I've uploaded to chiark:
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Date: 07 Aug 96 22:20 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: dump
Version: 0.3-7
Binary: dump
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
dump: Ported 4.4BSD dump and restore
Package: cpio
Version: 2.4.2-6
/usr/sbin/rmt is a part of cpio, but there is no rmt.8 manual page.
There should be a BSD one that can be appropriated and modified if
necessary.
Package: lrzsz
Version: 0.12a-5
I've not heard from the author wrt my query below. I'm filing this
bug to make sure that this issue gets checked rather than forgotten.
Thank you for your attention.
Ian.
Mike Neuffer writes (Re: lrzsz ? Re: forwarded message from CERT Bulletin):
...
I'm not
Package: make
Version: 3.74-11
Given the Makefile below in an empty directory:
chiark:d make clean
rm -f t.* u.*
chiark:d make
echo bar t.bar
echo foo t.foo
echo wombat u.wombat
echo spong u.spong
rm t.bar
chiark:d
We see that the intermediate file used for the pattern rules (%.bar)
is
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.1
Scott Barker writes (Re: problems with 1.1 release):
...
ok. Although, I beg to differ about the *.conffiles:
ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/adduser.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/at.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base.conffiles
[etc]
Oops,
Simon Shapiro had a family disaster and is out of the office. Mike
Neuffer talked a non-technical i-connect employee through rebooting
master. Please upload your packages.
Thanks
Bruce
Package: perl
Version: 5.003-2
I get the following error messages every time perl starts up
on my debian-linux machines (perl and return with do it!)
This is the current perl-5.003 release. Any idea how I can
rid my system of this problem? (The perl scripts all run
fine, I am not that familiar
Package: shadow
Version: 960530-1
with dpkg 1.2.13elf:
./shadow_960530-1_i386.deb
prints:
dpkg-deb: 'shadow...' is not a debian format archive
Michael Gaertner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel/Fax +49-761-32684
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 (gcc) to use different
Package: lyx, ftp.debian.org
Version: 0.9.28-1
This package depends on a non-free package (xforms).
It should be in contrib, not in the distribution proper.
Ian.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
You (Michael Shields) wrote:
...
perfectly without deliver. sendmail should only recommend it.
And as a result you can install sendmail without deliver and your
mail installation won't work at all..
One could introduce another virtual package (e.g., local-mail),
Package: compress-package, ftp.debian.org
Version: 1.0.1-1
This package is only an installer for a non-free piece of software.
It should be in contrib, not in the distribution proper.
Ian.
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 21:45:27 -0400
From: Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package: xserver-s3
Version: 3.1.2-5
When in the 640x480 mode, the mouse cursor points incorrectly. The
point at which the cursor appears to point is not where the mouse
button selects when you push
Ian Jackson:
We then end up with two files per package, and it then makes even more
sense to move the copyright file.
$ ls /usr/doc | wc
101 101 703
$ ls /usr/doc/copyright | wc
243 2431804
$
On my system, /usr/doc would be almost two and a half times bigger, with
all
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r-24
Documentation for the fvwm modules appears to be missing from this
package.
[Insert obligatory renewal of the fvwm-package-relying-on-fvwm2-package
debate here.] :-)
I only noticed this because I tried to look up information on GoodStuff.
This module appears to
Frank Neumann wrote to Graham Williams on 08 Aug 1996 03:11:32 +1000:
Graham My vanilla installation of Debian 1.1 seems to have perl
Graham only in /usr/bin/perl.
Frank I noticed this too, after having built a base.tar.gz for
Frank Debian on m68k. The bug is not in
On 8 Aug 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote on 05.08.96 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
You (Dale Scheetz) wrote:
No! Not a typo. This is the only difference between what gets executed
when debian.rules calls for a make, and when I call for the same
Ian Jackson writes:
I do, however, think we should move the examples directory. I've
always thought the distinction between /usr/doc/package and
/usr/doc/examples/package was arbitrary. It usually leads to the
obtuse arrangement where the example is in one directory and its
There should be one zcat and it should always be gzip. This won't
break anything as gzip understands .Z files...
Making zcat point to compress even sometimes will definitely break
things; IME much of the Linux world has been assuming it's gzip for a
number of years. That seems
Package: netstd
version: 2.05-1
RSH does not work with baud rates above 115200.
[miriam]~:stty
speed 115200 baud; line = 0;
eol2 = M-^?; susp = undef; rprnt = undef; werase = undef;
lnext = undef; flush = undef;
-imaxbel
tab3
-iexten -echoctl -echoke
[miriam]~:rsh aaron
Segmentation fault
Works
Someone:
IMHO info is a great format.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen)
Actually, I have just about the same problems with info that you
have with lynx - it's ugly, it has a *really* arcane user interface.
*** Project Leader Fiat Power On ***
The unification of Debian documentation
I removed the Essential field and added Provides: editor as well as
incorporating the Architecture field correctly.
Date: 08 Aug 96 23:27 UT
Format: 1.5
Distribution: unstable
Priority: Low
Maintainer: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: ae
Version: 962-8
Binary: ae
Architecture: i386 source
One could introduce another virtual package (e.g., local-mail), have sendmail
depend on this. Both procmail and deliver could provide this package. Sounds
like a bit of an overkill for this problem, though.
Umm, no. There are many ways of configuring sendmail, and a number of
these (including
Subject: Bug#4078: lynx should be in `contrib'
Package: lyx, ftp.debian.org
I assume that the subject is wrong? (Actually, I know it is, but I'm not
sure if it matters for the bug system.)
--
Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/liw/
Please don't Cc: me when replying to my
What is the feeling on this ?
Since the new source format mandates the existence of the changelog
and specifies that it must be in one of a small number (currently 1)
of formats I'm inclined to say that we should mandate its inclusion -
gzipped.
We then end up with two files per
Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-4.1
It's in buzz-updates and
# ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xosview
ls: /usr/X11R6/bin/xosview: No such file or directory
After installing the package.
Yes, that's Ians wish. I already corrected Ians error (he uploaded
a known buggy xosview even without
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Larry Gilbert wrote:
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r-24
Documentation for the fvwm modules appears to be missing from this
package.
Yes, that's because although the manpages have changed a little
between the two versions of fvwm, they still have the same names.
This means
I'd like to know if there's a qmail Debian package, and how aliases
work in qmail: the Apache package used to add an alias to /etc/aliases
and then run sendmail -bi (or newaliases).
Does qmail support /etc/aliases, have a newaliases command and support
being called as sendmail with the -bi
Some time ago, 4th of June, Ian wrote a very clear message
about what the package priorities like Extra/Optional/Required, e.d.
should mean.
I think Ian did a real good job with this message, finally
makeing clear something to me that I've always felt unsure about.
However, in this message,
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, joost witteveen wrote:
$ grep -i Priority: Extra Packages|wc -l
179
$ grep -i Priority: Optional Packages|wc -l
230
$ pwd
/home/ftp/pub/Linux/Debian/unstable/binary-i386
Most of the extra packages are misfiled. They were entered into the
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Date: 09 Aug 96 13:41 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: mfbasfnt
Version: 1.0-5
Binary: mfbasfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfbasfnt: TeX's default fonts and a few others.
Hi,
is wg15-locale architecture dependend package???
it is uploaded with i386 in it.
Erick
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Date: 09 Aug 96 14:02 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: mfdcfnt
Version: 1.0-1
Binary: mfdcfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfdcfnt: TeX's dc and tc fonts.
Changes:
Fri Aug
Bruce Perens:
The unification of Debian documentation will be carried out via HTML.
I assume the unification won't mean that the native formats aren't
supported -- they _do_ have benefits.
That said, I fully agree with choosing HTML. Debiandoc, supports on-line
conversions to HTML from man
Package: xcontrib
Version: 2.1.2-1
marin146# xgc
That test doesn't exist yet.
That test doesn't exist yet.
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) xgc
What I did was:
- select Function orReverse
- select LineStyle DoubleDash
- select (Image Text 16), click Run [gives
I've just added the subsection below to the draft policy manual.
Bruce, tell me if you want me to say something different.
I'd like to come up with some rather more formal way of distributing
our different documentation formats. Perhaps we should create a new
subdirectory of the FTP site for
Richard Kaszeta:
Please, don't 'depend' on things unless they are *really* needed.
OTOH, if not depending on it will let inexperienced people get easily
in trouble, then by all means do depend on something that isn't strictly
needed. Hackers can use --force.
E = Nu * Tu + Nh * Th
where
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
Hi,
is wg15-locale architecture dependend package???
it is uploaded with i386 in it.
I really should be arch independent, but I haven't had a chance to open a
critter complaint yet. Maybe this will suffice? B-)
Thanks for noticing...
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Date: 09 Aug 96 14:46 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: metamail
Version: 2.7-4
Binary: metamail
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
metamail: An implementation of MIME.
Changes:
Package: news
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Description: System news tool. (System V)
In addition the fact that this description is inadequate (which will
have been reported automatically a few weeks ago), IMO the package
name is very misleading - it will make people think the
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