fearless sailtrip (aka the DPL goes on vacation)

1999-05-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
I'm leaving tomorrow (saturday) on a week vacation to Greece. I'll be somewhere sailing on the greek waters, trying to work on a tan and check the sights. Of course the timing is slightly bad: the discussion period for the logo vote ends in the middle of the vacation. However I made

tetex's environment of PS fonts

1999-05-15 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
Hello, I am a member of Debian JP and use potato with kernel 2.2.5. I asked some question on tetex's environment of PostScript fonts about ten days ago but I do not have any comments. So I again ask with slightly arranging the question. [1] teTeX's status(the latest one, I think) nsx:~$ dpkg -l

Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan

1999-05-15 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Hi! Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm... it would be valid, but no one would find it aesthetically correct :) But this is all not really important, it's just a string in a config file. Thank you for your comment :) I see. Other members in JP project told me their ideas: i.e.

Re: Homapages in list of maintainers

1999-05-15 Thread Taketoshi Sano
Are there any objections for Ukai's taking charge of New Maintainers Interview in Japan ? If not, Please tell me the address to contact about this. Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] the correct address to contact ? In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taketoshi Sano [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me :) writes: Hi ! In

Re: fixing the wnpp was ITP rx(v)p

1999-05-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 06:17:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The wnpp has become exceptionally incorrect and out of date. What can we do as a group to fix this? One suggestion I just tossed out on IRC is to use the BTS Hmm, so newbie developer issues a bug against

Re: Please adopt: prc-tools

1999-05-15 Thread Stephen Zander
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the John person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm John trying again. Well, if you're happy for me to have it (again :/), I actually have a -2 package built ready

Re: jdk117v3 package?

1999-05-15 Thread Edward Betts
On Fri, 14 May, 1999, Vincent Murphy wrote: ok. i'm just wondering how SuSE and anybody else who gives it out on CDs gets away with it. when i tell my friends they should try debian instead of the usual distributions, everything's peachy until i tell them it doesn't include java (we're

ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Beattie
This is to be my first real package once my maintainer info has been sent to me.. (James has spoken to me by phone) I just found this, so I am just about to play with it. From the Web Page: http://mars.ark.com/~mbevan/products/netled.shtml Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an

Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan

1999-05-15 Thread Taketoshi Sano
I got a mail of the idea just jp :) Thanks. It's most simple and clear, so I select this as my choice for the nickname of newly created dupload-queue. Any other opinions ? -- Taketoshi Sano: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Ben Pfaff
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an interface using the keyboard leds. Is it different from tleds which is already packaged? -- Debian for hackers, Red Hat for suits, Slackware for loons. --CmdrTaco

Re: Intent to package: reportbug

1999-05-15 Thread James R. Van Zandt
* Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, -MM-DD. - Jim Van Zandt

Re: Package to give away/orphan: GNU acct

1999-05-15 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Thomas, Thomas I am still using an acct_6.3.2-2_i386.deb package that I Thomas compiled on a 2.1.96 kernel. It works fine with the 2.2 kernel Thomas series for me. Thanks, that is another good data point. Which version of glibc are you running / did you compile against? Glibc 2.0

Re: ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Beattie
On 14 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Summary NetLED is a program that monitors an interface using the keyboard leds. Is it different from tleds which is already packaged? I found tleds not all that easy to use, and I only had to type

Re: ITP: netled

1999-05-15 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:00:20PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On 14 May 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: I found tleds not all that easy to use, and I only had to type `make` and `./netleds console ppp0 ` and it is still running, even after a disconnect or two... But, I will have another look at

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-15 Thread Othmar Pasteka
Hi, Actually you can make some text output with groff, for instance: groff -man -Tascii pon.1 pon.txt works for me :). Let's say for the manuals, but works. so long Othmar

FreeBuilder

1999-05-15 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Is there any intention to package Free Builder for Debian? Now that we have a reasonable java plataform (with jdk, kaffe, awt, xemacs, and ohers). Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: alternative man page reader?

1999-05-15 Thread Richard Braakman
Lars Wirzenius wrote: Manual pages are actually written in a new language, defined using the troff macro language. It is much simpler than the real troff language. This may no longer be true. I see quite a few codes in manpages that aren't defined by man(7). For example, the manpage for [

Re: fearless sailtrip (aka the DPL goes on vacation)

1999-05-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 01:22:13AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Anyway, I hope Debian will still exist and be in good shape when I return. Oh, and with lots less release-critical bugs of course ;) hehe. we know what the mice do when the cat's away, but what mischief do the cats get up to when

Re: jdk117v3 package?

1999-05-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 01:07:26AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Easy solution, buy one of those non-free Debian CDs, with the bits of non-free they can shove on a CD on. Loads of vendors do them. No, the non-freeness isn't the problem with this version. FTP admin said that licence says that we

Re: gnupg

1999-05-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 14, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I add the following line to ~/.gnupg/options (as someone suggested on this mailing list) the gpg program segv's every time I try to decrypt data. keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-keyring.pgp GPG 0.9.6 is buggy, I sent a detailed bug

Hardware working with Linux

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened

Re: Intent to package: reportbug

1999-05-15 Thread Chris Lawrence
On May 14, James R. Van Zandt wrote: * Version for virtual packages is the date of the report (/MM/DD) Any chance of making that an ISO-8601 format date instead? That is, -MM-DD. - Jim Van Zandt Done in 0.2. Chris --

Intent to package Gnofin

1999-05-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Darin! I was seeking for a tiny finance tracking tool to make better use of my money and found Gnofin on freshmeat. I learned that there is no Debian package for it so I grabbed the sources and made one myself. Thanks for this cool utility - I like it very much and I would like to make an

Re: Please adopt: prc-tools

1999-05-15 Thread John Goerzen
By all means go right ahead and upload :-) -- John Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I tried giving it away last December, but apparently the John person that took it didn't have time to upload it, so I'm John trying

Re: debian-upload-queue in Japan

1999-05-15 Thread Fumitoshi UKAI
Hi, I've set up debian upload queue in Japan. So please add the information about this to dupload.conf and developers-references section 6.2.x. Should I send it as wishlist to BTS? nickname: jp FQDN: master.debian.or.jp path name: /pub/Incoming/upload For dupload.conf $cfg{jp} = {

Re: Intent to package: ttfprint

1999-05-15 Thread Anthony Wong
On Fri, May 14, 1999 at 05:15:42PM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: | |On Sat, 15 May 1999, Anthony Wong wrote: | | The package 'ttfprint' is ready for upload: | |Interesting... Is it specific to Chinese, or can it do other truetype |stuff ? E.g. Russian ? Yes, ttfprint is specific to Chinese

ITP: bg5ps

1999-05-15 Thread Anthony Wong
The package 'bg5ps' is ready for upload: Package: bg5ps Version: 1.1b2-1 Section: text Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), python, ttf-twmoe-kai | ttf-twmoe-sung Installed-Size: 96 Maintainer: Anthony Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: A utility to print

Re: ITP: bg5ps

1999-05-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 03:02:00AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: The package 'bg5ps' is ready for upload: You know I download my email every 5 minutes and scroll though it. It's bothersome to see an intent-to-package come in at the same time as the upload announcement. The reason for anouncing ITP

Bug#37755: general: Woes from upgrading 2.0 - 2.1

1999-05-15 Thread Inaky Perez Gonzalez
Package: general Version: N/A Hi Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful. I attach an script for the upgrade (^Ms removed). The main points to note about it is apt-get suddenly died

Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables. With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables on both

Re: Intent to package Gnofin

1999-05-15 Thread Darin Fisher
thanks!! i will send you mail whenever i update the source. darin On Sat, 15 May 1999, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Hi Darin! I was seeking for a tiny finance tracking tool to make better use of my money and found Gnofin on freshmeat. I learned that there is no Debian package for it so I

Re: Bug#37606: /var/spool/texmf/ls-R unwritable

1999-05-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, 13 May 1999 15:02:40 +0100 (BST), Julian Gilbey wrote: Glad to hear all of this. I just have one comment: - The mktexlsr, mktexdir and mktexupd scripts must not be setuid. If they are, anyone could run them, which is unnecessary. Any extra privileges they require