Re: Need bash-programmer for file-rc

1998-04-18 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Mar 31, 1998 at 02:20:29AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I'm the maintainer of the file-rc package. File-rc is a replacement > > > for the old /etc/rc?.d system. It manages the startup scripts in one > > > single file /etc/runlevel.conf. > > > > > > This package contains a replaceme

Re: signals and atomicity

1998-04-18 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > if the signal occurs after the wait system call, but before the result of > the system call is stored in "wait_or_timeout_retval", the fact, that > the system call succeeded is lost. > this is (1) a bug in apache and (2) a problem of me that i want to s

Re: Anyone want to make a Debian XDM login screen?

1998-04-18 Thread Austin Donnelly
Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously Brian Mays wrote: > > There is an easy way to get this button on your screen, assuming that you > > have the TCL/TK packages installed. > > I've done the same thing (using Motif), but added a confirmation check.. > I've found that when I m

Re: elvis package

1998-04-18 Thread Martin Mitchell
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone wrote: > > > 4 or 5? No, in fact there are only 2 vi clones in main: nvi and vim. > > > ae and emacs in vi-mode certainly don't count. elvis, unlike nvi and vim > > > is the only one with X support. We should continue to push for it to be > > >

Re: elvis package

1998-04-18 Thread r3chard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I wish you good luck contacting the author. Neither the former > elvis maintainer, Anders Something, nor me were able to contact > him. We both sent mail to him but didn't get any response. This > makes me very sad and angry about it. This is the r

Re: Uploaded timidity-patches 0.1-3 (source all) to master

1998-04-18 Thread Martin Mitchell
Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >From the copyright: > > > >From the README on archive.cs.umbc.edu: > > > 1) GUS instruments were freely obtained from anonymous ftp site: > > archive.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/pc/ultrasound/gravis/disk > > So they were extracted from the GUS

Re: *** The Upcoming Release of Hamm ***

1998-04-18 Thread John Goerzen
Hartmut Koptein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Make it harder! From now on no new upstream versions to frozen. Cleaning > Incoming. 1. May is 'early beta' and 1. June is release time (to have some > more time for arch maintainers and testers). Please let's not delay it that long if we can prevent

Twin v3.1.5

1998-04-18 Thread Erik Andersen
Hi folks, Twin, the cross-platform windows emulator and development libs, has recently had version v3.1.5 released. I have been planning on packing it up, but now that this release is finally out, I find that I am absolutely swamped at my work! If anybody wants to pack it up for Debian, please

Re: fltk and XForms compliance

1998-04-18 Thread Mark Baker
On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 11:56:02AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > That will be a problem with lyx as the upstream side is thinking about a > > switch anyway, but qt is the leading candidate there. > > Someone should tell them about GTK, now that version 1.0 has been released. > A little bit of

xpenguin (formerly known as xteddy)

1998-04-18 Thread Alex Romosan
i got bored so i replaced xteddy with the linux logo. voila! here comes the new xpenguin. i still like my xteddy better, but if anybody is interested, you can get xpenguin by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov (you'll also find xteddy there). --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, b

deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Brederlow
I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish between the two. The main advantage would be that one could use tar.bz2 for deb package

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Stephan Kulow
> > I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via > the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could > teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish > between the two. > > The main advantage would be that one could use tar.bz2

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Christophe Broult
Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via > > the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could > > teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish > > between the two. > > >

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread James Troup
Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files > > via the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one > > could teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to > > distinguish between the two. > > > > The m

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote: >I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via >the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could >teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish >between the two. Debian tar has a patch w

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Falk Hueffner
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote: > >I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via > >the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could > >teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to disti

Re: bug#17532: read all responses; va down, can't check bug status

1998-04-18 Thread Philip Hands
Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on debian-policy): > Hi... > > I had been talking to Guy on irc a coupla times, and he let me know he'd work > on the bug. It's been a few days, and today I tried to check the current > status but it seems www.debian.org is down. Checking another mirror revealed >

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Brederlow
Christophe Broult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > BTW: tar can handle bz2 files. you can use --use-compress-program=bzip2. > > That option isn't working properly with bzip2 but hopefully bzip2 is > now supported by tar ie > > tar cIf > tar xIf > ta

Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-18 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Peter Tobias wrote: > On Apr 16, Santiago Vila wrote: > > Summary: In a bo system, I managed to upgrade netstd without installing > > libreadlineg2 first and the simple ftp client stopped working. This is a > > really bad situation I really

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: I'm the tar maintainer for Debian, among other things. : -z filter through gzip, bzip, bzip2 as appropriate : That would be a nice thing. But really hard to get right for compression. :-) For decompression, it is conceivable that you could pick t

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: :> Debian tar has a patch which hands off files to bzip2 if the -I option is :> passed to it. : Why wasn't the -z option expanded to recognize the bzip2 signature? : That would seem to be a better solution to me. Because the options are used both on comp

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Brederlow
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stephan Kulow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files > > > via the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one > > > could teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Brederlow
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > I'm the tar maintainer for Debian, among other things. > > : -z filter through gzip, bzip, bzip2 as appropriate > > : That would be a nice thing. > > But really hard to get right for compression. :-)

intent to package flip

1998-04-18 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Here are the author's description and copyright. I have questions about each. > This program converts text file between MS-DOS and **IX format. It > works under System V, 4.3BSD, Ultrix, and MS-DOS/Turbo C. It detects > binary files in a nearly foolproof way and leaves them alone unless you > o

qpopper2.2 and Debian Linux

1998-04-18 Thread David Ty Lee
I am a new commer to the Debuan Linux. I use the shadow password file. I installed qpopper 2.2 and couldn't get it work properly. I am getting a 'password is incorrect' message. Can somebody help? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

non-US

1998-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
What is the upload procedure for non-US? And what is the status of non-US with regard to frozen etc; what distribution should I use to get into non-us/slink? thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.a

`Usenix-88-lexic.pdf': Paper refered to in gcc texinfo manual.

1998-04-18 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
The `gcc' texinfo, "(gcc.info)Nested Functions", refers to a paper about trampolines, and references a server in Chili that no longer has the paper. I asked around a while ago about it, and got sent a copy of it in `pdf' format. I would like it if someone could put it up in a stable and permane

Re: non-US

1998-04-18 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 02:15:57AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > What is the upload procedure for non-US? And what is the status > of non-US with regard to frozen etc; what distribution should I use > to get into non-us/slink? Same as for non non-US, same .changes file, same distribution field. O

Re: intent to package flip

1998-04-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > Here are the author's description and copyright. I have questions > about each. > > > This program converts text file between MS-DOS and **IX format. It > > works under System V, 4.3BSD, Ultrix, and MS-DOS/Turbo C. It detects > > binary files in

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 15:30 +0200 1998-04-18, Falk Hueffner wrote: >Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote: >> >I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via >> >the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could >> >teach gzip

bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The bzip2 tool is vastly less well deployed than gzip, so you'd be > making it much harder for folks not running Debian boxes to play. > You would also have to add bzip2 to the base/essential list in > Debian, and it's not clear to me that having two compr

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread James Troup
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > appropriate, though? By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine upstream source (since the vast majority of source stills comes in .tar.gz form). Having sa

Re: Upgrading from bo to hamm

1998-04-18 Thread Steve Greenland
On 13-Apr-98, 09:05 (CDT), Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [re: bad symlinks for ldconfig] > > The messages are a symptom of not having the library and -dev package > versions in sync. The solution is to either bring them into sync, or > uninstall the -dev package. Either way will fix y

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > > appropriate, though? > By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine > upstream source (since the vast majority of s

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Raul Miller
Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > appropriate, though? Not as the only format -- even the linux kernel is available in gzipped tar. I'm sorry, but the source format is needed in a far wider range of contexts than the .d

Re: xpenguin (formerly known as xteddy)

1998-04-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > i got bored so i replaced xteddy with the linux logo. voila! here > comes the new xpenguin. i still like my xteddy better, but if anybody > is interested, you can get xpenguin by anonymous ftp from > caliban.lbl.gov (you'll also find xteddy there). Why dont u make a debian PAckage out of it

/etc/group lossage

1998-04-18 Thread Raul Miller
Today, when installing some packages, I noticed some errors that I didn't expect. Looking closer, my /etc/group file had been damaged. Looking closer, I found a couple of packages (msqld and sudo) which updated /etc/group in what I would consider an insufficiently paranoid fashion. While they co

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > > appropriate, though? > I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of t

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Daniel> I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using Daniel> bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of thing. Is this Daniel> true is it just FUD? IIRC that was the case for bzip compression. Bzip2 was rewritten to avoid it. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intent to package: debian-keyring

1998-04-18 Thread James Troup
Hi, Santiago approached us (pgp-update) about splitting the debian-keyring from doc-debian because a) the keyring tar ball is currently 256Kb (36% of doc-debian's installed size) and growing (it may eventually double in size when I get round to adding a debian-keyring.gpg) and b) the keyring is up

Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

1998-04-18 Thread Yann Dirson
Joel Klecker writes: > However, I have run across a patch that adds an option that does use magic > numbers to guess which compression program to use. The URL was posted on > gnu.misc.discuss some months ago, but it is unfortunately not on dejanews. For things like that, I have developped a uti

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Yann Dirson
James Troup writes: > Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be > > appropriate, though? > > By recompressing things in bzip2, you lose the ability to use pristine > upstream source (since the vast majority of source s

Re: xpenguin (formerly known as xteddy)

1998-04-18 Thread Alex Romosan
>Why dont u make a debian PAckage out of it? You can do one PAckage >xteddy with an additonal command-line parameter to select the >personality shown. somebody else (Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) has already expressed interest in packaging xteddy. i can share the pixmaps with him though. --a