Re: Lintian error - newer-standards-version

I am preparing to upload the binary and source packages of dict-web1913_1.4a-1_all.deb. I have lintian 0.9.3 and debian-policy 2.5.0.0 installed, which are the versions included in slink. The debian/control file in my package includes the line: Standards-Version: 2.5.0.0

Re: correct location for (java) jar files

On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 17:46:54 -0500, Allan M. Wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Allan What is the correct location for (java) jar files? Allan /usr/lib/java /usr/share/lib/java Allan Or something else? Allan It would (also?) be useful to have a $DIR with symlinks from Allan

Non-maintainer release

What is the right procedure to do a non-maintainer upstream release? I do not want to upload my non-maintainer debian packages to the Debian server, but potentially distribute them. My major concern is that, if I am doing only a dch -v version comment the comment is entered in changelog as it

Unidentified subject!

Hello, I really don't know if this is the right place to post this message. Please apologize me if I'm wrong. I have made a debian package of a talkd replacement called blacklisted-talkd. Now that talkd is not inside netstd package it's been quite easy; I've made some tests installing and

Re: Deb structure - general question

I don't know either. Did he mention any system where matters are better? Had he any more specific comments? Did he mean source packages or binary packages or both? Here are some guesses, however: - the (source) package does not document the required environment to make package building

Question on segv dpkg wrt links in man/man1

Hi, I have a question: I am currently working on a port on csound. In package csound all manuals are linked to csound.1.gz. In de archive the csound.1.gz is not the first file to be extracted (see below). When installing a package when there is no valid link, dpkg segfaults on

Re: Deb structure - general question

(This probably belongs on debian-discuss but I'm not subscribed there -- feel free to crosspost if/when you think this is worth discussion. Probably after slink is stable would be better.) On this note -- Arto is right that we are hard pressed to standardize source packages given the diversity

dupload problem

Hi. I'm having a problem with dupload. I'm hoping someone on this list can help me. Does anyone have an explanation for this: darkland:~$ ps aux | grep dupload ares 21678 30.8 82.0 105720 51920 5 R12:43 0:42 \ perl /usr/bin/dupload Eventually, I get this:

package in frozen with a grave bug

I just started maintaining the 'chos' package which had a grave bug report filed against it (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/29/29223.html) in the slink distribution. The bug can cause severe super block curruption and loss of data. I upgraded the the upstream source to a newer version to fix the