Re: Commercial .debs

1999-01-08 Thread Bill Mitchell
There are at least two possible ways in which commercial organizations might release .debs: (1) via non-free on the debian distribution sites, and (2) by putting the .debs on their commercial CDs and/or their own web sites. Obviously, the debian project can exercise some control over the former

Bug#26650: Packaging Manual

1998-09-12 Thread Bill Mitchell
, and removing packages be documented. On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Bill Mitchell wrote: > > > On 6 Sep 1998, Guy Maor wrote: > > > Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Gene McCulley wrote: >

Re: EDITOR vs. VISUAL

1998-07-10 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > Hm, does anyone knows what is VISUAL exactly intendend for ? I'm > thinking of some setting like `EDITOR=ed' and `VISUAL=vi'. If it's > really what was meant for a use of VISUAL, I'd say it's not needed any > more ... Checking man pages and doc files f

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

1998-06-14 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > You may mark this bug as forwarded and make a link of tzconfig.8 to > > undocumented(7), following policy. > > > This policy has created one of the most cluttered, ugly, and useless, > method of dealing with the lack of man pages. > > It doesn't cre