don't remember it being terribly bad...
It would be interesting to have the above data on a whole buzz system
(as presumably the above is against sarge-era libraries.) Too bad you
can't debootstrap buzz :)
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Even better (IMHO) is the full term Amateur Radio, but some may
disagree. I've CC'd debian-hams for their input also.
Thanks for the work on the new menu structure.
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the old ugly tricks like Samba's
2.99+3.00alpha23 ..
The ~ character deliberately has low sorting order, so 3.00~alpha23
3.00.
Am I free to use it?
Please CC me as I'm not subscribed (M-F-T is set correctly).
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web data and logs etc) is needed all.
Maybe you have a good reason but you need to explain it in the rationale.
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the need as well.
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As it is now, if the Debian submit-bugs-to field had to change,
we'd have to recompile all the packages.
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I resized my xterm and used a current dpkg.
Cool!
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kernel binary image.
ii kernel-package 7.04.potato.1 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
... the useful part of the package name is cut off.
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with shared loadable libraries. A clear mixing of
function. Or I could just have FreeBSD braindamage.
There's other stuff in there too, if you want to be pedantic --
architecture-specific non-variable data files.
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do it if you think it's a good idea?
I don't think it's a good idea, but I digress.
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of the package's conffile you want to modify to give you a mechanism
(like updated-inetd etc) to do so.
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software until you've tested the new--especially at the system and
kernel levels.
If you want to get picky, the admin has no business installing sources
directly into /usr/src, being a vendor-controlled area. I keep my kernel
source in /usr/local/src/linux-2.2 and linux-2.3.
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in the package. (They are configuration files for the system,
so it's a bit confusing). They're definately conffiles, though, unless
otherwise managed.
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on upgrades. inetd.conf, exim.conf etc are not included
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On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 08:39:18PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
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) you
could certainly mix these reasonably well. There were some libc5 upgrades
and some dpkg upgrades which were mandatory, but nothing too serious.
(In particular, rex's dpkg (IIRC) introduced epochs.)
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On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 12:06:53AM +0200, Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
But this doesn't solve the other problem: dpkg -L shows these symlinks
as real man pages. This is annoying at least for me...
But why on earth are you looking for manual pages with dpkg -L?
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situation is just fine, especially with
Santiago's suggestion of only creating these at install time.
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do real world users store their real work -- in
their home directories? What about group projects?
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is /.. Just my opinion of course.
/mnt is for temporary mounts; I do not consider /cdrom to be a temporary
mount, myself. IMHO, /mnt/* is an ugly Red Hatism.
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On Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 06:06:42PM +0100, Brederlow wrote:
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I think this section should be removed from policy. This document
contains some (very arguable) reasons why new scripts should not be written
in csh, but absolutely no reasons why upstream
the kernel is actually better than Linux, and if not, is it worth doing?
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not.
Only dpkg-source should need to be modified. I thought someone said
Klee had developed a dpkg variant that did this already, but I couldn't
find it poking around master.
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by another package or a
virtual package from the list of virtual packages.
This says that a package cannot conflict with an old version of another
package. That is bad!
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On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:10:35PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben The XFree86 sources as shipped use ~/.Xresources as the
Ben default place for user X resources. Every other Unix in the
Ben world uses the file ~/.Xdefaults. I
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 05:56:46PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
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This says that a package cannot conflict with an old version of another
package. That is bad!
You're right. Saying that you may conflict with packages in older
distributions as well doesn't
. I have .Xdefaults, and the settings in there work if
I use startx, but not if I login on xdm.
And xdm seems to have disappeared from my system, so I can't try it now
to see if it makes the difference.
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says, it's excellent. One minor typo; it says sounce instead of
source in one place.
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of.
Perhaps he hacked info to have colors once, and he would like to keep using
his program.
How can we support every possible custom script? The system changes;
some things will break. Custom scripts will need maintenance; I don't think
that's too unreasonable.
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not say, 'must build
with a single command on every platform' . Finally, it makes life much
easier for both of the developers involved.
I also have received patches this way from Paul and have no objection
to this method.
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push for consistency.
Consistency is to compress them -- we compress all other documentation
in /usr/doc except the copyright files.
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of practice to learn how to hunt down documents.
Can you or one of the doc-base developers give me (or point me at)
an executive summary of that doc-base does?
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On Tue, Jul 07, 1998 at 08:12:43PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On generating gpg keys, how can one go about getting enough entropy on
one's own machine? I tried generating it on a server I have co-located
with my ISP, so at least it would have
their right to break it?
Of course, it's done now (for libc6) and needs to be fixed, which
is what epochs are for, even if the manual says they aren't. They fix
incorrect version numbers, but the manual is warning against making
such mistakes in the first place. IMHO.
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, and that if they're not
then one of them should be fixed.
This I agree with. However I believe that there is a perception at
present that if policy does not seem to fit your package, you may simply
ignore it. I do not think that works.
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On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 12:26:08PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
This I agree with. However I believe that there is a perception at
present that if policy does not seem to fit your package, you may simply
ignore it. I do not think that works.
That is, I think that some maintainers have
should be used, as in
Packages must specify only the first three digits of the version ...
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Packages only have to specify the first three digits of the
version number in the `Standards-Version' field of their source
. However, in the past there has been
criticism that the same group of core people (eg Guy, Ian) are
responsible for several big tasks, and that other developers
are unwilling to take on those tasks. (IIRC, at least).
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doesn't address that at all. Is it's traditional a good enough reason
to do things? Traditionally a Unix platform doesn't come with the GNU
system installed, but we ship it that way. And more examples ...
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javalex's problem though).
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pages are bad, but
lack of knowledge of the tools available is no justification in a
policy debate.
Not being an emacs user myself, I find info hard to use. On the other
hand, man gives you your choice of pager, so man has no such problem.
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with a
non-zero status. Or else we need to reword PW#5-5.
Is a non-zero status useful? After all, cron WILL reload
the configuration, even though that isn't caused by the script.
A reload will occur, which is success.
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done this in www-sql (which
benefits from configuring apache to handle .sql files) but
later found out that it's not allowed by policy.
Finding a way for apache to allow configuration modifications
would be nice but difficult I suspect.
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On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 12:08:47AM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
Yes, I can only agree. But is bash actually completely POSIX-compliant
(and nothing more than that) when called as /bin/sh ?
It would appear not:
sh-2.01$ echo hello {there,world}
hello there world
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On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 07:02:45PM +0100, David Frey wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20 1997 16:17 +1100 Hamish Moffatt writes:
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 01:31:38PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote:
And the instant someone provides us with free software equivilant to ssh
or pgp, we'll move to use it. We need
),
it mightn't hurt to better advertise the not-necessarily-free
status of these packages.
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configure your lesspipe
script to automatically decompress files.
OTOH, I don't really mind either way, just thought I would point these
things out.
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encourages us not to get the KDE people off-side,
sometimes it wouldn't hurt if the KDE people would try
not to piss us off either.
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impress me. i will obey any decission,
that will be done.
What is wrong with Christian's final solution? You didn't reply.
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will not brake
our packages, and vice versa. what is wrong with this ?
We are still supporting their packages in the sense
that we support their installation. Should any package
reference packages that aren't available in any of Debian's
three distributions (main, non-free, contrib)?
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On Sun, Nov 16, 1997 at 11:37:40PM -0800, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
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But I was shocked to see the Linux annex specify that
/usr/include/{asm,linux} should be a symlink - /usr/src/linux/...
Are we in danger of being labelled FHS-compatible (instead
/{asm,linux} should be a symlink - /usr/src/linux/...
Are we in danger of being labelled FHS-compatible (instead
of FHS-compliant) because we do what libc6 and Linus both recommend?
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for the changes.
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