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Format: 1.5
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 13:25:44 +0100
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3.4
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
dpkg - Package maintenance system
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Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 17:42:46 +0100
Source: debiandoc-sgml
Binary: debiandoc-sgml
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.0.2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
debiandoc-sgml
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.0.3
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
debiandoc-sgml - Documentation formatting for Debian manuals
Changes:
debiandoc-sgml (1.0.3) experimental; urgency=low
.
* Converters work again. Oops
I wrote:
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.
I've thought of something to add to this list:
* Check that the description is well-formatted and meaningful and
Brian C. White writes (Re: Emacs per-package startup files):
...
[someone:]
So, do these files go in /var/lib/emacs, /etc/emacs, or
/usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp, and why? I can set it up and send changes
to the emacs package maintainers this weekend if that gets worked
out...
I'd vote for
Yves Arrouye writes (Re: des encryption.. ):
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
Package: emacs
Version: 19.29-3
My /var/lib/emacs/lock directory contains many old lock files.
I'm quite happy to believe that the occasional leftover lock is
unavoidable, but steps should be taken to clean them up.
Furthermore, all the pathnames for the lockfiles are world-readable.
This is
Please read the proposal below and comment on it. If noone says
anything I'll probably implement and mandate something very like it in
the next week or two, in time for the new source package format (we
only want to change this once). Now is the time to have your say.
I've been thinking about
Bruce Perens writes (Re: Documentation formats):
From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The thing is that I think we need to be able to distribute other
[documentation] end-products [than HTML].
HTML is bad for printing, for example, and not ideal
if you have a slow machine. Choice
Bruce Perens writes (Re: Documentation formats):
...
The unification of Debian documentation will be carried out via
HTML. You should not consider the merits of a particular HTML viewer,
or even the weight of the best of our existing HTTP servers. These things
will change with time, and
Bruce Perens writes (Re: Documentation formats):
From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The thing is that I think we need to be able to distribute other
[documentation] end-products [than HTML].
...
Do you have a proposal?
...
My initial proposal is as follows:
If it's available we
(Moved to debian-devel:)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: des encryption..):
[Ian Jackson:]
Can we please put /opt - /usr/opt and the empty /opt tree in the base
package, before things get any worse ?
Also I propose to mandate in the policy manual that packages which use
/opt should
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:46:47 +0100
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3.5
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low (high for debian-changelog-mode)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
dpkg
Package: rpncalc
Version: 1.1-1
Directories must be 755 root.root.
Ian.
chiark:~/junk dpkg --contents
/csunix-export1/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math/rpncalc_1.1-1.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jul 23 23:00 1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jul 23 23:00 1996 usr/
drwxr-xr-x
Martin Schulze writes (Bug#4049: access permissions for sysklogd):
Good morning Daniel!
}/sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755.
Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone. I
have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to them.
Please see the
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.5-4
dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite `/usr/doc/copyright/debian.copyright', which is also in
package util-linux
Package: ldso
Version: 1.7.14-4
-chiark:~ ldd /bin/ls
libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5.2.18
-chiark:~ echo $?
0
-chiark:~ ldd /bin/true
ldd: /bin/true is not a.out or ELF
-chiark:~ echo $?
0
-chiark:~ ldd /dev/null
ldd: can't read header from /dev/null
-chiark:~ echo $?
0
-chiark:~ ldd /spong
Michael Alan Dorman writes (New source format and related issues...):
...
I've looked at the docs, I've examined hello and dpkg, and I'll be
damned if I can find any information that would allow me to actually
reproduce the files that were uploaded to master, and assuming that
dpkg was in fact
Package: perl
Version: 5.003-2
This package contains some documents in a Perl-specific documentation
format called `pod'. These files are installed in /usr/lib/perl5, eg
/usr/lib/perl5/POSIX.pod oor /usr/lib/perl5/pod/perlop.pod.
They should be somewhere in /usr/doc, or (since they're
: dpkg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3.6
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low (HIGH for new source format)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
Changes:
dpkg (1.3.6) experimental; urgency=low (HIGH for new source
Package: mosaic
Version: 2.7b5-2
When I run Mosaic on a mono X terminal the 3d button borders and so
forth are not highlighted or coloured correctly, making them difficult
to see and use.
Below are two xwd files, one created by Debian's Mosaic 2.7b5-2 and
one by an OSF/1 installation of Mosaic
Package: lynx
Version: 2.4-FM-960316-1
See the page
URL:http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ijackson/bad-mailto.html (a copy of
the page is included below).
If you load this page in lynx and select the `spong' you will enter a
dialogue offering to send mail to `ijackson%40chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk',
and if
Package: mosaic
Version: 2.7b5-2
See the page
URL:http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ijackson/nested-markup.html (a copy
of the page and an xwd of the output produced by 2.7b5 on my mono
display is included below).
As you can see:
* strong doesn't work correctly inside var - it overrides the
italics
Package: mosaic
Version: 2.7b5-2
See the page
URL:http://chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk/~ijackson/bad-mailto.html (a copy of
the page is included below).
If you load this page in Mosaic and click on the `spong' URL you will
see a dialogue box offering to send mail to
`ijackson%40chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk', and
In order to solve some tricky problems to do with
architecture-independent files being produced and uploaded as a result
of per-architecture porting builds, I'm splitting the `binary' target
into two:
binary-arch will build the architecture dependent binary packages and
files. For a
Further to this discussion, I'm going to write into the policy manual
that manpages should be installed compressed using gzip -9.
Ian.
Since we need closure on this I'm mandating this change in the new
policy manual and source package format.
I'll also mandate that the debian/changelog file be included, in
/usr/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz, or changelog.gz for a package
whose upstream and Debian maintainers are the same.
Mark Eichin writes (Re: Documentation formats):
[Ian asked:]
(Is texi2html any good?)
http://www.cygnus.com/ (and I'm sure other places) has texi2html'ed
versions of gnu compiler-related tools, if you want a quick look at
them.
Thanks. They do look reasonable.
Ian.
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: CC's on this mailing list):
...
However, there are several people who post to the lists, but don't read
them, who ask to be responded to directly. Maybe we should just require
that these people suffer reading the lists like the rest of us?
Yes. It is rude to post to a
Mark Eichin writes (Re: Documentation formats):
if we standardize the names for the alternate formats, can we also
have, for each format foo, a virtual foo-viewer package, and include
it in the dependencies? (That will, as a side effect, make it easier
to determine which formats are supported
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
...
Noone is going to deinstall all the editors on their system and not
notice what they've done wrong and how to fix it - this is not the
kind of `mistake' our dependency scheme should try
Michael Alan Dorman writes (Re: New package standards - LAST CALL ):
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ian Jackson writes:
Therefore I propose that unless someone raises a serious problem or
issue within the next week or two the new packaging guidelines as
described in the draft dpkg programmers
Erick Branderhorst writes ($(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu):
Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure
and $(ARCH)-debian-linux?
If so can it specified in the guidelines.
If not what should we use?
$(ARCH)-debian-linux, but $(ARCH) should usually be 486,
shouldn't it ?
Daniel Lynes writes (Non-existent .deb's):
Just a thought, but I was wondering if perhaps the dselect program
could be modified to allow for it to not allow you to be able to select
.deb archives that are non-existent? I've noticed that for the .deb
archives that I haven't downloaded, the
subsection
3.2.6, ``/usr/doc/package/copyright''.
--
Ian Jackson, at home. [EMAIL PROTECTED] + 44 1223 3 31579
General: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Permanent: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Churchill College, Cambridge, CB3 0DS. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/iwj10/
I wrote:
Michael Alan Dorman writes (New source format and related issues...):
...
dpkg-source: building hello in hello_1.3.orig.tar.gz
tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive
Try `tar --help' for more information.
dpkg-source: failure: tar gave error exit status 2
...
Well,
Bruce Perens writes (Bug#4129: dselect 1.3.0 infelicity):
If I position the selection bar on All Brokenly Installed Packages and press
the - key, _all_ packages are de-selected, not just the brokenly installed
ones. This is counter-intuitive.
`counter-intuitive' ?! You're a master of
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.64-1
The file /etc/init.d/skeleton should use `set -e' as this is good
practice and it is an example script.
Ian.
Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.64-1
The file /etc/init.d/network is a dpkg-handled conffile, despite
containing important site-specific configuration information which is
set up by the base disks.
Files manipulated by installation scripts should not be dpkg-handled
conffiles.
Ian.
David Engel writes (Re: Bug#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict with
it):
Ian Jackson writes:
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
Damn, it looks like my comment
Before anyone changes anything, please read the appropriate part of
the new policy manual.
went unheeded. I see that the change that Daniel Quinlan requested
has been made. It's a shame that I didn't get around to writing this
more detailed response to the
Otmar Lendl writes in private email which I'm sure he won't mind me
posting:
...
What I would appreciate is, that all the Developer Ressources
(Guidelines, Hints, Virtual Names, FSSTD co.) have a central
WWW page where I can easily look up the currently valid standards.
Could you please
Mark Eichin writes (Re: installing elisp .el files):
...
Byte-compilation depends much more on *speed* than size. The
changelog mode doesn't do enough (I assume) to merit the speed
improvement... gnus, for example, really really needs to be byte
compiled. mailcrypt, w3, vm, probably all do
converting.
* Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
* More verbosity about netiquette.
* Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
-- Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
debian-manuals (0.2.0.1
You may now upload packages in the new source format to `unstable'.
Packages in `stable' will continue to be in the old format.
Note that the caveats in my release announcement on debian-changes for
1.3.8 apply:
* The new source tools have not been very well tested and will have
bugs, some
Bruce Perens writes (Bug#4195: dpkg-source and new tar package don't mix):
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.3.5
The latest iteration of the tar package unfortunately is not able to
understand the -- flag. I suggest you not use that flag in dpkg-source
for now.
Thanks for pointing out what was
Thomas Koenig writes (Bug#4202: dpkg chainsaw massacre):
...
When I tried to test-install the package, there were a few warnings,
but dpkg happily overwrote /usr/lib with that particular text file.
I'll eagerly await what fsck has to say about this.
My apologies. I have fixed this in dpkg
Bruce Perens asks me in private email:
The policy and dpkg programers documents are very good.
Can you get Ray to put these up on our web site ASAP?
I'd like to, but I think the web site is all confused. I could be
wrong. Does Matt Bailey still exist ? We've been waiting for him for
several
Lars Wirzenius writes (Re: Documentation formats ):
...
I'm not certain that distributing HTML with the packages and other formats
separately is a good idea. I think it might be a better idea to continue
as now and use on-line conversions from man and Info to HTML. Pre-converted
HTML should be
Raul Miller writes (Re: Draft manuals (qmail)):
...
Perhaps it's reasonable to specify that every mail aware program
supports the MAIL environmental variable. As qmail's default behavior
is to deliver mail to ~user/Mailbox in standard unix mailbox format,
this should suffice.
But does it use
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: Bug#4164: Ferret extended description has blank lines
):
...
Objections to reporting something as a bug are not founded on this
concept. No one feels personaly put down by a bug report. Those of us
who object to trivial bug reports are more concerned about the
Maarten Boekhold writes (exmh and Xauthority):
...
# Generate a random key; Mui and Pearce offer a number of alternatives
# for this.
randomkey=`perl -e 'srand; printf int(rand(10))'`
Do NOT do this. It results in a weak cookie, meaning that someone
could fairly easily guess
Rob Browning writes (Re: Shadow problems):
Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can ofcourse make the new directory setgid (chmod g+s). All files
created in that directory will have their gid set to that of the directory..
But I can see that using newgrp might be more
Milan Zamazal writes (Packaging questions (newbie)):
I'd like to contribute some packages, but I'd like to ask some
questions first:
1. One of these packages is the replacement of `libX11.so'. Do I have to make
whole alternative version of appropriate standard X package or is there some
Thomas Koenig writes (Bug#2475: at' uses middle-endian 2-digit-year date
format):
Date outputs from 'at' are mandated as
date +%a %b %e %T %Y
(i.e. Wed Aug 14 20:05:13 1996) by the Posix.2a draft I have, which is
the date used in the upcoming release 3.0 of at(1).
Yep, that's
Yves Arrouye writes (Re: libpaper 1.0 on master):
...
That's what libpaper does: use whatever paper size is in the PAPER env
var, or if empty whatever name found in the file whose name is in the
PAPERSIZE env var, or if this var is empty too look in /etc/papersize,
defaulting to letter (sigh).
Michael Meskes writes (Incorrectly locates packages):
...
Also, shouldn't the netscape and compress-package installer be moved to
contrib, too? I know they are free, but to be of any use you have to get the
some other software that is not free. So in fact they depend on it. Well at
least the
Buddha M. D. Buck writes (Bug#660: GDB gets address wrong of struct member in
memory breakpoint):
I'm looking at the backlog of forgotten bugs, and have verified that
this one still exists.
The original report was for gdb 4.12, but Ian Jackson verified
that the problem exists under 4.14
Buddha M. D. Buck writes (Bug#818: echo builtin doesn't check for write
errors):
As of 1.14.6-4, this bug is still there... maybe
$ type echo
echo is a shell builtin
$ echo foo /dev/full
$ echo $?
0
$ cat /dev/zero /dev/full
cat: write error: No space left on device
$ echo $?
1
$
Rob Leslie writes (Bug#4218: Problems removing INN):
...
dpkg: error processing inn (--purge):
cannot remove `/var/spool/news': Device or resource busy
Would it be better if I made dpkg treat this as a warning ?
It happens one of the directories in a package is a mount point.
Ian.
Nils Rennebarth writes (Bug#4221: knews silently overwrites configuration
file):
Knews should handle an upgrade more intelligently and not simply overwrite
the (possibly customized) /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Knews
configuration file.
I know this is difficult to do right. A lot of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
All packages in the Debian distribution proper must be freely useable,
modifiable and redistributable in both source and binary form. It must
be possible for anyone to distribute and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
All packages in the Debian distribution proper must be freely useable,
modifiable and redistributable in both source and binary form. It must
be possible for anyone to distribute and
Michael Meskes writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
...
Ahem, this isn't exact enough IMO. With a standard Debian system I am able
to rebuild LyX.
You can't rebuild LyX entirely from source using only packages in the
main Debian distribution.
[...]
Michael Meskes writes (Re: Bug#4051: access permissions for /usr/bin/fdmount):
Ian Jackson writes:
...
Compiling names of groups or even worse group ids into binaries is a
bad idea.
Why? Because it's not easy to change?
It's hard to change and obscure. Policy is best implemented where
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
[...] xforms is improperly
located in contrib instead of non-free where it belongs (because source is
not distributed). [...]
Sourceless packages are fine to distribute in contrib, so long as the
binaries
Peter Tobias asks me in private email:
...
BTW: I didn't have much time the last weeks (and I won't have much
time the next weeks) so I wasn't able to check if this new source
format will also work for packages like netstd (packages which contain
lots of sub packages each with its own original
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (Bug#4235: cpp, gcc, dpkg ):
^ was this intentional ?
...
Somehow installation with dpkg-ftp and the new cpp uninstalled my gcc
package and look how dpkg selects on a dselect update. This shouldn't
happen. Somehow gcc is too easily uninstalled because
Susan G. Kleinmann writes (Bug#4263: dpkg-source requires patch):
...
# dpkg-source -x sgmlspm_1.03ii-2.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting sgmlspm in sgmlspm-1.03ii
dpkg-source: failure: exec patch: No such file or directory
dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 2
...
patch is only
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu):
...
The GNU configure scripts usually match on i[3456]86-*-*) for
architecture support, so that's not a problem.
I usually do something like:
a = $(shell dpkg --print-architecture)
ifeq (i386,$(a))
arch = i486-debian-linux
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes (Bug#4238: mirror requires perl):
...
On the other hand, we seem to have (had ?) a policy of relying on (at least a
rudimentary) perl in the base system --- but I cannot find anything on that
in the programmers and policy manuals of dpkg-1.3.8. So should timezone.pl
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ?):
...
Pine is in non-free because it's copyright places restrictions on the
distribution of source. Xforms has more severe restrictions on the
distribution of source than pine does. It is my understanding that
Kevin M. Bealer writes (Bug#4257: request-route would be better as conffile):
...
The modules packages contains a file /sbin/request-route. This is run by
the kernel to create routes as needed.
The script's comments suggest is it very configurable, and I usually
configure it heavily ..
Michael Meskes writes (Re: Bug#4051: access permissions for /usr/bin/fdmount):
...
I have no problem with it being mode 4750 again.
It should be 4754 - there's no point in stopping people reading it.
(I've been saying 4754 all along, and this is what is in the policy
manual.)
...
No problem
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
... Part of my concerns stem from the past history of ae. I have
only recently taken over the maintainance of this package. When I got it,
the essential field had been declaired a bug, but the discussion of that
bug seemed to indicate that
Juergen Menden writes to me in private email:
...
well, unfortunately some packages (like ldso) need i386-linux and
wouldn't like to match i486-linux. better might be
ld.so is not a GNU package, is it ? It probably uses our own
canonical architecture strings, which include i386 for intel, and
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu):
You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
Should I provide a command to do this automatically ?
dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture perhaps.
Sure, why not. It would result in more consistency, and that's
a Good Thing (TM
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: Bug#4218: Problems removing INN):
You (Ian Jackson) wrote:
...
Would it be better if I made dpkg treat [EBUSY] as a warning ?
(It happens one of the directories in a package is a mount point).
Yes, I think so. Every directory can be a potential mountpoint
Susan G. Kleinmann writes (Re: Bruce - fiat required to end discussion on
lyx/copyright ? ):
...
This is my synopsis of the relevant parts of Chapter 2:
Packages go into contrib if their copyrights or patents require that they:
a. allow distribution of no source code
b. allow
Joey Hess writes (Bug#4298: arrow keys in dselect don't work after search):
...
I'm running dselect in an xterm. I go to the [S]elect part of it, and
the up and down addor keys scroll through the list of packages. But when I
type /mosaic\n, to search for mosaic, the arrow keys stop working.
PROTECTED] (3 bugs):
rc 3206 rc terminates on CTRL-C
rc 3533 Problems encountered while building rc on m68k arch
rc 3607 rc description: no ext
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (3 bugs):
bugs.debia 2296 debian-bugs WWW doesn't say how to find out Debian version
Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1-14
Under certain obscure circumstances Smail can lose mail:
When it needs to send a bounce message it reinvokes itself with the
`-bS' flag, meaning to read SMTP commands from standard input but not
to produce responses. It then feeds an SMTP `session' to the
Package: emacs
Version: 19.31-2
I just upgraded from 19.29-3, and it left me with the following
/etc/site-start.el:
(load /usr/lib/emacs/19.29/lisp/jka-compr.elc)
(if (file-exists-p /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/w3-init.el) (load w3-init))
(autoload 'lout-mode lout-mode Mode for editing Lout source
Karl Sackett writes (dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions):
Regarding the -r option for dpkg-buildpackage, are there any
examples of what's called for here? Is the gain-root-command
something each developer provides for himself, or is there a command
or shell somewhere that performs this
Package: textutils
Version: 1.17-2
-chiark:~ echo -e 'hi^IthereM-z\011hi' | cat -vET
hi^IthereM-z^Ihi$
-chiark:~
As you can see, it's not possible to distinguish a single escaped
control character ^something or M-something from the corresponding
sequence of printable characters.
There should be
If you get this message:
dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./exmh_1.6.9.orig.tar.gz' contains object with
newline in its name
(exmh-1.6.9.orig/?exmh-1.6.9.orig/exmh.README?exmh-1.6.9.orig/COPYRIGHT?exmh-1.6.9.orig/e...(rest
of output deleted)
You should upgrade your cpio. Unfortunately the
a PostScript f Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED]
911 libc4 libc causes rsh to fail on com (unknown -- `libc')
957 dpkg dpkg should automatically log Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OVER 14 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED:
Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer
Michael Meskes writes (Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages):
Ian Jackson writes:
Can we please have a statement on what we should do ?
I think we should post the release announcements to debian-changes as
well has having the summary postings.
If people want just the summaries we should
Brian C. White writes (Re: Bug#4261: Ghostview and virtual package
postscript_viewer):
...
Yes, [something] _is_ what should be done. install-mime handles
multiple entries for the same mime-type. Thus, if both ghostview
and gv get installed, the user is given the choice of which is to
have
Package: emacs
Version: 19.31-2
I used to have in my startup files
(menu-bar-mode nil)
which used to turn off menu bars.
In 19.31 this has changed so that `nil' doesn't have the desired
effect. Instead, you have to supply a negative number !
This is totally inconsistent with almost every
Steve Greenland writes (Re: Bug#4204: cron does not install if /usr/sbin/cron
does not exist!?):
Yves Arrouye wrote:
...
marin13# dpkg -i cron_3.0pl1-33.deb
(Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace cron (using
Richard Kaszeta writes (/usr/local (again)):
...
Since packages generally don't install anything other than empty dirs
in /usr/local, can't this be handled in a way that makes it easier for
those of us trying to maintain many debian machines?
Section 3.2.9 of the policy manual may be
I've asked this question before, but noone seemed to want to answer
me, so I'm asking again:
It would be good for the dpkg manuals to be on the Debian web pages.
How do I organise this ? I can (for example) ship a .tar.gz of the
HTML files with each dpkg upload.
I'd like to distribute
Sven Rudolph writes (FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages):
...
1. General Questions
1.1.What is Debian GNU/Linux
[etc]
Sven, did you receive my message below ?
Ian.
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Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
...
Well, I'm pretty sure that Bill didn't just wake up one morning and say
Wow! That essential field sure is neat! Let's put it in ae! My assumption
was that this was an attempt to keep ae in the system.
I think that Bill was under the
Michael Meskes writes (Re: Bug#4051: access permissions for /usr/bin/fdmount):
Ian Jackson writes:
...
Err, I strongly suggest that you compile the group check out of the
executable. This is only likely to lead to confusion.
I think I understand what you mean. But is it really that bad
I have reconfigured the sub-MTA in my home directory on master which
is used by the bug tracking system. (I have Smail installed in my
filespace because qmail's sendmail command line emulation is broken
and using Smail as a gateway to the system's real MTA was easier than
trying to parse RFC822
Mark W. Eichin writes (Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr,
breaks at upgrade):
Did you upgrade from 19.29-3 to 19.31-2 as indicated in your message,
or to 19.34-2, which is current?
19.34-2 hasn't reached my local mirror yet. Isn't it still in
Incoming ?
(I ask, because I
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions):
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
If you get this message [deleted]
you should upgrade your cpio. [...]
This resolved the problem for me. At least at this point I can unpack
hello ok. Shouldn't dpkg have a depends
the version.)
C. There are some packages where the Debian source is the upstream
source. In this case there will be no .diff.gz and you can just use
the .tar.gz. If a .dsc is provided you can use `dpkg-source -x'.
-- Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat, 31 Aug 1996
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