Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Hubert Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.04.13.0234 +0200]: It may be of value to users of stable who want to make their own package of the latest version of the software for some reason. Then they should bug the maintainer to have it go into unstable. -- Please do not send copies of

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Haas
Moin, Michelle... On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:13:26AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: for some hours I have tried to compile a SARGE source under SARGE with: 8 SARGE base-install apt-get install build-essential fakeroot apt-get build-dep

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P.S.: If only I knew a way to use pbuilder with svn-buildpackage. :( I haven't used svn-buildpackage for some time, but AFAIR, svn-buildpackage --svn-builder=pdebuild works. Marc -- $_=')(hBCdzVnS})3..0}_$;//::niam/s~=)]3[))_$(rellac(=_$({pam(esrever

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050413 02:13]: 1) What should I do in such situation? Write a BUG report against the package ? Yes, missing build-dependencies (or to be more correct: All FTBFS-bugs (Fails to build from source)) are Release Critical. If possible, try the plain

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Alexander, Am 2005-04-13 11:48:53, schrieb Alexander Schmehl: * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050413 02:13]: 1) What should I do in such situation? Write a BUG report against the package ? Yes, missing build-dependencies (or to be more correct: All FTBFS-bugs (Fails

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Michael Koch
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:05:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Alexander, Am 2005-04-13 11:48:53, schrieb Alexander Schmehl: * Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050413 02:13]: 1) What should I do in such situation? Write a BUG report against the package ? Yes,

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Michael, Am 2005-04-13 11:29:09, schrieb Michael Koch: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:05:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Thanks, now I know what FTBFS is. :-) Only packages are in main with FTBFS are Release Critical. FTPFS in contrib and non-free are wishlist bugs. :-) I am not

Revision control systems and Debian packages

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Jones
Can anybody suggest some good revision control systems for maintaining Debian packages. I'm about to outgrow using RCS on the debian directory and wanted to get an idea of what other maintainers are using for their packages. Thanks Jamie -- GPG/PGP signed mail preferred. No HTML mail. No MS

Re: Revision control systems and Debian packages

2005-04-13 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Jamie Jones in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anybody suggest some good revision control systems for maintaining Debian packages. I'm about to outgrow using RCS on the debian directory and wanted to get an idea of what other maintainers are using for their packages. svn-buildpackage. Christoph --

Re: Revision control systems and Debian packages

2005-04-13 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Jamie Jones in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anybody suggest some good revision control systems for maintaining Debian packages. I'm about to outgrow using RCS on the debian directory and wanted to get an idea of what other maintainers are using for

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 4/13/05, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be of value to users of stable who want to make their own package of the latest version of the software for some reason. Then they should bug the maintainer to have it go into unstable. ??? Users of __stable__ won't ever get that

Re: RFS: tinywm - Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-04-13 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Hi , On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:25:43 +0900 Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The package files are available from http://www.hemamu.com/hemamu/debian/ . I've looked at the directory. I can point out that you have only created a Debian native package, You will need an

Re: Revision control systems and Debian packages

2005-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jamie Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.04.13.1317 +0200]: Can anybody suggest some good revision control systems for maintaining Debian packages. I'm about to outgrow using RCS on the debian directory and wanted to get an idea of what other maintainers are using for their packages.

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.04.13.1359 +0200]: ??? Users of __stable__ won't ever get that piece of software, no matter if it goes into unstable, testing, or any other distribution you might make up. Users of stable can just as well add unstable deb-src links to

Re: Revision control systems and Debian packages

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Jones
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 08:39 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Jamie Jones in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anybody suggest some good revision control systems for maintaining Debian packages. I'm about to outgrow using RCS on the debian

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Michelle Konzack wrote: dpkg-buildpackage ... 8 and now it stops, because missing build dependencies. Now two quesions: 1) What should I do in such situation? Write a BUG report against the package ? Yes, please file a bug

Re: Revision control systems and Debian packages

2005-04-13 Thread Jamie Jones
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 14:31 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Jamie Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.04.13.1317 +0200]: Can anybody suggest some good revision control systems for maintaining Debian packages. I'm about to outgrow using RCS on the debian directory and wanted to get an

RFS: xdkcal package

2005-04-13 Thread Norbert Pabiś
Hi, Who I am: A debian user since slink. Why I post here: I prefer minimalistic window managers, but would like to have calendar on desktop nicely integrated with wallpaper - xdkcal just does it. It had however a nasty bug, that caused it to display wrong month name. I submitted that bug, but it

Bad input checking - a bug?

2005-04-13 Thread Al Nikolov
Hello, all Please consult me. A bad checking of unexpected command-line arguments causing segmentation fault - is that behaviour must be counted as a grave/normal/minor bug? -- Regards, Al Nikolov -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bad input checking - a bug?

2005-04-13 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:52:37PM +0400, Al Nikolov wrote: Hello, all Please consult me. A bad checking of unexpected command-line arguments causing segmentation fault - is that behaviour must be counted as a grave/normal/minor bug? normal/minor, the behaviour is more or less correct

Re: Revision control systems and Debian packages

2005-04-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On 13 Apr 2005, at 13:20, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Jamie Jones in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anybody suggest some good revision control systems for maintaining Debian packages. I'm about to outgrow using RCS on the debian directory and wanted to get an idea of what other maintainers are using for

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI a écrit : What about the case in which the upstream maintainer is the Debian maintainer? I create packages for a piece of sofware I've written. That's my case (well...) and I decided to apply the Separation of Concerns paradigm: software development and packaging are

checking a NEWS.Debian file with dpkg-parsechangelog

2005-04-13 Thread Jereme Corrado
Hello, I just added a NEWS.Debian file to one of my packages and the Developers Reference, (sec. 6.3.4) suggests that one should check the formatting with dpkg-parsechangelogs. I read the man page for dpkg-parsechangelogs and played around a little but it's unclear to me how I can check this

Re: checking a NEWS.Debian file with dpkg-parsechangelog

2005-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Jereme Corrado wrote: I just added a NEWS.Debian file to one of my packages and the Developers Reference, (sec. 6.3.4) suggests that one should check the formatting with dpkg-parsechangelogs. I read the man page for dpkg-parsechangelogs and played around a little but it's unclear to me how

Re: checking a NEWS.Debian file with dpkg-parsechangelog

2005-04-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jereme Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.04.13.2026 +0200]: I just added a NEWS.Debian file to one of my packages and the Developers Reference, (sec. 6.3.4) suggests that one should check the formatting with dpkg-parsechangelogs. dpkg-parsechangelog -l debian/NEWS.Debian -- Please

RFS: ed2k-hash

2005-04-13 Thread Luke Reeves
I've packaged a tool named ed2k-hash, which is a command-line program for generating eDonkey-compliant MD4 hashlinks from files. It's quite useful when scripting any of the already packaged eDonkey clients (mldonkey for example) and supplements them well. I'm now looking for a sponsor to help me

Re: RFS: ed2k-hash

2005-04-13 Thread Luke Reeves
Also, the package built is available for download from http://www.neuro-tech.net/debian/. Thanks again, Luke Reeves signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: public domain

2005-04-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 10:10:50AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: IIRC the problem with 'public domain' is that in some parts of the world (most of europe certainly, perhaps others) there is no such concept. There is a concept of public domain, but it is impossible for the author to elevate

RFS: stripclub - update from 0.7.5 to 0.9.1.1

2005-04-13 Thread Benjamin Cutler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently upgraded the version of a program which has a debian package, but it's outdated[1][2][3] at this point. My original sponsor[4] seems unresponsive, I assume he's busy, so I'm requesting another interim sponsor so that I can get the upgraded

RFS: mozilla-locale-sv-se

2005-04-13 Thread Hans Öfverbeck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Would anyone like to sponsor the Swedish language/region package for Mozilla ? The debian package is just a debianization (largely copied from mozilla-locale-da) of the xpi package from: http://www.mozilla.se/ The licence is MPL 1.1/GPL

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-04-13 08:36:57, schrieb Kevin B. McCarty: 1) What should I do in such situation? Write a BUG report against the package ? Yes, please file a bug against the package with severity grave. If the package can be built on sid, but not on sarge, then also tag the bug sarge.

Re: RFS: tinywm - Ridiculously tiny window manager

2005-04-13 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Thank you for this comment . I put a necessary file. Files are availabele at : http://www.hemamu.com/hemamu/debian/ 1. I think you've misspelt debian/manpeges should be debian/manpages 2. Is the priority '50' for x-window-manager alternatives correct? How did you calculate

RFS: wpp -- The Web Preprocessor - a Perl script to preprocess HTML files

2005-04-13 Thread Tibor Csögör
Hello mentors! I intend to adopt the orphaned package 'wpp'. Therefore I'm looking for a kind DD to sponsor this package. You can find an updated version in my repository: deb http://tiborius.net/debian/ binary/ deb-src http://tiborius.net/debian/ source/ Package: wpp Version: 2.13.1.35