Bug#1930: Acknowledgement (was: metamail wants xloadimage)

1995-12-01 Thread Raul Miller
minor correction: it is /etc/mailcap that refers to xloadimage (not mime.types). -- Raul

dpkg in ftp.debian.org:/debian/stable

1995-12-01 Thread Ian Jackson
The fact that dpkg 1.0.6 - which is badly broken - is in the stable tree has been causing people problems. I have therefore moved 1.0.5 out of Incoming myself and put it in stable/{binary,source}/base. I hope doing this without following whatever the normal procedures are won't cause problems, bu

Bug#850: indent] option mentioned in documentation not supported

1995-12-01 Thread Bill Mitchell
I'm following up on a bug report for indent-1.9.1 which I sentin May. The problem is that the documentation describes a -bbb option, but the code only partially implements this option and it is nonfunctional. If this -bbb option is not to be supported, the code partially implementing it should be

Responsibility for gcc/libc/libg++?

1995-12-01 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
I seem to remember that Ian Murdock gave up these packages. I don't remember hearing of anyone picking them up. If they're not already claimed, I would be interested in taking them over. In fact, I've got gcc 2.7.2 already packaged up (Ian Murdock's diffs to 2.6.3 applied flawlessly over 2.7.2

Unanswered problem reports

1995-12-01 Thread iwj10
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 9 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 379 mount Repeatable mount(1) problem wi Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 41

Bug#1933: w from procps gives wrong idle times

1995-12-01 Thread Austin Donnelly
Package: procps Version: 0.97-4 valour$ w 5:07pm up 15 days, 20:31, 7 users, load average: 0.16, 0.11, 0.09, 3/76 User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what and1000 ttyp0 4:15pm49 24 -bash (bash) and1

Bug#1724: unexpected keypress translatio

1995-12-01 Thread Bill Mitchell
I'm closing this bug. The problem was lack of termcap support for keypresses. The current ae package implements termcap support for keypresses, and is capable of terminfo support. I'll release ae compiled for terminfo support when a shared ncurses library is released. Note: both /etc/termcap a

Bug#850: indent] option mentioned in documentation not supported

1995-12-01 Thread Joseph Arceneaux
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 07:26:47 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm following up on a bug report for indent-1.9.1 which I sentin May. The problem is that the documentation describes a -bbb option, but the code only partially implements thi

Bug#1934: font scaling problem

1995-12-01 Thread Michael E. Deisher
Package: mfbin Version: 2.71-3 When using dvips, I encountered: /usr/local/bin/MakeTeXPK: Metafont failed to make cmsy8.600gf. dvips: Font cmsy8 at 600 not found; scaling 300 instead. The result was that every LaTeX $\cdot$ was rendered as a small $\Delta$ symbol. When I use "dvips -D 300"

Bug#1848: git gets segv

1995-12-01 Thread Bill Mitchell
+ Problem: + The color selection from /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.common works well on the + console, but not so in a rxvt---object files appear blue on blue and are + invisible because the tones of blue are actually the same in an rxvt. I + copied that colour section from that .gitrc.common. into my

Re: Responsibility for gcc/libc/libg++?

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
> If they're not already claimed, I would be interested in taking them over. > In fact, I've got gcc 2.7.2 already packaged up (Ian Murdock's diffs to > 2.6.3 applied flawlessly over 2.7.2). ELF or a.out? I think Siggy (?) may have claimed gcc and possibly libc but he was been waiting to get hi

Siggy responsibe for gcc/libc/libg++?

1995-12-01 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote: > > If they're not already claimed, I would be interested in taking them over. > > In fact, I've got gcc 2.7.2 already packaged up (Ian Murdock's diffs to > > 2.6.3 applied flawlessly over 2.7.2). > ELF or a.out? I think Siggy (?) may have claimed gcc and p

Re: Siggy responsibe for gcc/libc/libg++?

1995-12-01 Thread Bruce Perens
> I thought Siggy had just claimed ncurses. He has. > I'd be more than willing to do gcc for an indefinite time span, if that > would free you up for more stuff. When last I checked, Siggy had taken on a lot of packages and may well need the help. Thanks Bruce -- Pixar: Symbo

FTP status for december.

1995-12-01 Thread Matthew Bailey
Well the ftp server has been real solid for the past month and seems to be doing nicely _except_ for a memory leak in a library. For this reason I will be pulling the debian.org drive out of the machine and moving it to my co-workers machine for the weekend. This will "halt" www traffic during

Re: Tcl/Tk source directories

1995-12-01 Thread Raul Miller
In my Tcl/Tk packages, I have conformed to what I think is the official Debian convention and renamed the source directories from to -. Unfortunately, this causes gratuitous changes in other packages which need to access the Tcl/Tk source directories. Since I try to make my Tcl/Tk

Re: Tcl/Tk source directories

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
>In my Tcl/Tk packages, I have conformed to what I think is the >official Debian convention and renamed the source directories from > to -. Unfortunately, >this causes gratuitous changes in other packages which need to access >the Tcl/Tk source directories. Since I try to make

Re: Review of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution on my web page

1995-12-01 Thread CD Rasmussen
FYI --- Forwarded Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Fearnley) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: Review of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution is now on my web page Organization: Philadelphia's Complete Internet Provider Summary: A review of Debian GNU/Linux is available on my Web

Re: Siggy responsibe for gcc/libc/libg++?

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
> I'd be more than willing to do gcc for an indefinite time span, if that > would free you up for more stuff. My real impetus for all this work, OK. After I finish gcc-2.7.2 and binutils-2.6.0.2, you can have them. They are building right now. I wish that extra 16 meg of RAM I ordered last we

Tcl/Tk source directories

1995-12-01 Thread David Engel
In my Tcl/Tk packages, I have conformed to what I think is the official Debian convention and renamed the source directories from to -. Unfortunately, this causes gratuitous changes in other packages which need to access the Tcl/Tk source directories. Since I try to make my Tcl/Tk patches usable