On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:54:20AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > > xbase 30852 X packages do not upgrade automatically due to name change.
> > > > [41] (Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
> [...]
> >
> > There's supposed to be a new versio
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On 21 Jun 1998, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> Perhaps you could review the discussion 6 months ago (or more!) when
> we first concluded that this was the *only* way it would work...
Is anybody able to do a brief summary, please? If "emacs" is abolished as
a virtual p
reassign 13578 gzip
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stop
Please, don't reassign packaging bugs to debmake, but open new bugs
instead. debstd is not a shared library and therefore fixing it will not
`magically' fix all packages using it in debian/rules.
I have taken over the maintenance of d
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Forwarded message from RMS.
This means we can (and maybe should) start writing
Sources were obtained from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/whatever.tar.gz
in our /usr/doc//copyright files for GNU packages, instead of the
old name, prep.ai.mit.edu.
Thanks.
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On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I was wondering, if anybody has a package, which does the upgrade from Debian
> to hamm (probably a simple shell script is sufficient).
>
> If so, I would like to install this script and try the hamm distribution. If
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Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> To solve a grave priority bug, I've made the perl package (from
> 5.004.04-3+) pre-depend on perl-base (>=5.004.04-2).
> [ ... ]
> So, I didn't follow the policy manual and get consensus for a
> pre-depends in perl. [ ... ]
Don'
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Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the
> virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who
> is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds
> of Perl, I
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On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> In bug report 15091, Christian Meder suggests to me that I make gzip predepend
> on libc6. It is not clear to me that this is a good thing to do.
[ I think it is a good thing to do, so I have changed the severity to
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Francesco Tapparo wrote:
> Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
> > Did you try CFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wall" ./configure?
>
> Yes, so the pakage compile perfectly: thanks. Now I think that this is the
> right method of set the variables.
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On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> "objections" this times. If you can't live with this proposal, you'll have
> to present another formulation of a paragraph or of the whole text.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> /usr/doc//html-info/
Would not texi-html or
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I think we should aim to get all documentation into separate packages.
>
> Please don't do this. Deity will have the capability to exclude installation
> to certain directorie
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997 20:13:13 +0200 Christian Schwarz
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > Option 3: We ship .texi files and produce HTML and/or info files on
> > demand (in the postinst script).
>
> I like this i
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> Option 3: We ship .texi files and produce HTML and/or info files on
> demand (in the postinst script).
I think this is not a good idea. Where are these html/info files supposed
to be generated? Will
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On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> I think we should start moving away from MD5 as our main hash function.
> MD5 has known weaknesses so that an attacker can quite possibly create
> two files, differing maybe in a single bit or in quite a few bytes, but
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On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> The documentation will be distributed via several packages:
>
>foo-doc-html for HTML docs
>foo-doc-info for GNU info docs (where available)
>foo-doc-xxx for
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
> I think we should also consider switching to Maildir/ format for mail drops,
> since it seems to be the only way for delivering mail securely over NFS.
procmail does also deliver mail securely over NFS.
(At least this
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
> August 31, 1997 All packages depending on libc4 or libc5 will be removed.
This is too much strong. I would suggest to make their associated bug
(the one saying "it's still libc5") "almost-critical" instead.
-BEG
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Sorry, I didn't explain well. I said:
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I wonder why we are supporting this packages in the `contrib' section:
* whose copyright permission notices (or patent problems) allow only
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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> TOPIC 11: policy about including documentation
>
> The current policy concerning docs is:
>
> - HTML is the preferred format
> - if the package includes docs than can be converted into HTML,
>th
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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> TOPIC 7: new definition of ``free software''
This is only about the "main" section.
In addition to that, I wonder why we are supporting this packages in the
`contrib' section:
* whose copyright permission n
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> > So IMHO you should have added to your initial list of packages the ones on
> > which they depend, until all dependencies are satisfied. dselect does this
> > automatically. If you don't like it, it is supposed to be done by hand.
>
> If this is true then ther
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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Two packages in the list of "important" refused to install because they
> declared (correctly) their dependence upon packages of lower priority.
>
> at depends on libelf0 priority: optional
>
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On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
> I second the motion. Smail has been nothing but a headache for me. I was
> *so* releived to get fetchpop working, so that I could bypass the need to
> pass my mail thru port 25 on my own machine for delivery.
>
> pine +
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About the link binary -> binary-i386:
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote:
> >Very old versions of dselect use it. It's meant for backwards
> >compatibility.
>
> Are these the same versions which have problems with Packages files
> with epochs in
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J.H.M.Dassen wrote:
> Is it possible to rebuild a debian source package (that uses debmake),
> through the "build" command, signing it with another PGP key than the one
> belonging to the maintainer in debian/changelog without modifying the source
> (i.e. by pro
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On Mon, 26 May 1997, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> Ok..! Let's use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ '... It's much better than '
> \\$'...
Yes!, please!, let's use PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' !
Or even better: PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w\$ ' for root and PS1='\h:\w
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
>
> > 9020: e2fsprogs- fsck.ext2: can't load library 'libcom_err.so.2'
>
> I just checked this bug. It refers to Version 1.06-3 of e2fsprogs, but
> 1.10-2 is th
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> I have been trying for some time to solve Bug #8882 against the 'sp'
> package, which says that in order to make it buildable under glibc,
> I need to call libintl as well as libnls in order to accommodate glibc,
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