Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bug report pretty much says:
xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok)
What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration
problem. I personally do not have/use samba, but I know of at least 2 people
Hi,
I'm helping to organize an effort to port Debian GNU/Linux to run
on the new Corel NetWinder NCs ( http://www.corelcomputer.com/ ).
Debian GNU/Linux is the largest Linux distribution, with over 1500
packages and ports to Intel, Alpha, m68k, PowerPC and Sparc. It is
being developer entirely
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 08:42:14PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
On Jun 06, Santiago Vila wrote:
Documentation may be included in main so
Ack... Been out of town, no computer access. Sorry for the delay, but I'm
looking at these now...
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On 6 Jun 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
Date: 06 Jun 1998 11:49:57 -0500
From: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: sendmail 8.9.0
Resent-Date:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The editor expert who cannot even break his lines at 80 characters ..
So shoot me; I'm using exmh, which appears to wrap words and doesn't get around
to actually inserting the carriage returns...
And I'm no expert... I just wanna know what all the furor is over vi :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I recently upgraded to the hamm distribution. Ever since the upgrade
I have not been able to compile anything with gcc.
It seems part of your upgrade wasn't completed... you probably need to install
libc6-dev.
-Jim
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On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:04:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post...
And once again... :)
I've talked to Igor, somewhat appropriately, on IRC [irc.debian.org,
#debian], and have modified my draft somewhat in response to that. Since
there haven't
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
Q. What are we trying to achieve ?
A. There are two possibilities that I can see
- Timely and good-quality releases, or
- Releases which meet some predefined set of goals.
I think we can only do one of these. With hamm
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:08:51PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:04:59AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
As bad form as it may be to follow up to my own post...
And once again... :)
I've talked to Igor, somewhat appropriately, on IRC [irc.debian.org,
#debian], and
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
According to the bug tracking system, he still is the maintainer.
/usr/doc/xinetd/changelog.Debian.gz says that xinetd was moved to non-free
at version 2.2.1-3. This was done on Sat, 14 Mar 1998 03:31:50 -0500. I
think it is a bad thing that the
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
given that one day we will be able to release debian 2.0 :
we will have official cdrom images on some ftp servers.
a) who could burn these iamges and test them ? many cd distributors don't have
alpha and m68k
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code under the following license (BSD without the 'advertising'
clause), retroactive to all versions of ircII, past and present, in
order to indicate that it is Open Source without a doubt (the previous
license, while
Hello,
I'd like to take on eMusic as a package once more. I've finally managed
to find the time to do it. If there are no objections, of course. :)
Brian
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On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:16:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bug report pretty much says:
xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok)
What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration
Jim wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The editor expert who cannot even break his lines at 80 characters ..
So shoot me; I'm using exmh, which appears to wrap words and doesn't get aro
und
to actually inserting the carriage returns...
That's a preference setting:
Simple
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 12:55:53PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
---snip---
The problem is that the _preinst_ might use the programs useradd and
groupadd. These are not in the base system nor essential. They're
included in the passwd package.
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
who maintains the mkdosfs package
There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into
'dosfstools' which is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HTH,
Ray
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UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other
Could anyone please tell me why mysql (including the server) is located
under devel?
Postgres is under misc which is not so good IMO either. How about adding a
new subdir database or somesuch?
Michael
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On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 07:49:48AM +0200, Scott Hanson wrote:
The problem is that the _preinst_ might use the programs useradd and
groupadd. These are not in the base system nor essential. They're
included in the passwd package. They might use configuration files
that might not be
It does not seem that we have currently any conventions regarding the
packaging of kernel modules. I just tried the new alsadriver from
slink, and, for the same reason I could not use the packaged joystick
driver, this one too is useless to me.
Here are the main criticisms I have regarding how
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source
form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/.
This sounds excellent. On one machine I am running 2.0.33
and have the appropriate ntfs package
Hi!
Wrt http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/db/23/23323.html.
I wonder how we should cope with this:
pinepgp depends on pine and pgp
There is no pine package.
This prevents dselect from installing it.
There is pine-src and pine-diff which can be assembled into
Dale Scheetz writes:
Will this upgrade not imply that we recompile and test the whole of
the dist, to make it sure hamm is self-compilable ? If not, every
bugfix upload will possibly break something because of a possible
glibc change...
You may be confusing 2.0.7 with 2.1.X,
Michael Meskes writes:
Could anyone please tell me why mysql (including the server) is located
under devel?
Postgres is under misc which is not so good IMO either. How about adding a
new subdir database or somesuch?
Seconded. This lack has already been pointed out to without
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 06:47:57PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:41:41AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source
form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/.
This sounds excellent. On one
On 5 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
I think I'm failing to follow something basic here. Does paperconf
depend on the libc6 shared libraries? If so, there is no way one
could use the binaries without loading libpaperg, right?
Secondly, Hamm is supoposed to be libc6.
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Marco Pistore wrote:
SOLUTION 4
Let the programs be in both packages, but use dpkg's diversions to move
away the libc5 binaries when libpaperg is installed and remove the
diversions on remove of libpaperg. Only drawback: a
Hi,
[ I don't like sending these semi-spam announcements, but I guess it's
important that, in the unlikely event, of a security/important bug
in one of my packages, people don't waste any time waiting for me to
respond ]
I'm off down south this afternoon for roughly a week (I hope no
Hi,
thanks for your comments on this problems!
I am sorry for the delay in the answer: there have been problems with
the my mail server during the week-end...
SUMMARY: the problem is that libpaper depends on libpaperg, which is bad,
since it can create problems when upgrading from bo. The
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/export/mirror/debian/tools# unzip -Ll rawrite1.zip
Archive: rawrite1.zip
LengthDateTimeName (^ == case
-- conversion)
15196 09-08-92 11:08 ^rawrite3.com
2017 09-04-92 07:23 ^rawrite3.doc
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the cdroms will ahve such a layout :
/boot boot binaries
/debian (parts of) the debian ftp mirror
/toolsunpacked programs from tools/ (no source)
a) are gzip124.exe and unz512x3.exe necessary to be included ?
is there a way i can unpack these
Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, I didnt have time to install smaba yet, this saves me some work :)
Did you try the fix posted in this list (same thread)?
Do you mean adding flags = REUSE to the nmbd service in xinetd.conf?
Yesterday I was trying it from home (we no luck) but I
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was the maintainer for awhile. The torch has now been passed on. I had
moved it to non-free because of a bug report(which has been closed for
awhile now, and already purged from the database). I was in irc with the
new maintainer recently and I did
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 07:56:31PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
Hello Fabien!
Hello Marcus!
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:41:38AM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
I'm not sure I understand you well but here is my opinions about freeness
of Documentation:
Documentation describing the
unz512x3.exe is a self-unarching zip, and can be unpacked with Linux unzip
gzip124.exe is a self-unarching lharc file and can be unpacked with
Linux lha
It might be a good idea to add a note in the README to that effect.
Anselm
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I can work in two directions :
a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds.
misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so
distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source).
b) 4 cd set : highly integrated.
it will not be possible to split the m68k or
I'd like to offload some of the admin stuff for the bug system.
I don't know how Guy (the other admin of the bug system) feels, but
I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend running the bug system.
So, I'd like one or two volunteers to take over some or all of the
following tasks:
1.
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 09:10:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 02:26:50PM +0200, Michael Dietrich wrote:
who maintains the mkdosfs package
There's no separate mkdosfs package anymore; it has been merged into
'dosfstools' which is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Hi!
a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds.
misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so
distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source).
My vote for the 5 CD set.
Regards
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Hi again,
Norbert Veber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Great, I didnt have time to install smaba yet, this saves me some work :)
Did you try the fix posted in this list (same thread)?
I got your new xinetd package from Incoming, installed it and started
testing.
With the fix provided in
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:53:56PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
I can work in two directions :
a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds.
misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so
distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source).
b) 4 cd set :
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
a) 5 cd set : source, misc, and 3 binary cds.
misc + binary will be enought for every architecture, so
distributors can sell cd sets of 2 cds (or 3 with source).
b) 4 cd set : highly integrated.
it will not be possible to
Yann Dirson writes:
I think the various modules should be primarily packaged in source
form, just as the kernel is, and installed under /usr/src/modules/.
From these source packages, the binary packages would be generated for
the various binary kernel images shipped with Debian (presumably
Bug #22325, marked important, says that my package guavac has an
unsatisfied suggestion on java-virtual-machine. I need your
advice on what to do about it.
My thoughts are:
1. It's a suggestion only, so nothing will break if it doesn't exist.
Unfortunately dselect is a bit picky about
As my application to become a Debian developer is underway, let me state
my intentions of packaging. You will find below short descriptions of
the following packages: bibindex (take over), ibrazilian, recdescent,
tipa (these four packages are done, ready for uploading), as well as
plplot and
Vincent Renardias wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Richard Braakman wrote:
Every three months (fixed date) we copy the current `unstable' into
`frozen'. At this point `stable', `frozen' and `unstable' should all
stay interoperable both in source and binary form.
This is still a major
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
* James Troup (Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 07:47:21PM +0100)
Blah. An even quicker ldd reveals this is already not the case.
20:45:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ldd /usr/bin/perl | grep gdbm
libgdbm.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40015000)
Hi Norbert,
It used to be there, but then it was rejected :) I am fixing it now as we
speak (along with some other fixes). It should be uploaded again by
tomorrow at the latest (tonight is more likely).
Great, I got it and installed it. Using it right now.
Hurray, hurray !
I find today
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jim wrote:
What is it people see in vi in terms of _using_ it? My opinion FWIW is that
vi's presentation rivals that of dselect in general, with vi inching dselect
out for not forcing one to follow a set path without saying what that set
path should be. So, why do the vi
I have an old version of LyX on my bo system that I know I loaded off the
official 1.3.1 CD. I wanted to get the source package for LyX off the hamm
directory on the ftp site but I can't find it. If fact LyX doesn't seem to
be listed in the packages file for hamm, slink, or even bo! What
Put me down as a 'volunteer of last resort'.
There are other debian related tasks I'd rather do, probably, but if no
one else steps up, I will fill any of the above roles. I probably have
the necessary expertise (I know perl4/5 well, I understand m4, I know SMTP
related issues reasonably well).
Jim Pick wrote:
I'm helping to organize an effort to port Debian GNU/Linux to run
on the new Corel NetWinder NCs ( http://www.corelcomputer.com/ ).
On this note, Alan DeKok (one of the oclug people who has a Netwinder
already, and was on the team of oclug members who helped Corel get the
The rendering of the developer's reference appears buggered, so that the
HTML versions both in the package, and on the WWW sites have incomplete
section 1s.
You will gather, if you read them, that I discovered this whilst checking
which email address to send my new-maintainer application to :-)
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 06:41:25PM -0500, Fabien Ninoles wrote:
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 1998 at 08:42:14PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
On Jun 06,
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 04:30:42PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jim wrote:
Vi is a standard. Everyone who considers themselves a 'systems
administrator' should learn how to use vi. This is because even on very
old systems, you will find vi on the base system.
When it comes
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 05:38:31PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
The rendering of the developer's reference appears buggered, so that the
HTML versions both in the package, and on the WWW sites have incomplete
section 1s.
I think the same applies to the policy manual, section 3.
And they are
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 04:30:42PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Jim wrote:
Vi is a standard. Everyone who considers themselves a 'systems
administrator' should learn how to use vi. This is because even on very
old systems,
PS: If you say that a sysadmin expects vi to be there, link vi to ae on a
rescue disk. He *will* have an editor, this should be sufficient.
Argh!
Please don't do this. It used to drive me nuts to type vi and get ae (whether
in ae or braindamaged-vi mode). If there is some vital reason for
I will volunteer to work on:
1. Reading and responding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail, and
2. Actual administration and maintenance of the bug system (to the
extent of my capabilities - I will yell quickly if I get stuck).
I would prefer to share these functions with someone else, since
I
Rafael == Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rafael As my application to become a Debian developer is
Rafael underway, let me state my intentions of packaging. You
Rafael will find below short descriptions of the following
Rafael packages: bibindex (take over),
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 02:31:10PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
I will volunteer to work on:
1. Reading and responding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail, and
2. Actual administration and maintenance of the bug system (to the
extent of my capabilities - I will yell quickly if I get stuck).
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a compromise I could think of adding a paragraph to the description
for pinepgp.
.
As we are not allowed to distribute a pine package you
have to install pine-src and pine-diff in order to compile
a pine packge out of it.
Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. Obviously additional development of the bug system would be good.
This can be done either by the person doing 2., or independently.
In any case the patches generated need to be sent upstream to me.
I'm interested in taking a look at this. I don't want to
Philip Hands wrote:
Please don't do this. It used to drive me nuts to type vi and get ae (whether
in ae or braindamaged-vi mode). If there is some vital reason for removing
vi, it should be replaced with a script that says something along the lines
of:
VI is missing from this rescue
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Philip Hands wrote:
PS: If you say that a sysadmin expects vi to be there, link vi to ae on a
rescue disk. He *will* have an editor, this should be sufficient.
Argh!
Please don't do this. It used to drive me nuts to type vi and get ae
(whether
in ae or
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
Like I said, overall, I think this issue is being discussed on a comfort
level right now. I think we should really be hashing out whether or not
we want to cater to newbies (ae) or to experienced systems admins (vi).
I'm for the latter, but
Just thought I'd mention that the version on the web pages are
grabbed directly from the ftp archive (only if they have changed).
Within a day of the ftp archive getting the new version the web
pages will be fixed.
Jay Treacy
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Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says do not install
/usr/doc files? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o
them.
And /usr/doc/pkg/copyright? We still need that for every file, as part
of policy.
Martin.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing
ae?
I guess not, then...
To be able to do an install with the rescue disk the space priorities
don't allow anything but ae in that environment. When you can get vi's
binary
Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says do not install
/usr/doc files? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o
them.
And /usr/doc/pkg/copyright? We still need that for every file, as
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Russell Coker - mailing lists account wrote:
Martin Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anyway there could be a variable set that says do not install
/usr/doc files? This way those who do not want the docs can go on w/o
It shouldn't be that difficult to install *copyright* but not any other
files in that directory. If the aim is to have all the copyright files on
every system then some option to skip all the other doco would achieve this
by
not making it worth-while to do rm -rf /usr/doc/* after package
Hey,
I'm currently applying for being a Debian maintainer (using the Debian
Developer's Reference).
I created a package of the Webalizer software:
Package: webalizer
Status: install ok installed
Installed-Size: 108
Maintainer: Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Version: 1.12-1
Depends: libc6,
I intend to package newscache a free cache server for the USENET News
system available under the GNU General Public License.
It's home page is http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/~gschwind/NewsCache/
Hope there aren't any objections...
- Tom
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Christopher C Chimelis wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing
ae?
I guess not, then...
To be able to do an install with the rescue disk the space priorities
don't allow anything
Tom == Tom Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom I intend to package newscache a free cache server for the USENET
Tom News system available under the GNU General Public License.
Tom Hope there aren't any objections... - Tom
Just one: newscache has been in Incoming for 14 days now.
_ _
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:35:47PM +0100, Chris Reed wrote:
As listed in The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08, p3nfs is still
linked against libc5, and the maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billy
C.-M. Chow) cannot be contacted.
I have looked on
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 02:16:41PM -0700, Tom Lear wrote:
I intend to package newscache a free cache server for the USENET News
system available under the GNU General Public License.
It's home page is http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/~gschwind/NewsCache/
Hope there aren't any objections...
Many of us send a mail when going off-line for some time. This is
however quite informal: these anouncements are posted once in -devel,
once in -private; mainly there is no automated way of tracking them.
Most of the time I try to keep this in mind when I feel I may need to
contact the author
Ian Jackson writes:
Current tasks include:
* Indices of bugs by submitter.
* Implement `interested list' for each bug.
* Given `interested list', a way to submit a bug that puts you on
the interested list, so that you get notified of any status change
and not just
Yann == Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yann What about another one: building a deb of it ? I would be of
Yann interest to people basing a new dist on Debian - it would also
Yann make it easy for people willing to study it and submit small
Yann patches (eg. the Fixed severity)
I've had
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:49:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a typo in README.samba, though: it says
flag=RESUSE when it should say flags=REUSE. I'll test this further
just to be sure.
flags is the correct keyword according to the xinet.conf man page, this will
be fixed in the
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 06:08:36PM -0300, Johnie Ingram wrote:
From what I've seen, RedHat needs something like debbugs bad. :-)
They now have something. I'm not sure about the quality, or the
backend, but.. they recently instituted a bug tracking system.
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:59:10AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Hi Norbert,
It used to be there, but then it was rejected :) I am fixing it now as we
speak (along with some other fixes). It should be uploaded again by
tomorrow at the latest (tonight is more likely).
Great, I got it
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If vi would fit on the rescue disk, do you think we would be discussing
ae?
$ ll elvis-tiny
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root67244 Feb 22 15:45 elvis-tiny*
$ ll /bin/ae
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root24012 Apr 13 15:12
David == David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David They now have something. I'm not sure about the quality, or
David the backend, but.. they recently instituted a bug tracking
David system.
Hehe, I've seen it, and thats what I mean. :-)
- PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A F5 78
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: I've had it packaged since the first week of January, actually -- just
: never uploaded it because its too flaky even when using its own copy
: of perl4 (included with the package, stolen from Ian's home dir). It
: seems that two files, process and
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