Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread BugScan reporter
Bug stamp-out list for Mar 24 03:07 (CST)

Total number of release-critical bugs: 190
Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 5

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Package: apache (debian/main)
Maintainer: Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  59365  cron script kills itself
  60257  apache-ssl: upgrade changes DocumentRoot!
  60486  Apache doesn't show README* in dir listings
  60575  /etc/aliases: No such file or directory

Package: autofs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  52132  autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon 
crippled
[STRATEGY] Patch available, waiting for reply from upstream

Package: base-config (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  59247  apt-setup needs to allow for user interaction from apt-cdrom add

Package: bash (debian/main)
Maintainer: Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  58404  bash: *ap++ == 0x55 , segmentation fault out of nowhere!

Package: bbdb (debian/main)
Maintainer: Frederic Lepied [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  59177  xemacs20 didn't compile bbdb-gnus on installation

Package: bind (debian/main)
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  59649  bind: Gives core dump

Package: boot-floppies (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org
  57625  base: PCMCIA cards not recognize during installation
  58266  bf-2.2.7: PCMCIA network install is broken
  58779  boot-floppies: Can't boot on my Powerpc
  58857  The boot floppies do not work with milex raid on root.
  60218  error when setting active partition
  60306  Serial console does not work on initial boot
  60370  libdb2 missing from base?
  60371  base, installation glitches (configure network, start new system)
  60956  ARM is not supported (patch included)

Package: communicator (debian/contrib)
Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60193  communicator: buss error when replying to message

Package: communicator-smotif-461 (debian/non-free)
Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  42259  [TBF] If you open a menu and a cookie pops up, the browser hangs
  43849  communicator-smotif: Floating point exception error

Package: console-tools (debian/main)
Maintainer: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60917  console-tools: preinst directory problem

Package: debconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60160  Finnish mirrors not included

Package: debiandoc-sgml (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ardo van Rangelrooij [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60246  debiandoc-sgml: error handling in two commands is inappropriate
  60313  debiandoc2latexps file.sgml removes file.dvi

Package: debianutils (debian/main)
Maintainer: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  59121  run-parts hangs during /etc/cron.daily runs

Package: dgs (debian/main)
Maintainer: Ryuichi Arafune [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60286  dgs_0.5.9.1+000228-3(unstable): build error (self dependency)

Package: dhelp (debian/main)
Maintainer: Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60853  dhelp: uses glimpse insecurely

Package: dotfile-bash (debian/main)
Maintainer: Debian QA Group debian-qa@lists.debian.org
  60060  dotfile-bash doesn't start

Package: dpkg (debian/main)
Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  33237  /etc/alternatives/emacs not managed properly - /usr/bin/emacs doesn't 
run emacs20
[STRATEGY] Switches to manual-mode too quickly, maintainer will look at
   it this weekend.
  58091  package name Eterm -- eterm

Package: emacs19 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60977  emacs19_19.34-26.4(frozen): build error with setpgrp

Package: emacsen-common (debian/main)
Maintainer: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60314  emacs-package-install crashes with octave  psgml with emacs20xemacs21

Package: emwin (debian/main)
Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60773  emwin can't be installed, can't be removed

Package: epic4 (debian/main)
Maintainer: Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  58508  Epic pre2.503 has bugs which 2.505 has not

Package: exim (debian/main)
Maintainer: Mark Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  60871  exim_3.12-6.deb depends on libdb1.85, a non-existent package

Package: fetchmail (debian/main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  43139  fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
  50990  fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never sent to 
local MTA

Package: fetchmailconf (debian/main)
Maintainer: Paul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  57287  generates wrong config files

Package: ftape (debian/main)
Maintainer: Christian Meder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  59502  raw ftape devices wrong

Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo)
Maintainer: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  59641  nfs-kernel-server: conflicts with Standard package nfs-server
  60698  pcmcia-modules-2.0.36 depends on nonexistent package
  60702  Please remove mmm from Debian [potato  woody]
  60707  cricket depends on a nonexistent package
  60784  Packages missing from woody only alpha-binaries archive
  

Re: Becoming a Pkg Mgr.

2000-03-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:32:06AM -0800, Jason C. Leach wrote:
 hi,
 
 How does one become a package manager?  I could
 probably spair enough time to look after one.

The New Maintainer team will be re-opening shortly.  In the meantime,
keep an eye on debian-devel-announce, start reading lists, look for
something useful to do, maybe help to correct some bugs, and possibly
take part in the sponsoring system (can't remember the URL to look at
offhand; check out the -devel-announce archives for the last several
months -- maybe it was last summer?).  Read the policy and packaging
manuals, the developer's reference and of course the Debian Social
Contract and DFSG.

Good luck!

   Julian

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-24 Thread Alan Clucas
   Package: fetchmail (debian/main).
   Maintainer: Paul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   [HELP] This package needs a new maintainer.  (RB)
 43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery
 50990 fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never 
   sent to local MTA
  
  Is anyone looking at this one. These are both fixed in upstream 5.3.1 (and
  5.3.3 is in woody). What is the recommended course of action on this - I
  would like to try and get involved - and personally know a maintainer who
  can sponsor me. Should I go for 5.3.3, 5.3.1, 5.3.4 (latest upstream) or
  attempting to backport the fixes in 5.2.3 (what is currently in potato)
 
 This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in
 potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get
 it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.

I will have a go then :)

Alan



Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Andor Dirner
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote:
 
 
 On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Weigel wrote:
 
  
  On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
   On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote:
Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs.
Why not glibc2.0 compatibility libs for potato, as RH-based distros
have?
   
   They're both libc 6.0 -- how would ld.so know which one you wanted?
   Any apps which run on 6.0 and not 6.1 are broken and should be fixed.
  
  
  Some things changed from 2.0 to 2.1 so that non broken binaries won't
  work.  One I know about is stat, which is now a macro instead of a
  function call (breaks smbsh, even if you recompile it)
  
  Some other software doesn't work either.  One I know about is IBM DB2
  database.  I don't know why it doesn't work, it just doesn't, and of
  course I don't have the source.
  
  I've thought about compatibility links, but like you said, they're both
  libc 6.0.
  
  Overall though, there doesn't seem to be a lot of broken stuff.
  
 
 The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat
 compatibility libraries to be able install it, and a patch from Oracle.
 
 I have heard it also broke Applixware, but I am not sure.
 
 Robert Varga

Applixware is absolutely ok. I personally run Applixware 4.4.2 on my 
home Potato box, on another Potato and a redhat 5.1 at the company,
all of them work without any compat-packages. (Also true for Applixware
5.00M - a pre-release beta)

--andor dirner

Free science and free software are just two aspects of the same complex
reality: long-term human survival.
Support humankind, use Linux.



Re: epochs, circular dependancies, and other miscellany

2000-03-24 Thread Joey Hess
Nick Cabatoff wrote:
 * epochs not being recognized.  A concrete example is
 provided by a test case I did with cvs; for brevity we'll call it cvs_V
 instead of cvs_1.10.7-1.99.slink.y2k.1.  I broke it into two packages,
 cvs_5:V and local-config-base-cvs_V-0.  When I did a 
   dpkg --purge cvs; apt-get update; apt-get install cvs
 it would retrieve whichever cvs (cvs_V or cvs_5:V) was in the ftp
 repository listed first in sources.list.  Moreover, the retrieved file
 doesn't have the epoch prefix.  Clearly I've misunderstood the
 functionning of epochs or apt-get; can someone enlighten me?

Ignoring the larger context of your message, cvs in frozen can already be
installed noninteractively. Just configure debconf to use the
noninteractive frontend..

-- 
see shy jo



Anyone want to take over plotutils?

2000-03-24 Thread Rob Browning

I'm trying to give up some of my less central packages because I'd
like to spend more time on my others.  Is anyone interested in
plotutils?

Thanks

-- 
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Re: glibc-compat and upgrading from Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP method.

2000-03-24 Thread Taupter
Hello all


I'm near from upgrading my Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP, but I'm
afraid if it can drive my system _really_ bad (broken).
I tried it six months ago, and the result was a reinstalling Slink from
CDs.

Did anyone try this way? Worked fine?


Taupter



Re: Becoming a Pkg Mgr.

2000-03-24 Thread Shaul Karl
 On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:32:06AM -0800, Jason C. Leach wrote:
  hi,
  
  How does one become a package manager?  I could
  probably spair enough time to look after one.
 
 The New Maintainer team will be re-opening shortly.  In the meantime,
 keep an eye on debian-devel-announce, start reading lists, look for
 something useful to do, maybe help to correct some bugs, and possibly
 take part in the sponsoring system (can't remember the URL to look at
 offhand; check out the -devel-announce archives for the last several
 months -- maybe it was last summer?).  


http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/


 Read the policy and packaging
 manuals, the developer's reference and of course the Debian Social
 Contract and DFSG.
 
 Good luck!
 
Julian
 
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Re: glibc-compat ???

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote:
  
  The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat
  compatibility libraries to be able install it, and a patch from Oracle.
  

FWIW, I'm running Oracle 8i (SQL*Plus reports v 8.1.5) with the latest
patches (as of a month ago) on a potato box with no obvious problems, I
don't have any compatibility libs installed.

steve
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My SSH problems

2000-03-24 Thread Michael Meskes
Could anyone please send me the logs of my last tries to ssh into master? I
only get a 'connection closed by foreign host' and want to forward that
stuff to the provider.

Thanks.

Michael
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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-24 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait:
 This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in
 potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get
 it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.

I think this is quite stupid. fetchmail is an independant package, it
won't break anything to use the version in woody ... and it would 10
times easier to do. I'am already going to upload fetchmail 5.3.3 to
potato, check the other thread (I think it's on debian-qa).

Cheers,
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Fwd: Re: unable to execute

2000-03-24 Thread Dushara Jayasinghe


--  Forwarded Message  --
Subject: Re: unable to execute
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:12:12 -0800
From: Tristan Savatier [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Dushara Jayasinghe wrote:
 
 I downloaded mpegtv 1.1.0.20-3 (.deb version) from linuxberg and installed it
 in Corel Linux -which seems to be the same as debian.
 
 However, when I tried to execute mtv I get the error 'Segmentation fault'
 
 What could cuase this problem?

We don't know yet.  looks like a problem with the Debian
distribution (mtv works fine with all other Linux distributions).

It would help if you could forward this message to the Debian support
team, since the problem is on their side.

Thanks.

-t
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Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

2000-03-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 06:17:21PM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote:
   I started with no .inputrc, no /etc/profile, no /etc/inputrc
 and even so I had problems with letter E (upcase only). Any idea? Even
 with no setup, no config files, I get no success. I upgraded my
 libreadline4 today and it didn't work either. 

Hmm, since you are from brazil you might not be used a key layout 100%
identical to a North American keyboard.

You may have fallen victim to Yann Dirson's 100%-bug-free console-data
package.

Install the kbd package, and from the console (not X), use the showkey
command to determine what scan code is being generated by the E key.  If
none, you either have a hardware problem or a kernel problem.  Otherwise,
your console keymap is messed up and you should file a bug against the
console-data package.

Don't feel bad; Yann Dirson has the default keymap set to some French thing
-- this affects every Debian user in the world, and most of the world isn't
France.  I guess some people take the figurative expression lingua franca
too literally.  :)

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Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Peter Cordes
 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:50:59 -0600
 From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
 Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable
 
   There only are 16 colours, so deciding to never use 4 
  ({dark ,}{blue,red}) of them seems like a bad idea.  Brightening them up so
  they look good on a black background is good, since hardly anything uses
  dark-but-not-black background colours. 
 
 No, you doen't use them. I use them a lot, to highlight urls and headers
 in mutt, for example.

 You're right that I don't use them all, but I do have colour highlighting
stuff turned on in mutt, and I use jed with syntax highlighting for C,
LaTeX, and HTML (in an xterm, not xjed).  The thing is that I always have a
black background or else a colour that was already light 

 
   Is there a reason why /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm defaults to black on white
  instead of gray90 on black?  
 
 Because that's what xterms do (by default) on every other single X
 implementation ever done? (Ok, that's probably an exageration...but not
 completely misleading, either.)

 Is that enough of a reason to not change it?  Does it break any programs
specifically?

 
  With my colour mods to make ls output visible, could the default
  change to be gray90 on black? Most new users won't get around to
  finding the xterm resources file for a long time, and I imagine they
  would be happier with black bg xterms until they do.
 
 I wouldn't. A lot of people I work with wouldn't. (Many would, of
 course). I, for example, find it easier to read black text on light
 backgrounds in xterms. My favorite is black on blanchedAlmond. I
 don't, however, think that should be Debian's global default.

 Hmm, that looks not bad.  I notice that my adjusted bright-blue and blue
colours are still dark enough to be easily seen on the blanchedAlmond
background. However, symlinks, device files, and named pipes come out almost
invisible on that background.  (I assume you have a nice DIRCOLORS setting
that fixes that, though.) I don't remember if the default on a fresh install
is to have ls use colours or not, but if it is then something should be done
so stuff isn't nearly invisible in an xterm.  (If the default is to not use
colours, then leaving it the way it is is ok, I guess.)

 (I wonder if the preference for light-on-dark vs dark-on-light depends
 on ambient light conditions?)

 I usually like to work in a relatively dark room.  I think I'm nocturnal or
something (looks at clock... :(

 
  We should cater
  to users who don't know where you change everything by having a nice set of
  default colours.  This isn't like keymaps and stuff, since it only looks
  different, and isn't nearly so hard to get used to.
 
 We do cater to them. We have window managers that support themes and
 easy ways to change them.

 Hrm, I've never used a heavyweight window manager with themes for more than
a few minutes.  I think I noticed that the GNOME terminal lets you change
the colour scheme to fairly closely match the Linux console, which seems to
be where the ls default colours work best.  (ls's default colours were
definitely chosen with a light-on-dark terminal in mind.)

 We have a nice set of default colors. They are easy to modify (in the
 xterm case, if you don't have the desire to mess with Xresources, -fg
 and -bg work quite nicely). Are they they best possible defaults?
 Probably not. But if you change them, probably for every person who you
 made happier, there's another you've pissed off.
 
 Why do so many people want to believe that their personal preferences
 represent universal truth? I agree that demonstrably bad defaults
 (dark-on-dark) should be changed. But the reality is that things like
 color selection are such a personal-preference issue that *most* people
 will eventually tweak them to their preference, and the best we can (and
 should) do is use a *workable* default, and go on.
 
 (If there is a 90% consensus that we change the xterm default to white
 on black, and change the kernel definition (or whatever) of blue to
 something lighter, then fine, do it. But I strongly believe that you
 won't get anywhere near that much agreement.)

 I'm one of those people who thought that my preference was universal truth
on this subject.  I realize there are a lot of things that I like configured
differently from most people, and that there isn't any one set of settings
that is best for everyone.  In the case of terminal colours,  I thought most
people really did use black bg terminals, or at least dark something, like
blue.  Also, real VT100s and VT220s have black bg screens with amber text.
There's a precedent for black bg terminals outside of X.

 If it's not the case that almost everyone uses black bg terms, then I agree
that we shouldn't change it.  In my experience, changing xterm colours is
one of the first things I after an install to localize the box to my tastes.
Other Unix users I know do similarly, I think.

 I thought that most 

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread Petr Cech
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600 , BugScan reporter wrote:
 Bug stamp-out list for Mar 24 03:07 (CST)
 
 Total number of release-critical bugs: 190
 Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 5
 
 --
 
 Package: apache (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Johnie Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   59365  cron script kills itself
   60257  apache-ssl: upgrade changes DocumentRoot!
   60486  Apache doesn't show README* in dir listings
   60575  /etc/aliases: No such file or directory
 
 Package: autofs (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   52132  autofs: Race condition when expiring autofs submounts leaves daemon 
 crippled
 [STRATEGY] Patch available, waiting for reply from upstream
 
 Package: bash (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   58404  bash: *ap++ == 0x55 , segmentation fault out of nowhere!

this one is likely to stay

 Package: bind (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   59649  bind: Gives core dump

fix in Incoming

 Package: communicator (debian/contrib)
 Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60193  communicator: buss error when replying to message

normal communicator behaviour :(

 Package: communicator-smotif-461 (debian/non-free)
 Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   42259  [TBF] If you open a menu and a cookie pops up, the browser hangs
   43849  communicator-smotif: Floating point exception error

see above

 Package: debconf (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60160  Finnish mirrors not included

this is RC?

 Package: dhelp (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Marco Budde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60853  dhelp: uses glimpse insecurely

fix in Incoming

 Package: dotfile-bash (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Debian QA Group debian-qa@lists.debian.org
   60060  dotfile-bash doesn't start

Joy said he will do an upload

 Package: exim (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Mark Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60871  exim_3.12-6.deb depends on libdb1.85, a non-existent package

fix installed some time ago

   60988  general: problem with ssh install due to lack of gmp2 package in 
 frozen

this one should be closed, because user had stable in non-US sources.list

 Package: gpm (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Zephaniah E. Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   59793  gpm: gpm won't start from remote telnet session

should be fixed now

 Package: lsof (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Jim Mintha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   57203  lsof does not build with 2.3 kernel headers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Log 
 for failed build of lsof_4.48-1 (dist=frozen)]

this is a problem, but not RC (IMHO)

 Package: man-db (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60339  How about testing packages before uploading them?  2.3.14 dies on 
 unpack

new man-db installed, so maybe it fixes this

 Package: modconf (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Boot Floppies team debian-boot@lists.debian.org
   60182  New screen is drawn on wrong tty if changing tty while module 
 detection

RC?

 Package: netbase (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [STRATEGY] Maintainer has fixed upload ready, coordination with sysvinit
  is required.
   59282  networking killed too early

this should be fixed in Incoming and maybe others

   59377  netbase: can't build
   60367  portmap isn't started on changing runlevels, breaking NIS/YP and NFS 
 startup
   60374  netbase: networking doesn't play well with NFS root
   60517  prerm of netbase hangs
   60770  netbase: inetd upgrade breaks services
 
 Package: netscape (debian/contrib)
 Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60619  netscape: Error message: 'Bus error' when trying to run netscape.

old story

 Package: python-base (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Gregor Hoffleit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   61004  Python-base 1.5.2-9 still depends on libdb1.85

this is a SPARC build problem, on i386 it's OK

 Package: spamfilter (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60704  spamfilter depends on nonexistent package

geez, filing 2 bug reports, because the previous had been tagged only as
normal, but grave? But yes, he's right about the wrong dependency.

 Package: tar (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60824  tar: doesn't build from source (src/Makefile.in not up to date)

fix in Incoming

 Package: tetex-base (debian/main)
 Maintainer: teTeX maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   42698  tetex-base: The french option of babel is broken

fix should be in preparation

 Package: tetex-bin (debian/main)
 Maintainer: teTeX maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [HELP] Christoph has set up a mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 to discuss work on these packages.
   36671  tetex-bin: xdvi fails on gzipped files

Petr Cech
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Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Unless the darkish colours get used as alternate background colours, they
 are wasted.  There only are 16 colours, so deciding to never use 4 
 ({dark ,}{blue,red}) of them seems like a bad idea.  Brightening them up so
 they look good on a black background is good, since hardly anything uses
 dark-but-not-black background colours.

No it isn't. By acting against the ANSI standard, you will just move
the problem to other configurations: Users logged in from Non-Debian
machines will still see the unreadable combination. Just not using
black/blue is more prudent.

It's bad that we're stuck with this ...

 Is there a reason why /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm defaults to black on white
 instead of gray90 on black?

Because some people think it is the superior combination (it works
good on paper). Others think exactly the opposite.

 With my colour mods to make ls output visible, could the default
 change to be gray90 on black?

With this being highly religious a decision, I'd rather chicken out
and say: leave it be.

-- 
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Intention to hijack: {i,w}{danish,swedish}

2000-03-24 Thread Peter Makholm
I intent to hijack the danish and swedish ispell dictionary and
wordlist. The packages seems unmaintained and have 4 unaknowledged
bugs more than 200 days old.

I have unsucessfully tried to contact the maintainer but got no
respons. If anyone else is willing to do the swedish packages they are
welcome, if not I would try taking care of them.

If noone objects within a week I will begin to look at the packages
and process the bugs and upload new packages to frozen some days after
that. 

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ITP: manpages-da

2000-03-24 Thread Peter Makholm
In SSLUG (swedish/danish LUG) we have begun translating
man-pages to danish. when we have finished a nice set (like
file-utils) I will make a debian package out of it.
 
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Re: Do we have a package of W3C's www-lib library?

2000-03-24 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 10 March 2000, at 15 h 4, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Do my eyes deceive me or are we really without a package of Libwww - the W3C
 Protocol Library, http://www.w3.org/Library/. 

One Debian developer made an unofficial package but which I find too rapidly 
made, so I made mine:

ftp://ftp.internatif.org/pub/debian/UNOFFICIAL/ (aptable source)

The packages are libw3c-libwww5 and libw3c-libwww-dev.

I do *not* intend to upload them or to maintain them. I need this package for 
my work, but I have no time to take care of it (it is a huge and complicated 
package, 100 % free but long to compile). Candidates welcome.




Re: glibc-compat

2000-03-24 Thread Jose Marin
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote:

  Is it possible to run stuff that is linked against glibc-2.0.7 (rh5.2 used
 that, so I imagine a lot of commercial stuff linked against that, or at
 least people have old commercial stuff linked against it and would rather
 not pay for a new version.)
 
  Can you LD_PRELOAD (an old) libc?  (with a wrapper script to set LD_PRELOAD.)
 
  Is there a way to do it at all without using chroot or hacking ld.so for
 special cases?  Obviously it is possible, but is it possible practically and
 usefully?

Hi all,

I'd like to know this as well!  Yes, I know, the correct thing to do is to
ask politely the vendor to re-compile under glibc2.1, and I plan to do
that.  But at the same time I'd like to know if there's a quick fix for
this. 

I originated this whole thread in debian-user;  the app that does not work
for me is the F compiler from Imagine1 (www.uni-comp.com/imagine1).  It's
a free (as in beer) commercial compiler, which has been recently made
available in its full version.  The errors appear in the linking stage, it
seems the run-time library (libf90.a) needs glibc2.0.  People with
glibc2.1 under RedHat or Suse can run it successfully by installing
compat-glibc-5.2-2.0.7.1.i386.rpm, and then using
-L/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib on the compile command line.

TIA,

Jose



Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 03/24/00 Petr Cech wrote:
  Package: communicator (debian/contrib)
  Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60193  communicator: buss error when replying to message
 
 normal communicator behaviour :(

At GUADEC Keith Packard told me that some problems with netscape/
communicator was actually a bug in xlib. Maybe someone could try
to reproduce this bug with XFree86 4.0 and backport the fix if
it works there?

lupus

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Re: of bash and ...sbin/

2000-03-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Robert Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Without going in depth as to what traceroute and ping are (a fruitless flame
 war)

Facts can not build a flame war. Opinions (about depth or somesuch)
can.

 suffice it to say that I disagree with your deeper comment.

Ok.

 These 'boundaries' are completely arbitrary, since as pointed out earlier,
 Herbert Xu isn't willing to change traceroute.
 
 Perhaps we should ask Dan Quinlan?

Indeed. This way all Linux variants can go through this change.
Traditionally, it was /sbin/traceroute and it makes sense to reverse
this decision only when a new standard mandates it.

[mv /usr/bin/mtr /usr/sbin/mtr ?]

 If it is really to go in sbin, then I shall also take the suid-bit off of
 it, since obviously only root will be using it anyway.

Nope. Users will still want to use it.

FWIW, suid should be replaced by a capability, anyway, sooner or later.

-- 
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Is someone working on Jazz++ ?

2000-03-24 Thread Eduardo Marcel Macan
Hello, I noticed Jazz++ (www.jazzware.com) is now released under
the GPL, is there anyone working on it? Unfortunately I don't have the time
to do it, but I'd like to see it packaged. It is the best linux midi sequencer
nowadays.

Regards,

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UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

2000-03-24 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
A few days ago, I posted this to the debian-users list, but got no
takers.  
Perhaps someone here has some ideas.

Thanks.
.

I recently purchased an APC Back-UPS Pro 650, but have been unable to
get the UPS the daemons to interact with my system.

The system is a Dell Workstation 410
Linux hilbert 2.2.13 #1 SMP Fri Mar 17 13:57:34 EST 2000 i686 unknown
with a current potato configuration via a fresh potato install (gotta
love the new ext2 fs and MD5 passwords!)

The apcupsd is communicating well with the APC unit: 
/etc/apcuspd.status shows:
APC  : Mar 22 09:06:42
CABLE: APC Cable 940-0095A
UPSMODEL : Back-UPS Pro 650
UPSMODE  : Stand Alone
UPSNAME  : UPS_IDEN
ULINE: 119.5 Volts
MLINE: 119.5 Volts
NLINE: 118.8 Volts
FLINE: 60.0 Hz
VOUTP: 119.5 Volts
LOUTP: 049.4 Load Capacity
BOUTP: 13.8 Volts
BCHAR: 100.0 Batt. Charge
TIME : 17.0 Minutes
SENSE: HIGH
WAKEUP   : 000 Cycles
SLEEP: 020 Cycles
LOTRANS  : 106.0 Volts
HITRANS  : 127.0 Volts
CHARGE   : 000.0 Percent
BFAIL: 0x08 Status Flag
ALARM: Always
LASTEVNT : POWER FAILURE
LOWBATT  : 02 Minutes

The apcupsd.conf is appended at the end. 

Despite having put an explicit TIMEOUT 300 in the configuration file,
the machine stays up and the battery winds down.  When the AC plug is
pulled to test, the BFAIL tag changes to 0x10, the LASTEVENT is updated,
the voltages go to zero and the battery charge diminishes.

At *no* time are any messages printed to the terminal windows (to
indicate power failure, warning logouts imminent, power resumed, etc). 
So I am rather confused.  apcupsd collects valid data but
/usr/sbin/powersc doesn't act on it.

I have also tried genpower (/sbin/genpowerd /dev/ttyS0 apc-pnp) (which
is the correct type for the APC Cable 940-0095A.  The /etc/upsstatus
*always* says OK even if the plug is pulled.

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

Thanks

Tom

## apcupsd.conf v1.0 ##
#
# apcupsd POSIX config file
# Updated for Debian/GNU Linux by Leon Breedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

# CONTROL string
CONTROL /usr/sbin/powersc

# UPSCABLE [ simple | smart |
#940-00(20B,23A,24B,24C,24G,95A,95C) |
#940-15(24C) |
#ether ]
#
UPSCABLE 940-0095A

# UPSTYPE [ backups | sharebasic | netups |
#   backupspro | smartvsups |
#   newbackupspro | backupspropnp |
#   smartups | matrixups | sharesmart ]
#
UPSTYPE backupspropnp

# UPSCLASS [ standalone | shareslave | sharemaster | netslave |
netmaster ]
UPSCLASS standalone

# UPSMODE [ disable | share | net | sharenet ]
UPSMODE disable

#DEVICE string /dev/serial port
DEVICE /dev/ttyS0

#LOCKFILE path to lockfile
LOCKFILE /var/lock

#ACCESS string [ true | false ] Enable Access Support
ACCESS true

# ANNOY int 30 0 disables
ANNOY 30

# DELAY int 60 0 disables
DELAY 60

# NOLOGON string [ disable | timeout | percent | minutes | always ]
NOLOGON timeout

# PROCFS int 120 0 disables update rate procfs-type of current
statu
s
PROCFS 30

# LOGGING int 500 0 disables rate update log file of current
status
LOGGING 300

# TIMEOUT time is seconds to run on UPS, powerfails
TIMEOUT 300


# BATTERYLEVEL precent of battery charge for shutdown 10
BATTERYLEVEL 10

# MINUTES time in minutes of remainning battery charge before shutdown
5
MINUTES 5

# SENSITIVITY char H,M,L default H
SENSITIVITY H

# WAKEUP int 0,60,180,300 Cycles default 0
WAKEUP 60

# SLEEP int 20,180,300,600 Cycles default 20
SLEEP 20

# LOTRANSFER int 0,1,2,3 default 2
LOTRANSFER 2

# HITRANSFER int 0,1,2,3 default 2
HITRANSFER 3

# RETURNCHARGE int 0,1,2,3 default 3
RETURNCHARGE 1

# BEEPSTATE char 0,T,L,N default 0
BEEPSTATE L

# SELFTEST string 336,168,ON,OFF default 336
SELFTEST 336
#
# UPSNAME string
UPSNAME UPS_IDEN

# REPLACE string date format mm/dd/yy
#REPLACE 12/13/93

# BATTCMD string
#BATTCMD

# TIMECMD string
#TIMECMD 

# LOADCMD string
#LOADCMD 

# LIMITCMD string
#LIMITCMD

# PWRCMD string
#PWRCMD

# RETCMD string
#RETCMD

# REMOTECMD string
#REMOTECMD

# NETTIME int
#NETTIME 100

# NETPORT int
#NETPORT 

# MASTER string
#MASTER

# SLAVE string
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE
#SLAVE

# USERMAGIC string
#USERMAGIC

# HTTPACCESS [ true | false ]   enable web-interface - defaults to false
#HTTPACCESS true

# HTTPPORT port  port to use for interface - defaults to 1999
#HTTPPORT 1999



Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 In the case of terminal colours, I thought most people really did
 use black bg terminals, or at least dark something, like blue. Also,
 real VT100s and VT220s have black bg screens with amber text.
 There's a precedent for black bg terminals outside of X.

Light (Amber, Green, Gray) on Black terminals probably made the most
sense, back then. Most people will concur that a light background
means too much eyestrain on CRT rates of 60 Hz or less. Low-end
computers followed this trend (C64: amazingly readable
lightblue/darkblue, Amiga: white/darkblue, IBM-PC: Gray,Green/Black)

With the advent of powerful workstation monitors delivering 70 Hz or
more, the most glaring problem of black/white became less and less
important.

I'll throw in another
URL:http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/ematias/faq/S/S-9.html (Anwers
from comp.human-factors to Which screen colors look best / produce
the least eye strain?)

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ITP: libsafe-hole-perl

2000-03-24 Thread Stefan Hornburg

This perl module (Safe::Hole) is needed for packaging MiniVend,
which is in progress.

Ciao
Racke



Re: epochs, circular dependancies, and other miscellany

2000-03-24 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Mar 23, Joey Hess wrote:
 Ignoring the larger context of your message, cvs in frozen can
 already be installed noninteractively. Just configure debconf to use
 the noninteractive frontend..

Fine, except I can't use frozen right now and cvs was just an example.



Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
 Package: emacs19 (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60977  emacs19_19.34-26.4(frozen): build error with setpgrp

Already NMU'd.

 Package: exim (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Mark Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60871  exim_3.12-6.deb depends on libdb1.85, a non-existent package

Binary only recompile fixes this, in incoming.

 Package: modconf (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Boot Floppies team debian-boot@lists.debian.org
   60182  New screen is drawn on wrong tty if changing tty while module 
 detection

A solution for this was suggested. Needs to use `tty` instead of a
hardcoded /dev/tty.

 Package: saytime (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60733  saytime only screeches almost ununderstandably

I've never had this problem. It even works on my sparc, and has worked for
my i386 since I first used it in bo. Perhaps this is a DMA problem that
the user has setup wrong with their mono?

 Package: scalapack (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Philipp Frauenfelder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   55272  scalapack: can't build from source
   58386  scalapack_1.6-12(frozen): build error (undefined symbols)
   60530  scalapack: fails to build on sparc

Checking into this as I write this email.

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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:30:21AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
  Package: saytime (debian/main)
  Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60733  saytime only screeches almost ununderstandably
 
 I've never had this problem. It even works on my sparc, and has worked for
 my i386 since I first used it in bo. Perhaps this is a DMA problem that
 the user has setup wrong with their mono?

I don't have this problem either, maybe a sound card problem?

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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Petr Cech wrote:
  Package: man-db (debian/main)
  Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
60339  How about testing packages before uploading them?  2.3.14 dies on 
  unpack
 
 new man-db installed, so maybe it fixes this

While we're on this, we ran into this problem last night with and
upgrade
of slink - potato. Apt kept on failing saying dpkg failed, something
about -fsys-tarfile. So we then typed: apt-get install dpkg apt
and then reran the upgrade and the problem went away.

Go figure...
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Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K.
It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place.



Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Mar-00, 03:22 (CST), Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
  From: Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Because that's what xterms do (by default) on every other single X
  implementation ever done? (Ok, that's probably an exageration...but not
  completely misleading, either.)
 
  Is that enough of a reason to not change it?  Does it break any programs
 specifically?

It doesn't break programs, particularly, but it breaks configurations --
people whove changed only the foreground or background, or people who've
set up other program's coloring to work on a black-on-white xterm.



 (I assume you have a nice DIRCOLORS setting that fixes that, though.)

No, I think colored ls is the spawn of the devil. :-) (Actually I
find colored ls a huge distraction, and all the information I need is
provided by the '-F' option of ls)

  (I wonder if the preference for light-on-dark vs dark-on-light depends
  on ambient light conditions?)
 
  I usually like to work in a relatively dark room.  I think I'm nocturnal or
 something (looks at clock... :(

And I tend to work in well lit rooms, even at night -- so from our
amazing sample of two, there is a correlation!

[*big snip*]

You've got a lot of valid points; I agree that black-on-white xterms do
glare a little, although I've never had a real problem with them (when
I use other people's systems, I hardly ever mess with the colors, even
for a few days of work.) But the current defaults are defensible: it's
the world-wide X standard default. Anything else amounts to personal
preference and will promote a continuous stream of bug reports and
complaints.

Steve

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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi,

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote:

 Package: imlib-progs (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60052  imlib-progs: imlib_config segfaulting without /etc/imlib/imrc

I'll fix this later today.  Sorry for the delay folks.  End of
academic quarter crunch has been taking alot of my time. :-(

-Ossama
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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

2000-03-24 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote:
 Package: gnucash (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Tyson Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60417  docs are split between /usr/doc/gnucash and /usr/share/doc/gnucash
   60615  gnucash: LANG=de_DE does weird things
   60655  should depend on libesd0 | libesd-alsa0, not just libesd0

I just noticed that #60615 and 60655 are fixed in woody's gnucash package,
gnucash_1.2.5.cvs.2204-1.

#60417 is easy to fix.

If the maintainer doesn't speak up now, I will take
gnucash_1.2.5.cvs.2204-1, fix #60417 and upload it to frozen and
unstable as NMU.

Gregor



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Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-24 Thread Chris Frey
Hi,

To my understanding the package process is fairly secure on the incoming
side of Debian's package managment system.  Maintainers sign their uploads
which prevents a man-in-the-middle attack.

These packages are then checksumed in Packages.gz, but nowhere is that
file signed, that I know of.  This opens up the users to an ftp
man-in-the-middle attack during the upgrade process.

The only way a user can currently be sure he has a system from the
code the maintainers use is to compile all the packages himself (I'm
speaking from a truly paranoid security standpoint here :) ), since
the *dsc files are signed.

So my question is, what are your thoughts on adding a signature to the
current Packages.gz file, or adding a similar *dsc file for it,
which is then signed?  Are there any reasons why this hasn't been done yet
besides the obvious nobody has time? :-)

Thanks.  Please CC me on replies, since I'm not on the list.
- Chris

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Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:29:07PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
 With the advent of powerful workstation monitors delivering 70 Hz or
 more, the most glaring problem of black/white became less and less
 important.

Even on 85Hz or even higher vertical frequencies, I find black-on-white
XTerms quite hard to read. When you combine that with the fact that most
people aren't using 640*480 resolution anymore, but (much) higher modes,
but the font size in XTerm doesn't enlarge automagically with the screen
resolution (why should it, one might ask), you get something barely usable.

I may be an exception since I usually wear photo-sensible glasses to prevent
eye-strain (and headaches), but I can't say I've seen many other `normal'
people satisfied by the default XTerm appearance.

BTW, FWIW, when in X, I use 1024*768*32*85, gray-on-black XTerm, font size 20.
Although I still prefer the console :)

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Re: blue on black is unreadable

2000-03-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Mar-00, 10:19 (CST), Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
   (I wonder if the preference for light-on-dark vs dark-on-light depends
   on ambient light conditions?)
  
   I usually like to work in a relatively dark room.  I think I'm nocturnal or
  something (looks at clock... :(
 
 And I tend to work in well lit rooms, even at night -- so from our
 amazing sample of two, there is a correlation!

And the link (http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/ematias/faq/S/S-9.html)
that someone else provided said this:

In an experiment with light- or dark-adapted subjects identifying
target letters within a letter string from positive or negative
displays, I also found interactions between adaptation level and
display polarity (Fischer, 1992). Thus, the display of choice
probably depends on your workplace illumination.

(presumably with a sample count of more than 2)

It also said this:

Saturated blue should not be used for the presentation of fine
detail, because the central part of the fovea is relatively
insensitive to that color. For similar reasons, blue is an excellent
background color.

(Of course, that promotes light-on-dark)

sg

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Problem with Mail-Followup-To: header (was Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000)

2000-03-24 Thread Christian Surchi
Even in your message ossama, I see that there is the username (ossama)  in
the Mail-Followup-To: header. I see also that every message with this
error comes from a 1.1.9i version of mutt. What about it?

bye
Christian

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ITP: freeswan

2000-03-24 Thread Tommi Virtanen
I intend to package FreeS/WAN, the Linux IPSec
framework, available at www.freeswan.org.
I can hopefully provide kernel-patch packages
for 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3 (2.4) kernels.
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Re: ITP: freeswan

2000-03-24 Thread Lauri Tischler
Tommi Virtanen wrote:
 
 I intend to package FreeS/WAN, the Linux IPSec
 framework, available at www.freeswan.org.
 I can hopefully provide kernel-patch packages
 for 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3 (2.4) kernels.

Great, does anybody know what kind of compatibility exists between
freeswan and f-secure-vpn and sonicwall-vpn and checkpoint-vpn
They all say that they are rfc-compliant
 
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Re: ITP: freeswan

2000-03-24 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Lauri Tischler was said to been seen saying:
 Great, does anybody know what kind of compatibility exists between
 freeswan and f-secure-vpn and sonicwall-vpn and checkpoint-vpn
 They all say that they are rfc-compliant
  
FreeS/WAN is supposed to be able interop with checkpoint and
NAI's solution among others... I have a sonicwall here in the office
but haven't been able to test it although sonicwall claims to interop
with checkpoint which would seem that freeswan would interop with it...

Respectfully,
Jeremy T. Bouse
UnderGrid Network Services, LLC

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OTP and potato

2000-03-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
I haven't been able to use my old, locally compiled, PAM module for one
time passwords with potato.
If somebody has a working setup I'd like to know how did he made it...

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Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-24 Thread Alan Clucas
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Raphael Hertzog wrote:

 Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait:
  This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in
  potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get
  it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it.
 
 I think this is quite stupid. fetchmail is an independant package, it
 won't break anything to use the version in woody ... and it would 10
 times easier to do. I'am already going to upload fetchmail 5.3.3 to
 potato, check the other thread (I think it's on debian-qa).

Ok then... I won't do anything.

Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something
useful to do :(

Alan



Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:24:23PM +, Alan Clucas wrote:
 Ok then... I won't do anything.
 
 Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something
 useful to do :(

You're quite welcome to go through the netbase bugs, and send in patches.
I've got a major redesign of a fundamental interface that needs doing [0],
some obscure bugs that need fixing, and some manpages that need writing
and/or fixing...

It's not hard to find something to do if you're willing to look, and you're
not too picky...

Cheers,
aj

[0] update-inetd needs a rewrite. It also needs to remain more or less
compatible. It also needs to end up being very tidy and flexible.
I'll end up working on this eventually, if no one else does, but if
someone else it first...

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Re: OTP and potato

2000-03-24 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:06:08PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
 I haven't been able to use my old, locally compiled, PAM module for one
 time passwords with potato.
 If somebody has a working setup I'd like to know how did he made it...

Maybe if you explained exactly what isn't working, you'de get better
results.

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