Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to sponsor my application to be a new maintainer. Currently, I've packaged alienwave, a simple curses-based console game of the space invaders genre. I've also packaged the latest version of faqomatic, which was orphaned by Scott K. Ellis. Both alienwav

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-27 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Eric Kidd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! Hi! > I'm the author of xmlrpc-c, a library implementing XML-RPC for C and C++. > (XML-RPC is a simple RPC protocol typically used for talking to web > applications. It works by sending XML messages over HTTP, which is a bit > of a strange way to do

Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
I was wondering if anyone would be willing to sponsor my application to be a new maintainer. Currently, I've packaged alienwave, a simple curses-based console game of the space invaders genre. I've also packaged the latest version of faqomatic, which was orphaned by Scott K. Ellis. Both alienwa

USENIX/boston keysigning

2001-06-27 Thread Scott M. Dier
Theres a BOF tommrow night for debian and keysigning with other debian-people here at USENIX. I believe it runs from 9-10pm, Thursday. I dont think anyones going to be really checking if your 'registered' for usenix if you come by. So, if your in the boston area feel free to come by. direc

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:21:29PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0400, Eric Kidd wrote: > > How does one go about finding a sponsor? > > ... > > And it's the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) > > do you mean advocate? Yes, I do. Too much libwww d

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:00:04 -0400, Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does one go about finding a sponsor? I think I understand the rest of > the "new maintainer" process, but this bit confuses me somewhat. And it's > the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) do you refer to the advoca

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-27 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Eric Kidd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello! Hi! > I'm the author of xmlrpc-c, a library implementing XML-RPC for C and C++. > (XML-RPC is a simple RPC protocol typically used for talking to web > applications. It works by sending XML messages over HTTP, which is a bit > of a strange way to do

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0400, Eric Kidd wrote: > How does one go about finding a sponsor? > ... > And it's the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) do you mean advocate? -john

USENIX/boston keysigning

2001-06-27 Thread Scott M. Dier
Theres a BOF tommrow night for debian and keysigning with other debian-people here at USENIX. I believe it runs from 9-10pm, Thursday. I dont think anyones going to be really checking if your 'registered' for usenix if you come by. So, if your in the boston area feel free to come by. direct

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Yooseong Yang
> Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something? > Did you check with upstream about this, by the way? They may have > preferences about the name, and they're likely to want to avoid the > name collision if

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:21:29PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0400, Eric Kidd wrote: > > How does one go about finding a sponsor? > > ... > > And it's the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) > > do you mean advocate? Yes, I do. Too much libwww

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:23:23PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Thus spoke Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-06-27 16:00:04: > > How does one go about finding a sponsor? > Ask on this list :) OK, that seems simple enough. :-) > > I'd like to maintain Debian packages for a library I maintain

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 16:00:04 -0400, Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does one go about finding a sponsor? I think I understand the rest of > the "new maintainer" process, but this bit confuses me somewhat. And it's > the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) do you refer to the advoc

Re: binary-all packaging

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Looks like your debian/rules is missing some important stuff. Here's one of mines, have a look at it, it's a tcl/tk script, no compilation. On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:31AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm on my first package. The upstream people provide just a perl script which >

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thus spoke Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-06-27 16:00:04: > How does one go about finding a sponsor? Ask on this list :) > > I'd like to maintain Debian packages for a library I maintain (details are > in the thread "Packaging xmlrpc-c"). > I'm having a look at them right now -- Gergel

Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
How does one go about finding a sponsor? I think I understand the rest of the "new maintainer" process, but this bit confuses me somewhat. And it's the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) I'd like to maintain Debian packages for a library I maintain (details are in the thread "Packaging xmlrp

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:00:04PM -0400, Eric Kidd wrote: > How does one go about finding a sponsor? > ... > And it's the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) do you mean advocate? -john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Yooseong Yang
> Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something? > Did you check with upstream about this, by the way? They may have > preferences about the name, and they're likely to want to avoid the > name collision i

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Yooseong Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I change the command name of my package into poEdit. potool and poedit have= > similar See policy 2.3.1. The package name: Package names must consist of lower case letters (`a-z'), digits (`0-9'), plus (`+') and minus (`-') signs, and

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 10:23:23PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Thus spoke Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-06-27 16:00:04: > > How does one go about finding a sponsor? > Ask on this list :) OK, that seems simple enough. :-) > > I'd like to maintain Debian packages for a library I maintain

Re: binary-all packaging

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
Looks like your debian/rules is missing some important stuff. Here's one of mines, have a look at it, it's a tcl/tk script, no compilation. On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:31AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm on my first package. The upstream people provide just a perl script which s

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thus spoke Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-06-27 16:00:04: > How does one go about finding a sponsor? Ask on this list :) > > I'd like to maintain Debian packages for a library I maintain (details are > in the thread "Packaging xmlrpc-c"). > I'm having a look at them right now -- Gerge

Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
How does one go about finding a sponsor? I think I understand the rest of the "new maintainer" process, but this bit confuses me somewhat. And it's the bit I apparently need to do first. :-) I'd like to maintain Debian packages for a library I maintain (details are in the thread "Packaging xmlr

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:17:57PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Did you contact the maintainer of the other package? It might be > easier to change the name there, because its poedit is not the > primary tool of the package. Actually, it is. potool was created to make creation of poedit p

Re: chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread Viral
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:43:08PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for > > me to download. > > Hang on if you can't download it, how are you going to use or test it? > Or are you saying you're

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Bob Hilliard
"Yooseong Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I change the command name of my package into poEdit. potool and poedit have= > similar See policy 2.3.1. The package name: Package names must consist of lower case letters (`a-z'), digits (`0-9'), plus (`+') and minus (`-') signs, an

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:17:20AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: > I change the command name of my package into poEdit. potool and poedit have > similar > functionality but poedit is based on GUI not on console. After changing the > command name, > all problems related to my package are solved. I'l

Re: aspell compilation failed on arm: please help

2001-06-27 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:05:50PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > what i don't understand follows: > > "*** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported. > > *** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped. >

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Yooseong Yang
I change the command name of my package into poEdit. potool and poedit have similar functionality but poedit is based on GUI not on console. After changing the command name, all problems related to my package are solved. I'll come to upload my package to ftp-master. Any opinion? Yooseong Yang

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:17:57PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Did you contact the maintainer of the other package? It might be > easier to change the name there, because its poedit is not the > primary tool of the package. Actually, it is. potool was created to make creation of poedit

Re: chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread Viral
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:43:08PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for > > me to download. > > Hang on if you can't download it, how are you going to use or test it? > Or are you saying you'r

Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
Hello! I'm the author of xmlrpc-c, a library implementing XML-RPC for C and C++. (XML-RPC is a simple RPC protocol typically used for talking to web applications. It works by sending XML messages over HTTP, which is a bit of a strange way to do things, but it's nice for talking to Zope and simila

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:17:20AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: > I change the command name of my package into poEdit. potool and poedit have similar > functionality but poedit is based on GUI not on console. After changing the command >name, > all problems related to my package are solved. I'll c

Re: chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread James Troup
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for > me to download. Hang on if you can't download it, how are you going to use or test it? Or are you saying you're packaging software you neither use nor can test? -- James

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
"T.Pospisek's MailLists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Yooseong Yang wrote: > > > I have something wrong in my package(poedit) related to package name. > > Among thousands of debian packages, potool has the same command > > name - poedit - as my package command name. A comm

Re: aspell compilation failed on arm: please help

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what i don't understand follows: > "*** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported. > *** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped. > *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be >

Re: aspell compilation failed on arm: please help

2001-06-27 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:05:50PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > what i don't understand follows: > > "*** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported. > > *** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped.

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Yooseong Yang
I change the command name of my package into poEdit. potool and poedit have similar functionality but poedit is based on GUI not on console. After changing the command name, all problems related to my package are solved. I'll come to upload my package to ftp-master. Any opinion? Yooseong Yang

Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-27 Thread Eric Kidd
Hello! I'm the author of xmlrpc-c, a library implementing XML-RPC for C and C++. (XML-RPC is a simple RPC protocol typically used for talking to web applications. It works by sending XML messages over HTTP, which is a bit of a strange way to do things, but it's nice for talking to Zope and simil

Re: chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread James Troup
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for > me to download. Hang on if you can't download it, how are you going to use or test it? Or are you saying you're packaging software you neither use nor can test? -- James -- To UNS

chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread Viral
Hi, I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for me to download. So, I thought I could build it on one of the debian machines. I later figured that I need dh-kpatches which is only in woody/sid. So, is it possible for me to build the package on any debian machine, since

Re: aspell compilation failed on arm: please help

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what i don't understand follows: > "*** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported. > *** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped. > *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be >

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
"T.Pospisek's MailLists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Yooseong Yang wrote: > > > I have something wrong in my package(poedit) related to package name. > > Among thousands of debian packages, potool has the same command > > name - poedit - as my package command name. A com

Re: binary-all packaging

2001-06-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:31AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or > directory > > What am i doing wrong? I guess i have a problem in my rules file. just in > case i post it here too: Your rules file is completely ill. Scrap

chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread Viral
Hi, I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for me to download. So, I thought I could build it on one of the debian machines. I later figured that I need dh-kpatches which is only in woody/sid. So, is it possible for me to build the package on any debian machine, sinc

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Yooseong Yang wrote: > I have something wrong in my package(poedit) related to package name. > Among thousands of debian packages, potool has the same command name - poedit > - as my package command name. The source is absoultely different! > In this case, should be the pack

Re: binary-all packaging

2001-06-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:13:31AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory > > What am i doing wrong? I guess i have a problem in my rules file. just in case i >post it here too: Your rules file is completely ill. Scrap it,

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-27 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Yooseong Yang wrote: > I have something wrong in my package(poedit) related to package name. > Among thousands of debian packages, potool has the same command name - poedit - as >my package command name. The source is absoultely different! > In this case, should be the pack