ftp.debian.org is down.

Hope this event wasn't already announced, and I missed it, but the ftp site seems to be down. Thanks -- Rob

Lack of libtercap.so kills elf Accelerated X

I have to use XInside's Accelerated X server because I have a Matrox card, and they provide an elf executable. However, it dies on launch because it can't find libtermcap.so.2. As I understand it, termcap is no longer supported by Debian. I contacted XInside, and they seemed a little surprised b

Re: New lib{db,gdbm,readline}

> "R" == J H M Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: R> Here are new versions of libdb, libgdbm and libreadline. Please R> note that this version of libgdbm will break the current perl and R> man pages. Please wait for new version of these packages before R> upgrading. Is this still true? I th

Status of xpm.

Ian, are you working on an elf version? If not, I would be willing to work on it if it's not too complicated. I've never handled a package before, so I'd like to start out easy. I only brought this up because I've been doing some Motif work, and without an elf xpm, I have to link in the *huge*

Bug#1998: xypic-3.2-3 requires nonexistant packages.

Package: xypic Version: 3.2-3 Trying to configure xypic on a debian-1.0 (i.e. ALPHA) system fails due to dependencies on texbin, mfbin, and mflib packages newer than the ones currently available. These seem to be the currently available (development) packages: texbin-3.1415-4.deb mfbin-2.71-3.de

So are Incoming files permanently world unreadble?

I used to get the latest packages from Incoming, since it was often a while before they were moved from Incoming to the development tree. Now that the permissions are set so that none of these are world readable (I assume because of the corrupted files complaints), is my only recourse to wait for