Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:54:22PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi Frederico! > > > >You wrote: > > > >> The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to > >> display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better > >>

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:16:12PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Frederico! > > You wrote: > > > I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the > > point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no > > warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. > > Great

Request For Sponsor: libfile-temp-perl & libnetserver-generic-perl

2000-11-29 Thread Jon Middleton
Hi, I'm currently in the new maintainer queue awainting an AM to be appointed. As this can take some time, I would appreciate someone sponsoring my packages which are ready for uploading to the archive. They are libfile-temp-perl which allows access to Mktemp functions in perl and libnetserver-g

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:54:22PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi Frederico! > > > >You wrote: > > > >> The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to > >> display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better > >>

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:16:12PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Frederico! > > You wrote: > > > I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the > > point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no > > warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. > > Grea

Request For Sponsor: libfile-temp-perl & libnetserver-generic-perl

2000-11-29 Thread Jon Middleton
Hi, I'm currently in the new maintainer queue awainting an AM to be appointed. As this can take some time, I would appreciate someone sponsoring my packages which are ready for uploading to the archive. They are libfile-temp-perl which allows access to Mktemp functions in perl and libnetserver-

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Frederico! > >You wrote: > >> The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to >> display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better >> aproach would be to change the code so it would get the PAGER env var >> and g

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Frederico! You wrote: > I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the > point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no > warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. Great. > The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just > tw

Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
Hello all! I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just two or three code files)... my only

Re: what task-imap is for ?

2000-11-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > > I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap > > I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but.. > ..I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or > courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? > > What exactly is for ? >

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Frederico! > >You wrote: > >> The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to >> display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better >> aproach would be to change the code so it would get the PAGER env var >> and

Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So now I'm going back to the previous solution with just one package. I > will probably upload it today and tomorrow. Where do I tell that > uploaded packages should be removed? > submit a bug on ftp.debian.org.

Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:38:50AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > the problem is that I can not build one without installing the other, but I > can not build that one without installing the other one. So, how do you do > it? A package in debian must be able to be built within Debian. I insta

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Frederico! You wrote: > I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the > point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no > warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. Great. > The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just > t

Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
Hello all! I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just two or three code files)... my onl

Re: what task-imap is for ?

2000-11-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: > > I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap > > I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but.. > ..I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or > courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? > > What exactly is for ? >

Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So now I'm going back to the previous solution with just one package. I > will probably upload it today and tomorrow. Where do I tell that > uploaded packages should be removed? > submit a bug on ftp.debian.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:38:50AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > the problem is that I can not build one without installing the other, but I > can not build that one without installing the other one. So, how do you do > it? A package in debian must be able to be built within Debian. I inst

what task-imap is for ?

2000-11-29 Thread Jaume Teixi
I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but.. ..I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? What exactly is for ? thanks a lot, jaume.

what task-imap is for ?

2000-11-29 Thread Jaume Teixi
I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but.. ..I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? What exactly is for ? thanks a lot, jaume. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

php4 oci8 debian help

2000-11-29 Thread Jaume Teixi
Hi, As specified on http://www.php.net/manual/install-unix.php I'm trying to buid php4 with oci8 support on a debian potato server where I have oracle installed. By now could you help me on build this oci8 support on Debian? I need to create the oci8.so file and have a lot of problems, mainly by

Re: help me help you

2000-11-29 Thread Carey Evans
Patrick Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I feel that my time might be better spent on possibly writing > documentation or something similar. There's plenty to do here. Have a look at all the man pages on your system that are symlinked to undocumented.7.gz, choose one you know about, and write

php4 oci8 debian help

2000-11-29 Thread Jaume Teixi
Hi, As specified on http://www.php.net/manual/install-unix.php I'm trying to buid php4 with oci8 support on a debian potato server where I have oracle installed. By now could you help me on build this oci8 support on Debian? I need to create the oci8.so file and have a lot of problems, mainly by

Re: help me help you

2000-11-29 Thread Carey Evans
Patrick Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I feel that my time might be better spent on possibly writing > documentation or something similar. There's plenty to do here. Have a look at all the man pages on your system that are symlinked to undocumented.7.gz, choose one you know about, and write