[RFS] qterm: BBS client for X Window System written in Qt

2005-09-09 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, I need a uploader for the new version of qterm. it's not lintian and linda clean(without-manpages). I have uploaded it to mentors[1], and submit it at sponsors. [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qterm/ [2] http://sponsors.debian.net/viewpkg.php?id=60 Does anyone want help m

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:10:25PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Eddy Petri?or wrote: > >>The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for > >>getty and it needs

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Joe Smith
"Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Eddy Petri?or wrote: The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab. Don't. /etc/inittab is critical infrastructure

Re: debian-mentors FAQ updated

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:33:55PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > George Danchev wrote: > > On Friday 09 September 2005 15:01, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > --cut-- > > > The FAQ is at: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html > > > > a minor typo at: > > "How do I effectively keep tr

Re: Willing to adopt a few orphaned packages

2005-09-09 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Stan Vasilyev in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I think the question is: "If I create a package of this, will someone > >sponsor Hi, just go ahead an create updated packages. Ask for a sponsor here; I'm willing to sponsor uploads of adopted packages, especially if people do care about the packages t

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Ken Bowley
I would highly suggest against modifying /etc/inittab. It looks interesting, and I am putting it on my list of things to try, but I would be very upset if installing the package did anything to my inittab. I am currently using a mix of agetty, mingetty, and fbgetty on my vt's (mostly for test

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Eddy Petri?or wrote: > The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for > getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab. Don't. /etc/inittab is critical infrastructure on every system where it is used, NEVER EVER touch it. Document what the user has to do to

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Joe Smith
"Eddy Petrisor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab. No qingy is a replacement for mingetty, or for the vt portion of agetty. Qingy does not replace

Re: Willing to adopt a few orphaned packages

2005-09-09 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Stan, Am Freitag, den 09.09.2005, 10:19 -0700 schrieb Stan Vasilyev: > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > >I think the question is: "If I create a package of this, will someone sponsor > > > > > That's exactly what I had in mind. I would like to know if it's > reasonable for me to adopt some of the pack

Re: Willing to adopt a few orphaned packages

2005-09-09 Thread Stan Vasilyev
Bas Wijnen wrote: I think the question is: "If I create a package of this, will someone sponsor That's exactly what I had in mind. I would like to know if it's reasonable for me to adopt some of the packages I listed. I could just go ahead and start packaging all of them but I fear that mos

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:17:50PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: > On 9/7/05, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:59:29PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: > > > On 9/6/05, Frank K?ster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:15:07PM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > >On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:12:13AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: > >>- Make a new version of the main package with the X11 dependency removed. > >>Some package works that way (example: ocaml-base vs. o

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:20:48PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: > Hello, > > The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for > getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab. > > Is it allowed for my package to do this automatically? Any idea how > can I do this automatically? Th

Re: Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.

2005-09-09 Thread Samuel Mimram
Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:12:13AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: - Make a new version of the main package with the X11 dependency removed. Some package works that way (example: ocaml-base vs. ocaml-base-nox). Its not clear to me what you mean. Do you mean, build

How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Eddy Petrişor
Hello, The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab. Is it allowed for my package to do this automatically? Any idea how can I do this automatically? -- Regards, EddyP = "Imagination

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-09 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 9/7/05, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:59:29PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: > > On 9/6/05, Frank K?ster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal wi

Re: Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:12:13AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm the erlang package maintainer. I've been suggested by someone to make an > Erlang package that is not dependant on X11. I found that logic because an > Erlang system node doesn't usually require an UI

Re: adding new mime-types

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:08:04PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Freitag, den 09.09.2005, 12:54 +0200 schrieb vud1: > > Hi all. > > > > I am doing a debian-package for a program that i am writing. My program > > is an diagram-tool that saves files *.cgt (xml files that i have > > invented spec

Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.

2005-09-09 Thread François-Denis Gonthier
Hello all, I'm the erlang package maintainer. I've been suggested by someone to make an Erlang package that is not dependant on X11. I found that logic because an Erlang system node doesn't usually require an UI. But, after thinking about that, I saw several possible ways of reorganizing my

Re: debian-mentors FAQ updated

2005-09-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
George Danchev wrote: > On Friday 09 September 2005 15:01, Matthew Palmer wrote: > --cut-- > > The FAQ is at: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html > > a minor typo at: > "How do I effectively keep track of my packaging changes? > At the basic level, it's a good idea to keep a

Re: debian-mentors FAQ updated

2005-09-09 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:01, Matthew Palmer wrote: --cut-- > The FAQ is at: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html a minor typo at: "How do I effectively keep track of my packaging changes? At the basic level, it's a good idea to keep an archive of the completed source p

debian-mentors FAQ updated

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Palmer
I've made several updates to the debian-mentors FAQ in the last few days, including making mention of sponsors.debian.net, pointing to some revision control howtos, a comprehensive description of native vs non-native packages, and a pointer to the REJECT-FAQ (with a list of things to check for in p

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-09 Thread Terry Burton
On 9/8/05, Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have created a trival Debian repository. The relevant line for your > sources.list is: > > deb-src http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc / The debian files have now moved to their more permanant home at: http://www.terry

Re: adding new mime-types

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 09.09.2005, 12:54 +0200 schrieb vud1: > Hi all. > > I am doing a debian-package for a program that i am writing. My program > is an diagram-tool that saves files *.cgt (xml files that i have > invented specially for my application). > > I would like to integrate my program with gn

adding new mime-types

2005-09-09 Thread vud1
Hi all. I am doing a debian-package for a program that i am writing. My program is an diagram-tool that saves files *.cgt (xml files that i have invented specially for my application). I would like to integrate my program with gnome, so i would like to make a deb package that would insert the ne

RE: curious deb installation

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Pontes
hi here the output from dpkg -i ordnername.deb again in english Reading Package Lists...Building Dependency Tree...The following NEW packages will be installed:ordnername0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 171 not upgraded.Need to get 0B/662B of archives.After unpacking 0B of add

Re: curious deb installation

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Pontes
hi again, thx to frank the problem is solved. i put the file into the DEBIAN folder - was wrong  greetings from germany roland

Re: curious deb installation

2005-09-09 Thread Frank Küster
"Roland Pontes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi at all > i have a problem with creating my own debian packages. > i like to pack own files (dokus, manpages, own skripts) in a debian package. > building is ok, with dpkg --build ordnername ordnername.deb. > my folder structure >

Re: curious deb installation

2005-09-09 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, When I unpack debian packages, they have the following structure: debian-file \- control.tar.gz \- data.tar.gz \- debian-version In control.tar.gz are the postinst, etc. files, in data.tar.gz are all the "normal" files. debian-version is just a number. To see this, u

Re: Willing to adopt a few orphaned packages

2005-09-09 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 02:26:02PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 08-Sep-2005, Stan Vasilyev wrote: > > I am wondering if anyone is willing to sponsor my work on some of > > the orphaned packages I listed below. > > Prospective sponsors will need to know that you've read the FAQ and > addressed its

curious deb installation

2005-09-09 Thread Roland Pontes
hi at all i have a problem with creating my own debian packages. i like to pack own files (dokus, manpages, own skripts) in a debian package. building is ok, with dpkg --build ordnername ordnername.deb. my folder structure                         DEBIAN