binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-23 Thread Ian Murdock
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 to binary-i386 as soon as we finish the planned FTP r

Re: Buglist

1995-12-23 Thread Ian Murdock
On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: > I have a bunch of bugs I haven't closed out, and there are bugs > on packages I've transferred to other maintainers that the other > maintainers have not closed out. I will not be able to deal with > this until after New Years. I, too, have some work to

David J Meltzer: mailx-5.5 (slackware /bin/mail) security hole

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
FYI -- This appears to affect Debian's mailx as well. Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Forwarded Message Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 17:35:01 -0500 From: David J Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mailx-5.5 (slackware /bin/mail) security hole To

Re: ELF flex

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
Ian Murdock wrote: >> Ian M., if you are maintaining flex, any chance of getting an ELF >> version uploaded soon? If you'd rather not be bothered, perhaps I >> could even take the package off your hands. > > Yes, please do. Very well: Date: 23 Dec 95 07:40 UT Source: flex Binary: flex Version:

Re: Bug#2042: less-290-5

1995-12-23 Thread Bill Mitchell
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 ftp.debian.org should be sus

dchanges (was: m4 rebuilt as ELF)

1995-12-23 Thread Bill Mitchell
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.

findutils rebuilt as ELF

1995-12-23 Thread Kevin Dalley
I have rebuilt the findutils package as ELF and placed the binary package into ftp.debian.org//debian/private/project/Incoming. Date: 23 Dec 95 16:36 UT Source: findutils Binary: findutils Version: 4.1-5 Description: findutils: GNU find, xargs and locate. Priority: Low Changes: * New maintai

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-23 Thread Bill Mitchell
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

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-23 Thread Raul Miller
Also, don't forget about architecture-independent binaries... -- Raul

bind-4.9.3BETA26-3 uploaded

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
This revision is ELF. Also note a change in the version string to remove an embedded "-". As a result of this dpkg thinks this version is a downgrade, although it's not. I haven't yet made any changes to let BIND do cacheing nameservice by default. I'd also like to think about making libresolv int

man wont install?

1995-12-23 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi... Just folowwing up that story about the libgdbm1 (that perl and all the other stuff will fail if they arent updated with it)... Man seems to be released for the new libgdbm1 package, however libgdm1 wont let me install it because of it's conflict being man <2.3.10-6 which includes 6 it seems

figlet-2.1.1-1 uploaded

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
Figlet is a cool program for doing things _ _ _ _ _ _ | (_) | _ | |_| |__ (_)___ | | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __| | | | < __/ | |_| | | | \__ \_ |_|_|_|\_\___| \__|_| |_|_|___(_) The authors have given permission to distribute figlet as part of Debian GNU/Linu