Powerfulness (was: tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby)

* Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060107 14:13]: > Description : tioga : a powerful plotting system in ruby First of all: This is not against you, Vincent. :-) I am just wondering if we shouldn't be more chary of using meaningless (or soliciting) phrases like "powerful" in package

Re: (Re)Build problem with g++ 4.0

* Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050708 02:48]: Hi Hendrik, all, thank you for your responses. :-) > Cited the wrong file for pthread_t definition :-/ > It's > /usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:typedef unsigned long int pthread_t; :-) > Still, no casting is needed Yes, it's true that no

(Re)Build problem with g++ 4.0

Hi, first of all: if this is not the appropriate list for this kind of question, please give me pointer to better one. I am having problems with rebuilding my dcmtk package with g++ 4.0 on Sid. The problem seems to be related to type casting between pthread_t and unsigned long int types and vice

Bug#310290: ITP: libccl0 -- Interface to configuration files containing key/value pairs

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libccl0 Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Stephen F. Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sbooth.org/ccl * License : GPL Description : Interface to c

Policy and FHS-2.3? (was: /usr/lib vs /usr/libexec)

* Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050509 03:07]: > Well, the reason */libexec exists is to avoid overloading the meaning > of */lib to include things other than libraries. Just as /sbin was > invented (way back in the day) to stop overloading /etc with things > other than config files. I th

Re: Privileged Port Puzzle

Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, this is obviously not the way imagectn is >> supposed to work. > Uh, why not? > If (uid==0) { > bind to specified port; > setuid("imagectn"); /* or "nobody" */ > setgid("imagectn"); > } else { > bind to specified n

Privileged Port Puzzle

Hi all. I am working on the imagectn DICOM image archive application. imagectn opens a port and waits for remote applications to connect to this address. The dedicated port number is 104 (see /etc/services) but any user should be allowed to run a private imagectn process on unprivileged ports.

How to handle libssl support?

Hi all, what's the current policy for packaging software that can optionally linked with libssl support? For Woody it seemed to be common practice to provide two separate packages, one with ssl support enabled and another one with ssl support disabled (like fetchmail/fetchmail-ssl or lynx/lyn