Dynamic linker problem.

1998-06-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
I have a very serious problem with the latest stuff in hamm, it seems the dynamic linker has changed behavoir, an example: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../pkglib/.libs/ ldd ./apt-get libpkg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpkg.so.0 (0x4000c000) libstdc++.so.2.8 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 (0x400ce00

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-13 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Fearnley wrote: > But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line > /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID > for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time. Are you sure it's a problem with perl? I've had the

Re: apt and hamm

1998-06-13 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote: > I noticed that apt is not yet in hamm. In my opinion, this is the > currently the single most important issue for hamm: unless we have > a real good reason, we should be focussing our efforts around putting > apt into hamm. IMHO, the single most importan

Re: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-13 Thread Kevin Atkinson
Martin Schulze wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 01:48:58AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > After carefully reading over the license of Mysql it seems like it could > > be included in the main > > distribution area. > > > > I am wondering exactly what parts are preventing it from being > > inclu

apt and hamm

1998-06-13 Thread Raul Miller
I noticed that apt is not yet in hamm. In my opinion, this is the currently the single most important issue for hamm: unless we have a real good reason, we should be focussing our efforts around putting apt into hamm. [Yeah, it's new software -- it's also the best way to keep the hamm upgrade fro

RE: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-13 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Meskes, Michael wrote: > Please tell me what exactly you like more about mysql in comparison to > PostgreSQL which really is DFSG free. I find it much faster, it uses less resources... of course it has less features too, but you dont always need subselects and transactions.

Re: About 2.0.34 not being perfect

1998-06-13 Thread Adam P. Harris
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "There's always one more bug" > I got it. At least, I got one... > > Adam P. Harris writes: > > I know there were a few cyrix-specific fixes introduced in 2.0.34. > > Maybe some of the people experiencing this problem might test it out > > with that ke

Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, Originally I thought that it was OK that bug #19085 which I submitted about poor performance in perl was downgraded from "important" to "normal" severity because it only affected one application that I wrote. But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line /etc/passwd. Now

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-13 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Tomislav Vujec wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Problem is, you'll never be able to convince a DOS user of a text editor > > with different modes. Sorry, I don't think a dumb newbie should be able to > > install a workstation, but he should be able t

RE: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-13 Thread Meskes, Michael
Please tell me what exactly you like more about mysql in comparison to PostgreSQL which really is DFSG free. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager| topystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 521

Re: Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-13 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 04:56:20PM +0200, Remco van de Meent wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: > > : gd 1.3 is now DFSG free, and works around the patent issues too. I have > : uploaded a non-maintainer release of gd to main, thus, webalizer can go in > : main. > > Sounds reaso

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Steve Dunham
"James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a > list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would > help cut down duplicate bug reports. Now, I'm forced to download a > list of *all* the bugs. What about h

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:24:21PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Where should I start? > > I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a > list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would > help cut down du

Re: Intent to package: webalizer

1998-06-13 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Joel Klecker wrote: : gd 1.3 is now DFSG free, and works around the patent issues too. I have : uploaded a non-maintainer release of gd to main, thus, webalizer can go in : main. Sounds reasonable. Though, in the copyright file of webalizer, the copyright text of GD (1.2!)

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-12

1998-06-13 Thread Joel Klecker
At 17:47 -0700 1998-06-12, Richard Braakman wrote: >Package: libc6-dev >Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[HELP] Dale Scheetz: "I have not had a chance to even read these > reports yet. Some outside help determining what should, or > shouldn't change would be helpful here."

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Where should I start? I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would help cut down duplicate bug reports. Now, I'm forced to download a list of *all* the bugs.

dict-foldoc-19980612 removed from Incoming

1998-06-13 Thread Bob Hilliard
Yesterday, 12 Jun 1998, I uploaded dict-foldoc-19980612, which included a new upstream version. After uploading it, I realized that dpkg-buildpackage had treated it as a Debian specific package, so no .orig.tar.gz or .diff was included in the upload. I have removed this package from I

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Richard Braakman
Bdale Garbee wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : What will you record as fixing-version ? > If we reorganize the server the way I've been discussing recently, this > problem would go away... because no package could ever get into a stable > tree without going through unstab

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-12

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 02:02:37PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On 13 Jun 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo) > > Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 22978 Please move ircii from main to non-free > > This one can

Re: The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-12

1998-06-13 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On 13 Jun 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org (pseudo) > Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 22978 Please move ircii from main to non-free This one can be closed. IrcII is now free. Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTEC

URGENT: Uploaded ssh 1.2.25-0.1 (source i386) to non-us

1998-06-13 Thread Tommi Virtanen
I just uploaded an NMU of ssh to non-us. It fixes a nasty security bug where anyone could inject data into an encrypted ssh stream. I suggest you upgrade ASAP. The files can be found for now at ftp://nonus.debian.org/pub/incoming/debian-non-US/

iso9660 / joilet problem

1998-06-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
sorry, here is the test image. :-((( andreas test.raw.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

iso9660 survey : joilet or not joilet

1998-06-13 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
here is a test image. on my 2.1 kernel it works well : total 2 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 45 Jun 13 12:23 TRANS.TBL lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root3 Jun 13 12:22 bar -> foo on a plain 2.0.33 it doesn't work well : total 1 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 45 Jun 13 1998

Re: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 01:48:58AM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > After carefully reading over the license of Mysql it seems like it could > be included in the main > distribution area. > > I am wondering exactly what parts are preventing it from being > included. > > Is it that you must purcha

Re: Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-13 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote: > > Is it that you must purchase it if you wish to develop commercial > applications that require it? And that you cannot sell it. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a

Re: RFC: monitoring maintainers' vacations

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:14:19PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > > Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is > however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in -devel, > once in -private; mainly there is no automated way of tracking them. Please contact netgod

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'd like to offload some of the admin stuff for the bug system. > > I don't know how Guy (the other admin of the bug system) feels, but > I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend running the bug system. As there were enough peopl

Including Mysql in the Main Distrubation

1998-06-13 Thread Kevin Atkinson
After carefully reading over the license of Mysql it seems like it could be included in the main distribution area. I am wondering exactly what parts are preventing it from being included. Is it that you must purchase it if you wish to develop commercial applications that require it? Truefully

Re: so what? Re: Debian development modem

1998-06-13 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ian Jackson wrote: > > ... but there are times when you > > just have to make a clean break. Going between libc versions was one > > of those times, as was going from a.out to elf. Otherwise, what are > > major number changes for? > > This is simply not true. When we moved

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Raul Miller
Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, and it's an ugly method, and costs $99/seat. Netscape has > native support for SSL. I'm trying to avoid clear passwords > across the network. Eudora and qpopper support apop, but netscape > doesn't... sheesh.. Well, there's the whole mozilla thing you c

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : What will you record as fixing-version ? If we reorganize the server the way I've been discussing recently, this problem would go away... because no package could ever get into a stable tree without going through unstable... one version stream should

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 09:53:24PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > And thus spake Tim Sailer, on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:58:25PM -0400: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:21:34PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > > > Tim> Does anyone know of a SSL-enabled pop3 server? > > > > > > No, but you

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Raul Miller
Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah, but I need to support netscape mail under Lose95... There's a command line version of ssh that runs under win32 (I've used it under NT, I never run '95), that will do port redirects (which would allow you to tunnel the pop port). -- Raul -- To UNSU

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Elie Rosenblum
And thus spake Tim Sailer, on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:58:25PM -0400: > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:21:34PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > Tim> Does anyone know of a SSL-enabled pop3 server? > > > > No, but you can run fetchmail within ssh 'tunnel'. > > Yeah, but I need to support nets

Re: Problems with javalex

1998-06-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 13, 1998 at 12:03:34AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > I'd like to receive some help. The program gets called with the > following command > > /usr/bin/java JavaLex.Main $* > > The main problem is that there is no JavaLex.Main file. It is not > included in the .tar.gz nor in the .d

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:21:34PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Tim> Does anyone know of a SSL-enabled pop3 server? > > No, but you can run fetchmail within ssh 'tunnel'. Yeah, but I need to support netscape mail under Lose95... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTE

Re: About 2.0.34 not being perfect

1998-06-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 13 Jun 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >Sounds like it should go in extra, for now. > > OTOH our news server didn't survive longer then a day with 2.0.[0-3] and > runs rockstable with 2.0.34 ... My machine has been running .34 for two days now, I have a proxy server at work that has be

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Tim> Does anyone know of a SSL-enabled pop3 server? No, but you can run fetchmail within ssh 'tunnel'. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] According to the latest official figures, http://rosebud.ml.org/~edd 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)

1998-06-13 Thread Tomislav Vujec
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 09:53:16PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Problem is, you'll never be able to convince a DOS user of a text editor > with different modes. Sorry, I don't think a dumb newbie should be able to > install a workstation, but he should be able to install the base system and > p