Re: help making packages

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:18:51PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i don't have woody yet; didn't know they existed. i'll upgrade one of my computers. If you don't tell anybody, these packages work fine on potato: /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libsdl-image1.0_1.0.8-1.deb

Re: help making packages

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:29:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: =libsdl1.0 which debian provides sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide currently, the

Signing with alternate uid

Hello, I have a dumb newbie maintainer gpg question. I changed my package maintainer address to @debian.org, and added a new uid to my key, but can't sign using it, secret key not available. So I tried to --edit-keys, toggle, and adduid but it wouldn't let me add a uid to my secret key. How

Re: *-config scripts go where?

MoiN On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:20:07AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Logically thinking they belong to *-dev packages, or if needed at runtime, in lib* packages. Those *-config scripts I know of are only needed to compile packages. So they should go into *-dev. However some people put it

problems with *.desktop in KDE

Hi, I have just finished kups (KDE front-end for CUPS) but I still have a small problem with updating KDE menu. The package installs 'kups.desktop' in /usr/share/applnk/System properly but how I can update KDE menu automatically (or automagically from debian/rules) to see this new entry

Re: help making packages

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:18:51PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i don't have woody yet; didn't know they existed. i'll upgrade one of my computers. If you don't tell anybody, these packages work fine on potato: /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libsdl-image1.0_1.0.8-1.deb

Re: splitting a package into several debs

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:20:13PM +0100, Cesar Talon wrote: I've been packaging it with the help of deb-make into one package, but now I want to split it into several packages (maybe binary, libraries, devel and docs+examples, or at least binary, devel and data) and would like to know what is

Re: help making packages

On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:29:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: dear all, i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: =libsdl1.0 which debian provides sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide currently, the

Signing with alternate uid

Hello, I have a dumb newbie maintainer gpg question. I changed my package maintainer address to @debian.org, and added a new uid to my key, but can't sign using it, secret key not available. So I tried to --edit-keys, toggle, and adduid but it wouldn't let me add a uid to my secret key. How do

Re: help making packages

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:34:16PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: You might like to compare with how other sdl-based games have been packaged, for instance defendguin (available in woody). argh, no no, please not that. The one in incoming, but not the one installed currently. I am trying to fix a

GPG key expiring ??

I'm a bit confused about the state of my GPG key. When I created it almost a year ago (when I was using GPG as a curiosity, before I became a maintainer), I figured I should put a time limit on it, and gave it a year. Realising I was going to keep the key, I recently used gpg --edit-key to change

Re: help making packages

Try to gzip it. I get the same error when i decompress my source. Strange error message though, maybe apt is only trying to fetch Sources.gz, but then complaints about 'Sources'? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/alfredsson.org/debian gzip -d Sources.gz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/alfredsson.org/debian sudo apt-get

Re: *-config scripts go where?

MoiN On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:20:07AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Logically thinking they belong to *-dev packages, or if needed at runtime, in lib* packages. Those *-config scripts I know of are only needed to compile packages. So they should go into *-dev. However some people put it in

problems with *.desktop in KDE

Hi, I have just finished kups (KDE front-end for CUPS) but I still have a small problem with updating KDE menu. The package installs 'kups.desktop' in /usr/share/applnk/System properly but how I can update KDE menu automatically (or automagically from debian/rules) to see this new entry after

Re: Signing with alternate uid

Hello, Found the problem. I had added the uid on another machine, exported the (public) key, then imported it here. So the new uid showed up on the public but not secret key. All set now. -Adam P. Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!