Re: Listening to Lintian while packing a mod_perl module

2003-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:12:03PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Per request of its current maintainer (Cc: of this mail goes to him), I > am working on a NMU of libapache-request-perl because of a new upstream > version. I would like to correct a couple of Lintian warnings in the > process as well.

Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator

2003-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:39:00PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding wrote: > I am attempting to become the maintainer for Defoma, a package that > has been orphaned for over two months (#180188). I have successfully > downloaded the .deb, expanded it, and repackaged the .deb using the > various tools

Re: Listening to Lintian while packing a mod_perl module

2003-05-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:12:03PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Per request of its current maintainer (Cc: of this mail goes to him), I > am working on a NMU of libapache-request-perl because of a new upstream > version. I would like to correct a couple of Lintian warnings in the > process as well.

Re: Correct version numbering for pre-Versions?

2003-05-01 Thread Martin Albert
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 16:14, David Roundy wrote: > > The usual way is using "pre1", "pre2", ..., "rc1", ..., "rel". As a > > matter of fact, this sorts nicely. > > Doesn't this have the problem that debian considers 1.2pre1 to be a > later version than 1.2? As Andrew and others wrote: no if y

Re: Testing of auto-built packages

2003-05-01 Thread Martin Albert
On Wednesday 30 April 2003 14:18, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > So the question is, is it permissable to put such a basic test of a > library into the rules file that gets executed as part of the build > process? If so, are there any guidelines anywhere as to how one > > The test would involve compili

Lintian shows up several errors

2003-05-01 Thread Samuel Abels
Hi, I've build a debian package and dpkg-buildpackage works fine. The program's "debian" directory can be found here: http://sv.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gpostman/gpostman/debian/ Anyway, Lintian shows up several problems. (1) E: gpostman: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/doc/ I know that the documentation

Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator

2003-05-01 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Thu, 1 May 2003 11:46:39 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:39:00PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding > wrote:> I am attempting to become the maintainer for Defoma, a > package that> has been orphaned for over two months (#180188). I > have successfully> down

Re: Lintian shows up several errors

2003-05-01 Thread Morgon Kanter
This one time, at band camp, "Samuel Abels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, hi [...] > (3) E: gpostman: changelog-file-not-compressed ChangeLog > > The problem is, if I "gzip -9" the change-log, dpkg-buildpackage will quit > with an error, so I just don't know how to do it. If you're using debh

Re: Lintian shows up several errors

2003-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:35:20PM +0200, Samuel Abels wrote: > I've build a debian package and dpkg-buildpackage works fine. > The program's "debian" directory can be found > here: > http://sv.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gpostman/gpostman/debian/ > > Anyway, Lintian shows up several problems. > > (1

Re: Lintian shows up several errors

2003-05-01 Thread Holger Kubiak
Hi, > (1) E: gpostman: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/doc/ > > Will I have to create a postinst script? You can use the target install in debian/rules by writing something like mkdir -f $(CURDIR)/debian//usr/share mv $(CURDIR)/debian//usr/doc $(CURDIR)/debian//usr/share after the lines # Add h

Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator

2003-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 12:03:04PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding wrote: > On Thu, 1 May 2003 11:46:39 +0100 > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 12:39:00PM -0800, Fielder George Dowding > > wrote: > > > I am attempting to become the maintainer for Defoma, a package

Re: Lintian shows up several errors

2003-05-01 Thread Samuel Abels
On Fri, 02 May 2003 01:00:21 +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote: > Hi, > >> (1) E: gpostman: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/doc/ >> >> Will I have to create a postinst script? > > You can use the target install in debian/rules by writing something like > > mkdir -f $(CURDIR)/debian//usr/share > mv $(CURDIR)/de

FTBFS bug - help needed

2003-05-01 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am having a problem with one of my packages on hppa, and I can not seem to resolve it myself. The bug# is 191124, for reference, viewable here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191124 The gist is that this program needs to access the CD for cddb lookups, and in order

Lintian shows up several errors

2003-05-01 Thread Neil Roeth
man dh_installdocs man dh_install On May 1, Samuel Abels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > (1) E: gpostman: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/doc/ > > I know that the documentation shouldn't be in /usr/doc but in > /usr/share/doc instead. > I don't want to change the configure.in and automake scripts, so I

Re: FTBFS bug - help needed

2003-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:43:05PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > I am having a problem with one of my packages on hppa, and I can not > seem to resolve it myself. The bug# is 191124, for reference, viewable > here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191124 This is either a bug in

Re: Listening to Lintian while packing a mod_perl module

2003-05-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:12:03PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Per request of its current maintainer (Cc: of this mail goes to him), I > am working on a NMU of libapache-request-perl because of a new upstream > version. I would like to correct a couple of Lintian warnings in the > process as well.