Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:12:34PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > > > Choice 3 is best. People who live in countries where the use of cryptography > > is restricted are probably subject to being arbitrarily jailed or murdered >

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > and not main, it's not a typo) to "non-US", and file a bug on ftp.debian.org > for the removal of main/althea, am I correct? Also, since the version I would Yes > in main, anyone who t

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jimmy" == Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jimmy> That would be easier. I did sort of want to keep a Makefile in Jimmy> place that is called Makefile, so that a simple "make" command Jimmy> still works, but I guess that could be taken care of by a Jimmy> symlink. Thanks for the

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > Choice 3 is best. People who live in countries where the use of cryptography > is restricted are probably subject to being arbitrarily jailed or murdered > by their state's government anyway. Going out of your way to provide > cr

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:52:48PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Thank you all very much for replying. I am torn between three avenues that I > am > considering taking. > > Choice 3: Just change the main althea package to include ssl support, and add > to the package description and README.Debi

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
That would be easier. I did sort of want to keep a Makefile in place that is called Makefile, so that a simple "make" command still works, but I guess that could be taken care of by a symlink. Thanks for the suggestion. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:37:08PM -0500,

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Thank you all very much for replying. I am torn between three avenues that I am considering taking. Choice 1: Keep althea in main and make a completely separate althea-ssl package in non-US. This would allow me to provide a source package for althea that has no Build-Dependency on libssl-dev, whic

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > and not main, it's not a typo) to "non-US", and file a bug on ftp.debian.org > for the removal of main/althea, am I correct? Also, since the version I would Yes > in main, anyone who

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 10:10:30PM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > > Choice 3 is best. People who live in countries where the use of cryptography > is restricted are probably subject to being arbitrarily jailed or murdered > by their state's government anyway. Going out of your way to provide > c

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 09:52:48PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Thank you all very much for replying. I am torn between three avenues that I am > considering taking. > > Choice 3: Just change the main althea package to include ssl support, and add > to the package description and README.Debian

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
That would be easier. I did sort of want to keep a Makefile in place that is called Makefile, so that a simple "make" command still works, but I guess that could be taken care of by a symlink. Thanks for the suggestion. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 12:37:08PM -0500

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Thank you all very much for replying. I am torn between three avenues that I am considering taking. Choice 1: Keep althea in main and make a completely separate althea-ssl package in non-US. This would allow me to provide a source package for althea that has no Build-Dependency on libssl-dev, whi

Re: Request for advice on packaging of libgoops

2001-05-12 Thread Rob Browning
Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GOOPS will compile differently under libguile1.3-dev and > libguile1.4-dev. Hi. I told you I'd get back to you :> I just had no idea how long it would take :< > I'm therefore considering breaking up the GOOPS packages into > libgoops1.3-0.9.0 and l

Re: Request for advice on packaging of libgoops

2001-05-12 Thread Rob Browning
Mikael Djurfeldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GOOPS will compile differently under libguile1.3-dev and > libguile1.4-dev. Hi. I told you I'd get back to you :> I just had no idea how long it would take :< > I'm therefore considering breaking up the GOOPS packages into > libgoops1.3-0.9.0 and

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jimmy" == Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jimmy> Why is it not sufficient to do something like the following Jimmy> pseudo-code in debian/rules: [Delete hack with amke/cp/sed/make/cp back] Would it not be simpler just to use $(MAKE) -f Makefile.with.ssl

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Jimmy" == Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jimmy> Why is it not sufficient to do something like the following Jimmy> pseudo-code in debian/rules: [Delete hack with amke/cp/sed/make/cp back] Would it not be simpler just to use $(MAKE) -f Makefile.with.ss

Re: perl modules - building debs

2001-05-12 Thread Brian S. Julin
I haven't looked at dh_make_perl. Back a long time ago I started to work on a Debian-specific architecture file for ExtUtils, but it was a bad time to be doing this (dh/debmaker were in flux and there was no real perl policy yet.) Whoever writes/maintains dh_make_perl may want to take a look at

Re: perl modules - building debs

2001-05-12 Thread Brian S. Julin
I haven't looked at dh_make_perl. Back a long time ago I started to work on a Debian-specific architecture file for ExtUtils, but it was a bad time to be doing this (dh/debmaker were in flux and there was no real perl policy yet.) Whoever writes/maintains dh_make_perl may want to take a look a