Re: killall is removed from procps

1998-01-02 Thread Joey Hess
BTW, could you make a procps-dev package with a libproc.a, and libproc's .h files in it? I need this for a package I would like to make called w.bassman, it's a different version of 'w', that links with libproc, and needs whattime.h to build. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Device files

1998-01-02 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Martin - I'm packaging a kernel driver for the Gravis Ultrasound sound card. It requires some special device files to be created (in addition to those normally used by the OSS driver) in order for all of its features to work. My question is, how should I create the device files? The same issue

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Richard Braakman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Hmm... OK for what? You said you needed David Engel's patch, you didn't say why :-) The effect of this patch on libc5-altdev will be to remove the Conflicts: libc5-dev line from its package description. This is part of the

Re[2]: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
| On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 3:06:02 PM | Richard wrote about need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is libc5-altdev OK in its present state? Hmm... OK for what? You said you needed David Engel's patch, you didn't say why :-) The effect of this patch on libc5-altdev

Re: Financial support

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
Pardon me for a nosy question. Does Debian have any money flowing in from users that is used to compensate full-time Debian developers? Debian does solicit donations to Bruce Peren's Software in the Public Interest, Inc. non-profit to help defray costs (like Internic fees, etc.). Here's a

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Richard Braakman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed before hamm. It's not yet clear to

Re: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like it but... I like it too. 1) How about dwww? (Yes, I know dwww needs a web server...) I think I'll add support for .dhelp files to dwww too. 2) I really dont like to have 2/3/... methods of building indexes of documentation installed in the debian system.

The next dwww (was Re: Financial support)

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
Look for an updated dwww package and a new kaffe+kore package this week Yuhuu! Is it the version with the big step forward, you promised some time ago? Unfortunately, not. It's more of a fix as many of the 40 bugs as possible release. It'll be a little step

Re: Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 02:46:11PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: YEs, that is the whole point. I need to be have an account on master, and added to the keyring, etc, for this all to work. I am going to keep working on This will be done, but everything needs some time. compiling for libc6, and

Re: Bleeding edge FTP repository updated to glibc2 + egcs.

1998-01-02 Thread Jim Pick
Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anybody already noted this here? [ Cut - Posting about Yggdrasil packages - RPM/deb/slackware/yggdrasil from common source ] Looks interesting! I wonder if they are proposing a new source packaging format - or if they are building all the

Re: Re[2]: My own Libc6 progress and package adoption drive, and I nee

1998-01-02 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Did you let the maintainer of the list (I think it was Phillipe Troin) : know you were taking maintenance of this package? I guess leting : debian-devel know is not enough. : Why would I do that, when I took over directly from the former maintainer?

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 1 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need someone to do a non-maintainer upgrade of libc5-altdev, installing the patch in David Engel's mail. I'm busy with boot floppies. Can someone pretty please do this? I have been talking with David about helping out here. I'll take a look at his

Re: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
The memory doesn't necessarily go away when you free or delete an object, unless you are running Electric Fence. Thus, it's perfectly possible that the program would work sometimes, with some libraries. By the way, the security folks said they got your new maintainer application four days ago and

Re: killall is removed from procps

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
Nobody's going to be upset if you create the new package. I think you should go ahead. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
OK, I think the patch is only necessary for libc5 run-time. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Financial support

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
It's not _my_ corporation. It's got 4 people on the board. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
It looks as if Richard has taken care of libc5, and libc5-altdev doesn't need a change. Dale, did you do the ae-using-slang upload? I'm going to need that soon. Thanks Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 2 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks as if Richard has taken care of libc5, and libc5-altdev doesn't need a change. Dale, did you do the ae-using-slang upload? I'm going to need that soon. I've been out of town, and just got back this evening. I already have the patches, (got them

Re: mysql: mysql won't compile with libc6-2.0.6 (Debian)

1998-01-02 Thread Scott Hanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott == Scott Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Scott /usr/lib/libc.a(connect.o): In function `__libc_connect': Scott connect.o(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `__connect' Scott /usr/lib/libpthread.a(wrapsyscall.o)(.text+0x3b0): first defined here Scott

Re[2]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
| On Friday, 2 January 98, at 12:15:19 AM | Bruce wrote about My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master! --- pacman-10.orig/board.cc +++ pacman-10/board.cc @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ oldtemp=oldlist; while (oldtemp) { //delete elements in the now previous

Re[4]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
| On Thursday, 1 January 98, at 8:55:02 PM | Martin wrote about My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master! On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 02:46:11PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: YEs, that is the whole point. I need to be have an account on master, and added to the

Re: Re[4]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I saw that bug report, to. Should the debian package still be name mdutils, : but use the raidtools source? If not, how should the dependencies be set to : make sure that someone upgrading will get raidtools, and have mdutils : deselected. See the

Re: Re[4]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 04:25:09AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: dbview closes 14563 Please do not close this. The package needs some investigation and will be libc6'ed by that time. If you have patches to it, please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok. I will try to isolate all the

Re: need libc5 non-maintainer upgrade

1998-01-02 Thread Chris Fearnley
'[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:' Actually, I'm not sure there is a problem with libc5-altdev. There definitely is a dependency clash between libc5 and libc6, which David Engel thinks we should patch by producing an upgrade for libc5. This will have to be installed before hamm. It's not yet clear to me

gmp_2.0.2-3.deb in hamm/devel ?

1998-01-02 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
Pardon my ignorance, but why is there an gmp_2.0.2-3.deb in hamm's devel directory when we have gmp2_2.0.2-4.deb in hamm/libs ? Gregor --- |Gregor Hoffleit Mathematisches Institut, Uni HD| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany | |

multiple jobs with buildpackage?

1998-01-02 Thread Douglas Bates
If I am running make on a multi-processor system I can use the -j switch to allow multiple jobs to be spawned. Is there a similar facility with dpkg-buildpackage or a way I can pass a '-j 4' option to calls to debian/rules? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Announce: Yet Another Text Editor (Yate)

1998-01-02 Thread Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd
Hi! [first of all sorry for the heavy crossposting] [second of all please cc: your replies to me (either this address, or the one at the bottom)] I hereby announce the existence of Yate (Yet Another Text Editor). It is in GPL and in embrionic state, still it makes a linuxdoc-sgml file (and if

Re: gmp_2.0.2-3.deb in hamm/devel ?

1998-01-02 Thread Scott Ellis
Package: ftp.debian.org On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but why is there an gmp_2.0.2-3.deb in hamm's devel directory when we have gmp2_2.0.2-4.deb in hamm/libs ? Probably because Guy missed removing it. I'm forwarding this as a bug against ftp.debian.org

Re: killall is removed from procps

1998-01-02 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two options: I merge the psmic into procps I create a new package called psmisc. procps is required. pure compatability would argue that psmisc also be required (or something very close). -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

tecra patch?

1998-01-02 Thread bruce
Who maintains the tecra patch, and where can I find it? Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Not Allowed == Policy? (libbfd)

1998-01-02 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I was wondering about that too -- because gdb has an older bfd in it that doesn't support sparc-linux, but we've got a current sparc-linux libbfd; if gdb could use the common package and shared lib, it would save a lot of porting work. (Of course, I was hoping someone else would do it -- trying

Re[6]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!

1998-01-02 Thread Adam Heath
Ok. I will try to isolate all the patches that affect these programs. Some bugs, however, should be merged(see majordomo), and I don't know if a non-developer(yet!) can do it. Everybody who has access to the bugtracking system can merge bugreports. And as you only need to have mail access

Re: gmp_2.0.2-3.deb in hamm/devel ?

1998-01-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but why is there an gmp_2.0.2-3.deb in hamm's devel directory when we have gmp2_2.0.2-4.deb in hamm/libs ? As the maintainer, I have no idea. I uploaded both gmp2 and gmp2-dev and they are both where they belong. gmp2 will

Re: menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

1998-01-02 Thread joost witteveen
The menu package is amazingly flexible. :-) (thanks!). (And, BTW, I agree with all that you said and I didn't repeat). wait=t or wait=nil - some programs exit after output, but I want to read it first. (like how mc says push a key after it runs a cmd.) This is a good idea, and can be

Linking shared libraries with -lc

1998-01-02 Thread Richard Braakman
I made a list of packages that include shared libraries for which ldd says statically linked. I plan to use this list to automatically generate bug reports (about 50). However, I am unsure of the text to use. This is my first try:

Re: menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

1998-01-02 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
joost == joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: joost Uhm, there's a slight problem with ifeq($visable, joost false,...). If we assign booleans to the string variables joost ($visable etc are essentially strings), then I'd prefer joost them to by default to have the 0 value.

Re^2: dhelp 0.2 - a online help system

1998-01-02 Thread Marco Budde
Am 01.01.98 schrieb fog # perosa.alpcom.it ... Moin [EMAIL PROTECTED] f I like it but... Fine :). f 1) How about dwww? (Yes, I know dwww needs a web server...) On my notebook dwww is very slow when your're accessing documents. And building the index produces a very high load on this system.

xforms0.86 package insanity

1998-01-02 Thread Ben Gertzfield
From the bug reprts on the xforms0.86 package, I've been able to ascertain the following: xforms0.86 currently depends on elf-x11r6, a virtual package that is now obsolete. xforms0.86 is libc5, and available in binary form only. xforms0.88 is available, and is distributed compiled for libc6.

libotcl1 package completed

1998-01-02 Thread Michael Borella
I've finally packaged up the shared and static versions of the otcl libraries. Otcl allows embedded objects in tcl and is used by a number of interesting applications. I've only compiled them against libc5 but will upgrade them to libc6 soon, I hope. Testing is encouraged. Take a look at:

Re: xforms0.86 package insanity

1998-01-02 Thread Richard Braakman
Ben Gertzfield wrote: [xforms0.86] I think this more than warrants a non-maintainer upload.. Heh, it wouldn't be a non-maintainer upload. If xforms 0.88 is packaged, it will become a new package named xforms0.88. Whoever packages it will simply be the maintainer of that package. Richard

Re: xforms0.86 package insanity

1998-01-02 Thread Scott Hanson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Braakman) writes: Ben Gertzfield wrote: [xforms0.86] I think this more than warrants a non-maintainer upload.. Heh, it wouldn't be a non-maintainer upload. If xforms 0.88 is packaged, it will become a new package named xforms0.88. Whoever packages it will

Re: xforms0.86 package insanity

1998-01-02 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Scott == Scott Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott As soon as someone packages xforms0.88, I'll rebuild both Scott xmysql and xmysqladmin with it... Well, I guess I'll do so, since nobody else is stepping forward to do it. Should I distribute the binary-only .tar.gz as the