Bug#278246: 278246 -- does not reproduce for me.

2004-10-28 Thread Joost Witteveen
In both KDE (e.g. Konqueror, Kmail) and GNOME (e.g. gedit) applications Cyrillic letters are displayed as double-width. Ah, that was a long time ago that I had that problem. (But for me mozilla used to have the problem too, not any more though) I just tried again with gedit, and I cannot reproduce

pgp->gpg keys, uploaded package not dinstalled?

2000-03-14 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, Until recently I only had a PGP key, and as suggested by /usr/share/doc/debian-keyring/README.gz, I've now generated a GPG one, signed it with my PGP key, and submitted it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A couple of hours later I uploaded a package (fakeroot_0.4.4-5) signed with my new GPG keys. That

Re: Bug#37602: apt: Segfault at the end of apt-get

1999-05-20 Thread joost witteveen
Je 1999/05/20(4)/10:05, Joost Kooij montris sian geniecon skribante: > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 May 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Joost Kooij wrote: > > > Technically, I wholeheartedly agree with you in the above matter. The > > > problem _at_hand_ is that a lot of people are seeing a "segmentation > >

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

1998-06-03 Thread Joost Witteveen
> > Hello! > > On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 09:19:11PM +0200, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > > The document authors already can enforce a lot of things, keeping the > > > document free: > > > > > [...] > > > I want to hear valid reason

Re: mirror-2.9 released, and hopefully DFSG compliant

1998-06-02 Thread joost witteveen
> > A new mirror_2.9-1 is now on master. The copyright has changed (see below), > and should be fine with us. Or is the 'changes must be distributed as > patches' policy too restrictive for us? > > So here's the copyright: > > >Copyright _ 1990 - 1998 Lee McLoughlin > >Permission to us

Re: Documentation Freeness (Re: Packages to be removed from hamm)

1998-06-02 Thread joost witteveen
> 1) The document must be free but may require a change in the title for a > modified version (for example "FSSTND" would become "Debians implementation > of the FSSTND" or something without the acronym FSSTND at all). > > 2) Many authors don't want their work to be published out of their control

Re: fix for xaw security hole

1998-05-05 Thread Joost Witteveen
Hi, Joey, At the moment it's really difficult for me to apply those patches to xaw* Could I beg you (or anyone else) to do a NMU? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /tmp exploits

1998-04-23 Thread joost witteveen
6 MV:UY&?.Z16U9,1:MU)#V3[4&0:/@.-O.<%E^'C-(?S[;-/DGEKEE+.E1PH3G M'G0YPQEJMY0)1;HWP32%>92]OYZT&!4)\0#1_"5SJ?B5)&-Z>I67D^A5PMZ" MD\=M(K'%E$J>8&B_PY:5*R7$K#,&[0?-RP->]4H60G;QNO<:S-L*QVACRETC [EMAIL PROTECTED]>I'3,77A3\]54<38F

Re: menu: suggestions - extending the menu files

1998-01-02 Thread joost witteveen
erms etc). If $visable set + (to anything other than "" or "none"), xterms &c will + not write logging info to utmp. (may not work for + your window manager). +geometry: For X apps, this will be the size of the (main) window + that w

Re: menu category for personal info. manager apps

1997-12-22 Thread joost witteveen
's. I wouldn't want netscape to appear in any such catogary. > Calendar, xcalendar, I'm sure there are or soon will be others. Yes, Calendar I agree: that belongs to something like "Personal". joost witteveen, (I'm preparing for my promotion 1998/1/7, and hav

libc6 perl, Can't load POSIX.so

1997-06-29 Thread joost witteveen
ied by Makefile dpkg-shlibdeps> dpkg-shlibdeps> use POSIX; dpkg-shlibdeps> use POSIX qw(:errno_h :signal_h); Does anybody know what I did wrong? The perl compile went really smoothly, but apparently something went wrong? Thanks (if anybody knows, anyway). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PR

Re: Calendars

1997-06-29 Thread joost witteveen
Kai into saying this, by extracting _one_ line from his email, and claim it "can be very insulting". Yes, this is not the right place for this discussion, I agree with you there. But the discussion about Israel was started by you, Kai didn't stay anthing that could be eighter be s

Re: Some new package proposals!

1997-06-29 Thread joost witteveen
> * xaw3d-dev-1.3(see "ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/";) > > Is there already anybody working on these packages and thus making my > efforts unnecessary? Yes, xaw3d-dev will come up in a week or to. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-29 Thread joost witteveen
> [ Please don't Cc: public replies to me. ] > > joost witteveen: > > So, there's a first version of fakeroot sitting in > >ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/debian/upload > > I suggest a simpler solution, which doesn't require intricate > hacking to w

Re: Could anyone please explain this to me?

1997-06-29 Thread joost witteveen
all processes not in own session unmount /home (I'm hoping execv doesn't inherit open filediscriptors. The man page doesn't mention anything about this, the execve manpage sais that execve does inherit stuff). > Thanks in advance Well, actuall I don't think this all works, but hey, it

Re: Calendars

1997-06-29 Thread joost witteveen
is about politics". The point is, the whole discussion wasn't about politics, it was about POSIX time, and that _is_ relevant. In short: - The discussion is in _NO_ way related to politics (not international politics anyway, maybe computational politics). - don't extract _one_ line

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
so that doesn't work. I've been testing it with "es" (yet another shell that I never heard of, but I'm the maintainer). [2] Well, I've olverloaded lstat all right, but it doesn't seem to get called don't know why yet. Why would chown() work a

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
> On Jun 25, joost witteveen wrote > > The only problem with this is that if there are setuid binaries involved > > in the debian/rules binary process, they will not use the LD_PRELOAD > > stuff, and things may go wrong. (But as long as those binaries are > > setuid r

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > Build a shared library which wraps all calls to chown(), then set > > > LD_PRELOAD to that library. Should be pretty foolproof. > > Yeah, I like that: wrap

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
rough that LD_PRELOAD lib. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
/usr/bin/xxx Now if the chmod call in the middle _only_ writes the "fake permissiosn" to the $FAKEROOT file, the third command will not work. However, I planned to make the wrapper chmod function attempt to work as expected (as long as it can, above it can), in addition to logging the per

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
chown mail:sys file2 > > rm file2 > > ls -al file2 > > > > I doubt whether these are important, and even if they are, I > > guess it will be possible to get it right. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777

Re: why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
g 755, I say we revert them to 644. > The only reason I remember is that the shared libraries are "executed", only not from the commandline, but within other binaries. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
e there's nothing to stop me from making a working fakeroot package, but it's not this release isn't yet. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

where aclocal? (for a dpkg build)

1997-06-27 Thread joost witteveen
7;t have it eighter. (I need a libc6 dpkg for fakeroot). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-25 Thread joost witteveen
(as above), and in the FAKEROOT_FILE you'd just record the "fake contents" of /etc/passwd... Well, never mind. The only problem with this is that if there are setuid binaries involved in the debian/rules binary process, they will not use the LD_PRELOAD stuff, and things may go wrong

Re: RFC: library conventions for libc5 and libc6 in hamm Take 4

1997-06-24 Thread joost witteveen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > > 5. Conflicts & Dependencies for hamm packages > > > > > [..] > > > > > >The hamm libfoo package has to depend on libc6 and has to conflict > > >with libfoo-dev and

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > (in fakt so much, that I may be tempted to write it myself. You > > don't need that many changes). > > Well, you need to write your own version of make that looks for any attempt > to run chmod, chown etc, and

Re: New field `Entered-Date' in Packages.gz

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
Other package management utilities can take advantage of this field > too... But at the moment the file modification date on most mirrors reflects the "Entered-Date" quite accurately. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
in South Africa? If my server is gonna be a "build server", I'd *very* much prefer a modified dpkg-dev that allows for non-root package builds. (in fakt so much, that I may be tempted to write it myself. You don't need that many changes). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: svgalib-dummy again

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > > So, what method do you prefer? Or do you have better ideas? How hard > > > would it be to implement versioned Provides: in dpkg? Or are there > > > other reasons not to implement it? Is solution 2) too kludgy?

svgalib where new version (security hole)

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
or svgalib-1.2.11, but cannot find it anywhere (yes they say "will address"). Is there anybody here who knows where to find this? I used to think them dec people were competent, but with a security allert that doesn't even attempt to explain where the hole is, and no possibility

Re: Moving away from MD5

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
**4 combinations = 2**128 = number of different md5sum's -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
antly different from what was in the original > archive. If 'patch' isn't smart enough to create a directory that > didn't exist originally, what can I do about it? Patch is smart enough, it's just that dpkg isn't smart enough to tell patch to be smart enough

Re: RFC: library conventions for libc5 and libc6 in hamm Take 4

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
dy conflicts with libc5-dev. And all old (bo) libcfoo-dev packages should depend on libc5-dev anyway. > [2] The location ../libc5-compat was introduced in the ldso package. As > ldso is a package on all linus distributions we'll keep it for s/linus/linux/ -- joost witteveen,

old versions: svgalib-bin?

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
eam source, somebody once reported that there was a security bug in 1.2.10, but the guy never actually bothered to say what the bug was[1], so I'm not very inclined to trust him). [1] other than something as vague as "fails to surrender priveleges". -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PRO

Re: Dpkg in C for speed?

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
g to do with C/C++. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dpkg-source: nested *?+ in regexp at /usr/bin/dpkg-source line 771.

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
ource version is joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dpkg-buildpackage: build architecture is i386 sudo debian/rules clean make clean make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/bigfoot/shome/joost/maintain/libg++/libg++272-2.7.2.5' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop. make[

Re: svgalib-dummy again

1997-06-23 Thread joost witteveen
ow hard > would it be to implement versioned Provides: in dpkg? Or are there > other reasons not to implement it? Is solution 2) too kludgy? I strongly prefer method 1. I really think dpkg should be improved, but as that doesn't seem to happen any time soon, I don't think method 2 wi

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-22 Thread joost witteveen
So what's the problem? Just make your g77 package generate the gcc packages too, and you could sometimes even have _less_ bytes move through your modem! Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-22 Thread joost witteveen
zy to > go through all failing packages, here's a list of some of them, > with the reason for the failure listed. Some packages failed > because I didn't have the time to install the stuff they needed. This list is "only" 40 packages. We've got about 10 times m

Re: Calendars (was: Re: leap second)

1997-06-22 Thread joost witteveen
d only 1 in for of those turn-of-century years are leap years. Maybe that will change again. And about the seconds: we (currently, prossibly always) simply cannot calulate the length of a day accurately enough to know well in advance when to insert them. But I'd say the two animals are at l

Re: RFC: library conventions for libc5 and libc6 in hamm Take 4

1997-06-21 Thread joost witteveen
s better to have things look bad in the past and good in the future, but the point is: we cannot change the past. And the simple fackt is, that the past (also called "bo" or "hamm") used libfoo-dev for the names. So, there's no way we can change bo/hamm any more.

Re: Correct path for upgrading to libc6-dev?

1997-06-21 Thread joost witteveen
2, why not libg++27g, that's what the standard tells us to use. I only chose libg++272 because HJ Lu did that, and it doesn't seem to cause problems). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: checker libs with debugging symbols

1997-06-20 Thread joost witteveen
more work, as they now have to decide what version of checker to install (quite a hard choice for a newbie, I'd say). - give the developper extra work - give the mirrors more work, make debian even larger (If you want to do this, why not simply say "strip /usr/lib/*"?

Re: Larry Daffner, svgalib1 libc6

1997-06-19 Thread joost witteveen
-- Start of PGP signed section. > On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote: > > > I would very much like to have a libc6 version of that package > > available (no, I don't use svgalib myself, but some of my packages > > do, and I want to fix bugs in them). > &

Larry Daffner, svgalib1 libc6

1997-06-19 Thread joost witteveen
should I just go ahead (well, I'll give Larry a few more days, but then I'll just upload it). Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Re: Debian target audience

1997-06-16 Thread joost witteveen
versions that fail to install. And even then, why not install lib5-altdev? Then there is no problem whatsoever. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMA

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-16 Thread joost witteveen
; might rework it to use a real SGML DTD. I figure that SGML will be a Jim> good fit, since the output is going to always be HTML. Jim> Jim> There are quite a few other things I want to add - when I'm done, it's Jim> going to look nothing like the current dwww. The nice thing is, it will Jim> be broken into separate pieces, so it will be easy for many people to Jim> work on it and improve it simultaneously. Jim> Jim> Cheers, Jim> Jim> - Jim Jim> -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

libc6 system for libc5-only maintainers

1997-06-16 Thread joost witteveen
27;ll send you your account info pgp-encrypted, so you will need pgp on your system. Thanks, -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-16 Thread joost witteveen
e know what to do with it at the time, and I thought "don't fix what ain't broken", but I've changed libg++272's priority now to "Important" -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE F

Re: Bug#10516: gs-aladdin: Depends on svgalib1 (>= 1.210-1) which does not allow svgalib-dummy to fulfill the dependency

1997-06-15 Thread joost witteveen
> On Jun 12, joost witteveen wrote > > > > Well, OK, I can see *somebody* wants this. > > But still I'm not convinced this warrants inclusion in stable. > > Are there other people that would like the dependancy change > > > > - Depends: svgalib1 (

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
What has self-contained to do with Motif? Anyway, Lars just posted a script to auto-build the whole distribution, and I really think with such scripts (presumably improved ones, but the one from Lars apparently already works) we will get a self-contained distribution rather soon. > They cou

Re: RFC: libc6 policy supplement 2nd try

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
v | /usr/{lib,include} > libc5 | libfoo-g-altdev | /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/{lib,include} Here again, unless I'm really confused, the "g" is mixed up. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
ugs in them, that can then be reported, thus forcing the maintainer to do something about it. But I don't think there will be many of those packages. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: Compiling with libc6

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
illing to do so. My machine is connected to the internet via a 6kbyte/s link, so up/down loading your (large) packages will not be very fast, but at least it works. Mail me if you want an account on my "unstable" machine. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iht

Re: Simple policy question...

1997-06-14 Thread joost witteveen
promised) two weeks of testing. XFree 3.3 has important security fixes, and there seems to be no other way to close the security holes currently in debian 1.3.0 than to include Xfree 3.3, so there is a chance that will be included. I'm much less sure about XEmacs 19.15 though, although

Re: Bug#10516: gs-aladdin: Depends on svgalib1 (>= 1.210-1) which does not allow svgalib-dummy to fulfill the dependency

1997-06-12 Thread joost witteveen
significant for people running Bo > >as webservers, as they will probably not have gs installed eighter. > >Or if they have serious reasons not to install svgalib, why do they > >install xlib? > > Because they want to run remote X Sessions. So it will at least not just b

Re: Possible Xaw{3d,95} bug / Re: Debian freeciv bugs

1997-06-04 Thread joost witteveen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) writes: > > > One possible solution is to link Xaw statically in the freeciv binary. > > That's what I do with aXe. > > Or you can just use -rpath when you compile to force it to use a > particular dynamically linked libXa*

Re: S-Lang for use with libc6 uploaded (source, i386)

1997-06-04 Thread joost witteveen
2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time files) ii libc6-dbg 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (debugging/profi ii libc6-dev 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (development fil ii libc6-doc 2.0.3-4 The GNU C library version 2 (documentation f In short, thanks for the clarification

Re: Possible Xaw{3d,95} bug / Re: Debian freeciv bugs

1997-06-04 Thread joost witteveen
> Xaw95 but not the standard widget set). One possible solution is to link Xaw statically in the freeciv binary. That's what I do with aXe. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-01 Thread joost witteveen
f a modifying the package isn't allowed, then it cannot go into the main archive, and has to go into non-free, even if you're allowed to make money distributing it. Non-free it is -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777ihttp://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ -- T

Re: kernel header files : problems (yes, again)\

1997-05-28 Thread joost witteveen
the kernel. > (where can i find the reasons, why kernel headers are in libc ? i know > that nearly anybody sais, that this is the right way, but sometimes i > get frustrated and start to disbelief). /usr/doc/lib5/FAQ.gz -- where else? -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp

Re: official C library

1997-05-22 Thread joost witteveen
depends on libc5-dev), etc. I believe it's the same with X libs. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i

Re: stumped with source package problem

1997-05-22 Thread joost witteveen
ay, to help you with something else (see debian-bugs), I also tried to unpack xkobo, and only succeded after downgrading my patch-2.2 (unstable) to patch-2.1 (from bo). Probably the real bug is in dpkg, though. (sending this to the mailinglist in case other people still want to know this). -- joost

Re: IMP: downgrade ldso to bo: no ldso left!

1997-05-13 Thread joost witteveen
> On May 11, joost witteveen wrote > > I just downgraded my ldso from the one in unstable, to the one > > in bo, and I appear to be left with a system that doesn't have > > a dynamic linker! > > This is because of a change from a hard link to a symlink in one o

new package: nfsroot boot any client into Linux on network

1996-09-29 Thread joost witteveen
inary: nfsroot Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: nfsroot- Set up server to allow nfsroot clients to boot. Changes: nfsroot (0.0) unstable; urgency=low . * initial version. Fil

Bug#4574: gs -g flag does not work

1996-09-25 Thread joost witteveen
with: gs -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=842 -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=595 -dDEVICEWIDTH=100 -dDEVICEHEIGHT=100 Q.ps and gs usually only uses the last defention on the commandline, but here it apparently uses the first one. So, I'll indeed have to change the wrapper. Thanks -- joost witteveen

where are guidelines?

1996-09-24 Thread joost witteveen
packages to the new source format -- but I must be overlooking something very obvious (I'm sure), as I cannot find this eighter. Thanks a lot, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4495: gs fonts should be in /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts

1996-09-17 Thread joost witteveen
uts it in ghostscript/$VERSION/fonts, but if you (and someone else, too) prefers them in ghostscript/fonts, I'll move them. Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4384: gcc_2.7.2.1-1.deb & g77_0.5.18-2.deb incompatible

1996-09-03 Thread joost witteveen
ell. So, basically I think this is a gcc problem, that gcc should solve (with a little assistance from g77, (the symlink) to tell gcc where to look for f771). But I don't know how David (gcc maintainer) think s about this, so I cc'd him on this. David? > Alan > > (g77 and f2c

uploading gs-4.01-4

1996-08-30 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 29 Aug 96 21:19 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gs Version: 4.01-4 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib p

gs-3.33 + gsfonts

1996-08-30 Thread joost witteveen
n (and for the bug-reports those of you who didn't read this are going to send), -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

uploading gs_4.01-3

1996-08-28 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 28 Aug 96 21:19 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gs Version: 4.01-3 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib p

uploading gs_3.33-1

1996-08-28 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 28 Aug 96 18:39 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gs Version: 3.33-1 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib p

Bug#4317: xosview should display cached mem

1996-08-28 Thread joost witteveen
#x27;s very nice, all you prospective xosview buggers: try procmeter!) Although I guess the upstream maintainer would be interested to correct this one, I think, togehter with the other ones, I'll just try to move xosview to contrib. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4269: xosview has only XOSView as application resource file

1996-08-26 Thread joost witteveen
on maintaining a broken xosview? Sometimes, I really don't know what to do. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4267: xosview doesn't understand -geometry very well

1996-08-25 Thread joost witteveen
the standard Xt interface, but he didn't say when. Xosview-1.4.1 AFAIK doesn't use it. I'm closing this bug, as I cannot do anything about it, and the upstream maintainer doesn't care. Thanks anyway, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

screen-3.7.1-8: utmp bug fixed (uploading)

1996-08-24 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 24 Aug 96 07:47 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: screen Version: 3.7.1-8 Binary: screen Architecture: i386 source Description: screen: A screen manager with VT100/ANSI te

uploading pixmap_pl2-1

1996-08-22 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 21 Aug 96 17:23 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: pixmap Version: 2.6pl2-1 Binary: pixmap Architecture: i386 source Description: pixmap: A pixmap editor. Changes: * up

uploaded screen-3.7.1-7

1996-08-22 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 21 Aug 96 17:00 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: screen Version: 3.7.1-7 Binary: screen Architecture: i386 source Description: screen: A screen manager with VT100/ANSI te

uploading gsfonts-4.01-2

1996-08-21 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 20 Aug 96 17:28 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gsfonts Version: 4.01-2 Binary: gsfonts Architecture: all source Description: gsfonts: Fonts for the ghostscript inter

Re: Packaging questions (newbie)

1996-08-19 Thread joost witteveen
y would we discriminate against czech? Then again, I come from Europe to, and my first language isn't English eighter. Good luck with your packages! -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

pixmap_2.6pl1-5 uploaded

1996-08-16 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 16 Aug 96 19:51 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: pixmap Version: 2.6pl1-5 Binary: pixmap Architecture: i386 source Description: pixmap: A pixmap editor. Changes: - Up

Bug#4169: pixmap dies

1996-08-16 Thread joost witteveen
I am unsure I've done the right thing with the patch, I don't want to upload the new pixmap to master. I've put it on ftp://rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl/joost/pixmap_2.6pl1_4* for you (and other interested parties) to try out, and I've asked the pixmap mailinglist for more

Re: libpaper 1.0 on master

1996-08-16 Thread joost witteveen
aybe it's worth the little extra efford of mailing the patches to the maintainer/bug-system and wait to see them included in the next release? If you don't want to do that, could you send your patches to me, so that try to handle it? Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

uploading pixmap_2.6pl1-3

1996-08-16 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 21:21 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: pixmap Version: 2.6pl1-3 Binary: pixmap Architecture: i386 source Description: pixmap: A pixmap editor. Changes: - Fix

uploaded gs_4.01-2 (missing dep:libpaper)

1996-08-15 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 15:44 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gs Version: 4.01-2 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib p

gs+gsfonts 4.01 uploading (finally)

1996-08-15 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 11:53 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gsfonts Version: 4.01-1 Binary: gsfonts Architecture: all source Description: gsfonts: Fonts for the ghostscript inter

Bug#4118: xosview doesn't use XUSERFILESEARCHPATH

1996-08-12 Thread joost witteveen
t I can do about this -- it's really not just what paths it searches, it's also how it parses the appdefauls files (all manually). So if you've got any better ideas, I'd like to close this bug. But thanks for the bug-report anyway, it's nice to know people use xosview. -- j

Package priority: Extra/Optional

1996-08-09 Thread joost witteveen
nged to have "Optional: as default, instead of the current "extra"). Thanks, -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4081: xosview doesn't install a binary

1996-08-09 Thread joost witteveen
ror (he uploaded a known buggy xosview even without mailing me in advance of doing so). Thanks. BTW Ian also sent mail to debian-devel saying that this bug was in his uploaded version. xosview-1.3.2-6 doesn't contain this bug. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

Bug#4058: etc/papersize doesn't allow spaces

1996-08-07 Thread joost witteveen
eaningfull name, no?) and the wrapper as 'gs' > of course. Apparently people were confused by your gs-papersize being > the gs that does not handle papersize despite its name. So, that's not the case any more (the real gs is gs.real, the wrapper is gs). What is causing m

Bug#4058: etc/papersize doesn't allow spaces

1996-08-06 Thread joost witteveen
sn't depend on libpaper, and has been reading /etc/papersize before the existance of libpaper.) I do wonder if libpaper does a better job, and I do wonder if gs really should read "A4 ". Some people were really glad I added a wrapper to allow gs to read /etc/papersize. Some are angry

Bug#3768: axe info files incorrectly installed

1996-08-06 Thread joost witteveen
weren't that bad after all, and I only needed to change axinfo in one place. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Use Debian/GNU Linux!

axe_6.1.2-5 uploaded

1996-08-04 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 04 Aug 96 14:33 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: axe Version: 6.1.2-5 Binary: axe Architecture: i386 source Description: axe: An editor for X. Changes: * changed axinf

xosview_1.3.2-6 uploaded

1996-07-22 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 22 Jul 96 12:02 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: xosview Version: 1.3.2-6 Binary: xosview Architecture: i386 source Description: xosview: Fun to watch CPU/network usage pro

axe_6.1.2-4 uploading

1996-07-17 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 16 Jul 96 21:17 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: axe Version: 6.1.2-4 Binary: axe Architecture: i386 source Description: axe: An editor for X. Changes: corrected inf

transfig_3.1.2a-3 uploaded

1996-07-16 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Jul 96 22:02 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: transfig Version: 3.1.2a-3 Binary: transfig Architecture: i386 source Description: transfig: Utilities for printing figure

xfig_3.1.4a-4 uploaded

1996-07-03 Thread joost witteveen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 03 Jul 96 10:38 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: xfig Version: 3.1.4b-4 Binary: xfig Architecture: i386 source Description: xfig: Facility for Interactive Generation of f

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