Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Stephen Powell wrote: > But like lilo it stays out of unallocated (and therefore not backed up) > sectors. The boot block of extlinux is installed in the boot sector > of a partition, and the second stage loader occupies a file within the > partition. It does

Bug#560744: O: xview -- XView UI toolkit library and client programs

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm orphaning the XView package, containing the XView UI toolkit libraries plus a few applications using them (most notably olwm/olvwm). I haven't used it for a long time and I guess it's finally time to let it die in peace. However, for some strange reason, some par

Re: dselect features request

e diff for dpkg 1.4.0.8 and a dpkg-binary for libc6 (not .deb-package, sorry). I'd like to know what people think about it before trying to get the patch into the standard dpkg. Thanks, Martin -- /* Martin Buck E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ /* Student of electrical enginee

Re: why are shared libs chmod +x? (again)

to know more about the purpose of a file, he can use file(1) and get a much better answer. Martin -- /* Martin Buck E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ /* Student of electrical engineering WWW: http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_mbuck1/ */ /* University of Ulm, Germany Snail-Mail: Pa