EurOpen.SE meeting

1996-09-12 Thread Håkan Carlsson
We (EurOpen.SE) would like to have some one from the Debian project to present the project and OS at our meeting in Oct 24-25. I've tried to reach some of you via [EMAIL PROTECTED], but without any luck. Please let me know who I should contact. Håkan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (@ work) [EMAIL

Bug#4472: apache out of date

1996-09-12 Thread Yves Arrouye
I know. My 1.1.1 package is ready and I will upload it this week, I think. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France

Re: dpkg and dependencies - manual update

1996-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Thanks, Guy, for clarifying that issue. I've added the following to the programmers' manual: When selecting which level of dependency to use you should consider how important the depended-on package is to the functionality of the one declaring the dependency. Some packages are composed of

Use of dpkg-divert - new policy

1996-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Prompted by the recent problem with ADA and /usr/bin/gcc, I've added the new rule below to the policy manual in dpkg 1.4.0. Ian. sectUse of prgn/dpkg-divert/ and prgn/update-alternatives/ p Do not use prgn/dpkg-divert/ on a file belonging to another package without consulting the maintainer of

diff_2.7-11 uploaded to master

1996-09-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 23:33:40 -0400 Source: diff Binary: diff Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.7-11 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: diff - File comparison utilities Changes:

Re: Bug#4475: Pine dies unexpectedly

1996-09-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Nikhil Nair wrote: Package: pine Version: 3.94-2 Pine, ever since I upgraded to this version, has crashed on me frequently. It seems to happen if I fail to hit a key for a while, as if it's some sort of timeout, but that's not the only time it does it. No coredump,

Bug#4476: Remove error-message activism :-)

1996-09-12 Thread Larry Gilbert
Package: xpdf Version: 0.5-0 More of a misfeature than a bug. There is an error message that pops up when xpdf tries to open an encrypted PDF file. It complains that Adobe has not released decryption specs to developers, and implores the user to e-mail Adobe to complain. The latest information

Bug#4477: Emacs doesn't use /etc/mailname

1996-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: emacs Version: 19.31-2 -chiark:~ grep mailname /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs.* -chiark:~ cat /etc/mailname chiark.greenend.org.uk -chiark:~ hostname -f chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk -chiark:~ But, after C-h C-v mail-host-address RET: -Emacs: *scratch* 12:40am 0.34 Mail (Lisp

Ian Jackson's availability over the next weeks/months

1996-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
It's coming up to my thesis deadline (well, my funding is starting to look thin), so I'll be spending somewhat less time on Debian over the next few weeks/months. I'm about to release dpkg 1.4.0, which will probably be the last one for several weeks. I'm going to be away for a week or so soon,

debian-manuals 2.1.1.0: minor changes

1996-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
This is the version in dpkg 1.4.0 (in dpkg-dev). debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable; * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway, and can't easily be made to work reliably). * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation. * Do not need

Re: Bug#4475: Pine dies unexpectedly

1996-09-12 Thread Nikhil Nair
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Nikhil Nair wrote: [...] I've been running pine with the `open' command to put it in a fresh VC; I Is there some compelling reason for doing it this way? Do you use any options with the open command? Do you use the open

Re: Shared libraries and version handling

1996-09-12 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: Is there a method of picking up this information [package version] from a central source in the package? You can just do what dpkg does - parse the changelog: /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian debian/changelog | \ sed -n '/Version: /s///p' If you

Who is doing the libc6 package?

1996-09-12 Thread Bruce Perens
Who is doing the libc6 package? It would be interesting to see how much of our stuff builds and runs off of this, and how much trouble it has with shadow password, etc. It also changes the format of some configuration files, I fear. I noticed a different format for the resolver configuration

Re: Shared libraries and version handling

1996-09-12 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
: I've been working on converting the gmp package to the new source format : and adding shared libraries to the package at the same time. Since version : tagging no longer takes place in debian/rules I have had to hard code the : so version numbers into both the rules and the Makefile. I have

Re: automated uploading to chiark.

1996-09-12 Thread Michael Meskes
Heiko Schlittermann writes: for you in Europe, using chiark as relay to master.debian.org ... since the procedure of uploading to Incoming and moving to ../queue is somewhat error prone, I've written a little perl script (using ftp.pl and lchat.pl from the mirror package) to do this for me.

Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package

1996-09-12 Thread Michael Meskes
Peter Tobias writes: Package: netdiag Version: 0.2-3 The postinst script copies the tcpdump binary from the tcpdump package and the traceroute binary from the netstd package to /usr/bin and makes them setuid root.adm. This allows all users in the existing adm group to use tcpdump to get

Re: dpkg and dependencies - manual update

1996-09-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: Thanks, Guy, for clarifying that issue. I've added the following to the programmers' manual: When selecting which level of dependency to use you should consider how important the depended-on package is to the functionality of the one declaring the

Uploaded dupload_1.2_i386 to chiark

1996-09-12 Thread heiko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 17:44:04 +0200 Source: dupload Binary: dupload Architecture: source all Version: 1.2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: dupload- Utility to upload

Bug#4479: pine tries to use /bin/passwd

1996-09-12 Thread Christoph Lameter
Package: pine Version: 3.94-3 When trying to do a (S)etup (N)ewpassword from the main menu of pine I get a message that /bin/passwd cannot be found. Debians passwd is in /usr/bin and not in /bin.

Changelog Format

1996-09-12 Thread Brian C. White
Could somebody please point me to the changelog file format? I'm trying to build the new 'dftp' package but it keeps dieing on the changelog file. Please respond by email since I _still_ have not been able to subscribe to this list.

Bug#4480: Upgrading dpkg-ftp is a little broken

1996-09-12 Thread Guy Maor
Package: dpkg-ftp Version: 1.4.3 After upgrading from 1.4.2, it wouldn't work without the user doing a setup again: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 11:32:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Maor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re:

Bug#4454: Distribution: unstable' but it goes into project/experimental

1996-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Guy Maor writes (Re: Bug#4454: `Distribution: unstable' but it goes into project/experimental): ... The override files instructed dinstall to put debiandoc-sgml into experimental, overriding what was in the .changes file. Ergh. This problem will recur whenever a package moves from one

Bug#4481: Kernel-related dd bug

1996-09-12 Thread Nikhil Nair
Package: fileutils Version: 3.12-4 Under a recent kernel, dd seems to produce spurious extra output *only* if stdout isn't redirected ... $ echo 'This is a test.' | dd of=/tmp/testing bs=10k conv=sync 0+1 records in 1+0 records out $ wc /tmp/testing 1 5 10240 /tmp/testing $ dd

Bug#4482: dpkg-genchanges `-u' option not implemented

1996-09-12 Thread Brian Mays
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.4.0 The `-u' option in the dpkg-genchanges script has not yet been implemented. From the man page: -uuploadfilesdir Look for the files to be uploaded in uploadfilesdir rather than .. (dpkg-genchanges needs to find

Bug#4454: Distribution: unstable' but it goes into project/experimental

1996-09-12 Thread Guy Maor
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: Guy Maor writes (Re: Bug#4454: `Distribution: unstable' but it goes into project/experimental): This problem will recur whenever a package moves from one section or distribution to another. dinstall cannot handle this case because it doesn't know

Re: automated uploading to chiark.

1996-09-12 Thread Guy Maor
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Michael Meskes wrote: Heiko Schlittermann writes: Features: * sending mail to debian-changes after debian-changes? Shouldn't this be debian-devel? No, see policy manual 6.4. Guy