Re: strange preinst tests about --assert-working-epoch

2002-02-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Quinson wrote: > It seems bad to me: It's a kind of dependency there, no ? But on the other > hand, they just depend a recent dpkg to be installed, not to be used... It is a dependency that might not be possible to be resolved by an old dpkg: if it is a versioned dependency using

Re: Base & Standard packages Bug Squashing Party

2001-08-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Adrian Bunk wrote: > Could you please tag them as "fixed" so that everyone sees that they > aren't present in the current packages? Euh, you want to mark bugs that might appear in the future as fixed? That sounds like the wrong way around.. Wichert. -- _

Re: Base & Standard packages Bug Squashing Party

2001-08-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > modutils 108934 forwarded serious Already fixed. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.liacs.nl/~

Re: modutils bug 108934

2001-08-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > This bug appears to have been introduced when flag_unresolved_error was > added in 2.4.7, and the trivial fix of making flag_unresolved_error a > static and defining it out if the #ifdef should work perfectly (since > flag_unresolved_error is not referred to outsid

Re: modutils bug 108934

2001-08-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > This bug appears to have been introduced when flag_unresolved_error was > added in 2.4.7, and the trivial fix of making flag_unresolved_error a > static and defining it out if the #ifdef should work perfectly (since > flag_unresolved_error is not referred to outsid

Re: modutils bug 108934

2001-08-18 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > What's being done to fix this bug? When will it be fixed? Etc? Waiting for upstream. Wichert. -- _ / Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new modutils needed to fix 106933

2001-08-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > This bug's already two weeks overdue, even given the extended deadline > for fixing RC base bugs, and hasn't seen any progress. I'm sorry, but > if we want to ever release we *need* a working base system, and really > if we want it to be remotely timely, we needed

Re: new modutils needed to fix 106933

2001-08-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > Could someone please upload a new modutils to fix Bug#106933? The > explanation in the report appears to answer Wichert's request for > moreinfo. No, I still need the APUS specific configuration. Wichert. -- ___

Re: new modutils needed to fix 106933

2001-08-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > Could someone please upload a new modutils to fix Bug#106933? The > explanation in the report appears to answer Wichert's request for > moreinfo. How nice of you to ask me first and also ignore other release critical bugs in this request. Wichert. --

Re: Packages not making it into testing

2001-04-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Dale Scheetz wrote: > I'm not sure what the solution is for m68k... Simply use an Architecture line that does not include m68k. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | [EMAI

Re: Officially drop Linux 2.0 support? (was Some /usr/doc NMUs coming up)

2001-03-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Alexander Hvostov wrote: > If the general sentiment is what I think it is, then I agree: LAY IT TO REST > ALREADY. Linux 2.0 and 2.2 are both obsolete. There's very, very little sense > in keeping either around. I can imagine some people screaming bloody murder if > support for 2.2 was r

Re: Brian Bassett?

2000-12-28 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Michlmayr wrote: > to contact Brian as well. I'm posting to debian-devel now to ask if > anyone knows what's up with Brian. He is alive, He uploaded a package on Dec 3, and his last message to debian-devel was sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Nov 4. Big brother is watching you :)

Bug#70543: clean target forgets files

2000-08-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Package: ntop Version: 1.2a7-11 Severity: important The clean target doesn't clean config.cache & friends which completely breaks compilation on for example sparc. Wichert. -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux fog 2.2.16 #1 Sat Aug 5 16:56:48 PDT 2000 i686

Bug#53716: Fails on machines where chars are unsigned.

2000-03-15 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Kurz wrote: > Well, would this break the whole code? Couldn't we just define char to > be signed to solve the problem? No, since you have to be able to return all characters in the 0-255 range as well as a seperate EOF-error. So you need 9 bits anyway.. Wichert. -- __

Bug#53716: Fails on machines where chars are unsigned.

2000-03-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Christian Kurz wrote: > And how would suggest this could be fixed? Change c to be an int? getc() is defined to return an int instead of a char for that very same reason. Wichert. -- / Generally uninteresting signatu

Bug#35714: anacron and cron both run cron.daily !

1999-04-11 Thread Wichert Akkerman
hance of it working without evaporating > people's crontabs ... dpkg does do the right thing, I've done it once. Maintainer scripts however certainly don't. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms

Re: Bugs older than two years

1999-03-30 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Anthony Towns wrote: > Package: modutils > Maintainer: Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 8550 kerneld start too late This bug is obsoleted by 2.2 kernels. I'll close it when 2.2 becomes the defa

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-19 Thread Wichert Akkerman
ding all of them, otherwise we'll never release slink. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgpFAcf1wCxOq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
t about the severity of this. The security team will check this out on monday. > sendmail 33152 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sendmail 8.9.3] [0] (Richard > Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Fix in Incoming Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgpoi19pvgi3u.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
still a part of the dpkg package we shouldn't need to worry at the moment. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-02-01 Thread Wichert Akkerman
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Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
etting a list of all those packages.. Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/ pgpfg8syuwhgQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before releasing Slink

1999-01-31 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > libtool 32384 libtool: Correct detection of 'alphapca56' patch [0] > (Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) In incoming (version 1.3-2) > lyx 32299 LyX Copyright problems [0] (Stuart Lamble <[EMAIL >

Bug#27181: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1

1998-10-16 Thread Wichert Akkerman
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Re: Bad Maintainer Addresses (!)

1997-11-20 Thread Wichert Akkerman
slash instead of a dot. But now watch which packages you list: > autofs Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > bplay Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >et Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >