Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

2002-10-20 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 02:09, Marc Haber wrote: Can anybody name me a package that does a conffile conversion in the maintainer scripts, and does a decent job? I desparately need to steal some code ;) I believe netbase does.

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 23:19, Drew Parsons wrote: Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce storage and bandwidth costs? Right. I think there will be a point in the future (probably 2-3 years away at least though) though where we can just default to shipping

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Colin Walters
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 23:19, Drew Parsons wrote: Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce storage and bandwidth costs? Right. I think there will be a point in the future (probably 2-3 years away at least though) though where we can just default to shipping

Re: inclusion of a debian dir in upstream src

2002-09-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 19:34, Sam Powers wrote: Is it a good idea to keep a debian directory upstream? I have CVS access, so I think it'd make it easier for me, and also for others who want to build custom debs, if the debian files were in CVS. I think the best solution is to keep it in CVS,

Re: inclusion of a debian dir in upstream src

2002-09-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 19:34, Sam Powers wrote: Is it a good idea to keep a debian directory upstream? I have CVS access, so I think it'd make it easier for me, and also for others who want to build custom debs, if the debian files were in CVS. I think the best solution is to keep it in CVS,

Re: apt configuration

2002-08-22 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 00:18, Ian Zimmerman wrote: I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed packages. You may want to try my dpkg patch in bug #155676; it will at least be faster. I hope it will be in dpkg proper soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt configuration

2002-08-22 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 00:18, Ian Zimmerman wrote: I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed packages. You may want to try my dpkg patch in bug #155676; it will at least be faster. I hope it will be in dpkg proper soon.

Re: libxmlsec

2002-08-08 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 21:33, Indra Kusuma wrote: On 7 Aug 2002, Colin Walters wrote: # I much prefer to sponsor people who have at least had their key signed # by a developer. Have you seen the keysigning coordination page? # # http://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php what about my country

Re: libxmlsec

2002-08-08 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 21:01, John Belmonte wrote: Thanks, I appreciate it. I didn't find any problems in your packages; they look good. OK, I've sent an email off to the maintainer. I think a week or so should be fair. That's understandable. About three weeks ago I tried to contact the

Re: libxmlsec

2002-08-07 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:07, John Belmonte wrote: I've packaged libxmlsec (bug #152605), a library for performing signature and encryption operations on XML [...] Cool. and am looking for a sponsor. I am looking over your packages now. The required version of libxslt1 wasn't available

Re: developer vs user wants

2002-07-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 09:37, Andrew Suffield wrote: If the developers of limewire want to force people to view the ads, they must write this into the license (and we punt it to non-free), otherwise it is completely futile to try and make people do so. Less confrontationally, you might point

Re: developer vs user wants

2002-07-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 09:37, Andrew Suffield wrote: If the developers of limewire want to force people to view the ads, they must write this into the license (and we punt it to non-free), otherwise it is completely futile to try and make people do so. Less confrontationally, you might point

Re: need sponsor for vegastrike upload

2002-07-23 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 13:11, Michael Furr wrote: err, guess a link to the packages would help: deb http://userpages.umbc.edu/~fu1/debian unstable main deb-src http://userpages.umbc.edu/~fu1/debian unstable main I took a quick look at your packages; the first thing I noticed is that your

Re: auto-builders, how do they work?

2002-07-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 09:58, Rick Younie wrote: conserver is non-free so the autobuild system doesn't know about it. I'm not sure all autobuild admins bother with non-free, for philosophical reasons, so you should look into building it yourself on each arch yourself if you can.

Re: auto-builders, how do they work?

2002-07-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 09:58, Rick Younie wrote: conserver is non-free so the autobuild system doesn't know about it. I'm not sure all autobuild admins bother with non-free, for philosophical reasons, so you should look into building it yourself on each arch yourself if you can.

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 10:36, Ari Pollak wrote: Yeah, I am registered as a New Maintainer, but the process takes a while and I've been on Waiting for DAM to approve blah blah for more than a month now. I'm registered under [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've uploaded updated packages which close the ITP

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 21:53, Ari Pollak wrote: Ack, woops. It should be up there now. Ok, I got a chance to look at your package; it looks good to me. I will be happy to sponsor you. I see your GPG key is already signed by a Debian Developer; that's a good sign. You should file an ITP bug

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 17:24, Ari Pollak wrote: Looking at configure.ac, it really only requires GTK+2 and pspell, so I just added libgtk2.0-dev to the build-depends. Hm, but it still appears to need libpspell-dev, which isn't in the Build-Depends. If it's left out, my pbuilder build dies

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 19:40, Ari Pollak wrote: The packages can be found at http://www.ebnj.net/debian/unstable. Suggestions welcome. Hmm..the .orig.tar.gz seems to be missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-15 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 19:40, Ari Pollak wrote: The packages can be found at http://www.ebnj.net/debian/unstable. Suggestions welcome. Hmm..the .orig.tar.gz seems to be missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: w3c-libwww_5.4.0-2 build problems

2002-07-12 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 08:31, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:58:39PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: I just uploaded a new version of libwww 5.4.0 to fix #151894 and the build failed on sparc and ia64 with really bizarre symptoms. I now found out that the build fails on

Re: w3c-libwww_5.4.0-2 build problems

2002-07-12 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 08:31, Richard Atterer wrote: On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:58:39PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: I just uploaded a new version of libwww 5.4.0 to fix #151894 and the build failed on sparc and ia64 with really bizarre symptoms. I now found out that the build fails on

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

2002-05-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 15:41, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: I put the xml-resume-library's .xsl files in /usr/share/sgml/xml-resume-library/xsl. Maybe a better place is /usr/share/xml-resume-library/xsl, though. Any other

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

2002-05-24 Thread Colin Walters
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:55, Eric Gentilini wrote: Hi all, I m starting to package a few things and wondered where .xsl files should go ? These files, in the context I use them, are used to produce different outputs used externally to the program. There are also ways to produce this output

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Ppower4

2002-05-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:47, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: I didn't know that swing (or basically any GUI) stuff worked with a JVM in main. You can definitely program GUIs using Java and JVMs in main. See for example: http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/ and http://gnome-gcj.sourceforge.net/

Re: New package

2002-03-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:41, Chris AtLee wrote: Hi there, I've written a small program that I'd like to package and have included in the debian archive. It's a gnome applet that allows you to set alarms and then be notified when those alarms go off. Have you looked at sanduhr? -- To

Re: New package

2002-03-17 Thread Colin Walters
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:41, Chris AtLee wrote: Hi there, I've written a small program that I'd like to package and have included in the debian archive. It's a gnome applet that allows you to set alarms and then be notified when those alarms go off. Have you looked at sanduhr?

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:50, Corrin Lakeland wrote: I had a look on popularity contest and that said it had 7 recent users. You have to keep in mind that the popularity-contest is almost certainly not a representative sample of our users. So it is likely that more than 7 people use it.

Re: how many users is too few

2002-03-11 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:50, Corrin Lakeland wrote: I had a look on popularity contest and that said it had 7 recent users. You have to keep in mind that the popularity-contest is almost certainly not a representative sample of our users. So it is likely that more than 7 people use it.

Re: [installer@ftp-master.debian.org: configwin_0.9-2_i386.changesREJECTED]

2002-01-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 08:18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: So I reupload the package _including .orig.tar.gz_ and I received some mails like the following, what I have to do? This won't directly solve your problem, but I strongly suggest running dinstall -n on your changes file after you upload.

Re: [installer@ftp-master.debian.org: configwin_0.9-2_i386.changes REJECTED]

2002-01-28 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 08:18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: So I reupload the package _including .orig.tar.gz_ and I received some mails like the following, what I have to do? This won't directly solve your problem, but I strongly suggest running dinstall -n on your changes file after you upload.

Re: AOL-level help request: Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Colin Walters
Bryan-TheBS-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As such, this is going to be almost an AOL-level help request. I'm very sorry for this. All I'm looking for is a little direction, and I'll RTFM the rest. I've gone through much of the FAQ, Developer's Reference and New Maintainer's Guide, and I'm

Re: apt-howto's package

2001-11-06 Thread Colin Walters
Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am the author and packager of apt-howto, as soon as it was translated into english from portuguese, I packaged it and added it to the DDP, I was adviced, on the -devel list to just create one package: apt-howto with all the translations of the

Re: Problem with compiling my package

2001-10-21 Thread Colin Walters
Jean-Michel Kelbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I make my last dist-upgrade (friday) my package komba2 doesn't compile [...] cd . automake --foreign --include-deps ./Makefile ./Makefile.am:5: EXTRA_DIST multiply defined in condition TRUE This is probably because your package is

Re: Problem with compiling my package

2001-10-21 Thread Colin Walters
Jean-Michel Kelbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since I make my last dist-upgrade (friday) my package komba2 doesn't compile [...] cd . automake --foreign --include-deps ./Makefile ./Makefile.am:5: EXTRA_DIST multiply defined in condition TRUE This is probably because your package is

Re: How granular should a package{,set} be?

2001-10-12 Thread Colin Walters
Erich Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, i think the basic principle is split everything that people might want to install independantly or that can be upgraded independantly Mmmm...I'd rather go for a basic principle of Use as few packages as possible, but no fewer. There's no need

Re: How granular should a package{,set} be?

2001-10-12 Thread Colin Walters
Erich Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, i think the basic principle is split everything that people might want to install independantly or that can be upgraded independantly Mmmm...I'd rather go for a basic principle of Use as few packages as possible, but no fewer. There's no need to

Re: dinstall error message on ftp-master

2001-09-25 Thread Colin Walters
Salvador Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 10:41:58$ dinstall -n gprolog_1.2.7-1_i386.changes Traceback (innermost last): File /org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie, line 1425, in ? main() File /org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie, line 1361, in main projectB = pg.connect(Cnf[DB::Name],

Re: dinstall error message on ftp-master

2001-09-25 Thread Colin Walters
Salvador Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 10:41:58$ dinstall -n gprolog_1.2.7-1_i386.changes Traceback (innermost last): File /org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie, line 1425, in ? main() File /org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie, line 1361, in main projectB = pg.connect(Cnf[DB::Name],

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Walters
Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could try piping the files through sed 's|changelog/index\.html|changelog.html.gz|g' while installing... Eek. I feared someone was going to suggest that. It seems like too much of a hack to me. No, that would completely defeat the point of

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

2001-09-21 Thread Colin Walters
Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You could try piping the files through sed 's|changelog/index\.html|changelog.html.gz|g' while installing... Eek. I feared someone was going to suggest that. It seems like too much of a hack to me. No, that would completely defeat the point of

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Walters
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Convert it to text. Include the html changelog if it makes sense, but make changelog.gz be the text version. Right, I am currently converting it to text and including that. But my problem is that policy says specifically that the HTML changelog should be

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

2001-09-20 Thread Colin Walters
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Convert it to text. Include the html changelog if it makes sense, but make changelog.gz be the text version. Right, I am currently converting it to text and including that. But my problem is that policy says specifically that the HTML changelog should be

trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Walters
I'm currently in the process of making a package for the XML Resume Library: URL:http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net My current package is at: URL:http://monk.verbum.org/~walters/debian/experimental I have two problems with it. First, lintian complains: E: xml-resume-library:

trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

2001-09-19 Thread Colin Walters
I'm currently in the process of making a package for the XML Resume Library: URL:http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net My current package is at: URL:http://monk.verbum.org/~walters/debian/experimental I have two problems with it. First, lintian complains: E: xml-resume-library:

Re: Help building packages.

2001-09-03 Thread Colin Walters
William [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The first thing that I did was to use dpkg-deb. My first question is, what are control/changelog files and how would I create one? Everytime I try to package something, it tries to locate 'debian/control' or 'debian/changelog'. The only thing that seems to

Re: packaging HTML, CGIs, etc.

2001-07-17 Thread Colin Walters
Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is probably a standard and not-too-difficult way to selectively add the Mail-Followup-To: header to such a configurable system as any incarnation of Emacs. I wish I could provide a way, but I can't. I mailed this privately to Tollef, but since

Re: packaging HTML, CGIs, etc.

2001-07-17 Thread Colin Walters
Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is probably a standard and not-too-difficult way to selectively add the Mail-Followup-To: header to such a configurable system as any incarnation of Emacs. I wish I could provide a way, but I can't. I mailed this privately to Tollef, but since

Re: making a debian package of a php development project

2001-07-13 Thread Colin Walters
Peter Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to make a debian package of our php-based application, so it can be easily installed on a debian system. But I have a problem, it seems that you have to have at least 1 main binary in the package (is that true?) I don't think so. There are a

looking for sponsor for gpmudmon-applet

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Walters
Hello, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package of gpmudmon; walters@space-ghost:~$ dpkg -s gpmudmon-applet Package: gpmudmon-applet Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 152 Maintainer: Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 0.1.1-3 Depends: pmud, gdk

looking for sponsor for gpmudmon-applet

2001-07-10 Thread Colin Walters
Hello, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package of gpmudmon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s gpmudmon-applet Package: gpmudmon-applet Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 152 Maintainer: Colin Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 0.1.1-3 Depends: pmud, gdk