Re: The upstream developer of a package needs an old package.

2003-05-16 Thread Jaime Robles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 El Jueves, 15 de Mayo de 2003 23:39, Keegan Quinn escribió: The program i am taking about is KTrack, a satellite tracking program for KDE. The KTrack's developer uses XPlanet 0.95a for developing KTrack. As you can see XPlanet has changed some

debconf problem

2003-05-16 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hello, I've some problems with my package lurker. You can find the source of my actuall packaging version at http://people.freesources.org/~jonas/lurker/ My problems: The database format from lurker 0.6 to lurker 0.7 changed, but upstream provides a convert-script. I want to inform people if they

Re: debconf problem

2003-05-16 Thread Joe Nahmias
Jonas Meurer wrote: Hello, I've some problems with my package lurker. You can find the source of my actuall packaging version at http://people.freesources.org/~jonas/lurker/ snip case $1 in configure) if dpkg --compare-versions $3 = 0.1g then

debian/rules and wrong run-time library

2003-05-16 Thread Bill Moseley
Hi, This is follow to a few posts on debian-user. I'm the maintainer of Swish-e (the source, not the debian maintainer). I used dh_make and the Debian New Maintainers' Guide to create my debian directory basically without any changes from what dh_make setup. Swish-e build system uses

Request for sponsor/mentor: albatross

2003-05-16 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Hi, I've packaged the Albatross Web Toolkit. I've filed an ITP: Bug #193574. Now I'm looking for a mentor that could take a look at the package, and be prepared to sponsor it once the packaging is good enough. Comments and suggestions from anyone are welcome of course. There are some issues with

Re: debian/rules and wrong run-time library

2003-05-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 10:50:05AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: [...] Specifying the prefix works as expected. For example, building for a new prefix: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/f$ ../swish-e/configure --prefix=$HOME/f2 /dev/null \ [...] note that the run-time linkages are correct (they point to

Re: debian/rules and wrong run-time library

2003-05-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 09:25:45PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: If you use the non-standard prefix libtool afaik adds --rpath to the linker options. Ah, non-standard is the key. So when using a prefix of /usr, which is standard, the path is *not* added in the executable, so the it searches

Re: debian/rules and wrong run-time library

2003-05-16 Thread Bill Moseley
Just to follow up on this thread. libtool uses -rpath when building with a *non-standard* prefix, but with prefix=/usr no -rpath is used. That means /usr/lib is not added to the binary, so the normal lib search paths are used. Just like one would expect. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/rules and wrong run-time library

2003-05-16 Thread Bill Moseley
[argh, sorry this went to the wrong list] Just to follow up on this thread. libtool uses -rpath when building with a *non-standard* prefix, but with prefix=/usr no -rpath is used. That means /usr/lib is not added to the binary, so the normal lib search paths are used. Just like one would

Re: debconf problem

2003-05-16 Thread Jonas Meurer
On 16/05/2003 Joe Nahmias wrote: if dpkg --compare-versions $3 = 0.1g then db_input high lurker/upgrade01_info || true db_go elif dpkg --compare-versions $3 = 0.5 then db_input high

Re: Request for sponsor/mentor: albatross

2003-05-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On 16 May 2003, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: I've packaged the Albatross Web Toolkit. I've filed an ITP: Bug #193574. Now I'm looking for a mentor that could take a look at the package, and be prepared to sponsor it once the packaging is good enough. Comments and suggestions from anyone are