On May 12, Tom Lees wrote
> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > Perhaps you can split dinstall into two scripts: One script that is run,
> > say once an hour, that just checks incoming for new uploads and posts the
> > .changes files in the appropriate lists. This script could check
On May 12, Brian C. White wrote
> The following message is a list of items to be completed for the upcoming
> releases of Debian GNU/Linux. If something is missing, incorrect, or you want
> to take responsibility for one or more items, please send email to:
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On May 13, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote
> On Mon, 12 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
>
> > no. bug should prompt the user with a list of conffiles before the
> > editor is called. then the user will select the config files to be
> > included, and leater in the editor he can edit them (like replac
On May 12, Jim Pick wrote
>
> Excellent write-up, Klee. Thanks for doing it.
I second this; a lot of thought has obviously gone into this, and it
shows!
> Since I've been attacking this topic lately, I'll try to post some (hopefully)
> constructive criticisms. But, overall, I agree with what y
> On May 11, joost witteveen wrote
> > I just downgraded my ldso from the one in unstable, to the one
> > in bo, and I appear to be left with a system that doesn't have
> > a dynamic linker!
>
> This is because of a change from a hard link to a symlink in one of
> the 1.9.x versions. I'm not sure
I have been trying for some time to solve Bug #8882 against the 'sp'
package, which says that in order to make it buildable under glibc,
I need to call libintl as well as libnls in order to accommodate glibc,
and to define LINUX_TYPES_H for glibc. I made those changes and could
no longer get the p
Jim Pick wrote:
> Vincent Renardias wrote:
> >A while ago there has been a thread about KDE and Qt's licence; some
> > people (can't remember who) told they were interested into re-writting a
> > GPL'd clone of Qt (possibly on the top on LessTif). What's the status on
> > this? I.e: has someo
On May 13, joost witteveen wrote
> > On May 11, joost witteveen wrote
> > > I just downgraded my ldso from the one in unstable, to the one
> > > in bo, and I appear to be left with a system that doesn't have
> > > a dynamic linker!
> >
> > This is because of a change from a hard link to a symlink
On May 13, David Engel wrote
> This problem is not that simple. With the current dpkg, there is no
> way to fix this even with a statically linked cp or ln. This is
> because dpkg will remove ld-linux.so.1 before any postinst script gets
> a chance to repair the damage.
How about putting somethi
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On Tue, 13 May 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> I have been trying for some time to solve Bug #8882 against the 'sp'
> package, which says that in order to make it buildable under glibc,
> I need to call libintl as well as libnls in order to accommodate glibc,
> > Please clarify - unpacking a Debian source package is different
> > than unpacking an upstream source package (which may require tar,
> > unzip, zoo, lha, jar, etc.). Right?
Andy Mortimer wrote:
> Personally, I'd be inclined to disagree here, especially given [1.5]
> below. If I've gone to
> Jim Pick wrote:
> > Even if we wrote one, I doubt the KDE guys, especially Matthias Ettrich,
> > would
> > be willing to use it. Really an unfortunate situation, IMHO. :-(
Noel Maddy wrote:
> Berate me for missing the obvious, but couldn't KDE just be compiled with
> a QT clone for Debian?
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> If someone wants to contribute to an effort to clone a toolkit, they'd
> probably be much better off contributing to the WINE project (Windows
> emulator) or Jolt project (Java clone - kaffe, biss-awt, guavac, etc.).
What do you think about "Lesstiff"?
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> On Tue, 13 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> > If someone wants to contribute to an effort to clone a toolkit, they'd
> > probably be much better off contributing to the WINE project (Windows
> > emulator) or Jolt project (Java clone - kaffe, biss-awt, guavac, etc.).
>
> What do you think about "L
On 12 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> say that if the source is well behaved (that is, it is a tar file
> >> that unpacks into *some* directory other than ., compressed or
>
> Kai> You seem to think a tar that unpacks into "." is a problem. I
> Kai> still fail to see why.
>
> Kai> Just un
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote:
> I have been trying for some time to solve Bug #8882 against the 'sp'
> package, which says that in order to make it buildable under glibc,
> I need to call libintl as well as libnls in order to accommodate glibc,
> and to define LINUX_TYPES_H for gl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 12.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>"Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai>> Well, yes. Scan the temp dir after unpacking. If it contains one
Kai>> directory and nothing else, that directory is the main package
Kai>> directory. If i
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Mortimer) wrote on 13.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On May 12, Jim Pick wrote
> >
> > Excellent write-up, Klee. Thanks for doing it.
>
> I second this; a lot of thought has obviously gone into this, and it
> shows!
Me too!
> > > * [1.1] It must be possible to recon
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius:
> > They might not understand enough about shell scripts (or Perl, or
> > whatever the script is written in) and whatever tools the script uses
> > to make an informed decision of whether the script is safe. With the
> > current scheme, they
On 12 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think, from the volume of discussion on bugs-dist, that most
> developers have signed up on that list (and I at least follow it
> quite diligently). I would rather not clutter up debian-devel with
> that traffic (if we send all reports
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kai Henningsen:
> > Remember: no shell scripts in the source packages that are needed for
> > unpacking. It's just too dangerous.
>
> I don't understand why this is more dangerous than debian/rules. Why?
You don't get to review it before it's run.
--
T
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Chris Walker wrote:
> Further to the announcement from Ian Jackson about the creation of a
> mailing list for closed bugs
>
> There may be circumstances when I wish to know if a bug has been closed,
> but am not the person who reported the bug (eg I want to know when the
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > The good definition of powerpc processors is 'powerpc', not 'ppc'.
>
> Was this issue settled ? This will be hard to change later, so it's
> important to get it right quickly.
I believe it was.
> > --- archtable Thu Feb 27 21:53:23 1997
> > +++ arc
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> > You might want to unpack a source package for other reasons than
> > to build it -- e.g., I've sometimes searched for documentation. A
> > non-programmer might want to do this so that they can typeset the
> > documentation in LaTeX, instead of printing out
It seems that this package hasn't evolved for quite a long time. As
there are many bug-reports, and as I worked out fixes for some of
them, I suppose its maintainer has no time for it, and I'm wishing to
maintain it.
If I get no response within a week, I'll take for granted that there's
no opposi
On Sun, 11 May 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > It would be useful if the kind of information sent to the debian-changes
> > mailing list were integrated into dpkg. For available updated packages, a
> > user
> > could use information about the number and Urgency: of each intervening
> > update.
> >
I am almost finished with my AP's, only having Biology tomorrow. During
my free time I have thaught up a way that may allow us to use Linuxconf,
and all of it's starting/stoping features w/o replacing init. The author
of linuxconf liked the idea so it looks like we might have an easier time
hi i,m just wondering if any of you companies can offer me any help
with my ansi c progrmming assignment.
Thanks
waseem
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Hi,
I was asking over Linux-ISP about doing cleanup after breakins and got
many "use tripwire" answers, and one which says that RPM has a verify
mode which checks for files which were changed since they were
installed. Can the dpkg maintainers consider adding such a feature
for Debian?
Chees,
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On Sun, 11 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
> The point I was trying to make was that having dependencies on
> binary packages would be really, really nice.
This gets more complicated. To allow for cross-compiling or bootstrapping,
some packages need to be compilable using the Source from another packag
This is the message I got from the developer. If you have any comments
cc: me, as I have resubscribed to the lists yet.
Shaya
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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 23:37:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacques Gelinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Shaya Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [
> How about where part of the upstream archive could go into the main
> distribution, but part needs to go into non-free or non-US, even for the
> sources?
>
> That's a case where you _must_ repack the original archive.
>
>
> MfG Kai
No. I'd just say upload the upstream sources to the non
Tom Lees wrote:
> This gets more complicated. To allow for cross-compiling or bootstrapping,
> some packages need to be compilable using the Source from another package,
> so eg:-
>
> SrcPackage: xmp
> Depends: awe-drv | src.awe
I don't think it adds any complexity if upstream source packages,
> Hi,
>
> I was asking over Linux-ISP about doing cleanup after breakins and got
> many "use tripwire" answers, and one which says that RPM has a verify
> mode which checks for files which were changed since they were
> installed. Can the dpkg maintainers consider adding such a feature
> for Deb
Hi,
[This is getting silly, I really have no objection to the proposal]
>>"Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 12.05.97 in
Kai> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> >>"Kai" == Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kai> Well, yes. Scan th
On May 13, Yann Dirson wrote
>
> It seems that this package hasn't evolved for quite a long time. As
> there are many bug-reports, and as I worked out fixes for some of
> them, I suppose its maintainer has no time for it, and I'm wishing to
> maintain it.
Have you tried to email the current maint
Hi,
>>"Jim" == Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Might it be possible to, say, have a list of `supported formats' --
>> .tar.gz, .zip, others? -- and at least give the option of
>> downloading upstream sources which were originally in other formats
>> as a tarball? This is far from ideal, fo
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G'Day,
I'm curious about how dpkg handles the "Conflicts:" line of packages
that are already installed on the machi
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