intent to maintain orphaned package `addressbook'

1997-12-24 Thread Adam P. Harris
r blessing. Expect an upload as soon as I get an account on master. This package is listed as orphaned in packages.sgml,v 1.63. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/

Re: menu category for personal info. manager apps

1997-12-23 Thread Adam P. Harris
ppear in any such > catogary. Um, not "Netscape Navigator", I meant "Netscape Calendar", i.e., `nscal'. Not currently packaged, btw. > joost witteveen, (I'm preparing for my promotion 1998/1/7, and have > less than zero time to spend on anything that isn't r

menu category for personal info. manager apps

1997-12-22 Thread Adam P. Harris
e should pick either one of the two categories for these type of applications. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ldconfig warnings

1997-12-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
somebody could explain what exactly is going wrong in >these packages - ie. what policy are they violating? Yes, it is discussed in the Debian Packaging Manual, section 12. See: /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ch-sharedlibs.html You should just go ahead and file bugs against packages which don't in

Re: IconPath, menu

1997-12-21 Thread Adam P. Harris
s but that's an issue for the debian-policy group I think. > The emacs icon is an example of one that's way too huge. :-) Yes, I use xemacs.xpm from the distribution, I put it in /usr/local/X11/include/pixmaps/ . .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- T

Re: Proxy server policy [was Re: gated]

1997-12-18 Thread Adam P. Harris
http://localhost:3128/ http_proxy=http://localhost:3128/ ftp_proxy=http://localhost:3128/ FWIW, there's also an experimental Linux feature, transparent proxy, I think, which could automatically redirect outbound HTTP requests to a local httpd cache. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.co

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-17 Thread Adam P. Harris
ion, namely the variable names themselves. Less of the two evils I think. > And there is one thing > which I would qualify as a mistake in the above description: $2 is > actually in the form "/dev/ttyS1" than just "ttyS1". Doh! I wish they wouldn't do that. I gue

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
tex from both? .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
2.34.56.78 $5 Peer IP number12.34.56.99 These variables are clearly being propogated to your (custom rolled) ip-up.d/* scripts. How are you propogating these values? Environment variables? We'd have to std'ize the variable names too, if so. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: Questions about emacs20 file system layout.

1997-12-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
do this for Emacs 19.XX we'll need to make sure to change AucTeX and the lisp packages. BTW, are .elc files arch-dependant or arch-indep? I've always wondered about this. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
"Brian" == Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Adam P. Harris writes: >>> I think that /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down should use >>> 'run-parts' against, say, the directories /etc/p

ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

1997-12-15 Thread Adam P. Harris
es to ship little scripts to flush the mail queue when the link comes up, pop-deamons to start up, bind to reload, clock sync daemons to re-sync, firewall and masquerading rules to run, and dynamic PPP hosts to update some file on some server indicating their current IP. .A. P. [EMAIL PROT

Re: unstripped stuff in /usr/lib

1997-12-15 Thread Adam P. Harris
by gdb, now?) Any debian package which has non-compliant libraries installed should have a bug reported against them. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Bug#988: `script' is insecure, and general tty insecurity

1997-12-14 Thread Adam P. Harris
w.debian.org/Bugs/db/988.html or Should be: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/98/988.html > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/debian/Bugs/db/988.html Likewise, should be: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/debian/Bugs/db/98/988.html .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.

Re: Checklist request (was: RFC: Deb 2.0 testing process)

1997-12-11 Thread Adam P. Harris
uff apparently coming in and (?) dselect being dropped as the default installation mechanism. [BTW, I'm not trying to criticize the current state of hamm, I know the freeze is a ways off and there's a lot of instability going on.] .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShor

[PGP]: can someone in NYC sign me?

1997-12-09 Thread Adam P. Harris
I'm hoping to get my PGP keys signed by a known and registered debian developer in the NYC area so as to comply with the Debian Developer's Reference Section 1.2. I'm located in Manhattan; specifically on the Lower East Side. Any takers? Please reply to me offline. Thanks. ..

Re: Where's the SCSI support in Debian?

1997-12-09 Thread Adam P. Harris
Oct boot disks.) I had _very_ difficult time getting debian installed on my laptop by way of an NFS served CDROM on another linux box. Good think I had another linux box on which I could compile stuff. I basically had to roll my own kernel and pcmcia stuff. I assume Maintainer Group <[EMAI

perl module packages: why do they exist?

1997-12-03 Thread Adam P. Harris
CPAN bundle on a production server. >> >Two interesting things happened: >> > >> >(1) perl itself got upgraded, and >> >(2) wais got upgraded. > >Adam P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Huh??? Perl itself? I don't think this is possi

bo-updates packages

1997-12-03 Thread Adam P. Harris
o a wierd place or to the std place? .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap

1997-12-02 Thread Adam P. Harris
the debian prospective packages list, http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html Dermot Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on that package. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe"

perl module packages: why do they exist?

1997-12-01 Thread Adam P. Harris
es, but I'm still recovering from a disk crash, and I have > other commitments at the moment Seems to me it'd be better to mess with MakeMaker so you could make debian packages right outta the module w/o additional help. Should be doable. BTW, is anyone working on any Debian-sp

Re: perl module packages: why do they exist?

1997-12-01 Thread Adam P. Harris
s with the modules. And since MakeMaker already has it's own dependancy and x-platform building system, it seems wasteful to replicate that. And I know as a user that the version lag impose by debian can be annoying. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

perl module packages: why do they exist?

1997-12-01 Thread Adam P. Harris
I really feel we'd have a better and more supported Perl product that way. .A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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