On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:18:30PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > Please undo that, either generate the devices[1] or don't but don't add
> > another debconf question just because you can.
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aaron Isotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of 'sitemap', but no DD. I made an update. It's
> lintian and linda clean. Could anybody upload it, please?
>
> It's version 2.3-6 from
>
> http://www.isotton.com/debian/sitemap/
Uploaded and accepted.
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:09:39PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> In the upcoming version of the `emacs-goodies-el' source package, I want
> the following to happen to these bianry packages:
>
> `emacs-goodies-extra-el'
>-> removed and contents merged into `emacs-goodies-el'
>
> `debbug
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:54:35PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> There is not a "standard" to make a package to disappear, but there is
>>> something you can do to ensure that "apt-get upgrade" works: J
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:16:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:03:11 +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
[...]
>> quoting a recent discussion on debian-devel:
>>> -- From: Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
[
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:51:12PM +0200, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote:
> I'd like to know if this justifies splitting a package. AFAIK the
> size or the existence of shared libs justify splitting a package, but
> not this.
>
> I've got a package that contains a command line program and a couple
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> The syslog-ng package consists of two sources: syslog-ng itself, and
> libol.
> Now the packege is created by unpacking syslog-ng, dropping the libol
> tar.gz into the source tree, and adding the debian dir.
> It follows that either
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:35:11PM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> There is a build-time conflict of the zorp package to
> python2.1: if I have both python2.1 and python2.2-extclass
> installed, then configure exists with an error. If I remove
> python2.1, it builds okay.
> How can I express this f
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:37:07PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> i maintain trickle which links against libevent. now libevent has
> changed its soname so my old binary packages depend on libevent0 which
> is no longer available as it is replaced with libevent1. i checked and i
> have to change abs
Hello,
today I found this mail in my inbox:
| From: Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:17:12 -0400
|
| Accepted:
| exim4-base_4.24-2_m68k.deb
| to pool/main/e/exi
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:26:40AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> I have split up the zorp package to zorp, libzorp2 and zorp-pylib.
> Also renamed zorp-dev to libzorp2-dev.
>
> Not uploaded it yet.
>
> Please advice me on this. I have some questions, but there may be
> some issues that I did no
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:49:54PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-21 09:34]:
> > I don't have a m68k machine and did not do the upload, so I wonder how
> > this ended up in my inbox, with me in the To:. I know you get th
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:26:10AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> Zorp depends on libssl.
> DSA-393-1 says that libssl 0.9.7c-1 should be okay.
> The shlibs file of libssl0.9.7 contains an unversioned dependency,
> and because of that, zorp's dependency is also not versioned.
> Questions:
> -Sh
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:10:00AM -0700, H3cT0r wrote:
> Hi, my name is Hector, from Argentina, i want to know where
> could i find a list of all pakages that are not translated to
> spanish languajes. I would like to contribute in the
> translations.
How about
http://www.at.debian.org/internati
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:48:11PM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> - as it looks like you are both Upstream and Debian maintainer and
> you already added the debian directory into Upstream CVS, it might
> make sense to build a native package (i.e. no diff file, at all).
Hello,
No, unless gdal
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:50:56AM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> > Debian native or not usually should not be chosen on behalf of whether
> > upstream=debian-maintainer but on whether the package is Debian
> > specific (like dpkg or mime-support) or not.[1]
> > * Debian versioning and upstream
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:22:26PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> What happens when you do debian/rules config.status?
>
> $ ./debian/rules config.status
> dh_testdir
> # Add here commands to configure the package.
> CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 ./configure --host=i386-linux --build=i386-linux
> --prefix=
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote:
> Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 14:10 schrieb Zenaan Harkness:
> > config.status: configure
> > dh_testdir
> > # Add here commands to configure the package.
> > CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \
>
> Thi
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:26:35PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Just been tinkering with jackstart and findout out what suid bit means.
> I think that the following would be a useful way to have audio software
> that requires "root" privileges set up:
>
> dpkg-statoverride --update --add root a
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:51:00AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > Is there a policy for audio apps in this regard?
> >
> > No, but there should be, probably.
>
> Since there are a lot of audio applications starting to
> hit sid, eg. jackd, ardour, etc, where would be the place to
> discuss "
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:57:36PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > > dpkg-statoverride --update --add root audio 4754 \
> > > > /usr/bin/jackstart
> > > [...]
> > > If jackstart always _requires_ SUID root you should not use
> > > dpkg-statoverride but ship it SUID in the deb.
> > If it re
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:47:49AM +, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:43:07PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
> > Audio applications or applets (ie. executable files) requiring realtime
> > privileges should be installed as follows:
> > - user = root
> > - group = audio
> > -
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
[...]
> I'm actually starting to wonder whether we should have a general facility
> for these sorts of things. Having apps be setuid root and expecting them to
> behave responsibility is asking for trouble; it would make much more se
Hello,
I've made a broken NMU of libgpgme0.4, introducing a
/usr/share/info/dir.* rc-bug (218083). I've submitted a patch and tagged
the bug accordingly. How long do I have to wait before I can make an
upload fixing my own broken NMU? Do I really have to wait again
sometime + sometime + delayed-7da
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:39:17PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:36:48PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > I've made a broken NMU of libgpgme0.4, introducing a
> > /usr/share/info/dir.* rc-bug (218083). I've submitted a patch and tagged
> >
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:03:48AM +0100, Andrea Capriotti wrote:
[...]
> Package: anteater
> Version: 0.4.4-1
> Priority: optional
> Section: mail
> Maintainer: Andrea Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.1-1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.1-1)
> Architecture: i38
Andrea Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Package: anteater
> Version: 0.4.4-1
You forgot to retitle the RFP bug (#123920) to an ITP[1] and close
the respective bug in the changelog, something like this:
* Uploaded to Debian (Closes: #123920)
cu andreas
[1] http://people.debi
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:23:06PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> On Friday 31 Oct 2003 19:51, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > > The orig.tar.gz contains the directory renamed to
> > > libfilesys-smbclient-1.4/. The original one had Filesys-SmbClient-1.4
> > > as the d
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:27:28PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to
> stat. In sarge, /usr/bin/stat is in coreutils - of course I don't need a
> dependency on that. However, in woody stat was in a separate
> package. Usually packages kee
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:26:24AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:27:28PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to
> >> stat. In sar
Andrea Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You forgot to retitle the RFP bug (#123920) to an ITP[1] and close
>> the respective bug in the changelog, something like this:
>> * Uploaded to Debian (Closes: #123920)
>
> Done.
>
> Version 0.4.4-3 is available.
I am really sorry for bringing this
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote:
[...]
> BTW: Since I posted to this ML (and debian-devel), I get more mail
> worms than my mailbox at my ISP can hold. Strange for linux developer
> MLs...
The MLs are mirrored to usenet, and recent worms (Swen) search the
local mailfolde
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:14:25AM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote:
> Am Montag, 3. November 2003 13:37 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> > I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one, but afaict the
> > Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous.
> Why?
> I found it
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:12:02PM +0100, Andrea Capriotti wrote:
> > I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one,
> No problem. ;)
> > but afaict the
> > Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous.
> You are right, removed. Version 0.4.4-4 is available.
I'll try to find
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but
> still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a
> preferred way how to do this?
Parse the file and only change the debconf-managed options
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
[...]
> (BTW, I'm more annoyed by being asked by dpkg that conffiles where
> changed "by me or a script" that I didn't even know they existed)
[...]
Afaik this usually happens if a conffile moves from one package to
another.
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:01:35AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
[...]
> > Put the information from the debconf database into the file, but between
> > markers ### begin DEBCONF section for $package... ### end DEBCONF
> > section for
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
[...]
> > I would say that, even though this is a cop-out, it's a better solution
> > than what's in place for tetex today.
> Hm, so this is in contrast to what Colin and Andreas said, as fa
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:25:28PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
[...]
>> Anyway, whatever you do, you are to keep these files up-to-date.
> Even if the program I'm packaging doesn't use autotools
[...]
If your package does not use
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:42:12AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> I can subscribe to the BTS traffic of a whole package through the
> PTS. Is it also possible to just monitor a single bug and be emailed
> when something changes?
No, not yet.
You could subscribe to the package and filterr on X-De
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:44:53PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
[...]
> W: fastdep source: newer-standards-version 3.6.1.0
[...]
> I sent an email to lintian-maint. So at this point, can I consider my
> package lintian-clean?
Imho yes.
cu andreas
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:43:46PM +, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
[...]
> + find . -name config.{log,status,cache} |xargs rm -f
[...]
Two things:
Does -name config.{log,status,cache} actually work for you? It doesn't
do for me:
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test> touch config.log
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:52:48PM -0300, José Oliveira wrote:
> Hi all! Somebody can say me what is happening? I'm trying to build a
> .deb and it's generating this error when I run dpkg-buildpackage:
>
> # Add here commands to configure the package.
> CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 ./configure --host=i386-
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:50:09AM +, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> A levelez?m azt hiszi, hogy Andreas Metzler a következ?eket írta:
> > Two things:
> > Does -name config.{log,status,cache} actually work for you? It doesn't
> > do for me:
> []
> > Never ever us
Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:50:09AM +, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote:
>> A levelezõm azt hiszi, hogy Andreas Metzler a következõeket írta:
>> > Two things:
>> > Does -name config.{log,status,cache} actually work f
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> policy says in section 10.7.4:
> ,
> | If it is desirable for two or more related packages to share a
> | configuration file and for all of the related packages to be able to
> | modify that configuration file, then the following
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Nicolas Rueff wrote:
> I'm attempting to become DD, so I'm currently packaging some software.
> One of this software must be packaged in two parts: one for the client
> part (tty/console), one for the X frontend, so the X frontend package
> depends on the c
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:17:10PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> policy says in section 10.7.4:
> >
> >> ,
> >> | If it is desir
I am redirecting to debian-mentors, imho the more appropriate list.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:27:03PM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote:
> In one of the package i maitain i have a config script which begin by
> asking if the service attached to this package need to be run. I use a
> variable ( stored
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:47:51PM -0600, David Segonds wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:32:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > Check out ucf; it has been specifically written to allow you
> > to offer the user a choice, exactly like dpkg does for conffiles.
> I looked at the document
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:53:43PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote:
> msmtp (0.6.1 & 0.6.2 ) - An "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and probably other MUAs.
> msmtp is an "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and probably other MUAs (mail user agents).
> It forwards mails to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provider)
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:22:47AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:53:43PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote:
[...]
> > wmnetload (1.3) - A network interface monitor dockapp for Window Maker.
^^
Dum
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:14:27PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:55:48AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:22:47AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:53:43PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote:
>> [...]
&
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:26:15PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote:
> I made a lot of changes to my packages (Thanks BTW for all the helpfull
> comments from everyone.
> Can you please check them out now, and see if I did it right this time?
> deb http://digitalssg.net/debian/ stable main non-US
>
Hello,
I'd like to see http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks (Swiss Army
Knife SMTP) in Debian. As the name suggests this is a wonderful tool
to test SMTP servers (including starttls and lots of SMTP auth), for
all of us who are tired of "telnet foo 25". ;-)
However this is only 40KB (with pod) a
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:46:58PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > However this is only 40KB (with pod) and I think it might be rejected
> > by ftp-master. - Are there any better possibilities?
> Why should they reject it? &qu
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:35:16 +0100
> Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote:
> > > So I wonder how I can do that? Is there some ChangeLog for the
> > >
Hello,
How do I conflict with a certain range of versions?
The package is exim4 and I want to conflict with passwd >=1:* but
<=1:4.0.3-8. - Both versions up to 2902-12 and later than
1:4.0.3-8 work for me and I do not want to conflict with them.
Is there a nicer way than
Conflicts: passwd (=1:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote:
[..]
> I was planning on posting the packages on my website (although I don't
> have much bandwith), but I am having problems making a package that
> replaces sysv-rc. In order for bootsplash to operate correctly it needs
> t
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:25:10PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
> I noticed that dh_make doesn't create diffs , why is that?
dh_make does not creat debs or .dsc either
> Is there a way
> to (re)generate the the *.diff.gz ?
Manually generate (by simple ranaming of the upstream sources) a
correctly
On 30.12.03 12:12 Benoit Mortier wrote:
Le Lundi 29 Décembre 2003 23:54, Jochen Friedrich a écrit :
[...]
- do you really need to link /usr/share/doc/ike-scan to /usr/doc?
If not, you might remove the postinst and prerm scripts.
thats what lintian wanted but linda not so i removed it
You should u
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:47:56PM +0200, Jarno Elonen wrote:
> Delayed uploading by ftp doesn't seem to work (missing directory)
> and ftp-master doesn't let me in with SSH/SCP (altough "master", for
> example, does).
> Is this still an intentional restriction due to the server
> compromise or/a
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:45:41PM +0100, Alexander Bürger wrote:
> > Argh. This is just plainly _wrong_. Read policy and developers reference
> > about versioning what -2.1 actually means...
>
> I'm sorry, but I cannot find anything negative about 2.1 as debian
> revision.
[...]
> says "lt" to m
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:30:47AM +0100, Alexander Bürger wrote:
>> Anyhow, besides the fact I don't like your changelog entry for -2.1
>> ( *" Fix packaging problem" - which? I know, but changelog is
>>for documenting the actual changes)
>> i'll see over this, the package otherwise is ok
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:15:18PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> i am looking for a sponsor for secure-delete, it's a small package that
> quite some people might find usefull. from the control file:
> > Description: tools to wipe files, free disk space, swap and memory
> > Even if you overwrite
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:01:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> I am working on a multi-binary source, and what I want to do is pass
> different options to different packages. Is this possible? I see the
> -p option common to all debhelper programs, but how to do this?
> dh_installinit -p foo -n
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:19:04PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> [I'm sending this message here as it seems that debian-x wasn't the most
> appropriate place]
>
> xfree86-driver-synaptics is an xserver-xfree86 driver that supports
> special features of synaptics touchpad devices (a pointing devic
On 2004-02-12 Filippo Rusconi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> I effectively get the said file in
> debian/polyxmassdata/etc/polyxmass.d/polyxmassdata.conf
> telling me that the "make install" target has worked ok.
> However, I also noticed that this file is referenced here:
> debian/polyxma
On 2004-02-12 Magosányi Árpád <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are some files in /etc which are actually data files representing
> the state of the system. Like /etc/mtab, /etc/network/ifstate, or
> /etc/lvmconf/* (it is not even a text file).
> These files are written by programs in occasions on
On 2004-02-13 "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Magosányi Árpád <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040212 22:52]:
> > -if one wants to make the boot process unable to modify configuration,
> > they will also be stumbled upon. (And given the fact that mount
> > actually deletes and recreates /et
On 2004-02-20 Eike zyro Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Raphael Goulais schrieb:
> > - Why do you remove /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb.log at postrm, since
> >the log files are in /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb/ ? Also, I don't
> >think you should remove the log files anyway, even on a purge
On 2004-03-04 Jörgen Hägg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm maintaining a package in non-free, which means that it will probably
> never be compiled automatically (lowest priority).
> So I need to do that myself. And I can find the available compile hosts
> on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi.
>
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> although I've read the policy again, I am not sure whether it is allowed
> to store scripts in /usr/share/$package? In particular, scripts that are
> only meant to be called by postinst (or prerm), never by a user. They
> could go to /
On 2004-03-06 Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've recently been given write access to the tetex directories on
> cvs.debian.org, but it seems when I login, the password is blown over
> the net in plaintext.
> I have put my rsa key into the LDAP system, and can login e.g. into
> gluck wi
Hello,
I know this is a standard szenario, but the natural solution conflicts
with suggestions in policy.
When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep to pcregrep and
to provide seamless upgrades I'd introduce a dummy package pgrep
depending on pcregrep, however replaces/conflicts gives m
On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:23:40AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep to pcregrep and
>> to provide seamless upgrades I'd introduce a dummy package pgrep
&g
On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:23:40AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > >>
On 2004-03-09 Luca Pasquali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> and now a strange, dumb-sounding request:
> if you mentors have better/more useful "packaging exercises" to
> suggest me, I'll welcome the advices, it may be a strange request but
> I'm not a programmer, I mainly use console to do netwo
On 2004-03-10 Jörgen Hägg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to compile and pack on different architectures, but
> after my first attempt I realized
> that all Debian hosts are running Woody, not Sid.
> Question: how and where do I build for Sid?
> Has '+chroots' anything to do with it?
> (L
On 2004-03-13 Magosányi Árpád <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to check if I could fix an arch-dependent bug, so I have
> to compile my package on an arm, powerpc or s390.
> Picked bruckner from the list, done a dchroot sid. Now I would need
> tla to get the source (I could work around it)
On 2004-03-16 Number Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If dh_make generates debian/control at Standards-Version: 3.6.0, and
> the latest Standards-Version: is 3.6.1, how can I verify my project
> actually meets the correct standards (if I just bump the number)?
> Can a tool do it?
No.
Check polic
On 2004-03-18 Everton da Silva Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'd start hitting up the maintainers (and upstreams) of packages
>> which *could* use SRV records, regardless of whether they
>> currently do or not, and suggest it to them.
> I pla
On 2004-03-18 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said:
> > There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released.
> >
> > In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what
> > you suggest) is a common workaround. It's n
On 2004-03-20 Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 03:06, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > The configure script that comes with the aspell dicts is homebrew (not
> > created by autoconf), and thus does not accept most of those options.
> > Edit those out of the debian/rules fi
On 2004-03-21 GCS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a small package, which generates configure, Makefile[.in] at
> every compilation.
Why? Do you patch configure.(in)? See
/usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz, especially the part
after »fix the timestamp skews using a proper chain of "
On 2004-03-22 Number Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Some of the scripts I include with my package use "less" (as well as
> "sed", "tr", and "grep"). I know for a fact "less" is not installed by
> default. (Not sure about this others).
> Should every little "ordinary" thing like less be inclu
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:39:19PM +0100, Silke Reimer wrote:
> First I don't know how to fill the Depends for libgdal1-dev
> correctly.
> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#AEN75
> explains the following:
>
> """
> The -dev package should depend on
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:49PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >> On Sunday 21 March 2004 20.49, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >>
> >> > .la files shouldn't be included in anything, they're
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:28:43PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> > Personally I think the payoff is ok, due to dlopen in glibc (NSS,
> > iconv) static linking is unreliable anyway.
> This I don't understand. What i
On 2004-03-22 Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:49PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> [libtool brokenness]
> >> Yes, it did :-|. Could you point me to a documentation where I could
&g
On 2004-03-26 Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:03:15AM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> > Hi, my packages (ttf-isabella and alleyoop) are now available with
> > unstable but the wnpp bug reports are still open. The bug reports are:
> > #190317, #2
On 2004-03-26 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am packaging libhid for Debian, which I wrote and prepared with
> libtool. Next to the library, the libhid0 package also includes
> a binary /usr/bin/libhid-config, which is linked against libhid0.
> When I make the Debian package, dh_sh
On 2004-03-28 Brian T Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Before attempting to post a bug to Debian directly, I wanted to ask the
> people here if perhaps I am doing something incorrectly.
> I installed Debian sarge on the sparc64 arch, then went out and grabbed
> the 2.6.4 kernel source from ker
On 2004-03-30 Martin-Éric Racine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> If I change my locale setting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1], debsign can
> no longer find my GPG key, because it expects the accent on my name
> to be encoded in UTF-8, even though the key was created in Latin-1.
Have you tried adding
On 2004-03-30 Steve Halasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My package, qgis, has failed to build on arm. The error is:
> uic: error while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
Which was caused by broken X11 maintainer scripts at this time.
On 2004-03-31 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..]
> man (mostly) supports you running in a UTF-8 locale by means of some
> complicated iconv kludges.
[...]
Hmm. I seem to be doing something seriously wrong. man is completely
unuseable for me in uxterm with UTF-8 locale.
http://www.logic.
On 2004-03-31 Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2004-03-31 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [..]
> > man (mostly) supports you running in a UTF-8 locale by means of some
> > complicated iconv kludges.
> [...]
> Hmm. I seem t
On 2004-04-02 Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1].
> It depends on library of the same author[2].
> Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version.
> And to make this problem more annoying, new re
On 2004-04-02 Benjamin Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the "Debian New
> Maintainters' Corner", but from what I saw, it looked like the first
> step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to
> do it get to know some
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
> I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe
> someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a
> explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would like to
> spl
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