Re: Bug#544546: ITP: libfop-java -- Print formatter driven by formatting objects (XSL-FO)

2009-09-01 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:42:26 +0200 Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org * Package name: libfop-java Version : 0.95 Upstream Author : The Apache Software Foundation. * URL :

Re: Debian is switching to EGLIBC

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 06 May 2009 21:57:19 +0200 Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org wrote: How does hey developers, we're sick and tired of having to put up with Uli, how about you find some new people to maintain glibc in Debian sound like? It sounds unnecessarily confrontational---it's daring people to

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:36:06 + MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. it doesn't seem to have as many anti-spam possibilities as Exim - there's postgrey for greylisting, but how can I tarpit RBL matches and other offences? A quick 'apt-cache search postfix' lists a number of different policy

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:31:17 + MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the pointers. Can a policy server delay an incoming mail? I suspect that sleeping in the perl would delay all incoming mail and there's no access(5) response like Exim's delay, else I could do it another way. How

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:58 +0200 Francesco P. Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB upstream, OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a consequence of

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:50:14 +0200 Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5

Re: python, then C++, or C++ from the start?

2007-05-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 30 May 2007 17:34:10 +0200 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I am asking you still: can you think of anything to say against such an approach? Please don't flame languages or anything of that sort. The question is just: is it viable for a C++ coder with a Python proficiency

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:53:23 +0200 Fabian Fagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Hi, Fabian, If you've been using cyrus-sasl2, please consider spending an hour or so upgrading to version 2.1.22.dfsg1-4 (currently in unstable), testing, and submitting bug reports indicating success

Re: Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:58:12 -0500 Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, that install went fine. I hope today to install it on my primary mail server which has postfix and cyrus-imapd-2.2, both authenticating against an LDAP db, installed; that should be more of a workout

ITA: cyrus-sasl2?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
cyrus-sasl2 is an important package, and according to p.q.d.o, it's been nearly two years since Dima Barsky last made a release. In the intervening time there have been numerous NMUs, but no one has claimed ownership, and it currently has 5 RC bugs, 39 important/normal ones, etc. I other words,

Re: ITA: cyrus-sasl2?

2006-06-27 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has come up a couple of times recently. If you want to help out you should subscribe to that mailing list, and get yourself added to the alioth project and then coordinate your work with them. Thanks for the pointer. I don't see them making a

Re: gnome 2 gnucash into unstable

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So are we getting close to the point where you will build gnucash-sql? The SQL backend is known to suffer from neglect, it's probably not a good thing to start encouraging people to use at this time. I gather that the gnucash developers intend to

Re: Intent to hijack Bacula (Heads up, Get The Facts!) (long)

2006-05-12 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would do this regardless of who the maintainer was. I seem to recall possibly doing it for some Perl HTML package that was in a similar situation to Bacula in the late 90s, but I can't really remember. I'm sure you could dig up links. It was the URI

Accepted libapache-session-perl 1.60-1 (all source)

2004-08-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:30:34 -0400 Source: libapache-session-perl Binary: libapache-session-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.60-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libdigest-hmac-perl 1.01-2 (all source)

2004-08-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:08:47 -0400 Source: libdigest-hmac-perl Binary: libdigest-hmac-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.01-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libapache-dbilogger-perl 0.93-3 (all source)

2004-08-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 15:36:25 -0400 Source: libapache-dbilogger-perl Binary: libapache-dbilogger-perl Architecture: all source Version: 0.93-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libdigest-perl 1.08-1 (all source)

2004-08-02 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:16:24 -0400 Source: libdigest-perl Binary: libdigest-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.08-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan

Accepted libwww-perl 5.800-1 (all source)

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:11:57 -0400 Source: libwww-perl Binary: libwww-perl Architecture: all source Version: 5.800-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Accepted libmail-imapclient-perl 2.2.9-2 (all source)

2004-06-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:48:38 -0400 Source: libmail-imapclient-perl Binary: libmail-imapclient-perl Architecture: all source Version: 2.2.9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libapache-dbi-perl 0.94-1 (all source)

2004-05-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:18:02 -0400 Source: libapache-dbi-perl Binary: libapache-dbi-perl Architecture: all source Version: 0.94-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael

Accepted libclass-container-perl 0.11-0.1 (all source)

2004-03-04 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:30:17 -0500 Source: libclass-container-perl Binary: libclass-container-perl Architecture: all source Version: 0.11-0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libclass-container-perl 0.10-0.1 (all source)

2004-02-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:41:24 -0500 Source: libclass-container-perl Binary: libclass-container-perl Architecture: all source Version: 0.10-0.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libwww-perl 5.76-1 (all source)

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:46:49 -0500 Source: libwww-perl Binary: libwww-perl Architecture: all source Version: 5.76-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Accepted libwww-perl 5.76-2 (all source)

2003-12-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:19:57 -0500 Source: libwww-perl Binary: libwww-perl Architecture: all source Version: 5.76-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Accepted libapache-reload-perl 0.07-2 (all source)

2003-12-29 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:24:53 -0500 Source: libapache-reload-perl Binary: libapache-reload-perl Architecture: all source Version: 0.07-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libapache-session-perl 1.54-2 (all source)

2003-12-29 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:40:37 -0500 Source: libapache-session-perl Binary: libapache-session-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.54-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libparse-syslog-perl 1.02-1 (all source)

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:31:25 -0500 Source: libparse-syslog-perl Binary: libparse-syslog-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.02-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libnet-tftp-perl 0.16-1 (all source)

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:24:38 -0500 Source: libnet-tftp-perl Binary: libnet-tftp-perl Architecture: all source Version: 0.16-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael

Accepted libnet-snpp-perl 1.16-1 (all source)

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:49:18 -0500 Source: libnet-snpp-perl Binary: libnet-snpp-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.16-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael

Accepted libalgorithm-diff-perl 1.15-5 (all source)

2003-12-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:37:44 -0500 Source: libalgorithm-diff-perl Binary: libalgorithm-diff-perl Architecture: all source Version: 1.15-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libalias-perl 2.32-6 (i386 source)

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:09:00 -0500 Source: libalias-perl Binary: libalias-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.32-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan

Accepted libalgorithm-diff-perl 1.15-4 (all source)

2003-12-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:43:54 -0500 Source: libalgorithm-diff-perl Binary: libalgorithm-diff-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.15-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libalias-perl 2.32-5 (i386 source)

2003-12-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:22:49 -0500 Source: libalias-perl Binary: libalias-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.32-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan

Accepted checkbot 1.73-1 (all source)

2003-12-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:51:01 -0500 Source: checkbot Binary: checkbot Architecture: source all Version: 1.73-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL

Accepted libapache-configfile-perl 1.18-2 (all source)

2003-12-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 21:07:59 -0500 Source: libapache-configfile-perl Binary: libapache-configfile-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.18-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted libcache-cache-perl 1.02-1 (all source)

2003-10-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 09:17:21 -0400 Source: libcache-cache-perl Binary: libcache-cache-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.02-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libwww-perl 5.69-4 (all source)

2003-09-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:32:18 -0400 Source: libwww-perl Binary: libwww-perl Architecture: source all Version: 5.69-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Accepted checkbot 1.72-1 (all source)

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 09:17:00 -0400 Source: checkbot Binary: checkbot Architecture: source all Version: 1.72-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted libalgorithm-diff-perl 1.15-2 (all source)

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:12:36 -0500 Source: libalgorithm-diff-perl Binary: libalgorithm-diff-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.15-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Accepted libdigest-perl 1.00-2 (all source)

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 15:42:23 -0400 Source: libdigest-perl Binary: libdigest-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.00-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan

Accepted libalgorithm-diff-perl 1.15-3 (all source)

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:40:06 -0400 Source: libalgorithm-diff-perl Binary: libalgorithm-diff-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.15-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed

Accepted libdigest-perl 1.00-3 (all source)

2003-08-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:47:01 -0400 Source: libdigest-perl Binary: libdigest-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.00-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan

Accepted libwww-perl 5.69-3 (all source)

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:51:21 -0400 Source: libwww-perl Binary: libwww-perl Architecture: source all Version: 5.69-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Josselin, As I have publically stated before, I will happily give up this package to someone who is obviously motivated to improve it Are you that person? Mike

Re: Stupid use of debconf award

2003-04-14 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After re-reading my message, I would like to apologize for having been unnecessarily rude, being already tense for other reasons. Apology accepted. I don't want to handle libnet-perl, but I can try to provide a patch for that specific issue if you

Accepted checkbot 1.71-1 (all source)

2003-03-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:53:18 -0500 Source: checkbot Binary: checkbot Architecture: source all Version: 1.71-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL

Accepted libnet-jabber-perl 1.28-1 (all source)

2003-03-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:26:36 -0500 Source: libnet-jabber-perl Binary: libnet-jabber-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.28-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael

Accepted libwww-perl 5.69-1 (all source)

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 13:08:20 -0500 Source: libwww-perl Binary: libwww-perl Architecture: source all Version: 5.69-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Accepted libwww-perl 5.69-2 (all source)

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:26:26 -0500 Source: libwww-perl Binary: libwww-perl Architecture: source all Version: 5.69-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Michael Alan Dorman

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That problem shouldn't arise if the hack is done the other way round: new libraries go to /usr/lib/gcc3.2, say, in cases where the ABI differs. It does mean we can never get rid of it, but if the C++ ABI changes in later versions of G++ then we may have

Re: tenative ITP linux-wlan-ng; soliciting advice

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) writes: No. the hostap dirver is excellent. Written by Jean Tour... something. He works for SSH Corp. google for linux prism2 driver. It does pcmcia and pci brilliantly but doesnt support usb yet. works with prism2/2.5/3 cards - and most orinoco cards too.

Re: tenative ITP linux-wlan-ng; soliciting advice

2002-08-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ian Eure [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 19 August 2002 02:39 pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) writes: No. the hostap dirver is excellent. Written by Jean Tour... something. He works for SSH Corp. google for linux prism2 driver. It does pcmcia

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Add a Conflict with the non-`c' version of the package. why can't we have both installed, just like the libfoo6 and libfoo6g situation?? Err, weren't we able to do that because we moved all the libc5 libs to another directory? Mike.

Re: Please test this woody cd image

2002-04-11 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Seriously: everyone reading this mail, burn a copy of Raphael's test image on a CD and try booting it in any computers you have handy. If it doesn't work on a machine where a potato CD does boot, please mail the lists! I have a Digital Celebris

Re: debmake x dh-make

2002-04-04 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Daniel Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because it's not. debhelper is not a drop-in replacement for debmake. But the question is... shouldn't it be? NO! debmake was deeply flawed in its interface and implementation, and were debhelper to be a drop-in replacement it would always be fighting

Re: Restarting Build on a Package

2000-09-12 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to bootstrap a program that takes quite a while to build, and if it dies during configuration and I have to rebuild it again I'm going to pull my hair out. While you're trying to perfect the deb script, why don't you use 'debian/rules build'

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by using readline and who subsequently put ncftp under GPL as consequence of complaints was asked to beg for being

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-04-03 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point is: an exact question needs an exact answer. Except for Craig's understandable but unfortunate need to take shots at old DOS programmers, he gave you the right answer---and to the extent that exactness matters, it is also exact. You asked, more or less, How

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-04-01 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:15:22AM -0500, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: eaudio Um, xmms I think. Since xmms does not mention eaudio anywhere in its control file I though these two programs were completely different. Well, the author of eaudio dropped

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chip, how did it come to be that you are so cool and Tom Christiansen so...isn't? :) Isn't it obvious? Doses of MST3K that would make a normal man into a pile of quivering jelly. :-) Mike.

Re: Obsolete packages

2000-03-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: html2latex tetex, perhaps? eaudio Um, xmms I think. gtkbrowser Hmmm. No idea. Mike.

Re: emacs19 removal? [was: rms@gnu.org: Bug#57636: Security problem with emacs19]

2000-03-11 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Takao KAWAMURA) writes: 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. Yes we can. We should do so, I think. If so, please be sure to get rid of custom as

Re: dpkg: dpkg-divert syntax error

2000-03-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Slootman) writes: Note the missing braces round the unlink statement. Somone's obviously been doing to much C lately... Unfortunately, dselect itself also seems broken---when I select the 'U'pdate menu item, dselect exits with the following message: dselect: failed to

ITP/RFP: libsigc++ (as libsigcpp)...

1999-10-05 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Actually, deep down this is more a RFP, but I'm willing to do it myself to see it happen. :-) I need this library to package the Quasimodo modular, extensible, real-time audio/MIDI Environment for POSIX-ish Operating Systems. About: This library implements a full callback system for use in

Re: Need help for GPG

1999-10-04 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And finally, anyone knows if I can integrate gpg with Gnus ? Mailcrypt should work with gpg, I believe (just converted myself, haven't tested). Mike.

Re: Hosed potato/main/Packages...

1999-09-30 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, just uploaded some new packages which fix the typo. I just hand-edited my available file. :-) Maybe it should be trapped by dinstall I tend to agree. I wonder how that can be done using the tools themselves, so we don't end up with

Hosed potato/main/Packages...

1999-09-29 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
the aleph-* packages have Priority: optionnal, which is, well, wrong. Mike.

ITP: bonobo

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
The bonobo framework for GNOME componentry has just hit its first public release. I intend to package it up. See attachment for details. Mike. ---BeginMessage--- Hello guys, I have just released the first public version of Bonobo (bonobo-0.4), the GNOME component system and compound

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *** means it does not appear to be packaged yet. Well, no, it just means you're not aware of Debian's naming schemes for library packages. *** 541066 Aug 2 17:32 Gtk---1.0.2.tar.gz look for *gtkmm *** 313788 Sep 20 17:58

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Chris Cheney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libgnobjc or something to that effect. I still don't see this package anywhere, I am either overlooking it or it is not packaged? I'm sure it's packaged. Don't remember the exact name (don't use objective-c much :-). Mike.

Re: GNOME package versions

1999-09-28 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1.0.40 3196381 Sep 27 15:19 gnome-libs-1.0.42.tar.gz and recompile. Will be done in no time. Don't worry. But only if it is installed in the archive by now (last time I checked it was stuck in incoming). I just uploaded 1.0.42. I believe 1.0.40

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gnome-libs-1.0.40.tar.gz The main GNOME libraries * current Debian version: 1.0.10-3 [NMU of 1.0.40-0.1 is in Incoming/] I am committed to keeping this up to date. If Steve Haslam doesn't show up soon, I'm going to adopt it. Mike.

Re: Status of GNOME in potato

1999-09-26 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a few more binary packages are produced) Only one, really. Mike.

Re: problems with the perl5 packages

1999-09-25 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [2] Debian doesn't create this specific hard link, but it should. For example, my system has /usr/bin/perl5.00503. Well, we do have perl-5.X, sans subversion. Which is admittedly not exactly what you refer to, but I thought that changes in

Re: possible problem with new perl, libc6 on Sep 23rd

1999-09-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So, if you're getting a Perl binary that's 0600, it's either you, apt-get, or dpkg. I've seen this on both my machines, and I've got a log here (which I suspect is mostly a repeat of Branden's): (Reading database ... 8970 files and directories

Re: problems with the perl5 packages

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon perl. This is incorrect. Current versions of libnet-perl do not require perl. Mike.

Re: problems with the perl5 packages

1999-09-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This brings up another issue. Both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 provide perl5, but it was my understanding that these two versions were substantially different, at least during installation I got a long story about how I would need to convert databases to

Re: New gnome-libs stuff up for testing...

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't have permission to access /~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/ on this server. Damn, that was lame of me. Fixed. Mike.

Re: ITP: libfont-metrics-perl

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unless someone else is working on this, I intend to package the Font::Metrics::* modules for perl. libhtml-tree-perl needs them to successfully use HTMMML::FormatPS. Let me know when it gets out of incoming, and i'll gladly change libhtml-tree-perl to

Re: ITP: phpmyadmin

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Depends: php3 (= 3.0.12) | php3-cgi (= 3.0.12), httpd, mysql-server, php3-mysql Is it really not able to work with anything but localhost? And if that's not the case, why require

Re: To grok grep output....

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS linux/CREDITS --- v2.2.11/linux/CREDITS Mon Aug 9 16:05:54 1999 +++ linux/CREDITS Wed Aug 25 17:29:45 1999 @@ -689,14 +689,11 @@ The fourth line is made of two pairs,

Re: Orphaning Packages

1999-09-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Stevie Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libxml-parser-perl libxml-dom-perl libxml-cgi-perl /* Does this exist anymore on CPAN? I haven't found * it since I originally packaged it. */ libxml-writer-perl I can take these. Mike.

New gnome-libs stuff up for testing...

1999-09-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I believe I have a gotten a good build of an updated gnome-libs. And I only cursed Joey for the problems with dh_shlibdeps a little bit. It is currently a little lacking in the changelog department---that kind of got over-looked in the overhaul---but otherwise I think it's ready to go. One

Re: name2() solved

1999-09-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Paul Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: header files, but what is the correct way to code this functionality? if its not in the stdc++ headers, how are people supposed to solve similar problems that name2() solved? (even tho its pretty damn simple code). Speaking without having looked at

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might need to be conducted on canvas, in the presence of a referee, while wearing padded gloves. ;-) Possibly. I would _hope_, however, that being face to face might have the opposite effect.

Unofficial emacs 20.4 available...

1999-09-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Having recently found out that emacs 20.4 was available, combined with a bit of time while waiting for the hurricane to pass through, I decided to cook up some emacs 20.4 packages. Those interested in getting them can download them from http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/ I have made no attempt

Re: Steve Haslam and Gnome in potato

1999-09-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If nobody is willing to do it, I'll do it myself. I'm willing to _help_. I worry that as one works on resolving these things, one will discover that there's cascading upgrades required... Mike.

Re: Crazy Idea: debian developer conference

1999-09-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cool idea. But would it help Debian except of being a big social developer event ? Sometimes social functions can lead to increased cooperation. Plus there's the opportunity to discuss technical issues in a perhaps more interactive medium. Mike.

ITP: gphone

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
gphone (aka gnome-o-phone) is an internet telephone with a gtk interface. It uses GSM compression, and thus should be useable over reasonable modem connections, and is also compatible with the speakfreely program for Windows and Unix. http://www.math.okstate.edu/~droland/gphone/gphone.html

Re: ITP: gphone

1999-09-15 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Erm. Speak Freely employs crypto (it's in non-US/non-free). If gphone employs crypto as well, shouldn't we find a non-US maintainer and a non-US download location for it? Sorry, I probably should have elaborated. gphone will work with speakfreely

Re: CALL for PAM support

1999-05-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a libapache-mod-pam, which enables apache auth using PAM modules, already packaged. It has some drawbacks due to permissions (apache runs as www-data so it cannot access /etc/shadow). This can't be avoided however. Um, doesn't libpwdb take care

Re: Old Library dependencies Re: Release Plans (19990513)

1999-05-13 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remove as many dependencies on old libraries as possible, this includes: libjpegg6a, libncurses3.4, newt0.25, libpgsql, tk4.2, tcl7.6, libwraster1, libpng0g and various older gtk/gnome libraries. Looking at some of these, it occurs to

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sysutils 29392 oldversion procinfo in sysutils is broken [76] (Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Is there a reason not to put the new version in? I need someone to confirm for me that the new sysutils that I put in potato will work

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gnus 25609 Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to upgrade/pruge [64] (Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) We should not ship without although it's technically not essential. We'd better find somebody to fix this bug. MAD

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, at least part of their rationale for the new scheme is to allow multiple versions of perl, a feature that debian is not interested in. Threaded perl and non-threaded perl are binary-incompatible at the extension level, meaning most compiled

important perl5.005 issues (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:54:46PM -0400, Michael Alan Dorman écrivait: Threaded perl and non-threaded perl are binary-incompatible at the extension level, meaning most compiled extensions must be distinguishable. I think you're wrong. perl5.005

Re: Squid2, how to handle incompatible upgrade

1998-10-08 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: Never mind - I forgot how I handled it the last time, from the 1.0 to the 1.1 upgrade. Just test in the preinst for the previous version and show a warning, upgrade instructions and a prompt there. Seemed to work the last time .. so it will

Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List for July 10

1998-07-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Package: cvs Maintainer: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24378 cvs not Y2K-compliant I fail to see how this is release-critical. Package: dpkg-dev Maintainer: Klee

Re: Including non-PIC code in a shared library?

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 03:39:07PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: little worried that mixing PIC and non-PIC code might do some other harm. Does it? Or will it just make this shared object unsharable? Everything I've ever heard suggests that the GGI people are correct---it will merely be

Re: New gnome packages

1998-06-19 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 01:52:29PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: Am I correct that we currently do not have a complete desktop with gnome? Since there is no wm yet, it's pretty difficult to judge it. Last I heard, the gnome team doesn't intend to have a specific window manager---instead they're

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