dpkg 1.0.8: cosmetic fixes to installation method

[Ian Jackson]

I just released this because it was sitting around on my disk.  There
are no important changes here; the package should go into the
development tree.

dpkg (1.0.8); priority=LOW

  * update-alternatives slightly more helpful message.  (Bug#1975.)
  * cosmetic improvements to disk installation method.  (Bug#1970,1956.)
  * mounted filesystem and unmounted partition separate methods.  (Bug#1957.)

 -- Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Tue, 12 Dec 1995 04:07:47 +

4da13ddf6bdf8006a0f991a65b582172  dpkg-1.0.8.deb
d0d40b128ed8ba419d82b019a17097b7  dpkg-1.0.8.nondebbin.tar.gz
d9041ce9558b7c84ce058e0054c9de2b  dpkg-1.0.8.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   197287 Dec 12 04:26 dpkg-1.0.8.deb
-rw-rw-r--   1 root ian194337 Dec 12 04:25 
dpkg-1.0.8.nondebbin.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 ian  ian264465 Dec 12 04:08 dpkg-1.0.8.tar.gz

Bug#2012: libc5 recommends libc5-dev

[Ian Jackson]

Package: libc5
Version: 5.2.16-1

 Package: libc5
 Status: install ok installed
 Maintainer: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 Version: 5.2.16
 Revision: 1
 Provides: elf-libc
 Depends: ldso (>1.7.10-1)
 Recommends: libc5-dev
 Conflicts: elf-libc
 Description: The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libraries).

This is wrong because almost everyone will want libc5, but libc5-dev
is only for people who want the compiler &c.

Ian.

Re: symlink in /usr/include (fwd)

[Simon shapiro]

This is fine except that it will create a lot of /usr/include traffic. 
I try to track Linus and that means a kernel a week or so (I am deprived
Linus!  1.3.45 is OLD :-).  May I suggest a link in /usr/include to
/usr/src/linux/include/linux.  On my system, for example, /usr/src/linux
is a link to /usr/src/Kernels/1.x.yy.  When i get a new kernel (say
1.3.46), all I do is (cd /usr/src/Kernels/`.3.46/linux; rm
/usr/src/linux; ln -s `pwd` /usr/src/linux).  All this NOT as root (as
would be needed in the case of tinkering with /usr/include).

Of course I may be wrong, but


Simon

P.S.  Please ignore the below address and flame [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  He receives and answers mail :-)


Simon Shapiro   Bullet Technologies, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  13130 SW Haystack St.
(503) 524-6631  Beaverton, OR 97005

Bug#2011: very silly messages from rsh

[Ian Jackson]

Package: netstd?
Version: netstd 1.22-1 or 1.23-1, netbase 1.20-1 or 1.19-1

I was logged into chiark as ian.  I have permission (according to
.rhosts files) to log into myrddin as iwj10.  root exists on myrddin;
ijackson and nonexistent do not.

The bug involving quoting the remote dpkg -l invocation appears to be
a bizarre interaction between the now-infamous libc GNU getopt bug and
rsh/rshd.

-chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l ijackson echo hi
myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use
-chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 echo hi
hi
-chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l root echo hi
Permission denied.
-chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l nonexistent echo hi
myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use
-chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 dpkg -l '"net*"'
myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use
-chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 'dpkg -l "net*"'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version   Rev  Description
+++--=--===
ii  netbase   1.20 1Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
un  netpbm  (no description available)
ii  netstd1.22 1Networking binaries and daemons for Linux
-chiark:~/mail> dpkg -l 'net*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version   Rev  Description
+++--=--===
ii  netbase   1.19 1Basic TCP/IP networking binaries
un  netpbm  (no description available)
ii  netstd1.23 1Networking binaries and daemons for Linux
-chiark:~/mail>

mount-2.5-1

[Robert Leslie]

Date: 12 Dec 95 02:22 UT
Source: mount
Binary: mount 
Version: 2.5-1
Description: 
 mount: mount, umount, swapon, and swapoff.
Priority: Low
Changes: 
 Upgraded to 2.5; built for ELF.
Files:
 -rw-rw-r--   1 rob  rob 45387 Dec 11 21:20 mount-2.5-1.tar.gz
 -rw-rw-r--   1 rob  rob 13387 Dec 11 21:19 mount-2.5-1.diff.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root30114 Dec 11 21:21 mount-2.5-1.deb
 80050f097e9ad365be006dda28f3f626  mount-2.5-1.tar.gz
 0519b03c922a82f2e5a74e29e577bcb7  mount-2.5-1.diff.gz
 ad705f105e58da9001b5dc3ccfa2a568  mount-2.5-1.deb

Bug#2007: dialog segfault

[Michael E. Deisher]

On Mon, 11 Dec 95 15:52 GMT, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> I was trying things out with dialog, and managed to produce a
> segfault.

I've passed this one and a couple other bug reports on to the upstream
maintainer.

--Mike

Bug#2009: mailx ignores ^C at Subject prompt

[Ian Jackson]

Package: mailx
Version: 8.1-5

-chiark:~/mail> mailx spong
Subject:
^C
^C
^Z
[1]+  Stopped mailx spong
-chiark:~/mail> kill %1

[1]+  Stopped mailx spong
-chiark:~/mail>
[1]+  Terminated  mailx spong
-chiark:~/mail>

Bug#2010: mailx misses VM-generated From_ lines

[Ian Jackson]

Package: mailx
Version: 8.1-5

-chiark:fsstnd> from -f cross-compilers
>From ian Sat Nov 18 18:15:57 + 1995
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 19 23:09:37 1995
>From ian Sun Nov 26 16:09:01 + 1995
-chiark:fsstnd> mailx -f cross-compilers
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93 (POP extension).  Type ? for help.
"cross-compilers": 1 message 1 new
>N  1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Nov 19 23:09 168/7438  "Re: 
>Cross-compilers, "
& x
-chiark:fsstnd>

Ian.

Bug#2008: libf2c is in /lib

[Ian Jackson]

Package: f2c
Version: 951007-2

The f2c package puts libf2c.so.1.1 and libf2c_i2.so.1.1 in /lib.

These files should be in /usr/lib.

Ian.

Does anyone want to do the HP-100 palmtop interface programs

[Bruce Perens]

The author of "lxtools" has released it under the GPL after I asked him
for a more clear license. Does anyone else want to package it? I will do
so if nobody else does.

Thanks

Bruce

Re: solving some of our FTP problems

[Bdale Garbee]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
: 
: I'd love that feature too. But that either requires a damn good script, or
: that everybody uses the same .changes format. 

"Obviously", everyone should use the same .changes format... but I don't care
what that is, which is why I stayed out of the discussion the last time it was
underway.

: Given that we had that a rather use- and resultless discussion about a "human
: readable" vs "machine parsable" format, I am not sure whether we can arrive
: there.

I never saw the conflict as unresolvable, and I bet that if some useful
automation (like what is proposed here) would result, everyone might feel
differently about the value of coming to concensus.  If we're just arguing 
about what do or don't like to read on the list, and some hypothetical 
automation, it's less real than when there's a specific result we're trying
to achieve.

: I like Bill's "dchanges" and use it. Do I dream when I think we could
: establish the use of posting PGP signed dchanges output?

I've thought about this a bit, and I wouldn't classify adding PGP signatures
to the posted dchanges output as something that's really important to do really
soon.  However, if we were to open up dchanges for some work, and built some
automation around the package upload process, then it would certainly seem
reasonable to consider adding this while we're at it.

I'm too busy right now (got other folks arriving here tonight and tomorrow to
integrate pieces of the satellite payload I'm working on... as a hobby!), but
if there's any sense of a concensus that the Pending directory concept is
worthwhile, I'm willing to work on the tools, say, in the Jan/Feb timeframe.

Bdale

Re: 1.0 on Infomagic CD

[Richard Kettlewell]

Fernando Alegre writes:
>I think my suggestion still fits very well within your scheme. Look below:

>>  0.93R6 -> Highgate
>>  Highgate/   [contains 0.93R6]
>
>Why not having another symlink:
>   not-released-1.0 -> Holborn

Yup, that'd be good.

>That way we would just change the name of the symlink from 
>not-released-1.0 to release-1.0, while the actual directory would be the 
>same.

This seems to be one of the more important things.

-- 
Richard Kettlewell  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/

Bug#2002: Missing manpages

[Chris Fearnley]

'Bill Mitchell wrote:'
>
>On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Owen S. Dunn wrote:
>
>> Package: diff
>> Version: 2.7
>> Revision: 5
>>
>> This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or
>> cmp.
>
>Too true.  It comes with info pages, which are not at all the same thing.
>
>I think the current custom is to leave bug reports about this particular
>issue open, so I'm not closing this one.  I doubt, however, that I'll get
>around to writing a man page and contributing it upstream in hopes that
>it'll be picked up.

On my old Slackware I have man pages for diff, diff3, and cmp.  So
it's not like someone has to start from scratch.  I don't know the
copyright on these man pages because slakware preformats everything
.

--
Christopher J. Fearnley|UNIX SIG Leader at PACS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (finger me!)|(Philadelphia Area Computer Society)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Design Science Revolutionary
http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf |Explorer in Universe
"Dare to be Naive" -- Bucky Fuller |Linux Advocate

Bug#2007: dialog segfault

[Ian Jackson]

Package: dialog
Version: 0.6-1

I was trying things out with dialog, and managed to produce a
segfault.

chiark:~> dialog  --menu "`cat /etc/group`" 14 80 3 upgrade u remove r 'on 
hold' h
[ screen switches to alternative page for full-screen display ]
Segmentation fault
chiark:~>

It also did something funny to xterm's handling of the mouse, which
none of `tput rs1', `tput rs2', `tput rs3', `reset', `nvi' or the `do
full reset' option from the xterm menu were able to fix.  I'm
reporting that as a separate bug.

Ian.

Bug#2006: elf xlib for tk40.

[David H. Silber]

Package: tk40
Version: 4.0p3-1

This requires elf-x11r6lib, which does not exist.  I installed xlib-3.1.2-2,
which does not seem to provide what I need, but is the latest xlib available.
I then forced the install of tk40 and found out that I am still missing the
elf xlib, or something.  Upgrading to tk40 is my whole reason for switching
to elf at this time, so this is kind of disappointing.

Presumably, the maintainer of this package has it working on his system.
What does he have that I don't?

--
  David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project: Debian GNU/Linux (dbackup)
   Wanted:  Spare time.

 Programmer for hire.

Bug#1998: xypic-3.2-3 requires nonexistant packages.

[Erick Branderhorst]

> Trying to configure xypic on a debian-1.0 (i.e. ALPHA) system fails
  ~~
> due to dependencies on texbin, mfbin, and mflib packages newer than
> the ones currently available.
>
> These seem to be the currently available (development) packages:
> texbin-3.1415-4.deb
> mfbin-2.71-3.deb
> mflib-1.0-5.deb
>
In xypic packages a utility is used which will be included in the next
versions of texbin, mfbin and mflib. Nils Rennebarth didn't upload these
packages yet. He might not even have created them.
--
Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142
Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL

Announce: new libgdbm, libdb and libreadline

[J.H.M.Dassen]

THESE ARE ALPHA PACKAGES!


Here are new versions of libgdbm, libdb and libreadline. They've been
split in runtime and development versions. All of them have undergone
major changes. For this reason, please do not install them unless
you know what you're doing. 
I'd appreciate feedback on these versions, especially with regard to
their packaging (is the upgrading safe now?) and their usability with the 
perl, python, bash and man packages.
Note that libreadline uses the new ncurses package.

Date: 10 Dec 95 20:07 UT
Source: libgdbm
Binary: libgdbm1 libgdbm1-dev 
Version: 1.7.3-5
Description: 
 libgdbm1: GNU dbm database routines (runtime version).
 libgdbm1-dev: GNU dbm database routines (development files)
Priority: Low
Changes: 
 * ALPHA RELEASE. Do not install unless you know what you're doing
 * Added extended description.
 * Use -fomit-frame-pointer with -O2 -fPIC. The warning against
   buggy code generation seems to be outdated.
 * Encode major library number in package name.
 * Several upgrading/cleaning/administration issues, suggested by
   David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Files:
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root82850 Dec 10 21:07 libgdbm-1.7.3-5.tar.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root12107 Dec 10 21:07 libgdbm-1.7.3-5.diff.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root13388 Dec 10 21:07 libgdbm1-1.7.3-5.deb
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root28304 Dec 10 21:07 libgdbm1-dev-1.7.3-5.deb
 14279febdf3580c66ac6e4a997c936f4  libgdbm-1.7.3-5.tar.gz
 d52f9e292fdfd4fb7d5c0f80007cb52f  libgdbm-1.7.3-5.diff.gz
 d4868a33a7f9c680128fc883a760da36  libgdbm1-1.7.3-5.deb
 bea40eb0b14b4063d30be399e3fceac6  libgdbm1-dev-1.7.3-5.deb


Date: 10 Dec 95 19:27 UT
Source: libdb
Binary: libdb1 libdb1-dev 
Version: 1.85.2-2
Description: 
 libdb1: the Berkeley database routines (runtime version).
 libdb1-dev: the Berkeley database routines (development files).
Priority: Low
Changes: 
 * ALPHA VERSION. Do not install unless you know what you're doing.
 * Added extended description.
 * Split into runtime (libdb) and development (libdb-dev) versions.
 * Use .dist convention.
 * Changed name to include major version number.
 * Several upgrading/cleaning/administration issues, suggested by
   David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Files:
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root   273778 Dec 10 20:27 libdb-1.85.2-2.tar.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root 3993 Dec 10 20:27 libdb-1.85.2-2.diff.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root33652 Dec 10 20:26 libdb1-1.85.2-2.deb
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root   164867 Dec 10 20:27 libdb1-dev-1.85.2-2.deb
 c7a5ac4815942a5502aaf55f91e76464  libdb-1.85.2-2.tar.gz
 6580898511875cb8c0139671980bf47b  libdb-1.85.2-2.diff.gz
 2ce1caf6c864f6437d8db97ce04f8669  libdb1-1.85.2-2.deb
 22423830660368308286c335053d0d42  libdb1-dev-1.85.2-2.deb


Date: 10 Dec 95 18:18 UT
Source: libreadline
Binary: libreadline2 libreadline2-dev 
Version: 2.0-9
Description: 
 libreadline2: GNU readline and history libraries, runtime versions.
 libreadline2-dev: GNU readline and history libraries. Development versions.
Priority: Low
Changes: 
 * ALPHA VERSION. Do not install, unless you know what you're doing.
 * Split in runtime and development package.
 * Cleanup: version numbering consistently done via a single variable.
 * Several upgrading/cleaning/administration issues, suggested by
   David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Files:
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root   408024 Dec 10 19:17 libreadline-2.0-9.tar.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root 3574 Dec 10 19:18 
libreadline-2.0-9.diff.gz
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root64254 Dec 10 19:17 libreadline2-2.0-9.deb
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root   113003 Dec 10 19:17 
libreadline2-dev-2.0-9.deb
 b8afd56b206bf4475a289254f789ebb5  libreadline-2.0-9.tar.gz
 0a262bf631e5f076a9d6603d175ef202  libreadline-2.0-9.diff.gz
 ac0f0faf048a7bd2f1b49c82ee50ff60  libreadline2-2.0-9.deb
 fce6fca4fd7c18ef5b85e3dcf2c4fa50  libreadline2-dev-2.0-9.deb


Regards,
Ray
-- 
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, 
on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go
where no data has gone before. 

Bug#2005: No symlink /usr/X11 -> /usr/X11R6

[Owen S. Dunn]

Package: xbase
Version: 3.1.2
Revision: 4

No symbolic link /usr/X11 is made to /usr/X11R6 when this package is
installed.

Owen
--
Caius College, Cambridge CB2 1TA, UK   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk/users/osd1000/   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
`I wish it didn't have to end like that.'
  `It always ends. That's what gives it value.' --HCOL