Ian Jackson writes:
Package: libc5-dev
Version: 5.2.18-9
As you can see below, linux/if_arp.h should include
linux/netdevice.h and linux/if.h.
...
Fixed in version 5.2.18-10.
David
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Package: base
Version: 1.1.0-14
/tmp/base-1.1.0/prototype/etc$ grep majordom passwd
majordom:*:30:30:majordomo:/var/majordomo:/bin/sh
/tmp/base-1.1.0/prototype/etc$ grep majordom group
majordom:*:31:
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Daniel Quinlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755.
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone.
I have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to
them.
First, I think the
Daniel Quinlan writes:
Package: fdutils
Version: 4.3-3
/usr/bin/fdmount should be mode 4755, not 4750.
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I agree that the installation is not correct, but I doubt mode 4755
is a solution. I for one don't like the idea that everyone is able
to
Or do we do some kind of display-time conversion from info to HTML ?
This is probably best.
Thanks
Bruce
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Bruce:
We can make your proposal simpler by using virtual package names to
find the libraries.[ eg Provides: libX11.so.6 ]
From: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
As it stands there are a couple of problems:
[...] we need to depend on a particular version of the package
[...] some packages
Package: samba
Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of such)
seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of the
processor time of the computer. This seems to occur when no computers
are actually accessing shares exported by samba (i.e.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Koenig writes:
The problem is that Maple looks for these things under /usr/X386,
as verified with strace.
Solution: cd /usr ; ln -s X11R6 X386
Real Solution: Complain to your vendor about the use of inappropriate
paths.
Installing a link to /usr/X386 is
Hello,
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/)
Greetings Squid Users! Version 1.0.6 is now available
I would like to help with making it Debian (if I can).
Also, on that same list is talk of kernel tuning,
max file descriptors etc.
Has someone looked at Linux kernel
package: dpkg
version: 1.3.4
Some of us use the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable to get emacs
and patch (among others) to create a revision history when editing
files.
Unfortunately, dpkg-source doesn't pay any attention to the setting
for that variable, and therefore assumes patch will work
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]
The maintainer listed against each package is derived from the Maintainer
field of the package as found in the development tree; there is an
Package: rsynth
Version: 1.0-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/binfile say
say: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
This should be updated to elf.
PS: it'd be nice to include some of the prononciation dictionaries 'say'
can use. (Probably as seperate packages, as they are all very
Package: ldso
Version: 1.7.14-4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /libfile ld.so*
ld.so:Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
ld.so.1.7.14: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
Looks like ld.so is still a.out. This is very annoying, because it means
that the a.out kernel
Package: symlinks
Version: 1.0-2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/binfile symlinks
symlinks: Linux/i386 impure executable (OMAGIC), stripped
I've not seen an OMAGIC binary before, but I presume this is an a.out
executable format. If so, it should be recompiled as an elf binary.
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#!/usr/bin/perl
Package: fortune
Version: 2.1-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/sbinfile *str*
strfile: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)
unstr: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)
These should be recompiled as elf.
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Package: fortune
Version: 2.1-1
Oh, fortune is a.out as well:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/gamesfile fortune
fortune: setuid Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC)
Please recompile the whole fortune package as elf.
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Cfingerd always seems to report [MSG-N], even when I do have messages
turned on:
Package: cfingerd
Version: 1.2.2-4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~mesg y
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~finger joey@
[]
Username: joey In real life: Joey Hess
Home directory: /home/joey Shell:
Package: mount
Version: 2.5j-1
I don't know if we have this problem currently, but I'd appreciate it
if you'd check.
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[8323] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theodore Y. Ts'o) Consulting_FYI 08/13/96 19:59 (73
lines)
Subject: [linux-security] Vulnerability in ALL linux
Non-usual-maintainer updates, hello-1.3-8 - hello-1.4-0.1
Usual-maintainer updates, hello-1.3-8 - hello-1.4-1
Usual-maintainer should never use -0 for revisions.
And if we agree on this, it should be mandated in the manual.
I think this seems reasonable. I propose to mandate
Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1
When removing smail from the system (in favour of sendmail) with
dselect, /etc/cron.daily/smail is not removed. This results in
unnecessary mail being sent to root.
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Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The joy of engineering is to find a
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MAPLE=/usr/local/maple
export MAPLE
[...]
# This variable tells Maple's Motif interface where to find its resource
# files. This should be set even if TTY Maple is being run, as the user
# might still open a Motif plot window.
XAPPLRESDIR=$MAPLE/X11_defaults
export
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 14:46:47 +0100
Source: dpkg
Binary: dpkg
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.3.5
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low (high for debian-changelog-mode)
Maintainer: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Description:
dpkg -
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Andrew Howell wrote:
Support writes:
Package: samba
Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of
such) seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of
the processor time of the computer. This seems to occur
Hello all,
A quick question (probably directed most at Ian). I notice that
/usr/lib/locale is part of the base system, but that nothing uses it.
OTOH, some packages do provide /usr/share/locale:
$ dpkg -S /usr/share/locale
textutils, fileutils, sharutils: /usr/share/locale
I have to decide
I just talked to Ian about the name of the source dir in our new source
format. Since we're changing the format anyway I think we should use the
same format for source and binaries. For instance I'd like to name the
modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz, the binary
modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
I'm considering adding a paragraph to the policy manual telling people
not to CC each other when replying to messages on debian-devel.
Is it the consensus of the list that this would be a good idea ?
It would certainly keep the multiplicity of
Just a thought, but I was wondering if perhaps the dselect program
could be modified to allow for it to not allow you to be able to select
.deb archives that are non-existent? I've noticed that for the .deb
archives that I haven't downloaded, the only way I know that they're
not there, is that
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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.
Lars Wirzenius writes:
I guess I'm repeating myself, but oh well. In my opinion, the main Debian
distribution (i.e., not including non-free or contrib) should consist only
of free software, where the definition of free includes the requirement
that source code is available and that the program
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thomas Hmm... I just found that particular string in libX11.so.3.1.0 and
Thomas in libXt.so.3.1.0, under /usr/X11R5/lib. Strace verivies that they
Thomas are indeed used, so that's probably where that path comes from.
Thomas The vendor is not to blame.
But those
Should we use $(ARCH)-debian-linux-gnu as parameter for ./configure
and $(ARCH)-debian-linux?
If so can it specified in the guidelines.
If not what should we use?
In the transition to ELF phase, our gcc package used i486-debian-linux,
which then caused some problems with
Package: ldso
Version: 1.7.14-4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /libfile ld.so*
ld.so:Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
ld.so.1.7.14: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped
Looks like ld.so is still a.out. This is very annoying, because it means
that the
On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
Dale Scheetz writes (Re: New virtual package names. ):
...
On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
others as well).
Sorry I'm coming into
[...]
Thomas Same thing here (same version, I suspect), only it doesn't work.
[...]
Thomas Hmm... I just found that particular string in libX11.so.3.1.0 and
Thomas in libXt.so.3.1.0, under /usr/X11R5/lib. Strace verivies that they
Thomas are indeed used, so that's probably where that
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Date: 14 Aug 96 11:01 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: lyx
Version: 0.10.1-1
Binary: lyx
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
lyx: High Level Word Processeor (BETA version)
Changes:
package: procps
version: 1.01a-1
psupdate seems to have recently taken to writing the psdatabase into
/etc, not into /boot.
This breaks the current kernel-package slightly (nothing fatal, just
annoying).
If /boot was the wrong place, please let me know so we can update
kernel-package. If /etc
On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
Package: boot (boot1440.bin, install)
Version: 1.1 (kernel is 2.0.0)
Updated information...
Problem: On some systems, the compressed kernel image provided on the
installation floppy (boot1440.bin) is not decompressed properly when
read
Hello Peter,
Package: ssh
Version: 1.2.13-1
Could you please check the version 1.2.14-1 if it occurs as well? (I am not
using gpm, so i can not check it.)
Thanks,
Dominik
Ian 2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we
Ian should mandate compressed manpages.
In this case the guidelines are of. Bruce waved his hand a while ago and
allowed parallel existence of compressed and uncompressed manpages.
Some maintainers, yours truly included,
Michael I'd like to name the modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz,
Michael the binary modules_2.0.0-8_i386.deb and the directory in which the
Michael source is stored IMO should be modules_2.0.0.
As the saying goes: You can't have the pie and eat it.
There are conflicting goals:
On Aug 14, 3:10pm, Sebastian Benoit wrote:
:
: It is possible that your system has timing problems ... Try to
: increase the IO-Waitstates in the BIOS-Setup (if there is an option
: like that), and leave both internal and external cache on.
:
-- End of excerpt from Sebastian Benoit
Thanks for
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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
(a problem with talk)
I'm connected to the internet via PPP with dynamic addressing
Does your /etc/ppp/ip-up edit /etc/hosts, inserting your dynamic
address? If not, that's the problem.
Guy
Alexander O. Yuriev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I trust you are all aware of the information released to
bugtraq/linux-security and linux-alert mailing lists about the vulnerability
of mount/umount utilities in Linux.
I'd really appreciate if you provide some official information on
Thomas But they're loaded by irisVxm, the graphical front end:
Which I don't use ..., I use the xmaple shell script (see below).
Thomas (Dirk, it might be a good idea to check wether you have something
Thomas like this in your environment; another suspect is the XKEYSYMDB
Thomas
Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Andrew Howell wrote:
Support writes:
Package: samba
Version: 1.9.16alpha10-1
When left unattended, the smbd daemon (or several instances of
such) seems to go into some sort of busy look that eats up all of
the processor time of the
Package: rpncalc
Version: 1.1-1
Directories must be 755 root.root.
Ian.
chiark:~/junk dpkg --contents
/csunix-export1/debian/unstable/binary-i386/math/rpncalc_1.1-1.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jul 23 23:00 1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jul 23 23:00 1996 usr/
drwxr-xr-x
Michael Meskes wrote:
I just talked to Ian about the name of the source dir in our new source
format. Since we're changing the format anyway I think we should use the
same format for source and binaries. For instance I'd like to name the
modules source file modules_2.0.0-8.tar.gz, the binary
Hi all,
I got a request from Jim Meyering (gnu maintainer shellutils, textutils,
fileutils etc.) whether or not he could get the bug-reports filed against
his packages.
I asked Ian J. about this but he couldn't come up with something more than
adding the mainstream maintainer in the maintainer
Martin Schulze writes (Bug#4049: access permissions for sysklogd):
Good morning Daniel!
}/sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755.
Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone. I
have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to them.
Please see the
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