GNUPLOT breaks GPL

1998-06-17 Thread Edward Betts
] * This is a mailing list; to join it send a note to * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Send bug reports to * [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ Debian version of gnuplot. Packaged by joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Obtained from ftp://cmpc1.phys.soton.ac.uk/pub/ -- Edward Betts http://www.hairnet.demon.co.uk

[OFF-TOPIC]: Meet me in Cambridge (PGP, etc)

1998-06-21 Thread Edward Betts
. -- Edward Betts http://www.hairnet.demon.co.uk/ mutt-portaloo-1054-4 Description: PGP Key 0xD9F4E741.

Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-07 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 06 Oct, 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 03:50:01PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: This is silly. dpkg/dselect are already insanely slow, even on my P166 with 128 meg of RAM -- especially when reading database, etc. If we slow down the installation so much more by

Re: Contacting authors

1998-10-08 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 07 Oct, 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Hi, tonight I was thinking about implementing @authors.debian.org which would enable a way for us to get in touch with the upstream authors of some piece of software without the need of looking into the copyright file or digging in the source if

Re: intent to remove libglide from non-free

1998-10-11 Thread Edward Betts
On Sat, 10 Oct, 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roderick Schertler writes: If nobody wants to take up this torch I'm going to suggest the existing package be dropped from the distribution. If anybody _does_ want to try to deal with this, please let me know. New license:

Re: Intent to package: daemontools (and cdb)

1999-01-18 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 18 Jan, 1999, Tommi Virtanen wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:34:43PM +1300, Carey Evans wrote: According to the README in the CDB archive, the CDB C source is public domain, so if you strip out the docs, etc. you could put it in main. Yes. But as that doesn't cover even the

Re: Debian appears to be ancient

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 19 Jan, 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Ben Pfaff wrote: No such file appears in my copy of Content-i386 from 28 Dec 1998. Where are you getting it from? Duh, I had the directory wrong, the correct dictory is /usr/doc/copyright/base. dpkg -S can't see where it is coming

Re: using TABS vs SPACES in E-Mail

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote: Just my 2 cents: I think using TABS is Ok (I personally do not know if any programs or OS that do not default to 8 characters), except it messes up the formatting when you quote the message in many mailers (eg pine, mh), using the Reply function.

Re: packages.debian.org

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given that from your description swish++ sounds like a general purpose indexer, which has been set up to index 'natural language' is it the best one for our purposes? The main thing is it is free software, most search engines are not. If the

Re: Unmet Deps revisted

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Steve McIntyre wrote: When selecting all packages of a certain priority there should be no conflicts. If there are two MTA's, then one is optional, the other is extra. I'm sure this is written down in one of our many policy, develop. ref, packaging manuals. So how

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 20 Jan, 1999, Brian May wrote: Maybe the web files should be owned by www-data and the web process should be owned by www or httpd? This way the descriptive names continue to make sense. Practical speaking, it is probably just as good to make web files owned by root, however, then the

Re: apt-get: no instalation candidat

1999-01-21 Thread Edward Betts
On Thu, 21 Jan, 1999, Alexander N. Benner wrote: Hi trying to upgrade some packages apt-get fails with the msg. E: Package bigbrother has no instalation candidate Packages which fail (with this msg): bigbrother xplot xsplay xwatch my apt/source.list: # Use for a local mirror -

Re: KDE status?

1999-01-21 Thread Edward Betts
On Thu, 21 Jan, 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi guys, What's the word on Debian and the KDE? Just wondering. They will not let us distribute binaries so we don't. -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. -- The GNU

Re: filters: Licence problems

1999-01-26 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 26 Jan, 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: This one is easy. Install this as your cron job: grep straying /bin/cat; touch /bin/cat; free /bin/cat $ grep straying /bin/cat; touch /bin/cat; free /bin/cat touch: /bin/cat: Permission denied total used free shared

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

1999-01-31 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 31 Jan, 1999, Michael Stone wrote: transfig 32520 transfig: puts files in /usr/lib/X11, should use /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 instead [0] (Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This seems fairly simple, right? Sitting in incoming -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems

Packages to give away (was: xfig and transfig)

1999-05-09 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 09 May, 1999, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: Hi everyone, I am a member of Debian JP. xfig and transfig (fig2dev) are compiled with correct option for I18N in those Imakefiles like #define I18N but unfortunately there still remain some problems to use Japanese. I found that these

Re: [Vince's cool upload of the month ;] Uploaded wine 0.0.990508-1 (source i386 all) to master

1999-05-12 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Vincent Renardias wrote: This version works well enough to be able to run MS Office's install program and run Excel95 and Word95. (not all of their features are working and there are a lot of painting/refresh bugs, but it's working PrettyWell(tm). Is that Excel95 and

Re: Use of the -devel-announce list

1999-05-12 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: Please can I encourage anyone posting to -devel-announce to ensure that they have set the Reply-To: field to something sensible, and to encourage anyone replying to a -devel-announce posting to check where they are sending their reply. (Hint:

Re: Splitting debian-devel-changes to separate lists

1999-05-12 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 12 May, 1999, Bart Warmerdam wrote: Hi, The topic to split debian-devel-changes in a -$ARCH and -sources list was proposed a while ago. What happened to it and what are the sentiments on splitting it?? I think it's quite high volume because most lists aren't intresting

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

Re: 3c5x9setup and isapnptools

1999-05-16 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 16 May, 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After my recent experience gettying my new 3COM EtherLink III cards to work, I would like to suggest that 3c5x9setup be included in the isapnptools package. It is composed of a single .c source file with

Re: 3c5x9setup and isapnptools

1999-05-17 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 16 May, 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After my recent experience gettying my new 3COM EtherLink III cards to work, I would like to suggest that 3c5x9setup be included in the isapnptools package. It is composed of a single .c source file with

Emacs, RMS and sex(6)

1999-05-18 Thread Edward Betts
I was looking at the new version of miscfiles, in the changelog, I noticed that the previous version (the one before this one)'s changelog entry read like this miscfiles (1.1-6) unstable; urgency=low * Removed duplication of the GNU Manifesto. closes: BUG#29565 -- Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL

Re: [ITP/mostly packaged] hftpd

1999-05-19 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 18 May, 1999, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:26:09PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because too many people don't use debian kernel images. If people don't use the tools, then they don't get the benefits of the tools, which

Re: Real releases G2 player alpha

1999-05-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 19 May, 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: The debian installer is uploaded, and uses the rpm. The only advantage over using alien is you get: a) a clean upgrade path from the older package, and an easy upgrade to the next version when it comes out. b)

Package selection and alternatives

1999-05-20 Thread Edward Betts
At the moment, the alternatives system, the packaging system, the virtual package names, the sensible-* scripts, the default X server, the kernel image and the default window manager settings are all seperate entities. I think they could all be more tightly intergrated. At the moment, the default

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Edward Betts
On Fri, 21 May, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 21 May 1999 14:57:26 -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: Joe might also be a good option because of its wordstar-esque keys. DOS Edit has some convergence with joe on thse key bindings. IE, CNTL-Y is delete line in both, etc. It isn't perfect,

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Edward Betts
On Fri, 21 May, 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, 22 May 1999 00:16:26 +0100, Edward Betts wrote: I don't dislike it, neither do quite a few people I know so your so does everybody else statement is false. Also, the recent OS sucks/rules meter applied to editors places joe squarely in 2nd

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Edward Betts
On Fri, 21 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: I HATE wordstar key binds, so does everybody else. Try fte or an editor like it for the boot disks. I don't have wordstar keybindings. In fact joe comes with half a dozen different sets of keybindings. So we pick one or write our own custom

Re: An 'ae' testimony

1999-05-22 Thread Edward Betts
On Sat, 22 May, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 12:16:26AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Joe might also be a good option because of its wordstar-esque keys. I HATE wordstar key binds, so does everybody else. ~~ This part

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-24 Thread Edward Betts
On Sun, 23 May, 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: I have the same objection to this I had to the anarchist thing: You're trying to package their website. I don't think we should be doing that. Granted I'd rather see this website packaged before one trying to tell me all about the good political

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-24 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: As nobody has yet argued against my policy proposal of adopting the FHS, it is likely to become policy quite soon. So we need to start actively thinking about how to go about managing the changeover, and which exceptions we will make. A quick

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: On 24-May-99, 12:59 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free software? It is all explained in this package. There are other reasons that free software is good (e.g

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 06:59:47PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Why does Debian only accept free software? What is so good about free software? It is all explained in this package. Indeed. If your objection remains, I will not upload

Re: Adoption of the FHS

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Mon, 24 May, 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Can I upload packages with the /usr/info - /usr/share/info modification? Yes you may :) GNU info has been set to read its files from that directory since long time ago, IIRC before hamm

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
-philosophy Version: 1.0 Section: doc Priority: optional Architecture: all Installed-Size: 1277 Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: Philosophy of the GNU Project Ideas about free software, and the reasons behind it. Adapted from the philosophy section of the GNU web site

Re: Intent to package GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
Another thought, here is the current doc-base file: Document: gnu-philosophy Title: Philosophy of the GNU Project Author: Richard M. Stallman, Georg C. F. Greve, Tom Hull, Kragen Sitaker, Loyd Fueston, Michael Stutz, Bjørn Remseth, and others Abstract: Ideas about free software, and the reasons

Re: ITP: fakedate

1999-05-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 25 May, 1999, Russell Coker wrote: I intend to release a package of a little library I'm working on called fakedate. This will wrap the time() system call and make applications think that they are running on a different date. This is designed to be used for year 2000 testing but

why I packaged the GNU Philosophy web pages

1999-05-26 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 26 May, 1999, Steve Greenland wrote: Table of Contents . * About Free Software * About the GNU project * Licensing Free Software * Laws * Terminology and Definitions * GIFs * Motivation * Speeches * Third

How to handle the jargon file?

1999-05-26 Thread Edward Betts
Debian has at the moment the packages: jargon 4.0.0-3 maintained by Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] jargon-text 4.0.0-3 maintained by Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me) The first is in info format, the second in an odd hypertext language with a viewer called Volks-hypertext browser

Re: How to handle the jargon file?

1999-05-26 Thread Edward Betts
On Wed, 26 May, 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: Just curious really, but which format does the dict-jargon package use? None, I forgot about that one, it uses its own format. So that is ANOTHER version of jargon, I presume it is still 4.0.0 and not yet updated to 4.1.2 -- I consume, therefore I am

Re: Too many kernels in unstable

1999-09-17 Thread Edward Betts
Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once 2.2.12 makes it out of Incoming, we will have 8 kernel versions in the unstable distribution? Do we REALLY need to provide that many versions of the kernel?? I hate to complain, but every time a new version of the PCMCIA modules is released, I have

Re: New QMail discussion list.

1999-09-18 Thread Edward Betts
Jon Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian. The primary MTA? does that mean that more than one MTA can be installed on Debian at once? I thought they all conflicted with each

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Edward Betts
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the new software, the X-Debian-CC was changed to X-Debbugs-CC (more general) and it appears to be working. With an alias so that X-Debian-CC still works? Some of the perl scripts have been made -w clean. and `use strict;' clean? Bugs are no longer

Re: A few changes

1999-09-19 Thread Edward Betts
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All @bugs.debian.org will accept PGP/GPG clearsigned and most forms of mime formated email. Most? Let me put it this way, I havn't found one that it barfs on but I'm sure there's some evil MUA that will prove it's not perfect. Does

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

1999-09-20 Thread Edward Betts
Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's at http://master.debian.org/~mdorman/gnome-libs-1.0.16/. I'm uploading it now, and my DSL line doesn't give me infinite bandwidth, so you might wait five or ten minutes. 403

Re: New QMail discussion list.

1999-09-20 Thread Edward Betts
Erick Kinnee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 1999 at 06:51:56PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Jon Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have started a new qmail discussion list. The purpose of the list is to discuss using QMail as the primary MTA with Debian. The primary MTA

debconf for configuring a room full of machines

1999-09-21 Thread Edward Betts
Scott Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A better approach, perhaps, will be to use the remote database capabilities of debconf to just pull settings off the old system when you install a package on the new one. Of course, that's all vaporware at this point. I guess I'm just too eager to

Re: dhcpcd procedure

1999-10-01 Thread Edward Betts
Dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would be the best way to check for this? A simple 'ps |grep dhcpcd' ? Would doing so make my package dependent on procps? or is there a convenient way to check the installed version of dhcpcd someway? Check $2 Debian Packaging

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-02 Thread Edward Betts
Joel Klecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we step into the patents make something non-free trap, then we probably have a lot of things in main that should be moved to non-free because they technically infringe on someone's stupid patent. Living in the UK, where there are currently no software

Debian recommended software

1999-10-02 Thread Edward Betts
Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I switched to lftp myself at the time of the previous ncftp license issue, and haven't looked back. Is there anything in ncftp that lftp doesn't have? If there isn't, I'd say just drop it. I did

Re: Debian recommended software (moving off-topic)

1999-10-02 Thread Edward Betts
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Edward == Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edward MDA: procmail Edward This is standard priority, but exim is not configured to use it, people have Edward to mess with .forward files. exim has its own filter facility, that is easier

Re: Debian recommended software

1999-10-03 Thread Edward Betts
Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Transport-wise: |local_delivery: | driver = pipe | command=/usr/bin/procmail | umask=0022 (This can be enhanced with a required_files = ~/:~/.procmailrc or any such things (needing the procmail binary itself, the other transport (the old

Re: doom source GPL'd

1999-10-04 Thread Edward Betts
Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please by all means use the latest semi-public beta (no link from the home page) http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/yadex/yadex-1.1.0.tar.gz. Yadex 1.0.1 is severely obsolete. Now that I'm done with DeuTex, I hope to resume work on Yadex and release v1.1.1

linking binfmt_misc with mime-types

1999-10-04 Thread Edward Betts
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing that comes to mind, is to implement a mini-program (unless it already has been written) that takes two parameters, eg run-mime-type text/html /path/to/file.html That would automatically parse /etc/mailcap and do the `right' thing, for the

Some developers still using slink?

1999-10-05 Thread Edward Betts
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a general rule, as long as you can run the result in potato without using oldlibs packages, it should be fine. [ Personal note: Most of the packages I maintain depend on libc6 and nothing more. For this reason I have not upgraded to potato yet. This

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Edward Betts
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, in case it was unclear in my previous mail, I have no plans to support full versions of XFree86 3.3.x and 4.x in the same Debian release. By the time official 4.0 .debs are ready, it is my hope that the legacy chipsets currently only supported in

Re: So, what's up with the XFree86 4.0 .debs?

2000-03-13 Thread Edward Betts
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 02:22:10AM +, Edward Betts wrote: I thought the plan was to drop support for ISA VGA cards in 4.x, so people who want to keep using old hardware HAVE to stick with 3.3.x If so, that's news to me and I've been following

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Edward Betts
Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These are sorted out using procmail (which is not

ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread Edward Betts
Package: cmatrix Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.0b-1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), libncurses4 (= 4.2-3.1), xbase-clients (= 3.3.3.1-5), kbd-compat | kbd Description: Console Matrix simulates

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread Edward Betts
David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:32:13PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: Did this message mess with GnuPG on any one else's system? I had to kill gpg (1.0.1-2) to get mutt to continue, and then I got [-- PGP output follows --] ... Good signature from

Re: ITP: cmatrix

2000-03-26 Thread Edward Betts
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: cmatrix Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 76 Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.0b-1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), libncurses4 (= 4.2-3.1), xbase-clients (= 3.3.3.1-5), kbd-compat

gpm in vim

2000-03-27 Thread Edward Betts
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 05:57:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Enable gpm support (except in vim-tiny of course) on popular request. can this be disabled in ~/.vimrc? The opposite is infact true, console mouse support has to be enabled in the

Re: no freeramdisk? - util-linux

2000-03-30 Thread Edward Betts
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to write support for scsidev at boot time in conjonction with a fork of hwtools to create a new scsitools package that will provide only the scsi stuff of hwtools and compile on non-i386 Debian architectures. However, my scripts will

Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-17 Thread Edward Betts
Drake Diedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under the Irix packaging system (quite nice UI except that it has to handle Irix packages..) packages exist in a hierarchy, with lowest level packages quite fine grained. For example: I fw_bzip2 02/28/2000 bzip2-0.9.0c

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-17 Thread Edward Betts
Decklin Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the plan a lot. some thoughts: Glade to hear it. I wonder if the default docs should not go in a locale/ subdir for the proper language (English for most of what exists now). I know very little about i18b so I won't comment on the

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-17 Thread Edward Betts
Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would it be implemented? My recommendation would be one directory per package. Each subpackage could just be part of a .tar.gz file. Having the binary dependent parts listed here would imply that the package locate could

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: First, including each architecture and source in every .deb suddenly balloons our 3 CD set to get i386 binaries to a ~15 CD set. It also kills non-broadband net upgrades (you *really* want to download six copies of emacs plus all its source?). I'm

Re: Implementing testing (was: Re: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just like to bring up the only point which really worries me about all this... what is the incentive for people to run their machines on 'unstable'? I for one like the bleeding-edge. I like stuff that breaks, because I get to fix it. I like filing bug

Re: Subpackaging (Was: Potato now stable)

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:58:31PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: First, including each architecture and source in every .deb suddenly balloons our 3 CD set to get i386 binaries to a ~15 CD set. It also kills non-broadband net upgrades (you *really* want

Realplayer

2000-08-18 Thread Edward Betts
So Joey and Manoj are having a `friendly' discussing about the best way to implement an installer package for realplayer, I wondered how the other distributions do it. Now I have not bothered to look because I am to lazy, but my best guess is that RedHat includes a copy of the Realplayer code.

Abuse is still being worked on

2000-09-05 Thread Edward Betts
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you a new debian developer, looking for some packages to maintain? If so, this list is for you. I need to drop some of my simpler packages to make way for other work. All of the below are up for adoption -- just mail me. Otherwise, I will continue to

Re: Alternatives to ftp.debian.org

2000-09-10 Thread Edward Betts
Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By hand I run the list of mirrors (http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors) thru netselect to get the best one for the machine I'm on, then stick that in sources.list. I tried that, I got a mirror with a low ping, low round trip and good response, but it

Re: Debian banner ad outdated

2000-09-10 Thread Edward Betts
Florian Hinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just browsed freshmeat and a Debian banner appeared at the top of that page. Unfortunately it reads version 2.1. Who might be able to fix this? Same on sourceforge.net -- Don't worry -- shop. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#277498: ITP: libdate-simple-perl -- a simple date object

2004-10-20 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : libdate-simple-perl Version : 3.01 Upstream authors : Marty Pauley [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Tobey [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yves Orton [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: xplanet can use ssystem image file!

2001-09-11 Thread Edward Betts
this should be in /usr/share/ssystem/mars.jpg per FHS. Newer versions of ssystem are called openuniverse. -- Edward Betts (GPG: 1BC4E32B)

Re: call for lintian patches

2001-09-12 Thread Edward Betts
. Am I right? -- Edward Betts (GPG: 1BC4E32B)

Re: call for lintian patches

2001-09-13 Thread Edward Betts
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12-Sep-2001 Edward Betts wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The lintian maintainer is back! I am slowly reading up on the new policy and my bug list. So, if you have any beefs or patches please read the BTS and submit

Re: root rm: Permission denied - solution found

2001-09-13 Thread Edward Betts
people to wonder why they can't delete the file even as root. I had the same problem, just worked out how to fix it, I used the chattr program, see the chattr man page for more details. -- Edward Betts (GPG: 1BC4E32B)

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-13 Thread Edward Betts
that already use these includes. Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate location be acceptable? I would really rather avoid breaking every rcfile that currently uses any of these recipes. Debconf question: do you want a symlink. -- Edward Betts (GPG: 1BC4E32B)

Re: root rm: Permission denied - solution found

2001-09-15 Thread Edward Betts
Tille, Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Edward Betts wrote: I had the same problem, just worked out how to fix it, I used the chattr program, see the chattr man page for more details. Could you please be a little bit more detailed? # chattr -V -i postgres.log.7.gz

Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

2001-09-15 Thread Edward Betts
Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Sep-01, 18:37 (CDT), Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debconf question: do you want a symlink. Please, no. The fact that debconf provides an easy, consistent way to interact with the user does not mean that every possible choice

Re: Installed sortmail 19910421-8 (i386 source)

2002-01-01 Thread Edward Betts
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sortmail (19910421-8) unstable; urgency=low . * Applied patch to included prototypes for all functions that return 64-bit integers. Thanks to John R. Daily (closes: #126741) * Fixed default mail spool path in /usr/bin/sortmail and

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-03 Thread Edward Betts
Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Most keyboards have AltGr-e as Euro - the French keymap (relative to US layout: AltGr]) - the Hungarian keymap (relative to US layout: AltGr\) - the Norwegian and Swedish keymap (relative to US layout: Shift4) Did I miss anything or is something

Re: GPG key signing: Wisconsin.

2002-01-12 Thread Edward Betts
Scott Dier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend, and I want to let developers and non-developers alike that if they need a gpg key signing to let me know in private. Minneapolis Lat: 44 58 N Long: 093 15 W (represented in

Re: GPG key signing: Wisconsin.

2002-01-12 Thread Edward Betts
Scott Dier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to Milwaukee, Wisconsin from Minneapolis, Minnesota this weekend, and I want to let developers and non-developers alike that if they need a gpg key signing to let me know in private. Milwaukee Lat: 43 02 N Long: 087 54 W (represented in degrees

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-09-30 Thread Edward Betts
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is your third and final reminder. I count 542 packages remaining, down only 9 from last month. I assume most of the people below do not read debian-devel, so I've taken the librerty of BCCing you all. :-P [-SNIP-] Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED

GIMP 1 IN FORZEN

1998-06-06 Thread Edward Betts
Debian 2 ships with Gimp 1 take that redhat :-) -- Edward Betts http://www.hairnet.demon.co.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#516710: ITP: libdata-pageset-perl -- Page numbering and page sets

2009-02-23 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Betts edw...@debian.org * Package name: libdata-pageset-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Data-Pageset/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ (like perl

Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-26 Thread Edward Betts
How about: webfeed - RSS/Atom feed readers, aggregator and utilities akregator blam canto cl-rss claws-mail-feeds-reader dcoprss evolution-rss feed2imap firefox-sagefirefox-sage kitty liferea* magpierss miro* newsbeuter nrss olive php-xml-rss planet python-feedparser python-feedvalidator

Bug#585583: ITP: pymarc -- read, write and modify MARC bibliographic data

2010-06-11 Thread Edward Betts
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Edward Betts edw...@debian.org * Package name: pymarc Version : 2.60 Upstream Author : Gabriel Farrell, Mark Matienzo, Ed Summers * URL : http://github.com/edsu/pymarc * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python

Re: init system policy

2014-11-23 Thread Edward Betts
Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: Not if you take into account the fact that someone will have had to do something like :wq! to get past the read-only state of the file. vim put's a [RO] after the filename when you open it, and says this when you try to write it: E45: 'readonly'

Accepted cmatrix 1.2a-2 (i386 source all)

2004-09-24 Thread Edward Betts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 22:37:18 +0100 Source: cmatrix Binary: cmatrix cmatrix-xfont Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.2a-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts

Accepted cmatrix 1.2a-1 (i386 source all)

2004-08-23 Thread Edward Betts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:47:06 +0100 Source: cmatrix Binary: cmatrix cmatrix-xfont Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.2a-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts

Accepted libdate-simple-perl 3.01-1 (i386 source)

2004-11-01 Thread Edward Betts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 14:13:53 +0100 Source: libdate-simple-perl Binary: libdate-simple-perl Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.01-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts

Accepted joystick 20051019-1 (source i386)

2005-10-19 Thread Edward Betts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:22:03 +0100 Source: joystick Binary: joystick Architecture: source i386 Version: 20051019-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted sniffit 0.3.7.beta-11 (i386 source)

2003-07-14 Thread Edward Betts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:50:24 +0200 Source: sniffit Binary: sniffit Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3.7.beta-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted chameleon 1.1-4.1 (i386 source)

2003-07-16 Thread Edward Betts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:49:33 +0200 Source: chameleon Binary: chameleon Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.1-4.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted sniffit 0.3.7.beta-12 (source i386)

2008-04-30 Thread Edward Betts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:00:19 +0100 Source: sniffit Binary: sniffit Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.3.7.beta-12 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted libdata-pageset-perl 1.05-1 (source all)

2009-03-07 Thread Edward Betts
...@lists.alioth.debian.org Changed-By: Edward Betts edw...@debian.org Description: libdata-pageset-perl - Page numbering and page sets Closes: 341638 Changes: libdata-pageset-perl (1.05-1) unstable; urgency=low . * Initial Release. (Closes: #341638) Checksums-Sha1: 8f580ac7d81efaa8a33d9649da4be9bd25db5ca1

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