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Uploaded fvwm 2.2.4-4 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded cfe 0.9-4 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded libsnmp-perl 3.1.0-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Uploaded xmcd 2.6-1 (sparc) to ftp-master

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Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:43:53AM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: I like using groups to give different sets of rights and I'm annoyed by Debian giving every user his own group. Is that reall

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

Bernd Eckenfels wrote: First we need to solve the IMHO broken Alternatives Settings of those Perl Packages. They messed up my System more than one. See the BTS, there are patches (#80143). Someone should NMU it, it's absurd it's been left so broken for so long. perl-5.6-base is removing all

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

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: dueling banjos

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 04:31:48PM -0500, Buddha Buck wrote: I just did a Google search on duelling banjos debian and came up with nothing -- just two hits to our archives from the dualling banjos thread that happened one of the previous times we got this strange request. I don't know where

Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies

Le Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:24:34AM -0800, Joey Hess écrivait: liblocale-gettext-perl libmldbm-perl dpkg-ftp Those 3 are mine. I've just done it. No need to file a bug. perl-5.005-suid This one should not be updated :) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+-

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

Peter Eckersley wrote: If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I can set permissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -l plot-against-fred -rwr--1 pde fred 1 Dec 27 17:12 plot-against-fred Of course, I need root access to do it :(

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

Just one simple small thing for me, please: An installer that is smart enough to realize that it is about to overflow the disc, so it deletes any .deb files that have been downloaded and already installed. (This bit me once while doing an install over PPP.) Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_)

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

Hamish Moffatt wrote: This is a big nuisance. I spent months working on a project with a shared directory without individual user groups. Worse yet, you can end up with a CVS repository full of files with user-only permissions (using a local CVS repositor, rather than remote). Ok. Then

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:14:54PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: This is a big nuisance. I spent months working on a project with a shared directory without individual user groups. Worse yet, you can end up with a CVS repository full of files with user-only

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

On 00-12-26 Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the wnpp but I could find it which apt-cache search silo. You can only

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

On 00-12-27 Jonathan McDowell wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 06:59:16PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: |silo (195 days old) Has this package been removed from unstable and if yes, why? It's currently still listed in the

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:28:59 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds pretty easy to implement; just stat() and compare the inode number. That won't catch a file being copied and truncated since the inode stays the same. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: ITO: catdoc

Hello, On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:10:19AM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: ++ 20/12/00 12:52 -0700 - Bdale Garbee: I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I will continue my current level of inactive ownership of the package until such time as someone

Re: X 4 and app-defaults

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:50:14PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Oh, they generally get filed, it's just that some package maintainers don't do a damn thing about them[1]. what about localisation of app-default, I see XEarth ships with # ls /etc/X11/*/app-defaults/XEarth

Re: Grub question/problem

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 10:03:30PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Hm, have you tried running grub-install --recheck and then Won't run: feivel:~# grub-install --recheck install_device not specified. Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device Install GRUB on your drive. -h, --help

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 07:06:30PM -0700, John Galt wrote: If it's so important, why is it orphaned? I'm thinking that if the SPARC folx can't be bothered to maintain their bootloader, perhaps the port's utilization of resources needs to be called into question... What's the point in

Re: gtk-doc vs glib1.2-dev info file conflict

I have the helix version installed: (Also this version should replace libgtk-doc, shouldn't it?) #dpkg -s libglib1.2-dev Package: libglib1.2-dev Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 367 Maintainer: Helix Code, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: glib1.2

Re: BTS spam( Re: Boost Windows Reliability!!!!!)

In Wed, 27 Dec 2000 00:19:19 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : I've seen one in lyx-cjk bugs. It's cosmetically annoying. I really would love to remove it but there would be quite a lot of trouble (and fear that legitimate info could be lost). Tell me the bug

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

In Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:42:49 +0100 Christian Kurz [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : silo (0.9.9-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream * Took over silo's packaging -- Erick Kinnee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 4 Sep 2000 10:54:23 -0500 Which I assumed meant Erick had

Re: gtk-doc vs glib1.2-dev info file conflict

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:19:11PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: I have the helix version installed: (Also this version should replace libgtk-doc, shouldn't it?) Whenever any helix packages are involved, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the appropriate place to report problems. Not debian-devel. #dpkg -s

Re: ITO: catdoc

Hi, I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I will continue my current level of inactive ownership of the package until such time as someone takes it over. I'd like to adopt this package. Oops, I already adopted the package on 24th Dec. Sorry, but I

RFC: Changing the Packages files

With the introduction of the packages pool, I'm going to propose the following change to the Packages files: 1. The filename tells what the Packages files contains: Packages files should be independent of the their location, therefor the name has to reflect their contents, i.e.

How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

Hi, we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages appears in woody. I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages appears in woody. I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for all

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:37:17 -0500, Brian Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-cache show $package|grep Source in a perl script, ugly. But a possible way to do it. Then use that value in the url (in this case db) http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=db No such changelog. Might

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

* Dwayne C . Litzenberger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001223 22:47]: Hello! I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and clean as

Re: X 4 and app-defaults

Hi. In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Wed, 27 Dec 2000 12:27:43 +0100, on Re: X 4 and app-defaults, Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about localisation of app-default, I see XEarth ships with # ls /etc/X11/*/app-defaults/XEarth /etc/X11/ja_JP.eucJP/app-defaults/XEarth

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

Marc Haber wrote: Hi, we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages appears in woody. I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for all packages that we have backported from the

Re: dpkg-scanpackage is ignoring newwe?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running dpkg-scanpackage i386 over Packages i get (over is size 0) ! Package msn-transport (filename i386/msn-transport_1.0-2_i386.deb) is repeat; ignored that

Linux Expo in Praha, Budabest, Warsaw Moscow (was: Linux Expo Road Show)

I'd like to send out a reminder. Peter Novodvorsky wrote: Hello! I want you to know, that Sky Events will hold four conferences and exhibition in eastern europe called Linux Expo Road Show. Conferences will be held in Praha, Budapest, Warsaw and Moscow, and exhibition -- only in Moscow.

Re: ITO: catdoc

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:25:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:10:19AM +0300, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: ++ 20/12/00 12:52 -0700 - Bdale Garbee: I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I will continue my current level

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

exa == exa Eray writes: exa I use bash. Is this zsh better? :) Yes. -- Stephen A duck!

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:26:25AM +, Marc Haber wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 07:28:59 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds pretty easy to implement; just stat() and compare the inode number. That won't catch a file being copied and truncated since the inode stays the

Re: booting Linux NFS-Root

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:58:47PM +1100, Brian May wrote: I seem to have problems booting Linux 2.2.18 via NFS root image. **2.2.17 works fine**, but 2.2.18 says No NFS servers available, giving up. [...] Any ideas what is going on? This may not have anything to do with it, but IIRC, Alan

Re: testing testing (was: Implementing testing)

Ola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote The big problem is as I see it, to implement it. I'm not familiar with the background work that the server do so I'm not the right person ot do it, I think. Are you willing to implement such a system? I will try some experimentation on a local system, and see if I

Re: netsacape running wild

On 11 Dec 2000 20:18:58 -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 10:40:56AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: apart from that, mozilla's great. much better, faster, more stable than netscape. still crashes occasionaly, but that's acceptable for a beta program. Has anyone had

Nice features in a pre package manager

In addition to the previously-mentioned pipelining that installs packages as soon as they're downloaded, so their deb can be deleted, and has careful sequencing so that a package is not downloaded until its dependencies have _already_ been met, it would be nice ... to have the package requesting

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +, Marc Haber wrote: I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page (http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=$package) and then comparing the version number

Re: booting Linux NFS-Root

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:58:47PM +1100, Brian May wrote: I seem to have problems booting Linux 2.2.18 via NFS root image. **2.2.17 works fine**, but 2.2.18 says No NFS servers available, giving up. [...] Any ideas what is going on? What kernel rev and NFS version are the NFS server

Rambling apt-get ideas

How about an apt-getd debian daemon. Use a apt-get client to remotely mess with another workstations packages. Messing with only one workstation at a time is boring. How about multicast to configure a hundred workstations instead, all at once? And then have a proxying apt-getd server multicast

Re: Another Grub question/problem

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:23:52PM +1100, Brian May wrote: At the moment I have: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda1 video=0x319 try: kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 root=/dev/hda1 video=vesa:0x319

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:41:43PM +, Mark Seaborn wrote: I want a system where I can install multiple versions of a library (or any package really) and say which version I want each program on the system to use, possibly on a per-user basis.

Re: ITO: catdoc

Hello, On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:18:54AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:25:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: just wanted to point to wv which seems to do a much better job than catdoc, and also operates from a script if desired. Apparently only the GUI is missing.

Re: ITO: catdoc

++ 27/12/00 16:03 +0100 - Dr. Guenter Bechly: Oops, I already adopted the package on 24th Dec. Sorry, but I did not know that anybody else was interested in adopting it. It had announced my ITA a day before. I have upload catdoc only know and closed the bug. sorry.

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 03:22:21PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: Hi, |mhash (235 days old) Has this package been dropped from unstable? If yes, can we close the wnpp-bug about it? No. I'm not sure if gorgo orphaned it or not. php4 builds an extension with this library. Dunno, how

Re: ITO: catdoc

++ 28/12/00 00:51 +0300 - Peter Novodvorsky: ++ 27/12/00 16:03 +0100 - Dr. Guenter Bechly: Oops, I already adopted the package on 24th Dec. Sorry, but I did not know that anybody else was interested in adopting it. It had announced my ITA a day before. I have upload catdoc only know and

Feature Request: BTS

Hello, I'd like to have a feature in the BTS. That's the ability to select a minimum (maximum?) version of a given package to search for. Should shorten the sometimes rather longish lists of bug reports (and thereby helping to read them faster and closer, too. I may volunteer to do it, but would

Re: Feature Request: BTS

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, I'd like to have a feature in the BTS. That's the ability to select a minimum (maximum?) version of a given package to search for. Should shorten the sometimes rather longish lists of bug reports (and thereby helping to read them faster and

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, [iso-8859-1] Petr ech wrote: |mhash (235 days old) No. I'm not sure if gorgo orphaned it or not. php4 builds an extension with he says, `i think i did... about the time when i orphaned php' -- [-] ``And there are plenty of other innovative pieces of software such as

RE: What do you wish for in an package manager?

Sorry if I'm a bit late to the party, but I'm going to look into doing something similiar to what Dwayne's doing, with a heavy Java slant. Anyway, I wrote up a wishlist of sorts here : http://www.devel.e-plagiarism.com/~entropy/proposals/jam.html The ideas seem sound, but I haven't had too many

Re: ITO: catdoc

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Re: ITO: catdoc

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 10:47:17PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:18:54AM -0600, Sam TH wrote: On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:25:54PM +0100, Toni Mueller wrote: just wanted to point to wv which seems to do a much better job than catdoc, and also operates

Re: Bug#80343: general: Lack of policy on which files should be owned by which user

Isn't there rudimentary ACL implementation in the kernel? An ACL would do the job nicely... On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: Peter Eckersley wrote: If my I want a file to be readable by everybody *except* user fred, I can set permissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -l

ITP: libcrypt-ssleay-perl

[This message has been submitted as a wishlist bug against wnpp; the bug number is 80584.] Crypt::SSLeay allows LWP::UserAgent objects (among others) to correctly perform GET and POST operations over HTTPS. Since it uses SSL, the package will depend on libssl095a (and build-depend on the

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

195 days is a lot of time to have an important package orphaned. At 6 or so months of orphaned-ness, if a maintainer is not found, one should and IMHO must look at the very real at that point possibility of going on without it. If this necessitates further changes as in removal of an entire

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:30:13PM +1030, Matthew Tuck wrote: - if my apt download was terminated halfway through and I have no internet time left, I would still get to install my fully downloaded packages without messing around with dpkg and trying to work out the dependencies manually

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 01:03:03AM +, Mark Seaborn wrote: Of course. I know this. It is repeated many times on this mailing list. But it does not have to be so. Why should upgrading package X affect unrelated package Y? If one user wants to use packages from Package X and package Y

Re: Another Grub question/problem

On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:23:52PM +1100, Brian May wrote: still haven't tried 2.2.18. The video= options seems to be completely ignored, and Linux boots up as if it wasn't there. Did you check /proc/cmdline to see if grub actually passed it to the kernel? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB

Re: ITO: catdoc

So, it seems that I will maintain catdoc, not you? Am I right? Thanks, NIDD -- The Debian Project. Debian [EMAIL

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Hi Martin, cross-posting to debian-devel because your assessment of the bug is totally wrong. Martin Bialasinski wrote: Hi, I can rename a directory to which I have permissions in shell orion:mp3$ ls -ald Rob\ Zombie/ drwxrwxr-x2 root windows 16384 May 21 2000 Rob

Re: List of packages that could be dropped

Previously Christian Kurz wrote: |dpkg-scriptlib -- dpkg-perl and dpkg-python (142 days old) Is any package using functions of dpkg-perl or dpkg-python? If yes, I think someone should take care of this packages and the bugs that are in them. If not, could we move this packages from our

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Eray Ozkural (exa) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Check it out for yourself: orion:Stuff$ ls -ald desktop.* -rwxrwxr-x1 root windows 125 Nov 20 1998 desktop.ini orion:Stuff$ mv desktop.ini desktop.what! orion:Stuff$ ls -ald desktop.* -rwxrwxr-x1 root windows 125

Re: Bug#80544: [rename] can't rename dir with valid permissions

Jason Henry Parker wrote: At a guess, I would say this is a non-bug. I'm saying that I can't rename a file using gmc which I *can* otherwise rename. So your first guess in not very accurate. You know how to rename something in gmc, yes? You do that in the properties of a file, by editing the

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