The new maintainer team has been working very hard to resolve a working
application procedure. At this point, although we still don't have all the
details of the identification process completely resolved, it has become
necessary to start working applicants through the process, in order to
work
So I've decided that I don't feel like waiting any longer for the
wishlist bug for syslog output from dpkg to be implemented. I've
written a little shell wrapper that will do this for me, and will make
it available if anyone likes - I may send it here for cricitism
regardless.
However, I
The system has been up for 14 days and /etc/motd was last modified on
Jan 27. Is it possible that the repairs are complete and someone
forgot to remove this line from /etc/motd?
We are waiting for some hardware to arrive... stay tuned...
randolph
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I dont believe that this is a problem with Mozilla itself, because the binary
tarball of
M14 works fine with M13 prefrences. Its only after you install the deb that
this go crazy.
Has anyone else used both the deb and the binary version of M14 and had similar
results?
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Will Barton
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 07:14:39PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
So I've decided that I don't feel like waiting any longer for the
wishlist bug for syslog output from dpkg to be implemented. I've
written a little shell wrapper that will do this for me, and will make
it available if anyone likes
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 08:03:15PM -0500, Will Barton was heard to say:
I dont believe that this is a problem with Mozilla itself, because the binary
tarball of M14 works fine with M13 prefrences. Its only after you install the
deb that this go crazy.
Has anyone else used both the deb and
While we are at it ;)
I sadly discovered that
Chart-Plot-0.07
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/S/SM/SMORTON/Chart-Plot-0.07.tar.gz
isn't available as debian packge ...
Someone volunteer to package it ?
kind regards,
Markus
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Markus Fischer,
Title: RE: Mozilla
The Mozilla M14 readme clearly states that the M13 preferences
are not compatible. Most likely their install script removes
the preferences automatically or similar, but I view this as
a fix for a temporary problem and not worth implementing for
Debian.
-Original
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
Eh? There would be no real code changes at all. As I understand it, the
license on 5.5 is all that has changed. So why not move it from non-free
to main for potato?
Hi Branden,
if you look at the mail below, you can see that this discussion is
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:18:49AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, it was written:
SECRET HOLY CODE REVEALED ALL GENUINE SEEKERS OF TRUTH.
I don't know. Is this dfsg-compliant?
it conflicts with the non-discrimination clause.
the secret holy code should be available
We're back from CeBIT exhibition, taking place in Germany from Feb
23rd to Mar 1st. Several developers have met there and presented both
Debian and Debian-related distributions. We've had a lot of fun and
appreciated the contacts we were able to make. We're trying to
summarize our experiences
xfree86 4.0 released! we'll see it in woody? ciao, federico
--
Federico Di Gregorio
MIXAD LIVE System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Developer Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED]
All programmers are optimists. -- Frederick P.
On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Luca Filipozzi wrote:
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 06:09:36PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
I've just spend too much time (again) trying to work out how to implement MD5
in my C programs.
libssl09-dev provides MD5 functions.
Install it and look at /usr/include/openssl/md5.h
Hi,
it's been a while since I read an ITP aide
(http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html).
As I need tripwire functionality on a host and I need it now, I wonder
why the package isn't in the archive? Whoever wanted to package it, is
there a .deb somewhere on the net, or should I stick to my
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.6.10
Severity: important
Setting up tcsh (6.09.00-8) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/csh.cshrc ...
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert line 208, near unlink
Execution of /usr/sbin/dpkg-divert aborted due to compilation errors.
This is the code:
I was wondering if we could pkg it alongside XF3.3.6 in potato (but then
again, I wondered why we couldn't do this with the 2.2 kernel in slink).
Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
xfree86 4.0 released! we'll see it in woody? ciao, federico
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MIXAD LIVE System Programmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Slootman) writes:
Note the missing braces round the unlink statement.
Somone's obviously been doing to much C lately...
Unfortunately, dselect itself also seems broken---when I select the
'U'pdate menu item, dselect exits with the following message:
dselect: failed to
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:15:04AM -0600, BugScan reporter was heard to say:
Package: gnomeicu (debian/main)
Maintainer: Edward C. Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58919 gnomeicu causes XServer to grab all the memory.
I think there was a discussion on -devel that concluded that there's some
Unfortunately, dselect itself also seems broken---when I select the
'U'pdate menu item, dselect exits with the following message:
dselect: failed to getch in main menu: Success
ObAOL: ME TOO111
Every item in dselect's main menu die()s with that message. Hmmm.
clickity-click
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:53:38AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
LinuxTag
LinuxTag is Europe's largest Linux exhibition and conference. Apart
for a free conference program and free exhibition there is enough
space for Free Software projects, including Debian. This year parts
of
If this works, (and it seem too) then It would have
been a good idea for the package script to have done
this when debconf ran during the update. (IE check
for an install of M13 and then delete any mozilla
profiles with the option of creating a backup copy
first).
--- Nils Jeppe [EMAIL
Heck no, I really don't want any debian install scripts messing in MY home
directory!
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
If this works, (and it seem too) then It would have
been a good idea for the package script to have done
this when debconf ran during the update. (IE check
I just read on LinuxToday that XFree86 4.0 has been
released. It is still considered 'unstable' so I
guess it will in 'Woody'.
=
Amateur Radio, when all else fails!
http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .
__
Do You
Do my eyes deceive me or are we really without a package of Libwww - the W3C
Protocol Library, http://www.w3.org/Library/. Its licence seem 100 % free
and it compiles fine on Debian/potato.
Any package which I missed? Under what name? www-lib? libwww?
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Nils Jeppe wrote:
Heck no, I really don't want any debian install scripts messing in MY home
directory!
Why not just print a warning message via debconf as it is done in
setserial package?
Martin
--
Win2k: It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs,
it's just that
Jeff Licquia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 03:28:51AM -0800, Anant Kabra wrote:
Hi,
Is including the HPT366 controller in the Debian boot
disk controller something being considered? If not
could someone point me to the sources from which the
debian boot/root disks are
Michael Meskes wrote:
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:53:38AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
LinuxTag
LinuxTag is Europe's largest Linux exhibition and conference. Apart
for a free conference program and free exhibition there is enough
space for Free Software projects, including
Is there any easy to understand HOWTO available? I'd like to play a little
bit with grub but after reading the texinfo files it seems to be too
complicated to do just that. And I don't like to spend hours to understand
something just to see it does not help me much.
I wonder if grub is able to
I'm not arguing the rest of your points, but I'm curious about
this one. IIRC, the last thing a full bootstrap of GCC does,
after building stage one binaries with the native compiler,
Hum, It *used* to do this, can't seem to get it to do it today though
oh well
IIRC it only
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:15:04AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote:
Bug stamp-out list for Mar 10 03:04 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 181
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 9
Hi,
having a free day and a spare harddisk today I tried to install a frozen
potato. I installed via nfs from a mirror of ftp.debian.org on a local server
done yesterday. I found a number of probems which I'm now reporting:
1) the first two installation attempts failed with the following
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 04:20:07PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
Is there any easy to understand HOWTO available? I'd like to play a little
bit with grub but after reading the texinfo files it seems to be too
complicated to do just that. And I don't like to spend hours to understand
something
Marc Haber wrote:
Hi!
After having worked with potato at the office for a few weeks now,
I decided to upgrade my slink box at home. I pulled the CD images made by
Andreas Jellinghaus and started. I had apt-0.3.13 on my slink box, so I
decided to use the apt-cdrom way.
[...]
I now have a
Does anyone know if the perl module LWP::Parallel::RobotUA has been
packaged? Lintian doesn't know anything about it, but issues a
warning on a package I'm building. The package doesn't require it,
but can use it if it's available.
Just want to have the right information for README.Debian.
--
According to lwn.net, there is a new version of LILO just released
that finally, finally adds an option to fix the horrid, dreaded
LI problem on hard drives with 1024 cylinders.
http://www.lwn.net/2000/0309/a/lilo.html
Can this make it into potato? :)
Ben
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 07:03:03PM +0100, Bjoern Brill wrote:
[...]
I also had to forcibly reinstall with dpkg some severly broken packages,
but I think this was only because I ran out of disk space in
mid-upgrade (aaargh!).
[...]
Ah, yes. I know the woes of this well. Low disk space can
Not actually a bug, but a recommendation for later distributions
security, i've noticed 2.1 only allows something along the lines of an 8
character password. If someone were to get ahold of someone's username,
which is easy to do, and they of course had some queer password guessing
tool that tried
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On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 04:48:54PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
That's not a question but a provocation, of course, there will be
a booth for Debian again this year!
Wasn't meant to offend someone. Sorry!
I just wanted to know if the projects needs/would be interested in some
room on some
Hi,
I'm already running potato for some time now, without trouble, but on
my latest dselect adventure things went wrong, notably with xdm (this
is version 3.3.6-5).
[1] Suddenly xdm wouldn't startup anymore. Reason: parse-xf86config
was gone. I had to fetch it from somewhere else in order
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark) wrote:
Not actually a bug, but a recommendation for later distributions
security, i've noticed 2.1 only allows something along the lines of an 8
character password. If someone were to get ahold of someone's username,
which is easy to do, and they of course had some queer
you're quite right. why are we using rsync anyway? in it's current state
it's a waste of resources except for block-oriented files like cdimages.
wouldn't it make more sense to use something like mirror or wget untill
debdiff matures? are mirror admins required to use rsync?
another tought: would
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
wouldn't it make more sense to use something like mirror or wget untill
debdiff matures? are mirror admins required to use rsync?
Sadly rsync is far, far better that mirror or wget, both of which are
verging on useless for an archive of our size.
We
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:03:25PM +0100, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote:
[2] Logging in is still impossible: my password is accepted but
apparently I cannot connect to the X-server (here is my
.xsession-errors:)
Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server
Xlib: Client is
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:46:44AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
According to lwn.net, there is a new version of LILO just released
that finally, finally adds an option to fix the horrid, dreaded
LI problem on hard drives with 1024 cylinders.
http://www.lwn.net/2000/0309/a/lilo.html
Can
On 06-Mar-00, 10:10 (CST), der.hans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Except you really need to use --purge in order to truely remove the full
package. I don't read usenet, so removed all the news packages that came
with the default install profile I chose. No biggie. Except I kept getting
cron errors
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