Re: gallery setup /var

2001-12-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Adam Lazur wrote: I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where in /var to put the setup directory. .. And now my question: Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? Why not /var/lib/gallery ? You can have a look to the FHS in order to see if

Re: gallery setup /var

2001-12-07 Thread Adam Lazur
J?r?me Marant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Adam Lazur wrote: I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where in /var to put the setup directory. .. And now my question: Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? Why not /var/lib/gallery ? You

testing trouble

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, I'd like to know what's holding up jack, python-cddb and python-id3 from entering woody. Jack depends on the two python-packages, and all depend on python (= 2.1), python ( 2.2), as I understand is mandated by Python-Policy. All of those package built successful ona all arches AFAICT:

Re: gallery setup /var

2001-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:35:52AM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: Hmm, I didn't think it fit well last night, but after I've slept for a while and now have re-read that portion of the FHS, I guess it could be considered state information. Compare with /var/lib/mailman (particularly

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2001-12-07 Thread get some
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Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: I guess I just need someone to say, for that, read this. First off, again, I'm kinda confused on where to begin (yeah, like you haven't heard that before, I know ;-). Is dh_make where I should start (our package is just a tarball)? I just started playing with

Re: a suitable program name?

2001-12-07 Thread Geert Stappers
At 21:37 +0100 12/5/01, Hereward Cooper wrote: Hi there yal, Is 'fileconvert-v1-to-v2' a suitable program name within a package (this is not the package itself, just a program is supplies). Should it be shorter + more relevant to the package in comes with? Yep, make it more relevant to the

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello Bryan, On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: Hello. My name is Bryan TheBS Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user

RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Moerz
Hi! Well I have got a library (libsdlmm-1.0) that has got it's own config script (sdlmm-config) which is utilized by the .m4 macro for automake (AM_PATH_SDLMM). My probleme here is that sdlmm-config --libs outputs: -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDLmm which then 'poisons' every package that

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: Hello. My name is Bryan TheBS Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user and a

Re: RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Moerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MM First question: -rpath specifies where a library (eventually) MM will be installed, but what is so bad about that? Let's say, hypothetically, that you were used to building all of your X programs with '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib'. It works, no harm in

Re: Package names and perl

2001-12-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:37:33PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: As I understand the perl-policy, all packages that contain perl modules are to be named in the form libfoo-bar-perl. I'm working on a program called SpamAssassin. While it contains perl modules, its primary purpose is for its

Re: gallery setup /var

2001-12-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Adam Lazur wrote: I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where in /var to put the setup directory. .. And now my question: Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? Why not /var/lib/gallery ? You can have a look to the FHS in order to see if

Re: gallery setup /var

2001-12-07 Thread Adam Lazur
J?r?me Marant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Adam Lazur wrote: I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where in /var to put the setup directory. .. And now my question: Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? Why not /var/lib/gallery ? You

Re: why did the ocaml package not enter woody ?

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Henning Niss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed it seems that lablgtk which depends on an exact version of ocaml (at least on some architectures) may be the culprit. From update_excuses.html: * lablgtk (- to 1.2.1-3) [...] + lablgtk (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k,

Re: Package names and perl

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Duncan Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I understand the perl-policy, all packages that contain perl modules are to be named in the form libfoo-bar-perl. From my understanding, these are the perl equivalent of a shared library. So the same rule should apply: Only package it seperately, if

Re: HELP: [Bug#122501: latex2html: should depend on gs for pstoimg]

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is in the Recommends list. If one doesn't have any character that latex2html wants to convert to an image, it would work properly, hence only Recommends (I beleive this is the reason from previous maintainer). If latex2html is sufficiently useful

testing trouble

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, I'd like to know what's holding up jack, python-cddb and python-id3 from entering woody. Jack depends on the two python-packages, and all depend on python (= 2.1), python ( 2.2), as I understand is mandated by Python-Policy. All of those package built successful ona all arches AFAICT:

Re: gallery setup /var

2001-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:35:52AM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: Hmm, I didn't think it fit well last night, but after I've slept for a while and now have re-read that portion of the FHS, I guess it could be considered state information. Compare with /var/lib/mailman (particularly

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2001-12-07 Thread get some
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Packaging gnome-tools with the older libs

2001-12-07 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. I'm the maintainer of gnome-iconedit and I have just the problem, that i won;t build either ... I didn't change anything ... I got this after fixing some include at dpkg-buildpackage ... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H

AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Hello. My name is Bryan TheBS Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user and a packager, but have been quite impressed so far coming from the RedHat/RPM world.

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: I guess I just need someone to say, for that, read this. First off, again, I'm kinda confused on where to begin (yeah, like you haven't heard that before, I know ;-). Is dh_make where I should start (our package is just a tarball)? I just started playing with dh_make

Re: a suitable program name?

2001-12-07 Thread Geert Stappers
At 21:37 +0100 12/5/01, Hereward Cooper wrote: Hi there yal, Is 'fileconvert-v1-to-v2' a suitable program name within a package (this is not the package itself, just a program is supplies). Should it be shorter + more relevant to the package in comes with? Yep, make it more relevant to the

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Colin Walters
Bryan-TheBS-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As such, this is going to be almost an AOL-level help request. I'm very sorry for this. All I'm looking for is a little direction, and I'll RTFM the rest. I've gone through much of the FAQ, Developer's Reference and New Maintainer's Guide, and I'm

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello Bryan, On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: Hello. My name is Bryan TheBS Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user

RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Moerz
Hi! Well I have got a library (libsdlmm-1.0) that has got it's own config script (sdlmm-config) which is utilized by the .m4 macro for automake (AM_PATH_SDLMM). My probleme here is that sdlmm-config --libs outputs: -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDLmm which then 'poisons' every package that

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: Hello. My name is Bryan TheBS Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user and a packager,

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Duncan Findlay wrote: I've got some good news for you. I've already packaged the linux-wlan stuff, and my AM said he'd upload it tomorrow. I was going to e-mail you earlier, but I figured that I had no clue when the packages would be (finally) uploaded. Cool! Thanx! [ Just don't tell

Re: RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Moerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MM First question: -rpath specifies where a library (eventually) MM will be installed, but what is so bad about that? Let's say, hypothetically, that you were used to building all of your X programs with '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib'. It works, no harm in