Re: Bug Terrorism

1998-06-16 Thread Brian White
severity 23000 normal -- > The reason that sendmail broke is that you made a DELIBERATE modification > to procmail that sendmail wasn't expecting. While I agree that sendmail > should probably be more graceful about handling it, it is not a > release-critical error. A vast majority of people (li

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-16 Thread Kristoffer . Rose
I wrote: >>> Finally, it would be very nice if the hierarchy was under >>> /usr/share/texmf rather than /usr/lib/texmf since the texmf hierarchy >>> was designed to be sharable this way ... and it will also make it much >>> easier to make "installers" for things such as the TeX Live 3 CD-ROM >>> we

Bug Terrorism

1998-06-16 Thread Scott Ellis
No, you're not hiding this on the bug tracking system any more. The reason that sendmail broke is that you made a DELIBERATE modification to procmail that sendmail wasn't expecting. While I agree that sendmail should probably be more graceful about handling it, it is not a release-critical error.

Re: Bug#23576: tetex-base: no write-permissions on public font directories

1998-06-16 Thread jdassen
[-devel dropped; moved to -policy] On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:11:19AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Finally, it would be very nice if the hierarchy was under > > /usr/share/texmf rather than /usr/lib/texmf since the texmf hierarchy > > was designed to be sharable this way ... and it will

Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented

1998-06-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"Bill" == Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill> That's pretty messy, however. Perhaps, since other packages > Bill> may presume the presence of the undocumented(7) man page > Bill> without declaring a dependency on the manpages packag

Re: Bug#19797: libc6-dev: use of /tmp/*$$ in an insecure fashion

1998-06-16 Thread Bill Mitchell
> > That is correct, 'tempfile' is Debian specific, and we also ship a similar > > utility from OpenBSD called 'mktemp', I have no idea if other systems also > > have 'mktemp' utilities. > The glibcbug script in glibc 2.1 already uses mktemp. Perhaps the `tempfile' name was a bad choice. Should

Re: Bug#23512: timezones: tzconfig is undocumented

1998-06-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Scheetz) wrote on 15.06.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This worked. Thanks! This has been a long standing nit on my system. Would > running updatedb in the background be appropriate for the manpage package? *NO!!!* I have enough finds going over my 13 GB disk space daily,