Previously A Mennucc1 wrote:
> what is happening in «new mantainer» ?!?
A lot.
> look (in http://nm.debian.org )
> at how long the people have been waiting
Since nm reopened 150 people have been processed or are being
pocessed looking at the stats you mention, I would consider
that a lot of goo
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 07:19:58PM +0200, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran wrote:
> 6.09.2000 pisze Renaud Guérin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > Is there something obvious I missed or is it really unfeasible ?
>
> I looked at it and... (didn't do that before, because I used my own
> keymap, which doesn't need
> I would be happy to take over korganizer again for starters (from the status
> information of the package on the tdyc site I believe that no-one else has
> more interest in it than me).
>
> Ivan, if you're managing the KDE Debianizing stuff then perhaps you could
> assign 2 or 3 other significan
6.09.2000 pisze Renaud Guérin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Is there something obvious I missed or is it really unfeasible ?
I looked at it and... (didn't do that before, because I used my own
keymap, which doesn't need to include anything) and yes, setting keymap
before mounting /usr is rather not the
hi
what is happening in «new mantainer» ?!?
look (in http://nm.debian.org )
at how long the people have been waiting
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DaysDays
Awaiting A
Seth Cohn wrote :
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Frederic Peters wrote:
> > - webmin: I think it is useful (and nice) not to have to launch mozilla
> >to add an user or change a password.
> Excuse me? if you don't want to launch a browser (and NOT mozilla thank
> you... ANY browser, even lynx will (m
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
>as Maintainer of KDE for Debian I'd like to chime in. kdelibs, kdesupport,
>and kdoc all are sitting in incoming. We had to wait till yesterday for qt2.2
>to come out so that I could build it, then compile kde against it since
>the GPL'd status do
Herbert Xu wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every
> > single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never
> > versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz
>
> How about a bug repo
> "KK" == Ken Kinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KK> I'm a little worried about Debian not packaging Python 1.6
KK> because RMS feels so strongly (it's RMS) that it isn't
KK> compatible with GPL. I release Python GPL code and don't feel
KK> it's incompatible, but it could be da
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:57:41AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> I don't think explorer is sufficient justification to keep qt1 in woody.
I wasn't implying it was. I was just saying it needs to be fixed, or
removed.
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Linux Systems Engineer | http://www.winstar.com | [EMAIL PROT
hi everybody,
- like last year Debian will have a booth to the next Linux Expo in
PARIS. volunteers are welcome. debian people who wants free ticket
entrance email to me.
- a special issue of a french magazine about Debian POTATO will be sell
in FRANCE on 14th september. (with 4 CDs potato (3 bin
At 10:14 AM 9/8/00 -0400, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite
> insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by
> using readline and who subsequently put ncftp under GPL as co
Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite
> insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by
> using readline and who subsequently put ncftp under GPL as consequence
> of complaints was asked to beg for being
8.09.2000 pisze Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > I am now very turned off because instead of seeing a bunch of
> > bright developers, I'm seeing a voluminous amount of off-topic
> > flaming.
> Welcome to Debian.
``What is Debian. How do you define Debian? If you're talking about what
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 07:35:44AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote:
> 'explorer' also depends on it (using the old qt1g package name)
Explorer also has nine bugs, some important, six over two years old.
Note especially:
#29053: package explorer depends on obsolete library libstdc++2.8 (1y, 308d)
#53
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:54:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic
> >> files.
> >I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a
> >little more specif
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic
>> files.
>I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a
>little more specific? Has the format of the files changed or
>something? Perhaps you can
I've fixed a couple of problems that were detected with the first
version. Today's version is available from the www.murphy.nl site.
Line for sources.list:
http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/
This is the changelog extract:
* I've taken the newest upstream CVS version again, which inc
On Sep 07, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Some very big ISP here have mailservers with no reverse mapping...
>Well, they are badly broken, you know?
I do, but refusing mail is quite an extreme act.
>The IANA mandate is that /all/ machines on public IP address have
I really don't thin
On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Joseph Carter wrote:
> IMO, this makes him as dangerous
> as Eric Raymond.
OTOH, Eric Raymond owns guns and is fanatic about it :-)
Paul Slootman
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:56:06AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> Without being a KDE/Qt user myself, this is what makes me understand
> the anger of the KDE developers.
The problem with that is that the KDE developers have chosen to assume
that because Richard has been an ass to them (and quite clea
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:01:37AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > Richard's comment was apparently on the order of "It's about time", which
> > apparently managed to peeve the KDE people who felt they needed to flame
> > him publicly over it.. *sigh*
> >
> It was not the harmless "about time" par
Someone wrote this:
> I am disappointed that RMS is fighting over something as trivial as a
> company asking that legal issues be settled in their home state
> (country). This is common practice.
I am not fighting, I am pointing out the situation as it exists. I
don't believe the CN
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:30PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
[ just more of the same ]
> because of the long and bitter public debates, RMS had to say something
> and he had to make a public statement that it was now OK for KDE to use
> any FSF owned code. if he had just ignored the fact that t
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:29:37AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote:
>
> > RMS should IMHO publically apologize with the KDE people for this
> > condescending part of his otherwise correct article. He should be
>
> So now _you_ are telling someone to ask for fo
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
biew is licensed under the GPL.
Available from
deb http://alfredsson.org debian/
deb-src http://alfredsson.org debian/
Source can be found at http://biew.sourceforge.net
I'm being sponsored by Rick Younie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Package: biew
Version: 5.1.2-1
Des
On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote:
> >
> about. They IMHO righfully complained about RMS' "forgiving" talk
> which is more like religious speech from a church or something.
> If the catholic pope would utter such words it could be silently
> ignored, though it would be appropriate speech in
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:01:37AM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> > Richard's comment was apparently on the order of "It's about time",
> > which apparently managed to peeve the KDE people who felt they
> > needed to flame him publicl
I will be in Boston for a week beginning today with some email access.
Anyone in the area interested in getting together for a keysigning or just
some general geekiness, feel free to email me :). Note, however, that my
transportation is very limited.
--
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PGP: 0xA95
Quoting David N. Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I'm wondering if anyone still uses this package anymore. It has been
> superceded by epic4 for hrmmm it must be several years.
>
> Is it time for it to go? It's not like it's broken or it has any
> hideous bugs, but it's not going anyplace, eithe
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Richard's comment was apparently on the order of "It's about time", which
> apparently managed to peeve the KDE people who felt they needed to flame
> him publicly over it.. *sigh*
>
It was not the harmless "about time" part those
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> Yup...I hosed the rules script and had a $(QTDIR)/libs instead of a
> $(QTDIR)/lib
Yeah, that'll do it :-P I'll double-check this on my end and see if
changing that will fix compilation here. If so, I'll upload this version
since you'll be superce
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> > Still, if 1.6 were to replace 1.5.2, we had to check all packages that
> > depend on Python, if we think their license is still compatible with the
> > new Python license, and remove them if it's not. I'd opt
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 03:34:07AM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
>
>
> It seems that trying to compile designer without having qt2.2 already
> installed causes uic not to be able to find libqutil (since it hasn't been
> installed yet and isn't preloaded). Designer really should be a diff
It seems that trying to compile designer without having qt2.2 already
installed causes uic not to be able to find libqutil (since it hasn't been
installed yet and isn't preloaded). Designer really should be a different
source package anyway, IMO, which I'm going to recommend, especially since
it
>>"Micheal" == Michael S Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Micheal> I just joined the debian-devel list yesterday, all excited about being
Micheal> able to possibly contribute code and insights to the installation
Micheal> system to make it more palatable to those who would like to install
reopen 70870
# On 05 Sep 2000, Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# > Subject: Fixed in CVS
# >
# > This has been fixed in the development tree.
# > The patch will be in the next release.
#
# ... then please close it with the next release - the bug is still in
# the packages on
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:52:51PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone still uses this package anymore. It has been
> superceded by epic4 for hrmmm it must be several years.
>
> Is it time for it to go? It's not like it's broken or it has any
> hideous bugs, but it's not goin
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Arthur Korn wrote:
> That was ~250M before ... oops. Time to use http and squid
May be you are more lucky than me with http and squid.
It tokk me several month to find out, why apt-get has problems
with MD5 checksums on all my packages. Yesterday I found out
that I have to us
> Um, sorry if I'm missing something, but I can do apt-get source
> as any user, and it downloads and unpacks the source for me nicely.
This is something a common user must be able to do:
- download a source package.
- change some file inside the package (a Makefile? change a define in a .h?)
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:20:02PM -0700, Michael S. Fischer wrote:
> I just joined the debian-devel list yesterday, all excited
[...]
> I am now very turned off because instead of seeing a bunch
> of bright developers, I'm seeing a voluminous amount of off-topic
> flaming.
Welcome to Debian.
--
> Until these basic packaging paradigms are mastered, I don't think
> this package is fit for uploading yet. Perhaps you should ask for
> more help in debian-mentors (which is for helping new maintainers)?
Besides, there's the little fact that the package is totally useless =).
$ grep ^AR /usr/s
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:20:46PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> So? Anyone who asked for that would be unreasonable. Besides, nobody's mail
> server is telneting to your port 25 to see what your SMTP greeting says --
> that would be insane. It's a simple double-lookup. The PTR record is
> quer
> wasnt closed, the bug doesnt apply anymore, or it is a feature
> request for dinstall) (Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
er... the feature requests for dinstall were in the control stuff at the
top.. sorry, I didnt close them :P
--
Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
# potato bugs for next point release
retitle 58389 [POTATO] Potato has no sdr
retitle 48238 [POTATO] package priorities for potato
retitle 56936 [POTATO] Wrong package priorities in potato.
retitle 70661 [POTATO] pcmcia-cs (>= 3.1.19) for potato?
# miscellaneous bug cleanup
# (something has been d
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:04:29PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > my apologies.. I was under the impression that the new method used dpkg -I
> > magic.
>
> dpkg-scanpackages actually calls dpkg-deb -I :)
bah.. the bug was said to be in dpkg-scanpackages
--
Michael Beatt
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> This occurs when apt-move first moves the packages in, which is why you m=
> ust
>> never move packages in by hand (at least not without doing an fsck later).
> my apologies.. I was under t
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:16:23PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > > My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
> >
> > They don't need to "match". Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
> > that some
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:24:09AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > apt-move does not use dpkg-scanpackages (it used to, but not any more.)
>
> Actually apt-move does use dpkg-scanpackages (and dpkg-scansources), but
> it caches their results so they're never run twice on the same package.
>
> Thi
At some point in the past, I wrote:
>> I believe someone's already packaged Gwydion Dylan.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:43:05PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> I believe these are old libc5 packages. The Gwydion team is
> certainly not aware of any current Debian packaging activities,
> certainly sin
Looks like i spoke too soon. The qt2.2-2.2.0-2906 package that was
installed into master today dies during compile (despite working around
the optimiser bug...there's something going wrong with the build procedure
I believe). I'll be filing a bug against qt2.2 once I figure out what's
going
A calendar.wicca-n and calendar.wicca-s file would also be appreciated.
Note that the sabbats and esbats are reversed between northern and
southern hemispheres due to being agriculturaly-based.
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> A calendar.hindu file is needed for 2000/2001 and the yearly
> I believe someone's already packaged Gwydion Dylan.
> ii gwydion-dylan 2.3.1-1A Dylan-to-C batch compiler.
> ii gwydion-dylan- 2.3.1-1Tools used for recompiling
> Gwydion Dylan.
> ii mindy 2.3.1-1A Dylan interpreter.
>
> But hey, I'm glad someone else is int
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:05:02PM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> I need to work with Gwydion Dylan, and noticed we don't currently
> have a package for it.
>
> I vaguely remember someone talking about it long ago, but don't
> remember what became of it.
>
> I intend to package this Dylan implemen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:53PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic
> files.
I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a
little more specific? Has the format of the files changed or
something? Perhaps you can
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:12AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
[snip, snip, snippety-snip]
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I just joined the debian-devel list yester
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > A server on the 'net without matching forward/reverse DNS is broken.
> > Period.
>
> Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one
> DNS
I need to work with Gwydion Dylan, and noticed we don't currently
have a package for it.
I vaguely remember someone talking about it long ago, but don't
remember what became of it.
I intend to package this Dylan implementation unless someone else
is already doing so. I don't see any mention in W
On Sep 07 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> It's a bug in bash. You may work around it by setting ash as
> your /bin/sh shell instead of bash.
I'm using two boxes here, one with potato and another (my
guinea pig) with woody.
I'm seeing the problem above on the machine with
At 10:13 PM 09/07/2000 +, you wrote:
I don't object to a web-browser, personally. I do object to having to
install and configure a Web server (!!) to set up the machine, for the same
reason I object to needing a Web server to view documentation (eg, doc-central
depends on apache).
Webmin has
Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Is there any better way to pick a useful ftp site for upgrading?
Automatically or by hand?
By hand I run the list of mirrors
(http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors) thru netselect to get the
best one for the machine I'm on, then stick that in sources.list.
HTH,
--
Ma
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Fortunately, my part of it is done - KDE is being uploaded to Debian
> now to join Qt in main. Unfortunately, not by any action of KDE. Troll
> Tech made the decision. KDE and Debian both benefit. I can speak
> for a sizable portion o
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:19:06PM -0300, Ben Woodhead wrote:
> First I would like to give my appologies, I was not aware of the incomming
> directory and I have been told that kde will be included. I would also like
> to say that I personally do not use kde nor am a developer for them, my
> conser
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> A server on the 'net without matching forward/reverse DNS is broken.
>> Period.
>
>Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have on
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:16:23PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > > My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
> >
> > They don't need to "match". Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
> > that some
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:37:25PM -0400, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
>
> They don't need to "match". Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
> that something needs to resolve back to your IP. This has no effect on what
> Fro
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:00:39PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> Complete bullshit. Show me the RFC that says you may only have one DNS
> name attached to an IP at a time. You can't do it because it doesn't
> exist. Several Debian developers have debian.net subdomains which do not
> reverse beca
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:44:06PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> >> yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce
> >> their mail until then.
> >
> >Are you willing to pay the difference between the cost of that user's
> >current ISP and one which meets your stan
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> I don't see us making this kind of check for code written in perl, or
> code wirtten in C, or any other language.
Perl is available under two licenses: GPL + Artistic. Not much room
for a reasonable person to introduce conflict there.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 04:33:09PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
> My reverse DNS does not match my forward DNS. I have @home. Only
They don't need to "match". Your IP just needs to resolve to something, and
that something needs to resolve back to your IP. This has no effect on what
From: addres
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:41:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Perhaps it's from being too geeky myself, but Branden's explanation
> > (the recipient of the error message is not welcome on *THEIR* Internet
> > under the reasoning that they're ... refusing connections from machines
>
> It was t
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:19PM -0400, Steve Robbins wrote:
>
>> I dunno about the first, but I have seen the second problem. In my case,
>> it was caused by a bug in dpk-scanpackages (from dpkg-dev); see bug #51479
>> in BTS.
> apt-move does not u
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:16:28PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> In Wed, 6 Sep 2000 23:10:32 +1100 Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum
> veritate scripsit :
>
> > I looked at that configuration file. It appeared to me that
> > there was enough info in there for reportbug just to use
> > /usr/
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every
> single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never
> versions on hand). Also, it makes completely empty Packages.gz
How about a bug report then? You did run apt-move fsck
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 12:20:19PM -0400, Steve Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> > My current problem with apt-move is that it wants to delete every
> > single deb file I have (instead of only those that have never
> > versions on hand). Also, it makes completely
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:52:33PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
>
> [puzzled]
>
> For some reason the .dsc file was the old one. I've uploaded the correct
> one, so everything should be OK now. Thanks for the warning.
>
No problem. I see they have been installed now.
--
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:37:55PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> yes. get an ISP that can do reverse DNS. YEESHHH! I'll happily bounce
>> their mail until then.
>
>Are you willing to pay the difference between the co
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> "Gregor" == Gregor Hoffleit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
Gregor> 1) Ignore Python 1.6 and up, as long as the license is not
compatible
Gregor>with the GPL. That's probably the easiest way to go, but is it
Gregor>justified ? Looks like a deliberate discrimination ag
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