[NEWS] Thomas Bushnell Leaves HURD

2003-11-21 Thread Ognyan Kulev
/* Cross-post to bug-hurd and debian-hurd. */ Hi, The Hurd is in the news, but for unpleasant event. In case you missed it: http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=5185 Regards, ogi

Re: [NEWS] Thomas Bushnell Leaves HURD

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Ognyan! On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: /* Cross-post to bug-hurd and debian-hurd. */ I'm glad that I have no comments on the politics :) Just to say this is strictly an upstream issue about the Hurd itself, not GNU/Hurd distributions. So I think help-hurd

Re: perl_5.8.2

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:55:02PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: I could try to build a hacked perl and upload it for ftp.gnuab.org as unreleased, if that's better than nothing, but then packages which build-depend on perl would have to be uploaded there as well. We have always uploaded

Re: Still want to believe.

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:46:04PM +, Steve King wrote: Sorry in advance for the troll, No problem for that, but your message subject sounds a lot like spam. Please take care to write a more descriptive one next time ;) vi dumps a core telnet dumps a core sshd dumps a core inetd dumps a

Re: Still want to believe.

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 07:06:32PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: I installed using crosshurd, so it should be up-to-date, but it seems highly broken. IIRC you need to use crosshurd from unstable. You should also have a look at which ftp/http servers are used to download the packages from.

Re: perl_5.8.2

2003-11-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Robert Millan wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:55:02PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: I could try to build a hacked perl and upload it for ftp.gnuab.org as unreleased, if that's better than nothing, but then packages which build-depend on perl would have to be uploaded

Re: [NEWS] Thomas Bushnell Leaves HURD

2003-11-21 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Robert Millan wrote: Just to say this is strictly an upstream issue about the Hurd itself, not GNU/Hurd distributions. So I think help-hurd would be more appropiate than debian-hurd for pointing this sort of things. IMO Debian is involved, because its attitude to GNU FDL is indirect reason for

Re: [NEWS] Thomas Bushnell Leaves HURD

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:27:59PM +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: Robert Millan wrote: Just to say this is strictly an upstream issue about the Hurd itself, not GNU/Hurd distributions. So I think help-hurd would be more appropiate than debian-hurd for pointing this sort of things. IMO Debian is