Bug#765666: RFS: lxdm/0.5.0-1 [ITP]

2014-10-17 Thread Carlo
wnload the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lxdm/lxdm_0.5.0-1.dsc Regards, Carlo Cavalieri D'Oro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: How to package my development utility?

2013-09-09 Thread Carlo
.debian.org/doc/manuals/packaging-tutorial/packaging-tutorial.en.pdf Install all pre-requierd programs for packaging in pag. 6-7 of this nice offical guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/maint-guide.en.pdf Tell us about your progresses. bye. Carlo. 2013/9/8 Andreas Tscharner : > D

Re: Bug#696291: RFS: nexus/4.3-svn1863-1

2012-12-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi Tobias: I'll sponsor it. Carlo On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Tobias Stefan Richter wrote: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nexus" * Package name: nexus Version : 4.3-svn1863-1 Upstr

Checking package version numbers

2011-07-12 Thread Carlo Segre
Hello All: I recall that there was a script which permits one to compare package version names to determine which one is greater. I just can't remember the name of the script. Any clues? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Graduate Admissions, Gra

Re: ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
overcommitted. I wanted to take this on simply because I use it and it is in an unusable state on i386 right now. Do you have a suggestion for an appropriate team? Perhaps we can ask if they want to take this on? Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects

ITH: xournal

2009-04-01 Thread Carlo Segre
This can be fixed with a known patch. I will be preparing an updated package for upload by the weekend unless I hear from the current maintainer before then. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institu

Re: Need to debianize again?

2009-03-16 Thread Carlo Segre
hangelog for you and leave you in your default editor so that you can write in your changelog information. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.56

Re: Still the rejected package

2008-12-20 Thread Carlo Segre
the former maintainer had, whatever it was. Do you have access to the previous package? Maybe lintian would give a clue. Otherwise, I agree that you should simply just move forward. it could have been something as simple as no ITP filed (I couldn't find one...). Carlo -- Carlo U.

Re: Non free license?

2008-12-19 Thread Carlo Segre
upstream, or package an old GPLed version of the library (see [3]). It seems to me that it is very close to a BSD license, which should be OK. My suggestion is that you forward your query to the debian-legal list and get some feedback. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate

Re: Building a build environment

2008-07-29 Thread Carlo Segre
like pbuilder a lot. It basically creates a chroot environment but the big plus is that when you build a package and have to install all the dependencies, they don't remain installed after you are done. This lets you really test from a clean system every time. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre --

Re: buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Carlo Wood
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:28:14AM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: > If you sent a request to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, requesting the > autobuild on the non-free buildd network, that should be enough. As long > as your justification for why it is legal to let it be autobuilt is &

Re: buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Carlo Segre
getting non-free pacakges autobuilt is http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00012.html Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax

Re: buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Carlo Wood wrote: I mailed about this before here. I was pointed to an old archived post that seemed to be the only data on how to do to get non-free to autobuild anyway (because there is no legal issue). I did what it said - and it's still not autobuilding. Why not?

Re: buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Carlo Wood
much information or there is no information: I can't find it. -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

buildd is not building my package.

2008-04-19 Thread Carlo Wood
Hi, I thought I did whatever needed to be done to get buildd to build libcwd, but nothing has happened so far... Can someone check why buildd is still not building libcwd? There is a version for amd64 (and frankly I have no idea why THAT architecture and not another) but that is it. -- Carlo

Re: problems autobuilding contrib packages

2008-04-17 Thread Carlo Segre
would be a good solution and could be flagged by having the package contain the "XS-Autobuild: yes" line in the debian/control file. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 31

problems autobuilding contrib packages

2008-04-17 Thread Carlo Segre
t want to keep the package moving into testing. Frustrated, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iit.edu/~segre [EMAIL

Re: RFS: ext3grep

2008-04-13 Thread Carlo Wood
easonable thing to do is to both: > > 1. Modify the files after you unpack the tarball, but before you build > the package, and > > 2. Explain the reasoning for the patch in the debian/copyright file. Imho, the right thing to do is to use ext3grep-0.6.0, which already has GPLv2

Re: watchfiles for sourceforge packages

2008-03-24 Thread Carlo Segre
first. Unfortunately, the qa.debian.org redirector which is invoked by the sf.net URL is timing out when accessing sourceforge. I will have to use the alternative which doesn't permit downloads: ftp://upload.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/f/fi/fityk/ \ fityk-(.+)\.tar\.bz2 oh well

watchfiles for sourceforge packages

2008-03-22 Thread Carlo Segre
this is permanent or alternatively, a better (at least working) URL to use in the watch file? Thanks, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL

Re: desktop file main category for a scientific data viewer?

2008-03-03 Thread Carlo Segre
right category. We have made several efforts to have this changed in the free desktop specification to no avail. Some of us simply use an sensible category and let the lintian errors pile up until they come to their senses. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate

Adding a second binary architecture to an upload

2008-02-29 Thread Carlo Segre
roper authorities) so I generally build it myself on the architectures I have available. I would prefer to upload all the different binaries at once instead of doing several binary-only uploads. Thanks in advance, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Pro

Re: libcwd: one or two packages?

2008-01-11 Thread Carlo Wood
low*), OR I'd have to release a new NAME every release, stands completely in the shadow of the confusion that the very existance of a binary package would give rise to: namely, that developers think they can (should) write applications that are still linked against libcwd when distributed in

libcwd: one or two packages?

2008-01-11 Thread Carlo Wood
and then libcwd-doc with the documentation, and just 'libcwd' as the package that developers need to debug their C++ applications under test. Looking forward to your comments, Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libcwd: one or two packages?

2008-01-09 Thread Carlo Wood
tp://lists.debian.org/whitelist is the thing you should subscribe. Done, thus. Didn't help. -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libcwd: one or two packages?

2008-01-09 Thread Carlo Wood
o be added to a white list for [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please? -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libcwd: one or two packages?

2008-01-09 Thread Carlo Wood
ear on the list? This is tiresome - on one hand this list generates like 90% of all spam that I get, and on the other hand my mails are /dev/null-ed :/. May I suggest to just refuse all mails from non-subscribers, and always allow all posts by subscribers? -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Please ignore...

2008-01-07 Thread Carlo Wood
My previous message to this list disappeared mysteriously. This is a test to see if it works now :/ -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
I appreciate your comments On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scri

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote: Carlo Segre wrote: Upstream prefers to continue distribution in the tarball and it would avoid having to continually patch the configuration scripts. Maybe you could convince upstream of providing a --with-system-boost option to use either the

using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
me to revert to the version included in the tarball? Upstream prefers to continue distribution in the tarball and it would avoid having to continually patch the configuration scripts. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate

Re: Version names if Stable = Testing = Unstable but compiled different

2007-01-12 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 1/12/07, Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I will use -1+b1 sarge -1~sarge1 etch-1 This can perfectly (and more clearly, from my point of view) be achieved by: sarge: -1 etch: -1+b1 sid: -1+b2 So

Re: Version names if Stable = Testing = Unstable but compiled different

2007-01-12 Thread Carlo Segre
Once etch releases, then you will have to do something with the "~" character when you have revision -2. By that time, if you still want to build for sarge you could do something like sarge -2~stable~sarge etch-2~stable lenny & sid -2 Carlo [1] http:/

Re: dropping dependencies for a package

2006-12-30 Thread Carlo Segre
break something. Not really, I think it is always best to document these changes. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dropping dependencies for a package

2006-12-30 Thread Carlo Segre
Sounds like a good idea. Thanks, Carlo On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi Carlo! On 12/30/06, Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If a new version of a package drops a dependency on a previously required package, should an install-time reminder be given to th

dropping dependencies for a package

2006-12-30 Thread Carlo Segre
round. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre[

Re: RFS: anaconda

2006-09-12 Thread Carlo Segre
w.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ and examples of how to do it: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPython/NewPolicy Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.349

Re: [RFS] several Perl packages, plus more

2006-08-27 Thread Carlo Segre
account on alioth and asking for access to the pkg-perl repository. Cheers, Carlo On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Zak B. Elep wrote: Hi all! =) I'm still looking for a sponsor for my Perl packages in mentors, which I `inherited' from smurf: On 6/30/06, Zak B. Elep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: specific question about non-compiled files

2006-08-05 Thread Carlo Segre
l find the *.diff you just created and apply it. The debian directory is in the diff as it is not part of the upstream source. HTH Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498

Re: contribution in Debian,

2006-07-21 Thread Carlo Segre
Look at: http://www.debian.org/devel/ http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ There is lots of information there to help you get started. The first thing you could do is read the New maintainer's guide and then find a package which needs help... Carlo On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Deepak

Re: Automatic installation of packages

2006-07-19 Thread Carlo Segre
pkg is called with both foo and bar to be instsalled, it will do it with no complaint. The answer is to use apt-get or one of the other package managers (aptitude or synaptic) or just use dselect which will also take care of things. Hope this is the question you were asking. Carlo -- C

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-19 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Rene Engelhard wrote: Am Montag, 3. Juli 2006 23:33 schrieb Justin Pryzby: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages which need to connect to X. If you're aiming to get the pa

Re: pgplot5 binary package

2006-07-18 Thread Carlo Segre
information: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-dchroot Thanks, this is a start. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3

pgplot5 binary package

2006-07-17 Thread Carlo Segre
ld be appreciated. I have found the pages on porting and using the -B option in dpkg-buildpackage but then is it OK to just use dput as usual to upload? Thanks, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Illinois Institute of Technology http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-04 Thread Carlo Segre
this installed already? cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-03 Thread Carlo Segre
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages which need to connect to X. If you're aiming to get the package uploaded, this isn't allowed. You can'

use of xvfb-run in pbuilder builds

2006-07-03 Thread Carlo Segre
b-run, the failure occurs _before_ any compilation happens. xvfb-run python2.3 ./setup.py build ... lots of compilation ensues ... /usr/bin/xvfb-run: line 158: kill: (23268) - No such process Are there any suggestions or can anyone point me to a package that successfully uses xvfb under p

Re: new package with an epoch

2006-06-27 Thread Carlo Segre
Had to do some thinking out loud... Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

new package with an epoch

2006-06-26 Thread Carlo Segre
really don't know how many there are) but it might be cleaner from the Debian point of view. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [

Re: Package does not build on ia64 and sparc

2006-06-14 Thread Carlo Segre
It also does not build on sparc, where I was unable to determine the reason from the build log: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=packagesearch&ver=2.1&arch=sparc&stamp=1149339169&file=log&as=raw Sparc is not keeping up. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Profe

Re: Debian 3.1 packaging documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
rd to say. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:42:39PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: Is motor generally useful, or is it just used as an internal component of mx? (not a good name itself, BTW) If the latter, consider putting motor into /usr/lib/mx. It is a generally used

Re: executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
s make a local package which makes a symlink called motor in /usr/local/bin. This is so current users won't have problems with the name change. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567

Re: executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Adeodato Simó wrote: procedure is described in the first paragraph of Policy §10.1. Ah, that's where it was. I was looking for it but not thoroughly enough, I suppose. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Gra

executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Carlo Segre
nd let the last package installed with a --force-overwrite win. Any other ideas? Cheers, Carlo [0] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/motor -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice:

Re: RFC: Yorick (scientific interpreted language) & plug-ins

2006-05-06 Thread Carlo Segre
you think are fundamental. [0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL

Re: How to build packages from tarballs without makefiles

2006-04-09 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:45:02AM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, David Liontooth wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I would just put those into the debian/rules. There is not enough there to justify a full-blown makefile in my mind

Re: How to build packages from tarballs without makefiles

2006-04-09 Thread Carlo Segre
may not be the best thing to learn packaging. A package which produces a single executable is much easier. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312

Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-03 Thread Carlo Segre
list of applicants, I see that that is relatively fast. The AM job is a tough one and I can understand the difficulty in keeping the process moving. Carlo On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Harald Dunkel wrote: Benjamin Seidenberg wrote: The problems is that we're not rejecting 50% of our applicants

Re: license question

2006-01-25 Thread Carlo Segre
This seems to be sort of a modified BSD. Looks DFSG compliant. Carlo On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Daniel Knabl wrote: Hi, please have a look at the following license. In my eyes it is not a true BSD license, but also no Artistic license. But, I may be wrong. This would not be the first time

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Carlo Segre
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:18 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: This raises a question. If I have been packaging some software for some time and finally decide to get it into Debian, should I wipe out the entire changelog, remove any epochs that might have

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Carlo Segre
used, etc? My guess is yes because one would not want to imply that there were previous versions in the Debian archives. Any thoughts? Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voi

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Carlo Segre
g-guide.html I took a look at the sourceforge project page and it is not clear whether the upstream intends the -1 to be a version number or something else like a patch level. I see -0.2 -0.2.1 -0.2.2 and then -0.2.2-1. It looks like there needs to be careful naming consideration here. Ca

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
from upstream revision number. In addition, as I mentioned before, you probably need to change the -1 to a .1 to avoid the lintian error so the proper link should be: gnuplotfortran_0.2.2.1.orig.tar.gz and the .dsc file should be gnuplotfortran_0.2.2.1-1.dsc Cheers, Carlo

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
ecute uupdate on the downloaded tarball, it will automagically perform steps in (4) as long as the version number is parseable form the original traball name. The renaming process only needs to be done once and you cactually don't have to re-tar the source. HTH Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Pr

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
and have a chance to make it work. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Carlo Segre
delete it form the upstream tarball though or your diffs will be huge. Just disable the compilation in the makefiles. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 31

Re: Debian package of InsightToolkit - A free and powerful image segmentation and registration tool

2005-09-07 Thread Carlo Segre
How do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage? Do you use the -k option? Carlo On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Guanglei Xiong wrote: As the uploading packages need to be signed by my private key. I have trouble to sign with dpkg-buildpackage. That is the story. My private key use the address Guanglei

Re: pbuilder -- chroot and build-dependencies.

2005-09-01 Thread Carlo Segre
ource to the chrooted einvironment ant then chrooting, installing the build deps and THEN building the package. I never see the problem of running a make clean before the build deps are installed. Carlo On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Alexander A. Vlasov wrote: Ok, quick example: building mldonkey-2

Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?

2005-08-04 Thread Carlo Segre
Yes, you need to keep the *.orig directory until you have built the package once. THis is what it uses to make the diff file. Carlo On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Bastian Venthur wrote: Bas Wijnen wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:32:01PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Ok but one question

Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?

2005-08-04 Thread Carlo Segre
I would also make a script which converts a new *.zip version to the appropriate *.orig.tar.gz to simplify the process when a new upstream source comes out. Cheers, Carlo On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Bastian Venthur wrote: Hi Mentors, I'm packing my first debian-package from scratch and have near

Re: Best way to maintain a package for multiple Debian releases?

2005-07-05 Thread Carlo Segre
pbuilder. For woody, sarge and etch it is farily straightforward, but for sid, recent changes make it a bit more difficult. Cheers, Carlo On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Jarle Aase wrote: Hi, I'm about to make some .deb packages. Some will hopefully be accepted as official packages, while others wi

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Carlo Segre
ed debian subdirectory is to distribute it with the source files." Any suggestions on how to deal with that? Greetings, Miry __ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es -- Carlo U. Segre --

Re: RFS: fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis

2005-03-13 Thread Carlo U. Segre
about 1 year ago. I have also take on responsibility for a couple of perl packages recently orphaned through the Debian Perl Group. Carlo On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:50:30AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: Hello All: I am looking for an alternate

RFS: fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis

2005-03-11 Thread Carlo U. Segre
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL:http://www.unipress.waw.pl/soft/crystallography/fityk/ License:GPL Debian Packages: deb-src http://fermi.phys.iit.edu/debian/sid source/ deb http://fermi.phys.iit.edu/debian/sid binary/ Thanks, -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of P

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread Carlo U. Segre
You can add the icon in XPM format. This is plain text. If you want to use the PNGs, you will need to send them to upstream and ask them to include the icons in the source. I haven't found any other way to avoid the problem you cite. Carlo On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Zoltan Ivanfi wrote:

Re: RFS: fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis

2004-09-09 Thread Carlo U. Segre
number in the changelog) at the same location as before. Thanks, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre

Re: RFS: fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis

2004-09-09 Thread Carlo U. Segre
t the same location as before. Thanks, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre

RFS: fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis

2004-09-07 Thread Carlo U. Segre
dth of other peak or can be given by complicated - common for all peaks - formula. The package is lintian clean and can be built on i386 with pbuilder. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology

RFS: fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis

2004-09-07 Thread Carlo U. Segre
r peak or can be given by complicated - common for all peaks - formula. The package is lintian clean and can be built on i386 with pbuilder. Cheers, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.56

RFS: McMaille

2004-01-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I am looking for a sponsor for the following package: Name: mcmaille License: GPL Description: Monte Carlo and grid search indexing of powder patterns McMaille (pronounce : MacMy) is a program for indexing powder patterns by Monte Carlo and grid search (maille in French = cell in

RFS: McMaille

2004-01-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello All: I am looking for a sponsor for the following package: Name: mcmaille License: GPL Description: Monte Carlo and grid search indexing of powder patterns McMaille (pronounce : MacMy) is a program for indexing powder patterns by Monte Carlo and grid search (maille in French = cell in

dpkg-shlibdeps error

2003-05-12 Thread Carlo U. Segre
compiled elsewhere? Thanks, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Research, Armour College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre

Re: packaging distutil programs

2003-04-29 Thread Carlo U. Segre
I was looking for the python policy on the Developer's Corner part of the web site. All I could find was the Perl policy. If you could point me to it, that would be great. Carlo On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Alexandre Fayolle wrote: >On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 12:50:54AM -0500, Carlo U. Seg

packaging distutil programs

2003-04-29 Thread Carlo U. Segre
p would be appreciated. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Research, Armour College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre

removing entire directories from original source

2003-03-28 Thread Carlo U. Segre
sure if that is the proper way to do it. Thanks Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Research, Armour College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre

removing entire directories from original source

2003-03-28 Thread Carlo U. Segre
sure if that is the proper way to do it. Thanks Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Research, Armour College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
You are right. I noticed that immediately after I sent the message. Now for other problems... Thanks, Carlo On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Craig Small wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > > > I have more or less successfully packages a program wh

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
You are right. I noticed that immediately after I sent the message. Now for other problems... Thanks, Carlo On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Craig Small wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > > > I have more or less successfully packages a program wh

Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
best thing to do to look at similar package and copy and modify the control files? Thanks, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Research, Armour College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
best thing to do to look at similar package and copy and modify the control files? Thanks, Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Research, Armour College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

script as a configuration file

2002-09-27 Thread Carlo Contavalli
logical place to me to put this script was /usr/sbin, and to let dpkg manage it as a conffile. However, this is quite against the debian policy. There are many good solutions, and I'd like to know what you would do... Cheers, Carlo -- GPG Fingerprint: 2383 7B14 4D08 53A4 2C1A

script as a configuration file

2002-09-27 Thread Carlo Contavalli
logical place to me to put this script was /usr/sbin, and to let dpkg manage it as a conffile. However, this is quite against the debian policy. There are many good solutions, and I'd like to know what you would do... Cheers, Carlo -- GPG Fingerprint: 2383 7B14 4D08 53A4 2C1A

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-24 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from > Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the > network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap. What architecture? > I've managed to > activate and m

Re: dbootstrap

2001-05-23 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from > Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the > network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap. What architecture? > I've managed to > activate and

Re: [boot-floppies] `mke2fs' and new Linux 2.2 ext2 features ?

2000-01-31 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How is this issue going to affect the users? It's hard for us to say exactly. Hence, I tend to be rather conservative. > E.g.: Can one boot up a slink system then access a /home directory on a > potato built fs. If the 2.2 ext2fs features are enabled, n

Re: [boot-floppies] `mke2fs' and new Linux 2.2 ext2 features ?

2000-01-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > I see this as an argument for leaving the question in; that is, don't > make it a `verbose'-mode only question. I would like it to default > to the 2.2 kernel case, but offer the compat mode. I disagree. I would assent to change the default and t

Re: [boot-floppies] `mke2fs' and new Linux 2.2 ext2 features ?

2000-01-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: > I don't agree with this change. I would rather it get asked always, > and that the default is for the button that enables the new features > and rejects Linux 2.0 compatability be highlighted by default, so > that pressing [Enter] will take that

Re: porting a package

1999-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christopher C Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently, Alpha has a mailing list that's like a quinn-diff "on > steroids" that gives the Alpha porters a list of what's different between > i386 and alpha. We usually work from that rather than rely on > debian-devel-changes. It might help

Re: Ownership of data files

1999-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Bjoern Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working on a program that collects information to be used by the sys > admin. I don't want the collected information to be world writable (even > though this wouldn't be a security hole), but I want the program to run > from user accounts (with write a

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