Seeking sponsor for XDrum drum machine package

2002-08-10 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Hello, I'm hoping to become a Debian developer. I have been using Debian for many many years and actively participate in the Arm, HPPA, and Hurd port efforts. Anyways I have prepared a debian package of XDrum and all of the associated files are on my webserver http://www.gyrodynamic.net/debian/

Re: Why db_input ... || true

2002-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote: > I saw in the debconf-tutorial, section "The config script" that the > example had a line > > db_input medium foo/like_debian || true > > Whats the reason for the or'd true-command. Could it be, that my > postinst-script exists with

Seeking sponsor for XDrum drum machine package

2002-08-10 Thread B. Douglas Hilton
Hello, I'm hoping to become a Debian developer. I have been using Debian for many many years and actively participate in the Arm, HPPA, and Hurd port efforts. Anyways I have prepared a debian package of XDrum and all of the associated files are on my webserver http://www.gyrodynamic.net/debian/

Re: Why db_input ... || true

2002-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote: > I saw in the debconf-tutorial, section "The config script" that the > example had a line > > db_input medium foo/like_debian || true > > Whats the reason for the or'd true-command. Could it be, that my > postinst-script exists wit

Why db_input ... || true

2002-08-10 Thread Holger Kubiak
Hello, I saw in the debconf-tutorial, section "The config script" that the example had a line db_input medium foo/like_debian || true Whats the reason for the or'd true-command. Could it be, that my postinst-script exists with return code 30 because I forgot the "true" in my config-script? Gree

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matt Zimmerman: > If the program cannot be compiled using free tools, then it is not very > free. Well, that's a matter of definition. I'll have a look at using another cross-assembler. Fortunately, there seems to be a GPL'ed 6502 cross-assembler, so I'll have a look into using that one instead.

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Refer to the Debian Policy Manual, section 2.1.2. > > > In addition, the packages in main > > * must not require a package outside of main for *compilation* or execution > (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or > "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package)

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:51:03PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging: > It is a transfer program? licened according to GPL, but comes with some > program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is > also GPL, but th

Why db_input ... || true

2002-08-10 Thread Holger Kubiak
Hello, I saw in the debconf-tutorial, section "The config script" that the example had a line db_input medium foo/like_debian || true Whats the reason for the or'd true-command. Could it be, that my postinst-script exists with return code 30 because I forgot the "true" in my config-script? Gre

Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging: It is a transfer program¹ licened according to GPL, but comes with some program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is also GPL, but the program used to compile those sources is not DFSG free. The remote

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matt Zimmerman: > If the program cannot be compiled using free tools, then it is not very > free. Well, that's a matter of definition. I'll have a look at using another cross-assembler. Fortunately, there seems to be a GPL'ed 6502 cross-assembler, so I'll have a look into using that one instead

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > Refer to the Debian Policy Manual, section 2.1.2. > > > In addition, the packages in main > > * must not require a package outside of main for *compilation* or execution > (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", "Recommends", or > "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main package

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:51:03PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging: > It is a transfer program? licened according to GPL, but comes with some > program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is > also GPL, but t

Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging: It is a transfer program¹ licened according to GPL, but comes with some program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is also GPL, but the program used to compile those sources is not DFSG free. The remot

Re: Sponsor request for memtester

2002-08-10 Thread Lonnie Sauter
Oliver- I will continue with the parts of sysutils you do not want to deal with.  Lets not orphan them, okay?  Also, I think at one time procinfo became its own package. Thanks, Lon On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 08:56, Oliver Kurth wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0500, Lon

Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:19, Geert Stappers wrote: > At 16:32 +0200 8/9/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > >> I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), > >> but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requi

Passing arguments from pbuilder to dpkg-genchanges

2002-08-10 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > I cannot find a way to make pbuilder pass arguments to > > dpkg-genchanges. > > Try something like: > DEBBUILDOPTS=-sa I do not see how this should help. According to your source code (

Re: Sponsor request for memtester

2002-08-10 Thread Lonnie Sauter
Oliver- I will continue with the parts of sysutils you do not want to deal with.  Lets not orphan them, okay?  Also, I think at one time procinfo became its own package. Thanks, Lon On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 08:56, Oliver Kurth wrote: On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0500, Lon

Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:19, Geert Stappers wrote: > At 16:32 +0200 8/9/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > >> I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), > >> but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requ

Passing arguments from pbuilder to dpkg-genchanges

2002-08-10 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > I cannot find a way to make pbuilder pass arguments to > > dpkg-genchanges. > > Try something like: > DEBBUILDOPTS=-sa I do not see how this should help. According to your source code

Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-10 Thread Geert Stappers
At 16:32 +0200 8/9/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > >> I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), >> but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the >> control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to in

Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-10 Thread Geert Stappers
At 16:32 +0200 8/9/02, Matt Zimmerman wrote: >On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > >> I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), >> but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the >> control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to i

Re: lintian warning - ?

2002-08-10 Thread Michael Koch
Am Samstag, 10. August 2002 05:36 schrieb Stephen Gran: > Hello all, > I am making a .deb of a program, in this case kcdlabel, and I'm getting > the following warning from lintian: > W: kcdlabel: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/kcdlabel > /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib If configure supports it yo

Re: lintian warning - ?

2002-08-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Stephen> Hello all, I am making a .deb of a program, in this case Stephen> kcdlabel, and I'm getting the following warning from lintian: Stephen> W: kcdlabel: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/kcdlabel Stephen> /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib Stephen> I don't know enough about the fundamentals of c

Sponsor request (perl again)

2002-08-10 Thread Devin Carraway
This is a small Perl module I had need of during a recent project at work, but which wasn't in Debian. Essentially it provides the comparison indicating that (e.g.) 2.10.1pl1-8 is greater than 2.9.8.1-4. Small, simple, perl-only. Packages may be had from http://devin.com/debian/. Package: libso