Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Have you ever tried > > dpkg-buildpackage -r'su root -c' > > ?? (Ok, Michael hasn't read the manual (like me) and tried it. The > manual says, the root command must not contains any white space ... > Nope, I haven't. (I su to root befo

Bug#4574: gs -g flag does not work

1996-09-24 Thread Brian Mays
Package: gs Version: 4.01-4 The `-g' flag, which is described below, does not produce the intended effect. >From the man page: > -gnumber1xnumber2 > Equivalent to -dDEVICEWIDTH=number1 and -dDEVICE- > HEIGHT=number2. This is for the benefit of devices >

More packages up for adoption

1996-09-24 Thread David Engel
I hate to add to the growing number of orphaned packages, but I currently barely (if even that) have time to maintain the packages I'm really interested in. As a result, I'm officially putting up for adoption the packages I took over on an interim basis much too long ago when they were originally

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Dale Scheetz wrote: : : On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : > Dale Scheetz wrote: : > : On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : > : > withecho $rootcommand "debian/rules clean" : > : > If I did no mistakes it worked for me. : > : When I installed Michael's "quote pa

Bug#4568: a2ps binary still a.out

1996-09-24 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Yves Arrouye writes: Yves> I'd like to take the a2ps package if its maintainer does not plan to Yves> maintain it anymore: I have patches to make it work with libpaper Yves> that I'd like to see in the Debian version. To best of my knowledge, a2ps and a2gs are orphaned. Casual inspection

Bug#4568: a2ps binary still a.out

1996-09-24 Thread Yves Arrouye
I'd like to take the a2ps package if its maintainer does not plan to maintain it anymore: I have patches to make it work with libpaper that I'd like to see in the Debian version. Yves.

New slang packages : jed slrn and other maintainers take note

1996-09-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
I have put my new slang packages on ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf/debian or http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf/debian. The only reason I havn't put them on master yet is the questions I just posted regarding Section and Priority fields. Everything else about the package has been as well tested as I can

Section: and Priority: in shared libs: Questions and PROPOSAL

1996-09-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
Greetings, I've prepared two binary packages from one "Source: slang" package: slang0.99.34 - A C programming library for user interfaces - shared library slang0.99.34-dev - A C programming library for user interfaces - development kit I wanted to set the following Section and Priority: Pac

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Dale Scheetz wrote: > : > : On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > : > > : > withecho $rootcommand "debian/rules clean" > : > If I did no mistakes it worked for me. > : > : When I installed Michael's "quote patch" the next tim

Bug#4573: mc xterm problems

1996-09-24 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Package: mc Version: 3.2.1-1 Since the mouse support in mc does not work with the terminfos for xterm and xterm-color from the Debian distribution nor with those for ansi_xterm, the installation script should immediately install the xterm.ti which is included. The xterm.ti does not give the corre

Bug#4572: ucb-mpeg_play is still a.out

1996-09-24 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Package: ucbmpeg Version: 1r2-2 The binary is still a.out. The sources can be recompiled without problems. Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-

Bug#4571: xview misses link

1996-09-24 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Package: xview Version: 3.2p1.2-1 The installation script does not set links from libxview.so.3.2 to libxview.so and the same for libolgx.so. The recent gcc2.7.2 however requires these links set. Otherwise programs will be linked statically on compile time. ---

Bug#4561: dpkg-genchanges puts bad Maintainer: in changes file

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Yves Arrouye wrote: : :I think the solution is in dpkg-genchanges(1): : -Dfield=value :Override or add an output control file field. This :option is understood by dpkg-source, dpkg- :gencontrol and dpkg-genchanges. : : Or -m"My

Bug#4570: xview-clients without owplaces

1996-09-24 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Package: xview-clients Version: 3.2p1.2-1 The "Save workspace" internal command of olwm requires olwplaces (which often uses xtoolwait). olwplaces and xtoolwait are not available in the package. The installation script does not add olwm to /etc/X11/window-managers. --

Bug#4569: a2gs binary still a.out

1996-09-24 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Package: a2gs Version: 1.0-4 The binary is still a.out. Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . ) Tel.: 03641/630324

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Dale Scheetz wrote: : : On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : > : > withecho $rootcommand "debian/rules clean" : > If I did no mistakes it worked for me. : : When I installed Michael's "quote patch" the next time I tried to run : dpkg-buildpackage I got was informed that debi

Bug#4568: a2ps binary still a.out

1996-09-24 Thread Volker Ossenkopf
Package: a2ps Version: 4.3-1 The binary is still a.out. No source available. Volker Ossenkopf, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Astrophysikalisches Institut und\\/// Universitaets-Sternwarte Jena ( . . )

Bug#4567: gpm upgrade from 1.06-3 to 1.10-1 is not smooth

1996-09-24 Thread Chris Fearnley
Package: gpm Version: 1.10-1 I tried installing libgpm1_1.10-1.deb and gpm_1.10-1.deb in that order. The library installed just perfectly, but when gpm's prerm tried to "/etc/init.d/gpm stop" ... it hung. The init.d script calls gpm -k which may have gotten confused by the new library?? I was able

Bug#4566: Babel does not configure

1996-09-24 Thread Christoph Lameter
Package: babel Version: 3.6-4 Installation result of babel: waterf:/home/clameter# dpkg --configure --pending Setting up babel (3.6-4) ... Building new format(s) with babel support using install-fmt-base(8) Rebuilding `latex' format ... done Rebuilding `tex' format ... kpathsea: Running MakeTeXTFM

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > : 3. Do NOT use Michael Meskes's patch to quote the argument to > : $rootcommand in dpkg-buildpackage. Instead, RTFM. Please DO NOT > : release a dpkg with Michael Meskes's patch. Thank you. > > Hmm, I've changed it. The default root command i

Re: where are guidelines?

1996-09-24 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Joost -- I think there may be 2 reasons why you can't find the package containing the guidelines: 1. "Guidelines" doesn't exist any more. It has evolved into the policy manual and the programmer manual, and 2. The P&P manuals aren't in a package (that I could find). They are uploaded sep

Bug#4434: lynx 2.6

1996-09-24 Thread Mark Purcell
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Andrew Howell wrote: > U slightly confused now :) Why did you report this as a bug? > Also this got mailed to me, and I'm the old maintainer. I was following up to Bug#4434, where Marek Michalkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported that he had packaged up lynx-2.6 and made i

Bug#4434: lynx 2.6

1996-09-24 Thread Andrew Howell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Thanks for making your version of lynx-2.6 available it certainly has some > nice > features. > > I saw in the last FAQ that the current lynx maintainer is looking for a > person to take over maintenance of the package. Are you interested? > > If not could I as

Bug#4434: lynx 2.6

1996-09-24 Thread purcell
Thanks for making your version of lynx-2.6 available it certainly has some nice features. I saw in the last FAQ that the current lynx maintainer is looking for a person to take over maintenance of the package. Are you interested? If not could I ask that you submit your update to /Incoming as an

Re: where are guidelines?

1996-09-24 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, joost witteveen wrote: > I believe in the good old days, the guidelines were in > dpgk. But I just installed dpkg-1.3-?, and they have gone. > > (So, I installed as many related packages as I could find from > a search in the Packages file, but to no avail) > > $ find /usr

Re: where are guidelines?

1996-09-24 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, joost witteveen wrote: > I believe in the good old days, the guidelines were in > dpgk. But I just installed dpkg-1.3-?, and they have gone. There is now a dpkg-dev package with the stuff needed for developers. "policy" and "programmer" manuals are available. Syrus.

Re: dpkg changes and queries - the answers to your questions

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Ian Jackson wrote: : : 1. Yes, dpkg-source doesn't work with hardlinks. I think that : hardlinks in source packages are evil. Perhaps they can be made to : work - Heiko's patch seems reasonable (until someone wants a filename : containing the string ` link to '). However, I'd recommend just hm

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

1996-09-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
David Frey wrote: : : [about xforms_0.81...] : >xforms_0.81.tar.gz : >xforms_0.81.dsc : > : >For the first 4 files it's ok. But the latter? Would somebody mind, : >if I'd remove the debian/ from xforms_0.81.tar.gz and create a : >xforms_0.81.orig.tar.gz and then the diffs for the d

Bug#4551: xautolock and xtrlock conflict on screensaver

1996-09-24 Thread Emilio Lopes
> "DH" == Dave Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DH> xautolock should check to see if the display is already locked DH> before attempting to run the locker program. No, this is what xlock should do. xautolock, despite of its name, does not know it will run a lock program. xautolock is a gene

Re: ldso breaks a.out?

1996-09-24 Thread David Engel
Mark Eichin writes: > As I sent to Dale Scheetz earlier, > > execve("/d1/eichin/bin/pgp.aout", ["/usr/bin/uustat"], [/* 17 vars */]) > = 0 > uselib("/lib/ld.so")= -1 ENOEXEC (Exec format error) > (followed by the write() of the message...) > > We concluded that it was simply

Re: ae as default editor?

1996-09-24 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 23 Sep 1996, James A. Robinson wrote: > Well, I imagine if one takes that idea further, one would say that ae > is the editor on the base disk because it is easier to use. Plus it's very small. > I think the real reason goes back to the fact that experienced users > can set their EDITOR

Re: manpages depends on man?

1996-09-24 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
David Frey wrote: > > >And also, the /var/catman hierarchy cannot be purged although it is > >used only by man, because of the indexes and the subdirectories that > >are built in it after the installation. > >How can I tell to the man package that these are safe to be removed? > > Each package s

where are guidelines?

1996-09-24 Thread joost witteveen
I believe in the good old days, the guidelines were in dpgk. But I just installed dpkg-1.3-?, and they have gone. (So, I installed as many related packages as I could find from a search in the Packages file, but to no avail) $ find /usr -name "*guideli*" find: ./doc/examples/modules/GOODIES: Per