Re: Documentation/License freeness

1998-06-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 08:42:14PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > > On Jun 06, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > > > Documentation may be include

ANNOUNCE: Debian NetWinder Porting Project

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, I'm helping to organize an effort to port Debian GNU/Linux to run on the new Corel NetWinder NCs ( http://www.corelcomputer.com/ ). Debian GNU/Linux is the largest Linux distribution, with over 1500 packages and ports to Intel, Alpha, m68k, PowerPC and Sparc. It is being developer entirely

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread peloy
Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The bug report pretty much says: > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration > problem. I personally do not have/use samba, but I know of at least 2 p

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08

1998-06-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 18:29 -0700 1998-06-08, Richard Braakman wrote: > >Package: login > >Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore > > As I quoted in a reply to 22191: > > Here's what the author says in libmisc/chowntty.

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Alright, the more I think about this, the more I think that James is probably right. (NO flames, people can change there minds can't they?) Mc doesn't belong in the base set. However I do think more attention should be paid to the user. (not alot more ju

kernel 2.0.34 & fat32

1998-06-09 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
Thanks to everyone that pointed out that the fat32 patches ARE in 2.0.34. I assumed that fat32 remained a configure option, but it appears that it is now a standard feature (of fat). At least that's why I could not find any reference to fat32 in the configure scripts. It must be a mess for the ke

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread peloy
Remco Blaakmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, I did wonder why you stopped answering my messages. Sorry about that Remco, my apologies :-( I guess I got kind of busy + was afraid of dealing with xinetd, something I have never touched before :-) >> Today I e-mailed Jeremy Allison (from the Sa

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 12:30:50PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > The bug report pretty much says: > > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user con

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 03:55:58PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:56:44PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > > The bug report pretty much says: > > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just

Re: HELP! Need dhcp-1.0.0-3!!!

1998-06-09 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, > > I have just installed dhcp-1.0.1-1 (replacing dhcp-1.0.0-3) and now > > all my clients are unable to renew their leases. I deleted the old > > dhcp-1.0.0-3 in my local mirror so I am unable to downgrade. Does > > anyone keep an old package around that can send to me or put for FTP > > some

Re: Documentation/License freeness

1998-06-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Fabien! On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:41:38AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > I'm not sure I understand you well but here is my opinions about freeness > of Documentation: > > Documentation describing the functionnality of a software are dependant > of the software. Then, they should be consid

Re: [Fwd: Debian Netwinders]

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As for the machines, he says the developers versions are the > top-of-the-line model, with a 3.1 GB hard drive and 64 MB of RAM. I > think they are based on a 233MHz StrongARM. ^^ Oops, make that a 275MHz StrongARM. I found

Re: [Fwd: Debian Netwinders]

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like you guys can talk to Chris or San directly about Netwinder > development if you wish. I just phoned Chris Herrnberger (the OCLUG guy), and quizzed him. He says Corel has loaned OCLUG ten Netwinders for development purposes. If we want to g

package list out of date in debian/dists/unstable/main/

1998-06-09 Thread stefan kluth
Hi, I just tried to download the gnu/egcs c++ and c compilers, but I couldn't because the versions in the packagelist and of the actual packages don't match. I looked in: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ an example is egcs g++: in Packages: Package: g++ Version: 2

Re: RETRACTED msql 2.0.3-4

1998-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 12:55:53PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > I have moved msql 2.0.3-4 into Incoming/REJECT > > - Forwarded message from James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Schulze) writes: > > >* Added pre-dependency for passwd to msqld as its tools

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also have an offer from one of Brian's friends (he was lent one of the > Netwinders). He is willing to give a few people accounts on his > Netwinder. He just has a few security concerns to address first (he's > got to pick up a hub to connect the Ne

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When/if they are ready and Corel doesn't want to sell them directly, > someone like varesearch or linuxmall could be convinced to become > resellers. (Or even Red Hat would be interesting...) Even non-traditional channels could resell them (as long as

Re: kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
I haven't tested it, but it really looks like Gordon Chaffee's patches are included. homey 4 > rgrep -i -r 'fat32' . ./fs/fat/cache.c: fat_bits == 16 ? EOF_FAT16 : EOF_FAT3 2); ./fs/fat/inode.c: int fat32; ./fs/fat/in

[Fwd: Debian Netwinders]

1998-06-09 Thread Behan Webster
Looks like you guys can talk to Chris or San directly about Netwinder development if you wish. Later, Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ --- Begin Message --- Greetings Behan; Nice to see you comming on board. Here are the offical cont

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Behan Webster
Jim Pick wrote: > > Sign me up - I can come up with $1000 CDN no problem. Drat. Sorry. I just talked to one of the Netwinder developpers. It doesn't sound like they are selling the Netwinder yet. Even to developpers. Just lending them out. Although I get the feeling that they will start sel

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Behan Webster
Steve Dunham wrote: > > I'd like to see the Corel Computers used as generic cheap Linux > Computers. They are reported to be fairly cheap, perform reasonably > well and have lots of neat I/O features. (NTSC in/out, 2 ethernet > ports.) The demo I saw seemed to show the Netwinder to be pretty fa

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > The bug report pretty much says: > > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration > > proble

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Shaleh
They are not out yet. I think they are talking August 1. Pre-production demos/betas are floating around. I played w/ one of these at Linux Expo. Currently it is a mix of a.out and ELF and RH 4.2 kludged w/ 5.x. So the software is flaky and the compilation tools are still being tweaked. On top

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > They are only giving discounts to OCLUG members, but since I'm in OCLUG, > > I could probably approach the appropriate people to do some enquiries. > > I wouldn't hold your breath though. OCLUG is very RedHat b

p3nfs (was Bug #21488: p3nfs linked against libc5)

1998-06-09 Thread Chris Reed
As listed in The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08, p3nfs is still linked against libc5, and the maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billy C.-M. Chow) cannot be contacted. I have looked on ftp.uni-elargen.de:/pub/psion3/local/utilities and found a glibc diff for ve

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-09 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > Dale Scheetz writes: > > Second: this was supposidly the last pre-release before the final version, > > and I wanted it to get some testing. > > > > I will be coming out with a "final" Debian version in the next week or > > two, depending on how much

Re: Bug#22928: New upstream security fix release

1998-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about the idea of running the x server directly from init, > > and using xdmcp? Is that bogus? > > In fact, someone sent in reasonable-looking patches that do just that, > not long before I stopped working on X; they should be in one of the X > b

gcc problems with /usr/lib/crt1.o

1998-06-09 Thread servis
Debian Developers, I recently upgraded to the hamm distribution. Ever since the upgrade I have not been able to compile anything with gcc. Even a simple hello world program fails to compile. Example: /* hello world */ #include int main(void) { printf("Hello world!\n"); return 0; } /* end h

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:02:55AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential > > convenience". > > vi has the advantage of being backward compatible into the early '80s. > > The only unix editors which vi

Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe we should raise our demands to our developers: We should probably make > clear *before* someone wants to become a developer that the job of a > developer is not only care about the packages he/she maintains, but also the > quality of the whole dis

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >What is it people see in vi in terms of _using_ it? My opinion FWIW is that >vi's presentation rivals that of dselect in general, with vi inching dselect >out for not forcing one to follow a

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't ease of use more important than standardness when it comes to > an editor to be used for a rescue situation? I think that I would try > doing an alternative set of boot disks to see how folx liked them. Is > it possible to make mc use vi? On the rescue disk, s

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-09 Thread James Troup
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > severity 20250 important > severity 17381 important > severity 19218 important > severity 19991 important > severity 21812 important > merge 20250 17381 19218 19991 21812 > thanks Please note that --force-overwrite really has to be turned back on by def

Re: kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> conclude that it probably is there (maybe in a different form Bob> than the patches). Bob> As usual, the documentation lags the code, of course. The documentation is off on Alan Cox's site -- it seems you have to activate NLS support and UTF8

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They are only giving discounts to OCLUG members, but since I'm in OCLUG, > I could probably approach the appropriate people to do some enquiries. > I wouldn't hold your breath though. OCLUG is very RedHat based. I've talked to some of the Corel guys

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Behan Webster
Jim Pick wrote: > > Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I bet we could brow-beat Corel into donating a few boxes. I heard > > > they go as cheap as $300 US for a diskless configuration. > > > > It's all just rumors, I've heard nothing back from them. We might > > have to brow-beat

Re: kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded the sources for the 2.0.34 kernel and did a quick look through > the files. The fat-32 patches do not seem to be in here. If 2.0.34 is to > be released as a debian package, then I hope all of the patches that are in > the 2.0.33 package

Re: Release management - technical

1998-06-09 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think that in order to make sense of what's being said here we need > to step back a bit, and think about abstractions rather than > implementation. Lots of people (myself included) have been posting > rather detailed proposals. > >

Re: Release management - technical

1998-06-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : We need to think about what kinds of thing need to happen to a package : or to a distribution before we release it as `stable'. Yes. I find it impossible to completely divorce the conceptual model from any reference to details of the present or any pro

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Jim
> Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential > > > convenience". > > > > vi has the advantage of being backward compatible into the early '80s. > > > > The only unix editors which vie

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-09 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: > Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says "do not install > /usr/doc files"? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o > them. That would not fix Bug #17381 (overwriting /usr/include/linux), for exa

Re: Intent to pakage astrolog

1998-06-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 06:14:16PM -0700, Tom Lear wrote: > 100% freeware of course means it has to go into non-free, because of a > plethora of copyrights, all less than acceptable. :) > Any objections? Not as long the scientific software overcounts the pseudo-scientific :) Marcus stud. rer.

dpkg and alpha/beta versioning (Was: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1)

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Gregory S. Stark writes: > this problem keeps coming up. i was thinking it would be handy to have a > character that is defined to sort before 0 and before the empty string. > tilde seems like the best choice to me, so something like: > > krb4-0.9.9~980514 > fltk-0.9.9~980527 > mpsql-2.0~

Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 08:02:05PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This again means that we need to encourage more maintainers to work on > > multi-package-solution and to skip the 300-mini-cathedral-situation. > > Only few people are working on package tha

Re: dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-09 Thread Shaleh
Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says "do not install /usr/doc files"? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg bug when "overwriting" directories.

1998-06-09 Thread Santiago Vila
severity 20250 important severity 17381 important severity 19218 important severity 19991 important severity 21812 important merge 20250 17381 19218 19991 21812 thanks (What follows is described already by Florian Hinzmann in Bug #21812) To reproduce this error, I have created two packages "foo"

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I bet we could brow-beat Corel into donating a few boxes. I heard > > they go as cheap as $300 US for a diskless configuration. > > It's all just rumors, I've heard nothing back from them. We might > have to brow-beat them into selling boxes. You

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The bug report pretty much says: > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration > problem. I personally do not have/use samba, but I know of at lea

Re: namespace pollution in bind?

1998-06-09 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got to this a little late, but how about putting them in a > > subdirectory, like the mh commands are ? /usr/bin/dnsquery or some > > such. > > > > Then if you wanted these commands you could at it to your PAT

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 05:28:46PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim) writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > We _must_ have a vi (or at worst, vi clone) available in the base > > > system. ME TOO > This doesn't touch the fact that MC would be a very convenient additional

Re: namespace pollution in bind?

1998-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got to this a little late, but how about putting them in a > subdirectory, like the mh commands are ? /usr/bin/dnsquery or some > such. > > Then if you wanted these commands you could at it to your PATH. That's overkill, and doesn't solve any problems.

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread James Troup
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This doesn't touch the fact that MC would be a very convenient > additional feature for a user friendly Debian base system. a) I don't think it would be, b) that's not what the proposal was; the proposal was to remove ae *and elvis-tiny* from the base sys

Re: namespace pollution in bind?

1998-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes ("Re: namespace pollution in bind?"): > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > : ... lintian flags the 'mx' and 'ns' commands as possible namespace > pollution. > > Ok, I'm convinced. The 8.1.2-2 package still includes these commands, and I > will leave them in indefinit

Re: About the Hamm Freeze (!)

1998-06-09 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
* James Troup (Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 07:47:21PM +0100) > > Blah. An even quicker ldd reveals this is already not the case. > > 20:45:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ldd /usr/bin/perl | grep gdbm > libgdbm.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40015000) > 20:46:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ > > Until _that_ ch

Re: Documentation/License freeness

1998-06-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 01:22:33AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 08:42:14PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > On Jun 06, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > Documentation may be included in main so long as there are no restrictions > > on the unmodified use of the documentation

Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Jim writes ("Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem "): > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > We must decouple our development tracks much more. I propose that we > > resolve never again to plan a release with is not fully backward > > compatible with the current stable version. > > I like this idea

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential > > convenience". > > vi has the advantage of being backward compatible into the early '80s. > > The only unix editors which vie with vi for standa

Release management - technical

1998-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
I think that in order to make sense of what's being said here we need to step back a bit, and think about abstractions rather than implementation. Lots of people (myself included) have been posting rather detailed proposals. Q. What are we trying to achieve ? A. There are two possibilities that

Release management - politics

1998-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson - Debian Project Leader
Just briefly: we will _not_ be voting on release process/ architecture. This is a technical decision, and is therefore up to the developers concerned (Brian, mainly), and the Technical Committee. Technical design and decisions must not be left to a vote. I'll be making another posting about techn

guavac bug #22325

1998-06-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi Brian, Bug #22325, marked important, says that my package guavac has an unsatisfied suggestion on java-virtual-machine. I need your advice on what to do about it. My thoughts are: 1. It's a suggestion only, so nothing will break if it doesn't exist. Unfortunately dselect is a bit picky abo

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential > convenience". vi has the advantage of being backward compatible into the early '80s. The only unix editors which vie with vi for standardness are ed (the unix standard), and emacs (backwards

Re: Port conflict ...bug?

1998-06-09 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Joey Hess wrote: > Stephen Carpenter wrote: > > I would supose that it is not very common to run both xfs and xfstt on the > > same machine (esp since xfstt currently only accepts 1 simultaneous > > connection --something I hope to change) b

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Steve Dunham
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: > > >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network > > >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? > > Vincent Renardias is appar

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As far as being 'happy' about it.. well, it's nice that it's cleared > up, but.. I don't think we changed much other than some licensing > details. This software wasn't intended to be non-free... If > anything, I'm happy to put this behind me and get on with other > thi

Re: What version of glibc in Hamm?

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Dale Scheetz writes: > Second: this was supposidly the last pre-release before the final version, > and I wanted it to get some testing. > > I will be coming out with a "final" Debian version in the next week or > two, depending on how much Ulrich stonewalls the upstream release. Hm... it wi

An idea for the BTS (Was: Weeding out slink bug reports)

1998-06-09 Thread Yann Dirson
Richard Braakman writes: > Dennis L. Clark wrote: > > Can anyone think of an automated way to weed out bug reports on versions > > which haven't been released into hamm from the release-critical list? A > > quick fix would be to modify the priority of the bug report, but that > > would be The

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:56:44PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > The bug report pretty much says: > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration > problem. I personally do not have/use samba, but I

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, I will upload a new version of ircII with a note on the free copyright and some minor fixes later this week. Have a nice day. eckes -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMA

Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

1998-06-09 Thread Jim
Hi all... another comment from the peanut gallery (i.e., non-voter) :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > We _must_ have a vi (or at worst, vi clone) available in the base > system. Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential convenience". Fact about VI: it has two modes whic

Re: kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread fog
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 07:42:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded the sources for the 2.0.34 kernel and did a quick look through > the files. The fat-32 patches do not seem to be in here. If 2.0.34 is to > be released as a debian package, then I hope all of the patches that are in

Re: mutt & pgp

1998-06-09 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:10:52PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote: > why is mutt compiled without pgp-support as default? Because of US export restrictions on software containing cryptographic code. The version that's available from ftp.debian.org and its mirrors ("mutt") is compiled without PGP s

Bug#23125: marked as done (Hamm generation with FTP)

1998-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Your message dated Tue, 9 Jun 1998 13:57:11 +0200 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#23125: Hamm generation with FTP has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your

mutt & pgp

1998-06-09 Thread Michael Dietrich
hi all, why is mutt compiled without pgp-support as default? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

kernel 2.0.34

1998-06-09 Thread Kenneth . Scharf
I downloaded the sources for the 2.0.34 kernel and did a quick look through the files. The fat-32 patches do not seem to be in here. If 2.0.34 is to be released as a debian package, then I hope all of the patches that are in the 2.0.33 package are added. Also has anyone packaged the Real Time li

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org down ?

1998-06-09 Thread Philip Hands
> You wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:02:57AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > > Since a few days, I'm unable to connect to ftp1.us.debian.org. > > > I always get an error "530 Unable to chdir.". Could somebody look > > > into this ? > > > > Netgod "stole" its disk in order to produce some

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: > At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: > >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network > >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? > > Vincent Renardias is apparently working on an arm port of Debian (In bug

Re: ftp1.us.debian.org down ?

1998-06-09 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
You wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:02:57AM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > Since a few days, I'm unable to connect to ftp1.us.debian.org. > > I always get an error "530 Unable to chdir.". Could somebody look > > into this ? > > Netgod "stole" its disk in order to produce some Debian CD-ROMs

Re: Slink updates?

1998-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 12:37:17AM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > It seems that the newest 'Packages' files in the slink distribution > are from May 30th. Is there a problem? Yes. See also http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/db/23/23306.html Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze

Processed: f

1998-06-09 Thread Ian Jackson
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 23125 general Bug#23125: Hamm generation with FTP Bug assigned to package `general'. > reassign 23174 pppupd Bug#23174: can't remobe old version of pppupd Bug assigned to package `pppupd'. > reassign 23252 xbase Bug#23252: error in x-base con

Slink updates?

1998-06-09 Thread Tor Slettnes
It seems that the newest 'Packages' files in the slink distribution are from May 30th. Is there a problem? -tor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Have to get rid of at least some packages

1998-06-09 Thread Craig Small
Michael Meskes wrote: > Here's a list of my packages. It also contains the packages for which I made > the last non-maintainer upload. [...] > djtools 1.0-2 I'll take djtools if it hasn't already gone. - Craig (sitting on the end of a dead 7513 :< ) -- Craig Small VK2XLZ, PGP:

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: > >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network > >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? > > Vincent Renardias is apparently working on an arm port of Debian (In bu

Debian Gnome anxiety cure

1998-06-09 Thread Jim Pick
Pre-release .debs (still under construction). 24 of 'em, more to come. ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/debian/testing/ Be fore-warned - they've hardly been tested. Also, the imlib packages aren't the real ones - they're just quick hacks so I could compile the rest. Sean Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: On adding size info to Packages files

1998-06-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 09:31:01AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Michael" == Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Michael> If the the size information isn't in the debian-package, > Michael> then i must download two files (NAME-VERSION.deb and > Michael> NAME-VERSION.size.gz) or

Mod player release

1998-06-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
Hi all, I finally got around to releasing my old module player, a few people were vaugely interested. It is maintainerless (completely) unless somone wants to pick up, I've put the source at http://www.debian.org/~jgg/muse it compiles and appears to run OK under ALSA/OSS on latest-hamm. The re

Re: Uploaded mpsql 2.0-1 (source i386) to erlangen

1998-06-09 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yann Dirson writes: > > Hm, assuming the "b1" means it's beta stuff, I think it would be > > better to keep it in the Debian version. Changing the version number > > Yes, but then slink is also beta. > > > * heavily using epochs > > I HATE epochs!

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08

1998-06-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 18:29 -0700 1998-06-08, Richard Braakman wrote: >Package: login >Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 22191 login: does not chown /dev/vcs* anymore As I quoted in a reply to 22191: Here's what the author says in libmisc/chowntty.c: #ifdef __linux__ /* * Please don't a

Re: Corel Network Computer Port

1998-06-09 Thread Joel Klecker
At 21:20 -0700 1998-06-05, Steve Dunham wrote: >Does anyone have any definite information on the Corel Network >computers? Is anyone else interested in doing a Debian port? Vincent Renardias is apparently working on an arm port of Debian (In bug #21327 against ftp.debian.org, he asks for a binary

Intent to pakage astrolog

1998-06-09 Thread Tom Lear
Astrolog is a many featured and customizable astrology chart calculation program for DOS, Windows, Mac, and Unix, used in 30+ countries on six continents. It is 100% freeware and requires no registration fee. :) The complete source code is available . Astrolog features: wheels, aspects, midpoints,

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:05:45AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: On the subject of ircII, thanks David, your effort is GREATLY appreciated. > > > RedHat for one doesn't care for this, so I think it's one of the > > > examples of what Debian is doing for Free Software with its > > > clear and visi

Re: ircII is now free.

1998-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:35:01PM -0700, David Welton wrote: > > RedHat for one doesn't care for this, so I think it's one of the > > examples of what Debian is doing for Free Software with its > > clear and visible ideological organization. > > Well, except for the fact that they are pumping 100

Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-09 Thread Raul Miller
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This again means that we need to encourage more maintainers to work on > multi-package-solution and to skip the 300-mini-cathedral-situation. > Only few people are working on package that are not maintained by > them, this needs to be re-considered. I'm