Re: Minimum copyright / author information

2005-04-06 Thread Rudy Godoy
El día 05/04/2005 a 23:56 Alejandro Exojo escribio ... > Hi. > > I'm packaging a set of emoticons for KDE. At this moment, is just for my own > use, and for those who find them useful, but I'm considering that if the > package is interesting enough for Debian, the original tarball will need mor

Re: RFS: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-04-06 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:18:06PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor who will help me to upload tex4ht. Hello Kapil, I use LaTeX and even general some webpages with it (using hyperlatex though). If you haven't got a sponsor then I'll do it. - Craig -- Craig Small

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:01:07AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ > and http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control > and http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html > an old copy of the later is available at: > > http://www.v7w.co

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-06 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Charles Majola wrote: >Miriam Ruiz wrote: >>--- Charles Majola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>I request a sponsor for the drip package. >>> >>>Description: GNOME application for encoding a DivX from a DVD >>>Drip is a DVD to DivX conversion application. I

Re: Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:26:06PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently the maintainer (non-DD) of tex4ht. This package consists of > only two (!) compiled executables and a large number of Arch: all files. > > At least in etch I would like to split this package as sugge

Need sponsored upload

2005-04-06 Thread Volker Janzen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am seeking for someone who can help me with my Debian NM Application. My usual sponsor has no time to review my package (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/udo) and do a sponsored upload for it. I got a list from DAM with items I need

Re: --purge and log/spool files

2005-04-06 Thread Ed Shornock
Matthew Palmer wrote: >On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:17:22PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > >>Note that there was a relevant thread on -devel around about last >>October. Someone complained that their thesis was in /var/log/apache/ >> >> > >Stupidity like that must not go unpunished. It's wo

Re: --purge and log/spool files

2005-04-06 Thread Florent Rougon
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asume, that > > rm -f /var/log/tddyndns/-??.log > > should work in all shells, because the logs are -MM.log. It should work in /bin/sh. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_13 -- Florent --

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2005-04-06 Thread Denis Brandl
On Apr 5, 2005 6:06 PM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.02.0102 +0200]: > > I suspect the core functionality could be handled with a simple > > counter per package-initiated user acocunt, and a scheme by which > > add/deluser function

Re: Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Benjamin Cutler wrote: The debian/control file should look something like: Package: foo-common Conflicts: foo (<< 7.6.5-2) Replaces: foo (<< 7.6.5-2) Why the "Replaces"? I would have expected that would only be necessary if there was no longer any "foo" package. Whether you use <= or << is mostly

Re: Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, I am currently the maintainer (non-DD) of tex4ht. This package consists of only two (!) compiled executables and a large number of Arch: all files. At least in etch I would like to split this package as suggested in best packaging practice (Debian Ref). But that l

Splitting package

2005-04-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I am currently the maintainer (non-DD) of tex4ht. This package consists of only two (!) compiled executables and a large number of Arch: all files. At least in etch I would like to split this package as suggested in best packaging practice (Debian Ref). But that location gives hints about

RFS: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-04-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, I am looking for a sponsor who will help me to upload tex4ht. Reasons for upload: 1. New upstream version is included. 2. Additional documentation is included. 3. Closes some open (normal) bugs. 4. Would be nice to get this into sarge :-) 5. The pack

Re: Discriminating between install after purge and install from state rc?

2005-04-06 Thread Frank Küster
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I can be wrong, but for me, the classification needed in postinst > would be only two-way, not three way. Agreed. > Please let me know if three-way > classification can be relevant under some circumstances. Just to > mention it for complet

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing my 1st packaging of a python script. It's a > program called cycle thas uses wxpython libraries and > it's distributed under GNU General Public License. Great! > The website of the project is: > http://cycle.sourcef

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-06 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:19, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.06.0904 +0200]: > > >You want to port YAST to Debian? > > > > I don't know what YAST does, so, maybe. :) > > Please don't. there's an active yast4debian project (they send mails to debia

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.06.0904 +0200]: > >also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.03.0122 +0200]: > >>I would go with a) because it is more likely to result in consistency > >>between systems and across time; although b), with its bit more work > >>for the a

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-06 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.03.0122 +0200]: I would go with a) because it is more likely to result in consistency between systems and across time; although b), with its bit more work for the admin, would be more satisfying and instr