Subject: Two Packages Missing

From: [email-masked] (Hubert Palme)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 17:13:37 +0200

1. The package "taper" recommends ftape. No such package is available
in debian. Is it needed?

2. A lot of packages (e.g. magicfilter) recommend pbmlus which isn't
available as a debian package too.

Doesn't it make sense to add those two packages to debian?

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From: Guy Maor <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 12:14:10 -0500 (CDT)

> 1. The package "taper" recommends ftape. No such package is available

Both of these packages are obsolete.  The ftape utility was integrated
into the kernel a long time ago.

> available as a debian package too.

pbmplus was replaced by netpbm.

Guy

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From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 15:43:33 -0400 (EDT)

> into the kernel a long time ago.

I taper no longer supported or is there an updated package
that includes it?  I kind of liked it.

> pbmplus was replaced by netpbm.

Thanks

Richard G. Roberto
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From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 96 16:02 EDT

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 seem to
be rather happy with, your's truly included. 

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From: Joey Hess <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 16:29:42 -0400 (EDT)

> be rather happy with, your's truly included. 

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.

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From: llucius <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 16:41:29 -0500 (CDT)

> 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

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From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:25:30 -0400 (EDT)

> be rather happy with, your's truly included. 
Hmmm, tob seems like a pretty useful interface to afio, but
I dig taper's menu driven approach.  I'll consider picking
it up, but not for at least 8 more weeks.  That puts it out
of range of 1.2 :-(

But by all means, don't hold me to this, at lot can happen
in 8 weeks!

Thanks

Richard G. Roberto
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From: "Richard G. Roberto" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 23:30:48 -0400 (EDT)

> realize it was orphaned or I would have done that sooner.

Kindly ignore my previous post and take it.  I hadn't gotten
down far enough to see there was another reply!  Its all
yours, and thanks!

Richard G. Roberto
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From: [email-masked] (Hubert Palme)
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 15:15:45 +0200

> pbmplus was replaced by netpbm.

Hmm. Perhaps some kind soul can make a debian package?!

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From: Buddha Buck <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 16:20:09 -0400

> 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-masked]>
Version: 1994.03.01p1-5
Description: netpbm -- graphics conversion tools.
 Netpbm is a toolkit for conversion of images between a variety of
 different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations.
 It is based on the pbmplus distribution.

bash$ 

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From: "Carlo U. Segre" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 17:05:04 -0500 (CDT)

>  It is based on the pbmplus distribution.

True, however this package should also say that it provides pbmplus so 
that other packages which require pbmplus will install correctly.  Maybe 
additional links would also be necessary.

Cheers,

Carlo

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