Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Guy Maor
Many of you are confused because you are getting messages that your packages are new when they really aren't, or perhaps dinstall is rejecting them because it can't find the orig.tar.gz. Because nonus is now divided into main, non-free, and contrib, you must specify this in the distribution or

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi, On Wed, 12 May 1999, Samuel Tardieu wrote: The following doesn't work, I must have missed something obvious. [snip] Try: deb http://pandora.debian.org potato/non-US main contrib non-free It Works For Me(tm). Cheers, Joost

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-12 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi. Thank you for your replies. I got relief to know this long waiting queue issue is rather common to all newcomers. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, well, it takes from 4 weeks to 6 months or longer for *all* people. I agree this should be

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-12 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Thank you for your reply. I'm impressed your idea. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: Debian.Org and nameservers

1999-05-12 Thread Bjorn Isaksson
On 10 May 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: [debian.org has loads of nameservers] Another thing, according to Internic only 3 servers have been registered as nameservers for debian.org: # host -t ns debian.org a.root-servers.net debian.org NS BUOY.COM debian.org

Re: Pandora is born

1999-05-12 Thread Guy Maor
Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 find it on nonus in

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 09:08:08PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: The best list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] The main problem we are facing is our official 2.2.x kernels are huge, and there's no way to put the kernel and the root.bin image on a single floppy. The proposed solution is building a

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:22:10PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: It'd also be nice to get GNOME for slink out too. All that really needs to be done is to build all of the packages we built for potato for slink. The current GNOME slink packages are not all up-to-date with the potato packages.

New non-us and main, and RSA

1999-05-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
[follow ups to -policy] I was just taking a bit of a look around the new non-us trying to figure out what our stance was on things like IDEA and RSA and unfortunately can't figure it out. :| (BTW the dns has been swtiched over.. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if there are issues) It seems from what I

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread John Lapeyre
*Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Anybody remember the old slackware adage? The kernel can load its root FS (compressed or not) from a separate floppy. this would bring us up to a measly three floppies for floppy install. Besides, most ppl will be doing CD boots anway I wouldn't mind

Upload queue software?

1999-05-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Does anyone know where I can find the software to run a debian upload queue? I thought it was packaged but I can't seem to find it using the obvois searches.. Thanks, Jason

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-12 Thread Stephen Zander
Daniel == Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel I will actually point out that although the exact number Daniel 80 is arbitrary, the general number about 80 is not. The reason for 80 chars is the Mr Hollerith decided that 80 columns was all he needed to do the US census of 1889.

/lib/libNoVersion.so.1

1999-05-12 Thread Russell Coker
I have just had this file appear on my system. It is a broken link and dpkg -S doesn't tell me anything about it. It appeared when I installed about a dozen of the latest potato packages yesterday... Does anyone know what it is about? -- I am in London and would like to meet any Linux users

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-12 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Homapages in list of maintainers Date: 11 May 1999 03:18:28 -0400 I would hope that we could accept official Japanese identification. I'd have to leave it up to James to say for sure. I believe that what kind of idetification is acceptable is

Re: dependency of magicfilter

1999-05-12 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dependency of magicfilter Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:17:47 -0400 Note that the same problem occurs when using magicfilter with gs-aladdin. You are right. So I searched the lists of BTS and found that the same problem is already reported. I

Re: Intent to package t-gnus

1999-05-12 Thread Takuro KITAME
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], ADC == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... ADC Are these two JP specific? I noticed from your uploads that the ADC install fails if LANG is unset or set as C. This kinda warned me ADC that maybe it wouldn't work for english? No. Not JP specific. Only at

Re: Upload queue software?

1999-05-12 Thread Remco van de Meent
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Does anyone know where I can find the software to run a debian upload queue? I thought it was packaged but I can't seem to find it using the obvois searches.. There is a tar.gz file in project/misc. -Remco

jdk117v3 package?

1999-05-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
a new version of jdk117 from blackdown (v3) has been released. apparently, the problems with glibc2.1 have been resolved, though i haven't checked this out myself. is anybody working on packaging it? can i help? -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086)

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AVC == Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ GNOME rebuild for slink ] AVC I can do this, albeit gradually. Um, to set a time frame, I'd say AVC I could have the majority of the gnome packages built on slink AVC (if everything works smoothly) within a week or so. Not to double

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MB == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aargh, send too early... MB So far, I have imlib, orbit, gtop, gtk-engines and I am building bone-libs right now. In the FAQ on the gnome site, there is info anout the sequence you have to use. Ciao, Martin

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many of you are confused because you are getting messages that your packages are new when they really aren't, or perhaps dinstall is rejecting them because it can't find the orig.tar.gz. Because nonus is now divided into main,

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:40:31 +0200, Samuel Tardieu wrote: What should be put in sources.list files? deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Bialasinski wrote: The vmware environment is great. Finally a way to compile for slink on a potato box. And it is great for testing. You can test installations (and take screenshots), test upgrade paths and discard the changes made during the session, so you can try again

Re: Uploaded mysql 3.22.22-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1999-05-12 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Christian Hammers wrote: Files: cf79475df098c2e9a87087404eb98a86 664 misc optional mysql_3.22.22-1.dsc 1a0eedbe7cda20845ec2e767b96ade5c 3762716 misc optional mysql_3.22.22.orig.tar.gz 9fb7fcddfad966f66d9d5b6f2e0dea00 15068 misc optional mysql_3.22.22-1.diff.gz

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:40:31PM +0200, Samuel Tardieu écrivait: The following doesn't work, I must have missed something obvious. Yes. :) deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-us/main non-us/contrib non-us/non-free It's non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free !

Re: Upload queue software?

1999-05-12 Thread Roman Hodek
Hi Jason! Does anyone know where I can find the software to run a debian upload queue? I thought it was packaged but I can't seem to find it using the obvois searches.. It's in project/misc/debianqueued-0.8.tar.gz. It's no proper Debian package because it runs on other Unixes, too (mine runs

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
So specify the section as `non-us/non-free' or `non-us/contrib'. It's fine to put something after that if you want to, `non-us/non-free/web' for example. It will just be ignored. How do I distinguish between stable and unstable in this scenario ? That goes in the changelog entry, and will

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Remco van de Meent
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: So specify the section as `non-us/non-free' or `non-us/contrib'. It's fine to put something after that if you want to, `non-us/non-free/web' for example. It will just be ignored. How do I distinguish between stable and unstable in this scenario ? By the

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:38:36PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: How do I distinguish between stable and unstable in this scenario ? How do I define that my package should go into: - unstable - non-US - main or - unstable - non-US - non-free There is something I have

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: debian/control file contains: Section: non-us/net or - unstable - non-US - non-free debian/control file contains: Section: non-us/non-free Who decides weather a non-US package goes in non-US/main, non-US/contrib or non-US/non-free? Are

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 14:08:13 +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Who decides weather a non-US package goes in non-US/main, non-US/contrib or non-US/non-free? Are there any guidelines available? This is the subject of current threads in debian-policy; please follow those. Ray -- Obsig:

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 08:09:01AM +0900, Taketoshi Sano wrote: I hope that the site for dupload established in Japan so that we can select the near site to upload our packages. In current standard /etc/dupload.conf contains chiark (uk), master (us?), erlangen (de), and giano (it). I hope

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 01:16:07PM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: On Mon, 10 May 1999, 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,

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, for example, GnuPG package would have `Section: non-US/main` in its debian/control file, and ssh would have `Section: non-US/non-free`. Ah, OK. Thanks. libapache-mod-ssl will have Section: non-US/main then. Mike. --

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:08:13PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Who decides weather a non-US package goes in non-US/main, non-US/contrib or non-US/non-free? Are there any guidelines available? Yes, actually, the Debian Free Software Guidelines :) Software that is threatened by US crypto

Re: Uploading to pandora (nonus)

1999-05-12 Thread Roman Hodek
Practical question from a porter: imagine some of my recent uploads have rejected, because they do not follow yet the new sceme. Allthough when the source package was uploaded, there was no new scheme yet. Now when I build that package I have to edit debian/control as a porter otherwise the

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Hartmut Koptein
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 images (they are too

Intent to package pipsecd

1999-05-12 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Source: pipsecd Maintainer: Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Section: net Priority: optional Standards-Version: 2.5.1.0 Package: pipsecd Architecture: any Description: IPsec tunnel implementation This package allows secure tunnels (to build virtual private networks for example) between two

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:09:02PM +0200, 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

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 08:01:44PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 01:37:19PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Or Norman Ramsey's NoWeb, which also has a large following and is language independent. ... or write in Haskell, which has standard support for literate

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 12:20:15PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MB == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aargh, send too early... MB So far, I have imlib, orbit, gtop, gtk-engines and I am building bone-libs right now. In the FAQ on the gnome site, there is info

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
WA == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WA But vmware is non-free while there is a perfect method to do the WA same without vmware: Looks like the thing I was looking for. For compilation, this should work, I will try it. WA simply create a chroot slink environment and work in

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:43:57PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: WA == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WA But vmware is non-free while there is a perfect method to do the WA same without vmware: Looks like the thing I was looking for. For compilation, this should work, I

Re: Uploaded ssh 1.2.26-4 (source i386) to non-US

1999-05-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On 12 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh (1.2.26-4) unstable; urgency=low . * make sure that ssh1 gets user suid bit set (closes: #37127) Files: 264c7c1726f8d333a7de8c356bd7a73e 619 non-us/net optional ssh_1.2.26-4.dsc 8346f02e1de9f0771a56612e044b2b91 46926 non-us/net optional

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:16:25PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: # apt-get install hugs98 -- the Haskell User's Gofer System But it is non-free Oh. Perhaps then hugs98 should be moved out of main, yes? Hugs98 is under the Artistic license. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Bialasinski wrote: Do I have access to the net within that environment? I just have some pre-release slink CDs, so I have to upgrade to the current point release by ftp (by an ISDN line - it is accessed like a NIC). Sure. You are just using the same system, only the root of

Re: /lib/libNoVersion.so.1

1999-05-12 Thread Randolph Chung
In reference to a message from Russell Coker, dated May 12: I have just had this file appear on my system. It is a broken link and dpkg -S doesn't tell me anything about it. It appeared when I installed about a dozen of the latest potato packages yesterday... Does anyone know what it is

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:48:29PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:16:25PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: # apt-get install hugs98 -- the Haskell User's Gofer System But it is non-free Oh. Perhaps then hugs98 should be moved out of main, yes?

Re: /lib/libNoVersion.so.1

1999-05-12 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Randolph Chung wrote: In reference to a message from Russell Coker, dated May 12: I have just had this file appear on my system. It is a broken link and dpkg -S doesn't tell me anything about it. It appeared when I installed about a dozen of the latest potato packages

Re: /lib/libNoVersion.so.1

1999-05-12 Thread Randolph Chung
In reference to a message from Russell Coker, dated May 12: I have just had this file appear on my system. It is a broken link and dpkg -S doesn't tell me anything about it. It appeared when I installed about a dozen of the latest potato packages yesterday... Does anyone know what it is

Re: /lib/libNoVersion.so.1

1999-05-12 Thread Thomas E. Vaughan
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:03:22AM -0400, Randolph Chung wrote: I have just had this file appear on my system. It is a broken link and dpkg -S doesn't tell me anything about it. It appeared when I installed about a dozen of the latest potato packages yesterday... Does anyone know what it

Re: Uploaded ssh 1.2.26-4 (source i386) to non-US

1999-05-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:44:15PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: 264c7c1726f8d333a7de8c356bd7a73e 619 non-us/net optional ssh_1.2.26-4.dsc 8346f02e1de9f0771a56612e044b2b91 46926 non-us/net optional ssh_1.2.26-4.diff.gz d24a8fe61a54ecace08cf6349bfd5e93 430966 non-us/net optional

Re: Uploaded ssh 1.2.26-4 (source i386) to non-US

1999-05-12 Thread Philip Hands
On 12 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ssh (1.2.26-4) unstable; urgency=low . * make sure that ssh1 gets user suid bit set (closes: #37127) Files: 264c7c1726f8d333a7de8c356bd7a73e 619 non-us/net optional ssh_1.2.26-4.dsc 8346f02e1de9f0771a56612e044b2b91 46926 non-us/net

Re: Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Andrew Isaacson
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Question: would it be worth making -devel-announce a moderated list? Yes! But I wouldn't want to be the moderator... so maybe your suggestion is enough. Perhaps an auto-moderator, which rejects messages lacking a Reply-To: header

Re: Uploaded ssh 1.2.26-4 (source i386) to non-US

1999-05-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: I doubt it, since the old ssh package is already in place, so this'll probably get overriden. You have a point there... I had this: Installing: apache-ssl_1.3.6.4+1.32-1_m68k.deb to dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-m68k/apache-ssl_1.3.6.4+1.32-1.deb And

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Matt Porter
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:09:02PM +0200, Hartmut Koptein wrote: No! Only one (2) cd for all powerpc systems. Please think about a wrapper for this or special boot-arguments ... but not 5 different powerpc-images. I think the issue is the

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AVC == Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AVC Ok, um, then I will write some scripts today for a AVC slink-gnome-stage-area. ;) There is one already. See the readme master.debian.org/~jim/gnome BTW: compiling gnome is a pain. We _need_ source dependencies ... Everytime I

debian-upload-queue in Japan (Re: Homapages in list of maintainers)

1999-05-12 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
At 12 May 1999 08:09:01 +0900, Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think so. and more, I hope that the site for dupload established in Japan so that we can select the near site to upload our packages. In current standard /etc/dupload.conf contains chiark (uk), master (us?), erlangen

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 08:08:06AM -0700, Matt Porter wrote: apus - supports CD booting, but don't know how ? chrp - ? pmac - supports CD booting - how? prep - supports CD booting - as I described. but would it not be nice to but the boot stuff for everyone of this system on one

Re: /lib/libNoVersion.so.1

1999-05-12 Thread Gregory T. Norris
That link suddenly appeared on my system as well, immediately following a apt-get upgrade which I performed yesterday (I'm running potato). I've got no converted RPMs whatsoever (or any other converted formats, for that matter). On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 10:03:22AM -0400, Randolph Chung wrote: In

Re: Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 03:24:06PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: Question: would it be worth making -devel-announce a moderated list? absolutely. the logo thread on debian-devel-announce seriously pissed me off, because i don't filter the -announce lists with procmail. -vinny

Re: Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question: would it be worth making -devel-announce a moderated list? Could we just add some sort of mail filter rule that forces a Reply-To: to be set, and either adds Reply-To: debian-devel or returns the mail to the sender with an explanation if none

Haskell in Debian

1999-05-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:06:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: Sorry, you are right, it is the hugs package who is non-free, didn't know there was a free version around. The free hugs98 is pre-release so I'm keeping the stable non-free version around. When hugs98 is released for good (upstream

Splitting debian-devel-changes to separate lists

1999-05-12 Thread Bart Warmerdam
Hi, The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and -sources list was proposed a while ago. What happened to it and what are the sentiments on splitting it?? I think it's quite high volume because most lists aren't intresting to me, but some are. B. -- B. Warmerdam

Re: Haskell in Debian

1999-05-12 Thread Rui Zhu
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:00:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:06:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: Sorry, you are right, it is the hugs package who is non-free, didn't know there was a free version around. In related note, according to unofficial

Intent to package: theme-convertors

1999-05-12 Thread Steve Haslam
theme-convertors is a package written by myself that will convert themes[1] to .deb files. At the moment, this works on GTK themes and WindowMaker themes. The package includes a Perl library Debian::ThemeConvertors which holds common code to the two convertors, so adding convertors for other

Re: [Vince's cool upload of the month ;] Uploaded wine 0.0.990508-1 (source i386 all) to master

1999-05-12 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Vincent Renardias wrote: This version works well enough to be able to run MS Office's install program and run Excel95 and Word95. (not all of their features are working and there are a lot of painting/refresh bugs, but it's working PrettyWell(tm). Is that Excel95 and

Re: Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: Please can I encourage anyone posting to -devel-announce to ensure that they have set the Reply-To: field to something sensible, and to encourage anyone replying to a -devel-announce posting to check where they are sending their reply. (Hint:

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:14 +0200 1999-05-12, Sven LUTHER wrote: I think the issue is the different way that different ppc systems uses to boot from the CD. I am not entirely sure how amigaos does this, but i bet it is different from macos ... Sure, we could choose not to be cd-bootable, best would be to d othis the

Re: Splitting debian-devel-changes to separate lists

1999-05-12 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote: Hi, The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and -sources list was proposed a while ago. What happened to it and what are the sentiments on splitting it?? I think it's quite high volume because most lists aren't intresting

[Fwd: New nonfree/ hierarchy on CTAN]

1999-05-12 Thread Jules Bean
CTAN are adopting Debian's definition of free software! (Follow the links in this article, which was [EMAIL PROTECTED] in comp.text.tex yesterday) Jules (Any replies for me to read, Cc: I haven't (yet) resubscribed to -devel) Robin Fairbairns wrote: The CTAN team have been concerned, for

[OFF-TOPIC] web-discussion/mailing-list/etc package

1999-05-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Sorry for the off-topic post. A friend of mine needs a software package that does the following: I'm looking to set up a couple of web-based discussions on my box. I want to have a mailing list with archived messages that anyone (or anyone with a password) can read and post to. I'd

Adding a global UID/GID?

1999-05-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
GENERAL QUESTION: What is the procedure for getting a UID in the 0-99 range added to Debian? SPECIFIC QUESTION: I've noticed in the course of setting up a CVS pserver that it is not very easy on Debian, and the default is not secure. I would like to either work with the existing cvs maintainer

Re: Here's my .xsession (was Re: User-selected window-manager in an easy way)

1999-05-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # launch the session-controlling process. If it dies, so does the session. #exec logout-button exec gnome-session This is bad. Please try something like: fxt() { xterm -fg red exec sleep 999d; } gnome-session || fxt -- ciao, Marco

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Richard Braakman
Ossama Othman wrote: GNOME has been copied from the staging area into potato. I believe that just about all of the GNOME packages that I copied into Incoming have been installed into the archive. However, at least two packages should get into the archive before the freeze libgtop1 and

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Richard, I'm cross-posting to debian-gtk-gnome since we are trying to organize an effort to update GNOME for slink. It'd also be nice to get GNOME for slink out too. All that really needs to be done is to build all of the packages we built for potato for slink. The current GNOME

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Chris Waters
Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you mean make GNOME 1.0 available for slink, separately? It's far too large a change to be part of a stable revision. The current plan, as I understand it, is to build GNOME 1.0 debs for slink, and turn them over to the GNOME folks for

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-12 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 02:31:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On another machine, this a 300Mhz K6-2, I invoked W3 in Xemacs20 (using lisp interaction mode to eliminate the wait for the user to enter a URL). In this case it was 10 seconds for .elc files, 15 seconds if it had to

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:42:16PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi Richard, I'm cross-posting to debian-gtk-gnome since we are trying to organize an effort to update GNOME for slink. It'd also be nice to get GNOME for slink out too. All that really needs to be done is to build all

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Darren, On 12 May, Darren O. Benham wrote: On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:42:16PM -0500, Ossama Othman wrote: Do you mean make GNOME 1.0 available for slink, separately? It's far too large a change to be part of a stable revision. Hmm. I didn't think of it that way. I've just

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread David Bristel
It seems to me that since there will always be patches and updates to packages between releases, and since we have the proposed updates, perhaps we could add an updates area, in addition to the non-free, contrib, and main sections. This would work VERY nicely for users who want to grab the latest

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:06:24PM -0700, David Bristel wrote: It seems to me that since there will always be patches and updates to packages between releases, and since we have the proposed updates, perhaps we could add an updates area, in addition to the non-free, contrib, and main

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Ian Lynagh
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Ossama Othman wrote: GNOME has been copied from the staging area into potato. I believe that just about all of the GNOME packages that I copied into Incoming have been installed into the archive. However, at least two

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, On 12 May, Ian Lynagh wrote: I assume the delay with libgtop1 was that it was a new package? If so, please remove libgtop0. Right. That's what Guy told me. You should probably e-mail the ftp masters about your desire to remove libgtop0 from the archive. -Ossama -- Ossama Othman

Slink compiles [was: Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)]

1999-05-12 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 02:40:33PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: Propose it on -Policy and be sure the cc' the ftpmasters. An issue to consider is manpower. Since most of the maintainers will up to Potato, who'll compile these new packages/updates for slink? Can't autobuilders do it (with a

doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
I've been noticing that, even though we're all encouraged to use doc-base nowadays, that doc-base emits noxious and obnoxious warnings whenever it sees a format it doesn't recognize. I've just adapted libgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY install or removal, I get: Setting up libgtk1.2-doc

Re: Debian coding style?

1999-05-12 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
Query, is there actually a coding style guideline for debian stuph? Basically I'm with the Corel Linux group and this is what the Corel Linux Coding guidelines say... (follows). A few note-worthy ones are: - tabs: 2 spaces - curly braces alway on next line ie if

Intent to package: plib (was: request for package)

1999-05-12 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi 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. I grabed the sources and had a look at it. As it is my first package with shared libraries and -dev and -doc and such it first tried it and it seems to

Re: Install-time byte-compiling: Why bother?

1999-05-12 Thread rjk
Torsten Landschoff writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On another machine, this a 300Mhz K6-2, I invoked W3 in Xemacs20 (using lisp interaction mode to eliminate the wait for the user to enter a URL). In this case it was 10 seconds for .elc files, 15 seconds if it had to byte-compile the .el

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-12 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi ! In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fumitoshi UKAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can volunteer to do it, if it is really needed and anyone object to it. I've been maintain Debian JP machines, ftp archive, web server, mailing-list and Debian official mirror in Japan about two years or three.

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Is there any way we can make the default for doc-base to *not* warn on these unknown formats? Frankly, it's just ugly as all get-out. :) --- /usr/sbin/install-docs Sat Jan 2 01:48:28 1999 +++ ./install-docs Wed May 12 15:27:12 1999 @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ }

Re: doc-base and obnoxious unknown format warnings

1999-05-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I've been noticing that, even though we're all encouraged to use doc-base nowadays, that doc-base emits noxious and obnoxious warnings whenever it sees a format it doesn't recognize. I've just adapted libgtk1.2-doc to use doc-base, and on EVERY install or