Bug stamp-out list for Sep 1 05:1 (CST)
Total number of release-critical bugs: 218
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 0
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Package: afterstep (debian/main)
Maintainer: Steven R. Baker
On 30 Aug 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Juhapekka Tolvanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I fear, that it will take so much time, that we must have separately
packaged XEmacs/Gtk meanwhile. And I fear, that latest upstream
sources of XEmacs will ship with too old version of
Joachim == Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joachim Juhapekka Tolvanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I fear, that it will take so much time, that we must have separately
packaged XEmacs/Gtk meanwhile. And I fear, that latest upstream sources
of XEmacs will ship with too
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
I intend to package Enhydra, an open source Java/XML application server
Fine!
Because I'm currently in the process of searching a reasonable content
management system. Is there anybody who could draw a short comparison
between enhydra and zope aor may
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
Shadow passwords make your system more secure because nobody is able to
view even encrypted passwords. Passwords are stored in a separate file
that can only be read by special programs. We recommend the use of shadow
passwords. If you're going to use
Simon Richter wrote:
Yup, this question is senseless. If you happen to have encrypted passwords
in the passwd file, the shadow file is not looked at for these
accounts. So having shadow passwords will not break NIS.
The question is about the default setting.
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We discussed this previously (I think on debian-testing). The odd thing with
the configuration is, that the user has to specify twice the mouse type
(during gpm and during X setup). Even worse, if the user decides to use a PS/2
instead of a serial mouse, he has to change it at several places.
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started this afternoon submitting bugs against packages which print
verbose output in their maintainer scripts. The future that Debian
must take is to fully support debconf. To further this goal I will
continue submitting patches to any package
I can't ssh to it, and www.debian.org doesn't work either.
Paul Slootman
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Paul Slootman wrote:
I can't ssh to it, and www.debian.org doesn't work either.
Yes, it's down. I'll reboot it as soon as I can tomorrow morning.
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
Yup, this question is senseless. If you happen to have encrypted passwords
in the passwd file, the shadow file is not looked at for these
accounts. So having shadow passwords will not break NIS.
The question is about the default setting.
Maybe, but I
Richard,
I am comfortable speaking for the group at large when I say we appreciate
your advice and input on this matter. I myself appreciate the ends you're
trying to accomplish here. Nevertheless, the methods you're using to go
about this cause me to question whether or not your means justify
We discussed this previously (I think on debian-testing). The odd thing
with
the configuration is, that the user has to specify twice the mouse type
(during gpm and during X setup). Even worse, if the user decides to use
a PS/2
instead of a serial mouse, he has to change it at several
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:58:24AM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
The middle mouse button works flawless, if you select the Intellimouse
protocol:
Of course, it's rather non-obvious that you need to select anything
other than the protocol your physical mouse supports (or it was when I
tried a
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote:
ANNOUNCE: First official release of apt-show-source
What is it?
It's a perl script that parses the dpkg status file and that APT
list files that end with Sources, without any options it prints out all
installed packages and
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:04:23AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:37:01PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Purists happen to be whoever disagrees with Hamish Moffat. Cf. his
rhetoric here with his rhetoric in the great Social Contract amendment
flamewar.
Perhaps
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:46:40PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote:
Their position was that the words permission to copy, distribute and
modify do not grant permission to distribute a modified version. In
other words, they say you can distribute the software, and you can
modify the software,
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:35:40AM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both.
There is. The license. (See debian-legal.)
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:10:27PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
I don't know how the decision ended up being made, but the argument
I presented at the time is that a dependency on debhelper is far more
likely to be versioned than the others are. A
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:49:31PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I think that since every package using a helper package seems
to need a versioned dependency, addign debhelper to build essential
shall not remove the burden from the packages. And
Hi,
found something like this in my logs for every start of mc:
Sep 1 12:13:48 pkfp20 mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
I wonder why. Maybe a bug in mc? In fact, /dev/gpmctl exists:
srwxrwxrwx1 root root0 Sep 1 12:16 gpmctl=
The '=' is an indication of the
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
Sep 1 12:13:48 pkfp20 mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
I wonder why. Maybe a bug in mc? In fact, /dev/gpmctl exists:
I got these too, with both mc and links. I guess it's a libgpm0-bug.
Installing (and running) gpm fixed it for me
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:35:53AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 12:04:23AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:37:01PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Purists happen to be whoever disagrees with Hamish Moffat. Cf. his
rhetoric here with his
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
Sep 1 12:13:48 pkfp20 mc: /dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
I wonder why. Maybe a bug in mc? In fact, /dev/gpmctl exists:
I got these too, with both mc and links. I guess it's a libgpm0-bug.
Installing (and running) gpm fixed it
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:59:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Julian Gilbey wrote:
A thread came up here a little while back about installation scripts
sometimes not being able to use debconf for security or other
reasons.
That's not particularly accurate.
Sorry ;-)
So what about
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:38:25AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
dinstall has a bug where if it gets uploaded to frozen it gets removed from
unstable... Someone just needs to re-uploaded a recompiled version for woody.
I *really* should get around to reviewing that patch I did, and apply
* Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000831 20:47]:
If Debian decides to reject IMAPD and tells the U of W so,
that will put some pressure on them to clarify the license.
Otherwise they may prefer to leave it
unclear in order to to have it both ways.
I don't see why Debian (or GNU, or Linux)
Previously Anand Kumria wrote:
So file a bug. They can do exactly the same thing with dpkg-dev.
dpkg-dev is an extremely stable interface, something you can not
say for debhelper.
Wichert.
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On 31-Aug-00, 12:43 (CDT), Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:29:30PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three
different references and finally install the build-depends package to
find
Hello.
Alisdair McDiarmid schrieb:
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:49:13PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
you always have the option of using 'apt-get source' to recompile a package,
then place it on hold and we wont touch it.
I've tried doing this occasionally -- more often to change a
I've an outstanding, unanswered question which I've sent to UW in a
related context (IMAPD): what specific clause of the copyright is being
violated, when modified versions are distributed.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:46:40PM -0600, Richard Stallman wrote:
Their position was that
On 31-Aug-00, 16:52 (CDT), Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that you start with a particular version dependency, and then
only update the dependency if you use new features not present in
older helper packages.
This can be tricky, as it is easy to use a new feature without
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Sven Guckes wrote:
I don't see why Debian (or GNU, or Linux)
bothers with the IMAPD of UofW so much at all.
Aren't there quite some replacements by now?
Nope. Not that are free software and/or full-featured. Yet we're up to
our armpits in crappy POP3 servers with more
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:39:05PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
I don't see why Debian (or GNU, or Linux) bothers with the IMAPD of
UofW so much at all. Aren't there quite some replacements by now?
[1] The copyright appears to meet our standards (DFSG).
[2] The only alternative imap daemon
Arthur Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a convenient way to put a package on hold? I couldn't
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] included the following in a
message dated Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:43:53 +1000:
#! /bin/bash
# dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Greenland wrote:
[...]
I think I miswrote earlier: I wrote build-essentials when I should
have written Build-Depends. And I'd wager that the vast majority
of the Debian developers have no need at all for Build-Depends.
What about for users who want to rebuild the
I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because EB
releases tend to lag pretty far behind the code in CVS. I called my
package ebsnap, and made it conflict with everybuddy. I put it on my
site, and that was that.
Now, I've adopted everybuddy and gotten through the NM
michael d. ivey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My current idea is everybuddy-cvs, and make it conflict with everybuddy,
and conflict/replace ebsnap, for the people who may have downloaded
ebsnap. Is that the correct way to proceed?
People using unofficial packages should be aware about the
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 06:24:55PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
People using unofficial packages should be aware about the
dificulties. So I wouldn't mention the unofficial packages in control
files for official Debian packages.
OK. I'll mention it on the website for the unofficial ones.
I
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:06:33PM +, michael d. ivey wrote:
I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because EB
releases tend to lag pretty far behind the code in CVS. I called my
package ebsnap, and made it conflict with everybuddy. I put it on my
site, and that
On Fri, Sep 1, 2000 at 00:22:23 +0200 (+), J.A. Bezemer wrote:
a. Let gpm default to repeating in raw mode (to solve 6.), and add a very
clear notice that X should be (re)configured with /dev/gpmdata but using
the real protocol -- but when gpm is either stopped or removed/purged,
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 03:18:26PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I checked and all the permissions are like they are supposed to be. (BTW,
what is the t in the permission string drwxrwxrwt anyway?)
't' is the sticky bit. On a directory, it means a
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 11:57:50AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
I've an outstanding, unanswered question which I've sent to UW in a
related context (IMAPD): what specific clause of the copyright is being
violated, when modified versions are distributed.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at
On 01-Sep-00, 02:50 (CDT), Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, we did get an answer - from Lori (Lori's last name escapes my
memory, but it was the person who sent the message you forwarded) - saying
that what we are doing with imapd is not against its license and if it
turned
On 01-Sep-2000 Colin Watson wrote:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started this afternoon submitting bugs against packages which print
verbose output in their maintainer scripts. The future that Debian
must take is to fully support debconf. To further this goal I will
continue
But then it might interrupt the installation process. Just as debconf
asks all of the preinst questions before any of the packages have
started unpacking, it would be nice to be able to defer any questions
that *have* to wait for the postinst until the very end, when all of
the packages
michael d. ivey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I started making personal debs of the everybuddy CVS snapshots because EB
releases tend to lag pretty far behind the code in CVS. I called my
package ebsnap, and made it conflict with everybuddy. I put it on my
site, and that was that.
Now, I've
On 01-Sep-00, 12:10 (CDT), Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Greenland wrote:
I think I miswrote earlier: I wrote build-essentials when I should
have written Build-Depends. And I'd wager that the vast majority
of the Debian developers have no need at all
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Greenland wrote:
Those people would be equally well served by a note or check at the
beginning of the debian/rules file; we didn't need policy and a new
control file headers for that.
Alright. What if apt-get source was enhanced so it would pull down any
packages
On 01-Sep-00, 15:04 (CDT), Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Steve Greenland wrote:
Those people would be equally well served by a note or check at the
beginning of the debian/rules file; we didn't need policy and a new
control file headers for that.
Hi all,
A starnge thing happened while I was rsyncing Debian
binary-i386-1_NONUS.iso from ceu.fi.udc.es .
At first I made a pseudo-image, then I rsynced it using this:
rsync --verbose --progress --stats --block-size=8192
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
[snip, commands seem correct]
This took more than 12 hours and the progress indicator never came
over 2% done.
Can someone please tell me what could be the bottleneck and why the second
rsync took longer that the first one.
If you never got to the
Previously Richard A Nelson wrote:
Would the following work as expected:
Depends: sendmail (= 8.9.3), sendmail ( 8.9.4)
Yes.
Wichert.
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Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Are you also reporting bugs against packages whose priority is higher
than that of debconf? Is the plan eventually to raise debconf's priority
to 'standard' or higher?
currently, any package which uses debconf depends on it. Since most packages
need it in
On http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/developers.loc , there's supposed
to be a jpeg of a world map with debian developers. On the main
website, www.debian.org, there is.
It seems that the .nl webserver is interpreting the filename
developers.map.jpeg as a .map image-map file according to this error:
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