Re: RFS: gnome-shell-extensions

2011-11-06 Thread Leo 'costela7; Antunes
-status-menu) and this should be much > better. User-theme might also be a good candidate, since it's unintrusive and gnome-tweak-tool already expects to find it. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-r

Re: RFS: gnome-shell-extensions

2011-11-05 Thread Leo 'costela7; Antunes
inconsistency) If no pkg-gnome maintainer objects, I could upload it in the coming week. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: RFS: vnstat -- console-based network traffic monitor

2011-08-13 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
On 13/08/11 15:03, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > But vnstat is already present: But it's maintained by the QA team, so maybe an adoption would be in order? Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-09 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
least - for all but the most pathological cases) you're always relying on something you probably don't understand completely and making rules files more explicit, while still using wrappers and helpers, has no direct effect on this. It only makes for more text to parse. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iv9oln$1k5$1...@dough.gmane.org

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
ally save a significant amount of time by not using dh/cdbs/whatever during package builds (and by significant I mean more than just a couple of seconds per build). Cheers [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here [1] http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/4e176b0d.8060...@debian.org -- Le

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
ack, but if that doesn't happen, the point is moot. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hlju3r$j1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-18 Thread Leo 'costela7; Antunes
ry end. Mathew had answered saying I was free to do so, I just hadn't realized his reply was private and not on-list. I interpreted this answer as permission, but perhaps an explicit (and public) one would be better. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-12 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: >> In addition, the FAQ for this list: >> http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html might answer some >> of your questions. > > As a side note, wouldn't the wiki be the perfect place

Re: Joining Debian

2010-02-08 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
t just seems like a bit of a waste of potential help, having it in a different place. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: numptyphysics

2009-12-30 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
ntually a DD, right? So you need the practice! I just wanna have a hand in it. Practically just a psychological thing! :) If you still wanna maintain it, incorporate the mentioned fixes and I'll upload it! Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNS

Re: RFS: numptyphysics

2009-12-30 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
ld have thought of that... :) Still, probably wouldn't cause build issues, but it sure is ugly! Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: numptyphysics

2009-12-30 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
r.gz. I don't think I'm seeing the issue here. Care to elaborate a bit more? Isn't that the whole idea behind patching and running autoreconf in the first place? If we wanted the changed files produced by autoreconf in the debian.tar.gz we wouldn't need to run it, right? What a

Re: RFS: numptyphysics

2009-12-30 Thread Leo 'costela7; Antunes
Gabriele Giacone wrote: > Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: >> Was 0.3 already released somewhere? I can find no traces of it either on >> the homepage, the maemo.org project page or SVN. > > No and yes. There are no 0.3 binary releases but I found this [1]: 7 > wee

Re: RFS: numptyphysics

2009-12-30 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
an.net/debian/pool/main/n/numptyphysics/numptyphysics_0.3-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone reviewed and uploaded this package for me. I'll take a look at it ASAP and get back to you. Cheers [0] http://bugs.debian.org/496586 -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty ret

Re: Building pdf from odt files noninteractively?

2009-10-16 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
ld time: they're arch-indep and could be generated just as well before each new release. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: homebank

2009-08-23 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
proximity) I'd gladly advocate his DM status, should he want to apply for it. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: orig tarball in conflict with debian policy

2009-02-21 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
problem with it, then I've unknowingly been making this mistake for years... :) Cheers [0]http://changelog.complete.org/archives/910-how-to-think-about-compression [1]http://changelog.complete.org/archives/931-how-to-think-about-compression-part-2 -- Leo "costela" Antun

Re: orig tarball in conflict with debian policy

2009-02-21 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
t format is perfectly in order in this case and the name of the base source directory doesn't really matter much. Or did I misunderstand your question? Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: RFS: gnocky

2008-04-16 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
t more informative about what the program can do. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: blueproximity

2008-03-10 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
nt to intrude into anything you guys might have already talked about, but it seemed like a nice step to integrate it with the team. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: blueproximity

2008-03-10 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
ackage really interesting, if you ever need a co-maint, let me know! :-) Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Help with watch file -- pre-release upstream versions

2008-02-10 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
rator? But I don't really know if uscan even recognizes it... Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: dblatex (updated package): 2nd try

2007-12-19 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
#x27;, as pointed out by others! :-) Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: yougrabber

2007-12-19 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
pplication, without having to read the technical fine print to figure it out (it sounds like cheap advertising: "it's graphical! ... but technically, it's not" ;-) ). Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: Mupen64 -- Nintendo 64 emulator and plugins

2007-12-18 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
header, I found them via a dirty 'licensecheck -r ./ | grep UNKNOWN | cut -d: -f1 | while read file; do grep -L "General Public Licence" $file; done' -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: dblatex (updated package): 2nd try

2007-12-18 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Felipe Sateler wrote: > This can be triggered with the -v option to dpkg-buildpackage Live and learn. Never noticed that one before! :-) Uploading. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: dblatex (updated package): 2nd try

2007-12-18 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
rom doing this, but I'd personally say you don't need to bump versions before the package actually gets into the archive, so you could just stick with '-1' for a Debian version, so merging the changelog entries should do the trick. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antu

Re: RFS: dblatex (updated package): 2nd try

2007-12-15 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
quick check with debc, aside from lintian is always a good idea, but the package seems good. After you take a look at these issues (or just justify them) I can sponsor you, if no one with more expertise in this sort of package pops up until - let's say - monday. Cheers -- Leo "costela&

Re: Packages getting created without signature

2007-12-13 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
evocation certificate in safe, offline places, in case of emergency. Do some research on the topic. Wikipedia is your friend (even if it's not always particularly right about everything). It might ease your life if you intend on becoming a Debian Maintainer or Developer. Cheers and

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-06 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Russ Allbery wrote: > lintian.debian.org only checks i386. Oh, now that makes sense! Guess the obvious sometimes slips by unnoticed :-) But anyway, I have an amd64 server and a package with the same problem which chrpath solved, so my argument stands. Cheers -- Leo "costela" An

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-06 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
you're NOT rebuilding the configure script. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-06 Thread Leo "costela" Antunes
Anibal Avelar wrote: > On 12/5/07, Leo costela Antunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> - And, of course, using 'chrpath' on debian/rules > > No, it doesn't work for AMD. I tried to use chrpath directly to > binaries files, but it didn't work. Ar

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-05 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
Leo "costela" Antunes wrote: > > The way I see it the options for dealing with RPATH are: > - And, of course, using 'chrpath' on debian/rules Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-05 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
d-time - Patch the configure script on build-time Any other ideas? I'll probably update the wiki[0] with these suggestions and give it a little cleanup, while I'm at it! :-) Cheers [0] http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: New package "unicornscan" , I GIVE UP !

2007-12-05 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
ain, I will send you the > whole stuff. Thanky for this ! That doesn't sound very optimistic. But even if you do "fail" (by your standards) there's no need to send me the packages. I can get them from the original website. Cheers and good luck -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New package "unicornscan" , I GIVE UP !

2007-12-05 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
reading them in a different place? Just the work of the person writing you an answer (in this case: me). At any rate, if you're not interested in making an effort with this package, I might take it over and package it myself. It seems interesting, but I'll need to take a better look before commi

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-02 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
ed the rules file to a file named '\' on the base source code dir. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: gnome-phone-manager

2007-11-23 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: gnome-phone-manager

2007-11-23 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
> Precisely, this did the trick. Just add 'chrpath' to the build-deps too. Update it in the SVN and I'll upload it. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: gnome-phone-manager

2007-11-23 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
use chrpath to clean it after the build and advise upstream to cleanup the configure script. What do you think? Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: gnome-phone-manager

2007-11-23 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
ian.org/debian-devel/2007/11/msg00722.html -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: gnome-phone-manager

2007-11-23 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
Mike O'Connor wrote: > src/gconf-bridge.* and most of the files in the telepathy directory > have copyright holders not mentioned in debian/copyright. Francesco, will you take a look at these, before I sponsor the package? Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [inser

Re: RFS: gnome-phone-manager

2007-11-23 Thread Leo &quot;costela&quot; Antunes
Francesco Namuri wrote: > I'm looking for a temporary sponsor for gnome-phone-manager 0.40-3, Still need this? Can I check it out from svn.d.o, or do you have any uncommited changes somewhere? Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here] signature.asc De

Re: RFS: gaim-hotkeys

2005-02-04 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi, I know it's been some time, but do you still need a hand with this? Sounds like an interesting package. Cheers On Qua, 2004-10-13 at 18:17 +0800, Ivan Wong wrote: Hi, I think the package maintainer of Gaim is too busy for it. Is there anyone give me a hand with this? Any help would be

Re: RFS: x-no-session-manager - restore default X behavior with gnome/kde installed

2005-02-03 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi On Qui, 2005-02-03 at 13:54 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The advantage of having this as package is that > > 'update-alternatives --config x-session-manager' > > will show you 3 options now: gnome, kde and none. Having to tweak the > alternative manually to something non executable b

Re: RFS: gaim-encryption -- encryption plugin for gaim

2004-10-18 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
[no need to CC me, I'm subscribed to d-mentors] On Seg, 2004-10-18 at 11:01, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: > Hi Leo, Hi > I decided to make my own gaim-encryption package, since: Your motives are perfect. I agree with all of them. > You're right about the gaim headers: it would be much nicer to hav

Re: RFS: gaim-encryption -- encryption plugin for gaim

2004-10-18 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
[no need to CC me, I'm subscribed to d-mentors] On Seg, 2004-10-18 at 11:01, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: > Hi Leo, Hi > I decided to make my own gaim-encryption package, since: Your motives are perfect. I agree with all of them. > You're right about the gaim headers: it would be much nicer to hav

Re: RFS: gaim-encryption -- encryption plugin for gaim

2004-10-18 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi On Seg, 2004-10-18 at 05:06, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: > I've been in contact with the gaim developers who seem to be reluctant > to add a gaim-dev package in the near future (they are considering an > experimental package, though). Therefore, I think it is better to go > ahead and just ship

Re: RFS: gaim-encryption -- encryption plugin for gaim

2004-10-18 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi On Seg, 2004-10-18 at 05:06, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: > I've been in contact with the gaim developers who seem to be reluctant > to add a gaim-dev package in the near future (they are considering an > experimental package, though). Therefore, I think it is better to go > ahead and just ship

Re: pearpc_0.3.1-2_i386.changes UNACCEPT

2004-10-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Sex, 2004-10-15 at 16:29, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > Rejected: pearpc_0.3.1-2.dsc refers to pearpc_0.3.1.orig.tar.gz, > > but I can't find it in the queue or in the pool. > > Are you sure you made your package with the same (md5) orig file as the > previous version? Yes, both -1 and

pearpc_0.3.1-2_i386.changes UNACCEPT

2004-10-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi all What can I do about the forwarded problem? I tried reuploading the files + the orig.tar.gz, but it generated the same problem. Any pointers? Cheers and thanks -Forwarded Message- > From: Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Leo Costela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian Instal

Re: pearpc_0.3.1-2_i386.changes UNACCEPT

2004-10-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Sex, 2004-10-15 at 16:29, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > > Rejected: pearpc_0.3.1-2.dsc refers to pearpc_0.3.1.orig.tar.gz, > > but I can't find it in the queue or in the pool. > > Are you sure you made your package with the same (md5) orig file as the > previous version? Yes, both -1 and

pearpc_0.3.1-2_i386.changes UNACCEPT

2004-10-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi all What can I do about the forwarded problem? I tried reuploading the files + the orig.tar.gz, but it generated the same problem. Any pointers? Cheers and thanks -Forwarded Message- > From: Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Leo Costela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian Instal

PearPC Section (contrib or main)

2004-10-07 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi all, A couple of days ago, I uploaded PearPC for inclusion into the archive. More specifically into the contrib/otherosfs section, but now I got one doubt troubling me. PearPC does not need MacOS X or other non-free operating system to be fully used, it can be used with Debian/PPC for example,

PearPC Section (contrib or main)

2004-10-07 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi all, A couple of days ago, I uploaded PearPC for inclusion into the archive. More specifically into the contrib/otherosfs section, but now I got one doubt troubling me. PearPC does not need MacOS X or other non-free operating system to be fully used, it can be used with Debian/PPC for example,

Re: How to deal with sql-database structures on upgrade

2003-12-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Seg, 2003-12-15 at 20:05, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > Hi all, Hi > I have tried to write some postinst scripts to migrate the existing > database into the new one, but I think now this is impossible, because > maybe informations which are needed in the new version are missing in > the old one. >

Re: How to deal with sql-database structures on upgrade

2003-12-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Seg, 2003-12-15 at 20:05, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > Hi all, Hi > I have tried to write some postinst scripts to migrate the existing > database into the new one, but I think now this is impossible, because > maybe informations which are needed in the new version are missing in > the old one. >

Re: Standards-Version

2003-12-11 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Qui, 2003-12-11 at 20:00, Florian Zaehringer wrote: > Hi folks! Hi > So I wonder how I can do that? Is there some ChangeLog for the Debian Policy? > Does somebody know where I can find the right docs? Or better: Does somebody > perhaps know what needs to be done for a simple gtk-program to b

Re: Standards-Version

2003-12-11 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Qui, 2003-12-11 at 20:00, Florian Zaehringer wrote: > Hi folks! Hi > So I wonder how I can do that? Is there some ChangeLog for the Debian Policy? > Does somebody know where I can find the right docs? Or better: Does somebody perhaps > know what needs to be done for a simple gtk-program to b

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-14 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Ter, 2003-08-12 at 14:38, Eric Winger wrote: > * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me > errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? This > is my latest attempt: > > deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib free My sources.lis

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-12 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Ter, 2003-08-12 at 14:38, Eric Winger wrote: > * all the deb-src entries i tried to add to my sources.list give me > errors when I try to get the source. What is the url for sources? This > is my latest attempt: > > deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib free My sources.lis

Re: about gzip

2003-07-24 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Qui, 2003-07-24 at 09:09, Halil Demirezen wrote: [snip] > my first question: is it a true usage to put gzip into rules? > and secondly, should i specify "gzip" as a Build-Depends? No need to specify the dependency on gzip because it's in build-essential, according to policy. I'm not sure about

Re: about gzip

2003-07-24 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Qui, 2003-07-24 at 09:09, Halil Demirezen wrote: [snip] > my first question: is it a true usage to put gzip into rules? > and secondly, should i specify "gzip" as a Build-Depends? No need to specify the dependency on gzip because it's in build-essential, according to policy. I'm not sure about

Re: Questions of legality WRT dvd software

2003-07-08 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi On Ter, 2003-07-08 at 12:21, Stephen Gran wrote: > The reason I'm writing is because I wonder about two things - the > program itself is only a single .c file, about 15K compressed, and I > wonder if there is any point in packaging up something this small and > easy to compile. Granted, it's n

Re: Questions of legality WRT dvd software

2003-07-08 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi On Ter, 2003-07-08 at 12:21, Stephen Gran wrote: > The reason I'm writing is because I wonder about two things - the > program itself is only a single .c file, about 15K compressed, and I > wonder if there is any point in packaging up something this small and > easy to compile. Granted, it's n

Re: Documentation

2003-07-07 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi I imagine a simple suggests with a note on the README pointing to the documentation on doc-linux-{html,text} would be fine. I don't think using the extra space for duplicate documentation is a good idea, but maybe there's a more gentle solution... PS.:(pt_BR) eu me sinto um idiota escrevendo i

Re: Documentation

2003-07-07 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi I imagine a simple suggests with a note on the README pointing to the documentation on doc-linux-{html,text} would be fine. I don't think using the extra space for duplicate documentation is a good idea, but maybe there's a more gentle solution... PS.:(pt_BR) eu me sinto um idiota escrevendo i

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? I know this doesn't answer your question, but I assume the portability issues you mention are all build problems in one of Debian's supported architectures, am I right? If so, the build logs[1] should give you more then enough help to track

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-27 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
The buildd-logs[1] don't provide enough debug information? I know this doesn't answer your question, but I assume the portability issues you mention are all build problems in one of Debian's supported architectures, am I right? If so, the build logs[1] should give you more then enough help to track

Re: Querying what packages are installed in postinst

2003-05-27 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
'dpkg -l ' has the official answer. Of course the package _might_ have been removed manually, but in that case the user has already messed up with all infrastructure we care to provide =] I belive this method should be enough. Cheers On Ter, 2003-05-27 at 05:28, Alan Woodland wrote: > For the nex

Re: webCDwriter: Native vs. Non-native package

2003-05-09 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Sex, 2003-05-09 at 19:53, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Hi all, > > * Even though the upstream sources contain no debian subdirectory, > dpkg-buildpackage says it is creating a Debian-native package, > and thus creates no .diif.gz containing my debian subdirectory. > I have put packagen

Re: Library version naming/sonames

2003-04-28 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 18:37, Morgon Kanter wrote: > Should it be: > libzthread2-9:2.11 > libzthread2-2.2.11 > libzthread9-2.2.11 > libzthread2.9-2.2.11 The third one is the best, but you shouldn't use the exact version in the package name, since this whole name changing thing is about conflicting

Re: Moving packages from "Requested" to "Can't be packaged"

2003-04-25 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
I second that. But maybe we still need a canonical list of problematic packages, and the CBP status would only be aplicable to inform wannabe packagers that there's an ongoing analysis on the "packagability" of that software. On second thought, I'm not sure it would be worth it, but I like the id

Re: Replacing a package with a newer, renamed version of itself.

2003-04-20 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 15:22, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > the conflicts and replaces make a new install of the package over the old one > go smoothly. However, it will not cause apt to automatically move to the new > package. A good solution IMO is to keep a fake (empty) package of radiusd-free

Re: RFS: readpst - Converts Outlook PST files to mbox and others

2003-04-16 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 09:36, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I posted a "clarification" from upstream about this to the BTS -- see > the ITP (bug #178113) . It doesn't seem > (to me) that there is any _real_ legal issues -- perhaps mailing -legal > is the right thing to do.

Lame Makefile problem

2003-04-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi I'm having this very lame problem with my debian/rules file: I'm setting CFLAGS to -g in case the DEBUG build option is set but then running $(MAKE) CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) inside the build target results in overridden variables. From what I could find, the Makefile uses CFLAGS internally to store pk

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:04, josX wrote: > John wrote: > >josX wrote: > >> I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, > >> and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't > >> too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but > >> it is not my fi

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:04, josX wrote: > John wrote: > >josX wrote: > >> I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, > >> and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't > >> too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but > >> it is not my fi

Help with RC bugs

2003-03-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi I'm having some problems with two RC bugs in my packages, I'd like to see if any mentor can help me out... FIRST (#184121): is it OK to declare an explicit dependency on libsigc++-dev if my dev package includes files from it? (I'm guessing it is, by documentation, but something doesn't look ri

Help with RC bugs

2003-03-15 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi I'm having some problems with two RC bugs in my packages, I'd like to see if any mentor can help me out... FIRST (#184121): is it OK to declare an explicit dependency on libsigc++-dev if my dev package includes files from it? (I'm guessing it is, by documentation, but something doesn't look ri

Re: Debian Policy and related documents

2003-03-13 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:32, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a single document source for the Debian Policy and related > documents? I have been trying to diligently read through all of them but > occasionally I want to read it offline and I really don't want to have to go > through

Re: Debian Policy and related documents

2003-03-13 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:32, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a single document source for the Debian Policy and related > documents? I have been trying to diligently read through all of them but > occasionally I want to read it offline and I really don't want to have to go > through

Re: need help with bug #178837 (automake)

2003-02-03 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Seg, 2003-02-03 at 16:40, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > CFLAGS = -Wall -O3 `freetype-config --cflags` ${SDL_CFLAGS} > ${BUMPREF_CFLAGS} ` > > What do I have to change to be able to add -mieee on alpha, preferably > from debian/rules, or configure ? I'd use something like this: CFLAGS = "-O2 -Wall

Re: need help with bug #178837 (automake)

2003-02-03 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Seg, 2003-02-03 at 16:40, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > CFLAGS = -Wall -O3 `freetype-config --cflags` ${SDL_CFLAGS} ${BUMPREF_CFLAGS} ` > > What do I have to change to be able to add -mieee on alpha, preferably > from debian/rules, or configure ? I'd use something like this: CFLAGS = "-O2 -Wall" i

Re: Producing a None-Hardware specific .deb

2003-01-31 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 22:06, Ian Wilkinson wrote: > and if anyone tells me to RTFM please point out where TFM is, as I can't > find it :-) Maybe you could find some aswers in the Perl Packaging Policy, at: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ (TFM =] ) Appart from the specifi

Re: Producing a None-Hardware specific .deb

2003-01-31 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 22:06, Ian Wilkinson wrote: > and if anyone tells me to RTFM please point out where TFM is, as I can't > find it :-) Maybe you could find some aswers in the Perl Packaging Policy, at: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ (TFM =] ) Appart from the specifi

Re: [mindas@ziedas.ktu.lt: Bug#177332: libphp-adodb on testing should be applied to the stable]

2003-01-21 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi > Should I do nothing an tag as wontfix? Or try to upload into stable? > Any comments? IMHO, these are quite serious bugs, but do not render the package unusable OR pose any security threat, since using GetUpdateSQL is not the only way to do it. Furthermore, introducing the new version to stab

Re: [mindas@ziedas.ktu.lt: Bug#177332: libphp-adodb on testingshould be applied to the stable]

2003-01-21 Thread Leo \&quot;Costela\&quot; Antunes
Hi > Should I do nothing an tag as wontfix? Or try to upload into stable? > Any comments? IMHO, these are quite serious bugs, but do not render the package unusable OR pose any security threat, since using GetUpdateSQL is not the only way to do it. Furthermore, introducing the new version to stab