Re: packages

1998-07-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Arthur Dardia wrote: > I'm interested in helping out Debian. I like the idea of a free OS > instead of Windows 95 or NT. That's why I decided to try to install > linux on my old 486. When I eventually get it installed, I'd like to > help the community as much as I possibly can. I was wondering

packages

1998-07-07 Thread Arthur Dardia
I'm interested in helping out Debian. I like the idea of a free OS instead of Windows 95 or NT. That's why I decided to try to install linux on my old 486. When I eventually get it installed, I'd like to help the community as much as I possibly can. I was wondering what people want done the mos

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

1998-07-07 Thread treacy
> I cc this reply to webmaster so he can change the > wrong information at www.debian.org. > [snip] Fixed. > > The website is wrong. Somehow, this info went out incorrectly when the > > list was started, and it keeps showing up in different places. I could > > have sworn that this was fixed a

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-07 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
As the author of one of those documents, (Will Lowe is the other but I don't know if he is still working on it.) I agree completely. I no longer use debstd in my own packages and don't recommend it to others. Since around February off and on, I've been working on a revised edition which would be

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

1998-07-07 Thread Florian Hinzmann
I cc this reply to webmaster so he can change the wrong information at www.debian.org. On 05-Jul-98 Brandon Mitchell wrote: > 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.

Re: moving confflie to another location

1998-07-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "APH" == Adam P Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MB> Ok, I've made a perlscript to handle this. Seems to work as MB> expected. Maybe someone else finds it useful. MB> #!/usr/bin/perl MB> MB> use File::Copy; APH> Is File::Copy part of perl

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 03:51:47PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > depricated means that the item is accepted for now(mostly for > compatibility), but is expected to eventually disappear. The use of > libc5 is deprecated, everything is moving onto libc6. We no longer ship > a version of libc4. Hope that

Re: 2 packages using same conffile

1998-07-07 Thread Michael Bramer
On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 10:05:43PM +, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 02:53:30PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > > If there's reason, we could try to get it into a required package, > > probably base-files. base-file is nice, but not for only one config-file. > It's really just

Re: moving confflie to another location

1998-07-07 Thread Adam P. Harris
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I've made a perlscript to handle this. Seems to work as > expected. Maybe someone else finds it useful. [...] > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use File::Copy; Is File::Copy part of perl-base? If not, you'll have to depend (predepend?) on perl. -- .

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-07 Thread Adam P. Harris
Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does "supported" exactly mean? You can still submit bugs against > debmake, and if the fix is obvious, they will be fixed. Well the package is maintained, so it's still supported in that sense. You might have a hard time getting "support" for the de

Re: First Package

1998-07-07 Thread Shaleh
All in all -- not bad. Why is it linked against libc5?? It compiled against libc6 w/o hassle on my box. Why did you not include the Motif xabacus using lesstif? I just compiled and tested that too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

First Package

1998-07-07 Thread The Gecko
Ok.. I've just uploaded my first package to master -- xabacus. Would some mentor be willing to d/l it and look it over for mistakes? I used debmake / build / release set as per the documents I found on the developers-corner web page (creating a package using debmake & new-maintianers how-to) and