Re: Questions about packaging a python script

1998-09-04 Thread Richard Braakman
That's quite a lot of detail :) Perhaps this should all be written down somewhere and become the Python Subpolicy? We already have such subpolicies for emacs and menu files and probably some that I forgot. It could be distributed in the python package and referenced from debian-policy. Richard

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 3 September 1998, at 17 h 37, the keyboard of Sven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debhelper ? deb-make dpkg-dev ? its a bit confusing, is there a doc on this somewhere ? IMHO, that's one of the problems that beginners packagers have: there are several docs, which say different things

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Sven
IMHO, that's one of the problems that beginners packagers have: there are several docs, which say different things (because they have been written at different time and not upgraded) and they often let you alone very soon (for instance, they talk about initial packaging and not about

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:28:09AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer écrivait: Hi Stéphane, IMHO, that's one of the problems that beginners packagers have: there are several docs, which say different things (because they have been written at different time and not upgraded) and they often let you

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 4 September 1998, at 11 h 26, the keyboard of Sven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this is true, and a bit sad, it would be very nice to have this solved ... Just do it... I considered adopting the Packaging HOWTO which seems orphan but it is work and I'm lazy :-} ha, ... there is were

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 11:26:22AM +0200, Sven écrivait: Hi, this is true, and a bit sad, it would be very nice to have this solved ... Of course. seriously tough, in the new maintainer doc it says that encrypting is not permitted in francebut signature yes ? does anyone know something

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 4 September 1998, at 11 h 35, the keyboard of Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will have to choose something to upload once I'll have my official registration :-) Me too. :-) But in fact, it seems that Martin Schulze (the only responsible I know for registering new

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Sven
According to a recent discussion on debian-french, most french Debian packagers choose the following solution: thrice a week, they take a plane to a free country (Germany is the closest from you, you just have to cross the Rhine with your bicyle) with a floppy, they sign and upload the

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Sven
PGP can read the passphrase from an environment variable (I forgot which one, see the documentation), which is safe on a mono-user machine. I believe there is an option of build to tell it *not* to invoke PGP, see the documentation. yes dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc, but that way your package is

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 4 September 1998, at 12 h 6, the keyboard of Sven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this way you don't even need to leave the country ? or is this also illegal ? I don't know. See your lawyer. what action can the governement take against me if i use 1024 pgp encryption ? According to the

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Sven
According to the law http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/francais/activ/techno/crypto06 98_1.htm, six months to two years in jail and 200 000 to 500 000 FF fine. according to some other infos, the probability of persecution is very low . and first they must catch me Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Sven
According to the law http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/francais/activ/techno/crypto06 98_1.htm, six months to two years in jail and 200 000 to 500 000 FF fine. according to http://www.telecom.gouv.fr/francais/activ/techno/crypto0698_5.htm the usage of cryptology for authetification, signature,

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 12:00:45PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer écrivait: Please don't. I've learned from him and from fellow developers that he his indeed quite busy (of course, you know he does it for Debian for free) and it processes registrations, just a bit slowly. Ok, I said that only

HELP!!!! please :)

1998-09-04 Thread Nathan Einwechter
Hey, I decided to install Debian LINUX on my computer a few days ago and actually started to do it today. I can't even get my HD Partitioned! It gives me some error that part of the format for the current hard drive is 0h something something and it needs 4 or 5 or something like that. Can

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Stephane == Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephane Just do it... I considered adopting the Packaging HOWTO Stephane which seems orphan but it is work and I'm lazy :-} The packaging HOWTO is a part of the core Policy documents, and is no longer orphaned.

Re: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:28:09AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: As an absolute beginner myself, I use: deb-make for initial packaging (in package debmake) You realize, I hope, that debmake is deprecated by its author, and is no longer being in kept in sync with policy.

Any developers around Portland Maine? need key signed

1998-09-04 Thread cfm
Are there any developers around Portland Maine USA? I need to get my key signed to get `debianized'. cfm -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher[EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 (MTRF 3-5pm)