Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-19 Thread Joe Drew
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 09:46:25AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: Package: communicator (debian/contrib) Maintainer: Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] 60193 communicator: buss error when replying to message Communicator is a meta package. This bug should be reassigned to the version of netscape

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: It might be he wants to talk about -changes ? There he's right (and I do totally agree with him). I'm not excited about a list per architecture, but I've often wondered if only posting to the lists messages for uploads that include source might not be

Re: ITP: xzgv

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Mar 17, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, David Starner wrote: Honestly, I found the interface of ImageMagick to be too clumsy to just view pictures. Until I grabbed xzgv out of Incoming, xv was the least clumsy graphic viewer interface. The authors of xzgv have produced an X

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Edward Betts
Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These are sorted out using procmail (which is not

Re: xfs question

2000-03-19 Thread Matthias Berse
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 09:41:49PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: I see. Thanks. I tried unix/localhost:7100 and that doesn't work. remove that 'localhost' and you are on! Bye, Matthias -- +-created at Sun Mar 19 10:59:46 CET 2000-+ |Matthias Berse

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-19 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 07:05:23PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: Package: lsof (debian/main) Maintainer: Jim Mintha [EMAIL PROTECTED] 57203 lsof does not build with 2.3 kernel headers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Log for failed build of lsof_4.48-1 (dist=frozen)] Should this be release-critical?

/etc/shadow world-readable

2000-03-19 Thread Martin Waitz
hi, i just realized that /etc/shadow are mode 644 (owned by root:root) on two of my systems. (Another two machines are not affected, however) i'm sure this change was not made manually, but have no clue what could have caused it. a grep in /var/lib/dpkg/info didn't show anything. anyone got

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-19 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- BugScan reporter writes: Package: tetex-base (debian/main) Maintainer: teTeX maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42698 tetex-base: The french option of babel is broken Package: tetex-bin (debian/main) Maintainer: teTeX maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intent to Package: abook

2000-03-19 Thread Alan Ford
I intend to package abook (an ncurses address book program): http://www.linuxstart.com/~jheinonen/abook/ License is GPL. I have the package ready. This package is being sponsored by Edward Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alan Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Intent to Package: Selection of Perl/Tk Net Utils

2000-03-19 Thread Alan Ford
I have packaged my selection of Perl/Tk network utils, from: http://www.whirlnet.co.uk/linux/ All are under GPL. I've had a package of these sitting around since June, waiting for new-maintainer to re-open, but now I've become fed up of waiting and this is being sponsored by Edward Betts

ITP: solfege

2000-03-19 Thread Tom Cato Amundsen
Solfege is an eartraining program for GNOME written in python. (http://solfege.sourceforge.net) I'm the author of the program and Olav Stetzer will be sponsoring me. The package will be called solfege Tom Cato Amundsen

Re: aptitude

2000-03-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Jacob Kuntz wrote: Robert Ramiega ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I must have missed it... Anyway it needs dpkg.h and i cant find it on my system... Searcher on Debian Web site can't find it either =o(( it's in dpkg-dev. It used to be, but I remove libdpkg and its header-files from

new Debian tetex versions - please test

2000-03-19 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, I have put some new version of tetex-* for potato in ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local for testing. Please test them for the fixed bugs and let me know if there are further issues. from the changelogs: tetex-bin (1.0.6-4) frozen unstable;

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Zed Pobre wrote: It's a fairly common ruleset, I think. You can have mine. That can be done a lot simpler: :0: * ^X-Mailing-List:.*debian-devel-changes { :0 * ^Subject:.*\((alpha|arm|powerpc|m68k|sparc)\) /dev/null :0 debian-devel-changes/ }

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures. As I recall, the consensus was that, after

hwtools going multiarch (for scsi stuff)

2000-03-19 Thread Eric Delaunay
Hello Siggy, It seems your are the new maintainer of hwtools. Good :-)) I sent few weeks ago a request to enhance hwtools for multiarch support (#58060). In fact, I'm willing to use the scsi stuff on my sparc too (especially scsiinfo scsidev). I succedeed to using it with really minor

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Collins wrote: As I recall, the consensus was that, after slink was released, these lists would be split by architecture, and anyone interested in more than one architecture could subscribe to as many lists as required. I am sure that the overwhelming majority would subscribe to

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages installed/uploaded to all architectures.

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
close 60750 close 60753 thanks On Mar 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The /etc/Muttrc in the mutt package makes a fruit salad of mutt. Most people like it. When using mutt in an xterm, the color bindings in /etc/Muttrc make it very hard to read mail: 8 different colors on one screen, colored

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-19 Thread Brian May
Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben try running: Ben dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir Ben If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the Ben start of that line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file. No errors: lyell:~# dpkg-deb --extract

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-19 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
The /etc/Muttrc in the mutt package makes a fruit salad of mutt. Most people like it. BTW, the default key bindings in mutt are horribly broken. No key does what someone would expect.

blue on black is unreadable (was Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors)

2000-03-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:20:30PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Mar 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The /etc/Muttrc in the mutt package makes a fruit salad of mutt. Most people like it. When using mutt in an xterm, the color bindings in /etc/Muttrc make it very hard to read mail: 8

Re: Bug#60753: mutt: /etc/Muttrc should not use colors

2000-03-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 07:53:35PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: The /etc/Muttrc in the mutt package makes a fruit salad of mutt. Most people like it. BTW, the default key bindings in mutt are horribly broken. No key does what someone would expect. that depends on what you're used to.