Re: spamblocking the lists

2000-03-09 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:28:37PM -0500, Joe Block wrote: Jules Bean wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:45:07AM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Can we please close the list from non-member submissions? NO! I, like many users of

Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-09 Thread Simon Richter
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: One possible technique we could employ is to require that the list address appear visibly in the headers (to: or cc:). This would prevent Bcc'ing the lists which is a shame (and care would need to be taken with -private, which is also security),

Re: Secret Holy Code revealed to Seekers of Truth!

2000-03-09 Thread Nils Jeppe
I rest my case. ;-) Best wishes, Nils -- Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me. -- Amy

Re: mesag3 vs libgl1 (Utah-GLX)

2000-03-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.H.M. Dassen Ray wrote: I hardly think lack of hardware acceleration support warrants making these bug reports release-critical. Please set them to 'normal'. Actually they were already filed as release-critical earlier, and are probably needed anyway since we have mega-ggi packages

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:19:47AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: As I understand it, pdftotext is a new tool available in 5.5 but not 5.0. AFAIK pdftotext is included in xpdf - it's not part of gs 5.5. The differences

Re: mesag3 vs libgl1 (Utah-GLX)

2000-03-09 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 03:08:31PM +1100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously J.H.M. Dassen Ray wrote: I hardly think lack of hardware acceleration support warrants making these bug reports release-critical. Please set them to 'normal'. Actually they were already filed as release-critical

ITP sqmgrlog - report generation utility for squid

2000-03-09 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
Unless someone else has beat me to it (and I missed it) I'm going to be uploading soon sqmgrlog. Sqmgrlog generates reports per user/ip/name from squid log file. Ivan -- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD

Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-09 Thread der.hans
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Wednesday 8 March 2000, at 7 h 55, the keyboard of Nils Jeppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we please close the list from non-member submissions? NO! I, like many users of Debian, post from different mail addresses. Lists which are

Re: Packages to remove from frozen

2000-03-09 Thread Jacob Kuntz
isn't the problem here that the server is misrepresenting itself? a one bit difference may not make a less secure key, but it could quite possibly be an indication of some deception. i worry that altering the client to ignore this type of error will only open us up to attack, be it

Re: Secret Holy Code revealed to Seekers of Truth!

2000-03-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, it was written: SECRET HOLY CODE REVEALED ALL GENUINE SEEKERS OF TRUTH. I don't know. Is this dfsg-compliant? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: AFAIK pdftotext is included in xpdf - it's not part of gs 5.5. The differences between 5.10 and 5.50 are not that big and I do not want to risk a stable package just for being up to date. Eh? There would be no real code changes at all.

Re: Does dpkg-divert work on conf files?

2000-03-09 Thread Brian May
Wichert == Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wichert Okay. In theory this works fine, however its not (very Wichert well) tested. If you try this I'm very interested to Wichert hear if it really works.. The problem with diverting Wichert conffiles is that scripts (such

Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-09 Thread Brian May
Jules == Jules Bean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jules It is, for example, against the rules of the institution Jules I'm at (the university of cambridge) to emit mail with a Jules from: address other than a valid @cam.ac.uk from: Jules address. But when I'm at home, I use another

'lshell' as a shared object

2000-03-09 Thread Martin Lucina
(mail to Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing; upon investigation you two appear to be mentioned in and around lshell so I'm sending this email to you and Cc:ing it to debian-devel for anyone else's perusal) Hi, I have code based on lshell, which you maintain for Debian, that

tclx76 removed in favour of tclx8.0.4

2000-03-09 Thread Richard Braakman
James R. Van Zandt uploaded tclx8.0.4 to frozen and unstable today, with this in the changelog: * Replaces tclx76 which is no longer installable (closes:bug#56541) * Satisfy tclx dependency so emacspeak can be installed (closes:bug#59099) That takes care of my concerns with tclx76, so

The headers of this spam suggest knowledge of debian server setup (was Re: Secret Holy Code revealed to Seekers of Truth!)

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, Also... could someone please forward me all logs in regard to this spam, as well as the original posting as it was received by the list (i.e., with all headers intact? I intend to take action on its basis. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL

Re: spamblocking the lists

2000-03-09 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:55:01PM +, Jules Bean wrote: Can we please close the list from non-member submissions? NO! I, like many users of Debian, post from different mail addresses. Lists which are closed that way are really painful. So sign on with multiple addresses

Re: Packages to remove from frozen

2000-03-09 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 09 Mar 2000, Jacob Kuntz wrote: isn't the problem here that the server is misrepresenting itself? a one bit difference may not make a less secure key, but it could quite possibly be an indication of some deception. i worry that altering the client to ignore this type of error will only

tiotest packaged, need sponsor

2000-03-09 Thread bug1
Hi, ive created a package of tiotest, which is a small relatively need benchmarking program being used a lot recently for raid benchmarks. Its the first package ive made, its only been packaged as i386, i havent tried getting it working on other platforms. Its a bit short on documentation, but

Re: Ghostscript 6.0

2000-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 06:59:01AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: Eh? There would be no real code changes at all. As I understand it, the license on 5.5 is all that has changed. So why not move it from non-free to main for potato? The Release

Re: Packages removed from frozen

2000-03-09 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:32:51PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: It's been a long time since I tried it, but IIRC you do not need a special extra package to do transparent proxying with squid - squid can do it all itself. In fact I must RC, since I wrote the extensions for squid

better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Andrea Mennucc1
hi everybody I have implemented a good idea for reducing download stress for everybody who is mirroring a lot of data using rsync, like, the people who are mirroring Debian GNU/Linux: currently, many Debian leaf mirrors are using rsync for mirroring from the main .debian.org hosts. rsync

Re: tiotest packaged, need sponsor

2000-03-09 Thread bug1
Seems ive been beaten to it. ftp://ftp.cm.nu/pub/debian/ Oh well, plenty more potential packages out there bug1 wrote: Hi, ive created a package of tiotest, which is a small relatively need benchmarking program being used a lot recently for raid benchmarks. Its the first package ive made,

debian-devel@lists.debian.org

2000-03-09 Thread jack
. . . 1. 2. 3. Enter Me!!

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 3, 2000

2000-03-09 Thread Michael Bramer
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 03:15:05AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: fetchmail (debian/main) Maintainer: Paul Haggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [HELP] Maintainer is not responding. Someone should take over the package. (RB) 43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery [WAITING]

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 3, 2000

2000-03-09 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:25:42PM +0100, Michael Bramer wrote: application: fetchmail 5.3.1 Changes: Fixes for a number of minor bugs, including two reported from the RH6.2 beta and a dozen or so from the Debian bug-tracking system. Is someone working on it? If no, I download the

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Jacob Kuntz
tom rothamel is working on a project called debdiff that works towards the same goal. please read his announcment thread, which is archived at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0002/msg00391.htm. i like the idea of rsync modules, but the concept you project misses is that even a

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Andrea Mennucc1 wrote: rsync contains a wonderful algorithm to speedup downloads when mirroring files which have only minor differences; only problem is, this algorithm is ALMOST NEVER used when mirroring a debian repository Small detail here, .debs, like .gz files are

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread David Starner
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:26:30PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: differences very, very small. This is particularly true for .debs when you add in the fact that gcc never produces binary identical output on consecutive runs. I'm not arguing the rest of your points, but I'm curious about this

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Starner wrote: I'm not arguing the rest of your points, but I'm curious about this one. IIRC, the last thing a full bootstrap of GCC does, after building stage one binaries with the native compiler, Hum, It *used* to do this, can't seem to get it to do it today

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 12:46:05PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, David Starner wrote: I'm not arguing the rest of your points, but I'm curious about this one. IIRC, the last thing a full bootstrap of GCC does, after building stage one binaries with the native

Mozilla

2000-03-09 Thread Kenneth Scharf
My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run this morning grabbed a new version of mozilla. It no longer works, it dies with a segmentation fault. Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-09 Thread Christian Surchi
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 01:04:59PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run this morning grabbed a new version of mozilla. It no longer works, it dies with a segmentation fault. I heard that you have to remove ~/.mozilla directory. bye Christian -- |

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-09 Thread Nils Jeppe
Delete your preferences of M13, restart mozilla. You'll get the create profile wizard, and then mozilla works. Yes, it's still alpha software, why? ;-) On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run this morning grabbed a new version of mozilla.

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-09 Thread jello
My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run this morning grabbed a new version of mozilla. It no longer works, it dies with a segmentation fault. Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-09 Thread Stefan Ott
i had the same problem. just remove your ~/.mozilla and it works (you'll have to re-setup it, tough). regards Stefan On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 01:04:59PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run this morning grabbed a new version of mozilla. It no longer

login message on lully.debian.org

2000-03-09 Thread Douglas Bates
I'm not sure if this message should go to debian-devel or debian-project or ... For several days the login message on lully.debian.org has ended with *** This system is being repaired. Please refrain from using it for now. The system has been up for 14 days and /etc/motd was last modified on

Re: login message on lully.debian.org

2000-03-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 9 Mar 2000, Douglas Bates wrote: The system has been up for 14 days and /etc/motd was last modified on Jan 27. Is it possible that the repairs are complete and someone forgot to remove this line from /etc/motd? No Jason

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-09 Thread Tom Rothamel
On 9 Mar 2000 12:56:29 -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: tom rothamel is working on a project called debdiff that works towards the same goal. please read his announcment thread, which is archived at http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-0002/msg00391.htm. The code associated with this is