Re: [owner@bugs.debian.org: Debian bugs information: logs for bug#26827]

1998-10-17 Thread warp
(Before I go on I should note that I'm in a sleep deprived state at the moment) On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 05:37:18PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: I tried to reproduce this bug but cannot. Package: secure-su Version: 980403-0.3 Exactly my version. install and configure secure-su [EMAIL

Re: Secure Locate 1.2 (findutils?)

1998-10-17 Thread Kevin Dalley
I'm planning on investigating this for the next release. It won't be in slink. It is an interesting idea. While I have recently heard about secure locate, I haven't examined it yet. The standard locate is so full of problems, I want to give secure locate a look before releasing it. -- Kevin

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gnus 25609 Gnus: prerm script failure make it impossible to upgrade/pruge [64] (Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]) We should not ship without although it's technically not essential. We'd better find somebody to fix this bug. MAD,

Re: [warp@whitestar.soark.net] Bug#27841: apt: apt depends on a missing library

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 09:49:22PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Dan == Dan Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dan See, it's not Is anyone going to? or Do we agree we Dan should? right now. It's does anyone but Dan have the time Dan to look at http://master.debian.org/~dan and

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 15-Oct-98, 18:02 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Singer writes: I was under the impression that putting hooks in to use crypto was enough to raise the hackles of the export hounds. Standing near the border and thinking about prime numbers is enough to raise the hackles of the

Re: Intend to package, create OSS/Free

1998-10-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:36:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I can arrange to have the debian version passed in the ENV variable KDREV, or something. That would be clean. That sounds excellent. I will await it eagerly :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL

Re: what is non-free in this license?

1998-10-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:47:16PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THIS PROGRAM - whatsoever. You use it entirely [..] What I hi-lighted I do believe violates the DFSG.. Zephaniah E, Hull. Huh? Where do the DFSG say this? See

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread john
Steve Greenland writes: While I agree in principle, you might want to ask Michael Elkins first; it's conceivable that he could be brought into any litigation I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I don't use mutt at all, myself). ...simply having to defend himself

Re: PROPOSAL: one debian list for all porting efforts

1998-10-17 Thread Martin Mitchell
John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: around compiling all the i386 stuff for the other archs. But nobody goes around compiling the stuff from the other archs for i386! So if I suddenly do all my package development on Alpha, the Alpha will have the current versions, and perhaps the Sparc

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-17 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Michael == Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael I don't know. I thought: 1) Manoj took over the package with my Michael blessings, and 2) he did so with the specific intention of fixing the Michael bug. And I did. I uploaded a package, and closed all bugs.

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 08:38:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Greenland writes: While I agree in principle, you might want to ask Michael Elkins first; it's conceivable that he could be brought into any litigation I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I

Re: updates to Debian pages

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A link has been added from all the lang/Pics - ../english/Pics on master. They weren't added to CVS as it doesn't handle special files very well. Its only important that master have them anyway, so the pages the public sees have the

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 14:02 -0400 1998-10-16, Branden Robinson wrote: Topi Miettinen has done some research on this. When we get SysV-style pty support in glibc, xterm can lose its root privileges altogether. I hear this will be in glibc 2.1? Yes, that's correct. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) URL:mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Bugs with X

1998-10-17 Thread Joel Klecker
At 13:53 -0400 1998-10-16, Branden Robinson wrote: I definitely want to build debugging versions of the X libraries, but as yet I don't know how to do it. The makefiles for X are byzantine. [snip] But I do want to get debugging versions of the libraries soon. As soon as I can figure out how.

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Fri, 16 October 1998 20:38:57 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't realize that the author of mutt-i was a US resident (I don't use mutt at all, myself). Some time ago (can't remember any version numbers) the PGP version was hacked by Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] right after the

What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Christopher Barry
Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208pid=128#147 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: theone wrote: Names after

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Christopher Barry wrote: Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208pid=128#147 Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole bunch' of code names? scnr Joey -- GNU GPL: The source will be with you...

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 12:34:09PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Brent == Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base Brent disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple Brent operating systems. Couldn't it

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 02:02:21PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 10:25:57AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: W: xext: shlib-without-dependency-information usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Jstk.so I have always gotten this

syntax highlighting in gtk

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I read so much about a patch needed to get syntax highlighting. Do we have that patch in out gtk libs? If no, why not? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner

Intend to package gxedit

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I just found it and on first glance it looks great. It looks like a very nice editor. Also provided is a small tool to show some information about the system named xproc. If anyone else is interested I would give him the links but if noone is I will package it as time permits. Michael -- Dr.

More interesting gnome/gtk software

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I found more than GXedit. There is a nice task timer available named gtimer. I might package that one too. Also there is a GTK mp3 player named replay. It is GPLed but based on amp. I wonder if this is correct. Anyway, since I seldom play MP3s I let this to someone else. I also wanted to try

Re: [owner@bugs.debian.org: Debian bugs information: logs for bug#26827]

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 07:00:23PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo su -s /bin/sh nobody -c ls / Unknown option -s sudo? adding a unnessary layer here, but anyways.. Just to make sure I don't have to enter any passwords. :-) It IS implied that its FULLY gnu-su

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some time ago (can't remember any version numbers) the PGP version was hacked by Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] right after the normal version came out. Right now Michael Elkins has a job enslaving (sp?) him to use a Mickeysoft OS any he doesn't

gtimer

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I just notices that it has already be packaged. Great. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes | Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz | Go SF49ers! Senior-Consultant | business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Go Rhein Fire! Mummert+Partner | private: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Use Debian

mutt

1998-10-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
Look like there is consensus to move mutt-i to main. In the next days I will upload it along with some fixes. -- ciao, Marco

g++ dependency problem

1998-10-17 Thread Shaleh
The latest g++ on debian.midco.net (2.9.57-4) depends on libstd++ (= +2.9.57). The plus there seems to be causing a problem as all that can be found is 2.9.57.

RE: g++ dependency problem

1998-10-17 Thread Shaleh
Of course that should have read 2.91.57 (-: On 17-Oct-98 Shaleh wrote: The latest g++ on debian.midco.net (2.9.57-4) depends on libstd++ (= +2.9.57). The plus there seems to be causing a problem as all that can be found is 2.9.57. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Tom Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): While I'm at it, *PLEASE* drop the dependency of lilo on mbr. I don't want a new mbr eg if I want to install LILO to use on a floppy ONLY (I use GRUB on my HD). Change it to Recommends. mbr being a high priority and/or essential (can't remember if it is)

intent to package xmeter

1998-10-17 Thread Bo Branten
Description: rstat display for X Xmeter displays a periodically updating histogram of the system statistics gathered by rstat(3) for the specified hosts. Meters can be displayed in a vertical, horizontal or rectangular arrangement. As statistics range between 4 user defineable levels

intent to package minfo

1998-10-17 Thread Bo Branten
Description: GNU Info file browser for X

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread john
Roland writes: I don't understand, what the Author (Michael Elkins) ... Mr. Elkins should be innocent even by the standards of the anti-encryption kooks as long as he had nothing to do with the installation of the encryption hooks. ...or the current Maintainer of the upstream version (Thomas

Re: mutt

1998-10-17 Thread john
Marco writes: Look like there is consensus to move mutt-i to main. In the next days I will upload it along with some fixes. Do you think we should check with ME first? While I don't believe he is at any risk of prosecution, we should respect his wishes. We should also consider moving any

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-17 Thread Christian Hammers
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:06:32PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: As Linux becomes more popular the hardware manufacturers will start giving away drivers with the hardware, as they do for WIN95/NT/Mac. If we give them the option to release the drivers as closed source then most of them will. But

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread john
Joey writes: Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole bunch' of code names? I'd still like to use penguins. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. -- Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match. -- The Economist,

Re: mutt

1998-10-17 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:42:54AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marco writes: Look like there is consensus to move mutt-i to main. In the next days I will upload it along with some fixes. Do you think we should check with ME first? While I don't believe he is at any risk of

/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs

1998-10-17 Thread Russell Coker
How are these files generated using dh_gencontrol? IIn the following file the version number of libkdeui should be 2. However it gets generated as 1 and I can't work out how I'm supposed to make it 2. Apart from this my kdelibs0g and kdesupport0g packages are coming along well. I got the

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
Hi Roland. On Sat, 17 October 1998 10:36:48 +, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: I don't understand, what the Author (Michael Elkins) or the current Maintainer of the upstream version (Thomas Roessler) have to do with us (Debian) offering their program on our US ftp servers. I meant it'd be nice to

Re: KDE gone, Linux next?

1998-10-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 17-Oct-98, 08:33 (CDT), Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 09:06:32PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: [forcing manufacturers to release device drivers as free software] Maybe somewhen this will happen, but during the next few years, the hardware manufacturer

SUMMARY -- (was Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs)

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One wonders why you don't. Thisporting effort seems to lead to a lot of bitter people being involved in it. One wonders why. Anyhow, TTFN. Well, I think I can see why. Because porting is a thankless and gruelling task. You come head to head with every

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. Hmh.. no. ,-) I prefer comics and things like that.. argh, so to say. :-) Alexander -- Matthias needs someone to smack him upside with an iron

Re: Bug#27823: proftpd: non-maintainer upload (alpha) diffs

1998-10-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
Christopher C. Chimelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is true, and this should be fixed, IMO. If Debian, as an entity, is making a decision to become multi-arch supportive, then maybe it's time to update the older rules that were made when x86 was the only arch, and time to implement some

apt: small download

1998-10-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, I would like to see a possibility to stop apt-get from downloading all necessarry packages. Eighter by breaking the download (like it is possible with dpkg-ftp ^c) or by giving the amount of files i want to download. This will give me the possibility to upgrade my system even with a small

Re: Bug with xv?

1998-10-17 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Hi all, I was just working away on my machine, and using xv to display the latest results from my raytracing project. The pic came out too small, and so I went to press shift '' to zoom it up, only I missed and hit shift ''. Low and behold my xserver crashed. I've since tested and

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Bart Schuller
People, The fact that there even exist two debian versions of mutt should tell you that it was an issue for people. Looking through the changelogs, I see that mutt was moved to non-US in Feb. 1997: mutt (0.61.1-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. * Now non-US. (Bug #7257) --

Intent to package sart and panorama

1998-10-17 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
Sart is a ray-tracer written in Scheme. Panorama is a framework for 3D graphics production from GNU. None of them are finished, but they could be quite useable before our next release. -- The only way tcsh rocks is when the rocks are attached to its feet in the deepest part of a very deep

Is rvplayer working for others?

1998-10-17 Thread Rob Browning
I've installed the rvplayer package, but even something as simple as rvplayer /usr/doc/rvplayer/examples/welcome.rm doesn't work. The app comes up, and then it just sits there. Does this work for others? (verson 5.0-6) Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094

Re: moving mutt-i from non-us to main

1998-10-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:55:48PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: People, The fact that there even exist two debian versions of mutt should tell you that it was an issue for people. Looking through the changelogs, I see that mutt was moved to non-US in Feb. 1997: mutt (0.61.1-1) unstable;

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. Cool, a linux named Opus. Can it get better? Cheers Dave