Bug#4532: emacs: infofiles are not gzipped

[Michael Meskes]

Package: emacs
Version: 19.34-2

The info files

/usr/info/ccmode
/usr/info/ccmode-1
/usr/info/ccmode-2

are not compressed. They should be compressed with gzip.

Michael

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Bug#4531: mgetty: info files not gzipped

[Michael Meskes]

Package: mgetty
Version: 0.99-4

The files

/usr/info/mgetty.info
/usr/info/mgetty.info-1
/usr/info/mgetty.info-2
/usr/info/mgetty.info-3
/usr/info/mgetty.info-4

should be gzipped.

Michael

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Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[Heiko Schlittermann]

Michael Meskes wrote:
: 
: > dpkg-source -b joe-2.8
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected
: > object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- root/users0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 
: > joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc link to joe-2.8.orig/.jmacsrc', expected
: > `joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc'
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_1.8.orig.tar.gz
: 
: The same problem happens with sudo. It seems that Ian's scripts cannot
: handle hard links.

Perhaps someone should release dpkg_1.4.1 ...  If there are no
voluntaries, I'd do it.


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Bug#4530: ld cannot find most shared libraries

[Mr Stuart Lamble]

Package: ldso
Version: 1.8.2-1

I've recently had problems linking programs non-statically with (e.g.) the
X11 libraries, etc. Static libraries are fine, shared have problems. Upon
investigation, and discussion with a friend, it appears that ld cannot find
files of the form:

  libfoo.so.1
  libfoo.so.1.2.3

etc. - there has to be a symlink libfoo.so for libfoo to be found. Upon
creating such symlinks, everything worked fine. (well, once I got rid of
the /lib/libc.so => /lib/libc.so.4 link, that is :-) Oops. :)

This is (IMO) a bug in the upstream sources. (I'm not sure whether this
is confined to certain directories or not, especially since libc doesn't
have this problem.)

Re: Purpose of source packages?

[Juergen Menden]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Erick Branderhorst wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible that I reduce the source so that everyone can recompile the
> > package (and add a short description of my changes) plus a diff that adds
> > debian specific files?
> 
> You can modify the source if you want but I don't recommend it.  

generally i agree with Erick, but web2c is the exeption
from the rule. it's at most a collection of nearly unrelated 
source packages which even configures independently.

so my hint is: remove all and everything you do not need to 
compile your package (but look out for copyright restrictions of 
course! there might be even different copyrights apply for the 
different parts of the web2c collection.)

jjm

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Bug#4529: "gmp" fails to extract when using dpkg-source

[llucius]

Package: gmp
Version: 1.3.2-3

While trying to extract gmp, I received the following message from 
dpkg-source:

/bld/src/new # dpkg-source -x /sys/downloads/gmp_1.3.2-3.dsc
dpkg-source: extracting gmp in gmp-1.3.2
patch:  malformed patch at line 183: od_1.o mpn_lshift.o mpn_rshift.o 
mpn_rshiftci.o mpn_sqrt.o memory.o mp_set_fns.o _mpz_set_str.o 
_mpz_get_str.o mpz_realloc.o mp_clz_tab.o alloca.o mp_bases.o
dpkg-source: failure: patch gave error exit status 1

It appears that line 182 is too long and is being wrapped.

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Uploaded: sendmail_8.7.6-1

[Rob Leslie]

Uploaded to master.debian.org.

This version fixes most of the existing bugs against this package; it does not
yet, however, remove the dependency on `deliver'. (It will RSN.)

Since this version fixes two serious security problems, can we please
expedite its processing into both the stable and unstable trees?

Thanks.


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Binary:  sendmail
Architecture:  i386 source
Description: 
 sendmail: A complex mail transport agent.
Changes:
 * New upstream version: addresses security concerns (Bug#4510, Bug#4514)
 * Fixed stop/restart problem (Bug#4085)
 * Path to procmail ought to be fixed (Bug#4065, Bug#3756)
 * Curious installation failure ought to be fixed (Bug#4203)
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Re: Bug#4527: dhcpd does not extract with dpkg-source

[Christoph Lameter]

Seems that there is something wrong with dpkg-source. Why would it require
a - instead of a _ for the orig.tar.gz when all the other files for the
package have a _.

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, llucius wrote:

llucius>Package: dhcpd
llucius>Version: 0.5.13-1
llucius>
llucius>The following message was received while extracting the source:
llucius>
llucius># dpkg-source -x /sys/downloads/dhcpd_0.5.13-1.dsc
llucius>dpkg-source: error: tarfile `/sys/downloads/dhcpd_0.5.13.orig.tar.gz'
llucius>contains object (dhcpd_0.5.13.orig/) not in expected directory
llucius>(dhcpd-0.5.13.orig)
llucius>
llucius>It appears the directory names got munged somehow.
llucius>

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Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[Dale Scheetz]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:

> @@ -710,6 +710,7 @@
> "listed by tar as \`$_'");
>  $fn= $filesinarchive[$efix++]; $mode= $1;
>  if ($mode =~ m/^l/) { $_ =~ s/ -\> .*//; }
> +if (/ link to /) { $_ =~ s/ link to .*//; }
>  substr($_,length($_)-length($fn)-1) eq " $fn" ||
>  &error("tarfile \`$tarfileread' contains unexpected object".
> " listed by tar as \`$_', expected \`$fn'");
> 

This fix for /usr/bin/dpkg-source has fixed the problem for me. I can now
extract from the orig.tar.gz with no errors.

Thanks Heiko!

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Bug#4528: "io" does not extract with dpkg-source

[llucius]

Package: io
Version: 1.09-1

The following message was received while extracting the source:

# dpkg-source -x /sys/downloads/io_1.09-1.dsc
dpkg-source: error: tarfile `/sys/downloads/io_1.09.orig.tar.gz' contains
object (IO-1.09.orig/) not in expected directory (io-1.09.orig)

It appears the directory names got munged somehow.

Bug#4513: libpng

[llucius]

On 19 Sep 1996, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:

> llucius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Package: libpng1
> > Version: 0.89c-1
> > While building on the m68k arch, I received the following from dpkg:
> > dpkg --build /bld/src/new/libpng-0.89c/debian/tmp ..
> > dpkg-deb: building package `libpng1' in `../libpng1_0.89c-1_m68k.deb'.
> > dpkg-deb: maintainer script `postinst' has bad permissions 644 (must be 
> > >=0555 and <=0775)
> 
> I don't think this is a libpng bug---I just checked the original
> version on my HD, and it is in fact 775.  I suspect that the version
> of dpkg you're using (maybe all of them) is not correctly reassembling
> the source by not making sure the perms are correct on the files that
> are patched in.
> 
Hi Mike,

I believe if you try to extract the source with dpkg-source and then check 
the permissions you "should" find them to be incorrect.  (Maybe dependent 
on you umask, but it looks like dpkg-source overrides it.)  I think they  
should be set in "debian/rules".

Thanks,

Leland

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Bug#4527: dhcpd does not extract with dpkg-source

[llucius]

Package: dhcpd
Version: 0.5.13-1

The following message was received while extracting the source:

# dpkg-source -x /sys/downloads/dhcpd_0.5.13-1.dsc
dpkg-source: error: tarfile `/sys/downloads/dhcpd_0.5.13.orig.tar.gz'
contains object (dhcpd_0.5.13.orig/) not in expected directory
(dhcpd-0.5.13.orig)

It appears the directory names got munged somehow.

Why does dpkg-source produce this message...

[llucius]

When attempting to extract the source for eject_1.4-1, I received the 
following message:

dpkg-source: error: diff contains unknown line `\ No newline at end of file'

Is there a problem with the package or is there a critter in dpkg-source?

Thanks,

Leland

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Bug#4517: Error Installing tex/latex

[Susan G. Kleinmann]

Hi --

You said:
> When I try to install tex with
> dpkg -i texbin-3.1415-5
> I get this error message:
> dpkg: error processing texbin (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  texbin

Try installing mfbasfnt_1.0-7.  It's currently in private/project/Incoming.
Let me (better yet, the list) know if this works.

Good luck,
Susan Kleinmann

FTP to Master

[Brian C. White]

I am still unable to FTP to master.debian.org

  callandor:~/tmp> ftp master.debian.org
  Connected to master.debian.org.
  220 primer FTP server (Version wu-2.4(7) Thu Aug 1 02:34:14 MET DST 1996) 
ready.
  Name (master.debian.org:bcwhite): 
  530 User bcwhite access denied...
  Login failed.
  Remote system type is UNIX.
  Using binary mode to transfer files.
  ftp>

Could somebody please fix this?

Please don't tell me to telnet to master and then FTP back.  That would
require someplace to FTP back to.  Since I'm behind a firewall, I cannot
do that.
 
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Re: Bug#4512: psmerge only writes the prolog back

[Yves Arrouye]

   > Package: psutils
   > Version: 1.16-3
   > 
   > The psmerge utility only writes the prolog of files it reads. It is even
   > not able to merge a single file (which should be equivalent to a cat).
   > Looking at the source, it looks like some parts of the PS are gobbled
   > without being printed.
   > 
   > Yves (who needs psmerge or an equivalent soon :-().
   >
   The man page indicates that psmerge is not a general merge utility. It is
   only intended to work in the specific case that all the files are created
   with the same fonts and resources by the same application. I can only
   assume that if your case differs from this scenerio you should not expect
   useful results.

I'm in this scenario, don't worry. In addition, a single document is in
the scenario too ;-)

Yves.

scp method for dupload?

[Chris Fearnley]

I was wondering if there is a way to use scp to transfer files to
master?  This would let me transfer the files without sending the
passwd in the clear.  I know master supports ssh, but I'm not sure of
the procedure.  Probably before anyone informs me, I'll have put a new
version of mawk into Incoming.  But for everyone's sake, I bring it up
anyway!

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Size difference (big) between .orig.tar.gz and .deb: why?

[Yves Arrouye]

I just wonder: I make a package with only a 17kb copyright file and a small
control file in addition to what is in my .orig.tar.gz file, and I get:

1427032 Sep 19 23:28 povray3-manual_3.0.10-1_all.deb
1352325 Sep 19 23:26 povray3-manual_3.0.10.orig.tar.gz

What can explain this 72kb difference in size? Is one of the files
more compressed than the other one, or is it because of the .deb
format?

Yves.


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Bug#4526: popclient now requires a ~/.poprc :(

[Chris Fearnley]

Package: popclient
Version: 3.05-1

$ popclient mail.host
/s2/redhat/home/home.cjf//.poprc: No such file or directory

This used to work.  I'm disappointed that the new version isn't backward
compatible.  Since I'm resposible for maybe 10 pop servers on 5 different
networks, I prefer to just put the applicable host on the command line
and get prompted for the passwd --- just like our old popclient did.

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Bug#4517: Error Installing tex/latex

[Urban Koistinen]

I have found the install of texbin bug depend on
how many languages are chosen for texlib.
With fewer languages, the install goes ok.

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Bug#4525: dpkg-buildpackage assumes file protections and shoots self in foot

[Karl Sackett]

Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0

The umask for my account is set to 077.  Those portions of dpkg-buildpackage
which run as root create files with protection set to 600 and owned by
root.root.  Because of this, the non-root portions of dpkg-buildpackage
cannot access the files debian/files and debian/substvars, generate error
messages saying these files cannot be found, and dpkg-buildpackage dies.

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Bug#4524: controllib.pl doesn't show file name in error msg

[Karl Sackett]

Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0

While tracking down a different bug, I found this typo on line 58 of
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl:

&error("unable to open substvars file $varlistvile: $!");
  

I changed this to '$varlistfile' and now controllib.pl now tells me which
substvars it can't open instead of printing a blank space.
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Re: config scripts on root disk

[Christoph Lameter]

That would be great!

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Scott Barker wrote:

> How hard would it be to move the remaining config scripts (the ones that
> configure network parameters, lilo, etc) off of the root disk and into a
> debian package?

Bug#4523: strace gives strange 'umoven: I/O error' messages

[Frank Neumann]

Package: strace
Version: 3.1-2

When tracing programs, I sometimes see messages like this:
[..]
mprotect(0x8000, 20797, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xc0008000, 386288, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0xc000, 15787, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(ptrace: umoven: I/O error
 ^

I only tried this on m68k, but I heard it also happens on i386. Andreas
Schwab suggested a fix, which at least works for me; I hope it will also
work for anyone else:


--- strace-3.1/util.c.~1~   Tue May 21 05:32:23 1996
+++ strace-3.1/util.c   Tue Sep  3 14:24:00 1996
@@ -604,7 +604,7 @@
 int len;
 char *laddr;
 {
-#ifndef SUNOS4
+#if !defined (SUNOS4) && !defined (LINUX)
return umoven(tcp, addr, len, laddr);
 #else /* SUNOS4 */
int pid = tcp->pid;


Greetings,
Frank

Re: Bug#4512: psmerge only writes the prolog back

[Dale Scheetz]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Yves Arrouye wrote:

> Package: psutils
> Version: 1.16-3
> 
> The psmerge utility only writes the prolog of files it reads. It is even
> not able to merge a single file (which should be equivalent to a cat).
> Looking at the source, it looks like some parts of the PS are gobbled
> without being printed.
> 
> Yves (who needs psmerge or an equivalent soon :-().
>
The man page indicates that psmerge is not a general merge utility. It is
only intended to work in the specific case that all the files are created
with the same fonts and resources by the same application. I can only
assume that if your case differs from this scenerio you should not expect
useful results.
 
Luck,

Dwarf

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Bug#4522: zsh 3.0.0 does not install help files

[Yves Arrouye]

Package: zsh
Version: 3.0.0-1

Help files for zsh functions are not installed by the package, which
makes things like 'run-help compctl' unusable.

Would it be possible to install these help files under /usr/lib/zsh/help,
so that one can also have /usr/lib/zsh/functions for his site-wide zsh
functions, for example?

Yves.

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Bug#4521: zsh 3.0.0 is not stripped

[Yves Arrouye]

Package: zsh
Version: 3.0.0-1

in/zsh# file /usr/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh: ELF 32-bit LSB executable,, Intel 80386, version 1
# ls -l /usr/bin/zsh
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root root  1664910 Aug 16 21:34 /usr/bin/zsh
# strip /usr/bin/zsh
!# !ls
ls -l /usr/bin/zsh
-rwxr-xr-x   2 root root   341560 Sep 19 08:28 /usr/bin/zsh

Yves.

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Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[llucius]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:

> : If you figure out what's going on here can you let me know?  I've run 
> : into the same problem while rebuilding for m68kers and was unable to 
> : determine the cause.
> 
> Until Ian is back, you'll might use my diff as appended
> Heiko
Cool!  I'll give it a try.

Thanks!

Leland


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> --- /usr/bin/dpkg-source  Thu Sep 12 02:20:10 1996
> +++ /home/bmt/heiko/d/Debian/tools/dpkg-sourceThu Sep 19 16:42:57 1996
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  #!/usr/bin/perl
>  
>  $dpkglibdir= "/usr/lib/dpkg";
> -$version= '1.4.0'; # This line modified by Makefile
> +$version= '1.3.14'; # This line modified by Makefile
>  
>  $sourcestyle= 'X';
>  
> @@ -710,6 +710,7 @@
> "listed by tar as \`$_'");
>  $fn= $filesinarchive[$efix++]; $mode= $1;
>  if ($mode =~ m/^l/) { $_ =~ s/ -\> .*//; }
> +if (/ link to /) { $_ =~ s/ link to .*//; }
>  substr($_,length($_)-length($fn)-1) eq " $fn" ||
>  &error("tarfile \`$tarfileread' contains unexpected object".
> " listed by tar as \`$_', expected \`$fn'");
> 
> 

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Re: Bug#4471: isp-ppp needs conflicts:ppp

[Christoph Lameter]

On 18 Sep 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Lameter)  wrote on 17.09.96 in <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > I thought the "Replaces:" implied the removal of the package before
> > installation?
> 
> No, that's Conflicts:. Replaces: says that the package will replace some  
> files of the other package, and that dpkg is not to complain.
That is a rather weird interpretation.
Replaces: causes the automatic removal of a package
See Section 8.3 of programmers manual.

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[Heiko Schlittermann]

llucius wrote:
: 
: On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected
: > object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- root/users0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 
: > joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc link to joe-2.8.orig/.jmacsrc', expected
: > `joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc'
: > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
: If you figure out what's going on here can you let me know?  I've run 
: into the same problem while rebuilding for m68kers and was unable to 
: determine the cause.

Yes, dpkg-source bails out if tar reports hardlinks:

-rw-r--r-- root/users   0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 x link to y

Until Ian is back, you'll might use my diff as appended
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 &error("tarfile \`$tarfileread' contains unexpected object".
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Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[Dale Scheetz]

On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Michael Meskes wrote:

> > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected
> > object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- root/users0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 
> > joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc link to joe-2.8.orig/.jmacsrc', expected
> > `joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc'
> > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
> 
> The same problem happens with sudo. It seems that Ian's scripts cannot
> handle hard links.
> 
Why does the script get involved at all? I can untar the resulting
orig.tar.gz file without error. Shouldn't the script be able to do so as
well?
If I fix this in the original source (so there is no hard link) don't I
violate the "pristine source" requirements?

Thanks,

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Bug#4519: debian-changelog-mode void

[Erick Branderhorst]

Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0

I added the following to the end of changelog file:

Local variables:
mode: debian-changelog
End:

Loading the file into emacs gives the error message:

File local-variables error: (void-function debian-changelog-mode)

Erick

Talk at EurOpen.SE

[Lars Wirzenius]

It seems I will be talking at the EurOpen.SE meeting/conference
on October 24 and 25. I haven't made an outline yet, but I will
talk both about Linux in general, and about Debian in particular.
I will have about two hours.

Any suggestions of what I should talk about will be greatly
appreciated. Personal replies are preferred. I will publish
outlines as they develop for further feedback.

General idea is something like the following:

what is Linux
how is it different from other Unices
distributions vs kernel
how to get support
commercial stuff
examples of interesting applications
plans for future
where to find more info

what is Debian
how is it different from other distributions
packaging system
installation overview
examples of interesting stuff
plans for future
where to find more info

I'll probably post a list of specific questions, once I start working
on this more.

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Rescue disk for Debian?

[Christian Schwarz]

I'm looking for some kind of "rescue" boot disks for Debian. Actually I
would need it for an easy of doing a restore of my tar backups. (An easy
solution would be to include tar on the installation root disk, if there
is enough space left--a simple tar version would be fine.)

Sometimes it's necessary to boot from disks (i.e. via ramdrive) to fix a
configuration problem or to repair a filesystem. There once were a few
rescue disks on sunsite that had a kernel and a gzipped root file system
on a single disk, that contained a few utility programs plus their manual 
pages.

It would be nice if could create something similar for Debian. One could
use the installation boot disk and create a second "rescue" disk, that's
loaded in the ramdrive. So we could get about 2880MB if we gzip it. (I saw
that there is someone working on a Debian backup system. What's planned
for doing a complete restore?)

BTW, how is the maintainer of the boot/root disks?


Cheers,

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Re: Purpose of source packages?

[Lars Wirzenius]

Christian Schwarz:
> What's the exact purpose of the .tar.gz source packages and the diff? I'm
> asking because I want to create a package for the metapost system, that's
> like metafont but produces postscript output. The currently available
> distribution is a patch against the latest webc, 6.3 I think, which is a
> tar.gz (>5MB I think). But the webc distrib contains everything that's
> needed for a whole TeX/MF systems--much more than I need here. 

Would it be possible to integrage metapost into our Debianized web2c
source? That is, so that the Debianized web2c also produces metapost,
in addition to the current TeX and metafont packages.

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Re: Should be in the FAQ: Re: Shouldn't go app-defaults in /etc/X11?

[Lars Wirzenius]

Michael Alan Dorman:
> H.  Sounds like an entry in the FAQ is in order.

And something in the dpkg policy manual as well?

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Bug#4518: xauth bug

[Herbert Xu]

Package: xbase
Version: 3.1.2-9

This is a minor problem.  If one sets the variable HOME
to a directory where one does not have the write permission,
"xauth list" apparently enters an infinite loop.  If it is then
interrupted with Ctrl-C, a coredump is generated.
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Re: dpkg-buildpackage and joe

[Michael Meskes]

Dale Scheetz writes:
> 
> I am converting the joe package to the new source format and have run into
> a strange problem. The first time I run dpkg-buildpackage the .orig tree
> is tarred up ok. The second time I run it, it tries to use the tar.gz file
> created in the previous run but fails, giving:
> 
>  dpkg-source -b joe-2.8
> dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected
> object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- root/users0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 
> joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc link to joe-2.8.orig/.jmacsrc', expected
> `joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc'
> dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz

The same problem happens with sudo. It seems that Ian's scripts cannot
handle hard links.

Michael

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Bug#4517: Error Installing tex/latex

[Urban Koistinen]

Package: texbin
Version: 3.1415
Package_Revision: 5

When I try to install tex with
dpkg -i texbin-3.1415-5
I get this error message:
dpkg: error processing texbin (--install):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 texbin

I first got the error when trying:
dpkg -i kpathsea-2.6-2.deb latex-2e-4.deb mfbin-2.71-4.deb mflib-1.0-5.deb
texlib-1.0-4 texbin-3.1415-5

Here is the list of my installed packages:

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)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  adduser 1.99-1 Utilities to add users and groups to the sys
ii  ae  962-7  Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen edito
ii  base1.1.0-14   Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files
ii  bash1.14.6-4   The GNU Bourne-Again SHell.
ii  bdflush 1.5-3  bdflush (update)
ii  bin86   0.3-1  Assembler and loader for kernel compilation.
ii  binutils2.6-2  The GNU assembler and binary utilities (ELF 
ii  bsdutils3.0-2  Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite.
ii  cdwrite 2.0-1  CD writing tool for Orange Book CD-R drives
ii  debianutils 1.2-3  Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
ii  dialog  0.9a-2 cdialog - a utility for adding dialog boxes 
ii  diff2.7-10 File comparison utilities
ii  doc-debian  1.0-2  Debian Manual, FAQ and other documents
ii  doc-linux   96.06-0Linux FAQ, HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs.
ii  dpkg1.2.11elf  Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
ii  dpkg-ftp1.4.2  Ftp method for dpkg
ii  e2fsprogs   1.02-1 The EXT2 file system utilities.
ii  efax07a-6  Programs to send and receive fax messages.
ii  emacs   19.31-2The GNU Emacs editor.
ii  fdflush 1.0.0-2A band-aid for floppy drives with bad disk-c
ii  fileutils   3.12-4 The GNU file management utilities.
ii  findutils   4.1-11 GNU find, xargs and locate.
ii  gawk3.0.0-2GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing l
ii  gcc 2.7.2-8The GNU C compiler (ELF version).
ii  getty   1.0-5  agetty, an alternative Linux getty.
ii  grep2.0-5  GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
ii  groff   1.09-11GNU RunOFF text-formatting system. 
ii  gzip1.2.4-10   The GNU compression utility.
ii  hostname1.9-1  A utility to set/show the hostname or DNS do
ii  info3.7-1  Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
ii  j1  7-7J is a dialect of APL freely available on a 
ii  kbd 0.91-3 Linux console font and keytable utilities.
ii  kernel-source-2 2.0.0-0Linux kernel source.
ii  kpathsea2.6-2  Path searching for TeX & friends
iU  latex   2e-4   Write structured documents with TeX
ii  ldso1.7.14-4   The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit
ii  libc5   5.2.18-9   The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
ii  libc5-dev   5.2.18-9   The Linux C library version 5 (development f
ii  libdb1  1.85.2-8   the Berkeley database routines (runtime vers
ii  libgdbm11.7.3-11   GNU dbm database routines (runtime version).
ii  libreadline22.0-15 GNU readline and history libraries, runtime 
ii  lilo17-2   LInux LOader - Loads Linux from the hard dis
ii  login   1.0-5  sign on to the system
ii  lpr 5.9-11 Berkeley lpr/lpd line printer spooling syste
ii  lrzsz   0.12a-4zmodem/ymodem/xmodem transfer package
ii  make3.74-12GNU Make.
ii  man 2.3.10-11  Display the on-line manual.
ii  manpages1.11-4 Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 manpages
ii  mbr 1.0.0-2Master Boot Record for IBM-PC compatible com
ii  mfbin   2.71-4 Metafont - TeX's font engine
ii  mflib   1.0-5  Auxiliary files to run Metafont
ii  minicom 1.75-1 Clone of the MS-DOS "Telix" communications p
ii  mkisofs 1.05-1 CD-ROM authoring tool. Creates CD-ROM filesy
ii  modconf 0.1.0-4Module configuration program.
ii  modules 1.3.69k-3  Linux module utilities.
ii  mount   2.5j-1 Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst
ii  ncurses-base1.9.9e-1   Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of 
ii  ncurses-bin 1.9.9e-1   Video terminal manipulation: associated prog
ii  ncurses3.0  

Bug#4516: conflicts replaces dpkg-name in dpkg-dev

[Erick Branderhorst]

Package: dpkg, dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0

The control of dpkg-dev contains a Conflicts replaces on dpkg-name but
the dpkg-name util is provided by the dpkg package.  I think that the
dpkg package should hold these conflicts and replaces fields.

Erick

Bug#4515: dpkg-source and WIFSIGNALED

[Erick Branderhorst]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0

I can't use dpkg-source -x

$ ls ctags*
ctags_1.4-2.diff.gzctags_1.4-2.dscctags_1.4.orig.tar.gz
$ dpkg --list dpkg dpkg-dev
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)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  dpkg1.4.0  Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
ii  dpkg-dev1.4.0  Package building tools for Debian Linux
$ dpkg-source -x ctags_1.4-2.dsc 
Your vendor has not defined POSIX macro WIFSIGNALED, used at
/usr/bin/dpkg-source line 828

Erick 

Re: Purpose of source packages?

[Erick Branderhorst]

> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> What's the exact purpose of the .tar.gz source packages and the diff? I'm
> asking because I want to create a package for the metapost system, that's
> like metafont but produces postscript output. The currently available
> distribution is a patch against the latest webc, 6.3 I think, which is a
> tar.gz (>5MB I think). But the webc distrib contains everything that's
> needed for a whole TeX/MF systems--much more than I need here.

The .tar.gz needs to be provided because one needs sources, otherwise one
can't build anything at all. 

> Is it possible that I reduce the source so that everyone can recompile the
> package (and add a short description of my changes) plus a diff that adds
> debian specific files?

You can modify the source if you want but I don't recommend it.  Note
that with the current new source packaging system (described in policy and
programmers documents which come with dpkg / dpkg-deb) you have to upload
the orig source only once.  Add a few things for debianinazation and these
will automagically go in the diff, the binary should be build as described
in the manuals.  Take a few hours to read them,  then check the hello
package and sources, you might check another package as well and use these
as starters for your metapost package.

Erick>