Re: new-maintainer@debian.org dead?

1999-07-26 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Michael == Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: Can you please try and fix `fakeroot' for us? And how without being maintainer should I upload any changes?

library dependency problem

1999-07-26 Thread Jim Mintha
I have a problem with the slang library. The current version is slang1_1.2.2 I began to package the new version 1.3.8. I installed it on my own system to test and everything went fine. However when I upgraded to the latest potato anything depending on slang1 broke because they all had depends

Re: Multiple binaries = multiple packages ?

1999-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Gopal Narayanan writes: Based on this, it seems to me that I should make 5 separate wrapper packages, and force dependencies accordingly. Am I right? How about a single package with a postinst that figures out what binary the user needs and tells him what to get and how to get it? If you are

Re: library dependency problem

1999-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 02:19:33AM +0200, Jim Mintha wrote: I have a problem with the slang library. The current version is slang1_1.2.2 I began to package the new version 1.3.8. I installed it on my own system to test and everything went fine. However when I upgraded to the latest potato

Adopting packages

1999-07-26 Thread Dpk
The web pages give much information about creating Debian packages. However, I am starting out by adopting an existing package, which I have found much information about doing. Could someone point me in the right direction on how to modify existing packages? Please CC me on any e-mails, as I

Re: library dependency problem

1999-07-26 Thread James Mastros
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 02:19:33AM +0200, Jim Mintha wrote: slang1 ( 1.3), slang1 ( 1.2.2-0) When I took over the slang1 package I failed to notice the shlibs that defined the above. The problem is that version 1.3.x is compatible with 1.2. This leaves me with a number of options: Hmm,

Re: upstream author == debian maintainer

1999-07-26 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:32:08PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote: While waiting to become a debian maintainer, I am trying to polish my package(s), and I have a few questions: 1) I am the author of program I am packaging. To save myself some work, I have packaged it as a native debian

Re: Adopting packages

1999-07-26 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
You might trye looking in the maint-guide package or in the article on OpenResources about packing for Debian (http://www.openresources.com/magazine) Regards Javi On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:51:00AM -0400, Dpk wrote: The web pages give much information about creating

Re: Multiple binaries = multiple packages ?

1999-07-26 Thread Gopal Narayanan
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 10:04:15PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Gopal Narayanan writes: Based on this, it seems to me that I should make 5 separate wrapper packages, and force dependencies accordingly. Am I right? How about a single package with a postinst that figures out what binary the

category code

1999-07-26 Thread Gwyneth Lloyd-Jones
Hi. I am currently working on a project closely related to debian. We are trying to add another package category to the installation process. When installing a debian system to a computer, it asks you which set of packages you want to install on your system (i.e. Admin, Basic, Devel_comp,

Re: category code

1999-07-26 Thread Will Lowe
Devel_std etc...). Does anyone have any pointers to where I might find the source code which generates this screen and process this info? I would check out the boot-floppies package: http://packages.debian.org/boot-floppies Will

Re: category code

1999-07-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Gwyneth Lloyd-Jones wrote: Does anyone have any pointers to where I might find the source code which generates this screen and process this info? Check the boot-floppies package. Wichert. -- == This