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xpilot (3.4.2-1); priority=LOW
Package: xpilot
Version: 3.4.2
Package_Revision: 1
Maintainer: Stephen Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description: Multi-player tactical game
XPilot is a multi-player tactical manoeuvering game for X and Unix
workstations. Players
On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, David Engel wrote:
Can this be considered to be a bug in ldconfig?
Which part, deleting the link in the first place or not recreating it?
The latter is not a bug. Ldconfig will never create the links needed
by ld as long as I'm maintaining it.
Deleting something
Which part, deleting the link in the first place or not recreating it?
The latter is not a bug. Ldconfig will never create the links needed
by ld as long as I'm maintaining it.
Deleting something that you are not responsible for creating is probably
not a good idea.
Agreed, but the
The package ical no longer runs with the new tk4. It seems to rely
on the older filename.
Brian
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In theory, theory
Michael Alan Dorman writes (Re: ncurses build options...):
If you mean during the time it takes them to do the other upgrade when
you say for a bit, then I think you're right. I would like to confirm
some dpkg behavior, though:
Take ncurses-base-1 and ncurses-term-1. The decision is made
Raul Miller writes in email to me:
I presume you're familiar with the gnu conventions for labelling
target/host architectures? [e.g. i486-unknown-linux]
If not, I'd like to draw your attention to them.
Yes, I am, thanks.
Do people think the architecture names as handled by dpkg should be
Package: efax
Version: 07a-2
1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should probably
now say /etc/efax.rc instead.
2. /usr/bin/fax should probably no longer be listed in conffiles.
3. The software looks for spool files in /usr/spool/fax, but:
a. It should probably look
Hi Bjoern,
I have been entertaining this thought. Maybe as a followup to 1.3.47
(due out tonight or tomorrow). Last I checked it barfed on 1.3.xx
kernels but maybe I am wrong. I also have no way to test it as my
PCMCIA adaprtor is out of the system (no slots) and my only PCMCIA
devices are a
I'll try to add PCMCIA support to the follow-up release of 1.3.47. 47
is already stable and I'd rather not de-stabilize it. It will be
released tonight or tomorrow.
Any volunteers to check it as I have no way to test it.
Also, I have a PCMCIA 130 MB disk. I have written UnixWare drivers for
Robert Leslie writes:
Robert Package: efax
Robert Version: 07a-2
Robert
Robert 1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should
Robert probably now say /etc/efax.rc instead.
Thanks, I will modify that for the next release.
Robert 2. /usr/bin/fax should probably
Bruce Perens writes (Re: debian-1.0 availability):
[wuarchive] systems/linux/tsx-11/distributions/debian/debian-1.0/sources
is empty !!!
I thought the GPL only required you to provide the sources
_when_someone_asks_for_them_.
We did learn a lesson today.
My reading of the GPL2 is that
Bill Mitchell writes (Re: ncurses build options...):
[ much deleted ]
It seems to me that the the sequence would go something like this:
...
4. User says something like dpkg --remove --force-essential list_of_libs.
No, users should not need to use --force-remove-essential. I was
worried
Michael Alan Dorman writes (Re: ncurses build options...):
I forget who holds the keys to the virtual package stuff. Would whoever
does that please register me an ncurses-dev package, in order to simplify
this for ncurses as it is for tcl/tk?
You can do this yourself. Look in
Manoj Srivastava writes (Default organization: is there a site config file?):
It seems to me that this information is not news specific
(mailers could utilize it too), so should this file be installed
instead in /etc, also, which package should take responsibility?
Mailers do (should)
David Engel writes (Re: ncurses-1.9.8a ELF release):
[ and earlier: ]
The runtime package installs the shared libraries as lib*.so.3.0.new
and then renames them to lib*.so.3.0 in the postinst script. This is
fine for not disturbing running programs when the package is being
upgraded,
Raul Miller writes (Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops):
run-parts should probably not do what it normally does, when a laptop
doesn't have AC power. This could be implemented with something along
the lines of:
What does AC power have to do with run-parts ??
run-parts is just a utility to run
Michael Alan Dorman writes (Re: newest ncurses):
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
I'm now uploading ncurses-1.9.8a-2 co. It is also available for ftp
from lot49.med.miami.edu:/pub/linux/ until it gets cleared at
ftp.debian.org.
I forgot to mention that you will almost
brian white writes (Package Verification ):
I'd like to suggest another field to be automatically added to the
Packages files that exist at the top of each hierarchy in the
distribution. I'd like to see a Checksum: field that can be used to
verify the correct download of these packages. I
brian white writes (Packages Files ):
I notice that the Packages file in the debian-1.0 directory lists
pathnames relative to ALPHA-TEST directory instead of the root
directory of the distribution as is the case will all the
other Packages files. This makes little sense to someone who
got to
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