

2003-04-19 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-04-19 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libapache-mod-auth-radius Version : 1.5.7 Upstream Author : Alan DeKok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/radius/ * License : Apache Software License

Re: Recently orphaned packages

2003-04-21 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Bug#189952: O: device3dfx -- Device driver source for 3Dfx boards for 2.2+ > kernels I don't use it anymore but I still have a working 3Ffx. If anyone wants the package i can donate the card to the futu

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 May 2003, Denis Barbier wrote: > In this thread we were told to change the French translation because > Apache maintainers did not like its layout. I will come back to this > issue below, but here is a better example of the problem I want

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Pierre Machard wrote: > Hi; > > [I reply to this message, since I am the guy who translates the > Description] > > On tue 13 may 2003 at 06:57 +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > [...] > > > Now Apache maintainers are telling us that they cho

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:57:45AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > (...) > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2003/debian-l10n-french-200305/msg00121.html > > > > The first post to the

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > I won't discuss that. It probably was not nice switching to other language > but Denis was, in my point of view, asking the rest of the team (which > might not be fluent in english) Let's stop any discussion that is not focused on the o

Re: Do not touch l10n files (was Re: DDTP issue)

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Martin Quinson wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:42:16AM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > > If you really believe that the apache description should be improved than > > you file a bug against apache asking to changing layout, proposing the &

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi Daniel, On Mon, 12 May 2003, Daniel K. Gebhart wrote: > We are very proud to announce the opening of the mentors project. We > have been working very hard[1] on this project since beginning of 2003. > Now the time has come to test and use it! Really nice job but the first side effect is alre

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi, On Tue, 13 May 2003, Rene Engelhard wrote: > And that looks like it is f*cked. Is this Depends: done manually? > I do not thing dpkg-shlibdeps did that. Where is libc6? Actually i was only worried about the licence because i know it can't be there. We use it at work :-) Fabio -- Our miss

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi, On Tue, 13 May 2003, Emile van Bergen wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:16:38PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > > I think upload must be moderated somehow. Even the uploader himself claim > > that he is unsure about licence of the product. >

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Hi, On Tue, 13 May 2003, Christoph Haas wrote: > Hi, Fabio... > > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:16:38PM +0200, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: > > Really nice job but the first side effect is already there: > > > > Package: icaclient > > Thanks for the hint. That w

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