I'm sorry about the tone, but I'm getting very sick of repeating myself
over and over.
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 08:26:19PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
snip
I've been working with the previous perl5.005 package (the one that had
been uploaded to slink and retracted after) and I did not have
I've finally gotten around to making a simple skeleton for packaging
kernel modules. When I have some more free time I'll expand it a bit
and write some documentation to go with it. Oh, and I might test it
since it's currently completely untested :).
Anyway, for the interested the files are at
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
I've finally gotten around to making a simple skeleton for packaging
kernel modules. When I have some more free time I'll expand it a bit
and write some documentation to go with it. Oh, and I might test it
since it's currently completely untested :).
Anyway, for the
Previously Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
ssh-add is already started from /etc/X11/Xsession, if you have ssh
installed. Other than that, you're right, of course.
Actually ssh-agent is started.
I was thinking of some simple, global solution, available from the menu. I
suspect that simple and
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 09:58:16AM -0400, Collins M. Ben wrote:
glibc 2.1+ in potato is going to require a 2.2 kernel so this wont help.
To be honest I am not sure how you passed the preinst phase since it
should fail to even unpack the glibc
EZ == Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
EZ with its changelog, control file, rules file and so on...). That
EZ may probably be fixed by implementing a debhelper tool just for
EZ building metapackages.
This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
Ciao,
Martin
Adam It wouldn't hurt but I don't think it's necessary. glibc2.1 can
Adam drop-in replace 2.0 (unless you have a program that depends on
Adam certain internal stuff which it shouldn't be using anyway).
Octave doesn't depend on internal stuff, but still fails when a glibc2.0
compiled
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make nice
metapackages which play nice?
--
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Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Voila. Elegant, uses the existing packaging system (i.e., no need to
skip the select step in dselect),
This is the main point against your approach. We introduced the tasks and
profiles to avoid going through the list of 3000 packages in dselect.
ADC == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ADC Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is exactly the thing the equivs package will do.
ADC Does equivs implement this through skullduggery, or does it make
ADC nice metapackages which play nice?
Well, It could be extended, but I
I've discovered something interesting.
# cp /bin/bash /tmp
# chmod u+s /tmp/bash
$ /tmp/bash
$ whoami
karlheg
# cp /usr/bin/zsh /tmp
# chmod u+s /tmp/zsh
$ /tmp/zsh
# whoami
root
Perhaps we should have a policy that says all of our shells should
follow the Bash behaviour?
Karl == Karl M Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Karl Perhaps we should have a policy that says all of our shells
Karl should follow the Bash behaviour?
This would help a *tiny* bit, but there are many many programs other
than shells that will wreak havoc if they're made set-uid.
According to Aaron Van Couwenberghe:
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:14:24PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote:
This means that upgrading perl (whenever it is done) will need the same
degree
of care applied as for dpkg, dselect, boot-floppies, debian-cd and all other
essential parts of debian
According to Michael Stone:
The only thing [new in Perl 5.005] I've heard so far is threading,
which AFAIK is too unstable to be in stable.
Agreed about threading.
But the list of New Stuff also includes:
* References as thrown exceptions ('die $object', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]method')
*
On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:06:27PM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote:
Hmmm, now that I've uploaded cd-discid I guess I better write an intent to
package for it :)
cd-discid has long been bundled in cdgrab, but since cdgrab changes so much
more quickly, and is a simple shell script, the other
Hi,I'm packaging software, t-gnus.
(ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/GNU/elisp/chamonix/gnus/)
t-gnus is latest branch of Semi-gnus.
Semi-gnus is Replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI.
and Debian package is available. (main/news).
SEMI is Library to provide MIME feature for GNU Emacs.
Debian package
From: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homapages in list of maintainers
Date: 10 May 1999 15:02:11 -0400
Yes, well, it takes from 4 weeks to 6 months or longer for *all*
people. I agree this should be shorter... Anyhow Debian-JP is *not*
getting singled out. Everyone has this
From: John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homapages in list of maintainers
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:26:29 -0700
I think it would be great for Debian JP and Debian to find someone
in Japan who can do interviews in Japan and report to the new-maintainer
people in Debian proper (in
Le Mon, May 10, 1999 at 07:12:55PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull écrivait:
I highly question your ability to fill this role as it is quite clear
that you have not been following the perl5.005 stuff, specificly the
debian-perl list and the massages on -devel before -perl existed about
how to attack
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 03:33:54PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
: Um, non-us has been terribly broken since BEFORE I was a developer. In
: fact, it was broken when I first installed Bo a year and a half ago.
:
: And the biggest rub of all has been that the archive maintainers couldn't
: do
Takuro KITAME [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,I'm packaging software, t-gnus.
(ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/GNU/elisp/chamonix/gnus/)
t-gnus is latest branch of Semi-gnus.
Semi-gnus is Replacement of Gnus with gnus-mime for SEMI.
and Debian package is available. (main/news).
SEMI is Library to
Atsuhito Kohda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is no requirement that I know of that any identification must be
written in English.
It is practically very important to know what is acceptable and
what is not as identification. Does this mean Japanese
About debian/tmp and friends: something I'd like would be to run make
install on some dir like debian/INSTALL/, and have dh_movefiles take
files from this one. This would provide greater consistency between
binary packages (get rid of this concept of main package), and
simplify things when
Hi,
several of my uploads to non-us have been processed last night. Now I have
only one question, were have the uploads landed? I mean, I am very happy
that I got confirmation messages, but now I have REJECTED:
Rejected: gnupg_0.9.5-1_m68k.deb: Old version 9.5-1' = new version 9.5-1'.
but I cant
Here's my .xsession... it assumes the window manager is not the session
controller, and something else is (but that can be changed pretty easily)
---
file: .xsession
---
#!/bin/bash
#
# logout button .xsession allowing fav window mgr by Jim Lynch
#
# This .xsession prepares for gnome by having
On May 10, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
There's also another thing that need to be worked on, the CDs. The
script creating the images is not smart enough to select just the
good number of packages for each CDs. Currently, the two binary CDs
can still be generated for potato but not the source
At Mon, 10 May 1999 13:26:29 -0700,
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the way, I want to see ruby packaged ! I hear that
it is already packaged for Debian JP. I ran the fibonacci test in the
source and it really beat perl badly. I even improved the perl version
and ruby
For m68k-mac and powermac we need 'hybrid' cd-images (msdos + hfs).
slink-cd makes HFS hybrid CDs for m68k already; I'm pretty sure I
asked Steve to use the HFS options for PowerPC too (so the code's
already there...)
Great! One point i can strike off from my todo list. Thanks.
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 11:06:22AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
My nightly dbuild cron job has started to fail. I haven't had time to
investigate why, and before I allocate the time, I'd like to offer the
package for someone else to maintain and run. I don't have the
time to do a good job on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chris Waters writes:
I *strongly* oppose eliminating it, and I'm not real big on the idea
of making the default be off. Installing new packages takes a
while, I don't mind a few extra moments there. I *do* mind run-time
delays, even if they're small,
does buildd have a package ?
Not yet. James is working on it, but it's not trivial and may take
some time (and James and James2 are constantly low on spare time :-)
can it be used interactively, and not as a demon ?
Yes and no :-) buildd itself is non-interactive, of course, but it
uses a
I've now uploaded a packaged version of YADA, the packaging helper
which I RFCed you about a couple of weeks ago, and which surprisingly
(to me, anyway) got a mention in Debian Weekly News. Woo!
Lots of random thoughts follow. Let me know if you have comments. If
you're willing for the
As many of you know, I'm currently the Debian Press Contact.
Unfortunately, I've had less and less time to work on press and publicity
related issues lately as other things (SPI work and 'real work') have come
to to the forefront, as well as a move next month. I'm looking for help in
Can someone please package plib, which is Steve's Portable Game Library.
It has a LGPL license so it can go into main without problem.
The reason I want this is so I can try `Tuxedo T. Penguin, A Quest for
Herring' (http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/tux_aqfh/). If someone can
package that as well
Dear Sir,
I am not sure whether this is the right place to post
this mail.
We have developed a Chinese version of X-window system
several years ago, and now we have developed one for
Linux,
It is fully compatible with X11R6, including a Chinese
IME(Input Method Editor).
This Chinese version can
Hi,
already found a problem: comment lines in /etc/X11/window-managers that
match the chosen favorite window manager cause the script to fail weirdly...
Problem reported by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
this patch filters comment lines first. (Note to Branden: you might want
to use this logic, or something
I will package ezbounce (http://druglord.freelsd.org/ezbounce/)
- an irc proxy that lets you detach from your session and
reattach later. It's GPL.
ETA today.
--
Havoc Consulting | unix, linux, perl, mail, www, internet, security consulting
+358 50 5486010 |
At Mon, 10 May 1999 13:26:29 -0700,
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it would be great for Debian JP and Debian to find someone
in Japan who can do interviews in Japan and report to the new-maintainer
people in Debian proper (in Europe or U.S.) That is to say, it would
be
If you are following unstable and are using PAM, and more specifically
the pam-apps package. I highly suggest that you do not upgrade
to xterm 3.3.3.1-3.
I repeat: do NOT upgrade to xterm 3.3.3.1-3 if you use pam-apps.
The problem is that there is a rather annoying bug in the Unix98 pty
support
Source: ada-mode
Maintainer: Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Standards-Version: 2.5.1.0
Package: ada-mode
Architecture: all
Depends: emacsen
Suggests: gnat
Description: Ada mode for Emacs and XEmacs
This is a major mode for editing Ada files in Emacs/XEmacs.
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
Oscar Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been distracted by revenue production for a couple of months.
Are we expected to upload our packages rebuilt for glibc2.1?
It wouldn't hurt but I don't think it's necessary. glibc2.1 can
drop-in replace 2.0 (unless you
In foo.debian-devel, Wichert wrote:
Can someone please package plib, which is Steve's Portable Game Library.
It has a LGPL license so it can go into main without problem.
The reason I want this is so I can try `Tuxedo T. Penguin, A Quest for
Herring'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
already found a problem: comment lines in /etc/X11/window-managers that
match the chosen favorite window manager cause the script to fail weirdly...
Problem reported by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
this patch filters comment lines first. (Note to Branden: you might want
On Mon, 10 May 1999, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
So if you have beefs with how kde is currently being done from a debian
package
standpoint and would like to see them done differently please let me know.
Here
is a current list of things that people have already stated needed to be
changed
Quoting Sergey V Kovalyov [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I wonder, is it only me and a screwed potato on my test computer or other
people as well have problems with kde 1.1.1 ?
The symptoms are at least:
- can't run kappfinder: dies with $(install_root)/usr/share/applink file
not found
- Mime
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Source: ogonkify
Section: text
Priority: extra
Description: Package for printing ISO-Latin-2 on PostScript printers
Upstream-source: URL:ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/jec/programs/
Home-Page: URL:http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/ogonkify/
Copyright: GPL
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 10:56:34PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
Description: Package for printing ISO-Latin-2 on PostScript printers
This is already part of the a2ps package. Are you coordinating with the
maintainter of that package?
Mike Stone
pgp4ABRu59oOQ.pgp
Description: PGP signature
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 01:41:25PM -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote:
In foo.debian-devel, Wichert wrote:
Can someone please package plib, which is Steve's Portable Game Library.
It has a LGPL license so it can go into main without problem.
The reason I want this is so I can try `Tuxedo T.
Previously Mitch Blevins wrote:
I can't resolve that domain. Are you sure of the URL?
Yes, but the DNS seems to be down now. Be patient :)
Wichert.
--
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This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by
I say that the coding style ought to be as follows:
* Everyone ought to write code such that indentation and placement of
block elements on code are such that the ability of others to read
the code is maximized.
Additionally, I should mention that the below guidelines are very
Raphael Hertzog writes:
There's also another thing that need to be worked on, the CDs. The
script creating the images is not smart enough to select just the
good number of packages for each CDs.
Agreed. Help on this aspect gratefully received...
Currently, the two binary CDs
can still be
Chris Lawrence writes:
slink-cd makes HFS hybrid CDs for m68k already; I'm pretty sure I
asked Steve to use the HFS options for PowerPC too (so the code's
already there...)
Yep, you're correct.
--
Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
a
Adam Di Carlo writes:
Debian-CD has a number of problems that need fixing; see the Bugs
against the package. Join debian-cd to help.
That would be useful. I _am_ working on things when I get a chance, even
if I have been a little quiet of late.
Are we going to go ahead and try out my new
From: Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homapages in list of maintainers
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 01:23:21 +0900
I think it would be great for Debian JP and Debian to find someone
in Japan who can do interviews in Japan and report to the new-maintainer
people in Debian proper
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