On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:20:40PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:55:51PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote:
Who is going to ITP kde ?
I guess RevKrusty may want to put his packages into Debian?
He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it was installed.
I was
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
packages into unstable. Helix is too stable for unstable, and too unstable
for stable.
Not exactly true, as Helix Gnome is usually more cutting-edge than unstable
Gnome.
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http/ftp:
Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Thus spake happ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
enough said
http://www.trolltech.com
now we can move the ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato kde2 contrib
back home
Great! Has anyone yet packages available? If not, I'll be willing to ITP
some.
Qt 2.2 hasn't been released
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:03:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lame/vorbis works alright. The problem I'm facing is lack of a good CLI
ogg player.
Whats wrong with ogg123?
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Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:05:27PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
I guess RevKrusty may want to put his packages into Debian?
He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it was installed.
I was wondering what happened to it? It didn't appear in the
archives, it wasn't moved to REJECT or
I have one wav file that when vorbis-encoded does not play correctly with
ogg123 but plays with the xmms plugin. Plus there is not any native esd
support.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:03:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lame/vorbis works
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:32:07AM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
How come Debian don't have a non-X runlevel, like some other
distributions, in the default configuration? I think this would be
pretty convenient.
Because no one has ever bothered to write a runlevel policy.
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G. Branden Robinson
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 02:35:00PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have one wav file that when vorbis-encoded does not play correctly with
ogg123 but plays with the xmms plugin. Plus there is not any native esd
support.
My memory is flakey, but I believe there *is* esd support, (libao, a
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 02:51:46PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
Actually, that used to be a problem (I've had that as well, where an
incorrectly configured X e.g. for a different card caused an infinite
loop of switching to X and back again, so that you never have the
chance of switching with
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/09/04/134218mode=thread
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/09/04/968126399.html
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/2269/1/
http://www.trolltech.com/company/announce/generalpl.html
If that will become true, I'll stop whining about its licence.
--
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:43:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
The code to do this has existed in xdm for a very long time, but XFree86
always shipped with it turned off. I turned it back on (it just involves a
few resource settings for the display manager, see the xdm manpage), and
sent
Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally installed
into the archive today? Guess it wouldn't be Debian if it was on time ;-)
Daniel
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|f u cn rd ths, | Put no trust in
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:57:56AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:43:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Dirk Hohndel basically told me I was an idiot for doing so, because it
might unexpectedly terminate the server in the quite common case of four X
session logins
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:05:09PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
No, I can understand that. - that exact circumstance would occur in our
University computer science lab. Regularly too, I might add.
I take it this is LART-worthy incident, as I don't think I can
load my .xsession in under 6
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally installed
into the archive today? Guess it wouldn't be Debian if it was on time ;-)
IIRC, I added the override entry for that within 24 hours of it arriving :P
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally installed
into the archive today? Guess it wouldn't be Debian if it was on time ;-)
But licq is free, whether Qt is GPL or QPL. Personally, I switched over
to the
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:21:02AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:05:27PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
I guess RevKrusty may want to put his packages into Debian?
He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it was installed.
I was wondering what happened
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:26:30AM +1200, Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Does anyone else find it ironic that licq-plugin-gtk+ was finally
installed
into the archive today? Guess it wouldn't be Debian
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 10:32:07AM +0200, Per Lundberg wrote:
How come Debian don't have a non-X runlevel, like some other
distributions, in the default configuration? I think this would be
pretty convenient.
Because no one has ever bothered
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:32:10PM -0400, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Away put your flamethrowers! I mean you no harm!
Not that there were any flamethrowers coming out, but this line was too good
to pass up.
(I think my brain has been addled from too much Nethack,
Previously Paul Slootman wrote:
It would be useful if dpkg-buildpackage checked it then.
It will check them in the future, maybe not by default though.
Wichert.
--
_
/ Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented
Previously Kyle Lynch wrote:
Actually, all im trying to say is, how can I help make icons for projects
or at least help maintain the website?
Well, I wouldn't mind if you could help me improve the webpages
that doc-central generates..
Wichert.
--
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:57:56AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:43:44PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
The code to do this has existed in xdm for a very long time, but XFree86
always shipped with it turned off. I turned it back on (it just involves a
few
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +, michael d. ivey wrote:
i'm a new maintainer, and maybe this is better directed at -mentors,
or maybe it's in the docs somewhere...if so, just point me that way,
please.
my main server is potato. is it bad for me to be building packages
there if
On Sep 04 2000, John O Sullivan wrote:
I'm surprised that lame hasn't been packaged already. Was it
discussed and rejected previously?
Well, there aren't official packages AFAIK, but, for instance,
I have a reasonably well-made package of lame 3.86beta and I
intend to
On Sep 04 2000, Peter Allen wrote:
All vorbis tools are very young, and as most work goes into
libvorbis the encoder is missing some features and has a few
unwanted features Lame is mature, and although I haven't
checked out the ogg encoding bit of lame I guess it has more
supported
On Sep 04 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lame/vorbis works alright. The problem I'm facing is lack of a good CLI
ogg player.
See the ogg123 package in woody. It works perfectly well with
my potato.
Of course the other problem is the code not yet being optimised (and
I'm not
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:29:02AM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +, michael d. ivey wrote:
i'm a new maintainer, and maybe this is better directed at -mentors,
or maybe it's in the docs somewhere...if so, just point me that way,
please.
my main
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:05:27PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it was installed.
I was wondering what happened to it? It didn't appear in the
archives, it wasn't moved to REJECT or DONE, it just disappeared.
I was wondering if there was some long
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:23AM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:05:09PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
No, I can understand that. - that exact circumstance would occur in our
University computer science lab. Regularly too, I might add.
I take it this is
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:53:32PM -0300, Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
Of course the other problem is the code not yet being optimised (and
I'm not complaining but..) and bogging down my poor P133.
Unfortunately, I have no experience here with older processors
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:48:36PM -0300, Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
But I'd really love to see an MP3 encoder in Debian. On the
other hand, we now have Vorbis (players, plugins for XMMS and
encoders) on woody, so the situation is alleviated.
I think
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a) You just made some changes in X that caused it to lock up the display.
Magic sysreq got you out alive, but now you would like to boot to a
console to fix it.
b) Your monitor blew up. You've got a replacement on hand, but it won't
work (and
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 06:32:10PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
No, it was just an observation of a coincidence that my twisted mind
found amusing. :)
Yes, I suppose it was amusing :)
Away put your flamethrowers! I mean you no harm!
I didnt have it out :)
--
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:48:36PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote:
But I'd really love to see an MP3 encoder in Debian. On the
other hand, we now have Vorbis (players, plugins for XMMS and
encoders) on woody, so the situation is alleviated.
If it was legal for lame to be
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
lab == lots of people == lots of NCD xterms == lots of quick logins to the
DEC Unix server at the beginning of a lab... sheesh
Quick logins don't trigger the termination of the server.
It's a login, followed by an
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:29:44PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
I looked again, and http://incoming.debian.org still doesn't show it.
The only things I can think of is that RevKrusty removed the packages
himself (to upload versions that don't worry about the QPL-GPL
problems), or some
[you don't have to CC me on messages to debian-devel]
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:49:26PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
lab == lots of people == lots of NCD xterms == lots of quick logins to the
DEC Unix server at the
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:08:33PM +0200, happ wrote:
enough said
http://www.trolltech.com
now we can move the ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde potato kde2 contrib
back home
WE WON !
No, we didn't win. Neither did KDE. Troll Tech won this license war. It
looks like the rest of us will
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you a new debian developer, looking for some packages to maintain?
If so, this list is for you. I need to drop some of my simpler packages
to make way for other work. All of the below are up for adoption -- just
mail me. Otherwise, I will continue to
Arthur == Arthur Korn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Arthur apt-move uses rsync to update it's Packages, and it's a
Arthur real improvement over the sledgehammer method.
Correction: apt-move [potato version] uses rsync to update it's
Packages [...].
As of woody, this is no longer true.
Jürgen == Jürgen A Erhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jürgen *If* there's some *valid* reason not to store something
Jürgen in a *root-readable* DB, make it put it somewhere else.
Jürgen In the end, it *gets stored anyway.
Not always the case.
eg consider a package for a
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:53:30PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 05:29:44PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
I looked again, and http://incoming.debian.org still doesn't show it.
The only things I can think of is that RevKrusty removed the packages
himself (to upload
Still in incoming... dont look at me :)
I looked again, and http://incoming.debian.org still doesn't show it.
The only things I can think of is that RevKrusty removed the packages
himself (to upload versions that don't worry about the QPL-GPL
problems), or some terribly freaky bug in
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:20:05PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
Hugues Marilleau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Who is going to ITP kde ?
I'm dreaming about an apt-get install kde ...
Rather task-kde ;-) (SCNR)
already have one. :)
--
Ivan E. Moore II
[EMAIL
On 04 Sep 2000, Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not quite. The FHS briefly mentions *System V's* runlevel 2 and 3
(along with Berkley's multiuser state). It does not specify anything
about runlevels for Linux or any other OS.
O.k., you're right - it was on linuxbase.org. Which we
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:06:49PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
packages into unstable. Helix is too stable for unstable, and too unstable
for stable.
Not exactly true, as Helix Gnome is usually more cutting-edge than
unstable Gnome.
In my experience, it's had a bug report to fix
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
KDE2 is doing alot with ssl stuff...konqueror, kmail, etc...kdelibs builds
against libssl so it's in non-US.
Can you do a non-ssl version too for main? Otherwise American CD
manufacturers aren't going to be able to include it and therefore the
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:44:06AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
KDE2 is doing alot with ssl stuff...konqueror, kmail, etc...kdelibs builds
against libssl so it's in non-US.
Can you do a non-ssl version too for main? Otherwise American CD
Joseph Carter wrote:
Software has bugs, it's a fact of life. New software is more likely to
have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages
so nice is the turnaround time for fixes. I don't know how they do it,
but they do.
Maybe they have a dinstall delay of less
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
in the meantime I'll work on splitting off 2 seperate packages..1 with
ssl and 1 without.
It may be easier just to build it twice, once with SSL and once
without. That's what I'm going to do.
--
Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
To
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:54:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
Software has bugs, it's a fact of life. New software is more likely to
have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages
so nice is the turnaround time for fixes. I don't know how they do it,
but they do.
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:53:12AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
in the meantime I'll work on splitting off 2 seperate packages..1 with
ssl and 1 without.
It may be easier just to build it twice, once with SSL and once
without. That's
I don't either--but that is not the point. The point is that the U of
W has actually threatened to sue the FSF for distributing a modified
version of a program that was released under the same words.
Personally, I'm still in the process of confirming this.
I hope that the U of
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:29:02AM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
If possible, your package should depend on packages in potato only.
Then users won't be forced to install other unstable packages,
just to try out your package.
What if your package won't compile against the libraries in woody?
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Michael Beattie wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:19:08AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 08:54:25AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Um, why send such a message to a widely-read mailing-list?
As a joke...
Im damned curious.. what did
On Mon 04 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
Nondevelopers do not have access to the away information in db.d.o.
Ugh. They _are_ presented with a form where the on vacation box can
be checked, and the subsequent search simply returns 0, no errors
explaining that this info can't be
Description: C++ and IDL Source Documentation System
KDOC creates cross-referenced documentation for C++
and CORBA IDL libraries directly from the source.
Documentation can be embedded in special doccomments
in the source.
--
Ivan E. Moore II
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
and sent patches to XFree86 a long time ago, but the patch was
ignored, and Dirk Hohndel basically told me I was an idiot for
doing so, because it might unexpectedly terminate the server in the
quite common case of four X session logins in a row
Ok...I leave for an extended weekend and Troll get's freaky on me! :)
Since I've been basically doing this unofficially for almost 2 years now working
with Stephan Kulow who was the maintainer/developer and who has since passed
it on to me due to time and the fact he's not running woody and
Description: ODBC tools libraries
Binaries and libraries from the unixODBC package.
COMPONENTS:
.
1. libodbc.so (ODBC Driver Manager)
2. ODBCConfig (GUI Setup using libodbcinst.so)
3. libodbcinst.so (ODBC Installer/Setup)
4. odbcinst(cmd line UI for libodbcinst.so)
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
Description: ODBC tools libraries
Binaries and libraries from the unixODBC package.
COMPONENTS:
.
15. libodbcpgsql.so (driver for PostgreSQL)
How does it correspond to the current ODBC driver of PostgreSQL?
18. isql(cmd line tool...
I've started making debian packages of the latest galeon CVS trees
available over at:
http://silverchair.futureks.net/~solomon/galeon/
The 0.7.3 deb available there has been slightly enhanced as well, see the
changelog.Debian.
Potato users will probably want to read
Hi!
Today I stumbled across my .muttrc and found that I've hardcoded the
pager (w3m ;) and the editor (vim :) into it. On the other hand I find
the alternatives-mechanismus really useful so I changed it to pager and
editor which works really fine.
Now there doesn't seem to be an
Previously Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
I just need to find out whether kdelibs reports to kdebase during compile
time whether it was built against ssl or not...
With the current dpkg-shlibdeps it will since kdelibs will pull in the ssl
libraries and ldd will report that. Provided that you link
Hi all
I am going to vacation for the next 3 weeks, so if there is anything wrong with
one of my packages (pptpd, logcheck, mkinitrd-cd) then please feel free to do
NMUs.
best greets,
Rene
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:03:56AM +0200, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
Saved to branden.asc and 'gpg -d branden.asc' results in
gpg: CRC error; 72a653 - dc372a
gpg: quoted printable character in armor - probably a buggy MTA has been used
Well, I was able to repair and read it. Even if I
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Michael Beattie wrote:
It was meant as a joke... so go ahead :)
That's why I did not really complain about it ;-)
Im not sure why he encrypted to you though.
Yeah, I also thought that you should have received this ;-))
(because you asked for it, that is)
Ulf
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:52:51PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
Now there doesn't seem to be an alternative for the MUAs or the NUAs.
I'd really like to have that in there so that packages like pinfo or
muttzilla (just for an example) could work out of the box without
needing to twitch with
On Sep 05, Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it was legal for lame to be distributed with debian, I can tell you now,
it would be in the archive overnight. - But it isnt, so it wont.
We have pandora for that, and I remember Wichert agreed to this use.
What still needs to be done to
Just read on Linuxtoday.com that trolltech will
license QT under the GPL. Guess the 'river was
lowered' instead of 'raising the bridge' (old Jerry
Lewis movie title) so KDE can now go in main for
Woody, right?
=
Amateur Radio, when all else fails!
http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze
Debian Gnu
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:29:32AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
I believe the infamous aalib affair actualy came out of a wishlist
bugreport submitted to them by a user; the then frozen potato aalib was too
low a version to meet all the helix dependencies. This meant people like me
had to pull
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2000-09-06
Severity: wishlist
gpppkill is a small GTK+ program which displays a graph of ppp link usage
and also has options to kill pppd after a specified time of low link usage,
or after a given amount of time.
License is GPL.
-- System Information
Debian
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps,
but I really doubt that news readers do.
Not even mail readers do, AFAIK. Console readers have the mail(1)
interface to stick to, but if it comes to an x MUA...
It would really
Hi
Will it be a kde2 for potato or only for woody?
Ofcourse assuming that KDE2 will be out before woody.:-)
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My waste of cyberspace=
http://deepblue.dyndns.org :-)
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Hi!
I tried to fix an old problem with my Debian system (woody)
today, but failed.
When typing german umlauts my system behaves
inconsistent:
In most X programs they appear fine (i.e. Netscape, several
mail clients, XEmacs, ..)
When typing in xterm|gnome-terminal windows they
don't appear.
On 05 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps,
but I really doubt that news readers do.
*scratches* Uhm, right, I haven't thought about that *damnit* It
sounded so
Raul Miller wrote:
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:26:53PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
That to me says Debian has permission to re-distribute our modified
version, but that people who recieve it from us do not, unless they
too ask permission (We do expect and appreciate...). Non-free. If
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Florian Hinzmann wrote:
When typing german umlauts my system behaves
inconsistent:
In most X programs they appear fine (i.e. Netscape, several
mail clients, XEmacs, ..)
When typing in xterm|gnome-terminal windows they
don't appear. Some chars do beep, but none of
what to say more?
i'm developing keysign.php, which is the php scrip that manages debian key
signing coordination page (http://oink.cc.ntu.edu.tw/~cklin/signing/).
keysign.php is pretty finished and functioning, at least on woody. but
chuan-kay lin, the server administrator of
Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is
similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to
make packages of it, and I have uploaded it into Debian. It is placed under
the GPL. See http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ for more info.
--
Brian
There's no legal difference between Debian and people who recieve
it from us. [Legally, there's no such entity as Debian.]
Nor is there a difference from the viewpoint of our social contract.
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:35:49AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
Then why do we have DSFG #8
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:06:38PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 05, Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it was legal for lame to be distributed with debian, I can tell you now,
it would be in the archive overnight. - But it isnt, so it wont.
We have pandora for that, and I
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:10:49AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
The problem is not patents, it's that this particular patent also
applies in Germany, meaning we can't distribute from non-us either.
Yes we can, but not to or from Germany. Non-US is in The Netherlands,
which doesn't have software
When typing german umlauts my system behaves
inconsistent:
When typing in xterm|gnome-terminal windows they
don't appear. Some chars do beep, but none of the
umlauts appear.
The following code in your .bashrc should cure this, see stty(1):
if tty -s
then
stty pass8
fi
You should
David Starner schrieb:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 01:29:02AM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 07:19:11PM +, michael d. ivey wrote:
my main server is potato. is it bad for me to be building packages
there if they are destined for woody? should i start building on
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Bart Schuller wrote:
The problem is not patents, it's that this particular patent also
applies in Germany, meaning we can't distribute from non-us either.
Yes we can, but not to or from Germany. Non-US is in The Netherlands,
which doesn't have software patents.
The
Scripsit Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then why do we have DSFG #8 `License Must Not Be Specific to Debian'
if there is no Debian?
There *is* a Debian. But it's not a legal *person*, it's a *work*.
It is possible to write up a license that says, for example, that
copies of program X may
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is
similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to
make packages of it, and I have uploaded it into Debian. It is placed under
the
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000, Brian Almeida wrote:
Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is
similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to
make packages of it, and I have uploaded it into Debian. It is placed under
the GPL. See
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Peter Teichman wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:03:07AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is
similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to
make packages of
Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mozilla was relicensed under the GPL...
Not quite, as I understand it: Mozilla is *in process* of being
relicensed under GPL. All contributors have to be contacted to
verify agreement first.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
New versions of ispell-fi (binary packages wfinnish and ifinnish)
have three sizes for the spelling dictionary: small, medium and large.
Their differences are in the number of words and word forms recognized
and in the disk space and memory requirements for
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:48:17PM +0200, Samuel Hocevar wrote:
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000, Brian Almeida wrote:
Skipstone is a GTK+ webbrowser that uses mozilla's embed features. It is
similar to galeon only it is pure GTK+, no GNOME. The author asked me to
make packages of it, and I have
Why a new zsh was introduced in potato-proposed-updates ? It's not
compatible with thw previous version...
I thought potato-proposed-updates was just about severe bugfixes...
Phil.
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Adrian == Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Adrian The non-US server is only for packages that include
Adrian cryptographic program code.
Adrian non-US has NOTHING to do with patents or other restrictions
Adrian on the use of the packages. You are even allowed to use these
Adrian
[this is debian-devel, where we don't Cc unless explicitly asked]
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:24:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
The policy says about non-US:
2.1.5. The non-us server
That's in the context of how to categorize a package, not a list of
Debian machines
At 07:40 PM 9/5/00 +0200, Bart Schuller wrote:
What frustrates me is that there's software that's
- useful
- free
- legal (at least for quite a few millions of people)
but not officially available for Debian.
I understand fully that using the name non-US for patent-encumbered
software is wrong.
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Russell Coker wrote:
I would like to transfer several files at a time to enable usable throughput
through slow web caches. Is there any way this can be done? If not can this
feature be added?
If I recall it isn't too hard, but it isn't there specificly to prevent
yahoos
5.09.2000 pisze Florian Hinzmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[symptomata snipped]
Let me ask you one question: how did you set the `locale' variables
(LANG, LC_MESSAGES, LC_CTYPE and another LC_* companions)? I can type
umlauts without any problems, under console and X (having pl_PL locale
set, which
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