Re: debian/rules

2009-03-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 11 2009, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Thanks for advice and link it can really save frustration. I particularly have no problem with the commented lines (they serve me as a reminder or as a way to put a quick reference on the rules file), but some people really dislike them. > I have one other q

Re: Fwd: 'uboot-envtools' uploaded to mentors.debian.net

2009-03-12 Thread Rogério Brito
On Mar 09 2009, Luca Capello wrote: > On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:25:25 +0100, Per Andersson wrote: > > I have upload the uboot-envtools to mentors.debian.net. > > Please have a look. > > I will take care of this. I cc:ed the d-mentors mailing list so > people will not do twice the same work. Great f

Re: debian/rules

2009-03-12 Thread Craig Small
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:10:38AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Mar 11 2009, Jaromír Mike?? wrote: > > # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. > > -$(MAKE) -C source/ PREFIX=/usr clean > > Hummm, here you should also make sure that you don't ignore errors from > make (

Which package cacher to use?

2009-03-12 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. I seem to recall that, in the not so distant past, people were discussing here the subject of package chachers for the use of building (and rebuilding etc) packages from sources, something which is necessary for those that want to help with the mentoring process (or even building their o

Re: dpkg-buildpackage -S error

2009-03-12 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Ben Finney > So, you're trying to build a source package. > > > debian/rules clean > > dh_testdir > > dh_testroot > > rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp > > # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. > > /usr/bin/make PREFIX = /usr clean > > make: *** empty variable name. Stop

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > how to had new services in /etc/services database? > > ciao > cate Asking netbase maintainer(s)? Just read /etc/services about that. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists

Re: debian/rules

2009-03-12 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Charles Plessy > it looks fine, but the ultimate answer comes of course from building the > binary > package and inspecting its contents with dpkg -c. In addition, you can run the > checker `lintian' on the .changes file; it will give you a lot of useful > stylistic comments. Hello, Than

Re: RFS: clewn

2009-03-12 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Hi, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:46:01AM +0100, Remy Dautriche wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > clewn - GDB support for the vim editor Please make it more clear in the short description (the bit I see in package searches) that this only works with gVim. Your package also FTBFS in a

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: how to had new services in /etc/services database? Asking netbase maintainer(s)? Just read /etc/services about that. Hmm. Reading your and dato answers, it seems I wrote wrongly my mail. The

Re: debian/rules

2009-03-12 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Rogério Brito > > # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. > > -$(MAKE) -C source/ PREFIX=/usr clean > > Hummm, here you should also make sure that you don't ignore errors from > make (see the hyphen that was put there). Are current versions of > dh_make producing su

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 12. März 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > But now I'm not sure about: > - if it is a good thing to have admin choosed ports I dont think so and I guess I'm not alone and thats why there is no best practice to do that. The only (typo of) package where I can think off where

Re: Which package cacher to use?

2009-03-12 Thread Simon Waters
Rogério Brito wrote: So, I would like to ask you: * what is the package chacher that you are using? Squid * Is it able to cope with multiple architectures? Yes * Can it support multiple distributions? Supporting Debian, Ubuntu and other non-official repositories would be really handy

Re: Which package cacher to use?

2009-03-12 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Hello, This mailing list is not made for this kind of message. You should consider sending it to debian-user. On 12-03-2009, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi there. > > I seem to recall that, in the not so distant past, people were > discussing here the subject of package chachers for the use of buildi

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Cooper
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:13:12PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Donnerstag, 12. März 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > > But now I'm not sure about: > > - if it is a good thing to have admin choosed ports > > I dont think so and I guess I'm not alone and thats why there is no best > practic

Re: Which package cacher to use?

2009-03-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
I’d recommend approx. > * Is it able to cope with multiple architectures? > * Can it support multiple distributions? Supporting Debian, Ubuntu and > other non-official repositories would be really handy. > * Does it keep a directory hierarchy neatly organized like the Debian > archive? Yes,

Re: RFS: clewn

2009-03-12 Thread Remy Dautriche
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:13:36AM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:46:01AM +0100, Remy Dautriche wrote: > > It builds these binary packages: > > clewn - GDB support for the vim editor > > Please make it more clear in the short description (the bit I see

Re: RFS: libmx4j-java (updated package)

2009-03-12 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
> Hi Damien, Hi Varun, [...] > The new package still fails to build on many archs and I am > not sure why. Could you please check? There is some massive libraries transitions ongoing in unstable. Since yesterday (11/03), there is +3000 uninstallable packages [2]. In our issue, default-jdk isn't

Re: Which package cacher to use?

2009-03-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 12 March 2009 03:32:35 Rogério Brito wrote: > * what is the package chacher that you are using? approx > * Is it able to cope with multiple architectures? Yes. > * Can it support multiple distributions? Supporting Debian, Ubuntu and > other non-official repositories would be rea

sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Hello, I just trying build package from source and getting this error: ~$ sudo pbuilder build '/home/mira/JK/jkmeter_0.4.0-1.dsc' --buildresult /home/mira ### # Add here commands to install the package into debian/jkmeter. /usr/bin/make -C source/ PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=/tmp/buildd/jkmeter-0

Re: sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:40:42PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/bin/jkmeter': Permission > denied At a guess, the upstream build process isn't taking any notice of your DESTDIR. But if you can put the source somewhere visible, it will be much ea

Re: sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Jonathan Wiltshire > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:40:42PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/bin/jkmeter': Permission > > denied > > At a guess, the upstream build process isn't taking any notice of your > DESTDIR. But if you can put the source

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Eric Cooper writes: > Regarding the other thread in -devel about the future of inetd: in my > case I found it very sensible to jettison all the code for opening > sockets, binding ports, handling IPv6, handling tcp-wrappers, > daemonizing processes, etc. and punt it to inetd. Since apt clients

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:56:20PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: >>> how to had new services in /etc/services database? >>> >> Asking netbase maintainer(s)? Just read /etc/services about that. > > Hmm. Reading your and dato an

RFS: crrcsim

2009-03-12 Thread Loïc Fejoz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "crrcsim". * Package name: crrcsim Version : 0.9.10-1 Upstream Authors : Ahmet Inan, Bob Parks, Chris Bailey, Jan Edward Kansky , Jan Reucker , Jens Wilhelm Wulf , Joel Lienard, Kees Lemmens, Lionel Cailler, Martin Herrmann,

Re: sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 08:18:45PM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > > At a guess, the upstream build process isn't taking any notice of your > > DESTDIR. But if you can put the source somewhere visible, it will be much > > easier > > to advise. > > In attachment is my debianized source ... Yes, as I

Re: sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
Dear Jonathan, thank you a lot for very complex answer you really moved me forward. You answered so many unspoken questions. I know that there is one unsolved dependency in unstable for this package and I am waiting for upgrading of this library. So I will start with another package for now and c

Re: RFS: tmux (updated package)

2009-03-12 Thread Ben Finney
Karl Ferdinand Ebert writes: > Hi, > > Am Thursday 12 March 2009 07:37:11 schrieb Kapil Hari Paranjape: > > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Karl Ferdinand Ebert wrote: > > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > > > Not so! :-( > > There are Lintian errors in your manpage (hyphen used as minus sign)

Re: RFS: crrcsim

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Loïc Fejoz wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "crrcsim". > > * Package name    : crrcsim ... >  Section         : contrib/games > > It builds these binary packages: > crrcsim    - Model-Airplane Flight Simulator You might want to join the Debian G

Re: RFS: crrcsim

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Loïc Fejoz wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "crrcsim". > > * Package name    : crrcsim ... >  Section         : contrib/games ... > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/c/crrcsim/crrcsim_0.9.10-1.dsc According to debian-policy, stuff in

Re: sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Jonathan Wiltshire > Your build-depends should have upstream version numbers, not revisions, > like this: > libclxclient-dev (>= 3.3.2) instead of libclxclient-dev (>= 3.3.2-1) > Are all those build-depends really neccessary? INSTALL only mentions > libclthreads and libclxclient. Actu

Re: sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 05:57:51AM +0100, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > You really think I should "install" only libclthreads and libclxclient? It depends what is needed - I haven't looked at this very closely, I'm just saying: be careful to use only the very minimum of dependencies and build-dependencie