Can someone please check my package? (no need for a sponsor, I'm a DD)

2003-08-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, I've spent quite some time recently trying to generate correct packages for em8300. These are quite complex packages with source for a kernel module, a library, quite complex maintainer scripts, complex upgrade from previous versions, etc... I don't feel self-confident enough to upload

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Winger
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: PS: carefull with File://, apt-get source will create links into the mirror and debuild will then erase the files from the repository and replace them when you rebuild. I guess I don't follow the warnings enough to heed them. I thought looking at the man page of

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for pizza-business, a pizza restaurant simulation game. This closes #180789. The package is lintian clean except for: W: pizza-business: menu-item-creates-new-section Games/Simulation /usr/lib/menu/pizza-business:2

Re: timidity-patches

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 05:17:21PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: Hi guys. I'm interested in working on the timidity-patches package and am in need of a sponser for the package because I am not currently an official Debian developer yet. Is there anyone out there willing to sponser this package

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:33:44PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: I thought looking at the man page of debuild would help, as I'm not familiar with debuild. But I didn't see a debian package in the repository called debuild. Perhaps it is spelled incorrectly? Or maybe I just missed it. apt-get

Re: timidity-patches

2003-08-27 Thread Tommy Moore
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:37:40PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Do you have documentation to show that we have a license to distribute this package (bug #156057)? Hi Steve. I took a look at the copyright file in the package and from this document I believe that the package could still remain

Re: timidity-patches

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:28:16PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:37:40PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Do you have documentation to show that we have a license to distribute this package (bug #156057)? Hi Steve. I took a look at the copyright file in the package and

Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread Silke Reimer
Hallo! I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See here the relevant part of the buildlog: dpkg-source: extracting thuban in thuban-0.8.1 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is thuban

Patch needs Sponsor - 20 bugs left - sorted by mtime

2003-08-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I went through the RC bug list and collected Bugs with trivial patches and sorted them a bit. They realy don't need much work so if you have a minute pick one. If you want to NMU any of them check the then currently claimed bugs (url under

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread Laurent Fousse
Le Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:34:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for pizza-business, a pizza restaurant simulation game. This closes #180789. The package is lintian clean except for: W: pizza-business:

ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Hi, Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the package on other archs. I

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Keith Dunwoody
Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the package

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 13:36, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Alexandre Fayolle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the package on other archs. I event got a FTBFS bug report. I'm not sure of how I should handle

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Keith Dunwoody wrote: Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:25:06PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Alexandre Fayolle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the package on other

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:41, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:22:56PM +0200, Michel Dnzer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|13:40:48 apt-cache showsrc psyco [...] Architecture: any Wow. This is real strange, because this is definitely *not* what I wrote: [EMAIL

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Keith Dunwoody
Alexandre Fayolle wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Keith Dunwoody wrote: Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread David Z Maze
Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not yet. It's all about you and your restaurant. Here's the description: Description: A game in which you can run your own pizza businness Pizza Business is a game written in C++ in which you start a pizza ^^

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
Chris Niekel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To add some information to my previous post (in the hope of attracting some more attention) On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:52:31PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: The 'sn' package was orphaned, and I ITA'ed it. I'm not a DD yet, and this is my first package, so

removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi everyone, one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to handle the existing directories. i could think of - just

Re: Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread James Troup
Silke Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See here the relevant part of the buildlog: It's a libc6 bug; don't worry about it. Your package will be retried when a fixed

Re: Patch needs Sponsor - 20 bugs left - sorted by mtime

2003-08-27 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:32:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: TITLE #195527:mysql++: FTBFS with g++-3.3: Missing cassert include Severity: serious Package: mysql++ Age: 87 days Last changed: 15 days Please be more careful about these reports; this bug has

YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-27 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
Hi there, as many other questions on this list, mine are related to my first try to create a package. I've chosen camsource - a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software. As usual I've used the New Maintainers' Guide to get started and nearly all went well. Besides two warnings

Re: Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread Silke Reimer
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:09:12PM +0100, James Troup wrote: Silke Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See here the relevant part of the buildlog: It's a libc6

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to handle the existing

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre THIERRY
both look sub-optimal to me, could anyone give me advice on this, please? You could just use presint install/upgrade old-version to remove those directories, if they are empty... See policy 6.5 Quickly, le Moine Fou -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-27 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi, * Thomas -Balu- Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-27 18:07]: | As usual I've used the New Maintainers' Guide to get started and nearly | all went well. Besides two warnings lintian gives me: | | W: camsource source: newer-standards-version 3.5.10 | - which should be fixed by a new lintian

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread Laurent Fousse
Le Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:34:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for pizza-business, a pizza restaurant simulation game. This closes #180789. The package is lintian clean except for: W: pizza-business:

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:43:10PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: If the directories were part of the deb and not generated in postinst, just stopping to ship the directories should do the trick, as afaik dpkg should solve the problem automatically. On upgrades it should recognize that

managing existing packages

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Winger
In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number of messages questions. When running dpkg-scanpackages I got this message: ! Package spinelli (filename pool/spinelli_0.9_i386.deb) is repeat; ignored that one and using data from pool/spinelli_0.10_i386.deb ! I'm using

Cleaning up my ITP list / #178035: libtest-exception-perl / Request for sponsor

2003-08-27 Thread Jay Bonci
Hello everyone, I'm going to continue cleaning up my ITP list on WNPP before I take any more stuff. This time I offer up libtest-exception-perl, it's a build-depend of the in-development version of the Everything project (also ITP'ed), so to build it for Debian, I'll need this in the

Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread Silke Reimer
Hallo! I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See here the relevant part of the buildlog: dpkg-source: extracting thuban in thuban-0.8.1 dpkg-buildpackage: source package is thuban

Patch needs Sponsor - 20 bugs left - sorted by mtime

2003-08-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I went through the RC bug list and collected Bugs with trivial patches and sorted them a bit. They realy don't need much work so if you have a minute pick one. If you want to NMU any of them check the then currently claimed bugs (url under

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread Laurent Fousse
Le Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:34:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for pizza-business, a pizza restaurant simulation game. This closes #180789. The package is lintian clean except for: W: pizza-business:

ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
Hi, Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the package on other archs. I

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Alexandre Fayolle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the package on other archs. I event got a FTBFS bug report. I'm not sure of how I should handle

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Keith Dunwoody
Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:22:56PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 13:36, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 13:36, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Keith Dunwoody wrote: Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Alexandre Fayolle
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:25:06PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Alexandre Fayolle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which supports only i386, and the buildd logs [1] say that attempts have been made to build the package on other

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:41, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:22:56PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|13:40:48 apt-cache showsrc psyco [...] Architecture: any Wow. This is real strange, because this is definitely *not* what I wrote: [EMAIL

Re: ports attempted despite architecture?

2003-08-27 Thread Keith Dunwoody
Alexandre Fayolle wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:08:48PM +0200, Keith Dunwoody wrote: Alexandre Fayolle wrote: Are ports attempted on all packages, or is the Architecture field in debian/control taken into account? The reason why I ask is that I maintain the python-psyco package, which

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread David Z Maze
Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not yet. It's all about you and your restaurant. Here's the description: Description: A game in which you can run your own pizza businness Pizza Business is a game written in C++ in which you start a pizza ^^

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
Chris Niekel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To add some information to my previous post (in the hope of attracting some more attention) On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:52:31PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: The 'sn' package was orphaned, and I ITA'ed it. I'm not a DD yet, and this is my first package, so

removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi everyone, one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to handle the existing directories. i could think of - just

Re: Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread James Troup
Silke Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See here the relevant part of the buildlog: It's a libc6 bug; don't worry about it. Your package will be retried when a fixed

Re: Patch needs Sponsor - 20 bugs left - sorted by mtime

2003-08-27 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:32:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: TITLE #195527:mysql++: FTBFS with g++-3.3: Missing cassert include Severity: serious Package: mysql++ Age: 87 days Last changed: 15 days Please be more careful about these reports; this bug has

YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-27 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
Hi there, as many other questions on this list, mine are related to my first try to create a package. I've chosen camsource - a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software. As usual I've used the New Maintainers' Guide to get started and nearly all went well. Besides two warnings

Re: Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread Silke Reimer
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:09:12PM +0100, James Troup wrote: Silke Reimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See here the relevant part of the buildlog: It's a libc6

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to handle the existing

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Pierre THIERRY
both look sub-optimal to me, could anyone give me advice on this, please? You could just use presint install/upgrade old-version to remove those directories, if they are empty... See policy 6.5 Quickly, le Moine Fou -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A pgp8PV6PEVaOH.pgp Description: PGP

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-27 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi, * Thomas -Balu- Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-08-27 18:07]: | As usual I've used the New Maintainers' Guide to get started and nearly | all went well. Besides two warnings lintian gives me: | | W: camsource source: newer-standards-version 3.5.10 | - which should be fixed by a new lintian

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread Laurent Fousse
Le Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:34:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for pizza-business, a pizza restaurant simulation game. This closes #180789. The package is lintian clean except for: W: pizza-business:

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:43:10PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: If the directories were part of the deb and not generated in postinst, just stopping to ship the directories should do the trick, as afaik dpkg should solve the problem automatically. On upgrades it should recognize that

managing existing packages

2003-08-27 Thread Eric Winger
In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number of messages questions. When running dpkg-scanpackages I got this message: ! Package spinelli (filename pool/spinelli_0.9_i386.deb) is repeat; ignored that one and using data from pool/spinelli_0.10_i386.deb ! I'm

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:34:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: Laurent Fousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm seeking a sponsor for pizza-business, a pizza restaurant simulation game. This closes #180789. The package

Re: Patch needs Sponsor - 20 bugs left - sorted by mtime

2003-08-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:32:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: TITLE #195527: mysql++: FTBFS with g++-3.3: Missing cassert include Severity: serious Package:mysql++ Age:87 days Last changed: 15 days