Uploaded gnupg 1.0.5-1 (m68k) to non-us

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Uploaded gengameng 3.0-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded xpilot 4.3.2-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded everybuddy-cvs 20010504-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded mc 4.5.51-17 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded gtklp 0.6g-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded chemtool 1.3.1-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded ripperx 2.0-4 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded ash 0.3.8-5 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded ftnchek 3.0.4-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded msyslog 1.01-18 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded sendmail 8.11.3+8.12.0.Beta7-7 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded gentoo 0.11.16-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded aterm 0.4.0-5 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded gnomekiss 0.6-4 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded achilles 0.0.5-8 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded sysutils 1.3.8.5 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded tkrat 2.0.1-4.2 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded mserv 0.33-2 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded main-menu 0.008 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Uploaded sox 12.17.1-3 (sparc) to ftp-master

2001-05-05 Thread Debian/SPARC Build Daemon
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Re: ALL: PARANOID from /etc/hosts.deny Should be Commented by default

2001-05-05 Thread Scott Dier
* Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010425 11:12]: This is actually quite doable, you just need to have a clued isp[1] who sets up a nifty little forwarding trick in the reverse DNS. Here's an exmple of how my old ISP did it: net152 ns kitenet.net. 153

build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Anthony Towns
In short, how do you do them? AFAICT, I could conceivably add either Build-Depends: kernel-headers or Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.2.19 If I did the former, there doesn't seem to be any way to reliably get at the kernel headers. The only way I can see is to hardcode

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: The latter'll obviously break as soon as 2.2.20 comes out and 2.2.19 gets removed from the archive. If you're building modules, then they'll have to be rebuilt when 2.2.20 comes out anyway. If this is a user-space program, then it better stop using

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Philip Blundell
In short, how do you do them? What do you want to do with them? There are a whole load of wacky special source dependencies (*LINUX24-HEADERS and so on) which seem to be trying to solve variants of this problem. But this mechanism doesn't seem to be all that robust either. I think the whole

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Philip Blundell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the whole idea of putting the kernel version number in the name of the headers package is pretty bogus. It would probably be better to just have a kernel-headers package which installed itself in /usr/src/kernel-headers; then you could

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
Tom Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, don't run the daemon at all. When you install exim, rm /etc/init.d/rc?.d/S*exim and it won't start. Local processes will be BTW, I think this is what ssh should do if you choose not to run the daemon on startup (rather than making /etc/init.d/ssh not

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Philip Blundell
Having version numbers in the kernel-headers package name is a consequence of having them in the kernel-image package name. The point of having them in the kernel-image package name should be pretty obvious... Actually, I'm not even completely convinced that having them in the kernel-image

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:23:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: In short, how do you do them? AFAICT, I could conceivably add either Build-Depends: kernel-headers or Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.2.19 or Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.2 or Build-Depends:

Re: Netscape v.s. C source code

2001-05-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Steve M. Robbins | I tried Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon (mozilla-based), Browse X, and | lynx. None of them would display text/x-csrc. The first three tried | to save it to disk, BrowseX showed a blank page, and lynx completely | ignored my attempt to open the link. lynx opened it just fine

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:07:54AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:23:39PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: In short, how do you do them? AFAICT, I could conceivably add either Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.2 or Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.4 You'll notice

Re: Bug#96102: ITP: serpento -- dictd server written in python

2001-05-05 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:19:29AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Radovan Garabik | Can it be run from inetd? I'm really dying for a dict server that can be | | More or less, yes, it can, but currently it is a bit unusable | since it takes forever to start (it has to parse the index

ITP: smartcard -- A smartcard utility for Linux

2001-05-05 Thread Carlos Prados
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist `smartcard' allows you to control a smart card reader from the command line. Currently, it supports just a few basic commands which only work on plain I2C memory cards. URL: http://www.lionking.org/~kianga/software/smartcard/ Copyright: Copyright (C) 2000 Rene

Packages to run kernel 2.4.x on potato (release 12)

2001-05-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
I have prepared the packages needed to run kernels up to 2.4.4 on a Debian 2.2r3 (potato) system. Please read [1] for more information. Changes since the last release: + added: isdnutils Binary packages: o ipppd o isdnactivecards

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-05 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:12:07PM -0700, Tom Lear wrote: BTW, I think this is what ssh should do if you choose not to run the daemon on startup (rather than making /etc/init.d/ssh not work at all). I have ssh installed on my laptop, and I don't want it running by default, but I'd like to be

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:48:54PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Well I guess you could use sourceforge. I assume that the author has his reasons for not wanting to use Sourceforge. There are (were?) mailing lists for other projects on lists.debian.org...? -- Digital Electronic Being Intended

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christoph Simon wrote: The german expression has a somewhat special history. Germanic at least, possible even older (considering Dutch has the exact some meaning). Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-05 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Hamish Moffatt wrote: There's a lot more interesting ones than that. Last year, an RFC described transmission of electricity over IP. Probably because noone implemented RFC2549 yet: IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service. Unfortunately there still is ongoing litigation about

Re: Work-needing packages report for May 4, 2001

2001-05-05 Thread Arthur Korn
Carlos Laviola schrieb: I hope that's a joke, because, based _solely_ on that comparison table, the reason one should use snarf over wget is because it has a cool progressbar. snarf is also a lot smaller than wget. (According to the chart) ciao, 2ri -- They are really completely different

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wichert Akkerman | Previously Hamish Moffatt wrote: | There's a lot more interesting ones than that. Last year, an RFC | described transmission of electricity over IP. | | Probably because noone implemented RFC2549 yet: IP over Avian Carriers | with Quality of Service. Unfortunately there

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:27:53AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: Actually, I'm not even completely convinced that having them in the kernel-image package name is particularly beneficial. But, even if we leave that the way it is, I don't think it's impossible to arrange for kernel-headers

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 06:07:54AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: AFAICT, I could conceivably add either Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.2 or Build-Depends: kernel-headers-2.4 You'll notice that recent kernel-headers packages provide the

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-05 Thread Simon Richter
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Joey Hess wrote: [Substitution in long description] I see nothing wrong with this, it should work. Hrm, I just tested with a description of: Description: ${hostname} ${hostname} long The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:44:07PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:27:53AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote: Actually, I'm not even completely convinced that having them in the kernel-image package name is particularly beneficial. But, even if we leave that the way

Re: Debconf and substitution in long description

2001-05-05 Thread Joey Hess
Simon Richter wrote: Hrm, I just tested with a description of: Description: ${hostname} ${hostname} long The first substitution worked, the second didn't. I suspect this may be because I'm running testing instead of unstable at home. I'll try unstable debconf now. That sounds similar

Re: Chrony mailing list needs a home

2001-05-05 Thread Joey Hess
John Hasler wrote: Joey Hess writes: Well I guess you could use sourceforge. I assume that the author has his reasons for not wanting to use Sourceforge. I was thinking just use it for the list, and ignore the other stuff. -- see shy jo

Software of BeOpen is resurrected at SourceForge

2001-05-05 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
Some time ago I told, that a company called BeOpen is no more. Well, I just found, that their software is available at SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/infodock/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/hyperbole/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/oo-browser/ -- Juhapekka naula Tolvanen * *

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-05 Thread Richard Atterer
While we're at it: How on earth can I get rid of those Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C messages? I use LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 to get Umlauts etc in mutt. Unfortunately, this produces the above error message with lots of X programs - especially annoying when you use

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Richard == Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard While we're at it: How on earth can I get rid of those Richard Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Richard messages? I use LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 to get Umlauts Richard etc in mutt. Unfortunately,

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-05 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 11:20:21PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: [...] messages? I use LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 to get Umlauts etc in mutt. Try LC_CTYPE=de_DE instead. -- CU, Patrick. Never run on auto-pilot - The Pragmatic Programmer pgpzbiy9d7Pvs.pgp Description: PGP signature

how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hello, I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem with the new upstream version. The package and program has been renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, because there was a conflict with another program named puzzle. I was considering to make a new package tree-puzzle which

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 11:09:20AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: The point here is to make packages start moving to Build-Dep'ing on kernel-headers-* packages. The question is, how to allow them to do that easily. IMO, we can use alternatives. And it should be fairly easy update-alternatives

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread David Whedon
Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:43:30PM +0200 wrote: Hello, I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem with the new upstream version. The package and program has been renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, because there was a conflict with another program named puzzle. I was

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben False. That is the very thing I want to alleviate (people using kernel Ben headers from the libc6-dev package). However, that is what 99% of the programs out there need to do, since they really are not dependent on the specifics of

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Itai Zukerman
Je Sat, 5 May 2001 11:09:20 -0400, Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribis: IMO, we can use alternatives. And it should be fairly easy update-alternatives --install /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2 kernel-headers-2.2 \ /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.2.rev rev Where rev would be something like 19 (as

Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Egon Willighagen
Hi all, maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other places than / ? I know that when the package is compiled the Makefile has a $DESTDIR attribute, but is this preserved in the deb package? This issue came up when i tried to convince someone that debian

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:39:48PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: Sat, May 05, 2001 at 08:43:30PM +0200 wrote: Hello, I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem with the new upstream version. The package and program has been renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, because

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: Hi all, maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other places than / ? It is not a stupid question, IMHO. Unfortunately, I believe the answer is not in general. One of the problems is that

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other places than / ? I know that when the package is compiled the Makefile has a $DESTDIR attribute, but is this preserved in the deb package? This

Re: Bug#95975: mutt: doesn't use charset anymore

2001-05-05 Thread jcdubacq
On 5 May 2001, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Richard == Richard Atterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard While we're at it: How on earth can I get rid of those Richard Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Richard messages? I use LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-1 to get

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: Hi all, maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other places than / ? i was thinking about this myself. i suppose in theory it is possible, and the data.tar.gz has all the files that are

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Philip Blundell
Now, how are we going to support: If there's a version of libc6 that's known to use kernel headers incompatible with a particular kernel-headers-*, then a package compiled against those kernel headers should conflict with that libc6. Eh? Why would this be useful? p.

Re: Woody version number

2001-05-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Read the archives for the sad history of version numbers and the flamewars :) Please remember that the reason we went to using version names was prompted by Debian 1.0. [For those that don't know: Debian was at something like 0.97 when a vendor [?? Infomagic ??] released a prerelease snapshot

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Itai Zukerman
Je 05 May 2001 15:06:11 -0500, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribis: Try this: suggest the kernel-headers package, and set CFLAGS += -I$(KSRC)/include and instruct people to set the KSRC variable as needed. [...] Have a default value for KSRC if you need, and arrange for

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:33:45PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: One could use fakeroot to create a sort of virtual machine, in which regular users can install packages as they please, but fakeroot doesn't support chroot (yet?), and I'm beginning to think a better solution would be an

About native packages

2001-05-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
Hi, it seems to be a trend that maintainers try to change their packages to be Debian native. Policy says about native packages (in the chapter about version numbering): -- snip -- debian_revision This part of the version number specifies the version of the Debian

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other places than / ? You could try the --root=dir, --admindir=dir or --instdir=dir options to dpkg. But I think that maybe this is not what you really

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:44:07PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: The thing is, kernel-headers should not be used at all unless you're compile glibc, or modules. Anything else will break. So you're saying it's better to hardcode syscall numbers and stuff than using the kernel headers? Sre...

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sat, 5 May 2001 19:01:03 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:33:45PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: One could use fakeroot to create a sort of virtual machine, in which regular users can install packages as they please, but fakeroot doesn't support

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Xu
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:44:07PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: The thing is, kernel-headers should not be used at all unless you're compile glibc, or modules. Anything else will break. False. That is the very thing I want to alleviate (people using kernel

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 09:40:40PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: Personally I think you're trying to solve a problem that will become a non-issue as people realise this and stop using kernel headers. That's wishful thinking, but I agree. I'm not sure it is possible though. I'm more

Re: build depends on kernel-headers

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:46:32AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: The point here is to make packages start moving to Build-Dep'ing on kernel-headers-* packages. The question is, how to allow them to do that easily. Personally I think you're trying to solve a problem that will become a

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:39:48PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: This is discussed in the Developer's Reference [1]: 9.3 Replacing or renaming packages Sometimes you made a mistake naming the package and you need to rename it. In this case, you need to follow a two-step process. First,

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 05:47:21PM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2001 19:01:03 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should look into the S/390 port. The S/390 port is hardware specific. For obvious reasons (how many Debian machines are S/390s?), this is

Re: Installing debs in ~user/ or /usr/local?

2001-05-05 Thread Alexander Hvostov
On Sat, 5 May 2001 16:48:05 -0400 Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:00:14PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: maybe it is a stupid question, but can debian packages be installed in other places than / ? I know that when the package is compiled the

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Ben Burton
Thanks, - I know this and have done it previously in the case of zicq and krolden. However, what I really wanted to know is, how this (or any other) procedure can take care that the users of the old package will get the renamed package automatically updated with 'apt-get upgrade'?