This is my personal policy:
Currently, I am distributing CD-writables, not mass-produced CDs. Because
these cost a lot more than the mass-produced CD. I will make one for any
contributor at my cost for the media and mailing. I'd probably go broke
quickly if I did not ask for that, as I am about $4
Package: textutils
Version: 1.11-2
I'm not sure if this a bug but IMO it is very misleading.
Specified fields with cut aren't ordered as specified in output.
$ cat testfile
1 2 3
1 2 3
1 2 3
$ cat testfile | cut -f1,2,3
1 2 3 ~
1 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Howell) said:
> Some of the authors of the software we have packages have asked for
> a free copy of the CD in return for them letting us put it on the CD,
Which would seem to contradict their copyright statements.
> or just out of gratitude.
But that's another thing
Thanks for the comments on doc, guys. I think I will package the old 'doc' as
`doclinux' and create a new `docdebian' with Debian specific documentation,
especially as Ian M. promised the manual for today :-)
(As an aside: doclinux and docdebian or rather doc-linux and doc-debian ?)
Erick pointe
The incoming.uk dir isn't mirroring well on ftp.debian.org
--
Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Bill Mitchell writes:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Howell) said:
>
> > Some of the authors of the software we have packages have asked for
> > a free copy of the CD in return for them letting us put it on the CD,
>
> Which would seem to contradict their copyright statements.
No, not everyone u
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Howell) said:
> > Which would seem to contradict their copyright statements.
>
> No, not everyone uses the GPL.
>
>
> This program is copyrighted (c) 1995 by Holger Schemel.
>
> It is freely distributable as long as no profit is made with it
> and as long as the packa
Bill Mitchell writes:
> As I understand our distribution policies, programs with such
> restrictive copyrights should placed in non-free, not in the main
> distribution. They'd probably not be picked up on CDROM distributions.
Holger gave me permission to package mirror magic. As I understand ou
>
> Thanks for the comments on doc, guys. I think I will package the old 'doc' as
> `doclinux' and create a new `docdebian' with Debian specific documentation,
> especially as Ian M. promised the manual for today :-)
> (As an aside: doclinux and docdebian or rather doc-linux and doc-debian ?)
do
On Wed, 8 Nov 1995 02:30:27 +0800 (WST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Howell) said:
> Holger gave me permission to package mirror magic. As I understand
> our distribution policies, packages which we don't have permission
> to put on the CD go in non-free.
The question is ~*which* CD?" According to
Michael E. Deisher writes:
> The question is ~*which* CD?" According to Holger's copyright policy
> would require every CD distributor to individually comply. Debian's
> policy is to put such packages in non-free. That way, anyone can put
> the main distribution on a CD without having to check f
On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
> The incoming.uk dir isn't mirroring well on ftp.debian.org
> --
> Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
> Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam
> NL
>
The UK machine keeps dropping connection part way throu
(This is a rant.)
Matthew Bailey writes ("Re: ftp.debian.org incoming.uk needs update"):
> The UK machine keeps dropping connection part way through. be patient it
> will all arrive soon.
They forgot to water our piece of string, so our transatlantic traffic
has fallen back to the carrier pigeon
The following problem reports are very old but have not yet been marked
as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or as forwarded
to a developer by CCing a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please help ensure that these bugs are dealt with quickly, even if you
are not the package maintainer in que
Matthew Bailey wrote:
> The UK machine keeps dropping connection part way through. be patient it
> will all arrive soon.
Maybe we should try a different site. Please check if you get a
better connection to:
sc2.et-inf.fho-emden.de/debian/private/project/Incoming
Peter
PS: The files in thi
Looks like it is all here now!
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 19:27:22 -0500
From: Charlie Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mirror update
Mirrored incoming (chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk:/pub/debian/private/Incoming ->
/debian.org/ftp/debian/private/
On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Peter Tobias wrote:
> Matthew Bailey wrote:
> > The UK machine keeps dropping connection part way through. be patient it
> > will all arrive soon.
>
> Maybe we should try a different site. Please check if you get a
> better connection to:
>
> sc2.et-inf.fho-emden.de/debi
Package: (base)
Version: 0.93R6
When doing a new installation, the base system unaccoutably tried to
use /dev/sda1 as a swap partition. We had not specified /dev/sda1 as
a swap partition, but its type was listed as Linux Swap in the
partition table. I think a bit more checking would be appropria
Package: syslogd
Version: 1.2-15
>From an initial installation, syslogd produces messages about
/var/log/news/ not existing. /var/log/news should IMO be created
as part of the syslogd package, with permissions 2755 news.news.
Ian.
Package: w3-el
Version: 2.2.16-1
w3-el Recommends netpbm | pbmplus. Neither of these packages are
available in the main distribution (so a package that is shoud not
Depend on or Recommend them), and in any case it seems to work
perfectly well without.
Ian.
Package: dvipsk
Version: 5.58f-3
Package: dvipsk
Recommends: psfonts
However, no psfonts package appears to be available.
Ian.
package: xstd
version: 3.1.2-3
in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Subject: Re: Linux kermit grabs the mouse port
>[...]
>Worryingly, I can do 'set line /dev/cua0' with ease, and it
>talks mouse-speak. Why does X not set a lock [...]
Good question.
I've verified this under debian 0.93
Package: knews
Version: 0.9.3-1
We installed knews, and it prompted us about the news server, despite
the fact that we'd already told inewsinn's postinst where to find it
(and it had set up /etc/news/inn.conf and /etc/news/server). It
should read (and write, if necessary) /etc/news/server.
Ian.
Package: f2c
Version: 951007-2
f2c's postinst script ran ldconfig with the -v option, producing a lot
of alarming-looking output.
Ian.
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.5
The Perl package sometimes produces a message about not having the
kernel headers installed, and having to run perlconfig later.
(a) This should be handled differently if the kernel source or headers
are to be installed: dpkg should defer configuring Perl if possible.
Package: tgif
Version: 2.16pl12-0
We installed tgif, and it prompted us about the paper size, despite
the fact that we'd already told another program. It should use
/etc/papersize.
Ian.
Package: snmp
Version: 2.1.2l3-1
The snmp package installs a file in /etc/init.d, which runs
start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/snmpd &
Ie, in the background. This resulted in a confusing message about
starting snmpd during the installation of the next package.
Can s
Package: samba
Version: 1.9.14-1
We removed a newly-installed samba package, and it left an `nmbd' or
some such process running, which appeared to be a child of the
correctly-killed `smbd'. A SIGTERM fixed it.
Ian.
Package: snmp
Version: 2.1.2l3-1
We removed a newly-installed snmp package, and it left an snmpd
running. We tried killing it with SIGTERMs, but it appeared to ignore
them. A SIGKILL fixed it.
Ian.
Package: includes
Version: 1.2.13-5
(a) The `includes' packages creates /usr/doc/includes/COPYRIGHT in the
postinst. This is wrong.
(b) It doesn't remove it in the {pre,post}{inst,rm}, so dpkg complains
about being unable to remove the empty /usr/doc/includes directory.
Ian.
Package: texbin
Version: 3.1415-4
texbin failed to configure properly, with dpkg telling us that the
postinst had exited with an error status of 1. There were no other
useful messages. Oddly, a reinstall worked.
There are two bugs here:
(a) whatever caused the problem in the first place.
(b) th
Package: bind
Version: 4.9.3-BETA24-1
We installed bind on a fresh system. We configured the nameserver and
wanted to start it, and tried `ndc start'. It complained about
/var/run/named.pid not existing. We tried /etc/init.d/bind start, and
nothing happened. On closer inspection, the `bind' sc
Package: ppp
Version: 2.2-1
We installed and then removed/purged ppp, and were left with a
nonexmpty /etc/ppp directory.
dpkg --purge should remove configuration files. (The postinst gets
"purge" as $1 in this situation.)
Ian.
Package: netstd
Version: 1.21-1
We used `/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs reload' to try to get the nfsd to read
a new exports file, but this appeared to kill the mountd. We
restarted it by using `netstd_nfs start' and it appeared to work.
Ian.
There is an official Debian CD - the one that FSF is issuing.
I've offered to let FSF copy my master CD - it's not clear if they
will need to do this or not.
Bruce
On Sun, 5 Nov 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:
> [...] The terminfo data/linux file has kbs=\177.
and kbs doesn't appear to work.
> (a) The `includes' packages creates /usr/doc/includes/COPYRIGHT in the
> postinst.
Must be a throwback to the old dpkg not handling symlinks. I'll fix
it when I build the kernel.
Bruce
--- Start of forwarded message ---
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:06:00 -0500
From: "brian (b.c.) white" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New Packages-Master
I noticed that the "Packages-Master" file now has a "filename:" field.
I'm curious about what will happen when (if
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