Packaging DJGPP

2003-02-07 Thread Jeremie Koenig
Hello, I'm being trying to package DJGPP, which is a libc, and a few other tools to make DOS binaries with an i*86-msdosdjgpp targetted GCC (see the recent ITP on -devel). I'd like to see it sponsored into Debian when it's done. I've already packaged a few private things, but DJGPP is just no suc

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread Sven Lauritzen
Hello! I'm new on the list. I'm Sven Lauritzen from Hamburg/Germany. On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:45, sean finney wrote: > i'm packaging sugarplum, an email harvester honeypot basically. in > order to not trap legitimate web-spiders, i thought it'd be good to > make the install of a robots.txt[1] in

debconf causes hang

2003-02-07 Thread Iain
Hi, I am having a problem using debconf in my postinst: #! /bin/sh set -e . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule case "$1" in configure) db_get qmail-scanner/admin ADMIN="$RET" db_get qmail-scanner/domain DOMAIN="$RET" db_get qmail-scanner/notify NOT

Packaging DJGPP

2003-02-07 Thread Jeremie Koenig
Hello, I'm being trying to package DJGPP, which is a libc, and a few other tools to make DOS binaries with an i*86-msdosdjgpp targetted GCC (see the recent ITP on -devel). I'd like to see it sponsored into Debian when it's done. I've already packaged a few private things, but DJGPP is just no suc

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread Sven Lauritzen
Hello! I'm new on the list. I'm Sven Lauritzen from Hamburg/Germany. On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 07:45, sean finney wrote: > i'm packaging sugarplum, an email harvester honeypot basically. in > order to not trap legitimate web-spiders, i thought it'd be good to > make the install of a robots.txt[1] in

debconf causes hang

2003-02-07 Thread Iain
Hi, I am having a problem using debconf in my postinst: #! /bin/sh set -e . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule case "$1" in configure) db_get qmail-scanner/admin ADMIN="$RET" db_get qmail-scanner/domain DOMAIN="$RET" db_get qmail-scanner/notify NOT

RFS: sugarplum - an automated/intelligent spam trap/cache-poisoner

2003-02-07 Thread sean finney
heya mentors, (description follows) all done... wrt the previous thread, i ended up deciding that it would be a waste to put in the debconf warning message about robots.txt, since it's already present in the docs as well as warnings in the config files. so... would someone be willing to sponsor t

RFS: sugarplum - an automated/intelligent spam trap/cache-poisoner

2003-02-07 Thread sean finney
heya mentors, (description follows) all done... wrt the previous thread, i ended up deciding that it would be a waste to put in the debconf warning message about robots.txt, since it's already present in the docs as well as warnings in the config files. so... would someone be willing to sponsor t

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:33:20PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Well if the docs is already there things are quite set already. > Well low is a good priority for such things, I think. Maybe a little > higher if you think it is more important. okay, i think low is acceptable for this. now that i

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:10:03AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > 1) Document that robots.txt should be copied to the proper place > >in the README.Debian file. > > 2) Tell the user to do that in a debconf box, or even to ask f

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > 1) Document that robots.txt should be copied to the proper place >in the README.Debian file. > 2) Tell the user to do that in a debconf box, or even to ask for >where to install it. the /usr/share/doc docs are already there,

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:33:20PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Well if the docs is already there things are quite set already. > Well low is a good priority for such things, I think. Maybe a little > higher if you think it is more important. okay, i think low is acceptable for this. now that i

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 11:10:03AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > 1) Document that robots.txt should be copied to the proper place > >in the README.Debian file. > > 2) Tell the user to do that in a debconf box, or even to ask f

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello I have a simple solution (or two actually). 1) Document that robots.txt should be copied to the proper place in the README.Debian file. 2) Tell the user to do that in a debconf box, or even to ask for where to install it. I think it is a really bad idea to install it in /var/www. Fir

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:25:14PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > 1) Document that robots.txt should be copied to the proper place >in the README.Debian file. > 2) Tell the user to do that in a debconf box, or even to ask for >where to install it. the /usr/share/doc docs are already there,

Re: packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hello I have a simple solution (or two actually). 1) Document that robots.txt should be copied to the proper place in the README.Debian file. 2) Tell the user to do that in a debconf box, or even to ask for where to install it. I think it is a really bad idea to install it in /var/www. Fir

Re: Getting non-free packages built on all arches

2003-02-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:07:03PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Non-free packages don't seem to be autobuilt. > > Do I have to contact every autobuilder maintainer > > in order to get a non-free package built on every > >

Re: Getting non-free packages built on all arches

2003-02-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:07:03PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > Non-free packages don't seem to be autobuilt. > Do I have to contact every autobuilder maintainer > in order to get a non-free package built on every > architecture? You could also log in one of the numerous debia

packaging question: what to do about this file...

2003-02-07 Thread sean finney
heya mentors, i'm packaging sugarplum, an email harvester honeypot basically. in order to not trap legitimate web-spiders, i thought it'd be good to make the install of a robots.txt[1] in /var/www happen by default if possible, only i'm not sure i can/ought to really do that. if i made it a conf

Re: Getting non-free packages built on all arches

2003-02-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
En réponse à Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:07:03PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Non-free packages don't seem to be autobuilt. > > Do I have to contact every autobuilder maintainer > > in order to get a non-free package built on every > >

Re: Getting non-free packages built on all arches

2003-02-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:07:03PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > Non-free packages don't seem to be autobuilt. > Do I have to contact every autobuilder maintainer > in order to get a non-free package built on every > architecture? You could also log in one of the numerous debia