Re: OTP and potato

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:06:08PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I haven't been able to use my old, locally compiled, PAM module for one > time passwords with potato. > If somebody has a working setup I'd like to know how did he made it... Maybe if you explained exactly what isn't working, you'de g

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:24:23PM +, Alan Clucas wrote: > Ok then... I won't do anything. > > Better subscribe to debian-qa as well then. One day I'll find something > useful to do :( You're quite welcome to go through the netbase bugs, and send in patches. I've got a major redesign of a fun

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait: > > This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in > > potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get > > it checked over by some knowle

OTP and potato

I haven't been able to use my old, locally compiled, PAM module for one time passwords with potato. If somebody has a working setup I'd like to know how did he made it... -- ciao, Marco

Re: ITP: freeswan

Lauri Tischler was said to been seen saying: > Great, does anybody know what kind of compatibility exists between > freeswan and f-secure-vpn and sonicwall-vpn and checkpoint-vpn > They all say that they are rfc-compliant > FreeS/WAN is supposed to be able interop with checkpoint and NAI'

Re: ITP: freeswan

Tommi Virtanen wrote: > > I intend to package FreeS/WAN, the Linux IPSec > framework, available at www.freeswan.org. > I can hopefully provide kernel-patch packages > for 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3 (2.4) kernels. Great, does anybody know what kind of compatibility exists bet

ITP: freeswan

I intend to package FreeS/WAN, the Linux IPSec framework, available at www.freeswan.org. I can hopefully provide kernel-patch packages for 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3 (2.4) kernels. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],havoc,gaeshido}.fi,{debian,wanderer}.org,stonesoft.com} unix, linux, debia

Problem with Mail-Followup-To: header (was Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000)

Even in your message ossama, I see that there is the username (ossama) in the Mail-Followup-To: header. I see also that every message with this error comes from a 1.1.9i version of mutt. What about it? bye Christian -- | Christian Surchi | www.firenze.linux.it/~csurchi| www. |

Re: blue on black is unreadable

On 24-Mar-00, 10:19 (CST), Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (I wonder if the preference for light-on-dark vs dark-on-light depends > > > on ambient light conditions?) > > > > I usually like to work in a relatively dark room. I think I'm nocturnal or > > something (looks at clock

Re: blue on black is unreadable

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:29:07PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > With the advent of powerful workstation monitors delivering 70 Hz or > more, the most glaring problem of black/white became less and less > important. Even on 85Hz or even higher vertical frequencies, I find black-on-white XTerms

Signing Packages.gz

Hi, To my understanding the package process is fairly secure on the incoming side of Debian's package managment system. Maintainers sign their uploads which prevents a man-in-the-middle attack. These packages are then checksumed in Packages.gz, but nowhere is that file signed, that I know of. T

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: > Package: gnucash (debian/main) > Maintainer: Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60417 docs are split between /usr/doc/gnucash and /usr/share/doc/gnucash > 60615 gnucash: LANG=de_DE does weird things > 60655 should depend on

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600, BugScan reporter wrote: > Package: imlib-progs (debian/main) > Maintainer: Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60052 imlib-progs: imlib_config segfaulting without /etc/imlib/imrc I'll fix this later today. Sorry for the delay folks. End of acade

Re: blue on black is unreadable

On 24-Mar-00, 03:22 (CST), Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Because that's what xterms do (by default) on every other single X > > implementation ever done? (Ok, that's probably an exageration...but not > > completely misleading, either.) >

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

Petr Cech wrote: > > Package: man-db (debian/main) > > Maintainer: Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 60339 How about testing packages before uploading them? 2.3.14 dies on > > unpack > > new man-db installed, so maybe it fixes this While we're on this, we ran into this problem last ni

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:30:21AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > Package: saytime (debian/main) > > Maintainer: Charles Briscoe-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 60733 saytime only screeches almost ununderstandably > > I've never had this problem. It even works on my sparc, and has worked for > my

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

> Package: emacs19 (debian/main) > Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60977 emacs19_19.34-26.4(frozen): build error with setpgrp Already NMU'd. > Package: exim (debian/main) > Maintainer: Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 60871 exim_3.12-6.deb depends on libdb1.85, a non-existe

Re: epochs, circular dependancies, and other miscellany

On Mar 23, Joey Hess wrote: > Ignoring the larger context of your message, cvs in frozen can > already be installed noninteractively. Just configure debconf to use > the noninteractive frontend.. Fine, except I can't use frozen right now and cvs was just an example.

ITP: libsafe-hole-perl

This perl module (Safe::Hole) is needed for packaging MiniVend, which is in progress. Ciao Racke

Re: blue on black is unreadable

Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the case of terminal colours, I thought most people really did > use black bg terminals, or at least dark something, like blue. Also, > real VT100s and VT220s have black bg screens with amber text. > There's a precedent for black bg terminals outside o

UPS setup problems (apcuspd and genpower)

A few days ago, I posted this to the debian-users list, but got no takers. Perhaps someone here has some ideas. Thanks. . I recently purchased an APC Back-UPS Pro 650, but have been unable to get the UPS the daemons to interact with my system. The system is a De

Is someone working on Jazz++ ?

Hello, I noticed Jazz++ (www.jazzware.com) is now released under the GPL, is there anyone working on it? Unfortunately I don't have the time to do it, but I'd like to see it packaged. It is the best linux midi sequencer nowadays. Regards, -- Eduardo Marcel Maçan<[EMAI

Re: of bash and ...sbin/

Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Without going in depth as to what traceroute and ping are (a fruitless flame > war) Facts can not build a flame war. Opinions (about "depth" or somesuch) can. > suffice it to say that I disagree with your "deeper" comment. Ok. > These 'boundaries'

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

On 03/24/00 Petr Cech wrote: > > Package: communicator (debian/contrib) > > Maintainer: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 60193 communicator: buss error when replying to message > > normal communicator behaviour :( At GUADEC Keith Packard told me that some problems with netscape/ communicator

Re: glibc-compat

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Peter Cordes wrote: > Is it possible to run stuff that is linked against glibc-2.0.7 (rh5.2 used > that, so I imagine a lot of commercial stuff linked against that, or at > least people have old commercial stuff linked against it and would rather > not pay for a new version.)

Re: Do we have a package of W3C's www-lib library?

On Friday 10 March 2000, at 15 h 4, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do my eyes deceive me or are we really without a package of "Libwww - the W3C > Protocol Library", . One Debian developer made an unofficial package but which I find

ITP: manpages-da

In SSLUG (swedish/danish LUG) we have begun translating man-pages to danish. when we have finished a nice set (like file-utils) I will make a debian package out of it. -- You can get a genuine Amulet of Yendor by doing the following: --More--

Intention to hijack: {i,w}{danish,swedish}

I intent to hijack the danish and swedish ispell dictionary and wordlist. The packages seems unmaintained and have 4 unaknowledged bugs more than 200 days old. I have unsucessfully tried to contact the maintainer but got no respons. If anyone else is willing to do the swedish packages they are wel

Re: blue on black is unreadable

Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unless the darkish colours get used as alternate background colours, they > are wasted. There only are 16 colours, so deciding to never use 4 > ({dark ,}{blue,red}) of them seems like a bad idea. Brightening them up so > they look good on a black backg

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 24, 2000

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:15:02AM -0600 , BugScan reporter wrote: > Bug stamp-out list for Mar 24 03:07 (CST) > > Total number of release-critical bugs: 190 > Number that will disappear after removing packages marked [REMOVE]: 5 > > ---

Re: blue on black is unreadable

> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:50:59 -0600 > From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: blue on black is unreadable > > There only are 16 colours, so deciding to never use 4 > > ({dark ,}{blue,red}) of them seems like a bad idea. Brightening them

Re: Bash, Keys, Potato

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 06:17:21PM -0300, Rodrigo Castro wrote: > I started with no .inputrc, no /etc/profile, no /etc/inputrc > and even so I had problems with letter E (upcase only). Any idea? Even > with no setup, no config files, I get no success. I upgraded my > libreadline4 today and it

Fwd: Re: unable to execute

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: unable to execute Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:12:12 -0800 From: Tristan Savatier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dushara Jayasinghe wrote: > > I downloaded mpegtv 1.1.0.20-3 (.deb version) from linuxberg and installed it > in Corel Linux -which seems to

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

Le Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:10:13PM -0500, Ben Collins écrivait: > This late in the game, you need to backport the fixes to the version in > potato. Make a diff of the changes against the current debian source, get > it checked over by some knowledgable folks, and then have at it. I think this is q

My SSH problems

Could anyone please send me the logs of my last tries to ssh into master? I only get a 'connection closed by foreign host' and want to forward that stuff to the provider. Thanks. Michael -- Michael Meskes | Go SF 49ers! Th.-Heuss-Str. 61, D-41812 Erkelenz| Go Rhein Fi

Re: glibc-compat ???

On 23-Mar-00, 18:08 (CST), Andor Dirner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > > The other one it breaks is Oracle 8.0, and one needs to convert Redhat > > compatibility libraries to be able install it, and a patch from Oracle. > > FWIW, I'm running Oracle 8

Re: Becoming a Pkg Mgr.

> On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:32:06AM -0800, Jason C. Leach wrote: > > hi, > > > > How does one become a package manager? I could > > probably spair enough time to look after one. > > The New Maintainer team will be re-opening shortly. In the meantime, > keep an eye on debian-devel-announce, sta

Re: glibc-compat and upgrading from Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP method.

Hello all I'm near from upgrading my Slink to Potato using dselect's FTP, but I'm afraid if it can drive my system _really_ bad (broken). I tried it six months ago, and the result was a reinstalling Slink from CDs. Did anyone try this way? Worked fine? Taupter

Anyone want to take over plotutils?

I'm trying to give up some of my less central packages because I'd like to spend more time on my others. Is anyone interested in plotutils? Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: epochs, circular dependancies, and other miscellany

Nick Cabatoff wrote: > * epochs not being recognized. A concrete example is > provided by a test case I did with cvs; for brevity we'll call it cvs_V > instead of cvs_1.10.7-1.99.slink.y2k.1. I broke it into two packages, > cvs_5:V and local-config-base-cvs_V-0. When I did a > dpkg --purge cv

Re: glibc-compat ???

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Varga wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Eric Weigel wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 02:42:26AM -0300, Taupter wrote: > > > > Strange. If i can remember, Slink has libc5 compatibility libs. > > > > Why not glib

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

> > > Package: fetchmail (debian/main). > > > Maintainer: Paul Haggart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > [HELP] This package needs a new maintainer. (RB) > > > 43139 fetchmail flushed after failed delivery > > > 50990 fetchmail: mail was fetched and deleted from server but never > > > sent to local M

Re: Becoming a Pkg Mgr.

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 10:32:06AM -0800, Jason C. Leach wrote: > hi, > > How does one become a package manager? I could > probably spair enough time to look after one. The New Maintainer team will be re-opening shortly. In the meantime, keep an eye on debian-devel-announce, start reading lists