Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

1998-01-07 Thread Sten Anderson
this right). - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Perl LWP method for dselect

1998-01-07 Thread Sten Anderson
yet, as the code is less than a day old and there are no HTTP accessible mirrors yet (prod prod). There is a http mirror in Denmark at: http://sunsite.auc.dk/ftp/pub/os/linux/debian/ (accessing this from Australia may require a little patience :) - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: please upgrade your packages to current standards

1998-01-06 Thread Sten Anderson
with (according to the maintainer). Now you are at it, I suggest that you also scan the archive for packages that fails to include a Section and/or Priority field. It is far too many, and it is quite annoying. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Redhat not in favor of Qt KDE - documented?

1997-12-20 Thread Sten Anderson
of the many discussions in comp.os.linux.development.apps. Look for a thread with the subject Real reason why RedHat won't ship Qt in DejaNews. I think their main objective is that they want to include source code for everything in the distribution. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Sten Anderson
. Post-inst scripts are usefull for many purposes, but using them to execute a GNU emacs and/or an XEmacs compilation on every package containing a single elisp file is overkill. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-17 Thread Sten Anderson
an option for cleaning .elc's if an emacsen is uninstalled?) - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Sten Anderson
to the site-lisp dirs in /usr/lib. Maybe the Debian Policy should be extended to cover the usage of these dirs. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Taking over production of emacs20 package.

1997-12-16 Thread Sten Anderson
directory issue is solved, and this is best done by not compiling elisp files from packages otherwise unrelated to emacsen. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-09 Thread Sten Anderson
this setup without touching NT. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: gated

1997-12-06 Thread Sten Anderson
. Some of us are behind a firewall that makes it difficult to use standard ftp tools. Invoking ftp from an installer script would only cause trouble. It should instead be done like the nescape installer package where the software is downloaded manually to a tmp dir. - Sten Anderson

Broken *deb's in hamm

1997-12-03 Thread Sten Anderson
-altdbg_0.82-1.deb' is not a debian format archive I have tried downloading them from a different mirror with the same result. Are these packages really bogus, or am I just cursed? I don't rely on these packages, but dselect complains, and that is a little annoying. - Sten Anderson