Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Jérôme Warnier
Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am guessing this has been thought of before but haven't seen anything for it, so I thought I

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alex Samad wrote: Yes, I'm doing this for years. I ended up with binary packages andreas-base, andreas-nox, andreas-x and andreas-laptop on my local mirror and these packages will be installed on new boxes. sounds like where I am going Yes (according to the explanation i

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 07:11:31AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alex Samad wrote: >> Any one else done this, > > Yes, I'm doing this for years. I ended up with binary packages > andreas-base, andreas-nox, andreas-x and andreas-laptop on my > local mirror and these packages wi

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 05:55:31PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:20:12AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why > > not > > build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007, Alex Samad wrote: Any one else done this, Yes, I'm doing this for years. I ended up with binary packages andreas-base, andreas-nox, andreas-x and andreas-laptop on my local mirror and these packages will be installed on new boxes. what hurdles might I face ? I did not

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-22 Thread Vincent Danjean
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> dlocate has been fixed, so I think we could upload to unstable >> already? > > I think so, I intend to upload findutils on saturday or sunday. Please, take care to upload findutils before mlocate to avoid mistake with

Re: Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:20:12AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not > build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the > corresponding configuration files. > > I am guessing this has been thought of b

Help With Custom Deb Package

2007-11-22 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am guessing this has been thought of before but haven't seen anything for it, so I thought I would come to the l

Bug#452422: RFP: yacy -- distributed web crawler and search engine

2007-11-22 Thread Luca Brivio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: yacy Version : 0.55 Upstream Author : Michael Christen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://yacy.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Java Description : distribut

Re: Early adopters of symbol based dependencies needed

2007-11-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:20:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > With debhelper 5.0.61, dh_makeshlibs will also call dpkg-gensymbols if it > > finds debian/.symbols (or debian/.symbols.). So > > for packages using debhelper, the only thing to do is to drop the right > > symbo

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:55:50PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > What I'm suggesting is to grep for them in maintainer scripts. Any empty > directory created in /etc and which isn't used in the maintainer scripts > is likely to be a mistake. You'd need to check binaries as well - quite a few t

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > dlocate has been fixed, so I think we could upload to unstable > already? I think so, I intend to upload findutils on saturday or sunday. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I

Re: Opinions sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?

2007-11-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Metzler [Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:57:29 +0100]: > Hello, > FYI I think we have got most pieces now: > - GNU locate package in experimental (Priority: optional) split-off > from findutils, using update-alternatives. The locate package > conflicts with slocate (<= 3.1-1.1). The respective

Re: Packages with empty directories

2007-11-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 14:08 -0500, Daniel Schepler a écrit : > Some of the common false positives are /var/lib/ or /etc/, or > subdirectories under one of those. Since often doesn't match the > binary package name exactly, I don't see any easy way to detect these cases. What I'm sugge

Bug#452373: ITP: glam2 -- Gapped Local Alignment of Motifs

2007-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: glam2 Version : 1023 Upstream Authors: Martin C Frith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Timothy L Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://bioinformatics.org.au/glam2 Li

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Küster
Don Armstrong debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > > - the source is present, no freedom is taken: The document is present, > > > > the source code. > > > > - the pdf can be regenerated albeit with minor quality

Re: gcc compilation error with abs() affects sarge, etch, lenny, sid

2007-11-22 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 08:52:09AM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > > Today I saw a thread on the linux-kernel list [1] about a gcc compilation > > issue that affects _all_ gcc versions in Debian after gcc-2.95. > > I've filed bugs reports: > > #452108 (gcc-4.2); #452113 (gcc-4.1); #4521

Re: gcc compilation error with abs() affects sarge, etch, lenny, sid

2007-11-22 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nikita V. Youshchenko: > I think this should be fixed in stable as well. And probably even in > oldstable. Miscompilation is BAD thing ... In practice, long-standing compiler bugs have very little practical impact, otherwise they wouldn't be long-standing. We've fixed similar bugs in GCC befo