Is there someone else who might take this packaging? I don't have time yet.
Erick
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From: Axel Boldt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Info package: .dsc
I also experienced a 10% increase of the size in the manpages-it package.
I was wandering if I could package the man pages uncompressed and compress
them in debian/rules during installation. This would create a dependency
to gzip package, but I think that this already exists when we package
I remember this was discussed on the linux-gcc list some time ago. The
above explanation is ok for a.out, and was primarily used to build small
programs (the page-alignment bit). That's probably why ae used it. Under
ELF, this part doesn't work anyway; I *think* that you get a static
5. I don't understand the problem with WIFSIGNALED, but this is
definitely a bug in the Perl installation and not in dpkg-source.
So the WIFSIGNALED thing has to do with perl. Here is some about the
perl I have installed on my system.
Erick
$ dpkg --status perl
Package: perl
Status: install
Hi!
What's the exact purpose of the .tar.gz source packages and the diff? I'm
asking because I want to create a package for the metapost system, that's
like metafont but produces postscript output. The currently available
distribution is a patch against the latest webc, 6.3 I think,
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0
I can't use dpkg-source -x
$ ls ctags*
ctags_1.4-2.diff.gzctags_1.4-2.dscctags_1.4.orig.tar.gz
$ dpkg --list dpkg dpkg-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/
Package: dpkg, dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0
The control of dpkg-dev contains a Conflicts replaces on dpkg-name but
the dpkg-name util is provided by the dpkg package. I think that the
dpkg package should hold these conflicts and replaces fields.
Erick
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0
I added the following to the end of changelog file:
Local variables:
mode: debian-changelog
End:
Loading the file into emacs gives the error message:
File local-variables error: (void-function debian-changelog-mode)
Erick
1. Fonts are machine independent files that should be shared (in
/usr/share).
Could you (or somebody else on this list) point me to some text that
details this rule? My /usr/share is next to empty, while /usr/lib contains
_lot's_ of system-independand files (pgp, samba, texmf,
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Date: 21 Aug 96 11:30 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: id-utils
Version: 3.2-1
Binary: id-utils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
id-utils: Fast, high-capacity, identifier
Many of the latex package's files contain these lines (these
particular copied from preload.dc in latex_2e-7.deb):
%% IMPORTANT NOTICE:
%% You are not allowed to distribute this file.
%% For distribution of the original source see
%% the copyright notice in the file preload.dtx .
I see
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Date: 14 Aug 96 14:22 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: fileutils
Version: 3.13-4
Binary: fileutils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
fileutils: GNU file management utilities
Package: libpaper
Version: 0.4-1
Right now libpaper comes with a /etc/papersize file containing letter
at the first line. IMO it should ask at postinst time what papersize is
wanted and should create /etc/papersize with the received value.
Erick
What is the feeling on this ?
Since the new source format mandates the existence of the changelog
and specifies that it must be in one of a small number (currently 1)
of formats I'm inclined to say that we should mandate its inclusion -
gzipped.
We then end up with two files per
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Date: 09 Aug 96 13:41 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: mfbasfnt
Version: 1.0-5
Binary: mfbasfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfbasfnt: TeX's default fonts and a few others
Hi,
is wg15-locale architecture dependend package???
it is uploaded with i386 in it.
Erick
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Date: 09 Aug 96 14:02 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: mfdcfnt
Version: 1.0-1
Binary: mfdcfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfdcfnt: TeX's dc and tc fonts.
Changes:
Fri Aug
2. There is another problem with extracting the filter from the set of
filters in /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/filters/filters.tar.gz as the
extracted file is not registered with dpkg --- upon removal of the package
a useless file will remain on the machine.
a if [ $1 = purge ] ;
If the files there really depend on each other, then it may be nice
to require that each .el file contains
(provide 'site-start-xxx)
(as the *last* line so nothing is provided in case of error), and other
files will just use
(require 'site-start-xxx)
as needed.
Package: libpaper, gs
Version: 0.2-1, 3.53-4
Oef what do I hate these errors. The char indicates the EOL char.
# cat /etc/papersize
A4
# gs -h
Warning: unknown papersize in /etc/papersize
Aladdin Ghostscript 3.53 (1996-1-10)
[deleted]
# cat /etc/papersize
A4
# gs -h
Aladdin Ghostscript 3.53
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Date: 06 Aug 96 15:08 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: mfbasfnt
Version: 1.0-4
Binary: mfbasfnt
Architecture: all source
Description:
mfbasfnt: TeX's default fonts and a few others
1. Have you installed the wg-locale (or something like that) package? You
need to if you want to use locales.
Perhaps this package needs higher priority.
Agreed. IMHO it should be 'standard'. If you don't live in the US, a
locale for your country isn't really 'optional'.
Can
OK, so we've decided to have packages put their Emacs startup stuff in
a directory, with one file per package.
The directory obviously ought to go in /etc, and the files made
conffiles, so that the sysadmin can reconfigure things.
/etc/emacs/site-start.d ?
Please wait a minute.
How
Options for our policy include:
1. Specify one or two particular preferred target formats and
distribute those. Leave the source in the source package. So far
we have done this with documentation in Texinfo - we leave the
.texi files in the source package and distribute only
Not completely alone---I'd prefer prompting about /usr/local. Why?
Because /usr/local on all our machines here (not just debian) is an
nfs-mounted directory, and typically mounted readonly or root-squash
so that I know nothing on the client machines is going to be able to
diddle with it.
Package: emacs
Version: 19.31-2
I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error occurs.
Loading hilit19...
Error in init file: error: X windows are not in use or not initialized
Erick
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Date: 02 Aug 96 11:49 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: babel
Version: 3.6-4
Binary: babel
Architecture: all source
Description:
babel: Support for multilingual typesetting with (La
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Date: 02 Aug 96 11:32 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: fileutils
Version: 3.13-3
Binary: fileutils
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
fileutils: GNU file management utilities
There should be a link or note in /usr/doc/perl about
/usr/doc/examples/perl.
This is standard on debian, I don't see why a link is needed.
Erick
I'd like to be able to remove `ae', but it won't deinstall.
I can do it: dpkg --force-remove-essential --remove ae
It should be possible to remove ANY package if I really want to.
But you have to do a little extra for it.
I don't like it when I'm treated like a child by the packaging
I 'm busy with mflib and thought that it might be useful to have
the weekly script run daily by cron because a daily run will have
a bigger chance to be run on systems which are on and off (like mine
at home). Therefore I would need to remove the conffigurationfile
/etc/cron.weekly/mflib from
It's nice to have all these files in the same directory, but people
are starting to do things like having /usr/doc/foo/REAMDE be a link to
/usr/doc/copyright/foo or vice versa, and splitting the documentation
for a package up across several directories doesn't seem to work very
well.
This
Rob Browning writes:
be used when building packages, no problem. In fact I'd probably just
write a wrapper (perl) script that looks at the args, handles the mode
and owner flags itself (as mentioned earlier), and then calls the
normal install for the rest of the job (stripping, copying,
So is this allowed in the regular distribution or should it
be in non-free.
Seems ok to me, if not ok tell me because same kind of thing is with the
mathpad package.
Secondly, the LClint package provides some .el and .elc files
to allow access to LClint through emacs. I noticed a
How about
= = for less/greater than or equal to
Ok
for strictly less/greater thani
Ok
for less/greater than or equal to (backwards compatibility,
generates warning from dpkg-deb)
Ok but an fatal error from dpkg-deb would be better than just a warning.
= for equal to
Erick Branderhorst writes (Bug#2059: dpkg and depend on versions):
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.8
I installed the man package (2.3.10-6) succesfully. After that I tried
to upgrade the libgdbm1 package (1.7.3-8). During installation of
libgdbm1 dpkg reports about libgdbm1 conflicting
Transcript example below:
# dpkg --info bar-1.0-0.deb
old debian package, version 0.939000.
size 424 bytes: control archive= 242, main archive= 169.
140 bytes, 6 lines control
Package: bar
Version: 1.0
Package_Revision: 0
Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.8
I installed the man package (2.3.10-6) succesfully. After that I tried
to upgrade the libgdbm1 package (1.7.3-8). During installation of
libgdbm1 dpkg reports about libgdbm1 conflicting with man (2.3.10-6)
and that man (version 2.3.10-5) is installed.
- Why is it
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
Could anyone check and see if this problem is only occuring on my system?
I'm not sure if and how all of this goes on on my machine but I experienced
some
weirdness with shutdown/reboot/ctrl-alt-deb. It sometimes even didn't get
through
?
the manpage istall-info.8 has a reference to version 1.1 where
install-info is at version 1.0.6 right now.
Erick Branderhorst
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Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.6
I don't know if this is a bug because I don't know if the update
utility supports updating from a gzipd packages file.? I thought I
could do an update of the packages information with a gzipd packages
file but it didn't seem to work quite well:
--
Updating
Package: ldso
Version: 1.7.11-1
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.3.37 #9 Sat Oct 28 14:53:32 PDT 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: ldconfig won't run
Image: 1.3.37
bash: /sbin/ldconfig: cannot execute binary file
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Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of
Hi all,
I had a slightly corrupted profile for root yesterday in which the
path wasn't set for the sbin directory's (/sbin, /usr/sbin). Because
of this an `ldconfig' command from some {pre,post}{inst,rm} script
wasn't succesfull. Can we solve this?
Adding the path for the command to be
The incoming.uk dir isn't mirroring well on ftp.debian.org
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Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
I close this bug with the new latex2rtf-1.1-1 which is correct.
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Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Brian I (erick) had some discussion on ftp installation with dpkg and
we came up with two options. One of them is in my opinion the best and
the other one is the option Brian suggested (and thinks is the best).
Brian suggests to add a Filename: field in Packages-Master
Erick suggests to
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550 ac.netg.se... User unknown
Hi Andres,
Found a little typo in the description.
PACKAGE: bison
MAINTAINER: Anders Chrigstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
VERSION: A2.5
PACKAGE_REVISION: 0
Diff original description and corrected
Hyperlatex doesn't recommend ghostscript but gs from 1.3-5 (and higher)
I'm closing this bug.
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Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Package: tex
Version: unknown
Because of the changes in the TeX directory structure since a few
releases of TeX (related) packages, I thought adding a (general)
depends line in the xypic package would be smart. I thought it would
even be better if I add a version number with it:
Depends: tex
I had a elf-compiled version of gnuplot Sorry I forgot. I was cleaning up
my system and elf had to go for now. After that gnuplot didn't work anymore.
I had another version indeed.
Thanks for checking .
Package: gnuplot
Version: 3.5-3
...
# ldd /usr/bin/gnuplot
libX11.so.6 = not
Package: base
Version: 0.93.6-7
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: root refused on this terminal and /etc/motd
I installed base with dpkg-1.0 and now I have my GPL in
/usr/doc/copyright back. That's why I did it.
Package: repair
Version: 0.1-1 (last 1 by hand)
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Repair doesn't give debian revision
Repair seems to be searching in the file /var/lib/dpkg/available to
find some info about the
I had a weird error on my machine. The file containing the text of the
general public license /usr/doc/copyright/GPL is gone, the file
/usr/doc/copyright/LGPL is still there. I don't know what did delete this
file but I 'm quite sure I didn't do it manually. Is some package perhaps
Hello developers,
* diskspace requirements (displayed/registered)
I was wondering what happens when someone is running dpkg / dselect to
install some packages and is running out of diskspace. Perhaps it is
usefull to add a system able to calculate/display the required
diskspace for the selected
Package: jgraph
Version: 83-5
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Error 139 with jgraph
I wanted to test jgraph with the examples which came with it and did
the following:
$ cp /usr/doc/examples/jgraph/* .
$ gzip -d
Package: fvwmR5
Version: 1.24r-
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: How to deinstall fvwmR5
I tried the following commands but no luck.
Erick
# dpkg --list | grep fvwmR5
# dpkg --status fvwmR5
# dpkg --remove fvwmR5
Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.77-
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux eb 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Error messages are corrupted
# dpkg-deb --version
Debian GNU/Linux `dpkg-deb' package archive backend version 0.93.77.
Copyright (C) 1994,1995 Ian
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