Bug#4164: Ferret extended description has blank lines

> Ferret extended description field has four empty lines in it. > The correct form is to have a single space followed by > a single full stop character Oops! Okay, it'll be fixed in the next release (soon, hopefully). By the way, for such tiny things, it's usually considered better to just notif

Bug#4167: compress is missing

You (Andreas Jellinghaus) wrote: > Package: gzip inn > Version: 1.2.4-11 1.4unoff4-1 > > there is no compress programm. > news is not working o.k. (send-uucp depends on compress if you want to > use compress (that's default)). > > compress should be a link to gzip ? No, this is a bug in send-u

mime-support 2.02-1 released

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 17:23 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: mime-support Version: 2.02-1 Binary: mime-support Architecture: all source Description: mime-support: MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailc

lclint and mailx packages up for grabs

Due to time constraints. Ie I am trying to finish a computer science Masters degree while working full time. I will be unable to maintain the LCLint and mailx packages. If anyone wants to take them then let me know. The mailx has a few outstanding bugs related to signals and the LCLint has one wit

Bug#4153: recent mount/umount vulnerability

Alexander O. Yuriev writes: > I trust you are all aware of the information released to > bugtraq/linux-security and linux-alert mailing lists about the vulnerability > of mount/umount utilities in Linux. > I'd really appreciate if you provide some official information on > your distribu

Bug#4169: pixmap dies

Package: pixmap Version: 2.6pl1-2 Pixmap crashes when I try to save an icon (it works with some icons). Here is an icon where pixmap crashes: begin 644 xman.xpm.gz M'XL("&`?$S("`WAM86XN>'!M`+6676O;,!2&KYM?<4COXDU9M[&UC($@,.C% MYD%[$1ACN(Z:F#H^(7'7A;'_/EE''T?^2!/8SHTE6WITWO=8EJ<3F'_]#)/I M:#KYEV%

Bug#4170: vlock can make the system unusable

Package: vlock Version: 0.8-3 You can block a system for a while using vlock. Just type vlock -a and press the key for a few seconds (or minutes). Result: You can't log in for a couple of minutes. There should either be an option to avoid the calls to the sleep() function or vlock shouldn't acce

uploaded gs_4.01-2 (missing dep:libpaper)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 15:44 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gs Version: 4.01-2 Binary: gs Architecture: i386 source Description: gs: Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib preview suppo

symlinks_1.0-3

I'm not sure if anyone else volunteered to take over symlinks from Bill. But since I wanted to recompile it anyway (to get rid of the AOUT binary) I can as well provide a new bug-free version. If anyone else wants to maintain it feel free to do so. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug

Re: /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale

Christophe Le Bars writes: > wg15-locale install locale files in /usr/share/locale > # dpkg -S /usr/share/locale > wg15-locale: /usr/share/locale > > libc6 must conflict with wg15-locale (<1-2) if the locale > directory change... Doesn't glibc use /usr/share/locale, too? The only difference I'm a

Re: Bug#4078: lynx should be in `contrib'

Lars Wirzenius writes: > > Can't we find a way to keep programs like this an official part? > > We can say that contrib is an official part of Debian. And non-free as well. > They have different support policies, but that's true wherever they are. > I don't really see a need for a change here, but

Re: CC's on this mailing list

Hi, > > All very nice, but it dodges the major reason for people disliking duplicate > > copies of messages: they pay for their PPP link (or UUCP feed, or whatever). > > I wasn't thinking about this. Good point. umm... I'm not going to bring calculation examples.. usually you wont notice a few

Bug#4168: xemacs wants lock-dir under /usr

Package: xemacs Version: 19.14-1 This message appears when I start xemacs on my NFS-client ("/usr" mounted r/o): WARNING: couldn't find an obvious default for variable lock-directory, and there were no defaults specified in paths.h when XEmacs was built. Perhaps some directories don't exist,

Bug#4167: compress is missing

Package: gzip inn Version: 1.2.4-11 1.4unoff4-1 there is no compress programm. news is not working o.k. (send-uucp depends on compress if you want to use compress (that's default)). compress should be a link to gzip ? Regards, Andreas

Bug#4166: Mosaic extended description has one blank line

Package: mosaic Version: 2.7b5-2 Mosaic extended description field has an empty line containig a tab (\t) on it. The correct form is to have a single space followed by a single full stop character I noticed this when going through the Packages-master-i386 file. The Packages master I checked is l

Bug#4165: LCLint extended description has one blank line

Package: lclint Version: 2.1b-1 LCLint extended description field has one empty line in it. The correct form is to have a single space followed by a single full stop character I noticed this when going through the Packages-master-i386 file. The Packages master I checked is located in ftp://ftp.de

Bug#4164: Ferret extended description has blank lines

Package: ferret Version: 1.0-eval-1 Ferret extended description field has four empty lines in it. The correct form is to have a single space followed by a single full stop character I noticed this when going through the Packages-master-i386 file. The Packages master I checked is located in ftp://

gs+gsfonts 4.01 uploading (finally)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 15 Aug 96 11:53 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: joost witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: gsfonts Version: 4.01-1 Binary: gsfonts Architecture: all source Description: gsfonts: Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter Chang

dchanges 3.4.1

This is a non-maintainer release. Bug 3530 was really irritating me; I've had to put an ugly hack in dinstall to deal with it. I went ahead fixed the other 3 dchanges bugs as they were all trivial. Date: 15 Aug 96 07:33 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Guy Maor <[EM

Bug#4161: dev/idsn instead of isdn in MAKEDEV

> Package: base > Version: 1.1.0-14 > > the: > makedev idsn$no c 45 $no $system > makedev idsnctrl$no c 45 `math 64 + $no` $system > should read: > makedev idsn$no c 45 $no $system >

Re: libpaper 1.0 on master

>Shouldn't the "paper size" be an attribute of a print queue, and not an >attribute of a machine? Paper size effect more that just printers. Previewers and tex tools come to mind, there may be others... All I know is right now I've got to tweak quite a few things on a standard debian 1.1 system

Bug#4163: syslogd loops

Package: sysklogd Version: 1.3-10 On my system, it loops silently eating CPU time. Thanks Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libpaper 1.0 on master

Shouldn't the "paper size" be an attribute of a print queue, and not an attribute of a machine? Yves Arrouye wrote: > > Please do not use 0.* versions anymore. > > The next release (1.0-1) will have a paperconfig paper configuration > script instead of having /etc/papersize as a conffile. > > Y

Bug#4162: stack trace

On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Lindsay F. Marshall wrote: > > > > > --Error: zircon 1.16 1beta63 tcl 7.4p3 tk 4.0p3 tclX V7.4a patch 2 > > You *MUST* upgrade your zircon AT ONCE!!! You must be running at least > V1.17p3 as there is a very serious security hole in *ALL* earlier > versions. DOn;t run z

Bug#4161: dev/idsn instead of isdn in MAKEDEV

Hi, > Please send that diff again. The one in your report isn't right. sorry, forget to chage it :) just replace idsn with isdn 2 times :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/A2C5174

Bug#4161: dev/idsn instead of isdn in MAKEDEV

Please send that diff again. The one in your report isn't right. Thanks Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but I like him a lot more than Dole. Please register to vote, and vote for Democrats. Bruce Perens AB6YM [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.hams

Re: fhs

Raul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand why, for example, /var/spool/mail needs to be > changed to /var/mail -- this seems like a candidate for a symlink. This is under discussion right now. There are several reasons to use /var/mail and several reasons to stick with /var/spool/mai

Re: Upstream maintainer in control file

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [upstream maintainers getting debian bug reports] > > Nevertheless I think that we can solve this by Adding an optional field > to the Source part of the new control file: Upstream or Upstream-Maintainer > with his/her preferred mail adress and optionally the name of

Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Thomas> But they're loaded by irisVxm, the graphical front end: > > > >Which I don't use ..., I use the xmaple shell script (see below). > ... > > $ strace -f -e trace=open,execve,uselib,fork,_exit -o ~/xmaple.log xmaple > > (and immed

Bug#4161: /dev/idsn instead of isdn in MAKEDEV

Package: base Version: 1.1.0-14 the: makedev idsn$no c 45 $no $system makedev idsnctrl$no c 45 `math 64 + $no` $system should read: makedev idsn$no c 45 $no $system makedev idsnctrl

Bug#4149: etc/resolv.conf gets bad configuration

Rob Leslie wrote: > Package: base(?) > Version: 1.1.0-14 > > During the initial installation of Debian 1.1, the user is asked for > information which is used to construct an /etc/resolv.conf file. > > However: > > - If the user enters more than one nameserver IP address, all the > addresse

Bug#4160: Mosaic caused X to become unresponsive to mouse and keyboard input

Package: mosaic, xserver-s3 Version: 2.7b5-2, 3.1.2-5 By playing with the globe icon while Mosaic was downloading a file (I was trying to abort a transfer, but it wasn't working) my X session was rendered inoperative. The mouse and keyboard focus appeared to have become permanently lost. I could

Re: Documentation formats

I'm not certain that distributing HTML with the packages and other formats separately is a good idea. I think it might be a better idea to continue as now and use on-line conversions from man and Info to HTML. Pre-converted HTML should be distributed as separate packages. Debiandoc (I really need

Bug#4078: lynx should be in `contrib'

Michael Meskes: > > XForms is not free (no source). Anything that uses XForms is not free, > > because you can't compile it without XFree. > > Okay. Thus it has to go into contrib. Right? Yes. I think this is current policy, but I'm too lazy to check. (I just like to rant on this issue. Facts are

Re: CC's on this mailing list

Dale Scheetz: > In fact it would be nice if this message didn't go to > you twice, but I don't see any easy way to avoid this, Um, you can't just remove Ian as a receiver, given that he reads the list? Or am I confused again? -- Rural sizes win <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pleas

Re: Documentation formats

Ian Jackson: > Do we start distributing Texinfo-generated HTML instead ? [...] > Or do we do some kind of display-time conversion from info to HTML ? I'd suggest both. texi2html seems to do a nicer job than info2www, but we shouldn't require people to install both HTML and Info versions on sites

Re: CC's on this mailing list

> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In fact it would be nice if this message didn't go to you twice, but > > I don't see any easy way to avoid this, short of writing more > > functionality into the list manager. > > I may have already said this, but for those interested, gnus will >

Bug#4145: ld.so is a.out?!

On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: > > Package: ldso > > Version: 1.7.14-4 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /lib>file ld.so* > > ld.so:Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped > > ld.so.1.7.14: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC), stripped > > > > Looks like ld.so is s

Re: CC's on this mailing list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In fact it would be nice if this message didn't go to you twice, but ... > > I may have already said this, but for those interested, gnus will > generally remove duplicates for you if you want it to. It keeps a > cache of i

Re: /usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale

**On 14 Aug, In article "/usr/lib/locale and /usr/share/locale", ** MVS (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: MVS>A quick question (probably directed most at Ian). I notice that MVS>/usr/lib/locale is part of the base system, but that nothing uses it. MVS> MVS>OTOH, some packages do provide /usr/sh

Uploaded: mount 2.5k-1 (security fix)

I have uploaded mount_2.5k-1 (i386) to master.debian.org. As this release fixes a serious security problem related to earlier versions of the setuid mount/umount binaries, I would appreciate any attempt to expedite movement of this package into the regular archives. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: Bug#4152: psupdate writes /etc/psdatabase, not /boot/psdatabase

Hi, > If /boot was the wrong place, please let me know so we can update > kernel-package. If /etc is the wrong place (and I think it is), > please correct procps. I would suggest /var/lib/ps/psdatabase and /var/lib/ps/psdevtab. (In the new FHS "lib" may be renamed to "state"). Another place woul

Bug#4158: pine does not lock mailbox properly - loss of mail is likely

Package: pine Version: 3.94-3 Pine does not use the proper .lock convention for locking the mailbox. It does do this if it has access to the directory to do so, but if it doesn't it silently uses flock instead. There are several problems here. Those which need to be fixed urgently to avoid loss

Bug#4107: emacs leaves stale lockfiles and publishes pathnames

At 1996-08-12 03:48 +, Mark W. Eichin wrote: >Second, the lock file names *have* to be world visible, in order for >locking to actually work among users... hmm, your suggestion of a >one-way hash make sense, I'll pass it upstream and see if it goes >anywhere (xemacs has built in md5 support, bu