Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Stijn de Bekker
On Tue, Oct 09 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Stijn de Bekker wrote: Hi, Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045): http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=htdigver=3.1.5-3arch=hppastamp=100

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Colin Watson wrote: If this is your only rationale, it is spurious, as you're talking about Maintainer: in debian/control while I'm talking about Maintainer: in the .changes file. The two are *distinct*. They are not (any more), with the caveat you can override it using a -m option

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:05:16PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Colin Watson wrote: If this is your only rationale, it is spurious, as you're talking about Maintainer: in debian/control while I'm talking about Maintainer: in the .changes file. The two are *distinct*. They

strange problems with testing

2001-10-10 Thread Ove Kaaven
I want to fix bug #106690, which only exists in the testing distribution, not in the unstable distribution. (I admit that it's probably partly my fault that the bug had a chance of occurring in the first place, I should have added some Depends or Conflicts lines or something, but now I can't fix

Re: looking for a mentor

2001-10-10 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Wednesday 10 Oct 2001 7:24 am, Lex Spoon wrote: Hello, I've put together a couple of Debian packages, and would love to contribute them to the Debian Project. I'm willing to maintain them. However, I don't have an advocate or sponsor. Can anyone help me out? For anyone who wants

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Stijn de Bekker wrote: On Tue, Oct 09 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Stijn de Bekker wrote: Hi, Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045):

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Stijn de Bekker
On Wed, Oct 10 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Stijn de Bekker wrote: On Tue, Oct 09 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: [...] Unfortunately, that does not work either. I get the same error: Well, that's my point. The problem is not with the hppa architecture, but with the fact that

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Stijn de Bekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, that does not work either. I get the same error: Well, that was the plan, wasn't it ... reproducing it on your machine. make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stijn/htdig-3.1.5/htlib' g++-3.0 -c

Re: unofficial apt source setup

2001-10-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anyone know how to create a proper Release file? If by 'proper' you mean a file that apt won't complain about: just use touch. Otherwise, just use an existing one (e.g. /var/lib/apt/lists/*_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Release) as

Re: libdb3-3.3.11, subversion server

2001-10-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working on packaging subversion, a compelling replacement for cvs. Superb! It looks to me like the most reasonable path is to make libdb3.3 packages that can co-exist with libdb3. Seems so. You should probably confer with the libdb3 maintainer

Re: strange problems with testing

2001-10-10 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi Ove On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: Problem is: flightgear 0.7.6 is in testing, it depends on simgear0 0.0.14 and plib1 1.2 flightgear 0.7.8 is in unstable, it depends on simgear0 0.0.16 and plib 1.4 simgear0 0.0.16 is in testing and unstable, it is built

Testing update-Excuses

2001-10-10 Thread Erich Schubert
URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz says: One question to reading that page: libming is a valid candidate and is depending on libc6 only. The dependency is versioned on (= 2.2.3-7), but libc6 2.2.4-1 is in testing. Any idea what is keeping libming out of testing? Is

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread James Troup
Stijn de Bekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045): http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=htdigver=3.1.5-3arch=hppastamp=1002598209file=logas=raw My question is pretty simple; how can

Re: Testing update-Excuses

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:56:58PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz says: One question to reading that page: libming is a valid candidate and is depending on libc6 only. The dependency is versioned on (= 2.2.3-7), but libc6

lintian warning with debian/menu

2001-10-10 Thread Jean-Michel Kelbert
hello, I have this warning : Now running lintian... W: komba2: menu-item-contains-unknown-tag kderemove /usr/lib/menu/komba2:7 Finished running lintian. This is debian/menu : ?package(komba2):\ needs=X11\ section=Apps/Net\ title=komba2\ command=/usr/bin/komba2\

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: The problem is not really with hppa, but with g++-3.0. Here's what I do to test build (another package) using g++-3.0 : Is it possible to get g++ 3 for i386 somewhere? That would make it a lot easier to test if things work... :) -- \\// peter -

Re: libdb3-3.3.11, subversion server

2001-10-10 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 01:47, David Kimdon wrote: It looks to me like the most reasonable path is to make libdb3.3 packages that can co-exist with libdb3. This doesn't seem to be restricted to subversion either. Evolution depends on db3 v. 3.1.17 specifically, and I'm having a problem compiling

Need help with xmms-cdread bug #113723

2001-10-10 Thread Ari Pollak
Hi, a user has reported bug #113723 with the xmms-cdread package, which neither I nor the upstream author can reproduce. If anyone would like to look at this bug and throw out some ideas or even a patch, that would be great. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: lintian warning with debian/menu

2001-10-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Oct-2001 Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote: hello, I have this warning : Now running lintian... W: komba2: menu-item-contains-unknown-tag kderemove /usr/lib/menu/komba2:7 Finished running lintian. How can I correct this ? what does kderemove do? I have never seen this, nor is it in

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
peter karlsson wrote: Peter S Galbraith: The problem is not really with hppa, but with g++-3.0. Here's what I do to test build (another package) using g++-3.0 : Is it possible to get g++ 3 for i386 somewhere? That would make it a lot easier to test if things work... :) Sure, install

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: Sure, install the package 'g++-3.0'. Hmm, interesting. It doesn't show up when I do dpkg -l, but obviously apt knows about it. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law:

Re: looking for a mentor

2001-10-10 Thread Lex Spoon
Hello, I've put together a couple of Debian packages, and would love to contribute them to the Debian Project. I'm willing to maintain them. However, I don't have an advocate or sponsor. Can anyone help me out? For anyone who wants to peek, the packages are at:

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Stijn de Bekker
On Tue, Oct 09 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Stijn de Bekker wrote: Hi, Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045): http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=htdigver=3.1.5-3arch=hppastamp=100

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:30:53PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Colin == Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Colin I think that would be appropriate. Colin Exactly what are the intended semantics of Maintainer: and Colin Changed-By: in the .changes file (not the .dsc)? In

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Colin Watson wrote: If this is your only rationale, it is spurious, as you're talking about Maintainer: in debian/control while I'm talking about Maintainer: in the .changes file. The two are *distinct*. They are not (any more), with the caveat you can override it using a -m option

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:05:16PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Colin Watson wrote: If this is your only rationale, it is spurious, as you're talking about Maintainer: in debian/control while I'm talking about Maintainer: in the .changes file. The two are *distinct*. They

strange problems with testing

2001-10-10 Thread Ove Kaaven
I want to fix bug #106690, which only exists in the testing distribution, not in the unstable distribution. (I admit that it's probably partly my fault that the bug had a chance of occurring in the first place, I should have added some Depends or Conflicts lines or something, but now I can't fix

Re: looking for a mentor

2001-10-10 Thread Stephen Stafford
On Wednesday 10 Oct 2001 7:24 am, Lex Spoon wrote: Hello, I've put together a couple of Debian packages, and would love to contribute them to the Debian Project. I'm willing to maintain them. However, I don't have an advocate or sponsor. Can anyone help me out? For anyone who wants

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Stijn de Bekker wrote: On Tue, Oct 09 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Stijn de Bekker wrote: Hi, Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045):

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Stijn de Bekker
On Wed, Oct 10 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Stijn de Bekker wrote: On Tue, Oct 09 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote: [...] Unfortunately, that does not work either. I get the same error: Well, that's my point. The problem is not with the hppa architecture, but with the fact that hppa

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Stijn de Bekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately, that does not work either. I get the same error: Well, that was the plan, wasn't it ... reproducing it on your machine. make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stijn/htdig-3.1.5/htlib' g++-3.0 -c

Re: unofficial apt source setup

2001-10-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anyone know how to create a proper Release file? If by 'proper' you mean a file that apt won't complain about: just use touch. Otherwise, just use an existing one (e.g. /var/lib/apt/lists/*_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Release) as a

Re: libdb3-3.3.11, subversion server

2001-10-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working on packaging subversion, a compelling replacement for cvs. Superb! It looks to me like the most reasonable path is to make libdb3.3 packages that can co-exist with libdb3. Seems so. You should probably confer with the libdb3 maintainer

Re: strange problems with testing

2001-10-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ove Kaaven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a clue why the working packages won't move into testing, and what I can do about it? URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz says: * flightgear/i386: Unsatisfiable Depends: plib1 (= 1.4.1-1), fgfs-base (= 0.7.8-1)

Re: strange problems with testing

2001-10-10 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi Ove On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:22:07PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: Problem is: flightgear 0.7.6 is in testing, it depends on simgear0 0.0.14 and plib1 1.2 flightgear 0.7.8 is in unstable, it depends on simgear0 0.0.16 and plib 1.4 simgear0 0.0.16 is in testing and unstable, it is built

Testing update-Excuses

2001-10-10 Thread Erich Schubert
URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz says: One question to reading that page: libming is a valid candidate and is depending on libc6 only. The dependency is versioned on (= 2.2.3-7), but libc6 2.2.4-1 is in testing. Any idea what is keeping libming out of testing? Is

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread James Troup
Stijn de Bekker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045): http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?pkg=htdigver=3.1.5-3arch=hppastamp=1002598209file=logas=raw My question is pretty simple; how can I

Re: Testing update-Excuses

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:56:58PM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: URL:http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz says: One question to reading that page: libming is a valid candidate and is depending on libc6 only. The dependency is versioned on (= 2.2.3-7), but libc6 2.2.4-1

lintian warning with debian/menu

2001-10-10 Thread Jean-Michel Kelbert
hello, I have this warning : Now running lintian... W: komba2: menu-item-contains-unknown-tag kderemove /usr/lib/menu/komba2:7 Finished running lintian. This is debian/menu : ?package(komba2):\ needs=X11\ section=Apps/Net\ title=komba2\ command=/usr/bin/komba2\

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: The problem is not really with hppa, but with g++-3.0. Here's what I do to test build (another package) using g++-3.0 : Is it possible to get g++ 3 for i386 somewhere? That would make it a lot easier to test if things work... :) -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Re: libdb3-3.3.11, subversion server

2001-10-10 Thread Edd Dumbill
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 01:47, David Kimdon wrote: It looks to me like the most reasonable path is to make libdb3.3 packages that can co-exist with libdb3. This doesn't seem to be restricted to subversion either. Evolution depends on db3 v. 3.1.17 specifically, and I'm having a problem compiling

Need help with xmms-cdread bug #113723

2001-10-10 Thread Ari Pollak
Hi, a user has reported bug #113723 with the xmms-cdread package, which neither I nor the upstream author can reproduce. If anyone would like to look at this bug and throw out some ideas or even a patch, that would be great. -- ___ ___ / _ | / _ \ Ari Pollak - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: lintian warning with debian/menu

2001-10-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Oct-2001 Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote: hello, I have this warning : Now running lintian... W: komba2: menu-item-contains-unknown-tag kderemove /usr/lib/menu/komba2:7 Finished running lintian. How can I correct this ? what does kderemove do? I have never seen this, nor is it in

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread Peter S Galbraith
peter karlsson wrote: Peter S Galbraith: The problem is not really with hppa, but with g++-3.0. Here's what I do to test build (another package) using g++-3.0 : Is it possible to get g++ 3 for i386 somewhere? That would make it a lot easier to test if things work... :) Sure, install

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: Sure, install the package 'g++-3.0'. Hmm, interesting. It doesn't show up when I do dpkg -l, but obviously apt knows about it. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: