Re: xwatch installed in correct section?

1998-12-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PSG" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PSG> Thanks. `admin' would be my first guess as to where to look for PSG> such a package, but I didn't see any other monitoring tools PSG> there, The xlogmaster package is in admin. Ciao, Martin

Re: pgp signing ...

1998-12-14 Thread James Troup
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You will then need to update your pgp key by sending it to the pgp > maintainer email (i forget what it is). [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James

Re: Offline package maintaning?

1998-12-14 Thread James Troup
Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to use dupload from a non-debian box? Probably, it's just perl, but you don't have to use dupload, you can always do it by hand; I did this for years on a Solaris box (and continue to do it on a Linux box). -- James

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Jason" == Jason Henry Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> I checked on master and va, they only have GTK1.0 Jason> installed, not GTK1.1, which mozilla needs to build. Are Jason> there any hosts offered by debian that have libs from Jason> unstable to help out in this

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Shaleh
> So I would recomend asking Ben Gertzfield about gtk and gtk1.1 > there could very well be a reason it isn't packaged yet (could be anything > from lack of time on hsi part to technical problems with it or packaging > it or whatever) > > Will it really NOT work with 1.0? have you tried it? > it

Re: OCAML Debian package

1998-12-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Kristoffer Rose wrote: > This is a good idea but you should of course contact the maintainer of the > existing OCAML package, version 1.05-2, before going further! It is > Christophe Le Bars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Allow some weeks for the reply. I've already contacted him and

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 04:29:31AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > I'm a recently accepted maintainer; a few days ago, while I searched for > something to package, a friend suggested that I have a look at mozilla > (since I'd managed to get it compiled on my own system from CVS). > The more I th

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Oscar Levi
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 04:29:31AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > I'm a recently accepted maintainer; a few days ago, while I searched for > something to package, a friend suggested that I have a look at mozilla > (since I'd managed to get it compiled on my own system from CVS). > The more I th

OCAML Debian package

1998-12-14 Thread Kristoffer Rose
Dear Sven and Fernando, You have both expressed an interest in packaging a more recent version of OCAML than the one that is presently in Debian. This is a good idea but you should of course contact the maintainer of the existing OCAML package, version 1.05-2, before going further! It is Christo

Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-14 Thread Jason Henry Parker
I'm a recently accepted maintainer; a few days ago, while I searched for something to package, a friend suggested that I have a look at mozilla (since I'd managed to get it compiled on my own system from CVS). The more I think of taking it on, the better it sounds, but there's one snag[1]. When I

Re: .diff question

1998-12-14 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Fernando Sanchez wrote: > First, to compile ocaml I need to call "make install" (in 'rules' file) in > the following way for it to install binaries where it has to: > > $(MAKE) install BINDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/bin \ > LIBDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/lib/ocaml MANDIR=`pwd`/debi

RE: .diff question

1998-12-14 Thread Shaleh
On 14-Dec-98 Fernando Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > I'm packaging ocaml, a ml-type language interpreter and compiler, > and everything works ok but I have two questions, I hope quite easy to > answer: > > First, to compile ocaml I need to call "make install" (in 'rules' file) in > the following

.diff question

1998-12-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
Hello, I'm packaging ocaml, a ml-type language interpreter and compiler, and everything works ok but I have two questions, I hope quite easy to answer: First, to compile ocaml I need to call "make install" (in 'rules' file) in the following way for it to install binaries where it has to:

Re: pgp signing ...

1998-12-14 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:56:10PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > * is there a dpkg-buildpackage option to give the pgp id to use ? You can change the maintainer but that defeats the purpose. > * is it possible to change the pgp id in the keyring ? You can add this new ID to your existing key with

RE: non-free, contrib or main ?

1998-12-14 Thread Shaleh
On 14-Dec-98 Sven LUTHER wrote: > Hello, ... > > i am currently packaging mlgtk, the Ocaml bindings for Gtk+. > > the mlgtk sources are under the LGPL, so they should go into main, same as > all > the gtk stuff. > sounds like contrib if ocaml remains non-free. Is there not another ml interpre

Re: xwatch installed in correct section?

1998-12-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard Braakman wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > In this case, they changed it to contrib/x11, because it's an X program. > > In this case, it was probably a mistake. I don't consciously remember > changing it. utils fits as well as anything, though perhaps admin > would be better. I chang

non-free, contrib or main ?

1998-12-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... i am currently packaging mlgtk, the Ocaml bindings for Gtk+. the mlgtk sources are under the LGPL, so they should go into main, same as all the gtk stuff. but ocaml is in non-free (well actually it is just on my harddrive, because i am still asking autorisation from the autors to make

pgp signing ...

1998-12-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... i became debian developper recently, and am using a pgp id in the form of my name, followed by my private email address. now i actually began to build packages, and i figured it would be best to put my debian email address in the maintainer field instead of my private one. so i did

Re: Fw: New section in potato?

1998-12-14 Thread Richard Braakman
Ben Bucksch wrote: > the following msg was ignored in the discussion. Have I done something > wrong? Speaking for myself, I reply to less than 1% of the mail I get. And it is the nature of email discussions that you are likely to only get replies if people disagree, or if you present something wo

Offline package maintaning?

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Makholm
I'm consider to becomming a debian maintainer and I have a few packages I want to packages. My problem is that my debianbox (or linux for that sake) isn't on the net. At work we're using HPUXes and I would like to upload from there. dupload depends on dpkg but I don't see why. Is it possible to u

Re: Rebuild process

1998-12-14 Thread Arto Astala
Julian Gilbey wrote: > [...] > Erm, yes, forgot that bit!! > > You must check that you can do the following successfully, and that > the package works after you have done each one: > > (a) Upgrade from the previous version and from the version in hamm. > (b) Downgrade back again. > (c) Install th