On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:14:25AM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote:
Am Montag, 3. November 2003 13:37 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one, but afaict the
Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous.
Why?
I found it neither in essential
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:12:02PM +0100, Andrea Capriotti wrote:
I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one,
No problem. ;)
but afaict the
Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous.
You are right, removed. Version 0.4.4-4 is available.
I'll try to find time
I assume that a former revision of Andrea's package dynamiclly
generated a manpage from sgml source and therefore needed the
dependency, and he[1] simply forgot to remove the dependency when it
was not necessary anymore.
Right. I wrote a Debian man page for the package but now upstream author
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Hi,
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
Have you
Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
Parse the file
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
[...]
(BTW, I'm more annoyed by being asked by dpkg that conffiles where
changed by me or a script that I didn't even know they existed)
[...]
Afaik this usually happens if a conffile moves from one package to
another.
cu
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
The packages I have on my system (mostly woody, however)
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:01:35AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
[...]
Put the information from the debconf database into the file, but between
markers ### begin DEBCONF section for $package... ### end DEBCONF
section for
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now
both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups
are rarely done on homeusers systems, and he wants it under
/etc.
Er, if you're not backing up /var/lib,
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now
both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups
are rarely done on homeusers systems, and
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If the upstream readme file has, in this case an out of date version
number, should I just leave that as is (it has a comprehensive and
updated changelog file)?
tia
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It seems the debuild chain converts symbolic (documentation) links to
file copies. Should this be so? My reading of policy says it is up to
the maintainer. If this is good practice (as I (naively?) assume) how do
I get around this?
In my case:
the package has:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is just a minor gotcha, #194152, you'll have to redirect ucf's
stdin to /dev/tty.
Unfortunately, that isn't right either. hinfo has a really ugly hack in
postinst to save a copy of stdin if it has a chance, and only use
/dev/tty if
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
endif
Three questions:
I can subscribe to the BTS traffic of a whole package through the
PTS. Is it also possible to just monitor a single bug and be emailed
when something changes?
Thanks,
--
Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them!
.''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: :' :proud
On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)
cp -f
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:31, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/
Sorry it's taken a month, but there in the end...
Updated to new upstream release (which includes manpage I submitted
upstream), fastdep-0.16.
Get it while it's hot...
Zenaan
(PS
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:48:28PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
$ lintian -i *changes
W: fastdep source: newer-standards-version 3.6.0
Note, 3.6.1.0 is the most current. Take a look at
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz for what
changed. For this kind of program probably
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)
cp -f
Hi,
I would like to become a Debian maintainer, but I understand that I
need a mentor first.
Right now, there are only two packages that I would like to maintain:
- wmnetload
- msmtp
I have packaged these, and they are available via:
deb http://digitalssg.net/debian ./
deb-src
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:14, Neil Spring wrote:
On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq
On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 05:12, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
If the upstream readme file has, in this case an out of date version
number, should I just leave that as is (it has a comprehensive and
updated changelog file)?
I'm not a DD, but I believe maintaining a package for Debian also means that
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:14:25AM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote:
Am Montag, 3. November 2003 13:37 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one, but afaict the
Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous.
Why?
I found it neither in essential
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:12:02PM +0100, Andrea Capriotti wrote:
I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one,
No problem. ;)
but afaict the
Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous.
You are right, removed. Version 0.4.4-4 is available.
I'll try to find time
I assume that a former revision of Andrea's package dynamiclly
generated a manpage from sgml source and therefore needed the
dependency, and he[1] simply forgot to remove the dependency when it
was not necessary anymore.
Right. I wrote a Debian man page for the package but now upstream author
Hi,
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
The packages I have on my system (mostly woody, however) don't care at
all about this and simply say don't edit this
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
Parse the file and only change the debconf-managed options,
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Hi,
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
Have you read debconf-devel(7), namely the section on
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Hi,
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
Have you
Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
Parse the file
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
[...]
(BTW, I'm more annoyed by being asked by dpkg that conffiles where
changed by me or a script that I didn't even know they existed)
[...]
Afaik this usually happens if a conffile moves from one package to
another.
cu
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
preferred way how to do this?
The packages I have on my system (mostly woody, however)
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:01:35AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
[...]
Put the information from the debconf database into the file, but between
markers ### begin DEBCONF section for $package... ### end DEBCONF
section for
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now
both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups
are rarely done on homeusers systems, and he wants it under
/etc.
Er, if you're not backing up /var/lib,
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
[...]
I would say that, even though this is a cop-out, it's a better solution
than what's in place for tetex today.
Hm, so this is in contrast to what Colin and Andreas said, as far as we
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now
both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups
are rarely done on homeusers systems, and
It seems the debuild chain converts symbolic (documentation) links to
file copies. Should this be so? My reading of policy says it is up to
the maintainer. If this is good practice (as I (naively?) assume) how do
I get around this?
In my case:
the package has:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is just a minor gotcha, #194152, you'll have to redirect ucf's
stdin to /dev/tty.
Unfortunately, that isn't right either. hinfo has a really ugly hack in
postinst to save a copy of stdin if it has a chance, and only use
/dev/tty if
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess
endif
Three questions:
I can subscribe to the BTS traffic of a whole package through the
PTS. Is it also possible to just monitor a single bug and be emailed
when something changes?
Thanks,
--
Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them!
.''`. martin f. krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: :' :proud
On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)
cp -f
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/
Sorry it's taken a month, but there in the end...
Updated to new upstream release (which includes manpage I submitted
upstream), fastdep-0.16.
Get it while it's hot...
Zenaan
(PS RFS while we're here...)
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:31, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/
Sorry it's taken a month, but there in the end...
Updated to new upstream release (which includes manpage I submitted
upstream), fastdep-0.16.
Get it while it's hot...
Zenaan
(PS
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:48:28PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
$ lintian -i *changes
W: fastdep source: newer-standards-version 3.6.0
Note, 3.6.1.0 is the most current. Take a look at
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz for what
changed. For this kind of program probably
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)
cp -f
Hi,
I would like to become a Debian maintainer, but I understand that I
need a mentor first.
Right now, there are only two packages that I would like to maintain:
- wmnetload
- msmtp
I have packaged these, and they are available via:
deb http://digitalssg.net/debian ./
deb-src
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:14, Neil Spring wrote:
On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq $(wildcard
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
debhelper puts the following into the clean rule in debian/rules:
ifneq $(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)
cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
endif
ifneq
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