Need sponsor - bug 112987
What with classes taking up so much of my time, I didn't at all notice that the fixed package I had up soon after the report was never gotten in. Package is at http://ferret.dyndns.org/idalton/debian/, findimagedupes 0.1.3-5 currently. Someone please to check it and get it installed? As of now it ought to be a 'serious' bug. -- Ferret -- Support your government, give Echelon / Carnivore something to parse -- classfield top-secret government restricted data information project CIA KGB GRU DISA DoD atheist defense systems military systems spy steal EMP Microsoft terrorist Allah Natasha Gregori destroy destruct attack will own send Russia bank system compromise World Trade Center international rule the world ATSC RTEM warmod ATMD force Pentagon power enforce Bin Laden Bill Gates sensitive directorate TSP NSTD ORD DD2-N AMTAS STRAP warrior-T presidental elections policital foreign fnord embassy takeover democracy -- pgp3Ja5IjqjjO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Upstream missing - what to do now
Blarrgh. I adopted zicq/krolden earlier this year. Upstream has been AWOL for months now; his website http://www.crosswinds.net/~krolden/ appears to no longer exist, and I have yet to see him connect on ICQ. I *think* krolden needs a good protocol overhaul to be able to talk to ICQ server. I'm lately been getting repeated messages, and it appears also that some messages (both sending and receiving) are not getting through. I'm also unable (mostly due to skill level, but partly due to Literature class this semester) to even attempt to update the code. Should I simply re-orphan the packages, or given the assumed protocol problems and the lack of active upstream, ask for its removal? -- Ferret -- Support your government, give Echelon / Carnivore something to parse -- classfield top-secret government restricted data information project CIA KGB GRU DISA DoD atheist defense systems military systems spy steal EMP Microsoft terrorist Allah Natasha Gregori destroy destruct attack will own send Russia bank system compromise World Trade Center international rule the world ATSC RTEM warmod ATMD force Pentagon power enforce Bin Laden Bill Gates sensitive directorate TSP NSTD ORD DD2-N AMTAS STRAP warrior-T presidental elections policital foreign fnord embassy takeover democracy -- msg04780/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Upstream missing - what to do now
Blarrgh. I adopted zicq/krolden earlier this year. Upstream has been AWOL for months now; his website http://www.crosswinds.net/~krolden/ appears to no longer exist, and I have yet to see him connect on ICQ. I *think* krolden needs a good protocol overhaul to be able to talk to ICQ server. I'm lately been getting repeated messages, and it appears also that some messages (both sending and receiving) are not getting through. I'm also unable (mostly due to skill level, but partly due to Literature class this semester) to even attempt to update the code. Should I simply re-orphan the packages, or given the assumed protocol problems and the lack of active upstream, ask for its removal? -- Ferret -- Support your government, give Echelon / Carnivore something to parse -- classfield top-secret government restricted data information project CIA KGB GRU DISA DoD atheist defense systems military systems spy steal EMP Microsoft terrorist Allah Natasha Gregori destroy destruct attack will own send Russia bank system compromise World Trade Center international rule the world ATSC RTEM warmod ATMD force Pentagon power enforce Bin Laden Bill Gates sensitive directorate TSP NSTD ORD DD2-N AMTAS STRAP warrior-T presidental elections policital foreign fnord embassy takeover democracy -- pgpF6XcujqgHx.pgp Description: PGP signature
two packages I wish some eyeballs on
Hello, I asked my sponsor (Gergely Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED]) about a week ago, haven't heard from him yet. I have two packages I would like to have checked out. Both are at http://www.aom.geek/~idalton/debian/index.html (or ferret.dyndns.org for those who still use ICANN nameservers). Lintian on the 'krolden' package gives me the following error: internal error: syntax error in control file: zicq is obsolete and dead upstream. internal error: cannot run debconf check on package krolden N: Skipping check of binary package krolden I can't figure out what causes it. The main changes were the adding of non-en templates files, so perhaps I did something wrong there. I rebuild the previous version with the same tools and it passes lintian. This package does install fine on my system, though. The fbmuck6 package is a first-try for packaging. I still have a lot of work to go on it (and related packages) and am looking for suggestions and pointers about anything badly wrong. There is planned to be an 'fbmuck-base' package to contain scripts to make the other packages more useful, a 'fbmuck6-doc' package, and possibly even an fbmuck5 set of packages. I wish to get this one fairly decent before I work on the others. I'm upstream's Debian packager, license headache maker, etc. -- Ferret I will be switching my email addresses from @ferret.dyndns.org to @mail.aom.geek on or after September 1, 2001, but not until after Debian's servers include support. 'geek' is an OpenNIC TLD. See http://www.opennic.unrated.net for details about adding OpenNIC support to your computer, or ask your provider to add support to their name servers. pgpGoAle7Xf7S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to build a package conditionally?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:28:51AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
Hi,
I'm maintaining a package (geomview) whose source is free, but parts
of it require a non-free library (xforms) to compile. Currently, the
debian source package builds a single package that omits the programs
that require xforms. There is a wishlist bug requesting that a second
package be created containing the extra bits. That seems like a
reasonable request. How do I do it?
The current geomview package is in "main", because it is DFSG free.
The second package, however, would need to be in "contrib", since it
uses the non-free "xforms" package. To me, the main problem is that I
don't want to build the second ("geomview-contrib") package
unconditionally, because of the autobuilders. I'd like to have the
default behaviour of running "dpkg-buildpackage" to be that only the
main geomview package is built. But one should be able to trigger a
build of both the main and the contrib packages.
Is there a recommended way to achieve this?
Actually.. fltk is supposed to be an xforms replacement. If geomview
could build against that, you wouldn't have to bother with contrib.
-- Ferret
Who has no idea if fltk is 100% xforms-compatible.
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Re: how to build a package conditionally?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:28:51AM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hi, I'm maintaining a package (geomview) whose source is free, but parts of it require a non-free library (xforms) to compile. Currently, the debian source package builds a single package that omits the programs that require xforms. There is a wishlist bug requesting that a second package be created containing the extra bits. That seems like a reasonable request. How do I do it? The current geomview package is in main, because it is DFSG free. The second package, however, would need to be in contrib, since it uses the non-free xforms package. To me, the main problem is that I don't want to build the second (geomview-contrib) package unconditionally, because of the autobuilders. I'd like to have the default behaviour of running dpkg-buildpackage to be that only the main geomview package is built. But one should be able to trigger a build of both the main and the contrib packages. Is there a recommended way to achieve this? Actually.. fltk is supposed to be an xforms replacement. If geomview could build against that, you wouldn't have to bother with contrib. -- Ferret Who has no idea if fltk is 100% xforms-compatible.
Re: renaming packages (was: Bug#80573: should replace grafix)
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 12:58:02PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: Hi! On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Christian Kurz wrote: Are you sure that grafix1 and grafix-dev do not have any files in common? If yes, your suggestion would be alright. yes, fine :) Will apt-get upgrade work if the new package only has | Replaces: foo | Conflicts: foo ioe, will it pick up the new package automatically if the old one was installed? (it didn't for me although I might have screwed up) Hm, why do you ask me such a question via this mail, when you can get a faster and better answer via IRC, where some other people can help too? I'll ask on -mentors now [x-post fup2] We have an old package grafix which should be replaced by grafix1. What is the correct way to do this? If I simply add the new grafix1 package with Package: grafix1 Replaces: grafix Conflicts: grafix then apt-get install grafix1 will work just fine (i.e. remove grafix), however apt-get (dist-)upgrade will not realize there's a new version under a different name. The only solution I could come up with currently is to make a new grafix package also (with no content, only meta information) that would depend on the grafix1 package, so upon upgrade the new grafix package would require grafix1 and since this conflicts with grafix itself, grafix will be removed and grafix1 installed. I used a Provides: statement to solve a similar problem cropping up in dselect on my system. What if you add Provides: grafix to your package, and see if that works. I'm not sure about having a new package providing an older, obsoleted package and then removing the Provides in dist+1 or dist+2 though. Would be nice to know if it would solve your immediate problem with apt-get [dist-]upgrade. This is however an ugly solution in Shorty's and my opinion, so I'ld like to know wheter there is a better solution. If not, how long should this fake package be kept around?
