Bug#1750: tar doesn't handle default remote arguments

1995-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: tar Version: 1.11.8 When attemping to do remote tar operations using the archive name systax specified in the info file, which is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:file, if user is not specified, tar core dumps, when it should use the current username as the default. This is probably part of the same

Bug#1732: Bad arithmetic in new perl packages (fwd)

1995-10-24 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
Forwarded message: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Oct 23 17:47:44 1995 Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:47:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: J.H.M.Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#1732: Bad arithmetic in new perl packages In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL

Bug#1732: Bad arithmetic in new perl packages (fwd)

1995-10-24 Thread Ilya Zakharevich
J.H.M.Dassen writes: #!/usr/bin/perl @array=( item1 4 units, item2 1.5 units, item3 8 units + see item2 ); foreach (@array) { if( ($item_name,$amount,$unit,$delimiter,$moreinfo)=

Bug#1732: Bad arithmetic in new perl packages

1995-10-24 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
: Perl seems to be confused making some arithmetic operations (additions). : Sometimes the result of $a+=$b, when $a is 0 and $b is 2 happens to be : 2.04192 or something similar. : : Fernando, I unfortunately have no idea what is causing this. Please : provide a short script which

Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends

1995-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
Package: trn Version: 3.6-2 It's not clear to me why trn uses 'recommends' for a mail transport and a news article injector, while tin uses 'depends'. I think that depends makes more sense, so I'm filing this against trn. Bdale

Bug#1754: #1719

1995-10-24 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Hyperlatex doesn't recommend ghostscript but gs from 1.3-5 (and higher) I'm closing this bug. -- Erick [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31-10-4635142 Department of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL

Bug#1756: SEGV in at date parsing

1995-10-24 Thread Thomas König
Marek Michalkiewicz wrote: Package: at Version: 2.8a-2 The at command sometimes has problems with date parsing which result in a SEGV. For example: $ at tomorrow Segmentation fault I think I've fixed this in the most recent version of at, 2.9a, which has been out since August or so. Thomas --

Packaging guidelines

1995-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Since noone is maintaining these, and they *desperately* need updating, I shall do it. Who has the latest version and which format are they in ? Ian.

Bug#1757: Bash doesn't quote correctly

1995-10-24 Thread David Engel
Package: bash Version: 1.14.4-5 Bash doesn't quote correctly in some cases. Here is a test case which exhibits the problem: ---start of showbug--- #!/bin/sh ./printargc $0 ${1+$@} ---end of showbug--- ---start of printargc--- #!/bin/sh echo 'argc =' $# ---end of printargc--- Running showbug

Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends

1995-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Bdale Garbee writes (Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends): Package: trn Version: 3.6-2 It's not clear to me why trn uses 'recommends' for a mail transport and a news article injector, while tin uses 'depends'. I think that depends makes more sense, so I'm filing this against trn.

Bug#1755: ping -l (preload) works for non-superusers

1995-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: netbase Version: 1.91-1 See the transcript below. The `-f' (flood ping) option is disabled for non-root users, but IMO the -l option should be restricted or disabled too. Ian. chiark:~ id uid=1001(ijackson) gid=1001(ijackson) groups=1001(ijackson),202(doom),203(killer) chiark:~ ping

Bug#1744: dpkg: cannot scan updates directory `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/': No such file or directory

1995-10-24 Thread Raul Miller
Here's an strace of dpkg failing. [Remember, this is on an empty directory.] Notice especially the line that reads: readdir(4, 0x48000) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) I don't have a clue where that 0x48000 argument is coming from, but it looks like it's corrupt

Bug#1759: running out of swap causes deadlock

1995-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: source Version: 1.2.13 To reproduce: do lots of things that need lots of swap, when you haven't got enough. Effect: system locks up totally, with only an insignificant amount of disk activity. Thrashing badly I could understand (but wouldn't like). Randomly killing processes I could

Re: Bug#1758: recommended

1995-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Bug#1758: recommended): reassign 1753 tin Damn, that's the second time I've done that. I'll go and check my mail aliases. Ian.

Re: changes file format

1995-10-24 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Are you saying it looks anywhere near as nice as mine ? Well, I think it looks awful, but I will accept your format simply to end this argument if you or someone else will write and maintain the parser for it and an

Re: Conflicting with a range of revisions...

1995-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Michael Alan Dorman writes (Conflicting with a range of revisions...): Well, I've decided to return to Matt Porters' previous split between minicom and lrzsz. One side-effect of this is that I need to make the updated lrzsz package conflict just with minicom-1.71-[1..2] (the ones that

Re: changes file format

1995-10-24 Thread Bruce Perens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Please add and document to this. If tools are introduced into the distribution, the author and maintainer of those tools should provide and maintain man pages for them. Yes, that makes sense. The parse wasn't immediately obvious to me. For example, is the semicolon

Re: changes file format

1995-10-24 Thread James A. Robinson
I completely fail to understand why anyone is promoting this format. It is ugly, and my format is machine readable too. But Ian, almost _any_ format can be made machine readable -- but Bill's format is _easily_ machine readable -- you could slap together a whole bunch of ways to read it.

Re: sysklogd-1.2-13 released

1995-10-24 Thread Ian Jackson
Martin Schulze writes (sysklogd-1.2-13 released): I'm just trying to upload this package. The changes are only minor ones. Here are the relevant ChangeLog entries ... * changed the name in control file (Bug#1695) Aaargh, no ! Please, change it back. Ian Murdock wrote:

Re: Conflicting with a range of revisions...

1995-10-24 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Ian == Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian `|' is not allowed in conflicts; `,' is used to mean OR. It would be nice if CONFLICTS and the other fields used the same notation for OR/AND, instead of being in direct apposition. Could the current behavior be gradually phased out at some

Re: changes file format

1995-10-24 Thread Bernd S. Brentrup
Ian Jackson writes: Bill Mitchell writes (changes file format): Just out of curiosity, does the following represent a horribly formatted and human-unreadable package announcement? Except for the lack of a Priority field, it passes the dchanges(1) syntax check. I completely fail to understand