Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Gergely Madarasz wrote: But is that specific problem Debian/slink related..? That is, does it work correctly with potato? No, it does not work correctly with potato either. It seems to be a general incompatibility

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We also need working DHCP and BOOTP support in Slink otherwise those people cannot use 2.2 kernels - potatos DHCP package has support for 2.2 (and 2.0) but I don't know about bootp. dhcp-beta has worked on 2.1* as long as I can remember. Unless

Re: What's needed for kernel 2.2

1999-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:40:21PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote: - Pcmcia-cs 3.0.6 ; cardmgr -V While the userland binaries appear to work fine, the PCMCIA kernel module source in slink will not build with 2.2 kernels. Version 3.0.8 fixes this. -- Mark Brown

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Brian White
In my more than honest opinion, I think util-linux 2.9g should be included in slink. Developments in the computer business are going fast, as everyone knows, and on the day slink will get released, I think a lot of people who are going to upgrade to slink, also want to have the newest kernel,

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-27 Thread Raul Miller
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the GIMP contests specify that you need to use GIMP for creating the image. But you're right, there's really no way to check that. Also, there's a -- perhaps subtle -- difference using GIMP exclusively and using it as but one of a variety of

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Brian White
Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen. I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago. Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol.com/~vincent/ (NB: there are _2_ binary packages to install:

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: The mail spool MUST be accessible through /var/mail AND /var/spool/mail, and spool files MUST take the form /var/{spool/}mail/$LOGNAME. Either /var/mail or /var/spool/mail, or both, MAY be symbolic links to another directory. That sounds good to me

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:14:04PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We also need working DHCP and BOOTP support in Slink otherwise those people cannot use 2.2 kernels - potatos DHCP package has support for 2.2 (and 2.0) but I don't know about bootp.

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Mark Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:14:04PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: dhcp-beta has worked on 2.1* as long as I can remember. Unless you're talking about dhcpcd? I couldn't get either to work when I started using the -pre series. However, ISTR that at

Re: linux 2.2.0: System is 666kB

1999-01-27 Thread Joel Klecker
At 10:02 + 1999-01-26, Enrique Zanardi wrote: (BTW, is kernel-headers still needed? libc6-dev ships with a full set of headers, doesn't it?) I still need the kernel-headers to build glibc (whether or not they are in a package doesn't really matter, but it would help with source

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
From: Florian La Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:44:20 +0100 How can changing from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail be a full solution for the next years to come? Many people think that the mail-dir solution that e.g. qmail and mutt support is the real solution

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Jason Gunthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): We also need working DHCP and BOOTP support in Slink otherwise those people cannot use 2.2 kernels - potatos DHCP package has support for 2.2 (and 2.0) but I don't know about bootp. dhcp-beta has

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Most Mail User Agents for standard Unix systems look in /var/mail/user for the user's mailbox. So if qmail is switching to ~/Mailbox, then they have to solve the problem for all of the various MUA's out there, and that is really qmail's and mutt's problem. I assume someone in that community

further discussion on mail spool to lsb-spec@linuxbase.org

1999-01-27 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Please move any further discussion on over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The current scope of the discussion is narrow enough that we can trim down the Cc list. My next post will be over there... Thanks. - Dan

kernel-source-2.2.0_2.2.0-1.diff.gz, odd contents

1999-01-27 Thread Oscar Levi
In scanning the contents of this file in Incoming, I some mysterious NULL bytes. Is this intentional? zless kernel-source-2.2.0_2.2.0-1.diff.gz

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Mikolaj J. Habryn
VR == Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VR Including the current (2.9g-5) util-linux from unstable in VR frozen is a Bad Idea(tm). This version has several big VR packaging issues. On top of everything else, alpha support (and quite possibly other non-x86 architectures)

Re: WARNING: Re: debhelper /usr/bin/passwd

1999-01-27 Thread Frozen Rose
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday I fixed a bug in dh_link, bug #23255. That bug concerns a different package that diverts /usr/bin/{passwd,chsh,chfn}, and needed to set up some symlinks from sysdb-wrapper to them using dh_link. Talk about

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Kragen Sitaker
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: Most Mail User Agents for standard Unix systems look in /var/mail/user for the user's mailbox. So if qmail is switching to ~/Mailbox, then they have to solve the problem for all of the various MUA's out there, and that is really qmail's and mutt's

Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Stephen Crowley
I know some of you may want to shoot me but Xconfigurator is the redhat Xfree configuration utility, it's a hacked up xf86config that scans the pci bus to auto-detect the vid card, has a monitor database, and has a nice looking slang interface too. It will need a quite a few modifications to work

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Vincent Renardias
On 27 Jan 1999, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: VR == Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VR Including the current (2.9g-5) util-linux from unstable in VR frozen is a Bad Idea(tm). This version has several big VR packaging issues. On top of everything else, alpha support

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Mikolaj J. Habryn
VR == Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: VR The 2.9 Debian package already contains the alpha patches VR supplied by Christopher C Chimelis VR [EMAIL PROTECTED] (see bug report #17661). I am VR not aware of any other patch or problem specific to the alpha VR

Re: Release notes for slink

1999-01-27 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stardate 250199.2228: How about adding that the xvidtune program is in the xf86setup package? Some users may be confident enough about their X configuration not to bother installing xf86setup, and then miss xvidtune. If they are confident about there

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Stephen Crowley
Sorry to reply to myself but I left part of the license off. On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:22:08PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote: Copyright (c) 1994 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. Copyright (c) 1998 Red Hat Software, Inc. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Most Mail User Agents for standard Unix systems look in /var/mail/user for the user's mailbox. So if qmail is switching to ~/Mailbox, then they have to solve the problem for all of the various MUA's out there, and that is really qmail's and mutt's

Re: Getting Slink compatible with Linux-2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
The guys running the big machines are going to be a minority and should have no problem downloading util-linux. Even over a modem, its probably OK. It may be not worth it to risk the instability for the vast majority. The kernel source itself may be a problem for a slow or

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Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Crowley quotes: Except as contained in this notice, neither the name of the XFree86 Project or Red Hat Software shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the XFree86 Project. The

Intent-to-package: XGGI

1999-01-27 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
XGGI is an X server based on XF86 code that will run under any supported libGGI target. Currently, other than a few XF 3.3.3.1 compliance points, XGGI works fine; it's been tested with the X target, the fb target, the emu target. shall I go on? I don't think anyone's tried AA yet.

Re: Intent-to-package: XGGI

1999-01-27 Thread Joey Hess
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: XGGI is an X server based on XF86 code that will run under any supported libGGI target. Currently, other than a few XF 3.3.3.1 compliance points, XGGI works fine; it's been tested with the X target, the fb target, the emu target. shall I go on? I don't

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 05:37:53PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Most Mail User Agents for standard Unix systems look in /var/mail/user for the user's mailbox. So if qmail is switching to ~/Mailbox, then they have to solve the problem for all of the various MUA's out there, and that is

An improved rolldice utility

1999-01-27 Thread Colin Plumb
As I care passionately about random numbers, I wrote a version which generates *perfect* results. As per feature requests, it accepts d% as an alias for d100, and interprets a base % as a request for the RoleMaster d100 re-rolling rules as I understand them from the description given. Someone

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 08:22:08PM -0600, Stephen Crowley wrote: I know some of you may want to shoot me but Xconfigurator is the redhat Xfree configuration utility, it's a hacked up xf86config that scans the pci bus to auto-detect the vid card, has a monitor database, and has a nice looking

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Braakman
John Hasler wrote: Stephen Crowley quotes: Except as contained in this notice, neither the name of the XFree86 Project or Red Hat Software shall not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: We do not officially support the 2.2 kernel in Slink. People who want to use 2.2 will have to compile it themselves and may have to upgrade some packages. But what about shipping an extra directory support_2.2 which contains the kernel packages and the

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Jernej Zajc
Vincent Renardias wrote: Ok, so if we really want a Debian 2.1 that is 100% kernel 2.2.x compatible it needs this package to be included in frozen. I've just uploaded it in Incoming/ 10 minutes ago. Non-developers can also access it at http://www.ldsol.com/~vincent/ (NB: there are _2_

ODP: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Rafal Pietrak
Hi all, I know that it's a bit out-off-the-line (that is, the solution I'll propose), I don't have anything to add the current */mail* discussion, but please don't flame me, the solution is just an idea that may be somebody from the current discussion audience could take if one likes it. The

Re: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:51:40PM +1100, Brian May wrote: Also, I suspect that some people might be confusing ~/Mailbox and ~/Maildir issues. These are two completely different issues. Maildir comes from Qmail, but my guess is that ~/Mailbox didn't. Qmail has a program that will automatically

Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Adam Klein
wterm is another Rxvt hack. It is designed for use with Window Maker, although it will work fine with any window manager. It includes transparency, N*XTStep-like scroll bars, and colored shading. It is smaller and faster than Eterm. You can find it at http://wm.current.nu/files.html#wterm.

Re: Hardcore baby!!! Yeah!!!!

1999-01-27 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 10:45:57PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ pathetic attempt at sex spam snipped ] Can we PLEASE enforce our spam policy and make these people pay for their crimes against humanity? -- I'm working in the dark here. Yeah well rumor has it you do your best work in the

Re: Rolldice 1.1

1999-01-27 Thread Colin Plumb
Stevie Strickland wrote: Because not all Debian GNU/Linux systems have /dev/urandom (at least I, personally, had to mknod c 1 9 /dev/urandom myself), and I want this running on any basic system... eventually, when I had more time (like this weekend), I was going to add a command line option to

Re: Rolldice 1.1

1999-01-27 Thread Peter Makholm
Colin Plumb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, here's a modified version, with a good RNG (a variant of George Marsaglia's highly-regarded KISS generator) stuck in for the cases where /dev/urandom isn't available. It's seeded with gettimeofday(), getpid() and getppid(). Is this part of

Re: filters: Licence problems

1999-01-27 Thread Alexander N. Benner
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Edward Betts, Stardate 260199.2004: touch: /bin/cat: Permission denied yeah, happened here too. It's because the un*x version of cat has a multiuser license. You have to register as root for the whole system: 7:36:40~ %sudo touch /bin/cat [EMAIL

Re: Rolldice 1.1

1999-01-27 Thread Stevie Strickland
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:25:46AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: I just wondered what it haves to do with debian? Debian-devel is for developer for the Debian Distibution, not for general developer of any kind of free software. Yes, I agree wholeheartedly... since the previous two messages

Re: What's needed for kernel 2.2

1999-01-27 Thread Dale E. Martin
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 07:59:29PM +0100, Remco van de Meent wrote: I just discovered, unfortunately, that you need the util-linux package from potato (unstable). Rest of the things in slink are fine with 2.2.0!! Why's that? I'm using the one from

Re: Intent to package: micq

1999-01-27 Thread Mark Ng
I'm going to pyut my maintainer application in RSN (I have to scan in my license *grumble*) After that, I would like to package micq, which is a text mode icq client, which is in the public domain. I already have preliminary version packaged. A while back I saw someone working on

Re: ODP: Resolutions to comments on LSB-FHS-TS_SPEC_V1.0

1999-01-27 Thread Husain Al-Mohssen
I think that this is a good idea (IMHO as u would guess :) . I think that for far too long we have been chopping up our disks for this reason and losing alot of flexibility (and money if not sleep) because of this. I think that Linux needs new ideas in it or it would be just another very good

Intent to package Open Source Erlang

1999-01-27 Thread Mark Ng
Erlang is a pseudo functional language from Ericsson. It has support for con-current and distrubuted programming. erlang-47.4.0 had been released as Open Source last year.

Re: Intent to package: micq

1999-01-27 Thread Mark Ng
I'm going to pyut my maintainer application in RSN (I have to scan in my license *grumble*) After that, I would like to package micq, which is a text mode icq client, which is in the public domain. I already have preliminary version packaged. Actually, according to the

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: wterm is another Rxvt hack. It is designed for use with Window Maker, although it will work fine with any window manager. It includes transparency, N*XTStep-like scroll bars, and colored shading. Yes!!! Someone bit!!! g A

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Brian White
We do not officially support the 2.2 kernel in Slink. People who want to use 2.2 will have to compile it themselves and may have to upgrade some packages. But what about shipping an extra directory support_2.2 which contains the kernel packages and the necessary utilities together with

Intent to package: olex

1999-01-27 Thread Lalo Martins
[#include not.subscribed.to.debian-devel.h] While doing my necessary daily check of Slashdot and Freshmeat, I noticed two programs I will most likely use - one is irssi, a GTK IRC client that runs in the panel, but I can't package it now because none of my GTK-1.1 stuff is working (figures I'll

Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
Hey gang, I'm looking for someone to take over the Imlib packages. I have had increasingly less time to work on them, and quite frankly are burning me out. It's an important package now, not just in the domain of Enlightenment, but also in all of GNOME now. Any people interested should be

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:17:39AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: wterm is another Rxvt hack. It is designed for use with Window Maker, although it will work fine with any window manager. It includes transparency,

Re: Intent to package wterm

1999-01-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:40:47AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:17:39AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:06:34AM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: wterm is another Rxvt hack. It is designed for use with Window Maker, although it will

Re: Bug#29352: Emacs postrm doesn't remove its site-lisp directory

1999-01-27 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes: When emacs20 is de-installed or upgraded to a version with a different minor number, the /usr/share/emacs/20.x directory will probably not be removed as there will most likely be some junk left in it by other packages. Since the directory is then

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Kenneth Scharf
While at it, why not add monitor detection, like windows can do? Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 01:23:29 -0500 From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Brian, If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what you think. Thanks, -Ossama On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: Hey gang, I'm looking for someone to take over the Imlib packages. I have had increasingly less time to work on them, and quite frankly

Platforms Four

1999-01-27 Thread Darren Benham
I just committed the final platform to the web source CVS. By this evening, it should be up on www.debian.org and tomarrow the major mirrors should have it. Once again, the link is http://vote.debian.org/1999/vote_0001 --

Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, There are two imlib maintainers listed on the People Behind Debian web page, Brian and Shaleh. Is that right? :) Thanks, -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: To do so would indicate that Slink officially supports v2.2 of the kernel, which it does not. What about a README file that says: No, Debian doesn't officially support 2.2, but for those people who hadn't enough bandwidth but enough courage here are the

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:14:57PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: There are two imlib maintainers listed on the People Behind Debian web page, Brian and Shaleh. Is that right? :) No. Shaleh was the maintainer before me.

Re: Looking for someone to take over Imlib

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 11:57:39AM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: If no one else will take your Imlib packages, I will. Let me know what you think. They're yours.

RE: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
On 27-Jan-99 Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, There are two imlib maintainers listed on the People Behind Debian web page, Brian and Shaleh. Is that right? :) Thanks, -Ossama The right answer is hell no (= The detailed answer is I used to maintain it and hamm still contains the packages I

Re: Intent to package: Xconfigurator

1999-01-27 Thread Stephen Crowley
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:40:18AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: While at it, why not add monitor detection, like windows can do? I plan on doing that, but the VESA DDC specifications are not freely available, I'm going to call VESA today and see if I can find out anything about the specs, I

RE: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, The right answer is hell no (= I get the feeling nobody wants these packages. Did I just make a boneheaded move by accepting the Imlib packages? :) -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F

RE: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: I get the feeling nobody wants these packages. Did I just make a boneheaded move by accepting the Imlib packages? :) I'm very happy that you took the package, because I'm heavyly dependend from it. In my humble opinion maintaining is not so hard,

-rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I'm bringing this conversation (with permission) to debian-devel@lists.debian.org because my knowledge of how -rpath works is limited. To recap, for the Debian folks: libtool, a tool for creating libraries and linking programs with those libraries on multiple platforms, forces all programs it

RE: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
On 27-Jan-99 Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, The right answer is hell no (= I get the feeling nobody wants these packages. Did I just make a boneheaded move by accepting the Imlib packages? :) -Ossama Raster and I had philosophical differences, which made the maintainer/author relationship

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 01:53:44PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Raster and I had philosophical differences, which made the maintainer/author relationship hard. Give it a shot, if you can't do it someone else will step in. Same reason here. Just took me a few months to really realize it =)

Intent to package xfntbase, xfnt75, etc.

1999-01-27 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. I intend to package all the dummy packages we have been talking about. They match the packages that changed its name in the great X reorganization. My rationale for creating these packages is the following: *) Since dselect's default behaviour is to upgrade everything, most people *will*

Re: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:41:45PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: I'm very happy that you took the package, because I'm heavyly dependend from it. In my humble opinion maintaining is not so hard, because the program compiled well in all version I compiled myself (sometimes there where reasons

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is bad for Debian, because in all binary packaging systems, shared libraries can and will be moved around from time to time, as policy and major upgrades (like libc5 - libc6) mandate. You might have included my suggestion to

Re: Reality check! [was: Re: Debian goes big business?]

1999-01-27 Thread John Lapeyre
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 01:32:28PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: I guess I should add this to my last post about how bad the installation is. The boot floppies themselves and apt are quite good. Getting the base system on is easy for someone

Intent to package: PARI/GP and STL Documentation

1999-01-27 Thread Jonas Rathert
Hi there, first of all: I'd say hello to every volunteer working for debian - great project, nice system. Thank you all. After using debian since 0.93R6 I just started to learn something more about creating packages and how to help the debian development. There are two things I'd like to add

struct iface

1999-01-27 Thread Marcelino Valles Sánchez
Does anyone know where is the struct iface definition for the networking code?. The structure ifaddr has a pointer to it but i can't find it.

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 17:07:30 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: You might have included my suggestion to prevent having to move libraries in the first place: creating a libc6-specific directory right now, instead of installing libraries in /usr/lib and having to move them into another directory

Re: Intent to package: olex

1999-01-27 Thread Lalo Martins
[#include not.subscribed.to.these.lists.please.cc.replies.h] Shaleh hinted that I might want to look at the Olex license. It does put some restriction on output - which, differently from the buttonware discussion a while ago, seems legitimate to me since Olex output is full of code written by the

spectremu - zx spectrum emulator.

1999-01-27 Thread John Travers
Hi, my name is John Travers, I have been using debian for about 8 months and have also been using a zx spectrum emulator called spectremu. It is distributed under the GNU GPL. I was wondering if anyone was packaging this (they are not according to the docs) and if not if you think it a good idea

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Alexandre == Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexandre You might have included my suggestion to prevent having Alexandre to move libraries in the first place: creating a Alexandre libc6-specific directory right now, instead of Alexandre installing libraries in /usr/lib

Re: Intent to package: olex

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
I decided not to package or help this project because of the original license -- either GPL your code or dont use Olex. The author is a good guy and is just trying to promote free software and make sure his work is not used to make proprietary software. I think this license is free enough. The

Re: spectremu - zx spectrum emulator.

1999-01-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 07:41:42PM +, John Travers wrote: have also been using a zx spectrum emulator called spectremu. Does it have an URL? It is distributed under the GNU GPL. Great. if not if you think it a good idea if I did. Please do. Remember to read the Policy Manual,

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, J.H.M. Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 17:07:30 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote: You might have included my suggestion to prevent having to move libraries in the first place: creating a libc6-specific directory right now, instead of installing libraries

Re: Intent to package: PARI/GP and STL Documentation

1999-01-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 08:19:35PM +0100, Jonas Rathert wrote: Second the html-documentation of the Standard Template Library. I saw this on WNPP an wrote an email to the maintainer, but did not get any answer. Do you mean this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:58:40]:~$ dpkg -s stl-manual Package:

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never understood what the .la scripts are for. They contain inter-library dependency information, the location and the name of the actual library, and any additional run-time paths needed for the library dependencies. libtool (1.2d)

GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi guys, Another quick question... Why does potato's GNOME require slink's gtk/gnome/etc libs? -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58 60 1A E8 7A 66 F4 44 74 9F 3C D4 EF BF 35 88 1024/8A04D15D 1998/08/26

Re: GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi guys, Another quick question... Why does potato's GNOME require slink's gtk/gnome/etc libs? Because potato is not yet a complete distribution, and should be 'overlayed' over slink?

Re: spectremu - zx spectrum emulator.

1999-01-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 09:56:10PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Please do. Remember to read the Policy Manual, Developer's Reference and Packaging manual first, if you haven't already. You can find them at the Developer's Corner of the Debian website. And the new maintainers' guide,

Re: GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-27 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Jules, Another quick question... Why does potato's GNOME require slink's gtk/gnome/etc libs? Because potato is not yet a complete distribution, and should be 'overlayed' over slink? Ah, I see. I did a clean potato installation, i.e. not over slink. Anyone have any idea when GNOME

slink machine available for compiling and abuse

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
Hi all, I just setup a VAIO laptop running Slink. It is 100% pure slink. If anyone needs a package recompiled, I will gladly do so and upload it for you. I can also do some testing of package installs, although that could be more limited as I actually need to USE this laptop. I have a huge oc3

slink needs pcmcia-cs version 3.0.8 to support 2.2 kernels

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
I am glad slink will ship with 2.2. However laptop users need a new version of the pcmcia packages for this to work. I can make an nmu if needed. See my previous email.

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Jules Bean
On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Having libtool default to -rpath is what's causing problems. This is IMHO completely backwards :-) When a program is linked with a shared library, a contract is established between them stating that the library (or any newer but compatible version

Re: GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-27 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi Jules, Another quick question... Why does potato's GNOME require slink's gtk/gnome/etc libs? Because potato is not yet a complete distribution, and should be 'overlayed' over slink? Ah, I see. I did a clean potato installation, i.e.

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jan 27, 1999, Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Having libtool default to -rpath is what's causing problems. This is IMHO completely backwards :-) When a program is linked with a shared library, a contract is established [...] If you move the

upload to slink allowed to fix missing dependency?

1999-01-27 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Hi, The version in slink of the debiandoc-sgml package has an undeclared dependency on the libwww-perl package. Is it still allowed to upload a corrected version? This doesn't involve any code changes, just an extra dependency declaration in the debian/control file. Thanks, Ardo -- Ardo van

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Jules Bean
On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: The contract simply states that the library will be found. Which library is used can be determined by the linker. Except that, if you replace the library with an incompatible one, you *are* breaking the contract. We don't replace libraries with

Re: libtool rpath

1999-01-27 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +case ${host} in + *-pc-linux-gnu) ^^ s/pc/*/ (pc==non-i386 unfriendly) -- James Never trust trucks

[Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available in source form]

1999-01-27 Thread Mike Goldman
Wonderful news from IBM. I will have packages up shortly. Original Message Subject: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available in source form Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:33:12 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: -rpath with libtool and Debian Linux

1999-01-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 27 Jan 1999, Alexandre Oliva wrote: Having libtool default to -rpath is what's causing problems. This is IMHO completely backwards :-) You know, I seem to remember that there is another rather unpleasent side-effect of rpath - it basically completely disables library searching and thus

RE: [Fwd: [Jikes-License] Jikes Parser Generator now available i

1999-01-27 Thread Shaleh
Now we need a free JDK and off we go (=

Re: GNOME in potato needs slink libs

1999-01-27 Thread Stephen Crowley
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 02:22:36PM -0600, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi Jules, Another quick question... Why does potato's GNOME require slink's gtk/gnome/etc libs? Because potato is not yet a complete distribution, and should be 'overlayed' over slink? Ah, I see. I did a clean

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