Re: RFC: quilt-el

* Mon 2006-07-03 Frank Küster * Message-Id: 86bqs6h0k2.fsf AT alhambra.kuesterei.ch > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jari Aalto+mail.linux) wrote: >> I have found that the duo works best this way: >> >> - init quilt >> - make changes under quilt supervisions >> - when satisfied, convert to dpatch >> >> [ rep

RFS: giac - computer algebra system with nice GUI

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "giac". * Package name: giac Version : 0.6.0-1 Upstream Author : Bernard Parisse * URL : http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html * License : GPL (separate package for non-free documents)

Re: How to split a package?

"Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] IANADD, and have no comment or answers for the first part. And, another question, should the -indep package Depend: on the -dep one? Its files are, on the whole, useles without it, but I don't re

Re: When to split a package?

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > Creating more binary packages certainly has some sort of cost (The > size of the packages file, at least). How do I estimate those costs? > How do I estimate the savings gained from splitting? > (number of archs) * (size of _all.deb)? I re

Re: best practices for dependencies version in new package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:56:57PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi. >> >> Scenario. Package is new (no version uploaded yet). Dependences is >>

Re: best practices for dependencies version in new package

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Scenario. Package is new (no version uploaded yet). Dependences is >> determined: dpkg-depcheck and pbuilder was used. But these tools not >> help task determine dependences versi

How to split a package?

I another thread I said: >Having recently taken over maintaining sawfish, I ran lintian -I on it >and got >I: sawfish: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4848kB 90% and said also that I'll work on splitting that off. So ... do I just move /usr/share/* to the _all.deb package? Obviously not, sinc

When to split a package?

Having recently taken over maintaining sawfish, I ran lintian -I on it and got I: sawfish: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4848kB 90% which refers me to http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-archindepdata > ... However, if the size of the data is consider

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

Hi, > I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages > which need to connect to X. In both cases, if I do a local build with > dpkg-buildpackages, the connection to the xvfb server works fine, however > it fails in pbuilder. In one case, it is a perl-tk module which tri

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:33:41PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > >On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: > > > >>I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages > >>which need to connect to X. > >If you're aimin

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages which need to connect to X. If you're aiming to get the package uploaded, this isn't allowed. You can't assume an X11 en

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: > I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages > which need to connect to X. If you're aiming to get the package uploaded, this isn't allowed. You can't assume an X11 environment, or a network connection, or an

Re: RFC: quilt-el

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jari Aalto+mail.linux) wrote: > * Mon 2006-07-03 Yavor Doganov > * Message-Id: pan.2006.07.03.09.01.44.129385 AT doganov.org >> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:41:12 +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: >> >>> Use 3. When the upstream releases new version you can drop the patches. >>> Us

Re: Bug#284039: kdetv: existing debian packages

On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:45, Zsolt Rizsanyi wrote: > OTOH I don't really like the idea of manually trimming down the size of the > diff.gz. I have not manually trimmed down the size. I have just chosen the relevant parts of the patches to the autofoo generated files and only applied them. > Al

Re: RFC: quilt-el

* Mon 2006-07-03 Yavor Doganov * Message-Id: pan.2006.07.03.09.01.44.129385 AT doganov.org > On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:41:12 +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: > >> Use 3. When the upstream releases new version you can drop the patches. >> Using dpatch(1) to manage this is easy > > Given the name of

use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

Hello All: I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages which need to connect to X. In both cases, if I do a local build with dpkg-buildpackages, the connection to the xvfb server works fine, however it fails in pbuilder. In one case, it is a perl-tk module which tr

Re: best practices for dependencies version in new package

On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:56:57PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. > > Scenario. Package is new (no version uploaded yet). Dependences is > determined: dpkg-depcheck and pbuilder was used. But these tools not > help task determine dependen

ITP: kwlan -- wpasupplicant frontend for KDE

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: kwlan Version : 0.4.7 Upstream Author : Thomas Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://home.arcor.de/tom.michel * License : dual licensed GPL-2 and BSD license Descripti

Re: RFC: quilt-el

On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:41:12 +0300, Jari Aalto+mail.linux wrote: > Use 3. When the upstream releases new version you can drop the patches. > Using dpatch(1) to manage this is easy Given the name of the package in question, I don't really think that he'd be using dpatch ;-} -- JID: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Dependancies within multi-binary packages

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:02 +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote: > Does anyone know how I can fix this one? fixed it, turned out that I should have payed more attention when creating the .shlibs file :) On a-kind-of-related note ... can someone tell me what information from the .deb that dpkg uses when i

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 22:53 +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > Please don't feel offended. I tried to contact you several times and > I hijacked this packaged because I couldn't do that. In the future, an NMU might be a better start for improving a package that lacks care, rather than hijac

Re: changelog of debian policy?

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 12:25 -0700, tony mancill wrote: > It might be nice to distribute it as html and/or fix-up the reference in > section 1.2 to point this file. Perhaps the checklist could be referenced > as an appendix or the like so that the tag could be used, and then > dwww could easily fi

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

"LI Daobing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am waiting for a DD help me upload this packge. Can you upload this > packge for me? No, sorry, I won't have any time. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

George Danchev wrote: On Sunday 02 July 2006 23:53, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: --cut-- From the bug reports you've filed against calcurse it's clear to me that you probably are the perfect person to maintain it, so in the final analysis I have no issue with you becoming the maintainer.