Re: Some debconf questions

2003-09-10 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Küster wrote: - If a debconf question is manipulated by db_set, does that affect its seen flag? And if it does, does it take effect immediately (i.e., also for a following db_inut ...), or only in the next run of the config file? No, you would have to use FSET to manipulate a

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-30 Thread Joey Hess
Eduard Bloch wrote: However, a possible implementation failed completely because of stupideness of svn merge. So we have to find an alternative solution with diffpatchcp. OTOH it is not possible to keep the version history of every file. I think you're looking for svn_load_dirs. -- see shy

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for their insight into this issue. I will try to summarize everything in this reply to myself. Nice job writing this up, here are some corrections. The repository will have the following structure: trunk/

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Jamin W. Collins wrote: I was with you up to this point. I don't normally name my working copy in the form project-version as that form is needed for actually making hte package and for that we need an exported copy of the working copy. Actually, dpkg-buildpackage does not care what you name

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Jamin W. Collins wrote: I prefer an alternate structure where you start with the project as a top level. This keeps all project (package) related files under one directory in the project: project/ trunk/ branches/ tags/ vendor/ The only problem with this

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Fabian Fagerholm wrote: Thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for their insight into this issue. I will try to summarize everything in this reply to myself. Nice job writing this up, here are some corrections. The repository will have the following structure: trunk/

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Jamin W. Collins wrote: I was with you up to this point. I don't normally name my working copy in the form project-version as that form is needed for actually making hte package and for that we need an exported copy of the working copy. Actually, dpkg-buildpackage does not care what you name

Re: how to use dh-perl

2003-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Tommaso Moroni wrote: I'm packaging for the first time a perl program and I have some doubts about dh-perl. The program contains those lines: use DBI; use HTML::Template; but dh-perl doesn't find any dependency, so I added manually libhtml-template-perl and libdbd-pg-perl in the

Re: how to use dh-perl

2003-07-12 Thread Joey Hess
Tommaso Moroni wrote: I'm packaging for the first time a perl program and I have some doubts about dh-perl. The program contains those lines: use DBI; use HTML::Template; but dh-perl doesn't find any dependency, so I added manually libhtml-template-perl and libdbd-pg-perl in the

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-16 Thread Joey Hess
Kenneth Pronovici wrote: Anyway, now that I've done all of this cleanup, I've realized that the package won't move into testing until I build it on all of the architectures it was built on for woody. Right now, according to the excuses list, I am missing alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, powerpc, s390

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-16 Thread Joey Hess
Kenneth Pronovici wrote: Anyway, now that I've done all of this cleanup, I've realized that the package won't move into testing until I build it on all of the architectures it was built on for woody. Right now, according to the excuses list, I am missing alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, powerpc, s390

Re: What to do if $PACKAGE needs $ACCOUNT to _build_

2003-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: I am currently preparing packages for rrfw (see bug#186828). The daemons that come with rrfw run as user rrfw, and the Makefiles of that package insist on chowning some files to rrfw at build time. That - of course - fails when the rrfw account does not exist at build time.

Re: What to do if $PACKAGE needs $ACCOUNT to _build_

2003-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: I am currently preparing packages for rrfw (see bug#186828). The daemons that come with rrfw run as user rrfw, and the Makefiles of that package insist on chowning some files to rrfw at build time. That - of course - fails when the rrfw account does not exist at build time.

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
I really think this should go to the debian-perl list so I'm sending it there. The libc-include-perl example below is one of the best arguments I've seen for changing the perl module naming scheme. It's a pity that we didn't think it through more before deciding on it. IIRC we just took the

Re: bug reports

2003-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
, download($bug)); + } + +} + # Add any new commands here. =item version @@ -325,7 +431,7 @@ sub bts_version { (my $progname = $0) =~ s%.*/%%; print STDOUT $progname version $version\n; -print STDOUT Copyright (C) 2001 by Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED].\n; +print

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
I really think this should go to the debian-perl list so I'm sending it there. The libc-include-perl example below is one of the best arguments I've seen for changing the perl module naming scheme. It's a pity that we didn't think it through more before deciding on it. IIRC we just took the

Re: bug reports

2003-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
, download($bug)); + } + +} + # Add any new commands here. =item version @@ -325,7 +431,7 @@ sub bts_version { (my $progname = $0) =~ s%.*/%%; print STDOUT $progname version $version\n; -print STDOUT Copyright (C) 2001 by Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED].\n; +print

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
Mike Schacht wrote: I am not an official debian developer, but I maintain a couple of packages. One of them, kdirstat, is already in the official distribution. I intend to apply as a NM soon, but in the meantime, since the last update of kdirstat, I am having portability problems. I have

Re: debconf problem

2003-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Jonas Meurer wrote: On 16/05/2003 Joe Nahmias wrote: if dpkg --compare-versions $3 = 0.1g then db_input high lurker/upgrade01_info || true db_go elif dpkg --compare-versions $3 = 0.5 then

Re: Reportbug and BTS

2003-04-29 Thread Joey Hess
John Lightsey wrote: Following the advice given on Debian Mentors I've started going through the various bug lists looking for reproducable, isolated and fixable bugs to help out with. In the process I've become fairly comfortable with reportbug but I've also come up with a few questions

Re: Is redirecting stdout/stderr in postinst allowed?

2003-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Küster wrote: Hi, the developers' reference says in 6.4: | Standard input and output may be redirected (e.g. into pipes) for | logging purposes, so don't rely on them being a tty. So far, so good. But is it o.k. if the script itself performs redirections? For example something

Re: debian native and CVS

2003-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. The clean way is build from an exported tree using cvs-buildpackage. AFAIK it works the same for native as for non-native packages. The

Re: problems with debconf

2003-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Küster wrote: then debconf-show netenv says nothing, i.e. all the debconf items should be purged from the database Try 'debconf-how unknown' And now it is back. Is it possible that the problem comes from my testing of the scripts? Since the config script got fairly complex, I have

Re: problems with debconf

2003-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Frank Küster wrote: then debconf-show netenv says nothing, i.e. all the debconf items should be purged from the database Try 'debconf-how unknown' And now it is back. Is it possible that the problem comes from my testing of the scripts? Since the config script got fairly complex, I have

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Danish wrote: If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were made before. Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows, I've written accidential rm -rf's in shell. I've written bubble

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matthew Danish wrote: If you don't learn, you're going to make the same mistakes that were made before. Making mistakes can be the essence of learning. I've written spaghetti code in BASIC, I've written C with buffer overflows, I've written accidential rm -rf's in shell. I've written bubble

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-23 Thread Joey Hess
I get less out of computer books than most people on this thread. With the technical/reference books I seem to not read them until I know most of what's in them, and then just use them to mop up any odd corner I missed. And I'd rather learn the more process and theory oriented stuff the hard way.

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Hmm, dh_make is trying to do a similar approach. Why not use that way? I like to have the original .tar.gz exactly as I downloaded it. dh_make unpacks the source and repacks it to a new .orig.tar.gz. Why would dh_make go out of its way to violate best practices like

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Kemp wrote: As an aside I wonder how well SE-Linux, or the other improved security patches handle installation issues? I know that by installing a random package you're effectively giving the package maintainer root upon your box. I'd imagine that a package installation

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Hmm, dh_make is trying to do a similar approach. Why not use that way? I like to have the original .tar.gz exactly as I downloaded it. dh_make unpacks the source and repacks it to a new .orig.tar.gz. Why would dh_make go out of its way to violate best practices like

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-03-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Kemp wrote: As an aside I wonder how well SE-Linux, or the other improved security patches handle installation issues? I know that by installing a random package you're effectively giving the package maintainer root upon your box. I'd imagine that a package installation

Re: DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Joshua Kwan wrote: Using DH_COMPAT=2 in my rules and calling dh_shlibdeps -a.. however, it does nothing! It creates a single substvars file if DH_COMPAT is unset. The first thing to do is show us what it says in verbose mode with -v. At a guess you may not have any elf binaries installed

Re: DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Joshua Kwan wrote: Using DH_COMPAT=2 in my rules and calling dh_shlibdeps -a.. however, it does nothing! It creates a single substvars file if DH_COMPAT is unset. The first thing to do is show us what it says in verbose mode with -v. At a guess you may not have any elf binaries installed

Re: non conffiles in /etc and loading from templates?

2003-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
sean finney wrote: currently, there's a file /etc/sugarplum/apache.conf that has the rewrite rules, including the location of /sugarplum. if i were to do one of the above suggestions, what's the best way to handle this file? would it still be as a conffile, even though every time the package

Re: non conffiles in /etc and loading from templates?

2003-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
sean finney wrote: currently, there's a file /etc/sugarplum/apache.conf that has the rewrite rules, including the location of /sugarplum. if i were to do one of the above suggestions, what's the best way to handle this file? would it still be as a conffile, even though every time the package

Re: debmake and dh-make

2003-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Ruoso wrote: as I can see, this is a recurrent question (I've made the same question a year ago). I have a proposal: As debmake and dh-make are the two mostly used helper scripts, I propose the creation of a document to be available at http://www.debian.org/devel explaining about

Re: debmake and dh-make

2003-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Ruoso wrote: as I can see, this is a recurrent question (I've made the same question a year ago). I have a proposal: As debmake and dh-make are the two mostly used helper scripts, I propose the creation of a document to be available at http://www.debian.org/devel explaining about

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: I would use the various introspection-related modules to do this (maybe Devel::Symdump or B?), but it's not possible to get it reliably correct automatically. I think there are plenty of not-particularly-pathological scripts and modules in the distribution that would easily

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Kemp wrote: Mapping from a perl module to a Debian package should be trivial, I would have thought. Given the system upon which dh_perl would be run would have the modules installed it should be a simple matter of running 'dpkg --search path/to/perl/module.pm' - or am I missing

Re: debconf problems

2002-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
pp wrote: I have some problems with debconf: Can't call method clearall on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 150, GEN0 chunk 1. Any idea? I can not build package cause of this error. I'd need a copy of your debconf database and a log of you reproducing the

Re: debconf problems

2002-12-03 Thread Joey Hess
pp wrote: I have some problems with debconf: Can't call method clearall on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 150, GEN0 chunk 1. Any idea? I can not build package cause of this error. I'd need a copy of your debconf database and a log of you reproducing the

Re: Undefined subroutine main::excludefile called at /usr/bin/dh_clean line 64.

2002-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: I've setup a new SPARC where I will do some SPARC development and testing of my own packages. But I'm getting an error from dh_clean (see subject)! I suppose that there is a Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib module somewhere on your perl @INC that is very old and not shipped

Re: Undefined subroutine main::excludefile called at /usr/bin/dh_clean line 64.

2002-11-18 Thread Joey Hess
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: I've setup a new SPARC where I will do some SPARC development and testing of my own packages. But I'm getting an error from dh_clean (see subject)! I suppose that there is a Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Lib module somewhere on your perl @INC that is very old and not shipped

Re: linuxworld expo 2003

2002-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Ross Boylan wrote: If it is held again in San Francisco (economy, tech market, etc) I usually take charge of the booth here. As the time comes closer we discuss somethings here and on a Bay Area mailing list. I'm in San Francisco, and this is the first I've heard about a Bay Area list.

Re: linuxworld expo 2003

2002-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Ross Boylan wrote: If it is held again in San Francisco (economy, tech market, etc) I usually take charge of the booth here. As the time comes closer we discuss somethings here and on a Bay Area mailing list. I'm in San Francisco, and this is the first I've heard about a Bay Area list.

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: Since debconf 1.2.9 dpkg-reconfigure calls prerm, which does invoke-rc.d stop, so I think this would be the correct runtime dependency when dpkg-reconfigure has to stop a daemon before it can be (re)started in postinst... I don't see what you mean, and this seems to have

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:06:58 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~grep prerm =dpkg-reconfigure foreach my $info (['prerm','upgrade', $version], May I suggest that dh_installinit adds 'debconf (= 1.2.9)' to ${misc:Depends}? Whatever

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-10 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: Since debconf 1.2.9 dpkg-reconfigure calls prerm, which does invoke-rc.d stop, so I think this would be the correct runtime dependency when dpkg-reconfigure has to stop a daemon before it can be (re)started in postinst... I don't see what you mean, and this seems to have

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: dh_installinit adds 'invoke-rc.d start' (or: init.d/package start) to postinst, hence, after dpkg-reconfigure is run, postinst will try to start an already running service, start-stop-daemon will fail, and the daemon will not reload its new configuration. What's the

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: I do not upgrade, dpkg-reconfigure doesn't call prerm... Look again. joeydragon:~grep prerm =dpkg-reconfigure foreach my $info (['prerm','upgrade', $version], -- see shy jo msg07790/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: dh_installinit adds 'invoke-rc.d start' (or: init.d/package start) to postinst, hence, after dpkg-reconfigure is run, postinst will try to start an already running service, start-stop-daemon will fail, and the daemon will not reload its new configuration. What's the

Re: dh_installinit and dpkg-reconfigure

2002-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Martin Godisch wrote: I do not upgrade, dpkg-reconfigure doesn't call prerm... Look again. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~grep prerm =dpkg-reconfigure foreach my $info (['prerm','upgrade', $version], -- see shy jo pgp58jOS4Ok1X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dpkg-reconfigure hacking in postinst

2002-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: I have a prospective package that checks for the environment variable DPKG_RECONFIGURE=1 in the postinst, and if it decides that it's being reconfigured, it will overwrite its configuration file (not a conffile) based on the debconf answers. The theory is that if a user

Re: dpkg-reconfigure hacking in postinst

2002-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Nelson wrote: I have a prospective package that checks for the environment variable DPKG_RECONFIGURE=1 in the postinst, and if it decides that it's being reconfigured, it will overwrite its configuration file (not a conffile) based on the debconf answers. The theory is that if a user

Re: debconf template not included in package ???

2002-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: I created a templates file, put it in the debian directory, created a config file and a postinst file, like was adviced. Now, the package builds fine, i tried running the postinst by hand, and it asked me the question in the template. When i installed the built package,

Re: debconf template not included in package ???

2002-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: Maybe this should be more proeminently said in /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.txt.gz, no, there is only a quick mention about installing in debian/tmp/DEBIAN/, which i missed, and the fact that the newline cut this path in two did not help. Also maybe the note about

Re: debconf template not included in package ???

2002-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: I created a templates file, put it in the debian directory, created a config file and a postinst file, like was adviced. Now, the package builds fine, i tried running the postinst by hand, and it asked me the question in the template. When i installed the built package,

Re: debconf template not included in package ???

2002-10-28 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: Maybe this should be more proeminently said in /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.txt.gz, no, there is only a quick mention about installing in debian/tmp/DEBIAN/, which i missed, and the fact that the newline cut this path in two did not help. Also maybe the note about

Re: packages which can be arch: all and arch: any ...

2002-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Sven LUTHER wrote: Since the bytecode executables are arch independent, i think it would be nice to build them arch: all, since this would mean, apart from smaller sized packages, also that we don't have 12+ version of the same thing in the archive (well, at least we can spare all the arches

Re: packages which can be arch: all and arch: any ...

2002-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Sven LUTHER wrote: Well, what about the coq for example, which is 7 MB package (on i386, so maybe it is bigger for other arches) and 20MB installed. I guess it's on the line. There is also the buildd resources, especially on the slower arches. I guess it takes much time to build coq on m68k

Re: packages which can be arch: all and arch: any ...

2002-10-04 Thread Joey Hess
Sven LUTHER wrote: Since the bytecode executables are arch independent, i think it would be nice to build them arch: all, since this would mean, apart from smaller sized packages, also that we don't have 12+ version of the same thing in the archive (well, at least we can spare all the arches

Re: Perl postinst script running external commands

2002-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
Matthias Urlichs wrote: IMHO it's a good reason for not mixing configuration with execution, and it's an even better reason for fixing a bug in DebConf. Specifically, setting the Close-On-Exec flag on the file descriptor(s) which represent the DebConf protocol will prevent all these problems

Re: Perl postinst script running external commands

2002-10-01 Thread Joey Hess
Matthias Urlichs wrote: IMHO it's a good reason for not mixing configuration with execution, and it's an even better reason for fixing a bug in DebConf. Specifically, setting the Close-On-Exec flag on the file descriptor(s) which represent the DebConf protocol will prevent all these problems

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-21 Thread Joey Hess
Bas Zoetekouw wrote: SPAM: * 4.5 -- RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net SPAM: [RBL check: found 214.224.20.195.bl.spamcop.net.] That score should probably be reduced to, oh, 1 or so, given what I've heard about spamcop's propensity for flagging things like legit list serv

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-21 Thread Joey Hess
Bas Zoetekouw wrote: SPAM: * 4.5 -- RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net SPAM: [RBL check: found 214.224.20.195.bl.spamcop.net.] That score should probably be reduced to, oh, 1 or so, given what I've heard about spamcop's propensity for flagging things like legit list serv

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
I've tried the solution proposed by Joey (using the .TH field in the man source), but it didn't work... so I think the only way is to do it manually as many of you have suggested. Oh hmm, I'd forgotten that the .TH line typically has the man page name in all upper-case, which means there is

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
I've tried the solution proposed by Joey (using the .TH field in the man source), but it didn't work... so I think the only way is to do it manually as many of you have suggested. Oh hmm, I'd forgotten that the .TH line typically has the man page name in all upper-case, which means there is

Re: dh_builddeb error - why?

2002-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: I'm getting an error from dh_builddeb when trying to build a new package. The build was working previously, but today it started failing, and doesn't really say why. Are there any known problem with dh_builddeb? No. It is a very thin wrapper around dpkg --build So

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Marco Presi wrote: My problem is this: for the two packeges I want to have two different man pages (in fact server-enhanced has more config options that server) but it would nice if the man pages could have the same name (server.conf.5) I don't know how to resolve this,

Re: dh_builddeb error - why?

2002-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: I'm getting an error from dh_builddeb when trying to build a new package. The build was working previously, but today it started failing, and doesn't really say why. Are there any known problem with dh_builddeb? No. It is a very thin wrapper around dpkg --build So

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-08 Thread Joey Hess
Marco Presi wrote: My problem is this: for the two packeges I want to have two different man pages (in fact server-enhanced has more config options that server) but it would nice if the man pages could have the same name (server.conf.5) I don't know how to resolve this,

Re: Sponsor request (perl again)

2002-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Devin Carraway wrote: This is a small Perl module I had need of during a recent project at work, but which wasn't in Debian. Essentially it provides the comparison indicating that (e.g.) 2.10.1pl1-8 is greater than 2.9.8.1-4. Small, simple, perl-only. Packages may be had from

Re: Sponsor request (perl again)

2002-08-18 Thread Joey Hess
Devin Carraway wrote: This is a small Perl module I had need of during a recent project at work, but which wasn't in Debian. Essentially it provides the comparison indicating that (e.g.) 2.10.1pl1-8 is greater than 2.9.8.1-4. Small, simple, perl-only. Packages may be had from

Re: Debconf questions and purge

2002-08-02 Thread Joey Hess
Jérôme Marant wrote: I need to merge the wwsympa package into sympa. Both packages use debconf. I wonder how I should merge wwsympa debconf templates into sympa's. In sympa, debconf variables start with sympa/ and wwsympa ones start with wwsympa/ If I keep the same variable

Re: Debconf questions and purge

2002-08-02 Thread Joey Hess
Jérôme Marant wrote: I need to merge the wwsympa package into sympa. Both packages use debconf. I wonder how I should merge wwsympa debconf templates into sympa's. In sympa, debconf variables start with sympa/ and wwsympa ones start with wwsympa/ If I keep the same variable name,

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you don't want to lose your high scores files when

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I don't agree with you here. When you have games that use high scores files, these are placed in /var as per FHS 5.4 (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-5.4.html) and obvioulsy tagged as conffiles (you don't want to lose your high scores files when

Re: developer vs user wants

2002-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Cardenas wrote: I'm working on the limewire deb package, and the developer has asked me to do something that I'm sure users are not going to want. Limewire displays small banner ads in the bottom of the application window, and there's a boolean which turns this on. When you get the

Re: developer vs user wants

2002-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Michael Cardenas wrote: I'm working on the limewire deb package, and the developer has asked me to do something that I'm sure users are not going to want. Limewire displays small banner ads in the bottom of the application window, and there's a boolean which turns this on. When you get the

Re: lintian and statically link binaries

2002-06-12 Thread Joey Hess
Oliver Kurth wrote: Hello! I want to package cpuburn, this is a small collection of assembler prgrams to test CPUs (x86 only). lintian gives me these errors: oku@robin:~/debian/cpuburn-1.4$ lintian ../cpuburn_1.4-1_i386.deb E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnBX I belive

Re: lintian and statically link binaries

2002-06-12 Thread Joey Hess
Oliver Kurth wrote: Hello! I want to package cpuburn, this is a small collection of assembler prgrams to test CPUs (x86 only). lintian gives me these errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/cpuburn-1.4$ lintian ../cpuburn_1.4-1_i386.deb E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnBX I

Re: dpkg compresses diff file differently

2002-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Oohara Yuuma wrote: dpkg compresses the diff file differently every time I build .deb . The uncompressed .diff is same. Is this an expected behavior? gzip puts a timestamp in all .gz files it produces. Notice that file displays it. Thus the file won't have the same checksum each time it's

Re: dpkg compresses diff file differently

2002-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Oohara Yuuma wrote: dpkg compresses the diff file differently every time I build .deb . The uncompressed .diff is same. Is this an expected behavior? gzip puts a timestamp in all .gz files it produces. Notice that file displays it. Thus the file won't have the same checksum each time it's

Re: Is dh_install doesn't rm the files?

2002-06-05 Thread Joey Hess
Shaul Karl wrote: According to the dh_movefiles man page, dh_install is a much better program that can do everything this one can, and more'. Yet with dh_install I was only able to cp -a files without the addition of rm them out of their current place. What am I missing?

Re: Is dh_install doesn't rm the files?

2002-06-05 Thread Joey Hess
Shaul Karl wrote: According to the dh_movefiles man page, dh_install is a much better program that can do everything this one can, and more'. Yet with dh_install I was only able to cp -a files without the addition of rm them out of their current place. What am I missing?

Re: debhelper I have no package to build

2002-05-19 Thread Joey Hess
. Compressing those broke browsing. Since I'm the first to do this deliberately, according to Joey Hess, I'll simply continue using || true. I wonder if you'd not be better off using something like dh_compress -X htmltree , to make it just not act on anything in whatever directory your html

Re: debhelper I have no package to build

2002-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Steve M. Robbins wrote: Surely this is not the first time someone has run into this. Am I doing something silly? It seems a bit odd to make the no package to build diagnostic a fatal error. It's almost always a mistake. I think you're the first person to do this on purpose. -- see shy jo

Re: Bug#146786: debhelper: deb packages should contain SONAME

2002-05-17 Thread Joey Hess
Sam Clegg wrote: Aren't dev packages supposed to contain the SONAME: libfoo0-dev (rather than libfoo-dev) And then: Conflicts: libfoo-dev Provides: libfoo-dev At least this is what the libpkg-guide says. Why is this bug report filed on debhelper, which merely uses whatever package

Re: Multiple configure-make cycles

2002-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Kleineidam wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:08:26PM -0700, David Caldwell wrote: Instead of building in the source dir, create 2 build directories, cd to each and ../configure with different options. Then in the make section, cd into each build dir and make. So essentially you

Re: Multiple configure-make cycles

2002-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Bastian Kleineidam wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:08:26PM -0700, David Caldwell wrote: Instead of building in the source dir, create 2 build directories, cd to each and ../configure with different options. Then in the make section, cd into each build dir and make. So essentially you

Re: Sponsor for PyXMMS and PyXMMS-remote

2002-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:37:37PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends} which I think should be OK since it is in the debhelper(1)

Re: Sponsor for PyXMMS and PyXMMS-remote

2002-04-21 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:37:37PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends} which I think should be OK since it is in the

Re: dh_installman

2002-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Leigh wrote: install man pages that are 0 length files. If you send me your build tree I can try to debug it. Ah, thanks. Some of the manpages are (oddly) zero-length. I'll have to write some when I get time, if there are not any elsewhere. All right, the next version of

Re: dh_installman

2002-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Leigh wrote: install man pages that are 0 length files. If you send me your build tree I can try to debug it. Ah, thanks. Some of the manpages are (oddly) zero-length. I'll have to write some when I get time, if there are not any elsewhere. All right, the next version of debhelper

Re: dh_installman

2002-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Leigh wrote: I'm getting some errors from dh_installman, and the manpages are not getting installed: $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc [...] dh_installman -i Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 181. Use of uninitialized value in

Re: dh_installman

2002-04-12 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Leigh wrote: I'm getting some errors from dh_installman, and the manpages are not getting installed: $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc [...] dh_installman -i Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/dh_installman line 181. Use of uninitialized value in

Re: debconf

2002-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: With Type: note, will the installation pause for user input (Press [Enter]), or, if I want to be sure the user sees it, should I make it a different type and ask for user input? It'll pause. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: debconf

2002-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: With Type: note, will the installation pause for user input (Press [Enter]), or, if I want to be sure the user sees it, should I make it a different type and ask for user input? It'll pause. -- see shy jo

Re: debconf

2002-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: Template: dict-web1913/reconf Type: note Description: Replace dict-web1913 with dict-gcide in /etc/dictd.conf Is your description field really indented by one character? -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Duggan wrote: When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct? Install the uscan from unstable, and do not escape backslashes. The

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