Bug#4446: usr/games/fortune needs recompilation

1996-09-11 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Buddha The executable should be recompiled. There are a few outstanding Buddha bugs on the fortune package, some dating back over a year, that Buddha could easily be fixed by a repackaging. I could be wrong, but it Buddha seems as if the maintainer has abandoned it. Raul More likely,

Bug#4468: dpkg cannot cope with erased postrm script

1996-09-11 Thread Christoph Lameter
package: dpkg version: 1.3.14 I have a netdiag package from which I removed the postrm script. Here is a result of trying to install the package after that change: # dpkg -i netdiag*5_i386.deb (Reading database ... 20335 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace netdiag

Bug#4470: ncftp installs manpage directly into /usr/man

1996-09-11 Thread Michael Shields
Package: ncftp Version: 2.3.0-6 ncftp installs a file called /usr/man/ncftp.1. This should of course be /usr/man/man1/ncftp.1, or it won't work. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Re: Bug#4446: usr/games/fortune needs recompilation

1996-09-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buddha The executable should be recompiled. There are a few outstanding Buddha bugs on the fortune package, some dating back over a year, that Buddha could easily be fixed by a repackaging. I could be wrong, but it Buddha seems as if

Bug#4469: tcsh doesn't include /bin/tcsh

1996-09-11 Thread Michael Shields
Package: tcsh Version: 6.06-3 tcsh should include a symlink of /bin/tcsh - ../usr/bin/tcsh. I think the FSSTND specifies that all shells should have symlinks present in /bin. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Unanswered problem reports by maintainer and package

1996-09-11 Thread Ian Jackson
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or or `forwarded' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The maintainer listed against each package is derived from the Maintainer field of the package as found in the development tree; there is an

Bug#4449: dselect feedback missing

1996-09-11 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Barak Pearlmutter wrote:' Package: dpkg Version: 1.2.14elf When you go through lots of dselect work editing the package selection menu, then you're done (whew!) and you hit the big INSTALL button ... before dselect goes ahead and installs stuff, it should give you a very short description of

Call back

1996-09-11 Thread Michael Meskes
Does anyone use a call-back facility? That is, does anyone phone his/her company and they call back to establish an internet connection? If so could you please give me some info on it. I don't like the idea of using Windows NT. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __

Bug#4471: isp-ppp doesn't conflict with ppp

1996-09-11 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: isp-ppp Version: 2.2.0f-1 IMO this should have a `Conflicts: ppp' line in its control file so that ppp is removed by dpkg. As it is right now some files of ppp remain and a re-installation of ppp will overwrite some files of isp-ppp. And I take it ppp doesn't have a `Replaces: isp-ppp'

Bug#4473: Bug in /etc/magic

1996-09-11 Thread Pawel Wiecek
Package: file Version: 3.19-4 There are bad magic numbers for Microsoft's applications in /etc/magic. The strings that are used works OK for English version of MS Word 6 and MS Excel 5, but when I run eg. $ file polish.doc where polish.doc is created using Polish nationalized version of MS Word

Bug#4474: dpkg versus cron and at

1996-09-11 Thread Robert Komanec
Package: dpkg Version: 1.2.11elf I run into a problem with dpkg (or what): I used to have 'cron' and 'at' on my system, but I suddenly realized, that they are gone. I admit, I could have deleted them in 'dselect' by mistake. However, it should be possible to install them again. See bellow This

Re: Call back

1996-09-11 Thread CD Rasmussen
I think mgetty can be set up to do call back. Also the LSM shows 2: Title: Callback package for Linux Version: 1.21 Description: This package allows callback for Linux systems which are equipped with a modem. Prerequisites are: setserial 2.0.2 or higher and

Uploaded dupload_1.0-1_i386 to chiark

1996-09-11 Thread heiko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:28:10 +0200 Source: dupload Binary: dupload Architecture: source all Version: 1.0-1 Distribution: experimental Urgency: low Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: dupload- Utility to upload

Shared libraries and version handling

1996-09-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
I've been working on converting the gmp package to the new source format and adding shared libraries to the package at the same time. Since version tagging no longer takes place in debian/rules I have had to hard code the so version numbers into both the rules and the Makefile. I have looked

SSC writing installation instructions for Debian

1996-09-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
FYI. --- Forwarded Message From: Marjorie Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux Installation Getting Started Announcement Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Matt Welsh's request, Specialized Systems Consultants has taken over the maintenance of Matt's book Linux Installation Getting