Re: using epoch to repair versioning of byacc package

2022-01-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2022 14:55:39 -0600 > From: Richard Laager > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: using epoch to repair versioning of byacc package > > On 1/23/22 10:04, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > In #1003769, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > 1. The u

Re: using epoch to repair versioning of byacc package

2022-01-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
In #1003769, Andreas Metzler wrote: > 1. The upload introduces an epoch because the upstream version went from > mmdd to 2.0.mmdd. Given that the new version scheme seems to > have found acceptance in e.g. Fedora /I/ do not see a better way. Could > you ask about the epoch on debian-devel (

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 ? 17:29 -0400, Thomas Dickey a ?crit : agree - I don't know how to guarantee that five years from now there'd be no ABI change - the best I can do is maintain API compatibility. You can maintain ABI compat

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 13:40:14 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from the upstream POV, this would be another ABI transition. If there's no patch, there's no

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Florian Weimer wrote: * Thomas Dickey: Then in that case, it should be possible for someone to submit a patch which does that. Yes, but ... I don't recall anyone mentioning it recently (other than this thread, for example). The ABI=6 code's been there a

Re: Headsup: ncurses soname bump 5 to 6

2008-09-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Dan Kegel wrote: [+dickey] On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So the obvious solution seems to me then to build ncurses twice, providing both libncurses5 and libncurses6 packages. What point do I miss? The crashes that will happen

Re: Bug#435838: ITP: cpm -- Console Password Manager

2007-08-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "John" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> The software uses CDK (ncurses) to handle the user > John> interface, libxml2 to store the information, the zlib > John> library to compress the data and the library GpgMe to > Jo

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.6-2 (source amd64)

2007-05-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:40:10AM +0200, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Format: 1.7 > Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 03:52:18 -0400 > Source: lynx > Binary: lynx > Architecture: source amd64 > Version: 2.8.6-2 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: high > Main

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 (source i386)

2006-12-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:51:45PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Thomas Dickey: > > > It's a #define. But the change to use the home directory is in the > > wrong place. I'd point out that it doesn't solve the problem, and > > that the program is stil

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 (source i386)

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:15:42PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061130 14:12]: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:46:31PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > > I didn't know PERSONAL_MAILCAP was run-time configurable (it looks > > > a #

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 (source i386)

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:46:31PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > I didn't know PERSONAL_MAILCAP was run-time configurable (it looks > a #define to me). If apt-get source wasn't segfaulting at the moment I'd It's a #define. But the change to use the home directory is in the wrong place. I'd point

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 (source i386)

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:47:26PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 06:41:21AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > > Changes: > > > lynx (2.8.5-2sarge2.2) unstable; urgency=low > > > . > > >* Non-maintainer upload. > > &g

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 (source i386)

2006-11-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:00:40AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Format: 1.7 > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:43:17 +0100 > Source: lynx > Binary: lynx > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 2.8.5-2sarge2.2 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low > Ma

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:15:43AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: >>>> Martin Schulze has been told more than once that this was not an OpenBSD >>>> patch. >>> Could you please tell me why this is such a h

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-14 Thread Thomas Dickey
Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:15:43AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: >>>> Martin Schulze has been told more than once that this was not an OpenBSD >>>> patch. >>> Could you please tell me why this is such a h

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge1.2 (source i386 sparc amd64)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>This is the third time this year that patch has been incorrectly >>ascribed to OpenBSD. > Sorry for the misundertanding. I'll fix the lynx changelog file. > I just used the patch from 2.8.5-2sarge2 in stable-security. ok. Perhaps you should r

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Steinar H. Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 08:26:09AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: >> Martin Schulze has been told more than once that this was not an OpenBSD >> patch. >> >> After the second time, there is no plausible excuse. >&

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He can fix a previous entry and cite it in next version. Perhaps 4 months is too short a time for him to correct it. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >>> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:47:40 +0200 > [...] >> After the second time, there is no plausible excuse. >> Do you have an excuse? > Why do you ask if you know there isn't? > Hint: You

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 02:46:56PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:47:40 +0200 > [...] > > After the second time, there is no plausible excuse. > > Do you have an excuse? > > Why do you ask if you know there isn

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge1.2 (source i386 sparc amd64)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Format: 1.7 > Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:41:49 +1000 > Source: lynx > Binary: lynx > Architecture: source i386 sparc amd64 > Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1.2 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: high > Maintainer:

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:20:14AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Format: 1.7 > Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 07:47:40 +0200 > Source: lynx > Binary: lynx > Architecture: source i386 > Version: 2.8.5-2sarge2 > Distribution: stable-security > Urgency: hi

Re: Accepted lynx-cur 2.8.6pre2-1 (source i386 all)

2006-09-05 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >* There was no time to upload 2.8.6dev19 because 2.8.6pre2 was released > so soon. Thanks - I put out pre.1 on Thursday since I anticipated not having time yesterday to work on it, but decided that the feedback from pre.1 was doable for Sunday.

Re: Debian for desktop - gnome in usnstable/experimantal more stable than in testing ?

2006-01-04 Thread Thomas Dickey
Benjamin Mesing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I can't see any mention of xterm in packagesearch's changelog, nor any bugs >> filed about the problem, either. > Look at changelog.gz, probably I should have copied it to > changelog.Debian.gz too. Bugs were not filed against this problem. And > to be

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge1 (source powerpc)

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:10:08AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge1 (source powerpc)

2005-11-12 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:10:08AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Format: 1.7 > Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 09:23:11 +0200 > Source: lynx > Binary: lynx > Architecture: source powerpc > Version: 2.8.5-2sarge1 > Distribution: stable-security > Urgency:

Re: Accepted vile 9.4-r1 (powerpc sparc i386 source all)

2005-03-15 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Format: 1.7 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:28:38 +1100 > Source: vile > Binary: xvile vile-filters vile vile-common > Architecture: all i386 powerpc source sparc > Version: 9.4-r1 thanks. For 9.5, the s

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The procedure would be to upload a new 'xterm' package which moves >> > /usr/bin/xterm to /usr/bin/xterm.real and introduces /usr/bin/xterm > Of course, you mean /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm... I didn't notice that. Though the cygwin people have been m

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > martin f krafft wrote: >> What do you think of this proposal. Are there any string points >> *against* it? > I have written scripts that explicitly call xterm because other terminal > emulator programs under X (which I had preferred otherwise) couldn'

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > As a happy use of rxvt-unicode-ml (thanks Zomb!), I am very annoyed > at times by softwares that have 'xterm'

Re: proposal: 'xterm' alternatives entry

2004-10-10 Thread Thomas Dickey
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 06:43:09PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> The procedure would be to upload a new '

Re: Terminal - a good terminal?

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 05:43:16PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Thomas Dickey [Fri, Oct 08 2004, 10:17:11AM]: > > Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Maybe it would help if you gave me the name of a sane terminfo entry that >

Re: Terminal - a good terminal?

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe it would help if you gave me the name of a sane terminfo entry that >> has an "italic/oblique" display command. > He's not able to because the feature

Re: Terminal - a good terminal?

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Primitive? heh. And as for the rest, I haven't had trouble -- it's just an > infocmp away. In any case, switching the emulation is trivial -- it's not > like terminal emulation is complicated. Judging by the variety of poor implementations, I'd say that

Re: Terminal - a good terminal?

2004-10-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
Jeff Teunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it would help if you gave me the name of a sane terminfo entry that > has an "italic/oblique" display command. He's not able to because the feature does not exist in terminfo. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-islan

Re: Terminal - a good terminal?

2004-10-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > * Jeff Teunissen [Thu, Oct 07 2004, 02:20:31AM]: >> > If we are going to allow generic names, then obviously they would be >> > applied to the most commonly used or "best for the novice" example, so >> > I'm pretty sure that GNUstep apps aren't

Re: Accepted vile 9.4-c1 (powerpc sparc i386 source all)

2003-11-07 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Format: 1.7 > Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:04:54 +1100 > Source: vile > Binary: xvile vile-filters vile vile-common > Architecture: all i386 powerpc source sparc > Version: 9.4-c1 > Distribution: unstable >

Re: Accepted vile 9.3-s1 (sparc source all)

2003-06-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Format: 1.7 > Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 23:29:15 +1000 > Source: vile > Binary: xvile vile-filters vile vile-common > Architecture: source sparc all > Version: 9.3-s1 > Distribution: unstable > Urgency: low

Re: Accepted lynx-cur 2.8.5-11 (i386 source all)

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Format: 1.7 > Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:25:53 +0900 > Source: lynx-cur > Binary: lynx-cur-wrapper lynx-cur > Architecture: source i386 all > Version: 2.8.5-11 I'll probably have 2.8.5dev.16 done on this weekend. > Di