Hi,
I am (in theory) still maintaining the following packages:
fvwm
fvwm2
fvwm-common
xloadimage
xcal
In practice, I haven't uploaded new versions of these for many months.
Both xcal and xloadimage have few outstanding bugs. fvwm2 has many
outstanding bugs, some of which are in reality either
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
> Hi Austin,
>
> > Incidentally, simply rebuilding the acct package against the new
> > header files is a little tricky, since the ./configure script uses
> > sys/acct.h in preference to linux/acct.h
>
> Did you manage to build a acct package for 2.1.9
The latest development linux kernels have a fairly substantially
changed "struct acct" defined in acct.h.
Currently:
libc5:
sys/acct.h just includes linux/acct.h (2.0.32 version)
libc6:
sys/acct.h is a new file, but it defines a structure which
happens to be the same as linux/acct.h (2.0.3
utdown. It includes a
confirmation stage, and calls "shutdown" itself (sorting out a console
for it's output while it's at it).
It should be check it works with ELF, latest X libraries, the current
sysvinit, but I don't anticipate any probplems.
Austin
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Package: mount
Version: 2.5j-1.1
In many traditional unices, swapon can take a "-s" option. This means
list the partition (or files) currently in use. Linux's swapon doesn't
have this option, but it would be nice if it did.
I don't think this information is made available outside the kernel;
per
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Larry Gilbert wrote:
> Package: fvwm
> Version: 1.24r-24
>
> Documentation for the fvwm modules appears to be missing from this
> package.
Yes, that's because although the manpages have changed a little
between the two versions of fvwm, they still have the same names.
This me
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emilio Lopes) writes:
>
> > 2- The logo itself is a gif file. Is it non-free? I can convert it to
> >a jpeg file if needed.
>
> Don't know about the other stuff, but for this I'd recommend png, not
> jpeg. As I understand it gif'
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Austin Donnelly writes ("Bug#1978: man: default pager should be less"):
>> On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:
>> > less(1) isn't necessarily installed. more(1) is.
>>
>> Good point.
>
>Somet
I send off a bug report against emacs to the emacs maintainers, and
got a patch back.
Here's my report, and the patch, delimited by =-=-=-=-= lines
Austin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Donnelly)
Newsg
Package: procps
Version: 0.97-4
valour$ w
5:07pm up 15 days, 20:31, 7 users, load average: 0.16, 0.11, 0.09, 3/76
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
and1000 ttyp0 4:15pm49 24 -bash (bash)
and1
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 15:40:09 +1000 (EST), Herbert Xu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Package: bsdutils
>Version: 1.3-1
>
>It is trivial to make /bin/kill segfault:
>$ /bin/kill -l
>INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT UNUSED FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM STKFLT
>CHLD
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>
>Package: bsdutils
>Version: 1.3-1
>
>chiark:~> /bin/kill -HUP syslogd
>Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>chiark:~>
[...core dump snipped...]
There were a number of bugs in /bin/kill, most due to the poor code
quality making loops difficult to decipher.
A large number of signals were missing fro
On Wed, 4 Oct 95 15:06 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) wrote:
>Package: bsdutils? netstd?
>Version: bsdutils 1.3-1, netstd 1.17-1
>
>Are `mesg y' terminals on Debian supposed to be g+w, or go+w ?
They are g+w.
>telnetd (from netbase) and mesg (from bsdutils) seem to thing g+w
>ought to be
On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Alvar Bray wrote:
[...]
>
> I have heard several other people say they have had corrupt database
> files - how do they get corrupted? I have never managed to corrupt
> mine (but then I, as the package maintainer, wouldnt would I)
I have no idea how mine got corrupted, sorry :
Package: man
Version: 2.3.10-2
'man -k' and 'apropos' with a damaged or corrupted index.db
segfaults. This is not a very friendly error message.
I have traced the problem to the following piece of code:
whatis.c
364: /* scan for the
Package: xarchie
Version: 2.0.10-3
The file /etc/X11/xarchie/defaults #include's
/etc/X11/xarchieR6/defaultserver, which doesn't exist, so the default
server setting isn't honoured.
Austin
Package: base
Version: 0.93.6-13
This package creates some new groups: floppy, tape, games
However, it does this by having a new /etc/group file. This causes a
conflict in the configuration files, and people have to manually edit
their /etc/group file.
In my opinion, adding groups or users sho
Package: perl
Version: 5.001-6
While I wasa upgrading my perl package, I got:
Setting up perl ...
Creating Perl header files. This may take a while...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst: /usr/local/include: No such file or directory
/var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst: /usr/local/include: No such fi
Package: trn
Version: 3.6-2
Pnews with this version of trn creates dead.article world readable -
however, the article may contain sensitive information.
Similarly, dead.letter is also world readable. I haven't tracked down
_exactly_ what creates it, but it seems likely that mail or mailx
does.
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.0.0
The dpkg package provides md5sum, but doesn't give any documentation
for it.
Austin
The command:
tar -cvf backup:9Nov95.tar /home
segfaults and dumps core without even beginning to write the archive.
(I know tar is as buggy as hell, and I don't expect this one to get
fixed, but it's nice to dream!)
Austin
I know the business of manpages for GNU software is a religious issue,
but tar seems to be missing one.
A number of different linux systems have manpages for GNU tar,
although the tar package doesn't contain one as such.
Could a manpage be maintained separately ?
Austin
In the reasonably near future fvwm version 2 will be released (ie,
within the next few weeks, I am told).
fvwm 2 has a radically different ~/.fvwmrc format, such that everyone
will need to modify theirs before being able to even use fvwm2.
The fvwm2 distribution will come with a shell script tha
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>
>However, more directly to the point of moving elfward, I like Ian's
>suggestion about a elf-available(8) test during preinst of elf-dependent
>(elfish?) packages. It seems clean, simple, and effective to me.
And if
Package: xntp
Version: 3.4x-1
The 'struct timex' structure has changed in the newser 1.3.x kernels
(for x approx > 28 or so, I'm told).
This means that xntpd binaries compiled agains old kernels dumps core
on startup.
I'm told that version 3.4t has support for the latest linux, but I
haven't tr
Package: svgalib
Version: 1.25-4
The following programs are installed setuid root:
restoretextmode
restorefont
restorepalette
dumpreg
fix132x43
This allows any user to completely hose the console at will.
Can I suggest that they be made:
-rwsr-x--- 1 root console
(this req
Package: adduser
Version: 1.94-1
Three different bugs fixed here:
(1) There were a few race conditions in locking the password and
group files. A badly timed ^C could result in the lockfile
not being cleared.
(2) chown()/chmod() persistantly used in the wrong order throughout.
I've had a look at this bug: its some pretty dire code in the section
the reads your .fvwmrc.
I submit the following patch to fix the problem.
Austin
--- configure.c.old Fri Oct 20 16:48:44 1995
+++ configure.c Fri Oct 20 21:36:12 1995
@@ -1979,12 +1979,10 @@
/* Generate a temporary fi
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