RFS: cegui-mk2 (updated package)

2008-09-30 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-1 of my package "cegui-mk2". It builds these binary packages: libcegui-mk2-0c2a - Crazy Eddie's GUI (libraries) libcegui-mk2-0c2a-dbg - Crazy Eddie's GUI (debugging libraries) libcegui-mk2-dev - Crazy Eddie's GUI (development fil

Re: [OT] Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:32:01AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape a écrit : > Hello, > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:19:27 +0900 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > whereas one of the goals of letting the user installing packages in his > > home directory is to not bother the admins. > > In tha

Re: [OT] Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-30 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:19:27 +0900 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > whereas one of the goals of letting the user installing packages in his > home directory is to not bother the admins. In that case, use fakechroot, it may be enough for you. Alternatively use qemu or user-mode-

Re: RFS: avr-evtd (a heartbeat daemon for some embedded NASes)

2008-09-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:09:44PM -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/avr-evtd/avr-evtd_1.7.3-1.dsc Hi Rogério, I sponsored it; it is now in the NEW queue. It was built on amd64, but I do not know if it is useful there. Please test the ppc package whe

RFS: dokuwiki-note

2008-09-30 Thread jon latorre
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dokuwiki-note". * Package name: dokuwiki-note Version : 20080217-1 Upstream Author : Olivier Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:note * License : GNU GPL v2 Section

Re: [OT] Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:19:27 +0900 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the idea looks intersting, but in the end the consequence is that the > administrators have to learn one more tool, that looks very complex, Any admin who does not understand 'chroot' should not be an admin. Anyway, w

RFS: masqmail (updated package)

2008-09-30 Thread markus schnalke
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.21-5 of my package "masqmail". It builds these binary packages: masqmail - A mailer for hosts without permanent internet connection The package appears to be lintian clean. Exactly, this is what this package is now: lintian clean

Re: RFS: ocropus (2nd try)

2008-09-30 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/9/22 Andreas Juch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not a mentor, but I tested your package because I wanted to use > ocropus on my system. I think your dependencies are missing the lua > interpreter - at least the verision I installed from m.d.n. No - the ocroscript command implements a Lua interpr

Re: Global environment variable.

2008-09-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
And if it's nevertheless a packaging question (i.e. how to add a global variable as part of the installation of a package), the policy states that no executable can depend on the definition of a global variable, hence your package should not define any global variable (but you should document that

Re: [OT] Re: how to install package using apt-get in folder other than /usr

2008-09-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:15:55PM +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Installing Debian packages without administrator privileges and without > > messing with other users works. > > chroot > > That is very close to the definitive purpose of using a

Re: Global environment variable.

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Alessio Giovanni Baroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where are stored the global variables? I must always add it to /etc/profile > and /etc/bash.bashrc. > There is a global location? This is not the appropriate list, please contact debian-user or one that is spec

Global environment variable.

2008-09-30 Thread Alessio Giovanni Baroni
Hi to all! Where are stored the global variables? I must always add it to /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc. There is a global location? Thank you.