Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:38:50AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: the problem is that I can not build one without installing the other, but I can not build that one without installing the other one. So, how do you do it? A package in debian must be able to be built within Debian. I

Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So now I'm going back to the previous solution with just one package. I will probably upload it today and tomorrow. Where do I tell that uploaded packages should be removed? submit a bug on ftp.debian.org. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Frederico! You wrote: I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. Great. The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just two

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Frederico! You wrote: The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better aproach would be to change the code so it would get the PAGER env var and go with it,

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:16:12PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Frederico! You wrote: I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. Great. The

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:54:22PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Frederico! You wrote: The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better aproach would be

Re: what task-imap is for ?

2000-11-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but.. ..I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? What exactly is for ? The

Re: help me help you

2000-11-29 Thread Carey Evans
Patrick Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I feel that my time might be better spent on possibly writing documentation or something similar. There's plenty to do here. Have a look at all the man pages on your system that are symlinked to undocumented.7.gz, choose one you know about, and write a

what task-imap is for ?

2000-11-29 Thread Jaume Teixi
I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but.. ..I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? What exactly is for ? thanks a lot, jaume.

Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:38:50AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: the problem is that I can not build one without installing the other, but I can not build that one without installing the other one. So, how do you do it? A package in debian must be able to be built within Debian. I install

Re: build depends Re: Bug#78277: Lintian and shared library link

2000-11-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So now I'm going back to the previous solution with just one package. I will probably upload it today and tomorrow. Where do I tell that uploaded packages should be removed? submit a bug on ftp.debian.org.

Re: what task-imap is for ?

2000-11-29 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Jaume Teixi wrote: I'm trying to find an imap server that supports ldap I've seen courier and cyrus and then task-imap but.. ..I see that task-imap depends on either (imap, cyrus-imap or courier-imap) so really isnt' a server ? What exactly is for ? The idea

Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
Hello all! I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just two or three code files)... my

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Frederico! You wrote: I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. Great. The package is relatively simple (well, only one bin, and actually just two or

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Colin Watson
Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Frederico! You wrote: The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better aproach would be to change the code so it would get the PAGER env var and go with it, in

Request For Sponsor: libfile-temp-perl libnetserver-generic-perl

2000-11-29 Thread Jon Middleton
Hi, I'm currently in the new maintainer queue awainting an AM to be appointed. As this can take some time, I would appreciate someone sponsoring my packages which are ready for uploading to the archive. They are libfile-temp-perl which allows access to Mktemp functions in perl and

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:16:12PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Hi Frederico! You wrote: I'm packaging sel (I did an ITP on it yesterday); I've gotten to the point were the package correctly builds, goes trough lintian with no warnings, installs ok and deinstalls ok. Great. The

Re: Some questions about packaging

2000-11-29 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 07:54:22PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Bas Zoetekouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Frederico! You wrote: The program has 'less' harcoded into it, and uses it has a pager to display the help, so I made the package depend on less... butt a better aproach would be to