It has come to my attention that recent decisions made by the Linux
Standard Base body (I hesitate to say committee as I have never been
party to any of their internal discussions and am unaware of their
internal organizational structrure) are possibly unwise and have been
determined by at least a
[ Also available on the web at http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/weeklynews/ ]
Debian Weekly News - 12 to 18 Jan 1999
Welcome to the third edition Debian Weekly News, a newsletter for the
Debian developer community. Overall it's been a
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 11:29:40PM +0100, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Because we, the organizers of LinuxTag '99, would like to invite the
Debian project to set up a booth at this year's event. Several major
Linux distributions will be there: SuSE, DLD,
Hi Craig,
I get the impression that my objectivity is being misinterpreted again.
IMHO, the idea that developer's should agree with the DSFG and/or the
social contract in their entirety is dangerous and will only hinder
Debian. I don't agree with all of Debian's policies, nor should I have to.
tdtd is an emacs lisp mode for editing DTDs, from Tony Graham.
URL:ftp://ftp.mulberrytech.com/pub/tdtd/
cdlabelgen is a small program to simplify the process of
generating labels for CD-ROMs. It was created by a friend
and co-worked, Brian Fitzpatrick, so even though I don't really
use this
Previously Brian Almeida wrote:
Stephen Crowley (aka Crow-) is.
Euh, isn't Jim Pick going to package the new GNOME as well?
Wichert.
--
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This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Stephen Crowley wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can
downgrade,
i see the 1.0.1 package nowhere ...
Previously Christian Weisgerber wrote:
The largest German Linux user show. In fact, it is probably the
largest Linux event in Europe. (If there is a larger one, we haven't
heard of it.) Last year there were an estimated 1500 visitors.
URL:http://www.linuxtag.org/.
End of June.. sounds like
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-- Forwarded message from Jonathan Buzzard [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:49:13 +
From: Jonathan Buzzard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RMS and Debian on his Toshiba
[snip]
JAB.
PS. Gtk-devel is broken in Hamm/Slink and Potato, there
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-- Forwarded message from Jonathan Buzzard [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:49:13 +
From: Jonathan Buzzard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RMS and Debian on his Toshiba
[snip]
JAB.
PS. Gtk-devel is broken in Hamm/Slink and Potato, there
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 06:19:46PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote:
I get the impression that my objectivity is being misinterpreted again.
IMHO, the idea that developer's should agree with the DSFG and/or the
social contract in their entirety is dangerous and will only hinder
Debian. I don't agree
Hi Anthony,
But you should agree with our social contract, right? That is, after all,
what the point of a social contract /is/, isn't it? That we'll all abide
by it?
Agreeing and abiding aren't the same thing. A developer may not agree
with the social contract but s/he should certainly abide
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ossama Othman) wrote:
If used properly, diversity of opinion should only help Debian.
With all due respect, if you think that there is no diversity of opinion
in Debian, then you haven't been around here for very long.
Those with opinions that differ from the mainstream
While the pine license is evil, true. I have a suggestion for the way pine
packages are currently made. The process of installing pine currently is,
apt-get install pine396-src
apt-get install pine396-diffs
cd /usr/src/pine
read the README
dpkg-source -x pine*dsc
cd pine*;debian/rules binary
see
Hi Brian,
If used properly, diversity of opinion should only help Debian.
With all due respect, if you think that there is no diversity of opinion
in Debian, then you haven't been around here for very long.
I was referring to the fact that many of the developers strongly felt that
I should
Hi,
I wrote:
I was referring specifically to Craig. Rather I was referring to some of
Sorry, that should have been I was NOT referring specifically to Craig.
Boy am I going to hear it for this foul up! :)
I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
With all due respect, if you think that there is no diversity of
opinion in Debian, then you haven't been around here for very long.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ossama Othman) responded:
I was referring to the fact that many of the developers strongly felt
that I
Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Stephen Crowley wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:14:14AM -0500, Brian Almeida wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 03:03:26PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
and how the unfortunate of us who already have upgraded to 1.0.2 can
Hey all,
I just noticed that there was a LSB test spec on freshmeat,
ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test/
and in particular
ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test/LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0
It contains many interesting things that I know we disagree with. Someone
should look at it perhaps?
Jason
On Jan 18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
It contains many interesting things that I know we disagree with. Someone
should look at it perhaps?
Among the interesting things:
The closing date for comments is January 11th 1999.
Nice that it was announced today then :-)
***
Reference 3.4-2(A)
The
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 10:26:06PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 02:36:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 06:10:09PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Well, maybe. I find config menus to be infuriating. elm's config files
don't seem to have an
Chris Lawrence wrote:
Nice to see the Open Group and X/Open are going to send us chasing our
tails trying to get this stuff together (so we can call our Linux
implementations Linux :-p) instead of pursuing Unix branding.
Indeed. I thought LSB was going to be an Application Environment
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On 19-Jan-99 Ossama Othman wrote:
My concern is that Debian is becoming (almost) elitist. Some people are
flat out saying conform or get out, in a sense. Is this really a
healthy attitude for Debian to have? I am not trying to create some sort
of Debian
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 06:09:45AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote:
Indeed. I thought LSB was going to be an Application Environment
specification - so that apps developed on one distribution would run on all
the others.
If that's still the case, I wanna know WTF they are thinking/smoking,
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On 19-Jan-99 Anthony Towns wrote:
Agreeing with the DFSG in a fairly important part of that -- our major
aim is to produce a free system, and if we can't even agree on what that
means then we're not going to get *anywhere*.
Not necessarily. Agreeing to
It has come to my attention that recent decisions made by the Linux
Standard Base body (I hesitate to say committee as I have never been
party to any of their internal discussions and am unaware of their
internal organizational structrure) are possibly unwise and have been
determined by at least a
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 10:10:06AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
OK, in the past week or so I've seen several people posting from
California. Has anyone thought of having a gathering in some semi-central
location? Get to know faces, sign keys, etc?
I
Hi,
Soon, I'm going to upload a cygnus-stylesheets package. It's
basically the same thing as the docbook-stylesheets package, but it
has some modifications and additional hacks that Mark Galassi has
added.
This package is based on the same source as what the Red Hat people
are using. The
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Soon, I'm going to upload a cygnus-stylesheets package. It's
basically the same thing as the docbook-stylesheets package, but it
has some modifications and additional hacks that Mark Galassi has
added.
This package is based on the same source as what the
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
OK, in the past week or so I've seen several people posting from
California. Has anyone thought of having a gathering in some semi-central
location? Get to know faces, sign keys, etc?
I would be interested. If a convenient day were picked and the meeting
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Soon, I'm going to upload a cygnus-stylesheets package. It's
basically the same thing as the docbook-stylesheets package, but it
has some modifications and additional hacks that Mark Galassi has
added.
This
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:06:21PM +, Edward Betts wrote:
According to the README in the CDB archive, the CDB C source is public
domain, so if you strip out the docs, etc. you could put it in main.
Yes. But as that doesn't cover even the manpages,
or pedantically even the
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I thought they needed this db2* scriptage. The db2* scripts kinda
suck if you ask me (and not comment from upstream on my specific
technical arguments why they suck) but I'm happy to include them.
Please just
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Essentially, Cygnus has forked the code.
Huh.
That might be a bit strong - I haven't really looked into the
differences in depth. They are being maintained separately, and they
are tracking Norm Walsh's stuff.
I understand that Gnome needs db2*
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 06:09:45AM -, Robert Woodcock wrote:
P.S.: From where is /bin/domainname standard? I can see it's purpose in an
app env standard, so I'm curious...
It comes from the FHS. domainname, hostname, ping, netstat are the
network commands suitable for /bin, as they will be
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I understand that Gnome needs db2* scripts... why do they need the Cygnus
stylesheets?
They use them internally at Cygnus for their documentation. They are
unsupported for outside use.
Don't ask me why Gnome
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I understand that Gnome needs db2* scripts... why do they need the Cygnus
stylesheets?
They use them internally at Cygnus for their documentation. They are
Hi,
I translate the news and post it on the italian usenet groups.
I had some problems coordinating to put the translated news on the
web... anyway, what is the workload for the coordinator? I'll have
some more time from the next week and I can step in if nobody wants
it.
Ciao,
Federico
On
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Essentially, Cygnus has forked the code.
Huh.
That might be a bit strong - I haven't really looked into the
differences in depth. They are being maintained separately, and they
are tracking Norm Walsh's stuff.
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Essentially, Cygnus has forked the code.
Huh.
That might be a bit strong - I haven't really looked into the
differences in depth. They are being maintained
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
Starting mozilla (the navigator) brings up the navigator and all buttons in
the toolbar are black instead of green. But this is really the only color
problem I obsered (gimp startup looks good, xv startup looks good, and even
the pages loaded
Quoting Robert Woodcock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
P.S.: From where is /bin/domainname standard? I can see it's purpose in an
app env standard, so I'm curious...
NIS/yp. You'll find it in the nis package.
Mike Stone
Well, I think its time that we start trying to truly enforce our spam
policy...
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 02:56:40AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
90 days for a complete refund. On that basis, I have enclosed $20.00 .
(Total $20.00 U.S.)
Hmm, thats a start, but I don't see the money..
Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it
will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads
will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be
removed because of
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Rafael Kitover wrote:
While the pine license is evil, true. I have a suggestion for the way pine
packages are currently made. The process of installing pine currently is,
apt-get install pine396-src
apt-get install pine396-diffs
cd /usr/src/pine
read the README
We seem to have a ever-standing bug against postgresql saying we
cannot have a user called www-data accessing databases (postgresql
complains about the '-' in the name, it looks like it is not a valid char
for postgresql usernames at all). Since I have been making kludges in
several
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
Why does non-free == no modified binaries?
Because modifiability, specificly the right to distribute modified
binaries, is a DFSG requirement.
Well, I would better say: The right to distribute modified
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote:
Debian v2.1 (Slink) Deep Freeze
After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it
will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th.
Brian, will you please consider to do a ftp.debian.org bug hunting
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
End of June.. sounds like I'll be able to be there. Does anyone know any
cheap places to stay for a couple of days in the neighborhood?
Check out URL:http://www.linuxtag.org/hotels.html. (Wichert, I trust
you can read German?)
If possible it might be
Previously Brian White wrote:
After considerable delay, Slink is almost ready for release. As such, it
will go into the deep freeze on Wednesday, January 20th. New uploads
will be _greatly_ restricted. Also, the following packages will be
removed because of release-critical bugs still open
Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
We seem to have a ever-standing bug against postgresql saying we
cannot have a user called www-data accessing databases (postgresql
complains about the '-' in the name, it looks like it is not a valid char
for postgresql usernames at all).
It is possible
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote:
Reasonable objection notwithstanding, I intend to write a letter to those
responsible for the LSB to attempt to raise the issues we have with their
current proposal. I would appreciate discussion on these issues in other
parts of this thread.
If
At 23:31 -0600 1999-01-18, Chris Lawrence wrote:
***
Reference 3.4-2(A)
The implementation provides the file /etc/adjtime
Result: PASS/FAIL
This is an Intel-ism. adjtimex does not exist for several non-X86
platforms.
I disagree, that file is also used by clock/hwclock (depending on
architecture)
Previously Ben Pfaff wrote:
No such file appears in my copy of Content-i386 from 28 Dec 1998.
Where are you getting it from?
Duh, I had the directory wrong, the correct dictory is
/usr/doc/copyright/base. dpkg -S can't see where it is coming from
though. The contents is also weird. Look at its
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 03:54:55PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
End of June.. sounds like I'll be able to be there. Does anyone know any
cheap places to stay for a couple of days in the neighborhood?
I am thinking about being there (I'll come
Just wanted to let you know that tonight I plan to recreate the
cracklib-runtime build scripts (with debhelper) since they seem
to be missing a few things and also patch crack_packer so it produces no
output on a successful run, then repackage the source so it extracts cleanly
with dpkg-source -x.
Hi,
here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian
package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it.
I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate
if s/o else would step forward.
Regards,
Joey
--
orgatech - Ihr Partner in Sachen
Ray == J H M Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ray On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 09:07:59 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
I'm currently creating a new upload of gaby, but lintian keeps
complaining: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/todo/gaby-0.2.6$ lintian
../gaby_0.2.6-1_i386.deb E: gaby:
Martin Schulze wrote:
Hi,
here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian
package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it.
I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate
if s/o else would step forward.
As Ruud reminded me isdnutils
You can start by writing to our man on point with the LSB, Dale Scheetz.
It is noteworthy, however, that Dale hasn't already commented in this
thread. Are you still actively following the LSB, Dale?
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 10:51:03PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
It has come to my attention that
rrlogind and rrdhcpd are part (well all) of the RoadRunner
tools for Linux. This allows a user of Time Warner's cable
modem service to use Linux to connect. The rrlogind handles
the authentication and the rrdhcpd handles the obtaining
of the ip address.
Ivan
--
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, BugScan reporter wrote:
Bug stamp-out list for Jan 19 00:02 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 50
Package: cracklib-runtime (main)
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED]
27511 crack_packer outputs numbers to stdout
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Robert Woodcock wrote:
Just wanted to let you know that tonight I plan to recreate the
cracklib-runtime build scripts (with debhelper) since they seem
to be missing a few things and also patch crack_packer so it produces no
output on a successful run, then repackage the
Hi,
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
If you install a package (using dpkg -i foo.deb or dselect) dpkg modifies
the record in the available file and replaces it with the proper record
from the status file (guessed or experienced by Ruud). As a result of
this the available file
Hi,
26 and 27 of june is a weekend, right? I'd love to meet some
developer IRL.
I could lend you a helping hand (some sort of go-and-get-me)
during the event, but no organising.
End of June.. sounds like I'll be able to be there. Does anyone know any
cheap places to stay for a couple of days
Andy Mortimer wrote:
Solution:
multicd has to copy the Packages files into $methdir/multicd/ and
access them directly instead of the available file.
Since this needs a redesign of the installation method and I'm somewhat
short with time I'd appreciate somebody sending me a proper
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to
name change.
xdm 29360 xdm: Stopped X without warning/asking
xlib6 31610 xlib6: requires gcc but declares no dependency
(dpkg
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote:
dpkg 17624 dpkg: installs regular dir when .deb contains
symlink !
21182 dpkg: dpkg can go into an infinite loop with
--force-configure-any
28519 dpkg: dpkg creates circular symlinks
Bruce Sass wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
[1] ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/legal.txt
Redistribution of this release is permitted as follows, or by
mutual agreement:
(a) In free-of-charge or at-cost distributions by non-profit concerns;
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Pine doesn't want a company making money from Pine/Pico/Pilot...
This makes it (paradoxically) non-free.
There is no paradox, because we mean 'free' in the sense of liberty.
--
David Welton
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
started to wonder... Where does the name www-data come from? IS there any
argument against 'www' ?
Or perhaps one might ask why Debian deviated from common practice in naming
the httpd user www-data instead of httpd, like everyone else.
--Jeff
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge
everyone to test that!
The site is:
http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/
Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages?
FYI, the French Prime Minister just announced that cryptography will
become legal in France!
In the meantime (until our representatives adopt the law), the
authorized key sizes go from 40 bits to 128 bits.
Sam
--
Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[#include not-subscribed-to-this-list-please-CC-replies.h]
Oh boy! Cammon! Now I need to install 25M (tetex-bin~=10 +
tetex-base~=15) just to compile texi files into html or info? No
good. I hate tex and my HD is small. :-)
I really think we should continue to provide separate texinfo
and
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
here at work we are going to use vbox. Since there is no Debian
package already I wonder if somebody has interest in packaging it.
I don't feel much interest but need for it so I would appreciate if
s/o else would step forward.
As Ruud reminded me
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Branden has a release candidate for X ready somewhere, and I urge
everyone to test that!
The site is:
http://master.debian.org/~branden/xfree86/
Lalo Martins wrote:
[#include not-subscribed-to-this-list-please-CC-replies.h]
Oh boy! Cammon! Now I need to install 25M (tetex-bin~=10 +
tetex-base~=15) just to compile texi files into html or info? No
good. I hate tex and my HD is small. :-)
I really think we should continue to
Le Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:15:39AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe écrivait:
Is anyone actually working on these? Should they really hold up the
release?
Wichert said, he will have a look.
nonus.debian.org 21423 Dpkg-ftp can't handle alternative distributions
This is important??
This bug is not
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages?
Will you have some time for this?
I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian 2.1 that
nobody will automagically lose
Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
wu-ftpd-academ30931 wu-ftpd-academ: Can't build from source!
I have compiled wu-ftpd-academ from source on saens at least 10 times, I
did not get the problems described in the bug.
The problem seemed to be Alpha-related. I tried unsuccessfully to port
the
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
pilot-link31806 pilot-link: Can't build from source
I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in
debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to
gcc), and could not reproduce the bug.
I've never dealt with a bug in
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
Mmm, what about the needed compatibility packages?
Will you have some time for this?
I think it is absolutely essential for the success of Debian
Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Santiago I think it is absolutely essential for the success of
Santiago Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose
Santiago functionality in the upgrade process.
Brandon Done in experimental changes file: * xbase is now a
Le Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 08:04:32AM -0500, Brian White écrivait:
fileutils 30184 fileutils: chown broken on symlinks
This bug is for potato only.
You should consider using Wichert's list of release critical bug...
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog 0C4CABF1
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Ean R . Schuessler wrote:
You can start by writing to our man on point with the LSB, Dale Scheetz.
Absolutely!
It is noteworthy, however, that Dale hasn't already commented in this
thread. Are you still actively following the LSB, Dale?
That only has to do with the
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
[ ... ]
Please, remember that we need also pseudopackages xfnt100, xfnt75, etc.
Otherwise dselect will not select the new ones in favour of the old ones
unless the user had some package which
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
Surely not?
Surely the Replace/Provide/Conflict combination will make dselect pick the
new ones?
I'm sorry but I'm afraid this is not the case.
I hate to say this, but please read the packaging manual and/or the policy
manual. I think you
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chris Lawrence wrote:
On Jan 18, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
It contains many interesting things that I know we disagree with. Someone
should look at it perhaps?
Among the interesting things:
snip
***
Reference 3.8-1(A)
The /opt directory exists and is searchable
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:54:58PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
dpkg-dev 25537 dpkg-dev: dpkg-genchanges does not allow
quot;-quot; in the architecture
This is important for the Hurd only, and should be in Wicherts exception
list. It is irrelevant for the slink release. Worst
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 10:32:03PM +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
What's this LinuxTag thing?
The largest German Linux user show.
When and where?
June 26/27, 1999. University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
I think I can come, too. It's a weekend which is nice. I hope the
youthhostel
On 19 Jan 1999, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Santiago I think it is absolutely essential for the success of
Santiago Debian 2.1 that nobody will automagically lose
Santiago functionality in the upgrade process.
Brandon Done
Ooh -- I like chameleon -- but I'll take a look at wallp before I
officially post my intent to adopt chameleon -- perhaps I'll agree, and
just let chameleon die.
Of course, since I haven't posted intent to adopt yet -- anybody else who
wants it can snatch it now :)
on another subject --
Rob Tillotson wrote:
I just tried rebuilding pilot-link, after making the changes in
debian/rules suggested in the BTS entry (changing all egcc to
gcc), and could not reproduce the bug.
The bug is really for potato and is Alpha-based (again). I'll look into
this one now as well. It
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:54:58PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
ftp.debian.org14898 courtney has problematic license
31282 upgrade-1386 directory in Incoming
31578 cfengine needs to be in frozen
cfengine has been reuploaded for slink; this bug
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:38:32PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote:
The de-facto standard Internet tab size has always been 8 characters.
Always? The 1982 standard for ARPANET¹ email (RFC 822) explicitly
states in Section
Eduardo == Eduardo Marcel Macan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EduardoSee, I am not suggesting that we change the username
Eduardo to solve the postgres problem, this would solve this problem,
Eduardo but not THE problem with postgres. I am just wondering why it
Eduardo is not called just
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:44:14AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Now if we could only convince the netstd maintainer to make a
pseudo-package for all his splits.. but he has told me he refuses to
support upgrades for anything but dselect. :/
That's disappointing.
Why will dselect handle it
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:51:39PM -0500, J. S. Connell wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote:
started to wonder... Where does the name www-data come from? IS there any
argument against 'www' ?
Or perhaps one might ask why Debian deviated from common practice in naming
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 12:58:23PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Server news this week:
* The [22]bug tracking system has a new easy way to get to a given
bug report. http://bugs.debian.org/foo will pull up the bug report
for package foo; http://bugs.debian.org/ will pull
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