Re: m4 rebuilt as ELF

1995-12-22 Thread Ian Murdock
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: > You need the dchanges package. Ian Murdock has been holding off > moving it into the distribution. The last time I looked, it was > in ftp.debian.org:/debian/project/experimental. Actually, it should be in the distribution. Where should I put it?

Re: /etc/X11/Xresources (xbase-3.1.2-5)

1995-12-22 Thread Ian Murdock
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Stephen Early wrote: > Logging into wtmp is controlled by the loginShell resource (-ls command > line option), which also controls whether the shell that is started is a > login shell. I think that this should be false by default, and that the > xterm started in the Xsession

Re: Bug#2042: less-290-5

1995-12-22 Thread Ian Murdock
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: > Fixed in less-290-7, just uploaded to pixar. Don't you mean ftp.debian.org?

Re: ELF flex

1995-12-22 Thread Ian Murdock
On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Robert Leslie wrote: > Ian M., if you are maintaining flex, any chance of getting an ELF > version uploaded soon? If you'd rather not be bothered, perhaps I > could even take the package off your hands. Yes, please do.

Bug#2062: ftp.debian.org:/debian/development ms-dos links are stale

1995-12-22 Thread Bill Mitchell
PACKAGE: ftp.debian.org ftp> ls xlib* 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. lrwxrwxr-x 1 1 995 33 Dec 8 04:23 xlib.deb -> ../../binary/x11/xlib-3.1.2-2.deb 226 Transfer complete. ftp> cd ../../binary/x11 250 CWD command successful. ftp> ls xlib*

Bug#2057: Man cron.daily

1995-12-22 Thread brian (b.c.) white
>The "man" script in cron.daily is as follows: ># expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week >find /var/catman -type f -name '*[1-9nlop].gz' -atime +168 | xargs rm -f > ># expunge old catman pages which are older than one month >find /var/catman -type f -name '*[1-9nlop].gz' -mtime

Unanswered problem reports by date

1995-12-22 Thread iwj10
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or or `forwarded' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 10 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 416 wenglish perl doesn't fl

Bug#2061: xbase-3.1.2-5 fails install on 0.93R6 system

1995-12-22 Thread Bill Mitchell
John Larkin said: > I've just created a brand-new 0.93R6 system. Installing xlib and xbase > worked flawlessly. That's a suprise, considering the problems I'm seeing. The system I attempted the installation to wasn't quite virgin. I did a new 0.93R6 installation to it about a week ago, and hav

Bug#2060: dpkg and depends on version again

1995-12-22 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.8 I have three test packages foo (1.0-0), foo (1.0-1) and bar (1.0-0). Table 1: current interpretation by dpkg Package Version Depends Depends (in words) foo 1.0-0 bar (>1.0-0) bar with version higher than 1.0-0 foo 1.0-1 bar (>1.0-1) bar with version

Bug#2061: xbase-3.1.2-5 fails install on 0.93R6 system

1995-12-22 Thread John Larkin
Stephen Early wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: > > Package: xbase > > Version: 3.1.2 > > Package_Revision: 5 > > > > Installation of this package fails in preinst on a newly-installed > > 0.93R6 system because /usr/bin/X11 and /usr/lib/X11 do not exist. > > The patch below correct