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Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
. . .
LOCPATH=/tmp/usr/lib/locale dictfmt --locale
($LOCALE_NAME).$(LOCALE_CHAR= SET) ought to have the desired effect.
All locale-related glibc functions should respect the value of LOCPATH
Thanks, Steve. It works as advertised now. I had
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you set LOCPATH to the equivalent of /usr/lib/locale, and LC_ALL to
the name of the locale you generate, you should get what you want
without being root. Something like this (mostly cut-n-paste from d-i
build system):
# The variables
I sent the following message with the X-Debbugs-CC:
debian-devel@lists.debian.org header, but apparently
[EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't recognize that header, so I am resending it.
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tags 206113 +ITA
thanks
I intend to adopt freedict, which was recently orphaned.
dict-freedict
Is /usr/bin/pager a Debianism, or is it common to other
distributions and/or unices?
Regards,
Bob
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John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bob Hilliard wrote:
A true newbie would be one who has never used a computer before. To such
a person, a CLI is much more intuitive than any GUI.
Colin Walters writes:
And your research supporting this is...?
No research, but I've had a couple
Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Taken this statement directly it's user-unfriendly in both the sense of
newbie-unfriendly and experienced-unfriendly. (A newbie might like it,
but he will still suffer from it).
There is a widespread tendency to consider newbie to mean a
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Umm. apt allows you to determine reverse depends. From there
there is an easy hop to sending email to ask the develoeprsa in
question; or to exaimine a package to look at its conffiles.
Slightly off-topic, is there any tool to easily
In my experience, James has been very responsive, albeit not
verbose, to reasonable questions/requests that don't start out saying
James is a bum - throw him out.
Regards,
Bob
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Please take all of these political screeds off -devel!!
Regards.
Bob
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Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
*prompt* echo ö§ | recode latin1..ascii
oSS
*prompt* echo ö§ | iconv -f latin1 -t
ascii//TRANSLIT ; echo $?
oe?
--
»oe« is much better than »o« and »SS« is no usable replacement for
»§« (I do not think there is one), it would be nice
Thanks to all who replied to my recent question on this subject.
Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With glibc I'd use
iconv --from=SRC-ENCODING --to=DST-ENCODING//TRANSLIT
if it is acceptable to change the length of strings. This will replace
e.g. the Euro-Symbol with EUR.
Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However the service
was created especially for people who e.g. have written an application
themselves and do not care about becoming a DD.
I object to the conept of people who do not care about
I wrote:
Bug#171943 reports that dictd 1.8.0 fails to start with the
following error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/dictd -d nofork
:I: 2535 starting dictd 1.8.0/rf on Linux 2.4.19-xfs Tue Dec 3 23:43:09 2002
dictd (dict_index_open): Cannot mmap index file
Bug#171943 reports that dictd 1.8.0 fails to start with the
following error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /usr/sbin/dictd -d nofork
:I: 2535 starting dictd 1.8.0/rf on Linux 2.4.19-xfs Tue Dec 3 23:43:09 2002
dictd (dict_index_open): Cannot mmap index file /dev/null(dict_index_open)
Cannot
Otto Wyss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Packages: dict-easton, dict-gazetteer, dict-hitchcock
The listed packages are still located in the Potato directory,
possibly because there wasn't any update necessary during the full
Woody development phase, but maybe also because there is no interest
Alan James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a dict dictionary with all these debian TLAs in it ?
I've dont think I've heard BSP before.
dict-vera contains most Debian TLAs. I will add BSP to the next
release. dict-foldoc includes many Debian TLAs, and defines many
Debian-specific
Alan James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe I'll have a look at creating a dict-debian, there seem to be
quite a few potential entries :-)
Joey Hess started one several years ago, but abandoned it when I
offered to incorporate his work into dict-foldoc. We discussed (I
think on -devel)
Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 16/09, Bob Hilliard wrote:
| This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past
| week or two it returns:
| rdate: Could not connect socket: Connection refused
|
| This message returns almost instantly - too quickly, I
I posted the following to -user three days ago with no response.
Can someone here help?
I have the following command in a cron.daily script:
rdate time.mist.god
This has worked consistently for a long time, but for the past
week or two it returns:
rdate: Could not
This is probably in the documentation somewhere, but I haven't
been able to find it.
Which messages to the bug reporting system are automatically
forwarded to the submitter, and which must be explicitly copied to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob
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Is there a GRUB mailing list, or is this the proper forum for
GRUB questions?
Bob
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Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:58:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
Is there any way to submit an ITP bug on WNPP, so that the bug
number appears in the copy to -devel?
Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-Cc:) fields.
When I have done
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted
bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages
installed/uploaded to all architectures
During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted
bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages
installed/uploaded to all architectures.
As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released,
these lists would be split by architecture, and
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
During the slink freeze there was some
I will be unable to prepare/maintain the Release-Notes for
potato. At least one volunteer to take over this this important but
unexciting job is urgently needed.
The slink Release-Notes attempted to cover the important new and
changed features in slink, and to give instructions for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
On May 18, Nag [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#20734 general autoup.sh
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/20/20734.html
#20743 general autoup.sh: wtmp, utmp and btmp
I have recently adopted wordinspect and am trying to compile it
for potato. The slink version lists the following dependencies:
Depends: dict, libc6 (= 2.0.7u), libglib1.1 (= 1.1.3-2), libgtk1.1
(= 1:1.1.\2-2), xlib6g (= 3.3-5)
libglib1.1 and libgtk1.1 are not in potato under those
= [EMAIL PROTECTED], # stable, contrib, non-free
mailtx = [EMAIL PROTECTED], # unstable, exper.
visibleuser = hilliard,
visiblename = debian.org,
fullname = Bob Hilliard,
};
How can I eliminate the excessive number of pass-phrase entries?
Bob
The following is quoted from the column Business Bulletin on the
front page of today's Wall Street journal, which is probably the most
widely read newspaper by corporate America:
'FREEWARE' STIRS debate while entrepreneurs find a nice niche.
Advocates prefer to call the free
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes:
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I will be out of town after tomorrow for about a week, so I won't
be able to do anything on the README before then, but I don't think
2.0 will be released before then.
Perhaps not. Anyhow we should
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes:
Bob Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a README for autoup.sh on
{ftp|http}://debian.vicnet.net.au/autoup/.
Both the README and autoup.sh should have a separate (simplified)
version for use on the CD. (For instance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) writes:
(a) we need specific installation instructions for upgrading. Igor,
is this supposed to be part of the install.sgml document, or is it
separate?
(b) recommend for upgrades that users use *either* autoup.sh or, if
they are daring,
Yesterday, 12 Jun 1998, I uploaded dict-foldoc-19980612, which
included a new upstream version. After uploading it, I realized that
dpkg-buildpackage had treated it as a Debian specific package, so no
.orig.tar.gz or .diff was included in the upload.
I have removed this package from
I will volunteer to work on:
1. Reading and responding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail, and
2. Actual administration and maintenance of the bug system (to the
extent of my capabilities - I will yell quickly if I get stuck).
I would prefer to share these functions with someone else, since
I
Hi,
What new and improved features would we forego if you released a
mirror28 package? I guess I will have to install 2.9 to see if I'm
happy with it.
Perhaps you could persuade the author to add support for restarts
on partially downloaded files, and any other desirable patches that
Hi,
This new release is fresh code, and I won't pull out all the patches
we applied against mirror_2.8. Let me know if there is a feature in
2.8 that you really miss. I could make a 'retro' package mirror28 of
the old release.
The changelog for mirror 2.8-15 included:
* Applied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Trying to upgrade via FTP to hamm would be too painfull at 28.8KB!
Hi,
It depends on your pain threshold, I guess. I thought that too,
until I started the bo testihng program a little over a year ago.
Since then I have updated from rex to bo, then bo to hamm, and
Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, May 02, 1998 at 08:12:35AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Marcelo E. Magallon writes:
As you can see chat breaks the CONNECT line. Is there a way to tell
the connection speed?
'ATW2' will make the modem (or at least, my modem)
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
May I suggest that you forward your message upstream to either the kernel
people or those who do the drivers. It is downright embarrasing to have
our favourite OS not be able to read a floppy reliably.
Actually, my points were that almost all of
Mark Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They is not only a singular, it is also widely accepted as a singular
pronoun, and has been used as such by not only ordinary people but also
great writers for hundreds of years.
All of my dictionaries give nominative plural of he, she, or it
as the
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why do you think that these are the reasons?
You might be right, but I'd like to know your reasons before agreeing
that these are the primary reasons for bugs not being fixed.
There are a nuamber of sub-threads in this thread using the same
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
The sensitivity to good disks is, as I understand it, caused by poor
BIOS floppy drivers and is independent of the Linux kernel, let alone
which distribution you are running.
Actually, as I understood
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But in my opinion it is a bad solution if every translation related
data should be stored in different directories. I think a directory
structure should be as logical as possible. Im not familiar with
FHS and havn't enough time to learn about it. But
Cc: Debian Developers list debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
Debian policy list debian-policy@lists.debian.org
From: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Apr 1998 14:47:23 -0500
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Hi,
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm. I think I like the idea of the
I suggest that Section B. Use of language and typography be
amended to include a statement similar to Where the context permits,
the masculine shall include the feminine, and the singular shall
include the plural. Then all of the clumsy constructions using
plural pronouns (they, their) to
In earlier discussions, it was agreed that the proper location
for dictionary databases under the FHS would be
/usr/share/dict/pkgname.
Subsequently, I have obtained a copy of the FHS, and have
discussed this subject with the upstream author of the dictd package.
An abbreviated
More formal definitions:
From Jargon File (4.0.0/24 July 1996) [jargon]:
deprecated /adj./ Said of a program or feature that is
considered obsolescent and in the process of being phased out,
usually in favor of a specified replacement. Deprecated features
can,
Corey Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After upgrading to hamm, I have experienced the two following
problems. First, gpm no longer seems to work with my mouse. I have a PS/2
M$ Intellimouse, which used to work fine as type ps2. I tried that setup,
under which it only moves the cursor
Hi,
Did you really mean 18 or is that a typo for 19?
Is it going to hamm or slink? It seems to me that emacs19 should
be in 2.0, but the release policy would seem to require it to go in
slink.
Bob
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
emacs18 is also present in Incoming
When we discussed directory locations several weeks ago, I said I
would wait for some policy statements about the FHS. After looking at
how much is already in /usr/share, I have changed my mind and now
agree with you. I am almost finished with my dictionary packages, and
have built them to
Hi,
DISCLAIMER: I am a new developer also, and my advice may not be
very good. Also I am building my packages by hand, and have never
looked at any of the helper scripts, so I can't address how to make
debstd put the files where you want them.
If I understand you correctly, you want
Hi,
You wrote:
PS: Should I post such kind of questions to debian-mentors?
I'm afraid an overflow of my mailbox if I subscribe more and
more mailing lists.
debian-mentors is relatively low volume, and will likely produce
better responses to new maintainer type questions
Hi,
Thanks and bravo! I'm getting tired of fighting with dselect,
which insists on replacing my emacs 19.34-13 with emacs20.
Bob
Hi,
I meant emacs19, and I think it is felt to be a bug fix
release, (not working with the other debian emacsen setup is a pretty
major bug) so it
Sorry I'm late in getting back to you with comments on your new
version of install.txt. I think this is a big improvement over
previous versions. A few minor points to consider:
Under Information You'll Need, you should tell the reader that
he doesn't need the network information for
Hi,
This is in response to your message of Wed, 8 Apr 1998. I
apologize for taking so long to get back to you.
As I said before, I am packaging dictd, containing the client
server software developed by the DICT Group. There will be a number
of separate packages containing the
Hi,
You wrote:
I'm in the process of becomming a Debian maintainer. Unfortunately this
process isn't finished since two weeks (may be it is delayed because of
the efforts in the upcomming hamm release). I would like to maintain
wordnet than. But may be I would need your help because
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They're part of the distribution - hamm. The newest lintian is in
the incoming since yesterday - and installed on master+va.
IIRC, Christian's message yesterday said the newest lintian was
in slink, not hamm. I downloaded it from slink on
Jean Pierre LeJacq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, /usr/share/dict. Shouldn't new package be constructed from
the start to use FHS?
IIRC, it is intended to implement the FHS with symlinks
initially. Until a definite announcement is made regarding the policy
for implementing the FHS, I
Hi,
The old WordNet packages used usr/lib/wordnet/dict/. I believe
This seemed me a bad choice and so I wanted to change it.
I agree. It seems undesirable to create a directory with nothing
in it but a subdirectory, if there is no expectation of adding more
files or directories
David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Personally I'd prefer to have additional packages
dictd-web1913, dictd-foldoc, dictd-... (depending on dictd),
That's exactly what I had in mind. Sorry if my message left the
wrong impression. I envisage four source packages and seven or eight
binary
I have just packaged dictd, containing client/server software for
accessing dictionaries. To do anything useful, the server must have
dictionaries and indices in a suitable format.
There are eight dictionaries available from the same site that
provides the source for the
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3) A free English dictionary (www.dict.org).
I found a hint on
http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html
that such a dictionary exists and is desired to be included
into Debian. Is there any effort on this? I would
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