Release-critical Bugreport for August 18, 2000

2000-08-18 Thread BugScan reporter
Bug stamp-out list for Aug 18 05:0 (CST) Total number of release-critical bugs: 55 Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 0 -- Package: afterstep (debian/main) Maintainer: Steven R. Baker

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:58:31PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: How about a little brainstorming to pick some categories that could be used in debian. Possible layout ~~~ control.tar.gzpackage system stuff, depends, postinst, etc signatures.tar.gz signatures

OT: 64MB laptop DIMM for donation

2000-08-18 Thread tony mancill
Sorry to post this to -devel, but it wasn't clear where else to post, and I didn't have any luck on IRC. Plus, hopefully this will help somebody out. I have 64MB memory module from an IBM Thinkpad 385XD but it should fit in any model that takes 60ns 8Mx64 3.3v memory. (I don't know if it's

Re: build dependencies

2000-08-18 Thread bug1
Peter S Galbraith wrote: bug1 wrote: It would be cool if packages had better support for build dependencies so its easier/more reliable to build from source. Something like this? Source: gri Section: math Priority: optional Maintainer: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Right. I just do nt see these invariants being very useful. I would much rather have a mk-realplayer package that helps me create a realplayer-blah.deb; and the invariants are then natural and not artificially imposed. When that realplayer.deb is installed,

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: If, however, you make it difficult to ensure that a machine tracking stable is not running the current version of realplayer, expect me to Er, make that unstable. -- see shy jo

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:25:28AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: Why would a package be in contrib if it didn't depend on non-free? I thought that that was the current definition of contrib: DFSG-free, but requires something from outside of main (e.g., contrib or non-free). A

Re: mkfs in /sbin, mkisofs in /usr/bin (was: Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:06:26PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: I disagree. You *NEED* to have a copy of mke2fs in the root filesystem in case /usr or any other mounted filesystem gets whacked. OTOH, you probably won't be mastering any CD images while your system is crippled, so having mkisofs

[CTP]: dnsmasq

2000-08-18 Thread {-- Rot13 - Hateme
Since most dailup user won't install DNS servers, these utilities are very useful for people using NAT. Please consider package these. dnsmasq http://www.thekelleys.freeserve.co.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html == Dnsmasq is small utility designed to provide DNS (domain name) services to a small network

Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:28:12AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Well, this is what I was trying to say before - logically it makes alot of sense if packages are members of groups, this is the reverse of what we have now - a list of packages in a group. Delivery and storage of this data has

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Branden Could you remind me what these benefits are again? Pretend Branden for a moment that the FHS doesn't exist and it's entirely up Branden to us. What exactly DO we gain by having some binaries Branden segregated off into sbin?

Re: Embedded Debian (was: compaq iPaq)

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
I'm not certain that trying to cram OS config into a kernel config tool is the right idea, but I do agree that the concept is effective. What about a more generalized framework for this sort of thing to build a disk image for a highly customized embedded Debian system? Take a subdirectory and

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Well I for one find being able to make sure I am upgraded to the current Joey version is very useful, especially given the historical buginess of Joey realplayer. Good point. If a location for the free download can be easily

Login temrinated w/signal 13

2000-08-18 Thread Nils Jeppe
Hello, I have a potato box which serves as a Mail server. When I try to login via ssh, I get this: bash-2.04$ slogin -l root mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last login: Thu Aug 17 18:51:25 2000 from wishbringer.work.de on pts/0 Linux mail 2.2.16 #4 Fri Jun 16 19:42:13 CEST 2000 i686 unknown

Re: Subpackaging

2000-08-18 Thread Seth Cohn
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Anthony Towns wrote: It's not *entirely* clear that including the above in the .deb itself is even the best way of doing things though. Everything in the above is entirely package-independent except for the doc lines, and they can be determined simply by saying everything

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Peter Makholm
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's beautiful. I want it now. :-) I couldn't agree more. We could always fine tune it when we know how it works with live data. But I think you'right. Some way of chrash-install into testing would be nice when dealing with root-exploits. -- Peter

Re: ITP: gopher, gopherd, gopherindex

2000-08-18 Thread Christian Surchi
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 05:24:02PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: I'll post such when the change takes place, which should occur in a matter of a few days. Ops, I wrote actual following the intuitive italian meaning. I wanted to mean the original license. :) bye christian -- Christian Surchi |

Re: Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-18 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 17 Aug 2000, Colin Watson wrote: dmesg doesn't log the output from init.d scripts. (I usually recommend Ctrl-S (stop output) and Ctrl-Q (restart output).) Or shift-PageUp However, sometimes I have wished that the init.d messages were in fact logged somewhere. E.g. after a day you

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Joey If, however, you make it difficult to ensure that a machine tracking Joey stable is not running the current version of realplayer, expect me to Joey send you bug reports. I see. Well, I guess, given this, I am not going to take over your package. I'll

Re: policy changes toward Non-Interactive installation

2000-08-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 01:40:52AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Sorry. The whole idea of my realplayer package is to be a lower hassle package; it won't periodically bother you. Since you are threatening the next maintainer with bug reports unless they follow

Re: [Possibly Clueless] Deb base ISO images

2000-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:26:33PM +0100, Chris Ball wrote: Hi, to all, and congrats on the potato release. I've been browsing cdimage. Do we release a base system as a 30/40-ish meg ISO that can network to enable apt handling retrieval of anything else? One would be really useful to me, and

Re: Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-18 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:20:48AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: On Thu 17 Aug 2000, Colin Watson wrote: dmesg doesn't log the output from init.d scripts. (I usually recommend Ctrl-S (stop output) and Ctrl-Q (restart output).) Or shift-PageUp Of course, if you run a display manager,

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 04:10:53PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: It's almost impossible to remember all the little things that might go wrong as well, so encapsulating that knowledge in a regression test suit is definitely the way to go. In which vein, it might be helpful to have test machines

Re: Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-18 Thread Paul Slootman
On Fri 18 Aug 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:20:48AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: On Thu 17 Aug 2000, Colin Watson wrote: (I usually recommend Ctrl-S (stop output) and Ctrl-Q (restart output).) Or shift-PageUp Of course, if you run a display manager, you

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:17:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Automated Process? ~~ So pretty much all the policy is encoded in some automated process which updates testing. It works at the moment, basically as follows: 1. First, it loads up all the Sources and

Re: Login temrinated w/signal 13

2000-08-18 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Nils == Nils Jeppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nils Hello, Nils I have a potato box which serves as a Mail server. When I Nils try to login via ssh, I get this: Nils bash-2.04$ slogin -l root mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Last Nils login: Thu Aug 17 18:51:25 2000 from

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:34:35AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? Because a package lying for 3 weeks in unstable says nothing about it being

Re: ITP: Moscow ML - An implementation of standard ML.

2000-08-18 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 01:55:59AM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: The MosML could add to the license: As an exception to the GNU GPL, you may distribute this software linked to CAML. Yep, that should work. Did not think about that. cu Torsten -- Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL

Re: Broken bootable SPARC CD#1, and why this happened

2000-08-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 07:43:48PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: Oh please!! Unlike some people like you to believe, there exist no revisions other than CD revisions. There are no FTP revisions. FTP changes _much_ more than the CDs due to many security fixes. Huh? Security fixes go in

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:26:34PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Another reason to run unstable is to live on the actual bleeding edge: testing will always be around two weeks out of date. That can be a fair while, if you're impatient. Supporting this, there's some Apt changes in CVS that'll

Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages

2000-08-18 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Decklin Foster writes (Bug#33993: general: Should log all the boot messages): Cesar Eduardo Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: general Version: N/A Severity: wishlist There are too many boot messages, and they sometimes scroll too fast. It would be nice to log all the output from

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: First, including each architecture and source in every .deb suddenly balloons our 3 CD set to get i386 binaries to a ~15 CD set. It also kills non-broadband net upgrades (you *really* want to download six copies of emacs plus all its source?). I'm

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? I for one like the bleeding-edge. I like stuff that breaks, because I get to fix it. I like filing bug

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:27:45AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: No, you have AH to access the high 16 bits of EAX, and AL for the low 16 bits of EAX. Or was that the high 8 bits of AX etc... Here's the layout of the EAX register... | EAX | | | AX

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:58:31PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: First, including each architecture and source in every .deb suddenly balloons our 3 CD set to get i386 binaries to a ~15 CD set. It also kills non-broadband net upgrades (you *really* want

M17 with session management?

2000-08-18 Thread zw
since mozilla is quite stable now, (i used it extensively now, indeed it's my only browser using, and i can use all the habits when i'm using IE with mozilla, like open 10 to 20 broswer windows for some lota javascript popup sites, and big pics (don't get me wrong! ;) so is it possible to enable

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-18 Thread Vasilis Vasaitis
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:54:20AM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:27:45AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: No, you have AH to access the high 16 bits of EAX, and AL for the low 16 bits of EAX. Or was that the high 8 bits of AX etc... Here's the layout of the EAX

NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-18 Thread Ben Collins
(Ean, you are Cc'd just in case you aren't sub'd to -devel, please feel free to denote otherwise to avoid duplicates) Over the course of potato release, there were several NMU's done on the kaffe package to fix some RC bugs. I've listed them here for clarity and reference: 59420:

Re: ITP: gopher, gopherd, gopherindex

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:30:29PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: I intend to package up the gopher suite from UMN, together with my patches to it. Note: they have informed me it will be GPL'd shortly. And so the madness begins... -- Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG key

Re: M17 with session management?

2000-08-18 Thread Franklin Belew
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:21:58PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since mozilla is quite stable now, (i used it extensively now, indeed it's my only browser using, and i can use all the habits when i'm using IE with mozilla, like open 10 to 20 broswer windows for some lota javascript popup

ITP: Linux Facile (italian manual)

2000-08-18 Thread Davide Puricelli
Linux Facile is an italian manual for newbies, available on .ps and .html version. License: FDL (www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) URL: www.linuxfacile.org Regards, -- Davide Puricelli, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.debian.org PGP key:

ITA: Mozilla

2000-08-18 Thread Franklin Belew
As many already know, I've been building mozilla debs and placing them on master for general consumption. I have been informed by the previous maintainer that he would like to get rid of it. I am hereby placing an official adoption on mozilla by his request. I will have a new mozilla package

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-18 Thread John Goerzen
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Manoj The /bin vs /sbin distinction is purely about avoiding Manoj inconvenience and/or confusion for the normal user. The sole Actually, this is incorrect. On platforms predating FHS/FSSTND, /sbin was for statically-linked binaries -- versions

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-18 Thread Adam McKenna
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:44:37PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: Anyway, I think the current situation is largely fine, although I am still dismayed by the lack of statically-linked binaries in /sbin. I suppose that's OK too, as long as the binaries are only linked with libs in /lib, which should

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 18-Aug-00, 06:26 (CDT), Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Supporting this, there's some Apt changes in CVS that'll let people choose a few packages from one distribution and leave the rest from another. To whoever implemented this feature: ThankyouThankyouThankyou -- it's

Re: Bug#66084: lvm: 0.8i - 0.8final migration

2000-08-18 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 05:05:46AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: Untested. (Come to think of it, instead of LD_PRELOAD you should use rpath, which is considered harmful but I think is justified here.) Yes, package size doubles, but you must not be worried about size since you currently

Re: Login temrinated w/signal 13

2000-08-18 Thread John Goerzen
I hav enoticed this as well, but what I've noticed too is that it appears to occur randomly. There is no obvious condition that decides when it will occur. If it happens, usually I just ssh back to the same machine and get right in. Rather puzzling. Turbo Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Moshe Zadka
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Edward Betts wrote: Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? I for one like the bleeding-edge. I like stuff that

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Mircea Luca
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:34:35AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? In my case curiosity to test new stuff without having to deal with the other

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for August 18, 2000

2000-08-18 Thread Brian E. Ermovick
But I also believe that Adam's orphaned netscape, and no one seems to have cared enough to do an NMU or take it over. In that case I suggest Netscape be removed from the archive. Actually, I'm debating taking it over, pending my re-activation (lost my old key - having to go through the

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Another reason to run unstable is to live on the actual bleeding edge: testing will always be around two weeks out of date. That can be a fair while, if you're impatient. At best. Please remember there are some maintainers that will have to

Re: NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-18 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
Well Ben, there are two reasons that I ignored the NMUs. The first reason is that Kaffe revisions have been so long in coming that the 1.0.6 source base bears little to no resembelence to the 1.0.5 source. Maintaining the patches that were done against 1.0.5 would be difficult at best and I was

Re: NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 03:06:55PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: Well Ben, there are two reasons that I ignored the NMUs. The first reason is that Kaffe revisions have been so long in coming that the 1.0.6 source base bears little to no resembelence to the 1.0.5 source. Maintaining the

Re: NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-18 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
I refuse to continue this discussion on devel. Move it to -java where it belongs. On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:28:03PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Good job Ean. You've done an excellent job of maintaining a quality package. --

Re: NMU's completely removed from kaffe in woody

2000-08-18 Thread Jules Bean
Woah. Calm down, everyone! On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:28:03PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 03:06:55PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: Well Ben, there are two reasons that I ignored the NMUs. The first reason is that Kaffe revisions have been so long in coming that

corelinux debian packages

2000-08-18 Thread Christophe Prud'homme
Hi, I am waiting for my debian maintainer application to take place. In the mean time, I want to provide my work to the masses Here is the apt line to add if you want corelinux (OOA and OOD library for Linux) These packages were compiled using WOODY deb

Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:05:58PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote: When a user or administrator is using it it is because of unusual conditions. Why so? I use it in perfectly usual and common conditions. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread dvdeug
I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? I don't know - how many people are running glibc 2.1.92 now? How about X 4.0? GNAT 3.13? I'm running two out the three, because I'm too

Realplayer

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
So Joey and Manoj are having a `friendly' discussing about the best way to implement an installer package for realplayer, I wondered how the other distributions do it. Now I have not bothered to look because I am to lazy, but my best guess is that RedHat includes a copy of the Realplayer code.

Re: mkfs in /sbin, mkisofs in /usr/bin (was: Re: Intent To Split: netbase

2000-08-18 Thread Scott Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is much more likely that a normal user will be generating ISO images than ext2 loopback filesystems. - - Original Message - From: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 4:15

Re: ITP: freeswan

2000-08-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 10:44:37AM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: Sounds good. Can you bug upstream to include support for other authentication methods eg SecureID? I'm stuck with a Windows IPsec client until SecureID is supported. KAME (on BSD) doesn't appear to

Re: Bug#66084: lvm: 0.8i - 0.8final migration

2000-08-18 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]] however, this does still leave a big problem: how to handle the upgrade from 0.8i to 0.8final. If you are currently using LVM 0.8i, then upgrade to 0.8final, LVM will stop working unless you also recompile your kernel. Aye, there's the rub. It's a design problem