Bug#4644: dpkg --compare-versions reality and documentation differ

Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0 dpkg -h says: Comparison operators for --compare-versions are: lt le eq ne ge gt (treat no version as earlier than any version); lt-nl le-nl ge-nl gt-nl (tread no version as later than any version); < << <= = >= >> > (only for compatibility with control

Bug#4646: "dwww" will not build

Package: dwww Version: 1.0-1 1) While attempting to build "dwww" I received the following messages: rm -f /home/httpd-data/dwww ln -s debian/tmp/var/lib/dwww /home/httpd-data/dwww ln: cannot create symbolic link `/home/httpd-data/dwww' to `debian/tmp/var/lib/dwww

Bug#4649: Soft link missing for slang0.99.34 dynamic lib

Package: slang0.99.34 Version: 0.99.34-1 Slang does not install a link /usr/lib/libslang.so.0. [1] as it is specified in section 12 of the Programmer's Manual. [1] Here's an annotated session log: Saving the old list from ldconfig: miles:/mirror/debian/incoming [root] # ldconfig -p>/tmp

Re: `eval' patch to dpkg-buildpackage

Guy Maor wrote: : : On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: : : > Ian Jackson wrote: : > : Please REVERSE the change you made to make the default rootcommand be : > : `eval'. : : Yes, please do, dpkg-buildpackage 1.4.0.1 is *BROKEN* for me as I can : no longer use sudo to build my packag

Bug#4652: lprng overwrites printcap file

Package: lprng Version: 2.3.12-1 The package installs a new /etc/printcap file without asking the user. It seems /etc/printcap is not marked as a conffile. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EM

Bug#4594: VIM: no help, no conffiles

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M.Dassen) wrote: > >Package: vim > >Version: 4.4-1 >From the vim development pages: Latest News So - which is the latest beta? Please read the (latest) announcement so you know what the new features are! Test them all and test them thoroughly! Thanks!! Outlook: 96062

Bug#4653: smail doesn't set owner/group/mode in savelog call

Package: smail Version: 3.1.29.1-23 Oddly, /var/log/smail/logfile had zero length even though mail had been processed on the system after the last savelog rotation (which is run by /etc/cron.daily/smail) . The file had group "root". After changing the group to "mail", smail again added logs to

Possible new developer

From: Frederic Lepied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would like to help debian development. I have some skills in emacs > lisp (I wrote some packages expand.el, cvs.el) and I'm an XFree86 > developper (XInput extension, Wacom, joystick support). If you need > some help in this areas, I'm your ma

Shared libraries in packages. How?

Hi, I have recently made the package compface (can be found in unstabe) containg the shared library libcompface. Now I am trying to make a package xfaces that uses this library. But I can't get dpkg-shlibdeps working. This is what is says: # dpkg-shlibdeps xfaces dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown

Bug#4656: checksecurity script has incorrect regular expression.

Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-32 I have about 12 Debian-1.1.8 systems running using NFS, amd, NIS and cfengine to configure and share info. All of the systems send me a copy of mail sent to root. Every morning I receive mail from cron's run-parts showing one of the NFS file-systems and an error

Re: proposal: pseudo source packages

Michael Meskes wrote: : : Heiko Schlittermann writes: : > Hm .., .orig.tar.gz isn't really empty. It would contain the unmodified : > binaries (i386, m68k) and _no_ debian files. : But then these aren't sources. Thats why I called 'em `pseudo' sources. : > Perhaps the .dsc file could include a

lprng_2.3.12-2 released (experimental)

I added some control headers, so this lprng package should replace lpr with no problems. Sven -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 17:34:18 +0200 Source: lprng Binary: lprng Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.3.12-2 Distribution: experimental Urgency: lo

Bug#4657: Gcc's Objective C canot compile GNUstep

Package: gcc Version: 2.7.2.1 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 Xref: marin.sevy.fr mail.other:611 X-Gnus-Newsgroup: mail.other:611 Mon Sep 30 22:22:27 1996 Gcc canno

Re: Shared libraries in packages. How?

Hi, I have recently made the package compface (can be found in unstabe) containg the shared library libcompface. Now I am trying to make a package xfaces that uses this library. But I can't get dpkg-shlibdeps working. This is what is says: # dpkg-shlibdeps xfaces dpkg-shlibde

Bug#4594: VIM: no help, no conffiles

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M.Dassen) wrote: >> >Package: vim >> >Version: 4.4-1 > >>From the vim development pages: >Latest News > >So - which is the latest beta? Please read the (latest) announcement so you >know what the new features are! Test them