Subject: Bug#4358: smartlist

From: "James A. Robinson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 13:12:51 -0400

> But you need a list to test it. 
Right, but we might want to create "smartlist_tester" to test it. 

> Ok. I can ask for it.
Thank you!

> newaliases could only run when the automatic announce list is generated.

Well, my point was that newaliases isn't _on_ my system, and if it
fails the postinst exists with an error -- meaning dpkg thinks it is
failed.

> The hostname stuff works fine on debian 1.1.X. Seems that rex contains
> an incompatible version. Will fix it on next release.

Yeah, hostname 1.9 accepted the single dash, even though it doesn't
claim to in its help -- 2.0 works the standard GNU way of wanting
double dashs for any long option name.

> That is what the standard script spits out. Could have a note appear
> though to not take it for earnest.

Or you could filter it out by redirecting stdout and stderr through
sed or something.

> There is another issue with Smartlist which is the automatic generation of
> the list user. I do that with a sed script on /etc/passwd which is not

You need to ask the base disk maintainer (Bruce?) to add the user to
the passwd entry.

> And could some kind soul finally get me on the debian-developers mailing
> list? I have subscribed a couple of times with no result by writing
> email to the request address.

Ugh, I've been reading about problems with this (getting ahold of the
list mainter). It looks like they might be switching servers so
somebody with more time can handle all the devel requests...

Jim

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From: "Peter Tobias" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:30:40 +0200 (MET DST)

> double dashs for any long option name.

hostname 1.9 and 2.0 both use the standard gnu way but hostname 1.9
only checked for one option (it just takes the option -f from -fqdn
and ignores the options -q -d -n). hostname 2.0 checks the other
options too and prints an error message for the unknown option(s).

Thanks,

Peter

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