ITA'ing a package if not yet a developer?

2002-03-12 Thread Bill Jonas
Hello. I'm preparing to start the NM process (reading documentation, etc), and I have found an orphaned package to adopt that seems as though it would be suitable for me. Since I'm not yet a developer, is it all right to ITA the package? (It's a very small, non-essential package.) If not, what

Re: sorting of wordlists

2002-03-12 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: See bug #133795, is there any policy regarding how the word lists are supposed to be sorted? If I do what the submitter wants, look will break with LANG != n[nbo]_NO, so I am somewhat reluctant to do it. I reported a similar bug for look with french (see #109364).

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:50:41PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've got a package (gtkgo) that has been discontinued upstream. So far I've been ignoring this and continuing to apply fixes, etc. But I'm beginning to wonder if I

Re: ITA'ing a package if not yet a developer?

2002-03-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:24:46AM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote: Hello. I'm preparing to start the NM process (reading documentation, etc), and I have found an orphaned package to adopt that seems as though it would be suitable for me. Since I'm not yet a developer, is it all right to ITA the

Purging the debconf database

2002-03-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have been having continuing difficulties making debconf display a note for dict-web1913. With DEBCONF=developer in my environment, when I install the package, debconf returns: debconf (developer): frontend started debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is dict-web1913

Re: Purging the debconf database

2002-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: However, after this action, /var/cache/debconf/config.dat still contains: Name: dict-web1913/reconf Template: dict-web1913/reconf Value: Owners: unknown echo purge | debconf-communicate You at one point ran the config script or postinst by hand, debconf cannot

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Could someone please have a look at the files that I put up at http://www.softwolves.pp.se/tmp/mowitz/ and see if I have done it right or not? Without too much looking at, my first question is: why do you have mowitz-config in diff.gz?

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: Without too much looking at, my first question is: why do you have mowitz-config in diff.gz? It seems that it is not removed properly when doing a make distclean. I'll fix that. Binary package names are incorrect, name them libmowitz0 and libmowitz-dev Okay. I was a bit

ITA'ing a package if not yet a developer?

2002-03-12 Thread Bill Jonas
Hello. I'm preparing to start the NM process (reading documentation, etc), and I have found an orphaned package to adopt that seems as though it would be suitable for me. Since I'm not yet a developer, is it all right to ITA the package? (It's a very small, non-essential package.) If not, what

Re: sorting of wordlists

2002-03-12 Thread Nicolas SABOURET
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: See bug #133795, is there any policy regarding how the word lists are supposed to be sorted? If I do what the submitter wants, look will break with LANG != n[nbo]_NO, so I am somewhat reluctant to do it. I reported a similar bug for look with french (see #109364).

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-12 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:50:41PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've got a package (gtkgo) that has been discontinued upstream. So far I've been ignoring this and continuing to apply fixes, etc. But I'm beginning to wonder if I

Re: ITA'ing a package if not yet a developer?

2002-03-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 11:24:46AM -0500, Bill Jonas wrote: Hello. I'm preparing to start the NM process (reading documentation, etc), and I have found an orphaned package to adopt that seems as though it would be suitable for me. Since I'm not yet a developer, is it all right to ITA the

Purging the debconf database

2002-03-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have been having continuing difficulties making debconf display a note for dict-web1913. With DEBCONF=developer in my environment, when I install the package, debconf returns: debconf (developer): frontend started debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is dict-web1913

Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! When upgrading Siag Office to its latest version I found that parts of the code had been broken out into a library. Since I have never before packaged a library I would appreciate some help to check whether I am doing things correctly or not. Could someone please have a look at the files

Re: Purging the debconf database

2002-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: However, after this action, /var/cache/debconf/config.dat still contains: Name: dict-web1913/reconf Template: dict-web1913/reconf Value: Owners: unknown echo purge | debconf-communicate You at one point ran the config script or postinst by hand, debconf cannot

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Could someone please have a look at the files that I put up at http://www.softwolves.pp.se/tmp/mowitz/ and see if I have done it right or not? Without too much looking at, my first question is: why do you have mowitz-config in diff.gz?

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: Without too much looking at, my first question is: why do you have mowitz-config in diff.gz? It seems that it is not removed properly when doing a make distclean. I'll fix that. Binary package names are incorrect, name them libmowitz0 and libmowitz-dev Okay. I was a bit