Could you please check that this is still true in the latest release?
Thanks,
Dominik
The missing maps will be incorporated in the next release. Thanks for
providing the necessary information.
Dominik
Ian Jackson writes:
David Engel writes (Re: Bug#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict
with it):
Ian Jackson writes:
...
Hmm. Why is it necessary for gcc to know which version of cpp is
available, or for it to have exactly the right one ?
Would you want the front-end driver
Package: ghostview
Version: 1.5-8
This is a change request: I would very much like ghostview to put the
filename (or document title) in the X window title. This will make it
much easier to pick the right ghostview window out of a list.
In fact, I wanted this so much I went and implemented it
Michael Meskes writes (Re: dpkg-changelog-mode (dpkg-changelog.el)):
Do we have an official look the changelog has to have? If so how should it
look?
I won't be able to test your emacs style since I don't use emacs.
Yes, we do. An example (from dpkg) is below. This is documented both
by
I should think that you've all heard about this by now - if not go and
look at comp.os.linux.announce.
I'm just posting here on what's really an irrelevant topic to say that
I think it's a very good thing that someone is challenging Microsoft.
I mailed Lyle Ball at Caldera to tell him so, and he
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: Alphas and libc dependencies):
You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
...
2a. Give the package containing our version of glibc version 0 the
name libc5. 2b. Implement version numbers for virtual packages so
that we can use one here.
I think 2b should be done; [...]
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')
Mark Eichin writes (Re: fileutils can now replace perforate...):
[Ian Jackson:]
But --sparse=auto is impossible to implement correctly on many
systems, and filesystem-dependent on others !
Depends on what you mean by sparse... the trick is that you can use
stat() to determine if the file
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: Alphas and libc dependencies):
...
In addition to my last message, here is an alternative I've just though
of. Why don't we just provide dummy (eg empty) libc5, libdb1 etc
packages, and let libc6 depend on them. Then libc5 etc _will_ be
installed..
I think
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: Emacs per-package startup files):
Umm, /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/ is already there, and already the right
place for this sort of thing. Next question?
Err, I don't think so. Files in /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp aren't
loaded automatically (and shouldn't be).
As for
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Bug#3984: NIS writes error message to STDERR):
...
This is a bug in the library; the library routines print this (they
shouldn't ofcourse). Heeemmm can anybody tell me how to redirect
a bug report to another package, libc5 in particular?
Yes. [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
...
On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
others as well).
Sorry I'm coming into this so late (just over a week, in fact), but I
Lars Wirzenius writes (Re: Name clash in prospective package ):
...
For instance, there's no guarantee that /usr/local/lib exists, or that
the admin wants it to exist, or that it won't cause any trouble if it
does exist. I can't think of anything that would break, but admins
are allowed to do
Daniel Quinlan writes (Bug#3991: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface):
[ complaints about dselect's user interface ]
I am merging this with Bug#1037.
Offers of assistance are welcome.
Ian.
(Note: this message is crossposted between two mailing lists -
you should probably follow up on only one.)
What used to be the FSSTND group has changed composition somewhat, and
now includes a number of people from the BSD world. It set itself the
goal of producing a joint filesystem layout
Hello,
I'd like to ask to be in charge of a Debian package for Amaya, which
will go public in the next weeks.
Amaya is a WWW WYSIWYG editor/browser supporting structured edition
and cascading style sheets among other features. It is realized by
the W3C as was Arena.
I'd like to maintain this
Ian,
I am aware of your efforts with linuxdoc.sgml, and I think it's important
to make it clear that HTML is only the end-product. It's fine to encourage
people to use linuxdoc as a source language.
Thanks
Bruce
You (Yves Arrouye) wrote:
GDB 4.15.1 (i486-linux), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
0¨´
@/core: not in executable format: File format not recognized
So there's a problem there. Do you have an idea about who is faulty? Gdb?
As I understand it, the way you call gdb is
Craig Sanders writes (epoch?? how to make squid-1.0.5 squid-1.0beta16):
...
Was epoch implemented? How do I use it?
Yes. See the draft programmers' manual.
Ian.
Yves Arrouye writes (Replaces: and virtual packages?):
I thought having a package with
Provides: compress
Replaces: compress
would be like
Provides: compress
Conflicts: compress
except that the conflict will not appear and I hoped that when the package
was
Yves Arrouye writes (Is it okay to download orig source once only?):
...
I propose that we upload once
somepackage_release.tar.gz
which unpacks to
somepackage-release.orig/
and then further uploads would be
somepackage_release-deb.diff.gz
Package: modules
Version: 2.0.0-6
The script /etc/init.d/kerneld uses grep - which might not be available. The
problem is that if you put `auto' into /etc/conf.modules, kerneld is started
before any extra mounts are done. So if you have /usr on a separate partition,
/usr/bin/grep (which is
Package: netstd
Version: 2.05-1
The ftp command, at least in a xterm, does not let one stop mget:
ftp mget x*
mget xarclock_1.0-1.deb?
Continue with mget? mget xautolock_pl10-2.deb?
Continue with mget? mget xaw3d_1.2a-5.deb?
Continue with mget? mget xbase_3.1.2-9.deb?
Continue with mget?
Bernd Eckenfels writes (gcc and binutils):
ist it possile that on a fresh new install gcc is installed before binutils
is installed, and therefore fail to configure? If I run configure afterwards
everything is fine. Will dpkg install a package first if it sees that other
ones depend on it?
Raul Miller writes (Re: Draft manuals):
Some thought about qmail should occur [in the section on
mail processing].
qmail doesn't use a mail spool directory for security reasons, mail
boxes are in the user's home directory by default. And, of course,
there's the maildir format for people
Erick Branderhorst writes (Re: /usr/doc/copyright/package -
/usr/doc/package/copyright ?):
...
But a /usr/doc/copyright dir should remain. The only contents allowed in
there would be generic copyright messages like GPL LGPL BSD and so on.
Putting these generic files in
David Engel writes (Re: Bug#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict with
it):
...
Because they're designed to work together. That's why the FSF
includes cpp with gcc instead of packaging it separately.
This doesn't much sense to me, at least not without more detail.
Why do gcc and cpp
This is the Perl5 module that I've been using to support my dpkg
manual processing backends. Because it's in the new source format
and refers to an as-yet-nonexistent virtual package I'm sending it
into experimental.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Format: 1.5
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 01:47:30
Yes, it is. I am using the latest debian stable distribution.
Simply cd to /n (which is mapped to the following amd.host contents:
/defaults opts:=grpid,intr,nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192
* host==${key};type:=link;fs:=/ || type:=host;rhost:=${key}
)
and type 'ls' there. It
Ian Jackson writes:
Yves Arrouye writes (Qmail, smail and sendmail):
Does qmail support /etc/aliases, have a newaliases command and support
being called as sendmail with the -bi option?
The same questions may be asked for smail.
Well, perhaps we should just say that you can
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
You (Yves Arrouye) wrote:
GDB 4.15.1 (i486-linux), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
0¨´
@/core: not in executable format: File format not recognized
So there's a problem there. Do you have an idea about who is faulty? Gdb?
Mark Eichin writes (Re: Emacs per-package startup files):
...
[it would make it easier to fix the
/etc/passwd problem that mhpower mentioned], but in those cases we
can't really change the database because of existing use, whereas
with emacs we are free to do that.)
Right, that was my line
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: CC's on this mailing list):
...
I've noticed on some other lists that everything that is posted on the
list has From: set to the original sender, Reply-To: to the list address
and Cc: deleted.
This is actually very nice. Would it be hard (or just a bad
There are a couple of circumstances when a new version of a package
needs to be released by someone other than the usual maintainer:
* Architecture-specific patches which need to be integrated.
* Maintainer is away or can't do it for some other reason.
* Urgent security and other fixes.
I
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
This is my first draft of a quick document saying how to convert an
old to a new source package.
DO NOT DO ANYTHING YET except read this and suggest amendments.
Ian.
* Download the original source code from wherever it can be found and
do any rearrangement required to make it look like the
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: New package standards - LAST CALL):
...
I also think that when you make the new source package official, we
should warn all maintainers of the base packages and ask them to convert
their packages to the new standard. If they don't react in say 2 weeks,
Lars Wirzenius writes (Re: Name clash in prospective package ):
Ian Jackson:
The point of not putting things in /usr/local isn't, as I see it, so
Well, I'm not in full agreement, but it's not important enough.
Fair enough.
I propose the following resolution:
I can live with the what you
Yves Arrouye writes (Re: Qmail, smail and sendmail):
...
That's what I do. I even run sendmail -bi if newaliases is not found.
But I wanted to be sure that all mail packages do provide the same
user way of defining aliases, even if they manage them differently after
that.
I'll specify in the
Yves Arrouye writes (CC's on this mailing list):
Ian Jackson writes:
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 would be
Yves Arrouye writes (Re: Pb: gdb cannot read core from 2.0.8 (is it a gdb or
kernel problem)?):
...
But the message is really misleading... It would ne nice if Gdb checked
wether the prog arg was a core first, and in this case tell that's the
case and remind usage. (Not that I ask that it does
Yves Arrouye writes (Bug#4093: start-stop-daemon fails to kill process):
Maybe should it kill the process whose pid is in the pidfile, even if
it does not think the executable is running?
Here is an example of the problem:
marin66# /etc/init.d/apache stop
no /usr/sbin/apache found; none
Rob Browning writes:
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. There's something
that is part of freeWais, but I haven't looked at it yet. Someone with
the time
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
After removing smail, cron keeps trying and failing to execute
/usr/lib/smail/checkerr
every day out of /etc/cron.daily/smail that does not exist anymore.
Proposed fix: check for existence of /etc/cron.daily/smail before running.
- --
Alexander Goldstein
[ 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.
Package: abuse
Version: 1.10-4
abuse is still a.out
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ file /usr/games/lib/abuse-1.10/abuse.x11R6
/usr/games/lib/abuse-1.10/abuse.x11R6: setgid Linux/i386 demand-paged
executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
Regards,
Andreas
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