Re: Libraries and position independent code (-fPIC)

2002-07-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > I read somewhere that code compiled with -fPIC is a little larger and > slower. Is this the only reson for that policy requirement? If not, > please give me for some information/pointers on that requirement. I think that is mostly so. With

Re: Libraries and position independent code (-fPIC)

2002-07-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > I read somewhere that code compiled with -fPIC is a little larger and > slower. Is this the only reson for that policy requirement? If not, > please give me for some information/pointers on that requirement. I think that is mostly so. Wit

Request for sponsor: kmencoder

2002-07-26 Thread Till Gerken
Hello, I'm looking to become a Debian developer, I've already been packaging Kopete passively for a bit, sponsored by Sean Perry, which is currently waiting for KDE 3 to go into Sid. Now I'm looking for a sponsor for KMencoder, a KDE front-end to MEncoder. Attached is the ITP. I've uploaded alp

Re: new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:41:46AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: > I would just like to ask if anyone would be interested in looking at > my debs and checking them out. The only warning I get from lintian is > executable-not-elf-or-script for a bunch of gifs and java classes in > the limewire deb

Re: Looking for a Sponsor.

2002-07-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
You don't say what these packages are or why they should go into Debian. It is unlikely people will be interested in looking at your packages until you have done this. Please see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp about filing an ITP bug against the 'wnpp' pseudo-package for each of your packages

Re: Depending on a package not in Debian

2002-07-26 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:30:17PM +0200, Till Gerken wrote: > Hello, > > I think this question has been asked before, but the archive search > didn't really reveal anything meaningful. > > I intend to package KMencoder, which is a front-end to MEncoder for KDE. > MEncoder in turn is a part of M

Re: new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:23:13PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Michael! > > You wrote: > > > So, I looked at the wnpp list and found limewire, which is a good fit > > for me because I've worked on gnutella a lot. I have a deb package > > made for it, which can be found on my website, hyperp

Re: new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Michael! You wrote: > So, I looked at the wnpp list and found limewire, which is a good fit > for me because I've worked on gnutella a lot. I have a deb package > made for it, which can be found on my website, hyperpoem.net, in the > right hand side bar. IIRC, limewire was already ITPed a f

Libraries and position independent code (-fPIC)

2002-07-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi, gurus! The Debian policy says: ] 11.2 Libraries ] ] All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package and a ] static version in the lib*-dev package. The shared version must be ] compiled with -fPIC, and the static version must not be. In other ] words, each *.c file will need to

Request for sponsor: kmencoder

2002-07-26 Thread Till Gerken
Hello, I'm looking to become a Debian developer, I've already been packaging Kopete passively for a bit, sponsored by Sean Perry, which is currently waiting for KDE 3 to go into Sid. Now I'm looking for a sponsor for KMencoder, a KDE front-end to MEncoder. Attached is the ITP. I've uploaded alph

Re: new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 03:41:46AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote: > I would just like to ask if anyone would be interested in looking at > my debs and checking them out. The only warning I get from lintian is > executable-not-elf-or-script for a bunch of gifs and java classes in > the limewire deb.

Re: new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Cardenas
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 08:23:13PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Michael! > > You wrote: > > > So, I looked at the wnpp list and found limewire, which is a good fit > > for me because I've worked on gnutella a lot. I have a deb package > > made for it, which can be found on my website, hyperpo

Re: new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Michael! You wrote: > So, I looked at the wnpp list and found limewire, which is a good fit > for me because I've worked on gnutella a lot. I have a deb package > made for it, which can be found on my website, hyperpoem.net, in the > right hand side bar. IIRC, limewire was already ITPed a fe

Libraries and position independent code (-fPIC)

2002-07-26 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi, gurus! The Debian policy says: ] 11.2 Libraries ] ] All libraries must have a shared version in the lib* package and a ] static version in the lib*-dev package. The shared version must be ] compiled with -fPIC, and the static version must not be. In other ] words, each *.c file will need to b

Re: Depending on a package not in Debian

2002-07-26 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:06:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > > I have been pushing mplayer developers (might even be the cause why they > > do not care about by bug reports anymore) to have the complete code as > > GPL. > > > >

new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Michael Cardenas
Hello all. I'm working on becoming a new maintainer, and Mako has already volunteered to sponsor me. I have been an upstream contributor to wine for a while and after attending debconf, decided to do whatever I can to help debian. So, I looked at the wnpp list and found limewire, which is a g

Re: Depending on a package not in Debian

2002-07-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote: > I have been pushing mplayer developers (might even be the cause why they > do not care about by bug reports anymore) to have the complete code as > GPL. > > So far, as announced in their mailing list, mplayer is completelly GPL, > ex

Re: Depending on a package not in Debian

2002-07-26 Thread Gergely Nagy
> How do I proceed here? Put MPlayer in the "suggests" line? Or create an > informational dialog that will show a warning about the dependency? Depends: mplayer Section: contrib/ In other words, do depend on mplayer (mplayer CVS has debian/ in it anyway), and put kmencoder in contrib. Packages in

Re: Depending on a package not in Debian

2002-07-26 Thread Jesus Climent
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:30:17PM +0200, Till Gerken wrote: > Hello, > > I think this question has been asked before, but the archive search > didn't really reveal anything meaningful. > > I intend to package KMencoder, which is a front-end to MEncoder for KDE. > MEncoder in turn is a part of MP

Depending on a package not in Debian

2002-07-26 Thread Till Gerken
Hello, I think this question has been asked before, but the archive search didn't really reveal anything meaningful. I intend to package KMencoder, which is a front-end to MEncoder for KDE. MEncoder in turn is a part of MPlayer, which is not in Debian due to licensing conflicts. KMencoder depend

Re: Looking for a Sponsor.

2002-07-26 Thread Ben Armstrong
You don't say what these packages are or why they should go into Debian. It is unlikely people will be interested in looking at your packages until you have done this. Please see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp about filing an ITP bug against the 'wnpp' pseudo-package for each of your packages c

Looking for a Sponsor.

2002-07-26 Thread Giorgio Mandolfo
Hello. I found three interesting applications which are not avaiable as deb package. The first two are temporary (first revision), but the third is better packaged (also I have written a simple man page). If someone wants to take a look and/or became my sponsor, go to http://utenti.lycos.it/linux