Re: RFS: knetstats

2006-12-14 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi Daniel, Daniel Baumann wrote: but now, you've added additional stuff which you have successfully removed previously: * useless commented docbook-to-man call in rules Okay!! Fixed. * not required dh_* calls I don't know which dh_ call you're pointing to. I've not changed any of those

Help regarding package with shared objects

2006-12-14 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you are able to help me with some problems I am having packaging an application with some shared objects (.so libraries), I would be very grateful. I know very little about SOs, and even after a bit of research on the web I'm still not sure of the

Re: Help regarding package with shared objects

2006-12-14 Thread Andreas Fester
Hi Paul, you should definitely read http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html It should answer most of your questions, including package layout and the role of -dev packages. Regarding the install location: does your package use autoconf? You then probably simply

changelog entries - ubuntu?

2006-12-14 Thread Kevin Coyner
During a recent upgrade of my Debian Sid box, I noticed the following changelog entry: f-spot (0.2.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low * Update to 0.2.2 upstream Perhaps I've already missed a discussion on this. If so, I'd appreciate a link/pointer so that I can read up. But if not, then are

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Warren, Warren Turkal wrote: On Wednesday 13 December 2006 10:55, Warren Turkal wrote: I think that we should just go for it. W00T! OK, you've convinced me that compiling with gfortran shouldn't be a problem. (But please try to make sure that maintainers of any new packages introduced

Re: Homepage-field in description

2006-12-14 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 12/14/06, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the Lintian issua an information message of any kinf for the Homepage: field? If it would, the maintainers could possibly pay more attention. Not many are aware of the spcae or two space reason for long URLs. No. There's a proposed

Re: changelog entries - ubuntu?

2006-12-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kevin Coyner wrote: During a recent upgrade of my Debian Sid box, I noticed the following changelog entry: f-spot (0.2.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low * Update to 0.2.2 upstream Perhaps I've already missed a discussion on this. If so, I'd appreciate a link/pointer so that I can

Re: changelog entries - ubuntu?

2006-12-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:13:19 -0500 Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During a recent upgrade of my Debian Sid box, I noticed the following changelog entry: f-spot (0.2.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low * Update to 0.2.2 upstream Perhaps I've already missed a discussion on this. If

Re: changelog entries - ubuntu?

2006-12-14 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In some ways, the Ubuntu changes become a bit like an NMU and you need to acknowledge any changes that you integrate into the Debian package. Yes, I saw a 'Patch from ubuntu' against my package 'flexbackup' (it didn't come in as a bug, but it's on the

Re: changelog entries - ubuntu?

2006-12-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 15:17:26 -0500 Kurt B. Kaiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In some ways, the Ubuntu changes become a bit like an NMU and you need to acknowledge any changes that you integrate into the Debian package. Yes, I saw a 'Patch from ubuntu' against my package 'flexbackup' (it

Re: changelog entries - ubuntu?

2006-12-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:19AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: During a recent upgrade of my Debian Sid box, I noticed the following changelog entry: f-spot (0.2.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low * Update to 0.2.2 upstream Perhaps I've already missed a discussion on this. If so,

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-14 Thread Warren Turkal
I wanted to reply to the two parts of your mail separately, so please check out this one and the next one. On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:09, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: think it must have at least been built with the new g++: benjo (sid)[2]:~% apt-cache show libnetcdf++3| grep Depends

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-14 Thread Warren Turkal
On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:09, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: 1) Why did you make the libnetcdf++3 package into a dummy package and move the C++ bindings into the libnetcdf3 package?  If the soname of the C++ package needs to evolve faster than that of the C/FORTRAN bindings, as I speculated