Re: Upgrading packages?

1999-11-22 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 08:34:09PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > However, the uupdate reported a problem, complaining that 0.6 is less than > 0.52, which was the previous version. I "fixed" this by changing the version > number to 0.60, is that the correct way of doing it? 6 < 52. See the packag

Re: setgid stuff

1999-11-22 Thread Peter S Galbraith
peter karlsson wrote: > The program, jwhois (should be in the distribution now), has been changed so > that it will keep a cache of previous lookups. To get this to work, the > binary need to be setgid some group. Now I wonder how this should be > handled, should the binary be setgid in the .deb

ITP and RFS: netdate

1999-11-22 Thread Eric Weigel
netdate is a program that was part of netstd before it got split into its components. But netdate never made it into its own package. I have scripts that use netdate, so I got the original source, applied all the patches that the netstd version had, cleaned up a couple of compiler warnings, and p