Re: debootstrapping and sysvinit

2003-06-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> I've received several reports that debootstrap of sid has not been > possible recently due to sysvinit. I've noticed that waldi already did a NMU. I'm moved. It's free-software and cooperation at work. excited, junichi

Re: inews path question

2003-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have > three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews, > while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how > is a program like slrn

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-28 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > I dunno, but I am working on expanding uqm-content's 6 lines to > something more appropriate to its number of files (11.5 thousand). Maybe > .. 600 lines? > > Now I'm really glad uqm-voice (100+ mb) is not going into the archive > anytime soon. I have more i

Re: apt ignores -o DPkg::Options ?

2003-06-28 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Hmm... > > > > Seems that apt-get ignores -o DPkg::Options. > > > > -o dpkg::options::=foo -o dpkg::optons::=bar Thank you. Is this documented anywhere?

Bug#198479: general: perlapi-5.6.1 missing in sarge since perl 5.8.0 rollout

2003-06-28 Thread Mark Hedges
Package: general Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-28 Followup-For: Bug #198479 There needs to be a backwards-compatible perlapi-5.6.1 module which apt-file and other depend on to install. Since rolling out perl 5.8.0, many packages that depend on perl 5.6.1 components have broken or will no