On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote:
>
> > Just like debian has an official standard shell - bash, does debian have an
> > official scripting language ?
>
> Even if bash is essential, the "standard" shell is sh, not bash.
> [ If you look a
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> > Here's what imdb.com says:
> >
> >Cast overview, first billed only:
imdb.com lists the following named characters on the full cast page:
Tom Hanks Woody (voice)
Tim Allen Buzz Lightyear (voice)
Don R
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > ... but there are times when you
> > just have to make a clean break. Going between libc versions was one
> > of those times, as was going from a.out to elf. Otherwise, what are
> > major number changes for?
>
> This is simply not true. When we moved
On 3 Jun 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> b) we neeed to release more often, and on schedule
> (I like guys proposal of an updated stable pool that can be
> tested continuuls, frozen, and released fast -- since there are
> never any release critical bugs in the stable pool, the c
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> One complication I can think of - dselect and the ftp sites have the
> concept of "overrides", where Guy can change the section a package
> is assigned to. This wouldn't be reflected in the /usr/doc
> directory - of course, this might not really matter.
I
On 25 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
> By the current definition of Important:
>[...]
>sendmail
> * dpkg-dev should not be there since no experienced user of another
>Unix would expect it
> * lilo should not be there because lilo is not part of UNIX
I read it differently:
``Importan
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Is there soemthing like a real rescue disk? Or are we talking about the
> installation disks?
I was referring to "resq" installation boot disk.
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On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, David Frey wrote:
[...]
> > ``Important programs, including those which one would expect to find
> > on any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an experienced
> > Unix person who found it missing would go `What the F*!@<+ is going
> > on, where is foo', it should be
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Jon Rabone wrote:
> > >Or if anyone interested, make up a special ROM with kernel etc in it, so
> > >the machine will boot from ROM... Has anyone done this?
>
> > You'd need about 512 kB of ROM. Where are you going to put it? Ethercar
Just picking a nit.
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Brian C. White wrote:
> [...](cu stands for "callout", and is taken from SunOS).
> [...] -- Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Unless I'm mistaken (which has happened on occasion),
cu stands for "call unix" a
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote:
[...]
> I think we need to write two libraries:
>
> 1) libnfslock(or whatever)
>
> 2) libmailaccess (or whatever)
>
> libmailaccess should be something like PAM for mail delivery, providing
> access
> to a user's mailbox by use of e
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beav-140gone to Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>If no one else wants it, I think I have room on my plate for ae. Is the
>bug still outstanding?
You're the first one to speak up, so I guess it's yours.
I've cleared the multi-arch compatability bug in ae, and made
similar changes to clear the same prob
Agh!! Sorry.
4.3.9 gone to Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ee-126.1.89 gone to Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
elvis-2.0 gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# need elf X11
xasteroids-5.0 gone to Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# not elf-ized yet
kermit-190 gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
#3443: mechanism for dealing with orphan packages
+ [...snipped...]
Pine saved the following header from the outgoing message:
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From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, regarding Bug#3360, David Engel wrote:
>Yambo writes:
>> Package: dialog
>> Version: 0.9a-2
>
>Sigh! I'm still listed as the maintainer for this package. Would
>someone take it over, please? I don't want it and didn't even make
>
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Peter Tobias wrote:
>IMHO we should change our comm packages for Debian 1.2 to use
>/dev/ttyS* instead of /dev/cua*:
I'm hardly expert in standard practices in this area, but I'm
under the impression that the cua* devices are for dial-out.
This may not be definitive, but I
Date: 07 Jan 96 18:07 UT
Source: cfengine
Binary: cfengine
Version: 1.2.14-3
Description:
cfengine: A tool for configuring and maintaining operating systems
Priority: Low
Changes:
* rebuilt for elf
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 237483 Jan 7 10:07 cfengine-1.2.14-3.tar.gz
Package: xserver-svga
Version: 3.1.2
Revision: 2
(and, I'd guess, other xserver packages as well)
The package won't install on a 0.93r6 system without a previous
X11 installation. It presumes the existence of nonexistent
things, and fails in postinst when they're not found.
Script started on S
Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I think the absence of a revision number is a good indicator of Debian
> specific packages anyway.
But is that what it indicates? Might it not also indicate that the
package developer uses debian linux as his base, and he just chose
not to assign a
> > > The way I see this working, architecture-specific maintainers with
> > > the ability to address architecture-specific bug reports and do
> > > architecture-specific testing would feed architecture-specific
> > > fixes and patches to the primary package maintainer. Primary
> > > package maint
> > How about
> > <= => for less/greater than or equal to
> Ok
> > << >> for strictly less/greater thani
> Ok
> > < > for less/greater than or equal to (backwards compatibility,
> > generates warning from dpkg-deb)
> Ok but an fatal error from dpkg-deb would be better than just a warn
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> There are a couple of things I want to set people straight on, in this
> area:
>
> * dpkg and other packages written especially for Debian don't have a
> revision number because a revision number would be meaningless and
> confusing. The most recent guidel
h more than terminfo, it
looks to me as if /usr/lib/terminfo/linux should be changed
from kbs=^H to kbs=^?.
Or am I missing something which should be obvious to me?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Date: 03 Jan 96 02:24 UT
Source: ae
Binary: ae
Version: 493-10
Description:
ae: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* fixed some keymapping problems in ae.rc
* disabled #ifdef BADCURSES block in header.h
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1
This corrects an error in the recently uploaded -15a package.
Please install it in the 0.93r6 tree.
Date: 02 Jan 96 05:19 UT
Source: mtools
Binary: mtools
Version: 2.0.7-15b
Description:
mtools: Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
Priority: Low
Changes:
a.out package
* removed d
This upload includes both elf and a.out packages.
Please place the a.out package in the 0.93r6 distribution.
Date: 01 Jan 96 05:42 UT
Source: mtools
Binary: mtools
Version: 2.0.7-15
Description:
mtools: Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package: mtools-2.0.
Date: 01 Jan 96 05:17 UT
Source: ee
Binary: ee
Version: 1.72-7
Description:
ee: An "easy editor" for novices and compuphobics
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* removed spurious dependency on ncurses-runtime
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root63866 Dec 31 21:16 ee-1.7
Date: 01 Jan 96 04:28 UT
Source: less
Binary: less
Version: 290-8
Description:
less: A file pager program, similar to more(1)
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt using ncurses shared lib
* changed ncurses-runtime dependency to ncurses3.0
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 r
total 15184
lrwxrwxrwt 1 1 debian 34 Jan 2 00:46 D ->
/debian.org/ftp/debian/development
drw-rw-r-- 2 1 debian 512 Jan 1 21:00 HOLD
drwxr-xr-x 2 1 debian 1024 Jan 1 21:00 NOT-ANNOUNCED
drwxr-xr-x 2 1 debian 1024 Jan 1 21:00 NOT-COMPLETE
-rw-r--r-- 1
Date: 01 Jan 96 04:01 UT
Source: beav
Binary: beav
Version: 140-6
Description:
beav: Binary Editor And Viewer (beav)
Priority: Low
Changes:
* rebuilt using ncurses shared lib
* changed ncurses-runtime dependency to ncurses3.0
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131150 Dec
Date: 01 Jan 96 03:41 UT
Source: ae
Binary: ae
Version: 493-9
Description:
ae: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt using ncurses shared lib
* changed ncurses-runtime dependency to ncurses3.0
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ro
On Sun, 31 Dec 1995, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
>[...]
> I'll note that while the man page suggests a #CHK_FAT=FALSE option,
> the strings appear nowhere in the executables, leading me to suspect
> that it isn't actually recognized.
>
> Release information: debian 0.93r6
Thanks for reporting this.
PACKAGE: ncurses-bin
VERSION: 1.9.8a-3
On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> I moved the tput package out of the distribution and into
> /debian/private/project/obsolete a few weeks ago. Is there any reason we
> should save it? I didn't delete it because I wasn't sure. I assume that
> ncu
On Sat, 23 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> I've created binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories under the
> development tree. They're both empty at the moment, of course, but
> they're ready for use whenever the development teams have something
> to put there.
>
> (BTW, I plan to rename binary
On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> Actually, it should be in the distribution. Where should I put it?
The control file says Section: misc. That seemed to me to be the
most appropriate place.
On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Fixed in less-290-7, just uploaded to pixar.
>
> Don't you mean ftp.debian.org?
I think I uploaded it to pixar. There were several notices a
week or two back that uploads to f
> ls xlib*
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1 debian 721328 Dec 17 13:09 xlib-3.1.2-3.deb
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> quit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
John Larkin said:
> I've just created a brand-new 0.93R6 system. Installing
xlib and xbase > worked flawlessly.
That's a suprise, considering the problems I'm seeing. The system
I attempted the installation to wasn't quite virgin. I did a new
0.93R6 installation to it about a week ago, and hav
moved to"
echo "/usr/bin/X11.old"
mv /usr/bin/X11 /usr/bin/X11.old
fi
! if [ -e /usr/lib/X11 -a ! -L /usr/lib/X11 ]
then
echo "Warning: /usr/lib/X11 was not a symlink. It has been moved to"
echo "/usr/lib/X11.old"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> I we can either rename existing packages, or use the double-dash. I don't
> care which. ...
The most reasonable approach seems to me (of course) to be the one
which I've been arguing -- a naming standard very close to current
practice, minimizing packa
"brian (b.c.) white" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> If the extension can contain dashes, once again it could cause parsing
> problems. Eliminating dashes (or dots, for that matter) here would
> again make it fit into a regular expression.
Yup. Thanks for pointing that out. EXT should disallow das
Fernando Alegre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [...] the whole sunsite and tsx archives, which
> store packages with an almost standard format. Even though they are not
> Debian packages right now, some (many?) could be in the future. And the
> debianized name should be as close to the upstream
On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Simon Shapiro wrote:
> 2. I'd like to throw away the 387 emulation for the compiled kernel.
> Anyone knows why I should keep it there? I do not believe it to be
> necessary for the installation, but i have been wrong before.
I'm typing this on a machine with a bare 386 an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) said:
> From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Personally, I also think we'll be better off if we bite the bullet and
> > try to maintain as much backwards compatability as we can with current
> > package naming usage than if w
Bruce said, regarding Packages file info:
> I think a field with the size _and_ MD5 checksum on the same line would
> be helpful. We don't collect this information anywhere else, to my knowledge.
The sum(1) checksum might also be useful. I know that sum(1) has been
characterized here as "totally
"brian (b.c.) white" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I looked into this more closely and it seems that most of the packages
> that once had dashes in the version stings are now gone. If neither
> the version nor revision strings can have dashes, then counting "-"'s
> will break up the filename withou
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> RTFM bash(1).
Thanks for the pointer, Ian. I'm sure that you thought that
it would be very helpful
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: New ftp method for dselect"):
> > dchanges(1) seems to parse distribution filenames OK, though the
> > parsing code is pretty ugly. If it's broken, please let me know.
>
> "
15:19 1995
/proc/kcore is 16MB on my system. However, this doesn't seem to be
due to file size (I tried "cat /usr/bin/* | od | grep trash" and didn't
provoke a segfault).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
old debian package, version 0.939000.
root:work# exit
Script done on Mon Dec 18 21:20:45 1995
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> less-290-5 has been patched for the /proc filesystem, except that when
> you less a proc file, less eats the first character of the report.
Fixed in less-290-7, just uploaded to pixar.
t, on my slow 6.65 BogoMips
system, the screen flashes annoyingly when I hit the ESC key using
the -21 version.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:39 UT
Source: git
Binary: git
Version: 4.3.7-5
Description:
git: GNU Interactive Tools
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt for elf
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298577 Dec 18 19:39 git-4.3.7-5
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:17 UT
Source: beav
Binary: beav
Version: 140-5
Description:
beav: Binary Editor And Viewer (beav)
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt for elf
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 131135 Dec 18 19:17
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:26 UT
Source: less
Binary: less
Version: 290-7
Description:
less: A file pager program, similar to more(1)
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* added bugfix in #ifdef LINUX code in ch.c
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 04:02 UT
Source: elvis
Binary: elv-ctags elv-fmt elv-vi
Version: 1.8pl4-21
Description:
elv-ctags: generate "tags" and (optionally) "refs" files
elv-fmt: Adjust line-length for paragraphs of text
elv-vi: elvis, ex, vi, view, input -
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:12 UT
Source: ae
Binary: ae
Version: 493-8
Description:
ae: Anthony's Editor -- a tiny full-screen editor
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* use elf ncurses libs instead of aout curses libs
* change /etc/
Uploaded to pixar, announced to debian.devel
Date: 19 Dec 95 03:40 UT
Source: ee
Binary: ee
Version: 1.72-6
Description:
ee: An "easy editor" for novices and compuphobics
Priority: Low
Changes:
elf package
* rebuilt for elf
Files:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root63763 Dec
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Distribution file names don't parse at the moment because you can't
> disambiguate the package name from the version number. I had suggested
> that we standardize package names so that FTP scripts would work better
> and would not have to carry around a
> I haven't figured out how to create a .changes file yet (any pointers
> would be appreciated) but it should look something like this:
You need the dchanges package. Ian Murdock has been holding off
moving it into the distribution. The last time I looked, it
was in ftp.debian.org:/debian/proje
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Stephen Early wrote:
> xsnow (1.40-0); priority=LOW
I thought about packaging this, but interpreted the copyright as
requiring that it be placed in non-free, so I didn't. Just raising
a concern.
On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Karl Ferguson wrote:
> > ... relocating the development release ...]
>
> Ian, if you do decide to do number 2, could you please give us a little
> notice by posting to devel beforehand? I just dont want to have to
> delete and re-mirror the 1.0 stuff (as well as the other m
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> > The mount package contains a "configuration" file /etc/fstab.sample.
> > Would it not be better to include this file in /usr/doc/examples, or
> > does something actually depend on it being in /etc?
>
> As far as I know, nothing depends on it being in /
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> Well, we appear to have two options. We can (1) leave the development
> release in an unreadable directory, as it is at present; or (2) move the
> development release back into a readable directory, making it clear that
> it's still under development.
A
I rendered by system nonfunctional today. It wasn't entirely
unexpected, but it was disappointing.
I downloaded a snapshot of the development tree packages, and
ran dselect [I]nstall on them. (Ian J. -- FYI, this was with
dpkg-1.0.5, subsequent to the problems I've emailed you about).
The resul
would then be easy to detect, and compliant
packages which had problems should fail during testing. If this
raised file-location issues, they could then be dealt with my
debian-devel discussion before the packages were uploaded to be
placed in the distribution.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sat, 16 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Packages which are not essential in and of themselves, but are
> essential merely because they (for example) provide shared libraries
> for others should probably not be marked essential.
>
> The dependency scheme will prevent their premature removal, if
b54a6c19ee3bc8223e5939a954425b0e diff-2.7-8.diff.gz
8d04697816249e72ff0985c0ae23c37c diff-2.7-8.deb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) siad:
> If their copyright is acceptable, why not put them in the package? FSF
> (really Richard Stallman) is attempting to discourage the use of man
> pages and replace them with info pages. Info pages have the disadvantage
> of requiring a navigation mechanism to
"James A. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > The postinst backgrounds itself. How can you tell if it succeeds or
> > fails ?
> [... (30 to 45 minutes on an old 486 w/ 8 megs RAM) ...]
> Perhaps I should have postinst ask whether or not the .el file should
> be generated? And have a script t
ff 2,7, and lack of manpages
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 18:51:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm thinking about making up a set of manpages, working from
the info files. If I did that, and sent them to you, would
you be wil
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Owen S. Dunn wrote:
> Package: diff
> Version: 2.7
> Revision: 5
>
> This package provides no man pages for any of diff, diff3, sdiff, or
> cmp.
Too true. It comes with info pages, which are not at all the same thing.
I think the current custom is to leave bug reports abou
piled-in terminal definitions?
(I note that there ara variations on these names in /usr/lib/terminfo/)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
IMO, the backspace key should be recognized as kbs, and the DEL key
as kdch1.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
xterm-boldxterms
x1700-lm xenix xerox820 xterm-color
x1720 xerox xl83 xterm-nic
Suggest inclusion of terminal defs matching the compiled-in
fallbacks into /usr/lib/terminfo.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> That's essentially identical to what I was proposing with just two
> practical differences: (1) it uses numbers rather than names and (2)
> it goes to more effort to hide things.
May be. I'm afraid I too-hurriedly deleted the message with your
s
Is it OK to upload to debian-devel now? I uploaded an e2 package
update last night. Do I need to redo it? Can I start uploading
package updates to use elf ncurses?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
/sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R5/lib (No such file or directory),
skipping
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Matthew Bailey wrote:
> If you want an OUTGOING then someone will have to create one by manually
> moving the files from Incoming over to OUTGOING.
Sounds reasonable to me. Files get uploaded to Incoming, and then
either moved directly or (my preference) moved into a downl
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote:
> 'Ian Murdock wrote:'
> >
> >How about installing the kernel headers directly in /usr/include,
> >rather than linking them into /usr/src? I always assumed this was
> >standard kernel practice. Apparently, I was wrong. Are there any
> >opinions on the
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> >On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> >>We can't put stuff like this where just anybody can download it any
> >>longer. Especially, we can't do that and call it "1.0". This isn't
> >>entirely Infomagic's fault, in my opinion.
> >[...]
> As I
547216d2fd166df9527 e2-2.0.beta-3.tar.gz
e6cab0f6877290e640bdf221f221f0e8 e2-2.0.beta-3.diff.gz
8bd3325f8de28a4be13bf4404f1c7d8a e2-2.0.beta-3.deb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, roro wrote:
> And how to elegantly get rid of the huge /usr/lib/terminfo database
> w/o installing and purging?
Good point. This sounds like a serious user-upgrade issue. This looks
like a dpkg-guru question.
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> I think ncurses wins an award for "most packages from one source archive."
I'm not sure about that. I've had several instances of multiple
rapid-fire uploads due to upload glitches and due to my own
boneheaded errors 8^(.
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > I think we should deprecate 1.0 and bump the version number to 1.1, so
> > that authentic copies of the release are not confused with the one on
> > the Infomagic CD.
>
> This is a good idea.
It seems like
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > From: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > 6a. No unnecessary up/down-loading by maintainers.
> >
> > Is this such a big issue? With your overseas FTP problems you can judge
> > that, but I'd feel more conf
ments made from the distribution
site when the packages are moved into public view.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
Since Infomagic has pressed the CDs, I wonder if it'd be possible
to get them to include an insert with distributed CDs explaining
the situation. Otherwise CD buyers are going to be put off debian
when they try it from the CD.
Just a thought.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)
> > > If the ncurses guys are going to keep blowing off binary compatibility,
> > > then perhaps we should not mess with ncurses at all.
> > I suspect, especially now that we've got the package load spread around
> > more, that Debian will be able to keep up.
> I'm just concerned that this is a l
On 7 Dec 1995, Mark Nudelman wrote:
> Bill,
> Thanks for sending the info on the two fixes you made in less-290.
>
> I don't quite understand the purpose of the first one. You said:
> >In screen.c, it's presumed that dumb terminals have termcap
> >capabilities. This isn't necessarily true. I a
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > That all sounds reasonable. I take it that the terminfo manipulation
> > programs and the manpages are small enough that having them installed
> > on every system is not a problem (ncurses-runtime will b
> >Does anyone disagree with Brian White ? If not I'll change the
> >guidelines back to recommending -O2.
>
> Brian's right. Stick with -O2.
But some verbage in the guidelines about -O3 and tradeoffs with -O2
would probably be a good idea.
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: dpkg-nondebbin and improper system installation"):
> > Perhaps dpkg-nondebin should check if it's running on a debian
> > system and, if it is, either refuse to proceed or issue a strong
> &
On Wed, 6 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> A number of people have attempted or succeeded in using dpkg-nondebbin
> or a dpkg compiled on their local systems to install Debian without
> using the bootstrap floppies. As far as I am aware, this will yield a
> system that is broken in various ways (n
On Thu, 30 Nov 1995, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Note that "ls" lists the length of /proc/filesystems
> as "0", but read() will get more than 0 data. Less doesn't know that
> /proc files are special in this way, and treats them as a 0-length file.
>
> You could argue that this is a bug in the semantics
+ Problem:
+ The color selection from /usr/lib/git/term/.gitrc.common works well on the
+ console, but not so in a rxvt---object files appear blue on blue and are
+ invisible because the tones of blue are actually the same in an rxvt. I
+ copied that colour section from that .gitrc.common. into my
I'm closing this bug.
The problem was lack of termcap support for keypresses. The current ae
package implements termcap support for keypresses, and is capable
of terminfo support. I'll release ae compiled for terminfo support when
a shared ncurses library is released.
Note: both /etc/termcap a
port it as documented or by having it excised from the
program and the documentation until it's supported.
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