Is it possible to upload via chiark again?

I'd like to upload povray3. Given the size of the stuff and my slow connection I'd prefer to go through chiark. Is it possible at the moment? Thanks, Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/

Bug#4627: gawk clean target prevents build

'llucius wrote:' Package: gawk Version: 3.0.0-4 1) debian/rules clean target does not ignore errors when doing the make distclean which causes the build to fail since there's nothing to clean (not even a Makefile). Would you believe I ran into this problem when making my last build.

PGP?

Didn't we use to have a PGP package? I didn't find it any of the usual ftp sites and mirrors. I lost my installed version due to my incompatibility with dselect and now I'm having big trouble doing many of the things I need to do, including sending mail (since I've set up my mail so that mail is

Bug#4629: alias is arch dependent

Package: alias Version: 2.1-2 1) debian/rules should build package in binary-arch target rather than binary-indep since this is a arch dependent package. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4630: lclint-doc should be arch independent

Package: lclint Version: 2.1b-1 1) lclint-doc is built as architecture dependent when it's not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4631: mailpgp doesn't extract and should be arch independent

Package: mailpgp Version: 1.0-1 1) Source doesn't extract due to an invalid .dsc file and the .diff.gz patches reference a directory called mailpgp-1.0-1 rather than the expected mailpgp-1.0. 2) Since the package doesn't contain any architecture dependent files, it should be made

Bug#4632: saytime won't extract with dpkg-source

Package: saytime Version: 1.0-1 1) saytime will not extract with dpkg-source due to a directory of saytime-1.0-0 in the .orig.tar.gz archive and because the .diff.gz attempts to patch a directory called saytime-1.0-1 when it should saytime-1.0. Also, the .dsc file is invalid. --

Re: PGP?

Didn't we use to have a PGP package? I noticed that it disappeared a few days ago too. What's up? Did I miss an announcement or something? - Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4633: io package should be built under binary-arch target

Package: io Version: 1.12-1 1) Since the package is architecture dependent, it should be built under the binary-arch target rathar than the binary-indep one. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4634: mpage doesn't build when using dpkg-buildpackage -B

Package: mpage Versoin: 2.4-1 1) The work being done in the binary-indep target should be moved to the binary-arch target since the is an architecture dependent package. (Unless, the intent was to build an mpage_2.4-1_i386.deb and an mpage-doc_2.4-1_all.deb package?) -- TO

Starting messages should have unique style

Hi folks! I just discovered that the start up messages of Debian don't have a unique style. Some say starting daemon xxx ... (lower case `s' and dots `...') while others say Starting network daemons: xxx (upper case `S', colon, no dots) etc. It would be nice if we had a style

new package: nfsroot boot any client into Linux on network

30min after you installed this package on your server, you can: . Insert a nfsrootbootfloppy (create one with mknfsrootboot) in any computer on your local network that has it's networkcard configured (running whatever OS), press RESET, and hey presto, it's running LINUX! (and is

Re: Starting messages should have unique style

On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Christian Schwarz wrote: Hi folks! I just discovered that the start up messages of Debian don't have a unique style. Some say starting daemon xxx ... (lower case `s' and dots `...') while others say Starting network daemons: xxx (upper case `S', colon,

Bug#4639: mhonarc has invalid .orig.tar.gz file

Package: mhonarc Version: 1.2.3-2 1) When extracting mhonarc, dpkg-source produced the following message: dpkg-source: error: tarfile `/sys/downloads/mhonarc_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz' contains object (mhonarc.orig/) not in expected directory (mhonarc-1.2.3.orig) -- TO

Bug#4641: dpkg-source cannot create existing .tmp-nest dir

Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.4.0 dpkg-source -b povray-3.0.10 dpkg-source: building povray using existing povray_3.0.10.orig.tar.gz dpkg-source: failure: unable to create `.tmp-nest': File exists I think dpkg-source should delete any existing dir before trying to create one and complain...

m4_1.4-6 uploaded to master

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:29:38 -0400 Source: m4 Binary: m4 Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.4-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: m4 - a macro processing language Changes: m4

Re: Starting messages should have unique style

It would be nice if we had a style guide so that the different packages could all use the same style. What do you think? Cool, I'm not the only one this bothered. Let's change it. Can we? Please, please! B-) Yes, yes! Let's start sentences with uppercase, and don't use

Bug#4642: Shar archives use incorrect shell code!

Package: sharutils Version: 4.2.1-1 Shar uses a lock dir for multifile archives, and the last shar file has the following code at the end: $echo $shar_n 'x -' 'lock directory' '_sh25318:' $shar_c if rm -fr _sh25318; then $echo 'removed' else $echo 'failed to remove'

Bug#4643: online help badly configured for vim-4.4

Package: vim Version: 4.4-1 Vim doesn't find its help files because all are gzipped :-( I have had to ungzip all these files before I could display online help (command :help). -rw-r--r-- 1 root root95556 Sep 24 14:53 vim_40.txt.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2960 Sep 24