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1999-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
For the long term, it might be nice to divide tasks by difficulty. E.g., there could be a section for bugs that are fixed by a provided patch or simple dependency rules, and another section for difficult debugging work. (The intent of this being to make it easier for a beginner to sit down and knoc

Re: Uninstallable Packages

1999-10-07 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote: > secure-su is also uninstallable. As far as I can see, secure-su is no longer available in potato. It is replaced by the login package (including /bin/su) which is now linked with PAM and this behaves like the secure-su if you activate the line

Re: Uninstallable Packages

1999-10-07 Thread Kurt D. Starsinic
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 07:27:38PM +0200, Thomas Schoepf wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:29:34AM -0400, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote: > > secure-su is also uninstallable. > > > > Depends: login >=970502-1 > > Current: login 19990827-5 > > > > Does anybody else think it's kind o

Re: Uninstallable Packages

1999-10-07 Thread Thomas Schoepf
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:29:34AM -0400, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote: > secure-su is also uninstallable. > > Depends: login >=970502-1 > Current: login 19990827-5 > > Does anybody else think it's kind of nutty that 19990827-5 is less > than 970502-1? It's not less: asterix:~$ d

Re: Uninstallable Packages

1999-10-07 Thread Kurt D. Starsinic
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:13:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Hello world, > > I'm experimenting with a script to work out whether packages are > installable or not. I figured the world at large might be interested in > some of the results. > > The following packages are not installable (ie, t

Processed: Re: Bug#18337: marked as done (lesstif-bin: Missing manpages)

1999-10-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reopen 18337 Bug#18337: lesstif-bin: Missing manpages Bug reopened, originator not changed. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database)

Re: Bug#18337: marked as done (lesstif-bin: Missing manpages)

1999-10-07 Thread Peter Makholm
reopen 18337 thanks Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please reopen this. The bugreport mentions four missing manpages, only > one of which has been written. Sorry my mistake. Shame on me. -- I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and may each of you