Bug#4644: dpkg --compare-versions reality and documentation differ

1996-09-30 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0 dpkg -h says: Comparison operators for --compare-versions are: lt le eq ne ge gt (treat no version as earlier than any version); lt-nl le-nl ge-nl gt-nl (tread no version as later than any version); = = = (only for compatibility with control file

Bug#4646: dwww will not build

1996-09-30 Thread llucius
Package: dwww Version: 1.0-1 1) While attempting to build dwww I received the following messages: rm -f /home/httpd-data/dwww ln -s debian/tmp/var/lib/dwww /home/httpd-data/dwww ln: cannot create symbolic link `/home/httpd-data/dwww' to

Bug#4649: Soft link missing for slang0.99.34 dynamic lib

1996-09-30 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: slang0.99.34 Version: 0.99.34-1 Slang does not install a link /usr/lib/libslang.so.0. [1] as it is specified in section 12 of the Programmer's Manual. [1] Here's an annotated session log: Saving the old list from ldconfig: miles:/mirror/debian/incoming [root] # ldconfig

Re: `eval' patch to dpkg-buildpackage

1996-09-30 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Guy Maor wrote: : : On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : : Ian Jackson wrote: : : Please REVERSE the change you made to make the default rootcommand be : : `eval'. : : Yes, please do, dpkg-buildpackage 1.4.0.1 is *BROKEN* for me as I can : no longer use sudo to build my

Bug#4652: lprng overwrites printcap file

1996-09-30 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: lprng Version: 2.3.12-1 The package installs a new /etc/printcap file without asking the user. It seems /etc/printcap is not marked as a conffile. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __

Bug#4594: VIM: no help, no conffiles

1996-09-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M.Dassen) wrote: Package: vim Version: 4.4-1 From the vim development pages: Latest News So - which is the latest beta? Please read the (latest) announcement so you know what the new features are! Test them all and test them thoroughly! Thanks!! Outlook: 960623

Bug#4653: smail doesn't set owner/group/mode in savelog call

1996-09-30 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Package: smail Version: 3.1.29.1-23 Oddly, /var/log/smail/logfile had zero length even though mail had been processed on the system after the last savelog rotation (which is run by /etc/cron.daily/smail) . The file had group root. After changing the group to mail, smail again added logs to

Possible new developer

1996-09-30 Thread Bruce Perens
From: Frederic Lepied [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to help debian development. I have some skills in emacs lisp (I wrote some packages expand.el, cvs.el) and I'm an XFree86 developper (XInput extension, Wacom, joystick support). If you need some help in this areas, I'm your man.

Shared libraries in packages. How?

1996-09-30 Thread Hakan Ardo
Hi, I have recently made the package compface (can be found in unstabe) containg the shared library libcompface. Now I am trying to make a package xfaces that uses this library. But I can't get dpkg-shlibdeps working. This is what is says: # dpkg-shlibdeps xfaces dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown

Bug#4656: checksecurity script has incorrect regular expression.

1996-09-30 Thread David M. Cooke
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-32 I have about 12 Debian-1.1.8 systems running using NFS, amd, NIS and cfengine to configure and share info. All of the systems send me a copy of mail sent to root. Every morning I receive mail from cron's run-parts showing one of the NFS file-systems and an error

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

1996-09-30 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Michael Meskes wrote: : : Heiko Schlittermann writes: : Hm .., .orig.tar.gz isn't really empty. It would contain the unmodified : binaries (i386, m68k) and _no_ debian files. : But then these aren't sources. Thats why I called 'em `pseudo' sources. : Perhaps the .dsc file could include a

lprng_2.3.12-2 released (experimental)

1996-09-30 Thread Sven Rudolph
I added some control headers, so this lprng package should replace lpr with no problems. Sven -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:34:18 +0200 Source: lprng Binary: lprng Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.3.12-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency:

Bug#4657: Gcc's Objective C canot compile GNUstep

1996-09-30 Thread Yves Arrouye
Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2.1 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 Xref: marin.sevy.fr mail.other:611 X-Gnus-Newsgroup: mail.other:611 Mon Sep 30 22:22:27 1996 Gcc

Re: Shared libraries in packages. How?

1996-09-30 Thread Yves Arrouye
Hi, I have recently made the package compface (can be found in unstabe) containg the shared library libcompface. Now I am trying to make a package xfaces that uses this library. But I can't get dpkg-shlibdeps working. This is what is says: # dpkg-shlibdeps xfaces