Re: ITA: mpg321

2004-08-25 Thread Joe Drew
to mpg321, but am currently unwilling to give up maintainership of it. I do agree that not waiting for at least a week can be considered rude and is certainly overeager. It isn't a problem in this case, but I can conceive of a maintainer who could get angry over it. -- Joe Drew [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ITA: mpg321

2004-08-25 Thread Joe Drew
to mpg321, but am currently unwilling to give up maintainership of it. I do agree that not waiting for at least a week can be considered rude and is certainly overeager. It isn't a problem in this case, but I can conceive of a maintainer who could get angry over it. -- Joe Drew [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:13:44PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote: I think I must maintain relative symlinks (otherwise I would be against debian policy 11.5), however skilled feedback would be wellcomed. [...] The files in /usr/share/glade/gnome are symlinks to corresponding files in

Re: Fwd: Bug#90121: Symlinks in share/glade/gnome shouldn't be relative

2001-03-18 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:13:44PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote: I think I must maintain relative symlinks (otherwise I would be against debian policy 11.5), however skilled feedback would be wellcomed. [...] The files in /usr/share/glade/gnome are symlinks to corresponding files in

Re: Adopting a package

2001-03-01 Thread Joe Drew
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:48:57AM +0100, Javier Vi?uales Guti?rrez wrote: I know to make a _new_ debian package from its sources but now, I need to package a _orphaned_ package from its diff, dsc, orig and changes files. What do I have to do?. First, apt-get source packagename. This will

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Joe Drew
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 understand; but, before releasing stable (ie during freeze), do the buildds build non-free and

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Joe Drew
I can't get updated versions of my packages into testing, even if I wanted to. Of course this should have read "I can't get updated versions of my packages into testing, even though I want to." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Joe Drew
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 understand; but, before releasing stable (ie during freeze), do the buildds build non-free and

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Joe Drew
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: If not, during freeze (when presumably the buildds are less busy, once they've caught up), can we get access to these machines to build our non-free and contrib packages? During the freeze is before the freeze, no

Re: Porting of non-free packages

2001-02-19 Thread Joe Drew
I can't get updated versions of my packages into testing, even if I wanted to. Of course this should have read I can't get updated versions of my packages into testing, even though I want to.

Re: Bug#85850: lxdoom: problem building on alpha

2001-02-13 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:46:46PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: dh_shlibdeps dh_gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture alpha does not appear in package's list (i386) dh_gencontrol: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 This probably corresponds

Re: Bug#85850: lxdoom: problem building on alpha

2001-02-13 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:46:46PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: dh_shlibdeps dh_gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: error: current build architecture alpha does not appear in package's list (i386) dh_gencontrol: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 This probably corresponds

Re: revamp of Net::GrpNetworks with unresponsive upstream?

2001-02-05 Thread Joe Drew
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:12:48AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: If I upload my package to CPAN, would it be okay to leave the debian subdirectory in the tarball, and having an empty Debian patch in the Debian source package? As long as the license allows this, yes. Another option would be to make

Re: what does maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token mean?

2001-02-04 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:54:00PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: Running lintian, I get warning W: python-popy source: maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token debian/preinst What is a debhelper token? Where does one put it to fix the problem being warned about? The debhelper token is

Re: debuild doesn't work

2001-01-31 Thread Joe Drew
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: $ debuild -rfakeroot [snip output] dh_testroot: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot). make (3.79.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium * GNgngngng. The last upload is broken, thanks to the autoconf breakage. This also

Re: debuild doesn't work

2001-01-31 Thread Joe Drew
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:01:46PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: $ debuild -rfakeroot [snip output] dh_testroot: You must run this as root (or use fakeroot). make (3.79.1-4) unstable; urgency=medium * GNgngngng. The last upload is broken, thanks to the autoconf breakage. This also

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-26 Thread Joe Drew
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: That makes sense to me. One furthur question: the package provides another program, used to load saved programs off audio cassette using one's sound card, which is potentially useful to users of any of the three versions of

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-26 Thread Joe Drew
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:42:51AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: That makes sense to me. One furthur question: the package provides another program, used to load saved programs off audio cassette using one's sound card, which is potentially useful to users of any of the three versions of

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: As part of my new-maintainer process tasks, I'm packaging z81, a Sinclair ZX81/ZX80 emulator. The emulator provides three binaries: a X version (xz81), an SVGA version (z81) and a linux-console version (z81txt). [snip policy]

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
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 You haven't got the latest version of lintian. Upgrade it and try again; lintian was giving false

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: As part of my new-maintainer process tasks, I'm packaging z81, a Sinclair ZX81/ZX80 emulator. The emulator provides three binaries: a X version (xz81), an SVGA version (z81) and a linux-console version (z81txt). [snip policy]

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
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 You haven't got the latest version of lintian. Upgrade it and try again; lintian was giving false

Re: Debian native package?

2001-01-15 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 10:22:00PM -0500, Chris Danis wrote: I'm in the NM queue, currently packaging tclbabel, a piece of software I have written myself. Because I am both upstream and possibly Debian maintainer, should this be such a native package? It really depends. If you make it a

Sponsor needed for distributed-net, djtools, and lxdoom

2001-01-11 Thread Joe Drew
I've got three packages which need to be uploaded ready with a new version, distributed-net, lxdoom, and djtools (which I've adopted.) However, I'm not yet an official debian developer (still waiting on my AM.) So, if someone could upload the packages at http://gemini.woot.net/~hosehead/packages

Sponsor needed for distributed-net, djtools, and lxdoom

2001-01-11 Thread Joe Drew
I've got three packages which need to be uploaded ready with a new version, distributed-net, lxdoom, and djtools (which I've adopted.) However, I'm not yet an official debian developer (still waiting on my AM.) So, if someone could upload the packages at http://gemini.woot.net/~hosehead/packages

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Joe Drew
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: I do not have as much trouble compiling programs, but real trouble compiling a kernel. This is the error I always get. It seems that it returns the error for almost every f*n *.c file in there, one after another. Some of then

Re: Internal compiler error

2000-12-12 Thread Joe Drew
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: I do not have as much trouble compiling programs, but real trouble compiling a kernel. This is the error I always get. It seems that it returns the error for almost every f*n *.c file in there, one after another. Some of then take

Mix of dynamic and static libraries

2000-11-22 Thread Joe Drew
I maintain distributed-net, which is created from multiple architectures of upstream binary-only files. The problem is, I also need to depend on another package, so on certain architectures (ie i386) ${shlibs:Depends} is empty, and on others it has something in it. The problem arises when I add

Mix of dynamic and static libraries

2000-11-22 Thread Joe Drew
I maintain distributed-net, which is created from multiple architectures of upstream binary-only files. The problem is, I also need to depend on another package, so on certain architectures (ie i386) ${shlibs:Depends} is empty, and on others it has something in it. The problem arises when I add

OT: Script started/done [Was: Re: lintian is not approving what dh_compress does?]

2000-02-08 Thread Joe Drew
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 04:09:41PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: Content-Description: buildpackage Script started on Tue Feb 8 15:54:38 2000 [15:54:38 /tmp]$ cd /home/she aul/tkman/src/tkman-2.1b3/ [15:55:01 tkman-2.1b3]$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot [...] exit Script done on Tue Feb 8

Re: need sponsorship for sphinx

2000-02-01 Thread Joe Drew
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:16:40PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: i was going by the Open Source Definition (www.opensource.org/osd.html). i wonder why the debian definition is different. the dfsg and the ossd are nearly exactly the same. In fact, upon perusing the OSSD I came across the following:

Autobuilders and closed bugs

2000-01-10 Thread Joe Drew
How exactly do autobuilders work? Will, within a certain period of time, a package appear in (for example) the m68k ftp archive of my packages, built by an autobuilder daemon on an m68k machine? As well - closed bugs still show up in things like querybts. Do they disappear after a certain amount

Re: SVGAlib suid binaries?

1999-10-25 Thread Joe Drew
On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:56:21PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Look at lincity. If I remember right it generates three packages: main, svga and X11. The svga and x11 package contain the binarie for svga and x11 respectivly, while main contains all comon files. The lincity-svga is

SVGAlib suid binaries?

1999-10-23 Thread Joe Drew
Is it permissable to create binaries, linked against svgalib, which are setuid/setgid root.root? The security paranoid system administrator in me says this is a big no-no, particularly when what I'm talking about is a game (lxdoom). But then, when you install lxdoom-svga, it's unusable except by

Changing package names

1999-10-14 Thread Joe Drew
Something that's been going through my mind recently is the following: Say I had package foo, and all was going well. Then, upstream, they change the package name to 'bar,' and I decide to go along with it. How could I go about making it automated for an upgrade to happen? Could I drop a Depends: