Debian Package Ready, Need Sponsor

2001-04-21 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi, I have retitled bug #91842, which was an RFP for Althea (an IMAP email client for GTK+), as an IFP, and the package is now ready. If you want to download it compiled for Intel, it's at: ftp://ftp.kaplowitz.org/pub/althea/althea_0.4.1-1_i386.deb The source package is also there (.dsc, .diff.gz

RE: Building dynamic libraries.

2001-04-21 Thread Carlos Laviola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21-Apr-2001 Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > Is there a ref doc about building packages of dynamic libraries ? I, too, would like some suggestions on more-or-less complex packages that have libs or are lib-only packages, so I can take a look, since I

Building dynamic libraries.

2001-04-21 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Is there a ref doc about building packages of dynamic libraries ? -- Eric VAN BUGGENHAUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If lintian objects to them, shouldn't policy mention stripping them? > > Doesn't it already? The only guidance I can find in policy 3.5.2.0 on the subject of stripping binaries is in section 11.1. Binaries: Note that by default all installed

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Steve" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a Steve> .deb file. There is a caveat: hardlinks do not work across partitions, and one is generally not aware of the partition schema on the target mach

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If lintian objects to them, shouldn't policy mention stripping them? > > Doesn't it already? The only guidance I can find in policy 3.5.2.0 on the subject of stripping binaries is in section 11.1. Binaries: Note that by default all installe

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

2001-04-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Steve" == Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Despite your prejudice, there is no policy forbidding hard links in a Steve> .deb file. There is a caveat: hardlinks do not work across partitions, and one is generally not aware of the partition schema on the target mac

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:08:12AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on > > the binaries? > > Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your deb

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >Please install dictunzip.1 and dictzcat.1 as symlinks or hardlinks. > > Actually, ignore the "... or hardlinks" bit. Policy 13.1: > >You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor >put absolute filenames in .so directives.

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on > the binaries? Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules to strip > these sections out of the binaries when building th

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The gzip package has a similar situation with gunzip and zcat, >>but it has created gunzip.1 and zcat.1 as hardlinks to gzip.1. Since >>man can deal with a manpage with multiple names, this seems like an >>unne

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added symlinks from /usr/bin/dictunzip and >/usr/bin/dictzcat to /usr/bin/dictzip. The manpage for dictzip >includes the following: > >NAME > dictzip, dictunzip, dictzcat - compress (or expand) files, > allowing random access > >SYNO

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:08:12AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on > > the binaries? > > Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your de

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > >Please install dictunzip.1 and dictzcat.1 as symlinks or hardlinks. > > Actually, ignore the "... or hardlinks" bit. Policy 13.1: > >You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor >put absolute filenames in .so directives

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Bob Hilliard
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on > the binaries? Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules to strip > these sections out of the binaries when building t

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The gzip package has a similar situation with gunzip and zcat, >>but it has created gunzip.1 and zcat.1 as hardlinks to gzip.1. Since >>man can deal with a manpage with multiple names, this seems like an >>unn

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Colin Watson
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added symlinks from /usr/bin/dictunzip and >/usr/bin/dictzcat to /usr/bin/dictzip. The manpage for dictzip >includes the following: > >NAME > dictzip, dictunzip, dictzcat - compress (or expand) files, > allowing random access > >SYN

modversion.h ?

2001-04-21 Thread accordion
G'dau All, I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.18pre21 and am trying to compile modules for my NVIDIA TNT2 card, I've installed debs and got the source files, the NVIDIA-glx compiles OK. but when I do a make-kpkg modules_image to make the kernel modules it starts ok then dies with a the fol