Re: Mistake in maintainer field

2001-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:44:50PM +0200, Carlos Prados wrote: My question is, can I just modify the maintainer field with "Carlos Prados [EMAIL PROTECTED]" or even "Carlos Prados [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the next update of my packages? Or will this appear like an NMU? No, just go ahead and

Off-Topic. Can we stop this thread? was: Out of Office AutoReply

2001-04-15 Thread erich
My point was, auto-replies to lists suck. And, btw, anyone can gain this "sensitive information" just by posting to -firewall. But don't tell the _list_ that these buggy auto-replys suck. Anybody who posts to the list will find out himself. Tell the person who has this buggy autoreply to get

Open source hardware

2001-04-15 Thread day brown
I'm part if a project team trying to develop a hardware software system designed to efficiently make use of donated equipment for distribution to non-profits, NGOs, developing cultures, to cross the digital divide as cheaply as possible. Part of the project is the design of an open architecture

design project

2001-04-15 Thread day brown
Some of us are involved in the design of an upgrade kit for donated computers for distribution to non-profits, NGOs, schools, etc. We are in email with motherboard/CPU OEMs to have a motherboard created which can make the best possible use of the heritage equipment which is donated, on the least

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors N: N: package contains a file which is empty N: Well, this ought to be obvious: is the file empty? :-) Actually, there is a

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:37:49PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors N: N: package contains a file which is empty N: Well, this

Re: Fw: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Stone
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 09:06:37PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote: Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: Changes to /etc/init.d/networking snip sensitive info Sorry, this belongs on debian-firewall. No it doesn't, and for two reasons. First off probably nobody around here is

Re: Mistake in maintainer field

2001-04-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 11:44:50PM +0200, Carlos Prados wrote: My question is, can I just modify the maintainer field with Carlos Prados [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even Carlos Prados [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the next update of my packages? Or will this appear like an NMU? No, just go ahead and change

Re: shlibs:Depends

2001-04-15 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Mike Markley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All in all, Depends: tclsh | tcl8.2 should generally work [...] Note that lintian complains about depending only on a virtual package, and while a quick glance doesn't find language in policy which forbids it, that is just a quick glance ;). The real

Off-Topic. Can we stop this thread? was: Out of Office AutoReply

2001-04-15 Thread erich
My point was, auto-replies to lists suck. And, btw, anyone can gain this sensitive information just by posting to -firewall. But don't tell the _list_ that these buggy auto-replys suck. Anybody who posts to the list will find out himself. Tell the person who has this buggy autoreply to get a

Re: Upstream changed name..

2001-04-15 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Fredrik Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm packaging wmix and now the upstream authour has decided to change the name a bit from: wmix-2.11-oss.tar.gz to: wmix-2.2.tar.gz The package is named wmix should this namechange be any problem or do I just need to upgrade the wmix package with the

Open source hardware

2001-04-15 Thread day brown
I'm part if a project team trying to develop a hardware software system designed to efficiently make use of donated equipment for distribution to non-profits, NGOs, developing cultures, to cross the digital divide as cheaply as possible. Part of the project is the design of an open architecture

design project

2001-04-15 Thread day brown
Some of us are involved in the design of an upgrade kit for donated computers for distribution to non-profits, NGOs, schools, etc. We are in email with motherboard/CPU OEMs to have a motherboard created which can make the best possible use of the heritage equipment which is donated, on the least

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors N: N: package contains a file which is empty N: Well, this ought to be obvious: is the file empty? :-) Actually, there is a bug

Re: dpkg-source unhappy

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:38:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the problem. First you should stop the line wrap. Ending the paragraph with ... makes dpkg-source think that a second paragraph is forthcoming. Remove the 3 periods. Thanks for your reply. It didn't help though (or

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 09:37:49PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 05:09:51PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: W: ktouch: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ktouch/.anchors N: N: package contains a file which is empty N: Well, this

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-15 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: And note that hard links are forbidden by policy. Ah! I looked for that bit of policy a few months ago, and couldn't find it. Where did you find it? Searched for the word hard in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz.

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:17:44AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 08:06:02PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: And note that hard links are forbidden by policy. Ah! I looked for that bit of policy a few months ago, and couldn't find it. Where did you find it?