upgrading to UTF-8 Mini HOW-TO (was: Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-04-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Here is how I resolved it: 1) Keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISO-8859-15) as a locale. 2) Uncommented charset utf-8 in .gnupg/gpg.conf 3) Convert all files in debian/* to UTF-8. 4) Build package using favorite tools (e.g. debuild, etc.). Odd fonts will show, but debsign will still work OK. Thanks

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a .dsc, there is a 'Source:' entry (only if source pkg != bin pkg, and/or source versionnr != bin versionnr), which points to the source. So no need to fiddle with the

RFS: gkrellshoot -- Plugin for gkrellm to lock the screen and make screenshots

2004-04-02 Thread jimmy
Hello, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package gkrellshoot. --- Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gkrellshoot Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : M.R.Muthu Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://gkrellshoot.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:09:09AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The version number has no effect at all whether katie

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a .dsc, there is a 'Source:' entry (only if source pkg != bin pkg, and/or source versionnr != bin versionnr), which

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Katie ensures that the initial upload does in fact contain source, or rather it checks if source for an upload are

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:42:01PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Err, why should katie do that based on the version number? That's very unlikely, katie can simply

Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
(moved to d-d) On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Any .deb indicates its source, including binary-only NMU's, I'm afraid you're wrong there; I have some binNMUed packages here and they do

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: IMHO, this is a suboptimal solution. In theory, with source header you can always track the source. See Bug#62529. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Any .deb indicates its source, including binary-only NMU's, I'm afraid you're wrong

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:35:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Any .deb indicates its

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Pro the non-changelog thing is, that one can order a buildd to recompile with correct version number, while currently manual changelog editing is needed. Actually, sbuild already has a --make-binNMU switch which does the

[no subject]

2004-04-02 Thread Karin Dyck
hello I'm looking for sponsers intresse?? contact me on dereymaekermats @hotmail.com

Re: backporting

2004-04-02 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:20:23PM +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: Hi, all Point me to sources describing the Debian way of backporting pls Mmm, that is indeed not finished yet at www.backports.org ( http://www.backports.org/not_finished.yet ) -- Regards, Al Nikolov Cheers Geert

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:29:47PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Pro the non-changelog thing is, that one can order a buildd to recompile with correct version number, while currently manual changelog editing is needed. Actually, sbuild

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new releases

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:18:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Please give me some hints/suggestions what should be done in such situation? Are there any packages with that situation in our archive? Since you are the only one using I would say link it in static. Problem solved.

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Benjamin Cutler
First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the Debian New Maintainters' Corner, but from what I saw, it looked like the first step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to do it get to know some of the current developers... In summary the reason I want to

Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Benjamin Cutler
First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the Debian New Maintainters' Corner, but from what I saw, it looked like the first step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to do it get to know some of the current developers... In summary the reason I want to

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Ok, would just like to apologize for that little snafu. Not the best start on a mailing list. Ugh. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the Debian New Maintainters' Corner, but from what I saw, it looked like the first step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to do it get to know some of the

Bootsplash packages

2004-04-02 Thread Matthew A. Nicholson
I need some assistance with my bootsplash packages. It seems that the bootsplash-theme* templates are not getting installed correctly and cannot be seen by the bootsplash package. I don't know how to fix this. -- Matthew A. Nicholson Matt-Land.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFA: atftp

2004-04-02 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:30:37AM -0400, Rodrigo Henriquez M. wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I used atftp a lot and I would like to be the new mantainer for this package. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing')

signed jar in java library

2004-04-02 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I have started work on packaging the Bouncy Castle Crypto libraries for Java (bug #234048). I think I have most everything in place for a first stab, but I can't figure out where to put the signed jar so that dpkg-buildpackage won't complain. Basically, the source of the Bouncy Castle Crypto

upgrading to UTF-8 Mini HOW-TO (was: Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-04-02 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Here is how I resolved it: 1) Keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISO-8859-15) as a locale. 2) Uncommented charset utf-8 in .gnupg/gpg.conf 3) Convert all files in debian/* to UTF-8. 4) Build package using favorite tools (e.g. debuild, etc.). Odd fonts will show, but debsign will still work OK. Thanks

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a .dsc, there is a 'Source:' entry (only if source pkg != bin pkg, and/or source versionnr != bin versionnr), which points to the source. So no need to fiddle with the

RFS: gkrellshoot -- Plugin for gkrellm to lock the screen and make screenshots

2004-04-02 Thread jimmy
Hello, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package gkrellshoot. --- Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: gkrellshoot Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : M.R.Muthu Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://gkrellshoot.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:09:09AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The version number has no effect at all whether katie

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a .dsc, there is a 'Source:' entry (only if source pkg != bin pkg, and/or source versionnr != bin versionnr), which

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Katie ensures that the initial upload does in fact contain source, or rather it checks if source for an upload are

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In a .dsc, there is a 'Source:' entry (only if source pkg != bin pkg, and/or source versionnr != bin

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:42:01PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Err, why should katie do that based on the version number? That's very unlikely, katie can simply

Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
(moved to d-d) On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Any .deb indicates its source, including binary-only NMU's, I'm afraid you're wrong there; I have some binNMUed packages here and they do

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: IMHO, this is a suboptimal solution. In theory, with source header you can always track the source. See Bug#62529. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/ I don't speak for anyone

backporting

2004-04-02 Thread Al Nikolov
Hi, all Point me to sources describing the Debian way of backporting pls -- Regards, Al Nikolov

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Any .deb indicates its source, including binary-only NMU's, I'm afraid you're wrong

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:35:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Any .deb indicates its

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Pro the non-changelog thing is, that one can order a buildd to recompile with correct version number, while currently manual changelog editing is needed. Actually, sbuild already has a --make-binNMU switch which does the

How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new releases shows very often (about one version per two weeks). And

[no subject]

2004-04-02 Thread Karin Dyck
hello I'm looking for sponsers intresse?? contact me on dereymaekermats @hotmail.com

Re: backporting

2004-04-02 Thread Geert Stappers
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:20:23PM +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: Hi, all Point me to sources describing the Debian way of backporting pls Mmm, that is indeed not finished yet at www.backports.org ( http://www.backports.org/not_finished.yet ) -- Regards, Al Nikolov Cheers Geert

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:29:47PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Pro the non-changelog thing is, that one can order a buildd to recompile with correct version number, while currently manual changelog editing is needed. Actually, sbuild

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new releases

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:18:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Please give me some hints/suggestions what should be done in such situation? Are there any packages with that situation in our archive? Since you are the only one using I would say link it in static. Problem solved.

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Benjamin Cutler
First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the Debian New Maintainters' Corner, but from what I saw, it looked like the first step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to do it get to know some of the current developers... In summary the reason I want to

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Ok, would just like to apologize for that little snafu. Not the best start on a mailing list. Ugh.

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the Debian New Maintainters' Corner, but from what I saw, it looked like the first step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to do it get to know some of the

Bootsplash packages

2004-04-02 Thread Matthew A. Nicholson
I need some assistance with my bootsplash packages. It seems that the bootsplash-theme* templates are not getting installed correctly and cannot be seen by the bootsplash package. I don't know how to fix this. -- Matthew A. Nicholson Matt-Land.com

Re: RFA: atftp

2004-04-02 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 01:30:37AM -0400, Rodrigo Henriquez M. wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I used atftp a lot and I would like to be the new mantainer for this package. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing')

signed jar in java library

2004-04-02 Thread Charles Fry
Hi, I have started work on packaging the Bouncy Castle Crypto libraries for Java (bug #234048). I think I have most everything in place for a first stab, but I can't figure out where to put the signed jar so that dpkg-buildpackage won't complain. Basically, the source of the Bouncy Castle Crypto