Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
[ Moving this to debian-devel, discussion doesn't belong in the bug report. ] James Troup wrote: There is no i386 port in as much as i386 maintainers 99.5% of the time _don't_ compile packages from scratch, which is when over 50% of the problems (at least on m68k, and judging by the diff's

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Drake Diedrich
d) Try using NFS. This slows down the i/o bound resource hog enough to leave the machine usable for interactive tasks. Yes it's ugly, but scheduling in 2.0 is suboptimal, and nice doesn't have much effect on i/o, only CPU. An extra disk dedicated to the i/o hog would probably be better than an

nfs security problem, debian missing

1998-10-14 Thread M . Dietrich
'got a mail about this mountd bug today. you see the list of vendors - but as you can see: debian is missing. why? how can we get on this list next time? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Appendix A - Vendor Information Below is a list of the vendors who have provided

wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Evidently CPAN has a Term-ReadLine package that makes the standard Term::ReadLine module in perl actually have readline features. I wonder if someone familiar with CPAN packages would be interested in packaging this up for debian? I'd do it myself but I don't know much about CPAN, and I maintain

Re: Bug#27697: auto-include-dependency failure case

1998-10-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 13 Oct 1998, Avery Pennarun wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:47:14PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: What I have been doing of late is generating the .d file when the .o file is built. Nothing depends on the .d file but if it exists it is included. This makes the .o file depend

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Evidently CPAN has a Term-ReadLine package that makes the Joey standard Term::ReadLine module in perl actually have Joey readline features. I wonder if someone familiar with CPAN Joey packages would be interested in packaging this

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Gertzfield wrote: I'm pretty familiar with CPAN packages. I can package up either Term::ReadLine::Gnu or Term::ReadLine::Perl, or both. They're currently the only modules available that make Term::ReadLine effective. Yes, please :-) What's the difference between the ::Gnu and ::Perl

Pine can't display attachments

1998-10-14 Thread Joerg Friedrich
my pine cannot display attachments like this but it's only pgp-signed text: Details about Attachment #1 : Type: Application Subtype : PGP Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Parameters : FORMAT = mime

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben I'm pretty familiar with CPAN packages. I can package up Ben either Term::ReadLine::Gnu or Term::ReadLine::Perl, or Ben both. They're currently the only modules available that make Ben Term::ReadLine effective. Joey Yes, please

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Heh, oddly enough the Term::ReadLine::Perl module's source name will have to be: libterm-readline-perl-perl *grin* -- Brought to you by the letters N and C and the number 11. You forgot Uranus. Goodnight everybody! -- Yakko and Wakko Debian GNU/Linux -- where do you want to go

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Heh, oddly enough the Term::ReadLine::Perl module's source name will have to be: libterm-readline-perl-perl Why not just call it libterm-readline-perl -- it's not going to conflict with something else.. -- see shy jo

Re: wanted package: perl CPAN readline module

1998-10-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Heh, oddly enough the Term::ReadLine::Perl module's source Ben name will have to be: Ben Ben libterm-readline-perl-perl Joey Why not just call it libterm-readline-perl -- it's not going Joey to conflict with something

Re: Pine can't display attachments

1998-10-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my pine cannot display attachments like this but it's only pgp-signed text: [...] Kann anyone tell me how to add this mime-type? Try adding the following lines to ~/.mime.types type=application/pgp \ desc=PGP signature and the

Re: Pine can't display attachments

1998-10-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the following to ~/.mailcap application/pgp; pgp $1 21 | grep 'Good signature' ^^ Sorry, that should be: %s -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are / \ / \ / \ /

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-14 Thread Russell Coker
Maybe the subject is a bit harsh, but currently users trying to install Debian on a Notebook face more problems than users installing it on a desktop computer. Compared with other Linux distributions Debian fails to install on some Notebooks (for example IBM Thinkpad 770) or requires handcrafted

Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Waters
Ben Gertzfield wrote: I'm the nethack maintainer. If you wish to package up and maintain gnomehack, I'd be perfectly happy, so long as you use the same sort of debian/* files that I use in the nethack package, and if you find bugs in them you let me know :) Ok, then, pending 1) some

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Waters
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I'm working on it. But even if I get it to compile with Debian sources, we still would need another soname for this. I was going to respond to your earlier message(s), but I see you're ahead of me. Ok, for now, I'm just going to assume that you will work this all out

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Waters wrote: Ben Gertzfield wrote: I'm the nethack maintainer. If you wish to package up and maintain gnomehack, I'd be perfectly happy, so long as you use the same sort of debian/* files that I use in the nethack package, and if you find bugs in them you let me know :) Ok,

libjpeg62 and Imlib

1998-10-14 Thread Brian Almeida
Well, now that I'm back from my wonderful little break, has anything been decided on libjpegg6b (libjpegg62?) It's gettin' kinda close to freeze, and I was wondering if anything happenedno updates on them in slink Any word from the maintainer? If not, maybe Steve could upload his fixed

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Rob Browning
Helmut Metzdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so, what to do now? Assuming I understand you correctly, and this is a program of your own, add a call to nanosleep(2) at an appropriate point. You can tune the positioning and duration of the sleep to balance your needs. Note that what would be

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Steve Dunham
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Fixed by moving #include stdio.h five lines up. I Martin fixed it but forget about it, since it was *that* easy. Martin Not even worth mentioning. Er, in which file? The file

shutdown and X

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Leishman
Hi, I just noticed that when my machine gets shut down cleanly, and there was an open X session (which gets terminated), the words crash get inserted into the wtmp, utmp or lastlog (whichever last uses) instead of the normal log out time. Does anyone else experience this? Is it a bug or a

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Chris Waters
Martin Schulze wrote: Just in case we misunderstand each other, you're not listed in my list of new maintainers. Thus the new-maintainer have not yet received your application. No -- maybe I'm missing something, but the Developer's Reference seems to say that I should subscribe and lurk in

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-14 Thread warp
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:54:27PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Ray == Ray J.H.M. writes: Ray Personally, I'd rather see the packages that still depend on Ray libstdc++2.8 recompiled for libstdc++2.9 . Of course, of course, nobody's arguing that. APT will be recompiled for

Re: Edits to Startup Disk Help

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:47:46PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Enrique == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrique About the approved method, I guess it is through the Enrique bug tracking system, but I don't mind downloading a Enrique patch, and it means less

Re: Pine can't display attachments

1998-10-14 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On 13 Oct 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my pine cannot display attachments like this but it's only pgp-signed text: [...] Kann anyone tell me how to add this mime-type? Try adding the following lines to ~/.mime.types

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:12:26PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: I have an IBM ThinkPad 380XD. I have found that 2.0.x kernels just don't work properly, my machine will crash or shutdown during boot. I believe that the best thing that can be done to support laptops is to create boot disks with

Re: nfs security problem, debian missing

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, 'got a mail about this mountd bug today. you see the list of vendors - but as you can see: debian is missing. why? how can we get on this list next time? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Appendix A - Vendor Information Below is a list of the vendors who have

rpc.fakelockd available for Solaris/Linux NFS

1998-10-14 Thread Philippe Troin
I've been struggling with this for a couple of days, so I wanted to share my solution... * The story: If one mounts a NFS directory on a Solaris box, then Solaris just _assumes_ that there's an rpc.lockd sitting on the other side. Linux 2.0 NFS implementation doesn't come with the NLM

Re: Intent to package gnome-hack (pending gnome-gtkmm)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Waters wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: Just in case we misunderstand each other, you're not listed in my list of new maintainers. Thus the new-maintainer have not yet received your application. No -- maybe I'm missing something, but the Developer's Reference seems to say that I

Re: Pine can't display attachments

1998-10-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That might work... There is a 'pinepgp' package (or was anyway), you could try that one... Which does NOT provide this feature! Maybe this is a bug :-) You are of course right... I haven't used pine in years, so... :) pinepgp only checks

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, do we have a consensus? 2.8 should go back in slink, but marked as a oldlib. All packages which we have source to should be recompiled with 2.8 if possable?^

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 12 Oct 1998, Hartmut Koptein wrote: to increase communication betweenm the ports and between porters and non-porters, I'd propose a new list: debian-porting or sim. I fully support this proposal (The name debian-porting seems fine to me) No, we haven't enough topics

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ?

1998-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
Can you explain to me what parts of the kernel can or cannot allow closed source modules? Even the way the system is setup now, any developer can create a module, and distribute it in compiled form without source code. I'm not sure how Linus could or couldn't prevent it, unless I'm

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 14 Oct 1998, Drake Diedrich wrote: d) Try using NFS. This slows down the i/o bound resource hog enough to leave the machine usable for interactive tasks. Yes it's ugly, but scheduling in 2.0 is suboptimal, and nice doesn't have much effect on i/o, only CPU. An extra disk dedicated to

Re: lilypond, egcs and libc6 2.0.7u? (or Cyrix?)

1998-10-14 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sun 11 Oct 1998, Anthony Fok wrote: it spitted out the following error messages: out/template2.o: In function `global constructors keyed to Cursorvoid *::operator-(Cursorvoid *) const': [...] I am using the following on my Cyrix P166+ (133 MHz) computer: ii libc6

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ? [binary only support != good support]

1998-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 01:45:04PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: These commercial sound drivers are a real hassle, since the user must [valid complaints and security issues elided] good hardware support is to Linux's success, I don't consider binary-only support good support at

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-14 Thread warp
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 03:36:54AM -0700, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, do we have a consensus? 2.8 should go back in slink, but marked as a oldlib. All packages which we have source to should be recompiled with 2.8 if possable?

Re: KDE gone, Linux next ? [binary only support != good support]

1998-10-14 Thread luther
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 08:53:54PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: As Linux becomes more popular the hardware manufacturers will start giving away drivers with the hardware, as they do for WIN95/NT/Mac. If we give them the option to release the drivers as closed source then most of them will. But

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-14 Thread Matthew Parry
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 01:45:04PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: These commercial sound drivers are a real hassle, since the user must [valid complaints and security issues elided] good hardware support is to Linux's success, I don't consider binary-only support good support at

login time limits in slink???

1998-10-14 Thread Craig Sanders
anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily time limits on serial lines? i've hunted all over (even to the point of grepping every file in /etc, /bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin) for it and can't find it anywhere. how do i turn it off? i don't want time limits.

Antwort: Re: Packages that disappeared

1998-10-14 Thread mummertpartner_meskesm
The problem is that I wrote the program in the first place... And it isn't tcl, its perl.. (with perl-tk as the gui-lib). Oops I messed up the language. Should have checked more carefully. But still would you mind someone else making the program fit the Debian guidelines? I

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-14 Thread James Troup
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ Moving this to debian-devel, discussion doesn't belong in the bug report. ] [ Killed the Cc: line. ] James Troup wrote: There is no i386 port in as much as i386 maintainers 99.5% of the time _don't_ compile packages from scratch, which is when over

sendmail logging disappeared

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Lakofski
hmmm, just rebooted for the first time in 20 days and my sendmail daemon isn't doing any logging. no problems in /etc/syslog.conf, and sendmail invoked by pine drops logs in the right places. daemon logs its invocation and then goes about its business (correctly), but doesn't log anything as far

Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ---

Re: sendmail logging disappeared (fixed)

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Removed and reinstalled sendmail binary, working again. Mysterious. On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Thomas Lakofski wrote: From: Thomas Lakofski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:05:43 + (UTC) Subject: sendmail logging disappeared hmmm, just rebooted

Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I was told recently that people might be interested in some screenshots of the program. The following page contains three images. http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:15:51AM -0400, Brian White wrote: Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) PowerPC has

Intent to Package xwatch, xplot and xcolmix

1998-10-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Pending approval of my application for maintainer-ship, I intent to package the following for contrib (none will make it into slink): Package: xwatch Depends: libc6, libforms0.86, xlib6g (= 3.3-5) Suggests: syslogd Description: Xwatch monitors logfiles and displays in an X window. The

Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

1998-10-14 Thread Raul Miller
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say I write a Qt program (and confirm that it works by linking it against Qt in the privacy of my own home) and then I include it (the source code) in a book as a programming example, and I GPL the whole book. Philip Hands [EMAIL

[inigo@bipv02.bi.ehu.es: (small) ANNOUNCE: gcad 0.0.2 (and CVS)]

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Is somebody going to work on this one? Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends. ---BeginMessage--- Well, just a few letters to announce that gcad 0.0.2 can be downloaded from: http://gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad

Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? panorama: www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be stable enough to put in what's the name of that forever-unstable¹ distribution?. gCAD: gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ From what I can

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 12:39:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I would think that using make-kpkg to create the modules packages is not a bad idea anyway. I think it's a great idea, and works really well with pcmcia on my notebook. /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? panorama: www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be stable enough to put in what's the name of that forever-unstable¹ distribution?. Good luck. gCAD:

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! So far, Alpha is looking near ready and we are shooting to release with slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some big

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! So far, Alpha is looking near ready and we are shooting to release with slink/i386. A caveat, however, is that we need to resolve some big egcs issues SOON or else we can't

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | gCAD: | gaztelan.bi.ehu.es/~inigo/gcad/ | | From what I can tell, this isn't really useful, so I don't know | whether there is any point in packaging it yet. | | I just took a look at gcad. It compiles and runs. During

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: Probably 4-6 weeks. I'd like to ship it before the end of November. Fantastic! Guy, is there any problem with freezing the alpha architecture some time after the main freeze? About the only thing I'm really concerned with is egcs. As much as I hate

Harmony?

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
I'm surprised that previews of harmony haven't been packaged yet. Is it really that unuseable? Are an Debian developers working on harmony? PS: I don't know why I have this sudden rush of We should package- emotions. Perhaps it's a reaction to the freeze. -- The only way tcsh rocks is when

Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
Okay, everybody... It's that time again. I've gone through the bug logs and made my list of packages to keep/remove should they still have release-critical (i.e. critical, grave, or important) bugs at ship time. The following bugs are for packages I don't think we can ship 2.1 without:

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Jim Pick
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! ARM is nowhere near being release ready (we just started). Cheers, - Jim

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:32:31PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Hi, I brought it up already but nobody jumped on. Slink currently cannot be installed on a single-cd system using cd images. [...] So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This does not fit on one single

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Samuel Tardieu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Brian ada-rm 27918 ada-rm: This large package should be architecture: Brian all [0] () This is fixed and the bug has been closed. Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset:

Re: Bug Report?

1998-10-14 Thread Michele Bini
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 09:03:25PM +0200, Helmut Metzdorf wrote: Hi, [...] The situation: a self written programm (i'd like to run 24 hours a day) renders my computer unusable for any other task. my observation says that the cause is that my program relies heavy on file-io and my current

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
perl 27604 Perl @INC needs /usr/lib/perl5 [7] (Darren Stalder [EMAIL PROTECTED]) perl 27738 perl: @INC does not contain /usr/lib/perl5 [0] (Darren Stalder [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This doesn't affect the current perl version but the version to be used in 2.2.

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Enrique Zanardi wrote: Are we going to include apt in the base system? Its package ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A multi-cdrom-apt method should be added quick. NO! It does not _obsolete_ other methods.

latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Thomas Lakofski
Hi, Going to contradict myself after some more investigation that I've done: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is universal (only checked 2 daemons),

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Thomas Lakofski wrote: Hi, Going to contradict myself after some more investigation that I've done: Seems that the latest sysklogd package breaks sendmail's (and cron's, just checked) logging to syslog -- it works for a few minutes, and then no more logs. I don't know if this is

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Stephen Zander
Brian == Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Could I get some official word on which architectures wish Brian to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! I don't think sparc is ready to go, though Johnnie or Eric may see it differently. Ultrasparc definately isn't.

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-14 Thread john
Matthew Parry writes: Why give them the option to release closed source when we can force them to release free versions? I don't believe we can. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On 14 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Has anyone looked at panorama and gcad? panorama: www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be stable enough to put in what's the name of that forever-unstable¹ distribution?. In

Re: Ideas for packages

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) | | panorama: | www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html | | I'll try it soon, but from the web-page it looks like it might be | stable enough to put in what's the name of that forever-unstable¹ | distribution?. It compiled OK and it actually seems useful. It

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! hurd-i386 is certainly not ready. BTW: Considering the great amount of Cc:s in the original post, I have decided to trim a little bit the

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. But I have a problem with gdselect. The first time I ran it, i was logged in a non-root account. It worked and was able to browse

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too? Already uploaded. Closing bugs

Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the submittors? -- The only way tcsh rocks is when the rocks are attached to it's feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds) [EMAIL

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:03:22PM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/Linux/Debian/gdselect.html The startup image isn't available. It is now. I'm too lame to type. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just

Intent to Package - qiv (new maintainer)

1998-10-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
This is a useful utility... qiv - Quick Image Viewer Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlib image viewer. Features include zoom, maxpect, scale down, fullscreen, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, slideshow, flip horizontal/vertical, rotate left/right,

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too? Yelp! This bug is now closed,

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-14 Thread Raul Miller
Matthew Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As Linux becomes more popular the hardware manufacturers will start giving away drivers with the hardware, as they do for WIN95/NT/Mac. If we give them the option to release the drivers as closed source then most of them will. But if we force them to

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread John Lapeyre
smb2www 27641 perl 5.005-02 breaks smb2www [0] (Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This one also refers to the version of perl which has been removed. (It broke every module, so there are several such bug reports) John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! PowerPC has more or less given up on making 2.1. We're moving well, but I'm of the inclination we shouldn't release until we have a truly stabilized libc - or at least until

Re: Debian 2.[01] -- Only rudimentary support for Laptops?

1998-10-14 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 02:46:35PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: Maybe the subject is a bit harsh, but currently users trying to install Debian on a Notebook face more problems than users installing it on a desktop computer. Compared with other Linux distributions It worked very well for my

Re: dropped from private? (was Re: Packages that disappeared)

1998-10-14 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:02:57PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: You're back on it. Michael isn't since he uses a pile of different email addresses. Please always contact the listmaster in case of Oh boy you bet. This is getting ugly. I have a private account I can only read from home, a

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:52:01PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Tom Lees wrote: I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. This looks quite impressive. Good work! One comment: On my system the gauge which is displayed first uses strange size. The y-stretch was

ttyquake?

1998-10-14 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Is it my imagination or was someone working on ttyquake? It's just too cool to miss Debian 2.1. Adrian

Re: latest sysklogd broken?

1998-10-14 Thread Michael Sobolev
Same things happens to me. Today I upgraded two things sendmail and syslogd (what a coincidence! :). After few minutes I found that `ps ax' shows a lot of sendmail processes. Everything looks like that after restarting *syslogd* information goes into appropriate files for few minutes. Then it

Re: gnome and gtk--

1998-10-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 08:23:04PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I'm working on it. But even if I get it to compile with Debian sources, we still would need another soname for this. I was going to respond to your earlier message(s), but I see you're ahead of me.

yagirc trouble (Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1)

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | yagirc24747 yagirc: Binary and Libs for yagirc stored in /bin and /lib [87] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David N. Welton)) | | Davide isn't maintaining this package anymore. Ole, are you taking | care of this one, too?

Re: Closing bugs

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: Quick question: When two bugs are merged, do I need to close both or will one closing close both, and send a message to both the submittors? You need to close both, imho. Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about it's friends.

Re: ttyquake?

1998-10-14 Thread Richard Braakman
Adrian Bridgett wrote: Is it my imagination or was someone working on ttyquake? It's just too cool to miss Debian 2.1. I was; but it was too difficult to get the keyboard handling just right so I forgot about it. I can send you what I have, if you like. Richard Braakman

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-14 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: htdig 25412 htdig: htdig ignores config file stuff/absolute pathnames compiled in [70] (Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Fixed last week, remembered to close it today :) -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to master.debian.org's incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new uploads will be processed after 18:30 GMT that day.

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
Could I get some official word on which architectures wish to be included in the 2.1 release of Debian? Thanks! PowerPC has more or less given up on making 2.1. We're moving well, but I'm of the inclination we shouldn't release until we have a truly stabilized libc - or at least

Re: Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Brian White wrote: All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to master.debian.org's incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new uploads will be processed after 18:30 GMT

Re: Latest Time for Slink Uploads

1998-10-14 Thread Brian White
All packages destined for Slink must have been uploaded to master.debian.org's incoming directory no later than October 16th, 18:30 GMT. The process of freezing Hamm will take place over the weekend. No new uploads will be processed after 18:30 GMT that day. Due to work load

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Philip Hands
So, slink is more than 760 Megabytes big for i386 machines. This does not fit on one single CD. This means that even without contrib, non-free, non-US etc. we already need two cds. This needs to be addressed quick! Heiko Schlittermann has written a new dselect installation method that

Intend to package manpages-hu

1998-10-14 Thread Szalay Attila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- This package contain manpages in hungarian language bye Sasa - -- PGP ID 0x8D143771, /C5 95 43 F8 6F 19 E8 29 53 5E 96 61 05 63 42 D0 For my pgp key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv

Re: Upcoming 2.1 Release Architectures

1998-10-14 Thread Hartmut Koptein
We need a 2.1.x kernel source package, which isn't available for debian. I don't see why you couldn't create one just for the powerpc arch. Either way, v2.2 of the kernel should be available before v2.2 of Debian. Yes, last rumors say that linux-2.2 came out short before christmas. Oh, i

RS6000 MCA distribution ??

1998-10-14 Thread Anton J . Gamel
Hi! Has ANYONE got a faint IDEA where to get ( for our pile of RS/6000 220 MCA ...) an IBM RS/6000 Microchannel - RISC linux ?? It is mentioned in the introduction to MCA linux in www.linux.org - There should be a DEBIAN PS/2 - MCA distribution ... Is it feasable that it could be simply

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