Ok, these are the official results. Since we used new voting software with
this election, I have not rushed to get the results out.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank each canidate who stepped up
to the plate and took a chance. It's good to see so many people willing to
lead Debian
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:30:58PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote:
This started me thinking. Someone earlier lamented the
difficulties in using experimental. I would like to see experimental
moved into the same tree as stable, frozen, unstable and have a
Packages file generated.
experimental
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:22:13PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Thus spake Pedro Guerreiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I know the problem is with gnome-terminal, so the question is how do I
change the default binding of DEL in gnome-terminal? I've browse through
/usr/share/doc/gnome-terminal, but
Hi
I'm having problems using emacspeak and t-gnus from potato. I get:
Symbol's value as variable is void: define
This only happens when emacspeak is loaded. I also get the same error in rmail
with the 'm' command, after the mail buffer appears, but it is empty, ie no to:
or subject:.
It also
This also happens with gnus, after the group buffer appears, but
before it's mode is changed from fundimental.
--
Rob Murray
Package: gnudip (debian/main).
Maintainer: Randolph Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59248 gnudip: Gnudip prerm script fails with error `groupdel: group gnudip
does not exist'
ok, some misunderstanding here. someone had said that he was going to do a
nmu for me because i've been rather busy with
John Haggerty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Plus integrating the e2compr kernel patch into the standard kernels
provided with debian would also be a plus.
As an alternative, I'll release a kernel-patch-e2compr package in a
couple of days. Put the following in /etc/apt/sources.list (if you
don't
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux?
To annoy all the uptight Linux fanboys. Duh.
Cheers,
-Miles
--
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over,
pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels
I have packaged dnscache and daemontools, two utilities by Dan Bernstein, as
per my ITP last week.
The packages are located at http://www.flounder.net/debs
Please download them and test them out and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
--Adam
Franklin Belew wrote:
People seem to be too caught up in other people's freedom to help us
create the best distro with the least problems. Example:
/usr/doc - /usr/share/doc transition voted to be held because potato was
supposed to freeze back in november.
Freeze got delayed, and 4+ months
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
According to Richard Braakman:
Package: gcc (debian/main).
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58412 r-base: Can't build from source
59819 gcc_2.95.2-7(frozen): fails to compile itself on m68k
61258
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:12:10PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
|
|Before all useful points are lost in the flamage, may I suggest that a
|X-Filtered-By: DUL
|or similar header be added to all list mail?
The problem is, that qmail can't do this easilly.
I think this would be a perfect
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:44:24PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
Is there any kind of database to filter out time-wasting, vitriolic
arguments full of personal attacks, about things that have nothing to
do with Debian?
Sure:
:0:
* ^X-Mailing-List: [EMAIL PROTECTED].*
/dev/null
--
G. Branden
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:32:49AM +0100, Stephen Early wrote:
All of the recent discussion about various blacklists, dial-up user
lists, etc. seems to have frayed people's tempers. I see a lot of
messages from angry people, with little useful content. I suggest
everyone takes a step back and
Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] still alive and maintained ? During the last few months,
I sent several ITP's and a request to remove a package from the list to this
address, but AFAICS all of them were ignored.
E.g. I requested to remove dgs from the list of packages needing a new
maintainer, and I sent an
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:10:34AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
Oh, you're entirely right. People _are_ too tied up in 'freedom' to
focus on the software. But that's because, as a body, the Debian
project is all about freedom, as _expressed_ in software (and other
things, too).
You want
After upgrading my machine I found some obsolete packages. Before purging
them I'd like to know if there are replacements:
html2latex
eaudio
2utf
lde
intlfonts-european
manpages-net
gtkbrowser
I hope anyone here knows.
Michael
--
Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers!
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:50:09PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
If you wish to email me about any of my packages, do so from an address
which does not reject my mail as coming from a dialup IP. My IP is
STATIC and your ISP is run by morons who can't tell the difference, even
though I am no
- Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux?
Because Debian is a lot of GNU packages with linux (and possibly hurd,
freebsd, solaris) kernel.
--
Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at NEXTRA, Slovakia; IRCNET admin of *.sk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ ;
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
- In woody, /usr/share/doc will be used, and all packages will be updated
to use it. Packages will still provide /usr/doc links for backwards
compatability.
Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody,
they just talk about
Santiago Vila wrote:
Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody,
they just talk about using symlinks during the transition.
We may well drop the symlinks in woody if we decide to do so. After all,
we agree that we will tell our users to look in /usr/share/doc, so
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:34:05AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
b) use uucp-over-tcp (requires uucp account somewhere)
c) use smtp-over-ssh (requires shell account somewhere)
Can someone point me to any references on setting up either of these.
I had to
Hello,
I've an application wrote for a POSIX OS, using messages queues, and
shared memory and I'd like to port it on a Linux OS.
Could you tell me if you have a Linux Operating System distribution for an
iX86 platform, that supports these (or some of these) Standard POSIX
specifications:
Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
At *no* time are any messages printed to the terminal windows (to
indicate power failure, warning logouts imminent, power resumed, etc).
So I am rather confused. apcupsd collects valid data but
/usr/sbin/powersc doesn't act on it.
Do not know about apcupsd. I
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
Santiago Vila wrote:
Please note that the current policy documents do not talk about woody,
they just talk about using symlinks during the transition.
We may well drop the symlinks in woody if we decide to do so. After all,
we agree that we will
Santiago Vila wrote:
But this does not change the fact that this has not been made policy.
Policy just talks about using symlinks during the transition phase.
That was intentional, it was decided that mentioning release names in
policy and making the document contingent upon which release we
At Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:57:27 +0200,
Computing For Industry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've an application wrote for a POSIX OS, using messages queues, and
shared memory and I'd like to port it on a Linux OS.
Could you tell me if you have a Linux Operating System distribution for an
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:04:58PM +0200, Agustín Martín Domingo wrote:
Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
At *no* time are any messages printed to the terminal windows (to
indicate power failure, warning logouts imminent, power resumed, etc).
So I am rather confused. apcupsd collects valid
I was wondering if eximconfig is doing the right thing for this option. I
have machines which are connected on a network, and I want to have a MTA
but only for the benefit of apps like cron or debconf which need to send
local mail.
I expected that Option 4 of eximconfig (Local delivery only)
GOTO Masanori [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:57:27 +0200,
Computing For Industry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've an application wrote for a POSIX OS, using messages queues, and
shared memory and I'd like to port it on a Linux OS.
Could you tell me if you have
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:22:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ones you called weenie dos programmer were not so weenie, because
the old Ms-dos worked on PCs with a Ibm 80x25 terminal in the 90-95% of
cases.
Then that assumption was a standard de facto...
True, but there were
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
intlfonts-european
# apt-get install intlfonts-european
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package intlfonts-european has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:08:57AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] still alive and maintained ? During the last few months,
I sent several ITP's and a request to remove a package from the list to this
address, but AFAICS all of them were ignored.
E.g. I requested to remove
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After upgrading my machine I found some obsolete packages. Before purging
them I'd like to know if there are replacements:
html2latex
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote a free reimplementation of this,
gnuhtml2latex, so html2latex was removed.
lde
gtkbrowser
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Chip, how did it come to be that you are so cool and Tom Christiansen
so...isn't? :)
Isn't it obvious? Doses of MST3K that would make a normal man into a
pile of quivering jelly. :-)
Mike.
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
html2latex
tetex, perhaps?
eaudio
Um, xmms I think.
gtkbrowser
Hmmm. No idea.
Mike.
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:43:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
I'm fighting with iwj about this in private mail, and won't trouble
the lists further about it at this time.
I do have a better idea of what's going on now, but I still feel his
MTA is presuming my box guilty of spam generation
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:43:27AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
why? it's his mail server, he can do what he likes with it. he is
entitled to reject or defer mail delivery to his system for any reason
he chooses, regardless of
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone
else to listen.
I think Branden's whole point was that he doesn't like to be forced to
listen to something
As anybody has reported problems with this version or the followers, I
presume that the problem was inside that package (I unpacked it and
rebuild and I got a .deb with two bytes of difference in size, so
something had happened during that build).
I'm closing those bugs.
fab
- Forwarded
Package: gap4-doc-dvi (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60695 gap4-doc-dvi depends on nonexistent package
Package: gap4-doc-html (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60703 gap4-doc-html depends on nonexistent package
Le Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 06:07:57PM -0700, Randolph Chung écrivait:
ok, some misunderstanding here. someone had said that he was going to do a
nmu for me because i've been rather busy with other stuff, but i guess
that didn't happen :(
Yes, I said to you that I may NMU gnudip, unfortunetaly I
Package: gcc (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
58412 r-base: Can't build from source
61258 missing header files in include/asm on non-i386 architectures
I'v reduced the severity of these two bugs. The first has a workaround in
the bug report. Since it
Package: ivtools (debian/main)
Maintainer: Guenter Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
57250 ivtools_0.7.9-5(frozen): build errors
Changelog for 0.7.9-6 says this is fixed, so I've closed it.
Ben
--
---===-=-==-=---==-=--
/ Ben Collins --
Package: kaffe (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ean R. Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59420 kaffe_1:1.0.5e-0.3(frozen): bad register names on m68k
NMU'ing this one (again)
--
---===-=-==-=---==-=--
/ Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you don't correct this at once I will be forced to re-evaluate my place
within a project that is nominally devoted to free and open communication
among
its members and the rest of the world.
Your complaint against us using the DUL is valid. It
Package: siag-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Davide Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
61174 siag-common: deps on arch any packages too strict to allow binary
only recompiles
Fixed version was installed last night by the maintainer.
Package: silo (debian/main)
Maintainer: Davide Barbieri
I just logged in on console as root, and ulimit -a reported 256
processes max. So I don't think the problem is with su.
Maybe it's PAM?
I wonder where this gets configured?
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Brian Greenfield wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi
Hi. I'm dropping all my packages. That is dcd (a console CD
player) and lletters (a children game). Freeciv has already
been adopted by Jules Bean.
[]s,
|alo
+
--
Hack and Roll (
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
Package: gap4-doc-dvi (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60695 gap4-doc-dvi depends on nonexistent package
Package: gap4-doc-html (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:15:03AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote:
Package: glut-doc (debian/main)
Maintainer: James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
61366 /usr/doc symlink not made
New glut packages are being uploaded to fix. Note that
glut-data was the cause of this problem and also needs
to
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:15:03AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote:
Package: imlib-progs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60052 imlib-progs: imlib_config segfaulting without /etc/imlib/imrc
This should have been fixed with the imlib 1.9.8-4 packages. Can someone
Hi,
Package: libtool (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
61314 libtool build hack breaks ports
I'm currently away attending a conference so it's a bit hard for me to
work on this. An NMU would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I'll do
my best to get this fixed
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:19:39PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
Package: gap4-doc-dvi (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Markus Hetzmannseder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60695 gap4-doc-dvi depends on nonexistent package
Package: gap4-doc-html
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:36AM -0800, Ossama Othman wrote:
Hi,
Package: libtool (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
61314 libtool build hack breaks ports
I'm currently away attending a conference so it's a bit hard for me to
work on this. An NMU would be
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
reassign 50577 project
Bug#50577: package fan list wanted
Bug reassigned from package `lists.debian.org' to `project'.
thanks
Stopping processing here.
Please contact me if you need assistance.
Darren Benham
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote:
The ballots came from:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
N: Marco D
N: Rapha
N: Stig Mathis
These names are incorrect (perhaps
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote:
The ballots came from:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
If that
gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is a framework for creating
database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back ends
to different database sources as well as various specialized widgets for
handling many database tasks. It's also part of gnome office
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
It think it just clearly shows typical lack of election interest. FYI,
Echelon has confirmed a total of 346 developers
On Mar 30, Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eh? My understanding is that you probably can get rid of lists
altogether if all the entries in lists are duplicated in
subscribe.
Yes, you are right.
The only difference between lists and subscribe is that
subscribe entries automatically
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:06:19PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
It think it just clearly shows typical lack of election interest. FYI,
Echelon has confirmed
Previously Dan White wrote:
gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is a framework for creating
database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back ends
to different database sources as well as various specialized widgets for
handling many database tasks. It's also part of
gnome-db is more intended to be a replacement for MS Access than for the
windows registry. gconf is one of the may attempts to create a centralized
configuration system for linux.
Wichert Akkerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Previously Dan White wrote:
gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db)
From the we-are-everywhere department:
Debian proudly presents:
F I V E N E W L I S T S C R E A T E D
List: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org
This mailing list is designed to help coordinate the
maintenance of the teTeX packages and related software in
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Dan White wrote:
gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is a framework for creating
database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back
ends
to different database sources as well as various specialized
widgets for
handling many
* Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000331 12:23]:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote:
The ballots came from:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
Wouldn't this be more
gnome-db is a a shot at something like the ODBC api's available under windows.
I proposed the idea on gnome-list many moons ago, and it was picked up by
Michael Lausch, who I believe is the main developer.
gconf is a shot at something like .ini files, or the windows registry.
On Fri, Mar 31,
BugScan reporter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: sane (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60923 sane: Broken with Gimp 1.0
I uploaded a possible fix to this program a few days ago. The problem
is that various versions of sane and xsane were not compiled with the
Hi Anthony,
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 08:37:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:02:20PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 09:00:34AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
The whole file --- verifying each entry would take at least three minutes
on my
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
BugScan reporter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: sane (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60923 sane: Broken with Gimp 1.0
I uploaded a possible fix to this program a few days ago. The problem
is
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:55:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
I suggest you close bugs filed by such people without comment.
Call it the Malicious Blacklist User Behavior Modification System.
Of course, you could always just get the work done and email back
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; since it'll
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:20:20PM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
BugScan reporter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: sane (debian/main)
Maintainer: Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60923 sane: Broken with Gimp 1.0
I uploaded a possible fix
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