adding cmake files to packaging

2021-08-29 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, a package that I maintain is switching from automake to cmake. I had to patch CMakeLists.txt a bit to make it compile on Debian, upstream used hand written code to detect the Cairo and Pixman libraries, which does not work for me, and I am not experienced enough with cmake to patch this code).

files not installed anymore after upgrading from dh 9 to dh 10, 12, or 13

2020-08-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am trying to upgrade a package, it seems I need to switch to a newer debhelper version with it, 9 seems to be too old. I did the upgrade by changing Build-Depends from debhelper (>= 9) to debhelper-compat (13) or 12, 10 and deleting debian/compat. The package builds fine (after dropping autom

Re: dinstall error message on ftp-master

2001-09-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:53:02PM +0100, Salvador Abreu wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new at this (just out of NM), and I'm about to upload my packages > (gprolog and gprolog-doc). All seems well, except for this message, > which occurs when I try to dinstall -n, on ftp-master: > > 10:41:58$ dins

Re: cannot build under m68k

2001-09-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:10:22PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > That's sure, but gpw log is not there. So I have to re-upload, I > think... Hello? Did you read the mails I sent to you and the m68k-build list? Its in the archive. Christian

Re: lintian goes wild?

2001-09-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:43:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > main::(/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/asm/unistd.ph:114): > > 114:eval 'sub __NR_iopl () { ¬ &supported;}' unless > > defined(&__NR_iopl); > > On i386, this

Re: lintian goes wild?

2001-09-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:32:27AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:45:09PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > Unquoted string "supported" may clash with future reserved word at (eval > > > 112) > > > line 1. > > > Operator or semicolon missing before &supported at

Re: lintian goes wild?

2001-09-08 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 12:12:47PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 08-Sep-2001 Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > Hi, > > I get a lot of those with lintian on m68k: > > > > Operator or semicolon missing before &supported at (eval 115) line 1.

lintian goes wild?

2001-09-08 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I get a lot of those with lintian on m68k: Operator or semicolon missing before &supported at (eval 115) line 1. Ambiguous use of & resolved as operator & at (eval 115) line 1. Unquoted string "supported" may clash with future reserved word at (eval 112) line 1. Is my package really that bad?

Re: debconf trouble

2001-08-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 02:10:47PM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > Moin, > On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 08:50:19PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > #include > > Christian T. Steigies wrote on Sat Aug 25, 2001 um 01:12:53PM: > > > > > debconf (developer): frontend

Re: debconf trouble

2001-08-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 08:50:19PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Christian T. Steigies wrote on Sat Aug 25, 2001 um 01:12:53PM: > > > debconf (developer): frontend started > > debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is moon-buggy > > debconf

debconf trouble

2001-08-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi folks, debconf is driving me crazy. I am using debconf on a multi binary package to display a note. Its working fine in one package but not at all in the main package and I do not understand why. Installing the package (with DEBUG) gives me this: Unpacking replacement moon-buggy ... Setting up

Re: oops I've deleted some hidden file from incoming

2001-08-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Probably because they were uploaded between the time you did ls > > and the time you did the rm. > > what about the build daemon? does it retry to build the p

Re: oops I've deleted some hidden file from incoming

2001-08-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:47:35PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Probably because they were uploaded between the time you did ls > > and the time you did the rm. > > what about the build daemon? does it retry to build the

Re: Architecture

2001-08-01 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:45:16PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > Hi! > > How do I specify all the architectures a package can build on? For instance, > I have a package that can only build on the following architectures: > > i386 alpha arm powerpc sparc mips mipsel > > Now, first of all, I'm

Re: Architecture

2001-08-01 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 06:45:16PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: > Hi! > > How do I specify all the architectures a package can build on? For instance, > I have a package that can only build on the following architectures: > > i386 alpha arm powerpc sparc mips mipsel > > Now, first of all, I'm

dpkg-source: unexpected object

2001-07-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have a little problem with dpkg-source (or tar?), was there a change recently? dpkg-source -x hp2xx_3.4.0-2.dsc dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./hp2xx_3.4.0.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected object listed by tar as `drwxr-xr-x mk/users 0 2001-02-08 14:30:12 hp2xx-3.4.0/'; expected

dpkg-source: unexpected object

2001-07-02 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have a little problem with dpkg-source (or tar?), was there a change recently? dpkg-source -x hp2xx_3.4.0-2.dsc dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./hp2xx_3.4.0.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected object listed by tar as `drwxr-xr-x mk/users 0 2001-02-08 14:30:12 hp2xx-3.4.0/'; expected

Re: debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:03:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > No, the GET command retreives the answer to a question so the postinst > can act on it. Look at the turorial again, you will see the config > script uses an INPUT command to ask that same question. Now this is confusing like accounting

Re: debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 02:03:14PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > No, the GET command retreives the answer to a question so the postinst > can act on it. Look at the turorial again, you will see the config > script uses an INPUT command to ask that same question. Now this is confusing like accountin

Re: sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:26:19AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Emacs users can use debian-changelog-mode.el from the dpkg-dev-el > package. The closes: statements will be fontified when the sytax Ah! And I always wondered why that file kept dissappearing from my boxes. It used to b

Re: sponsor required for gstar (ITP #88503)

2001-05-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 10:26:19AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Emacs users can use debian-changelog-mode.el from the dpkg-dev-el > package. The closes: statements will be fontified when the sytax Ah! And I always wondered why that file kept dissappearing from my boxes. It used to

debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am trying to convert moon-buggy to use debconf. Following the tutorial it was fairly easy to close #89118, ie use debconf in the preinst. I also want to close #94969, which is not that hard, but I seem to be unable to use debconf to display a message in the postinst as well, the files get mov

debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am trying to convert moon-buggy to use debconf. Following the tutorial it was fairly easy to close #89118, ie use debconf in the preinst. I also want to close #94969, which is not that hard, but I seem to be unable to use debconf to display a message in the postinst as well, the files get mo

Re: On not using suidregister (again)

2001-05-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:00:44PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > My understanding was that we're not using suidregister in > postinst now, and instead setting the ownership/permissions in > the package itself. > > So I moved this from postinst: > > if [ -x /usr/sbin/suidregister ];

Re: On not using suidregister (again)

2001-05-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 04:00:44PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > My understanding was that we're not using suidregister in > postinst now, and instead setting the ownership/permissions in > the package itself. > > So I moved this from postinst: > > if [ -x /usr/sbin/suidregister ]

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

2001-05-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:05:29AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:19:21PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > > hi developers, > > > this is my first message, i hope it's appropriate. there's talk going > >

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

2001-05-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:05:29AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:53:44PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 03:19:21PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote: > > > hi developers, > > > this is my first message, i hope it's appropriate. there's talk going > >

Re: buildd building environment

2001-05-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I know a little about buildd, but I guess that it try to build a package > and it if fail someone take its logs and submit a bug report. > At the end of the build process I guess that the build environment is > totally cleaned an

Re: buildd building environment

2001-05-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I know a little about buildd, but I guess that it try to build a package > and it if fail someone take its logs and submit a bug report. > At the end of the build process I guess that the build environment is > totally cleaned a

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-04-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:37PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > I just noticed the debian/rules file for mirrormagic which I inherited from > Joey Hess uses dh_testroot to check that the build is run as root (or > fakeroot). > > I'm wondering what the justification for doing this is. It prevents

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-04-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:37PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > I just noticed the debian/rules file for mirrormagic which I inherited from > Joey Hess uses dh_testroot to check that the build is run as root (or > fakeroot). > > I'm wondering what the justification for doing this is. It prevent

Re: sponsor for QEmacs maybe

2001-04-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:42:19AM +0400, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Current snapshot (please do not redistribute since it is not > > finished): qemacs-0.2.tar.gz > > Current version of qemacs segafaults after a typing ~ 20 letters

Re: sponsor for QEmacs maybe

2001-04-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 01:42:19AM +0400, Peter Novodvorsky wrote: > "John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Current snapshot (please do not redistribute since it is not > > finished): qemacs-0.2.tar.gz > > Current version of qemacs segafaults after a typing ~ 20 letter

Re: how to build a package conditionally?

2001-03-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a "main" > and a "contrib" .deb. What would the autobuilder do with that? In > fact, how would the autobuilder even know that is the case? The I guess it depends o

Re: how to build a package conditionally?

2001-03-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a "main" > and a "contrib" .deb. What would the autobuilder do with that? In > fact, how would the autobuilder even know that is the case? The I guess it depends

Re: control file and {shlibs:Depends}

2001-03-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:32:54PM +0100, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > Is it ok to configure a package differently on one arch? > I want to build solfege with --disable-oss-sound on m68k until > the binutils/glibc problems are fixed. > > If I use --disable-oss-sound (only on m68k), the package conta

Re: control file and {shlibs:Depends}

2001-03-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:32:54PM +0100, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > Is it ok to configure a package differently on one arch? > I want to build solfege with --disable-oss-sound on m68k until > the binutils/glibc problems are fixed. > > If I use --disable-oss-sound (only on m68k), the package cont

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: > > Yes, of course, and that is what I did. But the actual question was: > how do I get dpkg-buildpackage to give the potato version a different > *name*? Just renaming the files gives problems with the signature on > the .changes/.

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote: > > Yes, of course, and that is what I did. But the actual question was: > how do I get dpkg-buildpackage to give the potato version a different > *name*? Just renaming the files gives problems with the signature on > the .changes/

Re: Packaging problems. Problems getting .diff.gz created.

2001-02-23 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:37:12PM +0100, Fredrik Steen wrote: > Describe the changes made and added a (Closes: Bug#86243) > # cd .. > # ls > sntop-1.3.1/ sntop-1.3.1.orig.tar.gz rename this to sntop_1.3.1.orig.tar.gz (note the underscore) Christian -- http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/

Re: Packaging problems. Problems getting .diff.gz created.

2001-02-23 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:37:12PM +0100, Fredrik Steen wrote: > Describe the changes made and added a (Closes: Bug#86243) > # cd .. > # ls > sntop-1.3.1/ sntop-1.3.1.orig.tar.gz rename this to sntop_1.3.1.orig.tar.gz (note the underscore) Christian -- http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k

Re: Correct way to do binary-only NMU?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Yes, you are right. But there are not problems with hundreds of > packages, are there? No, only 80 known packages currently http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/quinn/needs-failed but an unknown number of not-yet-known proble

Re: Correct way to do binary-only NMU?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:18:56PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Yes, you are right. But there are not problems with hundreds of > packages, are there? No, only 80 known packages currently http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/quinn/needs-failed but an unknown number of not-yet-known probl

Re: Correct way to do binary-only NMU?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:44:24PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * "Christian T. Steigies" > > | On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > | > Hi, > | > > | > how do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage for a binary-only NMU? In sec

Re: Correct way to do binary-only NMU?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Hi, > > how do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage for a binary-only NMU? In section > 8.2 "Guidelines for Porter Uploads", the Developer's Reference says: > > In a binary NMU, no real changes are being made to the source. You >

Re: Correct way to do binary-only NMU?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:44:24PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * "Christian T. Steigies" > > | On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > | > Hi, > | > > | > how do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage for a binary-only NMU? In sec

Re: Correct way to do binary-only NMU?

2001-02-22 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:30:13PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > Hi, > > how do you invoke dpkg-buildpackage for a binary-only NMU? In section > 8.2 "Guidelines for Porter Uploads", the Developer's Reference says: > > In a binary NMU, no real changes are being made to the source. You >

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:49:24PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Christian T. Steigies: > > > And you will note m68k is not the fastest arch on the world > > (allthough the nicest ;-) > > Hmm, perhaps I should dust off the Amiga 1200 that is lying in a > desktop dr

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:45:34AM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:40:31AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > [...] After all, non-free is not part of debian AFAIK, > > thats why the buildds prefer to spend their time on main packages. > > This I un

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:49:24PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Christian T. Steigies: > > > And you will note m68k is not the fastest arch on the world > > (allthough the nicest ;-) > > Hmm, perhaps I should dust off the Amiga 1200 that is lying in a > desktop dr

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:45:34AM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 04:40:31AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > [...] After all, non-free is not part of debian AFAIK, > > thats why the buildds prefer to spend their time on main packages. > > This I un

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:43:14AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > On which machines? The machines list web page says that > chroot is available on vore.debian.org (sparc). I used it > to build a sparc port but I could not find other chroot-available > machines. > > machines list: http://db.debi

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 11:43:14AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > On which machines? The machines list web page says that > chroot is available on vore.debian.org (sparc). I used it > to build a sparc port but I could not find other chroot-available > machines. > > machines list: http://db.deb

Re: package naming

2001-02-13 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:21:00PM -0800, Mike Markley wrote: > IMO the best name is the one that does the best job of expressing what it's > called without being so generic as to cause potential name conflict. I'd > personally go with libmetakit, with -dev, -tcl, -python if you split it up. > In g

Re: package naming

2001-02-13 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:21:00PM -0800, Mike Markley wrote: > IMO the best name is the one that does the best job of expressing what it's > called without being so generic as to cause potential name conflict. I'd > personally go with libmetakit, with -dev, -tcl, -python if you split it up. > In

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:06:35PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Is it possible to ask for a summary of the change in procedure? If it is OK > > to setgid in the package, then why was dh_suidregister being used in the > > first > > place? > > The explanation was posted to debian-devel-announce a

dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am using dh_suidregister in my packages, one of those actually has to register files as sgid games. How do I do that now with dpkg-stateoverride? Is it enough to just set the permissions in debian/rules (as before) and just omit the dh_suidregister call? Or do I have to do something with dpkg

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:06:35PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Is it possible to ask for a summary of the change in procedure? If it is OK > > to setgid in the package, then why was dh_suidregister being used in the first > > place? > > The explanation was posted to debian-devel-announce a few

dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-05 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am using dh_suidregister in my packages, one of those actually has to register files as sgid games. How do I do that now with dpkg-stateoverride? Is it enough to just set the permissions in debian/rules (as before) and just omit the dh_suidregister call? Or do I have to do something with dpk

Re: GPG Signature in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2001-02-01 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:46:01PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > I'm in Toronto, and I can probably sign your key (depends on the > schedule). Dirk Eddelbuettel is another Debian developer in Toronto who > can do that (in fact, he was the one who signed my key). I'm not sure if > Dirk is subscribed to

Re: GPG Signature in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2001-02-01 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:46:01PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > I'm in Toronto, and I can probably sign your key (depends on the > schedule). Dirk Eddelbuettel is another Debian developer in Toronto who > can do that (in fact, he was the one who signed my key). I'm not sure if > Dirk is subscribed t

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > Jochen, I get this from lintian: > > N: unknown interpreter > > [repeat N times] > > W: chbg: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link >

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > Jochen, I get this from lintian: > > N: unknown interpreter > > [repeat N times] > > W: chbg: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link >

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:50:53PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hi, > > I intend to pick up the orphaned chbg package > and tried to pack the new upstream release. > The files are at > > http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/chbg/ > > Would anybody sponsor the package? Stupid questi

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:50:53PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hi, > > I intend to pick up the orphaned chbg package > and tried to pack the new upstream release. > The files are at > > http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/chbg/ > > Would anybody sponsor the package? Stupid quest

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-15 Thread Christian T . Steigies
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:06:48PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > yes, but you can't expect all the maintainers hava a park of machines of all > architectures. And yet, the Debian OS runs different kernels and on > different architectures. The conclusion is obvious. I am pretty sure that if you a

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-15 Thread Christian T . Steigies
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:06:48PM +0100, Marek Habersack wrote: > yes, but you can't expect all the maintainers hava a park of machines of all > architectures. And yet, the Debian OS runs different kernels and on > different architectures. The conclusion is obvious. I am pretty sure that if you

Re: packages not in testing

2001-01-15 Thread Christian T . Steigies
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:31:21PM -0500, Chris Ruffin wrote: > Well, I posted a similar message to debian-devel and receieved a good > analysis from Anthony Towns, release whiz and master of the cryptic > output file. The actual culprit appears to be xlibs and libxaw6 (third > level deps), which

Re: packages not in testing

2001-01-15 Thread Christian T . Steigies
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 09:31:21PM -0500, Chris Ruffin wrote: > Well, I posted a similar message to debian-devel and receieved a good > analysis from Anthony Towns, release whiz and master of the cryptic > output file. The actual culprit appears to be xlibs and libxaw6 (third > level deps), whic

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:54:31PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > Either being an official Debian developper has any sense or not. If it's > the latter then Debian better stop wasting time with this theatre *now*. > If it does make sense to be a Debian developper (I sure do hope it does!)

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:03:58PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > You have not yet proven your patience, which is next in the DAM process. > > You have read Kafka, haven't you? I don't remember wh

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 05:54:31PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > Either being an official Debian developper has any sense or not. If it's > the latter then Debian better stop wasting time with this theatre *now*. > If it does make sense to be a Debian developper (I sure do hope it does!)

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: > Does this mean I can never become a maintainer? I believe that > I have demonstrated my knowledge of debian's policy and skills with > the packages that I've done. You have not yet proven your patience, which is next in the DAM proces

Re: building packages on debian machines with respect to privat gpg keys

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > How do you handel zour gpg keys when you build on debian machines? > I would want to build my packages on a debian machine but would not > want to have my gpg key on a machine out there. You don't have your keys on the debian mac

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:03:58PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > You have not yet proven your patience, which is next in the DAM process. > > You have read Kafka, haven't you? I don't remember wh

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote: > Does this mean I can never become a maintainer? I believe that > I have demonstrated my knowledge of debian's policy and skills with > the packages that I've done. You have not yet proven your patience, which is next in the DAM proce

Re: building packages on debian machines with respect to privat gpg keys

2001-01-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > How do you handel zour gpg keys when you build on debian machines? > I would want to build my packages on a debian machine but would not > want to have my gpg key on a machine out there. You don't have your keys on the debian ma

Re: asm/sigcontext.h

2000-11-24 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:20:54PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > # include kernel-[headers|source] ? Christian

Re: asm/sigcontext.h

2000-11-24 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:20:54PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > # include kernel-[headers|source] ? Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help making packages

2000-11-07 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:34:16PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > You might like to compare with how other sdl-based games have been > packaged, for instance defendguin (available in woody). argh, no no, please not that. The one in incoming, but not the one installed currently. I am trying to fix

Re: help making packages

2000-11-07 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 10:34:16PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > You might like to compare with how other sdl-based games have been > packaged, for instance defendguin (available in woody). argh, no no, please not that. The one in incoming, but not the one installed currently. I am trying to fix

Re: help making packages

2000-11-07 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:18:51PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i don't have woody yet; didn't know they existed. i'll upgrade one of my > computers. If you don't tell anybody, these packages work fine on potato: > > /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libsdl-image1.0_1.0.8-1.deb > > /d

Re: help making packages

2000-11-07 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 02:18:51PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i don't have woody yet; didn't know they existed. i'll upgrade one of my > computers. If you don't tell anybody, these packages work fine on potato: > > /debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libsdl-image1.0_1.0.8-1.deb > > /

Re: help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:29:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: > > >=libsdl1.0 which debian provides > sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide > sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide Whats wrong

Re: help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:29:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > dear all, > > i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: > > >=libsdl1.0 which debian provides > sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide > sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide Whats wrong

Re: abuse of Priority; was [Re: Needs sponsor for qtcups]

2000-11-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:16:25PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am patient and I am not worry. > But I think you should first send me above your message privately only > before blaming me in such public way. So that everybody else who is annoyed by the priority also send you a private ma

Re: abuse of Priority; was [Re: Needs sponsor for qtcups]

2000-11-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 12:16:25PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am patient and I am not worry. > But I think you should first send me above your message privately only > before blaming me in such public way. So that everybody else who is annoyed by the priority also send you a private m

Re: splitting a package into several debs

2000-11-03 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:20:13PM +0100, Cesar Talon wrote: > Hi, > > First at all, this is my first mail here, so sorry if this isn't the best > place > to ask. This is absolutely the best and only place to ask questions like this! > The question is: > > I've been packaging it with the

Re: splitting a package into several debs

2000-11-03 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 05:20:13PM +0100, Cesar Talon wrote: > Hi, > > First at all, this is my first mail here, so sorry if this isn't the best place > to ask. This is absolutely the best and only place to ask questions like this! > The question is: > > I've been packaging it with the h

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-23 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:20:23PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > In one package (malaga) I finally settled on taking advantage of VPATH: > I simply configured and built it in different directories for different > set of options. I don't remember whether I had to patch upstream build > sys

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-23 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:20:23PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > In one package (malaga) I finally settled on taking advantage of VPATH: > I simply configured and built it in different directories for different > set of options. I don't remember whether I had to patch upstream build > sy

Re: automatic forward of bugreports upstream?

2000-10-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:37:02PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > is it possible to get bugreports of a package automatically forwarded/copied > > upstream? The author of one of my packages wants that (without being

automatic forward of bugreports upstream?

2000-10-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, is it possible to get bugreports of a package automatically forwarded/copied upstream? The author of one of my packages wants that (without being the maintainer himself). Christian

Re: automatic forward of bugreports upstream?

2000-10-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Moin, On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:37:02PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > is it possible to get bugreports of a package automatically forwarded/copied > > upstream? The author of one of my packages wants that (without being

automatic forward of bugreports upstream?

2000-10-09 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, is it possible to get bugreports of a package automatically forwarded/copied upstream? The author of one of my packages wants that (without being the maintainer himself). Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

SDL and SDL_image

2000-10-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have a little trouble with SDL_image which I maintain. I made two packages, libsdl-image1.0 and libsdl-image-dev. Until recently SDL_image was built with SDL1.0, the stable release. The current versions need SDL1.1, the unstable release. Unfortunately I built and uploaded SDL_image with that,

SDL and SDL_image

2000-10-04 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I have a little trouble with SDL_image which I maintain. I made two packages, libsdl-image1.0 and libsdl-image-dev. Until recently SDL_image was built with SDL1.0, the stable release. The current versions need SDL1.1, the unstable release. Unfortunately I built and uploaded SDL_image with that

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:52:30PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > On 27 Sep 2000, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > > > For this situation, I would suggest that we start to be really strict, and > > > use chroot jails for *all* builds. > > > It may resolve the situation, but I would much more elgeant,

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:52:30PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > On 27 Sep 2000, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > > > For this situation, I would suggest that we start to be really strict, and > > > use chroot jails for *all* builds. > > > It may resolve the situation, but I would much more elgeant,

Re: /usr/[share/]info/dir.gz ?

2000-08-30 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:27:08AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Josip Rodin wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 05:07:46PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > where do /usr/info/dir.gz and /usr/share/info/dir.gz come from? > > > > > >

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