Bug stamp-out list for Jan 22 00:03 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 40
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Package: apache (main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
32204 user directories allow symlinks to other files
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied
suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives.
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
collects Package:,
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Welton wrote:
I think we should include it, as a service to people who don't want to
download the whole thing, but attach a note saying As 2.2 was
released just before we released slink, we are including it, but there
may be problems, it might eat your computer... we
DS == Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS The most interesting problem looks like ppp, for which there isn't
DS a package.
This looks like a problem in your script, I would say.
http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/base/ppp.html shows it, and I
can happily download it from
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 05:23:22PM -0600, David Welton wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:17:26PM -0800, Brent Fulgham wrote:
I say let's make the 2.2 image a high-profile aspect of slink's release.
The kernel is very stable, and I've been running my Debian system on it
The kernel is stable,
How close to 3.0 does the 2.2 kernel get Debian?
- Bruce
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote:
I say let's make the 2.2 image a high-profile aspect of slink's release.
The kernel is very stable, and I've been running my Debian system on it
since 2.1.120. Plus, it would be a great
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:32:02PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
The kernel is stable, but is the kernel + debian stable? No one
knows.
All 4 of the Debian systems I run use 2.1.13x or 2.2.0-prex without any
changes to the basic setup. 3 of these are slink, one is potato. So i
say yes, it is
On 1999-01-21 19:32, Ben Collins wrote:
All 4 of the Debian systems I run use 2.1.13x or 2.2.0-prex without any
changes to the basic setup. 3 of these are slink, one is potato. So i
say yes, it is stable with Debian.
Most ppl. need a printer and /dev/lp changed radically betewen 2.0 and
2.2.
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:24:37PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
On 1999-01-21 19:32, Ben Collins wrote:
All 4 of the Debian systems I run use 2.1.13x or 2.2.0-prex without any
changes to the basic setup. 3 of these are slink, one is potato. So i
say yes, it is stable with Debian.
Most
2.2. diald/ppp in slink does not work with 2.2.0-pre7 (on my box, at
least). I am sure that there are other things as well.
I'm sure you were aware that you have to upgrade your pppd to work with any
of the higher-order 2.1.X kernels? You might want to check the kernel
source's
Jason == Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the
Dale unsatisfied suggests message, I have undertaken the
Dale examination of the main archives.
Dale
Dale The script that I am working on unpacks all of the
Previously John Hasler wrote:
As I noted, there are no calls to system or its ilk.
That's good.
I know how to fix the sprintf's. My plan now is to analyze the path
followed by strings from input to consumption.
It might be much easier to just replace them with snprintf's. Also check
for
First of all: please use a standard textwidth of at most 76. Right now
your mail frankly looks horrible. Only due to vim's awesome reformating
power is sending a reply doable :)
Previously fantumn Steven Baker wrote:
Package Naming Scheme
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The current naming scheme of
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the .deb files it finds and
collects Package:, Provides:, Pre-Depends:, Depends:, Recommends:, and
Suggests: field information and deterines several things.
You do know we have a packages file, don't you? And you do
Ack people:
Package wdm version 1.0-5 has an unmet dep:
Depends: libwraster1 (= 0.50.2)
Package chameleon version 1.0-2 has an unmet dep:
Depends: libglib1.1.12 (= 1.1.12-1)
Depends: libgtk1.1.12 (= 1.1.12-1)
Package licq version 0.44-2 has an unmet dep:
Depends: qt1g (= 1.41-2)
Package
I just installed Debian Linux - just the kernal and the core system, no
XWindows, no frills. So where can someone new to Linux (indeed Unix)
find answers to very basic questions like how do I mount a floppy
drive, can I read a FAT32 partition, and why does my boot floppy get
destroyed when I try
Previously Ben Collins wrote:
All 4 of the Debian systems I run use 2.1.13x or 2.2.0-prex without any
changes to the basic setup.
Just to give this some counterweight: I just tried 2.1.132 with the OSS
sound modules and they failed horribly. I've never seem them like this
before. Luckily I have
Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Previously Ben Collins wrote:
All 4 of the Debian systems I run use 2.1.13x or 2.2.0-prex without any
changes to the basic setup.
Just to give this some counterweight: I just tried 2.1.132 with the OSS
sound modules and they failed
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:31:10PM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote:
Just wondering, what's the output like and does it return for d10 0-9 or
1-10? Does it handle d%? Is the number of dice optional or must one
feed it 1d8 for example? Does it return the results of each die or the
total
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 11:36:00PM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 04:03:26PM -0500, fantumn Steven Baker wrote:
Package Naming Scheme
The problem is superficial. Sure, names should be more uniform, but all
this requires is 1) ratifying naming standards and 2) ensuring
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of
kernel 2.2 easily on a debian cdrom, and it would let us say that debian
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
I'de really like to see a kernel-image too, atleast for the non-i386 ports
to use. The
Time to start earning my keep =)
WMheadlines is a suite of windowmaker menu plugins that let you see the
current headlines on news sites such as freshmeat, slashdot, segfault,
and linuxtoday. You click on a menu item and the news item is opened
in netscape.
wmglobe is an xearth hack that fits
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 09:39:18AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
The only thing my proposal changed was the UID and the GID of the web
server, so that the web server doesn't have write access to the web
files. It most cases, it is not required that the web server have
write access to its files,
Dale Sheetz writes:
...
Package not in archives Package which depends on
Package not in archives
...
tclx emacspeak
tclx74
Will do that in the next couple of days.
Dale == Dale E Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dale I'd say it's grave too - despite being non-free, this _is_
Dale the only decent java virtual machine available and java
Dale isn't exactly unpopular.
I'm here... and there are a couple of other problems with jdk that I
only
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
giflib3g-dev gdk-imlib-dev
giflib3g-dev imlib-dev
giflib3g-dev libfnlib-dev
The full dependencies for these is more like:
libungif3g-dev | giflib3g-dev
Basically,
Greg Hedger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just installed Debian Linux - just the kernal and the core system, no
XWindows, no frills. So where can someone new to Linux (indeed Unix)
find answers to very basic questions like how do I mount a floppy
drive, can I read a FAT32 partition, and why
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 04:04:20AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote:
rolldice is a virtual dice roller that takes in a string on the
command line in the format used by some fantasy role playing games
like Advanced Dungeons Dragons[1] and returns the result of the dice
rolls.
i wrote some
On 1999-01-21 19:32, John Goerzen wrote:
While the internals did change radically, the only thing most people need
concern themselves with is that the /dev/lp? number changed by one digit. I
hardly call that a radical change
Well, it of course depends on how you define radical. I had two
Previously Ben Pfaff wrote:
You do know that the OSS modules in 2.1.x are drastically changed,
right?
Sure, I browse linux-kernel on occasion.
You need to provide them with the IRQs and ports that they need on the
command-line, for instance.
I noticed, otherwise you get some weird resource
Joseph Carter wrote:
Or if you're really crazy, you could allow optional + or - to affect the
total, if that were -d12 above the total would be 21 for example.. If it
doesn't do EVERYTHING by that point, what more can be said? =
Yes, I think it needs to include a calculator things like 3d6 +
On 1999-01-21 17:36, Brent Fulgham wrote:
2.2. diald/ppp in slink does not work with 2.2.0-pre7 (on my box, at
least). I am sure that there are other things as well.
I'm sure you were aware that you have to upgrade your pppd to work with any
of the higher-order 2.1.X kernels? You might
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
I noticed, otherwise you get some weird resource busy-error. Didn't help
though. My hardware isn't evil special.. (standard sb16 clone)
Unfortunatly, this is as evil as it gets. According to the current kernel
docs, there is no such thing as a SB 16 clone. There are a
Brian White wrote:
[kernel image]
No. We had enough problems upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. This would
be a major change and have corresponding reprocussions. I'm sure it's
very stable, but it will have incompatibilities.
No-one's saying this would be the default kernel. I think including
It's Changes and yes I have read it:
master:/home/wind# pppd -v
pppd: unrecognized option '-v'
pppd version 2.3 patch level 5
The issue being that there IS a problem - e.g. are we going to provide
ppp1 and ppp2? That sounds like trouble to me.
Real Question (not a snipe): Is there
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As I said before, rpm does have the capability to install 2 different
versions of a package simulantaneously. Here's how it works, to the best of
my knowledge.
User interface:
Rpm differentiates between installing a package and upgrading a package.
The bits get lost because both mc and emacs rename originalfile to
originalfile~ (e.g.) and create a new originalfile, without preserving the
original ownership/permissions.
(n)vi does not suffer from this problem, but neither does it create
backups.
--Jeff
No. We had enough problems upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. This would
be a major change and have corresponding reprocussions. I'm sure it's
very stable, but it will have incompatibilities.
No-one's saying this would be the default kernel. I think including a kernel
image would be
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:02:52PM -0500, Brian White wrote:
No. We had enough problems upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.0.36. This would
be a major change and have corresponding reprocussions. I'm sure it's
very stable, but it will have incompatibilities.
I'm using nothing but packages from
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 10:43:23PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
On 1999-01-21 17:36, Brent Fulgham wrote:
2.2. diald/ppp in slink does not work with 2.2.0-pre7 (on my box, at
least). I am sure that there are other things as well.
I'm sure you were aware that you have to upgrade your
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 02:37:47PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
that's the good news. the bad news is that it was all done in turbo
pascal. however, the algorithms were clean and readable, so easily
ported to C.
Hehe, you know there's a GNU Pascal? (package gpc) I haven't looked into
it but it
Wichert Akkerman writes:
It might be much easier to just replace them with snprintf's.
That is what I meant when I said I know how to fix them.
Also check for things like strcpy()...
I'd rather trace out the input string handling than just grep for dangerous
functions. There isn't that
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:37:18PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Or if you're really crazy, you could allow optional + or - to affect the
total, if that were -d12 above the total would be 21 for example.. If it
doesn't do EVERYTHING by that point, what more can be said? =
Yes, I think it
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 09:18:50PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
Sure no problem. I had no intention of doing so. I was just curious as
to the status. There will be no argument from me, especially since I
agreed with Debian's stance on the matter. :)
Brief summary, then:
KDE will not be
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of
kernel 2.2
Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 12:34:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would
Brian == Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brian make any difference. Both will show up in dselect and it would
Brian be trivial for someone to install the new kernel... and then
Heh, thats the idea. :-)
Brian wonder why things don't work.
Little things that few notice, apparently -- I
Hello Ben, Avery and Wichert!
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 12:50:59AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Anthony Fok wrote:
As the Slink deep freeze and release are impending, I would like to ask your
advice: Should I follow the suggestion given by the bug reporter Thomas
Roessler?
I
AF == Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
AF if (geteuid()!=0) die(Must run with EUID=root);
AF I am a little bit tempted to comment that line out, but it's
AF probably there for a reason, and I am definitely not qualified
AF to hack fdmount.c, so for now I should probably
Ben Collins wrote:
Any program that is suid or sgid for no reason what-so-ever is always a
reason for a bug report, especially if it's suid root...we need some
automatic catch for new packages that have suid or sgid binaries in
them, or call suidregister.
Lintian can serve as a check for the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Just total, decided that was the important part (if you ask for 3d6,
you're only interested in the result, unless you're doing something
like method IV of rolling characters in ADD (I believe), in which you
roll 4d6 and take the highest three, in which
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Joseph Carter wrote:
Or if you're really crazy, you could allow optional + or - to affect the
total, if that were -d12 above the total would be 21 for example.. If it
doesn't do EVERYTHING by that point, what more can be said? =
Yes, I think it needs
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 08:24:37PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote:
Most ppl. need a printer and /dev/lp changed radically betewen 2.0 and
2.2. diald/ppp in slink does not work with 2.2.0-pre7 (on my box, at
least). I am sure that there are other things as well.
---end quoted text---
I think it's
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
I noticed, otherwise you get some weird resource busy-error. Didn't help
though. My hardware isn't evil special.. (standard sb16 clone)
Unfortunatly, this is as evil as it gets. According to the current kernel
docs, there is no
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
that's the good news. the bad news is that it was all done in turbo
pascal. however, the algorithms were clean and readable, so easily
ported to C.
if you're interested, i'll dig up the files (i still have them on
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote:
2.2. diald/ppp in slink does not work with 2.2.0-pre7 (on my box, at
least). I am sure that there are other things as well.
I'm sure you were aware that you have to upgrade your pppd to work with any
of the higher-order 2.1.X kernels? You might
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote:
The issue being that there IS a problem - e.g. are we going to provide
ppp1 and ppp2? That sounds like trouble to me.
Real Question (not a snipe): Is there any reason everyone couldn't use a
current pppd that would be compatible with the new kernel
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 04:00:50AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Ben Pfaff wrote:
You do know that the OSS modules in 2.1.x are drastically changed,
right?
Sure, I browse linux-kernel on occasion.
You need to provide them with the IRQs and ports that they need on the
I am about to upload sattrack. I have previously announced this on
debian-hams ... It is a sattelite tracking program. It is quite non-free
(section non-free/hamradio) but I have obtained permission from the
author to create a package, and have included that email in the copyright
file.
73,
Enrique Zanardi writes:
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 10:22:39AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Am I missing something here? Where does it say that users should be able
to install _all_ optional packages?
The policy manual suggests that:
2.2 Priorities
[...]
optional
(In a sense
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:28:29 -0500, Daniel Martin wrote:
Is my only other choice for a graphical debugger the lesstif-induced
segfault ddd?
Glad to see my work is appreciated. Perhaps this is where I need to point
you to the power of having the source? You could e.g. try fixing LessTif
Craig Sanders wrote:
i agree. in fact, it's more like a solution searching for a problem than
even a superficial problem.
It's a problem that is only evident to people who haven't lived with it for
years. That doesn't mean it's not a problem.
from the descriptions that have been posted of how
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Federico Di Gregorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am thinking about being there (I'll come from italy). If you
find something, Wichert, can you please let me know... I CAN'T
read german (hope conference language will
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 12:02:55AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
i agree. in fact, it's more like a solution searching for a problem than
even a superficial problem.
It's a problem that is only evident to people who haven't lived with it for
years. That doesn't mean it's
Just thought I would bring this up one more time and run it by everyone.
This can be considered a draft of what I'd like to put in the release
notes. The person managing that document has my permission to edit this
down a little bit.
***
The Great X Reorganization happened at version
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Welton wrote:
The kernel is stable, but is the kernel + debian stable? No one
knows.
Well, assuming it's an improvement on the pre-release ones, we can make a
pretty good guess :)
I think we should include it, as a service to people who don't want to
download
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ChL == Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ChL Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled.
What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 20:26:12 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say,
even if they can't or do not have the time to
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:32:27PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Package stunnel version 2.1-2 has an unmet dep:
Depends: libssl09
Stunnel is in potato, libssl09 in slink: I guess this is the
CSOBNS again (continuing saga of broken non-us).
lupus
--
The number of UNIX installations has
Hi,
shouldn't we mark #31824 (html2ps: can't execute) as critical?
html2ps does not work at all with this bug. Fortunately the bug
can be fixed by deleting an erroneous character in the script.
Cheers, Thomas
hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Ivan E. Moore II, Stardate 210199.1558:
Brian, would this be too grave a violation of your no new code rule?
probably... :(
I'd say this should only apply to a not-more-then-a-month-freeze :)
until potato get's out debian would get kinda out-of-date. On the other hand,
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Christian Lavoie wrote:
DISCLAIMER: These are notes, and can have technical impossibilites
(especially concerning '.deb'ianizing of StarOffice)
- Provide single user free of charge support through internet.
(email/newsgroups/knowledge base/whatever)
- Provide corporate
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Craig Sanders wrote:
the libgtk* versions are compatible with each other. the libgtk*-dev
versions, are not (it would be possible to make it so by installing
header files in /usr/include/gtk-VERSION, but you'd still have to modify
every source file that #included it. in
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 10:45:42AM +0100, Paolo Molaro wrote:
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 07:32:27PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
Package stunnel version 2.1-2 has an unmet dep:
Depends: libssl09
Stunnel is in potato, libssl09 in slink: I guess this is the
CSOBNS again (continuing saga of
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Laurent Martelli wrote:
ChL == Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ChL Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled.
What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say,
even if they can't or do not have the time to contribute with code
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
Since the recent discussion with Richard Stallman about the unsatisfied
suggests message, I have undertaken the examination of the main archives.
The script that I am working on unpacks all of the
Would it be possible to have files such as Contents*.gz also provided in bzip2
format to reduce download times when using slow links?
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote:
They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to
Debian lists and give their feedback and advice, which developers are
free to follow or ignore. But they do not,
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote:
If there are optional packages that conflict with each other, we should
choose one to stay in optional and move the others to extra. (Or change/
clarify the definition on the policy manual).
The manual should be fixed IMHO - there are lots of
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 01:22:56PM +, Russell Coker wrote:
Would it be possible to have files such as Contents*.gz also provided in bzip2
format to reduce download times when using slow links?
Good idea. And Packages files too.
But that would need implementation in dselect, and will only
WHO
needs the mSQL database?
For quite a while I'm very unhappy with it. For half a year I have
worked actively in moving to a different db. Yesterday I ported the
last remaining program at home which was based on mSQL to PostgreSQL
though a general SQL API.
There are however some programs
At 11:32 PM 1/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Brent Fulgham wrote:
2.2. diald/ppp in slink does not work with 2.2.0-pre7 (on my box, at
least). I am sure that there are other things as well.
I'm sure you were aware that you have to upgrade your pppd to work with any
of the
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote:
If there are optional packages that conflict with each other, we should
choose one to stay in optional and move the others to extra. (Or change/
clarify the definition on the policy manual).
The manual
severity 31824 important
thanks
Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
shouldn't we mark #31824 (html2ps: can't execute) as critical?
html2ps does not work at all with this bug. Fortunately the bug
can be fixed by deleting an erroneous character in the script.
I believe we should. netgod will upload a new
Would anyone object if kernel 2.2 were packaged up at least as a
kernel-source package for slink? 2.0.3x would remain slink's default kernel,
would be used on the boot disks, etc, but this would let people get ahold of
kernel 2.2 easily on a debian cdrom, and it would let us say that
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
shouldn't we mark #31824 (html2ps: can't execute) as critical?
html2ps does not work at all with this bug.
Not critical but grave, since it makes the package in question
unuseable or mostly so.
Fortunately the bug
can be fixed by deleting an
Brian make any difference. Both will show up in dselect and it would
Brian be trivial for someone to install the new kernel... and then
Heh, thats the idea. :-)
Brian wonder why things don't work.
Little things that few notice, apparently -- I would've sworn slink
and 2.2.0-final
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 09:25:14AM -0500, Brian White wrote:
There is precedent for this as there is a 2.1.125 package in slink now.
I think it's not a big deal if there are big disclaimers attached that
slink is not a 2.2 targetted dist.
Disclamers are of marginal use. It will appear as
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
Just thought I would bring this up one more time and run it by everyone.
This can be considered a draft of what I'd like to put in the release
notes.
[...]
Furthermore, the X font and static library packages have been renamed. The
following
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 03:45:46PM +0100, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
Btw, how much is a stone throw?
According to the map I used it's 62.5 km (if you go by plane). By train it
will take 1.5 h .
Christoph
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* Christoph Baumann *
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote:
If there are optional packages that conflict with each other, we should
choose one to stay in optional and move the others to extra. (Or change/
clarify the
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote:
I'll share that fantasy. As linux becomes more and more mainstream, it's
going to be even more difficult to dream. Of course, the reality is that
most users don't need the 2.2 kernel anyway.
unfortunately (maybe) for Debian, very few inexperienced
Is anybody from Dortmund / Germany or around here? I'd like to become a
maintainer and need somebody to sign my PGP key.
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote:
Including the source package I could be convinced of. At least then
people have to think about what they're doing before causing potential
problems.
This think about what they are doing thing is precisely one of the
reasons the extra priority does
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 01:22:32AM -0500, Stevie Strickland wrote:
that's the good news. the bad news is that it was all done in turbo
pascal. however, the algorithms were clean and readable, so easily
ported to C.
if you're interested, i'll dig up the files (i still have them on tape
There is precedent for this as there is a 2.1.125 package in slink now.
I think it's not a big deal if there are big disclaimers attached that
slink is not a 2.2 targetted dist.
Disclamers are of marginal use. It will appear as installable and tell
people to install me just as an
Including the source package I could be convinced of. At least then
people have to think about what they're doing before causing potential
problems.
This think about what they are doing thing is precisely one of the
reasons the extra priority does exist.
According to this it should
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if you're interested, i'll dig up the files (i still have them on tape
somewhere...i think. dusty old code from the early 90s :-) and mail them
to you. i'll GPL them first, so you can do what you want with them.
Cool! I'd always be glad to look at
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