Re: devfsd permissions and makedev permissions coordination

2000-09-11 Thread Tom Lees
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:56:30PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 10, Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terminal devices [1]root.tty 0666 This is obviously wrong, ttys must have 620 permissions (or 600 if you don't want people talk(1)ing to you, but I

Re: maintainers in Cambridge, UK?

2000-09-10 Thread Tom Lees
of developers in Cambridge; usually more during term time. I will be there this term on 30th Sept, and would be happy to sign your key, if you don't find anyone beforehand. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

devfsd permissions and makedev permissions coordination

2000-09-10 Thread Tom Lees
the exact function of that list and don't read it myself] -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-move problem

2000-09-10 Thread Tom Lees
functionality (I think; I tested against zsh which executes functions with ( and ) properly). ...or does this have a different meaning? AFAIK it causes ther function to execute in a subshell (or at least variables are all local etc.) -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#66084: lvm: 0.8i - 0.8final migration

2000-08-18 Thread Tom Lees
, with a 0.8i compatibility package, IMHO. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ITP: lirc, devfsd

2000-04-02 Thread Tom Lees
I have packaged LIRC and will upload it later today or tomorrow if noone objects. LIRC is Linux Infra-red Remote Control support, see http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~columbus/lirc/index.html Similarly, I have packaged devfsd (http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/). This one still needs a couple of

Re: 5 days till Bug Horizon

2000-03-22 Thread Tom Lees
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 08:43:08AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Package: cvs (debian/main). Maintainer: Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59543 cvs: cvs-makerepos does not exist Isn't this just cvs init? I think this is supposed to be a script that creates the repos that you listed

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Tom Lees
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 05:30:41PM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: Currently i've subscribed to devel-changes on another mail account which only serves for sorting out the relevant (at least for me) parts. These are sorted out using procmail (which is not supported by my usual mail server) and are

Re: off-topic! Anonymous CVS access?

1999-01-22 Thread Tom Lees
cvsconfig as root), and pserver enabled. More info is available in the CVS documentation. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.

Re: slink_cd v 1.02

1999-01-18 Thread Tom Lees
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:56:09AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: One thing you _will_ need to do to use the symlink-farm is use a patched mkhybrid that flattens things as it makes the ISO images. I've separated this patch out of a larger one by Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the images I'm

Re: 1FA: problem still in hamm disks

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
does the autorun bit work? You can't just run loadlin straight from Windoze. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.

Re: (WARNING) xfree86 3.3.2.3a-2 (source all i386) uploaded to master

1998-10-17 Thread Tom Lees
. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 05:52:59PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Hmm, I think this is my first comment on this.. On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Tom Lees wrote: On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 02:29:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Are there any plans to merge this with apt? Seems gdselect has

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-16 Thread Tom Lees
, making a note of it on the Debian web pages might not be such a bad idea. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.

Re: gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-15 Thread Tom Lees
(which means there are no plans now). Only problem is, apt is in C++, this is in C... ATM, I'm struggling with getting dependencies with virtual packages and or (i.e. a | b | c, d) working (any chance of some help?). Everything else is done, and I'm adding more UI features. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL

gdselect alpha 3

1998-10-13 Thread Tom Lees
I released alpha 3 to http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ today. The next release will have all features present. This is primarily a last testing phase. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http

Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-08 Thread Tom Lees
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 11:34:55AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:44:36PM +0100, Tom Lees wrote: 1.1. I am using the libgtk1.1 1.1.2-2 and libgtk1.1-dev 1.1.12-2 packages With the default setup: -- Script started on Sun Oct 4 11:30:52 1998 make[1

gdselect alpha 2

1998-10-08 Thread Tom Lees
alpha 2 is released at http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/gdselect/ -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.

Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-08 Thread Tom Lees
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:55:55PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Tom Lees wrote: Wow, it looks nice. However I wonder why you changed the ordering of the two main windows. Gtk's panels don't size properly by default (i.e. on maximise) otherwise - the list of packages gets tiny

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Tom Lees
idea!!! -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc.

Re: GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-04 Thread Tom Lees
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 12:14:40AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 11:41:14PM +0100, Tom Lees wrote: Just a small tar.gz. Not many features are implemented at the moment - notably, it doesnt update the status file, and it doesnt lock the status area, but I'm releasing

GTK Dselect - ALPHA 1

1998-10-03 Thread Tom Lees
installation is the Install/Apply menu option. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkeys.asc. gdselect-alpha1.tar.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Libc5 compile machine?

1997-12-12 Thread Tom Lees
I know there is a machine which I can compile for libc5 on somewhere. a) Where is it? b) Can I have an account on it? I need to compile+upload a new cvs for bo. Please encrypt any passwords, etc., using my PGP key:- Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/87D4D065 1996/08/26 Tom Lees

Re: Bug#15484: cvs in bo is still vulnerable

1997-12-08 Thread Tom Lees
On Sat, Nov 29, 1997 at 10:02:00PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Package: cvs Version: bo version Severity: grave Hmbf, the version of cvs in bo is still vulnerable to the pserver bug. I'm sorry, but at the moment I can't provide a bugtraq or cert message, but there was one. Tom Lees

Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard

1997-06-25 Thread Tom Lees
that passes the wife test! I also believe that it can't/won't load its second-stage loader from the second hard drive (i.e. BIOS drive 0x81). This really should be a simple fix, however. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Experiences with compiling Debian

1997-06-25 Thread Tom Lees
to put the right permissions in the tar file. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Documentation Policy

1997-06-25 Thread Tom Lees
, is much faster. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-24 Thread Tom Lees
. In fact, AFAIK the only browser which supports all these is Emacs/Xemacs w3-mode. Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. pgpamauuqqxou.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-23 Thread Tom Lees
experiences with ghughes it, but I don't know whether this is something it can do ghughes by default. -- Graham Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't tried Boa, but NCSA and CERN looked OK to me. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL

Re: Hamm: Retracting request for chos to be standard

1997-06-23 Thread Tom Lees
be a bad idea, since the advantage of syslinux is its DOS support. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

I found the Xemacs problem!

1997-06-21 Thread Tom Lees
I installed the new 3.1 binary (not support) package. It still coredumped on me - XFree 3.2-1. Then I upgraded libc5 - 5.4.17-1 to 5.4.23-1. It now works perfectly. I looks like its pretty dependent on a specific version on libc. Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: points on future installation disks development

1997-06-14 Thread Tom Lees
of this year. So I definitely need help here; especially for the UI part. I will be willing to help. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Some ideas about the text db

1997-06-14 Thread Tom Lees
- no proprietary code in programs (and more importantly scripts), unless they are special Debian programs, e.g. dpkg (not scripts). -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/pgpkey.txt. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-06-10 Thread Tom Lees
of md5sum which can do this. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
On 30 May 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are ways to avoid this. For example, modify dpkg not to include any line with config=yes in it in the md5sum of certain files. This is a troll, right? Wrong. Or maybe you

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
someone have any other special keys on his keyboard that we should define? (We'll just do it if the keyboard layout is widely used.) Ctrl+PrintScreen (=SysRq) should do a kernel info thing. What about W95 keys (3 of them)? Define as F20 or something? -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: packages.debian.org qmail (was Re: Using CVS for package development)

1997-06-02 Thread Tom Lees
will execute a script to process it, or you can have .qmail-packages files for each pkg if you are worried about speed. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL

Re: Where is the mysql package?

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
/debian.html = `debian.html' Connecting to localhost:80... connected! HTTP request sent, fetching headers... done. Length: 2,778 [text/html] 0K - .. 11:59:34 (452.15 KB/s) - `debian.html' saved [2778/2778] -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk

Re: kernel header files : problems (yes, again)

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
good solution ? Put something like this in debian/rules:- mkdir kinclude ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux kinclude/linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm kinclude/asm Then compile with -Ikinclude -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
be xxx-linux. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Taking over e2fsprogs ?

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
-ised patches are only available against 1.06 - they will need some converting. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available

Re: dcfgtool and clones

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
- it was severely slow. Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I know all this. But when will it be finished? What about beta versions? Is there a mailing list (other than debian-admintool)? Finished in about a week (beta version). Great! Are you planning on uploading it to experimental

Re: Unresolved Critical Bugs

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
for e2fsprogs. Seeing as I am maintaining e2compr, I'll take it, and merge the packages as appropriate. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key

Re: time stops on latest kernels

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
And everything is working... -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Using CVS for package development

1997-05-30 Thread Tom Lees
automakizing patch, it now using the debian changelog to determine version). -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-29 Thread Tom Lees
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Mark Baker wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the other solution is to have a small utility that stores these values, can change them and gives the values to the scripts. The third solution, which I prefer is a utility

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-29 Thread Tom Lees
On Sun, 25 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: --5mCyUwZo2JvN/JJP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On May 24, Tom Lees wrote The third solution, which I prefer is a utility which modifies the variables within the scripts - it's faster, it is more backwards compatible

Re: runlevels [was Re: Upcoming Debian Releases]

1997-05-26 Thread Tom Lees
, netclient, netserver, misc, etc. Then, define runlevels to include certain types of script. Just an idea (very difficult to implement with symlinks for /etc/rc?.d), what does anyone else think? -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-24 Thread Tom Lees
. what about footnote 10 (cu* devices) ? debian 1.3 has no call out devices ! (*evil grin*) True, this has been done in the package, but not everyone may have removed their /dev/cua* files from previous installations. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-23 Thread Tom Lees
mechanism for dselect - New run-level layout (???) [12] - No bug reports older than 9 months at release time And another one:- * Official Debian logo to be chosen Footnotes 1, 4, 5, and 7 can be removed AFAIK. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID

Re: rm -r * and the default prompt

1997-05-21 Thread Tom Lees
that once :(. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: libc6 migration -- xlib

1997-05-20 Thread Tom Lees
) :(. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Problems with the current source packaging scheme

1997-05-19 Thread Tom Lees
place. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: dpkg verify mode for security?

1997-05-18 Thread Tom Lees
springs to mind), and check against that. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Pbs with locale and fonts

1997-05-15 Thread Tom Lees
: [15:39:24] root /usr/bin/setfont lat1-16.psf Bad input file size From what I could see, setfont and the fonts I use come from the same package (or were updated at the same time) since they have the same date. Too bad they don't seem to be compatible... No idea on that one. -- Tom Lees

Re: compiling with gettext

1997-05-14 Thread Tom Lees
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: Yesterday I reported that I was no longer able to compile the package 'sp'. Santiago Vila and Tom Lees both kindly offered suggestions, but both of these still leave sp in an uncompilable state. Santiago pointed out that the problem might

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
be an easy solution that is not obvious to me. Write our own safe scripting language. Not difficult, and really rather useful. So, eg:- Unpack A.tar.gz in /A Patch A.diff in /A Unpack B.tar.gz in / Patch B.diff in / This would be very nice IMHO. -- Tom Lees

Re: compiling with gettext

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
*); The problem is that gettext, etc., are being recognized by the preprocessor! You don't need these, you should #include the appropriate libintl.h instead. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
user as soon as possible (using the new GNU tar). -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers

Re: Bug system `followup' messages

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Kai Henningsen: Remember: no shell scripts in the source packages that are needed for unpacking. It's just too dangerous. I don't understand why this is more dangerous than debian/rules. Why? You don't get to review it before it's run. -- Tom

Re: Sending closed bug notices to interested parties.

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
, as in general I probably don't want to see all bug report closures. Maybe a watch feature, where you can tell the bug system what you want to see about a bug report (if you have ever used CVS watches, you will know what I'm talking about). -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: Bug#8794: wrong arch declaration in dpkg.

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
+++ archtable.new Wed Apr 16 16:22:49 1997 @@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ alpha alpha alpha m68k m68km68k armarm arm -ppcppc ppc +powerpcpowerpc powerpc This is already in dpkg 1.4.0.15. But it should also have:- ppc powerpc powerpc -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
world style system. (If I understand make world properly). -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers

Re: Bug#9242: dpkg: dpkg could be smart about Changes information

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
would be ideal. Then you create another mailing list to house these announcements only, and make dpkg remove the old info when the package is upgraded. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B

Re: Proposal: New source format (was Re: [Fwd: Re: dpkg question])

1997-05-13 Thread Tom Lees
on my list of things Debian has to fix -- dselect/diety is #1. dselect/deity and this are basically part of the same overall problem - the packaging and distribution system needs a bit of an overhaul. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065