Bug#2102: ediff.info missing from emacs

1996-01-07 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: emacs Version: 19.29-4 `M-x ediff-documentation' tells me that ediff.info is missing (it is) and that it is part of the Emacs distribution (I haven't confirmed). In any case, I think it ought to be part of emacs.deb.

faulty mirror of Debian Linux at tsx-11

1995-12-31 Thread Matthew Swift
The stable, recommended components of Debian Linux are available in the directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/debian-0.93 but neither this directory nor its sister symbolic link "stable" are properly mirrored at tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian, and this has been the case for I'd

Bug#2027: tiny bug in web2c debian.rules

1995-12-14 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: web2c Version: 6.1-3 In the following excerpt from debian.rules, it should be --prefix=$(prefix): prefix = /usr [...] stamp-config: cd kpathsea; ./configure --prefix=/usr touch stamp-config

Bug#2023: latex dumps core on -QUIT

1995-12-13 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: texbin Version: 3.1415-4 The following dialog with sh shows how to get latex to dump core. Between LaTeX's "**" prompt and the next line's "[1]+ Stopped...", I pressed C-z. - /var/tmp> ls -la total 3 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 2048 Dec 13 19:24 . drwxr-xr-x 13 r

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-20 Thread Matthew Swift
Ian Jackson writes: > > Matt Swift writes: > > > > # ensure proper permissions and ownership > > chown --recursive root:texmf $DIRS > > chmod --recursive ug=rwX,o=rX $DIRS > Our packaging guidelines say that the things should be owned by > root.root in general. Is there a good reason to us

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

1995-11-12 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: kpathsea Version: 2.6-1 The presence of an up-to-date ls-R database, while not necessary, drastically improves the efficiency of the TeX system. The kpathsea package should create one on installation and have cron maintain it. All packages that install into the /usr/lib/texmf tree should

Bug#1836: expect core dumps

1995-11-10 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: expect Version: 5.16.3 Revision: 3 The following dumps core when put into a file and executed. I realize I should probably spawn su inside a shell, but I don't think expect should core dump even so. #!/usr/bin/expect -f # Give my roommate a way to safely turn off my machine without gi

Bug#1709: /usr/sbin/pppd needs to be setuid (chmod u+s)

1995-10-19 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: ppp Version: 2.2-1 The pppd executable needs to have the setuid bit set when it is installed. Otherwise you get the kind of errors listed below at the end. These lines in the ppp.deb source pppd/Makefile are correct, but somehow they aren't percolating into the right actions in the Deb