postinst and /dev/tty

2004-08-31 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Question: does /dev/tty /dev/tty not block? Policy sect 6.3 seems to suggest this bi-redirection for certain postinst scripts, and oddly it seems to work. Why does it not block, please? -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL

Developer looking for package sponsorship

2004-08-31 Thread Michael MacFadden
All, Hello, I am the project administrator and lead developer of the Streamline project over at sourceforge.net. The URL for the project is: http://www.sf.net/projects/streamline/ There is a description of the project on that page, but to summarize, Streamline is a On Demand Streaming Media

Re: Developer looking for package sponsorship

2004-08-31 Thread Frank Küster
Michael MacFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have actually already read the New Maintainers Guide, and I have built a Debian package for Streamline. I have tested it by installing it on my own machine several times so I believe I am pretty close to having something acceptable. However, I am

RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am looking for a sponsor for the 'dmalloc' package. Here is the relevant information. Source package is available on mentors.debian.net, my current sponsor hasn't answered yet. Package: dmalloc Version: 5.3.0-4 Priority: extra Section: oldlibs

Re: RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Hi I am looking for a sponsor for the 'dmalloc' package. Here is the relevant information. Source package is available on mentors.debian.net, my current sponsor hasn't answered yet. Package: dmalloc Version: 5.3.0-4

Re: RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Joe Nahmias
Luk, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am looking for a sponsor for the 'dmalloc' package. Here is the relevant information. Source package is available on mentors.debian.net, my current sponsor hasn't

Re: Richiesta di uno sponsor

2004-08-31 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
Ciao Gabriele, On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Gabriele Izzo wrote: Gentili sponsor, vorrei diventare uno sviluppatore Debian e pertanto ho intrapreso il percorso riportato nel sito debian.org. Pertanto come indicato al passo 1 sono in cerca di uno sponsor. Per ulteriori informazioni vi prego di

postinst and /dev/tty

2004-08-31 Thread Thaddeus H. Black
Question: does /dev/tty /dev/tty not block? Policy sect 6.3 seems to suggest this bi-redirection for certain postinst scripts, and oddly it seems to work. Why does it not block, please? -- Thaddeus H. Black 508 Nellie's Cave Road Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA +1 540 961 0920, [EMAIL

Developer looking for package sponsorship

2004-08-31 Thread Michael MacFadden
All, Hello, I am the project administrator and lead developer of the Streamline project over at sourceforge.net. The URL for the project is: http://www.sf.net/projects/streamline/ There is a description of the project on that page, but to summarize, Streamline is a On Demand Streaming

Re: Developer looking for package sponsorship

2004-08-31 Thread Frank Küster
Michael MacFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have actually already read the New Maintainers Guide, and I have built a Debian package for Streamline. I have tested it by installing it on my own machine several times so I believe I am pretty close to having something acceptable. However, I am

RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am looking for a sponsor for the 'dmalloc' package. Here is the relevant information. Source package is available on mentors.debian.net, my current sponsor hasn't answered yet. Package: dmalloc Version: 5.3.0-4 Priority: extra Section:

Re: RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Hi I am looking for a sponsor for the 'dmalloc' package. Here is the relevant information. Source package is available on mentors.debian.net, my current sponsor hasn't answered yet. Package: dmalloc Version: 5.3.0-4

Re: RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: Version: 5.3.0-4 [...] Description: Debug memory allocation library - transition package ~ This is an empty package which depends on libdmalloc4, to provide for

Re: RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Küster wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geert Stappers) wrote: | | |On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: | |Version: 5.3.0-4 | | [...] | |Description: Debug memory allocation library - transition package |~ This is an empty

RFS: streamline

2004-08-31 Thread Michael MacFadden
All, I am reposting this request for sponsor after talking to a few people and doing a little more reading about the process. Here is the important information: Source: streamline Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Michael MacFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build-Depends: debhelper (=

Re: RFS: streamline

2004-08-31 Thread Florian Ragwitz
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:50:16PM -0400, Michael MacFadden wrote: All, I am reposting this request for sponsor after talking to a few people and doing a little more reading about the process. Here is the important information: [...] The deb package is available here:

Re: RFS: streamline

2004-08-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Michael MacFadden [Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:50:16 -0400]: The deb package is available here: http://www.macfadden.org/~mike/debian/streamline_0.0.20040901-1_all.deb the debian source package is needed for a proper revision. thanks, -- Adeodato Simó EM: asp16 [ykwim] alu.ua.es | PK:

Re: RFS: dmalloc

2004-08-31 Thread Joe Nahmias
Luk, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 04:59:35PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I am looking for a sponsor for the 'dmalloc' package. Here is the relevant information. Source package is available on mentors.debian.net, my current sponsor hasn't

Re: RFS: streamline

2004-08-31 Thread Michael MacFadden
Florian, Allow me to be ignorant for a moment. I am familiar with using apt-src to get the source for packages, so I sort of know what is in a source package. But I am not sure what makes up a source package for uploading. When I built the package (according to the new maintainers guide)

Re: RFS: streamline

2004-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:00:00PM -0400, Michael MacFadden wrote: Allow me to be ignorant for a moment. I am familiar with using apt-src to get the source for packages, so I sort of know what is in a source package. But I am not sure what makes up a source package for uploading. When I

Richiesta di uno sponsor

2004-08-31 Thread Gabriele Izzo
Gentili sponsor, vorrei diventare uno sviluppatore Debian e pertanto ho intrapreso il percorso riportato nel sito debian.org. Pertanto come indicato al passo 1 sono in cerca di uno sponsor.Per ulteriori informazioni vi prego di contattarmi. nella speranza che vi sia qualche sponsor (magari

Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Sutherland
I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib usr/lib/schoolbell/schooltool/browser/www/user2.png There are about 10 of these

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream knows about this and will eventually get round to it. Can the package still be accepted

Re: RFS: streamline

2004-08-31 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Hi, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:00:00PM -0400, Michael MacFadden wrote: Allow me to be ignorant for a moment. I am familiar with using apt-src to get the source for packages, so I sort of know what is in a source package. But I am not sure what makes up a source package for uploading.