Bug#198314: RFA: rxsock, rexxtk

2003-06-21 Thread Rick Younie
Package: wnpp Severity: normal rxsock[1] and rexxtk[2] need new maintainers. rxsock - Socket function library for Regina REXX rexxtk - Interface to Tcl/Tk for Regina REXX Rick -- [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/rxsock/ [2] http://rexxtk.sourceforge.net/

RFA: sbuild -- Tool for building Debian binary packages from Debian sources

2003-04-30 Thread Rick Younie
Missing X-Debbugs-CC? - Forwarded message from Rick Younie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Rick Younie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:00:39 -0700 To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RFA: sbuild -- Tool for building Debian binary pa

Re: please rebuild gtkmathview 0.3.0-4 on hppa, m68k and arm

2002-04-07 Thread Rick Younie
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Package gtkmathview (version: 0.3.0-4) hasn't been rebuilt on hppa since > Wed 13 March and on m68k since Wed 27 March, could someone please > trigger the rebuilt of it on these archs? On m68k it's waiting on gmetadom. It's easier to see what's going on at bruno.fmepn

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-08 Thread Rick Younie
Hi, I may have misinterpreted your earlier message. www.debian.org/devel is probably is a good place to start. http://nm.debian.org/nmlist.php for those who have managed to figure out the basics. The New Maintainer's Guide is very well written and baby-steps you through making your first package

Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-04 Thread Rick Younie
Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > I agree. After all, it's voluntary to volunteer. > But it should be very clear what is expected of you, and what you are > willing to contribute. At the moment, much is expected, but the > willingness can only be observed afterwards, day by day. > > Recent discussions

Re: NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread Rick Younie
Marco d'Itri wrote: > > >Last I heard the usenet group is unidirectional mail -> news > >and was a little flakey at that. > I seen no problem in the gating process. Please explain what's wrong. Yeah, cheap shot. It's been a long while since I've looked at this. > And yes, messages of morons who

Re: NNTP gateway to Debian lists

2001-12-25 Thread Rick Younie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't like mailing lists at all so I'm looking for a way to read the > debian lists using Slrn. Leafnode does not support mailing lists, so I'm > forced to use an Internet NNTP server for this. My provider does not feed > linux.debian.* so I can't use that server. I

mac parts?

2001-09-05 Thread Rick Younie
Mike Shuey has donated a Mac Quadra 950 that's been pumping out packages for a few months as bruno.fmepnet.org for the m68 port. He has (most of) a similar machine that he can hook up next to it that still needs a few gig narrow SCSI disk and matched sets of 30-pin ram. If someone can loan some pa

ITP: worker - filemanager

2001-01-06 Thread Rick Younie
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist worker is a two-paned directory utility much like the Amiga's DirectoryOpus. License is GPL. Home page: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker Screenshots: http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/wscreenshots.php3

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-27 Thread Rick Younie
Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a > script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages > appears in woody. > > I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for > all packages that we have backported fro

maillist sick?

2000-04-01 Thread Rick Younie
Are there problems with the mailing lists? devel-digest stopped coming 3 days ago. Other @home users say that mail has become unrealiable so I signed on from another address yesterday and haven't gotten a digest yet. debian-devel seems fine. And the debian-devel archive is a bit behind. The ta

Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: ...])

1999-09-19 Thread Rick Younie
"In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:" > > You're also almost as good as stating that one cannot > backup /etc, toss in a spare drive, do the install off a local > NFS/FTP mount (less than 2 hours by a long shot) throw /etc > back in (no need for a tape even, whatta concept!) and then get