Bug#48050: skeleton maintainer scripts

Package: packaging-manual Version: 3.0.1.1 Severity: wishlist Please include the skeleton maintainer scripts from Charles Briscoe Smith into the packaging manual. It seems to me there has been consensus on the list to include th

Bug#48045: debian-policy: non-US is a misnomer

Package: debian-policy Version: 2.5.0.0 non-US is not a good name for the non-US (ahem) part of the archive. It's not only non-US, it's also (for example) non-France. And when/if the US stops with the silly crypto export laws, the name will be even more obviously fake. I thought about naming it '

Bug#42907: Info received (was *wav* executable are not setgid audio.)

Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developer(s) and to the developers mailing list to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): Debian Policy List If you wish to co

Bug#42907: *wav* executable are not setgid audio.

> root, if nobody is logged in). Don't ask me how to handle this if more > than one different users are logged in on the virtual consoles. I solved it this way: I made xdm change it for me. Since most "multimedia" apps require X, and only one person can log using xdm at a single time, it solved th

Re: Suggestion to and how to alow different compression for .debs

Anthony Towns writes: > [1 ] > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:35:43AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > The control.tar.gz stays that way for the moment, but the data.tar.gz > > might be any format the maintainer seems fit. > > The control.tar.gz then contains a file called "how_to_unpack" that > >

Bug#39299: dpkg-source patch (Re: #39299 (bz2 format for source packages))

Great. The first step towards a smaller mirror. Can´t wait for this to become mainstream and a new X and tex release. Should free a noticeable amount of space. May the Source be with you. Goswin

Re: bitmap and pixmap location

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:30:01PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: > > /usr/share/pixmaps > This is wrong. I disagree. There are a significant number of applications have pixmaps and aren't even partially related to X. (GGI based apps for example) I think having both locat

Processed: now on to dpkg-dev bugs...

Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 16443 dpkg-iwj Bug#16443: dpkg-genchanges can't handle multi-architectures / and closes Bug reassigned from package `dpkg-dev' to `dpkg-iwj'. > severity 17775 wishlist Bug#17775: Autocompilation of Packages Severity set to `wishlist'. > reass

Re: x-window-manager and x-terminal-emulator (Re: ITP: qvwm and qvbanner)

At Thu, 21 Oct 1999 19:08:31 -0400, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At Wed, 20 Oct 1999 23:18:53 -0400, > > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:49:01AM +0900, Shuichi OONO wrote: > > > > I intent to package qvwm and qvbanner, which is a

Re: Suggestion to and how to alow different compression for .debs

On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:35:43AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > The control.tar.gz stays that way for the moment, but the data.tar.gz > might be any format the maintainer seems fit. > The control.tar.gz then contains a file called "how_to_unpack" that > will be used to unpack the data file. Nor