Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-29 Thread Simon Shapiro
Hi Bdale, I'm not going to get upset no matter what Simon decides to do, because I suspect I'll be building custom kernels for most of my machines no matter what, but I wanted to make sure that the silliness of the current approach in my eyes got registered someewhere and fed back upstream.

Re: Unanswered problem reports by maintainer

1995-12-29 Thread Simon Shapiro
The US debian-bugs mirror seems to be fairing worse than normal... What?! A bug in the bug reporting system? A bug in a bug. :-) Still beats M$ bug reporting system. When they do not charge you to take the bug report ($150/hour, Visa/MC, in advance, please), they still respond just as slow.

New libgr

1995-12-29 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
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Unanswered problem reports by date

1995-12-29 Thread iwj10
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 10 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 416 wenglish perl doesn't

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-29 Thread Raul Miller
Simon Shapiro: How many people never compile their kernel and why? I generally try and use a debian kernel image until I have a specific reason not to. Then, I generally try to use the debian source until I have a specific reason not to. Then, I generally try to use one of Linus's snap shots

Bug#2069: GNU last doesn't use ut_addr

1995-12-29 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new acct code (last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold your breath. -- Dirk Eddelb|ttelhttp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

tput

1995-12-29 Thread Ian Murdock
I moved the tput package out of the distribution and into /debian/private/project/obsolete a few weeks ago. Is there any reason we should save it? I didn't delete it because I wasn't sure. I assume that ncurses supercedes it, as it now has a clear, reset, and tput of its own.

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-29 Thread Ian Murdock
On Wed, 27 Dec 1995, Matthew Bailey wrote: For those out there that are interested. I will make space available for these ports, and allow each group to maintain uploads for the subtree. Please contact me if you are in need of an account for this use. Please don't do this. I'd rather that

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-29 Thread Ian Murdock
On Wed, 27 Dec 1995, Dominik Kubla wrote: you might as well add binary-m68k since the first Debian/68k packages are starting to appear. Okay. These packages as well as the necessary source patches are currently stored at U-Mainz: ftp.uni-mainz.de:/pub/Linux/devel/debian/dontuse/m68k/