Bug#4008: CVS texinfo docs won't format correctly with TeX

1996-08-02 Thread Rob Browning
Package: cvs Version: 1.8.1-1 The initial format fails because it can't find the file `CVSvn.texi'. (760) tex cvs.texinfo This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) (cvs.texinfo Hyphenation patterns for british, english, french, german, spanish, loaded. (/usr/lib/texmf/tex/misc/texinfo.tex Load

Bug#4007: identd doesn't seem to be correctly configured

1996-08-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
Package: netstd Version: 2.05-1 The configuration of identd in inetd.conf is incorrect. The incorrect line is: ident stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/identdidentd -i with the correct line being: authstream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/identdidentd -i -- Sc

Re: Name clash in prospective package

1996-08-02 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "BCW" == Brian C White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BCW> I don't see a problem with packages creating directories and BCW> other necessary framework in /usr/local. In some cases, this can BCW> be quite complex and without which it isn't possible for there to BCW> be "local" extensions. Besid

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-02 Thread Brian C. White
> > I'm sure C and Assembler fit "cryptic" too. Just think how much further > > advanced the computer industry would be if neither of those had ever been > > invented. > > As to assembler, there are lots of _very_ different styles of writing it; > there is no one "Assembler" language. It's quite

elm problems

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
I just tried to build elm from the debian source package with the thought that I might be able to maintain it. So far the verdict is not in. The build target in debian.rules is really very simple: make make documentation touch build However, if I try "debian.rules build" I

Bug#4006: Fileutils has /usr/libexec directory

1996-08-02 Thread David Engel
Package: fileutils Version: 3.13-2 The fileutils package has an empty /usr/libexec directory in the .deb file. I don't think the FSSTND supports libexec yet, so the directory should be removed. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

diff-2.7-11 uploaded to master.

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
This repairs the architecture bug reported against this package. Date: 02 Aug 96 16:44 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: diff Version: 2.7-11 Binary: diff Architecture: i386 source Description: diff: File comparison utiliti

Re: libident-0.17-2 uploaded to master.

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
This fixes the description bug. Date: 02 Aug 96 13:34 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: libident Version: 0.17-2 Binary: libident Architecture: i386 source Description: libident: a simple RFC1413 client library Changes: Thi

Re: uploaded babel 3.6-4 to master

1996-08-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Erick> * added latin1.sty: Michael Meskens requested See the documentation in /usr/doc/latex/ltnews0[23].tex.gz, this is no longer needed since about last June. I used to use latin1, but now prefer \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % Umlaute -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel

conffiles question

1996-08-02 Thread Erick Branderhorst
I 'm busy with mflib and thought that it might be useful to have the weekly script run daily by cron because a daily run will have a bigger chance to be run on systems which are on and off (like mine at home). Therefore I would need to remove the conffigurationfile /etc/cron.weekly/mflib from the

Re: New virtual package names.

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
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 well). > > What would it be used for? Are there packages that depend on having an > ed

Bug#3994: ae won't deinstall

1996-08-02 Thread Erick Branderhorst
> I'd like to be able to remove `ae', but it won't deinstall. I can do it: dpkg --force-remove-essential --remove ae > It should be possible to remove ANY package if I really want to. But you have to do a little extra for it. > I don't like it when I'm treated like a child by the packaging sys

Bug#3997: perl examples should be visible in /usr/doc/perl

1996-08-02 Thread Erick Branderhorst
> There should be a link or note in /usr/doc/perl about > /usr/doc/examples/perl. This is standard on debian, I don't see why a link is needed. Erick

Bug#4000: emacs can't initialize x window

1996-08-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Erick> Package: emacs Erick> Version: 19.31-2 Erick> Erick> I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error Erick> occurs. Erick> Erick> Loading hilit19... Error in init file: error: "X windows are not in Erick> use or not initialized" That is your fault, not em

Re: New virtual package names.

1996-08-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Warwick HARVEY: > Are there packages that depend on having an editor, Without trying, I think of vipw, vigr, mail, elm, rcs (and thus cvs), trn, tin, and nn. I grant that all but vipw and vigr can be used without an editor -- if you only read mail and news and never check anything in. I don't ha

Re: /usr/doc/copyright/ -> /usr/doc//copyright ?

1996-08-02 Thread Lars Wirzenius
Guy Maor: > I don't think we should move the copyright file. Most people don't > ever need to look at them, so it's simpler if they're out of the way. I agree, because of this, and because there are packages that only have and need a copyright file, but not their own directory below /usr/doc. >

gmp-1.3.2-3 uploaded to master.

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
This fixes the architectural problems in the source. Date: 02 Aug 96 13:36 UT Format: 1.5 Distribution: unstable Priority: Low Maintainer: Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gmp Version: 1.3.2-3 Binary: gmp Architecture: i386 source Description: gmp: Multiprecision arithmetic library Cha

Re: Bug#3987: octave needs libg++

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, marc hoffmann wrote: > Package: Octave > Version: 1.1.1-3 > > After installing octave it won't run and giving a message like: > can't find /lib/libg++ (I don't remember exactly). > After installing libg++27 elf version (version 2.7.1-2), everything worked > fine. Octave had n

uploaded babel 3.6-4 to master

1996-08-02 Thread Erick Branderhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 02 Aug 96 11:49 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: babel Version: 3.6-4 Binary: babel Architecture: all source Description: babel: Support for multilingual typesetting with (La)

fileutils 3.13 on master

1996-08-02 Thread Erick Branderhorst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 02 Aug 96 11:32 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Erick Branderhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: fileutils Version: 3.13-3 Binary: fileutils Architecture: i386 source Description: fileutils: GNU file management utilities. C

Bug#4005: Resubmitting Bug#3875, Lynx *.deb problem.

1996-08-02 Thread Eddie Maddox
Package: lynx Version: 2.5 and 2.4-FM-960316 OS: Debian 1.1, 17 JUN 96, with dpkg 1.2.11elf Bug: Lynx thinks *.deb files are "text/plain", rather than "binary". Therefor downloads corrupt *.deb files. -- NOTE: Please

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Dan Stromberg) wrote: > Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > sh is not suitable for many of the things Perl gets used for - > > consider update-inetd, update-info &c. > > Actually, a /bin/sh script to add inetd.conf entries, and another to > remove entries keyed off the service field, was unmentionabl

Re: Name clash in prospective package

1996-08-02 Thread Warwick HARVEY
It seems obvious from the responses I've had, that one of the programs needs to be renamed (no other solutions were presented, and, frankly, I can't really think of one that won't cause problems). If we assume this is the case, it is fairly obvious which one should be renamed: the Mercury one. Me

Re: New virtual packages suggestion (make)

1996-08-02 Thread Warwick HARVEY
"Brian C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I propose to add the following virtual packages: > > > > > > - gnu-makeuseful for packages like kernel-package and my new > > > compress-package (not yet released) that *need* a GNU make > > > to be used. > > >

Bug#3986: inconsistency between base and sysvinit packages!

1996-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Carlos Carvalho) wrote: > The newer base packages create /dev/tty* with permission rw-rw. > This causes an error when you try to open an xterm/rxvt window. They > quit with "couldn't open a pseudo-terminal" msg. I don't know whose > fault it is. > > However, the newest sysvinit has this c

Bug#3991: dselect has confusing and bizarre interface

1996-08-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: dselect Version: 1.12.2 dselect is more complicated than it needs to be. Anyone who has used the package selector for RedHat can understand why people like it so much. I like having a versatile interface such as the one dselect offers, but it shouldn't be so incompatible keystroke-wise

Bug#3995: perl docs are unreadable

1996-08-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: perl Version: 5.003-2 /usr/doc/examples/perl total 32 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 1024 Jul 23 02:09 . drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 1024 Jul 26 12:13 .. -r--r- 1 root root 192 Jul 1 14:23 ADB.gz -r--r- 1 root root 567 Jul 1 14:23 RE

Bug#3993: users can't umount user mounts

1996-08-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: mount Version: 2.5j-1 The transcript should explain the problem pretty well. I believe the problem is the different between the options line in the fstab and the options listed by `mount', but I haven't had any time to examine the problem further. There is also a 2.5k version of mount.

Bug#3994: ae won't deinstall

1996-08-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 I'd like to be able to remove `ae', but it won't deinstall. It should be possible to remove ANY package if I really want to. I don't like it when I'm treated like a child by the packaging system.

Bug#3990: xdm-errors location not what FSSTND says

1996-08-02 Thread Michael Gaertner
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 "DisplayManager.errorLogFile:" to "DisplayManager.errorLogFile:

Bug#3989: `w' produces corrupted output

1996-08-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: procps Version: 1.01a-1 -chiark:~> w 2:13pm up 17 days, 12:23, 12 users, load average: 0.31, 0.20, 0.14 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT richard ttyp0mojave.elmail.co 9:24am 26.00s 0.65s 0.65s -bash pjb1008 ttyp2ash.eng:0.0 10:00

Bug#3984: NIS writes error message to STDERR

1996-08-02 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Brian C. White) wrote: > Package: nis > Version: 1.20-1 > > I having problems with cron reporting the following error should the > NIS server be unavailable. > > yp_first: clnt_call: RPC: Remote system error > > This is very annoying as I will get mail every minute or two when cron >

Bug#3988: Kbd: missing Dvorak keyboard maps.

1996-08-02 Thread Eddie Maddox
Package: kbd OS: Debian Linux 1.1, 17.JUN.96 1. The Linux keyboard maps, /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/*, include only one "dvorak" map file. There are actually 3 dvorak keyboard layouts: both handed, left handed, right handed. Please have Linux include map files for all 3 layouts. 2. It would be nice

Bug#3987: octave needs libg++

1996-08-02 Thread marc hoffmann
Package: Octave Version: 1.1.1-3 After installing octave it won't run and giving a message like: can't find /lib/libg++ (I don't remember exactly). After installing libg++27 elf version (version 2.7.1-2), everything worked fine. Octave had no dependancies on libg++ in dselect, so this may be the

Bug#4003: minor typo in dchanges

1996-08-02 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
Package: dchanges Version: 3.4 If dchanges finds an old style file name, it gives the following messages: Deb file ok: libelf-dev_0.5.2-1_i386.deb Deb file ok: libelf_0.5.2-1_i386.deb WARNING: old style file name: libelf-0.5.2-1.tar.gz should be: libelf_0.5.2-1.deb WARNING: old style f

Bug#3901: dotlock" should be setgid mail

1996-08-02 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
A couple of days ago, Lars mentioned > I suggest staying with rwxrwxrwt. with respect to the permissions for /var/spool/mail. Mine is: drwxrwsr-t 2 mail mail 1024 Jul 31 13:08 /var/spool/mail/ I couldn't find the debian package that installed this directory, so I couldn't figure ou

Bug#3997: perl examples should be visible in /usr/doc/perl

1996-08-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: perl Version: 5.003-2 There should be a link or note in /usr/doc/perl about /usr/doc/examples/perl.

Bug#3996: rdate.8 refers to adjtime(2)

1996-08-02 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Package: netstd Version: 2.05-1 It should refer to adjtimex(2), I believe.

Bug#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict with it

1996-08-02 Thread David Engel
Ian Jackson writes: > David Engel writes ("Re: Bug#3838: GCC should depend on CPP, not conflict > with it"): > > This would force an exact version match between cpp and gcc and I > > would very much like to avoid those situations. Yes, I know this is > > already done with shared library run-time

Bug#4001: w segfaults on empty utmp

1996-08-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: procps Version: 1.01a-1 This isn't really a problem as utmp usually should not be empty but still w should not segfault. The reason I stepped on this is because the base package wipes out the utmp file.

Bug#4004: procinfo breaks without modules

1996-08-02 Thread shields
Package: syslinux Version: 1.20-0 On a kernel without module support: $ procinfo can't open file /proc/modules: No such file or directory -- Shields, CrossLink.

Bug#4000: emacs can't initialize x window

1996-08-02 Thread Erick Branderhorst
Package: emacs Version: 19.31-2 I load hilit19.el in my .emacs but when not under X this error occurs. Loading hilit19... Error in init file: error: "X windows are not in use or not initialized" Erick

Bug#4002: base wipes out utmp & wtmp

1996-08-02 Thread Herbert Xu
Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 The installation of this package wipes out the file /var/run/utmp and creates /var/run/wtmp which really should be in /var/log. -- Debian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! { http://www.debian.org/ } A. B <=> True B. A <=> False Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~}

Bug#3999: nfs module fails to load

1996-08-02 Thread Andrew G Wood
Package: kernel Version: 2.0.6 I recently updated from debian 1.1 - kernel version 2.0.0 - to 1.1.3 by installing the new package in base/kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb (plus the updated dpkg and kbd). Rebooting the machine showed that all was working apart from the nfs module failing to load wit

Bug#3998: xemacs problems

1996-08-02 Thread Michael Meskes
Package: xemacs, xemacs-support, xemacs-widget Version 19.14-1 1) xemacs overwrites files from package emacs without having a 'replaces' line. 2) xemacs is not configured because it depends on xemacs-support which conflicts with emacs. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_

Re: XF86 betas (Re: D68K: The next step...)

1996-08-02 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
> Mr Stuart Lamble writes: > >annoyed that if I want support for my W32p (revision A), I have to go > >to 3.1.2E - and it's not available for Debian. Net result: either I > >have proper support for my card, and can't install new X-based packages > >(dpkg barfs at the postinst and configuration stag

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-02 Thread Dan Stromberg
Brian C. White wrote: > Dan Stromberg wrote: > > There's clearly a place for a stronger scripting language, despite the > > argument posed above. It's just very sad that it should be perl. perl > > really fits into many people's stereotypes of "unix as inherently > > cryptic monster", very neatly

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-02 Thread Brian C. White
> > I'm sure C and Assembler fit "cryptic" too. Just think how much further > > advanced the computer industry would be if neither of those had ever been > > invented. > > And how much further would the industry be, if C had been typesafe (or > if some other, typesafe language had been used)? Th

Re: New virtual package names.

1996-08-02 Thread Warwick HARVEY
> Well, it's been a while, so lets add: > imap-client and imap-server > to the virtual package names list. Sure thing. I'm not familiar with imap though, so could you give me a description for these to go in the list? > On another note, is there an editor virtual package? Is there any interest

sudo_1.4.4-1

1996-08-02 Thread Michael Meskes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 02 Aug 96 09:09 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: sudo Version: 1.4.4-1 Binary: sudo Architecture: i386 source Description: sudo: Provides limited super user privileges to specific

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-02 Thread Erick Branderhorst
> that require munging large numbers of files in complex regexpish ways. > I've found that if you use "-w", "use strict", and "use English", perl > makes/allows you to write pretty reasonable code. Certainly code that > is far better (and usually faster) than sh. If "-w", "use strict" and "use E

Re: Perl vs Python vs ....

1996-08-02 Thread Brian C. White
Dan Stromberg wrote: > > For this reason we decided that Perl would be on our base disks, and > > that packages could use it (well, the subset that's on the base disks) > > in their preinst/postrm. Packages which want something else must > > Depend on it and may only use it in their postinst/prerm

XF86 betas (Re: D68K: The next step...)

1996-08-02 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
llucius wrote: > Actually, I've not gotten to "The Next Step" yet anyway. I finally bit > the bullet and downloaded XFree86 (whew!), compiled it, and am now going > through all the X related packages. Speaking of X, as a member of the beta team (XFree86), I have access to the source code for th