Bug#3901: dotlock should be setgid mail

1996-08-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Susan G. Kleinmann: a) can someone tell me what package/file/script does install /var/spool/mail? (I'd use this info to find out why my search method failed.) I would assume that it is either the initial installation, or smail/sendmail. c) Lars, what did you mean by saying staying with

Bug#4009: /bin/edit causes error after ae removed

1996-08-03 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 After forcing the removal of ae, /bin/edit was still installed, but didn't call a suitable replacement editor such as vi.

Re: uploaded babel 3.6-4 to master

1996-08-03 Thread Emilio Lopes
EB == Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EB babel: Support for multilingual typesetting with (La)TeX EB Changes: EB Fri Aug 2 13:21:27 1996 Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] EB . EB * debian.rules: changed for processing in subdir babel EB * added latin1.sty:

Bug#4000: emacs can't initialize x window

1996-08-03 Thread Emilio Lopes
EB == Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EB I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error occurs. EB Loading hilit19... EB Error in init file: error: X windows are not in use or not initialized Maybe that's why the documentation at the beggining of hilit19.el says to

Unanswered problem reports by date

1996-08-03 Thread owner
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or or `forwarded' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 16 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 660 gdbGDB gets

Bug#4010: perl-tk doesn't work with perl 5.003

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: perl-tk Version: b11.02-2 It puts stuff into /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002 which is not searched by perl 5.003 and consequently nothing works :( -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B = True B. A = False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmVHI~} [EMAIL

Re: perlconfig creates unnecessary/unusable files.

1996-08-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote: Package: perl Version: 5.003-2 perlconfig (aka h2ph) really wants to make .ph files with Objective C headers found under /usr/include... and fails! Yves. it also runs h2ph in the foreground, when there's no good reason why it shouldn't run in

Bug#4011: simple c++ program segfaults

1996-08-03 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2-8 A recent posting on comp.os.linux.apps by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Alboth) can be reproduced on my Debian system. In fact, it seems to occur on a Sun with g++ too. Here's a modified version of the program: -- #include fstream.h void main( int argc, char **argv) {

Re: New Apache package (Was: Re: Q about making a package with a dedicated user?)

1996-08-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] You (Yves Arrouye) wrote: To anyone that read this message: your suggestions for features you want in the Apache package are welcome. Perhaps you could put in the SSL patches and make the apache-SLL

Re: IP-aliasing

1996-08-03 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Behan Webster wrote: I've also written the following simple script for one of the machines I manage that is used as a multi-homed web site (it has about 6 ip addresses right now.) Just give it a list of ip addresses on the command line. It's to be used once at boot

Bug#3953: Tk 4.1's bell flashes the display.

1996-08-03 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
I don't get the Visual Bell when I run the wish script you mentioned. Perhaps you have vb (visual bell) set in your terminfo? Susan Kleinmann

Re: perlconfig creates unnecessary/unusable files.

1996-08-03 Thread James A. Robinson
it also runs h2ph in the foreground, when there's no good reason why it shouldn't run in the background and let dselect get on with the rest of the install process. Some people don't like this (IMO, very sensible) approach. So there needs to be options given. What I'm going to do is write a

Bug#4012: xbase: `window-managers' was un-correctly generated

1996-08-03 Thread H. Manas
Package: xbase Version: 3.1.2-9 I believe that the 3 first extra explanatory lines in file `xbase.postinst' of this package should be removed as they trigger unexpected result in some cases (can go into an infinite loop as Xsession will call itself if you start X from /etc/X11 for instance).

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-03 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kai Henningsen writes: That's a problem, but it's not the problem I meant. For difficult to parse, well, compare these two lines: a =~ s/some/thing... b = c/d Very bad syntax design, that. There's always s,some,thing, or s|some|thing| or whatever. Either

Re: perlconfig creates unnecessary/unusable files.

1996-08-03 Thread Brian C. White
[Side Note: I wonder if I should use Ada, Agol, Assembler, C, CSH,] [Cobol, Eifel, Fortran, KSH, Lisp, Perl, Pascal, Python, SH, or] [Smalltalk to do it? :-) :-O :-Q :-)] Prolog, definitely! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Bug#4013: groff version is old

1996-08-03 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: groff Version: 1.09-11 GNU troff 1.10 has been out since November 1995. 1.09 is relatively ancient. Version 1.10 fixes some very significant bugs, adds a LaserJet output device, and more. Also, the description incorrectly reads GNU RunOFF. It's GNU troff. Runoff is an early precursor