another advocate request

2001-10-23 Thread Iain
Hi, I have been maintaining the package qmailadmin for a few months now. Initially I contacted everyone who had posted a ITP on this package but none of them were developing a package. So I guess now I want the package to become part of debian, and I need to become a maintainer. Reading the

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Iain
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? >> Sounds really rather difficult - how are you going to get them into the >> usual style for Unix man pages? I'd regard HTML as a target format, not >> a source format, u

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Iain
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? >> Sounds really rather difficult - how are you going to get them into the >> usual style for Unix man pages? I'd regard HTML as a target format, not >> a source format,

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Matt Armstrong wrote: > In general, I'm confused about non-conffile stuff going in /etc. If it is a configuration file, it belongs in /etc. If it is a conffile (i.e., a dpkg-managed configuration file), it cannot be modified in any way by maintainer scripts. This basically me

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:36:53PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:10:02PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: > >> Why not just create a symlink to a device node /dev/flipit and just > >> link it to the right file. > >> Warren > >

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Matt Armstrong wrote: > In general, I'm confused about non-conffile stuff going in /etc. If it is a configuration file, it belongs in /etc. If it is a conffile (i.e., a dpkg-managed configuration file), it cannot be modified in any way by maintainer scripts. This basically m

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 01:36:53PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:10:02PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: > >> Why not just create a symlink to a device node /dev/flipit and just > >> link it to the right file. > >> Warren > >

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: > In general, I'm confused about non-conffile stuff going in /etc. > People are used to editing whatever they want to in /etc. It seems > like if a package is going to take over a given file (e.g. an > /etc/flipit/port symlink), then it should not be in /etc but in /var > or

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 01:41, Matt Armstrong wrote: > >> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:10:02PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: > >> >> Why not just create a symlink to a device node /dev/flipit and > >> >> just link it to the right file. > >> > > >> > Why/how would that help? > >> > >> Then /etc/flipit.con

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: > In general, I'm confused about non-conffile stuff going in /etc. > People are used to editing whatever they want to in /etc. It seems > like if a package is going to take over a given file (e.g. an > /etc/flipit/port symlink), then it should not be in /etc but in /var > or

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 01:41, Matt Armstrong wrote: > >> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:10:02PM -0500, Warren Turkal wrote: > >> >> Why not just create a symlink to a device node /dev/flipit and > >> >> just link it to the right file. > >> > > >> > Why/how would that help? > >> > >> Then /etc/flipit.co

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:43:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:12:17AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? > > > Sounds really rather difficult -

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:12:17AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? > Sounds really rather difficult - how are you going to get them into the > usual style for Unix man pag

passing from unstable to testing

2001-10-23 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hi As http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html says for kannel: kannel 1.1.5-2 (currently 1.0-1) (optional) (non-US) (low) Maintainer: Andres Seco Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kannel uploaded 11 days ago, out of date by 1 days! kannel/s390: Unsatisfiable Depends: libxml2 (>= 2

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? Sounds really rather difficult - how are you going to get them into the usual style for Unix man pages? I'd regard HTML as a target format, not a source format, unless the

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:12:17AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? > Sounds really rather difficult - how are you going to get them into the > usual style for Unix man pa

passing from unstable to testing

2001-10-23 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hi As http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html says for kannel: kannel 1.1.5-2 (currently 1.0-1) (optional) (non-US) (low) Maintainer: Andres Seco Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kannel uploaded 11 days ago, out of date by 1 days! kannel/s390: Unsatisfiable Depends: libxml2 (>=

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? Sounds really rather difficult - how are you going to get them into the usual style for Unix man pages? I'd regard HTML as a target format, not a source format, unless th

html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Iain
Hi, Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? thanks, Iain -- public key available at http://www.minihub.org/~iain/iain.asc