mispackaged packages..
Hello there,
When installing this Alpha board into my pooter, I came across the
following:
xawtv: the v4l-conf utility as well as xawtv-remote are not in the
binary package. They compiled from the source (the source
package contains intel binaries, btw) and work well, so I
think they have simply got lost in the packaging process.
xemacs20 : is there any particular reason that there's no
xemacs20-nomule binary package? I failed to compile myself
because I don't have all the required library headers
installed, but I guess, I'm not the only one using xemacs
without mule. I'd appreciate pointers to pre-compiled binaries
but also will try to get it compiled from source unless someone
tells me that it has severe troubles...
afbackup: is anyone running afbackup on alpha? I just tried it in
favour of taper and all I could get was that afclient
complained about the server refusing connections. Telnetting to
the afbckup server on localhost gives an error about the
machine having 8-byte longints or somesuch. (I've already
erased the package from disk so I don't have the exact wording
of that error at hand)
have I overlooked something?
taper: on my intel box, taper 6.8 used to run nicely (daily backup of
~2G system and ~1G user data) while taper 6.9 segfaults. Now,
I've tried taper 6.9 on alpha and it segfaults too. I really
don't want to waste too much time with this since last time I
checked, it was a heisenbug (wouldn't occur when running taper
in the debugger), so the question is: is there still a taper6.8
binary or source package anywhere?
milo: any particular reason for not including a milo package into the
main distribution?
Don't get me wrong: I _am_ deeply impressed by the ease of
installation (after having wrestled the stupid BIOS, that is) and the
degree of stability of Debian. I am ready to look into some problems
myself but I can use a guiding hand sometimes. If there is some quick
guide to debugging source packages, I'd highly appreciate that.
kind Regards,
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