Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-12 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Leidert] > Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > > It has now shown to be necessary to apply patches to the upstream > > docs. I would like to use dpatch for that. > > Could you also write a bug-report for dpatch? This is a feature I also > miss and I would of cour

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Marc! On 2/13/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, don't treat me as a clueless newbie. The package in question > is exim4-doc-html, the documentation for Debian's default MTA. The > fact that I maintain that package should show that I have been around > the block multiple times

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:01:27 -0200, "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You can do this: > >If the .txt files are really important and necessary, you may left >them uncompressed and you won't need to patch the html file. > >If the .txt files aren't very important, you can compress t

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > This is interesting. When I remove a file completely from > ./debian, as I do in the case of fvwm, diff says "ignoring deletion > of files ...". So, if I had instead just truncaterd the file, it > would be removed from the unpacked tree, wh

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 12 Feb 2006, Joey Hess uttered the following: > Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> The general suggestion is to not include the debian/ directory in >> the release tarball. The reason is that by the format of the Debian >> source packages no files can be removed by another person's >> .diff.gz and some

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > The eximdoc4 source package is built from two upstream tarballs, one > with the texinfo docs and one with the html docs. To massage this into > Debian source package format, the two upstream .tar.bz2 tarballs are > tar.gz'ed together to

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:42:26PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > On 2/12/06, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The package can be found at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/sdljump/. > > It's actually at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/debian/sdljump/ > > The package is in ve

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Marc Haber [Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:01:58 +0100]: > (3) > Modify debian/rules to first unpack, second patch, third build? I'd personally go with this one, similarly to this: configure: patch foo patch: unpack bar unpack: baz Cheers, -- Adeod

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:42:26PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > So, why run aclocal and delete all those files unnecesarily? Even > though the package is exactly the same as with the simpler rules, it > smells like a source of bugs to me. Like if in the future aclocal-1.9 > stops being pre

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The general suggestion is to not include the debian/ directory in the > release tarball. The reason is that by the format of the Debian source > packages no files can be removed by another person's .diff.gz and some > tools like debhelper act on (non)existance of specific

Re: libcpufreq and the small libsysfs transition

2006-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:06:00PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > I need a quick suggestion how to handle libcpufreq{0,-dev} within the > libsysfs transition. > Facts: > - current cpufrequtils is compatible with both libsysfs1 and libsysfs2 > - the source package depends on libsysfs-dev >= 1.0.0 >

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On 2/12/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:32:05 -0500, Justin Pryzby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So it seems that it shouldn't actually be compressing html files; > > It isn't. The files in question are .txt config file snippets that are > linked from the h

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:32:05 -0500, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So it seems that it shouldn't actually be compressing html files; It isn't. The files in question are .txt config file snippets that are linked from the html code. Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:30:57 -0200, "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 2/12/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am now wondering whether it is acceptable to compress all of the >> .txt files, or to keep all of them uncompressed. Which would be the >> lesser evil? > >L

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:02:08PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > exim4-doc-html includes the exim FAQ, which is a bunch of HTML files > and some configuration examples as .txt, in > /usr/share/doc/exim4-doc-html/html. The larger of these .txt files are > compressed by the build processs, whil

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Michal ?iha? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060212 19:21]: > I'm author of few programs, that I want to include in Debian. Keeping > debian directory inside sources and release tarball seems as logical > step to me because related changes to debian directory will be in > same changeset as changes in softwa

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:31:49 -0200 "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even if your diff.gz file stay with 0 bytes after generating the > package, it's good to not create them native. If, for example, your > package has 1 MB. It's created as being native. If someone will do a

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
I answered just for Marc, so forwarding it to the list. Hi Marc! On 2/12/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > exim4-doc-html includes the exim FAQ, which is a bunch of HTML files > and some configuration examples as .txt, in > /usr/share/doc/exim4-doc-html/html. The larger of these .txt fi

How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-12 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, The eximdoc4 source package is built from two upstream tarballs, one with the texinfo docs and one with the html docs. To massage this into Debian source package format, the two upstream .tar.bz2 tarballs are tar.gz'ed together to form eximdoc4_foo.tar.gz. It has now shown to be necessary to

Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, exim4-doc-html includes the exim FAQ, which is a bunch of HTML files and some configuration examples as .txt, in /usr/share/doc/exim4-doc-html/html. The larger of these .txt files are compressed by the build processs, while the smaller of them stay uncompressed. This is confusing. I am now wo

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Stan Vasilyev
On Sunday 12 February 2006 10:21, Michal Čihař wrote: Why keep debian directory outside of the source tree? - Users of other distros won't be encumbered with Debian-specific parts of your software. - Maintainers of other distros (Ubuntu) will have a clean source tree to work with - Cuts down on

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi Michal! On 2/12/06, Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However I'm not sure whether to create native package or not. For now I > prefer native packages. But several times (I think it was even on this > list) I saw that it might not be good idea, but without any arguments > which would co

Native package or not?

2006-02-12 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi all I'm author of few programs, that I want to include in Debian. Keeping debian directory inside sources and release tarball seems as logical step to me because related changes to debian directory will be in same changeset as changes in software. However I'm not sure whether to create native

libcpufreq and the small libsysfs transition

2006-02-12 Thread Mattia Dongili
Hello, I need a quick suggestion how to handle libcpufreq{0,-dev} within the libsysfs transition. Facts: - current cpufrequtils is compatible with both libsysfs1 and libsysfs2 - the source package depends on libsysfs-dev >= 1.0.0 - libcpufreq0 uses ${shlibs:Depends} to build dependencies Now, my

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/12/06, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The package can be found at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/sdljump/. It's actually at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/debian/sdljump/ The package is in very good state, it's lintian clean (although linda issues a warning). I have some c

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:42:54PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060212 12:08]: > > . > > Home page: http://sdljump.sourceforge.net > > Pointing to [1] I would suggest to change that to ".\n Homepage:" Thanks, fixed. > > The package can be found at ht

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060212 12:08]: > Package: sdljump [..] > . > Home page: http://sdljump.sourceforge.net Pointing to [1] I would suggest to change that to ".\n Homepage:" Links: 1: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s

RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hello mentors, In the games team, SDLjump was mentioned as a candidate for the graphical installer. However, it was not packaged yet. So I've done that (but left out the udeb-parts for now). I'm looking for a sponsor to check and upload the package. Package: sdljump Section: games License: GPL