Re: gdselect alpha 2

1998-10-09 Thread Shaya Potter
-Original Message- From: Tom Lees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >alpha 2 is released at http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ I was trying to compile it, had a little problem with some includes on glib, which I overcame, but it seg faulted (or something like that, said glib caught it) in the ini

Re: vat & tcl8.0.3

1998-10-09 Thread Alex Romosan
David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 12:27:17PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > > can somebody who know more about tcl (maybe even the tcl maintainer) > > take a look at this? i appreciate any help. thank you. > > I (the Tcl maintainer) don't have time to do this right n

Re: Release Critical Bugs List

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
Contrib and Non-free packages can't have release critical bugs -- they're not even an official part of debian. -- Raul

Re: expect trouble

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
Paul Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ever since hamm, expect has been giving me serious trouble. It won't > run cleanly when started from cron. This means that a lot of my > expects scripts are broken. I use expect extensively for system > maintanance and accounting (make sure servers run, upl

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
> > On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies > > now that Bruce is gone? Justin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i see no reason not to. they are nice names, the only problem is that we > may be running out of good ones (i admit, rc was a stretch) Is this suppos

Re: FWD: Re: Linus is on a powertrip..

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is from the linux kernel mailing list. I find it pretty completly sums > op my thoughts on all the new constitution and voting and policy voting > stuff that we've been setting up. I haven't been vocal about this, but I > think we've been moving in the wr

Re: Back to RedHat

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Emacs should not be part of the 'basics' (I say this as an emacs user). I think we should have a priority between "Standard" and "Optional", perhaps named "Recommended". These are packages which would be "Standard", but for size. Tex and a lot of X

Re: Uploaded tmpreaper 1.4.8 (source i386) to master

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now that sounds like a better idea if it would work, but just like > the "touching idea", you'd have to make sure that all the relevant > programs actually keep the file open, and don't just open it when they > need it. I think we can safely say that a pro

Re: PGP in the US (Re: formal documents)

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
Gregory S. Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It might not be legal for someone to give him PGP or explain how > crypto works even while he's in the US. No, the regulations prohibit export. If he's in the US, that's not export. As you mention, even if it was a problem, it would be a problem for

Consensus on source packages for ports?

1998-10-09 Thread David Welton
So, is there any consensus on how to upload source packages for ports? I have some things like strace that I would like to upload for arm, but the source is fairly different... Hrmm... pondering.. maybe I can get around it.. hrmmm Thanks, -- David Welton http://www.efn.o

Re: Reverting to Perl 5.004

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Schulze
Darren Stalder wrote: > I suspect that it's in the best interest of the freeze to revert to Perl Thanks. > 5.004. I'm currently uploading the 5.004.04-6 release to master's > Incoming. I'll file a bug on ftp.debian.org that the 5.005 release > should be deleted and the 5.004 release installed.

Reverting to Perl 5.004

1998-10-09 Thread Darren Stalder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I suspect that it's in the best interest of the freeze to revert to Perl 5.004. I'm currently uploading the 5.004.04-6 release to master's Incoming. I'll file a bug on ftp.debian.org that the 5.005 release should be deleted and the 5.004 release installed. I'

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, at least part of their rationale for the new scheme is to > allow multiple versions of perl, a feature that debian is not > interested in. Threaded perl and non-threaded perl are binary-incompatible at the extension level, meaning most compiled e

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-09 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > 2) Are we really going to freeze slink in 7 days? > > I dont think we should freeze until we have a broken libc in slink... ^ Hmpf... I meant while :) -- Madarasz Ger

Re: Freeze in 7 days??? (was Re: perl version depends)

1998-10-09 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > 2) Are we really going to freeze slink in 7 days? I dont think we should freeze until we have a broken libc in slink... -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Michael Stone wrote: mstone>What I'm trying to say is "why doesn't perl look in /usr/lib/perl5 mstone>anymore?" Was this just a gratuitous change, or was there a reason for mstone>breaking things? I can understand the change if there are modules that mstone>work in 5.004 but not

Re: perl version depends

1998-10-09 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: dark>That "only" is a large source of packaging bugs. In fact, the (IMO) dark>most annoying upgrade problem in hamm was a pathname problem: two dark>packages had moved to a different directory at the last minute, and dark>the auto upgrade script hadn't

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