Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-21 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Hello Miguel, I would have prefered to know you taking some tapas in Madrid, oh welll.. On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 08:17:56AM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote: Hello guys, I just got forwarded a few messages from a discussion that is going on at the Debian lists, let me reply: First

Re: Information to at talk about Debian

1999-05-21 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Maybe you could use some of the info in one of my articles on Debian 2.1 (try http://www.openresources.com), there are pointers there to some unofficial info. Regards Javi On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: I'm going to promote Debian on

Re: better /etc/init.d/network

1999-05-20 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Well, I think your program goes in the right direction. However I feel it should be more user-friendly regarding two things: a) presenting the user a nice interface (not just read in console) b) going through user input and checking errors. I don't have

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-31 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 12:53:28PM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:14:15AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: snip I brought this up on IRC, and got the following suggestions: 1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC) 2. Octopus (my own suggestion) 3. Monkey 4. Ant

¿Misuse of Debian name and logo?

1999-01-29 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I would like to draw your attention towards www.debian-cd.com, it's a vendor that distributes Debian Cd's, also providing some nice logos for use as label. I have no problem with these save... 1.- The domain name includes 'Debian' is this OK for the project? I recall a

Article introducing Slink

1999-01-29 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I'm currently writting an article for an online magazine based on free software proyects called OpenResources (www.openresources.com) who where interested in having a preview of what Slink will offer. However, I'm at a loss to grasp all the differences between Hamm and Slink, and

Re: Article introducing Slink

1999-01-29 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Sorry to reply to myself... I just wanted to note that the article is incomplete, and translated from the original (also incomplete ;) in spanish. I will try to finish it more and translate it tomorrow.. I have added to it: - information on apt's future frontend (I do

Re: seeking new maintainer: lilo

1999-01-29 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I do not feel confident enough to take upon lilo, I just wanted to say that I was working (sorry Enrique for not being able to finish it for slink) in a LILO installation to be included in boot-floppies and work also standalone, if anyone is working in it feel free to contact me so we

Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-15 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White wrote: vrwave23436 vrwave should maybe go in contrib? [124] (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL PROTECTED]) xswallow 25932 Xswallow should be in contrib [55] (Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a [EMAIL

Re: Offering packages

1998-06-24 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 05:09:23PM +0200, Milan Zamazal wrote: I'm offering most of my packages. I will still maintain those of them, (...) The list of offered packages: comm/casio - Casio diary backup utility () I will take this one (comm/casio), if nobody minds,

Re: annual update of Maintainer Contacts

1998-06-24 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
While you're at it you might change a minor bug in the page + FAQ Santiago Villa [EMAIL PROTECTED], Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ needs '' right? Saludos Javi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: bad kernel 2.0.34 bug ?

1998-06-24 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
As a matter of fact it just happened with our IDE drives after upgrading to 2.0.34, since we had read this, we downgraded to 2.0.33 and it works with no erros now. I don't intent to say that this is an important bug, but maybe it should be looked at. Regards Javi On

Re: Intent to package: 3d modellers and VRML tools

1998-06-21 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I han't checked.. my mistake :) I'll take a look at it (and grab the Deb package :) As for Libjava and libC++ y don't remember their correct names, but they are libraries in java and C++ for creating VRML apps. Their real names aren't those, I might have confused you a

Re: any Wabi users in the group?

1998-06-18 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
I installed Wabi in my work environment about a year ago. I used directly the .tar.gz and works fine after some tuning on my behalf. Of course, I moved all the /opt/ stuff to /usr/local, symlink opt so I wouldn't find any problems. We're also using PageMaker 5.0 to edit our

Intent to package doc-debian-es

1998-05-08 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Hi everyone, I have translated today the New Maintainer HOWTO to Spanish and am willing to translate some other important debian documentation to Spanish making it, thus, more accesible to spanish developers. I intend to package it as doc-debian-es. Just a thought: it might be

Re: Intent to package Xswallow

1998-05-04 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 03:22:42PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a writes: This sounds distressingly like a serious security hole - unless it refuses requests resembling xterm -e foo. It's not quite as bad as xhost +, I'll admit, but it does sound like a major risk

Re: Intent to package Xswallow

1998-05-04 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Mon, May 04, 1998 at 03:43:00PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: I assume the point is that it will only execute applications listed in /etc/mailcap, which is fine. He didn't provide a URL, so I can't check.. Jules Sorry, I forgot. Im putting up a checksite at

dpkb-buildpackage errors

1998-05-04 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Anybody knows why dpkg-buildpackage jumps with a: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/hello/hello-1.3# dpkg-buildpackage no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME (root) at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16. parsechangelog/debian: error: unable to open substvars file debian/substvars: No