> a couple of weeks ago I reported a problem with the web site: > > >I have a problem with the Debian web site: http://www.debian.org/ > >The "Name", "Description", and "Maintainer" fields of some of the packages > >are > >empty, trying to download such a package results in an "Unknown URL" error. > > Ray responded with: > > >There was a name translation bug in the FTP-interface, which has been > >fixed now. Please notice that the URLs produced are FTP-URLs; the FTP site > >is overflowed with requests, so please download from a mirror > >(see http://www.debian.org/ftp-list.html). > >The missing information for various entries occurs when the script that > >generates the pages isn't able to execute dpkg-deb; please contact me > >directly if this occurs.
> Realy, the problem disappeared for while. Unfortunately, I now have > exactly the same problem again. The problem is that the root filesystem on bugs.cps.cmich.edu is full, so dpkg-deb failed when extracting info using /tmp. Matt, I've taken the liberty to remove a couple of .glimpse_tmp files, and a 600K PS file that looked like a webbrowser's temporary file from /tmp; however this is not enough. Can you please make room? Greetings, Ray