Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Adam Heath wrote: As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. I will be moving my focus to version 4.5, which is scheduled to be released tomorrow(Wednesday). I checked

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, just my two cents to this topic: - Names should be short (= 6 signs) - I don't know The Toystory and I'm sure that it isn't kind of I film I should really watch, but it is a practical naming sheme (short names which everybody can speak and write) - The only case where I would accept

uudeview dependencies

1998-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, today I had to uudeview a bas64 coded file. I consider it to be very boring that I have to install tk4.2 and tcl7.6 to get it working. In my opinion package maintainers should think about using the latest libs (tk8.0 and tcl8.0) if there are no importand incompatibilities. In the

Intent to package: paul

1998-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, for some special purposes I wrote a kind of an image viewer named paul = _P_rogram zur _A_uswertung und _U_mwandlung von _L_aserbildern (for non German speakers: Program to evaluate and convert laser images). The background is that I take some pictures of crystals using a highspeed

Intent to package: formula and circ

1998-10-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, to simplify the handling of physical symbols I wrote the style formula some time ago. It is used in our research group but because of broader interest I putted it on CTAN (for instance at: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/formula ). Furthermore Sebastian

Intent to package: pcd2html

1999-01-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello I would like to package my self written script system pcd2html which creates commented HTML pages from a Kodak Photo CD using user supplied options for convert from ImageMagick and describing text. Informations are available at

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: We do not officially support the 2.2 kernel in Slink. People who want to use 2.2 will have to compile it themselves and may have to upgrade some packages. But what about shipping an extra directory support_2.2 which contains the kernel packages and the

Re: Uploaded util-linux 2.9g-6 (source i386) to master

1999-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Brian White wrote: To do so would indicate that Slink officially supports v2.2 of the kernel, which it does not. What about a README file that says: No, Debian doesn't officially support 2.2, but for those people who hadn't enough bandwidth but enough courage here are the

RE: Two imlib maintainers on package maintainer list

1999-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: I get the feeling nobody wants these packages. Did I just make a boneheaded move by accepting the Imlib packages? :) I'm very happy that you took the package, because I'm heavyly dependend from it. In my humble opinion maintaining is not so hard,

Re: PLEASE remember to vote!

1999-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: I know I speak for all four of us candidates when I say that your vote IS important. This is your project leader you're voting for here. Please do not forget and please do make your opinion heard! Or if not heard at least make it be tallied... =

Re: voting instructions on the web [was: PLEASE remember to vote!]

1999-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On 28 Jan 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: After some searching, I found it at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-announce-9901/msg00017.html In the future, could somebody please put the ballot on the debian web site in an obvious place (such as a link from the same page

Re: voting instructions on the web [was: PLEASE remember to vote!]

1999-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Andreas Tille (THAT's ME) wrote: For sure. I was looking through www.debian.org but failed. In my opinion it is necessary to set up an election page. I have to state that I am not able to vote because I don't know anybody of the candidates. The election page has to have

Strange problems when trying to compile kernel 2.2.7

1999-05-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I installed kernel-source-2.2.7 from potato and tried to compile. I've got several No such file or directory errors. The `make zImage 2` output is appended. Is the package broken??? Kind regards Andreas. [X] Against war. init/main.c: In function `start_kernel':

Re: Question on grep 2.3-5 for potato

1999-09-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Indeed. The GNU coding style dictates this (a program should not rely on argv[0] to decide its behaviour). Are there any security risks or other reasons. I was advised several times in the past to do so also over the list. The simplest example is

Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)

1999-09-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote: What should be good is a new state saying that a package has been install by the dependencies check rather than by user direct selection. So, the package will stay as long as it resolved a dependency, but be remove when no more package who depends on

Reupload to ftp.uni-erlangen.de

1999-10-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I wanted to dupload a new version of my freetds-jdbc package to ftp.uni-erlangen.de. Unfortunately the first ftp connection were broken. A second trial was refused with the message: freetds-jdbc_pre0.3-1.diff.gz 2.8 kB dupload fatal error: Can't upload freetds-jdbc_pre0.3-1.diff.gz:

Re: Reupload to ftp.uni-erlangen.de

1999-10-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: You may use a *.commands file to remove the unwanted files. This is explained in the README in the UploadQueue directory. Which directory is that? I havn't found such a file you described. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: xplanet project - volunteers sought

1999-10-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Randolph Chung wrote: 2) more importantly though, xplanet uses imlib, which requires a X display to run. This means that we can't generate the map easily from a non-interactive script (like a crontab or something) Would someone be interested/willing to look at the

Re: Bug#341702: ITP: ppower4 -- generator of presentations for LaTeX

2005-12-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, [UTF-8] Rogério Brito wrote: * Package name: ppower4 Version : 0.9.4 Upstream Author : Klaus Guntermann, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www-sp.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/software/ppower4/index.html PPower4 is a post-processor for making PDF

Re: Intel notebooks for needy developers in developing countries

2005-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Daniel Baumann wrote: Why then being so complicated? If there is a candidate in a country doomed by US export laws, 'export' the notebook first to someone other and ship if afterwards to Cuba. Well, this was my first idea as well. Even if I absolutely not like the kind

Re: i'm still seeing archived bugs

2005-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Domenico Andreoli wrote: why i'm still seeing lots of archived bugs in my packages? hmm.. also the http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ form does not work correctly. I guess it is because bug #339141 is just open. It seems that nobody really cares since 27 days. Kind regards

Help: Experts of dict format wanted (Was: wordnet_2.1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED)

2006-01-08 Thread Andreas Tille
is solved. I hope for some help (also group maintainance is welcome) to sort this out. Kind regards Andreas. Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 08:32:43 -0800 From: Debian Installer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wordnet_2.1-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED Accepted: dict-wn_2.1

Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

2006-01-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wordnet wordnet-base A new version of WordNet was uploaded just yesterday to experimental. It also solves this issue but there is something wrong with the dict-wn: http://lists.debian.org/debian

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Florian Weimer] What about: stop threatening your fellow developers? Why is specifying the consequences of doing a bad job with maintaining ones debian packages threatening? IMHO it isn't at all. Personally I believe it is time we made

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: If RC bugs go unanswered for 3 months, I agree that something should be done; I just don't think that saying someone else should take it over is necessarily enough. I believe we need clearer methods for handling packages in the case that *no one* is

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: While the package might not be of the quality we strive to achieve within Debian; if a bug is not release critical we consider the bug not to be serious enough to impact the packages' releaseworthyness. This is by definition. Even if there are many of

Re: Development standards for unstable

2006-01-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andrew Suffield wrote: Well it's nice in theory. The problem is that you have to set the threshold high enough to exempt glibc and dpkg, and when you do that, I have not yet found a metric that complains about any other packages (I've tried two or three times to invent

Re: Debian Games Team

2006-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Miriam Ruiz wrote: We've been recently talking about creating a group to maintain games in Debian in a collaborative way. Are you aware of the Debian-Junior project. While quite inactive in the last time a certain effort was done in classifying games by building some

Re: Anthony Towns: What I did today

2006-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Andreas Schuldei wrote: * Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-13 20:34:20]: ...and no one can complain afterwards. you underestimate your fellow nagg^Wdevelopers. Well, there are always people who complain. But posting development related mails to

For those who care about Andrew Suffield

2006-01-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Andrew Suffield wrote: Since this sort of thing is apparently okay nowadays, and I know that ... is it not OK as you definitely know and my intention is not to feed you troll but that I hope the Debian lesbian ration will just be kept low because I changed the subject and

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Otavio Salvador wrote: But linked against other libraries. The binary is downloaded from another location(or installed from a different cd set). The program used to do the download may be different. Using this as rule, then all Debian CDD distributions would need to

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Otavio Salvador wrote: Debian-EDU is available in Debian but also outside of it since they Well, that's a temporary hack until we have implemented solutions which makes this superfluous. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian derivatives and the Maintainer: field (again)

2006-01-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Otavio Salvador wrote: Well, that's a temporary hack until we have implemented solutions which makes this superfluous. But exist! Sure they exist, but the statement you made about the maintainer field was simply wrong, because it makes no sense to change the maintainer

Re: Bug#349534: ITP: pyntor -- flexible and componized presentation program

2006-01-23 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Florian Ragwitz wrote: Due to the minimal size and maximum configurability, Pyntor is a nice alternative to conventional presentation programs. What do you mean by conventional presentation programs. IMHO we could differentiate into three groups of presentation

Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, since about three weeks I observe problems when issuing halt on three different testing-boxes (two older desktops without ACPI and one laptop with ACPI). The computer just does not switch off. If I try to reboot it is also impossible, because the shutdown process stops at the same point

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Christian Fromme wrote: A friend of mine had the same problem once and IIRC he solved it by simply loading the apm module through /etc/modules. Well, the laptop is ACPI and if I'm not completely wrong ACPI replaces APM and I've read that I should not use APM and ACPI in

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: Sysvinit migrated to testing on February 21, and was responsible for a similar error (#252547) for me a couple of years ago. However, the current sysvinit has no trouble shutting down my sid box. ~$ apt-cache policy sysvinit sysvinit: Installed:

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Forwarding to the mailing list for the SysvInit maintainers (contacting me directly isn't nearly as effective, I am not even the most active of the sysvinit maintainers... ;-) ). Thanks fo the foreward but I'm afraid we might be on the

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Gustavo Franco wrote: What's wrong with us ? It is wrong that somebody who would like to work is stopped to do his work by others. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: For those who care about stable updates

2006-03-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Amaya wrote: Hey! It's DPL election time! Lobby around. I really am biting my tongue, but you don't have to. Ups, why are you biting your tongue? I say it loudly: I will vote highest for the candidate who seems to me most probable to solve this very problem. Kind regards

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Andreas Tille wrote: Thanks fo the foreward but I'm afraid we might be on the wrong track. I downgraded sysvinit on one of the machines (by chance the apm based) to apt-cache policy sysvinit sysvinit: Installed: 2.86.ds1-4 Candidate: 2.86.ds1-12 Version table

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Yes, check for changes in /sbin/halt. As I said the problem also occures with the old /sbin/halt. Why should I check for changes between two non working versions? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Andreas Barth wrote: Well, that person is currently on the CeBIT and manning the Debian booth there. The problem in the sentence above is the singular in that. I know that Jörg Jaspers does a great job as ftp master assistant but didn't we talked about the hit by a bus

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Martin Michlmayr wrote: and of course such a useless information has been kept silent. Maybe because it's simply not true? Sow what? If this is not true, what is true and why is it kept silent (well, IRC logs are not really but effectively silent). I know, Martin, it

Re: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Dominique Dumont wrote: I humbly admit that I did not provide much information, I just hope to give you some more hint about this problem... Thanks for the hint even if I think we have a deeper problem here. I just hoped somebody would be able to give a hint about the

Bug#359137: general: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: general Severity: important Hi, I tried to clarify in a discussion on debian-devel what package might be responsible for the problem I face on *all* three machines I updated to testing at a date I do not exactly remember in February this year (sorry for the vague description). I just

Re: Bug#359137: general: Box does not switch of on halt

2006-03-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Micha Lenk wrote: uh, it's not that common to get general linux support using the debian BTS, isn't it? I'm asking not for general Linux support. I just detected a bug after a weekly upgrade from testing to newer testing and I file it against general because nobody was

Re: I don't get copies of bug reports to my packages

2000-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: aolmee too/aol. Same for bug submitters btw, I had to dig into my debian-bugs-dist folder today to see what a maintainer said to a bugreport I filed and why it was listed as closed on the rc-bugs page :( Ditto. I was really surprised to find a bug

Apt-Problem

2000-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, since last week I have a problem when upgrading potato. In the dselect install process after obtaining the necessary packages I get mysterious Size mismatch for all packages. All the packages are stored /var/cache/apt/archives/partial and a `dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*`

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On 15 Mar 2000, Syed Khader Vali wrote: I got the same error when I was doing an apt-get upgrade last night. It was with man-db. But when I did an apt-get upgrade after sometime again, it did not reget the package again, but installed with You are mory lucky than me because I tried the same

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, paul wrote: I had the same problem (and same output) when doing apt-get upgrade last night. I used apt-get clean and apt-get install man-db before trying apt-get upgrade again. The problem went away, so I thought it had been a hardware problem on my end, but I guess

Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
. ... * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 outstanding Bug) * Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1 outstanding Bug) ... The e-mail addresses are both valid, but it's the same maintainer (at least I get the mail from both :-) ). It is my task to use always the same address or is it a bug

Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: It is my task to use always the same address or is it a bug in the bug system? Neither. Do as you wish :) :) So far the funny side of this aspect, but together with the fact that there are problems in sending PM to the maintainer (see a running thread

Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Herbert Xu wrote: I think if you reupload your packages with the correct Maintainer field, then the bug system will fix itself. Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report for woody but not for slink or potato bugs. Moreover I consider it to be

Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Herbert Xu wrote: I don't think that the bug tracking system takes this into account at all. Yes, and I wonder, if it should identify the maintainer regarding to his name (in the moment the unique identification is possible by first and last name) and not by e-mail adresses.

Re: ITP: xzgv

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, David Starner wrote: Honestly, I found the interface of ImageMagick to be too clumsy to just view pictures. Until I grabbed xzgv out of Incoming, xv was the least clumsy graphic viewer interface. The authors of xzgv have produced an X viewer that I can be happy with. There

Anyone intents to package Guppy

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I will not have the time to package Guppi (http://www.gnome.org/guppi) but it seems worth packaging. Any volunteer? Happy weekend Andreas.

Re: Anyone intents to package Guppi

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Accoring to http://www.gnome.org/guppi/#get, Cesar Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED] has already packaged it. The deb is at ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/guppi/Debian Any reason why this is not included in woody? Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On 18 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: I believe the original poster used dpkg -i to install the same copy that apt had downloaded - ie only one copy ever downloaded. Then dpkg should have failed to install it since it is a truncated file. No all

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: That doesn't mean anything, if the file was only 1 byte short chances are it would still be entirely valid, dpkg -i would take it, apt would not due to a size and md5 mismatch. Do you expect a file of size 1 byte to install and work without problems?

Re: Apt-Problem

2000-03-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On 20 Mar 2000, Brian May wrote: I have to agree with Jason here, I was confused. In this case the error is generating by apt-get, in my case the error was generated by dpkg. I will take Jason's word for it that a deb file with bytes missing can still be valid... OK, I take the word as

Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I've run into big trouble since I updatet do the latest Apache and Jserv packages: Package: apache Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 651 Maintainer: Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.3.9-12 Package: jserv Status: install ok installed

Re: Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Lauri Tischler wrote: For JDBC access to an MS SQL 7.0 server I use freetds-jdbc. This works well in standalone Java applications but fails in servlets: Would some knowledgable guru do Debian package on freetds. It would make nice addition to database access,

Re: Null Pointer exceptions in servlets since latest Apache/Jserv update

2000-03-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, I've run into big trouble since I updatet do the latest Apache and Jserv packages: ... For JDBC access to an MS SQL 7.0 server I use freetds-jdbc. This works well in standalone Java applications but fails in servlets: Furthermore I've

Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: A few days ago, I posted this to the debian-users list, but got no takers. Perhaps someone here has some ideas. OK, if noone else replied I'll give it a trial. Consider me as a fool with the fortune to get a running UPS daemon and not as an

Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, David Bristel wrote: This is one of the reasons why I've been happy I bought a Smart-UPS, not only does it provide more information(ammount of battery power and UPS load as well as other information), but the apcd package for APC monitoring worked on it out of the box for

Re: UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, David Bristel wrote: If you buy a Smart-UPS, it COMES with the cable to make it work with the right cable. Sure, not all cables will support it, but that's a non-issue if you use what comes with your UPS. I wonder how *you* can know the abilities of the cable that was

OT: Debian-Documentation for SelfLinux?

2000-03-29 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I want to help the authors of the German SelfLinux project. They are searching for German documentation of Debian and the license of it. Unfortunately I didn't looked for such stuff and I'm currently not able to do some investigation, because of short time. Could anyone possibly help

Re: ITP: gnome-db

2000-04-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Dan White wrote: gnome-db (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db) is a framework for creating database applications. It provides a common API with pluggable back ends to different database sources as well as various specialized widgets for handling many database tasks. It's

Re: [Possibly Clueless] Deb base ISO images

2000-08-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Chris Ball wrote: I've been browsing cdimage. Do we release a base system as a 30/40-ish meg ISO that can network to enable apt handling retrieval of anything else? One would be really useful to me, and I'm sure to others too. The base packages (for floppies etc) aren't

Re: Menu hierarchie for different users and general user settings

2000-08-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Bernhard R. Link wrote: This together with internationalisation seems to be a very difficult goal. Yes! Fully agreed! We have (at least) two parameters which characterize a user: prefered language and knowledge state While we could guess that the prefered

Re: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher

2000-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Seth Cohn wrote: Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian. Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net NIce news. This saves me some work I wanted to do since I visited the lession about BioMail on the conference in Bordeaux. Go for it! I think this will

Re: ITP: Biomail - automated medical searcher

2000-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Mike Markley wrote: Personally I think it can go into main. If we have the client code, obviously a pubmed-compatible free database can be written, right? I wonder if this a) is allowed b) would make sense. I just think that a program that is used to access a

[OT] logcheck and fetchnews

2000-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, sorry for posting this to devel but I failed while asking other lists. I just want to make sure that it is a bug of logcheck and not my own before I file a bug-report: Im using ~ dpkg --status logcheck Package: logcheck ... Version: 1.1.1-4 I have defined the following ignore-rules in

Re: [OT] logcheck and fetchnews

2000-08-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Ashley Clark wrote: No, just someone who didn't read the documentation. Sorry, this is not my best day :-((. Thanks Andreas.

Re: ITP enhydra

2000-09-01 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I intend to package Enhydra, an open source Java/XML application server Fine! Because I'm currently in the process of searching a reasonable content management system. Is there anybody who could draw a short comparison between enhydra and zope aor may

Re: ITP: unixodbc

2000-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Description: ODBC tools libraries Binaries and libraries from the unixODBC package. COMPONENTS: . 15. libodbcpgsql.so (driver for PostgreSQL) How does it correspond to the current ODBC driver of PostgreSQL? 18. isql(cmd line tool...

Re: Automated network installs?

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Niall Young wrote: I've been looking at mondo and replicator, but they're not quite what I need. Is there anything similar being worked on already, or any recommendations on what the ideal method would be? I havn't checked it, but the URL resides on a save place in my

apt-move problem

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I wanted to give apt-move a try: ~# dpkg --status apt-move Package: apt-move Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 160 Maintainer: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 4.1.9 Unfortunately I get only syntax errors: ~# apt-move /usr/bin/apt-move:

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote: That was ~250M before ... oops. Time to use http and squid May be you are more lucky than me with http and squid. It tokk me several month to find out, why apt-get has problems with MD5 checksums on all my packages. Yesterday I found out that I have to

apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I'm in real trouble with apt-get and a squid proxy. First of all I found out that in contrast to the manual of apt.conf the environment variables ~# set | grep proxy ftp_proxy=http://wr-linux01.rki.de:3128/ http_proxy=http://wr-linux01.rki.de:3128/ are ignored by apt-get. Thus I have

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Wakko{root}~/work/apt2/build/bin#http_proxy=http://void; apt-get install apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 362 not upgraded. Need to get 483kB of archives.

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jules Bean wrote: In shells I've used, 'set' gives you the list of shell variables, not environment variables. Try 'export http_proxy' and/or 'env | grep proxy'. I'm very sorry for the confusion! I'm using 'export http_proxy' in bash and it works now for apt-get. (Don't

Re: apt-get and proxy

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Andreas Tille wrote and forgot to mention: On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Wakko{root}~/work/apt2/build/bin#http_proxy=http://void; apt-get install apt Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly

Re: News about Debian Conference... and have an happy new year !

2001-01-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Thierry Laronde wrote: After that the subjects proposed : Proposals: Debian Jr Coding Parties I expect more people with Laptops than last year (at least I know one person who has got one ;-) ...). So lets organize topics top *work* on in the evening

Debian package of additional TuxRacer courses

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, I have uploaded Debian packages of additional TuxRacer courses at http://people.debian.org/~tille/packages/tuxracer-courses/ The packages do not have Debian quality regarding the necessary docs but they just work. I do not plan to make this an official package because each single

Re: Porting Xconfigurator to Debian!

2002-12-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, sean finney wrote: i agree. perhaps the X task should include these packages, and then Definitely. the xserver-xfree86 package can check for these, and if they exist, before I doubt this would help much. If I'm not missleaded the configure script is called before the

Re: What should go into How Software Producers can distribute their products directly in .deb format?

2002-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: It makes sense for the debian user, dont u think? I think not. Debian packages from *anywhere* are not under control of BTS and as a consequence they have no quality assurance. If the software is interesting for Debian users it should be integrated

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: xshipwars-server (debian/main) Maintainer: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 150411 [P ] xshipwars-server: POSIX shell incompatibilities 173966 [ ] xshipwars-server: won't uninstall unless the server is running! This package has

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Mark Brown wrote: This package has is taged patch to one bug and in fact includes another patch in the text of the other bug which is tagged pending. Moreover it contains an offer from Colin Watson to sponsor the package from half a year ago. I guess someone should

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: xscreensaver (debian/main) Maintainer: Karl Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] 171772 [ ] Alarm clock error 180063 [ ] xscreensaver: exit on X Error after any authentication attempt Xscreensaver has a lot of bugs tagged pending, a lot

Re: Bug#173966: Release-critical Bugreport for April 4, 2003

2003-04-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Colin Watson wrote: Hold it for a bit, please. I've been talking to the maintainer privately for the last week. An upload is waiting until the new libjsw is accepted. Thanks Andreas. -- Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. John F.

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, Martin Michlmayr wrote: biomode -- [Biology] An Emacs mode to edit genetic data [#100215] * Orphaned 671 days ago I hope that the bugs will be fixed soon - at least I have heard rumors that work is going on. bugsx -- evolve biomorphs using genetic algorithms [#86636]

Re: Maintainers with excessive old RC bugs

2003-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote: If you don't understand why you are on this list, use the maintainer address query on http://bugs.debian.org/ and look for old RC bugs. If you still don't understand, mail me and I'll tell you. You just should add the maintainer address to this list.

Re: Announcing a Debian wallpaper package.

2003-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Steve Kemp wrote: Mail me offlist if you'd like me to start hosting this package, etc. I just keep this on list just to announce that some more images are available now in version 0.2 of wallpapers-at package at http://people.debian.org/~tille/debian-background/ I

Re: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages

2003-04-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Martin Schulze wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: mpsql -- A graphical frontend for PostgreSQL [#89957] * Orphaned 755 days ago It would be great if someone would step in here. Graphical frontends to PostgreSQL are quite rare. It's non-free. However, Erik Tews fixed

PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Georges Khaznadar wrote: There is a nice graphical front-end to Postgresql, in the non-US section : I would like to vote against nice here. :) Moreover you can do several stuff but it is not comparable to PgAdmin http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1

Re: Maintainers with excessive old RC bugs

2003-04-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, LapTop006 wrote: Is there any better way of keeping snapshot packages out of testing than RC bugs? Picking a random architecture and making its builds fail is not a valid answer :) I had been thinking that, something like a control feild Dists: unstable (Probably a

Re: PostgreSQL admin tools (Was: Upcoming removal of orphaned packages)

2003-04-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Carl B. Constantine wrote: http://pgadmin.postgresql.org/pgadmin2.php?ContentID=1 which only runs under non-free operating system. The closest I've found for *nix is pgaccess http://www.pgacess.org/ which is a tcl/tk app and works quite well. I use it at work on

Re: New project proposal: debian-lex

2003-04-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On 19 Apr 2003, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: I am interested in coordinating a new sub-project called Debian-Lex, Could you please explain the naming lex for non English speakers? In general I really like your idea because I think those internal projects are an important way to fit the needs of our

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