Re: Debian package && New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread fsteen
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Eric Leblanc wrote: |On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 08:18:05AM +0200, Fredrik Steen wrote: |> I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I |> have done. I want to be fully prepered and have quality packages when |> I apply for being a new maintainer/developer.

Re: Debian package && New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread Eric Leblanc
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 08:18:05AM +0200, Fredrik Steen wrote: > I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I > have done. I want to be fully prepered and have quality packages when > I apply for being a new maintainer/developer. Could you put the .dsc, the .diff.gz and th

Re: Debian package && New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
Fredrik Steen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have been using Debian for quite some time now and really want to >get my hands dirty and help out making this great distribution even >better. > >I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I >have done. I want to be fully preper

Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?

2000-05-05 Thread tony mancill
I did this same thing to setup a Debian mirror at work. If you look carefully, all you have to do is delete the existings Packages.gz files (since they are for a single CD) and mv Packages-cd.gz Packages.gz (do the same for the uncompressed packages). It's a lot easier if you do this with a find

Re: What is the package dpkg-iwj?

2000-05-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > [...] Then if Ian ever wants to pick up the project again, he has > the option of helping with the current version, or going back to his > old one, with all of the RC bugs still open. It may be worth to mention that Ian Jackson declared recently that he

Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?

2000-05-05 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:30:00PM +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote: > dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a "man -k Packages". Related to this, I have a question also. One friend has a new hard drive and wants to copy his 3 unofficial potato CDs into it, and make them aptable. So I co

Debian package && New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread Fredrik Steen
Hi Mentors, I have been using Debian for quite some time now and really want to get my hands dirty and help out making this great distribution even better. I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I have done. I want to be fully prepered and have quality packages when

Temporary changelog entries

2000-05-05 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! While developing a new version of a program I am writing, I want to be able to create .deb packages. However, I need a valid date in the latest changelog entry, which I don't have, since it's a pre-release version. What do I do? (I'd prefer it to say something like "Unreleased" instead of a d

frozen/unstable and bug tracking reports

2000-05-05 Thread Domenico Andreoli
i'm the maintainer of curl and curl-ssl, sponsored by Stephane Bortzmeyer, so i'm not an official developer. just few days after potato went frozen, a new release of curl had been published, this was 6.5.2. this one closes bug #56627 opened for curl. well, i packaged the new release (6.5.2-1) but