Ian,
We can make your proposal simpler by using virtual package names to
find the libraries.
Each package that provides a shared library should, for each shared
library that it provides, automaticaly add something like
"Provides: libX11.so.6" to the control file. Each package that depends
on a li
> > I've been thinking about what you said regarding search engines for
> > "debiandoc". As I understand it, this is to be a debian package, is it
> > not?
>
> At least Debian. I won't get upset if someone ports it to Red Hat, Slackware,
> *BSD*, or a Cray... :-)
Cray Linux. I've heard somebody
> I propose the following arrangement (if you don't understand things
> you should read dpkg-source(1) and the relevant parts of the new
> programmers' manual):
>
> Every package which contains compiled binaries invokes, in its
> debian/rules, a program which automatically determines what the
> de
> The terms of the suit require MS to give _Caldera_ details of APIs. Not
> the general public, just Caldera. MS can still keep them under non-disclosure,
> and Caldera would have to honor the terms of an NDA approved by the court.
I noticed this too. It could just be necessary to make the lawsui
> > If it is relavent to me specifically (eg. relates to one of my packages),
> > then I like being copied because it means I won't miss it in the volume
> > of the list.
>
> Is it because you filter to mail folders depending on the To: field (the
> only reason I see that would make the message
Ian Jackson wrote:
> The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes
> the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements:
> * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail.
This is a positive thing. Both SVR4 and BSD 4.4 put it here. I think
any co
Date: 12 Aug 96 15:25 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: ical
Version: 2.0p2-2
Binary: ical
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
ical: An X11/Tk Calendar application
- Some of Ical's important features are ---
- * Item
Package: netstd
Version: 2.06-1
Currently the netstd package contains rdist version 6.1.
Could this please be upgraded to version 6.1.1 or 6.1.2,
so that it works with ssh?
Thanks.
--
>From the ssh FAQ:
4.4 Can I use rdist
Ian Jackson writes:
> No, because packages which depend on contrib packages must go in
> contrib too.
Hmm, that wasn't what was said a while ago when we moved xforms.
I'd like to ask the other developers what they think. While I see th elogic
behind your approach I still think LyX should be an of
Michael Meskes writes:
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes
> > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements:
> > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail.
> > * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state (yes
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michael Gaertner writes ("Bug#4076: shadow-package (not a
> deb-format-archive)"):
> > Package: shadow
> > Version: 960530-1
> >
> > with dpkg 1.2.13elf:
> >
> > ./shadow_960530-1_i386.deb
> >
> > prints:
> > "dpkg-deb: 'shadow...' is not a debian form
Package: fileutils
Version: 3.13-1
When running "chgrp" as root, no errors or warnings are given when the
group doesn't exist (e.g. when accidently using "chown"'s user.group
syntax), but the group is changed to a nearly unpredictable value.
Script started on Sat Aug 10 15:36:27 1996
zensunni roo
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Date: 12 Aug 96 10:49 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: metamail
Version: 2.7-5
Binary: metamail
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
metamail: An implementation of MIME.
Changes:
met
Please read the proposal below and comment on it. If noone says
anything I'll probably implement and mandate something very like it in
the next week or two, in time for the new source package format (we
only want to change this once). Now is the time to have your say.
I've been thinking about sh
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Date: 12 Aug 96 10:47 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: modules
Version: 2.0.0-8
Binary: modules
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
modules: Linux module utilities.
Changes:
modules
You (Michael Meskes) wrote:
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes
> > the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements:
> > * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail.
> > * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state
You (Bruce Perens) wrote:
> Miquel:
> > If they don't react [to the request to convert to the new source package]
> > in say 2 weeks, someone else can do it (I'll take some) like David did
> > during the transition from a.out to ELF.
>
> Thanks for volunteering! Please make sure to merge the multi
> As zoo comes from DOS I'm not sure if it would be a good idea to
> support long filenames.
If this is a valid argument for you you might restrict to 8.3 .
E
No, i mean "sysnews". For two reasons:
a) it is not sysv specific (you will find it on *bsd as well)
b) thats how the package used to be called before i renamed it to "news"
Later,
Dominik
Good morning Daniel!
}/sbin/klogd and /sbin/syslogd should be 755.
Why? I don't see any reason they should be executable by everyone. I
have copied those permissions from my predecessor and I agree to them.
}/usr/doc/sysklogd should be 644.
Oups, sure. Will be fixed.
Regards,
Joey
-
> (b) that the non-usual-maintainer releases should use a particular
> revision format: eg, hello-1.3-8 would become hello-1.3-8.1.
Seems very right to me. But I would like to add the following to it.
When mainstream is updated, hello-1.3 -> hello-1.4
Non-usual-maintainer updates, hello-1.
Good morning pieterb!
}I came to the same conclusion while upgrading my Linux system to
}Debian 1.1.2. I also must say that the special-kernel directory in the
Debian/stable
}directory is a mess in most ftp directories (even in ftp.debian.org).
}
}Can you send me info if NCR SCSI 810 support is
Good morning Carl!
}Package: zoo
}Version: 2.10-1
}
}Zoo seems to have some 14 character filename limits, even though the ext2
}filesystem doesn't have such a limit. I can store long filenames, but
}an extract seems to truncate the name at 14 characters. I have an a.out
}version that doesn't see
>
> Package: xosview
> Version: 1.3.2-6
>
> The program doesn't access the directories listed in
> XUSERFILESEARCHPATH but it does read the default file
> in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults.
I know, it's a horrible programme, isn't it.
Any suggestions about what I can do about this -- it's really
not
Ian Jackson writes:
> The latest draft FHS, which they may well publish as it stands, makes
> the following changes with which I have very strong disagreements:
> * The mail spool, /var/spool/mail, is moved to /var/mail.
> * /var/lib is renamed to /var/state (yes, all of it).
> * /var/lib/games
Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-6
The program doesn't access the directories listed in
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH but it does read the default file
in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults.
Miquel:
> If they don't react [to the request to convert to the new source package]
> in say 2 weeks, someone else can do it (I'll take some) like David did
> during the transition from a.out to ELF.
Thanks for volunteering! Please make sure to merge the multi-architecture
patches while you do tha
Ian Jackson:
> Therefore I propose that unless someone raises a serious problem or
> issue within the next week or two the new packaging guidelines as
> described in the draft dpkg programmers' manual, the draft Debian
> policy manual and as implemented by dpkg 1.3.x, will become official.
I deleg
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The thing is that I think we need to be able to distribute other
> [documentation] end-products [than HTML].
> HTML is bad for printing, for example, and not ideal
> if you have a slow machine. Choice is a good thing.
Do you have a proposal? I'm not trying t
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I lost this argument, chiefly through a combination of poor politics
> on my part
Ian,
Don't feel bad that you're not good at politics yet - with my 39th
birthday approaching I'm only just beginning to understand it. If you
feel you've lost arguments throu
From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm just posting here on what's really an irrelevant topic to say that
> I think it's a very good thing that someone is challenging Microsoft.
The terms of the suit require MS to give _Caldera_ details of APIs. Not
the general public, just Caldera. MS can s
Package: emacs
Version: 19.29-3
My /var/lib/emacs/lock directory contains many old lock files.
I'm quite happy to believe that the occasional leftover lock is
unavoidable, but steps should be taken to clean them up.
Furthermore, all the pathnames for the lockfiles are world-readable.
This is not
Yves Arrouye writes ("Re: des encryption.. "):
> Ian Jackson writes:
> > Also I propose to mandate in the policy manual that packages which use
> > /opt should provide appropriate links or files in
> > /opt/{bin,lib,man,include,info,doc} and that packages which search
> > paths must look in /op
'Christoph Lameter wrote:'
>
>A wish because of the heavy usage of gzipped files under debian:
>
>- Add functionality for less to automatically recognize a gzipped file
>and view it correctly without having to resort to zless.
I have code for that (or you can use most):
First set some environment
Brian C. White writes ("Re: Emacs per-package startup files"):
...
> [someone:]
> > So, do these files go in /var/lib/emacs, /etc/emacs, or
> > /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp, and why? I can set it up and send changes
> > to the emacs package maintainers this weekend if that gets worked
> > out...
>
>
I wrote:
> This is my first draft of a quick document saying how to convert an
> old to a new source package.
>
> DO NOT DO ANYTHING YET except read this and suggest amendments.
I've thought of something to add to this list:
* Check that the description is well-formatted and meaningful and
he
Grr, I screwed up the SGML entity catalogue handling so the last
version wouldn't work at all unless you happened to be in a directory
with a few particular files.
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Format: 1.5
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 02:30:24 +0100
Source: debiandoc-sgml
Binary: debiandoc-sgml
Ar
On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Emilio Lopes wrote:
> > "CS" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> CS> I'd like to see a bourne-like shell with perl-like regexp stuff
> CS> (mainly sed & grep) built in - i'd switch to that in a flash.
>
> People may say it's called ksh93. IMHO, it may seem so
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