Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

2012-04-01 Thread Gergely Nagy
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 00:29, David Prévot wrote: > Hi, > > Le 01/04/2012 18:24, Gergely Nagy a écrit : >> Andreas Tille writes: > >>> I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any >>> help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help > >> help2man -h ""

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 01:30:41PM -0700, Ross Boylan a écrit : > > It's not my package, and for reasons of courtesy to the maintainer and > (I thought) minimizing work for myself I didn't want to make any > unncessary changes. Actually, since the maintainer of noweb does not seem to have made up

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 00:20 +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Ross Boylan writes: > > > Short version: > > > > What's the best way to work with a dpatch-based package developing code > > that will likely take many smallish iterations to get right? > > As the other reply said: the best way is not to.

question on git-buildpackage

2012-04-01 Thread Albert Dengg
hi, (i hope this is the right place to ask this question?) i'm currently investigating the effort of building clean debian packages for emc2 (linuxcnc.org) for a project (with the intent to get them into debian in the end). i have however a question on how to start the work: upstream uses git an

Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

2012-04-01 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 01/04/2012 18:24, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > Andreas Tille writes: >> I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any >> help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help > help2man -h "" $program will probably do the trick. No: $ help2man -h "" h

Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

2012-04-01 Thread Gergely Nagy
Andreas Tille writes: > Hi, > > I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any > help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help > information which would be needed to create the man page. Is there > any trick to convince help2man to work on this anywa

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Gergely Nagy
Ross Boylan writes: > Short version: > > What's the best way to work with a dpatch-based package developing code > that will likely take many smallish iterations to get right? As the other reply said: the best way is not to. The long version of the same answer: dpatch is not a VCS, was never me

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2012-04-01 at 16:12 -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Hi, > > Le 01/04/2012 16:01, Ross Boylan a écrit : > > What's the best way to work with a dpatch-based package developing code > > Why not just moving away from that deprecated tool and use 3.0 (quilt) > format instead? > > https://l

Re: Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread David Prévot
Hi, Le 01/04/2012 16:01, Ross Boylan a écrit : > What's the best way to work with a dpatch-based package developing code Why not just moving away from that deprecated tool and use 3.0 (quilt) format instead? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/08/msg00380.html Regards David

Advice on use of patch system while hacking

2012-04-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Short version: What's the best way to work with a dpatch-based package developing code that will likely take many smallish iterations to get right? Longer version: I am working on some extensions to noweb, a literate programming tool, to improve its handling of python files (see bug 661635 for d

Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

2012-04-01 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 09:37:03PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any > help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help > information which would be needed to create the man page. Is there > any trick to

Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

2012-04-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Andreas Tille writes: > I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any > help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help > information which would be needed to create the man page. Is there > any trick to convince help2man to work on this anyway? Would

Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

2012-04-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help information which would be needed to create the man page. Is there any trick to convince help2man to work on this anyway? Kind regards Andreas.

Bug#666558: marked as done (RFS: fonts-dosis/1.7-1 [ITP])

2012-04-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 1 Apr 2012 17:56:28 +0200 with message-id <20120401155628.gt4...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Uploads done has caused the Debian Bug report #666558, regarding RFS: fonts-dosis/1.7-1 [ITP] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has b

Bug#666555: marked as done (RFS: fonts-cabin/1.5-1 [ITP])

2012-04-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 1 Apr 2012 17:56:28 +0200 with message-id <20120401155628.gt4...@mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org> and subject line Uploads done has caused the Debian Bug report #666555, regarding RFS: fonts-cabin/1.5-1 [ITP] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has b

Bug#666738: RFS: sic/1.1-5 - simple irc client (sic)

2012-04-01 Thread Jeroen Schot
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sic" Package name: sic Version : 1.1-5 Upstream Author : Anselm R. Garbe URL : http://tools.suckless.org/sic/ License : MIT Section : net It builds thi

Re: Binaries with name conflicts

2012-04-01 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 01/04/12 14:44, Giulio Paci a écrit : > >> >> - install the binaries in /usr/lib/bin/sptk/ > > I do not see any /usr/lib/bin/ in my system. Did you mean > /usr/lib/sptk/bin/? Yes, sorry: either /usr/lib/sptk/bin/ or simply /usr/lib/sptk/ > > This seems a nice solution. Is it also common pr

Re: Binaries with name conflicts

2012-04-01 Thread Giulio Paci
Hi Thibaut, thank you for your quick reply. Il 01/04/2012 14:11, Thibaut Paumard ha scritto: > Le 01/04/12 13:28, Giulio Paci a écrit : >> The toolkit consists of 127 simple command-line programs (with a short >> name), that are supposed to interact each other mainly using stdin and >> std

Re: Binaries with name conflicts

2012-04-01 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 01/04/12 13:28, Giulio Paci a écrit : > Hi to all! > I am trying to package sptk (), a toolkit for speech signal processing. > > The toolkit consists of 127 simple command-line programs (with a short > name), that are supposed to interact each other mainly using stdin and > stdout. Users

Re: Re: Automatic maintenance of the file .symbols for libraries

2012-04-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Innocent De Marchi [120401 13:08]: > >The symbols file cannot be generated automatically as no computer > >program can decide what the contents should be. > > but in the compilation of the package (for example with pdebuild), a > report of differences is generated if there are changes. Tha

Binaries with name conflicts

2012-04-01 Thread Giulio Paci
Hi to all! I am trying to package sptk (), a toolkit for speech signal processing. The toolkit consists of 127 simple command-line programs (with a short name), that are supposed to interact each other mainly using stdin and stdout. Users of this toolkit generally install it in a custom lo

Re: Re: Automatic maintenance of the file .symbols for libraries

2012-04-01 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Hi Bernhard >The symbols file cannot be generated automatically as no computer >program can decide what the contents should be. but in the compilation of the package (for example with pdebuild), a report of differences is generated if there are changes. If pdebuild can make a report of chang

Re: Automatic maintenance of the file .symbols for libraries

2012-04-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Innocent De Marchi [120401 09:11]: > I have adopted a package with a library [0]. It must be frequently > updating the package to update the symbols file > Strikes me that the file .symbols not be generated automatically when > in compiling the package: Is it not possible that the compilation of

Re: How to handle embedded javascript/php libraries in WebApps

2012-04-01 Thread Vasudev Kamath
On 17:07 Sun 01 Apr , Paul Wise wrote: > Do the usual things for embedded code copies: Umm.. not clear. By saying package in the usual way do you mean that I include modified library code inside packages? Policy 4.13 says we shouldn't include convenience copies unless its intended to use th

Re: How to handle embedded javascript/php libraries in WebApps

2012-04-01 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > Friendica modifies the php library it is depending on heavily so it > ships the embedded php library source along with it. Also it > uses tinymce which is also highly modified version so If I symlink > debian's version of tinymce it will rend

Re: How to handle embedded javascript/php libraries in WebApps

2012-04-01 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Hi Russ, On 23:09 Sat 31 Mar , Russ Allbery wrote: > It's unfortunately fairly common to have to override the Lintian warnings > about this, because using heavily modified versions of these libraries in > webapps seems rather common. Thanks I'll proceed with lintian overrides. >It would be

Peg-solitaire: waiting sponsor (Package already in Debian from 2011-03-14)

2012-04-01 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Hi! The current sponsor of the package is on vacation: to my I would like this package prepared for the new stable release of Debian. Anyone is encouraged to upload the package to the repository? I be very grateful! The package is available in http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/peg-sol