patch to start-stop-daemon.8

2002-03-08 Thread Alexey Mahotkin
hello, I've found my own long-forgotten patch to the manpage of start-stop-daemon, which fixes various markup problems and one typo. --- start-stop-daemon.8 Sat Mar 2 01:40:52 2002 +++ start-stop-daemon.8-new Sat Mar 9 03:46:28 2002 @@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ on the command line are passed unmodi

Processed: Re: Bug#136850: dselect: option to not ask to "erase any previously downloaded .deb files

2002-03-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#136110: md5sum binary should be from textutils, not dpkg

2002-03-08 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jor-el wrote: > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:24:57 -0500 > > "Andres Salomon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > There is also a c library providing md5, one from libwww0 (packaged) and > > another unpackaged libmd5 project > > (ftp:

Re: "Release" files: does "NotAutomatic: yes" mean I need no "Pin" for eg. "release a=experimental"?

2002-03-08 Thread Adam Heath
On 6 Mar 2002, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > For the following "sources.list" lines: Ask on [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not an apt mailing list.

Bug#137315: dpkg: update-alternatives: creation of `link' doesn't respect `Replaces:'.

2002-03-08 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:48:21AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > So AFAICT the only reason why the package wouldn't support upgrade across > two releases is because it has a bug. There are heaps of assumptions in Debian which break when you skip a release. For instance, many people remove Depends

Bug#137351: dpkg -l cut versions and make false bug report info

2002-03-08 Thread Bill Allombert
Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.19 Severity: normal Hello dpkg developers, The way dpkg -l cut columns may generated wrong versions in bug reports: An example yellowpig% COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l libopenal0 | grep libopenal0 ii libopenal0 0.2001061600-2 OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatiali So

Bug#137315: dpkg: update-alternatives: creation of `link' doesn't respect `Replaces:'.

2002-03-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 06:23:30PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > I believe that at least in the above case between ftp and netstd, the > > desired outcome should be that the regular file be removed and > > replaced with the symlink. > > Actually, the answer is that we do not support upgrades across

Bug#137315: dpkg: update-alternatives: creation of `link' doesn't respect `Replaces:'.

2002-03-08 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 03:49:19PM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.9.19 > Severity: minor > > I believe that at least in the above case between ftp and netstd, the > desired outcome should be that the regular file be removed and > replaced with the symlink. Actually, the

Bug#137315: dpkg: update-alternatives: creation of `link' doesn't respect `Replaces:'.

2002-03-08 Thread Peter Moulder
Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.19 Severity: minor [Addressed to ftp maintainer as well as dpkg bug submission.] Concrete example: Package: ftp Source: netkit-ftp Replaces: netstd /usr/bin/ftp is a regular file in netstd, while in the `ftp' package it is to be created with update-alternatives: