xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0). Can you explian?

2002-05-06 Thread shaulka
xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0) and on other packages. Assuming this is not an error, how can it be and what does it achieve? -- Shaul Karl email: shaulka(replace with the at - @ - character)bezeqint.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0). Can you explian?

2002-05-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:53:29PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0) and on other packages. Assuming this is not an error, how can it be and what does it achieve? It looks like it is probably an automatically generated dependency detected by

Re: xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0). Can you explian?

2002-05-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit: xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0) and on other packages. Assuming this is not an error, how can it be and what does it achieve? xlibs contains libraries that depend on other libraries which happen to be in xlibs package also. I do not recommend

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-06 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi someone was suggesting to not provide shared libraries; unfortunately this may create problems in the HPPA architecture: indeed, it is not legal there to link portable (-fPIC) code with non portable (afair); so , if someone else wants to build a shared library that uses your library, then

build on other archs

2002-05-06 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi I would like to try to build some packages on other architectures than i386; I have seen the list of debian machines, and I have logged in on lully, and I have tried to use $ sbuild mypackage but it fails (seems that I am not allowed to use sudo), so I can't install the necessary

Re: build on other archs

2002-05-06 Thread Davide Puricelli
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:50:52PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: hi I would like to try to build some packages on other architectures than i386; I have seen the list of debian machines, and I have logged in on lully, and I have tried to use $ sbuild mypackage but it fails (seems

Mentor needed for KVIrc 3

2002-05-06 Thread Till Gerken
Hello, I'd like to become a Debian package maintainer and I have found a package that interests me a lot but that isn't in Debian yet. It is KVIrc 3, the next version of the KVIrc IRC client which is as 2.1 in Debian already. I have mailed Robin Verduijn (current KVIrc 2 maintainer) and Szymon

Re: Mentor needed for KVIrc 3

2002-05-06 Thread Luis Bustamante
Hi Till, On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:13:59PM +0200, Till Gerken wrote: Hello, I'd like to become a Debian package maintainer and I have found a package that interests me a lot but that isn't in Debian yet. It is KVIrc 3, the next version of the KVIrc IRC client which is as 2.1 in Debian

Re: xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0). Can you explian?

2002-05-06 Thread shaulka
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 11:18:38AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:53:29PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0) and on other packages. Assuming this is not an error, how can it be and what does it achieve? It looks like it is

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The last three all use custom m4 macrocode I wrote (available in the ac-archive, renamed and specialised for use in ijs). Due to the unstable nature of the source, I defaulted to -release versioning, and disabling shared libraries by default, but the

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 06 May 2002, Roger Leigh wrote: Is it common or good practice to keep the build for Debian separate for upstream, or should I really get my changes incorporated upstream first? It's just that I don't really see this happening all that soon (it at all). Go ahead and fork it, as long

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit: Would the following scheme be acceptable to you?: Package: libijs-0.34 contains libijs-0.34.so In my little testing, if I build a library with -export-dynamic -version-info 0:0:0 -release 1.0.1 I get: $ ls -1 .libs/

Re: make-kpkg strangeness

2002-05-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Have you read /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.modules? It states that: == make-kpkg arranges to cd into each modules top directory, /usr/src/modules/mod-name/, and runs ./debian/rules target.