Revised Debian FAQ

1996-06-28 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
A copy of the revised version of the Debian FAQ has been placed on my WWW server at: http://sgk.phast.umass.edu/FAQ/debian-faq.html Other formats for this document are available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/pub/debian-faq.txt.gz (plain text) ftp://sgk.phast.umass.edu/p

Bug#3445: bug in amd package (upgrade)

1996-06-28 Thread Danny ter Haar
package: amd Version: upl102-3 While upgrading to the latest debian version my amd config file (/etc/init.d/amd) got overwritten. it is not listed as a config file and thus was disabled next time i booted. Danny

EXMH - anyone debianized it? Also a copyright question.

1996-06-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm intending to learn to debianize a package by doing this to the EXMH 1.6.7 distribution and have two question: 1. Is anyone allready working on this? 2. Here is the COPYRIGHT file from exmh-1.6.7, from reading the "(guidelines)Package Copyright" node in info, my understanding is that t

Bug#3443: mechanism for dealing with orphan packages

1996-06-28 Thread Bill Mitchell
Package: Debian distribution package admin On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, regarding Bug#3360, David Engel wrote: >Yambo writes: >> Package: dialog >> Version: 0.9a-2 > >Sigh! I'm still listed as the maintainer for this package. Would >someone take it over, please? I don't want it and didn't even make >

Bug#3431: some packages have no information on WWW-server

1996-06-28 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> A lot of packages are listed simply as: > > download ( bytes) > > Version: Last modified: Wed Dec 31 18:00:00 1969 > Architecture: > Maintainer: > Description: > > Although the download link is correct. This means that A. My account on ftp.microworld.net aka www.debian.org ha

Re: Porting and the bug reporting system

1996-06-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Schulze writes ("Re: Porting and the bug reporting system"): ... > But as Michael said, the bugtracking system has a long backlock. Your > bugs won't reach the maintainer until Ian has repaired it. The bug tracking system is now working fine, and answering mail almost immediately. The onl

Re: Bug#3290: sysvinit path doesn't include /usr/local/{,s}bin

1996-06-28 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Christian Hudon) wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > > > > > > We need to give people the opportunity to override binaries using > > > whatever practice they like. > > > > But.. but.. come on! This is *ridiculous* ! The path set in th