upload to project/experimental

1998-07-05 Thread Frederic Peters
Hi. Express should go in project/experimental, what's the way to upload there ? Thanks. -- Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> « Le travail a été ce que l'homme Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.orga trouvé de mieux pour ne rien LinuxFever: http://LinuxFever.home.ml.org faire de sa v

moving confflie to another location

1998-07-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, I am squashing the bugs in the xisp package. Report 12773 asks to move a conffile from /etc/options.xisp to /etc/ppp/options.xisp. This sounds reasonable. To handle upgrading from an old version, is it enough to move the file in preinst? Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: (un)subcribe: debian-[private|testing|security-private]

1998-07-05 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Florian Hinzmann wrote: > On 03-Jul-98 Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > The testing group is not private, the subscriptions are just done by hand. > > Either you or the Debian website is wrong, > http://www.de.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe: > > "debian-testing >This

Re: (un)subcribe: debian-[private|testing|security-private]

1998-07-05 Thread Florian Hinzmann
On 03-Jul-98 Brandon Mitchell wrote: >> Can I and how can I change my subscription to the >> non open mailing lists? > > The testing group is not private, the subscriptions are just done by hand. Either you or the Debian website is wrong, http://www.de.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe: "debi

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 03:25:40PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > JC> /usr/doc/debhelper/from-debstd > > JC> It raised another though: The result of following these instructions > showed > JC> me a LOT of things to add to debian/rules. Most of them aren't used > in this > JC> package. How

Re: 2 packages using same conffile

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:25:28AM -0600, James LewisMoss wrote: > Joseph> I could create the file in postinst if it doesn't exist, but > Joseph> this seems like a Bad Idea for many reasons. Is there > Joseph> really no Right Way to do this except to leave them as two > Joseph> seperate files

Re: 2 packages using same conffile

1998-07-05 Thread James LewisMoss
> On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 07:31:30 +, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Joseph> [1 ] What does one do in a Joseph> situation where two packages both provide the same conffile? Joseph> Currently they use different names for the file, but both Joseph> packages can (and probably should)

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JC" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JC> /usr/doc/debhelper/from-debstd JC> It raised another though: The result of following these instructions showed JC> me a LOT of things to add to debian/rules. Most of them aren't used in this JC> package. How do I know which are and whi

Re: 2 packages using same conffile

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 03:43:17AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > > I could create the file in postinst if it doesn't exist, but this seems like > > a Bad Idea for many reasons. Is there really no Right Way to do this > > except to leave them as two seperate files and have the user deal with it > > how

Re: 2 packages using same conffile

1998-07-05 Thread Joey Hess
Joseph Carter wrote: > What does one do in a situation where two packages both provide the same > conffile? Currently they use different names for the file, but both > packages can (and probably should) use the same file. How should this be > handled, both from a policy and from an implementation

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:21:43AM +, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 11:40:11PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > debstd is depricated, use the debhelper instead. > > I've seen several messages on this line, but I have to say it's not entirely > helpful. I've discovered debstd

2 packages using same conffile

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
What does one do in a situation where two packages both provide the same conffile? Currently they use different names for the file, but both packages can (and probably should) use the same file. How should this be handled, both from a policy and from an implementation standpoint? I could create

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 11:40:11PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > debstd is depricated, use the debhelper instead. I've seen several messages on this line, but I have to say it's not entirely helpful. I've discovered debstd does a LOT today. The package I'm looking at which uses it I'd like to c