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Re: package compilation




On 17 Feb 1997 srivasta@datasync.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package
>  version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info
>  to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

vi appears to be reading ab (macro expansions) from a startup file, most
likely .exrc or a systemwide version (I don't know if there is one, I
suppose man vi????). I'm not sure what you're doing, but most likeley it's
getting the ab from somewhere.. (someone monkeying around with .exrc...)


>  but this time it snuck up and changed Feb to February in the
>  changelog, causing dpkg-gencontrol to choke (and rightly so). A new
>  version of kernel-package (edited with the one true editor) is being
>  uploaded to Master.
> 
> 	I do test make-kpkg, (I'm building a a new kernel with the
>  3.17 versions before shipping it off to to Master, but last
>  time I was just twealing check-if-we're-kernel-sources in
>  debian.rules, which shouldn't have broken anything (yeah, I know,
>  famous last words ...)
> 
> 	manoj
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> Manoj Srivastava               <url:mailto:srivasta@acm.org>
> Mobile, Alabama USA            <url:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
> 
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