Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-06 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hello, On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 10:23:47PM -0500, Ben Burton wrote: Hi.. I've never done this myself, but I'm sure I've seen it happen in the past: If you're replacing foo with newfoo, you upload a new dummy package foo that contains absolutely nothing, but depends on newfoo. This way

how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hello, I am maintaing the Debian package puzzle and have a problem with the new upstream version. The package and program has been renamed by upstream to tree-puzzle, because there was a conflict with another program named puzzle. I was considering to make a new package tree-puzzle which

Re: how to implement a renamed package

2001-05-05 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 12:39:48PM -0700, David Whedon wrote: This is discussed in the Developer's Reference [1]: 9.3 Replacing or renaming packages Sometimes you made a mistake naming the package and you need to rename it. In this case, you need to follow a two-step process. First,

Re: Proposing task-debian

2001-04-29 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:38:04AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: Recently I found two packages, debsig-verify and apt-listchanges only by coincidence because I read in a mailing list about them. Generally, I like the idea of a task-debian metapackage, because I also just discovered some

Gnome keyboard shortcuts stopped working

2001-04-22 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hello, I am running Sid (daily updated) and currently have a problem with Gnome: Before I could access the programm menus with the keyboard shortcuts (Alt + undelined_character). This worked with all Gnome apps under any window manager. It still works with KDE apps, but since a few days the Gnome

gnome run command

2001-01-08 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, does anybody know if it is possible to start the built-in run command (similar to xexec) of the gnome-panel, outside the gnome desktop, e.g. under icewm. I tried to find the command's name but did not succeeed. I also tried to find it out by looking into the process-list, but the start of the

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

2000-12-31 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 01:46:20PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: SCHREI NICHT SO! German personal answer Vielen Dank für Deine prompte und ausführliche Antwort. Wenn Du auf mein erstes (ungeschriehenes) Mail zum selben Thema so geantwortet hättest, dann hätte ich jetzt nicht schreien

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

2000-12-31 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi Peter, On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: You file the wishlistbug against ftp. and I bug the admins, deal? Deal is deal! Best wishes, Guenter -- Linux: Who needs GATES in a world without fences?

Re: ITO: catdoc

2000-12-28 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
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vim-perl update fails

2000-12-28 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
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Re: vim-perl update fails

2000-12-28 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:58:44PM +0100, Uwe Hermann wrote: Don't file a bug. There's already _at least_ 5 or 6 bugs about this problem in the BTS... Alright. There are just two wrong linebreaks in the postinst script. Ahh, this was indeed a simple problem. Many thanks. Guenter -- Linux:

Re: ITO: catdoc

2000-12-27 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, I am no longer interested in maintaining the 'catdoc' package. However, I will continue my current level of inactive ownership of the package until such time as someone takes it over. I'd like to adopt this package. Oops, I already adopted the package on 24th Dec. Sorry, but I

Re: ITO: catdoc

2000-12-27 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
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disappeared packages

2000-12-26 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
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intent to package countrycodes

2000-09-03 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, I intend to package Country Codes 1.0.3, a text-based ISO3166 country code finder (yes, I know there is a Perl module that does the same, but this little tool is easier and more flexible). The package is actually already made and lintian clean. It can be downloaded from

how to setup an apt-getable site

2000-08-15 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, I just have some weird problems to make my uploaded inofficial deb-packages apt-getable. The referring site is http://www.bechly.de/debian/. I had all five Debian packages in a local directory called 'debian' and correctly run dpkg-scanpackages on it. After adjusting my apt sources.list it

intent to package snap

2000-08-14 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, I intend to package snap 0.02a, a Perl-based Napster client for console. The package is actually already made, but I have just applied to become a Debian maintainer, thus it will probably still be quite some time till I can upload the package (unless I will find a sponsor). Cheers, Guenter

5 inofficial packages for download

2000-08-14 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, I just uploaded my first five Debian packages. They include the console programs journal, mrename, ncps, saydate, and snap. The URL is http://www.bechly.de/debian/. I also included a Packages file generated with dpkg-scanpackages, thus the site should be apt-getable. Since I am no official

5 inofficial packages for download

2000-08-14 Thread Dr. Guenter Bechly
Hi, I just uploaded my first five Debian packages. They include the console programs journal, mrename, ncps, saydate, and snap. The download URL is http://members.tripod.de/GBechly/debian/. I also included a Packages file generated with dpkg-scanpackages, thus the site should be apt-getable with