Bug#4012: xbase: `window-managers' was un-correctly generated

1996-08-03 Thread James A. Robinson
> I believe that the 3 first extra explanatory lines in file `xbase.postinst' > of this package should be removed as they trigger unexpected result in some > cases (can go into an infinite loop as Xsession will call itself if you Perhaps the Xsession should be for i in `grep -v "

Bug#4013: groff version is old

1996-08-03 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: groff Version: 1.09-11 GNU troff 1.10 has been out since November 1995. 1.09 is relatively ancient. Version 1.10 fixes some very significant bugs, adds a LaserJet output device, and more. Also, the description incorrectly reads "GNU RunOFF". It's GNU troff. Runoff is an early precurso

Re: perlconfig creates unnecessary/unusable files.

1996-08-03 Thread Brian C. White
> [Side Note: I wonder if I should use Ada, Agol, Assembler, C, CSH,] > [Cobol, Eifel, Fortran, KSH, Lisp, Perl, Pascal, Python, SH, or] > [Smalltalk to do it? :-) :-O :-Q :-)] Prolog, definitely! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-03 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kai Henningsen writes: >That's a problem, but it's not the problem I meant. For difficult to >parse, well, compare these two lines: > a =~ s/some/thing... > b = c/d >Very bad syntax design, that. There's always s,some,thing, or s|some|thing| or whatever. >Eit

Bug#4012: xbase: `window-managers' was un-correctly generated

1996-08-03 Thread H. Manas
Package: xbase Version: 3.1.2-9 I believe that the 3 first extra explanatory lines in file `xbase.postinst' of this package should be removed as they trigger unexpected result in some cases (can go into an infinite loop as Xsession will call itself if you start X from /etc/X11 for instance). I'

Re: perlconfig creates unnecessary/unusable files.

1996-08-03 Thread James A. Robinson
> it also runs h2ph in the foreground, when there's no good reason why it > shouldn't run in the background and let dselect get on with the rest of > the install process. Some people don't like this (IMO, very sensible) approach. So there needs to be options given. What I'm going to do is write

Bug#3953: Tk 4.1's bell flashes the display.

1996-08-03 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
I don't get the "Visual Bell" when I run the wish script you mentioned. Perhaps you have vb (visual bell) set in your terminfo? Susan Kleinmann

Re: IP-aliasing

1996-08-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Behan Webster wrote: > I've also written the following simple script for one of the machines > I manage that is used as a multi-homed web site (it has about 6 ip > addresses right now.) Just give it a list of ip addresses on the > command line. It's to be used once at boot t

Re: New Apache package (Was: Re: Q about making a package with a dedicated user?)

1996-08-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You (Yves Arrouye) wrote: > > To anyone that read this message: your suggestions for features you > > want in the Apache package are welcome. > > Perhaps you could put in the SSL patches and make the apache-SL

Bug#4011: simple c++ program segfaults

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2-8 A recent posting on comp.os.linux.apps by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Alboth) can be reproduced on my Debian system. In fact, it seems to occur on a Sun with g++ too. Here's a modified version of the program: -- #include void main( int argc, char **argv) { ofstream

Re: perlconfig creates unnecessary/unusable files.

1996-08-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.003-2 > > perlconfig (aka h2ph) really wants to make .ph files with Objective C > headers found under /usr/include... and fails! > > Yves. > it also runs h2ph in the foreground, when there's no good reason why it shouldn't

Bug#4010: perl-tk doesn't work with perl 5.003

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: perl-tk Version: b11.02-2 It puts stuff into /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002 which is not searched by perl 5.003 and consequently nothing works :( -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EM

Unanswered problem reports by date

1996-08-03 Thread owner
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 16 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 660 gdbGDB gets addr

Bug#4000: emacs can't initialize x window

1996-08-03 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "EB" == Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: EB> I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error occurs. EB> Loading hilit19... EB> Error in init file: error: "X windows are not in use or not initialized" Maybe that's why the documentation at the beggining of hilit1

Re: uploaded babel 3.6-4 to master

1996-08-03 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "EB" == Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: EB> babel: Support for multilingual typesetting with (La)TeX EB> Changes: EB> Fri Aug 2 13:21:27 1996 Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> EB> . EB> * debian.rules: changed for processing in subdir babel EB> * add

Bug#4009: /bin/edit causes error after ae removed

1996-08-03 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 After forcing the removal of ae, /bin/edit was still installed, but didn't call a suitable replacement editor such as vi.

Bug#3901: dotlock" should be setgid mail

1996-08-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
"Susan G. Kleinmann": > a) can someone tell me what package/file/script does install /var/spool/mail? >(I'd use this info to find out why my search method failed.) I would assume that it is either the initial installation, or smail/sendmail. > c) Lars, what did you mean by saying "staying wit