Hi Jeroen,
On 12 March 2005 at 18:09, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome
front-end.
|
| without, I assume.
Yup. Thanks for spotting that from context.
| &
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the quick reply.
On 12 March 2005 at 17:04, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-12 10:45]:
| > So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to
| > signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a deb
The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome front-end.
So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to
signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message). However, in
my tests, the NEWS file never got displayed by apt-listchanges.
I pl
Adam Heath debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> > files.downloaded percent
> > i386 1285422 70.5079
> > all 504789 27.6886
> > powerpc17754 0.9738
> > ia64
Don Armstrong debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I
> > demonstrated the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five
> > other arches.
>
> You used package downloa
Matthew Palmer debian.org> writes:
[ a lot of stuff but omitting one critical argument of mine ]
Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I demonstrated
the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five other arches.
I rest my case. These arches have little benefit, but as
Matthew Palmer debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:15:58AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > undisputed: essentially all users are on i386 clearly dominating all other
> > arches, with a fraction of users in maybe two, three, four other arches ---
> > and
Brian Nelson debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > > But a total of eleven is insane.
> >
> > It is sometimes hard to get them all to w
Clint Byrum spamaps.org> writes:
> Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below, and
> others, aren't indicative that debian should drop s390, mipsel, and
> maybe hppa from the list of architectures? How about we release for
> i386, sparc, and powerpc, and let the others release
On 1 February 2005 at 14:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]:
| > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if
| > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports
| > over the next
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:05:46AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Dirk Eddelbuettel
>
> | - time (dead upstream)
>
> [...]
>
> | Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if you have
> | any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O b
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > * Miscellaneous
> > - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward)
> I like afio for my compressed backups and use it very often.
> I'd like
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Hi Dirk!
>
> You wrote:
>
> > * the gsl set:
> > - gsl
> > - gsl-ref-html
> > - gsl-ref-psdoc
> >
> > The two doc packages are currently a week behind packaging the new
> > upstream
> > gsl. Well maintained upstream,
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:40:28PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> I will take bc if no one else wants it.
You'd need to talk to Lars, he came in a few minutes earlier. I'm sure
between the two of you you can work it out.
Dirk
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> la, 2005-01-15 kello 11:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel kirjoitti:
> > * bc (with binary packages bc and dc)
> >
> > Pretty stale upstream, has 5 open bugs most of which are feature requests
> > t
Given my available time and all the things competing for it (work, family,
other hacking endeavours [quantian, a few small code projects, ...],
running, ...), I have too many packages to continue to do a reasonable or
better job at keeping the packages in shape.
So from the 80+ packages I have, a
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:34:55PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> Although the problem is well known and the solution is obvious, nobody seems
> to have the guts to make a change (or even to speak about it).
Let's have a discussion about reducing our number of architectures.
Attempting to su
Josselin Mouette debian.org> writes:
> One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to
> reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for
> dependency. Was this email even read? Do these addresses have an utility
> in the real world?
The source package fser
Jose Luis Tallon adv-solutions.net> writes:
>
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> * Package name: kwin-baghira
> Version : 0.5h
> Upstream Author : Thomas LÃbking users.sourceforge.net>
> * URL : http://baghira.sourceforge.net/
> * License : GPL
> D
I've been asked (#203804) to supply an entry in the Debian manual page of my
GNU time package (which, btw, is orphaned upstream, any takers ?).
The main() function ends on
if (WIFSTOPPED (res.waitstatus))
exit (WSTOPSIG (res.waitstatus));
else if (WIFSIGNALED (res.waitstatus))
exit
ackage: r-noncran-design
Version: 1.1.6-1
Section: math
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libg2c0 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), libgcc1 (>=
1:3.3-0pre9), r-base-core (>= 1.7.1), r-noncran-hmisc
Installed-Size: 3244
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTEC
ds: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libg2c0 (>= 1:3.3-0pre9), libgcc1 (>=
1:3.3-0pre9), r-base-core (>= 1.7.1)
Installed-Size: 4304
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: hmisc
Description: GNU R miscalleneous functions by Frank Harrell
The Hmisc library contains man
qOn Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> > [ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject.
> > Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ]
> >
an/
and a Quantian overview page, including a recent paper, is at
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
Plans for future versions are not set in stone but may entail support for
OpenMosix clustering. Comments, questions, feedback are more than welcome!
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EM
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:06:52PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:13:08 -0500
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Description:
> > wajig - Simplified Debian package management front end
> > Changes:
> >
Brian> Nag also sends emails regarding old bugs on your packages. I never
Brian> subscribed to that. :p
All I'm saying: Everybody is free to procmail away whatever they don't like.
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Brian> I don't NEED a reminder about my bugs. There should be an option to
Brian> TURN THE BLOODY THING OFF.
Dirk> Subscribe with your @debian.org address so that you procmail it out
Dirk> on master.
Joel> Wtf do you mean subscribe? None of us signed up for the fucking
Joel> thing!
Brian> I don't NEED a reminder about my bugs. There should be an option to
Brian> TURN THE BLOODY THING OFF.
Subscribe with your @debian.org address so that you procmail it out on master.
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Richard> But if the package's maintainer thinks it should be removed, and
Richard> no-one else volunteers to maintain it, then I don't think anyone
Richard> should be able to say "No, let it sit there and rot instead".
Agreed. We have too many packages that are "just there" and not being
at
Hi Thomas,
Thomas> I am still using an "acct_6.3.2-2_i386.deb" package that I
Thomas> compiled on a 2.1.96 kernel. It works fine with the 2.2 kernel
Thomas> series for me.
Thanks, that is another good data point.
Which version of glibc are you running / did you compile against? Glibc 2
Robert> [sorry for not getting to this message sooner]
No sweat.
Dirk> GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would
Dirk> fix it, but it doesn't.
Robert> Not true:
[..]
Well, that is good news. I _thought_ I had it working as well. Maybe I just
messed up o
GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would fix it,
but it doesn't. The upstream author, with whom I generally had very good
(albeit sporadic) contact is MIA. AFAICT the other dists don't distribute
acct.
The package needs a kernel hacker type who can debug and hopeful
Adam> It wouldn't hurt but I don't think it's necessary. glibc2.1 can
Adam> drop-in replace 2.0 (unless you have a program that depends on
Adam> certain internal stuff which it shouldn't be using anyway).
Octave doesn't depend on internal stuff, but still fails when a glibc2.0
compiled ver
john> I'd still like to use penguins.
Indeed, that was the best proposal yet.
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a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match.
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I intent to release an 'octave-sp' package. This will contain the
'semidef-oct' port by A.S.Hodel of the 'semidef' package by Lieven
Vandenberghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Stephen Boyd
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It provides functions for semidefinite programming
which can be used to solve nonlinear convex
Dirk> I have a machine which is 'almost pure frozen' Debian, and I have a
Dirk> corrupted wtmp file. Anybody else seeing that as well ?
Turned out that, at least on my machine, it was xterm. I did a s/xterm/rxvt
in ~/.fvwm2/* a couple of days ago, and that helped
Incidentally, the newest XF
[ For the record, I agree with Paul's main points, most of which have long
been know. This one point bears correction. ]
Enrique> You won't have wait for hours while a list of "Skipping
Enrique> foo. Skipping bar." is displayed at the screen.
1. That hasn't been necessary since dpkg-mounta
Yann> Now another idea would be jed. It's quite small (but maybe bigger
Yann> than joe, don't know, don't have joe installed any more), uses
Yann> S-lang, is emacs-likee, has vi emulation AFAIK.
jed is currently without a maintainer, and the hamm version has too many
bugs. The previous mai
Tim> Does anyone know of a SSL-enabled pop3 server?
No, but you can run fetchmail within ssh 'tunnel'.
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Bob> The changelog for mirror 2.8-15 included:
Bob>
Bob> * Applied patch by Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to allow restarts
Bob> on partially downloaded files (fixes #19239)
Bob>
Bob> I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1
Bob> by default.
Looks l
Bob> Perhaps you could persuade the author to add support for restarts
Bob> on partially downloaded files, and any other desirable patches that
Bob> are not included in 2.9.
I haven't had time to check the documentation. This might be implemented in
2.9. I'd be grateful if you could te
Bob> I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1
Bob> by default.
Note that the license currently states that distributing modified versions of
mirror is not koscher.
There were way more patches, big and small. Maybe I should release a
mirror28 package which preserv
Santiago> Does this mean the modified-for-Debian "mirror" may not be
Santiago> distributed inside the .deb binary package?
Well, in mirror_2.9-1, all files by Lee are unmodified. No patches yet ...
Marcelo> Isn't that distributing modified bynaries? I mean, you are not
Marcelo> distrib
Santiago> BTW: Will this new mirror be in hamm? [ Maybe it should ].
It is a new upstream version which is incompatible with the deep freeze.
We should test it thoroughly first. Hence the quick upload yesterday.
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Rob> It's syntax made it really easy to specify things like "I want a
Rob> mirror of unstable and frozen, but only the {disks,binary}-{i386,all}
Rob> stuff. To do the same thing in mirror syntax is a much bigger hassle.
Shouldn't have to be, especially for someone as Perl-sav
The auto-pgp package has been touched since November 1995, and has currently
seven open bugs filed against it.
If nobody objects, I will adopt auto-pgpt by uploading a version which
corrects the 7 bugs and updates the package from Debian 1.1 to Debian 2.0
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Chris> Debian's [...] Chris> and adding the requirement for PGP (which I
Chris> never needed before) plus my growing involvement in small start-up
Chris> businesses (mostly Debian Linux based) have consumed all my time.
FUD.
I created PGP keys three years ago because I needed to sign Deb
Alan> The package f2c (fortran-> C) which I mantain contains a script fc
Alan> which is supposed to make f2c seem like a real compiler. It was part
Alan> of the original f2c netlib distribution, but it is very antique and
Alan> has three bugs currently filed against it (no man page, use
We already have a mlddc client package:
Package: mlddc
Version: 3.2.2-4
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6
Installed-Size: 27
Maintainer: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: A client for the Monolith dynamic DNS.
mlddc is a client for the Monolith ( http://www.ml.org )
dynamic DNS ( DYNDNS, http://
Avery> Could someone explain to me why it's so important to keep sources
Avery> "pristine" in this sense?
Security. Trojan horses. To be able to compare against digital footprints (eg
md5sums) from upstream.
Avery> I can understand not wanting to
Avery> untar-retar the archive, but re
Sven> Upstream authors might choose to release upstream source compressed
Sven> by bzip2. So bzip2 compression should be a valid option for source
Sven> archives.
Yes, just as another datapoint, GNU Octave does. For the record:
miles:/var/spool/mirror/octave [root] # ls -l octave-2.0.11.t
Daniel> I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using
Daniel> bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of thing. Is this
Daniel> true is it just FUD?
IIRC that was the case for bzip compression. Bzip2 was rewritten to avoid it.
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Dirk> I just made a non-maintainer release of info_3.12-1 as Octave now
Dirk> needs a version of info that is greater or equal to 3.11. [1]
James> You called it 3.12-1.0 but it should be 3.12-0.1. Also you'll need
James> to ensure (-sa to dpkg-buildpackage) that the .orig.tar.gz is
Ja
I just made a non-maintainer release of info_3.12-1 as Octave now needs a
version of info that is greater or equal to 3.11. [1]
There were three files outside the debian/ that were patched in info-3.9. The
patch didn't apply properly, and I didn't investigate further. It's been
three upstream rev
Dirk> Would anyone want to take xpdf from me and make a free-world release?
Dirk> And maybe even take over the package?
Dirk>
Dirk> As a Canadian resident, I don't think I can deal with the encryption
Dirk> code (as I understand it, the US laws for encryption technology make
Dirk> no
Would anyone want to take xpdf from me and make a free-world release? And
maybe even take over the package?
As a Canadian resident, I don't think I can deal with the encryption code (as
I understand it, the US laws for encryption technology make no difference
between US and Canadian residents).
severity 20033 grave
stop
I just received another bug report (#20978) on Octave not being able to
run. I had already reassigned the first such report (#20033) to libstdc++2.8
which does *not* introduce versioned dependencies on its libs even though it
is incompatible with the previous release. Be
Tim> I am in the process of upgrading my system to run current with hamm
Tim> and had a problem with the libmime-perl pkg relating to the
Tim> libwww-perl pkg that prevented both pkgs from configuring.
"Hm, not good" says the libmime-perl maintainer (that would be me :-( )
Tim> First
Karl> I wonder if `dpkg' tracks the installation date of a package,
Karl> whether it should if it doesn't, or why it doesn't if that is the
Karl> case.
Yes, at least sort of, provided you use dselect with the dpkg-mountable
package. Then at least all uses of dpkg that stem from dselect are
liiwi> Hello! I'm having trouble with fetchmail and procmail. The trouble
liiwi> is that fetchmail ignores the 'mda "formail -s procmail"' line
liiwi> totally and delivers all mail to port 25. nice. I can't remember,
liiwi> how many times I have checked everything.
Which version are you
Here are the diffs related to the (1 of 2) mail.
Thanks, Dirk
--- Begin Message ---
--- freeciv-1.4.3.orig/common/registry.c
+++ freeciv-1.4.3/common/registry.c
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@
}
}
- fclose(fs);
+ if (ferror(fs) || fclose(fs) == EOF)
+return 0;
return 1;
}
--- freeciv
Folks,
Richard emailed me this. Unfortunately, I won't have time to deal with this.
And I don't even know what freeciv is ...
It would be great if someone else could help out.
Thanks, Dirk
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Hi. I will be in Sweden until next Monday, perhaps you've seen my mail
to debian-d
Will> A package I'm maintaining, rosegarden, has come out with
Will> dependencies on xlib6 AND xlib6g. I didn't do this by hand, I left
Will> the "shlibs" stuff in the control file.
Happened to me once with an X11 package of mine. You probably have a mixed
libc5/libc6 system, and/or have
Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the
Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct
Dirk> proxy server.
Manoj> Would the installer script know how to set these variables?
Does it have to ? They are exported from ~/.profile.
[sorry for the empty mail I just posted, was fighting my keyboard ...]
Craig> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the
Craig> installer should:
Craig>
Craig> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or
Craig> an ftp script)
Sten> V
>> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the
>> installer should:
>>
>> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or an
>> ftp script)
Sten> Very bad idea. Some of us are behind a firewall that makes it
Sten> difficult to use standard
Christoph> You want me to run around Campus installing gzip on 300 machines
Christoph> because those users are not able to?
Don't worry: gzip is part of the base system.
Why don't we test e2compr better? Or zlib-compressed filesystem? That way we
can have the cake (docs are compressed) and
What about the motif-dummy thingie we discussed? How can I run plan having
Motif and not lesstif installed? Can you make sure it doesn't Depends: on
lesstif, but rather on a virtual package 'motif-libs' which lesstif, and a
to-be-created-dummy package for Motif owners, would provide. Is that doab
Francesco,
Did you add your userid to the sudo group?
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sudo:*:27:edd
Regards, Dirk
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That is a very reasonable proposal. I like it!
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[ CC'ed to Christian for policy question, and to Manoj for VM example. ]
Marco> Ask the users! The most people hate the info format and it's
Marco> browsers. We should include the HTML documentation in the package.
But they get html via the dwww package! Which gives them _more_ documentation
Dirk> However, Christian Schwarz asked me to do html as well. That will be
Dirk> some work as HOWTO packages comes as tar.gz files with no
Dirk> surcompassing index.html. I'll have to do some perl hacking. No
Dirk> promises for the June release, maybe for July.
Christian> Just unpack
Lars> It was decided many moons ago that Debian would use HTML as its
Lars> primary on-line documentation format. HTML should be the default.
Marco> That's right. But a lot of important packages like doc-linux don't
Marco> use HTML.
Well, the maintainer (that's me) prefers info as the b
Amos> Or an audit-trail of invocations of dpkg (e.g. "adduser 3.1-2
Amos> installed and configured successfully on Wed May 29 1997 00:00:23,
Amos> replaced adduser-3.1-0")
Darren> I asked for this a while back and was told that not very many
Darren> people wanted it. I still think it
Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1-23
Oddly, /var/log/smail/logfile had zero length even though mail had been
processed on the system after the last savelog rotation (which is run by
/etc/cron.daily/smail) . The file had group "root". After changing the group
to "mail", smail again added logs to
Package: slang0.99.34
Version: 0.99.34-1
Slang does not install a link /usr/lib/libslang.so.0. [1] as it is specified
in section 12 of the Programmer's Manual.
[1] Here's an annotated session log:
Saving the old list from ldconfig:
miles:/mirror/debian/incoming [root] # ldconfig -p>/tmp
Bruce> The boot floppies make a reasonable rescue disk set now.
When I last used them, e2fsck was missing. Can you can squeeze it in?
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Dominik> Package: ncftp
Dominik> Version: 2.3.0-6
Dominik>
Dominik> This package has neither manual nor info pages.
That is fixed in both versions -7 and -8. Please upgrade.
Dominik> It also does install the copyright file as
Dominik> /usr/doc/ncftp/copyright instead of /usr/doc/
Package: popclient
Version: 3.05-3
Popclient doesn't work in APOP mode (which md5 hashes passwords so that they
don't travel in cleartext anymore) which is too bad as I just installed it to
get APOP ...
There are two problems in the package. First, configure has to be told that
APOP is desire
Yves Arrouye writes:
Yves> I'd like to take the a2ps package if its maintainer does not plan to
Yves> maintain it anymore: I have patches to make it work with libpaper
Yves> that I'd like to see in the Debian version.
To best of my knowledge, a2ps and a2gs are orphaned. Casual inspection
Yves> Package: dpkg-dev
Yves> Version: 1.4.0
Yves>
Yves> It appears that the Maintainer: field in control is ignored, so the
Yves> Maintainer: field in the changes file is made with the name of the
Yves> user calling dpkg-genchanges and the name of the host the file is
Yves> built
Martin> Why is ae the default editor for vipw/vigr even on a completely
Martin> installed system?
It's not a default, it's a fallback which is used when you have not set the
EDITOR variable.
Just try
$ EDITOR=vi vigr
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Package: xautolock
Version: pl10-2
The package lacks a copyright file:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -c `locate xautolock`
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jun 30 11:37 1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jun 30 11:37 1996 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jun 30 11:37 1996 usr/X11R6/
drwxr-xr-x
Package: kernel-package
Version: 2.03
I have kernel-source-2.0.6 installed (which patches cleanly with Linus'
patches for more recent kernels) and used to role my kernels with the scripts
from the kernel-source package, eg
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig
./debi
Fixed in version 2.4-2 of apmd.
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Herbert> Package: apmd
Herbert> Version: 2.4-1
Herbert>
Herbert> The prerm script of the apmd package executes
Herbert>
Herbert> /etc/init.d/kerneld stop
Herbert>
Herbert> Instead, it should call
Herbert>
Herbert> /etc/init.d/apmd stop
Gosh, how ugly! I'll fix t
Package: auctex
Version: 9.4g-1
Auctex installation fails on a fresh "rex" system as the line
(require 'tex-site.el)
is written to /etc/site-start.el. With emacs-19.34 and the new /etc/emacs/
directory, it should be written to /etc/emacs/site-start.el.
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Buddha> The executable should be recompiled. There are a few outstanding
Buddha> bugs on the fortune package, some dating back over a year, that
Buddha> could easily be fixed by a repackaging. I could be wrong, but it
Buddha> seems as if the maintainer has abandoned it.
Raul> More lik
Christoph> tcpdump and traceroute are essential network diagnostic
Christoph> tools.
But only for root.
Christoph> Somehow they need to fit into the scheme. Before the netdiag
Christoph> package I manually changed permissions on all machine I
Christoph> installed because our administr
Dale> Ian, how do you do this? Anybody?
Just Use the 822-date Ian provides with dpkg:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> 822-date
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:38:13 -0400
I'd rather use the emacs changelog mode, though.
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Dirk> No, because you need to first edit do_deletes locally to adapt the
Dirk> $del_only variable to your site. Or change your $max_delete_files
Dirk> setting.
Chris> Could reasonable defaults be provided? If not, then certainly
Chris> there are more trivial questions asked by postins
Package: mfbasfnt
Version: 1.0-5
Building a tex.fmt fails, as a new debian user here just experienced, because
the file "manfnt.mf" is in the "buzz" release 1.0-3 of mfbasfnt, but not in
the "rex" release 1.0-5.
I remember that this was reported some days ago, sorry if I duplicate it, but
i
Bibtex has nothing to do with TEXINPUTS. As you can see here from the file
/usr/lib/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, bibtex is supposed to listen to its own
variables:
% BibTeX bibliographies and style files.
BIBINPUTS = .:$texmfloc/bibtex/bib//:$TEXMF/bibtex/bib
BSTINPUTS = .:$texm
Martin> Package: mirror
Martin> Version: 2.8-6
[...]
Martin> The Debian mirror package only provides this script as an example.
Martin> I would appreciate movin it into the /usr/lib/mirror direcotory and
Martin> linking it to /usr/bin/do_unliks.
No, because you need to first edit do_de
Ian> Unless enscript provides programs a2gs and a2ps which emulate their
Ian> command line interfaces then it is not a complete replacement.
That is a valid point, so I rest my case.
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Thomas> Package: ltxmisc
Thomas> Version: 1.0-1
Thomas>
Thomas> In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do
Thomas> serious work with it, at least for me (I work in German). Hardly
Thomas> any of the often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty,
Th
Dirk> 1. The package contains nothing but the binary. It *must* contain at
Dirk> least the copyright file. Docs would be nice.
Christoph> There is no copyright. The packages origin are unknown. I can
Christoph> just generate a file with "Unknown" in it.
Are you sure there is nothing in
PACKAGE: xfishtank
VERSION: 2.2-1
1. The package contains nothing but the binary. It *must* contain at least the
copyright file. Docs would be nice.
2. It has no Depends: on libc5 or elf-x11r6lib.
3. It uses the old VERSION and PACKAGE_REVISION format which is obsolete.
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Dirk> May I humbly suggest that we establish some sort of policy regarding
Dirk> packages that obsolete and can be retired?
Guy> Propose that the package be made obsolete on debian-devel. After the
Guy> discussion is resolved, file a bug against ftp.debian.org to make the
Guy> change.
Package: emacs
Version: 19.34-1
/etc/emacs/site-start.el, after upgrading from 19.31 to 19.34, contains
(load "debian-rundir")
(debian-run-directory)
which fails as there is no debian-rundir.el in the package.
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