Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi,
Raphael == Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Raphael Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 07:21:06PM +0200, Richard Braakman écrivait:
  Let's wait till *after* the freeze and do that in the new unstable.

I agree.

  Frankly, I think it's a bad idea to just break all those packages.  Isn't
  there some way to create a smooth upgrade path?

 Raphael No. But it might no be a great problem, I tried to see how
 Raphael many packages would be broken :

 Raphael That makes 35 packages. Really not unreachable. I can fill
 Raphael the bugreports if needed.

Please, no. The freeze is now less than two weeks away (if I
 remember correctly). Surely we can wait until after the freeze?
 Otherwise we start into the freeze with 35 broken packages.

Our track record is bad enough that we should not tempt the
 fates before the freeze anyway.

We are trying to get into a more frequent release cycle, which
 means changes like this should happen early in the release,
 not at the tail end.

In fact, maybe we should consider a soft freeze in effect two
 weeks before the real freeze -- right around now.

manoj
 who would really like to have a release before christmas this time;
 preferably by november, to catch the holiday season.
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Re: formal documents

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Kikutani Makoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ?

Yes.  [Though if there is any opportunity to meet another developer in
real life and cross sign each others keys, this is the preferred
method, where it's viable.]

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Re: gnome .debs

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski

 JM == Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

JM i have never used cvs-buildpackage, but would be willing to
JM generate nightly .debs. what do people think of this?

I and Marcus have trouble with cvs-buildpackage. Better wait/contact
Manoj before you get into the strange problems we have.

Ciao,
Martin

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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Bill Mitchell


On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:

 Ben Gertzfield wrote:
  Here's what imdb.com says:
  
 Cast overview, first billed only:
snip

imdb.com lists the following named characters on the full cast page:

   Tom Hanks  Woody (voice)
   Tim Allen  Buzz Lightyear (voice)
   Don Rickles  Mr. Potato Head (voice)
   Jim Varney  Slinky Dog (voice)
   Wallace Shawn  Rex (voice)
   John Ratzenberger  Hamm (voice)
   Annie Potts  Bo Peep (voice)
   John Morris (III)  Andy (voice)
   Erik von Detten  Sid (voice)
   Laurie Metcalf  Mrs. Davis (voice)
   R. Lee Ermey  Sergeant (voice)
   Sarah Freeman  Hannah (voice)
   Penn Jillette  TV Announcer (voice)




Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi,
Raphael == Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


 Raphael Why not propose perl and perl-thread ? Each one would
 Raphael conflict with the other one, but that's not a problem.

That *is* a problem. I would like to have both on my machine:
 the normal perl for production, and the threaded one to prototype
 with. 

manoj
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 for several years, and have observed these folks carefully. Although
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 was just the result of not getting enough sleep after the puking
 contest. I mean, those guys don't watch enough television to have
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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Justin Maurer

ah, but imdb is missing one important character (at least!).
rc! the radio control car!

i say rc should be 2.2, as i have before.


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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:45:36PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote:
 
 ah, but imdb is missing one important character (at least!).
 rc! the radio control car!
 
 i say rc should be 2.2, as i have before.

Debian 2.2, on the FTP site, is called sid.  If you guys want to
discuss this, at least make it clear that you are talking about 2.3 or
3 or whaterver.

hamm - slink - sid
2.0  - 2.1   - 2.2

For example, those of us doing the arm port are already using Sid.  We
won't have anything for slink.

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Re: gnome .debs

1998-10-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi,
Martin == Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 JM == Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 JM i have never used cvs-buildpackage, but would be willing to
 JM generate nightly .debs. what do people think of this?

 Martin I and Marcus have trouble with cvs-buildpackage. Better
 Martin wait/contact Manoj before you get into the strange problems
 Martin we have.

I am leaving town for a week on a business trip, and hence
 won't be able to deal with this until I return. cvs-inject is a
 simple script; could one of you do me the favour of looking at a bash
 -x invocation (which I shall do next week) and see wherte the problem
 arises?

The following ~/.cvsdeb.conf is known to work with cvs-inject.

manoj
#
# This file is a bourne shell snippet, and is sourced by the
# cvs-buildpackage script for configuration.
#

#
# The following variables are available, derived from the changelog
# file at run time 
#
# $package:  Name of the package
# $version:  The raw version of the package
# $sversion: The version number stripped of epochs
# $uversion: The upstream version
# $tversion: Debian revision number, if any
#
# There is nothing preventing you from over riding any of those, or,
# in fact, from modifying internal variables used in the script,
# though you should know  what you are doing before doing so, know
# that all your warranties become void if you do so.
#

# Debugging information: The default value is 0 (no debugging
# information is printed). To change the default behaviour, uncomment
# the following line and set the value to 1.
#
# DEBUG=0


#
# The directories.
#

# The root directory is used to set the default value of the work
# directory, using the package name. The default value is
# /usr/src/Packages (note that this directory is not created
# automatically). To change the default behaviour, uncomment the
# following line and set the value to match the local setup.
#
 conf_rootdir='/usr/local/src/Packages'

# The work directory. This directory is where the original sources are
# expected, and this is where the module shall be exported from CVS.
# If you set this value, the value of the root directory, either set
# up above or on the command line, would be ignored. To change the
# default behaviour, uncomment the following line and set the value to
# match the local setup.
#
# conf_workdir=$rootdir/$package

conf_forcetag='YES'
conf_rootcommand='fakeroot'




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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote:

 : On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:45:36PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote:
 :  
 :  ah, but imdb is missing one important character (at least!).
 :  rc! the radio control car!
 :  
 :  i say rc should be 2.2, as i have before.
 : 
 : Debian 2.2, on the FTP site, is called sid.  If you guys want to
 : discuss this, at least make it clear that you are talking about 2.3 or
 : 3 or whaterver.
 : 
 : hamm - slink - sid
 : 2.0  - 2.1   - 2.2
 : 
 : For example, those of us doing the arm port are already using Sid.  We
 : won't have anything for slink.

I thought sid was a permanent unstable release, never to be released
as stable.  I don't have the original email in front of me, though.

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Re: XEmacs, TeX, and Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures

1998-10-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 09:27:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 I agree.  It's too bad that he wasted time that he could have spent
 finishing _The Art of Computer Programming_ on trivia like typesetting.

It's just that he realized that typesetting isn't trivia at all, but very
interesting. And, IMHO, he was interested in it as an art. And furthermore,
he tried some interesting Meta-ness on it, influencing a lot of geniuses
(for example, Douglas Hofstadter).

However, he is a mathematician, and, there was no typesetting systems for
mathematicians only a few years ago. Books were written with a typing
machine, and symbols added manually. Ever read some of those higher math
books from the time before TeX was available? It's a pain to read them. TeX
was a major relief for all scientists all over the world.

And, he's still living, last time I checked, and is still working on TAOCP,
very concentrated, as he says. Please see for more info:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth

Marcus

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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
  I thought 2.2 was going to be rc, and 3.0 would be woody.  Johnnie
  Ingram was pushing for that one, as were a few others.
 
 But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that woody should be
 bypassed as it would be offensive to some people.

extremely innocent look  Whyever for?  It's just a word, a name used in a
movie.  Quite seriously, I think those few who would be offended take labels
far too seriously, but then that's me.


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

1998-10-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 08:37:12AM -0500, dsb3 wrote:
  I think we already went through this discussion a short while back.
  Unless I'm missing something new, it was pretty much decided that the
  memory overhead of bzip2 was too great for low-mem or slow PCs to handle.
 
 It'd STILL be nice to be able to use bzip2 for package source on REALLY BIG
 packages (Mozilla, X)
 
 very good point!  those users with slow / low mem machines are less likely
 to be installing these packages anyway!  Perhaps we could compromise by
 saying that anyone running these on a slow machine will be patient anyway
 and can deal with the extra slowness and disk thrashing of using bzip2?

Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway.


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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:53:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
 On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote:
  : Debian 2.2, on the FTP site, is called sid.  If you guys want to
  : discuss this, at least make it clear that you are talking about 2.3 or
  : 3 or whaterver.
  : 
  : hamm - slink - sid
  : 2.0  - 2.1   - 2.2
  : 
  : For example, those of us doing the arm port are already using Sid.  We
  : won't have anything for slink.
 
 I thought sid was a permanent unstable release, never to be released
 as stable.  I don't have the original email in front of me, though.

Oh - I see... Hrmmm  Well, now I feel stupid.  I was wondering why no
one responsed to my earlier post saying the same thing...:-

Well.. my opinion would be to find a new series of names.  These are
kind of cool, but, for most people must seem sort of boring and
uninspired.  Hamm, slink, buzz.. They just don't evoke much more than
an 'oh'.

As far as something to replace them.. hrmm.  Geography has been
popular lately.. cities, rivers..  Something international would be
good.  Lakes?  Seas?  National parks?  Drinks?:-  

Oh, wait, I have 'real' things to do.. enough brainstorming..

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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote:

 As far as something to replace them.. hrmm.  Geography has been
 popular lately.. cities, rivers..  Something international would be
 good.  Lakes?  Seas?  National parks?  Drinks?:-  

how about endangered species. e.g. tigers, cheetahs, whales, microsoft, etc.

craig

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Re: gnome .debs

1998-10-04 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:56:59PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote:
   
   (for the purposes of this email, consider my sig my resume).
   i am an admin at a local high school. our shell server is a p233
 with 128m ram and 12gb disk. it will soon be upgraded to 256mb, and sooner
 or later, a second processor. it sits on a t1, with incoming ftp supposed
 to be unfirewalled awhile ago (i can get around it, if necessary). the
 machie is idle 23 hours a day.
 
   i have never used cvs-buildpackage, but would be willing to
 generate nightly .debs. what do people think of this?

This is in the works.  Myself and Shaleh ahve talked about it, and Shaleh and
Jim Pick have also been discussing it.  I am sure Jim agrees with my that any
help will be much appreciated ;) In any case, I believe the plan was to be able
to add a line to your /etc/apt/sources.list something like this:
ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/gnome
or something liek that, and be able to download .debs of all gnoem cvs nightly.
obviously a beefy machien would be good for that, I know Jim doesn't ahve a
terrific one (at least from past postings?) and I have a p233mmx with 64mb ram
(and greatly limited disk space...I could compile e, imlib, fnlib, esound, and
stringlist prolly ;)  So jump on in! Send an email to Jim, as I'm sure he knows
more about this whole thing than I.  I took a look at the cvs-buildpackage
stuff, but haven't really figured it out yet.
  BTW, even though I dont' really use GNOME per se, I think its' a GREAT
idea. :)

Keep in touch.

Brian

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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 01:59:15PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
 On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote:
 
  As far as something to replace them.. hrmm.  Geography has been
  popular lately.. cities, rivers..  Something international would be
  good.  Lakes?  Seas?  National parks?  Drinks?:-  
 
 how about endangered species. e.g. tigers, cheetahs, whales, microsoft, etc.

Gnome seems to be headed down this path, at least with primates.  I
think things like tigers and cheetahs are maybe more suitable for
sports cars, and not subtle enough...  Whales are kind of neat.
Debian Blue, Debian Gray, Debian Orca, Debian ummm ok, so we avoid
sperm whale, just in case anyone hasn't picked up on the series...
How about M$ execs?  Debian Balmer Debian I dont konw any of the
others.. Cutler?  He's the NT guy, no? Hmm maybe Ian should pick
something and we could ratify it.  Or, since we picked something from
Bruce's work, maybe something to do with Ian?  What's he like?

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GPL'd libforms dependent package

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre


This a kind of interesting looking package.  It is GPL'd but
depends on a no-source-available library.  I just reread the relevant
portions of the GPL, but I'm no Talmudic scholar.  
Can the GPL be properly applied to this ?


http://ifb.bv.tu-berlin.de/JOCHEN/XSTAB/xstab.html

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Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Manoj Srivastava wrote:
   That *is* a problem. I would like to have both on my machine:
  the normal perl for production, and the threaded one to prototype
  with. 

According to the mail I got from the maintainer, that is what he plans to
do. /usr/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl-thread, no conflicts.

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Installation Weirdness (dpkg-divert)

1998-10-04 Thread Greg Schafer
Hi,

I'm experiencing a weird problem while installing slink. I'm just
not sure what's at fault and therefore don't know which package to file a
bug report against.

I get the following:

Preparing to replace modutils 2.1.85-11 (using
.../base/modutils_2.1.121-4.deb) ...
Adding `diversion of /usr/include/linux/kerneld.h to
/usr/include/linux/kerneld.h.libc6 by modutils'
Saving KDOPT setting from /etc/init.d/kerneld ..
Your /etc/conf.modules is a symlink. I will replace this by
a real file so update-modules can do it's work later.
Removing obsoleted files: conf.generic conf.i386 conf.m68k conf.m68k.amiga
conf.m68k.atari conf.m68k.mac

Dpkg might ask you if you want the new configuration files in /etc/initd.
This is generally a good idea, unless you have really changed any of these
files. The KDOPT setting in /etc/init.d/kerneld will be saved even if you
install a new version of this file.

Unpacking replacement modutils ...
dpkg: error processing
/mnt/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/modutils_2.1.121-4.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/include/linux/kerneld.h', which is the diverted
version of `(null)' (package:modutils)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

then a bit later in the install I get:

Unpacking dnsutils (from .../net/dnsutils_8.1.2-3.deb) ...
Adding `diversion of /usr/bin/addr to /usr/bin/addr.bind by dnsutils'
dpkg: error processing
/mnt/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/net/dnsutils_8.1.2-3.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/dig', which is the diverted version of
`(null)' (package:dnsutils)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

then yet again a bit further:

Unpacking libc6-dev (from .../devel/libc6-dev_2.0.7u-2.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/mnt/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/devel/libc6-dev_2.0.7u-2.deb
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/include/linux/kerneld.h', which is the diverted
version of `L..xM...' (package:modutils)
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

As you can see it seems to be triggered by dpkg-divert in the
installation scripts. The weird thing is that if i hold back modutils
and dnsutils, and install them on a 2nd run thru' dselect, then all is
well. I can reliably reproduce this. This has been happening for a while
now. But the errors (as shown above) are slightly different now since the
latest version of dpkg (1.4.0.30). It used to give segmentation fault.

Using latest APT with Debian 2.0 cdrom as a base and a local
sub-mirror of slink packages that I use.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Greg



Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:32:58PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
[snip]
 2.2 potatoe
^ 
LANG=US-vice-president perhaps?

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Craig Small here?

1998-10-04 Thread Christian Schwarz

[Please CC: any replies to me, since I'm not subscribed to your list]

Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me mail about the Debian CD web
pages on www.debian.org.  Unfortunately, this address bounces (host
scooter not found) and also his @debian.org address bounces (same reason).
Does someone have a working address?


Thanks in advance,

Chris

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user labels, about the future of APT

1998-10-04 Thread A Mennucc1

hi 

I am a Debian fanatic (but not yet a mantainer... I have no time)

I just read the document about the future featueres of APT

I have always thought that I would love to have one feature that
I now describe

as you propose , APT should manage groups of packets in a more flexible
way than the presernt main/* non-free/* ecc
Indeed there should be groups named basilar installation
simple small X terminal gcc development WWW server machine
: this is what ordinary people would expect from Debian (or, any OS)

all the bove could be thought of as 
groups proposed by Debian, and are static, from the user view point.
What I would propose is that there should be also dynamic
groups defined the user, I will call them user labels.

To exemplify, these are example of user's label
 work, study, amusement, trial, dependency, development

They should be chosen , and attached, by the user to
the package ; in particular when s/he installs/uninstall it

Whats the catch?

suppose that you want to try a new package :
when you install it, you mark it as trial ;
supp.that dpkg tell you that you need to there are
some other packages to be installed (mostly, libraries)
if you accept, apt marks them as dependency 

when you at a certain point want to install another package ,
and do not have disk space, you ask apt for a list of trial pkgs
and delete some of them ; if it is not enough, you pass to the amusemnt
ecc

in particular, there shoudl be a direct command , lets call it
unneeded dependency removal that removes all files
that where installed because of dependency needs but
that are not needed anymore: this one I would really love

Note that to have the above command, you need to label the
pkgs at installation, and then it may be interesting to
extend the use of  these labels as above

so, I send this email to  debian-devel... if the idea is accepted,
it may be added in the list of specifications for APT

thanks

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Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:14:00PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava écrivait:
   That *is* a problem. I would like to have both on my machine:
  the normal perl for production, and the threaded one to prototype
  with. 

OK, I was wrong. I said it in the eventuality where perl and perl-thread
would have the same binary-name (aka /usr/bin/perl) but in fact perl and
perl-thread doesn't conflict each other. Furthermore it could have been
handled by alternatives.

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Re: Switch to perl-5.005_02 ?

1998-10-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:32:22PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava écrivait:
   I agree.

I do not. Perl 5.005 and the new perl-thread seems to interest a lot of
people. But if we don't switch to perl5.005 right now, they would presumably
download the forthcoming perl5.005 package from the next (after freeze)
unstable dist. If they do like that all their lib*-perl package will
be broken and dkpg would not complain ! Furthermore if they do this they
will have to download all their lib*-perl packages in order to have
a consistent perl toolbox.

But if all is done for slink, they will switch to the new packages without
noticing that something has changed for perl.

Do you see what I mean ?

   Please, no. The freeze is now less than two weeks away (if I
  remember correctly). Surely we can wait until after the freeze?
  Otherwise we start into the freeze with 35 broken packages.

Really the only job to repair theses packages is :
# dpkg -i perl_5.005_02-1.deb
$ cd libmsgcat-perl-1.0
$ vim debian/control (add the depends line perl (= 5.005))
$ dch -v Recompiled for perl 5.005
$ build
$ dupload

And if a developer can't do that in the next 2 weeks, he can say it here
and somedbody can do a NMU.

   We are trying to get into a more frequent release cycle, which
  means changes like this should happen early in the release,
  not at the tail end.

I agree but in this precise case I don't think so.

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

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway.

Bzzt.  I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent
with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times.  Took 5 days,
like, but it compiled ``properly''.

-- 
James



Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-04 Thread Tom Lees
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:14:40AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 11:41:14PM +0100, Tom Lees wrote:
  Just a small tar.gz. Not many features are implemented at the moment -
  notably, it doesnt update the status file, and it doesnt lock the status
  area, but I'm releasing it for testing of the rest of it.
  
  To compile, cd gdselect, and run make. The binary is in gtk/gdselect.
  
  One question: the core size is rather large as it stands - is it worth
  reducing this by using an apt-style cache file in your opinion? (i.e.
  will people with low-memory, probably less than 24MB, run this?)
  
  Tell me what you think of the interface. The buttons at the bottom are
  meant to change the status. The actual installation is the Install/Apply
  menu option.
 
 Ummm...waht version of GTK+ do we compiel it with? 1.06 or 1.1.*?

1.1.

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Re: Compile new apache module / Anyone package it?

1998-10-04 Thread Paul Stevens

 1) I would like to get some hints how to compile
this and probably other modules for apache
using Debian package apache-dev and not using
the source code.

I use:

Makefile:
---
default: mod_auth_mysql.c mod_log_mysql.c
gcc -shared -I/usr/include/apache-1.3 \
mod_auth_mysql.c -lmysqlclient -o mod_auth_mysql.so
gcc -shared -I/usr/include/apache-1.3 \
mod_log_mysql.c -lmysqlclient -o mod_log_mysql.so

install: 
install -m 644 mod_auth_mysql.so /usr/lib/apache/1.3
install -m 644 mod_log_mysql.so /usr/lib/apache/1.3

clean:
rm -f *~
rm -f *.so


 3) I would like to see this modules packaged for Debian.
If someone volunteers he may have it. If I understand
how to do it and find some time before someone volunteers
I might try it by myself.

Looks trivial enough to me. If you want it, you can have it. If you
can't do it, I'll be happy to apply for developer status and take both
modules on. There's probably more such tiny modules lying around that
might have to be included. mod_auth_pg95 comes to mind. 

But perhaps some of the apache/php/mod-perl/mod-pyapache guys'n girls
could share their thoughts on the matter with us.

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

1998-10-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
  Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway.
 
 Bzzt.  I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent
 with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times.  Took 5 days,
 like, but it compiled ``properly''.

I doubt it would compile on my 4 meg 486.

Nor would it run there.


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Re: XEmacs, TeX, and Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures

1998-10-04 Thread Shaya Potter

On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 09:27:29PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I agree.  It's too bad that he wasted time that he could have spent
 finishing _The Art of Computer Programming_ on trivia like typesetting.

It's just that he realized that typesetting isn't trivia at all, but very
interesting. And, IMHO, he was interested in it as an art. And furthermore,
he tried some interesting Meta-ness on it, influencing a lot of geniuses
(for example, Douglas Hofstadter).

However, he is a mathematician, and, there was no typesetting systems for
mathematicians only a few years ago. Books were written with a typing
machine, and symbols added manually. Ever read some of those higher math
books from the time before TeX was available? It's a pain to read them. TeX
was a major relief for all scientists all over the world.

And, he's still living, last time I checked, and is still working on TAOCP,
very concentrated, as he says. Please see for more info:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth


Also, Addison-Wessley just rerpublished TAOCP redone in TeX.  Sent my father
a free set to have. :)

Shaya



Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Will Lowe
 As far as something to replace them.. hrmm.  Geography has been
 popular lately.. cities, rivers..  Something international would be
 good.  Lakes?  Seas?  National parks?  Drinks?:-  
Famous Free Software personalities?

Debian Stallman,  Debian Raymond (ok,  so I might get in trouble for that
one),  Debian Wall 

Trees?  Oak,  Maple ...

How long is debian going to be around?  There are literally millions of
species of insect ...

Will

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PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-04 Thread Kikutani Makoto
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:47:45AM +0100,
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ?
 
 Yes.  [Though if there is any opportunity to meet another developer in

Good. I asked this because Japanese developers who are planning to
become maintainers feel difficulty to have an international call
for the real-life identity verification.

BTW. 
I'm a Japanese living in the United States, but not a permanent
resident. I've heared that the usage of PGP in the States by
a person like me is controversial. I posted this qestion to some
related Mailing-Lists (such as mutt-users).
Someone said No problem, someone said You shouldn't use it.
I'm very confused.

makoto

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Does anyone use virtual-dev? (was Re: updated vs. bdflush -- which is better?)

1998-10-04 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Avery Pennarun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pavel Machek recently extended the bdflush package to efficiently handle
hard disk spindown for power saving mode.  I played with the changes, and it
seems to work really well.

Some time ago, I made a package called virtual-dev, which was supposed
to help keep the hard disk spun down.  (It works by putting /dev on
a ramdisk.)  More recent kernels, however, seem to be pretty good at
avoiding accessing the disk without any outside help, so virtual-dev
seems to be redundant already -- with things like the enhanced bdflush
Avery mentions, I would expect it to become even more so.

So I'd like to ask: does anyone actually use virtual-dev?  If not,
I'll ask that it be removed from the archive.

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What's a suitable terminal type for xvt?

1998-10-04 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
Some time ago, xterm's terminal emulation changed, and the xterm
terminfo entry changed with it.  Since xvt implements the emulation
associated with the old version of xterm, I changed its terminal type to
xterm-old.  Of course, this means that, when logging in to other kinds
of machines, the terminal type isn't recognised.

However, I noticed recently that xterm now uses xterm-debian as its
terminal type (because of a complaint from a colleague that it wasn't
recognised by any other machines!), and that xterm-old seems to be the
same as xterm.  Is this true?  When was this changed back?  Should I
change xvt back to xterm?  Are there plans to muck about with this
again in the future that I should know about?

Thanks,

-- 
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Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 09:49:44AM -0400, Kikutani Makoto wrote:
   Do you accept a passport as the above formal documents ?
  
  Yes.  [Though if there is any opportunity to meet another developer in
 
 Good. I asked this because Japanese developers who are planning to
 become maintainers feel difficulty to have an international call
 for the real-life identity verification.
 
 BTW. 
 I'm a Japanese living in the United States, but not a permanent
 resident. I've heared that the usage of PGP in the States by
 a person like me is controversial. I posted this qestion to some
 related Mailing-Lists (such as mutt-users).
 Someone said No problem, someone said You shouldn't use it.
 I'm very confused.

If you brought it with you (and can PROVE it) there is probably no problem
in theory.

I wouldn't put it past the gov't to try it, but if they do I'm sure the EFF
and/or ALCU would be HAPPY to make a Very Very Big Issue out of it.

Most of those who are citizens of the US who routinely export crypto or have
done so in a public manner as an act of civil disobedience do so fully
realizing the consiquences---but also fully realizing how silly the case is
going to look when the EFF starts making press releases saying that someone
was arrested for downloading a web page, then clicking a submit button to
send the information downloaded back to the same server it was retrieved
from..  You have to admit they'd look damned silly and it would probably
look really bad for them justifying the crypto laws considering.

I've participated in this.  I can tell you that after 8 months, nothing has
been done to me or to anyone else who has done this.  I'm sure my fones are
probably tapped and all that, but shrug I've always assumed that unsecure
links are unsecure and that someone with enough money and power (the US
gov't comes to mind) can probably crack a secure link as well.


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Re: Craig Small here?

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Schwarz wrote:
 
 [Please CC: any replies to me, since I'm not subscribed to your list]
 
 Craig Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me mail about the Debian CD web
 pages on www.debian.org.  Unfortunately, this address bounces (host
 scooter not found) and also his @debian.org address bounces (same reason).
 Does someone have a working address?

That should be his current address.

Regards,

Joey

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Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-04 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:44:36PM +0100, Tom Lees wrote:
 1.1.
I am using the libgtk1.1 1.1.2-2 and libgtk1.1-dev 1.1.12-2 packages

With the default setup:

--
Script started on Sun Oct  4 11:30:52 1998
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk'
gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/balmeida/gdselect/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/lib/glib/include  -c main.c -o main.o
gcc -g -Wall -Werror -I/home/balmeida/gdselect/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
-I/usr/lib/glib/include  -c tree.c -o tree.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
tree.c: In function `populate_tree':
tree.c:57: warning: implicit declaration of function `gtk_ctree_remove'
tree.c: In function `populate_tree_pri':
tree.c:230: warning: implicit declaration of function `gtk_ctree_insert'
tree.c:232: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:273: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:283: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:294: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:313: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c: In function `populate_tree_st':
tree.c:360: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:401: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:411: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:422: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
tree.c:441: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cas
make[1]: *** [tree.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk'
make: *** [all-subdirs] Error 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/gdselect]: exit
Script done on Sun Oct  4 11:31:10 1998


Removed -Werror from Make.system:


Script started on Sun Oct  4 11:31:25 1998
/dev/ttypa: Operation not permitted
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/gdselect]: make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk'
gcc -o gdselect main.o tree.o info.o options.o dpkg.o util.o 
../dpkg/db/dpkg-db.a -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -rdynamic 
-lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm   -g -Wall 
tree.o: In function `populate_tree':
/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk/tree.c:57: undefined reference to `gtk_ctree_remove'
tree.o: In function `populate_tree_pri':
/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk/tree.c:230: undefined reference to 
`gtk_ctree_insert'
/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk/tree.c:271: undefined reference to `gtk_ctree_insert
/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk/tree.c:281: undefined reference to 
`gtk_ctree_insert'
/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk/tree.c:293: undefined reference to 
`gtk_ctree_insert'
/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk/tree.c:311: undefined reference to 
`gtk_ctree_insert'
tree.o:/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk/tree.c:358: more undefined references to 
`gtk_ctree_insert' follow
make[1]: *** [gdselect] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/balmeida/gdselect/gtk'
make: *** [all-subdirs] Error 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/gdselect]: exit

Script done on Sun Oct  4 11:31:43 1998


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Pager: 315-9746



Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-04 Thread Kikutani Makoto
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 07:57:40AM -0700,
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I'm a Japanese living in the United States, but not a permanent
  resident. I've heared that the usage of PGP in the States by
  a person like me is controversial. I posted this qestion to some
  related Mailing-Lists (such as mutt-users).
  Someone said No problem, someone said You shouldn't use it.
  I'm very confused.
 
 If you brought it with you (and can PROVE it) there is probably no problem
 in theory.

Yes, my PGP is an international version which was built in Japan,
and I brought it in my laptop. But of course I can't prove it.

I've considered to join Debian maintainer before.
But I gave up it because the PGP problem is not clear.

Thanks for the responce.

makoto
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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
 The namespase lasts for five more releases.  Or do I misunderstand
 something?

On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies
now that Bruce is gone?

Wichert.

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pine in other distributions

1998-10-04 Thread Kikutani Makoto
I'm sorry, Pine again (and again and...).

Does anybody know if other distributions (RedHat, slack...)
have Pine package ?
If they have it, I assume their license policy is not hard as Debian.

I know one Japanese company is selling Linux CDs which contain
a Japanese version of Pine. 
In fact, the company is PHT Japan. Strictly speaking, their distribution
isn't RedHat, but almost the same type distribution using RPM.

makoto

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Re: pine in other distributions

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Kikutani Makoto wrote:
 I'm sorry, Pine again (and again and...).
 
 Does anybody know if other distributions (RedHat, slack...)
 have Pine package ?

They have.

 If they have it, I assume their license policy is not hard as Debian.

Indeed.  Debian is know for its maximum pickyness wrt copyrights
and licenses.

There is a pine-src package which will build a local pine.deb.

Regards,

Joey

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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Justin Maurer

 On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies
 now that Bruce is gone?

i see no reason not to. they are nice names, the only problem is that we
may be running out of good ones (i admit, rc was a stretch)


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Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-04 Thread john
Joseph Carter writes:
 If you brought it with you (and can PROVE it) there is probably no
 problem in theory.

It doesn't matter where he got it.  It is entirely legal for anyone to use
or distribute strong crypto in the US.  The only restriction is on export.
He is perfectly safe as long as he does not take it with him when he goes
home.
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Re: How about using bzip2 as the standard *.deb compression format?

1998-10-04 Thread James Troup
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes in gratuitous QP:

 On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
   Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway.
 
  Bzzt.  I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent
  with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times.  Took 5 days,
  like, but it compiled ``properly''.
 
 I doubt it would compile on my 4 meg 486.

I don't; I compiled kernels on the same machine when it only had 4Mb.
 
 Nor would it run there.

And I know it ran on my Falcon with 4Mb...

-- 
James



Intent to package: Debian-Bookmarks

1998-10-04 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi !

I hereby formally intent to package the debian-bookmarks package ! :-)

It is a package that I like to create that - like the name says - 
just contains bookmarks. It is intendet for both, Linux newbies and
advanced users and will hopefully contains lots of usefull links about
Linux, computer as well as non-computer topics.
I had the idea because in this fast growing net, there are very much
information that you simply do not find, as well as many very good
and informative sites that everybody knows - except you :-)


So if you have links that you like - mail them.
Ecspecially if you have national links.

read you,

   -christian-

Below the first idea of a  directory structure. Ideas welcome.

/usr/bin/bookmarks-convert 
Converts html pages to bookmarks for several browsers like
netscape, lynx, which one do YOU want

/usr/share/debian-bookmarks/debian-bookmarks.html
*   dwww and such things
*   national sites
-   national search engines 
-   national FTP servers
-   misc non-computer stuff
*   search  
-   international normal- and meta-
-   ftp
-   email
-   news
-   listen
-   special
-   more_engines
*   Linux
-   Linux User Groups
-   Distributions (yes, also the others :-))
-   Projects (gnome,kde,dosemu..)
-   Other Stuff
*   Documentation
-   References (html,sql,C...)
-   Web Sites (FAQ Archives...)
*   Programming
-   Languages (incl. special FTP Sites)
-   Projects (gnome,kernel..)
*   Games (linux-quake...) 
*   Security - Privacy - Cryptology
*   Misc

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Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 Previously Martin Schulze wrote:
  The namespase lasts for five more releases.  Or do I misunderstand
  something?
 
 On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies
 now that Bruce is gone?

I don't see a reason for not continuing this scheme.  Even stronger
I believe that changing it everytime the namespace founder leaves
would be a very stupid idea.

We should discuss a new naming scheme in five years when there are
no names left (~12 names, 3 releases per year plus some names from
successor movies -- 5 years).

Regards,

Joey


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Intent to package octave-sp

1998-10-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel

I intent to release an 'octave-sp' package. This will contain the
'semidef-oct' port by A.S.Hodel of the 'semidef' package by Lieven
Vandenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Stephen Boyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]. It provides functions for semidefinite programming
which can be used to solve nonlinear convex optimization problems.

The semidef package contains the following statement in the file COPYRIGHT:

COPYRIGHT 1994 LIEVEN VANDENBERGHE AND STEPHEN BOYD
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for 
any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire 
notice is included in all copies of any software which is or includes
a copy or modification of this software and in all copies of the 
supporting documentation for such software.
This software is being provided as is, without any express or 
implied warranty.  In particular, the authors do not make any
representation or warranty of any kind concerning the merchantability
of this software or its fitness for any particular purpose.

The additional code by A. S. Hodel is released under the GNU GPL. 

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Re: pine in other distributions

1998-10-04 Thread Kikutani Makoto
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 05:52:47PM +0200,
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Does anybody know if other distributions (RedHat, slack...)
  have Pine package ?
 
 They have.
 
  If they have it, I assume their license policy is not hard as Debian.
 
 Indeed.  Debian is know for its maximum pickyness wrt copyrights
 and licenses.
 
 There is a pine-src package which will build a local pine.deb.

I see. 

According to the past pine discussions, it seemed that Pine must be 
distributed with its source. Is this correct ?
I couldn't read such restriction directly from Pine's CPYRIGHT.
The reason why I'm asking this is that the company is distributing
(not selling) binary only CDs.

makoto

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

1998-10-04 Thread Christopher Barry
If your mighty 386/25 with 4MB can make World the entire X distribution
and custom kernels then surely it won't sweat a little bit of bzip2
decompressing... and since you spend a lot less time downloading a
bzip2ed *.deb, the extra time bzip2 would take by swapping and thrashing
the disk should balance out nicely.

Christopher


James Troup wrote:
 
 Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes in gratuitous QP:
 
  On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:15:40PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
Old/slow/lomem machines can't properly compile X or Mozilla anyway.
  
   Bzzt.  I've compiled xfree86 for Debian/m68k on a 386/25 equivalent
   with only 14Mb (don't ask) of memory several times.  Took 5 days,
   like, but it compiled ``properly''.
 
  I doubt it would compile on my 4 meg 486.
 
 I don't; I compiled kernels on the same machine when it only had 4Mb.
 
  Nor would it run there.
 
 And I know it ran on my Falcon with 4Mb...
 
 --
 James
 
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intent to package tochnog

1998-10-04 Thread John Lapeyre

License: GPL

tochnog is a finite element analysis program.   

http://info.uibk.ac.at/c/c8/c813/tn_release/tnhome.html

The author calls the executable 'tn' .  I should probably change
this to 'tochnog' or 'tng' or something.

John


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Re: pine in other distributions

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Kikutani Makoto wrote:
 On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 05:52:47PM +0200,
 Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
   Does anybody know if other distributions (RedHat, slack...)
   have Pine package ?
  
  They have.
  
   If they have it, I assume their license policy is not hard as Debian.
  
  Indeed.  Debian is know for its maximum pickyness wrt copyrights
  and licenses.
  
  There is a pine-src package which will build a local pine.deb.
 
 I see. 
 
 According to the past pine discussions, it seemed that Pine must be 
 distributed with its source. Is this correct ?

I haven't looked at the copyright yet since pine is out of interest
for me.  From what I saw on the lists the copyrights fails at permitting
us to distribute (modified) binaries.  Generally speaking all .deb
files contain *modified* binaries.  That's why there is only a source
package.

Regards,

Joey

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Right way to sync

1998-10-04 Thread Marc Singer
What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)?
I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for
installing new packages than keeping in sync with the most recent
versions.

The main thing I'm trying to avoid the duplicate package install
problem.  For example, dselect gets very confused when I have more
than one package version present in my distribution directory.  It
installes the lower numbered one first and then goes through the
successive versions upgrading.  This caused a problem with X, for
example, when some of the files moved and the uninstall scripts
weren't clever enough to handle the soft links.

-- Marc Singer



Intent to package: audiofile

1998-10-04 Thread Brian Almeida
I have recently taken over maintainership of Esound from Scott Ellis.
While I was going thru the package, I ntoiced that esdplay (an intelligent
audio player for esd) requires audiofile to work.  Audiofile is a sepearte
module in GNOME CVS, but may be found at http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/
The latest version is 0.1.5.  Audiofile is released under the GPL. 
I did not see it listed in dselect/slink as of a few minutes ago.   

If there are no objections, I will package it.

Thanks.

Brian

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Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-04 Thread john
Kikutani Makoto writes:
 Yes, my PGP is an international version which was built in Japan, and I
 brought it in my laptop.

The international version infringes the RSA patent and so the owner of the
patent (PKP?) could theoretically sue you for using it in the US.  All they
could get is an injunction ordering you to stop, though.  There is no real
chance that they would bother.  If you are feeling paranoid, delete your
international version and install the US one.

 But of course I can't prove it.

There is no reason why you would need to do so.  The munitions export laws
(unrelated to the patent issue) forbid the export of strong pgp from the
US, regardless of its origin.  You are safe from those as long as you stay
in the US.  Theoretically, you should delete pgp from your laptop before
you take it home.

1) It is not a violation of US law for anyone to use any kind of pgp
   anywhere.  The US has no laws restricting the use of cryptography.

2) It is not a violation of US law to bring any kind of pgp into the US.
   Infringing a patent is not a crime.

3) It is a violation of US law to export any kind of pgp from the US.
   This is true even if you brought it here in the first place.

4) It is an infringement of the RSA patent to use pgp-i in the US.
   You are extremely unlikely to be sued, though.

5) It is not an infringement of the RSA patent to use any kind of pgp
   outside the US.

 I've considered to join Debian maintainer before.  But I gave up it
 because the PGP problem is not clear.

Don't export it and you are safe from the US Government.  Don't use pgp-i
in the US and you are safe from PKP.
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texconfig runs (was Re: Lengthy Debian install procedures)

1998-10-04 Thread Adam P. Harris

I suspect strongly that many packages are doing full 'texconfig init'
runs rather than running texconfig only for their relevant packages.
An example in this case is jadetex.  It runs (it's own copy of)
'texconfig init' rather than just generating .fmt's for what it is
installing (jadetex and pdfjadetex).  I suspect we can eliminate a lot
of the delay w/ installing packages like jadetex.

I've just done a big NMU of jadetex but I didn't want to fix this
since my concept of the true function of texconfig is a little clear,
I'm not a TeX wizard, etc.  I'll submit a bug against jadetex and also
take a look at other packages which run texconfig.

Any TeX gurus who have comments or ideas should please feel free to
reply to me or to this list.

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