Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-03 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Buddha Buck wrote: > > Guy Maor: > > > > > pbmplus was replaced by netpbm. > > > > Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?! > > > > Someone did... > > bash$ dpkg -s netpbm > Package: netpbm > Status: install ok installed > Priority: optional > Section: no

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-03 Thread Buddha Buck
> Guy Maor: > > > pbmplus was replaced by netpbm. > > Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?! > Someone did... bash$ dpkg -s netpbm Package: netpbm Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: non-free Maintainer: Jim Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1994.03

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-03 Thread Hubert Palme
Guy Maor: > > 2. A lot of packages (e.g. magicfilter) recommend pbmlus which isn't > > available as a debian package too. > > pbmplus was replaced by netpbm. Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?! > > > Guy > =

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-03 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that > > Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it. > > > > It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. Ther

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-03 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that > Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it. > > It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have > been new upstream releases. :-) > > As for

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-02 Thread llucius
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Joey Hess wrote: > > I'm a fan of taper myself. I'll take over maintaining it, ok? Didn't > realize it was orphaned or I would have done that sooner. > Yea, I've been waiting for the 6.7.4 release (it fixes some problems us m68kers have). Thanks, Leland __ Y_ a_ m_ b_ o

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-02 Thread Joey Hess
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that > Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it. > > It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have > been new upstream releases. :-) > > As for

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-02 Thread Dirk . Eddelbuettel
Richard> I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package that Richard> includes it? I kind of liked it. It is orphaned. If you really like taper, you could maintain it. There have been new upstream releases. :-) As for tape backups, we have "tob" which most people who tried it s

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-02 Thread Richard G. Roberto
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Hubert Palme wrote: > > > 1. The package "taper" recommends ftape. No such package is available > > in debian. Is it needed? > > Both of these packages are obsolete. The ftape utility was integrated > into the kernel a long time ago. I

Re: Two Packages Missing

1996-09-02 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Hubert Palme wrote: > 1. The package "taper" recommends ftape. No such package is available > in debian. Is it needed? Both of these packages are obsolete. The ftape utility was integrated into the kernel a long time ago. > 2. A lot of packages (e.g. magicfilter) recommend p