On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:53:19PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
1) Don't we have to recompile all our ncurses-based apps against 4.2?
If we want all the ncurses-based apps to use the same version of ncurses,
yes. I'm not sure if we have to, though if I were the release manager, I
wouldn't release
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Fernando wrote to debian-bugs:
Pakckage: perl
Version: 5.001-5
(perl5-porters, this is 5.001m without additional packages).
Notes: tried a.out only, happens also with 5.001-4, however 5.001-3 is OK
(5.001-3 == 5.001e).
Perl seems to be confused making some arithmetic operations (additions).
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From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 23 17:47:44 1995
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:47:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: J.H.M.Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bug#1732: Bad arithmetic in new perl packages
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED
: Perl seems to be confused making some arithmetic operations (additions).
: Sometimes the result of $a+=$b, when $a is 0 and $b is 2 happens to be
: 2.04192 or something similar.
:
: Fernando, I unfortunately have no idea what is causing this. Please
: provide a short script which
Package: perl
Version: 5.001-5.elf
The new elf perl package depends on version 5 of the math library.
However, as far as I can tell, version 5 has not been released yet (as
a debian package).
There is, see the following transcript from ftp.debian.org:
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Subject: 1.0 issues: FSSTND compliance preparation for a.out abolishment
Short Description
-
The default Linux binary format is to move to ELF. Most of the libraries
and other support is already debianized, but uses non-standard locations.
In the long term, we want users to be
Subject: 1.0 issues: Packaging (esp. source)
Short Description
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There appears to be concensus among the developers that the current
source packaging system, which has debianized source packages,
should be replaced by a system that uses unmodified source.
Desirable goals for
Description
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The Powers That Be (most importantly, the linux libraries maintainers)
have decided to drop both termcap and curses support (they are not
present in the newer ELF libc's for example).
Both of these libraries are replaced by ncurses, which AFAIK uses
the same interface.
From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian Murdock writes (Re: Release management and package announcements):
Are we going to start with an a.out 1.0 and migrate to an ELF 1.0?
If so, I'd agree that this is what we should do (and what I'll do
if we all think this is the best
If the libc maintainer includes a gdbm man page, please let me know.
Currently, elf-libgdbm installs one.
Ray
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Package: dvipsk
Version: 5.58f-3
Package: dvipsk
Recommends: psfonts
However, no psfonts package appears to be available.
Looks like it should recommend 'texpsfnt'.
Ray
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Package: ncftp
Version: 2.1.0-1
ncftp-2.1.0 cannot cd into ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project.
It can get to private, but gives Permission denied when entering project.
ncftp-1.9.2 on an SGI can enter this location.
This is what the permissions look like from the inside (/debian.org/ftp
is
Dirk worte:
Not a bug IMHO. Try it again, going slowly directory by directory, ie
cd /
cd debian
cd private
cd project
cd Incoming
and you will see the Permission denied message both for project and for
Incoming---but nevertheless do try
dir
and it
libgdbm 1.7.3-2 - Ray Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Don't do -fomit-frame-pointer optimization with -O2 -fPIC, since
this may generate buggy code w/ gcc 2.7.{0,1}.
* Changed gdbm.3 to gdbm.3gdbm; made symlinks for the various gdbm_
symbols; made dbm.h symlink. Thanks to David Engel [EMAIL
Are these new aout-* packages going to stay the same name forever?
Probably as long as we support a.out.
And also,
are there going to be elf-* packages under the debian-1.0 tree too?
The elf-* packages were experimental packages, for those maintainers that
wanted too look ahead towards ELF;
This brings up a potentially important question:
1.2.13 won't compile under ELF by default, and though there have been
many threats of 1.2.14 it has yet to materialize. Are we going to push
forward with 1.3.x, or stick with 1.2.13 and patch?
I run 1.3 kernels myself, but they are not
I just installed 0.93R6 base system. Everything seemed to go well.
When I tried 'adduser', it failed with the message
bash: /usr/bin/perl : cannot execute binary file
Hmmm... can you send the output of 'ldd /usr/bin/perl' to debian-devel?
I suspect that you don't have libc or libc4
Note: when I talk about packages here, I don't mean packages in general,
but only development packages (like compiler, linker, binary utilities etc).
Q What are The Fine Manuals?
A * 'ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective by H.J. Lu.
HTML version near http://www.debian.org/Documentation
Date: 21 Nov 95 19:05 UT
Source: libreadline
Binary: libreadline
Version: 2.0-7
Description:
libreadline: GNU readline and history libraries.
Priority: Low
Changes:
* Install all info documentation and examples.
* Added extended description.
* Install libhistory.so with version number.
THESE ARE ALPHA PACKAGES!
Here are new versions of libgdbm, libdb and libreadline. They've been
split in runtime and development versions. All of them have undergone
major changes. For this reason, please do not install them unless
you know what you're doing.
I'd appreciate feedback on these
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.57b-0
Package: mount
Version: 2.5-1
I'm not sure which package this reports belong to.
The new umount (from mount-2.5-1) does not have a '-n' option.
This option is used by some of the scripts from the sysvutils package.
If this is a sysvinit bug, it is fixed by the
Package: mount
Version: 2.5-1
The mount package does not install a /usr/doc/copyright/mount file or link.
Ray
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Package: libdb1-dev
Version: 1.7.3-6
The control file has a bad depends in it:
grep '^Depends' libdb1-dev-control
Depends: libc5-dev (5.2.16-1), libdb1 (1.85.2.x)
That final .x shouldn't be there.
Yes. Fixed in my working sources. I'll make a new release soon.
Ray
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Package: libgdbm1-dev
Version: 1.7.3-6
There's a problem with libgdbm1-dev since when I install the
corresponding shared library package, it should install also, right? It
doesn't. I can't tell if the following is a problem with dpkg or with
the Depends line:
It's the depends line. It
These packages fix nasty bugs with regard to upgrading.
IMPORTANT:
1. prior to upgrading, remove the prerm scripts from the
previous versions as follows:
rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/lib{db1,gdbm1,readline2}.prerm
2. libgdbm1 breaks older perl and man packages, due to a soname error in
a
These packages fix nasty bugs with regard to upgrading; some other (minor)
problems are fixed.
IMPORTANT:
1. prior to upgrading, remove the prerm scripts from the
previous versions as follows:
rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/lib{db1,gdbm1,readline2}.prerm
2. libgdbm1 breaks older perl and man
R Here are new versions of libdb, libgdbm and libreadline. Please
R note that this version of libgdbm will break the current perl and
R man pages. Please wait for new version of these packages before
R upgrading.
Is this still true? I thought there might have been a later posting
that
there, but not mtools. Do you know of any tools that can clean up an
illegal FAT? (Ahh, for an fsck.msdos :-)
From archie:
ftp.imag.fr/pub1/linux/slackware/source/a/bin/dosfsck.1.tar.gz
Probably on ftp.cdrom.com too.
I haven't used it myself, so I don't know if it can handle this problem.
But the more fundamental problem is that these sources seem to be looking for
the new version of the C libraries:
ed: can't load library 'libc.so.5'
whereas the stock 0.93R6 distribution includes only libc.so.4.
Susan, could it be that you perhaps installed an ELF /bin/ed?
Can you check
Package: rman
Version: 2.5a4-2
rman generates HTML in which the internal references in the table of
contents are off by one:
[example: annotated man spell | rman -fHTML output]
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Here's a patch (relative to base-1.1.0-12) that extends MAKEDEV.
Note that the new entries that we want in base need to be uncommented in
debian.rules.
This patch also provides /dev/random and /dev/urandom (fixes Bug 3039).
Note that this patch does not provide non-i386 devices (some are
'J.H.M.Dassen wrote:'
Bruce wrote:
Also, we should think about source packaging again. We are welcome to take
anything we want from RPM source packaging, if that would help.
RPM has the advantage that it include _pristine_ source (identical
(cmp or md5sum-wise) to the upstream sources
Hi Susan,
you're keeping me quite busy today :-)
I just found the Debian search system on http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html.
This seems to me like a big step forward, and am sorry I didn't see it
before. Just yesterday I remarked to someone (for whom I had answered a
user-question by
[Dan, this is about the correct .so-name for libgdbm; your list has
liggdbm.so.1.7.3, whereas the libc5.2 docs, Slackware, Red Hat have
libgdbm.so.2.0]
if this is truly a bug, can you explain the two URLs I
mentioned in the message below? (Already sent to debian-bugs, hence
not CC'ed
Package: libgdbm1
Version: 1.7.3-11
Hi,
I believe that the shared library exported by this package
(libgdbm.so.1.7.3) is basically the same thing that other linux
distributions (slackware and redhat in particular) choose to ship as
libgdm.so.2.0.0 ... Perhaps Debian too should do
Package: fileutils
Version: 3.13-1
When running chgrp as root, no errors or warnings are given when the
group doesn't exist (e.g. when accidently using chown's user.group
syntax), but the group is changed to a nearly unpredictable value.
Script started on Sat Aug 10 15:36:27 1996
zensunni root
Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure
and $(ARCH)-debian-linux?
If so can it specified in the guidelines.
If not what should we use?
In the transition to ELF phase, our gcc package used i486-debian-linux,
which then caused some problems with
Package: manpages-de
Version: 0.1-1
I installed the German manpages.
Yes, but 0.1-1 installs the manpages in a wrong directory.
But what do I do to use them?
Install the newest version (0.1-5; available from
ftp.infodrom.north.de:/pub/people/joey/debian).
I tried export LANG=de but
The home page at
Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux
URL: http://www.debian.org/
has a link to
Linkname: Glimpse HTTP Search
URL: http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html
Submitting a search from the form there (or from any of the
sub-directory pages) with Lynx (Version
Package: www.debian.org
The home page at
Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux
URL: http://www.debian.org/
has a link to
Linkname: Mailing List Archives
Filename: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/
The latter pages seems not to have been updated since June 96.
Correct.
Package: vim
Version: 4.4-1
/usr/doc/vim/vim_tips.txt.gz explains how to make vim function with
compressed helpfiles (which are gzipped as per the guidelines)
in the section Compressing the help files.
However, this vim package doesn't use this tip:
When the .vimrc has no version 4 in it, vim
Package: base
Version 1.1.0-14
[Originally reported by Bernard Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
debian-user:]
the minor device numbers for the cyclades devices have changed;
see kernel sources drivers/char/README.cyclomY
Here's a patch for our MAKEDEV:
--- CUT ME ---
diff -r
I was trying to track down a bug in csh (5.26-2), and so compiled with
-DSYSMALLOC. Most of alloc.c is inside of an #ifndef SYSMALLOC
conditional, but gcc complained about a bunch of stuff in alloc.c
anyway:
Please check if there isn't a #define SYSMALLOC in all the included
header files:
On May 15, Paul Serice wrote
I have the latest dpkg-dev, but my dpkg-shlibdeps gives me an error
every time it's run -- even when it's run from good packages like
hello and tar.
The error is as follows:
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on 'Crafty':
/libm.so.5 =
On May 15, John Goerzen wrote
Brian Mays [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable COLORTERM so that
programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support
has been
Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this variable. In
On May 24, Christian Schwarz wrote
I just read the excellent article Consisten Keyboard Configuration by
John F. Bunch in the Linux Journal, issue #38.
One of the things I missed in that article was how to get the console and X
to use the same composite definitions.
On my system, I've made the
On May 26, Manoj Srivastava wrote
Would the doc directory be better for man pages? Why games?
Check out the manpages at http://www.bofh.net/man/:
lart - Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool - use a lart to adjust lusers'
attitudes
sysadmin - responsible for everything imaginable that
On May 28, Amos Shapira wrote
Is there a way to force dpkg to find all the installed packages and
re-install them? One of my Debian (bo) installations went through a
badly handled tar (i.e. many file attributes were lost).
Guessing from dpkg --help,
dpkg --selected-only --refuse-downgrade
On May 26, Brian C. White wrote
Hamm (Debian 2.0)
Some more ideas/goals:
* PAM-mify at least the essential authentication programs (passwd, su,...)
and preferably all programs that require authentication (POP clients,
webservers, ...).
URL:http://parc.power.net/morgan/Linux-PAM/.
From
Is it possible to rebuild a debian source package (that uses debmake),
through the build command, signing it with another PGP key than the one
belonging to the maintainer in debian/changelog without modifying the source
(i.e. by providing command-line options to build)?
Ray
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On Jun 6, Pawel Wiecek wrote
Is anyone (except me) working on packaging asmail?
Package: asmail
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 53
Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.50-1
Depends: libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), xlib6 (= 3.2-0), xpm4.7 (= 3.4g-0)
On Jun 8, Guy Maor wrote
David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What is the policy for uploads into unstable regarding libc6?
Must all new programs goint into unstable be linked with libc6?
Since Debian 2.0 is meant to be a libc6 system, the answer is yes. Of
course, if the libraries that
On Jun 11, Guy Maor wrote
I'm working on the xdaliclock package, and I will take it to libc6. I
have merely recompiled it, and all has worked fine, except perhaps some
warning (perhaps present with libc5: I have not installed alt-libc5 as
yet). This is suspect to me, because my X libs are
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