Re: XEmacs/GTK 21.1.11

On 30 Aug 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I fear, that it will take so much time, that we must have separately >> packaged XEmacs/Gtk meanwhile. And I fear, that latest upstream >> sources of XEmacs will ship with too old ve

New key signing coordination page

Greetings all, With the help of Domenico Andreoli, I have revised the Debian (NM process) key signing coordination page. It is located here: http://oink.cc.ntu.edu.tw/~cklin/signing/ Now the operations are fully automated, with a PostgreSQL database in the back holding all information. The p

Re: potato + updates

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:02:58AM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 06:44:48PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > The README on security.debian.org already gives you that line.. > > Hmm, strange. It seems I missed reading this. Maybe the complete list of sources should be at

Re: gpm and X problem investigated

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote: **cut > b. Let gpm default to not repeating at all, without needing any further >documentation (AFAIK; I don't remember questions on gpm <-> X behaviour >in slink). > > Obviously, b. is the right choice (IMHO ;-). Furthermore, a fix to this effect

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

Julian Gilbey wrote: > A thread came up here a little while back about installation scripts > sometimes not being able to use debconf for security or other > reasons. That's not particularly accurate. > But we would like an interference-free install. > > So what about introducing a dpkg-postcon

Re: My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:21:17PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I started this afternoon submitting bugs against packages which print verbose > output in their maintainer scripts. The future that Debian must take is to A thread came up here a little while back about installation scripts so

Re: gpm and X problem investigated

I support your conclusion and and asks the same question. Why did it change? Regards, /Karl --- Karl HammarAspö Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lilla Aspö 2340 +46 173 140 57

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:49:13PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > So, is there any plan to use them (like recompiling the package on the > > user's > > machine)? > > > > you always have the option of using 'apt-get source' to recompile a package, > then place it on hold and we wont t

gpm and X problem investigated

Hi! In the recent past, there have been multiple (bug) reports about the behaviour of potato (& woody?) gpm in the presence of X (or vice versa, really). I've done some research, with these results: 1. On slink and probably before (because I don't remember things being differently), gpm did

My recent bug's and continuing effort to debconf-ize Debian

I started this afternoon submitting bugs against packages which print verbose output in their maintainer scripts. The future that Debian must take is to fully support debconf. To further this goal I will continue submitting patches to any package which prompts the user in a maintainer script. If

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

It can now be maintained on alpha, IIRC. I looked into it awhile ago and they had brought it up to date with a modern gcc (so long 2.7.x, which didn't work on alpha unless severely patched). C On 31 Aug 2000, John Goerzen wrote: > At the time, it would build only on i386. I don't know if this

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

>>"Steve" == Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> On 31-Aug-00, 07:18 (CDT), Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Firstly, build essential package is ot merrely for >> build daemaons. Steve> No, but I think that's the primary reason for it's Steve> existence. If it

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:29:30PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three > > > different references and finally install the "build-depends" package to > > > find out what I could leave out of by "Build-Depends" stanza. It wou

Re: netscape 4.75 in security.debian.org is broken

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 18:09:24 +0200 (+), Christian Surchi wrote: > Package: communicator > Version: 1:4.75-1 > Severity: grave > > I've updated communicator from security.d.o's potato packages. I had to > erase my preferences in ~/.netscape because it refused to save new > settings and when

RE: Machine-specific optimizations

> > So, is there any plan to use them (like recompiling the package on the user's > machine)? > you always have the option of using 'apt-get source' to recompile a package, then place it on hold and we wont touch it. Beyond that, it gets very messy. Not to mention the disk usage. Users who in

Re: Free Pine?

I've an outstanding, unanswered question which I've sent to UW in a related context (IMAPD): what specific clause of the copyright is being violated, when modified versions are distributed. Their position was that the words "permission to copy, distribute and modify" do not grant permi

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 05:34:01PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote: > So, is there any plan to use them (like recompiling the package on the user's > machine)? Yes, that is the plan. No, there is no other plan. (Why can't we have cool undying threads like, I don't know, katanas?) -- David St

Machine-specific optimizations

I know this theme has been repeated a lot here, but I still think that using machine-specific optimizations can make a difference. Specifically, there are a few packages (libgmp, gnupg, bzip2) where it could make a lot of difference. Some packages use every tiny bit of extra compiler optimization,

Re: ITP enhydra

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:05:04PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: normal > > I intend to package Enhydra, an open source Java/XML application server > . It is licensed as > follows (according to

ITP: bibtex2html -- BibTeX to HTML translator and BibTeX filter tool

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist BibTeX2HTML is a collection of tools for producing automatically HTML documents from bibliographies written in the BibTeX format. It consists in two command line tools: - bib2bib is a filter tool that reads one or several bibliography files, filters the entrie

ITP enhydra

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I intend to package Enhydra, an open source Java/XML application server . It is licensed as follows (according to ): Base Enhydra server and tools: FreeBSD license XMLC co

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

Daniel Burrows wrote: > I know that joeyh has been working on a much nicer-looking slang frontend > which doesn't suffer from this problem; maybe we can just ditch dialog > eventually and use that? That is the plan; dialog is very limiting. However there is a trivial fix for dialog/whiptail to

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

Peter Makholm wrote: > I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment > about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is > active? It is badly marked which button you are about the press. Yes well there are already bugs filed on this, but it is going to change a lot

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

At the time, it would build only on i386. I don't know if this is still the case or not -- the whole thing is convoluted, I think it forked into three or four separate branches by now. -- John Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously John Goerzen wrote: > > Yes, and while you'r

Re: MANA - Free Pine? yet another dead mailer/newsreader?

For your amusement: http://ftp-master.debian.org/~sanvila/mana If upstream maintainers tell me this is alive, I'll upload it (for project/experimental first). Thanks.

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

Previously John Goerzen wrote: > Yes, and while you're at it, please close some bugs :-) I gave that > package away two years ago when I moved to alpha and I'm still getting > bug reports for it. What prevents you from maintaining it on alpha? Wichert. --

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

Yes, and while you're at it, please close some bugs :-) I gave that package away two years ago when I moved to alpha and I'm still getting bug reports for it. Somebody else can take it if it's being ignored (in fact, please do). -- John Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously

NFSMounting

How I get NFS to mount at bootup? - Khisar Paika Albuquerque, NM 505-277-0808

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

On 2830T234249+0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three > > different references and finally install the "build-depends" package to > > find out what I could leave out o

Re: netscape 4.75 in security.debian.org is broken

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:18:54PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > not to mention that text/plain is displayed with vim! All associated following mailcap I think, and it's impossible to handle text/* with navigator too. :( -- Christian Surchi | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FLUG

Need a gateway guru

I'm looking for someone to help me add a section to my newest Debian book (which will be released under the GFDL BTW) that covers gateway configuration. My primary problem is that I know next to nothing about how this is accomplished, which makes it pretty hard to write about it ;-) Some of the st

Re: netscape 4.75 in security.debian.org is broken

Christian Surchi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: communicator > Version: 1:4.75-1 > Severity: grave > > I've updated communicator from security.d.o's potato packages. I had to > erase my preferences in ~/.netscape because it refused to save new > settings and when launched it was always like

netscape 4.75 in security.debian.org is broken

Package: communicator Version: 1:4.75-1 Severity: grave I've updated communicator from security.d.o's potato packages. I had to erase my preferences in ~/.netscape because it refused to save new settings and when launched it was always like the first time with box with license. I've lost cache, pr

Re: imap mailbox killer

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. > > Upon a quick glance, there indeed appears to be no checks at all > for buffer overflows. A buf of 8k is allocated into which the > From:, Status:,

Re: imap mailbox killer

Funny side effect of the bug, here is the new "magic message" in my mailbox :-) Check out the "X-IMAP:" entry: ,- | From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Aug 31 17:15:15 2000 | Date: 31 Aug 2000 17:15:15 +0200 | From: Mail System Internal Data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOL

Re: imap mailbox killer

[Please Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on any replies to this thread.] On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both. > > Both... I had to manually delete several messages in Pine 4.21 folders > and I don't use IMAP > Pine also uses libc-client whi

Re: imap mailbox killer

[Please Cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] on any replies to this thread.] On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: > I don't use pine or imap, but the school hosting my mailbox uses imap. > > The behavior I saw: > > Using POP to copy new mail to my workstation at work (running Eudora) > seemed to cause ipop

Re: BTS not showing my bugs

Brian May wrote: > >From http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>, click on > "Index of maintainers of packages with bug reports.", and then > "Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" takes you to: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ma/lBrian_May,bam,debian.org,.html> > > Why is bug #69807, for my diskless-image-secure

Testing packages: Smurf and libsndfile

pgpWxQNs9EwTi.pgp Description: PGP message

Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

Previously Thomas Guettler wrote: > Eric: > >Better yet, don't put packages into stable until we release. "Stable" > >has a fairly well-defined meaning; I don't see much benefit from changing > >it. We already do that. > I am new to debian-dev, why not release stable packages daily? > Why in a s

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

On 31-Aug-00, 07:18 (CDT), Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly, build essential package is ot merrely for > build daemaons. No, but I think that's the primary reason for it's existence. If it was mainly for humans, it would be sufficient to have checks in the in debian/r

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I think that since every package using a helper package seems > to need a versioned dependency, addign debhelper to build essential > shall not remove the burden from the packages. And auto build daemons > can also augment the build environment beyond b

Re: APT problem

On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Which of course is correct. Not only the md5sum is different but also the > filesize. Wonder what they did with the source. It doesn't take much to create a different filesize. E.g. different timestamps in the archive will lead to different compressio

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

Previously Michael Meskes wrote: > It's still mention in Suggests: etc. but the package is not listed in > the Packages files anymore. Just a temporary situation or a real problem? Someone *really* needs to NMU that package again and bring it up to date, the current version is ancient and can't ev

Re: Where's the prc-tools package?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 04:32:38PM -0700, Michael Meskes wrote: > It's still mention in Suggests: etc. but the package is not listed in > the Packages files anymore. Just a temporary situation or a real problem? prc-tools (0.5.0r-3.1) frozen; urgency=low * NMU * Specify the archs (excluding sp

Re: APT problem

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 02:47:15PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > What needs to be done is diff the record from the corel package file > against what is in their .deb and see if there is a difference in any > fields. Yup, md5sum and size. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49

Re: APT problem

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:57:38PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > It means the libc6 package you have installed has a different md5sum then > the package it finds on ftp.corel.com, and assumes that the version on > ftp.corel.com is a newer recompile. Strange logic, but that is how Which of cours

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:03:04AM -0400, Decklin Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Peter Makholm writes: > > > I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment > > about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is > > active? It is badly marked which butt

Re: Crazy idea: removing version numbers from debian

Thank you for your answers. Some misunderstood my idea, I don't want to remove version numbers from packages. Bernd: >How do u call slink? "Old Stable"? :) Yes, "old_stable" or "past" Bernd: >No i think it is not a bad idea to have a version number. The only question >is if the Version number

Where's the prc-tools package?

It's still mention in Suggests: etc. but the package is not listed in the Packages files anymore. Just a temporary situation or a real problem? Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!

Confusing Red/Blue buttons (was: Security of Debian SuX0r?)

> Peter Makholm writes: > > I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment > > about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is > > active? It is badly marked which button you are about the press. On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Decklin Foster wrote: > You know, that *has* been

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

Peter Makholm writes: > I've just helped a friend instaling Debian. He had two comment > about the above question. Is it the red or blue button there is > active? It is badly marked which button you are about the press. You know, that *has* been bugging me... However you can use the cursor to fig

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

Bob Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So there's a warning? At least MD5 *can* be implemented at install-time. Why > doesn't he mention that Caldera for one doesn't even offer MD5 as an _option_ > at install-time? Next: What Caldera do doesn't matter at all. Neither does it matter what anyo

Re: imap mailbox killer

At 08:21 AM 8/31/00 -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > There might be bug in either Pine or IMAP(D) or both. Both... I had to manually delete several messages in Pine 4.21 folders and I don't use IMAP I don't use pine or imap, but the school hosting my

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:37:01PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > Purists happen to be whoever disagrees with Hamish Moffat. Cf. his > rhetoric here with his rhetoric in the great Social Contract amendment > flamewar. Perhaps you should stick with your one liners, Branden. Your three-liners are

Re: BTS not showing my bugs

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 04:57:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > All statically updated BTS pages are broken, please see DWN for details. Might it be an idea to put a notice about this on the web page? It'd avoid a lot of confusion. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grump

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

>>"Steve" == Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Are you saying that someone running a build daemon is not Steve> going to keep up-to-date on build-essential packages? Why not? Steve> And if not, why is my (the maintainer's) job to keep changing Steve> the version numbers in my

Re: APT problem

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 06:36:34AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:37:52PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > (especially since this looks like just the well-established behavior of > >downloading changed packages..) > > I dont have a

Re: imap mailbox killer

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:32:17AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > > commands. So having extremely long X-Keywords in mail messages > > will screw things up. Double yuck. > > > > This is in imap-4.7c/src/osdep/unix/unix.c BTW. > > > > See the original message and the accompanying thread in debian-dev

Re: imap mailbox killer

> Package: imap > Version: 4.7c-1 > Severity: important > > On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. > > Upon a quick glance, there indeed appears to be no checks at all > for buffer overflows. A buf of 8k is allocated into which the >

Re: trouble with portmap on diskless machines

> "viral" == viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: viral> NIS doesn't work on the diskless machines. After some viral> looking around, I figured that it was the portmapper that viral> really wasn't working. It shows up in the ps listing, and viral> there are no errors reported du

Re: dpkg-scanpackages arguments, output Packages files, and apt

Eray Ozkural <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was what I had to write to make a Packages file in a flat dir: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/public_html/debian$ dpkg-scanpackages . override ./ > >Packages You don't have to supply a third argument. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org

Re: imap mailbox killer

Package: imap Version: 4.7c-1 Severity: important On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Paul Slootman wrote: > Yuck. Smells like a serious buffer overflow somewhere. Upon a quick glance, there indeed appears to be no checks at all for buffer overflows. A buf of 8k is allocated into which the From:, Status:, X-Sta

Re: imap mailbox killer

On Thu 31 Aug 2000, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > caused the daemon (or the client) screw up the "magic". I ended up with a > "magic" message looking like this: > > ,- > | From MAILER-DAEMON Wed Aug 30 16:36:48 2000 > | Date: 30 Aug 2000 16:36:48 +0200 > | From: Mail System Internal Data

Re: trouble with portmap on diskless machines

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 11:29:06AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > NIS doesn't work on the diskless machines. After some looking around, > I figured that it was the portmapper that really wasn't working. > It shows up in the ps listing, and there are no errors reported during > bootup for portma

Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting)

From: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:52:18 +0200 > [tornado;~/cistron]-15> env|grep LS > zsh: done env | > zsh: exit 1 grep LS > > I have ls aliased to 'ls --color=auto', which works great. Well, the argume

Re: imap mailbox killer

Sorry I couldn't answer yout letters earlier. I had to repair my mailbox. I also had to involve and help the system administrators to go through all the IMAP mailboxes and filter out all the messages with "suspect" headers. Looks better now, thanks. I don't know much about the IMAP intrinsics, b

Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > Which is just a stupid pain in the ass. I had to track through three > different references and finally install the "build-depends" package to > find out what I could leave out of by "Build-Depends" stanza. It would > *much* easier

ITP: erb, libiconv-ruby, libintl-gettext-ruby, liblv-ruby, libmhash-ruby, libnet-irc-ruby, libsnmp-ruby, libzlib-ruby, libsyslog-ruby

I intent to some packages -- erb, libiconv-ruby, libintl-gettext-ruby, liblv-ruby, libmhash-ruby, libnet-irc-ruby, libsnmp-ruby, libzlib-ruby and libsyslog-ruby. erb: Yet another implementation of eRuby. It is written as pure Ruby script. License: Ruby's (see below) libiconv-ruby: Th

Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting)

On Wed 30 Aug 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Paul Slootman wrote: > > Then you must have some other arrangement to get the colors; > > it's not enabled by default. Try a fresh install (I have). > > Maybe a direct setting of LS_COLORS in your .bash_profile or > > whatever? > Nope: > >

Re: imap mailbox killer

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, +00:52:25 EEST (UTC +0300), Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed these keys: > Package: imap > Version: 4.7c-1 > > (Juhapekka Tolvanen's messages may be found on these mailing lists: > debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-legal@lists.debian.org) > > Man, you

Re: Pre-ITA: ntop

>> "Oliver M . Bolzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # BTW, is there any docu on how to properly operete the new WNPP ? See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Marcelo

Bug#70634: Typo in policy manual

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 On 2830T184956-0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:51:47PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > The definition is the following: > > > > It is not be necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships > > on a

Big Thankx!

I just wanted to thank you guys! I run Debian at work, one gateway and one server. Debian Slink 2.1 Today I upgraded to Potato, upgrade went almost perfectly except that Samba 2.0.7 was not compatible with a 2.0.36 kernel. :-( Maybe i just didn't read the docs. This night I upgraded the kernel to

trouble with portmap on diskless machines

Hi, I have a cluster of diskless machines. I've followed the instructions in the diskless package, and the machines boot up as a result. The diskless package is simply great. I'd spent a whole lot of time making SuSE remote boot and thats what I have to use until i get Debian working properly.

Re: APT problem

Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 30 Aug 2000, Alex Romosan wrote: > > > can we please, please reverse the behaviour, or at least make it > > configurable in /etc/apt/apt.conf, something like PreferLocal "yes". > > if there is such an option and i missed it, please point it out to