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I felt like linuxdoc-sgml was unsuitable for me because:
* It has serious problems with metacharacter handling/escaping.
* The DTD doesn't express what was supported by the backends, and
is generally full of leftover gunk.
* The
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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 23:05:41 +0100
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Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Oops, the first time I forgot to remove the call to install-info for
the guidelines from the postinst. This would be the one time I forget
to do a test-install ...
I've released a new 1.3.3 and replaced the old one in the upload
queue.
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hello - The classic greeting, and a good
Package: netstd
I originally posted this as a question to debian-users, but did no
receive any responses. My apologies if this problem is a result my
own ignorance -- if so, it should be documented in talk.1.
1. Both ytalk and talk work talking on the same machine.
2. Neither ytalk nor talk
indent-1.9.1-15 fixes this bug.
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Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab:
Experience is directly proportional to the
amount of equipment ruined.
Steve Greenland wrote:
indent-1.9.1-15 fixes this bug.
Repeat after me: 3532-*done* 3532-*done* 3532-*done*
Sorry about that
Steve Greenland
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I get all these stories mixed up, the headlines
come
Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:
Package: nvi
Version: 1.34-13
Linux console:
[End key doesn't work, Home works fine]
xterm:
[Neither works]
It could be a terminfo problem as well, I don't know.
I think it's terminfo. Nvi is looking at the terminfo
capabilities khome and kll for Home and
Brian C. White:
[ I sent this to Lars, but then thought perhaps the whole list might
be interested. Sorry for the duplicate mail, Lars! ]
In the same vein, I append my response.
What do you think of this idea?
Thanks for the offer, but alas, it's not workable -- the index needs to be
Package: fvwm2
Version: 2.0.42-BETA-0
Here's a patch:
--- fvwm2.1x.orig Sun Apr 21 08:25:04 1996
+++ fvwm2.1xSun Aug 11 17:48:42 1996
@@ -1295,7 +1295,7 @@
.IP WindowsDesk \fInew_desk\fP
-Moves the selected window the the desktop specified as \fInew_desk\fP.
+Moves the
Could it be put in paths.h as soon as possible now that it appears we'll
use it?
Yves.
Ian Jackson writes:
Also I propose to mandate in the policy manual that packages which use
/opt should provide appropriate links or files in
/opt/{bin,lib,man,include,info,doc} and that packages which search
paths must look in /opt too. Comments ? (And see the recent
FSSTND/FHS work on
Package: xpostitplus
Version: 2.2-1
When the new xpostitplus starts, none of the previous notes appear. What's
bad is that if one creates a new note and saves it, it silently replaces
a previous note :-(
It would be nice if the postint finded all existing .postitnotes directories
and updated
Package: pixmap
Version: 2.6pl1-2
To reproduce:
1. Start pixmap from xterm.
2. From the File menu, choose Load.
3. Type /usr/include/X11/pixmaps/3dpaint.xpm.
4. Click Okay.
5. Core dumped :(
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A. B = True B. A = False
Ian Jackson writes:
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.
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Yves Arrouye:
Then actually it makes it hard in these mailes to reply to just the
list.
It's easy to delete addresses, difficult to copy them.
Whether public or private replies are more common depends on the writer,
not the list. I make a fair number of private answers.
Checking your To and
Yves Arrouye:
It would be nice if the postint finded all existing .postitnotes directories
and updated their contents so that they are recognized by the new xpostitplus
This is dangerous. There might be uses that use the old version still,
possibly one installed outside dpkg's domain.
Only
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Urgency: medium
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Package: slrn
Version: 0.8.8.4-1
This version of slrn appears to depend on a version of slang-lib that's
not been packaged yet. slang-lib_0.99.23-1 is the newest version of slang
I can find as a .deb on ftp.debian.org.
Am I missing something?
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Date: 09 Aug 96 23:03 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: tcl75
Version: 7.5p1-1
Binary: tcl75 tcl75-dev
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
tcl75: The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.5 - Run-Time Package.
- TCL is a
Date: 11 Aug 96 04:58 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: snmp
Version: 3.1-1
Binary: snmp
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
snmp: CMU SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) Agent and Apps.
- The CMU SNMP agent allows
Patrick Weemeeuw writes:
Package: snmp
Version: 2.1.2l4-1
The hrProcessorLoad MIB variable is not computed correctly in snmp
2.1.2l4: the value returned is max(loadavg*100, 100). Under linux, we
can compute the correct value by regurarly polling the idle jiffies
counter available in
Could it be possible to ask for bug reports by email by number or package
name? This would be nice and serve two purposes:
- when someone says it's related to bug #xxx, look for that bug;
- when taking over a package, getting a list of the bugs reported
for that package.
In both cases,
Brian C. White 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 ?
If it is relavent to me specifically (eg. relates to one
Thanks.
YA.
Package: ghostview
Version: 1.5-6
Ghostview should read the bounding box of a document in any case,
regardless of wether it is an EPSF file or not. If no such box is
provided, then it can default to a given media.
It should also temporarily change the media when the bounding box of
a page is
I hope this will be a correct package now, and that I won't have any change
to do to it (well, there's always that bug...). Seriously, I tested it
with compress sources from three different packages without problems.
Yves.
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Please add me as a supporter of Lar's suggestion for xpostitplus (make the
xpostit program intelligent enough to read its old format...). Then we
can assume that if I started the better version I don't want to read
notes using the older one.
Yves.
On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Joey Hess wrote:
Package: slrn
Version: 0.8.8.4-1
This version of slrn appears to depend on a version of slang-lib that's
not been packaged yet. slang-lib_0.99.23-1 is the newest version of slang
I can find as a .deb on ftp.debian.org.
Am I missing something?
Yeah,
Package: xterm-color
Version: 3.1.2-4
Debian's slrn package comes with a debian.README that says:
If you want to run slrn in an xterm, slrn may say that your display
isn't powerfull enough. This is not true, it just dosn't know how
to handle xterm. You may set the TERMCAP variable with this
Package: mime-support
Version: 2.0-1
mime-rfc-1542.txt.gz and mime-install.HOWTO.gz are installed into
/usr/doc, rather than into /usr/doc/mime-support.
Susan Kleinmann
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