Josselin Mouette debian.org> writes:
> One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to
> reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for
> dependency. Was this email even read? Do these addresses have an utility
> in the real world?
The source package fser
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:34:55PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> Although the problem is well known and the solution is obvious, nobody seems
> to have the guts to make a change (or even to speak about it).
Let's have a discussion about reducing our number of architectures.
Attempting to su
On 1 February 2005 at 14:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-15 11:51]:
| > Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if
| > you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports
| > over the next
Clint Byrum spamaps.org> writes:
> Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below, and
> others, aren't indicative that debian should drop s390, mipsel, and
> maybe hppa from the list of architectures? How about we release for
> i386, sparc, and powerpc, and let the others release
Brian Nelson debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > > But a total of eleven is insane.
> >
> > It is sometimes hard to get them all to w
Matthew Palmer debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:15:58AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > undisputed: essentially all users are on i386 clearly dominating all other
> > arches, with a fraction of users in maybe two, three, four other arches ---
> > and
Matthew Palmer debian.org> writes:
[ a lot of stuff but omitting one critical argument of mine ]
Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I demonstrated
the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five other arches.
I rest my case. These arches have little benefit, but as
Don Armstrong debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I
> > demonstrated the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five
> > other arches.
>
> You used package downloa
Adam Heath debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> > files.downloaded percent
> > i386 1285422 70.5079
> > all 504789 27.6886
> > powerpc17754 0.9738
> > ia64
The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome front-end.
So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to
signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message). However, in
my tests, the NEWS file never got displayed by apt-listchanges.
I pl
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the quick reply.
On 12 March 2005 at 17:04, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-12 10:45]:
| > So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to
| > signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a deb
Hi Jeroen,
On 12 March 2005 at 18:09, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome
front-end.
|
| without, I assume.
Yup. Thanks for spotting that from context.
| &
On 12 March 2005 at 11:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| Ok, so I just did the following
|
| 1) Run 'wajig reconfigure apt-listchanges' to ensure apt-listchanges shows
|everything, even on versions we've seen before
| 2) 'wajig purge r-gnome'
| 3) 'wajig install r-
On 12 March 2005 at 17:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-12 11:42]:
| > 4) Scratch my head because even though 3) uses apt-get and 1) ensure NEWS
| >should be mailed to me, and 2) ensure it is a fresh package install, I
get
| >n
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of qtl, a bio/genetics analysis package for
R. I have sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshment. A
new minor version is out. The debian/ directory can probably do with an
update. I can help and advise, but canno
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of rmysql, a MySQL database package for R. I
have sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshment. Three new
minor versions are out, and there is a bug report. The debian/ directory can
probably do with an update. I
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of dbi, a database interface for R. I have
sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshment. A new version
is out. The debian/ directory can probably do with an update. I can help and
advise, but cannot take on more pa
at sponsoring
the updated versions.
Regards, Dirk
| Many greetings
|
| Steffen
|
| Am Donnerstag 01 Dezember 2005 04:45 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| > Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of dbi, a database interface for R. I
| > have sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshm
Roberto C. Sanchez familiasanchez.net> writes:
> Gillings, Marcus wrote:
> > I know this email is unorthodox, but I feel strongly that my creative
> > ideas are what Pixar is looking for. First of all, my name is Marcus
> > Gillings. I have two books I like to call "Super fiction" published.
>
Amos> Or an audit-trail of invocations of dpkg (e.g. "adduser 3.1-2
Amos> installed and configured successfully on Wed May 29 1997 00:00:23,
Amos> replaced adduser-3.1-0")
Darren> I asked for this a while back and was told that not very many
Darren> people wanted it. I still think it
Lars> It was decided many moons ago that Debian would use HTML as its
Lars> primary on-line documentation format. HTML should be the default.
Marco> That's right. But a lot of important packages like doc-linux don't
Marco> use HTML.
Well, the maintainer (that's me) prefers info as the b
Dirk> However, Christian Schwarz asked me to do html as well. That will be
Dirk> some work as HOWTO packages comes as tar.gz files with no
Dirk> surcompassing index.html. I'll have to do some perl hacking. No
Dirk> promises for the June release, maybe for July.
Christian> Just unpack
[ CC'ed to Christian for policy question, and to Manoj for VM example. ]
Marco> Ask the users! The most people hate the info format and it's
Marco> browsers. We should include the HTML documentation in the package.
But they get html via the dwww package! Which gives them _more_ documentation
That is a very reasonable proposal. I like it!
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What about the motif-dummy thingie we discussed? How can I run plan having
Motif and not lesstif installed? Can you make sure it doesn't Depends: on
lesstif, but rather on a virtual package 'motif-libs' which lesstif, and a
to-be-created-dummy package for Motif owners, would provide. Is that doab
Christoph> You want me to run around Campus installing gzip on 300 machines
Christoph> because those users are not able to?
Don't worry: gzip is part of the base system.
Why don't we test e2compr better? Or zlib-compressed filesystem? That way we
can have the cake (docs are compressed) and
>> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the
>> installer should:
>>
>> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or an
>> ftp script)
Sten> Very bad idea. Some of us are behind a firewall that makes it
Sten> difficult to use standard
[sorry for the empty mail I just posted, was fighting my keyboard ...]
Craig> i think an installer package in contrib is the best solution. the
Craig> installer should:
Craig>
Craig> - download the gated sources (using wget or lwp-request or snarf or
Craig> an ftp script)
Sten> V
Dirk> wget works for me behind a firewall at work. All it needs are the
Dirk> http_proxy and ftp_proxy environment variables pointing the correct
Dirk> proxy server.
Manoj> Would the installer script know how to set these variables?
Does it have to ? They are exported from ~/.profile.
Will> A package I'm maintaining, rosegarden, has come out with
Will> dependencies on xlib6 AND xlib6g. I didn't do this by hand, I left
Will> the "shlibs" stuff in the control file.
Happened to me once with an X11 package of mine. You probably have a mixed
libc5/libc6 system, and/or have
Folks,
Richard emailed me this. Unfortunately, I won't have time to deal with this.
And I don't even know what freeciv is ...
It would be great if someone else could help out.
Thanks, Dirk
--- Begin Message ---
Hi. I will be in Sweden until next Monday, perhaps you've seen my mail
to debian-d
Here are the diffs related to the (1 of 2) mail.
Thanks, Dirk
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--- freeciv-1.4.3.orig/common/registry.c
+++ freeciv-1.4.3/common/registry.c
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@
}
}
- fclose(fs);
+ if (ferror(fs) || fclose(fs) == EOF)
+return 0;
return 1;
}
--- freeciv
liiwi> Hello! I'm having trouble with fetchmail and procmail. The trouble
liiwi> is that fetchmail ignores the 'mda "formail -s procmail"' line
liiwi> totally and delivers all mail to port 25. nice. I can't remember,
liiwi> how many times I have checked everything.
Which version are you
Karl> I wonder if `dpkg' tracks the installation date of a package,
Karl> whether it should if it doesn't, or why it doesn't if that is the
Karl> case.
Yes, at least sort of, provided you use dselect with the dpkg-mountable
package. Then at least all uses of dpkg that stem from dselect are
Tim> I am in the process of upgrading my system to run current with hamm
Tim> and had a problem with the libmime-perl pkg relating to the
Tim> libwww-perl pkg that prevented both pkgs from configuring.
"Hm, not good" says the libmime-perl maintainer (that would be me :-( )
Tim> First
severity 20033 grave
stop
I just received another bug report (#20978) on Octave not being able to
run. I had already reassigned the first such report (#20033) to libstdc++2.8
which does *not* introduce versioned dependencies on its libs even though it
is incompatible with the previous release. Be
Would anyone want to take xpdf from me and make a free-world release? And
maybe even take over the package?
As a Canadian resident, I don't think I can deal with the encryption code (as
I understand it, the US laws for encryption technology make no difference
between US and Canadian residents).
Dirk> Would anyone want to take xpdf from me and make a free-world release?
Dirk> And maybe even take over the package?
Dirk>
Dirk> As a Canadian resident, I don't think I can deal with the encryption
Dirk> code (as I understand it, the US laws for encryption technology make
Dirk> no
I just made a non-maintainer release of info_3.12-1 as Octave now needs a
version of info that is greater or equal to 3.11. [1]
There were three files outside the debian/ that were patched in info-3.9. The
patch didn't apply properly, and I didn't investigate further. It's been
three upstream rev
Dirk> I just made a non-maintainer release of info_3.12-1 as Octave now
Dirk> needs a version of info that is greater or equal to 3.11. [1]
James> You called it 3.12-1.0 but it should be 3.12-0.1. Also you'll need
James> to ensure (-sa to dpkg-buildpackage) that the .orig.tar.gz is
Ja
Daniel> I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using
Daniel> bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of thing. Is this
Daniel> true is it just FUD?
IIRC that was the case for bzip compression. Bzip2 was rewritten to avoid it.
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Sven> Upstream authors might choose to release upstream source compressed
Sven> by bzip2. So bzip2 compression should be a valid option for source
Sven> archives.
Yes, just as another datapoint, GNU Octave does. For the record:
miles:/var/spool/mirror/octave [root] # ls -l octave-2.0.11.t
Avery> Could someone explain to me why it's so important to keep sources
Avery> "pristine" in this sense?
Security. Trojan horses. To be able to compare against digital footprints (eg
md5sums) from upstream.
Avery> I can understand not wanting to
Avery> untar-retar the archive, but re
We already have a mlddc client package:
Package: mlddc
Version: 3.2.2-4
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6
Installed-Size: 27
Maintainer: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description: A client for the Monolith dynamic DNS.
mlddc is a client for the Monolith ( http://www.ml.org )
dynamic DNS ( DYNDNS, http://
Alan> The package f2c (fortran-> C) which I mantain contains a script fc
Alan> which is supposed to make f2c seem like a real compiler. It was part
Alan> of the original f2c netlib distribution, but it is very antique and
Alan> has three bugs currently filed against it (no man page, use
Chris> Debian's [...] Chris> and adding the requirement for PGP (which I
Chris> never needed before) plus my growing involvement in small start-up
Chris> businesses (mostly Debian Linux based) have consumed all my time.
FUD.
I created PGP keys three years ago because I needed to sign Deb
The auto-pgp package has been touched since November 1995, and has currently
seven open bugs filed against it.
If nobody objects, I will adopt auto-pgpt by uploading a version which
corrects the 7 bugs and updates the package from Debian 1.1 to Debian 2.0
standards.
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Rob> It's syntax made it really easy to specify things like "I want a
Rob> mirror of unstable and frozen, but only the {disks,binary}-{i386,all}
Rob> stuff. To do the same thing in mirror syntax is a much bigger hassle.
Shouldn't have to be, especially for someone as Perl-sav
Santiago> BTW: Will this new mirror be in hamm? [ Maybe it should ].
It is a new upstream version which is incompatible with the deep freeze.
We should test it thoroughly first. Hence the quick upload yesterday.
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Santiago> Does this mean the modified-for-Debian "mirror" may not be
Santiago> distributed inside the .deb binary package?
Well, in mirror_2.9-1, all files by Lee are unmodified. No patches yet ...
Marcelo> Isn't that distributing modified bynaries? I mean, you are not
Marcelo> distrib
Bob> I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1
Bob> by default.
Note that the license currently states that distributing modified versions of
mirror is not koscher.
There were way more patches, big and small. Maybe I should release a
mirror28 package which preserv
Hi Martin,
Thanks very much for the very thorough follow-up!
On 2 May 2005 at 16:23, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-02-03 21:03]:
| > | Did you keep track which packages have been spoken for and for which
| > | you still need to file RFA
Howdy,
Francesco Paolo Lovergine debian.org> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Francesco P. Lovergine" debian.org>
>
> * Package name: gstat
> Version : 2.4.4
> Upstream Author : Edzer J. Pebesma geog.uu.nl> et al.
> * URL : http://www.gstat.or
My ggobi package recently made it from non-free/math to math (as the AT&T
license was replaced by the CPL, same as for graphviz). However, as shown by
igloo's script, buildds are not picking it up:
http://people.debian.org/~igloo/package-status.php?package=ggobi
Is there something I nee
On 29 May 2005 at 23:59, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
| On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 04:05:42PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > My ggobi package recently made it from non-free/math to math (as the AT&T
| > license was replaced by the CPL, same as for graphviz). However, as shown
by
| >
On 12 June 2005 at 21:13, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| In #232777, Dirk Eddelbuettel and I had a discussion about octave2.0.
|
| Dirk wrote:
| > We should consider removing octave2.0 as well. It is old code [1], and
| > upstream decided years ago to not port this code branch, but to conce
Package: wnpp
Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libtclap-dev
Version : 1.1-0
Upstream Author : Mike Smoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL or Web page : http://tclap.sourceforge.net/
* License : BSD (see below)
On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
| There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file
| called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup
| copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should have
| been removed. If you a
On 18 April 2006 at 01:23, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
| > | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file
| > | called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently t
Mark Hindley hindley.org.uk> writes:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Mark Hindley hindley.org.uk>
>
> * Package name: pfm
> Version : x.y.z
> Upstream Author : Name example.org>
> * URL : http://www.example.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MI
Eduard Bloch gmx.de> writes:
> > Right solution is to use pbuilder, which will:
> >
> > a) always ensure that package can be built using unstable
> > b) keep your build environment clean
> > c) keep your local system clean
>
> d) Need lots of disk space
> e) Take ages to unpack
> f) Add more com
Given my available time and all the things competing for it (work, family,
other hacking endeavours [quantian, a few small code projects, ...],
running, ...), I have too many packages to continue to do a reasonable or
better job at keeping the packages in shape.
So from the 80+ packages I have, a
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:32:23PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> la, 2005-01-15 kello 11:51 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel kirjoitti:
> > * bc (with binary packages bc and dc)
> >
> > Pretty stale upstream, has 5 open bugs most of which are feature requests
> > t
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 12:40:28PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> I will take bc if no one else wants it.
You'd need to talk to Lars, he came in a few minutes earlier. I'm sure
between the two of you you can work it out.
Dirk
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> Hi Dirk!
>
> You wrote:
>
> > * the gsl set:
> > - gsl
> > - gsl-ref-html
> > - gsl-ref-psdoc
> >
> > The two doc packages are currently a week behind packaging the new
> > upstream
> > gsl. Well maintained upstream,
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
> Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > * Miscellaneous
> > - afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward)
> I like afio for my compressed backups and use it very often.
> I'd like
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:05:46AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Dirk Eddelbuettel
>
> | - time (dead upstream)
>
> [...]
>
> | Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if you have
> | any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O b
Package: gs
Version: 2.6.1pl4
Revision: 5
The gs manual page mentions two options
-dXO=[units]
Specify the origin from the left side of the page.
<..>
-dXO=[units]
Specify the origin from the top of the page. Legal
<..>
Ignoring the man page bug that on
Package: texinfo
Version: 3.6
Revision: 3
/usr/info/dir contains the line (both with 3.6-2 and 3.6-3)
* Texi: (texi).The GNU Project's documentation format.
whereas the info files are called /usr/info/texinfo*.
Substituting [Tt]exi to [Tt]exinfo by hand in the /usr/info/dir file per
This is a long, and somewhat belated, response. Please read through it and
give me your comments.
Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
Marek> I noticed the following problems with the acct-alpha-5-7 package:
Marek>
Marek> - lastcomm and the kernel seem to disagree about sizeof(struct acct)
Marek
Ian Jackson writes:
>> Please see acct(2). There is not a lot we can do about it as the acct()
>> functions returns either 0 or -1. You get -1 for missing accounting
>> support in the kernel, but also when accounting is already turned
>> on. All I could do is to change the wording of th
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
Dirk> I changed 'accton.c' so that it calls 'exit(errno)'. It appears that
Dirk> the errno is set to '2' in both cases, ie when acct(2) reports
Dirk> 'device or resource busy' (ie accounting is already running) o
move the old ones or 1.71 should
retain /etc as their position. Does the FSSTND prefer one location over
the other.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CD Rasmussen writes:
Costa> Elisp folk don't tend to separate the source from the executable the
Costa> way people do with C programs. I'm sorry to hear this was done with
Costa> VM.
I don't want to take them away from anyone, not even from Emacs specialists.
I simply want to have the op
Susan G Kleinmann writes:
Susan> The man page and the info page for 'acct' refer the reader to
Susan> acct(5) for additional information. No such page exists.
True, but that is a bug in the upstream version that I as the maintainer
can't do anything about but writing the man page myself. A
Susan G Kleinmann writes:
Susan> There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
Susan> accouting files.
Thanks. These inconsistencies arise mainly from "Linuxisation" and
"Debianization" of the acct package. I will correct these inconsistencies in
the texinfo source for the
Erick Branderhorst writes:
Erick> Hyperlatex doesn't recommend ghostscript but gs from 1.3-5 (and
Erick> higher) I'm closing this bug. -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erick> +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care)
Erick> University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Erick,
You al
CD Rasmussen writes:
CD> In the case of the acct package missing a man page, I don't think it is
CD> important that you write one or if the author is dead set against them
CD> (which has not been shown to me), but it is important that we keep the
CD> information that reminds the author t
PACKAGE: dosemu
VERSION: 0.60.3
PACKAGE_REVISION: 0
MAINTAINER: Mike Deisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
miles:/debian/private/project/Incoming [root] # dpkg -i dosemu-0.60.3-0.deb
Selecting previously deselected package dosemu.
(Reading database ... 16206 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpa
Michael E Deisher writes:
Michael> On Wed, 1 Nov 95 12:30 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael> said:
Michael> Strange. It installs fine on my system. Anyway, I'll upload a
Michael> new, fixed package soon.
I bet you still have an X11 release from the pre-virtual-package-name area.
Here I
Package: dosemu
Version: 0.60.3-0
Michael E Deisher writes, replying to a private mail of mine
Michael> I hope you don't mind me entering your comments (and my additional
Michael> comments) as another debian bug report.
Maybe we should have kept it private for an iteration or two to keep t
I just looked around a bit on my box via "dpkg -l" and saw that I had
archie, xarchieR6
dvips, dvipsk
fvwm, fvwmR6
ghostview, ghostviewR6
xdvi, xdvik
xpm, xpmR6
installed. That is really quite some avoidable clutter.
Not that I am in favour of crep
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r
Revision: 8
fvwm puts files fvwmrc. on /tmp that are not deleted after fvwm ends.
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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
Ian Jackson writes:
Ian> Why can't we just stick with `doc' containing both sets of
Ian> documentation ? Is there any point in splitting the package up ?
Having two packages permits the user to select the one she wants. There might
be people who can live without the HOWTOs or the Debian d
Ian Jackson writes, answering a question of mine:
Ian> No. I suppose I'm suggesting that the browser packages use a shared
Ian> file like /etc/default-www-home or something, in much the same way as
Ian> other packages use /etc/mailname, /etc/news/server and /etc/papersize.
Exactly. Seve
Package: git
Version: 4.3.7
Revision: 4
Setting:
X11, rxvt, $TERM=linux, ~/.gitrc.linux a copy of /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.xterm
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
Package: ncftp
Version: 2.1.0-1
J H M Dassen writes:
Ray> ncftp-2.1.0 cannot cd into ftp.debian.org:/debian/private/project. It
Ray> can get to private, but gives "Permission denied" when entering
Ray> project.
Not a bug IMHO. Try it again, going slowly directory by directory, ie
Ian Jackson writes:
Ian> Below is a listing generated by a new version of the bug summaries
Ian> script.
Ian>
Ian> What do people think of it ?
I like it and prefer it over the old format. Two small glitches:
- Nils Rennebarth has two entries (the very first and a bigger one
furth
You did not fix the other bug. Nils, for example has two entries :
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (1 bugs):
gpm 1669 shutdown hangs on gpm -k until mouse is moved
Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (19 bugs):
bibtex, kp 1429 several TeX packages Provide themselves
dvipsk
Package: trn
Version: 3.6
Revision: 2
The postinst lacks a $:
*** trn.postinst.oldMon Nov 20 16:28:04 1995
--- trn.postinstMon Nov 20 16:28:22 1995
***
*** 18,21
read server
! echo server >news/server
--- 18,21
read server
! echo $server >news/server
But
kenny writes:
kenny> a2gs - Is this superceded by genscript?
kenny> a2ps - Pretty much a dead
I think we should throw these two out.
In July, I filed bug#1112 against a2gs. This bug is still open. As Kenny
could provide no solution (IMHO it's an upstream problem), I tried some other,
s
Bill Mitchell writes:
Bill> Yesterday, I said I'd counted 1300+ and info and man files which
Bill> referred to /usr/local. It later struck me that this number is
Bill> totally unreasonable. I think I reversed the sense of the test.
Bill>
Bill> I've redone the test on what I current
Juhana K Kouhia writes:
Juhana> /usr/bin/gcc -c -g -O -I. -I.. -I.././tools -I.././libtiff
Juhana> .././tools/gif2tiff.c
Juhana> /usr/bin/gcc -o gif2tiff -g -O -I. -I.. -I.././tools -I.././libtiff
Juhana> gif2tiff.o ../libtiff/libtiff.a -lm
Juhana> ld: Output file requires shared libra
Package: ncurses-runtime
Version: 1.9.7a
Installation of ncurses-runtime gave me a new 'reset' in /usr/bin by hard
linking it to /usr/bin/tset from the same package.
Unfortunately, this overwrote the /usr/bin/reset script I had from the
base/tput package. I can't remember whether I asked dpkg to
IanJ> We're building a distribution, so it makes sense to trade off
IanJ> computation at build time against computation at run time.
I agree. I had asked for opinions with respect to the increase in size.
Several people reminded me that this is presumably due to inlining functions
or to looku
IanJ> What I'm thinking of doing is providing a generic mechanism for
IanJ> package X to say "install /foo/bar as /spong/wibble instead".
The public discussion is completely removed from my initial question about
where to put backup software. Private mail was in support of /bin and /sbin.
I
Package: gnuplot
Version: 3.5
Revision: 3
gnuplot's term.h has the define for FIG commented out. So no 'fig' or 'bfig'
terminals for the portable fig graphics language can be generated. That's a
pity as Debian has the xfig and transfig packages to use fig graphics. It
compiles fine with FIG defin
Robert Leslie writes:
Robert> I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu
Robert> doesn't even carry the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers
Robert> debian-1.0.
It's getting jucier by the minute:
This domain has a local wuarchive mirror. Wuarchive mirrors tsx-11, alo
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