Bug#4462: fvwm2 doesn't include FvwmClean

1996-09-10 Thread Michael Shields
Package: fvwm2 Version: 2.0.42-BETA-0 fvwm2 doesn't include the FvwmClean (aka NoClutter) module, even though it references it in the system .fvwm2rc. Preferably it should include this module, but if not it shouldn't be referenced. -- Shields, CrossLink.

Re: newsgroup creation RFD - draft

1996-09-10 Thread Yves Arrouye
On Sep 5, 3:23pm, Bruce Perens wrote: } Subject: newsgroup creation RFD - draft } I think it might be time to go for a set of newsgroups. I would keep } debian-devel and debian-private on mailing lists, but possibly move the } server (if we can't find Anders). Here is a draft RFD. Discussion

Bug#4460: Glimpse HTTP Search not working

1996-09-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
The home page at Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux URL: http://www.debian.org/ has a link to Linkname: Glimpse HTTP Search URL: http://www.debian.org/ghindex.html Submitting a search from the form there (or from any of the sub-directory pages) with Lynx (Version

Bug#4461: Mailing List Archives out of date

1996-09-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Package: www.debian.org The home page at Linkname: Debian GNU/Linux URL: http://www.debian.org/ has a link to Linkname: Mailing List Archives Filename: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ The latter pages seems not to have been updated since June 96. Correct.

Bug#4459: klogs does not find System.map

1996-09-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Hallo Christoph! }Package: sysklogd }Version: 1.3-6 } }klogd seems not be able to find the /System.map file. I get the following }messages from the kernel on bootup: Have you tried this with 1.3-11, too? If so I will upload a new release within the next days. Regards, Joey -- /

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Buddha Buck
Michael Shields wrote: Suggestions: 1) Remove popclient from netstd, or 2) Update the popclient in netstd and eliminate the separate package. I had already packaged and uploaded popclient before noticing this. I'm not sure it needs to be in netstd; if we take it out, I can

Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package

1996-09-10 Thread Peter Tobias
Package: netdiag Version: 0.2-3 The postinst script copies the tcpdump binary from the tcpdump package and the traceroute binary from the netstd package to /usr/bin and makes them setuid root.adm. This allows all users in the existing adm group to use tcpdump to get the unencrypted passwords that

Re: Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package

1996-09-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
Alright I tried all the ideas I had. What shall I do to get consistency with network diagnostic tools that should be be in the hads of troublemakers? I know the adm group is not the right one. Shall I try to set up a new group of users being able to use network diagnostics? tcpdump and

Making date timestamp the changelog

1996-09-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
I am having problems getting date to produce the date in the format for the changelog. It is probably just ignorance, although I have read the date manpage frontwards and backwards, there is no definition of datestr. The closest I have gotten is: date -d +%a, +%d +%B +%Y +%T which gives the

Change of Ian Jackson's email address

1996-09-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Due to circumstances beyond my control my email addresses @chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk are going to go away very shortly. The new addresses are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - general stuff, dpkg, c [EMAIL PROTECTED] - bug system [EMAIL PROTECTED] - if you reply to anything I sent

automated uploading to chiark.

1996-09-10 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hello you out there, for you in Europe, using chiark as relay to master.debian.org ... since the procedure of uploading to Incoming and moving to ../queue is somewhat error prone, I've written a little perl script (using ftp.pl and lchat.pl from the mirror package) to do this for me. If somebody

Uploaded logwrites_1.1-2_i386 to chiark

1996-09-10 Thread heiko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:26:19 +0200 Source: logwrites Binary: logwrites Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.1-2 Distribution: stable unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: logwrites - Loggging and

Uploaded ctags_1.4-1_i386 to chiark

1996-09-10 Thread heiko
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:12:32 +0200 Source: ctags Binary: ctags Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.4-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: ctags - The reincarnation of the

Re: Making date timestamp the changelog

1996-09-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Dale Ian, how do you do this? Anybody? Just Use the 822-date Ian provides with dpkg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 822-date Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:38:13 -0400 I'd rather use the emacs changelog mode, though. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Re: Making date timestamp the changelog

1996-09-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale Ian, how do you do this? Anybody? Just Use the 822-date Ian provides with dpkg: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 822-date Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:38:13 -0400 Coolness! Works fine! Was I supposed to see this in the docs somewhere? Thanks,

Bug#4466: NE2000 clone not detected

1996-09-10 Thread Bruce Perens
The NE2000 driver is in a module. Use the modconf tool to configure it, or modprobe ne io=0x, where is the I/O bus address of the card in hex. You might be able to make it work without the io= part, I wasn't sure if that is possible or not from a glance at the driver source. We couldn't

Bug#4467: dpkg-deb fails to build package

1996-09-10 Thread Karl Sackett
Package: dpkg Version: 1.3.14 When I try to build a package dpkg-deb complains: mycroft# dpkg --build debian/tmp-dev .. dpkg-deb: building package `libtclobjc-dev' in `../libtclobjc-dev_1.1b3-1_i386.deb'. dpkg-deb: unable to create

Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package

1996-09-10 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Christoph tcpdump and traceroute are essential network diagnostic Christoph tools. But only for root. Christoph Somehow they need to fit into the scheme. Before the netdiag Christoph package I manually changed permissions on all machine I Christoph installed because our

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Michael Shields
That sounds good... However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces: netstd. As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing popclient replaces all of netstd. I thought it meant the package replaced

Bug#4466: NE2000 clone not detected

1996-09-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
(This isn't CC'd to the bug database, just a question) At 01:51 PM 9/10/96 +0100, you wrote: When I boot, the ne2000 clone (a Genius 2000 II) is not detected. Other Linux boot disks from Slackware and Redhat (containing pre-2.0 kernels) both detect the card no problems. Subsequent upgrading to

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: That sounds good... However, please -DON'T- mark popclient as Replaces: netstd. As far as I understand, Replaces should only be used when one package completely replaces another's functionality, and I don't thing popclient replaces all of netstd.

Re: xforms for both architectures!

1996-09-10 Thread Frank Neumann
Hi, Michael Meskes wrote: Could anyone with an m68k machine please check if the packages work? There's no real change to the i386 version except the maintainer. I did so - shouldn't the runtime version depend on elf-x11r6lib? DEBIAN/control: Package: xforms Version: 0.81-3 Architecture:

Re: Making date timestamp the changelog

1996-09-10 Thread Guy Maor
On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: I am having problems getting date to produce the date in the format for the changelog. Run the program `822-date'. Guy