Re: Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Matt Chisholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about > thirty fonts of mine. I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, but I am still pretty > unclear about how to proceed as that document is tailor

Re: Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
Please people, wrap your lines at 70-76 chars. This is painful to read. Regards, Filip -- > I wasn't aware that BSD license was so short, i assumed it was > loong like GPL and friends. No, BSD folks got other things to do than write licences. *duck* -- Arthur Korn pgpW2XDR0BY4g.pgp De

Re: characters in X-application replaced with boxes :(

2001-08-10 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:48:49PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > I've just had a fresh look at my package viewmol. > I compiled it in April under X 4.0.1-11, it worked fine then. > > But looking at it now, none of the text in buttons and menus gets displayed > anymore. Instead, the letters are rep

Re: Orphaning a package without being able to change maintainer info?

2001-08-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Debian Developer's Reference says to change the maintainer to > "Debian QA Group". Since I no longer can build the package, I also > cannot upload a version with updated maintainer information. Bugging wnpp should be enough. Uploading a package just

Re: characters in X-application replaced with boxes :(

2001-08-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:53:32AM +0200, Bart Warmerdam wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:48:49PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > [ characters show as boxes in X ] > > > Can anyone suggest how to best determine the cause of the problem? > > Restart X. Helped for me numerous times for the same

Re: Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Sven
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:30:53AM -0700, Matt Chisholm wrote: > Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about thirty fonts > of mine. I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at > http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, but I am still pretty unclear about > how to proceed as

Re: characters in X-application replaced with boxes :(

2001-08-10 Thread Bart Warmerdam
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:48:49PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: [ characters show as boxes in X ] > Can anyone suggest how to best determine the cause of the problem? Restart X. Helped for me numerous times for the same problem. BTW, does anyone know why this is happening anyhow? B.

characters in X-application replaced with boxes :(

2001-08-10 Thread Drew Parsons
I've just had a fresh look at my package viewmol. I compiled it in April under X 4.0.1-11, it worked fine then. But looking at it now, none of the text in buttons and menus gets displayed anymore. Instead, the letters are replaced with a "box". The behaviour appears to be independent of locale -

Re: Orphaning a package without being able to change maintainer info?

2001-08-10 Thread Sven
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:52:49PM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > I have a dilemma. > > I need to orphan a package that's specific to the ARM architecture, > because my Netwinder broke down (We had some severe power spikes about > a month ago, which killed it). I no longer have an ARM build mach

Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Matt Chisholm
Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about thirty fonts of mine. I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, but I am still pretty unclear about how to proceed as that document is tailored for making Debian packages out of programs.

Re: Orphaning a package without being able to change maintainer info?

2001-08-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:52:49PM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: > I need to orphan a package that's specific to the ARM architecture, > because my Netwinder broke down (We had some severe power spikes about > a month ago, which killed it). I no longer have an ARM build machine. > > The Debian Devel

Re: characters in X-application replaced with boxes :(

2001-08-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 09:53:32AM +0200, Bart Warmerdam wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:48:49PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > [ characters show as boxes in X ] > > > Can anyone suggest how to best determine the cause of the problem? > > Restart X. Helped for me numerous times for the same

Re: Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Sven
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:30:53AM -0700, Matt Chisholm wrote: > Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about thirty fonts of mine. >I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, >but I am still pretty unclear about how to proceed as that

Re: characters in X-application replaced with boxes :(

2001-08-10 Thread Bart Warmerdam
On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 05:48:49PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: [ characters show as boxes in X ] > Can anyone suggest how to best determine the cause of the problem? Restart X. Helped for me numerous times for the same problem. BTW, does anyone know why this is happening anyhow? B. -- To UN

characters in X-application replaced with boxes :(

2001-08-10 Thread Drew Parsons
I've just had a fresh look at my package viewmol. I compiled it in April under X 4.0.1-11, it worked fine then. But looking at it now, none of the text in buttons and menus gets displayed anymore. Instead, the letters are replaced with a "box". The behaviour appears to be independent of locale

Re: Orphaning a package without being able to change maintainer info?

2001-08-10 Thread Sven
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:52:49PM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > I have a dilemma. > > I need to orphan a package that's specific to the ARM architecture, > because my Netwinder broke down (We had some severe power spikes about > a month ago, which killed it). I no longer have an ARM build mac

Help needed making a collection of fonts into a .deb

2001-08-10 Thread Matt Chisholm
Hello everyone. I'd like to make a Debian package out of about thirty fonts of mine. I read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide" at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/, but I am still pretty unclear about how to proceed as that document is tailored for making Debian packages out of programs.