Re: Chosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Roman Hodek
> Except dpkg is written in C, only dselect uses C++. I was thinking about the package dpkg, not the binary of the same name... But I hope my intentions with the example were clear :-) Roman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Chosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Roman Hodek
> I was assuming all of the Debian dev packages would be installed on > these build hosts. These are myriads, too :-), and the source dependencies of package aren't so uniform... For example, some packages need specific versions (happened with gimp/lingtk-dev), depend on emacs being present, depe

RE: Choosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Ronald van Loon
On Tuesday, July 14, 1998 1:44 PM, James Troup [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > it seems that 3 maintainers are not enough and you'll leave Brian to > > do everything. > > Stop lieing; I said nothing of the sort. > > -- > James > ~Yawn And Walk Nort

Re: Choosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread James Troup
Martin Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it seems that 3 maintainers are not enough and you'll leave Brian to > do everything. Stop lieing; I said nothing of the sort. -- James ~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Chosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread James Troup
Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just uploading the stuff might result in major desaster... A > hypothectical example: dpkg uses C++, Except dpkg is written in C, only dselect uses C++. (If that was the ``hypothetical'' part of your example, excuse my pedantry.) -- James ~Yawn And Wal

Compressing *.db files in /usr/doc

1998-07-14 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi. I have received a suggestion for debstd, namely, to not compress any *.db files found in /usr/doc/ by default. I'm in doubt about this change. Is not compressing *.db files in /usr/doc/ reasonable as default behaviour? Would debhelper maintainer do the sa

Re: Choosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Martin Mitchell
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > (btw severity "important-ish" means severity normal to the BTS - see > > #24255) > > Duh; I'm well aware of that, I used it for that reason. Please stop > being so damn condescending and also stop telling me what to do; I'll > do what I want, not what

Re: Chosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Martin Mitchell
Roman Hodek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not even that... you also need some kind of source dependencies, > except you want to install the whole of Debian on the build machine, > plus a bit more (e.g. Tcl/Tk sources etc.) I was assuming all of the Debian dev packages would be installed on these

Re: Chosing release goals for slink

1998-07-14 Thread Roman Hodek
> Such automation (silly as it is) would be absolutely trivial to > implement, Not even that... you also need some kind of source dependencies, except you want to install the whole of Debian on the build machine, plus a bit more (e.g. Tcl/Tk sources etc.) I'm currently trying to set up a semi-au

Re: #24510: procmail: procmail creates mailboxes with mode 660

1998-07-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 03:32:51PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > I believe this is done so that the mail agents, running as setgid mail are > able to append mail messages to your mailbox. They generally don't run as > root. At least in my inetd.conf: > > smtpstream tcp nowait

Re: #24510: procmail: procmail creates mailboxes with mode 660

1998-07-14 Thread Craig Small
Herbert Xu wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 06:01:31PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > > I don't know what you mean with "of course" but policy says: > > > > 4.5 Mail transport agents > > > > [...] > > > >Mailboxes are generally 660 user.mail unless the user has chosen > >otherwise. >