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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 13.04.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It is in experimental because the author asked me not to distribute it
widely. This means that even if it is not accesable by dselect, we
should not put it on CDs yet.
Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 03:54:37PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Personally, I am inclined to think that if your release fixed
bugs, and introduced not too many new features, it should go
into frozen.
Secondly, new maintainers do not have a corner on errors and
bugs; and I
Previously Branden Robinson wrote:
Isn't that what I just suggested?
Uhh...
(scratching head aimlessly)
I must be getting blind.. You're right of course. It's just that I didn't
notice the name of the program in your mail, just the URL.
Wichert.
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Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Branden One presumes that will stop very soon now. Both GTK+ and
Branden the GIMP are very, very close to a 1.0 release. For the
Branden GTK+, one can assume that the library interface will be
Branden stable for a while.
I originally asked that there be a D option which would do
diff -u $x $x.dpkg-dist | ${PAGER:-more}
I did too, though I'd make the change that any arguments given after
the D get passed to diff instead of -u... though -u is what I usually
want, it lets people use D -c if they want (it's a
Just wondering -- are we going to be shipping Debian 2.0 with IP
masquerading enabled by default in the kernel? I ask because
we have that nice /etc/init.d/ script that's setting up IP
masquerading policies..
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Debian packages for Debian 2.0/i386 have been uploaded to the master
Debian FTP archive and ftp.gimp.org.
GTK+ 1.0.0 will officially be a part of Debian 2.0, due to be released
in a few weeks.
Congrats, folks!
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On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:03:46AM -0600, someone wrote:
: Hi Heiko...
:
: What's missing from your proposal is any sense of *why* you want to do this.
:
: : I'd like to create a virtual package name:
:
: : either ftp-server
: : or ftpd
:
: Is there anything that depends on the
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 10:47:35AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
: I would *really* like to see all the debain packages using perl that
: attempt FTP to do so through the Net::FTP package! I then only have
: deal with my (slightly braindeab) fire-wall configuration once.
:
: Using bastardised
I intend to package 'jstation' for Debian. This is a suite of Java-based
software that implements a full-featured ground station for amateur radio
satellites using the Pacsat protocols.
Because jstation depends on JDK 1.1, it will go to contrib despite being
GPL'ed itself. This might change
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:04:28PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Just wondering -- are we going to be shipping Debian 2.0 with IP
masquerading enabled by default in the kernel? I ask because
we have that nice /etc/init.d/ script that's setting up IP
masquerading policies..
Do we? Which script
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hamish On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:04:28PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield
Hamish wrote:
Just wondering -- are we going to be shipping Debian 2.0 with
IP masquerading enabled by default in the kernel? I ask because
we have that nice
Hi,
for some reason I am unable to install bsdutils_4.2.deb and
bsdmainutils_4.2.deb (and only these package) on one of my debian
systems. dselect stops here:
Login as anonymous...
Setting transfer mode to binary...
Cd to `/pub/Linux/debian'...
getting:
Hi Fabrizio, Ulf,
Currently, the libdb2++ and libsidplay1-dev packages are the only ones that
depend on the virtual libg++-dev package.
In the past, upstream libg++ (e.g. libg++27) contained both the C++ standard
library and the GNU specific C++ classes. Currently, upstream libg++
contains only
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 05:16:54AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
(Not sure if this mail ever came through, so I'll quote it as a whole. Sorry
for duplicated messages if any)
I wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:22:55AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
Another weekend, another set of boot
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ftp/debian/dists/frozen/contrib/binary-i386/web# dpkg -i
netscape4_4.0-7.deb
Selecting previously deselected package netscape4.
(Reading database ... 61341 files and directories currently installed.)
Just wondering -- are we going to be shipping Debian 2.0 with IP
masquerading enabled by default in the kernel? I ask because
we have that nice /etc/init.d/ script that's setting up IP
masquerading policies..
Hi.
Well, script is sure nice, but when I installed the whole distribution from
Hi guys!
I intend to package tcputils. Here's the original README file:
-*- text -*-
WHAT IS THIS?
This is version 0.6 of tcputils, a collection of programs to
facilitate TCP programming in shell-scripts. There is also a
small library which makes it somewhat easier
Hello,
Imlib 1.1 has some bugs when loading files in TIFF, PNG, XPM format.
They are fixed in the latest CVS snapshot. Because it conflicts
with the policy this snapshot can't be included in the frozen tree.
But the current release in Debian is known to be buggy (sorry, I'm
not able to send a
Hello,
These latest boot floppies are excellent but there are a couple
of annoyances still outstanding:
1) After setting up the network and acknowledging the warning message
about using PPP as the default connection type, a flurry of error messages
are sprayed (almost randomly) over the
Well, script is sure nice, but when I installed the whole distribution from
scratch yesterday, it was some pain: I requested ipmasq package to be
installed (among other 800 or so things :) and when it asked me how to
configure itself, I had no idea how to answer the questions it asked -
On Tue 14 Apr 1998, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
scratch yesterday, it was some pain: I requested ipmasq package to be
installed (among other 800 or so things :) and when it asked me how to
configure itself, I had no idea how to answer the questions it asked -
like
the IP of external
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 12:36:09AM -0600, somebody wrote
: : Imagine a package ``internet server'' or a pre-selection called
: : ``internet server'', depending on:
: : httpd, ftpd, ...
: Ok. That almost makes sense. On the other hand, since the stock networking
: stuff provides a functional
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 06:58:45PM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote:
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 0.9-3
Severity: grave
tetex-bin has the following depends line which cannot be resolved
using hamm:
Depends: libc6,
There seems to be a lot of speculation about the upcoming release of Hamm.
The date April 20th seems to be the favorite date that is getting passed
around.
I can guarantee everyone right now that no release will be made at that
time. Because of the delays in freezing hamm and sheer lack of
Rev. Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 07:27:03AM -0400, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Well, script is sure nice, but when I installed the whole distribution from
scratch yesterday, it was some pain: I requested ipmasq package to be
installed (among other 800 or so
Hi.
Could we move jdk1.0.2 packages from non-free to hamm/non-free?
For those who has to write *applets* having jdk1.0.2 (with all the bugs)
is a must. Most of the currently installed browsers do not support
jdk1.1. Yes, it is possible to write a 1.0.2 code and compile it with
jdk1.1 javac, but
Heiko == Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Heiko Feel free to change dupload ...
It's on my list of things to do... right after beating mirror
into submission :)
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John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Indeed. It happened to me again today.
While watching my laptop shut-down last night, I noticed that mountd nsfd
*do* get stopped prior to the PCMCIA shutdown.
Maybe they're just not getting stopped hard enough :)
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On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:59:18AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 05:16:54AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
2) irritating: When installing from a (not yet mounted) hard disk partition
and entering the path to the main distribution, the
following
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did hear something about /etc/envronment, but I'm not sure what purpose it
has and if it works for all shells, etc. Well, I hope it is okay to change
/etc/profile, as it is *very* annoying for non-english users (esp. first
time user) to have to guess
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 07:57:45PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Klee is really *busy*. He didn't respond to some mail about koules (another,
but very unimportant) package. I did a nmr of koules, and still didn't hear
anything.
Do you have filed a bug against dpkg-perl, too? (As you say
Bdale == Bdale Garbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bdale Because jstation depends on JDK 1.1, it will go to contrib
Bdale despite being GPL'ed itself. This might change if a free
Bdale Java implementation for Debian can replace the JDK
Bdale dependency. This is my first foray into
On 14 Apr 1998, Stephen Zander wrote:
Hungry Programmers' is another alternative. Kaffe should be in the
2.0 distribution.
No it won't AFAIK. I've orphaned it more than 1 year ago and no-one
uploaded it, so I've asked it to be removed from the distribution (the
current 0.7.1-2 package is old
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 09:32:22PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Debian packages for Debian 2.0/i386 have been uploaded to the master
Debian FTP archive and ftp.gimp.org.
GTK+ 1.0.0 will officially be a part of Debian 2.0, due to be released
in a few weeks.
Did the interface change (e.g. do
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Vincent == Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vincent No it won't AFAIK. I've orphaned it more than 1 year ago
Vincent and no-one uploaded it, so I've asked it to be removed
Vincent from the distribution (the current 0.7.1-2 package is old
Vincent and buggy) and since I
Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
: making it possible for any server that can meet the need to provide the
: virtual package makes sense. If the best you can think of as a reason to do
: this for ftpd is to satisfy pre-selection bundling, then I'm not convinced
: yet.
Ok, so we don't create a
Would anyone want to take xpdf from me and make a free-world release? And
maybe even take over the package?
As a Canadian resident, I don't think I can deal with the encryption code (as
I understand it, the US laws for encryption technology make no difference
between US and Canadian residents).
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