Hazy Shade of Winter

2003-06-22 Thread J . James
I was wondering if you would send me the sheet music for Hazy Shade of Winter - I want to transpose it for the piccolo, as that is the sexiest of instruments. thanks, Jimmy James the man so nice they named him twice.

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Note that my idea was about patching the kernel that so the newer opcodes > > > would be emulated in software. Everyth

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 09:52:17AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, John Goerzen wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > Note that my idea was about patching the kernel that so the newer opcodes > > > would be emulated in software. Everyth

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:24:57AM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > > >As I say this, I'm sure people can say the same about i486 and even i386 > >machines. Why exactly do we need to remove this support? > > Read the bug report with the number you put in your Subject. Whi

Re: Dueling Banjoes

2003-06-22 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Kevin Edwards wrote: > I was wondering if you would send me the sheet music for dueling banjoes - > I want to transpose it for other instruments - Sorry, can't help you there. I can give you the byte codes for dueling flamewars, however.

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Many video cards require XFree 4.3.x or above. They require agpgart in the > > kernel. They require iwconfig and other wireless tools. There are a whole > > Tell me, you seriously think that there is a libc5 program still around >

Dueling Banjoes

2003-06-22 Thread Kevin Edwards
I was wondering if you would send me the sheet music for dueling banjoes - I want to transpose it for other instruments -

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:08, Alan Shutko wrote: > Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How would Debian prefer to see this? Some people tell me that it'll > > probably be too slow to build the packages on the end-user's system > > (as is done for elisp), > > That's also done with Commo

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:58:09PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 16:35]: > > On Jun 22, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >There is no technical reason why we can't support libc5 anymore. The only > > >reason that this is being discussed is that

Keysigning opportunity in Portland, OR

2003-06-22 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm going to be in Portland, Oregon, for June 22-28. I'll probably have time for a keysigning and maybe a quick beer if any Debian developers and/or users are interested. Just drop me a mail if you want to meet somewhere. -Brian -- Poems... always a sign of pretentious inner turmoil. pgp8Nkl

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Alan Shutko
Isaac Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How would Debian prefer to see this? Some people tell me that it'll > probably be too slow to build the packages on the end-user's system > (as is done for elisp), That's also done with Common Lisp, and I don't think it's too slow (as an end-user). --

Bug#198445: ITP: matroska -- extensible audio/video container format

2003-06-22 Thread Sam Hocevar
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-23 Severity: wishlist * Package name : matroska Version : CVS Upstream Authors : Ludovic "Blacksun" Vialle Christian HJ Wiesner Steve "robUx4" Lhomme * URL : http://www.matr

Re: how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Ulrich Eckhardt
On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:45, Isaac Jones wrote: > There has been a lot of discussion recently on the Haskell mailing > lists about the best ways to package Haskell libraries and tools for > Debian. The main issues are: > > 1) there are a variety of "compiler" implementations, one of which is > an

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:16:54AM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote: > > this is not a problem due to devpts filesystem. > Okay, using devfs it works perfectly. > A remaining problem is also Samba: > [2003/06/22 11:09:07, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(85) > unable to open or create fil

Re: j2re1.3 plugin for mozilla isn't working.

2003-06-22 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:21, Allan Jacobsen wrote: >> I have been looking for working j2re1.4 packages for some times, but >> unfortunatly this does not work for me: >> >> isis:~/testdir/j2sdk# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot >> dpkg-buildpackage: source pac

package descriptions dummy/transitional

2003-06-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, I noticed a few transitional and dummy packages on my system, but there was no common way to identify them. I think the following packages exist: a) dummy packages which depend on the new name of a package for 1 - automatic updates after split or rename (e.g. xpdf-i) 2 - dependencie

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:06:16PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * "Martin v. Löwis" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 11:50]: > > problem here (C++ ABI compatibility with other Linux distributions). The > > discussion is now about *how* to fix this bug: > > 1. just bump minimum supported i386-family pr

how to package Haskell libraries

2003-06-22 Thread Isaac Jones
Greetings, There has been a lot of discussion recently on the Haskell mailing lists about the best ways to package Haskell libraries and tools for Debian. The main issues are: 1) there are a variety of "compiler" implementations, one of which is an interpreter :) 2) not all Haskell implementati

Re: j2re1.3 plugin for mozilla isn't working.

2003-06-22 Thread Allan Jacobsen
I have been looking for working j2re1.4 packages for some times, but unfortunatly this does not work for me: isis:~/testdir/j2sdk# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot dpkg-buildpackage: source package is j2se1.4-i586 dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.4.1.0.1-4 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer i

Re: j2re1.3 plugin for mozilla isn't working.

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sunday 22 June 2003 19:21, Allan Jacobsen wrote: > I have been looking for working j2re1.4 packages for some times, but > unfortunatly this does not work for me: > > isis:~/testdir/j2sdk# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is j2se1.4-i586 > dpkg-buildpackage: source

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:48, Adam Majer wrote: > I once read somewhere that you should _never_ compile in 486 > optimizations for use in processors other than the 486. Apparently > since 486 optimized code is padded a lot with NOPs. > > Apparently you are much better off on a Pentium or Athlon w

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Panu Kalliokoski
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 02:46:12PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > Apparently you are much better off on a Pentium or Athlon with > > i386 optimized code than i486 optimized one. > I vaguely recall something similar about the i586. FWIK, almost everything that can be done in two ways on ix86, li

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* Marco d'Itri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 16:35]: > On Jun 22, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There is no technical reason why we can't support libc5 anymore. The only > >reason that this is being discussed is that nobody has stood up to maintain > >the package. > This looks like a

Re: kullervo (sbuild/m68k) broken?

2003-06-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op zo 22-06-2003, om 13:53 schreef Andrew Lau: > Hey everyone, > > I haven't seen anyone mention this on debian-devel or debian-68k yet, > so before anymore time is wasted, could someone please take a look into > kullervo (sbuild/m68k)? Every build the last few days has failed due to > the followi

Re: j2re1.3 plugin for mozilla isn't working.

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thursday 19 June 2003 18:36, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote: > Has anyone else noticed this? This is due to the fact that Mozilla is now compiled with gcc 3.3, and that j2re1.3 is still compiled with gcc 2.95 ; both are incompatible. You can get a working j2re1.4 (blackdown doesn't provide 1.3 compi

Re: j2re1.3 plugin for mozilla isn't working.

2003-06-22 Thread Ben Burton
> Has anyone else noticed this? I know that the unofficial j2se1.4 packages consistently crash under certain conditions when using JNI with C++ code; this is related to the fact that the j2se1.4 packages are still built using g++-2.95 whereas the default C++ compiler for debian is g++-3.x. Don't

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:48:26PM -0500, Adam Majer wrote: > Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > >I'd drop the sub-pentiums (i.e. 386 and 486) entirely. Not that my vote > >would count... > > > > I once read somewhere that you should _never_ compile in 486 > optimizations for use in processors other than

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thomas Hood wrote: >No need. It is sufficient that /tmp/ and /dev/ be separate, writable, >filesystems. It is a local decision whether to make these tmpfs and >devfs, respectively. I've successfully run without a writeable dev but with devptsfs. How much "writeability" is required depends on ho

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 22, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is no technical reason why we can't support libc5 anymore. The only >reason that this is being discussed is that nobody has stood up to maintain >the package. This looks like a good enough reason to me. -- ciao, | Marco | [1676 advirpG9

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 22, Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[2003/06/22 11:13:11, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(237) > startsmbfilepwent_internal: failed to set 0600 permissions on password file > /etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was Read-only file system > .unable to open passdb database.

j2re1.3 plugin for mozilla isn't working.

2003-06-22 Thread Thomas E. Vaughan
Has anyone else noticed this? -- Thomas E. Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 22, Xavier Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dunno.. shall we consider devfs and tmpfs as standard (which is IMHO a >good idea) for future releases? For your ro-root system: definitely yes. For debian, don't dare. -- ciao, | Marco | [1679 corp.qbtCr/Hg]

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 22, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The question is: Should we concede that a separate /dev/ fs is >required for running with a read-only root filesystem, or should we >take steps to eliminate fiddling with /dev/ files? I haven't Yes. Consoles *must* have their ownership changed

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 11:52, Xavier Roche wrote: > Another remark for the HOWTO : mounting /tmp in "tmpfs" (since 2.4.1 ?) > allows you not to resevre space for /tmp on a specific partition Remark added. > > The question is: Should we concede that a separate /dev/ fs is > > required for running w

Re: kullervo (sbuild/m68k) broken?

2003-06-22 Thread Tobias Wolter
On 2003-06-22T21:53:01+1000 (Sunday), Andrew Lau wrote: > I haven't seen anyone mention this on debian-devel or debian-68k yet, > so before anymore time is wasted, could someone please take a look into > kullervo (sbuild/m68k)? Every build the last few days has failed due to > the following fatal

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:26:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Why not just ship an old binutils/gcc to build the old libc5 binaries? > I really don't understand why this is such a difficult problem. If, for > instance, gcc 2.7.2 could build these things three years ago, why can't it > now? It'

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Barth wrote: > * "Martin v. Löwis" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 11:50]: > >>problem here (C++ ABI compatibility with other Linux distributions). The >>discussion is now about *how* to fix this bug: >>1. just bump minimum supported i386-family processor to i486 > > 1a. like 1, but just for

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread David Weinehall
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:52:45AM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote: > > To tell the truth, I didn't realize that so many files in /dev/ > > were being fiddled. Obviously, one solution to the problem is > > to have a separate writable /dev/ filesystem, e.g., devfs. > > Note that devfs is still "experime

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:32:57AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 01:02, Xavier Roche wrote: > > There are other problems : for example it seems that the system > > changes the /dev/ttyXX or /dev/pts/XX ownership depending on who is being > > logged in.. > > To tell the truth

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Andreas Barth
* "Martin v. Löwis" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030622 11:50]: > problem here (C++ ABI compatibility with other Linux distributions). The > discussion is now about *how* to fix this bug: > 1. just bump minimum supported i386-family processor to i486 1a. like 1, but just for c++-packages. > 2. like 1, but

RE: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, I feel this whole discussion is somehow going into the wrong direction. What does it matter now whether we drop support for i386 and i486 (and possibly more), or just i386? Sooner or later we'll have the same problem (of changing the arch support being so difficult) again, if not with

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Xavier Roche
> To tell the truth, I didn't realize that so many files in /dev/ > were being fiddled. Obviously, one solution to the problem is > to have a separate writable /dev/ filesystem, e.g., devfs. Note that devfs is still "experimental" in 2.4 Another remark for the HOWTO : mounting /tmp in "tmpfs" (s

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 01:02, Xavier Roche wrote: > There are other problems : for example it seems that the system > changes the /dev/ttyXX or /dev/pts/XX ownership depending on who is being > logged in.. To tell the truth, I didn't realize that so many files in /dev/ were being fiddled. Obvio

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
John Goerzen wrote: While we're at it, I fail to see the logic of removing support for i386 while we still support m68k. Because there is a bug that only applies to i386 (see the subject). I wish everybody would focus on fixing this specific bug. There may be many good or bad things that can be s

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-22 Thread Xavier Roche
> this is not a problem due to devpts filesystem. Okay, using devfs it works perfectly. A remaining problem is also Samba: [2003/06/22 11:09:07, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(85) unable to open or create file /etc/samba/MACHINE.SID. Error was Read-only file system So actually s

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread "Martin v. Löwis"
John Goerzen wrote: As I say this, I'm sure people can say the same about i486 and even i386 machines. Why exactly do we need to remove this support? Read the bug report with the number you put in your Subject. Regards, Martin

Re: RFC: fewer vim variants

2003-06-22 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Sunday 15 June 2003 17:39, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:23:34AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > What about a version _with_ all non-threaded interpreters, but _without_ > > gtk2/kde support? > > That would be console Vim, from either package. The GUI doesn't add so > muc

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le sam 21/06/2003 à 19:26, John Goerzen a écrit : > > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot > > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still > > work. Yes, it can be a hassle, but it works. > > Assuming it supports your hardware. Which it is n

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 10:23:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Tell me, you seriously think that there is a libc5 program still around > that uses DRI ? Hell, libc5 was abandoned well before DRI even existed. the only libc5 program I do use is netscape 4.77 because it is compatible to some pages w

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:37:21PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:11:41PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > Hmmm. Until all of glibc, the kernel and gcc deprecate and discard support > > for 386 and 486, I'd love if I could keep my home edgge router running the > > way it

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:26:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:43:23PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > > Alternative 1: > > > > You, and rest of the minority who use libc5 program, can dual-boot > > an older distribution of Debian (say potato) where the programs still >

advise for packaging duali "arabic spell checker"

2003-06-22 Thread Mohammed Sameer
Hi all, I'm trying to package duali "an arabic spell checker" www.arabeyes.org currently i'm having a small problem there is duali itself and the data files. the db files are built from the data files using a python script. the upstream wants 2 things: the script used to build the db files to be mo

Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, John Goerzen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Note that my idea was about patching the kernel that so the newer opcodes > > would be emulated in software. Everything would still work even on a 386, > > just slower -- and the speed d

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Herbert Xu
John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not just ship an old binutils/gcc to build the old libc5 binaries? There is no technical reason why we can't support libc5 anymore. The only reason that this is being discussed is that nobody has stood up to maintain the package. -- Debian GNU/Lin

Re: rsync in apt sources.list?

2003-06-22 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> But why at the end of http://home.tiscali.cz:8080/~cz210552/aptrsync.html : >> # Get anything we missed due to failed rsync's. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24 Mar >> 2002. >> os.system('apt-get update') well, it seems for me this just starts apt-get getting everything all over again, http_proxy or not.

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-22 Thread Adam Majer
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: I'd drop the sub-pentiums (i.e. 386 and 486) entirely. Not that my vote would count... I once read somewhere that you should _never_ compile in 486 optimizations for use in processors other than the 486. Apparently since 486 optimized code is padded a lot with NOPs. Appare