On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 11:59:19PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
MM Of course a quick search in there revealed nothing poping up for cdda.
Very strange. I've find that in unstable :
usr/include/cdda_interface.hsound/libcdparanoia0-dev
usr/include/cdda_paranoia.h sound
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:06:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am very sorry for the loud subject of my mail (I know it is bad
netiquette), but since I got no satisfying answer on my first mail
concerning disappeared packages and because the issue is important
I decided to try it again
On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:40:41PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
Again there is a pointer from packages.debian.org, but the deb is not
in the directory pointed to.
Seems like packages.debian.org is broken then. If it's not reportet yet,
maybe someone should do.
It is! Several times!
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:14:24AM +0100, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
I want to use xfs from X4 with truetype fonts. I created a
fonts.dir file with ttmkfdir and added the path with the fonts to
/etc/X11/fs/config. I restarted xfs and X. Everytime I try to use
one of the ttfs xfs dumps core. What
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:10:23PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
I intent to adopt this package.
This package isn't orphaned, but Steve Haslam is MIA since more one year.
I'll upload a new release before the new millennium.
He actually isn't all that dead, he managed to orphan a couple
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 10:46:10AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
for package in dpkg apt libc gpg bplay etc ; do
sed [...] bug.template | mail ;
done
You'd better use [EMAIL PROTECTED], else you need a very
good asbestos suit ...
Too late. }:)
...
Grrr...
He
On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 03:25:04PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
I intent to adopt this package.
This package isn't orphaned, but Steve Haslam is MIA since more one year.
I'll upload a new release before the new millennium.
JR He actually isn't all that dead, he managed to orphan
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 02:00:29AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I thought of sendmail(1) where you feed the headers with the mail. and
thats why I didn't send explicit to maintonly. Every mass bag submit
should be maintonly no matter how you do it technically.
What's the difference? I
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 09:56:37PM +0100, Arthur Korn wrote:
for package in dpkg apt libc gpg bplay etc ; do
sed [...] bug.template | mail ;
done
You'd better use [EMAIL PROTECTED], else you need a very
good asbestos suit ...
Too late. }:)
BTW your Mail-Followup-To is broken.
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:05:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
Did you ever wonder (assuming you even noticed) why so much spam gets sent
to completely invalid addresss (for example, to message ids)? Because
spamware sellers don't care if the finely targetted addresses they sell
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:24:34AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
I'm planning a mass automated -quiet bug reporting spree against almost
all packages that depend on perl 5.00{5,4}[-base]. All such packages
should be updated to depend on perl-5.6 (possibly with 5.005 as an
alternate).
ITYM
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
|ppd-gs (1 year and 357 days old)
Do we really need this package still for users of alladin ghostscript or
is it not needed anymore?
Last time I asked for this to be removed, a few people said this was useful.
FWIW.
|silo (195
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:30:47AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
For the record, right now I'm the primary reason why the spam in the BTS
`magically' disappears, once it's reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :)
I've seen one in lyx-cjk bugs. It's cosmetically annoying.
I really would love to
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 10:18:55AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
deleted, but rather just gets a header added saying `this message is
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 09:13:36PM +, Mark Brown wrote:
Spam to the Debian mailing lists tends to be especially annoying since
the spammers always seem to hit each and every mailing list (or at
least, a large number of them), which makes each spam much more
noticable.
Oh yeah. If only
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.
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Hi people,
Sorry for the most obnoxious crosspost.
If anyone has a complete archive (mbox format) of any of the following
Debian mailing lists for September 2000, please contact me immediately:
debian-68k
debian-admintool
debian-alpha
debian-arm
debian-beowulf
debian-boot
debian-cd
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:23:12AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
I just can't keep my mouth shut about this any longer and the
unnecassary divisions (read demolitions) of KDE packages are the last
straw
BTW, what would it take for someone to be forced to break up a package
or make some
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:39:33PM -0700, erik wrote:
I realize I stirred up a hornets nest; I did it intentionally because
otherwise nobody seems to notice and I think that at least some of what I
originally wrote (goading aside) is important.
Personally, I would like a normal post better. I
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:15:17PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
- Can the PSM go in Main?
- If Not in main, how do I build this so that mozilla(noncrypto parts)
goes in main, while mozilla-psm goes to non-us/main with minimum amount
of manual work? (when answering this, keep the
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:44:29PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
All statically updated BTS pages are broken, please see DWN for details.
Might it be an idea to put a notice about this on the web page? It'd
avoid a lot of confusion.
Done. (at last :)
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 07:58:14PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
I believe the goal is to remove the static pages completely. Only a
few more scripts need to be written.
And how would that be a good goal? People can mirror static pages, caches
can cache them...
We don't have a good,
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:34:54PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
Installed:
console-apt_0.7.7.2potato1_i386.deb
to dists/proposed-updates/console-apt_0.7.7.2potato1_i386.deb
What does it mean? console-apt is not in potato and is it put again in
stable?
It means that it may enter
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:28:40PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
Debian officially recommends something? That's news to me.
I believe we ship exim as the standard MTA (we changed from smail in
hamm or slink); I don't know if that makes it recommended or not.
It makes it recommended for new
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:04:00PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
A dependency on non-us will also land a package in contrib.
I think there was a proposal to change that, so that packages which depend
on packages in non-US/main remain in non-US/main.
Actually, there doesn't seem to be such
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 03:06:55PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote:
The second reason I chose to cut a lot of NMU changelogs was that you
took it upon yourself to load them with vindictive, personal and
unprofessional statements.
Editing changelogs is `modifying history' - do not do that.
--
Hi,
When will slink move to archive.debian.org site?
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On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:59:57AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
xpdf already conflicts and replaces xpdf-i. Am I correct in saying that
there's no way I can cause an automatic upgrade from xpdf-i to xpdf?
Hmm... I'll take the oportunity to ask an old doubt of mine:
Will it work if
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 09:10:50PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
Attached is the intended documentation for the WNPP system.
I've formatted this text with html/wml and put it in the web pages. It
should appear shortly as http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp .
I'll make a few other changes to
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:05:58PM -0500, Bryan Andersen wrote:
When a user or administrator is using it it is because of unusual
conditions.
Why so? I use it in perfectly usual and common conditions.
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:43:19PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
The ballots came from:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
Wouldn't this be more properly FUD?
:)
What?
--
Digital
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:17:26AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
[new lists created]
On related note, why not have new-maintainer lists on our listserver,
too?
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On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 02:19:24PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
[new lists created]
On related note, why not have new-maintainer lists on our listserver,
too?
Isn't this what debian-mentors is for?
No, I mean the nm-admin and nm-discuss lists, about the new-maintainer
group, those
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
intlfonts-european
# apt-get install intlfonts-european
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package intlfonts-european has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:08:57AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] still alive and maintained ? During the last few months,
I sent several ITP's and a request to remove a package from the list to this
address, but AFAICS all of them were ignored.
E.g. I requested to remove
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:08:07PM -, Darren Benham wrote:
The ballots came from:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
N: Marco D
N: Rapha
N: Stig Mathis
These names are incorrect (perhaps
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:06:19PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
216 people, if I counted right (wc(1) :). So much for the `300 active
developers' vaporware, even if you include dissidents et al...
It think it just clearly shows typical lack of election interest. FYI,
Echelon has confirmed
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 06:56:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Hell, Joseph, have you ever stopped to read one of your own posts to
see what you really sound like?
I agree, knghtbrd, you sound too fanatical(sp?). Calm down, and perhaps
people will pay more attention to what you're saying.
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:19:18AM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
This is what experimental is for, no?
Unstable is for unstable Debian, not necessarily unstable software. The
experimental distribution is much more appropriate for unstable upstream
software.
agreed with the addition
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Petr Cech wrote:
grep experimental /etc/apt/sources.list, please?
deb http://samosa.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/ /
Here's a prettier one, as discussed on IRC :)
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ project/experimental/
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:59:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How can a programmer have the right of putting his own program on the
Official Debian's Distribution ?
I have heard something about the PGP key, but I haven't a clear idea.
Please read the information in Debian Developer's
On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 07:41:12PM +0530, C Hanish Menon wrote:
Heres the 1st draft of the man page for /etc/network/interfaces
But it has already been written! Update your netbase package.
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On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 12:33:39PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-window-manager \
x-window-manager /usr/local/bin/gnome-session 90 \
--slave /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz \
x-window-manager.1.gz path-to-gnome-session-manpage
(if
On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:15:20AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
as jsut discussed on debian-devel, I would like to package John the
Ripper. If someone already has done or is working on it, please mail me,
then I will stop packing it. Otherwise I will try to upload this package
till friday
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:51:50PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Hi dear co-developers,
Hey people ! I posted this mail in order to have some input ... it would
be great if some of you gave their opinion about this proposition I posted
a while ago :
I guess the silent majority
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:29:07PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
With the advent of powerful workstation monitors delivering 70 Hz or
more, the most glaring problem of black/white became less and less
important.
Even on 85Hz or even higher vertical frequencies, I find black-on-white
XTerms
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:31:16PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
I'm packaging the bnc IRC bouncer.
IIRC that's already packaged and uploaded to Incoming.
BTW your Mail-Followup-To: md, debian-devel@lists.debian.org is wrong...
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:52:37AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
As policy states, things that pertain to system administration (and
traceroute is for troubleshooting networks) is to be in /sbin or
/usr/sbin. The difference between /sbin and /usr/sbin is that things that
could be needed to
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:38:12PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
There's a *lot* of history of using the space bar to do the next thing
in Unix console programs (more/less, most news readers and existing mail
readers). And there's no reason *not* to use them -- what else would you
bind to the
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 09:04:24PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
Up and down arrow keys doesn't scroll a message ap down?
Nope. But that's the way it is in slrn, too: backspace and enter scroll the
message text, and uparrow and downarrow scroll the message list.
It's good once you get used
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 02:41:45AM -0800, Kevin Dalley wrote:
[sth]
Is it just me or did something make this message go out like 12 times?
Each time it had more and more of these:
MBOX-Line: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 20 13:55:55 2000
X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MBOX-Line: From
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:48:30PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote:
Anyway... there is a second problem you mentioned that deserves to be
addressed. Bugs should either be dealt with by the maintainer (if
they're involved with mods they made or the packaging) or the bugs are
supposed to be
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:25:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
I think if you reupload your packages with the correct Maintainer field,
then
the bug system will fix itself.
Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report
for woody but not for slink or potato bugs.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:47:41PM +1100, Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote:
root isn't even mentioned in the headers.
This is the only occurrence:
Received: from mussel.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [130.95.13.18])
Why is this feature even in place?
Isn't it obvious? :)
You should not send
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
* Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 outstanding Bug)
* Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 outstanding Bug)
The e-mail addresses are both valid, but it's the same maintainer
(at least I get the mail from both :-) ).
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:10:54PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
Uh, which were the packages in question? Did you report it at the
time?
no need, the holes were already well known - and fixed in unstable.
Security fixes have to be (and are) fixed in stable, too!
most are.
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 11:25:47AM +0100, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
For some reason, since a while I don't get copies of bug reports against my
packages mailed to me. I'm tracking debian-bugs-dist now and checking the
web page once in a while, but this is less than satisfying.
I noticed that
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 08:17:00PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
But slink is practically completely adjusted for 2.2 already.
Sure, if you ignore the 12 packages that break
(http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2)
I believe 12 out of ~2250 counts as practically completely.
--
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:44:09AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Not having released for nearly 18 months [...]
Which eighteen months do you refer to here?
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:55:31AM +0200, joost witteveen wrote:
That was all march 10, nearly 4 days ago, and fakeroot still isn't
dinstalled.
Was it rejected, or is it just stuck? If it was rejected, you have to
reupload, if it is stuck, then ssh to master, go into incoming directory,
and run
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:23:58PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
There is a ham radio program that I would like to see
as a debian package. As I am not currently a
developer, pehaps someone else might like to look into
packaging this. Otherwise, I will do it, if I can run
your ganlet and
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
this same empirical evidence has also proved that 'stable' is LESS
stable and reliable and secure than 'unstable'. the few debian boxes
which i know of that have been compromised were cracked BECAUSE they
were still running stable
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:18:00AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
this same empirical evidence has also proved that 'stable' is LESS
stable and reliable and secure than 'unstable'. the few debian boxes
which i know of that have been compromised were cracked BECAUSE they
were still running
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:39:52AM +1100, Drake Diedrich wrote:
New hardware support seems to be a reasonable justification for allowing
new versions into stable/frozen if there is also an older version there
for the rest of us to fall back on in case it's a lemon.
This would be valid,
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 10:40:36PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
There are exactly ONE HUNDRED server modules built by the stock 4.0 source
tree.
No, I don't know yet what exactly I'm going to do about that.
If I got Driver Status document right, perhaps you could divide them per
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 11:50:47AM +, Paul M Sargent wrote:
Woody should be running 2.3 or pre-2.4. That should have been among the
first things to change.
There's a misunderstanding here: the distribution has no default kernel,
the boot floppies do. Since nobody is working on woody boot
This is a message for debian-mentors mailing list, please use that one.
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 12:07:07PM +0100, SOETE Joël wrote:
In this last directory I try to launch dpkg --build ... which failled
because it did not find DEBIAN/control file (which stand in debian/control)
You can't build
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:43:46PM +, Paul M Sargent wrote:
Woody should be running 2.3 or pre-2.4. That should have been among the
first things to change.
There's a misunderstanding here: the distribution has no default kernel,
the boot floppies do. Since nobody is working on
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 03:04:26PM +, Paul M Sargent wrote:
If the kernel isn't even in the archive then potential problems aren't
going to be found.
I wouldn't put that much `weight' in the fact that kernel is in the archive:
kernel packages don't get upgraded to new upstream
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 11:41:10PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Josip Why do we have to be a part of an industry? Debian would be
Josip commercial if we truely cared about the industry...
It is a quality of imlementation issue. If we are seriously
outmoded, we can't honestly say
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:18:35PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
They can't both be standard if they conflict with each other, see Policy.
Well, then, don't remove one, just change its priority!
Who said I want to remove one? :)
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On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 12:07:11PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
Package: nfs-kernel-server (debian/main)
Maintainer: Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
59641 nfs-kernel-server: conflicts with Standard package nfs-server
Package: nfs-server (debian/main)
Maintainer: Herbert Xu [EMAIL
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:19:29PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
BTW I was told removing all non-current Netscape Navigator versions
will be done RSN (if it wasn't already done, haven't checked today).
that could be a problem on the powerpc branch as the only available
netscape is an outdated
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 09:12:52PM +0100, Igor Mozetic wrote:
Can we remove emacs19 from unstable now? It's de facto orphaned both
upstream and in Debian, and a new version exists, supported in both
upstream and Debian.
What happens to vm then? I depends on emacs19 (and not emacs20) ...
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 04:06:01PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
being a year behind is suicide in any industry. being a year behind in an
industry that moves as fast as open source software, is idiocy.
Why do we have to be a part of an industry? Debian would be commercial if we
truely cared about
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 04:20:07PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
Is there any easy to understand HOWTO available? I'd like to play a little
bit with grub but after reading the texinfo files it seems to be too
complicated to do just that. And I don't like to spend hours to understand
something
- Forwarded message from Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#57636: Security problem with emacs19
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Debian-PR-Message: report 57636
X-Debian-PR-Package: emacs19
X-Debian-PR-Keywords:
Date:
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:43:37PM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote:
One possible technique we could employ is to require that the list
address appear visibly in the headers (to: or cc:). This would
prevent Bcc'ing the lists which is a shame (and care would need to be
taken with -private, which is
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:43:17AM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote:
Something I have noticed several times. If you are doing a remote
upgrade (probably a crazy idea), the telnet daemon (maybe inetd or
something) becomes unavailble for quite some time. Maybe it is between the
time that netbase is
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 12:28:36PM -0400, Dpk wrote:
I recently adopted dhcpcd... previous versions of dhcpcd would restart
during upgrades, which obviously is bad for those doing it remotely.
Since my recent upload does not restart dhcpcd, I need to start it for
those upgrading from previous
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Whatever, I won't restart this thread again. I wouldn't touch wuftp
with a 10ft pole. I switched to proftpd, when there was a hole in many
ftpds (creating a very deep directory hierarchy), the fix for proftpd
was available
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:23:00AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
I am the maintainer of python-gnome and the associated modules. The
current python-glade has support for the libglade library in
_libglademodule.so. Problem: Lintian complains that _libglademodule.so
contains position
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:47:24PM -0500, Eric Weigel wrote:
I wanted to look at each of ipopd, gnu-pop3d and cucipop. I could only
look at one at a time. It was ok in my case, because the machine I was
using has very little pop3 traffic. But it was awkward.
If I wanted to download source
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 12:45:18AM -0400, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
It looks like floppyd is the only thing that needs X.
I'm not sure it *is* better to fork things off; that's a fair amount
of hair for one isolated program.
Maybe not - it wouldn't be the first nor the last 50kb large Debian
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:35:41PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote:
mtools, it's only one single file; a daemon (floppyd, if I'm not all
wrong) that needs xlib6g. It'd be simple to extract this daemon from
mtools and create an extra package with just this file, and make this file
recommended by
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 07:13:58AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
How comes mtools depend on xlib6g? I don't use X, and thus I consider it
very stupid to have both xlib6g xfree86-common installed, but I have to
if I want mtools installed...
If something supports X it should be compiled with
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca users/kelley/gri/ gri-*.tgz debian uupdate
Am I doing something obviously wrong?
IIRC you can use this:
ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca /users/kelley/gri gri-(.*)\.tgz debian uupdate
See the
Subject: mtools: please put X related stuff in another package
Package: mtools
Severity: normal
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 10:16:20AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote:
How comes mtools depend on xlib6g? I don't use X, and thus I consider it
very stupid to have both xlib6g xfree86-common installed,
severity 46184 wishlist
thanks
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:28:08PM -0500, David Starner wrote:
Correction: mtools in slink does *not* depend on anything but libc6, so
there is still time to do it, cleanly.
Maintainer, please do it.
The bug tracking system has a weird X-Debian-CC system
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:23:03PM +0200, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Siggy Brentrup's letter:
There should be one for the main distribution. Assume I want to go
into the CD business providing support for packages in the main
dist.
The way it is, I
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 08:35:06AM -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
| And do what... there are going to be keys that aren't in the debian
keyring..
Non-developpers should not be allowed to *manipulate* bugs IMO.
What do you think?
Make me PGP/GPG/whatever sign all messages I send to
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 01:32:29PM +, Dale Scheetz wrote:
So, why are there packages with depends lines that include both perl5 and
a particular version, like perl-5.005?
When a package depends on a virtual package which is provided by multiple
real packages, but none of these are already
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:43:01AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
dpkg-source: error: Expected ^@@ in line 4569 of diff
\ No newline at end of file
This bug is already known, reported, and is promised to be fixed in
the next dpkg(-source) upload.
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On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:13:03PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote:
i have agreed to take VRweb off Fabien Ninoles' hands, and have been
successful in making it work under my Potato system! woo hoo!
however, i have no idea what the next steps are:
- What is the technique to rediff a package for
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 10:51:33PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
On Sep 18, Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
100%, however, it has almost the same status as sendmail - it is a very
You mean that it's like sendmail, i.e
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:22:59PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Anyway, which ftpd in unstable do you see as the package to promote as
the ftpd of choice in Debian?
Just to see what our alternatives are.
An alternative is wu-ftpd. It would be rather foolish to support wu-ftpd
100%,
On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:36:47PM +0200, Robert Vollmert wrote:
With /bin/sh - /bin/ash, I get the following error:
guess.datestyle: 25: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ))
It works fine with bash. It seems the opening brace on
case $x in ( SystemV | posix | right )
On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 10:42:36PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
packages that are not sufficiently free of bugs to meet our standards
should not be in main and
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 03:44:36PM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right?
I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2,
but I thought I received a message from the security team about
r3 last week somtime. Just wanted
PLEASE reply below the old text, cut unneeded quote, and wrap your lines
at 76 characters!
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:52:24AM -0700, David Bristel wrote:
This package has been a major source of serious security bugs and
indicatiosn are that it will remain as such. Our Policy states that
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