Bug#4405: z*grep don't understand grep options

The problem appears to be that the z*grep wrappers don't handle arguments which have multiple tokens. In other words, something like '-i' works, but '-B 10' does not, since it can't distinguish that '10' is part of the '-B' argument and not part of a pattern or filename. If you can skip the spac

Bug#4493: Installing perl

Package: perl Version: 5.003-2 This is what happened when I installed perl. --- % dpkg --install /debian/rex/binary-i386/devel/perl_5.003-2.deb (Reading database ... 7339 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing

Bug#4489: apmd prerm stops kerneld

Fixed in version 2.4-2 of apmd. -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

Re: Newer version of gdb and binutils?

Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > > Anyway, the deal for gdb and binutils is that I only have enough time > > to track H.J. Lu's versions. Since he hasn't released public versions > > of gdb-4.16 and binutils-2.7 yet, neither have I. > > Indeed. However, binutils-2.7 runs "out of the box" for Linu

Re: automated uploading to chiark.

Guy Maor writes: > > debian-changes? Shouldn't this be debian-devel? > > No, see policy manual 6.4. Oops. Why did we change that? Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getting packages of hold with dpkg

Hi, I have a lot of packages here which are, for some reason I don't know, on hold. I never did this intentionally, I think it happened when I was playing around with dselect a while back. Anyways, now I want them to get of that 'On hold'-state. Is there a way that I can do this easily, and at

Re: Diffs-only for XFree?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >I noticed that in the rex/source archive there is currently only the >complete XFree-3.1.2 source tree. Are there any means to get ahold of >just the Debian specific diffs for it, even if they are quite a lot? >We need to get X11 for m68k debianized, but

Bug#4447: manfnt.mf missing in mfbasfnt-1.05u

> > Package: mfbasfnt > > Version: 1.0-5 > > I uploaded 1.0-6 a while ago and it should be fixed it that one. Sorry I noticed that it was rejected because of a bad checksum. Currently uploading 1.0-7. Erick

Re: Do we ever retire packages?

> >Remove them. > > Move them to project/obsolete or some such. Better would be to restructure the archive somehow and name things correctly. I 'm still think something like this would be better: stable/ /admin /base /comm ... stable-extra/ /contr

Bug#4447: manfnt.mf missing in mfbasfnt-1.05

> Package: mfbasfnt > Version: 1.0-5 I uploaded 1.0-6 a while ago and it should be fixed it that one.

Unanswered problem reports by date

The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or or `forwarded' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 17 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 660 gdbGDB gets addr

Re: Bug#4488: Useless LF in sendfax

Ok. The next release will have that fixed. On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Martin Schulze wrote: joey>The same happens to messages sent by faxq: joey> joey>Transcript: joey>--- joey>Subject: your fax to 9808557 joey>From: root (Fax Subsystem),\n joey> joey>Your fax has been sent successfully at: \c joey>Fri

Uploaded dupload 1.6 (source all) to chiark

Hm, that's a special announcement file, due to Yves ;-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 01:06:39 +0200 Source: dupload Binary: dupload Architecture: source all Version: 1.6 Distribution: experimental Urgency: medium Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PR

Uploaded dupload 1.4 (source all) to chiark

Hm, that's a special announcement file, due to Yves ;-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:35:00 +0200 Source: dupload Binary: dupload Architecture: source all Version: 1.4 Distribution: experimental Urgency: high Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROT

Uploaded dupload 1.5 (source all) to chiark

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:35:00 +0200 Source: dupload Binary: dupload Architecture: source all Version: 1.5 Distribution: experimental Urgency: high Maintainer: Heiko Schlittermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: dupload- Utility to upload debi

Bug#4491: msqld puts .tmp in wrong place

Package: msqld Version: 1.0.16-3 The msqld package installs the following directory: /var/lib/msql/.tmp In fact this directory should live instead under: /var/lib/msql/msqldb/.tmp The improper location prevents the server from completing some kinds of queries, notably table joins. --

Bug#4490: Request for Entry: application/octet-stream exe

> Downloads of .exe (DOS *sigh*) files doesn't work correctly > without it. What does it do otherwise? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )