Zed Pobre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not discouraged, it's simply not allowed or usable. New
maintainer don't accept PGP 5 keys; PGP 5 keys don't go in the
Debian keyring and dinstall doesn't accept them.
I find it strange that you would make this mistake.
I've looked at PGP 5
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 16.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I disagree quite strongly. If the intent was to have
uncompressed originals on the system we would have shipped them as
such.
Indeed - the .debs would be smaller that way.
MfG Kai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) wrote on 16.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- If you are using some docs often on a 486, you end up uncompressing them
because it's too slow otherwise.
I'm using a 486. Uncompressing text is too slow? Ridiculous.
On the other hand, I currently have about
Povray 3.1 (a raytracer) has been released, and I've had a request to
package it. Unfortunately, 3.1 deleted experimental features in 3.0
(halos), and does not have the patches I applied to the 3.0 codebase (PVM,
isosurfaces). Some of the new 3.1 features are already in the patched
Debian 3.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the rvplayer side, nobody there seems to want to talk about it...
*sigh*
Always nice to have such clear reminders of the importance of free
software...
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On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 08:24:29PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/debian/sysklogd_1.3-29.2_i386.deb
I accidentally upgraded to -29 earlier, and the -30 on your ftp site fixed it.
Hamish
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On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 06:18:09AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
How do we determine what's important, and what's optional ?
Some people already mentioned that we need to distinguish between
certain packgages.
I propose:
[...]
I think we should play a simple game of numbers, and I think
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:49:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
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
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:34:40AM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote:
The dmotif netscape packages seem to depend on lesstif, does this mean you can
run them with just lesstif? Or is that in addition to requiring real Motif
libraries? I'm surprised (but happily so) since i thought lesstif aimed
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 09:03:34PM +, Rob Browning wrote:
On the rvplayer side, nobody there seems to want to talk about it...
*sigh*
Always nice to have such clear reminders of the importance of free
software...
And people ask why we push for mp3 in places that patents on software
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jules When trying to build my rather overdue debian package
Jules (libgimp-perl), I get this at the configure stage:
The libgimp-dev 1.0 will not compile wih the libglib 1.1 and libgtk 1.1.
libglib 1.0 comes with libgimp-dev 1.0. Just
Hi,
Ben == Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben This morning I uploaded a version of w3-el that doesn't compile upon
Ben installation--instead, there are separate precompiled packages for
Ben Emacs 19 and Emacs 20, plus a shared documentation package. I see
Ben this as a better way to go
Avery Pennarun wrote:
I think we should play a simple game of numbers, and I think FTP statistics
are a good place to get those numbers :)
Since this script will only really be useful to CD-makers, this project
would be mostly independent of dpkg-multicd or whatever.
But not independent of
On Saturday 17 October 1998, at 21 h 56, the keyboard of Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless you're logged in as root, you're not going to be able to build
these example files inside /usr/doc (nor should you) anyway, so you'll
have to copy them somewhere else. You can run gunzip on
I checked some more on this bug report and IMO we should simply close it.
It seems secure-su does exactly what you average Unix su does. It certainly
does not do all that fancy stuff gnu su does. So I think people needing
this stuff should make sure they use gnu su instead. As long as you do
Hi,
Stephane == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephane On Saturday 17 October 1998, at 21 h 56, the keyboard of Rob
Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless you're logged in as root, you're not going to be able to build
these example files inside /usr/doc (nor should
Drake Diedrich wrote:
Povray 3.1 (a raytracer) has been released, and I've had a request to
package it. Unfortunately, 3.1 deleted experimental features in 3.0
(halos), and does not have the patches I applied to the 3.0 codebase (PVM,
isosurfaces). Some of the new 3.1 features are already
The eterm package in slink comes without a MAIN configuration file it
seems. I´ve installed eterm-0.8.6 and eterm-background from incoming but
now I don´t get any background images anymore.
Michael
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Where on earth is getreal? The new X packages won't install without it.
Michael
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john I'd still like to use penguins.
Indeed, that was the best proposal yet.
I'm also in favour of penguin names.
Anselm
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Good morning,
I'm a student in a french engineering school and I develop an
application of mathematics. The problem is: I'would like what are
requirements for including this application in one of Linux
distribution (for example Debian distribution).
Thanks before for your reply.
[EMAIL
I´m afraid there are a lot of them. In fact installing them broke my system
completely since I need X. Here's what I still remember:
1) xdm is started regardless whether it is confugured to do so. I have
no-start-xdm in my config file but still it starts up.
2) some preinsts call getreal() but
Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard.
I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6...
2.x; we don't accept later stuff.
Really?
I recently retrieved a lot of PGP5-Debian-Devel keys (signed Mailing-List
e-Mails, mainly new
At 11:29 -0700 1998-10-17, Matt McLean wrote:
The most obvious one is that not every architecture has an 'egcc', because
egcs is the main compiler. So, we shouldn't be setting $CC.
That is not correct, the latest egcs packages provide a 'egcc' symlink on
every architecture.
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On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 11:04:40PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
We won't keep both; slang0.99.38 was still around because until two
days ago we didn't have a proper source package for slang1. Now that
we do, we have a source package for slang1 but no longer one for
slang0.99.38. This means
--On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 12:59 pm +0200 daville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Good morning,
I'm a student in a french engineering school and I develop an
application of mathematics. The problem is: I'would like what are
requirements for including this application in one of Linux
distribution
libgtop0 now installs libraries with soname 1. Strange. In particular that
breaks lost of gnome apps depending on soname 0. If this is brought back
keep in mind that gtop has to be recompiled too since it depends on 1.
Michael
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