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> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 29 12:47:39 1995
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 23:42:17 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert K Jung)
> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: unarj-2.41a-1 uploaded. (fwd)
>
> > > I'd suggest that we get a slightly
Ian Jackson spoke unto the world and said:
>>Package: perl
>>Version: 5.001-6 (a.out)
>>While running `top' to see how the Perl postinst was getting on I saw:
>>
>>root 8507 11.4 0.8 105 160 v02 S01:57 0:03 find
>>/usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ;
>
>This is stil
Jeff Noxon spoke unto the world and said:
>My plan is to rewrite run-parts in C or C++. However, I probably won't
>have that done until next weekend. I've never done any perl programming
Could I ask a favor that run-parts *skips* directories rather than
reporting "component /etc/cron.*/RCS is no
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.6
1. Missing documentation:
No man pages for dpkg, update-rc.d, and update-alternatives.
2. dpkg/update-alternatives doesn't give me the level of installation
control I expected. If one wants to install each of elvis/nvi/vim (each
of which provides vi), dpkg will a
BTW, I assume that followups to debian-bugs go to debian-devel. Is this
correct?
Peter Tobias spoke unto the world and said:
>Package: perl
>Version: 5.002-1 (a.out)
>
>
>The following entries in /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002/Config.pm
>are wrong:
>
>installarchlib='/usr/local/src/debian-p
Package: pine
Version: 3.91-3
As you can see from the transcript below,
1. debian.rules is not executable.
2. There is a problem in os_lnx.c involving struct iovec.
3. The debian.rules file does not notice errors during the
build process and carries on regardless - this happens
several time
Package: pine
Version: 3.91-3
The IMAP (Interactive Mail Access Protocol) server, imapd, should be
installed as /usr/sbin/in.imap2d, and added to inetd.conf by default.
It's only a few hundred Kb of binary, compared to Pine's 850Kb, so
putting it in the same package is unlikely to annoy people.
> The new X packages that I hope to release before Christmas will be ELF,
> compiled from the XFree86-3.1.2S sources rather than from the binaries
> distributed by XFree86.
If you're looking for input, I might request that you release two
versions of the Mach32 Server --- one that is just like
Alvar Bray writes ("Re: Overdue problem reports"):
> Your debian bug script might like to note that I have taken over
> maintenance of the ppp package from Ian M.
>
> Should I rebuild an a.out package for 0.93R6 saying this?
Information from any ELF package you in the development tree should
over
> > You'll need to use the interim elf-x11r6lib package and explicitly
> > link with -L /usr/i486-linuxelf/lib until the X packages are converted
> > to ELF.
>
> I can't find this package. Am I supposed to be responsible for it?
It's a binary-only package and should be on ftp.debian.org in
/debia
> Package: ncurses-runtime
> Version: 1.9.7a
>
> Installation of ncurses-runtime gave me a new 'reset' in /usr/bin by hard
> linking it to /usr/bin/tset from the same package.
>
> Unfortunately, this overwrote the /usr/bin/reset script I had from the
> base/tput package. I can't remember whether I
> Andrew Howell writes ("Re: readline and bfd libraries?"):
> > librl is the old readline package
> > libreadline is the new ELF readline package
> > aout-librl is the new a.out readline package
> >
> > libreadline has an archive library
>
> What if I want just the shared library ? Is the packag
Chris Fearnley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But what does FSSTND say about subdirectories of /usr/bin? I would
> hate to have the mh utilities stored in with the illions of programs
> already in /usr/bin. And where would the netpbm tools be stored [I
> dislike Red Hat's solution of all >100 util
'Bill Mitchell wrote:'
>
>Scott Blachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout
>> > and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion
>> > that it ought to be called s
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, David Engel wrote:
> > I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem
> > compiling a program which uses "-lX11". For some reason, none of the
> > symbols are resolved. Here is the output...
>
> You'll need to use the interim elf-x11r6lib package and
> I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem
> compiling a program which uses "-lX11". For some reason, none of the
> symbols are resolved. Here is the output...
You'll need to use the interim elf-x11r6lib package and explicitly
link with -L /usr/i486-linuxelf/lib unti
> Also, I installed gcc-2.7.1 and libc5, libc5-dev, and elf-libg++, and
> tried to compile a simple program (empty main). When I tried to
> compile the program, I got this error:
>
> $ g++ -c -I/usr/i486-linuxelf/include/g++ test.cc
> as: can't load library 'libbfd.so.2.5.2l.20'
Is libbfd.so.2.5
Package: ncurses-runtime
Version: 1.9.7a
Installation of ncurses-runtime gave me a new 'reset' in /usr/bin by hard
linking it to /usr/bin/tset from the same package.
Unfortunately, this overwrote the /usr/bin/reset script I had from the
base/tput package. I can't remember whether I asked dpkg to
> I saw this come over comp.os.linux.announce. This would be a nice feature
> to add to the ELF compiler.
I'll try to check this out. However, I'm usually reluctant to include
large-scale patches (like this probably is) into the main versions.
My fear is what we would do if the author decided to
I've been on much needed and way too short vacation for the last week
so please excuse me for not responding earlier.
> The error I see accurs during processing of /etc/initd/modules.
> Between "Calculating dependencies ..." and "done", I see about
> lines of "sh: /bin/nm cannot execute binary f
I'd suggest that we get a slightly more formal license text from him.
See if he'll approve this:
The copyright statement below is addended for the Debian system:
This program may be sold as a component of the Debian Linux
distribution or a Linux distribution derived from the Debian
[redirected to debian-devel by bruce]
Hi...
I was a little concerned about unarj being not completely GNU until I
emailed the author (Robert Jung - [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and asked him
if it were possible to distribute this freely (ie on cdrom etc). His reply
was:
- snip -
Hi,
It is perfec
Hi Ian,
Your debian bug script might like to note that I have taken over
maintenance of the ppp package from Ian M.
Should I rebuild an a.out package for 0.93R6 saying this?
If so what should I number it since I have already released a new elf
ppp package with the next number?
There are proba
Package: perl
Version: 5.002-1 (a.out)
The following entries in /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002/Config.pm
are wrong:
installarchlib='/usr/local/src/debian-perl/perl5.002beta1/debian-tmp/usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002'
installbin='/usr/local/src/debian-perl/perl5.002beta1/debian-tmp/usr/bin'
inst
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
"Peter Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > There should be no subdirectories within /bin.
> > Given the intention of FSSTND compliance, this is an absolute
> > prohibition.
> They're just talking about /bin and not /usr/bin.
Oops. Right.
Package: perl
Version: 5.002-1 (a.out)
The following program prints "0.e-1" instead of "0".
for ($j = 0; $j <= 7; $j++) {
print "$j\n";
}
Output:
0.e-1
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Peter
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> From @mongo.pixar.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 28 16:35:58 1995
> Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 07:32:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: convenience script for building a.out package
Scott Blachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I agree. But, now you see that we have a script called /usr/bin/aout
> > and a potential directory called /usr/bin/aout. Hence my suggestion
> > that it ought to be called something else. with-aout perhap
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) said:
> From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
The issue gets bigger as the connectivity gets worse. I think it's
a big issue, and I use a 9600 bps modem on a phone line which isn't too
terribly noisy most of
Bill Mitchell writes:
>
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > If this is more of your file-granularity stuff I don't want to hear
> > it, I'm afraid.
>
> It's not, and I know you don't. You're welcome to ignore anything I
> do say about that.
I'm glad we're being nice to each other now :)
Andr
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: bogo-1.2-1 released"):
[.. downside comments ..]
> [.. disagreement ..]
[.. upside comments ..]
> I'm confused. Here you're making my point for me.
I wasn't arguing, really. I was remarking on the plusses and minuses.
It looks to me a
Ian Jackson writes:
>
> Package: samba
> Version: 1.9.14-1
>
> We removed a newly-installed samba package, and it left an `nmbd' or
> some such process running, which appeared to be a child of the
> correctly-killed `smbd'. A SIGTERM fixed it.
Fixed in 1.9.15p4-1
Andrew
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Dehydration - 34%, Re
On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Andrew Howell wrote:
> brian writes:
> >
> > I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem
> > compiling a program which uses "-lX11". For some reason, none of the
> > symbols are resolved. Here is the output...
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Was there a ch
Bruce Perens writes ("debian-changes restricted submission"):
> Debian-changes now allows submissions only from people on the
> debian-devel subscriber list and people on the "accept" list. Wouldn't
> you know, the last three people to post to it don't have their names on
> debian-devel's direct su
Martin Schulze writes ("One question upon INN (and syslogd)"):
> These logfiles are not turned with savelog by cron.sysklogd. Are they
> turned by cron.inn? If not I might have to include this in the
> cron.sysklogd file.
They ought to be rotated by the INN package - but the INN package is
broken,
Andrew Howell writes ("Re: readline and bfd libraries?"):
> librl is the old readline package
> libreadline is the new ELF readline package
> aout-librl is the new a.out readline package
>
> libreadline has an archive library
What if I want just the shared library ? Is the package small enough
f
Bruce Perens writes ("Re: Source package format - a simple proposal"):
> > 6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
>
> Is this such a big issue? With your overseas FTP problems you can judge
> that, but I'd feel more confident if the maintainer uploaded the entire
> package as one piec
brian writes:
>
> I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem
> compiling a program which uses "-lX11". For some reason, none of the
> symbols are resolved. Here is the output...
>
> gcc -o wine controls/controls.o ipc/ipc.o loader/loader.o misc/misc.o
> multimedia/mu
I've just moved over to the new elf compiler, but am having a problem
compiling a program which uses "-lX11". For some reason, none of the
symbols are resolved. Here is the output...
gcc -o wine controls/controls.o ipc/ipc.o loader/loader.o misc/misc.o
multimedia/multimedia.o objects/objects.o
Hi all,
Is it quite a process to create packages in Debian? I love the
philosophy behind the operating system and would like to contribute -
but I'm not much of a C programmer, nor am I a shell script guru.
If there is a step-by-step guide somewhere, please point me at it,
as I'd like to get
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson)
> Responsibility for it has been taken by one of the developers, namely
> Anders Chrigstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> You should be hearing from them with a substantive response shortly, if
> you have not already done so. If not, please contact them directly
Package: image
Version: 1.2.13-4
Already reported as xdm problem (Bug#1690), but sounds like a kernel bug
to me. I have never seen it before, and I have seen it several times on
Debian systems only. It may be that gcc-2.6.3 generates some bad code...
(I never had any problems with Linux 1.2.13 c
Hi guys!
I remember that syslogd logs news.* into three files
# Logging for INN news system
#
news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err /var/log/news/news.err
news.notice/var/log/news/news.notice
These logfiles are not turned with savelog by cr
> Package: gs
> Version: 2.6.1pl4-5
>
> The DEPENDS requires both svgalib *and* xlibraries?
Yes. Otherwise the binary will not run.
IMHO gs should use dynamic loading for both svgalib and the xlibraries.
gs can still be useful on systems that don't have both (or even none) of
them. This should no
Ian Jackson spoke unto the world and said:
>Package: perl
>Version: 5.001-6 (a.out)
I've taken over the package and upgraded to version 5.002-1. This is my
very first debian package, so I only put it in private/project/Incoming
and asked people to comment on it on debian-devel. I wanted to make
Debian-changes now allows submissions only from people on the
debian-devel subscriber list and people on the "accept" list. Wouldn't
you know, the last three people to post to it don't have their names on
debian-devel's direct subscriber list - two get it from a secondary
distribution alias or news
Package: gs
Version: 2.6.1pl4-5
The DEPENDS requires both svgalib *and* xlibraries? I'm no expert on dpkg
DEPENDS syntax, but dpkg did require that I install svgalib even though I
had the xlibraries. I think a comma denotes a conjunction. I cannot now
remove svgalib because of gs's dependency.
Bdale Garbee writes:
> We're a bit confused. For readline, it looks as though there are three
> packages on the ftp server under the development tree. These are devel/librl,
> devel/libreadline, and devel/aout-librl. I presume from this that the librl
> package is the one we want for ELF develo
We're working on code for ground support of the AMSAT Phase-3D satellite that
needs to use the readline and bfd libraries. We in this context is one other
member of the development team I support cross-development tools for, and
myself. John's running 0.93R6, I'm running something closer to in s
Karl Ferguson writes ("Returned mail (fwd)"):
> > No matching or similar name in the people
> > database for 'jasonbramsden'.
> getting the email.
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've mailed various postmasters, without any response.
I mailed an individual "unsubscribe" message to every s
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 4. Patches for different arch's [1].
Can someone please explain to me why patches for different
architectures are ever necessary? I don't think you (Ian Jackson) are
in favor of them - who is?
> 6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
Is this su
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