Re: On replacing orphaned packages

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Gunnar Wolf wrote: As far as I can tell, no modules depend on it - Maybe I am searching for this the wrong way, but... There's an apt-cache command which shows reverse depends... Aah, there it is, showpkg. Run that over any package, and it'll show you Reverse Depends

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:00AM -0500, sean finney wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:35:43PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: so... is there anything i can do other than putting some more documentation in /usr/share/doc? Err, README.Debian? that is what i was implying there, but was

RFS: libchipcard -- An api for smartcard readers (very useful forsome homebanking with gnucash-hbci)

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package. The addition of libchipcard to Debian would substantially increase the number of users benefitting from gnucash's hbci (home banking) extensions (cf. packages gnucash-hbci, libopenhbci, and

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:21:32AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:00AM -0500, sean finney wrote: that is what i was implying there, but was wondering if there was something *other* than that :) but with the above suggestion, i think it'll be moot, so thanks again.

unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Jonas Fonseca
Hello, I ITP'ed FXRuby (libfox-ruby) some time ago. But in the meantime I've been cought up in another project (typical ;) and also found unofficial libfox-ruby packages[0] (for the unstable ruby interpreter). So I have kind of lost interest in packaging it and want to RFP it instead as I still

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote: Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Don't file a new one, retitle the old one to RFP. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jonas! You wrote: Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Just retitle the existing bug to an RFP. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 |

Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Celso González
Hi all I'm trying to package a mozilla plugin (enigmail), but i have a problem with build dependences because I need a precompiled mozilla tree. I have several options. Option a) I omit the tar.gz sources and I use a xpi compiled by my own The deb installs this xpi like the mozilla-locale

Re: Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Richter
Celso, Option c) Create a mozilla-dev? package and use this one like build dependence Guess what? There is already a mozilla-dev package. :-) Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 msg08482/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:15:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: I'm using dh_perl to calculate the package dependencies for a perl script in the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package. I thought this was working, but it's not getting the dependencies right.

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:57:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dh_perl doesn't (currently) attempt to calculate general module dependencies, only core dependencies. OK, thanks. I guess that, due to the nature of the perl parser, adding this

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: The module package may not even be installed, the module may be used conditionally, a versioned dependency may be needed, multiple packages may provide the same module (and a dependency on a virtual package or an ored dependency

Re: question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:43PM -0500, sean finney wrote: i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. when i purge the package, i get: balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:35:43PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: i'm throwing together a cgi script package that requires certain lines be added to the apache configuration file on the webserver in order to work, so there's no way it can work out of the box as far as i can figure, at least

Re: On replacing orphaned packages

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Gunnar Wolf wrote: As far as I can tell, no modules depend on it - Maybe I am searching for this the wrong way, but... There's an apt-cache command which shows reverse depends... Aah, there it is, showpkg. Run that over any package, and it'll show you Reverse Depends

Re: Producing a None-Hardware specific .deb

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ian. Ian Wilkinson wrote: I am currently the developer of a cgi application (BlueLava, if anyone's interested :-)). I've read as much as I can find about making .debs but I can find nothing about producing a none-architecture specific .deb.

RFS: libchipcard -- An api for smartcard readers (very useful for some homebanking with gnucash-hbci)

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package. The addition of libchipcard to Debian would substantially increase the number of users benefitting from gnucash's hbci (home banking) extensions (cf. packages gnucash-hbci, libopenhbci, and

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:21:32AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:00AM -0500, sean finney wrote: that is what i was implying there, but was wondering if there was something *other* than that :) but with the above suggestion, i think it'll be moot, so thanks again.

unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Jonas Fonseca
Hello, I ITP'ed FXRuby (libfox-ruby) some time ago. But in the meantime I've been cought up in another project (typical ;) and also found unofficial libfox-ruby packages[0] (for the unstable ruby interpreter). So I have kind of lost interest in packaging it and want to RFP it instead as I still

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote: Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Don't file a new one, retitle the old one to RFP. Michael

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jonas! You wrote: Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Just retitle the existing bug to an RFP. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 |

Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Celso González
Hi all I'm trying to package a mozilla plugin (enigmail), but i have a problem with build dependences because I need a precompiled mozilla tree. I have several options. Option a) I omit the tar.gz sources and I use a xpi compiled by my own The deb installs this xpi like the mozilla-locale

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer (was Re: Question about seeking (finding) a sponsor)

2003-02-01 Thread Frank Evers
Hi Chad On Sonntag, 26. Januar 2003 23:55, Chad Miller wrote: This is something you should do if and when you're pretty sure that you don't want your work to be just exercise. There's nothing wrong with packaging something just for the experience, note; you don't have to be a package

Re: Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Richter
Celso, Option c) Create a mozilla-dev? package and use this one like build dependence Guess what? There is already a mozilla-dev package. :-) Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 pgpBEej03Ntyk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:15:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: I'm using dh_perl to calculate the package dependencies for a perl script in the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package. I thought this was working, but it's not getting the dependencies right.

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:57:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dh_perl doesn't (currently) attempt to calculate general module dependencies, only core dependencies. OK, thanks. I guess that, due to the nature of the perl parser, adding this

Re: Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Celso González
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:25:46PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: Celso, Option c) Create a mozilla-dev? package and use this one like build dependence Guess what? There is already a mozilla-dev package. :-) Ups :-) Great but terrible, now I have to fight with a long Makefile I hope in

question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
hey mentors i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. when i purge the package, i get: balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sugarplum (Reading database ... 69541 files and directories

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: I would use the various introspection-related modules to do this (maybe Devel::Symdump or B?), but it's not possible to get it reliably correct automatically. I think there are plenty of not-particularly-pathological scripts and modules in the distribution that would easily

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:55:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Yes, it's very hard to get right and even if you do, mostly, there is still the issue of mapping perl modules into debian packages, which would be hard for debhelper to do, as it would have to depend on having Mapping from a perl

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Kemp wrote: Mapping from a perl module to a Debian package should be trivial, I would have thought. Given the system upon which dh_perl would be run would have the modules installed it should be a simple matter of running 'dpkg --search path/to/perl/module.pm' - or am I missing

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: The module package may not even be installed, the module may be used conditionally, a versioned dependency may be needed, multiple packages may provide the same module (and a dependency on a virtual package or an ored dependency

Re: question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:43PM -0500, sean finney wrote: i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. when i purge the package, i get: balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Brian Nelson
sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hey -mentors i'm throwing together a cgi script package that requires certain lines be added to the apache configuration file on the webserver in order to work, so there's no way it can work out of the box as far as i can figure, at least until apache