On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:34:24PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
>"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If ee does this (I dunno, but my friend swears by it), then so be it,
>> install it, move on.
>Again, ae is *half* the size of ee, and ee doesn't even offer the
>option of vi emulation. I
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 12:46:27PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> I have to wonder if we really need a package for this, since grep suffices..
If anyone cares; this is what I use:
function domain { look -f "$1" /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab|cut -f2; }
function countrycode { grep "$1" /usr/share/zone
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 08:23:38PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
>Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Out of curiosity, which version of PGP is the debian de facto standard.
>> I'm currently using v5, but I've seen a number of people use 2.6...
>2.x; we don't accept later stuff.
Really?
I rece
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 06:15:51PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>Furthermore Sebastian Tannert (and me, but the main job has done Sebastian)
>developed a package for drawing electrical symbols using TeX. It is
>a quite interesting package. It is available at
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macr
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 08:35:47PM +0100, Chris Reed wrote:
>As listed in The Hamm Bugs Stamp-Out List for 1998-06-08, p3nfs is still
>linked against libc5, and the maintainer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Billy
>C.-M. Chow) cannot be contacted.
>
>I have looked on ftp.uni-elargen.de:/pub/psion3/local/uti
On Fri, May 08, 1998 at 08:00:12PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
...
> > There are also some other things which really not belong into /etc. For
> >example the Filsystem Hirarchy Standards says that no executable files
> >should go there, but 'filter
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m forgetting. Could this be done?
Sure. It shouldn't be too difficult, since shadow-login is already able
to set the values.
The only point is not to forget anything.
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On Fri, Apr 17, 1998 at 08:27:39PM +0200, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>The comment field is used by various system utilities,
>such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present
>in the comment field. They are
>
>pri= - set initial value of nice
>umask= - set initial value of umask
>ul
Eyes
#
# If this file exists and is readable, login environment will be
# read from it. Every line should be in the form name=value.
#
ENVIRON_FILE /etc/environment
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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
nt should be
obsolete.
Then we could offer Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Arab/... languages (with many
glyphs and larger space needs) as extra packages.
Anyway, what I wanted to say is: internationalization/localization and
applications are orthogonal issues.
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Why is 1.15 > 1.2 ? Is it necessary to fill in trailing zeroes?
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On Tue, Jan 6 1998 12:18 +0100 "Meskes, Michael" writes:
> I'm not sure about uniprint but the stcolor driver usage in magicfilter
> is outdated, i.e. it uses options no longer avalaible in gs-aladin.
Sigh. gs-alladin is in non-free, so magicfilter can't use
t together an Debianized set of autoconf
macros...
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manipulation - Minimum terminal emulations
This package contains what should be a reasonable subset of terminal
definitions, including: ansi, dumb, linux, sun, vt100, vt102, vt220,
vt52, xterm and xterm-color.
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inted out on debian-policy, a clever solution would
be to make the postinst non-interactive _in general_. If then a program
wouldn't have a postconfigure file it could be configured right away.
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On Thu, Dec 18 1997 12:16 CST Rob Browning writes:
> /* On GNU/Linux systems, both methods are used by various mail
> programs. I assume that most people are using newer mailers that
> have heard of flock. Change this if you need to. */
>
> #define MAIL_USE_FLOCK
>
> And here's th
On Sun, Dec 14 1997 1:09 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> We should be cognizant that people do troll for mailto: URLs and spam them.
This is the real problem IMO with the problem below.
> The major problem is that the WWW list
On Wed, Dec 10 1997 17:44 GMT Charles Briscoe-Smith writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Just one question to the "public": is it OK to take a floppy with his
> >public key, sign it without his phisical presence and than e-mail
> >him the signed f
On Mon, Dec 8 1997 10:58 GMT Philip Hands writes:
> <--- == DEL is standard in Linux-land at the moment (very strong argument
> for keeping it that way IMHO)
This comes from the fact, that the Linux VC is emulating a VT102.
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On Mon, Dec 8 1997 0:49 +0100 Richard Braakman writes:
> David Frey wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 6 1997 21:50 +0100 Richard Braakman writes:
> > > David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > pax-2.1-3(Not DFSG-compliant?)
> >
> > Hmm. I uploaded pax
On Sat, Dec 6 1997 21:50 +0100 Richard Braakman writes:
...
> David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> pax-2.1-3(Not DFSG-compliant?)
Hmm. I uploaded pax a few weeks ago into non-free (this was Mark H. Colburn's
version)
But anyway,
if I manage it to compile the Open-BSD
On Sun, Jun 29 1997 12:11 +0200 Christian Schwarz writes:
> Packages that contain programs with GNU info manuals, should provide
> the manuals in HTML _and_ in GNU info format. The HTML files should be
Shouldn't this read texinfo? --
> stored in the directory
> /usr/doc//ht
> But I thought most people already complain, that there are too many
> questions in the installer scripts (postinst).
>
> What do the others think about this?
We probably should ask all questions at the end once?
Let dpkg/diety do something like this:
0. The question was already answer
On Fri, Jun 27 1997 16:10 CDT John Goerzen writes:
John, I agree with the overall contents of your remarks. Just some
remarks:
> * HTML cannot do very much with formatting.
[...]
> * HTML cannot be easily printed.
[...]
> * HTML cannot be easily grepped.
[...]
I fully agree.
[...]
>
> I won't use killfiles on debian-devel, and I won't ask Christoph
> to leave, so I'm leaving debian-devel myself. Given the
> temperature of my recent input, it might be just as well, since
> I don't seem to be able to write anything but flames. If anything
> important happens, I assume
On Wed, Jun 25 1997 8:35 PDT Bill Mitchell writes:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, David Frey wrote:
> > Correlated note: It is not explicitely stated in the policy manual, but
> > IMO we should flag all utilities mentioned in the POSIX.2 standard as
> > 'Important&#x
pected a better error message like `no binary' or something
like that).
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On Fri, Jun 27 1997 11:03 +0200 joost witteveen writes:
> > > > Can someone tell me why shared libs should be installed executable?
> > > > (Actually, Christoph Lameter wants to know this, cf. #7129, but since I
> > > > don't know this either I'll
On Mon, Jun 23 1997 23:08 +0200 Martin Schulze writes:
> David Frey writes:
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 23 1997 7:25 BST Marco Budde writes:
> > > Any comments?
> > (Please add next time a translated version too, not everyone
> > reads natively germa
On Mon, Jun 23 1997 22:08 BST James Troup writes:
> David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > * Das Aendern des Dokuments ist nicht erlaubt. Das gilt sowohl
> > >fuer den Inhalt als auch fuer das Dateiformat bzw. die
> > >Gestaltung.
On Tue, Jun 24 1997 15:52 BST James Troup writes:
> John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It seems to me that dc and bc aren't vital to the workings of a
> > system (when I deselect them, dselect doesn't warn about any
> > dependencies), yet they are in Important. Why?
>
> Beca
On Mon, Jun 23 1997 7:25 BST Marco Budde writes:
> Any comments?
(Please add next time a translated version too, not everyone
reads natively german [I'd had a hard time to understand e.g.
dutch or polish])
> Copyright
> =
>
> Dieses Dokument ist Freeware im Sinne des Software-L
(I'm on debian-devel, no need to Cc:)
On Sun, Jun 22 1997 15:11 EDT "Colin R. Telmer" writes:
> Given this, using chmod to set user or group ID on execution(s) is
> useless. It will always run as the uid hardwired in.
[...]
> The previous maintainer of plan (Christoph Lameter) had a
>
> > David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >>TOPIC 4: editor/pager policy
> > > What is the benefit of /usr/bin/sensible-{editor,pager}?
> > > Why don't we just default to EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi and PAGER=/usr/bin/more
> > > if both
My comments on Christian's proposal (which is very good, thank you christian):
>TOPIC 1: policy for user and group ids (uids, gids)
Wouldn't it be better to start the user uid range with 100 as most other
Unices do?
>TOPIC 4: editor/pager policy
What is the benefit of /usr/bin/sensible-{editor,p
UUCP paths
are nowadays only one hop or two,or this deficiency should be
documented in the package (Conflicts: uucp or something like that)
[ I agree with the rest of the post about setup-friendliness, complexity and
security]
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Hi,
Yesterday I got a bug report against dump from someone running
Debian on a m68k machine. His problem was that he used the
new e2fsprogs, but the old dump binary -12 instead of -14.
Question:
How do we avoid this sort of problem? How is the compilation for
non-Maintainer
architectures handled
Hello collegues,
What is the policy for uploads into unstable regarding libc6?
Must all new programs goint into unstable be linked with libc6?
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for all and everything (-> each user wants his/her own copy)
or just for system-related entries (one global /etc/config is enough).
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On Sat, May 31 1997 20:15 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Sat, 31 May 1997, Brian White wrote:
> >
> > None of the Infocom games can be distributed, however. You have to
> > buy them.
>
> Heh. I guess that means we cant package up any of these then
>
> ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-arch
On Mon, May 26 1997 20:40 +0200 Christian Schwarz writes:
> Then I have a "special ALT" key on my german kbd, that's label "Alt Gr".
> In DOS/Win95 it behaves like pressing Ctrl-Alt together. It's useful to
> get some "alt-alt keys" (for example, I have "=", "0", and, "}" on one
> key). I think th
sage.
> Hm; I thought there was some way I could ask Linux where on my hard drive
> the minicom program was; something like
> ls -R minic*
> but that doesn't work
> What is the *nix way to "Find file with name:___" ? I know how to do this
> with the Mac OS
Hello everybody,
On Sat, May 24 1997 11:40 +0200 Andreas Jellinghaus writes:
> there are three tools : cfgtool (lars wirzenius), nod (winfried
> truemper), dcfgtool (mine). and someone is working on a _real_ tool (all
> three have flaws, and if this way we will get a tool with all good
> features)
On Sat, May 24 1997 20:51 +0200 Christian Schwarz writes:
A agree 110%.
> Hi folks!
>
> I just read the excellent article "Consisten Keyboard Configuration" by
> John F. Bunch in the Linux Journal, issue #38.
>
> It would be nice if we could specify a keyboard configuration in the
> Policy Man
Hi Christian,
> I looked at the dump package and found out that /sbin/dump and
> /sbin/restore are in the group tty. Why are they in tty, shouldn't it
> be disk ?
No. dump/restore wants to be in tty in order to be able to notify the
operator that (s)he has to change tapes.
The operator has to ha
>> Hi folks!
>> I just discovered that the start up messages of Debian don't have a
unique
>> style. Some say
>> starting daemon xxx ...
>> (lower case `s' and dots `...') while others say
>> Starting network daemons: xxx
>> (upper case `S', colon, no dots) etc.
>>
>> It would be nice i
>This is (IMO) a bug in the upstream sources. (I'm not sure whether this
>is confined to certain directories or not, especially since libc doesn't
>have this problem.)
This is the way ELF-ld functions at the moment (as far as I understand it).
IMO the programmer's manual (chapter 12) should mentio
stall package as it was
done with netscape. Then, the people with non-intel architectures would
know that the
package is useless for them (at the moment) and wouldn't need to download
it.
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> Thomas> In 1.1.7, Debian's TeX is unusable for somebody who wants to do
> Thomas> serious work with it, at least for me (I work in German). Hardly
> Thomas> any of the often - used packages is there (this starts with a4.sty,
> Thomas> which is required by the documentation of german.sty, mis
>> Xosview only reads the file XOSView (and ~/.Xdefaults) when evaluating
>> its X resources. It does this by doing all the reading by foot (calling
>> XrmGetFileDatabase() etc.).
>> This is IMO the wrong way to do it; the application should use
>> XtGetApplicationResources() (as xsysinfo does i
Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-6
Xosview only reads the file XOSView (and ~/.Xdefaults) when evaluating
its X resources. It does this by doing all the reading by foot (calling
XrmGetFileDatabase() etc.).
This is IMO the wrong way to do it; the application should use
XtGetApplicationResources()
Package: xosview
Version: 1.3.2-6
Xosview should be able to monitor the /dev/ttyS* lines too; since nowadays
(with the advent of mgetty) a lot of people use /dev/ttyS* for dialout.
David
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Jackson writes:
Package: rpncalc
Version: 1.1-1
>Directories must be 755 root.root.
Fixed in rpncalc-1.1-2
I've uploaded to chiark:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Date: 07 Aug 96 22:20 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: Low
Maintainer: David Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: dump
Version: 0.3-7
Binary: dump
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
dump: Ported 4.4BSD dump
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yves Arrouye writes:
>On Aug 4, 6:55pm, David Frey wrote:
>} Subject: Re: Uploading compress-package 1.1 on master
>} In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>} [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>} >Description:
>} > compress-package: filese
ason: Copyright-problems (Unisys-Patent)
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