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660 gdbGDB gets
sorry to take so long to reply to this...i've been too busy at work to
even check my mailing lists.
On 8 Aug 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote:
discussion so far has concentrated on this. This will require
massive changes to the system so that binaries know how to use the
default
I'd really
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
Previously, I have tested mawk on the base disks and had no trouble.
But I recommend that others try this --- just to make sure. Any
suggestions on what we should do with the extra 300K on the base
disks?
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I think having PPP and SLIP work out of the box would be a better use of the
space.
Bruce
From: Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
Previously, I have tested mawk on the base disks and had no trouble.
But
I think having PPP and SLIP work out of the box would be a better use of the
space.
Personally, I'd vote for vi before slip and ppp. I still can't
believe the number of problems I've had with ae (having trusted it
since it decided I wanted ^Ms in my doc), and how annoying it
is the number of
From: Richard Kaszeta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Personally, I'd vote for vi before slip and ppp. I still can't
believe the number of problems I've had with ae (having trusted it
since it decided I wanted ^Ms in my doc), and how annoying it
is the number of times things try to call 'ae' unless I
Package: shellutils
Version: 1.12-5
When tee has stdout going to a pipe and the named file going to an
ordinary file, if the pipe is closed before tee has written everything,
it does not write everything to the named file.
If tee's stdout is a file, but it can't write everything to stdout, it
Package: modules
Version: 2.0.0-8
(Note that I wrote this report regarding 2.0.0-2. As I fix the
problem when I notice it, it could concievably have been fixed,
but looking at /var/lib/dpkg/info/modules.conffiles (I think) it
appears to not be.)
The modules packages contains a file
Package: kbd
Version: 0.91-4
The kbd package config utility has a script called kbdconfig which can be
run to configure keyboard mapping and soft fonts. These settings are used
on boot by a script /etc/rc.boot/0kbd from a config file /etc/kbd/config.
Some of the fonts have multiple sizes
Package: ftp.debian.org
It appears to me that some files are incorrectly placed directly in the
buzz-fixed tree, instead of being in buzz-updates with appropriate
symlinks in buzz-fixed... all on master.debian.org.
The files in question:
buzz-fixed/source/manpages-de_0.1-4.tar.gz
Hello,
I'll upload libpaper_1.0-2 as soon as possible. It fixes the actual bugs
and contains a TODO file in doc/ explaining what I'd like to make in a
future release. If you're interested in paper size handling, please read
this file and comment on it.
Thanks,
Yves.
--
Yves Arrouye
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Date: 24 Aug 96 09:24 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: libpaper
Version: 1.0.1-1
Binary: libpaper
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
libpaper: Library for handling paper characteristics
On Aug 14, 3:39am, Ian Jackson wrote:
} Subject: Bug#4138: libpaper /usr/bin/paper is likely to have name clashes
} Package: libpaper
} Version: 1.0-1
}
} I suggest that this binary be renamed `papersize'.
I've renamed it `paperconf' because it will not handle just the size
of papers but other
On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
I think having PPP and SLIP work out of the box would be a better use of the
space.
Now that sounds great! Is there any way we can get PPP/SLIP into the
boot/root disks? Then the base system could be installed via ftp.
Luck,
Dwarf
Thomas Koenig writes (Bug#4202: dpkg chainsaw massacre):
...
When I tried to test-install the package, there were a few warnings,
but dpkg happily overwrote /usr/lib with that particular text file.
I'll eagerly await what fsck has to say about this.
My apologies. I have fixed this in dpkg
Bruce Perens asks me in private email:
The policy and dpkg programers documents are very good.
Can you get Ray to put these up on our web site ASAP?
I'd like to, but I think the web site is all confused. I could be
wrong. Does Matt Bailey still exist ? We've been waiting for him for
several
Lars Wirzenius writes (Re: Documentation formats ):
...
I'm not certain that distributing HTML with the packages and other formats
separately is a good idea. I think it might be a better idea to continue
as now and use on-line conversions from man and Info to HTML. Pre-converted
HTML should be
Raul Miller writes (Re: Draft manuals (qmail)):
...
Perhaps it's reasonable to specify that every mail aware program
supports the MAIL environmental variable. As qmail's default behavior
is to deliver mail to ~user/Mailbox in standard unix mailbox format,
this should suffice.
But does it use
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: Bug#4164: Ferret extended description has blank lines
):
...
Objections to reporting something as a bug are not founded on this
concept. No one feels personaly put down by a bug report. Those of us
who object to trivial bug reports are more concerned about the
Maarten Boekhold writes (exmh and Xauthority):
...
# Generate a random key; Mui and Pearce offer a number of alternatives
# for this.
randomkey=`perl -e 'srand; printf int(rand(10))'`
Do NOT do this. It results in a weak cookie, meaning that someone
could fairly easily guess
Rob Browning writes (Re: Shadow problems):
Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can ofcourse make the new directory setgid (chmod g+s). All files
created in that directory will have their gid set to that of the directory..
But I can see that using newgrp might be more
Milan Zamazal writes (Packaging questions (newbie)):
I'd like to contribute some packages, but I'd like to ask some
questions first:
1. One of these packages is the replacement of `libX11.so'. Do I have to make
whole alternative version of appropriate standard X package or is there some
Thomas Koenig writes (Bug#2475: at' uses middle-endian 2-digit-year date
format):
Date outputs from 'at' are mandated as
date +%a %b %e %T %Y
(i.e. Wed Aug 14 20:05:13 1996) by the Posix.2a draft I have, which is
the date used in the upcoming release 3.0 of at(1).
Yep, that's
Yves Arrouye writes (Re: libpaper 1.0 on master):
...
That's what libpaper does: use whatever paper size is in the PAPER env
var, or if empty whatever name found in the file whose name is in the
PAPERSIZE env var, or if this var is empty too look in /etc/papersize,
defaulting to letter (sigh).
Michael Meskes writes (Incorrectly locates packages):
...
Also, shouldn't the netscape and compress-package installer be moved to
contrib, too? I know they are free, but to be of any use you have to get the
some other software that is not free. So in fact they depend on it. Well at
least the
Buddha M. D. Buck writes (Bug#660: GDB gets address wrong of struct member in
memory breakpoint):
I'm looking at the backlog of forgotten bugs, and have verified that
this one still exists.
The original report was for gdb 4.12, but Ian Jackson verified
that the problem exists under 4.14,
Buddha M. D. Buck writes (Bug#818: echo builtin doesn't check for write
errors):
As of 1.14.6-4, this bug is still there... maybe
$ type echo
echo is a shell builtin
$ echo foo /dev/full
$ echo $?
0
$ cat /dev/zero /dev/full
cat: write error: No space left on device
$ echo $?
1
$
Date: 24 Aug 96 18:05 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: dftp
Version: 2.0-1
Binary: dftp
Architecture: all source
Description:
dftp: Linux Debian Distribution Packages Maintainer
- The purpose of this program is to make it
Rob Leslie writes (Bug#4218: Problems removing INN):
...
dpkg: error processing inn (--purge):
cannot remove `/var/spool/news': Device or resource busy
Would it be better if I made dpkg treat this as a warning ?
It happens one of the directories in a package is a mount point.
Ian.
Package: m4
Version: 1.4-4
The last lines of the extended description read as follows:
An experimental feature, which would improve `m4' usefulness, allows
for changing the syntax for what is a word in `m4'. You should use:
./configure --enable-changeword
.
if you want this feature
Nils Rennebarth writes (Bug#4221: knews silently overwrites configuration
file):
Knews should handle an upgrade more intelligently and not simply overwrite
the (possibly customized) /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Knews
configuration file.
I know this is difficult to do right. A lot of
Susan Package: mirror
Susan Version: 2.8-6
Susan
Susan The control file for mirror should be changed to show that it
Susan requires the installation of the full Perl package, not just the
Susan small package included in the base system (what's missing is a
Susan timezone.pl file).
Guy Maor writes:
The 'xx New Debian i386 Packages' mail *is* the announcement I
Oops, then I missed something. Aren't we supposed to make an announcement
anymore?
mentioned earlier. Some developers also post the .changes file when
they upload it, but that's at their option. It really isn't
Dale Scheetz writes:
That's exactly the point. I cannot recompile any package that uses Motif
since I don't have it. But I can recompile LyX since we have an xforms
package available.
Folks that buy my CD can too, but that's because xforms is improperly
located in contrib instead of
Dale Scheetz writes:
imapd Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This one's mine. I don't understand. What exactly needs to be updated?
There's a password check in imapd somewhere that has to be corrected to go
be shadow aware (at least that's what I was told). A simple getpwnam
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Date: 24 Aug 96 07:47 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: screen
Version: 3.7.1-8
Binary: screen
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
screen: A screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal
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