Re: charsets in debian/control

2004-12-05 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:40:52PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: On that note, how likely is it to hit a UTF-8 character encoding that contains a '\n'? Any non UTF-8 aware parser would assume a new line has started and get parse errors. 0% likely, guaranteed. UTF-8 is *designed* to be

Re: debian-installer beta 1

2003-11-19 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:42:11PM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:52:32AM +1100, Brian May wrote: 1. Linux 2.6.0? Not released yet. Yes, it has a _lot_ of nice features, but it is beta software.. It (or patches to 2.4.22) is also needed if you decide to buy a

Bug#159037: general: Time Problem

2002-09-01 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 07:14:43PM -0400, Matt Filizzi wrote: I don't know what is causing this problem but all I know is that I have narrowed it down to being caused either by a package or by the install system. I installed from the woody install disks then upgraded to sid. What happenes is

Re: Bug#156503: M$ true type fonts in non-free?

2002-08-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 08:47:31AM -0400, Eric Sharkey wrote: There used to be more information about Microsoft's interprettation of their own EULA on the font web page. Since that page is gone, it's no longer there, but the gist of it was that they were taking a very very strict view of a

Re: Packages still in Potato

2002-04-18 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:39:12PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: If a package works, has no new upstream versions and doesn't get outdated policywise there is no need for a new version of the package just because we're making a new release. The making a release may not be the best reason. But a

Intent to remove: tom, libtom2

2002-04-11 Thread Bart Schuller
Hi, I'm the maintainer of tom, an experimental programming language. The archives contain a version from October 1999. Trying to recompile it now on a sid machine fails. Upstream development on this implementation was already dead, as they switched to a new system writen in tom itself. And there

Re: Boost and Loki

2001-04-28 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:37:20PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote: Since we're on the topic of C++ libraries, has anyone looked at Loki from Andrei Alexandrescu? It is described in Modern C++ Design from AW, but the website (www.moderncppdesign.com)is currently down. I'm not sure of the

Re: What to do about /etc/debian_version

2001-01-05 Thread Bart Schuller
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 08:07:44AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: Screw it, just kill the file. We don't have a mechanism for coping with it. I've seen third-party software install scripts use the file to determine which Linux distribution it's running on. -- The idea is that the first face

Re: Need server

2001-01-04 Thread Bart Schuller
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:56:41PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:48:34PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: There are almost two hundred public Debian mirrors, use them. Sure. But I was hoping someone would know a machine that a) is up-to-date (the three machines outside

Re: autodetecting MBR location

2001-01-02 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:24:22PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | s/[0-9]*// | s/part$/disc/ What is the use of the first s/? Unless your first letter is a digit, it will just remove the zero-width string '' between the first / and the beginning of the string. A better solution will

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -, Moshe Zadka wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Dariush Pietrzak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that solves all the problems - I'd like apache-perl recompiled against perl5.6, and so the rest of modules. I would do, but I'm not at all sure if

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

2000-12-26 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:13PM +0100, I wrote: I can verify that it works, we did a local recompile: Maybe we did, but I can't read apt-cache output because this version comes simply from unstable. So no ifs and whens, it's already done and it works. -- The idea is that the first face

Re: mp3 encoding patents.

2000-09-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:57:10PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 13-Sep-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to bring up this subject again. I just wanted to know that can't mp3 encoders be distributed from a non-us site where the policies are much more relaxed ? the patents are

Re: ITP lame

2000-09-05 Thread Bart Schuller
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

Re: ITP lame

2000-09-05 Thread Bart Schuller
[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

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-04-02 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 02:46:30PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: PGP (v2.x, I'm not uptodate with the recent OpenPGP stuff), generates a secret (albeit symmetric, rather than public/private keypair) IDEA key everytime you try to encrpt a message. It encrypts the message with this key, then

Re: ITP: transformiix

2000-03-22 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:42:38PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: Transformiix is a XSLT processor written in C++. URL? Which section would this go? web or text? I'd say text. Otherwise we could also dump all databases, scripting languages and most other stuff in web. -- The idea is

Re: ITP: fakedate

1999-05-26 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 06:43:12PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 02:32:16PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: [...regarding time-travel library...] Or a clever wrapper for shareware style trial packages for linux that stop working after a certian time. I don't

Re: doc book filtering tools?

1999-05-22 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:33:48PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: I am specifically looking for the db2rtf conversion filter, but there seem to be a whole collection of such converters that are no where to be found in Debian. (at least not in the slink contents file) In potato there's

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-19 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 08:20:23AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 01:51:39PM -0500, J. S. Connell wrote: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: started to wonder... Where does the name www-data come from? IS there any argument against 'www' ? Or

Re: dupload problem

1999-01-19 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 05:30:50PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: When I upload a package I first issue the command ssh-agent bash, then dupload -t master package-name.changes. This does the job, but asks for my pass-phrase twice for each file being uploaded. [...] How can I eliminate

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Bart Schuller
People, The fact that there even exist two debian versions of mutt should tell you that it was an issue for people. Looking through the changelogs, I see that mutt was moved to non-US in Feb. 1997: mutt (0.61.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. * Now non-US. (Bug #7257) --

Re: Slink not installable from CDs

1998-10-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: Are we going to include apt in the base system? Its package ordering feature (and a few others) obsoletes the other methods, but currently apt doesn't work with mountable media. A multi-cdrom-apt method should be added quick.

Re: office package

1998-10-11 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 02:20:14PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with poistgresql and a spreadsheet, currently siag seems to be the best bet.

Re: dhcpcd should probably be in base and on the boot floppies

1998-10-11 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:22:58AM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: Last time I checked, pcmcia and dhcp didn't get along very well. Any ideas? (I'm interested in fixing this, but don't know where to start) I didn't have the complete picture yet when I installed my laptop, but

Re: [larsbj@ifi.uio.no: Re: copyright problem]

1998-10-11 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 04:07:31PM +, Raja R Harinath wrote: I don't see how it follows. we have implicitly allowed all users to link LyX with XForms does not imply we have implicitly allowed (re)distribution of the resulting LyX binaries, which I guess is the issue at hand. Because

Re: office package

1998-10-10 Thread Bart Schuller
On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 10:10:48PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with poistgresql and a spreadsheet, currently siag seems to be the best bet. But that

Re: perl5.005 installation structure

1998-10-07 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 01:47:51AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: Could you confirm or deny, that the /usr/lib/perl5 no longer contains *.pm files ? There seems to be some confusion, but on If this is the case, then the list of packages that have to be changed grows even larger: I suppose

Re: Perl 5.005.02

1998-10-06 Thread Bart Schuller
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:35:46PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: The perl package is in incoming. So here is the list of the 33 packages that need to be updated. The maintainers are listed. The list corresponds to package which contains filenames matching /usr/lib/perl5.*\.so. This didn't

Re: procps

1998-01-08 Thread Bart Schuller
BTW, Does anyone know where killall went? procps_1.2.2-1 doesn't seem to include it. killall is used in quite a lot of scripts, which are now starting to break. -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http://www.lunatech.com

Re: procps

1998-01-08 Thread Bart Schuller
On Jan 8, Scott Ellis wrote On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Bart Schuller wrote: Does anyone know where killall went? procps_1.2.2-1 doesn't seem to include it. killall is used in quite a lot of scripts, which are now starting to break. Yes, it got broken out upstream into a seperate psmisc package

Re: procps

1998-01-08 Thread Bart Schuller
this illustrates the severity of the situation. (Note, btw, that this is nothing personal against the current ftp site maintainer, it's the whole procedure I have a problem with). -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-20 Thread Bart Schuller
On Dec 20, Manoj Srivastava wrote Bart == Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bart Particularly if they happened to have a fully unpacked and Bart configured kernel source tree in /usr/src/linux . Bart * Poof * No it does not! Would you please look at what the postinst does

Re: potential mayhem with trial libc6 package and kernel-headers

1997-12-19 Thread Bart Schuller
, but I'd rather have known beforehand, so that I might have saved my .config -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http://www.lunatech.com/ future is made today.. Partner of The Perl Institute http://www.perl.org/Linux http

Re: Ray Dassen, read this!

1997-12-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Dec 14, Guy Maor wrote Email to you is bouncing. Thanks, I just phoned Ray, he will have a word with his sysadmins in about 11 hours. -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http://www.lunatech.com/ future is made today

Re: version numbers on virtual packages

1997-12-05 Thread Bart Schuller
and use #!/usr/bin/perl5.004 where necessary. Debian can't protect user written code from breaking. Preventing other debian packages from breaking can be done without changing the package name. -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-16 Thread Bart Schuller
as standard, that fact is reflected in its terminfo entry. -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http://www.lunatech.com/ future is made today.. Partner of The Perl Institute http://www.perl.org/Linux http://www.li.org