Re: Debian Package Ready, Need Sponsor

2001-04-22 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jimmy! You wrote: Could someone from debian-mentors please take a look at my package and sponsor it for inclusion in the distribution? If it gets in, I will seek to become an official Debian developer so I can handle this myself. I have fixed all the errors and warnings given by lintian,

RE: Building dynamic libraries.

2001-04-22 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

Re: modversion.h ?

2001-04-22 Thread sharkey
I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.18pre21 and am trying to compile modules for my NVIDIA TNT2 card, This is off topic for this list. Please post user issues to debian-user. This list is for mentoring new debian maintainers or other issues involving in creating debian packaging. In

Support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in rules files

2001-04-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
It appears to me that the method recommended in policy section 11.1 to support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in the rules file requires the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable to contain both `debug' and `nostrip' in order to generate a package with debugging information included. Is this correct and is

Re: Support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in rules files

2001-04-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:35:01PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: It appears to me that the method recommended in policy section 11.1 to support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in the rules file requires the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable to contain both `debug' and `nostrip' in order to generate a package

Debian Package Ready, Need Sponsor

2001-04-22 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,

Re: Debian Package Ready, Need Sponsor

2001-04-22 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jimmy! You wrote: Could someone from debian-mentors please take a look at my package and sponsor it for inclusion in the distribution? If it gets in, I will seek to become an official Debian developer so I can handle this myself. I have fixed all the errors and warnings given by lintian,

Update release management

2001-04-22 Thread Michel Salim
Hello, I apologise if this is considered off-topic - might be barking up the wrong tree in the wrong forest here - but bringing up an old issue here of release frequency, once the transition to using package pools and the new debian-installer is done, would it be reasonable to expect Debian

Re: modversion.h ?

2001-04-22 Thread sharkey
I'm using debian testing with kernel 2.2.18pre21 and am trying to compile modules for my NVIDIA TNT2 card, This is off topic for this list. Please post user issues to debian-user. This list is for mentoring new debian maintainers or other issues involving in creating debian packaging. In

Support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in rules files

2001-04-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
It appears to me that the method recommended in policy section 11.1 to support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in the rules file requires the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable to contain both `debug' and `nostrip' in order to generate a package with debugging information included. Is this correct and is

Re: Support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in rules files

2001-04-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 07:35:01PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: It appears to me that the method recommended in policy section 11.1 to support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in the rules file requires the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS variable to contain both `debug' and `nostrip' in order to generate a package