Re: RFS: latexila

2010-04-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 00:45 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: On Mi, 28 Apr 2010, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: Should I increase the Debian version number of my package before I upload a new revision? No, you *should* not, because nothing has been uploaded. Just tell me when you have uploaded a

Re: Bug#521918: pbuilder --build --binary-arch invokes 'build' target

2009-05-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 15:11 +0200, Filippo Rusconi wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 13:46:30 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: No, policy is very clear on that: if you call the build target, you _must_ satisfy

Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just received bug #141738 against petsc2.1.1-doc saying that links from /usr/share/doc/petsc2.1.1-doc/include are going to /lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include instead of /usr/lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include. This is really odd, as I made them using dh_link and the links seem correct

Re: Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 13:45, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I just received bug #141738 against petsc2.1.1-doc saying that links from /usr/share/doc/petsc2.1.1-doc/include are going to /lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include instead of /usr/lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include. This is really odd

Re: Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
David Caldwell wrote: I think it means you should fsck your disk. Possibly the '..' in /usr/share is pointing to the wrong directory (/ instead of /usr). What happens when you 'cd ..' repeatedly out to root? Does it skip /usr? I'm very sorry, I discovered this afternoon that the problem

Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just received bug #141738 against petsc2.1.1-doc saying that links from /usr/share/doc/petsc2.1.1-doc/include are going to /lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include instead of /usr/lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include. This is really odd, as I made them using dh_link and the links seem correct

Re: Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel Dänzer wrote: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 13:45, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I just received bug #141738 against petsc2.1.1-doc saying that links from /usr/share/doc/petsc2.1.1-doc/include are going to /lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include instead of /usr/lib/petscdir/2.1.1/include. This is really odd

Re: Wierd bug report: /usr/share/.. = / ???

2002-04-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
David Caldwell wrote: I think it means you should fsck your disk. Possibly the '..' in /usr/share is pointing to the wrong directory (/ instead of /usr). What happens when you 'cd ..' repeatedly out to root? Does it skip /usr? I'm very sorry, I discovered this afternoon that the problem is

Build-depends, |, and autobuilders

2002-02-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just looked at buildd.debian.org, and my package petsc has failed on arm and ia64 because of missing atlas2-base-dev. But Build-Depends says (among other things): atlas2-base-dev | blas-dev, atlas2-base-dev | lapack-dev Why won't the buildds parse this properly and, seeing that

Re: Build-depends, |, and autobuilders

2002-02-05 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Troup wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why won't the buildds parse this properly and, seeing that there's no atlas2-base-dev, pick up blas-dev and lapack-dev? Because or'ed build-depends are satan spawn and the root of all evil in the world today. Seriously, use arch

Dependency logic

2002-01-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, In a post to this list about a year ago, someone suggested that complex dependencies such as (A B) | C be handled with: A | C, B | C. Now this generates a lintian error: E: petsc2.1.1-dev: package-has-a-duplicate-relation blas-dev | atlas2-base-dev, lapack-dev | atlas2-base-dev

Dependency logic

2002-01-14 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, In a post to this list about a year ago, someone suggested that complex dependencies such as (A B) | C be handled with: A | C, B | C. Now this generates a lintian error: E: petsc2.1.1-dev: package-has-a-duplicate-relation blas-dev | atlas2-base-dev, lapack-dev | atlas2-base-dev

Re: build depends on auto{conf,make}

2001-11-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:29:18PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Do you actually need to call auto*? Normally packages just use the generated files upstream provides unless there's some particular reason not to. yes, I need to call auto* because the sources are from a cvs

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Nicolas Boullis wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Can I Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha] and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source

Re: build depends on auto{conf,make}

2001-11-25 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 01:29:18PM +, Mark Brown wrote: Do you actually need to call auto*? Normally packages just use the generated files upstream provides unless there's some particular reason not to. yes, I need to call auto* because the sources are from a

Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Having got the non-free cfal (Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha, yes, the acronym is backwards :-) compiler to work using my contrib Debian packaging (realplayer-style RPM unpacker), I built PETSc using it, and WOW, is it FAST! On a 600 MHz ev5, it is more than 2.5 times as fast per

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Troup wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha] and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source would become contrib, because

Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Having got the non-free cfal (Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha, yes, the acronym is backwards :-) compiler to work using my contrib Debian packaging (realplayer-style RPM unpacker), I built PETSc using it, and WOW, is it FAST! On a 600 MHz ev5, it is more than 2.5 times as fast per

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Troup wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha] and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source would become contrib

Arch-dependent Build-Depends

2001-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm trying to make petsc Build-Depends: on atlas for most arches, but lapack where there is no atlas. Actually, to make things simpler inside the package, I link against lapack on PPC, m68k and sparc, so they can share configuration information, since they are all 32-bit

Arch-dependent Build-Depends

2001-07-19 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'm trying to make petsc Build-Depends: on atlas for most arches, but lapack where there is no atlas. Actually, to make things simpler inside the package, I link against lapack on PPC, m68k and sparc, so they can share configuration information, since they are all 32-bit

Re: NMU??

2001-03-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 16-Mar-2001 Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, I just uploaded the latest version of my package, petsc. And got back notices about an NMU. if name in changelog != name in control file: upload is NMU Oops! (Was wondering where that came from

Re: NMU??

2001-03-20 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 16-Mar-2001 Adam C Powell IV wrote: Greetings, I just uploaded the latest version of my package, petsc. And got back notices about an NMU. if name in changelog != name in control file: upload is NMU Oops! (Was wondering where that came from

NMU??

2001-03-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just uploaded the latest version of my package, petsc. And got back notices about an NMU. The only thing I did differently was to upload i386 binaries, I usually upload powerpc. The maintainer consistently listed in debian/changes is Adam C. Powell, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED

NMU??

2001-03-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just uploaded the latest version of my package, petsc. And got back notices about an NMU. The only thing I did differently was to upload i386 binaries, I usually upload powerpc. The maintainer consistently listed in debian/changes is Adam C. Powell, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-03-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
-0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I see. So something has changed recently in unstable such that braces don't always work any more? I usually use parentheses myself, but upstream has braces all over the place- I assumed they were interchangable (okay, so I'm a "make" newbie :-).

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-03-01 Thread Adam C Powell IV
-0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I see. So something has changed recently in unstable such that braces don't always work any more? I usually use parentheses myself, but upstream has braces all over the place- I assumed they were interchangable (okay, so I'm a make newbie :-). No. Hmm

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
changed in version 1.2.0 and later versions. It is now found under $MPI_HOME which in the case of Debian /usr/lib/mpich In my second post you'll notice: Adam C Powell IV wrote: # For mpich: (woody mpich uses /usr/lib/mpich/lib, potato the longer dir) ifeq ($(PETSC_MPI),mpich) MPI_HOME

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Julian Gilbey wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:08PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: [snip] PETSC_LIB = -L${LDIR} -lpetscts -lpetscsnes -lpetscsles -lpetscdm -lpetscmat \ -lpetscvec ${PETSC_SYS_LIB} [snip] Where's the definition of LDIR? That's defined in bmake

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Adam, On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Have you copied the -L option verbatim? If so, the error is clear: there's no $ between the -L and the {. Otherwise, I have no idea. I'm sorry, I was very imprecise. Here are the details: # For mpich

Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I'm having the darndest time figuring out what's going wrong with the PETSc build. It was fine when I built and uploaded PPC packages three weeks ago, and alpha, sparc and arm seemed to build fine, but it breaks now in exactly that way on unstable i386 and powerpc and testing alpha. The

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-27 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Julian Gilbey wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:32:38PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: The problem is that it's setting MPI_LIBS to -L{MPI_HOME}/build/... like it's substituting ${MPI_HOME} with {MPI_HOME} instead of the value of the Have you copied the -L option verbatim? If so

Re: Compiler error: cannot find -ldb

2001-02-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Luis Arocha wrote: Y el lunes 12 de febrero, Adam C Powell IV escribi: Which release are you using? Which version of libdb2-dev? If woody/sid, you will find /usr/lib/libdb.so in libdb2-dev 2.7.7-2.2. If potato, you will find it in libc6-dev 2.1.3-15. Installed packages: ii

Re: Compiler error: cannot find -ldb

2001-02-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Luis Arocha wrote: Y el lunes 12 de febrero, Adam C Powell IV escribió: Which release are you using? Which version of libdb2-dev? If woody/sid, you will find /usr/lib/libdb.so in libdb2-dev 2.7.7-2.2. If potato, you will find it in libc6-dev 2.1.3-15. Installed packages: ii

Re: Compiler error: cannot find -ldb

2001-02-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Luis Arocha wrote: Y el viernes 9 de febrero, Ben Collins escribió: No, latest glibc does not include compile support for libdb. Install and Build-Depends on libdb2-dev I think it will not be so easy. Configure script still write '-ldb' in Makefile. How can I say it must write

Re: Compiler error: cannot find -ldb

2001-02-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:31:39PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote: Investigating this error I found this libs: yoda:~ (.22 Mb)$ ls /usr/lib/libdb* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 feb 2 21:17 /usr/lib/libdb1.so-/lib/libdb1.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx1 root

Re: Compiler error: cannot find -ldb

2001-02-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Ben Collins wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 04:31:39PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote: Investigating this error I found this libs: yoda:~ (.22 Mb)$ ls /usr/lib/libdb* lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 16 feb 2 21:17 /usr/lib/libdb1.so-/lib/libdb1.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx1 root

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-09 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Eric VB wrote: Didn't he download his packages on a win machine ? Nope. In the i386 case, his transcript shows an http download using apt-get source evolver. And in any case, if that were the problem, it would corrupt the md5sums, which isn't happening. Zeen, -Adam P. GPG fingerprint:

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I'd blame tar or the MIPS port, but that he reproduced on i386 completely baffles me... See http://bugs.debian.org/84829 Well, IMHO, if the md5sums are OK in his side as the bug report states, and tar still fails

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Colin Watson wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working

Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working for him. apt-get source evolver works just fine for me on i386

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I'd blame tar or the MIPS port, but that he reproduced on i386 completely baffles me... See http://bugs.debian.org/84829 Well, IMHO, if the md5sums are OK in his side as the bug report states, and tar still fails

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Colin Watson wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working

Build-time setting of binary package names

2001-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'd like to be able to have a build-time setting determine the names of binary packages. For example, on my petsc package: debian/rules PETSC_ARCH=linux_alpha_dec binary builds using the Compaq ccc compiler. I'd like to make it generate packages with non-standard names, e.g.

Re: Build-time setting of binary package names

2001-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter S Galbraith wrote: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" wrote: problem is you have to have valid package names in debian/control. Perhaps you could do something like a control.in which gets dynamically created based on the parameters you set. I agree. I'm setup to build unofficial binary

Build-time setting of binary package names

2001-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I'd like to be able to have a build-time setting determine the names of binary packages. For example, on my petsc package: debian/rules PETSC_ARCH=linux_alpha_dec binary builds using the Compaq ccc compiler. I'd like to make it generate packages with non-standard names, e.g.

Re: Build-time setting of binary package names

2001-01-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: problem is you have to have valid package names in debian/control. Perhaps you could do something like a control.in which gets dynamically created based on the parameters you set. I agree. I'm setup to build unofficial binary packages

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created binaries which call "ssh" instead of "rsh". It seems this will slow things down a LOT, and considering MPI is usually used for high-performance computing, I wouldn't make this standard

Re: Having ssh support non-US?

2000-12-12 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I am packaging mpich, and to fix the outstanding wishlist bug, I have created binaries which call ssh instead of rsh. It seems this will slow things down a LOT, and considering MPI is usually used for high-performance computing, I wouldn't make this standard

Re: What to do with optimization flags ?

2000-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel LESPINASSE wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:11:47AM +0100, Samuel Hocevar wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2000, Ben Collins wrote: IMO, the better way would be if the CPU intensive portions were in a shared library (even if the library is only used for this application). Then you

Re: What to do with optimization flags ?

2000-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Michel LESPINASSE wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 06:11:47AM +0100, Samuel Hocevar wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2000, Ben Collins wrote: IMO, the better way would be if the CPU intensive portions were in a shared library (even if the library is only used for this application). Then you could

Re: Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-28 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, check out this freakiness... Here's the substvars file: linear-algebra=atlas2 linear-algebra-dev=atlas2-dev I've attached the control file. So why do I get the following warning: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${linear-algebra

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Drew Parsons wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:41:51PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: When I try to start X (using either startx or xdm, I didn't try xinit), it starts loading, and then the computer freezes up utterly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't shutdown X, Alt-Fn doesn't switch over to a

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Drew Parsons wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:41:51PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: When I try to start X (using either startx or xdm, I didn't try xinit), it starts loading, and then the computer freezes up utterly. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't shutdown X, Alt-Fn doesn't switch over to a

Re: Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
If nobody can figure it out, I'll assume it must be a bug in dpkg-dev. Reporting now... Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, check out this freakiness... Here's the substvars file: linear-algebra=atlas2 linear-algebra-dev=atlas2-dev I've attached the control file. So why do I get

Re: Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-17 Thread Adam C Powell IV
If nobody can figure it out, I'll assume it must be a bug in dpkg-dev. Reporting now... Adam C Powell IV wrote: Okay, check out this freakiness... Here's the substvars file: linear-algebra=atlas2 linear-algebra-dev=atlas2-dev I've attached the control file. So why do I get

Re: Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Okay, check out this freakiness... Here's the substvars file: linear-algebra=atlas2 linear-algebra-dev=atlas2-dev I've attached the control file. So why do I get the following warning: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${linear-algebra} and it leaves a blank in the

Re: partly mirroring

2000-11-16 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: I wonder if somebody has an experience: I have a potato machine at work and woody at home and I want to make a woody mirror at work to have faster updates from home. I'd like to mirror only the packages I have installed at home and I want the process to be

Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I have a package which depends on atlas-dev for non-PPC, and lapack-dev for PPC, (atlas doesn't build on PPC because of a compiler bug). I noticed that freeamp has arches in Build-Depends, e.g. nasm [i386], but putting this in Depends: for a binary package results in an error. Is there

Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I have a package which depends on atlas-dev for non-PPC, and lapack-dev for PPC, (atlas doesn't build on PPC because of a compiler bug). I noticed that freeamp has arches in Build-Depends, e.g. nasm [i386], but putting this in Depends: for a binary package results in an error. Is there

Re: Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-15 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On 20001115T123053-0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Is there any way I can do this? Use substvars (see dpkg-genchanges(1)). My package build-essential does this. Cool. Thanks much! -Adam P. Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!

Re: Big-endian

2000-11-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Which of Debian's architectures are big-endian, and are there any machines online that I, as a Debian developer, can log in and test the software I maintain to see if it works properly on big-endian? There's also 64

Re: Big-endian

2000-11-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Which of Debian's architectures are big-endian, and are there any machines online that I, as a Debian developer, can log in and test the software I maintain to see if it works properly on big-endian? There's also 64

Signing with alternate uid

2000-11-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I have a dumb newbie maintainer gpg question. I changed my package maintainer address to @debian.org, and added a new uid to my key, but can't sign using it, secret key not available. So I tried to --edit-keys, toggle, and adduid but it wouldn't let me add a uid to my secret key. How

Signing with alternate uid

2000-11-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, I have a dumb newbie maintainer gpg question. I changed my package maintainer address to @debian.org, and added a new uid to my key, but can't sign using it, secret key not available. So I tried to --edit-keys, toggle, and adduid but it wouldn't let me add a uid to my secret key. How do

Re: Signing with alternate uid

2000-11-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, Found the problem. I had added the uid on another machine, exported the (public) key, then imported it here. So the new uid showed up on the public but not secret key. All set now. -Adam P. Welcome to the best software in the world today cafe!

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: I fail to see how to run configure twice, with different options in the build-stamp rule and then install both into the right place in the install rule (I just get identical stuff pacakged in two locations),

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-22 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: I fail to see how to run configure twice, with different options in the build-stamp rule and then install both into the right place in the install rule (I just get identical stuff pacakged in two locations),

Re: loserjabber and xmms or not?

2000-09-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Surchi wrote: I have a doubt. I have ITPed loserjabber, a gtk client for livejournal.com. It can use xmms to extract title of played song directly form it and use it when it adds entry to journal. If I build package without xmms-dev clearly it will be impossible to use this

Re: loserjabber and xmms or not?

2000-09-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Christian Surchi wrote: I have a doubt. I have ITPed loserjabber, a gtk client for livejournal.com. It can use xmms to extract title of played song directly form it and use it when it adds entry to journal. If I build package without xmms-dev clearly it will be impossible to use this marginal

Re: Request for advice

2000-08-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
"Jeremy T. Bouse" wrote: I'm curious to find some differeing opinions pro/con use of XML for configuration files... Pro: nice hierarchical structure, very readable, parser available (see below). Con: Not necessarily easy to edit, larger files. That's all I can think of. also lookin

Re: Request for advice

2000-08-29 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: I'm curious to find some differeing opinions pro/con use of XML for configuration files... Pro: nice hierarchical structure, very readable, parser available (see below). Con: Not necessarily easy to edit, larger files. That's all I can think of. also lookin to

Re: Examples policy

2000-08-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:56:26PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: As a newbie soon-to-be maintainer, I'd like to recommend a change in policy regarding "examples" (section 6.7), such that source code and shell scripts must either live in /usr/share/doc/pa

Re: Examples policy

2000-08-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 02:56:26PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: As a newbie soon-to-be maintainer, I'd like to recommend a change in policy regarding examples (section 6.7), such that source code and shell scripts must either live in /usr/share/doc/package-name

Examples policy

2000-08-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, As a newbie soon-to-be maintainer, I'd like to recommend a change in policy regarding "examples" (section 6.7), such that source code and shell scripts must either live in /usr/share/doc/package-name/examples, or (here's the change) if the package name ends in "examples", then just

Examples policy

2000-08-23 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, As a newbie soon-to-be maintainer, I'd like to recommend a change in policy regarding examples (section 6.7), such that source code and shell scripts must either live in /usr/share/doc/package-name/examples, or (here's the change) if the package name ends in examples, then just

Sponsor for PETSc

2000-08-03 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I just attempted my first package, of PETSc, the Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computing, project homepage at http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/ . It depends on MPI, BLAS/LAPACK, and xlib. It's largely a beowulf thing. Would someone be interested in sponsoring me? First

Re: Bladenc Debian Package

2000-03-31 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Julian Gilbey wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:44:12PM -0500, Nestor A. Diaz L. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i have built a debian package of the Bladenc, it works with Debian 2.2 a.k.a. potato i would like to include this release into the next official

Re: automake/libtool questions

2000-02-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: While not strictly speaking a Debian issue, it is for a future Debian package so... For a package I'm working on, I decided to add GNU automake/autoconf/libtool support. The directory structure looks like this +-- include -- package | top-+-- lib |