Bernd S Brentrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Package: bison
> Version: A2.5
> Revision: 0
> Maintainer: Anders Chrigstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> In my understanding of the FSSTND 1.2 /usr/share is off-limits as of yet,
> cf sections 4.11 and 6.3
Just a warning, /usr/share will almost certainl
It is in our opinions here at the university that the current materials
should be placed in a subdirectory like
RELEASED/Debian-0.93R6
RELEASED/security-fixes
RELEASED/updates
RELEASED/contrib
RELEASED/Incoming (to Be used by anonymous users for uploads to contrib)
CURRENT/Debian
CURRENT/private
I wrote, some time ago, in response to a bug report:
> Bill Mitchell writes ("Bug#1511: Packages vs. packages for ms-dos
> compatability"):
> > PACKAGE: dpkg (and the ftp site)
> >
> > The "Packages" and "Packages.gz" files do not have ms-dos
> > compatible filenames. Depending on the tools used,
Some time ago I asked:
> Ian M.: please arrange for the environment variable "DPKG_NO_TSTP" to
> be set to some non-empty value (like "yes") when dselect is invoked in
> this way. This will cause dpkg to invoke "$SHELL -i" instead (or "sh
> -i" if SHELL isn't set).
>
> This feature will be in 0.93
Some time ago, in response to Bug#1647, I wrote:
> Bill Mitchell writes:
> > I haven't seen this show up on debian-devel. I think Ian J. has
> > closed this bug report. Perhops the buglist doesn't forward
> > comments regarding closed bugreports to the list. Anyhow,
> > here it is.
>
> I've seen
I wrote:
> Juho A. Vuori writes ("Bug#1681: Missing files"):
> > I just installed Debian GNU/Linux 0.93R6 and found out that:
> >
> > - manual pages for savelog and checksecurity are missing. Even though
> > they are scripts and therefore anyone can look what they do, man
> > pages would still
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes ("Bug#1776: zless missing"):
> Package: gzip
>
> I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
> zless is:
>
> ---
> #!/bin/sh
> for args
> do
> zcat $args | less
> done
> ---
This is a bad implementation. A better one would be:
#!/bin/sh -
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Re: Bug#1737: missing man pages for accouting
commands "):
> I am sure I once saw an explicit statement saying that the GNU operating
> system will use info as its main source of documentation, but I can't
> remember where that was. There is a preference for info over ma
Bernd S. Brentrup writes ("Bug#1775: popclient delivery failure (was: Re: MTA
problem)"):
> Popclient fails to deliver mail with lines containing only a single dot.
> When delivering mail to a user's mailbox, popclient uses sendmail,
> the problem goes away when smail is invoked as rmail.
popclie
Kenny Wickstrom writes ("Re: Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends"):
> On Tue, 24 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Bdale Garbee writes ("Bug#1753: trn recommends, instead of depends"):
> > Recommends is correct. You can read news perfectly happily without
> > either a mail transport or a n
> Package: gzip
>
> I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
> zless is:
Just set your PAGER environment variable to 'less' and use zmore.
Is anyone else getting tired of seeing this question asked every week
or so? Perhaps the gzip package maintainer should just a
Package: gzip
I think a zless is as usefull as zmore. The Slackware-implementation of
zless is:
---
#!/bin/sh
for args
do
zcat $args | less
done
---
Greetings
Bernd
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Bruce Perens writes ("Re: dchanges change suggestions "):
> I am withdrawing the request that package upload announcements be
> machine-readable. They may now be free-form. I'm sick of this stupid
> argument.
You're the FTP site maintainer, and you have to live with this stuff
(the format that's m
There is, I think, an overlap between the release management strategy
and the package announcement format thread.
We need to decide what information the package maintainer needs to
supply to the FTP site maintainer for the correct placement of the
package.
Can I take it that following the thread
On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> However, I'm wondering whether a more elegant and simple solution
> might just be for Bruce to run the cross-installation which a PATH
> environment variable that ensures that the version of
> start-stop-daemon it finds is a link to `true'.
This is the b
On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> > This should read "/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin", without the "."
>
> While we're at it, would it be appropriate to have xdm also set this as
> the default path?
>
Would it need /usr/bin/X11?
CD Rasmussen writes ("Re: pre-inst and post-inst scripts that start and stop
daemons "):
> Rather than naming the effect you want, not starting daemons, I would
> think it better to name the situation, like DEB_BASE_BUILD or
> something. Now as time goes on, the scripts will be left to do the
> r
On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> #define _PATH_DEFPATH"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:."
>
> This should read "/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin", without the "."
> entry. Quite apart from the security implications, teaching new users
> always to run their programs with "./foo" will stop
Package: netstd
Version: 1.18
Revision: 1
Popclient fails to deliver mail with lines containing only a single dot.
When delivering mail to a user's mailbox, popclient uses sendmail,
the problem goes away when smail is invoked as rmail.
Matthew Swift writes:
>popclient; should I send a bug report
Hallo Ian Murdock!
}Should I add anything (for example, about the mirror problems) to the
}announcement? Here is what I have thus far. I want to send it in a
}few hours, so please speak now or forever (or until the next release,
Apart from the text, I think this is not a good idea as some of us
Ispell-3.1.18-4 now suggests a word-list instead of recommending one.
I am retaining the 'word-list' virtual package, in the hope that a new
wenglish will be released, perhaps even by myself, prviding such a
virtual package.
Kenny.
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The latest Debian releases of ispell, iamerican and ibritish do not
use their version details in the copyright file names.
ispell-3.1.18-4
iamerican-3.1.18-3
ibritish-3.1.18-3
Kenny.
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Package: libc
Version: 4.6.27-6
#define _PATH_DEFPATH"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:."
This should read "/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin", without the "."
entry. Quite apart from the security implications, teaching new users
always to run their programs with "./foo" will stop them getting ve
Martin Schulze writes:
>
> Hallo Andrew Howell!
>
> }update-rc.d sysklogd defaults 10 90 >/dev/null
>
> Remember: 10 and 90 (!!)
>
> }# Purge the files of the old "syslog" package, it's now called "sysklog".
> }
> }rm -f /etc/cron.weekly/syslogd /etc/init.d/syslogd \
> }/etc/rc[0-6].d/[SK]2
Sorry for the delay. Here is a shar archive containing replacement
source modules to fix portability for TERMCAP and TERMINFO. Check
ae.man in the configuration section about how to configure for either
database method.
NOTE these changes should be tested. I've only been able to test using
BSD
Package: doc
Version: 0.93-5
There are nearly duplicate entries for the Keystroke HOWTO in
/usr/doc/HOWTO and /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini. The file in /usr/doc/HOWTO
has HOWTO mis-spelled in its first line (HOWTU), whereas the file
in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini has no such problem.
Two fixes are needed:
HOWTO
Austin Donnelly writes:
> Package: xntp
> Version: 3.4x-1
>
> The 'struct timex' structure has changed in the newser 1.3.x kernels
> (for x approx > 28 or so, I'm told).
>
> This means that xntpd binaries compiled agains old kernels dumps core
> on startup.
>
> I'm told that version 3.4t has suppor
Gentlemen,
I think we've established the parameters about how and where Aladdin
Ghostscript fits in the Debian system :-) .
Many Thanks
Bruce Perens
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