Bug#35460: cucipop: preinst remounts /usr without need

1999-04-02 Thread Roderick Schertler
Package: cucipop Version: 1.31-7 The preinst says if [ "$(mount | grep 'on /usr' | grep ro)" != "" ] then echo "Remounting the /usr filesystem read-write (forgetful, aren't we?)" mount -o remount,rw /usr fi I don't understand why it does this (surely unpacking the .de

Re: Signature for QA?

1999-04-02 Thread Christian Kurz
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 11:41:33PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > Can we ever be rid of all bugs? > No, we can't. But we must keep trying, or Debian will not by a quality > distro anymore. Yes and that's the point, why I think we should make sure that th

Re: Bug in pgp 2.6.3

1999-04-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Kurz wrote: > [Cc to the maintainer] > > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Christian Kurz wrote: > > > there's a bug in pgp, which won't you let create a pgp-key until there's > > > a directory called .pgp. This bug is still there and as the maintainer > > > told me it has be

Re: Bug in pgp 2.6.3

1999-04-02 Thread Christian Kurz
[Cc to the maintainer] Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Kurz wrote: > > there's a bug in pgp, which won't you let create a pgp-key until there's > > a directory called .pgp. This bug is still there and as the maintainer > > told me it has been abandoned from upstream. I looked

Re: Closing libc4 related bugs.

1999-04-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 11:45:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > It would have been nice if this could have waited until old bugs were > archived by the BTS, in case someone wants to revive libc4 in the future. > Not important though. You have exactly 28 days left to do that. :) -- enJoy -*/\*-

Re: Signature for QA?

1999-04-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 11:41:33PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Can we ever be rid of all bugs? No, we can't. But we must keep trying, or Debian will not by a quality distro anymore. > means ASCII To Postscript, although it is quite obvious). Santiago complains > that the package actually conve

Re: Closing libc4 related bugs.

1999-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 02:56:55PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Debian GNU/Linux had included libc4 in versions =< 1.3.1r8. Since then, > we did not have proper means for supporting this package and packages > compiled against it, so it was withdrawn from all Debian GNU/Linux > releases >= 2.0. > >

Re: Signature for QA?

1999-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:41:40PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > The only reason we're *forced* to fix them is our own various obsessions > > with buglessness. > > If we're into assuring quality, we must want to be as bugless as possible. > Isn't that obvious? :) Can we ever be rid of all bugs? S

Closing libc4 related bugs.

1999-04-02 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Debian GNU/Linux had included libc4 in versions =< 1.3.1r8. Since then, we did not have proper means for supporting this package and packages compiled against it, so it was withdrawn from all Debian GNU/Linux releases >= 2.0. We, the Debian project, can not support use of Debian 1.3 (or earli

Re: Bug in pgp 2.6.3

1999-04-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Kurz wrote: > Hi, > > there's a bug in pgp, which won't you let create a pgp-key until there's > a directory called .pgp. This bug is still there and as the maintainer > told me it has been abandoned from upstream. I looked at the source code > and this evil. Also there's the problem tha

Re: The old lynx bug (was: Re: Bugs older than two years)

1999-04-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Dear Lynx developers, we have received the follwoing report through the bug tracking system of Debian at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/. The bug is against version 2.4-FM-960316-1 but still present. The entire report can be viewed at http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/db/38/3846.html Caveat:

Re: Bugs older than two years

1999-04-02 Thread Martin Schulze
Josip Rodin wrote: > >Package: libc4 > >Maintainer: > >[REMOVE] libc4 is no longer supported > >5666 libc5-dev_5.4.13-1 fails in postinstallation (but installs) > > > >Package: libc4-dev > >Maintainer: > >[REMOVE] libc4 is no longer supported > >5688 libc4-dev ov