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Uploaded xpad 1.7-2 (m68k) to ftp-master

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Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-28 Thread sean finney
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 06:45:21PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:55:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: Ideally have some way for the user to override the default choice if automatic selection fails... Can you detect smp from non-smp kernel? i would guess not...

Re: new build system

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 12:37, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: But unlike dpkg-source v2, you can start using CBS right now. Sound interesting? Here's the URL where you can download CBS: http://cvs.verbum.org/debian/rules Yes, it sounds interesting, but I had a problems with CBS and two

Re: new build system

2002-11-28 Thread Miles Bader
Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: your upstream's Makefile isn't properly coded to keep other flags like -I around when CFLAGS is set. the real solution is to fix the Makefile so that this works. Human users will also appreciate such a fix... -Miles -- `Life is a boundless sea of

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-28 Thread Herbert Xu
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely you aren't suggesting that everyone has a right to post opinions about any subject on debian-devel, on the grounds that the mailing list is open to the public? We already have extensive filters in place on our mailing lists to block messages

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: On Nov/27, Emile van Bergen wrote: What about Avalon? Both a composer (well, hmm) and the place where Excalibur was forged. Being

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-28 Thread Stephen Zander
sean == sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sean i would guess not... /proc/cpuinfo. Of course if the user doesn't start out using an smp kernel, they clearly don't need one. -- Stephen So if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood And therefore?... A witch!

US Turkey Day!

2002-11-28 Thread Sean Harshbarger
I just wanted to wish all those who celebrate Thanks Giving today and wish everyone a happy and safe day. Eat lots of turkey...drink lots of beer...and watch football! -- Sean Harshbarger (NO I DIDNT BURN CARS AFTER THE OSU VS MICHIGAN GAME YOU FOOLS! I AM A CALM BUCKEYE!) harsy

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-28 Thread Jonathan Oxer
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 19:00, Stephen Zander wrote: sean == sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sean i would guess not... /proc/cpuinfo. Of course if the user doesn't start out using an smp kernel, they clearly don't need one. Not necessarily. One obvious application for this would

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.11.28.0441 +0100]: By this I assume you mean it does something like store the passphrase in non-swappable memory and then when requested use some form of IPC to feed it into a /usr/bin/gpg process. I assume it hardcodes the path, which would

Re: debconf template translations from ddtp

2002-11-28 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:11:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: [...] And of course base-config is in debian cvs where anyone can check in a translation [...] Being able to automatically extract upstream homepage URL from package meta-data has already been discussed (even if I don't remember clearly

Bug#171045: ITP: snortconf -- A menu based interface to configuring Snort 1.9.0 and up

2002-11-28 Thread Rens Houben
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: snortconf Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : A.L. Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.xjack.org/snortconf * License : GPL Description : A menu based

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Oohara! You wrote: Why does Debian host the Sourceforge site? I don't see anything between sf.net and debian.org . You misunderstand. Debian will host _its_own_ sourforge-like environment, for developers. -- Kind regards,

Re: automatic selection which kernel image to install

2002-11-28 Thread Thomas Poindessous
* Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-28 09:05]: sean == sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /proc/cpuinfo. it doesn't work with a non-smp kernel. but dmesg | grep Processors seems to work (on x86, 2.4 kernel). Of course if the user doesn't start out using an smp kernel, they

Re: [desktop] foomatic-gui is born

2002-11-28 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:13:22AM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Em Wed, 27 Nov 2002 02:21:47 -0600, Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Yes, some sort of su to root prompt is probably a good idea; dunno if I can reuse the existing code or what. If not, something similar

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2002-11-27, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would still let root replace /usr/bin/gpg with such a program though. So something like this is of some value, but only manages to narrow the window that lets someone who has temporary access to, say, a laptop with an agent running and a

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:53:00 -0500 Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:23:51PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: I see no problem with this license as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. There is no permission granted to make modifications (and

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread Alexander Zangerl
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:41:29 EST, Joey Hess writes: q-agent is a PITA to get working with stuff like mutt though, so I do look forward to using gpg-agent. ad type=self What for? signing/encrypting stuff? if so, maybe have a look at kuvert. /ad I just think I'd guard my laptop with my mail

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Jesus Climent
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:42:27PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: How about hollin.debian.org, or eregion.debian.org, the Elfen kingdom outside Moria (what language was speak friend, and enter written in?) Elfic? The line below the heading is written in Sindarin, the language of the elves, in

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Why does Debian host the Sourceforge site? I don't see anything between sf.net and debian.org . You misunderstand. Debian will host _its_own_ sourforge-like environment, for developers. Not just for developers, for everyone

How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-11-28 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, a friend of mine recently bought some Debian woody CDs. Because the CDs do not look very official she wants to verify that these are really Debian CDs and not something trojanized. I suggested to her to compare the output of md5sum /dev/cdrom with the corresponding values from

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Tim Dijkstra wrote: So doesn't this mean it's time to change the social contract or the DFSG (are standards software?) to make an exception for 'documents and files describing standards'. It's clear that we can't live without them (hence should be in main), and it is also clear there is no use in

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Jérôme Marant
Josip Rodin wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:54:52AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Why does Debian host the Sourceforge site? I don't see anything between sf.net and debian.org . You misunderstand. Debian will host _its_own_ sourforge-like environment, for developers. Not just for

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:55:31 +0100 Giacomo Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, we can live without standard in main. I never read ISO C and POSIX standards (because these was non free (like free beer)). But I program GNU/Linux in C. Also the RFC are not enough free, but I see no problem

Re: Restoring the GPG Key Signing Coordination page

2002-11-28 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Martin! You wrote: - If you have updated your entries following my mail, these changes have been lost. Please login again and update your entries. Those who have requested a new password following my mail should have received a new passwd by email by now (If not, just

Re: Restoring the GPG Key Signing Coordination page

2002-11-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-28 15:00]: Could you please send me a new password? done. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Fuchs wrote: I find it interesting that you point this out, because I was just wondering wether it would be possible to just open(2) the file /usr/bin/gpg and exec(2) this file via the file descriptor from this open(2) calland not the path name. Yeah, you could do that (on linux

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 05:34:20PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: hey how about something much less cryptic like forge. Nothing worse than having to guess what woman's name some silly coder named the program I am looking for. And since most of us aren't French the names mean very

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-28 10:49]: Bah, that's what CNAME is for. We have www. cvs. etc. Sure, give the system hosting the service a generic CNAME pointer, but a system's canonical name itself has to have some character. The machine itself has a name already (quantz). --

Dummy packages for feature dependencies

2002-11-28 Thread Andrew Chadwick
If a packaged program contains a Suggests:ed feature that is linked at runtime when a user does something special, perhaps via dlopen(3), then the program may appear to fail mysteriously if the library the feature depends on has different calling conventions or symbols from the one the program

Re: US Turkey Day!

2002-11-28 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Sean Harshbarger I just wanted to wish all those who celebrate Thanks Giving today and wish everyone a happy and safe day. Eat lots of turkey...drink lots of beer...and watch football! And, for the Americans in the crowd: http://gnome.org/ - Jeff -- PHP, when it first came

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:11:26PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: The machine itself has a name already (quantz). Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already, why bother naming the service something obscure? Service names should be easy to remember. Ben -- nSLUG

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Mateusz Papiernik
The machine itself has a name already (quantz). yes :) but maybe it will be better to do some IN A records? In this way, ping cvs.sth.debian.org will ping cvs.sth.debian.org, not quantz.debian.org (I mean address which ping show). -- Mati ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sounds like a Windows problem,

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:14:50 -0400) : On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:11:26PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: The machine itself has a name already (quantz). Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already, why bother naming the service something obscure? Service names

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:14:50 -0400) : Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already, why bother naming the service something obscure? Service names should be easy to remember. Think non-us or

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Sebastian Henschel (2002-11-28 10:08:11 -0500) : * Added an empty postinst to prevent dh_installdocs from deprecated linking from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc. That's an ugly hack. Please use DH_COMPAT=4 instead. Roland. -- Roland Mas Food, shelter, source code. -- Cyclic Software

deb-src

2002-11-28 Thread Jon Kent
Hi, been playing with deb-src to see how it works. Interesting little utility. I noticed when it started the old ./configure that the arch was set to i386, but I prefer to have this set to my arch. I can't find anything in the docs that says if this is possible or not, anyone have any ideas?

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:37:44 -0400) : On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:34:45PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Ben Armstrong (2002-11-28 11:14:50 -0400) : Oh, I retract my objection then. If the machine has a name already, why bother naming the service something obscure? Service names should be

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Roland Mas [Wed, Nov 27 2002, 11:03:58AM]: The code is almost ready, the server itself should be OK soon (if not already), and Wichert and I even managed to find a time where both of us can be on the same IRC network at the same time. Now for the *real* important

Re: Dummy packages for feature dependencies

2002-11-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeu 28/11/2002 à 16:11, Andrew Chadwick a écrit : Would it make sense for these cases to be covered by extra debian packages, perhaps with a -feature suffix to the name, which contain concrete dependencies? That way the admin will be able to assure his users that an upgrade won't

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:58:38PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: UnicodeData is different, because we need the data in our program, not only the ideas. And it this case we see that as software! Maybe you're right that we don't really need the rfc's in main. They actually are now and it would

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Richard Braakman writes: But do you think it's _okay_ for such a file not to be free? /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt, which I assume is the file you are talking about, contains just a table of data. Unless its creation involved creativity rather than just sweat of the brow it is

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-28 Thread Jim Lynch
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:58:38 +1100 Andrew Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:21:40PM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: A bit hypocritical of you pointing out that I was participating in my own thread late. Not at all. The thread I refer to is the now-very-large Are we

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Richard Braakman writes: But do you think it's _okay_ for such a file not to be free? /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt, which I assume is the file you are talking about, contains just a table of data. Unless

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:54:04PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Oh, and by the way, it can't be quantz, since it won't have the same IP address. IMHO we should go with a french composer (or whatever the scheme was) as the machine name, and something simple like 'sf' as the service name. Michael

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 06:07:57PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: However, in these perverse times, where companies patent hyperlinks, I honestly have no idea whether Unicode itself is owned but licensed royalty-free, or as free as say, ASCII or English. These days I wouldn't be eager to rely

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:33:43PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: These days I wouldn't be eager to rely on the limits of copyrightability. CNN.com - Composer pays for piece of silence - Sep. 23, 2002 http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence/ It's worth pointing out that

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:57:16PM +0100, Jérôme Marant écrivait: I hope it is for packaging activities and debian-related stuff only. Not really. It is for any free software related project launched by a Debian developer (ie the project request should come from a Debian developer). Of course,

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Emile van Bergen writes: I'd say that the definition of Unicode, heck even ASCII, involves a fair amount of creativity. I don't doubt that the development of Unicode involved creativity: under current law it probably qualifies as a patentable invention. Inventions and ideas, however, cannot be

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Emile van Bergen writes: I'd say that the definition of Unicode, heck even ASCII, involves a fair amount of creativity. I don't doubt that the development of Unicode involved creativity: under current law it probably

Re: How to validate Debian woody CDs?

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Atterer
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:51:02PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: Is this a good way to check wheter the CDs are official Debian CDs? Yes! Except md5sum should be called differently, see below. The result was that the checksums did match for CD #1, but did NOT match for the remaining CDs. When she

Re: deb-src

2002-11-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:53:53AM -0800, Jon Kent wrote: been playing with deb-src to see how it works. Interesting little utility. What and where is deb-src? -- - mdz

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 17:57:35 +0200 Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:58:38PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: UnicodeData is different, because we need the data in our program, not only the ideas. And it this case we see that as software! Maybe you're

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:42:30PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Sebastian Henschel (2002-11-28 10:08:11 -0500) : * Added an empty postinst to prevent dh_installdocs from deprecated linking from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc. That's an ugly hack. Please use DH_COMPAT=4 instead. The

Re: deb-src

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:53:53AM -0800, Jon Kent wrote: Hi, been playing with deb-src to see how it works. Interesting little utility. apt-src? I noticed when it started the old ./configure that the arch was set to i386, but I prefer to have this set to my arch. Don't fool with the

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 November 2002 15:42, Roland Mas wrote: Sebastian Henschel (2002-11-28 10:08:11 -0500) : * Added an empty postinst to prevent dh_installdocs from deprecated linking from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc. That's an ugly hack.

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-28 Thread Lukas Geyer
Jim Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:58:38 +1100 Andrew Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was referring to your own post to my DAM approval wait time outburst. Before this email, I had made some attempt at contributing to the discussion with two posts in the little

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Roland Mas
Colin Watson (2002-11-28 18:40:28 +) : [...] You need Build-Depends{,-Indep}: debhelper (= 4.1.0) for this, not a particular setting of DH_COMPAT. Well, to be frank, I think you need both :-) Roland. -- Roland Mas Why did the elephant cross the road? Because it was the chicken's day

Re: apt-src (was deb-src!)

2002-11-28 Thread Jon Kent
Hi, apt-src? yup, sorry shouldn't write mail and do other stuff @ the same time. Don't fool with the Debian architecture name. It might be better to install pentium-builder instead. got that installed I pretty sure. Actually I was talking rubbish about it building against i386 arch,

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:36:20PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Colin Watson (2002-11-28 18:40:28 +) : You need Build-Depends{,-Indep}: debhelper (= 4.1.0) for this, not a particular setting of DH_COMPAT. Well, to be frank, I think you need both :-) Why? (If it's a joke and I'm not

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: I'm arguing that the _creation_ _of_ _that_ _table_ involved no creativity, not that the invention of Unicode didn't. Well, so you say that if I write a novel, all

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:47:02PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Is it possible to create other Unicode tables that serve the same purpose as that one

Bug#171097: ITP: cryptplug -- Collection of plugins to crytographic engines.

2002-11-28 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: cryptplug Version : Upstream Author : Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB - Design and implementation. g10 Code GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Packaging and bug

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:45:48AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Richard Braakman writes: But do you think it's _okay_ for such a file not to be free? /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/unicore/UnicodeData.txt, which I assume is the file you are talking about, contains just a table of data. Unless its

Re: Test package apt repositories, and Release files.

2002-11-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:33:44AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: This is the question that hasn't been addressed yet. Is the Release file that Karl posted correct? I'm still waiting for an answer on this from some guru, I've an apt-gettable repository but I haven't yet looked at the pinning stuff.

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-28 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Indeed, the Debian home page is so well organized and so easy to find and get around in, that people don't *need* so many secondary sources of information. Our success at doing our job well has meant that the distrowatch counter is especially inaccurate in our

Re: Test package apt repositories, and Release files.

2002-11-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Package: * Pin: release o=Debian/~njordan Pin-Priority: 989 !!! Will those who know please check the above and see if my understanding of how apt/preferences is supposed to be used is correct? I'd hate to give misinformation and have a lot of

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:13:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: People report this to the web team all the time. And every time they get a negative response, because we cannot fix something that other people broke: the CD images distribution system. When woody was released, the CD images were not

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:41:29PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: That would still let root replace /usr/bin/gpg with such a program though. So something like this is of some value, but only manages to narrow the window that lets someone who has temporary access to, say, a laptop with an agent

Re: testing not getting updated?

2002-11-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi aj, Anthony Towns wrote: It's disabled due to non-US moving hosts (satie to klecker), it hasn't been re-enabled yet since there's still some worries about whether non-US has been recovered adequately; and the glibc issue means there's not a huge amount of point to re-enabling it. :-/ Eh,

Re: Accepted gtk2-engines-magicchicken 1.0.2-1 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Roland Mas wrote: Colin Watson (2002-11-28 18:40:28 +) : [...] You need Build-Depends{,-Indep}: debhelper (= 4.1.0) for this, not a particular setting of DH_COMPAT. Well, to be frank, I think you need both :-) No, you don't. Regards, Rene -- .''`. Rene Engelhard -- Debian

Locales problems...

2002-11-28 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Hi, I work with locale en_US and keyboard layour us_intl, and frequently have to type special characters in portuguese. The problem is that with both multi-gnome-terminal and gnomeicu I wasn't able to type these characters. With gnome-terminal it works fine. The version of multi-gnome-terminal

Re: Locales problems...

2002-11-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 28 November 2002 16:02, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: Another question: is this question proper to this list, or I should have tried debian-user? Sorry if it is unproper... (in fact, I also sent to that list) debian-user is the support list while debian-devel is for the day to day

Bug#171116: ITP: tsclient -- GNOME2 frontend for rdesktop

2002-11-28 Thread Andrew Lau
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-29 Severity: wishlist * Package name: tsclient Version : 0.56 Upstream Author : Erick Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.gnomepro.com/tsclient/ * License : GPL Description : GNOME2 frontend for rdesktop

New maintainer behaviour with NMU and LogJam's hijacking

2002-11-28 Thread Christian Surchi
I'm in Debian also because I like cooperative work and I hope Debian Project is not a competition, but I had to change my opinion because I did not receive respect from new maintainer Ari Pollak; and Debian did not receive any respect too. I maintain logjam (a client for livejournal web site

Re: new build system

2002-11-28 Thread Joshua Haberman
* Colin Walters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 12:37, Mateusz Papiernik wrote: But unlike dpkg-source v2, you can start using CBS right now. Sound interesting? Here's the URL where you can download CBS: http://cvs.verbum.org/debian/rules Yes, it sounds

Re: Bug#171116: ITP: tsclient -- GNOME2 frontend for rdesktop

2002-11-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 21:09, Andrew Lau wrote: Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-11-29 Severity: wishlist * Package name: tsclient Version : 0.56 Upstream Author : Erick Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.gnomepro.com/tsclient/ * License

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Ben Armstrong wrote: Bah, that's what CNAME is for. that is _NOT_ what a CNAME is for. a CNAME is for when the hostname is in a domain that is OUTSIDE of your control. ie: evil.debian.org - www.msn.com = CNAME (we don't control the msn.com domain) forge.debian.org - quantz.debian.org = A (we

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Hampson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 05:46:04PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:33:43PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: These days I wouldn't be eager to rely on the limits of copyrightability. CNN.com - Composer pays for piece of silence - Sep. 23, 2002

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Hampson
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Emile van Bergen writes: I'd say that the definition of Unicode, heck even ASCII, involves a fair amount of creativity. I don't doubt that the

Re: Bug#169361: ITP: apt-listbugs -- Retrieves bugs from BTS and lists them

2002-11-28 Thread Masato Taruishi
I've uploaded a test version of the tool at: deb http://people.debian.org/~taru/deb/apt-listbugs/ ./ I'd like you to check it. Currently, it retrieves bug reports from not bugs.debian.org, but hanzubon.debian.gr.jp, which does proxy-caching of bugs.debian.org temporary. This keeps a query to

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Paul Hampson writes: Patents are civil actions, while copyright violation is criminal,... In the US copyright infringement is usually (not always anymore, but still usually) civil as well. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Re: New maintainer behaviour with NMU and LogJam's hijacking

2002-11-28 Thread Ari Pollak
Firstly, I don't think this is a matter for debian-devel as it doesn't involve the project as a whole and would best be dealt with privately. Secondly, I'd like to apologize to Christian and the Debian project for not following exact policy. However, in my defense, I did contact Christian

Re: Bug#171116: ITP: tsclient -- GNOME2 frontend for rdesktop

2002-11-28 Thread Andrew Lau
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:22:01PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: How about: Windows Terminal Services (RDP) client for GNOME 2 Thanks for the comments Kamion. I normally take a lot more care in the actual package description before finalising packages. I only noticed today that I hadn't yet filed

Accepted libnet 1.1.0-3 (i386 source)

2002-11-28 Thread Domenico Andreoli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:56:48 +0100 Source: libnet Binary: libnet1 libnet1-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.1.0-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Domenico Andreoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Domenico Andreoli

Accepted aspell 0.33.7.1-12 (i386 source all)

2002-11-28 Thread Brian Nelson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:52:53 -0800 Source: aspell Binary: aspell-en aspell-doc libaspell-dev libaspell10 aspell Architecture: source i386 all Version: 0.33.7.1-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Brian Nelson [EMAIL

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