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Format: 1.5
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1996 12:01:22 +0400
Source: mime-support
Binary: mime-support
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.03-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
mime-support - MIME files
I am still unable to FTP to master.debian.org
callandor:~/tmp ftp master.debian.org
Connected to master.debian.org.
220 primer FTP server (Version wu-2.4(7) Thu Aug 1 02:34:14 MET DST 1996)
ready.
Name (master.debian.org:bcwhite):
530 User bcwhite access denied...
Login failed.
Downloads of .exe (DOS *sigh*) files doesn't work correctly
without it.
What does it do otherwise?
Brian
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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.
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Date: 27 Aug 96 22:26 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: signify
Version: 1.00-1
Binary: signify
Architecture: all source
Description:
signify: Autamatic semi-random signature generator
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I know that at one point the dselect/dpkg combination had fairly serious
problems if the same package name existed with multiple versions. I learned
this the hard way when I installed from a mirror that had not run to
completion and thus had not deleted the older packages.
Dpkg installed _both_
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-34
Running crontab -l has a bad habit of displaying header information
that is not actually part of the crontab.
For example:
$ crontab -l -u gnats
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (- installed on Mon Jul 29 14:07:28 1996)
# (Cron version
Steve Greenland wrote:
Would you mind stripping these first three lines from the crontab -l
output?
Yes, because I think there is useful information there (primarily
the second line, with the file name (usually) and date).
Could you write them to STDERR and the rest of the info to STDOUT?
Package: majordomo
Version: 1.93-3
The request-answer does not properly quote the @ character (as required
by perl-5) it its outgoing mail.
The offending lines are:
print MAIL EOM;
To: $reply_to
From: $list-request
Subject: Your mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In-Reply-To: $in_reply_to
Eek! I made a goof in a package I'm putting together and dpkg let me get
away with it.
The problem was that I saved a man page as /usr/man/man1 instead of
the correct name /usr/man/man1/manpage.1. Dpkg noticed the conflict,
but went ahead and toasted the 'man1' directory anyway.
It seems dpkg
From what I understand, the directory should not be gone - just renamed.
Any idea what to? I can't find it. It's not a big deal as I had a
backup I could restore from.
Brian
Does anybody have or know where I can find the msql 1.0.14 packages?
The newer ones don't seem to work (for me at least) at all.
Please respond by email or copy me on any reply as I have not been able
to resubscribe to the debian-devel list lately. sigh
Package: msql
Version: 1.0.16-2
When I try to run any of the msql programs, it fails to connect to remote
databases. Connecting to these from a 1.0.14 client works fine.
$ relshow -h gate
Connect: Connection refused
Error connecting to database : Can't connect to MSQL server on gate
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
~~~
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
Date: 24 Aug 96 18:05 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: dftp
Version: 2.0-1
Binary: dftp
Architecture: all source
Description:
dftp: Linux Debian Distribution Packages Maintainer
- The purpose of this program is to make
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Date: 23 Aug 96 20:02 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: netscape
Version: 3.0-1
Binary: netscape
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
netscape: Popular World-Wide-Web browser software
Package: msqld
Version: 1.0.16-2
After upgrading from v1.0.14...
The /var/log/msql directory is:
drwxr-x--- 2 operator msql 1024 Aug 23 15:11 /var/log/msql/
It should be owned by root.msql and have the permissions 775.
The /etc/msql.acl file is:
-rwx-- 1 operator msql
Package: tar
Version: 1.11.11-1
It seems the newest version of 'tar' sets (during extract) the uid/gid and
the mtime of the file a symlink points to instead of the symlink itself.
Here is a source directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 bcwhite verisim 5731 Jul 21 16:02 database-gdbm.cc
-rw-r--r-- 1
Ferret extended description field has four empty lines in it.
The correct form is to have a single space followed by
a single full stop character
Oops! Okay, it'll be fixed in the next release (soon, hopefully).
By the way, for such tiny things, it's usually considered better
to just notify
I'm starting to package the newest version of 'gnats' (currently in late
beta). Could I get this resolved soon?
The entry for the gnats userid is currently set to...
gnats:*:21:100:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh
It should be...
gnats:*:16:65534:Gnats Bug-Reporting System
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Date: 15 Aug 96 17:23 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: mime-support
Version: 2.02-1
Binary: mime-support
Architecture: all source
Description:
mime-support: MIME files 'mime.types'
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.13elf
I'm trying to package genpower (a UPS monitoring daemon), but am having
trouble with the postinst:
#! /bin/sh -e
#
# postinst file for genpower
echo - Installing 'start' ...
update-rc.d genpowerd start 11 1 2 3 4 5
echo - Installing 'stop' ...
The terms of the suit require MS to give _Caldera_ details of APIs. Not
the general public, just Caldera. MS can still keep them under non-disclosure,
and Caldera would have to honor the terms of an NDA approved by the court.
I noticed this too. It could just be necessary to make the lawsuit
I've been thinking about what you said regarding search engines for
debiandoc. As I understand it, this is to be a debian package, is it
not?
At least Debian. I won't get upset if someone ports it to Red Hat, Slackware,
*BSD*, or a Cray... :-)
Cray Linux. I've heard somebody is
Package: base
Version: 1.1
The file '/etc/rc.local' exists, but is not set up properly.
- It has permissions 644 instead of 744
- It is called only by '/etc/init.d/compat' but this file does not
appear
to be linked into any of the rc directories. (compat also runs
the
file '/sbin/setup.sh')
Hmm. As for dpkg needing install-elisp, I'm not quite sure I buy that,
because it would seem to argue that *any* install-* should be included
in dpkg. Then again, there is only install-info which *is* in dpkg,
and install-mime which is in mime-support which has it's own
justification. There
I'm considering adding a paragraph to the policy manual telling people
not to CC each other when replying to messages on debian-devel.
Is it the consensus of the list that this would be a good idea ?
It's a difficult call. Quite often I get copies of mail simply because
I posted the msg
[ I sent this to Lars, but then thought perhaps the whole list might
be interested. Sorry for the duplicate mail, Lars! ]
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think we have free software packaged to do full text searches.
We have glimpse and ferret, neither of which is free.
Brian If you put the if clause around the calls to install-mime, then
Brian you don't have to actually depend on 'mime-support'.
That is correct. But would I want this? Now that we have mime-support,
shouldn't I depend on it? It really is a useful feature. I find it reasonable
to
As the priority of mime-support is standard and therefore higher than the
one of xpdf (extra), I'll add a Depends: mime-support. If anybody has a
problem with that, mail me soon, or file a bug report later ...
If you put the if clause around the calls to install-mime, then you don't
have to
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Date: 07 Aug 96 00:45 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: netscape
Version: 3.0-beta6-1
Binary: netscape
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
netscape: Popular World-Wide-Web browser software
Is this actually a bug? I don't think you are supposed to call a
destructor directly in this situation. I would assume that the crash
comes when the destructor is called a second time when the program
exits main.
It is legal to explicitly call a destructor but rarely needed. It
The xpdf postinst needs to add itself to the mailcap file so it can
be spawned by web browsers.
I'd suggest the following in the postinst:
if [ -x /usr/sbin/install-mime ]
then
install-mime --install --package=xpdf --content=application/pdf \
--view=/usr/bin/X11/xpdf %s
I'd like to suggest that scripts, debian.rules etc... use gunzip -c instead
of zcat when the intent is to get the contents of a gzipped file on stdout.
This is because if binaries from a BSD compress package (not necessarily
built with compress-package) will make a true zcat available on the
[ I goofed on the first message. Use this one instead. :-]
The xpdf postinst needs to add itself to the mailcap file so it can
be spawned by web browsers.
I suggest the following in the postinst:
if [ -x /usr/sbin/install-mime ]
then
install-mime --install --package=xpdf
[Side Note: I wonder if I should use Ada, Agol, Assembler, C, CSH,]
[Cobol, Eifel, Fortran, KSH, Lisp, Perl, Pascal, Python, SH, or]
[Smalltalk to do it? :-) :-O :-Q :-)]
Prolog, definitely!
Brian
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Dan Stromberg wrote:
For this reason we decided that Perl would be on our base disks, and
that packages could use it (well, the subset that's on the base disks)
in their preinst/postrm. Packages which want something else must
Depend on it and may only use it in their postinst/prerm.
I'm sure C and Assembler fit cryptic too. Just think how much further
advanced the computer industry would be if neither of those had ever been
invented.
And how much further would the industry be, if C had been typesafe (or
if some other, typesafe language had been used)? The
I'm sure C and Assembler fit cryptic too. Just think how much further
advanced the computer industry would be if neither of those had ever been
invented.
As to assembler, there are lots of _very_ different styles of writing it;
there is no one Assembler language. It's quite impossible
Erick Branderhorst writes (use of /usr/share):
Perhaps this is a very sensitive subject but shouldn't architecture
independent things like man pages, info manuals, tex latex styles
and a lot of other things being put under a subdir of /usr/share?
The FSSTND people haven't really settled
Is debian-private running, or have I just been removed from it?
I sent a message to it a couple days ago regarding the WebPages
directory now in the distribution, but never saw it, nor any other
messages to debian-private, appear.
Brian
I've just discovered, when installing xntp-doc-3.5c-1, that netscape
doesn't declare itself as providing a www-browser, causeing xntp-doc
to be left unconfigured.
Thank you! I've made the fix in the source and it will be uploaded shortly.
Brian
Since we're going to be
moving every file in unstable anyway, that sounds like a good time to
switch from unstable to a symbolic-linked directory (tentatively called
rex).
I recommend putting rex under a subdirectory called releases or something,
just to reduce clutter and confusion in the
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