Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-16 Thread Ian Murdock
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Matthew Bailey wrote: > You didn't miss any mail, I had mailed Ian M. to tell him about this > but I just got 5 bounced mail messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmm.. Could you forward the bounced messages, with headers, so I can determine what the problem was (or is)?

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > > I apologize for my gaffe. Obviously I should pay better attention to my > mail, since it seems I glossed over the announcement of the change in > policy. You didn't miss any mail, I had mailed Ian M. to tell him about this but I just got 5 b

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Stephen Early wrote: > > I think ncurses wins an award for "most packages from one source archive." > ...soon to be trumped by X, which is currently generating 24 packages > from one source archive. Forgot about that one --- the whole group come from just the one source pac

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Stephen Early
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > I think ncurses wins an award for "most packages from one source archive." ...soon to be trumped by X, which is currently generating 24 packages from one source archive. Steve

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote: > ncurses-base-1.9.8a-1.deb should have a debian.preinst to kill > the link etc/terminfo -> ../usr/lib/terminfo provided by base-0.93.6. > Or it is intended that these fall into /usr/lib/terminfo? No, it isn't. They are supposed to be totally disconnected. Thanks

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote: > Minor doc-bug in ncurses-1.9.8a/debian.README: > ncurses21 should read ncurses3.0 Blast, I thought I had parameterized that _everywhere_. Oh, well. It's fixed. > I hope ncurses3.0 will be a stabile ABI, since a lot of packages depends > on it. That's why I

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Matthew Bailey wrote: > There is NO problem with uploads. The fact that I receive 10-5 mails a > day to ftpadmin about corrupt files in private/project/Incoming made me > opt for this method. This should be for INCOMING use only. the files will > be available as soon as the f

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-10 Thread roro
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote: > > > And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database > > w/o installing and purging? > > Good point. This sounds like a serious user-upgrade issue. This looks > like a dpkg-guru question. > O

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-09 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote: > And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database > w/o installing and purging? Good point. This sounds like a serious user-upgrade issue. This looks like a dpkg-guru question.

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-09 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > I think ncurses wins an award for "most packages from one source archive." I'm not sure about that. I've had several instances of multiple rapid-fire uploads due to upload glitches and due to my own boneheaded errors 8^(.

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-09 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > > Since ftp.debian.org seems to still be having problems with people > downloading new files, I'm putting a copy of ncurses-1.9.8a in > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/bruce/Incoming, since a handful of people have > contacted me since yesterday to ask if

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-09 Thread roro
Another problem: ncurses-base-1.9.8a-1.deb should have a debian.preinst to kill the link etc/terminfo -> ../usr/lib/terminfo provided by base-0.93.6. Or it is intended that these fall into /usr/lib/terminfo? And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database w/o installing and pur

Re: ncurses available on ftp.pixar.com

1995-12-09 Thread roro
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Since ftp.debian.org seems to still be having problems with people > downloading new files, I'm putting a copy of ncurses-1.9.8a in > ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/bruce/Incoming, since a handful of people have ^^ You mean ftp.pixa