Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: > Well, also there is the endian problem. I don't know how 1.4 debs ended > up on these machines, because I have a check in configure that > disallows compiles on big-endian machines (since the datastructures are > defined as little-endian, and I haven't

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: > Well, also there is the endian problem. I don't know how 1.4 debs ended > up on these machines, because I have a check in configure that > disallows compiles on big-endian machines (since the datastructures are > defined as little-endian, and I haven't

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: > So basically, I should change "Architecture: any" to specifically not > list alpha (and other platforms lacking Qt)? H...I would say no, personally, only because it's a compiler problem which is likely to be fixed eventually. If it were something

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: > So basically, I should change "Architecture: any" to specifically not > list alpha (and other platforms lacking Qt)? H...I would say no, personally, only because it's a compiler problem which is likely to be fixed eventually. If it were something

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > I've found that Qt builds surprisingly well if I use Compaq's cxx compiler. > It might be nice if the qt packages were structured to allow rebuilding with > different compilers, although having Qt Build-Depend on a non-free package is > not a very good

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > I've found that Qt builds surprisingly well if I use Compaq's cxx compiler. > It might be nice if the qt packages were structured to allow rebuilding with > different compilers, although having Qt Build-Depend on a non-free package is > not a very good

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > So, if you had your package for 26 days, the possibility is that qt2.2 > hasn't been available on all arches when you had it installed. > > Have you tried looking at the build logs and its date ? Alpha has serious gcc/g++ problems with Qt 2.2, so don

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > So, if you had your package for 26 days, the possibility is that qt2.2 > hasn't been available on all arches when you had it installed. > > Have you tried looking at the build logs and its date ? Alpha has serious gcc/g++ problems with Qt 2.2, so do

Re: Building against old libraries

2000-11-26 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > Yes, build daemons for i386, m68k, sparc, powerpc should be active. > I'm not sure about the alpha one, but there's always Chris Chimelis :) Hehehe...just call me Chris "build daemon" Chimelis :-) If dinstall puts a package into the master archives, I b

Re: Building against old libraries

2000-11-26 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > Yes, build daemons for i386, m68k, sparc, powerpc should be active. > I'm not sure about the alpha one, but there's always Chris Chimelis :) Hehehe...just call me Chris "build daemon" Chimelis :-) If dinstall puts a package into the master archives, I

Re: howto deal with port bugs

2000-11-24 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, zhaoway wrote: > hi, > > i have a bug on compiling on m68k. i have no experience beyond i386. > is there some guideline/step-by-step/tutorial on dealing with such > bugs? Not really, since every platform has its quirks. I don't have an m68k, but perhaps I can help you thro

Re: howto deal with port bugs

2000-11-24 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, zhaoway wrote: > hi, > > i have a bug on compiling on m68k. i have no experience beyond i386. > is there some guideline/step-by-step/tutorial on dealing with such > bugs? Not really, since every platform has its quirks. I don't have an m68k, but perhaps I can help you thr

Re: What shall I package? Was: Re: sphinx

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > Looks like theres allready a netsaint package in woody... Oops...I missed that. Thanks for catching this :-) C

Re: What shall I package? Was: Re: sphinx

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > Figures :) > > Thanks. I should have checked first. > > Well, my background right now is mostly systems administration and > programming, anyone got a service or something console based that needs > to be packaged? :) I've got the beginnings of a netsai

Re: What shall I package? Was: Re: sphinx

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > Looks like theres allready a netsaint package in woody... Oops...I missed that. Thanks for catching this :-) C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What shall I package? Was: Re: sphinx

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > Figures :) > > Thanks. I should have checked first. > > Well, my background right now is mostly systems administration and > programming, anyone got a service or something console based that needs > to be packaged? :) I've got the beginnings of a netsa

Re: sphinx

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > I am also interested in packaging. This would be my first package. If > noone comes out from before and jumps up and down about doing it, I > would be interested in packaging sphinx. If this is the sphinx that's a speech recognition library and utilitie

Re: sphinx

2000-10-01 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Scott Dier wrote: > I am also interested in packaging. This would be my first package. If > noone comes out from before and jumps up and down about doing it, I > would be interested in packaging sphinx. If this is the sphinx that's a speech recognition library and utiliti

Re: how to package gocr

2000-08-27 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: > I've put 'Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.10, wish' > Which is the best solution, let gocr depends on wish or > make two packages (1 with only one small binary)? Make sure not to hard-code the libc6 dependency (let dpkg-shlibdeps handle it via

Re: how to package gocr

2000-08-27 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Cosimo Alfarano wrote: > I've put 'Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libstdc++2.10, wish' > Which is the best solution, let gocr depends on wish or > make two packages (1 with only one small binary)? Make sure not to hard-code the libc6 dependency (let dpkg-shlibdeps handle it vi

Re: Bugs against Helix package in Debian BTS

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 2 Aug 2000, Christian Marillat wrote: > CCC> I'd forward it upstream, personally. In other words, file it as a bug > CCC> with the Helix folk and mark it as forwarded in our BTS. > > I just discovered the Helix BTS. Yeah, I had the URL ready in case you didn't have it yet. > This problem i

Re: Bugs against Helix package in Debian BTS

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 2 Aug 2000, Christian Marillat wrote: > CCC> I'd forward it upstream, personally. In other words, file it as a bug > CCC> with the Helix folk and mark it as forwarded in our BTS. > > I just discovered the Helix BTS. Yeah, I had the URL ready in case you didn't have it yet. > This problem

Re: Bugs against Helix package in Debian BTS

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 2 Aug 2000, Christian Marillat wrote: > This is the 3th bugs against Helix package in our BTS. > > I close these bug without reading them. > > But for one I've some problem (bug 68343). > > This bug has been closed 2 times and reopen 2 times. Here is the latest > reopen: > > What I need t

Re: Bugs against Helix package in Debian BTS

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On 2 Aug 2000, Christian Marillat wrote: > This is the 3th bugs against Helix package in our BTS. > > I close these bug without reading them. > > But for one I've some problem (bug 68343). > > This bug has been closed 2 times and reopen 2 times. Here is the latest reopen: > > What I need to

Re: Becoming Debian Developer without a package

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, andreas palsson wrote: > This might sound a little strange. > If I would like to become a debian developer, but I don't have any > package and maybe I just want to "help" others by testing packages, > fixing bugs and suppling patches to the original maintainers. > > Is this

Re: Becoming Debian Developer without a package

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, andreas palsson wrote: > This might sound a little strange. > If I would like to become a debian developer, but I don't have any > package and maybe I just want to "help" others by testing packages, > fixing bugs and suppling patches to the original maintainers. > > Is this

Re: Package help requested

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > > > name: gnut > > > desc: Command line gnutella client > > > license: GPL > > > > Didn't get to check the package too much, bu

Re: Package help requested

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > name: gnut > > desc: Command line gnutella client > > license: GPL > > Didn't get to check the package too much, but did check the > software. Seems to have problems when finding an interface on Alpha >

Re: Package help requested

2000-06-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > > > name: gnut > > > desc: Command line gnutella client > > > license: GPL > > > > Didn't get to check the package too much, bu

Re: Package help requested

2000-06-10 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > name: gnut > > desc: Command line gnutella client > > license: GPL > > Didn't get to check the package too much, but did check the > software. Seems to have problems when finding an interface on Alpha &

Re: Package help requested

2000-06-10 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > I have a couple of packages done and available at > http://lit.compsoc.com/~jimregan/debian/ > > I was wondering if someone could check them out, and maybe sponsor them? No time to sponsor, but I did test out a few so far on Alpha...comments below. I

Re: Package help requested

2000-06-10 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jimmy O'Regan wrote: > I have a couple of packages done and available at > http://lit.compsoc.com/~jimregan/debian/ > > I was wondering if someone could check them out, and maybe sponsor them? No time to sponsor, but I did test out a few so far on Alpha...comments below.

Re: Announce: GLE preliminary version

2000-01-10 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Holger Eitzenberger wrote: > * Platform is only i386 for now. This is likely to change in the > future. Is this due to i386-specific asm code or is this package just untested on other archs? If it's C or C++, I'll take a stab at patching it for Alpha, but if it's asm

Re: VRweb on the web

1999-09-25 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Paul Harris wrote: > could I also please ask Christopher to attempt to build it on his Alpha > (mmm wish i had access ;). also if anyone has access to a platform other > than an i386 (i have that), could i get them to please check it out? I took the Alpha down today (am movi

Re: vrweb on non-i386

1999-09-24 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Paul Harris wrote: > ok i forgot to ask: i can compile for i386, but whats the deal with the > other platforms? how can i test vrweb on those even if i have no access to > a machine? I can check it on Alpha, but it may be a few days. Let me know where I can compile the sour

Re: Quicklaunch Applet Packaged

1999-09-09 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
Oh, FYI, if you upload the same (-3) revision of the package, let me know and I'll upload my Alpha deb for it as well. C

Re: Quicklaunch Applet Packaged

1999-09-09 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
Nevermind...tarball wasn't on ftp, but was via http. It compiles and runs nicely on the Alpha :-) Very nice! I'll have to start using this one soon :-) I don't see anything wrong with it. It installed and purged very cleanly and seems to do everything it needs to (hell, the lintian report on

Re: Quicklaunch Applet Packaged

1999-09-09 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Adam Keys wrote: > This is a GNOME applet that adds some pretty small icons to > your panel, like Windows' QuickLaunch toolbar. They are smaller > than the normal GNOME launchers so you can fit more on your panel. > It can also be torn away from the panel and put elsewhere. >

Re: porting a package

1999-09-08 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I dont think the build demons will pick up non-main packages in the near > future, but maybe we could have a quinn-diff running on contrib and the > non-* directories, so that we at least know when something is not up to > date. And somebody coul

Re: e2compr packages up for sponsorship

1999-08-05 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On 5 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Could be, but I don't think so. I rather think that it reads a long > instead of an __u32 and thus gets two __u32 into the long, which then > is far to big. Hehehe...that's typical :-) Wouldn't be the first time I've seen that either. C

Re: e2compr packages up for sponsorship

1999-08-05 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On 5 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I did some fixes and cleanup on the defrag package and have e2dump > 64Bit clean and 2GB proff now, but still have some bugs left to > fix. Also the defrag tells me that it can't find inode xxx, where xxx > is way to big (probably a 64 Bit problem in defra

Re: Can someone NMU chimera for me?

1999-07-22 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Decklin Foster wrote: > Well, I've been running chimera 1.6/1.7 on an i386 for, hmmm, more > than a year at least. This is been a combination of compiling from a > tarball, using Debian's packages, and rolling my own. I haven't ever > experienced anything like that, so I susp

Re: Can someone NMU chimera for me?

1999-07-22 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Decklin Foster wrote: > I've been running the actual binary for several weeks with no problems > (well, other than buggy layout, but that's another issue :-), and it > went through the suggested upgrade/downgrade tests with no apparent > problems for me. Thanks for uploading

Re: Can someone NMU chimera for me?

1999-07-21 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Decklin Foster wrote: > I filed a bug a long time ago against chimera about there being a new > upstream version (a new patchlevel, really.) It's 79 days old and I > haven't heard anything. I wish I could NMU it, but I am not a > developer and do not have a verified PGP key.

Re: NMU's

1999-07-13 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, chris mckillop wrote: > So, in my efforts to be useful. > > I would like to help hunt out and squash some of the bugs currently > listed on bugs.debian.org. However, it would seem that a little caution > is in order. How should I approach submitting the fixes I

Re: Recompiling a single arch package

1999-05-07 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Fri, 7 May 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Now it occurs to me that if I rebuild my package and bump up the > debian version number, then other archs will need to rebuild too > even thought I have not changed a thing in source. > Is that the proper thing to do? Yes. If you need to recompile

Re: Binaries for other architectures

1999-04-02 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Mika Fischer wrote: > > This is a possibility for at least m68k, powerpc and alpha (kullervo, > > tervola and faure @ debian.org), but unless you specifically want to > > or need to, I wouldn't bother. > > Na, I don't think I want to. I don't blame you on this :-) I'm one o

Re: alpha development machine

1998-08-12 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Paul Slootman wrote: > Check out the archive for debian-alpha, an offer to debian developers > who want to use an alpha was made (last week I think). Look for "Danny > ter Haar". > But maybe you want to get in touch with [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also check the > archive!) ? He's th