Re: Bug#4378: incomplete Packages files and incomplete distributions

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Why not just have rex-non-free rex-contrib and rex, etc. I suppose this would be ok, but my own reasonableness trigger would jitter less if it were something more like rex/free rex/non-free rex/contrib You end up with fewer syml

Bug#4346: Essential LaTeX style files missing

> Thomas> In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do > Thomas> serious work with it, at least for me (I work in German). Hardly > Thomas> any of the often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty, > Thomas> which is required by the documentation of german.sty, mis

Bug#4383: remote filesystems mounted too early

Package: sysvinit Version: 2.64-1 Remote filesystems are mounted by a command in /etc/init.d/boot. However, this runs before named is started (/etc/rc?.d/S19bind). Therefore, if hostnames are used in /etc/fstab, remote mounts fail. Remote file systems should be mounted after the name server is st

Bug#4382: dselect/dpkg treats squid_1.0.9-1 as a downgrade from squid_1.0.beta16-1

Package: squid Version: 1.0.9-1 dselect/dpkg treats squid_1.0.9-1 as a downgrade from squid_1.0.beta16-1 and won't upgrade unless you force it. Mark

Bug#4376: vm doesn't use /etc/emacs/site-start.d

> "RK" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RK> Package: vm RK> Version: 5.95beta-2 RK> ... VM maintainer, when fixing this bug, it would also be a good idea to upgrade to 5.96beta. Kind regards, Emilio. -- Emilio C. Lopes

Re: Shared libraries and symbols

Hi Michael, [...] > /lib/libc.so.5.4.4: no symbols This is most certainly a bug! [...] > since it saves an awful lot of disk space. If for some reasons the symbols > are needed could anyone tell me why my libc works? Try debug a dynamically linked binary using gdb and you will see lots of messa

Bug#4305: metmail uses non-existent flag in postinst

Mark Eichin writes: > The problem is that the interface is *far* from intuitve. It needs at > least a sentence or two up top explaining what it's asking about (it > wasn't clear to me until after I'd seen a third viewer show up...) Valid point. But then the bug should be filed against mime-suppor

Bug#4381: tkps installs itself into /usr/local/bin

Package: tkps Version: 1.2-0 The binary is installed into /usr/local/bin. However, no package should do that. Since tkps doesn't run without X it should be installed into /usr/X11R6/bin. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// /

My packages

Here's a rundown on my packages. Remember I habe to give away most of it since I might not have the time for it in my new job. Here are the one I found new maintainers for. Is there a list where we have to enter the packages? Also some of these are listed as 'maintainer wants to give away'. I take

Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages

Ian Jackson writes: > When a package is uploaded an announcement should be posted to > package name and version number, and a very short summary of the > changes, in the PGP-signed be added before the start of the Okay IMO. > If a package is released with announcement should be posted to

Re: Bug#4051: access permissions for /usr/bin/fdmount

Ian Jackson writes: > Well, how hard is it to compile out ? It's not the most awful thing > that could happen to a program to have this unnecessary check, but I > do think it will add confusion. It's not that difficult. I'll take care of it when I release a new version. Michael -- Michael Mesk

Shared libraries and symbols

Can we strip shared libraries? I don't know whether that's possible but I just found out that 'nm /lib/libc.so.5.4.4' (yes, I know this is not the Debian version) on my system gives: /lib/libc.so.5.4.4: no symbols However, almost all other shared libraries come with symbols, some even with debugg

Re: Bug#4378: incomplete Packages files and incomplete distributions

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I don't know of a longterm solution short of : duplicating the contrib and non-free trees into stable and unstable : versions. During the time when I was "master of master", I was working on a proposal for restructuring the hierarchy... and this is the s

Bug#4360: bug in route man page

Hi, > the example is missing -net before 224.0.0.0. fixed in net-tools-1.33-alpha (upstream version, not yet released). Greetings Bernd

Bug#4378: incomplete Packages files and incomplete distributions

On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Anton Rebhan wrote: > Repeatedly, I faced problems with a new installation and with > upgrades coming from an out-of-date Packages file and/or of > an incomplete set of packages. > I have ignored missing packages when they were just recommended > but not available. Currently, h

Re: devel directory reorg?

> run-time > programs and files needed to run applications > devel > programs and files needed to develop applications That's a very reasonable suggestion. It makes a clear division in devel, and moves about half of the packages out. Guy

Re: devel directory reorg?

Guy Maor: > > Did we reach any conclusion on reorganizing the devel directory? > > No, the suggestions got a bit silly at the end though. Here's one more suggestion. I think it makes sense to view Debian users as either end-users or programmers. End-users need easy access to whatever run-time su

Bug#4380: crippled anon ftp

Package: wu-ftpd Version: 2.4-23 Package: netstd Version: 2.06-1 The man pages ftpd(8) and wu-ftpd(8) are both present on my system [Debian 1.1 kernel 2.0.0. #8] and they slightly differ from each other. However, both say, that for anonymous ftp you need to "have ls(1) in ~ftp/bin with mode 111".

Re: dpkg manuals in other formats and on web site

On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > Since noone has answered my question I've done what seemed the right > thing: > > The next dpkg upload will be accompanied by the manuals in gzipped > PostScript (formatted for A4) and HTML in gzipped tarfiles, as > separate files in the upload. > I didn'

Bug#4379: dselect insists on wrong installation order

Package: dselect Version: 1.2.12 (a.out) and 1.2.11elf In upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 I had the following problem running dselect: The installation of perl failed because libgdbm was not installed, although the latter was selected. Instead of proceeding with the installation, which would obviousl

Bug#4378: incomplete Packages files and incomplete distributions

Package: ftp.debian.org Version: 1.1.7 Repeatedly, I faced problems with a new installation and with upgrades coming from an out-of-date Packages file and/or of an incomplete set of packages. I have ignored missing packages when they were just recommended but not available. Currently, however, the

Bug#4377: modules on boot-disk seem to be broken

Package: bootdisk Version: boot1440.bin (1996_7_14) The following happened twice on two different systems (a 486 and a P6) while attempting to make a fresh installation of Debian 1.1.7: When installing the kernel, I selected the module for nfs filesystem support. I was then asked to insert again t

Bug#4376: vm doesn't use /etc/emacs/site-start.d

Package: vm Version: 5.95beta-2 vm's postinst follows /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el and modifies the file it ultimately points to in order to arrange for its initialization code to be run at startup. It should, instead, place the vm-init.el file in the directory /etc/emacs/site-start.d.

Re: What parts of "TeX" are architecture independent?

On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, llucius wrote: >I finally bit the bullet and started work on the TeX packages to make >them build on multiple architectures. Sorry for the long delay. >Well, since I don't much at all about >TeX, I'm not sure what's platform specific. I'm especially concerned >about endian

Bug#4375: Hello forgets to increment loop counter when reading mailbox

Package: hello Version: 1.3-12 1) Line 196-201 contain the following loop: d = dirs; do { sprintf (mailname, "%s/%s", *d, user); mailfd = open (mailname, O_RDONLY); } while (mailfd == -1 && (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENOTDIR

Re: /usr/local (again)

Hello Ian, you wrote: >In order that the system administrator may know where to place >additional files a package should create an empty directory in the >appropriate place in /usr/local by supplying it in the filesystem >archive for unpacking by dpkg. The /usr/local directo

Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade

Rob Browning: > Why in the world wouldn't you want to require 4 digits for the date? Because of all the usual bad reasons, and one good one: it doesn't matter. The LSM dates are always past tense, and making the new requirement is trivial, all of thirty seconds of coding. Converting all old date

Bug#4371: clean target does not rm debian/substvars

Package: hello Version: 1.3-12 Section 3.2.4 of the programmer's manual says: The file (debian/substvars) may be a static part of the source archive, or generated and modified dynamically by debian/rules targets. In the latter case it must be removed by the clean target. hello's clean target doe

Re: Bug#4329: Emacs has hardcoded path for jka-compr, breaks at upgrade

This is really off-topic, but it's one of my pet peeves. Sorry. Rob Browning: > 5) Debian should use either the big or little endian format and always > use four digits for the year. That way we won't have trouble when the > millenium hits, and you can always tell by looking if it's big or > litt

Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work

> Michael Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Package: emacs > > Version: 19.31-2 > > > > movemail complains about not being able to write a temp file in > > /var/spool/mail. > > > > One fix might be to make it setgid mail, iff the code is written to be > > sufficiently paranoid. > > As ship

Re: Manuals other than as HTML in the dpkg*.deb file

I think we have an offer for the main web site from someone who I think has a T3, and we have a few offers for regional web sites. I'll firm them up this week. Bruce

Bug#4368: [SECURITY]

Followup indicates that this will be fixed in NetKit-B 0.08, so we should update to that ASAP. --- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) --- Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from brimstone.netspace.org ([128.148.157.143]) by nessie.crosslink.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESM

Bug#4367: corrupted kernel message re NFS mount

Package: mount, kernel Version: 2.5j-1.1, 2.0.0 (upstream) I did a df while I had NFS partitions mounted which were inaccessible due to network lossage: Sep 2 01:06:15 chiark kernel: NFS server nfs-uxsuale/%/%N.cat not responding, timed out. Sep 2 01:06:15 chiark kernel: nfs_statfs: statfs err

Bug#4356: menu-bar-mode flag argument is inconsistent with universe

Mark W. Eichin writes ("Re: Bug#4356: menu-bar-mode flag argument is inconsistent with universe"): > That's because (interactive "p") converts to a number. Not sure why > that's relevant, since menu-bar-mode uses (interactive "P"): > p -- Prefix arg converted to number. Does not do I/O. >

Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work

Mark W. Eichin writes ("Re: Bug#4354: movemail doesn't work"): > [Ian:] > > Why does movemail need to be setuid root ?! > > Well, the package as I inherited had the following in debian.rules: ... > # movemail is installed setuid so that POP can work. (This is > # safe.) ... > I suspec

Re: Need to copy perl-tk into other ftp dirs on ftp.debian.org

On 30 Aug 1996, Rob Browning wrote: > I just had someone with a problem with perl-tk and Debian 1.1.5. > Apparently we have perl 5.003 and perl-tk b11.02-2 together in some of > the directories. perl-tk b11.02-2 is not compatible with perl 5.003, > so we need to move a copy of perl-tk b11.02-3 in

Re: Manuals other than as HTML in the dpkg*.deb file

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > I've asked this question before, but noone seemed to want to answer > me, so I'm asking again: > > It would be good for the dpkg manuals to be on the Debian web pages. > How do I organise this ? I can (for example) ship a .tar.gz of the > HTML files with

Re: Bug#4365: no section and priority in debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control

Andreas Jellinghaus writes ("Bug#4365: no section and priority in debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control"): > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.3.12 > > dpkg-gencontrol creates no priority and section entries in > debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control, but theese fields are in debian/files. > is this ok or is this a bug ? Thi

Re: It's time for dpkg-dev

Bruce Perens writes ("It's time for dpkg-dev"): > Would you consider splitting dpkg into runtime and developers packages? > It's getting big, and the space on the base system is limited. I've done a quick check of which files would go in which package, and the results are (see below): dpkg: