Re: debian and astronomy (was: Re: first steps (pcfitsio, pyraf and iraf))

2005-10-13 Thread Tim Connors
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lastly, Florian Ernst kindly sponsored my sextractor package last week; it is now waiting in the new queue. ds9 is already available in Debian (though it won't be for much longer if upstream doesn't provide unobfuscated source in their v4

Re: START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

2005-10-13 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Justin Pryzby wrote: I still don't know anything about info format, but I just looked at /usr/share/info/cppinternals.info.gz, which has, on line 5: START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * cppinternals-4.0: (cppinternals-4.0). Cpplib internals. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY So, sed -e

fine tunning ./configure options

2005-10-13 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi, I re-read carefully the Debian new maintainer guide. I took a look at the content of the rules file, and did not see where to set the ./configure option. I recompile a package in order to tune these option and dont see where to set them. Thenk you for any help :-) -- Administration

managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi mentors, In order to keep track of my changes in the development of my packages I've decided to put my debian folder with all the packages and sources inside into a svn repo. My question is simple: Are there common pitfalls I should look out for? I could imagine, that all the new .svn dirs in

Re: fine tunning ./configure options

2005-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I re-read carefully the Debian new maintainer guide. I took a look at the content of the rules file, and did not see where to set the ./configure option. I recompile a package in order to tune these option and dont see where to set them. If you tell the

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Bastian Venthur wrote: Hi mentors, In order to keep track of my changes in the development of my packages I've decided to put my debian folder with all the packages and sources inside into a svn repo. Good. No need to put all sources in the repo, though. Use dpatch or something like it and

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:53:29AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: In order to keep track of my changes in the development of my packages I've decided to put my debian folder with all the packages and sources inside into a svn repo. My question is simple: Are there common pitfalls I

Re: fine tunning ./configure options

2005-10-13 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:00 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: tell us which package this is first. I do apologize. It is the icecast2 package. Lateste available package (unstable) is 2.2.0 Icecast 2.3.0 is out: http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/icecast/icecast-2.3.0.tar.gz I want to force enabling

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:04:24PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: No need to put all sources in the repo, though. Use dpatch or something like it ^^^ and you'll have to put only debian/ under revision

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Fathi Boudra
Le Jeudi 13 Octobre 2005 10:53, Bastian Venthur a écrit : Hi mentors, In order to keep track of my changes in the development of my packages I've decided to put my debian folder with all the packages and sources inside into a svn repo. My question is simple: Are there common pitfalls I

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Florian Ernst wrote: Hello *, On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:04:24PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: No need to put all sources in the repo, though. Use dpatch or something like it ^^^ and you'll have to put only

Re: Request for beta testers for latex-cjk

2005-10-13 Thread Frank Küster
Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the unstable branch? Because if it's within a month or so, then there's no need for me to ask my sponsor to upload the teTeX2 dependant package now. I guess (but I am not Frank) that within a month it should happen, quite sure. I guess so, too.

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Bastian Venthur
Fathi Boudra wrote: Le Jeudi 13 Octobre 2005 10:53, Bastian Venthur a écrit : Hi mentors, In order to keep track of my changes in the development of my packages I've decided to put my debian folder with all the packages and sources inside into a svn repo. My question is simple: Are there

Re: fine tunning ./configure options

2005-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 12:00 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: tell us which package this is first. I do apologize. It is the icecast2 package. Lateste available package (unstable) is 2.2.0 icecast2 uses cdbs, as suspected :-) Icecast 2.3.0 is out:

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Fathi BOUDRA
BTW: how do I make pdebuild and debuild to ignore the .svn dirs? instead checkout, use export. it gives you an arbo. without the svn dirs. cheers, Fathi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Bastian Venthur wrote: BTW: how do I make pdebuild and debuild to ignore the .svn dirs? `debuild -i' works for sure. It passes all short options to build-package. Don't know about pdebuild. dam -- Damyan Ivanov Creditreform Bulgaria [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 11:59 +0200 schrieb Bastian Venthur: Fathi Boudra wrote: Le Jeudi 13 Octobre 2005 10:53, Bastian Venthur a écrit : Hi mentors, In order to keep track of my changes in the development of my packages I've decided to put my debian folder with all the packages

More open alternatives to packaging?

2005-10-13 Thread Bram Neijt
Hi. I was wondering if there's a more open alternative to developing packages? Is there some place I can get the newest packages from non-official developers? A homepage where you can register and start posting and using packages from different people through apt? Currently I could only find a

Re: More open alternatives to packaging?

2005-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Bram Neijt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I was wondering if there's a more open alternative to developing packages? Is there some place I can get the newest packages from non-official developers? A homepage where you can register and start posting and using packages from different people

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While dropping dpatch is unthinkable for me (it helps a great deal when reviewing diff.gz for unwanted changes), documenting its usage in README.Debian is indeed a very good idea. Except that README.Debian is not the place for something like that.

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Quoting Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While dropping dpatch is unthinkable for me (it helps a great deal when reviewing diff.gz for unwanted changes), documenting its usage in README.Debian is indeed a very good idea. Except that README.Debian is not the

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 11:59 +0200 schrieb Bastian Venthur: Does anything speak against my method? BTW: how do I make pdebuild and debuild to ignore the .svn dirs? Make an export, not a checkout. But normally debuild/pdebuild should not Explicit export is not

Soponsoring FAQ clarification

2005-10-13 Thread Amaya
The last paragraph at The debian-mentors FAQ, located http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html reads: Consider setting up a sponsoring alias for you and your sponsee, by creating a file in your home directory on master.debian.org called .forward-sponsoring-jbloggs

Re: Soponsoring FAQ clarification

2005-10-13 Thread Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/13/2005 10:59 AM, Amaya wrote: The last paragraph at The debian-mentors FAQ, located http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html reads: Consider setting up a sponsoring alias for you and your sponsee, by creating a file

Re: Soponsoring FAQ clarification

2005-10-13 Thread Amaya
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: The idea is make easier to contact maintainer and sponsor. :o) Handy indeed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where I assume faw is the package name. src? binary? Hope it helps, kind regards. :-) It does. Maybe the web page should be made

Re: Soponsoring FAQ clarification

2005-10-13 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Amaya wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where I assume faw is the package name. src? binary? Or (more canonically) the sponsored person. It's free-form really, examples can be found with ls /home/*/.forward-* on m.d.o. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ --

Re: Soponsoring FAQ clarification

2005-10-13 Thread Will Maier
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:20:45PM +0200, Amaya wrote: Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where I assume faw is the package name. src? binary? I think 'faw' is an initialization of Felipe's name (see his From: header). So: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 15:32 +0300 schrieb Damyan Ivanov: Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 11:59 +0200 schrieb Bastian Venthur: Does anything speak against my method? BTW: how do I make pdebuild and debuild to ignore the .svn dirs? Make an export, not a