Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-18 Thread Rob Browning
med emacs20. The older one may or may not be renamed to emacs19, and unless there's a reason not to, I agree that all three emacsen should "Provide: emacs". -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRI

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
s to check the implementation in maillock to see if you're compatible, and the manpage for maillock says to see lockfile_create(3), which doesn't exist. I'll have to UTLSL, but I may release an initial package before doing all that. Things won't be any worse than they are now, and the

Re: dselect features request

1997-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
ges that do not need to be > installed. I think that the dpkg-mountable package might eliminate this problem if you use it as the access method, but I haven't tried it yet. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 3

potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
some mayhem when this pair of packages is released and other people doing something similar suddenly have to treat /usr/src/linux as read only without being warned. [1] Why Linus has linux-.tar.gz unpack linux rather than linux- has never made much sense to me. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-19 Thread Rob Browning
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I genrally unpack into /usr/src/local and mv things one level > up, personally. That seems reasonable. I guess I had just sort of always treated /usr/src/ as if it was local, even though I probably shouldn't have. > R

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-25 Thread Rob Browning
ay I can see around this problem is to have emacs spawn a small process to keep touching the lockfile (every 4 minutes or so) whenever it acquires the lock, and kill that process when the lock is released. Does that seen reasonable to everyone else? -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fin

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

1997-12-28 Thread Rob Browning
r/src/linux is a link, then it is safe to unpack there.) I'm not sure what the right answer is, but I think we need to consider the problem before the new libc6-dev gets released from the experimental stages, and we certainly need a long-term policy. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-28 Thread Rob Browning
hen if we patch movemail to use liblockfile, we should be fine. I'm under the impression that liblockfile handles everything, including nfs. I believe libnfslock is transitional, for use until everything's migrated to liblockfile. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1997-12-31 Thread Rob Browning
k for incorporation into the emacs 20 package, if possible. > Rob> I'm under the impression that liblockfile handles everything, > Rob> including nfs. I believe libnfslock is transitional, for use > Rob> until everything's migrated to liblockfile. > >

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

1997-12-31 Thread Rob Browning
estions being caused by people following the Linux (Kernel) HOWTO's and making a mess of /usr/src. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- 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.

1998-01-05 Thread Rob Browning
inst may > create the link, but the files are already installed. My apologies, you're right. I wasn't paying close enough attention. In any case, I've already started moving all my stuff to /usr/local/src (which I probably should have done originally). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
h is just another case of the more general mechanism that Guy outlined eariler. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- 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

1998-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
ust using kernel-source doesn't work if you want to use *today's* kernel today. Also, I've witnessed someone else, who doesn't want to use kernel-package (which is fine) leave their system unbootable by forgetting to run lilo after a manual install. That's imposs

Re: Question/request concerning master

1998-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
se... Or if you use X, just put: exec ssh-agent ~/.x-common-startup in your .xinitrc. Then you can run ssh-add once after logging in, and never type the phrase again until you log out. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30

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

1998-01-06 Thread Rob Browning
the debian/* stuff which is all I care about. > This is clearly a "different strokes" issue. I'm sure there will be two > sides to this discussion for the indefinite future. Without doubt. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1998-01-07 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > >>>>> "Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rob> Assuming you're right, and movemail is used for all mail > Rob> locking, then if we patch movemail to use liblockfile,

Re: Custom library for emacs 19.34 ?

1998-01-07 Thread Rob Browning
s involved in supporting all the emacsen simultaneously which was enough to make me back off until I get an initial emacs20 package out. However, I'm about to propose an interim step which if agreed to by the other emacsen maintaners will ease the transition to the "right" solution onc

Emacsen intermediate step proposal.

1998-01-08 Thread Rob Browning
ore .emacs. There is no point in doing this after ;; .emacs; that is useless. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Emacs20 and mail file locking.

1998-01-10 Thread Rob Browning
dea to put `movemail' into another > general package, so that other programs can use it? I think that it's > generally useful enough for that. It might make sense to put movemail in emacsen-common. But that's only good idea if xemacs, emacs19, and emacs20 expect the identical seman

Re: cron jobs more often than daily

1998-01-10 Thread Rob Browning
e to field questions on debian-user. 3) With /etc/cron.d we can make the files in there conffiles (like /etc/init.d), and then when a user modifies them, they'll get immediate results, without having to remember to call some script (and many won't remember, they'll ask on debian-user

Emacsen proposal (assuming silence == acceptance)

1998-01-10 Thread Rob Browning
I can just make emacsen-common conflict with xemacs, which I believe is no worse than the current situation. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Emacsen proposal (assuming silence == acceptance)

1998-01-10 Thread Rob Browning
ce /etc/emacs/site-start.d/* won't be run anymore. What I wanted was to force all the installed emacsen to be upgraded whenever emacs-common gets installed. Now that I think about it, perhaps this isn't a big deal since I don't even think you can have both emacs and xemacs installed ri

Re: 2 versions of netcat

1998-01-11 Thread Rob Browning
not > likely to be used in scripts. (And of course because it wouldn't affect > me. :) I think the concensus last time this was discussed was that nedit-client should be modified. netcat's much more likely to be used in scripts and other places where changes will cause problems. -

Re: NPR piece on Linux

1998-04-09 Thread Rob Browning
Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > go to http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/current.html and > listen to it. OK, is there any easy way to download a copy of it? I could only get the proxy files, but I'm probably overlooking something obvious. Thanks.

Re: #19519: tmpreaper: Will not remove dirs

1998-04-10 Thread Rob Browning
out file names, using null as a file name terminator while generating lists, so you don't get fooled by other characters in filenames. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #19519: tmpreaper: Will not remove dirs

1998-04-10 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Assuming that you don't have to worry about new files inserted into > the tree while tmpreaper is running (do you?), then it's probably > easiest to just do this operation in two passes. (This is off the top > of my head, so

Re: APT broken ?

1998-04-10 Thread Rob Browning
x27;s on hold and configured is another story. It really is installed and it should satsfy all the dependencies it provides as expected. All this is assuming I understand the issue at hand... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 3

slink/main/binary-i386/Packages file is empty.

1998-04-14 Thread Rob Browning
386> -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages which are links to bo

1998-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
quot;flags_recursive+L" option, or run a command to "flatten" the symlinks. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages which are links to bo

1998-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
t; I'll just tolerate whatever happens. It's not like Guy doesn't have > enough to do ;) How about just using "cp -r ..." to make the image you're going to burn, which will flatten all the symlinks in the process. Not having burned any CD's myself, I don'

Re: signals and atomicity

1998-04-17 Thread Rob Browning
to handle partial reads (see the man page "man 2 read" for more info, or the libc info pages). Note that you can set things up so that interrupted system calls restart themselves rather than returning with an error, but I don't recall at the moment which function does that. -

Re: acct: process accounting and 2.1.96

1998-04-19 Thread Rob Browning
dify configure.in to list linux/acct.h first and then re-run autoconf... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: signals and atomicity

1998-04-19 Thread Rob Browning
s. One is the normal one you're waiting on for data, and the other is a control fd. Have thread B issue a (blocking) select on both of them, and if you need to wake B up immediately, don't use signals (which don't have the best semantics in the face of threads), just send a byte on t

Re: RSync

1998-05-05 Thread Rob Browning
their permissions have changed, it handles these modifications itself. It's biggest failing (as far as I can see), is that it has really limited inclusion/exclusion mechanisms. For example, it looks like only one exclude-regexp is supported. Oh, and anyone else notice that mirror'

Re: Only m68k and i386 in hamm?

1998-05-05 Thread Rob Browning
#x27;m happy to deal with some ugly hacking to boostrap things if needed. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RSync

1998-05-05 Thread Rob Browning
: f win32.*\.deb exclude: f lg-(base|issue).*\.deb exclude: f python.*\.deb exclude: f kde.*\.deb exclude: f festvox.*8k_.*\.deb # Now say what we *do* want. include: p (dists|hamm)/.*/binary-i386/ include: p (dists|hamm)/.*/binary-all/ include: p ^dists/[^/]*$ # And kill all

Re: "Visual" IDE?

1998-05-05 Thread Rob Browning
't fully realize that until I had a number of *tremendously* frustrating experiences. I haven't had any aggravations/disappointments to compare since I started using Debian. To each their own. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53

Re: ftp client for the base system

1998-05-05 Thread Rob Browning
about one or the other. My favorite these days is lftp, but I'm not sure it qualifies as simple any more. Now that memory of the last location on a given site has been added, lftp has all the features I missed from ncftp. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D

Re: RSync

1998-05-05 Thread Rob Browning
ks in dist/ --regex-include "^dists/[^/]*$" # now kill everything remaining. --regex-exclude ".*" Support for fmirror's "p" and "f" regex distinctions would also save a lot of ".*" typing, but that's mostly just a frill... Thanks.

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-25 Thread Rob Weir
x. Same with the powerbooks, but you can at least use a pcmcia card there (on the 15" and 17" ones). -rob -- Words of the day: BATF Qaddafi Noriega crypto anarchy AVN credit card FIPS140 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slightly Off Topic: Laptops for Debian

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
iBook is very very noticable. -rob -- Words of the day: CBNRC Dateline attack SAFE Serbian Telex beanpole gamma -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#292105: ITP: libmusepack -- Musepack (MPC) format decoder library

2005-01-26 Thread Rob Weir
MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, > but has vastly improved. This sounds interesting, but perhaps you could elaborate on how it is vastly improved? Better quality for the same bitrate? Less distortion? Lower bitrate/same quality? etc. -rob -- Words of the day:Kh-11 cryptographic e-c

Re: How to define a release architecture

2005-03-25 Thread Rob Browning
certainly prefer to run Debian on it if I could. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#305000: ITP: alltray -- Dock any program into the system tray

2005-04-18 Thread Rob Bradford
;, thats a 'orrible 'orrible thing to do. This is an even more 'orrible thing to do. Arrggh. Now where are my green frog pills. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#305000: ITP: alltray -- Dock any program into the systemtray

2005-04-18 Thread Rob Bradford
some situations. As the author you of course feel that i'm making a personal insult against you, that is far from my intention. I just wonder what the sensibility is of including a package where the infrastructure it relies on may well enter a state of flux in the forseeable future. Cheer

Bug#312236: ITP: ackertodo -- A lightweight todo list manager

2005-06-06 Thread Rob Hensley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rob Hensley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ackertodo Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Rob Hensley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://ackertodo.sf.net/ * License : (GPL) Description : A lightweig

Re: Received: lines in email from Debian servers

2005-06-23 Thread Rob Sims
ient handled by gluck? I've noticed that servers that insert the "for" tag will only do so if there is one envelope recipient. If this happens with a single gluck recipient, never mind me... -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Debian Printing] Formation of a Printing Group

2005-07-05 Thread Rob Taylor
gt; Oh, Masayuki who maintains gs packages and I had thought same idea. > It's very nice to have a place to collaborate together. I'd certainly be interested in joining in on the printing love-fest. Rob Taylor (libgnomeprint "maintainer") -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

failed to set 0600 permissions on password file /etc/samba/smbpasswd

2005-07-11 Thread Rob Kayzer
Got rid of this message by setting SELinux samba options "Allow samba users to share home directories"and "Disable SELunix protection for smbd daemon".   Rob K.

Re: Correct fate for emacs20 bugs?

2006-12-03 Thread Rob Browning
then they should be reassigned (or cloned). Otherwise, emacs20 is a very, very low priority. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
* License : GPL > Description : gtk2 filesharing client that supports many protocols > > Gtk2 version of the famous napster client atm it supports only > napster but in the future: Is this program compatible with the current napster protocol? -rob -- Words of the day:

Bug#290614: ITP: bazaar -- arch-based distributed revision control system

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: bazaar Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Bazaar Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bazaar.canonical.com/ * License : GPL Description : arch-based distributed revision control system GNU Arch is a revisio

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
> > > > > > Hamish > hi, > > The current maintainer of lopster is MIA AFAIK (August 2004 last > action/mail). > I mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for a check (i intend to adopt it > if they will'orphan lopster). [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the list address...th

Re: Bug#290396: ITP: lopster2 -- A Napster gtk2 client

2005-01-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 02:38:18PM +0100, giskard said > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:40:01 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:25:39PM +0100, Riccardo Setti said > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist &g

Bug#1512: sendmail man pages missing.

1995-09-29 Thread Rob Browning
Package: sendmail Version: sendmail-8.6.12-7.deb "dpkg --listfiles sendmail" shows no man pages in the latest binary package. And in fact, when I install the package, "man sendmail" doesn't work. --Rob.

Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread Rob Browning
It has an elf version that is automatically used, but only if it detects libc5. This worked fine, but the problem is that it requires libtermcap.so.2. I assume that this is just their problem? Thanks -- Rob

Re: Stupid elf migration questions?

1995-11-20 Thread Rob Browning
and I will D> also be going out of town soon (convenient eh?). I read that. It was helpful, thanks, and thanks for the pointer about libc5-dev. I moved a bunch of the new packages I had downloaded, and I guess that one got lost in the shuffle (gack, sorry). Thanks -- Rob

Problems with elf gcc and man.

1995-11-26 Thread Rob Browning
ompile a simple program (empty main). When I tried to compile the program, I got this error: $ g++ -c -I/usr/i486-linuxelf/include/g++ test.cc as: can't load library 'libbfd.so.2.5.2l.20' Is there a dependency missing? Thanks -- Rob

Debugging programs with debian elf?

1995-11-30 Thread Rob Browning
I got gcc-2.7.1 and all (I think) the libs installed properly, and I have successfully compiled some elf shared libraries, but gdb seems unable to debug any funcions contained in these shared libraries. I did compile the libraries with -g. Anything I'm missing? Thanks -- Rob

Quick question about Incoming/Outgoing.

1995-12-21 Thread Rob Browning
it whining and) wait until things get moved into development? Thanks -- Rob

Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
ke (from a mythical debian.filestats): /usr/bin/* type:binary /usr/man/* type:man /usr/lib/gimp/*.xpm 644 root.root /usr/doc/gimp/* type:documentation or whatever. Reasonable? -- Rob

Re: Doubts building a new package...

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
hink png was meant to be the replacement for gif, so it'd be an appropriate translation. That said, I've never messed with png myself, but I've been planning to start using it when appropriate. -- Rob

Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
, etc). Should be pretty easy. -- Rob

Re: Better Xdm logo screen (Re: Doubts building a new package...)

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
in should definitely be part of it. Yes. > I don't remember if Debian has a logo, but if it does, that should also > be part of it. No, we used to use the baby GNU, but, well... Anyway, I had a friend (graphic artist) that was working on something, but I wouldn't hold your breath. He's busy too. -- Rob

Re: Doubts building a new package...

1996-06-17 Thread Rob Browning
, Susan, that's what I meant to say :> -- Rob

Re: 1.2 source archive and packaging issues

1996-06-18 Thread Rob Browning
e think is worth working on? If so, I'll probably give it a try. -- Rob

Bug#3322: kbd links /console to /dev/console

1996-06-18 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: kbd Version: 0.91-2 The configuration script for `kbd' is broken; on my system a value for $consdev was never assigned, so `kbdconfig' wrote: CONSOLE= to /etc/kbd/config. The result is that at boot time: ln -sf $CONSOLE /dev/console creates a symlink /console -> /dev/console. --

Re: Departure -- hopefully temporary

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK, I'll take this one. > jgraph-83 ORPHAN Good luck Bill. Hope your move goes well. -- Rob

Re: Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
GIMP upstream source contains links to a binaries which don't exist until you build the package. This does not make diff happy. I got around the problem by just deleting the links in the upstream source before running diff, but this is not really ideal. -- Rob

Bug#4008: CVS texinfo docs won't format correctly with TeX

1996-08-02 Thread Rob Browning
the @code{cvs log} command (@pxref{log} ).[... more nastiness deleted ...] Not a big deal, but I thought I should mention it. -- Rob

Bug#4092: procmail docs not owned by root

1996-08-10 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: procmail Version: 3.10-4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:binary-i386/mail:[49]% dpkg --contents procmail_3.10-4.deb [...] -rw-r--r-- wendal/wendal 5982 Oct 31 13:01 1994 usr/doc/procmail/HISTORY.gz -rw-r--r-- wendal/wendal 2817 Dec 22 23:12 1994 usr/doc/procmail/README.gz -rw-r--r-- wendal/wendal 41

Bug#4148: libtiff3-dev man pages contain bad .so lines

1996-08-14 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: libtiff3-dev Version: 3.4beta034-1 The following files cause `man' to complain when updating its index cache: man3/TIFFCheckTile.3t:.so TIFFtile.3t man3/TIFFComputeStrip.3t:.so TIFFstrip.3t man3/TIFFComputeTile.3t:.so TIFFtile.3t man3/TIFFCurrentDirectory.3t:.so TIFFquery.3t man3/TIFFCur

Bug#4149: /etc/resolv.conf gets bad configuration

1996-08-14 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: base(?) Version: 1.1.0-14 During the initial installation of Debian 1.1, the user is asked for information which is used to construct an /etc/resolv.conf file. However: - If the user enters more than one nameserver IP address, all the addresses are listed on a single line in /etc/

Uploaded: mount 2.5k-1 (security fix)

1996-08-15 Thread Rob Leslie
I have uploaded mount_2.5k-1 (i386) to master.debian.org. As this release fixes a serious security problem related to earlier versions of the setuid mount/umount binaries, I would appreciate any attempt to expedite movement of this package into the regular archives. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Uploaded: hfsutils 1.17b-1

1996-08-16 Thread Rob Leslie
Uploaded to master.debian.org. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 16 Aug 96 18:21 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: hfsutils Version: 1.17b-1 Binary: hfsutils Architecture: i386 source Description: hfsutils: Tools f

Uploaded zsh 3.0.0-1

1996-08-17 Thread Rob Leslie
Uploaded to master.debian.org. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 16 Aug 96 21:05 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: zsh Version: 3.0.0-1 Binary: zsh Architecture: i386 source Description: zsh: A shell with lots of f

Uploaded: mount 2.5l-1

1996-08-19 Thread Rob Leslie
Uploaded to master.debian.org. This is the author's own response to the mount/umount security issues, and so should replace the previous 2.5k-1 release which incorporated unofficial patches. Bruce, would you like to respond to the recent inquiry about Debian's vulnerability status with regard to

Bug#4218: Problems removing INN

1996-08-21 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: inn Version: 1.4unoff4-1 deimos:~:[2]# dpkg --purge inn (Reading database ... 20824 files and directories currently installed.) Removing inn ... Trying to stop INN.. Removing crontab for news.. Removing files in /var/log/news and /var/run/innd.. dpkg - warning: while removing inn, directo

Uploaded: sendmail_8.7.6-1

1996-09-20 Thread Rob Leslie
Uploaded to master.debian.org. This version fixes most of the existing bugs against this package; it does not yet, however, remove the dependency on `deliver'. (It will RSN.) Since this version fixes two serious security problems, can we please expedite its processing into both the stable and uns

Bug#4553: INN crashes

1996-09-22 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: inn Version: 1.4unoff4-1 Recently our news server has begun to crash on a fairly regular basis. It leaves behind the following core file: -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 28004352 Sep 19 18:04 /var/spool/news/core dalesbred:/var/spool/news:[34]% gdb =innd core GDB is free software and y

Bug#4582: mh `inc' can't lock mailbox

1996-09-25 Thread Rob Leslie
Package: mh Version: 6.8.4-7 After installing the new mh package (from 6.8.4-2) I find that `inc' waits several seconds and then reports: inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/rob According to /etc/mh/mtstailor, "lockstyle: 1" apparently means to do the correct form of

Uploaded: bind_4.9.4-P1-1

1996-09-25 Thread Rob Leslie
Uploaded to master.debian.org. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 25 Sep 96 04:18 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable stable Urgency: High Maintainer: Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: bind Version: 4.9.4-P1-1 Binary: bind Architecture: i386 source Description: bind: An Inter

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
k,0 /dev/hda3 /dev/hdb3 # mdtab entry for /dev/md2 /dev/md2 raid0,4k,0 /dev/hda4 /dev/hdb4 Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
IDE at the time didn't feel like going and finding another cable. Perhaps I'll try that later. Thanks -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bug#9582: suidmanager 0.6 uploaded to master.debian.org

1997-05-17 Thread Rob Browning
ere in your bashrc, or related bash setup files. If you do, this could be the problem. In bash 2.0 "set -a" causes trouble. On my system, "set -a; set +a" causes all subsequent invocations of man to hang. Just a thought -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: ObjC runtime (was: Upcoming Debian Releases)

1997-05-20 Thread Rob Browning
an is trying to standardize on LinuxThreads right now, so go with that. Make sure that any libraries (static or shared) provided by the package are compiled with -D_REENTRANT. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Perl issues

1997-05-21 Thread Rob Browning
be you misread the proposal. Under the scheme proposed (which seems like the right one), perl will no longer replace perl-base, but supplement it. In such a scenario, it's perfectly OK for perl-base to be essential. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

ssh and default home directory permissions (revisited?)

1997-05-26 Thread Rob Browning
r refused our key. raven: Doing password authentication. [...] -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-05-26 Thread Rob Browning
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree 100% with what Ian says. (Let's do it) Consider this another "me too". -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer

1999-10-04 Thread Rob Browning
hat e2fsck couldn't fix that wasn't a wholesale drive loss. Is that still worth worrying about? Also, if you use something like amanda for backups, then you need to make sure your partitions are smaller than your tape size (after compression). -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: So whos going to ALS

1999-10-06 Thread Rob Tillotson
> Dallas? I'm going to be there for the whole thing or close to it (arriving Wednesday evening, leaving Saturday afternoon, staying in the conference hotel)... I'm not sure what my schedule will be other than that I'm speaking at 11 AM Friday. I'd be happy to help out

Anyone want to take over plotutils?

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning
I'm trying to give up some of my less central packages because I'd like to spend more time on my others. Is anyone interested in plotutils? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: Proposal: Reorganizing Python for Python 2.0

2001-01-10 Thread Rob Tillotson
ge but run by a normal user -- the new .pyc/.pyo couldn't be written anyway. Thus, if the .pyc/.pyo files in the package were compiled with 1.5, 2.0 would have to recompile the .py source on every import, or vice versa. --Rob -- Rob Tillotson N9MTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Bug#199864: ITP: kahakai -- a highly customisable and scriptable window manager

2003-07-03 Thread Rob Weir
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: kahakai Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : The Kahakai Team * URL : http://kahakai.sf.net/ * License : GPL, v2 or later Description : a highly customisable and script

Bug#213638: ITP: wallpaper-tray -- A wallpaper changing utility for your GNOME Notification Area

2003-10-01 Thread Rob Bradford
er is happy. Cheers, Rob

Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-02 Thread Rob Bradford
well replace dselect as the recommended method. Expect a RFC to d-d-a soon regarding release notes. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: BTS version tracking

2005-07-18 Thread Rob Sims
gt; reassign 1234567 example-package 2.0-1 How is a bug that's fixed in more than one version handled? For example, a security bug fixed in foo 1.1-sarge1 and foo 1.3. Assume 1.1 and 1.2 have the bug. -- Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need to know how to create and use Driver Update Disks

2005-08-02 Thread Rob Taylor
ule-assistant (can someone else help with a good example?) Thanks, Rob Taylor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need to know how to create and use Driver Update Disks

2005-08-02 Thread Rob Taylor
ed in an update of the 2.6.8 kernel (which is being > prepared at the moment). If he produces a new kernel module to add support for this hardware, there's absolutely no reason why it should conflict with linux-kernel. Given that it's not a security fix, would he really have much luck g

Re: Bug#323227: new list: debian-planet to distribute planet.debian.org postings; archive to enable searching

2005-08-15 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 05:08:58PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > I'd like to have a debian-planet list that would receive blog postings > from planet.debian.org. Please don't introduce any more namespace confusion. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Bradford - http://robster.org.uk --

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