Yann Now another idea would be jed. It's quite small (but maybe bigger
Yann than joe, don't know, don't have joe installed any more), uses
Yann S-lang, is emacs-likee, has vi emulation AFAIK.
jed is currently without a maintainer, and the hamm version has too many
bugs. The previous
[ For the record, I agree with Paul's main points, most of which have long
been know. This one point bears correction. ]
Enrique You won't have wait for hours while a list of Skipping
Enrique foo. Skipping bar. is displayed at the screen.
1. That hasn't been necessary since dpkg-mountable
Dirk I have a machine which is 'almost pure frozen' Debian, and I have a
Dirk corrupted wtmp file. Anybody else seeing that as well ?
Turned out that, at least on my machine, it was xterm. I did a s/xterm/rxvt
in ~/.fvwm2/* a couple of days ago, and that helped
Incidentally, the newest
I intent to release an 'octave-sp' package. This will contain the
'semidef-oct' port by A.S.Hodel of the 'semidef' package by Lieven
Vandenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Stephen Boyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]. It provides functions for semidefinite programming
which can be used to solve nonlinear convex
john I'd still like to use penguins.
Indeed, that was the best proposal yet.
--
Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering
a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match.
-- The Economist,
Adam It wouldn't hurt but I don't think it's necessary. glibc2.1 can
Adam drop-in replace 2.0 (unless you have a program that depends on
Adam certain internal stuff which it shouldn't be using anyway).
Octave doesn't depend on internal stuff, but still fails when a glibc2.0
compiled
GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would fix it,
but it doesn't. The upstream author, with whom I generally had very good
(albeit sporadic) contact is MIA. AFAICT the other dists don't distribute
acct.
The package needs a kernel hacker type who can debug and
Robert [sorry for not getting to this message sooner]
No sweat.
Dirk GNU acct is still broken for 2.2 kernels. I thought a recompile would
Dirk fix it, but it doesn't.
Robert Not true:
[..]
Well, that is good news. I _thought_ I had it working as well. Maybe I just
messed up on
Hi Thomas,
Thomas I am still using an acct_6.3.2-2_i386.deb package that I
Thomas compiled on a 2.1.96 kernel. It works fine with the 2.2 kernel
Thomas series for me.
Thanks, that is another good data point.
Which version of glibc are you running / did you compile against? Glibc 2.0
Richard But if the package's maintainer thinks it should be removed, and
Richard no-one else volunteers to maintain it, then I don't think anyone
Richard should be able to say No, let it sit there and rot instead.
Agreed. We have too many packages that are just there and not being
attended
Brian I don't NEED a reminder about my bugs. There should be an option to
Brian TURN THE BLOODY THING OFF.
Subscribe with your @debian.org address so that you procmail it out on master.
--
According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Brian I don't NEED a reminder about my bugs. There should be an option to
Brian TURN THE BLOODY THING OFF.
Dirk Subscribe with your @debian.org address so that you procmail it out
Dirk on master.
Joel Wtf do you mean subscribe? None of us signed up for the fucking
Joel thing!
Brian Nag also sends emails regarding old bugs on your packages. I never
Brian subscribed to that. :p
All I'm saying: Everybody is free to procmail away whatever they don't like.
--
According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of qtl, a bio/genetics analysis package for
R. I have sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshment. A
new minor version is out. The debian/ directory can probably do with an
update. I can help and advise, but
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of rmysql, a MySQL database package for R. I
have sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshment. Three new
minor versions are out, and there is a bug report. The debian/ directory can
probably do with an update. I
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of dbi, a database interface for R. I have
sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshment. A new version
is out. The debian/ directory can probably do with an update. I can help and
advise, but cannot take on more
.
Regards, Dirk
| Many greetings
|
| Steffen
|
| Am Donnerstag 01 Dezember 2005 04:45 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
| Steffen Moeller is the maintainer of dbi, a database interface for R. I
| have sponsored a few uploads. The package could use a refreshment. A new
| version is out. The debian
Roberto C. Sanchez roberto at familiasanchez.net writes:
Gillings, Marcus wrote:
I know this email is unorthodox, but I feel strongly that my creative
ideas are what Pixar is looking for. First of all, my name is Marcus
Gillings. I have two books I like to call Super fiction published.
overview page, including a recent paper, is at
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html
Plans for future versions are not set in stone but may entail support for
OpenMosix clustering. Comments, questions, feedback are more than welcome!
-- Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue
qOn Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 05:29:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
[ If there is sufficient interest, this may morph into a Debian subproject.
Please contact me if you would want to be part of it. --edd ]
Announcing the Quantian
(= 2.3.1-1), libg2c0 (= 1:3.3-0pre9), libgcc1 (=
1:3.3-0pre9), r-base-core (= 1.7.1)
Installed-Size: 4304
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: hmisc
Description: GNU R miscalleneous functions by Frank Harrell
The Hmisc library contains many functions useful for data
analysis, high
Version: 1.1.6-1
Section: math
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6 (= 2.3.1-1), libg2c0 (= 1:3.3-0pre9), libgcc1 (=
1:3.3-0pre9), r-base-core (= 1.7.1), r-noncran-hmisc
Installed-Size: 3244
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: design
Description: GNU R regression
I've been asked (#203804) to supply an entry in the Debian manual page of my
GNU time package (which, btw, is orphaned upstream, any takers ?).
The main() function ends on
if (WIFSTOPPED (res.waitstatus))
exit (WSTOPSIG (res.waitstatus));
else if (WIFSIGNALED (res.waitstatus))
exit
Jose Luis Tallon jltallon at adv-solutions.net writes:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: kwin-baghira
Version : 0.5h
Upstream Author : Thomas Lbking baghira-style at users.sourceforge.net
* URL : http://baghira.sourceforge.net/
* License
Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org writes:
One month ago, I asked the alpha and mips buildd maintainers to
reschedule h5utils, which failed to build because of a missing build for
dependency. Was this email even read? Do these addresses have an utility
in the real world?
The source package
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:34:55PM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
Although the problem is well known and the solution is obvious, nobody seems
to have the guts to make a change (or even to speak about it).
Let's have a discussion about reducing our number of architectures.
Attempting to
On 1 February 2005 at 14:46, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-01-15 11:51]:
| Please CC me on follow-ups to debian-devel, or email me directly if
| you have any interest. I should follow up with RFA and O bug reports
| over the next few weeks, but doing
Clint Byrum cbyrum at spamaps.org writes:
Now, can someone please tell me how messages like the one below, and
others, aren't indicative that debian should drop s390, mipsel, and
maybe hppa from the list of architectures? How about we release for
i386, sparc, and powerpc, and let the others
Brian Nelson pyro at debian.org writes:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
But a total of eleven is insane.
It is sometimes hard to get them all to work, yes.
It also vastly increases
Matthew Palmer mpalmer at debian.org writes:
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:15:58AM +, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
undisputed: essentially all users are on i386 clearly dominating all other
arches, with a fraction of users in maybe two, three, four other arches ---
and comparitively nobody
Matthew Palmer mpalmer at debian.org writes:
[ a lot of stuff but omitting one critical argument of mine ]
Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I demonstrated
the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five other arches.
I rest my case. These arches have little
Don Armstrong don at debian.org writes:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Thanks for cutting and completely ignoring the part where I
demonstrated the lack of usage beyond i386 and maybe four or five
other arches.
You used package download results from one (1!) debian mirror
Adam Heath doogie at debian.org writes:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
files.downloaded percent
i386 1285422 70.5079
all 504789 27.6886
powerpc17754 0.9738
ia64 10111 0.5546
sparc 3336
The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome front-end.
So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to
signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message). However, in
my tests, the NEWS file never got displayed by apt-listchanges.
I
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the quick reply.
On 12 March 2005 at 17:04, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-12 10:45]:
| So the r-gnome binary package becomes an empty shell, and I would like to
| signal that via a NEWS file (as opposed to a debconf message
Hi Jeroen,
On 12 March 2005 at 18:09, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:45:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| The next version of R [1] ships with the previously included Gnome
front-end.
|
| without, I assume.
Yup. Thanks for spotting that from context.
| So
On 12 March 2005 at 11:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| Ok, so I just did the following
|
| 1) Run 'wajig reconfigure apt-listchanges' to ensure apt-listchanges shows
|everything, even on versions we've seen before
| 2) 'wajig purge r-gnome'
| 3) 'wajig install r-gnome' and verify with -t
On 12 March 2005 at 17:53, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-12 11:42]:
| 4) Scratch my head because even though 3) uses apt-get and 1) ensure NEWS
| should be mailed to me, and 2) ensure it is a fresh package install, I
get
| nothing
On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
| There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file
| called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup
| copy during a cdbs conversion or something similar that should have
| been removed. If you
On 18 April 2006 at 01:23, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| On 17 April 2006 at 22:42, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
| | There are a few dozen source packages in the archive that contain a file
| | called debian/rules.old. In many cases, this was apparently the backup
Mark Hindley mark at hindley.org.uk writes:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mark Hindley mark at hindley.org.uk
* Package name: pfm
Version : x.y.z
Upstream Author : Name somebody at example.org
* URL : http://www.example.org/
* License : (GPL,
Eduard Bloch edi at gmx.de writes:
Right solution is to use pbuilder, which will:
a) always ensure that package can be built using unstable
b) keep your build environment clean
c) keep your local system clean
d) Need lots of disk space
e) Take ages to unpack
f) Add more complexity
Given my available time and all the things competing for it (work, family,
other hacking endeavours [quantian, a few small code projects, ...],
running, ...), I have too many packages to continue to do a reasonable or
better job at keeping the packages in shape.
So from the 80+ packages I have, a
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:14:41PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
Hi Dirk!
You wrote:
* the gsl set:
- gsl
- gsl-ref-html
- gsl-ref-psdoc
The two doc packages are currently a week behind packaging the new
upstream
gsl. Well maintained upstream, maybe two releases
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:21:37PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* Miscellaneous
- afio (2 open bugs, active upstream, pretty straightforward)
I like afio for my compressed backups and use it very often.
I'd like to take over maintainership
Package: gs
Version: 2.6.1pl4
Revision: 5
The gs manual page mentions two options
-dXO=value[units]
Specify the origin from the left side of the page.
..
-dXO=value[units]
Specify the origin from the top of the page. Legal
..
Ignoring the man page bug
Package: texinfo
Version: 3.6
Revision: 3
/usr/info/dir contains the line (both with 3.6-2 and 3.6-3)
* Texi: (texi).The GNU Project's documentation format.
whereas the info files are called /usr/info/texinfo*.
Substituting [Tt]exi to [Tt]exinfo by hand in the /usr/info/dir file
This is a long, and somewhat belated, response. Please read through it and
give me your comments.
Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
Marek I noticed the following problems with the acct-alpha-5-7 package:
Marek
Marek - lastcomm and the kernel seem to disagree about sizeof(struct acct)
Marek
CD Rasmussen writes:
Costa Elisp folk don't tend to separate the source from the executable the
Costa way people do with C programs. I'm sorry to hear this was done with
Costa VM.
I don't want to take them away from anyone, not even from Emacs specialists.
I simply want to have the
Susan G Kleinmann writes:
Susan The man page and the info page for 'acct' refer the reader to
Susan acct(5) for additional information. No such page exists.
True, but that is a bug in the upstream version that I as the maintainer
can't do anything about but writing the man page myself.
Susan G Kleinmann writes:
Susan There are inconsistencies in the documentation of the paths of
Susan accouting files.
Thanks. These inconsistencies arise mainly from Linuxisation and
Debianization of the acct package. I will correct these inconsistencies in
the texinfo source for the next
Erick Branderhorst writes:
Erick Hyperlatex doesn't recommend ghostscript but gs from 1.3-5 (and
Erick higher) I'm closing this bug. -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erick +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care)
Erick University Hospital Rotterdam NL
Erick,
You also
Michael E Deisher writes:
Michael On Wed, 1 Nov 95 12:30 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael said:
Michael Strange. It installs fine on my system. Anyway, I'll upload a
Michael new, fixed package soon.
I bet you still have an X11 release from the pre-virtual-package-name area.
Here I
Package: dosemu
Version: 0.60.3-0
Michael E Deisher writes, replying to a private mail of mine
Michael I hope you don't mind me entering your comments (and my additional
Michael comments) as another debian bug report.
Maybe we should have kept it private for an iteration or two to keep
I just looked around a bit on my box via dpkg -l and saw that I had
archie, xarchieR6
dvips, dvipsk
fvwm, fvwmR6
ghostview, ghostviewR6
xdvi, xdvik
xpm, xpmR6
installed. That is really quite some avoidable clutter.
Not that I am in favour of
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r
Revision: 8
fvwm puts files fvwmrc.pid on /tmp that are not deleted after fvwm ends.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Ian Jackson writes:
Ian Why can't we just stick with `doc' containing both sets of
Ian documentation ? Is there any point in splitting the package up ?
Having two packages permits the user to select the one she wants. There might
be people who can live without the HOWTOs or the Debian
Package: git
Version: 4.3.7
Revision: 4
Setting:
X11, rxvt, $TERM=linux, ~/.gitrc.linux a copy of /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.xterm
Problem:
The color selection from /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.common works well on the
console, but not so in a rxvt---object files appear blue on blue and are
invisible
Package: trn
Version: 3.6
Revision: 2
The postinst lacks a $:
*** trn.postinst.oldMon Nov 20 16:28:04 1995
--- trn.postinstMon Nov 20 16:28:22 1995
***
*** 18,21
read server
! echo server news/server
--- 18,21
read server
! echo $server news/server
But
kenny writes:
kenny a2gs - Is this superceded by genscript?
kenny a2ps - Pretty much a dead
I think we should throw these two out.
In July, I filed bug#1112 against a2gs. This bug is still open. As Kenny
could provide no solution (IMHO it's an upstream problem), I tried some other,
Bill Mitchell writes:
Bill Yesterday, I said I'd counted 1300+ and info and man files which
Bill referred to /usr/local. It later struck me that this number is
Bill totally unreasonable. I think I reversed the sense of the test.
Bill
Bill I've redone the test on what I currently
Package: ncurses-runtime
Version: 1.9.7a
Installation of ncurses-runtime gave me a new 'reset' in /usr/bin by hard
linking it to /usr/bin/tset from the same package.
Unfortunately, this overwrote the /usr/bin/reset script I had from the
base/tput package. I can't remember whether I asked dpkg
Package: gnuplot
Version: 3.5
Revision: 3
gnuplot's term.h has the define for FIG commented out. So no 'fig' or 'bfig'
terminals for the portable fig graphics language can be generated. That's a
pity as Debian has the xfig and transfig packages to use fig graphics. It
compiles fine with FIG
Robert Leslie writes:
Robert I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu
Robert doesn't even carry the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers
Robert debian-1.0.
It's getting jucier by the minute:
This domain has a local wuarchive mirror. Wuarchive mirrors tsx-11, along
Bruce Perens writes:
Bruce Yes, a code name would be a good idea. Let's hold off on that until
Bruce Ian Murdock can do it - I've stuck my neck out enough today.
We could also hide in private/project.
--
Dirk Eddelb|ttelhttp://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Bdale Garbee writes:
Bdale This solves the problem, since Pending wouldn't allow uploads, and
Bdale only things that look like packages with changes files for which all
Bdale the pieces look intact would be copied. Scripting this doesn't seem
Bdale hard, either... wake up once in a
Michael Alan Dorman writes:
Michael Although they could mirror if they had a special userid/password
Michael (as I believe has been set up)---they would just have to do it in
Michael multiple parts...
As the maintainer of the mirror package, I am happy to confirm that you do
not need an
Robert Leslie writes:
Robert Package: efax
Robert Version: 07a-2
Robert
Robert 1. The postinst script says to modify /usr/bin/fax, but it should
Robert probably now say /etc/efax.rc instead.
Thanks, I will modify that for the next release.
Robert 2. /usr/bin/fax should probably
This release fixes the bugs from #2033.
If you are using efax-07a, please install this and let me know what you think
about, esp. the interaction between preinst and postinst. This is required to
save changes that a user could have made to /usr/bin/fax from efax-07a-{0,1}
before the sourcing of
Karl Ferguson writes:
Karl /var/lib/dpkg/info/efax.postinst: [: too many arguments -
Weird. I tested this a bit yesterday while I implemented it, and of course
tested the installation on my box before I shipped efax --- in short, it
doesn't do this on my computer.
Can you trigger the
I am indebted to Robert Leslie and Karl Ferguson for spotting two stupid
errrors in yesterday's release of efax-07a-3. Thanks, guys.
So here's a new one and it'll hopefully last longer than 24 hours ...
Date: 17 Dec 95 22:39 UT
Source: efax
Binary: efax
Version: 07a-4
Description:
efax:
Ian Jackson writes:
Ian Right. In order to avoid having to rename lots of packages or change
Ian their version numbers I propose the following naming scheme for files
Ian on the FTP site in the `binary' directory:
Ian
Ian package-name--version[-revision].deb
Ian
Ian Note the
Eddelbuettel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* efax-07a-4 release
* debian.rules: include missing debian.preinst (bug#2041) and
really create the directories in /var/spool/fax
* debian.postinst: quoted strings (bug#2041)
Sat Dec 16 14:26:19 1995 Dirk Eddelbuettel [EMAIL
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
The problem is due to your Intel Etherexpress. That card is _evil_. They are
to slow for fast LANs and get out of sync. I tried to use one (given as a
loan) for some months last year, There were zillions of similar bug reports
on comp.os.linux.networking.
While I agree that this answer is
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
Miquel There is a last with the GNU copyright in sysvinit. It isn't
Miquel compiled and installed by default, but it is small and fast.
That sounds good to me. As your sysvinit package is part of every Debian
installation, we could use this 'last' binary and
Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dirk I have reported this to the upstream maintainer. He promised me new
Dirk acct code (last is part of acct) about six months ago, so don't hold
Dirk your breath.
Marek How about using last from util-linux? It has the standard
[This goes to debian-devel only.]
Raul Miller writes:
Raul It does look like dvips was superceeded by some other package, and
Raul that it did originally have some executables in it.
Nils switched to the upstream convention of reflecting the 'k' for Karl
Berry's kpathsea in the package
Bill Mitchell writes:
Bill Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ian * dpkg and other packages written especially for Debian don't have a
Ian revision number because a revision number would be meaningless and
Ian confusing.
[...]
Bill I'm not religious on this issue, but I'd prefer it
b c writes:
Brian Package: efax
Brian Version: 07a
Brian Revision: 4
Brian
Brian 1) The security hole still exists because the C0 command is still
Brian present when going into answer mode on systems that will accept
Brian incoming data connections. The string C1 should be added
b c writes:
Brian (4) The /var/spool/fax is of the dialout group. Should this be
Brian the fax group instead? Also, how about setting the permission of
Brian this directory and those under it to drwxr-s--- so only people in
Brian that group can send/view faxes. The 's' would also
Package: ddd-smotif
Version: 1.4d-2
I had ddd installed, and a simple dpkg -i ddd-smotif-1.4d-2.deb failed with
the Conflicts: ddd + Provides: ddd. I think that adding a Replaces:
ddd would do the job.
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Thanks for forwarding this note by Jim Meyerding. I like his ignoring of
/etc/DIR_COLORS, I always found that filename rather ugly and kept my own
file /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc for these colour settings.
IMHO, two things remain:
- the fileutils maintainer should patch dircolors so
Right, I know that lapack-linux website too. Note gcc-2.7.0 and g77-0.5.17
were used, more recent ones are available. g77 got better with 0.5.18, but
also slower (according to some very casual measurements I did on one piece of
code). Also, Jacob Schiotz doesn't say anything about compiler
Erick Package: emacs
Erick Version: 19.31-2
Erick
Erick I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error
Erick occurs.
Erick
Erick Loading hilit19... Error in init file: error: X windows are not in
Erick use or not initialized
That is your fault, not emacs.
Erick * added latin1.sty: Michael Meskens requested
See the documentation in /usr/doc/latex/ltnews0[23].tex.gz, this is no longer
needed since about last June.
I used to use latin1, but now prefer
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % Umlaute
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel
Package: magicfilter
Version: 1.2-5
There is one serious problem which prevented magicfilter from working here,
and some small glitches.
1. The executable is installed as /usr/sbin/magicfilter, but the (rather
well done) /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig extracts a filter, in my case
Dirk 2. There is another problem with extracting the filter from the set
Dirk of filters in /usr/doc/examples/magicfilter/filters/filters.tar.gz as
Dirk the extracted file is not registered with dpkg --- upon removal of
Dirk the package a useless file will remain on the machine. a if [
Dirk As the priority of mime-support is standard and therefore higher
Dirk than the one of xpdf (extra), I'll add a Depends:
Dirk mime-support. If anybody has a problem with that, mail me soon, or
Dirk file a bug report later ...
Brian If you put the if clause around the calls to
Thanks for the suggestion, Brian. I'll do that today.
As the priority of mime-support is standard and therefore higher than the
one of xpdf (extra), I'll add a Depends: mime-support. If anybody has a
problem with that, mail me soon, or file a bug report later ...
--
Dirk Eddelbuttel
[...]
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
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:
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
Bruce Perens writes:
Bruce Let's plan on having shadow be part of the base for 1.2 . We
Bruce should thus have the default login be aware of it, etc.
Let's not forget about xdm, please.
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Yves I remember that a long time ago it was said that it was okay to gzip
Yves manual pages because the manual reader did handle them nicely?
Lars Our man seems to handle them OK. Since there can be tens of
Lars megabytes of manual pages (I have 18 MB), I think compressing them
Lars
Richard Package: manpages
Richard Version: 1.11-4
...
Richard No manual entry for acct in section 5
I wrote a realy minimial acct(5) for the acct package which basically refers
back to acct(2), see below.
As acct.h is in the kernel source, and hence in libc5-dev, this acct.5 (or
an
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
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).
Package: emacs
Version: 19.34-1
/etc/emacs/site-start.el, after upgrading from 19.31 to 19.34, contains
(load debian-rundir)
(debian-run-directory)
which fails as there is no debian-rundir.el in the package.
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