Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This might be a bit harsh WRT the distribution itself. Too much
> open input can lead to a lot of haggling over diverse viewpoints on
> this or that alternative (not that we haven't had a bit of that
> anyhow).
Open input is good, in general. If you w
Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> BTW, I like the way their manual is set up and on the web. And I
>> also like that it seems more geared to open contributions than the
>> Debian manual.
> Hmm.. Well, I did release a draft of the manual in July so th
On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
>BTW, I like the way their manual is set up and on the web. And I
>also like that it seems more geared to open contributions than the
>Debian manual.
>
> Hmm.. Well, I did release a draft of the manual in July so that the
> Project could con
On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> If it sees what looks like a Debian mirror of some kind (possibly in a
> `debian' subdirectory) and has `stable' and `development'
> subdirectories it will offer the user the choice between the stable
> tree and the development one, rather than requiring
Daniel Quinlan writes:
> I think you mean "instead of DES". It's the crypt(3) function that
> would be changed to use MD5 (MD5a).
Yes, wasn't thinking straight obviously.
> I think switching would probably be a decent idea, although it is not
> of earth-shattering importance to me. I'm also con
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 02:29:27 GMT
From: Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BTW, I like the way their manual is set up and on the web. And I
also like that it seems more geared to open contributions than the
Debian manual.
Hmm.. Well, I did release a draft of the manual in July
Andrew Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> After discussing security with some friends we got around to using
> md5 instead of crypt.
I think you mean "instead of DES". It's the crypt(3) function that
would be changed to use MD5 (MD5a).
> This has been brought up before but nothing much seemed
Andrew Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Holger gave me permission to package mirror magic. As I understand our
> distribution policies, packages which we don't have permission to put
> on the CD go in non-free.
>
> Andrew
No, if you have to *ask* for permission, then it isn't free. It would
I'm going to program the names `stable' and `development' for the two
release trees and `contrib' and `non-free' for the secondary package
trees into the dselect disk-based installation scripts unless someone
tells me otherwise.
If it sees what looks like a Debian mirror of some kind (possibly in
In May I reported to debian-bugs a bug in make 3.73-1 that makes it
impossible to build Debian's Smail package with Debian's make.
This bug still exists in 3.74-1 (and the debian-bugs logs don't
contain any messages about the problem being passed on to the FSF).
Surely we and the FSF can do better
Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1-13
The logfiles of smail are stored in /var/spool and not /var/log.
Greetings
Bernd
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Package: smail
Version: 3.1.29.1-13
smailconf generates broken 'satelite' system configuration. The following
Patch will fix this:
--- /usr/sbin/smailconfig~ Mon Jun 26 14:19:54 1995
+++ /usr/sbin/smailconfig Tue Nov 14 22:15:41 1995
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
"
smart_user:
driver=s
Andrew Howell wrote:
> Mail Router writes:
> > No matching or similar name in the people
> > database for 'jasonbramsden'.
That name isn't in the subscriber list. Sometimes people get the list
via a secondary reflector or an alias.
The system probably has its mailer misconfigured, as it should al
> I've uploaded the first cut at the new a.out and ELF development
> packages to ftp.debian.org. Only the binary (.deb) and diff files are
> currently there. It will probably take all night to upload the source
> files to my machine at work so I won't upload them until tomorrow.
Has anyone besid
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Below is a draft copy of a revised set of packaging guidelines.
> [...]
>(This file was last updated on 6th November 1995. Please check the
> directory `project/standards' at any Debian GNU/Linux archive for a
> potentially more up to date copy.)
How a
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Below is a draft copy of a revised set of packaging guidelines.
> Please comment if you feel appropriate. [...]
Comments:
1. "Text documentation should be [...] installed in /usr/doc."
This is wrong. Text documentation should be installed in
/us
The following problem reports are very old but have not yet been marked
as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or as forwarded
to a developer by CCing a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please help ensure that these bugs are dealt with quickly, even if you
are not the package maintainer in que
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [...] It's just that /etc/init.d/functions is
> obsolete, and should be replaced with an empty file so that people
> stop thinking it's useful :-).
>
> It shouldn't be removed until all the packages that source it have
> been updated not to do so, or they'l
Mail Router writes:
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 14 19:01:21 1995
> From: Mail Router (smail 2.9 dl,da,fa,tu,po,qf,lo,dbm 03/23/95 43) <[EMAIL
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>
> Your mail could
Package: knews
Version: 0.9.3
Revision: 1
knews depends on X11R6 and does not need to. In my case, I use a
different X-terminal and I don't need to have the entire X11R6 suite
installed. I did dpkg --install --force-depends to install.
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Package: knews
Version: 0.9.3
Revision: 1
When installing knews, it asks for a my nntp server name. It should
check for the presence of /etc/news/server and use its connents if
available.
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Kenny Wickstrom | gnu - a
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