Re: Help a maintainer wanna be

2001-11-25 Thread Falk Hueffner
Javier Kohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm the author of GtkGamma (available at http://gtkgamma.sf.net/) > and I'd like to be an official maintainer for the Debian package > myself. I've built a binary .deb which I've uploaded to the > project's site at SF (see above). Everything necessary to

Re: Help a maintainer wanna be

2001-11-25 Thread Falk Hueffner
Javier Kohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm the author of GtkGamma (available at http://gtkgamma.sf.net/) > and I'd like to be an official maintainer for the Debian package > myself. I've built a binary .deb which I've uploaded to the > project's site at SF (see above). Everything necessary to

Re: overwriting files

2001-10-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Regnat Nikolaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to create a package which replaces the black cursor from > XFree86 with a white one. Unfortunately it is not possible to > install a packge which overwrites files already installed by another > package. I get the following message if I try t

Re: overwriting files

2001-10-12 Thread Falk Hueffner
Regnat Nikolaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to create a package which replaces the black cursor from > XFree86 with a white one. Unfortunately it is not possible to > install a packge which overwrites files already installed by another > package. I get the following message if I try

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Falk Hueffner
Eduardo Trapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? Try using help2man to get a good template, and edit it by hand. Falk

Re: Creating man pages (upstream does not have one)

2001-05-10 Thread Falk Hueffner
Eduardo Trapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The software I am packaging does not have a man page. > > What programs should I use to create one? Try using help2man to get a good template, and edit it by hand. Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: ITP bug closing

2001-01-27 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Gustavo Noronha Silva (KoV)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought it was not the right solution, cause I read it in some > doc, that one should avoid using the email way of closing > bugs... thanks =) That's not reasonable rule. The rule is to close bugs in changelogs if they were fixed by ex

Re: ITP bug closing

2001-01-27 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Gustavo Noronha Silva (KoV)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I thought it was not the right solution, cause I read it in some > doc, that one should avoid using the email way of closing > bugs... thanks =) That's not reasonable rule. The rule is to close bugs in changelogs if they were fixed by e

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:16:21PM -0600, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > > debian/rules: > > make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp > > BTW s/`pwd`/$(CURDIR)/ Uhm, why? Falk

Dynamically adding system users

2000-10-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I'd like to package a daemon that wants to run as a special user. It is not needed to have any files owned by this user in the package, so it can be done dynamically. Can anybody point me to a package that does this, so I can steal the code? (I'm especially interested in code that *removes* th

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:16:21PM -0600, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > > debian/rules: > > make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp > > BTW s/`pwd`/$(CURDIR)/ Uhm, why? Falk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Dynamically adding system users

2000-10-21 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I'd like to package a daemon that wants to run as a special user. It is not needed to have any files owned by this user in the package, so it can be done dynamically. Can anybody point me to a package that does this, so I can steal the code? (I'm especially interested in code that *removes* t

Re: how orig must orig.tar.gz be?

2000-09-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:13:51PM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > > I am packaging python-slang, and the upstream tarball contains > > precompiled binaries for linux, sparc-solaris and win32. Is it > > ok to remove the directory with the binaries fr

Re: how orig must orig.tar.gz be?

2000-09-19 Thread Falk Hueffner
Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:13:51PM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > > I am packaging python-slang, and the upstream tarball contains > > precompiled binaries for linux, sparc-solaris and win32. Is it > > ok to remove the directory with the binaries f

Re: documentation in additional packages

2000-07-04 Thread Falk Hueffner
Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - does it make sense to provide ps and pdf ? Should I drop one, if yes > which one ? Definitely drop one. I'd keep the pdf version, since there are viewers for pdf which allow copying from the text (xpdf), which is not the case for postscript.

Re: documentation in additional packages

2000-07-04 Thread Falk Hueffner
Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - does it make sense to provide ps and pdf ? Should I drop one, if yes > which one ? Definitely drop one. I'd keep the pdf version, since there are viewers for pdf which allow copying from the text (xpdf), which is not the case for postscript.

Re: Bug#49648: plib1: Where is -dev package?

1999-11-09 Thread Falk Hueffner
[snip] > > Hence, a program compiled with the Version 1 header will crash > > if linked against the version 2 library. [snip] > > This makes distributing > > binary programs very hard if the library is a '.so' because it's > > very likely that the program will become linked to a library > > that do

Re: Debian revision nos

1999-08-30 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Timshel Knoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just wondering, is there any easy way to increase debian sub-revisions? > (eg. from 0.4.2-1 to 0.4.2-2?). I've looked through heaps of docs and I > can't find anything ... can anyone help me? I'm using debhelper, if that > helps... The easiest way

Re: package uploading

1999-08-14 Thread Falk Hueffner
Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i mean, debian developers have to upload source packages only? > will source be compiled on debian systems in order to do binaries > packages for distribution? or have both source and binaries packages > to be uploaded? There are auto-build deamons

Re: small c problem

1999-07-08 Thread Falk Hueffner
Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:30:51PM -0700, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > > > No, well, yes.. well.. for starters, you need a buffer, not a pointer. > > rad_cmd has no space to hold "number:444". Change it to > > char rad_cmd[x] where x is some number that

Re: exec ./configure ${1+"$@"}

1999-07-08 Thread Falk Hueffner
Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've seen this line in the dh_configure file of the mutt package and I'm > asking some questions about this : > > 1 ) Is the exec necessary ? What does it stand for ? it terminates the current shell and executes the command instead. If the command is t

Re: Hopeful new packager needs help.

1999-07-06 Thread Falk Hueffner
"Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list. I am attempting to package a few apps, that I believe > are worth while in the Debian community. I am having trouble though. I have > read the First time HOWTO and the deb-make doc. They seem pretty forward, > but I mu

Re: Multi-machine/Cluster Administration

1998-11-11 Thread Falk Hueffner
Chris Leishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello mentors, > > Theres been alot of discussion lately about cluster maintainance, and from > what I see there is little co-ordination in facing this need. What I would > like to see is a more co-ordinated effort, and thus I was considering posting

closing bugs with an upload

1998-09-01 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I seem to recall there was a way to close a bug with an upload by noting it's number somewhere. How is that done? I can't find it in the docs... Bye, Falk