On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:31:16PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I'm packaging the bnc IRC bouncer.
IIRC that's already packaged and uploaded to Incoming.
BTW your Mail-Followup-To: md, debian-devel@lists.debian.org is wrong...
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:51:48PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Package: netbase (debian/main).
Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59282 netbase: portmap is killed too early on shutdown
Hasn't this one been
Hi dear co-developers,
we're so many developers that's it's getting difficult to know us each
other and even more difficult to know our respective habits concerning the
way we're doing our Debian job.
I think that we need a page (possibly a cgi or a page automatically updated
once a day) that
Le Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:54:15PM +0100, Fabrice Gautier écrivait:
XFCE 3 is very different from the xfce in potato.
[...]
I think you should rename it xfce2 and it should stay in contrib, and
be orphaned (but there is no known bug, so doesn't really need a
maintener) at least while there
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:55:58 +0100
From: Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Michal Fecanin Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Debian Development List debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Compiling Error
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:15:01PM +, Michal Fecanin Araujo wrote:
On 22-Mar-00, 15:59 (CST), Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the
normal user's path by default. i see your point that moving those binaries
would break a lot of scripts. i don't think appending to the default path
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:33:48AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:23:31PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
garabik COLOR:1:cyan:black
garabik COLOR:5:brightcyan:black
The same can be said about the default ls colors.
It shows directory names with blue on black.
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:09:01AM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote:
Richard Braakman writes:
The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
(do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
Kernel 2.2.14 is severly broken (OOM problems). We had
Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the
normal user's path by default. i see your point that moving those binaries
would break a lot of scripts. i don't think appending to the default path
would break anything. anyone
now that you have discovered the awful secret of debian, the secret
cabal will have to take care of you. wait right where you are. there
will be a knock on the door shortly.
craig
TINC
Yes, given docbook*, task-sgml, psgml, yasgml, and especially jade,
are in text, I'd concur that transformiix should go there too...
It will be moved in the next release.
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:48:47 +1100
From: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Chad Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: of bash and ...sbin/
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:50:10AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
Chad Miller
I hope I understand your question. Donald Becker's web site
has a few utilities, 'mdiag' is one, that let you manually set
the speed. It worked for my pcmcia EEpro, but it does not work
for all cards.
*Tim Sailer wrote:
Hi folks.
I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch,
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:56:52 -0600
From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable
On 21-Mar-00, 20:06 (CST), Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Linux text console is readable (barely), but xterm uses and even
You might try starting at Donald Becker's site --
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/
He has authored many ethernet drivers. He also has some test programs
for specific cards which can help. Latest drivers for many cards
available. There is a document there on autonegotiation. Links to
Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the
normal user's path by default. i see your point that moving those binaries
would break a lot of scripts. i don't think appending to the
It seems we don't have such compatibility packages for Debian;
what am I missing? Could one install slink's glibc2.0 in a
non-obstrusive way under potato or woody?
Maybe you could use alien and install the rpm? I thing potato and
woody is totally commited to 2.1
Strange.
Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On 22-Mar-00, 15:59 (CST), Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i think this tread started with someone wanting the sbin directories in the
normal user's path by default. i see your point that moving those binaries
would break a lot of scripts. i
Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++.
URL?
I really don't remember. I've checked out the code from the mozilla CVS.
The 'readme.html' of TransforMiiX is available as
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/extensions/transformiix/docs/readme.html.
Or in
For instance, a program joeuser uses often is 'traceroute' (which is in
/usr/sbin).
Right. But the maintainer refuses to do the right thing. End of the thread.
Agreed (mostly). It is very important that Debian have things in the same
place as other Linux distros, and other common Unix flavours. Otherwise,
scripts from commercial software and other stuff that isn't always as
portable as it should be will be spuriously broken on Debian. Lets not
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs.
Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros
have?
They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so know which one you wanted?
Any apps which run on 6.0 and
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:31:16PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I'm packaging the bnc IRC bouncer.
too late Marco!
I did it one month ago.
:-P
It's sitting in Incoming (dunno why?) and there is also a slink-compiled
version (I needed to run on slink).
fab
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:41:35PM -0400, Peter Cordes wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:56:52 -0600
From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable
On 21-Mar-00, 20:06 (CST), Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where Can I look for any document/tutorial about the Linux's
keyboard/video/xterm
low-level programming ?
This is because I would like to make a my own library for managing the
Linux's
terminals, without using the famous ncurses libraries.
I tried to watch ncurses's sources, but they are too
Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
traceroute is deeper than ping.
and that changes something? one cannot assume that because someone is not
logged in as root, they are a casual user.
Why not? Non-casual users can start these programs from sbin
nonetheless (see FHS rationale for not
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 21:19:36 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
upstream source. I don't know if we should upload it to frozen or if we
should remove xfce from potato and only upload the new version to woody as
suggested in the bub report
Dear Friends
We have a /etc/alternative/editor, but not a x-editor.
Wouldn't this a usefull addition for the alternative-system?
best regards
Michael
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About Bug#60917:
I cannot upload a fixed version now.
FIX:
* replace the preinst code quoted in the report by the following
(please test it first). Note that it uses evil Press RETURNs in
case something is probably broken.
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if [ -d /usr/local/share/keytables ]
then
if [ -d `readlink
Hi!
I recompiled man-db as it was (no change) and reuploaded.
As someone made me notice, the pure rebuild had few bytes of difference,
so maybe we get a different result.
Can people try the upgrade from 2.3.13 ??
And can that people that got the error try to downgrade to slink version
and then
I am interested in becoming a Debian developer. The information in Debian
Developer's Reference section 2.2 mentions that I can send in a copy of my ID to
certify my identity, but it does not specify an address to send this to.
Can you please give me this address?
Norman Cabrera (Norm Camero is
mp is an e-mail pretty-printer developed by Rich Burridge at Sun. He
uses the brief name mp but I would be happy to consider alternative
names for a Debian package if it was felt that mp could be too
confusing.
I have created a provisional package and uploaded it to my home
directory (~bates) on
Package: general
Version: 2323
Severity: important
Partial output of
apt-get install ssh
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
ssh: Depends: gmp2 (= 2.0.2)
E: Sorry, broken packages
There appears to be a libgmp2 package which replaces gmp2. Apt-get does
man console_codes
The console is a VT102
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where Can I look for any document/tutorial about the Linux's
keyboard/video/xterm
low-level programming ?
This is because I would like to make a my own library for managing the
Linux's
terminals, without using the
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:43:32PM + , David Croxford wrote:
Package: general
Version: 2323
Severity: important
Partial output of
apt-get install ssh
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
ssh: Depends: gmp2 (= 2.0.2)
are you sure, you have the correct
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:24:42PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
Dylan Paul Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
at the risk of reigniting a flame war, how is traceroute in a different
catagory that ping?
traceroute is deeper
I am interested in becoming a Debian developer. The information in
Debian Developer's Reference section 2.2 mentions that I can send in a
copy of my ID to certify my identity, but it does not specify an
address to send this to.
You would send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED], along with the rest of
Speaking of new-maintainer re-opening soon... What about those that
had submit'd applications back in 1999 (I believe I sent mine in nearly
8 months ago), does anyone know if they need to be re-submit'd or will they
be picking up where they stop'd processing?
Respectfully,
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 07:11:07PM +, Jules Bean wrote:
This would be mildy convenient for me, since the next major release of
balsa may require, or simply prefer, GOB, to build.
And gnome-pilot seems to require GOB now...
[*sigh* why not just blasted use C++]
*cough*
Ian
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs.
Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros
have?
They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so know
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 04:40:06PM +0100, Petr Cech wrote:
[snip]
are you sure, you have the correct line for non-US? Current ssh in non-US
looks like this
Yeah, this sounds like a apt line for frozen distribution and
main/contrib/non-free sections, and a typoed line for non-us still pointing
Here is a fix for a crash on x86 when you send dnrd a
sighup. This problem shows up for sure on Slackware 7, but should happen
everywhere. I haven't tested it extensively, but if you check the original code
it becomes obvious why it needs to be changed. The only part that concerns me is
the
hi,
How does one become a package manager? I could
probably spair enough time to look after one.
j.
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Over the past few months (shortly after my ITP), Debian-NIS+ Client support
was developed by a small group of non-Debian maintainers. I post on
debian-devel, to make the effort known among the Debian developers and the
SPARC users, who might work in a SUN NIS+ environment AND to ask for
The integration of the Debian NIS+ package in the Debian distribution would
proceed faster, if somebody else would be looking in the PAM problem. I think
some experience with the libpam_unix implementation is required. Certainly,
nis+ access would be an advantage.
Just to clarify what
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:09:23PM -0500 , Eric Weigel wrote:
I've thought about compatibility links, but like you said, they're both
libc 6.0.
LD_PRELOAD
Overall though, there doesn't seem to be a lot of broken stuff.
A friend is bitching about broken aplix(sp?). Thing is, it works on RH6.1
On 22-Mar-00, 21:41 (CST), Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I took another look at the console. The ANSI bright-blue used by
ls for directories is actually quite easy to see. The normal blue used by
lynx is not great, but readable. I'm sure there is a way to set the colours
My first debian post :)
The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
(do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
and perl-5.005.
Package: fetchmail (debian/main).
Maintainer: Paul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[HELP] This package needs a new
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 02:39:20PM +, Stuart Auchterlonie wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:35:04AM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:12:37AM +0100, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
Hi Rodrigo!
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
get the key
I'm looking for some help on the dpkg/apt-based centralized
configuration system I'm working on. Note that this is intended for
use at the site I administer, and while I'd be pleased if it proved
useful to others, it isn't intended to be a general solution. So
please don't flame me for doing
The provisional package I uploaded to my directory on master doesn't work :-/.
Turns out there is a bug in the configure script that was exposed by
building a Debian package. The upstream maintainer has promised to
fix it after he returns from vacation April 3. If you really want to
use it
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 08:44:26PM +, Alan Clucas wrote:
My first debian post :)
The packages involved are fetchmail, g++, gpm, kernel-image-2.2.14-ide
(do we really need it? I assumed it's needed for the bootfloppies),
and perl-5.005.
Package: fetchmail (debian/main).
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Weigel wrote:
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs.
Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros
have?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:33:29 +1100
From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: glibc-compat ???
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility
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