I think /usr/bin/update-menus may be broken.
Several packages give me an error when they try to install. Fvwmconf was
successfully added to the menus when I packaged it last month . Now
installing it gives error messages and update-menus fails. Has anyone
else seen this ?
home
David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Personally I'd prefer to have additional packages
> dictd-web1913, dictd-foldoc, dictd-... (depending on dictd),
That's exactly what I had in mind. Sorry if my message left the
wrong impression. I envisage four source packages and seven or eight
bin
On 11-Apr-98, 18:35 (CDT), Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [Re: fclose() manpage]
> > Nope, you're reading that backwards. It says that if fclose() returns EOF_
> > _and _errno_ = _EBADF_, then that means that the stream is not
> > open.
>
> You people are being unbelievably pedan
Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > Is it really so difficult to handle this situation though? Using
> > Steve's test program on Solaris does as expected:
>
> Yes, it would be quite difficult to do efficently. There's no good way to
> tell
Hi.
> Wanted:
> Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
> and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
>
> This would be great to have for 2.0, but that's probably not realistic, so
> it would probably go in 2.1.
I just go to this url an
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:20:59PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> Can you outline a simple little test I can perform to determine whether or
> not this has been fixed? I'm working on the pre3 release of libc6 this
> weekend, so it would be a useful test to have in hand.
>
Ok, sorry for not having s
Wanted:
Someone to follow the lead set at http://tr.ml.org/~tom/software/xdm/
and create a Debian XDM login screen featuring Mr. Blue-Eye or something.
This would be great to have for 2.0, but that's probably not realistic, so
it would probably go in 2.1.
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Andrew M.A.Cater [Andy wrote:
>
> Thanks to all those that pointed me to Incoming. Having looked on
> llug.sep.bnl.gov and also ftp.de.debian.org - all I can find are some
> .in.base* files, all of which are 0 bytes long. Does this mean that
> Guy / someone else has already
Thanks to all those that pointed me to Incoming. Having looked on
llug.sep.bnl.gov and also ftp.de.debian.org - all I can find are some
.in.base* files, all of which are 0 bytes long. Does this mean that
Guy / someone else has already moved these to hamm/hamm/disks-i386 and
that the mirrors will
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 10:43:49PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> I wonder if we should give it a try.
>
> Regards,
>
> Joey
I hope all people will eat the mozilla source now. It should be possible to
cut it down for smaller projects.
I feel that if mozilla would be incorporated in Gnome,
Avery Pennarun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Personally, as a programmer myself, I much prefer to work on a system that
> gives up consistently when I do something wrong. That's what segmentation
> faults are all about. It would be _easy_ to tell the k
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > The point here is that it's _documented_ to return EBADF if the stream
> > pointer is not an open stream, and that's not what happens. This is
> > difficult to enforce in practice, and is not necessary for ISO compliance --
> > so let's fix the man p
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I am currently working on the 2.0 'Hamm' Press Release. The press release
will be posted and discussed on debian-publicity before being released.
Please post follow ups to debian-publicity.
I would like input from the developers on the following issues:
-
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:40:07PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
>
> David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's no simple way to
> >announce what the significance of a changed conffile at administrator
> >decision time.
Not to be picky, an
[Moving to debian-policy per Joey's request, please continue
there]
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
joey> > They are not. I pointed this out on debian-policy a while ago,
joey> > but nobody seemed to care. :-(
joey>
joey> Ok, now at least one care about it. Please bring it up on -pol
The URL for Nessus is:
http://www.mygale.org/~nessus/
It should move soon to:
http://kimi.net/nessus/
but I tried that location and got a connection refused. I'll drop the
author a line... I've been in contact with him about packaging already.
Nils.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean Pierr
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Nils Lohner wrote:
> I am looking to package Nessus, a "...free, open-sourced and easy-to-use
> security auditing tool."
Do you have a URL to any documentation on Nessus?
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I am looking to package Nessus, a "...free, open-sourced and easy-to-use
security auditing tool."
If anyone has done any work on this, please let me know, otherwise I will
start working on it this week. It is intended to go into the 2.1 release.
Nils.
-
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 05:36:32PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> > Apart from that, I thought that gcc and tools are intelligent
> > enough to only link routines and libraries to executables if
> > there are routines from them used.
>
> They ar
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 10:23:45PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> I would like to package these eight dictionaries to accompany
> dictd, but if there is a policy against such large text packages, I
> could make installer packages to format and install the tarballs that
> are available for anonym
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding
this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developer(s) and
to the developers' mailing list to accompany the original report.
Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s):
Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
James R. Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>diff /etc/foo.conf /etc/foo.conf.dpkg-dist | head -18
I originally asked that there be a D option which would do
diff -u $x $x.dpkg-dist | ${PAGER:-more}
and was told that that was what the Z option was for.
Unfortunately, I don't think human
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:22:55AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
> Another weekend, another set of boot floppies ready to be tested.
> And this one fixes some nasty bugs, like the "Can't resolve the NFS
> server name" bug, or the "Install program restarts after installing base"
> bug. I haven't had
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's no simple way to
>announce what the significance of a changed conffile at administrator
>decision time.
I was thinking the other day that when dpkg discovers a conffile has
been changed, it should displa
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> reassign 20587 general
Bug#20587: libstdc++2.8-dev: std.h not found
Bug reassigned from package `libstdc++2.8-dev' to `general'.
> retitle 20587 There's no current libg++ package
Bug#20587: libstdc++2.8-dev: std.h not found
Changed bug title.
> thanks
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 02:33:04AM -, Russell Coker wrote:
> Package: man-db
> Version: 2.3.10-64
>
> When "mandb --create" is run from /etc/cron.weekly/man-db it dies with segv.
>
> libc6 Version: 2.0.7pre1-4
Thank you for the report.
This has already been reported as #20426, which I reas
> I just deleted a message announcing updated bootdisks from ?? Enrique
> Zanardi ?? Can anyone post me the date/location for these ??
ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/
Alex Y.
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On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:10:21PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From a logical point of view, I think project/experimental is the best
> > choice. Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official
> > CD (I think of gettext (ouch, do
> > I think we should backout egcs and libstdc++2.8 from hamm and go back to
> > the old g++. For one, altg++ doesn't even work with it.
>
> I strongly disagree. g++2.8/egcs + libstdc++2.8 is the first version of the
> GNU C++ development environment that comes close to supporting ANSI C++;
> pre
> >> I append my personal prompt setting scheme, in hopes this inspires
> >> someone else (any improvements greatly appreciated)
> Nicolás> Uhh..! You must have lots of free time!
>
> Not really. The first modified date on these is March 23
> 1988. Over a decade, you can get to have fairly
On Sun, Apr 12, 1998 at 06:12:34PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> I think we should backout egcs and libstdc++2.8 from hamm and go back to
> the old g++. For one, altg++ doesn't even work with it.
I strongly disagree. g++2.8/egcs + libstdc++2.8 is the first version of the
GNU C++ development environm
Hi all,
I'm desesperate !! :(((
I'm trying to install my PCBIT ISDN on Linux without many success !
Could someone help me ?
I already tried the apropriate mailing lists but without answer! :(((
Maybe it could be dificult to you cause my ISDN card is made in
Port
I just deleted a message announcing updated bootdisks from ?? Enrique
Zanardi ?? Can anyone post me the date/location for these ??
Andy
[meaning to install Debian from scratch to delete Caldera Lite !]
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I'm taking the x3270 package over from Dirk Eddelbuettel. The only
big thing left to fix is the copyrights on it, which mean it have to
in non-free. I'm including the copyrights below, with my take on
them, and I'd appreciate if anyone could comment on them. These are
from the "Lineage.gz" file
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No, that won't work if the NFS mounts live below the local mounts in
> the file-system tree. The local mounts will report busy.
Blat. You're right.
>
> John> * When I shutdown my desktop, it will hang trying to
> John> umount.
>
> I sugge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Goerzen) wrote on 10.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Therefore, I believe it would be prudent, as a temporary workaround
> > for the kernel bug, to umount all local drives before umounting
> > network drives. It is general
> On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote:
>> Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or
>> assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from
>> the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.)
You certainly can do that, check
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> severity 20033 grave
> stop
> I just received another bug report (#20978) on Octave not being able to
> run. I had already reassigned the first such report (#20033) to libstdc++2.8
> which does *not* introduce versioned dependencies on its libs even tho
I like the idea of having all the material available in a form
that is as convenient as possible (ie alread .deb) .
But this is similar to the problem of packaging large scientific
packages which are interesting to only a limited number of people.
(similar, but different reasons fo
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 02:27:14PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> The point here is that it's _documented_ to return EBADF if the stream
> pointer is not an open stream, and that's not what happens. This is
> difficult to enforce in practice, and is not necessary for ISO compliance --
> so let's f
I have just packaged dictd, containing client/server software for
accessing dictionaries. To do anything useful, the server must have
dictionaries and indices in a suitable format.
There are eight dictionaries available from the same site that
provides the source for the client/server
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Can't you put a global vmrc in /etc?
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That's the one I'm talking about - it is a conf file, and may well
> have been changed by the admin.
The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's n
On Sat, Apr 11, 1998 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2. Ask the user if it is ok to fool with vimrc ,and script the
> > necessary changes. This strikes me as being ugly and something that
> > we might be stuck with for a long time, in the name
Another weekend, another set of boot floppies ready to be tested.
And this one fixes some nasty bugs, like the "Can't resolve the NFS
server name" bug, or the "Install program restarts after installing base"
bug. I haven't had time to include pkgsel, but will try to do it in a few
days. And now, gi
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote:
> I was thinking "project/experimental" would be better, but I don't think
> that goes out on many CDs.
>
It would if that directory were inside the main distribution tree, and it
would be obvious what it contained. I think it would be a good solution.
Wai
David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2. Ask the user if it is ok to fool with vimrc ,and script the
> necessary changes. This strikes me as being ugly and something that
> we might be stuck with for a long time, in the name of backwards
> compatibility.
Can't you put a global vmrc in /etc?
Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From a logical point of view, I think project/experimental is the best
> choice. Why don't we include selected directories from there on the official
> CD (I think of gettext (ouch, don't beat me), 2.1.x software, ...)?
Project/experimental is not part
Notwithstanding my dislike for things vi;-), vim is a nice program
used by a lot of people, so I though I'd try and fix some of the more
serious bugs.
The worst of these is the problem with loading the help file. At some
point the name seems to have changed from vim_help.txt to help.txt.
However,
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, another point I am worried about. Included in the tarballs are hooks
> into an automated software update mechanism. I have that disabled, as that
> would not fit well with the debian way of maintaining things. Anyone else
> have ideas on this?
On a
I have bugs on "my" page[1] that have been marked as done more than 28
days ago but: "(Closed bugs are cleaned out 28 days after the last related
message is received.)" I don't mind them being there but it's eating space
I guess (count yourself: 20kB bugs * 10kB avg/bug = 200 MB, possibly more)
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote:
> I just uploaded new versions of the netscape3 and netscape4 installers.
> They fix all the known bugs. Note that these installers work quite
> differently from each other, though that is mostly in the {pre,post}{inst,rm}
> scripts. They do have some iden
> > > I intend to package the new communicator that allow free redistribution.
> > > It
> > > will go into non-free(no source), but at least the users won't have to
> > > download the tarball themselves.
> >
> > That would be great! I posted a couple weeks ago asking for someone to
> > help with
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