Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of biff, Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package: Package: biff Binary: biff Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-1.1 Priority: standard Section: mail Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: any Standards-Version: 3.5.6 Format: 1.0 Directory: pool/main/b/biff Files: 8e02b164d510829ebcb894cc07a55f84 553 biff_0.17.pre20000412-1.1.dsc 0c303067e9954785953a81b5f82db554 13709 biff_0.17.pre20000412.orig.tar.gz 8f387bb6c2d15e46dfd2712410d0795e 2798 biff_0.17.pre20000412-1.1.diff.gz Package: biff Priority: standard Section: mail Installed-Size: 88 Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-1.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Filename: pool/main/b/biff/biff_0.17.pre20000412-1.1_i386.deb Size: 12916 MD5sum: c4952f3affbd25f34abefa155542c965 Description: a mail notification tool biff is a small little program that prints a message to your terminal when mail arrives. Actually, the message is printed by the comsat daemon, and biff just enables/disables the u+x permission flag for the terminal, which comsat uses to determine whether or not to write to your terminal. . biff is mainly of historic interest, since there are much better alternatives (xbiff, gbiff, youbin) that are network-aware and do not require a daemon. Although there are no known security problems, running additional services is often considered risky. . By default, the biff service is disabled. To use biff email notification, you must enable this service by running 'update-inetd --enable biff' after the package is installed. You may also need to modify the configuration of your mail transport agent to enable comsat notification. Justification: Neglected many packages for a long time, didn't respond to pings -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
