Re: intend to adopt calc, so does someone else--need advice

2003-05-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig P Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's THE SNAG: I was sitting down to write to this list to request a > sponsor, I thought I'd check the qa page for the package one more to > make sure I hadn't missed anything. Bug 188998 is from David Rios > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on April 14 saying

Re: Getting hostname

2003-05-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:34:48PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote: > I want to package a tool. In a shell-script I need access to a hostname > belonging to a given IP. If the package host is installed I get: [snip] A possibility is to use perl, it has a easily accessible gethostbyname implementation.

intend to adopt calc, so does someone else--need advice

2003-05-04 Thread Craig P Steffen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings, I'm an avid Linux user and programmer, and I'd like to become a Debian Developer. As the first step in this process, I'd like to take the calc source package and maintain it via a sponsor. I have downloaded it, updated the it against a mo

Re: Guide to update_excuses.html?

2003-05-04 Thread Paul Hampson
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 04:45:09AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > Hey everybody :) > > With the recent activity with respect to Sarge, I'm looking through > update_excuses.html, and quite frankly I have very little idea as to how > one would parse the output. Specifically: > > [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Guide to update_excuses.html?

2003-05-04 Thread David B Harris
Hey everybody :) With the recent activity with respect to Sarge, I'm looking through update_excuses.html, and quite frankly I have very little idea as to how one would parse the output. Specifically: [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/ ]$ grep-excuses gqmpeg -gqmpeg (0.20.0-1 to -) Package is broken, wil