Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MB" == Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aargh, send too early... MB> So far, I have imlib, orbit, gtop, gtk-engines and I am building bone-libs right now. In the FAQ on the gnome site, there is info anout the sequence you have to use. Ciao, Martin

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ome pre-release slink CDs, so I have to upgrade to the current point release by ftp (by an ISDN line - it is accessed like a NIC). Do I have access to $DISPLAY somehow and can I use startx, so I can test X packages directly? Ciao, Martin

Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
e dependencies ... Everytime I thought I have all the needed stuff, it bombs somewhere (currently it doesn't find the docbook stylesheets - of cause this is reported after all the stuff has been build...) Ciao, Martin

Communicator - glibc2.1 breakage

1999-05-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
meone? Ciao, Martin

CoolEdit Text Editor

1999-05-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package the CoolEdit HTML editor? From: http://www.netins.net/showcase/Comput-IT/cooledit/ CoolEdit is a text editor for the X Window System. It provides many features that are very useful to programmers. Things like: * P

Re: Ethernet newbee failure

1999-05-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
use tcpdump to watch the traffic for something unusual. Ciao, Martin

Hardware working with Linux

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened

Bug#37755: general: Woes from upgrading 2.0 -> 2.1

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Inaky Perez Gonzalez wrote: > Package: general > Version: N/A > Would like to contribute the problems I experienced when > upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 using a 2.2.6 kernel. Hope they are useful. I have received a report about upgrading as well. He failed... But: There were two things whic

Re: PostgreSQL INC Press Release

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Schulze
I have received this, you'd know better what to do. Regards, Joey Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Greetings, > >Today we (PostgreSQL INC.) made our Initial Press Release at > http://www.pgsql.com/release.html > Regarding the beginning of techincal support etc. > >Also we are anti

Re: a Chinese version of X-window system for Linux available

1999-05-17 Thread Daniel Martin
liug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Sir, > I am not sure whether this is the right place to post > this mail. > We have developed a Chinese version of X-window system > several years ago, and now we have developed one for > Linux, > I am wondering whether our product could be integrated > in

Re: Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
gt; ns.html> . Should I choose an epoch of 1 for all the potato SB> packages? By all means, no. Ciao, Martin

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > consider this my intent to package pa-risc egcs and binutils. the kernel, > when > one arrives, too. i speak with the puffins (www.thepuffingroup.com, for those > who don't know) on a daily basis, so i suppose i am a good candidate. i plan > to order myself a machine when

Re: new arch required

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > i'd like to request debian/pa-risc. i am packaging binutils as we speak. > after this, i will package egcs. however, there will not be a working kernel > for a number of months. with egcs and binutils, packages should be able to > built even before there is a working kernel

Re: lost packages

1999-05-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MM" == Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> gtkicq is now gnomeicu MM> communicator/netscape*45 Was removed, *46 is now in the archive. MM> xadmin Was discontinued because of serious bugs IIRC. Ciao, Martin

Re: new arch required

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > > If you have a compiler packaged, somebody else is working on kernels, > > i am not sure when the kernel changes will be merged into the linus kernels. vger > would you like me to start a list on the ift server? i expect it will be > extremley low traffic until at least

Re: intent to package pa-risc stuff

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > > Justin, can you find out if those machines are binary compatible. > > I've heard that there are two general types flying around (5i and > > 3i, iirc). I wonder if one new architecture is enough or if we > > need both - like for mips. > > which two machines? the ones the p

Re: Intent to package: apcupsd

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Mitchell
and wasnt able to find any sources of > relatively new versions of apcupsd. It recently was released under the GPL. Martin.

Intent to package: GNOME User's Guide, english version

1999-05-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
users-guide/project.shtml . The package will be named gnome-users-guide-en, and it will contain the HTML version of the guide. Ciao, Martin

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ADME.Debian after I added this function). Tell me about other options/feature you need, and I will implement them as far as it is possible. Ciao, Martin

Re: stupid idea - metapackages

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
over now. But the meta packages have to be advertised differently. They look like another of the dozends netscape/navigator/communicator packages so one can easily miss them. Maybe all metapackages should get a section for their own. Ciao, Martin

Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
out this. The maintainer thinks this may be due to xdm and gdm both trying to serve :0. Ciao, Martin

Re: Bug#38057: general: libgtop0: Depends: libglib1.1.13 (>= 1.1.13-1) but it is not installable

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
The source, libgtop, only builds libgtop1. I will reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org Ciao, Martin

Re: Bug#38057: general: libgtop0: Depends: libglib1.1.13 (>= 1.1.13-1) but it is not installable

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
eplacement, even though I have the replacement installed! Is it JM> still stuck in Incoming? It is not there. I will copy the version from the staging area to Incoming. Ciao, Martin

Re: Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
t the only one. Same thing here. This has been discussed before. Most likely some kind of glibc2,1 problem. Ciao, Martin

Re: correct apt deb line for non-us?

1999-05-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Matthias Klose wrote: > Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with > apt-get? Or is the reorganisation not finished? Currently neither of > the following lines work: > > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian unstab

Re: Bug#38057: general: libgtop0: Depends: libglib1.1.13 (>= 1.1.13-1) but it is not installable

1999-05-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
gnome-utils_1.0.1-0.1.dsc' JR> [master:inc]$ JR> This was probably the reason why Ossama didn't manage to copy it with JR> the rest when there was the big move. JR> Can somebody please rebuild this? Jules? The rebuild package is in Incoming. dinstall -n doesn't show any errors. Ciao, Martin

Naming and Identifying

1999-05-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi, recently I have been fouled by some very nasty incidents which made me think that I have made something wrong with our boot floppies. Here is the story. I've created German boot-floppies, but only regular ones, no tecra images. I had to create a slink cd set for a German distributor w

Re: Bug#37789: libssl09: version incompatibility

1999-05-23 Thread Christoph Martin
Clint Adams writes: > > So, there should be bugs filed against the packages which have to be > > relinked. > > While that is true, that still does not prevent someone from > upgrading either the packages which depend upon libssl09 or > libssl09 and not the dependent packages, thereby breaki

Re: Source-depends?

1999-05-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ep, you would do run this program zu build the list of source dependencies, edit the control file and do the final build. Ciao, Martin

Re: sgml-tools and super weirdness

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Schulze
es buffer overflow - * NMU for slink - -- Christian Hudon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:57:04 -0500 + -- Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:21:39 +0100 super (3.11.7-1) stable frozen unstable; urgency=high Apparently we need a cluebat for one of our securit

Re: Bug#37424: purging lynx deletes /etc/lynx even if lynx-ssl is there

1999-05-25 Thread Christoph Martin
reassign 37424 lynx thanks Francesco Potorti` writes: > Package: lynx-ssl > Version: 2.8.1-1 > Severity: normal > > I installed lynx-ssl, which removed lynx. I then purged lynx, which > happily removed /etc/lynx.cfg, even if lynx-ssl was installed. > I investigated a little more here. I

Re: An 'ae' testimony (suggestion)

1999-05-26 Thread Martin Kahlert
other editor is also a candidate here, but we have space > problems. I found a very small vi-clone named levee on http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code its exefile is 36K. Would that be small enough? (There is no active development, now) Bye, Martin. -- Your mouse has moved. Windows must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now?

Re: An 'ae' testimony (suggestion)

1999-05-26 Thread Martin Kahlert
solaris boxes. On Linux, it runs like a charm. I am wondering, if it works on Linux-AXP, i'll try it at home. (Perhaps, Solaris has different opinions about esc-sequences?) Best wishes, Martin. -- esa$ gcc -Wall -o ariane ariane5.c ariane5.c: 666: warning: long float implicitly truncated to unsigned type esa$ ariane5

Re: An 'ae' testimony (suggestion)

1999-05-26 Thread Martin Kahlert
ompiler was egcs-1.1.2. With friendly wishes, Martin. -- esa$ gcc -Wall -o ariane ariane5.c ariane5.c: 666: warning: long float implicitly truncated to unsigned type esa$ ariane5

Re: APRIS GNU/LINUX EXPO UPDATES. (need debian Logo).

1999-09-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
se the open use logo, the postscript version will be best for them. Ciao, Martin

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-15 Thread Martin Uecker
ve to whoever is able to erase the package that you > are who you say you are? I.e. how do you convince them that they > should in fact erase the package? With your old compromised key. Martin -- Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Schulze
James Troup wrote: > Eh, calm down, Joey. I not only can, but should and have decided that > GnuPG keys must be verified before they enter the keyring, i.e. I'm > not going to add a random key from a random developer without proof it > comes from that developer. I'll hope you'll be so kind as to

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > All it means is that GPG should be used in a mode where it will not > > > interoperate with PGP 2.x. This is what Joey's HOWTO recommended more or > > > less. > > > > So correct it. > > You seem to want to give it away rather strongly, so I'd be happy to pick > it up

Re: Metapackages (was Re: Debian Weekly News - September 14th, 1999)

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
f this available. I also played with it http://www.internet-treff.uni-koeln.de/~martin/debcat/index.html?fl=3&flc29=2#fl_29 The only thing that prevents implementation (IIRC) is that a hierarchie has to be negotiated, and noone stepped forward to lead this efford. b) New field with keywords. B

Re: (g)mc-4.5.38-2 still broken

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
\_ /usr/bin/mc.real -P 6835 ttyp5S 0:00 | \_ bash -rcfile .bashrc 6844 ttyp5S 0:01 | \_ wxftp Ciao, Martin

Re: history (Was Re: Corel/Debian Linux Installer)

1999-09-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ownload/" upgrade should do it I think. Ciao, Martin

Re: (g)mc-4.5.38-2 still broken

1999-09-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
7;t work in this case anyway. Ciao, Martin

Re: Move proftpd to contrib

1999-09-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
convinced that anything has to be done about proftpd. Bugs found and fixed means there are people working with the code. This will just improve its quality. Ciao, Martin

Re: (g)mc-4.5.38-2 still broken

1999-09-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Michael" == Michael Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael> I make a new upload (or you make a NMU) and remove all the last changes. I just got blessings from Michael to do the NMU. Just to inform you, so there are no duplicate effords. Ciao, Martin

Re: Move proftpd to contrib

1999-09-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Joel" == Joel Klecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joel> At 16:53 +0200 1999-09-17, Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> If you call proftpd crap, how do you call dpkg? Joel> No bug in dpkg has ever resulted in a a remote root exploit. OK, a bug in cron has recently pro

Re: Move proftpd to contrib

1999-09-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
y a prove in scientific way. I forsee a new security hole in cron. Anyway, which ftpd in unstable do you see as the package to promote as the ftpd of choice in Debian? Just to see what our alternatives are. Ciao, Martin

Re: Migrating to GPG - A mini-HOWTO

1999-09-18 Thread Martin Schulze
Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > And an updated version is at > > http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO > > I've asked bma to submit this as a bug developers-reference for > inclusion in that document?

Re: Announcing debconf, configuration management for debian

1999-09-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson wrote: > Thanks again, Joey. I look forward to migrating XFree86 to debconf (won't > happen for -1, but I'm hoping to tackle FHS-compliance and this for -2). Err, can you please wait for this until a) debconf has been accepted and b) there will be proper support for it and c) pro

Re: ProFTPd being lame

1999-09-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
very* small host, no virtual hosting etc. Go, Roxen, go as a httpd, but for ftpd, I prefer proftpd. Ciao, Martin

Roxen virtual servers, was: Re: ProFTPd being lame

1999-09-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
anual intervention on the steps, fully scriptable. Ask on the Roxen Mailinglist for example implementations, if you want to do this. Ciao, Martin

Re: midnight commander and mp3s

1999-09-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
package "bug" and report a bug on mc. This is the only way to ensure the maintainer reads this suggestion. Ciao, Martin

Debian's involvement in another exhibition

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Schulze
. Debian will have a free booth, staffed with.. somebody Contact: Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> German Events <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Involvement: Free booth, organized by Debian maintainer Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/ -- A mathematician is a

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
iy->coord. entries. Has someone such a URL, so I can look up Cologne, Germany? Ciao, Martin

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
have the feeling that I missed something, but anyway as I Hugo> don't manage to find it in the archive: how can we find out what Hugo> our password is? It is your login password on master you have to use. BTW: connect to https://db.debian.org for an encrypted connection. Ciao, Martin

Re: Add your location to the developer db so it can be added to the map

1999-09-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Raul" == Raul D Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raul> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is your login password on master you have to use. Raul> You don't have to use your login password on master. Read my sentence as "... y

Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Just a quick inquiry -- > > Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND Because configuration belongs to /etc. Period. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.

Re: Debian's involvement in another exhibition

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Paul Slootman wrote: > On Wed 22 Sep 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > Web: http://oldenburger.linuxtag.de/ > > : The dnsserver returned: > : > : DNS Domain 'oldenburger.linuxtag.de' is invalid: Host not found > : (authoritative). >

Re: Use https://db.debian.org/ [was Re: Add your location ...]

1999-09-23 Thread Martin Bialasinski
r me. But I added a "+" in front of each, maybe this is important. Ciao, Martin

Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
superset and should be used, no? Ciao, Martin

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
efault config of this package is not good enough, not the fact that it is shipped in a "ready to use" condition. Ciao, Martin

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-25 Thread Martin Bialasinski
nment variables, I don't want to edit a config file, if a good default is possible (and I find this the case on most Debian packages). For daemons. I expect then to be operating right after apt-get install. YMMV. Ciao, Martin

Re: a question about BTS severities

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
o use the package. Ciao, Martin

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
mentation RR> should be available as /usr/doc/. Marco> No. A http daemon will never follow this symlinks. They#re 100% Marco> useless when using the http protocol. *No*, this is not true. I can assure you, that my httpd follows these symlinks quite happily. Ciao, Martin

Re: Debian 2.1r3

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Rutter wrote: > The current `sub-release' (whatever) of Debian 2.1 is r3, right? > I was just wondering, as all references on the web site are to r2, > but I thought I received a message from the security team about > r3 last week somtime. Just wanted to check before I filed a > boring bug r

Re: Shortening release cycles

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Greenland wrote: > I liked a lot of these ideas, but: > > On 12-Sep-99, 20:22 (CDT), Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Our current situation results in our stable release being hopelessly > > out-dated and the unstable release not being releaseable.

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
alling this link? My god, Marco, show some reason. Ciao, Martin

Re: Re^2: strange behavior of dh_dhelp

1999-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Marco" == Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marco> the libc maintainer closed such a bug report without adding Marco> support for these programs. This is not a good sign for Marco> Debian#s quality. glibc-doc_2.1.2-4 uses doc-base. Ciao, Martin

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-09-29 Thread Martin Bialasinski
because Laurel> it's already done"? The second is correct. Ciao, Martin

Re: NcFTP is free again?

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Mitchell
issue, > and haven't looked back. Is there anything in ncftp that lftp doesn't have? > If there isn't, I'd say just drop it. I did likewise, and haven't looked back either. Martin. (former ncftp maintainer)

Re: Debian recommended software

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ast partly. I made the explicit request not to include all editors available, but only one, when an editor should be part of the task. Therefore, the maintainer of the task package makes a choice for the user selecting the package. Ciao, Martin

Re: Debian recommended software (moving off-topic)

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Edward" == Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Edward> Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Edward> MDA: procmail Edward> This is standard priority, but exim is not configured to use it, people have Edward> to mess with .forward files. >&

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-02 Thread Martin Bialasinski
t predefine the use of runlevels. If you start in RL 3, and make postgresql start in RL 4, then this setup won't be reverted by a package update or such. And you can either switch to RL 4, or start postgresql with its init.d script. Piotr> debconf could be helpful. Not in this case I think. Ciao, Martin

Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality

1999-10-03 Thread Martin Bialasinski
itly call "/etc/init.d/postgresql start" to start the daemon, the result still depends on another config setting. The result is a unnecessary "AND" style switch. If this is how Irix handles this, then I am glad I don't have to use it. Ciao, Martin

Re: Uninstallable Packages

1999-10-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
n Filip> board. /me waves his hand. Matrox G200 and Vodoo Graphics. BTW: is there a mesa deb with glide support somewhere? Ciao, Martin

Re: Packages removed from frozen

2000-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Richard Braakman wrote: > I removed these packages from frozen today. > Package: xexec (debian/contrib). > Maintainer: Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [Also removed from unstable] > 56762 xexec: GPLed software linked against non-compatible Qt2 According to this short description it needs to be

Re: Bug#59907: emacs19: Unable to update to latest release

2000-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Stevens wrote: > Package: emacs19 > Version: 19.34-21 > > Hi. > Unable to update to latest stable release -- typescript > of failure attached. > > Script started on Wed Mar 8 11:43:42 2000 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aapt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... 0%Reading Packa

'lshell' as a shared object

2000-03-09 Thread Martin Lucina
such as this; it makes it almost impossible to get around the limit settings by the user. Let me know what you think. Martin -- Martin Lucina http://www.kotelna.sk/mato/ Wellington, New Zealand I've always been mad I know I've been mad like the most of us are Pretty hard to explain wh

Resume from CeBIT fair 2000

2000-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
We're back from CeBIT exhibition, taking place in Germany from Feb 23rd to Mar 1st. Several developers have met there and presented both Debian and Debian-related distributions. We've had a lot of fun and appreciated the contacts we were able to make. We're trying to summarize our experiences be

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-10 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Nils Jeppe wrote: > Heck no, I really don't want any debian install scripts messing in MY home > directory! Why not just print a warning message via debconf as it is done in setserial package? Martin -- Win2k: "It's not so much that it's o

Re: Resume from CeBIT fair 2000

2000-03-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Meskes wrote: > On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:53:38AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > LinuxTag > > > > LinuxTag is Europe's largest Linux exhibition and conference. Apart > > for a free conference program and free exhibition there is enough > &

Re: netstd split results in loss of functionality

2000-03-13 Thread Daniel Martin
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Why doesn't netstd depend: on all the packages it previously included? > When upgrading to potato, tftpd functionality is lost because the new > netstd only suggests it. And the parameters to tftpd have changed > and the new package does not up

Balsa Problem analyzed (was: 14 days till bug horizon)

2000-03-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Richard Braakman wrote: > Package: balsa (debian/main). > Maintainer: Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 58662 balsa: It doesn't work. I have analyzed the "balsa does not run" problem. It turned out that it run well after I removed the ~/.balsarc file. Thus this bug is "only" a configuration iss

Re: (Re)build a Debian package

2000-03-14 Thread Martin Schulze
SOETE Joël wrote: > Dear all, > > I run Debian 2.1r4 on a PC with an amd486 120 MHz and 16Mb of ram. > > I also recompile last release of Ckermit. To manage installed software, I > would like make a package with this soft. > I found also package sources (.dsc, orig.tar.gz and diff.gz files) of a

Re: unmets in potato

2000-03-14 Thread Martin Waitz
ib6g (>= 3.3.6), device3dfx-module Recommends: glide2-base, device3dfx-source compile devicd3dfx-source and you are done :) see also jeff licquia's comment on 57702 -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz

Re: TeTeX bugs

2000-03-15 Thread Christoph Martin
ring this patch in in the next day. I was busy fixing some other packages. Christoph -- ==== Christoph Martin, Uni-Mainz, Germany Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --export-a-crypto-system-sig -RSA-3-lines-PERL-- #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/

Re: TeTeX bugs

2000-03-15 Thread Christoph Martin
st one security bug (#57746, same as #32652). Should I upgrade > > them? Unfortunately, the security bug seems non-trivial to fix. > > Where is this security flaw? > There has been no response to the question asked by Christoph Martin on > 1 Feb 1999 > http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: Permission policy

2000-03-15 Thread Martin Waitz
r themself its not your programs task to gain access, it should already be provided by the calling process. you could print a message that the user should ask the sysadmin to add them to these groups if your open-call fails. -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germa

Re: TeTeX bugs

2000-03-16 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Denis Barbier writes: > On 15 Mar 2000, Christoph Martin wrote: > > > Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:11:03PM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > > > Since

/etc/shadow world-readable

2000-03-19 Thread Martin Waitz
n, 2+4 use pam_pwdb and are frequently accessed without rsa-keys but i could not reproduce the problem so far any ideas? -- CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany Martin Waitz// [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.hom

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 18, 2000

2000-03-19 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- BugScan reporter writes: > Package: tetex-base (debian/main) > Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 42698 tetex-base: The french option of babel is broken > > Package: tetex-bin (debian/main) > Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <[EMAIL PROTEC

new Debian tetex versions - please test

2000-03-19 Thread Christoph Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi there, I have put some new version of tetex-* for potato in ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/debian-local for testing. Please test them for the fixed bugs and let me know if there are further issues. from the changelogs: tetex-bin (1.0.6-4) frozen unstable; urg

Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-21 Thread Daniel Martin
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > False conclusion #1: now, it seems to crash regardless of if mandb is > running or not. ARGGHH!! However, I have left in that in the message, > in case it gives anybody else some ideas. I seem to remember once upon a time that man would crash and burn if on

Re: [transcript] source package formats

2000-03-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
ange, I simply remove the of the diff from the patches dir. I also use cvs-buildpackage with other packages and it is very good in its field. Version control of the diffs would be a very cool thing. Hmm, maybe I could just manually CVS control the debian/ dir. Ciao, Martin

Re: Debian and GNOME, partnership with Helixcode?

2000-03-21 Thread Martin Bialasinski
a GNOME package, the needed libs get pulled from the Debian mirror automatically. But then, he could also fetch the GNOME packages from the Debian mirror right away. So a note that GNOME packages are available from the regular Debian mirrors would be sufficient, no? Ciao, Martin PS: Reply-to is set to debian-gtk-gnome

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > ORBS deserves special mention because of their insane hit count, I don't > > know what that is about but ORBS would block 10% of the mails we get. I > > think it is without question that the majority of tho

Re: apt-get cron job

2000-03-28 Thread Daniel Martin
Peter Cordes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use this line in /etc/crontab on my woody system: > 42 6* * sun root/usr/bin/apt-get update ; /usr/bin/apt-get -q -d -y > -u dist-upgrade ; /usr/bin/apt-get autoclean > I use a similar but much more complicated method to acheive a similar re

"GNU/Linux" vs. "Linux"

2000-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"? Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Please always Cc to me when

Re: "GNU/Linux" vs. "Linux"

2000-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ok folks, why is Debian called "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux"? > > Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? > > IIRC, D

Re: dwww: cat and file (pipe race condition)

2000-03-30 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes: > It seems, that the problem only occurs with longer (more than 1 chars) > files. Looking for the cause of this problem, I found that the line > "$decompress $file | file -b - | magic2mime" in dwww-convert is responsible. Well, if I do a $

New Mailing-Lists

2000-03-31 Thread Martin Schulze
>From the we-are-everywhere department: Debian proudly presents: F I V E N E W L I S T S C R E A T E D List: debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org This mailing list is designed to help coordinate the maintenance of the teTeX packages and related software in

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