Re: first proposal for a new maintainer policy

1998-04-22 Thread Jim
send a message like this one to let possibly interested others know where the thread went. I am making a comment; I'm choosing debian-policy as the list. See it there. -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-21 Thread Jim
In the message identified by <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. That was the point I was so poorly trying to make. No > denigration was intended (just a bit of jealousy at not having any spare > time myself) I'm not a developer, but I see how the debian IRC

Thank you for signing the guestbook

2008-06-13 Thread jim
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Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-22 Thread Jim
Grammostola Rosea, Hi. I took the suggestion of one of the replies to your original post and read about debian pure blends, and at first I thought demudi was a pure blend; it's listed as one of the projects but is not actually a pure blend, which I guess means they might have updated apps and spec

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-07 Thread Jim
hose packages and do the testing. We all know debian hamm is relatively stable... but such a move would lose you folx who would otherwise use it. A kernel is just plain too important to cut corners as you suggest. -Jim who doesn't have a vote here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: kernel 2.0.34 and hamm

1998-06-08 Thread Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How is this different from bo, where we also had three kernel versions > available and only had pcmcia modules for the first two? No difference. And no improvement. :) -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-08 Thread Jim
o make a clean break. Going between libc versions was one of those times, as was going from a.out to elf. Otherwise, what are major number changes for? Are you unhappy with the result (hamm)? I'm not... -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Jim
it has two modes which make the keys mean totally different things and don't announce themselves except thru the terminal bell. My opinion about this: (deleted; form your own :) Historical fact about VI: some people got really, really good at using it :) -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Jim
ppy to put this behind me and get on with other > things. > I think it's more of an honest "victory" when something that isn't > free becomes free. You have a point... but I think victories should be taken when and as they can be got. You got it. Now take it. And con

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Jim
> Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential > > > convenience". > > > > vi has the advantage of being backward compatib

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-10 Thread Jim
e furor is over vi :) -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gcc problems with /usr/lib/crt1.o

1998-06-10 Thread Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I recently upgraded to the hamm distribution. Ever since the upgrade > I have not been able to compile anything with gcc. It seems part of your upgrade wasn't completed... you probably need to install libc6-dev. -Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-06 Thread jim
gt; slink. (I am not a voter here.) Fine... but PLEASE don't make decisions that would make any of the other mailers unusable to any degree (that's for everyone else), -especially- sendmail (that's for me). -Jim

Re: KDE hurts Qt (was Re: LICENSES)

1998-10-12 Thread jim
tly according to its letter and its original intent. Whoever is using the GPL in a way that conflicts with its terms should stop immediately and correct the situation. Without further study into the situation, I can't tell who is or is not doing so. -Jim

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-12 Thread jim
Qt. > On Solaris KDE is shipped even though no Sun > product includes Qt. So the case there is even more blatant Could you elaborate a bit here, if only addressing the elaboration to me? why is this more blatent? -Jim

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-12 Thread jim
I simply use the services. Hence, libc is "a section of" the thing I am making, and does not derive from it. How is this wrong? Is it "strategic" to look at sections as derivations? -Jim

Re: LICENSES [was: Re: Have you seen this?]

1998-10-12 Thread jim
s from libc by being linked with it. This is precisely > why an LGPL has to exist. So this isn't "derivative" in the sense of the OOP idiom "IS-A"... and you're saying that all I have to do to "derive from" something, is to include it unmodified or modified? -Jim

Here's my .xsession (was Re: User-selected window-manager in an easy way)

1999-05-11 Thread jim
Here's my .xsession... it assumes the window manager is not the session controller, and something else is (but that can be changed pretty easily) --- file: .xsession --- #!/bin/bash # # logout button .xsession allowing fav window mgr by Jim Lynch # # This .xsession prepares for gnome by h

Here's a diff to my .xsession (was Re: Here's my .xsession)

1999-05-11 Thread jim
gout-button +#exec logout-button # anyone wanna a logout button? send me mail :) exec gnome-session # end of .xsession @@ -94,7 +89,7 @@ # # NOTE: this part taken from the else part of the final "if" # # in the global /etc/X11/Xsession by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # -# # i.e., look at this code as the default behavior and +# # i.e., look at this code as the default session behavior and # # modify to taste # # xterm -ls & --- -Jim

jdk not working in potato, working jdk removed from incoming, license problem

1999-05-17 Thread jim
n its pure form would make it big. I have a few java projects that I'm taking off the back burner presently, and now this. Inquiring, jdk-using minds want to know. -Jim

First post as maintainer :) (about 2-3 screenfuls)

1999-05-27 Thread jim
l class lists are generated in two forms (printable, tab-delimited) are mailed out to teachers. The scripts handle midterm adds and drops. Anyone can get the scripts at http://www.laney.edu/pub/jim/roster/ and there are a few things in /pub/jim other than roster iirc. When the foreign database is

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-09 Thread Jim Gettys
UNIX's disunity was a major aid to Microsoft. Repeating that history would not be good. - Jim On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 10:53 -0800, Bruce Perens wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > >What makes you think you'll be any more successful than when the Unix

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ... (Was: [Fwd: Re: GTK+2.0 2.6.2-3 and buildds running out of space])

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gettys
r suite in the world, and different compilers uncover a different spectrum of bugs. - Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Let's remove mips, mipsel, s390, ...

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gettys
vors, even if it if they might be conformant to the C standard.... - Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I/O hardware, control of external transistors

2005-03-02 Thread jim stockford
g out what features (in the kernel, or device drivers, or external commands, or some package for some language such as perl or python or some C libraries...) give us control over logic levels of pins, and which pins (serial RS-232, parallel, what?). Anybody got experience with this stuff? j

Re: is xprint still used by mozilla, etc?

2005-03-11 Thread Jim Gettys
from UNIX. - Jim On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 13:20 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Fre, 11 MÃr 2005, Drew Parsons wrote: > > Xprint works perfectly fine out of the box. > > There are several bug reports, some of them I have contributed to, but I > guess some of them are f

Re: 4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Jim Crilly
ed would that be ?? > > Thanks, > > Thomas Yes it's possible and there have been patches posted on lkml that do that, but it incurrs a performance hit and it's usually easier just to get a 64-bit machine these days. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: cvs.debian.org [Was: Using CVS for package development]

1997-05-28 Thread Jim Pick
for building a really large filesystem spread across multiple machines on the internet? Cheers, - Jim pgpMQEQVTH2mA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: long list of give away or orphaned packages

1997-05-28 Thread Jim Pick
ay we're becoming more open, if anything. Cheers, - Jim pgpBrK60v79CD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: default file perms

1997-05-28 Thread Jim Pick
dpkg-cert already does something like this. Klee is going to fold the capabilities of dpkg-cert into dpkg, so I think a solution is on the horizon. :-) We just have to wait patiently for Klee and his upcoming proposal to overhaul dpkg. Cheers, - Jim pgpD2sxtAmlaW.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-29 Thread Jim Pick
t it might be nice to be able to add an arbitrary package to the repository via a CGI script or something like that. Cheers, - Jim pgp2C2rx4h4bm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Possible bug in dpkg-source? Possible fix?

1997-05-30 Thread Jim Pick
backup file > hello-1.3/debian/substvars.dpkg-orig: No such file or directory [ Excellent and absolutely correct analysis snipped ] This has been fixed already in 1.4.0.18 (in Incoming) which has been there for a few days. I got burned by that one too. Cheers, -Jim pgpHX6kgJ8c2Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FreeQt ?

1997-06-01 Thread Jim Pick
which is under the GPL, not the LPGL... (sorry for the cheap shot) Cheers, - Jim pgpKccdk9pWdC.pgp Description: PGP signature

cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-01 Thread Jim Pick
eally. I don't think this situation exists with libc5 or libc6 (ie. Netscape and Sun's JDK are linked against it). I'm not familiar with the licenses on everything though -- I hate reading the fine print. If I'm wrong on this issue (I hope I am), please correct me. Cheers, - Jim pgpLjYTjNzXwK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-01 Thread Jim Pick
oing to update the cross-compiler to assist me. Hopefully, cygwin.dll can become a part of the Debian distribution for a Win32 port, playing the same role as the Linux kernel. But it would be a shame if we have to reclassify the copyrights on every package in the distribution (and prohibit non-free stuff) just because of it. Cheers, - Jim pgpyPc6e7CsBE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-01 Thread Jim Pick
> Yes, very limiting. The code actually cannot be linked statically! Can't be linked dynamically either... read the GPL. Cheers, - Jim pgp6b75kk1gUm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
even if it is under the GPL. I'd like to see Debian maintain some lofty goals as to what constitutes "Free Software", so I think that discussion on these topics is healthy. Just calling 'em like I see 'em. Cheers, - Jim pgp2R1wJKPNJd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [boldt@cardinal.math.ucsb.edu: Info package: .dsc missing. And: TkInfo]

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
There already is a tkinfo package (version 1.3). cas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is listed as the maintainer. Cheers, - Jim pgpjw0BNcP82y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
ould investigate using a less restrictive license, such as the LGPL, rather than prying money out of the hands of the users. (hopefully I'm clearing up some people's thinking on this topic) Cheers, - Jim pgpl9QeB0Kulz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
in court, with a bunch of expensive lawyers on the other side. Cheers, - Jim pgpdA77lNmXjz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Jim Pick
> On Jun 2, Jim Pick wrote > > The cygwin.dll case in an example where the GPL is being used to restrict > > the > > rights of other people using the code so that they can't do something taboo > > such as charge money, while at the same time, reserving the rig

Re: the ncurses "brushfire" -- anybody want to take over the project?

1997-06-03 Thread Jim Pick
he main distribution, and into contrib. I'm sure glad I've never programmed anything against ncurses. Or did I miss something? Cheers, from a slightly alarmed, - Jim pgpttMU8Baz4N.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the ncurses "brushfire" -- anybody want to take over the project?

1997-06-03 Thread Jim Pick
I just wrote: > In addition, all of the programs > compiled against it should be moved out of the main distribution, > and into contrib. (I just noticed that dselect/dpkg falls into this category) This is not a good situation. Cheers, - Jim pgpPwqLOmli3A.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: the ncurses "brushfire" -- anybody want to take over the project?

1997-06-03 Thread Jim Pick
non-free" package. Maybe we're going to have to strip dselect out of the dpkg package, and put it into a separate package to go into the "contrib" directory. Ugly. Of course, this can be reversed if Eric Raymond (and Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) resolves the licensing situation - saving us a lot of work. Cheers, - Jim pgpvQ2RmE1Pwd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
should stick with the requirement for having all the code in the core distribution being modifiable. (that's the #1 reason I use and develop for Debian) Cheers, - Jim pgphoo3srd6qS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 1.3 installation report

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
o that. Is there a document where "Errata" can go? How about a release-specific FAQ that we can update after 1.3 has been release? I can think of a number of questions that could go onto it. This could be prominently featured on the web site and the ftp server. Cheers, - Jim pgppoWRhgYUGn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
> On Jun 2, Jim Pick wrote > > Just so you understand why I'm so interested - I'm working on porting dpkg > > to cygwin32. > > Porting or re-implementing? If it's a port, dpkg is already under > gpl, so cygwin32 being under gpl shouldn't be an issu

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
returned to the author, or require assigning the copyright for modifications to the license holder. That's my (strong) opinion. There needs to be more debate. Cheers, - Jim pgpkkuccPIOcW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy (was: the ncurses "brushfire")

1997-06-04 Thread Jim Pick
> Regarding the assignment of copyright, I took that out of the draft > document. Yay! I knew you were a good guy! :-) Cheers, - Jim pgptBXGtMKzg2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Postgres95/PostgreSQL

1997-06-08 Thread Jim Pick
, since it's a pretty large package, and would take quite a bit of effort. PostgreSQL 6.1 should be coming out in a few days. It looks good. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpQ0GwzNIGNm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: jdk1.1 - no dynamic Motif linkage package

1997-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
> Jim, > > why didn't you upload shared Motif library version of jdk1.1-runtime? > I just wonder if there is any reason for that. > > Thanks. > > Alex Y. The jdk1.1-runtime package can be used either way - read the /usr/doc/jdk1.1/README.linux.gz file for det

Re: New package notices via bug tracking system.

1997-06-11 Thread Jim Pick
great for feature requests and notifying that a new version is available. People shouldn't interpret the number of bugs against a package as an indication of its quality -- they could all just be requests for enhancements. Cheers, - Jim pgp3GWMc2QuE0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-15 Thread Jim Pick
l get past the prototype stage in the next month or so, and there will be a standard supported way of registering documents with dwww. Cheers, - Jim pgpiSxdDQz1vZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Gone for a week

1997-06-15 Thread Jim Pick
ckage them up (so we don't fall out of 1st place). If anybody really, really wants to talk to me - just call my pager number (listed on my home page). Cheers, - Jim pgpzGzi7St7wK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FW: [NTSEC] (Fwd) DESCHALL Press Release

1997-06-22 Thread Jim Pick
ng 1 team (ie. a Linux team) sort of kills the competition aspect of it all. So I'm still in favour of using the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address, even though that address is just an auto-responder. Once I get my experimental dwww release out (hopefully tomorrow), I'll package up an "rc5-bovine" package to replace the "des-solnet" package. Cheers, - Jim pgpj8KA8GlAA8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FW: [NTSEC] (Fwd) DESCHALL Press Release

1997-06-23 Thread Jim Pick
In summary: Why the hell do we have to be so damn politically correct? I'm mostly in this for fun. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgp36FYtOOWOR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FW: [NTSEC] (Fwd) DESCHALL Press Release

1997-06-23 Thread Jim Pick
organizing a mutiny or anything (although Bruce seemed to take it that way last time). :-) Cheers, - Jim pgpPzqjWq0teT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Moving away from MD5

1997-06-23 Thread Jim Pick
nd like a good idea to me, but I'm no expert on crypto. Cheers, - Jim pgpQV4UJ6Zh2Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Documentation stuff

1997-06-28 Thread Jim Pick
ckages with no documentation at all. 7) Cacheing - I'm going to split the cacheing in dwww into a separate package. That way, it should be easy to improve it, not use it, or use something like squid instead. That's it for now... Cheers, - Jim pgpw3ccz7lJlO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fixhrefgz - tool for converting anchors to gzipped files

1997-06-28 Thread Jim Pick
web server/dwww combination to allow other browsers to work too. - all the documentation isn't going to be HTML anyways - just "book-like" stuff. So what's the big deal anyways. No need to start a flame-war. - the other option would be to leave HTML full uncompressed, which would be easiest Cheers, - Jim pgp18O0coF5QA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Documentation stuff

1997-06-28 Thread Jim Pick
ver on the > net. There could be style variables in the markup to set > up the base directories/servers. We had the exact same discussion on the debian-doc mailing list. > Jim> 4) HTML documentation, if it exists, should be gzipped. Lynx > Jim> and Netscape can han

Re: Documentation stuff

1997-06-28 Thread Jim Pick
tself. I just looked at the mod-rewrite web page - it looks like it does rewrite the documents - pretty powerful stuff. Sorry if I misinformed anyone... Cheers, - Jim pgp58VFG49WhH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-29 Thread Jim Pick
a 5GB drive for $600 CDN. And dwww will probably evolve to make it easy to view the documentation that is installed on a remote system (on the Internet or via an Intranet). Plus, finally, it's the simplest solution. Cheers, - Jim pgpKgSu5NTiUZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sub-categorizing the /usr/doc directory.

1997-06-29 Thread Jim Pick
One complication I can think of - dselect and the ftp sites have the concept of "overrides", where Guy can change the section a package is assigned to. This wouldn't be reflected in the /usr/doc directory - of course, this might not really matter. Cheers, - Jim pg

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-29 Thread Jim Pick
le using old hardware have similar usage. Who objects? Cheers, - Jim pgpiEuZGm0yLn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-29 Thread Jim Pick
ent on my fairly typical low-end 386 installation by a single byte. Makes you sort of wonder why everyone is so excited... :-) Cheers, -Jim pgpj3MW1K1qbk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fixhrefgz unnecessary when fixing web-browsers in the correct wayR

1997-06-30 Thread Jim Pick
buying off-line books from Tim O'Reilly and company. Cheers, - Jim pgpxbuMEWh7i2.pgp Description: PGP signature

debian-non-US mirrors (was Re: debmake)

1997-06-30 Thread Jim Pick
that has to protect it's turf - so the regulations are pretty loose. The only thing not permitted is re-exporting crypto stuff that was illegally exported from the US, AFAIK. Cheers, - Jim pgpn5L0mKxfq1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Vision of new installation method using webserver

1997-06-30 Thread Jim Pick
, and Telnet to it. (of course, firewalls can be a pain) Cheers, - Jim pgpdEqCFsa6KB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian GNU/Linux Logo chosen

1997-12-02 Thread Jim Pick
I imagine that means it is covered by the GPL. Actually, Larry grants permission to use/modify it on his web page. http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/ Cheers, - Jim pgpt0YgkOvQE5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: going to package e

1997-12-04 Thread Jim Pick
ackage of beta 12, back in August, but he didn't upload it since he was waiting for developer status. I wonder what happened? Did we lose another one? Anyways, his old package is at: ftp://ftp.mandrake.net/pub/enlightenment/debian-deb/ For some reason, there's no source packages.

Thread safe X libs?

1997-12-10 Thread Jim Pick
Check out the forwarded message below. I get the same error using Debian unstable. Does this mean that Red Hat has thread-safe X libs and we don't? Cheers, - Jim --- Begin Message --- On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Sascha Ziemann wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/szi$ phaser_chess > wa

Re: Thread safe X libs?

1997-12-10 Thread Jim Pick
scussion back to the Gnome list now. If Debian has thread-safe X libs (as you say, and as I thought), then the problem needs some deeper debugging. If it turns out that Red Hat has set up their X differently than Debian, I'll get back to you. Thanks for the quick response. Cheers, - Jim pgp3ZflUtDMZs.pgp Description: PGP signature

ldconfig warnings

1997-12-21 Thread Jim Pick
e policy a bit better. If somebody could explain what exactly is going wrong in these packages - ie. what policy are they violating? Or is it dpkg's fault? Cheers, - Jim pgpxieJE6BPVo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ldconfig warnings

1997-12-22 Thread Jim Pick
rious problem. We ought not to release 2.0 in this state. The shared library thing has always confused me a bit because I tend to pick these things up by example - but if everybody's doing it wrong... Should I file bug reports? What severity? Or am I unduly alarmed? Cheers, - Jim pgp1PX1WUmeaj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (fwd)

1997-12-27 Thread Jim Pick
This .forward file worked for me for procmail on exim: "|/usr/bin/procmail USER=jimtest" It took a bit of trial and error to figure that one out. I'm not sure what -Qf- does, you might want to add that too. Hope that helps... Cheers, - Jim pgpEHPfM3508V.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: slib and Debian ?

1997-12-27 Thread Jim Pick
[ Sorry for the exploding cc: list - this is a Debian packaging issue, so please limit the follow-ups to debian-devel. ] Mark Galassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim> Perhaps I should declare a dependency on the slib package, > > Absolutely not! It would be a great

Re: Financial support

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
an - it's a good image/reputation builder. I do have to keep myself in check to make sure I don't "overcommit" my time to the project though. Look for an updated dwww package and a new "kaffe+kore" package this week from me. Cheers, - Jim pgpfxZDfPhuUF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
ng packages (dhelp, menu, and dwww-next-generation). The next dwww should be ready by Sunday, at least. Cheers, - Jim pgpI4G57nF7q9.pgp Description: PGP signature

The next dwww (was Re: Financial support)

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
architecture. I've got some additional plans that go beyond that release too. (oh yeah, since Brian is still cc'd to this - I should mention that I'd like to do a pgsql package too, now that we have an updated postgresql package again) Cheers, - Jim pgpr6gOMexbxY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bleeding edge FTP repository updated to glibc2 + egcs.

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
with supporting multiple architectures, languages, and multiple distributions too. I don't think it would be too much work rigging the ability to generate RPMs into our package building process, or to use Red Hat 'spec' files with dpkg-dev. Someday I'm gonna figure out how to do that. Cheers, - Jim pgpOYsfsTWRG8.pgp Description: PGP signature

dwww Missing-in-action

1998-01-06 Thread Jim Pick
Sorry, For those holding their breath... I had system problems this weekend. I'll have dwww ready next weekend. Cheers, - Jim pgpFTRhdIqcvr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Guile question: What was bug #14213???

1998-04-07 Thread Jim Pick
the bug was in under ten lines of description. > > guile (1.2-3) unstable; urgency=low > > * Removed --with-threads and --enable-dynamic-linking options > (should fix #14213, 14214 - Thanks John Goerzen) > * Added ldconfig to postinst > Fixes Bug #41212 -

Re: Number of Maintainers

1998-04-10 Thread Jim Pick
keyring says that there are 313 developers, making Q 8.85 and K 5. > > Brian You know what would be cool - if the www.debian.org homepage had a running count of the number of maintainers! That's Debian's biggest selling point, as far as I'm concerned. Cheers, - Ji

Re: jdk1.1-runtime

1998-04-10 Thread Jim Pick
fixing 1.1.3. You can still get it from: ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/debian/pkgs-old/jdk1.1/1.1.3.v2-1 Sorry for any inconvenience. Cheers, - Jim pgpAKlUEDo85e.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: intent to package jstation

1998-04-15 Thread Jim Pick
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bummer! I can't help here unfortunately (I'm a jdk source licencee) but > I thought Jim Pick had expressed an intention of persuing free JVM > implementations. > > Jim? I'm freeing up the rest of this week, so I w

Re: /tmp exploits

1998-04-20 Thread Jim Pick
That way almost any program with a /tmp > security hole will stop working straight away and _have_ to be fixed. That seems pretty extreme. If we are going to do something like that - couldn't we just get rid of /tmp altogether? Cheers, - Jim pgpmnJk9VgFPx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome debs?

1998-04-20 Thread Jim Pick
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > GNOME is currently not very stable and things are changing very > > rapidly. Jim Pick is the GNOME guy for Debian. Give it a few more > > weeks and I think you will see more. I've got most of the packaging for gnome 0

Re: on forming a new Linux Distributionx

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
they've changed the rules to be 20 years from initial filing date as of 1995 - but this is an older patent) Here's the Unisys position: http://www.unisys.com/LeadStory/lzwfaq.html (no mention of the date) Cheers, - Jim pgpQsgYpNxkyt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
ot;subset distribution" of Debian - it will take a long time to pull together. But I strongly believe that this is a model Debian should encourage. The Debian distribution "proper" may never have more market share than the commercial distributions such as Red Hat, Caldera, and SuSe. However, it is entirely possible that derivative subset distributions of Debian could dominate the Linux marketplace (especially given the technical superiority of Debian). Cheers, - Jim pgp81Sm0FdFN3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 11:10:39PM -0700, Jim Pick wrote: > > > - targetted towards desktop use only, no server apps, just a few games > > > > - minimal size - optimized for installation via 28.8k modem via FTP, &g

Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 1 May 1998, Jim Pick wrote: > > > I'd like to see more people announce that they want to develop their > > own "subset" Linux distributions based on Debian. I'd be willing to > > collaborate on to

Re: Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
l find it to be much more relaxed and enjoyable. This project is infamous for letting people "burn out" unnecessarily. Cheers, - Jim pgprDA7ghvuct.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
comes along). MTA choices are easy, because there is very little user-visible stuff involved. The choice of a single MUA will be much more contentious. Cheers, - Jim pgpQamcOAgCHt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-02 Thread Jim Pick
John Labovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > The whole exim package is about 500k, which only takes 5 minutes or so > > to download via modem - so I'd probably stick with that (unless > > something better comes alo

Re: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)

1998-05-03 Thread Jim Pick
> > What news servers besides slrn support reading news directly from the news > > spool w/o a news server? > > tin (rather than tin -r or rtin). Gnus (in emacs). Cheers, - Jim pgppKPgXPsA90.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Crilly
strcitions, available time restrictions, connection logging, interface binding, etc. Sure some daemons already sport those options, but not all do and if a standard is to be chosen it should be safer one. If you know the service well enough to configure it you probably also know how to disable the xi

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-15 Thread Jim Crilly
le sendmail you can't go any farther. Whether Debian should work on making this possible too or not, I can't say. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Crilly
a machine? RH releases updated install discs periodically. I haven't had any hardware issues with them so I never compared the contents of the discs but I would assume that they update the kernels with each update release. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-26 Thread Jim Crilly
x27;gnome' metapackage and have all of Gnome be gone. If there was an easy way to do that I doubt anyone would care what the default choice was. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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