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Re: DEBIAN IS LOOSING PACKAGES AND NOBODY CARES!!!



On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:09:07PM +0000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
>Peter Palfrader wrote:
>  >> There is a further weird package disappearance in unstable: all mgetty
>  >> packages (execept mgetty-doc) are gone!
[...]
>  >>                                         Hey, these are important packages.
>  >
>  >mgetty is not important, it's extra.
> 
>That may be, but where has it gone?

mgetty* got bitten by an old [pre-pool] dinstall bug, where uploads
without "unstable" in the changelog disappear from unstable:

  mgetty (1.1.21-3) stable; urgency=low

    * make mgetty-fax's postinst create /var/spool/fax/outgoing/.last_run
      to close a potential symlink exploit by members of the fax group
      that is otherwise possible until that file is created

   -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>  Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:05:13 +0100

See http://bugs.debian.org/77585 .

Regards,
-- 
Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited                  (NSW, Australia)  +61 2 9810 3633



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