Re: Tool to generate an override file from packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:08:32PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >I've back ported any > >number of unstable things for potato and not once been affected by > >debhelper 3. > Most sid packages have Build-Depends: debhelper 3 and DH_COMPAT=3 in > debian/rules. find pool/main -type f | grep '/.*/.*.dif

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Of course the package is GPL'ed (just like sysklogd is GPL'ed, although it > > is forked from the BSD code), but that is not the motivation. > How can it be GPL'ed if it is modified BSD licensed code? Or has > e

Re: debconf-gnome and locales

2001-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > just add a GtkScrolled at the top level. i'll do that for you (it is > quite easy) if you tell me were the widget is built. Well this is perl gtk, but if that's no obstacle, see /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm, the new() method. You might do better modifyin

Re: ITP: kernel-patch-selinux

2001-09-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:12, John Galt wrote: > First of all, I doubt that you're going to have too much trouble getting a > response from SElinux. They've been pretty good on responding to their > mailinglist: which, I might add, I see more than one Debian Developer has > contributed to, yet you ha

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:43:27AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:20:23AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > GNU inetutils is a FSF implementation, ours is the original BSD. > > > > The FSF is re-implementing long existing code so that they can GPL it. > > Uh, this

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > And scratch the second-most important feature of Debian (the first one being > the DFSG)? Do Not Move Config Files Out Of /etc. Ever. If you need it > elsewhere, at least leave a symbolic link in place. bind mounts. Wichert. --

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Of course the package is GPL'ed (just like sysklogd is GPL'ed, although it > is forked from the BSD code), but that is not the motivation. How can it be GPL'ed if it is modified BSD licensed code? Or has every line been rewritten? Wichert. -- _

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Christian Kurz wrote: > Hm, that doesn't make much sense too me. I think the best thing would be > to have /etc/bind inside $CHROOT and having no symlink. And scratch the second-most important feature of Debian (the first one being the DFSG)? Do Not Move Config Files Out Of

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:04:08PM +0200, Francis ANDRE wrote: > Hi DDG > > I check out the www.gnu.org inetutils against debian inetutils and I found > them out of sync?? > > Could anybody tell me why?? Because we lack behind. Jeff Bailey worked on repackaging the latest snapshot, but work wa

Re: [Q]: GNU inetutils and debian inetutils not in sync??

2001-09-24 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:20:23AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > GNU inetutils is a FSF implementation, ours is the original BSD. > > The FSF is re-implementing long existing code so that they can GPL it. Uh, this is dead wrong, at least in the case of inetutils. The GNU inetutils started

ITP: kernel-patch-lsm

2001-09-24 Thread Russell Coker
It's web site is http://lsm.immunix.org/ . License is GPL (see the note in include/linux/security.h in the patch). LSM stands for Linux Security Module, it is used as the base of a number of projects on improving Linux security including the NSE Security Enhanced Linux project (which is the on

Re: debconf-gnome and locales

2001-09-24 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
On Tue, 2001-09-25 at 01:36, Joey Hess wrote: > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > When using the Gnome frontend for debconf to configure the latest locales > > upload, I get a list of checkboxes that's about 3 times the height of > > my screen. I don't know whose fault this is (which is why I'm not fili

Looking for Martin Quinson (Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender (Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:13:12AM +0200))

2001-09-24 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender This message was create

Fwd: Re: Who does the french translation of bf and di ? (me?) (Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:13:11AM +0200)

2001-09-24 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Hi this is a message for Martin Quinson. Unfortunately, his private email address seems to be broken. Martin, can you provide me with another address ? Thanks. - Forwarded message from Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin Qui

Re: debconf-gnome and locales

2001-09-24 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Burrows wrote: > When using the Gnome frontend for debconf to configure the latest locales > upload, I get a list of checkboxes that's about 3 times the height of > my screen. I don't know whose fault this is (which is why I'm not filing > a bug), but it should be fixed, either by having

Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > I copied XF86Config from my old Woody system into the newly upgraded > system and, while startx works just fine, wdm starts up but doesn't start > the server, or log any messages in /var/log/wdm.log. (the log file exists, > but is empt

Re: ITP: kernel-patch-selinux

2001-09-24 Thread John Galt
First of all, I doubt that you're going to have too much trouble getting a response from SElinux. They've been pretty good on responding to their mailinglist: which, I might add, I see more than one Debian Developer has contributed to, yet you have not. It would behoove you to actually look as i

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-09-24 Martin F Krafft wrote: > also sprach Christian Kurz (on Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:31:54AM +0200): > > So you want to force everyone who is interested in running this chroot > > to use a kernel 2.4.x at least? That's in my opinion a not acceptable > > solution, since the decision which kernel

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-09-24 Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 24, Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >So you want to force everyone who is interested in running this chroot > >to use a kernel 2.4.x at least? That's in my opinion a not acceptable > Yes, since managing a chroot environment without bind moun

debconf-gnome and locales

2001-09-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
When using the Gnome frontend for debconf to configure the latest locales upload, I get a list of checkboxes that's about 3 times the height of my screen. I don't know whose fault this is (which is why I'm not filing a bug), but it should be fixed, either by having debconf handle this sanely in

Re: Loader

2001-09-24 Thread Lauri Tischler
"BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1)" wrote: > > Hi all, > This question don't have nothing to do with Debian, but I will try. > I want to know if exists an MS-DOS Loader for Linux. There is any > tool that can load DOS under Linux? (Like loadlin load Linux in DOS). >

Re: Tool to generate an override file from packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Marc Haber
On 23 Sep 2001 21:36:12 +0100, James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >Any new tool that hypothetically gets written or packages isn't going >> >to get put in potato either. >> >> Having spent four hours last night to try getting a debhelper 3 >> (unsucce

Re: Loader

2001-09-24 Thread Scott Dier
* BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010924 13:33]: > Hi all, > This question don't have nothing to do with Debian, but I will try. > I want to know if exists an MS-DOS Loader for Linux. There is any > tool that can load DOS under Linux? (Like loadlin load Li

Loader

2001-09-24 Thread BERNARDES,JOAN \(Non-HP-Brazil,ex1\)
Hi all, This question don't have nothing to do with Debian, but I will try. I want to know if exists an MS-DOS Loader for Linux. There is any tool that can load DOS under Linux? (Like loadlin load Linux in DOS). Thanks, Joan. ## #

Re: ITP: kernel-patch-selinux

2001-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Russell Coker wrote: > I intend to package the kernel patch for NSA Security Enhanced Linux. > Below is all the details on licenses. My interpretation of the below license > details (copied from the web site) is that the kernel patch is under the GPL > and everything is fine. > However is the

Re: ITP: kernel-patch-selinux

2001-09-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:36:26PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > I intend to package the kernel patch for NSA Security Enhanced Linux. > > > > Below is all the details on licenses. My interpretation of the below > > license > > details (copie

Potato to Woody upgrade problem

2001-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
I was gifted with a 2 gig SCSI drive, so the first thing I tried was installing a system. I installed Potato from a set of CheapBytes CDs, but did not set up X at that time. Then I upgraded over PPP to the latest Woody archives. The "automatic" X setup failed, but then I've never had that work for

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 24, Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So you want to force everyone who is interested in running this chroot >to use a kernel 2.4.x at least? That's in my opinion a not acceptable Yes, since managing a chroot environment without bind mounts is way harder and IMO cannot easily/cor

Re: How many people need locales?

2001-09-24 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:45:13PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Okay, if nobody objects I will start implementing support for it in > > boot-floppies (dbootstrap). > > We already support all this. Please work with what we have - don't > reinvent th

Bug#113364: ITP: libacme-poe-knee-perl -- Time sliced pony race using the POE kernel.

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Kowalik
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-09-25 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libacme-poe-knee-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Jos Boumans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://japh.nu/index.cgi?base=modules * License : Perl Artistic License Descripti

Re: dpkg logging

2001-09-24 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> > > Regardless of whether packages are using debconf, I have wondered for > > > *years* > > > why we didn't at least have the option of logging stdout and stderr from > > > everything in the install/update process. I think it's a good idea. > > > > > > Bdale > > > > I have proposed this two yea

Re: Tool to generate an override file from packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Admar Schoonen
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:15:06PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 03:55:45 +1000, Anthony Towns > wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 07:34:34PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:43:05 +0200, Admar Schoonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> >apt-ftparchive is in

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Marillat
"AM" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >>> While reading that discussion I do get the impression that >>> OpenDivX is not DFSG compatible. >> >> Yes, And this is why I don't want to include transcode or x2divx

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:57:05PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >> While reading that discussion I do get the impression that >> OpenDivX is not DFSG compatible. > > Yes, And this is why I don't want to include transcode or x2divx or > another in Debian. Whitout codecs these packages are unusa

Fwd: WiadomoÅÄ nie mogÅa byÄ dostarczona

2001-09-24 Thread Martin F Krafft
could we temporarily unsubscribe this dude until he clears out his mailbox? please! - Forwarded message from Tomek Zubilew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: 24 Sep 2001 14:42:30 GMT From: "Tomek Zubilew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: WiadomoÅÄ nie mogÅa

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Marillat
"GS" == Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> Yes. Read legal archive: >> >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200101/threads.html#00027 > While reading that discussion I do get the impression that OpenDivX is not > DFSG compatible. Yes, And this is why I

Re: how to get full package url from apt-cache?

2001-09-24 Thread Piotr Krukowiecki
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:09:54PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto uttered: > > Hi, > > > > is it possible to get the full URL of a package (the one which is passed > > by apt-get to dpkg for package installation) from apt-cache or some other > > standard tool

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:01:15PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > > IIUC, this message refers to using codecs from microsoft.com, while the > > divx4linux library provides equivalent,free codecs. > > > Is this correct ? > > Yes. Read legal archive: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Marillat
"EVB" == Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200101/msg02634.html, >> I >> guess. > IIUC, this message refers to using codecs from microsoft.com, while the > divx4linux library provides equivalent,free codecs. > I

Re: Tool to generate an override file from packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Admar Schoonen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:05:59PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > quite a few people maintain their own aptable archives of packages - > > whether for internal use or for publication. In that environment, > > override files don't serve a purpo

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Jules Bean wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:00:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > > > The social contract says "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free > > > Software". > > > Such a win-port might indeed serve

[Fwd: debian more international]

2001-09-24 Thread Sulaiman Alhasawi
--- Begin Message --- Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hello, Hi > > > At Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:39:58 +, > Sulaiman Alhasawi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello debian developers . Im from Kuwait and arabic is my language . i > > have been searching in debian > > for arabic support [ fonts , d

Re: samba cvs debian packages?

2001-09-24 Thread Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
El Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 01:23:43PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris escribía: BTW, Eloy Do you know if version 2.2.2 is going to be released with passdb LDAP support? I think that it is going backported from HEAD cvs version, but I'm not very sure. Would you mind to compile SAMBA with LDAP support i

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:25:28PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:15:43PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > > > Is there any problem keeping them from being included in Debian ? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200101/msg02634.html, I > guess.

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 21.IX.2001 at 05:48 Sulaiman Fahad Alhasawi wrote: > > who maintain arabic fonts/programs ? > If yes , may i know who ? if no , can some one > > apply to do so ? I would like to maintain Arabic fonts for Debian. Can you give me URLs where I can find such fonts? Anton Zinoviev, [EMAIL P

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Christian Kurz (on Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:31:54AM +0200): > So you want to force everyone who is interested in running this chroot > to use a kernel 2.4.x at least? That's in my opinion a not acceptable > solution, since the decision which kernel is used, should never be > depending on a c

Re: Please move autoconf and autoconf2.13 into testing

2001-09-24 Thread Petr Cech
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:45:06AM +0200 , Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > it seems those two packages are depending on each other and are thus > stuck. php4-dev depends on autoconf2.13 and is also stuck therefore. Could if php4 was stuck only because of autoconf I'd jump of joy

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 12:15:43PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > Is there any problem keeping them from being included in Debian ? http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200101/msg02634.html, I guess. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PR

Re: new packages: divx4linux and transcode

2001-09-24 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:33:29PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:17:47PM +0200, NORMAND Jacques wrote: > > > I want to pack the divx4linux codec on one hand and the transcode utilities > > on the other. But I never packed libraries and docs aren't that clear with > > that

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-24 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:00:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Richard B. Kreckel wrote: > > The social contract says "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software". > > Such a win-port might indeed serve some users. But for my own part, I do > > have some

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-09-23 Martin F Krafft wrote: > complicated for i did not know about the mount --bind option. sure, > this only works with 2.4.x, but if any chroot changes to bind9 are > going public, then this will be bundled with a 2.4.x kernel-image, > right? will testing be 2.4.x? So you want to force ev

Re: is dhelp completely broken

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Marillat
"SH" == Stefan Hornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Christian, please make the NMU. It would be nice if the package is > working now. > If you are _really_ kind, put > Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > as maintainer in changelog/control, send the packages to me, and >

Re: ITP: kernel-patch-selinux

2001-09-24 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:36:26PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I intend to package the kernel patch for NSA Security Enhanced Linux. > > Below is all the details on licenses. My interpretation of the below license > details (copied from the web site) is that the kernel patch is under the GPL

Re: dpkg logging

2001-09-24 Thread Tomas Pospisek
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote: > > > Previously Steve Greenland wrote: > > > > Stdout and stderr from the maintainer scripts. (This may be obvious, but > > >> you didn't explicitly list it.) > > > > > > No, they should use debconf. > > > > Regardless of whether packages are using de

Re: is dhelp completely broken

2001-09-24 Thread Stefan Hornburg Racke
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "CW" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:58:39PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > >> "JV" == Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > for me the dhelp package does not work at all, because

Questions regarding the Security Secretary Position

2001-09-24 Thread Martin Schulze
I'm awfully sorry for the delay, but I wasn't able to work on this earlier again. Here's a list of questions and answers that came up with the posting I made last week. Q: Is a requirement being a Debian developer? No. It is my understanding that it would be good to have "fresh blood" in

Re: how to get full package url from apt-cache?

2001-09-24 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 11:09:54PM +0200, Massimo Dal Zotto uttered: > Hi, > > is it possible to get the full URL of a package (the one which is passed > by apt-get to dpkg for package installation) from apt-cache or some other > standard tool? What I would lite to do is something like this: > [E

Please move autoconf and autoconf2.13 into testing

2001-09-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, it seems those two packages are depending on each other and are thus stuck. php4-dev depends on autoconf2.13 and is also stuck therefore. Could you move these two packages into testing manually? Thanks, Simon -- GPG public key available from http://phobos.fs.tum.de/pgp/Simon.Richter.asc

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-24 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:05:10AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > There has to be a standard way to at least have basic unix utils like grep, > ed, diff and friends to work on files with multi lingual contents and still > have a reasonable user interface and means to display their output. diff and g

Re: Chroots (was: bind9-chroot)

2001-09-24 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Itai Zukerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > I'd like to do the following: > > $ chroot-get install --root=/var/root/mail exim cyrus-imapd > I don't know what you are trying to do, but export EXTRAPACKAGES="cyrus-imapd exim" pbuilder create --basetgz ~/cyrus-chroot.tar.gz Is one s

Re: is dhelp completely broken

2001-09-24 Thread Christian Marillat
"CW" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:58:39PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: >> "JV" == Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > for me the dhelp package does not work at all, because of the problem >> > described in bug reports 109207, 10984