Since noone has answered my question I've done what seemed the right
thing:
The next dpkg upload will be accompanied by the manuals in gzipped
PostScript (formatted for A4) and HTML in gzipped tarfiles, as
separate files in the upload.
Ian.
debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
* Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
* Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
* Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
compatibility go in contrib.
*
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hello - The classic greeting, and a good
Ian,
Would you consider splitting dpkg into runtime and developers packages?
It's getting big, and the space on the base system is limited.
Thanks
Bruce
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Bruce Perens writes (It's time for dpkg-dev):
Would you consider splitting dpkg into runtime and developers packages?
It's getting big, and the space on the base system is limited.
I've done a quick check of which files would go in which package, and
the results are (see below):
dpkg:
Andreas Jellinghaus writes (Bug#4365: no section and priority in
debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control):
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.12
dpkg-gencontrol creates no priority and section entries in
debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control, but theese fields are in debian/files.
is this ok or is this a bug ?
This is
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
I've asked this question before, but noone seemed to want to answer
me, so I'm asking again:
It would be good for the dpkg manuals to be on the Debian web pages.
How do I organise this ? I can (for example) ship a .tar.gz of the
HTML files with each
On 30 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
I just had someone with a problem with perl-tk and Debian 1.1.5.
Apparently we have perl 5.003 and perl-tk b11.02-2 together in some of
the directories. perl-tk b11.02-2 is not compatible with perl 5.003,
so we need to move a copy of perl-tk b11.02-3 into
Mark W. Eichin writes (Re: Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work):
[Ian:]
Why does movemail need to be setuid root ?!
Well, the package as I inherited had the following in debian.rules:
...
# movemail is installed setuid so that POP can work. (This is
# safe.)
...
I suspect this
Mark W. Eichin writes (Re: Bug#4356: menu-bar-mode flag argument is
inconsistent with universe):
That's because (interactive p) converts to a number. Not sure why
that's relevant, since menu-bar-mode uses (interactive P):
p -- Prefix arg converted to number. Does not do I/O.
P --
Package: mount, kernel
Version: 2.5j-1.1, 2.0.0 (upstream)
I did a df while I had NFS partitions mounted which were inaccessible
due to network lossage:
Sep 2 01:06:15 chiark kernel: NFS server nfs-uxsuale/%/%N.cat not responding,
timed out.
Sep 2 01:06:15 chiark kernel: nfs_statfs: statfs
Followup indicates that this will be fixed in NetKit-B 0.08, so we
should update to that ASAP.
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I think we have an offer for the main web site from someone who I think
has a T3, and we have a few offers for regional web sites. I'll firm them
up this week.
Bruce
Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Package: emacs
Version: 19.31-2
movemail complains about not being able to write a temp file in
/var/spool/mail.
One fix might be to make it setgid mail, iff the code is written to be
sufficiently paranoid.
As shipped, it *was*
This is really off-topic, but it's one of my pet peeves. Sorry.
Rob Browning:
5) Debian should use either the big or little endian format and always
use four digits for the year. That way we won't have trouble when the
millenium hits, and you can always tell by looking if it's big or
little
Package: hello
Version: 1.3-12
Section 3.2.4 of the programmer's manual says:
The file (debian/substvars) may be a static part of the source archive,
or generated and modified dynamically by debian/rules targets. In the
latter case it must be removed by the clean target.
hello's clean target
Rob Browning:
Why in the world wouldn't you want to require 4 digits for the date?
Because of all the usual bad reasons, and one good one: it
doesn't matter. The LSM dates are always past tense, and
making the new requirement is trivial, all of thirty seconds
of coding. Converting all old
Hello Ian,
you wrote:
In order that the system administrator may know where to place
additional files a package should create an empty directory in the
appropriate place in /usr/local by supplying it in the filesystem
archive for unpacking by dpkg. The /usr/local directory
Package: hello
Version: 1.3-12
1) Line 196-201 contain the following loop:
d = dirs;
do
{
sprintf (mailname, %s/%s, *d, user);
mailfd = open (mailname, O_RDONLY);
} while (mailfd == -1 (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENOTDIR));
On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, llucius wrote:
I finally bit the bullet and started work on the TeX packages to make
them build on multiple architectures.
Sorry for the long delay.
Well, since I don't much at all about
TeX, I'm not sure what's platform specific. I'm especially concerned
about
Package: vm
Version: 5.95beta-2
vm's postinst follows /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el and
modifies the file it ultimately points to in order to arrange for its
initialization code to be run at startup.
It should, instead, place the vm-init.el file in the directory
/etc/emacs/site-start.d.
Package: bootdisk
Version: boot1440.bin (1996_7_14)
The following happened twice on two different systems (a 486 and a P6)
while attempting to make a fresh installation of Debian 1.1.7:
When installing the kernel, I selected the module for nfs filesystem
support. I was then asked to insert again
Package: ftp.debian.org
Version: 1.1.7
Repeatedly, I faced problems with a new installation and with
upgrades coming from an out-of-date Packages file and/or of
an incomplete set of packages.
I have ignored missing packages when they were just recommended
but not available. Currently, however,
Package: dselect
Version: 1.2.12 (a.out) and 1.2.11elf
In upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 I had the following problem running
dselect: The installation of perl failed because libgdbm was not
installed,
although the latter was selected. Instead of proceeding with the
installation,
which would
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Since noone has answered my question I've done what seemed the right
thing:
The next dpkg upload will be accompanied by the manuals in gzipped
PostScript (formatted for A4) and HTML in gzipped tarfiles, as
separate files in the upload.
I didn't see
Package: wu-ftpd
Version: 2.4-23
Package: netstd
Version: 2.06-1
The man pages ftpd(8) and wu-ftpd(8) are both present on my system [Debian 1.1
kernel 2.0.0. #8] and they slightly differ from each other. However, both say,
that for anonymous ftp you need to have ls(1) in ~ftp/bin with mode 111.
run-time
programs and files needed to run applications
devel
programs and files needed to develop applications
That's a very reasonable suggestion. It makes a clear division in
devel, and moves about half of the packages out.
Guy
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Anton Rebhan wrote:
Repeatedly, I faced problems with a new installation and with
upgrades coming from an out-of-date Packages file and/or of
an incomplete set of packages.
I have ignored missing packages when they were just recommended
but not available. Currently,
Hi,
the example is missing -net before 224.0.0.0.
fixed in net-tools-1.33-alpha (upstream version, not yet released).
Greetings
Bernd
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: I don't know of a longterm solution short of
: duplicating the contrib and non-free trees into stable and unstable
: versions.
During the time when I was master of master, I was working on a proposal for
restructuring the hierarchy... and this is the same
Can we strip shared libraries? I don't know whether that's possible but I
just found out that 'nm /lib/libc.so.5.4.4' (yes, I know this is not the
Debian version) on my system gives:
/lib/libc.so.5.4.4: no symbols
However, almost all other shared libraries come with symbols, some even with
Ian Jackson writes:
Well, how hard is it to compile out ? It's not the most awful thing
that could happen to a program to have this unnecessary check, but I
do think it will add confusion.
It's not that difficult. I'll take care of it when I release a new version.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
Ian Jackson writes:
When a package is uploaded an announcement should be posted to
tt/debian-changes/. The announcement should give the (source)
package name and version number, and a very short summary of the
changes, in the prgn/Subject/ field, and should contain the
PGP-signed
Here's a rundown on my packages. Remember I habe to give away most of it
since I might not have the time for it in my new job.
Here are the one I found new maintainers for. Is there a list where we have
to enter the packages? Also some of these are listed as 'maintainer wants to
give away'. I
Hi Michael,
[...]
/lib/libc.so.5.4.4: no symbols
This is most certainly a bug!
[...]
since it saves an awful lot of disk space. If for some reasons the symbols
are needed could anyone tell me why my libc works?
Try debug a dynamically linked binary using gdb and you will see lots of
Package: tkps
Version: 1.2-0
The binary is installed into /usr/local/bin. However, no package should do
that. Since tkps doesn't run without X it should be installed into
/usr/X11R6/bin.
Michael
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Mark Eichin writes:
The problem is that the interface is *far* from intuitve. It needs at
least a sentence or two up top explaining what it's asking about (it
wasn't clear to me until after I'd seen a third viewer show up...)
Valid point. But then the bug should be filed against mime-support
RK == Richard Kettlewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RK Package: vm
RK Version: 5.95beta-2
RK ...
VM maintainer,
when fixing this bug, it would also be a good idea to upgrade to
5.96beta.
Kind regards, Emilio.
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