Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the 
plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu community 
as you can become a package maintainer once you get proficient and have the 
time for it. 

On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:28, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:

 On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa
 dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite
 dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1
 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED
 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
 dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Package' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Version' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Architecture' in input data
 in general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Essential' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Depends' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Description' in input data
 in general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: error: Clifton Test Suite v0.1/debian/control doesn't list any
 binary package
 
 dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1
 gave error exit status 255
 debuild: fatal error at line 1364:
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed
 
 
 Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout.
 
 https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the
 canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there.
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Agreed,

Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figure out what its 
choking on. (I am not an expert on debian packaging but I will do my best to 
help you).

On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:31, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope wrote:
 On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
  dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa
 dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite
 dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1
 dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED
 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
  dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Package' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Version' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Architecture' in input data
 in general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Essential' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Depends' in input data in
 general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Description' in input data
 in general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: error: Clifton Test Suite v0.1/debian/control doesn't list any
 binary package
 
 dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1
 gave error exit status 255
 debuild: fatal error at line 1364:
 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed
 
 Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout.
 
 https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the
 canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there.
 
 Al.
 
 I have to be honest I have no idea what is supposed to go in a debian control 
 file. This one was nicked and modified off the internet and I can't find any 
 real explaination of what is supposed to go in there. It's very surprising 
 things are still like this. You're supposed to just know and get it right. 
 The software gives you no leway. I'm sure once I've done it once it will all 
 become very easy but this is a bit of a nightmare.
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Yeah no worries mate and yes I hate the aggressive stance people sometimes take 
too. I tend to avoid posting on forums as I hate responses like that.

Python in particular is a fantastic language to learn and it forces you to use 
good best practices if you aim to follow pep-8. 

Looking at the Control file you have sent I cannot see what is wrong. Hopefully 
someone more experienced with packaging will be able to see the problem.

I will have another look later if I get chance but I currently have some 
pressing deadlines.

Sorry I cannot be of more help,

Alan Jenkins 

On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:35, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 24/04/14 11:31, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the 
 plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu 
 community as you can become a package maintainer once you get proficient and 
 have the time for it.
 
 
 I know, I have struggled to get to grips with programming post quick basic 
 and it is actually very depressing. I have found places you can go to ask for 
 help and get treated like a moron because you don't already know. I have 
 looked and gui's and I swear I will never understand! I am however loving 
 python and perl, they make sense to me. My biggest problem is my methods and 
 my way of looking at programming challenges is horrendously out of date. I'm 
 hoping people will correct me as time goes on and maybe, just maybe you guys 
 can drag me into this century.
 
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Hey Gareth,

Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this 
builds an unsigned source package:

debuild -i -us -uc -S

and this builds the binary:

debuild -i -us -uc -b

Give that a try =)

On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout.
 
 https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the
 canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there.
 
 Al.
 
 Hooray! I've figured it out! I just had to juggle the order of the entries in 
 control and separate the two paragraphs. However now I'm getting a gpg 
 signing error. How can I do this without needing that?
 
 
 Now signing changes and any dsc files...
 signfile cliftontestsuite_0.1-1.dsc Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
 gpg: directory `/home/gareth/.gnupg' created
 gpg: new configuration file `/home/gareth/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
 gpg: WARNING: options in `/home/gareth/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active 
 during this run
 gpg: keyring `/home/gareth/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
 gpg: keyring `/home/gareth/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
 gpg: skipped Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk: secret key not 
 available
 gpg: /tmp/debsign.inJng4qL/cliftontestsuite_0.1-1.dsc: clearsign failed: 
 secret key not available
 debsign: gpg error occurred!  Aborting
 debuild: fatal error at line 1283:
 running debsign failed
 
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign 
the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage).

On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins alan.james.jenk...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 Hey Gareth,
 
 Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this 
 builds an unsigned source package:
 
 debuild -i -us -uc -S
 
 and this builds the binary:
 
 debuild -i -us -uc -b
 
 Give that a try =)
 
 On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout.
 
 https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the
 canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there.
 
 Al.
 
 Hooray! I've figured it out! I just had to juggle the order of the entries 
 in control and separate the two paragraphs. However now I'm getting a gpg 
 signing error. How can I do this without needing that?
 
 
 Now signing changes and any dsc files...
 signfile cliftontestsuite_0.1-1.dsc Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
 gpg: directory `/home/gareth/.gnupg' created
 gpg: new configuration file `/home/gareth/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
 gpg: WARNING: options in `/home/gareth/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active 
 during this run
 gpg: keyring `/home/gareth/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
 gpg: keyring `/home/gareth/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
 gpg: skipped Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk: secret key not 
 available
 gpg: /tmp/debsign.inJng4qL/cliftontestsuite_0.1-1.dsc: clearsign failed: 
 secret key not available
 debsign: gpg error occurred!  Aborting
 debuild: fatal error at line 1283:
 running debsign failed
 
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
No problem mate =) glad its sorted.

On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:41, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 24/04/14 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 Hey Gareth,
 
 Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this 
 builds an unsigned source package:
 
 debuild -i -us -uc -S
 
 and this builds the binary:
 
 debuild -i -us -uc -b
 
 Give that a try =)
 
 On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout.
 
 https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the
 canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there.
 
 Al.
 
 Hooray! I've figured it out! I just had to juggle the order of the entries 
 in control and separate the two paragraphs. However now I'm getting a gpg 
 signing error. How can I do this without needing that?
 
 
 Now signing changes and any dsc files...
 signfile cliftontestsuite_0.1-1.dsc Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk
 gpg: directory `/home/gareth/.gnupg' created
 gpg: new configuration file `/home/gareth/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
 gpg: WARNING: options in `/home/gareth/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active 
 during this run
 gpg: keyring `/home/gareth/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
 gpg: keyring `/home/gareth/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
 gpg: skipped Gareth gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk: secret key not 
 available
 gpg: /tmp/debsign.inJng4qL/cliftontestsuite_0.1-1.dsc: clearsign failed: 
 secret key not available
 debsign: gpg error occurred!  Aborting
 debuild: fatal error at line 1283:
 running debsign failed
 
 
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 Now running lintian...
 W: cliftontestsuite source: no-section-field-for-source
 W: cliftontestsuite source: debhelper-compat-file-is-missing
 W: cliftontestsuite source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1
 E: cliftontestsuite source: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends
 E: cliftontestsuite source: maintainer-address-missing Gareth France
 W: cliftontestsuite source: no-debian-copyright
 Finished running lintian.
 gareth@gareth-OptiPlex-GX280:~/test/Clifton Test Suite v0.1$
 
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Yeah no worries mate it happens to all of us =).

On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:43, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to 
 sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage).
 
 On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins alan.james.jenk...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 
 
 My problem was that I really wasn't sure where to turn to look for this sort 
 of stuff. I've poked around so many forums and man pages these last few days 
 my head is spinning!
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Hey Pete,

From experience I know that the worst part of getting a piece of software 
packaged is the initial setup. Once that is done and the infrastructure is in 
place it is easy to keep updating the package. However as you have seen it can 
be a real pain in the bum to get setup if you have not done it before.

There are several suites of tools to help you build packages though but as I 
have previously stated I have not got a lot of experience building debian 
packages (I have a lot more experience building rpm’s for work).

Don’t let this put you off though and give it a try at some point plus now you 
can also learn from this thread and of course if you hit your own problems just 
mail us all and we will do our best to help you.

Thanks,

Alan Jenkins

On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:50, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 24/04/14 14:43, Gareth France wrote:
 On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not
 to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage).
 
 On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins
 alan.james.jenk...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
 My problem was that I really wasn't sure where to turn to look for this
 sort of stuff. I've poked around so many forums and man pages these last
 few days my head is spinning!
 
 Hi,
 As a complete novice following this thread wit interest, I am put off 
 compiling my small (but hopefully) useful prog to a .deb and will continue to 
 call it from a script ;(
 
 This is a shame as I was hoping to expand my programme and and add a GUI, 
 more as a project for me than anything, and maybe if all went well add it to 
 the repo's but the world will just have to wait!!
 
 Congratulations on your eventual success
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Could you please give us the output of these commands:

echo $PATH

ls -la /usr/bin/seaward

head -n1 /usr/bin/seaward

Thanks,

Alan
On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:17, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 23/04/14 15:15, Stuart Ward wrote:
 
 On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have tried renaming the file but still get a 'Command not found' error. 
 Any ideas
 
 My guess it that it will be permissions. what do you see with a ls -l 
 /usr/bin/seaward
 
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 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6844 Apr 23 15:09 seaward
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as the 
script is in your path, is executable to everyone and has the correct 
interpreter set in the shebang.

Is it not working?
On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 Could you please give us the output of these commands:
 
 echo $PATH
 /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
 
 
 ls -la /usr/bin/seaward
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6844 Apr 23 15:09 /usr/bin/CTS/seaward
 
 head -n1 /usr/bin/seaward
 
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Also try:

which seaward

If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your 
path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seaward` was to determine whether or not it 
was a valid symbolic link but tbh the ls -la /usr/bin/seaward showed that it 
was a symlink to /usr/bin/CTS/seaward already so dunno why I asked you to do 
that.

If you call the script with its absolute path e.g:

/usr/bin/seaward

Does it work?

On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:33, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 23 April 2014 15:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 
 Could you please give us the output of these commands:
 
 echo $PATH
 
 /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
 
 
 ls -la /usr/bin/seaward
 
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6844 Apr 23 15:09 /usr/bin/CTS/seaward
 
 What is that CTS doing there?
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Good stuff glad you got it working =).

On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:39, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

 On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 Also try:
 
 which seaward
 
 If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your 
 path. Reason for the `file /usr/bin/seaward` was to determine whether or not 
 it was a valid symbolic link but tbh the ls -la /usr/bin/seaward showed that 
 it was a symlink to /usr/bin/CTS/seaward already so dunno why I asked you to 
 do that.
 
 If you call the script with its absolute path e.g:
 
 /usr/bin/seaward
 
 Does it work?
 
 On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:33, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 On 23 April 2014 15:22, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote:
 
 Could you please give us the output of these commands:
 
 echo $PATH
 
 /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
 
 
 ls -la /usr/bin/seaward
 
 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6844 Apr 23 15:09 /usr/bin/CTS/seaward
 What is that CTS doing there?
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Learning Ubuntu....

2009-03-05 Thread Alan James Jenkins
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Guys you really make me wish that I was old enough to have done all of
this. The only way I can get close is by playing with the oldest servers
I could find in my college when I ran it for them for a while (VMS
based). One thing I still find funny about that OS is the Crash command.

Sean Miller wrote:
 Sun did us a course in Solaris at Foster Yeoman (we were the first UK
 Oracle 7 production site, beat that!) and I have to say that Unix and
 VMS were about as different as chalk and cheese.
 
 But I worked it out and became a Unix expert as I'd been a VMS one...
 
 Sean
 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] MBR

2009-02-20 Thread Alan James Jenkins
I see no problem with this other than you must make sure you do not  
accidentally unplug the USB drive while in use as that may result in  
dataloss depending on what you are doing.

Just be careful though and all should be ok.


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 Some of you may remember that I wrote the following a couple of weeks
 ago and I received several helpful replies:-

 The machine I am writing this on has been playing up for a long, long
 time and each time I switch on I wait in trepidation to see whether or
 not it will actually boot up.  Usually it does but I have to accept  
 that
 it is coming to the end of its life.  I have a Windows XP machine,  
 which
 I've never actually opened up.  I propose to remove the master drive
 from the Linux machine on which Ubuntu is installed and insert it into
 the Windows one.  It will then become the slave drive.  What I would
 like to know is how to create a new MBR on the Windows machine as I
 shall wish it to boot up into Ubuntu for 95% of the time.

 As it turned out it was all academic because the drive in the ailing
 machine was an IDE drive and the newer machine had SATA connections  
 so I
 ended up partitioning and installing Ubuntu onto the single, 320Gb,
 drive which seems big enough.

 As it happens I had lying about in the attic an old USB caddie so I
 inserted the Ubuntu disc into it and connected it to a Vista laptop
 which boots from USB and switched on.  Lo and behold I was presented
 with the Grub menu and was able to boot up into Ubuntu.

 The reason for this now lengthy missive, for which I apologise, is to
 ask the experts who may read it whether it is safe to run Ubuntu in  
 this
 fashion, or am I in danger of corrupting data on either the Ubuntu or
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nonsensical jack sensing - A bug day idea

2009-02-20 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Pulseaudio is just another layer above alsa providing mixing amongst  
other things. Alsa is still used for outputting the sounds.



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On 20 Feb 2009, at 15:11, Jacob Williams jacobw...@googlemail.com  
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Forgive me if I misunderstand, but ALSA not in the process of being  
superseeded by PulseAudio?


On 20 Feb 2009, 1:43 PM, Philip Wyett philwy...@gmx.com wrote:

Hi all,

Users of Linux with ALSA on laptops and other mobile devices have for
years often been presented with the fun and games of sound working  
great
but then plugging in headphones leaves you with no sound or sound  
coming

out of speakers and headphones etc. This annoys many and makes distros
look poor to the new user in some cases. Could we have a bug day for  
and

in conjunction with ALSA to collect as much per user hardware and what
they set to fix it i.e. the 'options' in alsa-base to maybe allow the
ALSA project to make things better for all.

Your thoughts would be appreciated?

Regards

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