sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-27 Thread Muhammad Hussain Yusuf
Hi, Would anyone like to sponsor/upload a new Debian package for me? I'm awaiting DAM approval, so need someone to upload the package to testing since I've not yet got an account. I've already got a couple of packages in testing (uploaded by others). The new package is gstar (ITP #88503) and

Re: sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-27 Thread ericvb
I had a look at your package. It behaved ok on my machine, files are correct too. Lintian clean. Wish we had more 1st packages of this quality :-) I uploaded your files to ftp-master.debian.org. Not sure your Closes: command will work. It might be closes: I don't know. Thanks for your

syslog-facility and logrotate

2001-05-27 Thread mdanish
I was looking through logrotate configuration files /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/ and noticed that there is no entry for rotating arbitrary files in /var/log... yet they appear to be rotated regardless. Why is this, and do I need to throw a file in to /etc/logrotate.d/ if my program

a few more questions

2001-05-27 Thread mdanish
This time about syslog-facility: How am I supposed to know what facility my program is using, during the purge? The conffiles have been removed, so what's left? A debconf variable? Secondly, what is the proper mechanism to ensure that sysklogd has loaded the new configuration? Just

Re: sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-27 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:39:57AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure your Closes: command will work. It might be closes: I don't know. According to section 10.4 of the Developer's Reference, the Perl regular expression that a Closes: statement must match is:

debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am trying to convert moon-buggy to use debconf. Following the tutorial it was fairly easy to close #89118, ie use debconf in the preinst. I also want to close #94969, which is not that hard, but I seem to be unable to use debconf to display a message in the postinst as well, the files get

Re: Upstream maintainer disagree with the package name

2001-05-27 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:50:18AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:44:46PM +0200, R?mi Perrot wrote: Hi, (Remi? Rimi? mutt doesn't display the second character, as you can see). Yes it does. You probably haven't set your locale to see it. [The '?' in R?mi, above, is

Re: Package name change

2001-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:04:45PM +0200, Michael Wiedmann wrote: What is the proposed handling of a package whose name has changed? (e.g.: the author of foo-0.1.tar.gz, Debian package foo_0.1-1_i386.deb, changes the name of the package to bar-0.2.tar.gz)

Re: Upstream maintainer disagree with the package name

2001-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
RĂ©mi Perrot wrote: I recently upload a new package called libglade-perl. After some mail exchange with the upstream maintainer (Dermot Musgrove [EMAIL PROTECTED]), he say that libglade-perl is not a library and he ask me to change the name of the package to glade-perl. He is not wrong since

sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-27 Thread Muhammad Hussain Yusuf
Hi, Would anyone like to sponsor/upload a new Debian package for me? I'm awaiting DAM approval, so need someone to upload the package to testing since I've not yet got an account. I've already got a couple of packages in testing (uploaded by others). The new package is gstar (ITP #88503) and

Re: sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-27 Thread ericvb
I had a look at your package. It behaved ok on my machine, files are correct too. Lintian clean. Wish we had more 1st packages of this quality :-) I uploaded your files to ftp-master.debian.org. Not sure your Closes: command will work. It might be closes: I don't know. Thanks for your

syslog-facility and logrotate

2001-05-27 Thread mdanish
I was looking through logrotate configuration files /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/ and noticed that there is no entry for rotating arbitrary files in /var/log... yet they appear to be rotated regardless. Why is this, and do I need to throw a file in to /etc/logrotate.d/ if my program

a few more questions

2001-05-27 Thread mdanish
This time about syslog-facility: How am I supposed to know what facility my program is using, during the purge? The conffiles have been removed, so what's left? A debconf variable? Secondly, what is the proper mechanism to ensure that sysklogd has loaded the new configuration? Just

Re: sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-27 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:39:57AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure your Closes: command will work. It might be closes: I don't know. According to section 10.4 of the Developer's Reference, the Perl regular expression that a Closes: statement must match is:

debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am trying to convert moon-buggy to use debconf. Following the tutorial it was fairly easy to close #89118, ie use debconf in the preinst. I also want to close #94969, which is not that hard, but I seem to be unable to use debconf to display a message in the postinst as well, the files get