Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Leo \"Costela\" Antunes
The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? I know this doesn't answer your question, but I assume the portability issues you mention are all build problems in one of Debian's supported architectures, am I right? If so, the build logs[1] should give you more then enough help to track

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:28:55AM +, Alan Woodland wrote: > For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in > Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird > (preliminary packages are avalible from > http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and m

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Schacht wrote: > I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of > packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official > distribution. I intend to apply as a NM soon, but in the meantime, > since the last update of kdirstat, I am having portability problems. I > h

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Leo Costela Antunes wrote: > The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? In this case not. In many other cases also not... Regards, Rene -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Mike Schacht wrote: > > I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of > > packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official > > distribution. I intend to apply as a NM soon, but in the meantime, > > since

Re: ITA wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data (will need a sponsor)

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 03:06:19AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > I am adopting wmakerconf and wmakerconf-data packages -- I've already > > debianized the newest upstream versions (2.9 and 0.80.0 respectively) and > Can you upload the packages

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Alan Woodland
Mike Hommey wrote: It's a bit much for too few. Just take a look at my mozilla-tabextensions package, for instance. I think this is the best way to handle the situation. BTW, I'm currently writing a mozilla extensions mini-policy, which should be done by tomorrow, I'll send it on debian-devel f

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Mike Schacht wrote: > > > I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of > > > packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official > > > distribution. I intend to ap

Package scponly

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas Wana
Hi all, I've got a little question how to further procede with the package scponly. There currently doesn't exist a debian package for scponly (http://sublimation.org/scponly), but there exists a bug report for it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=147456 It seems that n

Re: Package scponly

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas Wana
Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 23:06 schrieben Sie: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Thomas Wana wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a little question how to further procede with the > > package scponly. There currently doesn't exist a debian > > package for scponly (http://sublimation.org/sc

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Schacht
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > This list of debian machines: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, shows > > that some of the machines allow access by "all". There is no further > > explanation of who qualifies as "all", or how someone who is "all" can > > get access

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Schacht
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:24:28PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Another option is to use the compile farm at SourceForge. This is a bit > more tricky, as you would have to be registered as a participant of one of > project hosted there, but that is not a big problem. Ah, now I wonder about

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Schacht
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:25:48PM -0300, Leo Costela Antunes wrote: > The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? > I know this doesn't answer your question, but I assume the portability > issues you mention are all build problems in one of Debian's supported > architectures, am I r

Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Alan Woodland
For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird (preliminary packages are avalible from http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and mozilla-snapshot. The problem is that in order to do this I need to d

Re: Looking for a sponsor to adopt distributed-net

2003-05-27 Thread Loïc Le Guyader
Le 15 mai 2003, Loïc Le Guyader, à bout, prit son clavier pour taper sur son écran: > Hi all, > > Noèle Koethe is looking for someone to adopt distributed-net (client) and > distributed-net-pproxy (personnal proxy). (see bug 185016) > > The two main task before adopting this package is to split i

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Frank Küster
Alan Woodland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Basicaly what I'd like to > know is if theres a nicer way to test if a package is installed than > just testing the existance of files that the package would create if > it was installed? Why not use dpkg --get-selections $otherpackage | grep install

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread José Luis Tallón
At 08:28 27/05/2003 +, you wrote: For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird (preliminary packages are avalible from http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and mozilla-snapshot. The problem

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Leo \"Costela\" Antunes
'dpkg -l ' has the official answer. Of course the package _might_ have been removed manually, but in that case the user has already messed up with all infrastructure we care to provide =] I belive this method should be enough. Cheers On Ter, 2003-05-27 at 05:28, Alan Woodland wrote: > For the nex

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:28:55AM +, Alan Woodland wrote: > For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in > Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird > (preliminary packages are avalible from > http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Alan! You wrote: > For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in > Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird > (preliminary packages are avalible from > http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and mozilla-snapshot. The > problem is that

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 10:42:23AM -0300, Leo Costela Antunes wrote: > 'dpkg -l ' has the official answer. Of course the > package _might_ have been removed manually, but in that case the user > has already messed up with all infrastructure we care to provide =] I > belive this method should be eno

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread José Luis Tallón
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:53:08 +0200 To: Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: José Luis Tallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst At 11:26 27/05/2003 +0200, you wrote: Hi Alan! You wrote: > For the next version of a package which I currently

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:53, José Luis Tallón wrote: [snip] > >mozgest-mozilla: > > Depends: mozilla-browser > > Conflicts: mozgest-firebird, firebird > > Replaces: mozgest-firebird > > Provides: mozilla-gestures > > > >mozgest-firebird: > > Depends: firebir

Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Schacht
Hello, I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official distribution. I intend to apply as a NM soon, but in the meantime, since the last update of kdirstat, I am having portability problems. I have no resources for

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Leo \"Costela\" Antunes
The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? I know this doesn't answer your question, but I assume the portability issues you mention are all build problems in one of Debian's supported architectures, am I right? If so, the build logs[1] should give you more then enough help to track

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:28:55AM +, Alan Woodland wrote: > For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in > Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird > (preliminary packages are avalible from > http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and m

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Schacht wrote: > I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of > packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official > distribution. I intend to apply as a NM soon, but in the meantime, > since the last update of kdirstat, I am having portability problems. I > h

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Leo Costela Antunes wrote: > The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? In this case not. In many other cases also not... Regards, Rene -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Mike Schacht wrote: > > I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of > > packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official > > distribution. I intend to apply as a NM soon, but in the meantime, > > since

Re: ITA wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data (will need a sponsor)

2003-05-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Fri, 23 May 2003, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 03:06:19AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > I am adopting wmakerconf and wmakerconf-data packages -- I've already > > debianized the newest upstream versions (2.9 and 0.80.0 respectively) and > Can you upload the packages

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Alan Woodland
Mike Hommey wrote: It's a bit much for too few. Just take a look at my mozilla-tabextensions package, for instance. I think this is the best way to handle the situation. BTW, I'm currently writing a mozilla extensions mini-policy, which should be done by tomorrow, I'll send it on debian-devel

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Mike Schacht wrote: > > > I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of > > > packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official > > > distribution. I intend to ap

Package scponly

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas Wana
Hi all, I've got a little question how to further procede with the package scponly. There currently doesn't exist a debian package for scponly (http://sublimation.org/scponly), but there exists a bug report for it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=147456 It seems that n

Re: Package scponly

2003-05-27 Thread Thomas Wana
Am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2003 23:06 schrieben Sie: > On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 10:37:27PM +0200, Thomas Wana wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a little question how to further procede with the > > package scponly. There currently doesn't exist a debian > > package for scponly (http://sublimation.org/sc

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Schacht
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:25:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > This list of debian machines: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, shows > > that some of the machines allow access by "all". There is no further > > explanation of who qualifies as "all", or how someone who is "all" can > > get access

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Schacht
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 09:24:28PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Another option is to use the compile farm at SourceForge. This is a bit > more tricky, as you would have to be registered as a participant of one of > project hosted there, but that is not a big problem. Ah, now I wonder about

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Schacht
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:25:48PM -0300, Leo Costela Antunes wrote: > The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? > I know this doesn't answer your question, but I assume the portability > issues you mention are all build problems in one of Debian's supported > architectures, am I r