Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory is in the repository. So I

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, you're going to have trouble uploading a -2 of anything without a new upstream

Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, tetex-bin previously only declared Replaces:... dvipdfm Provides: ... dvipdfm but no Conflicts. This has the effect that dvipdfm is not removed when tetex-bin is installed, and trying to remove afterwards fails because of some dpkg-divert stuff (see #269235). Note that dvipdfm does no

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, you're going to

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Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have an idea why apt decides Holding Back tetex-bin rather than change dvipdfm? It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and dist-upgrade the rest, it works fine. Is there yet a draft for Release Notes for sarge? TIA,

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Stefan, You wrote: that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop OK, I'll go ahead and add it. Have you tested it? I don't use KDE so can't do so myself. It will be a

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
It seems that this is really an RFS, because .debs are provided. Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, a line which is # Automatically added by dh_installdocs Indeed, you appear to be using an old debhelper: Build-Depends: debhelper ( 3.0.0)

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a debian-native package. Thanks to you and the others on the list, now that I understand the

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Sutherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a debian-native package. Thanks to you and the

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Amos Waterland
Justin Pryzby wrote: Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, I have updated to current debhelper and incremented package version to 0.18.2: http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/#Debiandeb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-02 Thread Luciano Bello
ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267685 I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship. My packages for the following are available at: http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/ It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor with lots of

RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-02 Thread Luciano Bello
ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267685 I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship. My packages for the following are available at: http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/ It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor with lots of

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew Palmer: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, since I have also been doing the

Re: RFS: streamline

2004-09-02 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Jurij, On Wednesday 01 September 2004 12:48 am, Jurij Smakov wrote: I have a somewhat different impression, apache2 seems to have its share of problems. Debian's apache2 packages have seen 12 uploads during the last two months [0] Yes, there was a botched and now reverted attempt at

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin, that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop Cheers, Stefan -- viewglob.desktop Description: application/desktop

RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
I am packaging schoolbell on behalf of upstream (Related to ITP#263088) and seeking a sponsor. Schoolbell is the first publicly available version of the Schooltool server and is a stripped down version that only deals with calendaring and scheduling between groups. This is the first wider

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory is in the repository. So I

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, you're going to have trouble uploading a -2 of anything without a new upstream

Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, tetex-bin previously only declared Replaces:... dvipdfm Provides: ... dvipdfm but no Conflicts. This has the effect that dvipdfm is not removed when tetex-bin is installed, and trying to remove afterwards fails because of some dpkg-divert stuff (see #269235). Note that dvipdfm does no

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, you're going to

To Small's Shop Customers!

2004-09-02 Thread Muriel Walls
Dear customer! We updated our software catalogue and added new popular products! Now you can get any software item at 90% discount rate! For more information visit us here: http://sanhedrin.infostech.info/index.php?s=4241 With best regards, Product Manager Muriel Walls

Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have an idea why apt decides Holding Back tetex-bin rather than change dvipdfm? It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and dist-upgrade the rest, it works fine. Is there yet a draft for Release Notes for sarge? TIA,

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Stefan, You wrote: that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop OK, I'll go ahead and add it. Have you tested it? I don't use KDE so can't do so myself. It will be a

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Matthew Palmer wrote: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... Why would the diff be empty? I would think it should contain the debian subdir in any case. It makes no sense to ship a debian directory

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Kevin B. McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... Why would the diff be empty? I would think it should contain the debian subdir in any

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matt Brubeck
Stephen Frost wrote: I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a debian-native package. I also agree. I am both upstream and Debian maintainer for my package, and I find that a non-native package has

Re: RFS: viewglob [revised]

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I have added the viewglob.desktop file provided by Stefan Fritsch for a konsole session, and fixed all the compiler warnings. The new package is at the same location as before. Any takers for sponsoring viewglob? deb-src http://borex.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ unstable main apt-get update

RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Amos Waterland
Source: stress Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Amos Waterland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build-Depends: debhelper ( 3.0.0) Standards-Version: 3.5.9 Package: stress Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: A tool which imposes stress on a system 'stress' is a tool which

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Brian Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools s/calenar/calendar/, or is this a new english word? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
It seems that this is really an RFS, because .debs are provided. Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, a line which is # Automatically added by dh_installdocs Indeed, you appear to be using an old debhelper: Build-Depends: debhelper ( 3.0.0)

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matthew Palmer: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, since I have also been doing the upstream releases. The debian

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a debian-native package. Thanks to you and the others on the list, now that I understand the

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Sutherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a debian-native package. Thanks to you and the

RFS: streamline

2004-09-02 Thread Michael MacFadden
All, Hello, I have been having a hard time finding a sponsor for the streamline package. I have never tired to get a package uploaded before and it is totally possible that I am being way to impatient. Quite a few people have helped me out on this list by correcting some errors in my

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. -- Brian Sutherland There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking. -- Derek Zoolander

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. These few .so files are imported from zope and maybe slightly modified. So there is probably

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Sutherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. These few .so files are imported from

Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have an idea why apt decides Holding Back tetex-bin rather than change dvipdfm? It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and dist-upgrade the rest, it

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Amos Waterland
Justin Pryzby wrote: Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, I have updated to current debhelper and incremented package version to 0.18.2: http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/#Debiandeb