Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
Hello all. I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would like to split up in several parts, the package has a 'backgrounds'

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:24, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: package-backgrounds package-icons package-examples package-name (which contains all of the above) Should I do this as a meta-package? How do I create a meta-package? I don't think you need a meta package. I would do this to allow flexibility

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
From: Fabian Fagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: n.v.t n.v.t [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Separating packages. Date: 05 Apr 2004 13:05:45 +0300 On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:24, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: package-backgrounds package-icons package-examples

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would like to split

.desktop files

2004-04-05 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. Is there any policy describing location of .desktop files? I've just checked Debian Policy, FHS and Developer's Reference, but I couldn't find anything related to these files. Maybe I searched wrongly, then tell me where can I find it. I tried to check some packages to find how do they

Re: TORCS for testing

2004-04-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 05:53, Rudy Godoy wrote: Hi, just to announce that TORCS[0] Debian package[1] is ready for testing, Cool, no more messing with CVS. :) you can grab it from mentors[2]. There is a i396 package and the sources, if you are going to compile it, I encourage you to use

RFS: otak - text-based visual interface for commandline programs

2004-04-05 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I'm looking for sponsor for package otak. It's a visual interface for commandline programs. It can be used as abook replacement if you use it with mutt, but it's not limited only to that application. Here goes relevant information: * Package name: otak Version : 1.3.4

How to deal with Python script

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Huckstep
I've got a package of teepeedee[1] shortly arriving in Debian via a sponsor. It's a small package which contains a Python helper script 'teepeedee-share' to help with a basic configuration. As far as I can tell, I have the following options: 1. Add a Depends: on Python 2. Remove

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
From: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Separating packages. Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 14:31:43 +0200 On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:

Re: How to deal with Python script

2004-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
Tom Huckstep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a small package which contains a Python helper script 'teepeedee-share' to help with a basic configuration. As far as I can tell, I have the following options: 1. Add a Depends: on Python 2. Remove 'teepeedee-share' from the .deb 3. Put

Re: .desktop files

2004-04-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-04-05 14:40, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: Hello. Is there any policy describing location of .desktop files? I've just checked Debian Policy, FHS and Developer's Reference, but I couldn't find anything related to these files. Maybe I

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:55, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: What does the ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} mean? I can't find the meaning of those in the debian policy either? Why not just put depends of the splited package in the depends line instead of this? You can manually enter the dependencies

Re: How to deal with Python script

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Huckstep
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: 1. Add a Depends: on Python 2. Remove 'teepeedee-share' from the .deb 3. Put teepeedee-share in a separate package 4. Replace the 'teepeedee-share' with a shell wrapper, which calls the script if Python exists [...] I

new maintainer application question

2004-04-05 Thread GCS
Hi, I am applied[1] for a Debian Developer role, but as I see, Front Desk is stalling; I can't see any progress on applicants who have been advocated. So I have a couple of questions: - may I hope that Front Desk will assign an AM to me before Sarge is released? (IMHO not :( ). - is it ok that

Re: new maintainer application question

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:17:47PM +0200, GCS wrote: I am applied[1] for a Debian Developer role, but as I see, Front Desk is stalling; I can't see any progress on applicants who have been advocated. So I have a couple of questions: - may I hope that Front Desk will assign an AM to me before

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:11:57PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:55, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: What does the ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} mean? I can't find the meaning of those in the debian policy either? Why not just put depends of the splited package in the

Re: RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-05 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, Update: I've just tested the build on merulo.d.o (ia64), no problem there. This is good news. Thanks to you and Aaron for trying this out. OTOH, you should really fix those warnings (the same ones you see when compiling on i386). I fixed the compile warnings. But during debuild,

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
Hi, Ok, that seems to be all clear to me, what about the rules file? How do I separate packages, the example that Andreas Metzler told me to check out, doesn't clear things entirely. Is this the way we should learn it, by examples? So I move files into a directory then create a deb out of

Re: .desktop files

2004-04-05 Thread Martin Albert
On Monday 05 April 2004 14:40, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: Is there any policy describing location of .desktop files? I've just checked Debian Policy, FHS and Developer's Reference, but I tried to check some packages to find how do they solve this issue, but now I'm really confused.

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Martin Albert
On Monday 05 April 2004 14:31, Andreas Metzler wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, WHAT'SYOURNAME wrote: I'm debianizing a package that I would like to split up, like: package-backgrounds package-icons package-examples Why? How big are the components? Would somebdy e.g

Re: Building multiple packages from a single source tree

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Erik Bourget ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040405 22:48]: I'm wondering how to build multiple packages from a single source tree, specifically: foobar : a daemon nominally called 'foobar' foobar-run : a daemontools/runit svdir for the daemon The new-maintainer faq seems to not go into this

Re: Building multiple packages from a single source tree

2004-04-05 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:57:14PM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote: The new-maintainer faq seems to not go into this depth. Can anyone help me out with this one? Just have a look to a multi-binary packages. You can find a lot of them around. Basically you need to distinguish binary-dep and

Re: Building multiple packages from a single source tree

2004-04-05 Thread Martin Albert
On Monday 05 April 2004 20:57, Erik Bourget wrote: I'm wondering how to build multiple packages from a single source Any specific problems? Create two trees from debian/rules (man dpkg-deb ! and related (man deb) !!). You may want to do this using debhelper scripts (man debhelper, watch out

RFS: Need a sponsor for my konversation package

2004-04-05 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi folks, I'd like to upload konversation pretty soon. Matthew Palmer offered back in December to do uploads, but I think he has become too busy, as I have received no response to my latest email. So, if someone here is willing to do a few uploads of this package, please let me know. The

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:24, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: package-backgrounds package-icons package-examples package-name (which contains all of the above) Should I do this as a meta-package? How do I create a meta-package? I don't think you need a meta package. I would do this to allow flexibility

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
From: Fabian Fagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: n.v.t n.v.t [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Separating packages. Date: 05 Apr 2004 13:05:45 +0300 On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:24, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: package-backgrounds package-icons package-examples package-name (which contains

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would like to split

.desktop files

2004-04-05 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. Is there any policy describing location of .desktop files? I've just checked Debian Policy, FHS and Developer's Reference, but I couldn't find anything related to these files. Maybe I searched wrongly, then tell me where can I find it. I tried to check some packages to find how do they

RFS: otak - text-based visual interface for commandline programs

2004-04-05 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
Hello. I'm looking for sponsor for package otak. It's a visual interface for commandline programs. It can be used as abook replacement if you use it with mutt, but it's not limited only to that application. Here goes relevant information: * Package name: otak Version : 1.3.4

How to deal with Python script

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Huckstep
I've got a package of teepeedee[1] shortly arriving in Debian via a sponsor. It's a small package which contains a Python helper script 'teepeedee-share' to help with a basic configuration. As far as I can tell, I have the following options: 1. Add a Depends: on Python 2. Remove

Re: .desktop files

2004-04-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2004-04-05 14:40, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: Hello. Is there any policy describing location of .desktop files? I've just checked Debian Policy, FHS and Developer's Reference, but I couldn't find anything related to these files. Maybe I

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:55, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: What does the ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} mean? I can't find the meaning of those in the debian policy either? Why not just put depends of the splited package in the depends line instead of this? You can manually enter the dependencies

Re: How to deal with Python script

2004-04-05 Thread Tom Huckstep
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: 1. Add a Depends: on Python 2. Remove 'teepeedee-share' from the .deb 3. Put teepeedee-share in a separate package 4. Replace the 'teepeedee-share' with a shell wrapper, which calls the script if Python exists [...] I

new maintainer application question

2004-04-05 Thread GCS
Hi, I am applied[1] for a Debian Developer role, but as I see, Front Desk is stalling; I can't see any progress on applicants who have been advocated. So I have a couple of questions: - may I hope that Front Desk will assign an AM to me before Sarge is released? (IMHO not :( ). - is it ok that

Re: new maintainer application question

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:17:47PM +0200, GCS wrote: I am applied[1] for a Debian Developer role, but as I see, Front Desk is stalling; I can't see any progress on applicants who have been advocated. So I have a couple of questions: - may I hope that Front Desk will assign an AM to me before

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:11:57PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:55, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: What does the ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} mean? I can't find the meaning of those in the debian policy either? Why not just put depends of the splited package in the

Re: RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-05 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, Update: I've just tested the build on merulo.d.o (ia64), no problem there. This is good news. Thanks to you and Aaron for trying this out. OTOH, you should really fix those warnings (the same ones you see when compiling on i386). I fixed the compile warnings. But during debuild,

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
Hi, Ok, that seems to be all clear to me, what about the rules file? How do I separate packages, the example that Andreas Metzler told me to check out, doesn't clear things entirely. Is this the way we should learn it, by examples? So I move files into a directory then create a deb out of each

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread n.v.t n.v.t
I'm sorry I forgot to give a example , the structure of the packge looks like this: dir/icon dir/backgrounds dir/examples They all have a Makefile ofcourse in each directory. Joe _ Hotmail en Messenger on the move

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Martin Albert
On Monday 05 April 2004 14:31, Andreas Metzler wrote: On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, WHAT'SYOURNAME wrote: I'm debianizing a package that I would like to split up, like: package-backgrounds package-icons package-examples Why? How big are the components? Would somebdy e.g

Re: Building multiple packages from a single source tree

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Barth
* Erik Bourget ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040405 22:48]: I'm wondering how to build multiple packages from a single source tree, specifically: foobar : a daemon nominally called 'foobar' foobar-run : a daemontools/runit svdir for the daemon The new-maintainer faq seems to not go into this

Re: Building multiple packages from a single source tree

2004-04-05 Thread Martin Albert
On Monday 05 April 2004 20:57, Erik Bourget wrote: I'm wondering how to build multiple packages from a single source Any specific problems? Create two trees from debian/rules (man dpkg-deb ! and related (man deb) !!). You may want to do this using debhelper scripts (man debhelper, watch out

RFS: Need a sponsor for my konversation package

2004-04-05 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi folks, I'd like to upload konversation pretty soon. Matthew Palmer offered back in December to do uploads, but I think he has become too busy, as I have received no response to my latest email. So, if someone here is willing to do a few uploads of this package, please let me know. The

Re: Iuusues when packaging libraries..

2004-04-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote: I am responsible for the package htdig. Htdig is a full-text indexer for (local) sites, ie. will generate a full-text (searchable) index of that site. The thing is written in C++, and comes with loads of libraries. While the