On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:
I think our consensus is that the non-free tree is for programs not freed by
teh copyright, while binary-only packages belong into contrib. Thus contrib
is the correct location.
Pine is in non-free because it's copyright places restrictions on the
I've finally got around to doing these. I'm not entirely sure that
libelf belongs in devel, but since nobody has responded to my queries
on this matter... shrug. Bug me if I'm wrong.
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Package: ghostview
Version: 1.5-8
Ghostview should install itself into the /etc/mailcap entry so mime
compatible programs can use it to view postscript documents.
I suggest making ghostview Recommends: mime-support and adding the
following to the install scripts:
debian.postinst
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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
This is a different matter. Encouraging people to discuss things that
might or might not be bugs is fine.
Discouraging people from reporting things that definitely are bugs is
not fine.
I agree completely, but I will still contend that the
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.8
In unpacking the sgmlspm dsc file on a fairly fresh system, I found:
# dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
dpkg-source: failure: exec cpio: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: failure: cpio gave error exit status 2
# type -a cpio
type: cpio: not found
Installing
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.8
In unpacking the sgmlspm dsc file on a fairly fresh system, I found:
# dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting sgmlspm in sgmlspm-1.03ii
dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit
Package: netstd
Version: 2.06-1
Hi...
In the README file for ppp in /usr/doc/pppd it says:
2. Make sure pppd is where dip thinks it is: /usr/lib/ppp/pppd, or
make a link from there to where pppd really is. (Or re-compile dip
to tell it where pppd is on your system - see pathnames.h).
Package: ghostview
Version: 1.5-8
Ghostview should install itself into the /etc/mailcap entry so mime
compatible programs can use it to view postscript documents.
I suggest making ghostview Recommends: mime-support and adding the
following to the install scripts:
debian.postinst
Ian Jackson:
I'm not certain that distributing HTML with the packages and other formats
separately is a good idea. I think it might be a better idea to continue
as now and use on-line conversions from man and Info to HTML. Pre-converted
HTML should be distributed as separate packages.
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.5-5
/sbin/clock seg. faults. The following illustrates this problem:
Dillweed# dpkg -i util-linux_2.5-5.deb
(Reading database ... 15590 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace util-linux (using
I agree with Brian that micro-bugs should probably be reported to the
maintainer, just because it takes more work to contact the reporter and
close the bug than to fix it. However, in this case the reporter has to
keep his _own_ bug tracking system, if he wants to make sure that the
maintainer
Package: gs
Version: 4.01-2
When called from xdvi, gs works as expected, but prints the
following (debugging?) messages:
gs: Error: /undefinedfilename in --file--
gs: Operand stack:
gs:(./Fontmap) (r)
gs: Execution stack:
gs:%interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval--
No, that isn't what should be done, or at least not the only thing.
I'm on my way to produce a second posctscript-viewer (front-end to gs)
called gv, that is in some ways much better than ghostview, though there
are too many differences in the user interface to drop ghostview instead.
Yes, it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
All packages in the Debian distribution proper must be freely useable,
modifiable and redistributable in both source and binary form. It must
be possible for anyone to distribute and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
All packages in the Debian distribution proper must be freely useable,
modifiable and redistributable in both source and binary form. It must
be possible for anyone to distribute and
Michael Meskes writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
...
Ahem, this isn't exact enough IMO. With a standard Debian system I am able
to rebuild LyX.
You can't rebuild LyX entirely from source using only packages in the
main Debian distribution.
[...]
Michael Meskes writes (Re: Bug#4051: access permissions for /usr/bin/fdmount):
Ian Jackson writes:
...
Compiling names of groups or even worse group ids into binaries is a
bad idea.
Why? Because it's not easy to change?
It's hard to change and obscure. Policy is best implemented where
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
[...] xforms is improperly
located in contrib instead of non-free where it belongs (because source is
not distributed). [...]
Sourceless packages are fine to distribute in contrib, so long as the
binaries
Peter Tobias asks me in private email:
...
BTW: I didn't have much time the last weeks (and I won't have much
time the next weeks) so I wasn't able to check if this new source
format will also work for packages like netstd (packages which contain
lots of sub packages each with its own original
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Bug#4235: cpp, gcc, dpkg ):
^ was this intentional ?
...
Somehow installation with dpkg-ftp and the new cpp uninstalled my gcc
package and look how dpkg selects on a dselect update. This shouldn't
happen. Somehow gcc is too easily uninstalled because
Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-1
I ran xosview with this command:
xosview -geometry 48x48+388+0
and indeed from xlsclients -l:
Window 0x282:
Machine: sfere
Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Icon Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Command: xosview -geometry 48x48+388+0
Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
So, except where the ratio of
triviality-of-bug / responsiveness-of-maintainer
is near 0, or (better) where the reporter realizes the maintainer
has his own motivations for fixing the bug right away, I agree with Ian that
the right thing to do is to log the
Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-1
I ran xosview with this command:
xosview -geometry 48x48+388+0
xosview does not confirm to most X standards.
It really isn't a very nice programme.
The upstream maintainer says he will some time start using the
standard Xt interface, but he
Dale Scheetz writes:
Pine is in non-free because it's copyright places restrictions on the
distribution of source. Xforms has more severe restrictions on the
distribution of source than pine does. It is my understanding that this
That's why there is no source available. :-)
source
Package: gs
Version: 4.01-2
The eps file attached is not displayed properly by gs 4.01.
gs 2.62 displays it correctly.
Carlos
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Ian Jackson wrote:
BTW: I didn't have much time the last weeks (and I won't have much
time the next weeks) so I wasn't able to check if this new source
format will also work for packages like netstd (packages which contain
lots of sub packages each with its own original source. Do you
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