Susan> Package: mirror
Susan> Version: 2.8-6
Susan>
Susan> The control file for mirror should be changed to show that it
Susan> requires the installation of the full Perl package, not just the
Susan> small package included in the base system (what's missing is a
Susan> timezone.pl
Package: m4
Version: 1.4-4
The last lines of the extended description read as follows:
An experimental feature, which would improve `m4' usefulness, allows
for changing the syntax for what is a "word" in `m4'. You should use:
./configure --enable-changeword
.
if you want this feature compi
Richard> Package: manpages
Richard> Version: 1.11-4
...
Richard> No manual entry for acct in section 5
I wrote a realy minimial acct(5) for the acct package which basically refers
back to acct(2), see below.
As acct.h is in the kernel source, and hence in libc5-dev, this acct.5 (or
an impr
Yves> I remember that a long time ago it was said that it was okay to gzip
Yves> manual pages because the manual reader did handle them nicely?
Lars> Our man seems to handle them OK. Since there can be tens of
Lars> megabytes of manual pages (I have 18 MB), I think compressing them
Lar
Bruce Perens writes:
Bruce> Let's plan on having "shadow" be part of the base for 1.2 . We
Bruce> should thus have the default "login" be aware of it, etc.
Let's not forget about xdm, please.
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Ahem, I am sorry. I also get the
[...]
Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfDelete
Warning: ... found while parsing 'osfDelete: delete-previous-character()'
errors which I must have missed before when I started xmaple out of my
.fvwmrc.
So you're right, one need
Thomas> But they're loaded by irisVxm, the graphical front end:
Which I don't use ..., I use the xmaple shell script (see below).
Thomas> (Dirk, it might be a good idea to check wether you have something
Thomas> like this in your environment; another suspect is the XKEYSYMDB
Thomas> env
Michael> I'd like to name the modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz,
Michael> the binary modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb and the directory in which the
Michael> source is stored IMO should be modules_2.0.0.
As the saying goes: You can't have the pie and eat it.
There are conflicting goals: e
Ian> 2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we
Ian> should mandate compressed manpages.
In this case the guidelines are of. Bruce waved his hand a while ago and
allowed parallel existence of compressed and uncompressed manpages.
Some maintainers, yours truly included,
[...]
Thomas> Same thing here (same version, I suspect), only it doesn't work.
[...]
Thomas> Hmm... I just found that particular string in libX11.so.3.1.0 and
Thomas> in libXt.so.3.1.0, under /usr/X11R5/lib. Strace verivies that they
Thomas> are indeed used, so that's probably where that
Thomas> PACKAGE: motifnls
Thomas> VERSION: 2.1-1
Thomas>
Thomas> A commercial application (Maple VR3) does not run correctly under
Thomas> X11R6 even with motifnls installed. It complains abut unknown
Thomas> keysyms osf* (for example osfCopy), even though these are defined
Thom
Yves Arrouye writes:
Yves> Hello, I'd like to suggest that scripts, debian.rules etc... use
Yves> gunzip -c instead of zcat when the intent is to get the contents of a
Yves> gzipped file on stdout.
No way.
Yves> This is because if binaries from a BSD compress package (not
Yves> ne
Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. I'll do that today.
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 ...
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel
Dirk> As the priority of mime-support is "standard" and therefore higher
Dirk> than the one of xpdf ("extra"), I'll add a "Depends:
Dirk> mime-support". If anybody has a problem with that, mail me soon, or
Dirk> file a bug report later ...
Brian> If you put the "if" clause around the c
Dirk> 2. There is another problem with extracting the filter from the set
Dirk> of filters in /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/filters/filters.tar.gz as
Dirk> the extracted file is not registered with dpkg --- upon removal of
Dirk> the package a useless file will remain on the machine. a if
Package: magicfilter
Version: 1.2-5
There is one serious problem which prevented magicfilter from working here,
and some small glitches.
1. The executable is installed as /usr/sbin/magicfilter, but the (rather
well done) /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig extracts a filter, in my case
/usr/sb
Erick> * added latin1.sty: Michael Meskens requested
See the documentation in /usr/doc/latex/ltnews0[23].tex.gz, this is no longer
needed since about last June.
I used to use latin1, but now prefer
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % Umlaute
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel
Erick> Package: emacs
Erick> Version: 19.31-2
Erick>
Erick> I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error
Erick> occurs.
Erick>
Erick> Loading hilit19... Error in init file: error: "X windows are not in
Erick> use or not initialized"
That is your fault, not em
Right, I know that lapack-linux website too. Note gcc-2.7.0 and g77-0.5.17
were used, more recent ones are available. g77 got better with 0.5.18, but
also slower (according to some very casual measurements I did on one piece of
code). Also, Jacob Schiotz doesn't say anything about compiler version
Thanks for forwarding this note by Jim Meyerding. I like his ignoring of
/etc/DIR_COLORS, I always found that filename rather ugly and kept my own
file /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc for these colour settings.
IMHO, two things remain:
- the fileutils maintainer should patch dircolors so tha
I think it is a bug that the 2.0 sources are only in buzz/binary-i386/devel,
and not in buzz/binary-all/devel. Moreover, they are neither in unstable or
in rex.
Here's the output from a find on master:
$ find . -name kernel-source\*deb
./unstable/binary-alpha/devel/kernel-source-1.99.7-0.deb
./
Package: ddd-smotif
Version: 1.4d-2
I had ddd installed, and a simple dpkg -i ddd-smotif-1.4d-2.deb failed with
the "Conflicts: ddd" + "Provides: ddd". I think that adding a "Replaces:
ddd" would do the job.
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
b c writes:
Brian> (4) The /var/spool/fax is of the "dialout" group. Should this be
Brian> the "fax" group instead? Also, how about setting the permission of
Brian> this directory and those under it to "drwxr-s---" so only people in
Brian> that group can send/view faxes. The 's' would
b c writes:
Brian> Package: efax
Brian> Version: 07a
Brian> Revision: 4
Brian>
Brian> 1) The security hole still exists because the "&C0" command is still
Brian> present when going into "answer" mode on systems that will accept
Brian> incoming data connections. The string "&C1" sh
Bill Mitchell writes:
Bill> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Ian> * dpkg and other packages written especially for Debian don't have a
Ian> revision number because a revision number would be meaningless and
Ian> confusing.
[...]
Bill> I'm not religious on this issue, but I'd pre
[This goes to debian-devel only.]
Raul Miller writes:
Raul> It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and
Raul> that it did originally have some executables in it.
Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl
Berry's kpathsea in the package
Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
Marek> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dirk> I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new
Dirk> acct code (last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold
Dirk> your breath.
Marek> How about using last from util-linux? It has the stand
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
Miquel> There is a last with the GNU copyright in sysvinit. It isn't
Miquel> compiled and installed by default, but it is small and fast.
That sounds good to me. As your sysvinit package is part of every Debian
installation, we could use this 'last' binary an
The problem is due to your Intel Etherexpress. That card is _evil_. They are
to slow for fast LANs and get out of sync. I tried to use one (given as a
loan) for some months last year, There were zillions of similar bug reports
on comp.os.linux.networking.
While I agree that this answer is unsatis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Date: 29 Dec 95 17:18 UT
Source: mirror
Binary: mirror
Version: 2.8-1
Description:
mirror: Mirror script for keeping ftp archives up-to-date.
Priority: Low
Changes:
* mirror-2.8-1 release
* mirror.pl: applied patch by Michael Alan Dorman to fi
I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new acct code
(last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold your breath.
--
Dirk Eddelb|ttelhttp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
hangeLog:
Sun Dec 17 16:34:41 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* efax-07a-4 release
* debian.rules: include missing debian.preinst (bug#2041) and
really create the directories in /var/spool/fax
* debian.postinst: quoted strings (bug#2041)
Sa
Ian Jackson writes:
Ian> Right. In order to avoid having to rename lots of packages or change
Ian> their version numbers I propose the following naming scheme for files
Ian> on the FTP site in the `binary' directory:
Ian>
Ian> --[-].deb
Ian>
Ian> Note the two hyphens.
Could
I am indebted to Robert Leslie and Karl Ferguson for spotting two stupid
errrors in yesterday's release of efax-07a-3. Thanks, guys.
So here's a new one and it'll hopefully last longer than 24 hours ...
Date: 17 Dec 95 22:39 UT
Source: efax
Binary: efax
Version: 07a-4
Description:
efax: Progr
Karl Ferguson writes:
Karl> /var/lib/dpkg/info/efax.postinst: [: too many arguments -
Weird. I tested this a bit yesterday while I implemented it, and of course
tested the installation on my box before I shipped efax --- in short, it
doesn't do this on my computer.
Can you trigger the er
This release fixes the bugs from #2033.
If you are using efax-07a, please install this and let me know what you think
about, esp. the interaction between preinst and postinst. This is required to
save changes that a user could have made to /usr/bin/fax from efax-07a-{0,1}
before the sourcing of
Robert Leslie writes:
Robert> Package: efax
Robert> Version: 07a-2
Robert>
Robert> 1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should
Robert> probably now say /etc/efax.rc instead.
Thanks, I will modify that for the next release.
Robert> 2. /usr/bin/fax should prob
Michael Alan Dorman writes:
Michael> Although they could mirror if they had a special userid/password
Michael> (as I believe has been set up)---they would just have to do it in
Michael> multiple parts...
As the maintainer of the mirror package, I am happy to confirm that you do
not need
Bdale Garbee writes:
Bdale> This solves the problem, since Pending wouldn't allow uploads, and
Bdale> only things that look like packages with changes files for which all
Bdale> the pieces look intact would be copied. Scripting this doesn't seem
Bdale> hard, either... wake up once in a
Bruce Perens writes:
Bruce> Yes, a code name would be a good idea. Let's hold off on that until
Bruce> Ian Murdock can do it - I've stuck my neck out enough today.
We could also "hide" in private/project.
--
Dirk Eddelb|ttelhttp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Robert Leslie writes:
Robert> I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu
Robert> doesn't even carry the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers
Robert> debian-1.0.
It's getting jucier by the minute:
This domain has a local wuarchive mirror. Wuarchive mirrors tsx-11, alo
Package: gnuplot
Version: 3.5
Revision: 3
gnuplot's term.h has the define for FIG commented out. So no 'fig' or 'bfig'
terminals for the portable fig graphics language can be generated. That's a
pity as Debian has the xfig and transfig packages to use fig graphics. It
compiles fine with FIG defin
IanJ> What I'm thinking of doing is providing a generic mechanism for
IanJ> package X to say "install /foo/bar as /spong/wibble instead".
The public discussion is completely removed from my initial question about
where to put backup software. Private mail was in support of /bin and /sbin.
I
IanJ> We're building a distribution, so it makes sense to trade off
IanJ> computation at build time against computation at run time.
I agree. I had asked for opinions with respect to the increase in size.
Several people reminded me that this is presumably due to inlining functions
or to looku
Package: ncurses-runtime
Version: 1.9.7a
Installation of ncurses-runtime gave me a new 'reset' in /usr/bin by hard
linking it to /usr/bin/tset from the same package.
Unfortunately, this overwrote the /usr/bin/reset script I had from the
base/tput package. I can't remember whether I asked dpkg to
Juhana K Kouhia writes:
Juhana> /usr/bin/gcc -c -g -O -I. -I.. -I.././tools -I.././libtiff
Juhana> .././tools/gif2tiff.c
Juhana> /usr/bin/gcc -o gif2tiff -g -O -I. -I.. -I.././tools -I.././libtiff
Juhana> gif2tiff.o ../libtiff/libtiff.a -lm
Juhana> ld: Output file requires shared libra
Bill Mitchell writes:
Bill> Yesterday, I said I'd counted 1300+ and info and man files which
Bill> referred to /usr/local. It later struck me that this number is
Bill> totally unreasonable. I think I reversed the sense of the test.
Bill>
Bill> I've redone the test on what I current
kenny writes:
kenny> a2gs - Is this superceded by genscript?
kenny> a2ps - Pretty much a dead
I think we should throw these two out.
In July, I filed bug#1112 against a2gs. This bug is still open. As Kenny
could provide no solution (IMHO it's an upstream problem), I tried some other,
s
Package: trn
Version: 3.6
Revision: 2
The postinst lacks a $:
*** trn.postinst.oldMon Nov 20 16:28:04 1995
--- trn.postinstMon Nov 20 16:28:22 1995
***
*** 18,21
read server
! echo server >news/server
--- 18,21
read server
! echo $server >news/server
But
You did not fix the other bug. Nils, for example has two entries :
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 bugs):
gpm 1669 shutdown hangs on gpm -k until mouse is moved
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (19 bugs):
bibtex, kp 1429 several TeX packages Provide themselves
dvipsk
Ian Jackson writes:
Ian> Below is a listing generated by a new version of the bug summaries
Ian> script.
Ian>
Ian> What do people think of it ?
I like it and prefer it over the old format. Two small glitches:
- Nils Rennebarth has two entries (the very first and a bigger one
furth
Package: ncftp
Version: 2.1.0-1
J H M Dassen writes:
Ray> ncftp-2.1.0 cannot cd into ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project. It
Ray> can get to private, but gives "Permission denied" when entering
Ray> project.
Not a bug IMHO. Try it again, going slowly directory by directory, ie
Package: git
Version: 4.3.7
Revision: 4
Setting:
X11, rxvt, $TERM=linux, ~/.gitrc.linux a copy of /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.xterm
Problem:
The color selection from /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.common works well on the
console, but not so in a rxvt---object files appear blue on blue and are
invisible
Ian Jackson writes, answering a question of mine:
Ian> No. I suppose I'm suggesting that the browser packages use a shared
Ian> file like /etc/default-www-home or something, in much the same way as
Ian> other packages use /etc/mailname, /etc/news/server and /etc/papersize.
Exactly. Seve
Ian Jackson writes:
Ian> Why can't we just stick with `doc' containing both sets of
Ian> documentation ? Is there any point in splitting the package up ?
Having two packages permits the user to select the one she wants. There might
be people who can live without the HOWTOs or the Debian d
Thanks for the comments on doc, guys. I think I will package the old 'doc' as
`doclinux' and create a new `docdebian' with Debian specific documentation,
especially as Ian M. promised the manual for today :-)
(As an aside: doclinux and docdebian or rather doc-linux and doc-debian ?)
Erick pointe
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r
Revision: 8
fvwm puts files fvwmrc. on /tmp that are not deleted after fvwm ends.
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I just looked around a bit on my box via "dpkg -l" and saw that I had
archie, xarchieR6
dvips, dvipsk
fvwm, fvwmR6
ghostview, ghostviewR6
xdvi, xdvik
xpm, xpmR6
installed. That is really quite some avoidable clutter.
Not that I am in favour of crep
Package: dosemu
Version: 0.60.3-0
Michael E Deisher writes, replying to a private mail of mine
Michael> I hope you don't mind me entering your comments (and my additional
Michael> comments) as another debian bug report.
Maybe we should have kept it private for an iteration or two to keep t
Michael E Deisher writes:
Michael> On Wed, 1 Nov 95 12:30 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael> said:
Michael> Strange. It installs fine on my system. Anyway, I'll upload a
Michael> new, fixed package soon.
I bet you still have an X11 release from the pre-virtual-package-name area.
Here I
PACKAGE: dosemu
VERSION: 0.60.3
PACKAGE_REVISION: 0
MAINTAINER: Mike Deisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
miles:/debian/private/project/Incoming [root] # dpkg -i dosemu-0.60.3-0.deb
Selecting previously deselected package dosemu.
(Reading database ... 16206 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpa
CD Rasmussen writes:
CD> In the case of the acct package missing a man page, I don't think it is
CD> important that you write one or if the author is dead set against them
CD> (which has not been shown to me), but it is important that we keep the
CD> information that reminds the author t
Erick Branderhorst writes:
Erick> Hyperlatex doesn't recommend ghostscript but gs from 1.3-5 (and
Erick> higher) I'm closing this bug. -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erick> +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care)
Erick> University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Erick,
You al
Susan G Kleinmann writes:
Susan> There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
Susan> accouting files.
Thanks. These inconsistencies arise mainly from "Linuxisation" and
"Debianization" of the acct package. I will correct these inconsistencies in
the texinfo source for the
Susan G Kleinmann writes:
Susan> The man page and the info page for 'acct' refer the reader to
Susan> acct(5) for additional information. No such page exists.
True, but that is a bug in the upstream version that I as the maintainer
can't do anything about but writing the man page myself. A
CD Rasmussen writes:
Costa> Elisp folk don't tend to separate the source from the executable the
Costa> way people do with C programs. I'm sorry to hear this was done with
Costa> VM.
I don't want to take them away from anyone, not even from Emacs specialists.
I simply want to have the op
move the old ones or 1.71 should
retain /etc as their position. Does the FSSTND prefer one location over
the other.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
Dirk> I changed 'accton.c' so that it calls 'exit(errno)'. It appears that
Dirk> the errno is set to '2' in both cases, ie when acct(2) reports
Dirk> 'device or resource busy' (ie accounting is already running) o
Ian Jackson writes:
>> Please see acct(2). There is not a lot we can do about it as the acct()
>> functions returns either 0 or -1. You get -1 for missing accounting
>> support in the kernel, but also when accounting is already turned
>> on. All I could do is to change the wording of th
This is a long, and somewhat belated, response. Please read through it and
give me your comments.
Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
Marek> I noticed the following problems with the acct-alpha-5-7 package:
Marek>
Marek> - lastcomm and the kernel seem to disagree about sizeof(struct acct)
Marek
Package: texinfo
Version: 3.6
Revision: 3
/usr/info/dir contains the line (both with 3.6-2 and 3.6-3)
* Texi: (texi).The GNU Project's documentation format.
whereas the info files are called /usr/info/texinfo*.
Substituting [Tt]exi to [Tt]exinfo by hand in the /usr/info/dir file per
Package: gs
Version: 2.6.1pl4
Revision: 5
The gs manual page mentions two options
-dXO=[units]
Specify the origin from the left side of the page.
<..>
-dXO=[units]
Specify the origin from the top of the page. Legal
<..>
Ignoring the man page bug that on
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