Re: apt-get wants to upgrade package to same version?

2002-08-26 Thread Brian May
On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:12:28PM +0200, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > Try to reorder your sources.list file. So another words, it is not sufficient to simply disable an apt-get source line by giving it a priority of -1, I must also delete that line from sources.list too? (as normally this entry is

Re: Menu system rewrite update (Aug 6 2002)

2002-08-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Thimo Neubauer wrote: > Sorry to interrupt your speculations about a gnuplot menu-entry but > it's been in the package for ages (about 1997)... Yes, opening a xterm > with the gnuplot commandline inside is a bit strange but nobody ever > complained and at least it can be found

Re: MAKEDEV Replacement status

2002-08-26 Thread Andres Salomon
I'm still waiting for bdale to find time to look at the code I've released so far. I would like to know whether he likes the direction it's headed, before continuing.. On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 04:36:07PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I was just about to file a wishlist against makedev to get su

Re: trustworthy, seasoned developer, and Swedish

2002-08-26 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:59:47AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > anyone of you with fulfilling the subject's three requirements? i've > been contacted about donations for debian in sweden, and if you would > be able to, it would be great if you could proxy those. Hi I forgot to reply to this ma

Re: First experience with gcc-3.2 recompiles

2002-08-26 Thread Gerhard Tonn
On Sunday 25 August 2002 22:00, you wrote: > > > The build logs of the packages can be found at > > http://people.debian.org/~gt/gcc-3.2_transition > > I hate to say, but the list of failed packages needs to get > investigated a little bit, since not all failures seem to be GCC 3.2 > and syntax rel

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-26 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:33:40AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:01:15 +0300, > Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > >It's free to distribute on the network, but if you distribute for > >the people who cannot access the network (by magazine or CD-ROM), > >please send

Re: perl 5.6 dependent packages

2002-08-26 Thread Jérôme Marant
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:44:00AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 02:49:10PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > >perl 5.8 will enter unstable at the next dinstall run. Before it can > >make testing though, we have to update the following 84 packages which > >still depend on perlapi-5.

Re: perl 5.6 dependent packages

2002-08-26 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:33:51AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: >On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 06:44:00AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> Note that in addition, since perl 5.8.0 includes some modules which were >> previously stand-alone, any package declaring a versioned[0] dependency >> on: >> >> l

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Bug#158320: ITP: cl-defsystem3 -- A system definition and building package for Common Lisp programs

2002-08-26 Thread Kevin M. Rosenberg
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: cl-defsystem3 Version : 3.3ii Upstream Author : Mark Kantrowitz and Marco Antoniotti * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/clocc * License : DFSG compatible Description :

gim, a possible gpm replacement

2002-08-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I am posting this here because mail to the current Debian maintainer of gpm, Zephaniah E. Hull, bounces. gim can already serve fine as a "repeater" (pointer device for X) itz> A sneak preview of gim is available at itz> http://www.speakeasy.net/~itz/hacks/gim-0.9.1.tar.gz itz> gim is a replace

Re: perl 5.6 dependent packages

2002-08-26 Thread Jérôme Marant
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 05:57:50PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > > If those package are still going to be shipped separately (because > > they're going to evolve outside the perl core), then they should stay > > in the archive and perl must add Provides for them. Hence, the user > > can still

Re: Bug#158059: ITP: metacity-themes -- Themes for the Gtk2 metacity window manager

2002-08-26 Thread Mark Howard
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 20:18, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 14:37, Mark Howard wrote: > > > Initial packages for this are available at > > http://tildemh.com/tmp/metacity-themes/ > > Hmmwhere's the source package? http://tildemh.com/tmp/debian/ As this collection is not availa

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-26 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, +21:51:59 EEST (UTC +0300), Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys: > On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, +16:01:15 EEST (UTC +0300), > Juhapekka Tolvanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys: > Docs about format of LHA or LZH is here: > > http://www.osirusoft.com/joejar

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Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-26 Thread Juhapekka Tolvanen
On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, +05:00:59 EEST (UTC +0300), Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pressed some keys: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 04:01:15PM +0300, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > It is not very bad thing if we can't create archives in formats like > > ACE, ARJ, LHA or RAR with free software. But it is m

Re: Bug#156407: ITP: free-java-sdk -- Complete Java SDK environment consising of free Java tools

2002-08-26 Thread John Leuner
> * kaffe and other GPL-licensed JVMs can only be used with GPL compatible > software (i.e. no Apache style licenses!). See > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL > Not to mention that kaffe's classlib is GPL [1] What exactly do you mean by this? The interpreter can b

Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

2002-08-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 00:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > Otherwise, if more then one version of the symbol is > available, none of the definitions is accepted and the search > continues with the next

Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

2002-08-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > Both problems can be solved by simply writing the version scripts so > that only a version tag is mentioned in each: > libpng2.ver: > LIBPNG_2.0 {global: png_*); > > libpng3.ver: > LIBPNG_3.0 {global: png_*); > > However, we'll still get a warning messa

shouldn't root.adm , -rw-r----- , be policy for all non-public log files?

2002-08-26 Thread Joost van Baal
Hi, I maintain the Lire package, which processes log files from e.g. sendmail, bind, apache, boa and lots of other services. I don't want to run any Lire processes as root. However, of course, the processes need read access to log files. Unfortunately, there seems to be no rule or policy on how

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It appears that Sharp Systems systematically spammed writers to the Debian-Laptop list, which certainly is an abuse of the debian lists. (they did not spam the list, so they don't directly violate the anti-spam rules of debian though) The spam arrived 12. Aug 2002. I was spammed shortly after posti

Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL

2002-08-26 Thread Luca Barbieri
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 17:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Luca Barbieri wrote: > > Both problems can be solved by simply writing the version scripts so > > that only a version tag is mentioned in each: > > libpng2.ver: > > LIBPNG_2.0 {global: png_*); > > > > libpng3.ve

Re: First experience with gcc-3.2 recompiles

2002-08-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Gerhard Tonn wrote: > > apt: failed with "debian/rules:20: build/environment.mak: No such file or > > directory" gg: failed with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljpeg" > > hylafax: failed because textfmt wasn't built[1] > > latte: failed with "Your STL string implementation is unu

Re: First experience with gcc-3.2 recompiles

2002-08-26 Thread Gerhard Tonn
On Monday 26 August 2002 18:55, you wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Gerhard Tonn wrote: > > > apt: failed with "debian/rules:20: build/environment.mak: No such file > > > or directory" gg: failed with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ljpeg" > > > hylafax: failed because textfmt wasn't built[1] > > > latte:

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old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi! At te moment, there are a lot of old ITP's hanging around in the WNPP, with (seemingly) nothing happening to them. In order to clean out the WNPP, I intend to rename the ITP's that have been open longer than 1 year to RFP's. This will affect approximately 200 ITP's. The renaming will be don

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:30:13PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > At te moment, there are a lot of old ITP's hanging around in the WNPP, > with (seemingly) nothing happening to them. In order to clean out the > WNPP, I intend to rename the ITP's that have been open longer than 1 year > to RFP's. T

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il lun, 2002-08-26 alle 20:30, Bas Zoetekouw ha scritto: > #68155 grassfiled: 1443, changed 1443 in Incoming by more than one month now. -- Federico Di Gregorio Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact[EMAIL PROTECTED] INIT.D Developer

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Mark Howard
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 19:30, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi! > > At te moment, there are a lot of old ITP's hanging around in the WNPP, Hi, When I was looking through the RFP list a while back, I noticed many of them were for packages that were not maintained upstream - sometimes they were still at

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Clint Adams
> > #87667 gstreamerfiled: 546, changed 546 > > As an example, this package was uploaded to experimental on friday, > and has been packaged upstream for about a year. It was last changed > 62 days ago. Why experimental?

Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
I just noticed that IDE DMA is not enabled by default in woody, nor in the kernel-image package (at least for 2.4.18 and I assume for the others also). I can understand this, since there are some systems for which enabling IDE results in hideous corruption. But for others it gives you a a huge in

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread David Schleef
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 03:05:35PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > > #87667 gstreamerfiled: 546, changed 546 > > > > As an example, this package was uploaded to experimental on friday, > > and has been packaged upstream for about a year. It was last changed > > 62 da

Re: Preferred way to build shared objects from PIC archives?

2002-08-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 09:13:35PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > The shared libraries in ncbi-tools6 and related packages currently > start out as static archives of PIC objects, which then get turned > into shared libraries with commands of the form > > gcc -shared -Wl,-soname=libddvlib.so.6 -o

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > be "hda=dma ..." or "ide0=dma ..." on the kernel command line, though I > haven't tested this yet. Appa

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Federico Di Gregorio
Il lun, 2002-08-26 alle 21:45, Nate Eldredge ha scritto: > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > case /dev/hdc or whatever it is won't work until you have loaded the > ide-scsi module, p

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > > be "hda=dma ..." or "ide0=dma ..." on the kernel com

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Nate Eldredge
On 26 Aug 2002, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > Il lun, 2002-08-26 alle 21:45, Nate Eldredge ha scritto: > > > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > > case /dev/hdc or whatever it is won

Security notification script

2002-08-26 Thread Rob Bradford
I have written a python script that allows you to compares locally installed packages with those on security.debian.org. Furthermore it provides a description of the problem/DSA name if the package is mentioned in the DSA RDF. The script is intended to be run as a normal user in a crontab, and th

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread tomas p
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Nate Eldredge wrote: > Thoughts? Propose a patch against the hdparm package?

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:45:54PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > The other question is how it should be enabled. One way is "hdparm -d 1 > > /dev/hd?" or moral equivalent in an init script. Another way appears to > > be "hda=dma ..." or "ide0=dma ..." on the kernel command line, though I > > ha

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Ian Eure
On Monday 26 August 2002 12:45 pm, Nate Eldredge wrote: > As for hdparm, this is complicated with ide-scsi. For ide-scsi to work > you have to make the ide-cd module ignore the scsi-ified drive. In which > case /dev/hdc or whatever it is won't work until you have loaded the > ide-scsi module, per

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Below's a list of the bug tahtw will be renamed. The "filed" and > "changed" fields in the list are the number of days that have past since > the bug was opened, and since any addition was made to the report, > respectively. > #85612 mixmaster

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-26 Thread Erich Schubert
BTW: i also remember having read that certain hardware doesn't work with ide-scsi, so enabling ide-scsi for all IDE hardware is a bad choice. (i think one of the boot-floppies people tried using ide-scsi by default, and got some problem reports) And additional drawback IMHO is the following: devfs

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:11:03PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > The changed date is clearly wrong. I suggest you redo your stats and > post an updated list. and please include the email address of the reporter for better grepping. Greetings Bernd

Re: old ITP's

2002-08-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-26 23:43]: > > The changed date is clearly wrong. I suggest you redo your stats and > > post an updated list. > > and please include the email address of the reporter for better grepping. Plus the one who did the last modification. (Image an RFP whi

Migration to /usr/share/doc

2002-08-26 Thread Giorgio Mandolfo
Hi everybody. This may be quite stupid or frivolous. :-) I have noticed the migration of the extra documentation files from /usr/doc/ to /usr/share/doc/ (as also describes the Debian Policy chapter 13.3). I am trying not to use exclusively the simbolic link to /usr/share/doc/ but to look directl

unsubscribe mikael.petersson@lovelace.d2g.nu

2002-08-26 Thread lovelace

Re: Preferred way to build shared objects from PIC archives?

2002-08-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, that should work fine. I don't know what's broken... you may wish > to try extracting all the objects via ar and relinking them; that > should be pretty easy, but I'm not sure it will help. That's actually how upstream does it, but then there a

Hello.

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KDE 3.0.3 Packages (was: Hello)

2002-08-26 Thread Federico Sevilla III
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:37:14AM +0300, Nir Peled wrote: > Hello, I'm using debian for like 6 months, I used Redhat before. I > gotta say Debian is **A LOT** Better then RH, I like the development > and all. :-) > My only concern is your packages (Not that bad, Just wondering) I'm > wondering

Re: Hello.

2002-08-26 Thread David D.W. Downey
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:37:14AM +0300, Nir Peled woke up, and decided to spew forth: > I'm SURE you'll have a lot more *customers* If you'll add KDE3.0.3 (Released > few days ago) I'm also idleing in your server on the OPN network, And if > you'll join #debian in there you'll see the request

Re: Security notification script

2002-08-26 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 16:31, Rob Bradford wrote: > http://www.robster.org.uk/files/security-update-check.py That's an interesting approach. What I do is: #!/bin/sh apt-get -qq update && apt-get -qq -s dist-upgrade in /etc/cron.daily/local_aptupdate. Of course, this mails me if any packages ar

consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, Considering how unstable perl 5.80 currently is, wouldn't it be wise to regress sid back to perl 5.60 and move 5.80 into experimental instead? So far this upgrade has done major damage to dpkg by breaking install-info making any additional glibc builds in sid impossible. I have also foun

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote: > Hello, > Considering how unstable perl 5.80 currently is, wouldn't it be > wise to regress sid back to perl 5.60 and move 5.80 into experimental > instead? So far this upgrade has done major damage to dpkg by breaking > install-info making any additio

Re: Hello.

2002-08-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, David D.W. Downey wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:37:14AM +0300, Nir Peled woke up, and decided to > spew forth: > > I'm SURE you'll have a lot more *customers* If you'll add KDE3.0.3 (Released > > few days ago) I'm also idleing in your server on the OPN network, And if >

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Adam, Well it will be one thing if the debian perl maintainers are going to actively track down and fix these critical perl bugs on their own. However if we are going to passively wait for fixes from upstream, perhaps perl 5.80 will introduce a bit too much breakage for right now. I mean dpkg IS

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-26 Thread GOTO Masanori
At Mon, 26 Aug 2002 00:23:30 -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:33:40AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:01:15 +0300, > > Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: > > >It's free to distribute on the network, but if you distribute for > > >the people who cannot acce

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:48:21PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Adam, >Well it will be one thing if the debian perl maintainers > are going to actively track down and fix these critical perl > bugs on their own. However if we are going to passively wait > for fixes from upstream, perhaps perl 5

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Dan, Then you might take a stab at debugging the testcase from the bugzilla report... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69254 ...since it sounds similar. If it isn't then we have another bug to fix. Jack

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-26 Thread Miles Bader
Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But if it is reliable i would recommend using it. It makes lot of things > much easier and probably is much more intuitive for beginners as well. > (just thinking of /dev/discs/disc0/part1 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 ) What's especially cool is that it hardw