Re: Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?
*- On 2 Aug, Brian Servis wrote about "Re: Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?"
> *- On 2 Aug, shaul wrote about "Which package should be fixed (Mosaic or bug or am I wrong) ?"
>> [06:18:44 shaul]$ dpkg -s Mosaic
>> Package: Mosaic
>> Status: install ok installed
>> Installed-Size: 1718
>> Maintainer: Gene McCulley <mcculley@debian.org>
>> Version: 2.7b5-8
>> Depends: lesstifg (>= 0.81-0.1), libc6, libjpegg6a, libpng0g, xlib6g (>=
>> 3.3-5), xpm4g (>= 3.4j-0), zlib1g
>> Description: Graphical WWW browser
>> NCSA Mosaic is an Internet information browser and
>> World Wide Web client
>> .
>> THIS IS A BETA VERSION.
>
> Where did you get this package from? On the debian mirrors it appears
> to be listed in lowercase and is also in lower case in the Packages
> files. Policy section 2.3.1 says that all package names must be lower
> case. It looks like the control file for the mosaic package is
> incorrect.
>
I should have checked the BTS first. This has already been reported 277
days ago in bug #28464. Doesn't look the maintainer is very active.
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Brian
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