Re: upstream author only distributes in zip format

2002-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 09 November 2002 19:08, Marc Nozell wrote: > I'm starting to package up a tool and have some questions about > 'pristine source'. > > * The upstream author only distributes as a ZIP file. Since > dpkg-buildpackage, dh_make, etc only understand .tar.gz files, > is it acceptable for

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:12:57 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > > > dh_installinit adds 'invoke-rc.d start' (or: init.d/package start) to > > > postinst, hence, after dpkg-reconfigure is run, po

Re: GNAT

2002-11-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
[Please no CC on reply, I'm subscribed to the list] Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jérôme Marant) writes: > >> What about ACT not fixing bugs in the GNAT public releases? > > They do fix them, but they have extremely long release cycles. Would it be that har

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:34:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: [snip] > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > source? apt-build should help, it works well (at least for me). > And, using kernel-package, how do I build kernels and modules > appropriately? Should I build

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:06:58 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>grep prerm =dpkg-reconfigure > > foreach my $info (['prerm','upgrade', $version], > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > ${mi

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > > ${misc:Depends}? > > No. That's a build-dependency, you know. There is no runtime dependency. Of course debconf (dpkg-reconfigure) is needed at run time. Are you confu

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > source? Take a look at pentium-builder. > And, using kernel-package, how do I build kernels and modules > appropriately? Well, "as usual". What problems do you have in mind? > Should I

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > May I voice an opinion against a gratuitous message saying that the > behavior has changed but without real useful value? Those darn > "click-throughs" are a large part of the complaints against debian > packages during an install. May I suggest that if a

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:21:20AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The escputil package was in section misc, but should have been in > > section utils (a bug was filed to request this). I changed this, but > > there has been no change in the section in

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:06:58 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>grep prerm =dpkg-reconfigure > > foreach my $info (['prerm','upgrade', $version], > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > ${misc:Depends}? What

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: > Since debconf 1.2.9 dpkg-reconfigure calls prerm, which does invoke-rc.d > stop, so I think this would be the correct runtime dependency when > dpkg-reconfigure has to stop a daemon before it can be (re)started in > postinst... I don't see what you mean, and this seems to h

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:13:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > > > > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > > > ${misc:Depends}? > > > > No. That's a build-depe

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi debian-mentors! On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:13:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > > > > > > > May I suggest that dh_installi

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > > source? > > Take a look at pentium-builder. Thanks. > > > And, using kernel-package, how do I build kernels an

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:34:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > [snip] > > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > > source? > apt-build should help, it works well (at least for me). That had an interes

linuxworld expo 2003

2002-11-10 Thread Samuel Desseaux
Hi! excuse me, before all, if i am a bit out of the subject of the list. Who plan to take part at the next linuxworld expo in 2003 (in New-york or San francisco)? I've never take part in it but next year, i'd like it very much (like the free software meeting in france, it seems to be a good op

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She should have built the package as you had it, but just signed it themselves. that way you would get all of the bug mail, and

RFS: lib765{,-dev}, libdsk{,-dev}, FUSE (xfuse-*)

2002-11-10 Thread Darren Salt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking for sponsors for the following packages: lib765 (lib765, lib765-dev) - an emulation of the uPD765a floppy drive controller libdsk (libdsk, libdsk-dev) - handles various floppy disk image formats xfuse (xfuse-common, xfuse-

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? > > If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She should have built the package > as you had it, but just signed it th

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:35:05PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? > > > > If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She sho

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:45:43AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? > > If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She should have built the package > as you had it,

Re: GNAT

2002-11-10 Thread Jérôme Marant
[Please no CC on reply, I'm subscribed to the list] Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jérôme Marant) writes: > >> What about ACT not fixing bugs in the GNAT public releases? > > They do fix them, but they have extremely long release cycles. Would it be that har

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:34:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: [snip] > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > source? apt-build should help, it works well (at least for me). > And, using kernel-package, how do I build kernels and modules > appropriately? Should I build

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:06:58 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > joey@dragon:~>grep prerm =dpkg-reconfigure > > foreach my $info (['prerm','upgrade', $version], > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > ${misc:Dep

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > > ${misc:Depends}? > > No. That's a build-dependency, you know. There is no runtime dependency. Of course debconf (dpkg-reconfigure) is needed at run time. Are you confu

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > source? Take a look at pentium-builder. > And, using kernel-package, how do I build kernels and modules > appropriately? Well, "as usual". What problems do you have in mind? > Should I

Re: Advice about cfengine2 package

2002-11-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > May I voice an opinion against a gratuitous message saying that the > behavior has changed but without real useful value? Those darn > "click-throughs" are a large part of the complaints against debian > packages during an install. May I suggest that if a

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:21:20AM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The escputil package was in section misc, but should have been in > > section utils (a bug was filed to request this). I changed this, but > > there has been no change in the section in

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:06:58 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > > joey@dragon:~>grep prerm =dpkg-reconfigure > > foreach my $info (['prerm','upgrade', $version], > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > ${misc:Depends}? Whatever f

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: > Since debconf 1.2.9 dpkg-reconfigure calls prerm, which does invoke-rc.d > stop, so I think this would be the correct runtime dependency when > dpkg-reconfigure has to stop a daemon before it can be (re)started in > postinst... I don't see what you mean, and this seems to h

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:13:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > > > > > May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (>= 1.2.9)' to > > > ${misc:Depends}? > > > > No. That's a build-depe

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hi debian-mentors! On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 09:13:39 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Martin Godisch wrote: > > > > > > > May I suggest that dh_installi

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 02:13:22PM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Ross Boylan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > > source? > > Take a look at pentium-builder. Thanks. > > > And, using kernel-package, how do I build kernels an

Re: Building optimized packages, including kernel

2002-11-10 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:09:44PM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:34:58PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > [snip] > > What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from > > source? > apt-build should help, it works well (at least for me). That had an interes

linuxworld expo 2003

2002-11-10 Thread Samuel Desseaux
Hi! excuse me, before all, if i am a bit out of the subject of the list. Who plan to take part at the next linuxworld expo in 2003 (in New-york or San francisco)? I've never take part in it but next year, i'd like it very much (like the free software meeting in france, it seems to be a good op

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She should have built the package as you had it, but just signed it themselves. that way you would get all of the bug mail, and

RFS: lib765{,-dev}, libdsk{,-dev}, FUSE (xfuse-*)

2002-11-10 Thread Darren Salt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm looking for sponsors for the following packages: lib765 (lib765, lib765-dev) - an emulation of the uPD765a floppy drive controller libdsk (libdsk, libdsk-dev) - handles various floppy disk image formats xfuse (xfuse-common, xfuse-

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? > > If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She should have built the package > as you had it, but just signed it th

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:35:05PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? > > > > If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She sho

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:45:43AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? > > If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She should have built the package > as you had it,