Re: Packaging a perl-script

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
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? Only 40kb is not a reason. (If its

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
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)

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
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. ^^ Dump

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: [...] wmnetload (1.3) - A network

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
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)

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
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. ^^ Dump

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: [...] wmnetload (1.3) - A network

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 documentation

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 documentation

Re: Modifying other packages' conffiles: the not-so-ideal way

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: Modifying other packages' conffiles: the not-so-ideal way

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: symlinks between two packages

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: Modifying other packages' conffiles: the not-so-ideal way

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 desirable for two or more related packages to share a | configuration

Re: Init.d script, preventing start of one service

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 in

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 use |xargs rm -f. Thank you. Is it okay now

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 for you? It doesn't do for me: [] Never ever use

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 use |xargs rm -f. Thank you. Is it okay now

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 for you? It doesn't do for me: [] Never ever use

Re: Error on dpkg-buildpackage

2003-11-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: Error on dpkg-buildpackage

2003-11-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: subscribing to a single bug

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 neither in essential

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 time

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conffiles?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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. cu

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 neither in essential

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 time

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conffiles?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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,

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conffiles?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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. cu

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 far as we

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 mailfolders

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 mailfolders

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 up one by

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 sarge, /usr/bin/stat is in coreutils - of course

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 up one by

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 keep

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 keep

Re: RFS: libfilesys-smbclient-perl

2003-10-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 directory.

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-10-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
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]

Re: RFS: libfilesys-smbclient-perl

2003-10-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 directory.

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-10-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: i386

Fixing a b0rked NMU - How long do I have to wait?

2003-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 +

Re: Fixing a b0rked NMU - How long do I have to wait?

2003-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 the bug accordingly. How long do I

Fixing a b0rked NMU - How long do I have to wait?

2003-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 +

Re: Fixing a b0rked NMU - How long do I have to wait?

2003-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 the bug accordingly. How long do I

Re: Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 -

Re: Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: [Fwd: Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ audio group question(s)]

2003-10-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 policy in

Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ audio group question(s)

2003-10-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 requires SUID root,

Re: [Fwd: Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ audio group question(s)]

2003-10-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 policy in

Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ audio group question(s)

2003-10-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 requires SUID root,

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
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=/usr

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
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=/usr

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
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) \ This should

Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ audio group question(s)

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 audio

Re: RFS gdal

2003-10-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: RFS gdal

2003-10-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: RFS gdal

2003-10-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: RFS gdal

2003-10-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: dependency on vulnerable version?

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: -Should

Re: translations

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: dependency on vulnerable version?

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: -Should

Re: translations

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Debian Installer sends acknoledgements to uploader, doesn't it?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
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/exim4/exim4-base_4.24-2_m68k.deb

Re: splitting a package?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 not

Re: Debian Installer sends acknoledgements to uploader, doesn't it?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 these The guy who built the package

Debian Installer sends acknoledgements to uploader, doesn't it?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
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/exim4/exim4-base_4.24-2_m68k.deb

Re: splitting a package?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 not

Re: Debian Installer sends acknoledgements to uploader, doesn't it?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 these The guy who built the package

Re: library soname changed, now what?

2003-10-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
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

Re: proper way to pack package from multiple sources?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 I

Re: Build-conflicts: ?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 fact

Re: proper way to pack package from multiple sources?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 I

Re: Build-conflicts: ?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 fact

Re: Splitting a package

2003-10-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 of

Re: Splitting a package

2003-10-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
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 of

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: [...] Mindless optimism. If you try

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: [...] Mindless optimism. If you try

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: Just make

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
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: Just make

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
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' `debbugs-el'

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
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' `debbugs-el'

Re: Looking for sponsor for sitemap update

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
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.

Re: Looking for sponsor for sitemap update

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
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.

Re: camsource-0.7.0-0.balu.2 - ready for sponsoring?

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:41:53AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: [...] I've changed the following things from the first .deb I've posted here: * Added debconf to ask wether to create video devices or not (and removed that part from the README) [...] Please undo that, either

Re: camsource-0.7.0-0.balu.2 - ready for sponsoring?

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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. Rule of the thumb: *Only* ask

Re: camsource-0.7.0-0.balu.2 - ready for sponsoring?

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:41:53AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: [...] I've changed the following things from the first .deb I've posted here: * Added debconf to ask wether to create video devices or not (and removed that part from the README) [...] Please undo that, either

Re: camsource-0.7.0-0.balu.2 - ready for sponsoring?

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
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. Rule of the thumb: *Only* ask

Re: camsource -- a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software

2003-09-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:28:34AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:45:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] You may generate the devices in postinst without asking the user, you just have to depend on makedev. I am not sure wether this should be done. I am

Re: camsource -- a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software

2003-09-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:28:34AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:45:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] You may generate the devices in postinst without asking the user, you just have to depend on makedev. I am not sure wether this should be done. I am

Re: camsource -- a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software

2003-09-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:15:33PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: Can someone please have a look at my just finished .debs? I just peeked at the diff. More info on the package can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211538 The packages can be found at

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