* Chris Danis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want, maybe add a note echo'd to the user in the postinst
No, this is no good.
1. the messages scroll by to fast to notice, and please don't even
think of adding a "press RETURN to continue" thingy. Thing unintended
installation.
2. this is jus
* Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
This is not allowed.
One source package can only build packages for one section.
See, the structure on the FTP sites reflects this:
dist - main
* Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file
> >during compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which
> >can't diff between the current version and the .orig
This means, that you have to fix "make clean" to remove t
* Chris Danis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want, maybe add a note echo'd to the user in the postinst
No, this is no good.
1. the messages scroll by to fast to notice, and please don't even
think of adding a "press RETURN to continue" thingy. Thing unintended
installation.
2. this is ju
* Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file
> >during compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which
> >can't diff between the current version and the .orig
This means, that you have to fix "make clean" to remove
* Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
This is not allowed.
One source package can only build packages for one section.
See, the structure on the FTP sites reflects this:
dist - main
* "Martin" == Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> So recipient has to use patch -p1 (or rename his archive) right?
> Do you tell them or just let'em figure it out?
You can expect that every developer knows how to use patch and that he
will first inspect the file you sent him before ap
* "Martin" == Martin Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> So recipient has to use patch -p1 (or rename his archive) right?
> Do you tell them or just let'em figure it out?
You can expect that every developer knows how to use patch and that he
will first inspect the file you sent him before a
* "Britton" == Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Britton> I just went to check for bugs, and I notice that the upload I
Britton> made for the last couple seems to be reported as having been
Britton> an NMU upload.
It would be more useful, if you gave some of the bug numbers where
this happened.
* "Britton" == Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Britton> I just went to check for bugs, and I notice that the upload I
Britton> made for the last couple seems to be reported as having been
Britton> an NMU upload.
It would be more useful, if you gave some of the bug numbers where
this happened
* "Drew" == Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Drew> What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page?
I create a perl pod file and translate it to to a man page. The syntax
is very easy, so I prefer this. See perldoc perlpod and the equivs
package for an example.
Ciao,
M
* "Drew" == Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Drew> What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page?
I create a perl pod file and translate it to to a man page. The syntax
is very easy, so I prefer this. See perldoc perlpod and the equivs
package for an example.
Ciao,
* "Thomas" == Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ Multiple binaries from one source ]
Thomas> Do I have to make two source packages for that, or can I
Thomas> create two single binary packages with different version
Thomas> numbers from one source ?
One source is OK. I do this with the axy
* "Thomas" == Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ Multiple binaries from one source ]
Thomas> Do I have to make two source packages for that, or can I
Thomas> create two single binary packages with different version
Thomas> numbers from one source ?
One source is OK. I do this with the ax
* Mariusz Przygodzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Upstream sources have no icon for some application. How I can add
> an icon to debian/ in other format than xpm ?
uuencode it.
I used to place a file in debian/, then did a (cd debian && uudecode
swirl-icon.uue) in the build target and rm the de
* Mariusz Przygodzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Upstream sources have no icon for some application. How I can add
> an icon to debian/ in other format than xpm ?
uuencode it.
I used to place a file in debian/, then did a (cd debian && uudecode
swirl-icon.uue) in the build target and rm the d
* Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> Also, should I ask the user at install time if he/she wants to have
> this script installed?
In contrast to Josip, I say install it unconditionally.
You get very little gain for making your package install interatively,
so it is not worth
* Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> Also, should I ask the user at install time if he/she wants to have
> this script installed?
In contrast to Josip, I say install it unconditionally.
You get very little gain for making your package install interatively,
so it is not worth
Hi,
maybe you want to use debconf to show the message? This has the
advantage of being non-interactive, if the admin chooses so (he will
get a mail with the warning in this case).
See the gmc package for an example.
Ciao,
Martin
Hi,
maybe you want to use debconf to show the message? This has the
advantage of being non-interactive, if the admin chooses so (he will
get a mail with the warning in this case).
See the gmc package for an example.
Ciao,
Martin
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Hi,
I have a problem with gnome-users-guide-en
in the current version 1.2-1, there is a symlink
/usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html ->
/usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C
dwww won't follow this symlink, so I turned it around in 1.2-2 to read
/usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C ->
/usr/s
Hi,
I have a problem with gnome-users-guide-en
in the current version 1.2-1, there is a symlink
/usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html ->
/usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C
dwww won't follow this symlink, so I turned it around in 1.2-2 to read
/usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C ->
/usr/
* "opal" == opal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
opal> I have created a mcal package and I want someone to test and/or
opal> analyze it if I am doing something wrong. If it is not it might
opal> be included in debian sometime. :)
You didn't run lintian on these packages.
Get rid of the -doc p
* "opal" == opal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
opal> I have created a mcal package and I want someone to test and/or
opal> analyze it if I am doing something wrong. If it is not it might
opal> be included in debian sometime. :)
You didn't run lintian on these packages.
Get rid of the -doc
* "Jimmy" == Jimmy O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jimmy> name: browser-history
Jimmy> desc: Unified browser history logger for several browsers
Jimmy> license: X11
Already in Debian. But IIRC Karl was looking for someone to adopt it.
Ciao,
Martin
* "Jimmy" == Jimmy O'Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jimmy> name: browser-history
Jimmy> desc: Unified browser history logger for several browsers
Jimmy> license: X11
Already in Debian. But IIRC Karl was looking for someone to adopt it.
Ciao,
Martin
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* "Jordi" == Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jordi> Also, I see that vim, elvis and nvi provide an alternative for
Jordi> "vi", (in vim's case, priority 20). I think it's not against
Jordi> the policy if I provide an alternative for "pico"?
This does not work. For alternatives, all affected pa
* "Paul" == Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Paul> What's the drill whenever I have "binary changes" to the
Paul> upstream tarball? I ask because there are some chess images
Paul> (gif format) that make for a nice html-based cmoputer annotation
Paul> of games that aren't distributed with th
* "Domenico" == Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Domenico> here is my control file for curl source tree:
[...]
Is this the complete file? Is curl-ssl in a seperate source tree?
Domenico> it looks fine, doesn't it?
Yes. If I feed equivs-build (package equivs, builds dummy packages)
* "Markus" == Markus Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Markus> I've placed all Sugests to one line ... but the same result
Markus> than I removed the Suggests-lines ... no difference :-(
Repost the complete control file please. Maybe there is something in
the extended description you snipp
* "Markus" == Markus Hetzmannseder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Markus> Suggests: gap4-test, gap4-gac, gap4-doc-html, gap4-doc-ps,
Markus>gap4-doc-dvi, gap4-gdot, gap4-tdot, gap4-xgap
Markus> Description: System for computational discrete algebra (Basic System)
Markus>
There are no such
* "peter" == peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
peter> Ah! dh_fixperms did indeed fiddle with the permissions, after
peter> moving the chmod downwards it works just fine. Thanks!
I use (for mc) the commands in this sequence
chmod ...
dh_suidregister
dh_fixperms
This way, the binary is s
* "Kurt" == Kurt D Starsinic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Kurt> I would call it a _very_ wide interpretation of glue. For
Kurt> example, task-devel-common doesn't depend on anything; it only
Kurt> suggests and recommends.
I haven't looked at it yet (time...) but I have to. This won't work
with ap
* "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Julian> No policy yet. But they are intended as metapackages which
Julian> contain no code,
This is not a strict thing. Some of the meta-packages I maintain have
additional info in the README.Debian, and I thought about a setup tool
in one
* "Ramakrishnan" == Ramakrishnan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ramakrishnan> pkgname-doc.docs
Ramakrishnan> pkgname-doc.file
Ramakrishnan> ex.doc-base.package
Ramakrishnan> Can you please help me what to put in these files. Is
Ramakrishnan> there ant documantation available on these files( Or
Ram
* "tony" == tony mancill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
tony> I was able to circumnavigate the problem (perhaps I should have
tony> played with it a little longer before posting), but it still
tony> baffles me. I was doing my package build with:
tony> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
tony> and it was
* "Jozef" == Jozef Hitzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jozef> I've managed to do simple package, but now I need more .. what
Jozef> should I do, apart from adding package section to control and
Jozef> creating package.init etc for each bin package? Should I change
Jozef> something in rules or el
>> "Peter" == Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Peter> It would be nice if every user of debian solved as many bugs as
Peter> they could. Probally adding "[FIX]" to the subject would
Peter> increase the chance that somebody takes care of the patches if
Peter> the maintainer doesn't.
Chang
>> "David" == David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
David> I'm working on some of the open bugs, and would like to contact
David> one (or more) of the bug submitters.
This is great.
David> Should I write directly to the bug submitters and cc: the
David> relevant bug [EMAIL PROTECTED], or is it b
>> "Leon" == Leon Breedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Leon> In the latest upstream release of a package, the authors put a
Leon> debian/ directory into the source that is totally stuffed :(.
The author knows that you maintain this programm for Debian, right? Or
did you just start? Then you should
>> "Stephan" == Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephan> I hope the original poster is aware of our in-depth analysis
Stephan> of the problem? We might consider packaging this thread
Stephan> itself, to make it available for the whole debian community
Stephan> in a convenient way.
>> "Stephan" == Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephan> Sure he did, but what I meant is how could he know the next
Stephan> version would be (imho wrongly) be versioned 1.6? Normally,
Stephan> the version following 1.52 would be 1.53.
[...]
Stephan> You are completely right, yet
>> "Stephan" == Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephan> "Martin Bialasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Because 1.6 < 1.52, as 6 < 52
>>
>> He did the right thing.
Stephan> Sure he did, but what I meant i
>> "Stephan" == Stephan A Suerken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephan> Eduardo Fernandez Corrales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I packaged a program that had 1.52 as upstream version number. Debian
>> version number was 1.5.2-1
Stephan> Hmm, not knowing that the next upstream would be versioned
>> "John" == John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I wish I could find out where this is documented. The nearest
John> thing I can find is this line in /etc/init.d/rcS:
It was not formalized properly. I thing I saw something about it in
the last summary posting about the discussions in
>> "SD" == Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SD> I've already packaged a deb of epkg but there's a new upstream
SD> maintainer version. Must I remake entirely the package or I have
SD> just to do anything that will keep the changelog... ?
In addition to Christian's answer, take a look a
>> "JG" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JG> contains lots of symlinks. I usually use the CVS suite to do my
JG> packaging, but by default, CVS does not handle symlinks.
But it can be configured to creat them on export and checkout
Here is what I do for wxftp.
I have a executable
>> "RC" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RC> what's the easiest way to write a manpage if i don't want to learn
RC> troff? :)
You could use a .pod file (this is the perl documentation format),
which you can convert into a man page.
pod2man --section=1 --release="`date +'%d
>> "CW" == Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CW> The only tricky bit I've found with the whole cvs-buildpackage
CW> system is that you have to commit test builds and hand export them
CW> for testing purposes if you don't want to constantly overwrite
CW> tags in the cvs repository.
Why thi
>> "RC" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RC> The GnuDIP package has a server component that is supposed to run
RC> as a non-root user. As such, I've created a gnudip user/group for
RC> it.
What rights should this user have? Maybe you could use the existing
daemon or nobody user.
T
>> "MM" == Mauro Mazzieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MM> 1) The program must be started as:
MM> # udplog
MM> where level is a number. No default is read from is config file. Is
MM> 2) Non all the user would like to start the command from init. So
MM> there must a postinst script that ask the u
>> "CL" == Chris Leishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
CL> On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 07:37:05PM -0800, R Garth Wood wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chris Leishman wrote:
>>
>> > The main problem, however, is that it needs to validate the
>> people connecting, > thus needs to check username/password
Hi,
Joost wrote he will put a Provides: fakeroot in the next libtricks (he
is working on some rewrite right now), so until then, I will use Depends:
libtricks | fakeroot
Thanks for your suggestions.
Ciao,
Martin
Hi,
I got a request to change a Depends: fakeroot to Depends: libtricks.
I just need the functionality of fakeroot, not the extended things in
libtricks.
Forcing the user to install libtricks seems too harsch, so: is it OK
to use Depends: libtricks | fakeroot ?
The problem is, that fakeroot d
>> "SC" == Stephen Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SC> I upgraded libc6 and libstdc++2.9 both to the latest...however
SC> I STILL get the error!
Strange. What is the output of dpkg -l libc6-dev libstdc++2.9-dev ?
Mine is:
ii libc6-dev 2.0.7u-7.1 The GNU C library version 2 (d
>> "SJC" == Stephen J Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SJC> and I ran lintian on the xfstt that I uploaded yesterday and it
SJC> gave a couple of errors that I will be fixing for unstable soon
SJC> but.,.. it said "compiled with broken libc"
This must be the infamous "frame-info" thing.
S
Hi,
I am doing a rewrite of the equivs package, and have two questions.
The package itself is GPLed, and I want to include some code from
other GPLed packages (mainly the doc-base parser). Now I want to give
the doc-base authors proper credit.
What is the best way to do so? Include an entry in
>> "PSG" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PSG> Thanks. `admin' would be my first guess as to where to look for
PSG> such a package, but I didn't see any other monitoring tools
PSG> there,
The xlogmaster package is in admin.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "ZEH" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ZEH> On Tue, Dec 01, 1998 at 10:51:09AM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> Could you tell us, which program you are packageing ?
ZEH> Repackaging really, tleds..
Thats fine. I use it to monitor the
>> "ZEH" == Zephaniah E, Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ZEH> 3: I've got a package which can be compiled with or without X
ZEH> support, However the X support does not work without changing a
ZEH> few settings in the X config, as I don't use X I'm not the best
ZEH> one to try and figure out wha
>> "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MS> Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>> will dpkg remove a conffile on a upgrade, if I remove it from the
>> package?
MS> I guess so. Why don't you try it on your system? Make a backup
MS> before.
Hi,
here is a quick one:
will dpkg remove a conffile on a upgrade, if I remove it from the
package?
If not, then I have to remove it in postrm, if it is called as
postrm upgrade
postrm purge
Right?
Ciao,
Martin
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>> "PF" == Philipp Frauenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PF> I've got a package that has no man page. I've some spare time
PF> and would like to write it. The question is now: how should I do
PF> that? What tools do you recommend? Where should I start reading
PF> about these tools?
First o
Hi,
I want to make a programm version 2.0, but I want to release some
betas before this. What version scheme should I use for the betas, so
that dpkg recognises the 2.0 release to be newer than the betas?
Ciao,
Martin
>> "JS" == Jamey Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> OK, after moving the manpage from /usr/man to /usr/X11R6/man lintian
JS> stopped complaining. But I was using debstd to place the man page, why
JS> didn't it put it in the right place?
Because debstd is not up-to-date with the standard. The
>> "JS" == Jamey Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JS> through, but I'd like to verify that I packaged oneliner correctly and
JS> haven't left anything out.
Use lintian to check the package.
Ciao,
Martin
>> "k" == kolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
k> I have installed Debian 2.0 on my Packard Bell 386 (4MB RAM, 124MB
k> harddrive). Everything seems to have gone well, but when I boot the
k> system it doesn't prompt me for a super-user password and I get the
k> following error:
k> "bash:
>> "S" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
S> With the new Enlightenment package I have a small snag. I have the main
S> E package w/ docs and the E binary. I then have an enlightenment-theme
S> package. E depends on e-theme. E-theme contains a /usr/doc symlink to
S> E. So e-theme *should
>> "APH" == Adam P Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MB> Ok, I've made a perlscript to handle this. Seems to work as
MB> expected. Maybe someone else finds it useful.
MB> #!/usr/bin/perl
MB>
MB
>> "DJ" == Dan Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DJ> On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 06:05:25PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
>> if [ ! -e /etc/X11/xaw-wrappers.conf -a -e /etc/xaw-wrappers.conf ]; then
>> # Move conffile. I think it's safest to use cat here, becuase
>> # the user may have done something
Hi,
I am squashing the bugs in the xisp package. Report 12773 asks to move a
conffile from /etc/options.xisp to /etc/ppp/options.xisp.
This sounds reasonable. To handle upgrading from an old version, is it enough
to move the file in preinst?
Ciao,
Martin
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>> "JC" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JC> /usr/doc/debhelper/from-debstd
JC> It raised another though: The result of following these instructions
showed
JC> me a LOT of things to add to debian/rules. Most of them aren't used
in this
JC> package. How do I know which are and whi
: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Standards-Version: 2.4.1
Package: wxftp-gtk
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
Suggests: wxftp-doc
Description: A graphical ftp programm with GTK interface
[snip]
Package: wxftp-doc
Architecture: any
Suggests: netscape3 | netscape4 | lynx
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