Re: debian lists sent to anon.petet.fi ??

1996-06-30 Thread Bill Mitchell
Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And I got this back from the anon.petet.fi gateway. The interesting thing is that my collegue got *exactly* the same mail from the anon.petet.fi gateway and he sent a bug report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only, no Cc:'s. Ditto with a bug report I sent

Departure -- hopefully temporary

1996-06-30 Thread Bill Mitchell
I'm afraid that I must drop off the debian project for now. I'm still on track to drop off the net around mid July, due to relocation to the Philippines, and I need to spend a larger portion of my time getting ready for the move. I'm not sure where in the Philippines I'll end up, or whether a

Unarj 2.41a-4 uploaded

1996-06-30 Thread Karl Ferguson
Date: 30 Jun 96 15:46 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: unarj Version: 2.41a-4 Binary: unarj Architecture: i386 source Description: unarj: Unarj unarchive utility. Changes: unarj: Fixed indented long description bug. Files:

Re: Departure -- hopefully temporary

1996-06-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
If no one else wants it, I think I have room on my plate for ae. Is the bug still outstanding? On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Bill Mitchell wrote: I'm afraid that I must drop off the debian project for now. I'm still on track to drop off the net around mid July, due to relocation to the Philippines,

Re: Departure -- hopefully temporary

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Bill Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I'll take this one. jgraph-83 ORPHAN Good luck Bill. Hope your move goes well. -- Rob

Re: Departure -- hopefully temporary

1996-06-30 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: If no one else wants it, I think I have room on my plate for ae. Is the bug still outstanding? You're the first one to speak up, so I guess it's yours. I've cleared the multi-arch compatability bug in ae, and made similar changes to clear the same

Re: unsubscribe mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com

1996-06-30 Thread Bill Mitchell
Agh!! Sorry.

my last three packages

1996-06-30 Thread Bill Mitchell
I've unsubscribed, so this may not get through. If it does make it, it'll let the group know that my remaining three packages have been picked up by: jgraph-83 gone to Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] ae-962 gone to Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] beav-140gone to

unsubscribe

1996-06-30 Thread malcor
unsubscrip [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks

zircon-1.17p1-1

1996-06-30 Thread James A. Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 30 Jun 96 17:56 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: zircon Version: 1.17p1-1 Binary: zircon Architecture: i386 source Description: zircon: An X11 interface to Internet Relay Chat.

auctex-9.3c-3

1996-06-30 Thread James A. Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 23 Jun 96 22:50 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: auctex Version: 9.3c-3 Binary: auctex Architecture: i386 source Description: auctex: An integrated environment for writing TeX/LaTeX

Re: Bug#3368: cron's checksecurity still scans NFS servers

1996-06-30 Thread Steve Greenland
Austin Donnelly wrote: Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-32 Recently, the checksecurity script bundled with cron was changed to not scan NFS servers. However, the regexp used to parse the output of mount is not quite right, and still fails to exculde the NFS servers. [correction snipped]

Re: Bug#3368: cron's checksecurity still scans NFS servers

1996-06-30 Thread Steve Greenland
Dominik Kubla wrote: [checksecurity still descends down NFS links] And while we are at it: The same goes for AFS, ALEX and AMD filesystems, so please make the script ignore the AFS filetype and the following directories: /a /afs /alex /amd /n /net These directories have

Re: Bug#3370: httpdconfig installs Welcome.html even if index.html exists

1996-06-30 Thread Steve Greenland
Sven Rudolph wrote: Package: cern-httpd Version: 3.0-6 On upgrade httpdconfig is run. If there is no Welcome.html it creates one. However our legacy WWW data uses index.html as directory entry point. CERN httpd first looks for Welcome.html, then for index.html, so our WWW server

/etc/default? (was: Re: Bug#3368: cron's checksecurity still scans NFS servers)

1996-06-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ NB: I read the list. Don't CC replies to me. I pay for my PPP. Thanks ] Steve Greenland: Maybe some sort of config file is needed here? '/etc/checksecurity.conf'? This might be an appropriate time to start thinking again about /etc/default (under whatever name). If I remember correctly,

Re: New source packaging format - requirements and proposal

1996-06-30 Thread Steve Greenland
Juergen Menden wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: The Debian Source Format could be composed of: 1. A control file. This would most likely be a diff file sufficient to reconstruct the Debianized source tree from the original pristine source tree. 2. A tar.gz file

Bug system enhancements

1996-06-30 Thread Steve Greenland
I think two additional functions to the bug handling system would be nice: send the outstanding bugs for a package send the outstanding bugs for a maintainer (If that functionality is already there, then it needs to be mentioned in the help response.) SteveG -- The Mole - I think, therefore I

Unidentified subject!

1996-06-30 Thread Doug
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Bug#3437: fvwm should not recommend fvwm2

1996-06-30 Thread Chris Fearnley
Christian Hudon wrote: Package: fvwm Version: 1.24r-24 Fvwm shouldn't recommend (nor even suggest, IMO) another version of itself (i.e. fvwm2). Hmm, I'm not so sure. In principle you are correct, but the fvwm2 package has all the pixmaps needed by fvwm-1.24 and fvwm won't run without

netpbmdevel-1994.03.01p1-1

1996-06-30 Thread James A. Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 30 Jun 96 22:33 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: netpbmdevel Version: 1994.03.01p1-1 Binary: netpbmdevel Architecture: i386 Description: netpbmdevel: Netpbm development libraries

Re: /etc/default? (was: Re: Bug#3368: cron's checksecurity still scans NFS servers)

1996-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Lars Wirzenius) wrote: Steve Greenland: Maybe some sort of config file is needed here? '/etc/checksecurity.conf'? This might be an appropriate time to start thinking again about /etc/default (under whatever name). If I remember correctly, someone told us that one of the commercial

Re: Release management

1996-06-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Scott Barker wrote: Ian Jackson said: We *must* provide a tree which contains only the most rcently bug-fixed versions of everything, and we *must not* require people to download broken packages only to have to download good ones too. ok. This is important, and I

Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
I've been reading the discussion ... Firstly, I'm glad to have disposed of the `byte-for-byte original source archive' idea (and that some of the people I thought were advocating this were merely advocating that we should be able to extract the original source files somehow from our source

buzz-fixed - it is essential; how do we make it ?

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
I'm absolutely convinced that we need a `buzz-fixed' directory, to which Debian-1.1.patchlevel and stable are made to point. I propose that we organise this as follows: * Packages that need to go into buzz-fixed have in the dchanges file `Distribution: unstable buzz-fixed' or perhaps just

Bug#3449: netpbm provides no way to make non-RAWBITS file

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: netpbm Version: 1994.03.01p1-1 I tried to find a way to make the netpbm tools supplied in the package produce a file that was in the ASCII-only format described in pnm(5), rather than the binary format, but this didn't appear to be possible. I think it should be, perhaps as a new program

Re: kernel-source and kernel-headers packages

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Brian Mays writes (Re: kernel-source and kernel-headers packages): Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't these be retired ? ... Why not just ship the (debianised, obviously) source to the kernels we ship as .tar.gz and .diff.gz, just like any other binary package ? Here is one

Bug#3450: netpbm should replace/conflict with pbmplus ?

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: netpbm Version: 1994.03.01p1-1 I got a huge number of file conflicts between pbmplus (10dec91-2) and netpbm, all for the manpages. Either the manpages should have the suffix .1netpbm instead of .1 (though as the binaries are in /usr/bin this is probably unnecessary) or netpbm should

Re: buzz-fixed - it is essential; how do we make it ?

1996-06-30 Thread Lars Wirzenius
[ NB: I read the list. Don't CC replies to me. I pay for my PPP. Thanks ] Ian Jackson: I'm absolutely convinced that we need a `buzz-fixed' directory, to which Debian-1.1.patchlevel and stable are made to point. I'm happy if we can get one soon. I'm not sure I understood what you meant.

Re: xterm_color with no colors

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Mark Eichin writes (Re: xterm_color with no colors): Why does the colour xterm package not set TERM correctly by default ? because I didn't know that xterm-color *existed* as a terminfo entry. The entry is *not* part of the xterm-color package; I have no idea where it comes from. I'll put

Re: Bug#3422: termcap entry too long error

1996-06-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: Bug#3422: termcap entry too long error): [...] However, it seems to me that if dpkg made some kind of running log entry of it's activities, or could time-stamp it's installations, debugging of these two problems could provide adequate answers to who did what to whom.

Re: Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: are no differences that diff can't handle (deleted files, retargeted links, c). I don't know if retargeted links covers the following situation, but don't forget about dangling symbolic links. The GIMP upstream source contains links to a binaries

Re: kernel-source and kernel-headers packages

1996-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Ian == Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian The /usr/src/linux symlink is no longer necessary for anything Ian very much, and in any case it seems to me that having the Ian most-recently-unpacked thing alway set this link to itself is Ian bad. Umm, I could not think of another

Re: Source packaging - alternatives

1996-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Sometimes a diff file alone is not enough to change the original sources to the debianized sources, permissions on debian.rules is one that has been noted. I remember interim unofficial version of perl being distributed as shell scripts that performed a few actions

Re: netpbmdevel-1994.03.01p1-1

1996-06-30 Thread Amos Shapira
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: | |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | |Date: 30 Jun 96 22:33 UT |Format: 1.5 |Distribution: unstable |Priority: Low |Maintainer: Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Source: netpbmdevel Wouldn't it be more conformant to call this package netpbm-dev? I think it

Re: debian.rules.in and autoconf

1996-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I do not want to get into a my-conf-system-is-better-than-yours flamewar, but .. Mark == Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Actually, one of these days I *might* just port the perl build Mark process to use autoconf. Perl metaconfig/Configure asks a lot of Mark questions to

Automatic mount of cdroms

1996-06-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Good night folks, normally cdrom drives are marked with `noauto' in the /etc/fstab file to provide a smooth booting process. Does Debian provide a tool that regularily tries to mount the cdrom drive? If not, I would be happy to contribute with one and its manpage. I'm not sure to which package

Uploading sysklogd 0.0-0 ()

1996-06-30 Thread Martin Schulze
-- Begin Changes -- -- End Changes -- PS: As usual first in ftp.infodrom.north.de in /pub/people/joey/debian/ -- / Martin Schulze * Debian Linux Maintainer * [EMAIL PROTECTED] / / http://www.debian.org/ http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you