I believe that the 3 first extra explanatory lines in file `xbase.postinst'
of this package should be removed as they trigger unexpected result in some
cases (can go into an infinite loop as Xsession will call itself if you
Perhaps the Xsession should be
for i in `grep -v ^#
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
Christian Hudon writes (Re: Bug#3795: ae should not be essential):
Isn't it that some of the packages that look at EDITOR fall back
to ae if there are problems with EDITOR?
vipw and vigr do this. They're in passwd which is essential, but won't
be as
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Michael Gaertner wrote:
Package: xbase
Version: 3.1.2-9
FSSTND R1.2 writes in chap. 5.3.5 to place xdm-errors in
/var/lib/xdm/. This is not the location xdm-errors get logged by default
in above package.
Suggestion: change /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config in line
Much of this discussion (talking about MS-DOS, assembler code, etc.)
has no real place for debian developers. I've asked Bruce to say
something, and he told me to ask you all to please move this
discussion off the list. Please take it to private e-mail or
something for now.
Jim
Package: netpbm
Version: 1994.03.01p
Missing manuals: pbm.5, ppm.5, pgm.5, pnm.5
I suspect they might be in the netpbm-devel package. If so, it's a
bug. Section 5 is file formats, not development. It's basic
information about netpbm.
On 3 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
what i will never understand, though, is why people use perl for
jobs that sh is much better suited to.
perl is great if you want awk/sed/grep/kitchen sink all rolled into
one scripting language. but there's
During yet another sleepless night, I was browsing the bug list, and
found this bug.
Today I decided to configure pgp-i, and I came across 2 bugs.
1 is already listed as bug #1103, and is caused by a non excisting
.pgp directory, and pgp doesn't create one, and so can't create it's
output
Hmm. Forgot to mention that there's a new maintainer. Oh, well.
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Date: 03 Aug 96 09:31 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: unzip
Version: 5.12-13
Binary: unzip
Architecture: i386 source
Another one that I forgot to mention the new maintainer in...oh, well,
put it down to a late night. :-)
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Date: 03 Aug 96 09:37 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: zip
Version: 2.01-13
Binary: zip
Hopefully, this will be the last modifications made to vim 3.0 - version
4.2 is out (with restrictions on distribution on CDs), and 4.3 is due in
a few weeks (without those restrictions). I'll be upgrading the sources
to 4.3 when it's released.
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Date: 02 Aug 96
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
cd lib; /usr/bin/pmake -w all
cd lib; /usr/bin/pmake - all
^ (no w)
Was that a typo on your part?
Guy
Package: xbase
Version: 3.1.2-9
These two programs exports TERMCAP of the form
co#80:li#24:
Where 80 and 24 can be replaced by the dimensions
of your xterm. This is really braindead as you
often want to resize your xterm and many applications
simply worship TERMCAP as the most
I have uploaded the initial release of libpam to chiark. There is
also a copy available on
ftp://ftp.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/people/patrick/debian.
The libpam package contains the PAM libraries (PAM = Pluggable
Authentication Modules [http://gluon.physics.ucla.edu/~morgan/pam
Hello,
Erick asked the question, but I don't remember if there was an answer.
Would it be okay if, when uploading changes to a package, we only upload
a .deb and a .diff.gz file? This would help people like us who have slow
PPP connections but maintain big packages.
I propose that we upload once
On Aug 2, 11:17am, Dale Scheetz wrote:
} Subject: Re: New virtual package names.
} On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Warwick HARVEY wrote:
}
} On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest
} in adding one? It could be valuable to add Provides: editor to ae (and
} others as
Package: elvisctags
Version: 2.0-4
/usr/bin/ref is in elviscmn, rather than in elvisctags.
Craig
Emilio Lopes writes:
EB * added latin1.sty: Michael Meskens requested
What is wrong with
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
Note that as my fault. I've been using latin1.sty for so long I didn't even
realize that this was a possibility. Sorry for that.
But I still think we should keep
Package: bootdisk
Version: 1.1.1
Attempted to install Debian 1.1.1 from PHT cd rom.
Bootdisk doesn't see my SCSI system, based on NCR
53c8xx PCI Rev 2.0 1993
This device worked find under Debian .93R6/ Linux
1.2.13
AUTHORITATIVE LIST OF VIRTUAL PACKAGE NAMES
Below is an authoritative list of virtual package names currently
in-use or proposed and not objected to. Please check the list below
for things relevant to your packages.
New packages MUST use virtual package names where appropriate (this
Package: www.debian.org
When I go to a subdirectory as the instructions
indicate to narrow down my Glimpse search to just
bug reports, say, I get a Not Found page, that says
something about the referring page and the href
anchor points to ghindex.html I din't understand
what the point of that
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Description:
compress-package: fileset to build a Debian compress package
Changes:
* New organization (a la kernel-package)
* Automatic diversion and addition of symlinks for gzip-provided commands
* Can built compress packages from
On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
cd lib; /usr/bin/pmake -w all
cd lib; /usr/bin/pmake - all
^ (no w)
Was that a typo on your part?
No! Not a typo. This is the only difference between what gets executed
when
Package: Boot1440.bin
Version: Debian 1.1
I have been unable to boot from the boot1440.bin image. I have tried
the
following:
- downloaded the image from a variety of sources.
- used several different floppies
- erased (using dd if=/dev/zero ...) the floppies before writing the
image to
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Date: 04 Aug 96 14:33 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Source: axe
Version: 6.1.2-5
Binary: axe
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
axe: An editor for X.
Changes:
* changed axinfo.c so that
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