Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
, the answer is run dh_strip and it takes care of this for you. However, it's good to understand the basics and the reasons for what's going on behind the scenes. There's some additional information in section 10.1 of Policy. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256900 Yeah, Objective CAML has been that way for years and years. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Migration to svn-buildpackage

2006-04-16 Thread Russ Allbery
or not I'd bother would probably depend on the package. Is there something useful (some tricks) to know about it? Something to easy SVN management and it's not written in howto? http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ is incredibly useful for all the general Subversion stuff. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: Problem with debuild and changelog

2006-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
. Standard Debian packaging practices don't let you do this sort of thing and require a hand-maintained changelog file with hand-written new entries for each new version. The standard packaging tools like debuild therefore are not prepared to deal with this and probably are not going to cope. -- Russ

Re: [gmail] Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-05 Thread Russ Allbery
there, and then ask one of the DD members to sponsor an upload when ready. Currently eloy is doing most of the sponsoring work, but there are several others involved (myself included) who could and would do more sponsored uploads if things started piling up. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: lintian warning problem, RFS: gaupol

2006-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
CDPATH set? If so, this is a bug in lintian that's already fixed in Subversion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
have to do some porting. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
or add the functionality that I need to add without significant surgery in a makefile. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about rules file

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
at the end of that file. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/picprog.1.gz

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
don't know if that is really a good idea? Replace ä with \[:a]. Upstream may not be able to do this since this is a groff-specific thing, but it's safe to do in Debian. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Question about rules file

2006-03-11 Thread Russ Allbery
and it's what everyone is used to. Also, if you use debhelper (most people seem to, either directly or through cdbs), it assumes that convention. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-03 Thread Russ Allbery
packages because it makes backporting to sarge easier. There doesn't seem to be anything in debhelper 5 that particularly warrants making backporting harder, so I'm planning on waiting until etch is released to bump the compatibility level. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Knabl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As recommended, I had a discussion about it with the author. Now the license has been changed. I think it can be included into debian/copyright as follows: It's fine. There's lots of stuff in Debian with this sort of license. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
your own packaging, and let diff figure out the transform (although be careful of upstream files that you need to delete in your version). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
more straightforward. You may want to give it a look; I found the manual quite sufficient to get started. The workflow is substantially different than it is with dpatch, so that takes a little getting used to, but after I got used to it I actually liked it better. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:23, Russ Allbery wrote: What I would do if I were you would be to make the changes you need to make to the upstream debian directory to have the package work the way that it should and send the diffs back to upstream

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:52, Russ Allbery wrote: Why?  Do you have to remove some files for DFSG-compliance? Sorry, what I meant was my orig.tar.gz ends up being the pre-release version, not the official version released on the website. This work

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
a bad idea even if you're upstream; it's really not a good idea if you're not upstream for the package. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
, or other common licenses; instead, just refer the user to the copy that already ships with Debian in /usr/share/common-licenses. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: SEEKING FOR A SPONSOR

2006-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
me for this course. The fees is 3,000 us dollars. Shall be grateful for your assistance. My e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, I'm afraid this isn't lintian-clean and doesn't build properly in pbuilder. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: Problem compiling new upstream version, what to do?

2006-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
to upstream and waiting for them to fix it, or reporting the bug to upstream and also fixing it yourself in the Debian package, such as by build-depending on the appropriate version of autotools and running autogen.sh inside your debian/rules file. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: RFS: knmap -- Kde interface to nmap [uploaded]

2006-01-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: The problem is, in a nutshell, this doesn't actually work reliably. If It does inside Debian (you can explicitly choose a given version, and upgrade to the next only after some testing

Re: RFS: knmap -- Kde interface to nmap [uploaded]

2006-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
of re-running the autotools automatically on a substantial package. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Extra debian repository

2006-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
package pools. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: elvis - powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor

2006-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
for upload. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: elvis - powerful clone of the vi/ex text editor

2006-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
, and samba packages, for instance, are all using quilt today. Oh, interesting. I'd been noticing it in use by large packages, but I wasn't aware it was at the point where it was a reasonable alternative to dpatch even for smaller ones. I'll have to take a closer look. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery

Re: RFS: directnet -- A serverless, mesh network instant messaging client

2006-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
too -- 2rc3 before 2.0. But it looks stranger.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: statist - Small and fast terminal-based statistics program

2005-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
debian/copyright. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: statist - Small and fast terminal-based statistics program

2005-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
maintainer about it? You would talk to the dh-make maintainer, and not the debhelper maintainer. You may want to talk to them too (I never use dh-make), but take a look at /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules and friends. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
be priority extra, though.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: libjavascript-rpc-perl -- Perl module to process Remote procedure

2005-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Genannt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: The package looks fine, except that you didn't need to repackage the upstream source. The package build tools don't care in the slightest what directory the upstream source unpacks into; they just care that the tar.gz file be named

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
of orphaned packages by people who are really interested in them. Adding more software to Debian is nice, but improving the software already in Debian is even better.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
, though, even if the binary packages don't port over. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Documentation of debconf on the Debian Policy?

2005-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 25 2005, Russ Allbery wrote: Policy describes the config script in section 3.10.1. A reference in the maintainer scripts section would probably be a good idea. Ah, then that would explain it... The copy of the policy that I used as reference

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
I'm talking about. This is the separate debconf protocol specification, which you can find in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/debconf_specification.* in the debian-policy package. I don't know if it's also on the doc section of the Debian web site. It's referred to in Policy 3.9.1. -- Russ

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
section would probably be a good idea. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: swftools - a collection of tools for SWF file manipulation

2005-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
/developer.php summary. I could probably remove it, but just for the future reference, how would one fix it? Removing the commented lines, or...? See the man page for uscan; it explains the format. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: RFS vamps (ITP #320067)

2005-12-24 Thread Russ Allbery
a discussion going on on debian-policy right now about how to redo all the menu categories. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: libjavascript-rpc-perl -- Perl module to process Remote procedure

2005-12-23 Thread Russ Allbery
as the file modified, not debian/changelog.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian error about missing debconf dependency (which is not missing)

2005-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
is getting confused by the dependency added by ${misc:Depends} and missing the second dependency that is tighter. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
release of the OpenAFS package, and then I'll take a look. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Russ Allbery wrote: This may not be the most popular opinion, particularly among fans of distributed VCSes (and I do understand the merits), but wrapping your mind around the distributed model isn't easy. I can

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
or more push notification of things that a sponsor should be looking at that would fit well into this sort of framework. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
on Debian packages how to use Subversion, but explaining bzr feels rather intimidating. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new pkg: libcrypt-simple-per

2005-12-19 Thread Russ Allbery
). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
] ; then rm -f /usr/bin/cdrtoaster fi You have a stray debian/files in your diff. Send me e-mail when the above has been addressed and I'll be happy to upload the package. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RFS: libaudio-mixer-perl -- perl extension for Sound Mixer control

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
As previously mentioned, I think: ifeq (Makefile,$(wildcard Makefile)) $(MAKE) realclean endif is cleaner and more reliable. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFS: switchconf

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
the packages on your web site and then send me an e-mail so that I can take another look? Assuming everything is fine, I'll be happy to upload it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFS: libtest-classapi-perl -- Perl extension for basic first-pass API testing for class trees

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
and I'll be happy to upload the package. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: libtest-classapi-perl -- Perl extension for basic first-pass API testing for class trees

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you run $(MAKE) test in debian/rules? I think it's best to do that whenever possible just to make sure nothing strange has happened and I notice that this package provides a fair number of tests. Also, while you're changing the package, you may

Re: RFS: libpod-tests-perl -- Perl extension for excts embedded tests and code examples from POD

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Debian source and binary package: http://jonas.capi2name.de/debian-upload/libpod-tests-perl/ Looks good to me. Uploaded. Same comment about -$(MAKE) realclean when you have some reason to upload a new version. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: RFS: libaudio-mixer-perl -- perl extension for Sound Mixer control

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
warning/error. Yeah, I should go provide a patch for that to lintian, since I keep noticing it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:58:11PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: If you do keep it, the postinstall removes cdrtoaster regardless of whether it's a symlink. I think it would be better to do something like: s/postinstall/postrm/, I hope? Yeah, my bad

Re: RFS: switchconf

2005-12-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The new version is online, and I have made a build test from the online files. Everything seams to be fine now. Looks good to me. Uploaded. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: pbuilder and scons

2005-12-13 Thread Russ Allbery
need the - in front of rm -rf. The -f makes it exit with a 0 status even if none of the files were found to remove. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: libparams-util-perl -- Perl extension for simple standalone param-checking functions

2005-12-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Genannt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: I would move his e-mail address up to the same line where you list the upstream maintainer and then replace all of the bit quoted above with the bit I quoted from the COPYRIGHT section of the module. (You can omit the bit referring

Re: RFS: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

2005-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
, but then the result is much more maintainable and predictable for the user. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: liblog-dispatch-perl -- Dispatches messages to multiple Log::Dispatch::* objects

2005-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
using: ifeq (Build,$(wildcard Build)) ./Build clean endif instead. I won't insist that you change this, but I think it's cleaner to do things this way. Let me know when you've fixed the above (except maybe the last) and I'll sponsor the package. -- Russ

Re: RFS: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

2005-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:31:45AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This will only make a symlink if cdrtoaster isn't installed. But is there a way to make the symlink if cdrtoaster is installed, and then gets removed

Re: RFS: libparams-util-perl -- Perl extension for simple standalone param-checking functions

2005-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: libparams-util-perl -- Perl extension for simple standalone param-checking functions

2005-12-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Genannt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: Everything else looks good. Drop me a line when the above has been fixed and I'll be happy to sponsor the upload. Ok, I have updated the package. Can you please look at the copyright-file if it's now ok? I guess I'm still missing

Re: RFS: k9copy

2005-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
stay rather than using overrides. A lintian override to me means that the lintian message is wrong in this particular case, not that it's a known bug. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: RFS: k9copy

2005-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
man page QA project gets resurrected, it will be easy for others to find the packages that need assistance. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: RFS: fhist -- File history, comparison and merge utilities

2005-11-20 Thread Russ Allbery
the old fhist-doc package. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: RFS: fhist -- File history, comparison and merge utilities

2005-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
, they should probably be listed in .PHONY, for consistency and transparency. It's common in older packages, probably due to some migration of policy from long ago. I just strip it out routinely whenever I see it. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
-base +makedev +passwd +procps -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:13:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Essential means that it's very difficult to remove the package and you have to jump through extreme hoops to do so, and that removing it may break the system. Yes, but how is that different

Re: include in mentors faq? Re: DFSG compliant packages (Solution)

2005-10-02 Thread Russ Allbery
is for things the package needs to build. Things the package needs to run get-orig-source or the like are neither, and therefore don't need to be listed, IMO. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: include in mentors faq? Re: DFSG compliant packages (Solution)

2005-10-02 Thread Russ Allbery
talking about updating the .orig.tar.gz tarball, and the script that was upthread called rpm2cpio as part of that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Removing non-free documentation from a package

2005-09-15 Thread Russ Allbery
to -doc in this particular case, since otherwise when browsing the package list I'd think I'd have to install the -doc package to get any documentation at all (rather than just a separate tutorial). -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: pbuilder -- chroot and build-dependencies.

2005-09-01 Thread Russ Allbery
having the build dependencies installed outside the chroot. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use svn(-buildpackage) with pbuilder?

2005-08-03 Thread Russ Allbery
upstream whenever possible, since that way (as previously mentioned) signatures are still valid, MD5 checksums are still valid, etc. The exception would be when you have to repackage upstream because of non-free files or similar problems. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Advice on dpatch vs post-patching?

2005-07-10 Thread Russ Allbery
maintainers might take. They still might not be willing, but at least you have a fighting chance, where as the post-configure sed stuff they'll never want. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: debian/rules: Moving to debhelper or cdbs

2005-05-18 Thread Russ Allbery
it. The minimal modifications that one makes in an NMU are hopefully unlikely to result in other unrelated Policy violations due to forgetting to do something that a debhelper script might have remembered. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: RFS: I'm looking for a sponsor for xlogmaster (an orphaned kackage).

2005-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
. I thought the user would only be prompted if the file changed *and* they had made local modifications to the old file. The last is fairly unlikely for READMEs. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Questions about packaging LaTeX macros

2005-04-15 Thread Russ Allbery
be regenerated from the package. You should be able to do this by running latex and pdflatex on the .dtx file. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacement package

2005-03-08 Thread Russ Allbery
else, you have to get permission from DJB, although he's stated elsewhere that he doesn't think copyright law can prohibit the distribution of patches or your application of patches to software you're building yourself. (Note that doesn't include distributing the result.) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
need the debian-policy package installed for that to work... Having debian-policy installed plus using apt-listchanges is a pretty nice way of getting notified of new policy releases too. :) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
a new Debian package, it's important enough to release a new upstream release too, and just make it clear to people in the release notes whether it's a bug fix they're likely to care about. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Russ Allbery
a new Debian package, it's important enough to release a new upstream release too, and just make it clear to people in the release notes whether it's a bug fix they're likely to care about. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: imgvtopgm

2004-08-10 Thread Russ Allbery
on one of them. I do have a bunch of new packages that I'd like to contribute over time too, but I figured it would be better to start with adoptions and only add new packages after I'd helped with the backlog of packages needing an owner. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

RFS: xfonts-jmk -- James M. Knoble's character-cell fonts for X

2004-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
: Package: xfonts-jmk Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 984 Maintainer: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 3.0-5 Depends: xutils (= 4.0.3) Filename: dists/sid/main/binary-all/x11/xfonts-jmk_3.0-5_all.deb Size: 515976 MD5sum: deae9853e1c48573f0b07b81f44d88ff

RFS: xfonts-jmk -- James M. Knoble's character-cell fonts for X

2004-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
: Package: xfonts-jmk Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 984 Maintainer: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 3.0-5 Depends: xutils (= 4.0.3) Filename: dists/sid/main/binary-all/x11/xfonts-jmk_3.0-5_all.deb Size: 515976 MD5sum: deae9853e1c48573f0b07b81f44d88ff

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
segfaults you're getting or how they're produced. Is there a fairly self-contained example that you know is segfaulting that you can include? I've done varargs conversions before and have written a fair bit of stdarg code, so maybe I can help. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Russ Allbery
segfaults you're getting or how they're produced. Is there a fairly self-contained example that you know is segfaulting that you can include? I've done varargs conversions before and have written a fair bit of stdarg code, so maybe I can help. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http

Re: Seeking sponsor for Emilda and related packages

2004-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
, as I'm running into this in several packages I'm working on. For the time being, I've just been ignoring it, but I'm not sure if that's correct. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Seeking sponsor for Emilda and related packages

2004-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
try to get this fixed. Note that there's a much newer version of pod2man that's awaiting Pod::Simple to be completely ready for it to be released, and a variety of changes are waiting on that process. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Seeking sponsor for Emilda and related packages

2004-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
/\n/; 1 while s/^(.*?)(\t+)/$1 . ' ' x (length ($2) * 8 - length ($1) % 8)/me; s/\\/\\e/g; +s/-/\\-/g; s/^(\s*\S)/'\' . $1/gme; $self-makespace; $self-output (.Vb $lines\n$_.Ve\n); -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/

Re: Seeking sponsor for Emilda and related packages

2004-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
, as I'm running into this in several packages I'm working on. For the time being, I've just been ignoring it, but I'm not sure if that's correct. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Seeking sponsor for Emilda and related packages

2004-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
/\n/; 1 while s/^(.*?)(\t+)/$1 . ' ' x (length ($2) * 8 - length ($1) % 8)/me; s/\\/\\e/g; +s/-/\\-/g; s/^(\s*\S)/'\' . $1/gme; $self-makespace; $self-output (.Vb $lines\n$_.Ve\n); -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

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