Re: Howto revive the old Debian get-changelog cgi script?

2003-06-11 Thread Martin Schulze
[cc'ing debian-admin and debian-mentors does not make that much sense] Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Here are some possibilities I can think of: 1) Follow and parse one of the -changes lists, archive the changelogs in a machine-readable format, indexed by source/binary package. 2) Have an

Re: Howto revive the old Debian get-changelog cgi script?

2003-06-11 Thread Martin Schulze
[cc'ing debian-admin and debian-mentors does not make that much sense] Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Here are some possibilities I can think of: 1) Follow and parse one of the -changes lists, archive the changelogs in a machine-readable format, indexed by source/binary package. 2) Have an

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Mike Schacht wrote: This list of debian machines: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, shows that some of the machines allow access by all. There is no further explanation of who qualifies as all, or how someone who is all can get access. The debian-admin list is given at the Admin contact

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Mike Schacht wrote: This list of debian machines: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, shows that some of the machines allow access by all. There is no further explanation of who qualifies as all, or how someone who is all can get access. The debian-admin list is given at the Admin contact

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK -- CORRECTED

2001-09-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Hereward Cooper wrote: I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. It might be a long time away but there is a linux expo in may, you will definatly be able to get one signed on the debian stand

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK -- CORRECTED

2001-09-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Hereward Cooper wrote: I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. It might be a long time away but there is a linux expo in may, you will definatly be able to get one signed on the debian

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:37PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: I just noticed the debian/rules file for mirrormagic which I inherited from Joey Hess uses dh_testroot to check that the build is run as root (or fakeroot). I'm wondering what the justification

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: James Troup wrote: The canonical source for the debian keyring _is_[2] kerying.debian.org (via anon-rsync); period. The package is a convenience, nothing more[3]. A package which is horribly outdated is everything but a convenience. File a bug against

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian T. Steigies wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:37PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: I just noticed the debian/rules file for mirrormagic which I inherited from Joey Hess uses dh_testroot to check that the build is run as root (or fakeroot). I'm wondering what the justification

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: James Troup wrote: The canonical source for the debian keyring _is_[2] kerying.debian.org (via anon-rsync); period. The package is a convenience, nothing more[3]. A package which is horribly outdated is everything but a convenience. File a bug against

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-03-26 Thread Martin Schulze
T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a transfer. Upon which he later reported that

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-03-26 Thread Martin Schulze
T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a transfer. Upon which he later reported that it

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: There are patches that simply cannot be backported. There are others that are hard to backport even for the upstream maintainers who are *deep* into the code. So demanding of a "packager" to "always be able to backport" is too strong. fwiw: granted. [I find it

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: There are patches that simply cannot be backported. There are others that are hard to backport even for the upstream maintainers who are *deep* into the code. So demanding of a packager to always be able to backport is too strong. fwiw: granted. [I find it hard

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: Hi As MySQL has a bad security problem and is accordingly to a @mysql.com person no longer supported in potato's version my only chance is to build the latest What do you want to express? The security problem is no longer supported in the potato version? Fine. :)

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: Hi As MySQL has a bad security problem and is accordingly to a @mysql.com person no longer supported in potato's version my only chance is to build the latest What do you want to express? The security problem is no longer supported in the potato version? Fine. :)

New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-13 Thread Martin Schulze
People, stay calm! For a lot of work, no official Debian Maintainership is required: . Fixing bugs . Working on boot floppies . Revising bug reports . Quality assurance . Testing . Helpping the web team . uploading packages (through a sponsor) Only for very few tasks you will require to

Re: Who tests stuff in Incoming/ ?

2000-04-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: I'm not even a maintainer yet, but I was thinking of signing up, and helping get stuff moving from Incoming. How does stuff get from Incoming to the main tree, anyway? Automatically with manual interaction by the ftp maintainers. I guess it would be better if

Re: [Q] How to move to GPG keys...

2000-03-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: What do I need to do to move to signing my packages with GPG signatures? Maybe this helps: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO.txt Regards, Joey -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! Please always Cc to me when

Re: Build-Depends?

2000-01-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth R Arnold wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:47:53PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:09:37AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: I am not a packaging expert, but I think you are missing a single lone `.' in the control file in place of the blank line. If I

Re: nmu man page

2000-01-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Elegant Dice wrote: hi, i'm the maintainer for vrweb (diff email for holidays), and dropped out of the world for a while (exams and stuff). 2 of the (simple) bugs were NMU fixed (not a complaint: thanks Javier) but are marked 'outstanding'. what does that mean? do i need to close these

Re: Autobuilders and closed bugs

2000-01-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: 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? Sure. See http://buildd.nocrew.org/ As well - closed bugs still show up in

Re: Autobuilders and closed bugs

2000-01-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: Sure. See http://buildd.nocrew.org/ Stephen Hardman wrote: Ah! buildd.debian.org Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Jordi Mallach wrote: Hello!, The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including them? There are patent issues that prevent their inclusion, iirc. Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is

Re: i386 build daemon

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian May wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Since you've got an account on pandora, you're able to Martin compile on a potato box. Thus, simply make a wonderful Martin and nice source only upload and the buildd/ia32 should Martin pick up

Re: i386 build daemon

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian May wrote: Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do you upload a source only package? Martin You're not really asking this question, are you? Yes ;-) Martin The .changes must only contain .dsc and .diff.gz plus Martin .orig.tar.gz if that's

Re: i386 build daemon

2000-01-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Matt Kern wrote: Does anyone run an i386 build daemon? I run slink on my own dev box and so find it difficult to build packages for potato. It runs on samosa, iirc. Since you've got an account on pandora, you're able to compile on a potato box. Thus, simply make a wonderful and nice source

Re: TIP vs. Pico

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Jordi wrote: Hello! I plan to upload a sponsored package, TIP (Tip isn't Pico). Some time ago, there was a discusion in debian-devel, about the building of a Free Pico clone. In the middle of that discussion, somebody named TIP, this enhanced and GPLd Pico clone. Since then, have been in

Re: TIP vs. Pico

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Jordi wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 03:51:37PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Christian Surchi wrote: On 28-Dec-99 Martin Schulze wrote: I guess currently pine depends on pico, thus in the future it would depend on tip | pico (in that order) No, pine and pico comes from

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Julian Gilbey wrote: b) Add this to your control file: Conflicts: gtksamba Profides: gtksamba Replaces: gtksamba If you use the same config file it will be preserved by dpkg, if not, save it in the preinst script. My initial thought is

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Mitch Blevins wrote: How do I handle the case where the upstream author renames a package? I have a package, gtksamba. It is conditionally compiled to produce to binary packages: gtksamba and gtksamba-gnome. Upstream is renaming it to gnosamba, and dropping support for gtk-only. The

Re: Installing XWindows

1998-12-31 Thread Martin Schulze
[ Please direct your submission to debian-user@lists.debian.org which is the proper list for such things.] crown victoria wrote: I installed the Debian's linux base system on my PC. I tried launching the X Windows, however I could not locate startx or xdm programs in the Unix directories. I

Re: Diversions example?

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Mitch Blevins wrote: Will someone please point me to a package that has a good example of diversions. I am assuming that this is what I need to package gnumaniac, which replaces the outdated man pages in the *-utils gnu packages. Jein. I understand that dpkg-divert is only a workaround.

Re: packaging on master/va

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
[You should tell your mail program/editor to split up lines after about 70 characters. ] Andrew Feinberg wrote: I'm a new maintainer, and I'd like to be able to keep the package I'll be doing on master or va. The problem is, I don't know how I would go about repackaging without breaking the

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Jason Henry Parker wrote: When I struggled to compile mozilla in 16M of ram, I got ENOMEM at total of three times, I nearly had to shut the box down completely to get it compiled. If I'd run out more often, I wouldn't consider this; but mozilla *is* going to be a good browser, espescially

Re: Excluding files from source diff

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Samuel Tardieu wrote: I maintain several packages using PRCS[1] and I'd like not to have the package.prj and .prcs_aux files (located in the top directory) showing up in the diff, since they don't belong to the sources. Is there anyway to tell dpkg-buildpackage to exclude some files from

Re: Gnu Privacy Guard

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony W. Juckel wrote: I was just wondering what the status was of gpg and its relation to the debian project. Can new developers user gpg keys instead of pgp keys (it GnuPg is becoming more stable. debian project. Can new developers user gpg keys instead of pgp keys (it Currently you

Re: Determining if package installed

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
LaMont Jones wrote: I have a package (Postfix) that wants to behave differently if NIS is installed (more to the point, if there is an NIS alias map). Since I've managed to remain almost completely clueless on NIS, I was hoping someone could tell me the best way to see if NIS is installed, or

Re: how long does it take be assigned as a packager ?

1998-12-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Ionutz Borcoman wrote: Hi, I have sent 2 e-mails to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] requiring to be assigned as the packager of libvdk langdrill It can take a while. Please remember that there are several tasks to do wrt. Debian. Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice

Re: wannabe packager asks help

1998-12-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Btw. debian-mentors would be more appropriate for this kind of questions. I lost the beginning of this thread, but did you call dpkg-shlibdeps? Just a quick idea 'cause s/o made that mistake yesterday. Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose

Re: Maintaining a non-US package?

1998-10-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Leishman wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone could give me a quick rundown on maintaining a non-US package, ie. how to upload, what the section name in the package should be and anything else that is relevant. Simply upload it to nonus.debian.org, there's also an incoming

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: MS Speaking of me, I have special rules so I don't have to close MS bug reports on my own, it's all done by some scripts that run MS automatically, both during upload and and after installation. MS Check out bugs against my packages for reference.

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Uff. What name would you propose? I will consist of four MS dpkg-divert statements. MS All files are found at MS ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/auto-close-dpkg/ You have

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: I am building a package for a NMU based on a new upstream release. Section 5.5 of the developers-reference manual states: If it is absolutely necessary for someone other than the usual maintainer to make a release based on a new upstream version then

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Rafael Laboissiere wrote: [...] I suppose that some script in dpkg-dev works incompatibly with the instructions in developers-reference. Any help/patch/comments? MS Help

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: I have seen debian/changelog files in some packages in which the keyword `closes' is set at the first line of new entries. However, the packaging-manual (version 2.4.1.2, section 3.2.3) states that: urgency is the value for the Urgency field in the .changes

Re: man page

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Schulze
I've got a package that has no man page. I've some spare time and would like to write it. The question is now: how should I do that? What tools do you recommend? Where should I start reading about these tools? Read man(7). Tools? Use an editor of your choice. I know that emacs, for

Re: removing conffiles

1998-10-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Bialasinski wrote: Hi, here is a quick one: will dpkg remove a conffile on a upgrade, if I remove it from the package? I guess so. Why don't you try it on your system? Make a backup before. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into

Re: First time pkg help.

1998-10-24 Thread Martin Schulze
matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: I am packaging xfont3d, xfpovray, and xfcolor. They all depend on xforms. I have the xforms-dev package installed, but when I go to build the packages, the make files cannot find the forms.h file. I symlinked the file to /usr/include/forms.h, and now the I can

Re: How is the freeze enforced?

1998-10-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: I know that my concept of time is flawed at best (I often have no idea what day of the week it is, much less the real date, or even month without looking atthe display of my pager) but... I was sure it had been frozen. Well, you're somewhat right, slink was

Re: Debian-JP and Debian package.

1998-10-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Fabien Ninoles wrote: Just my 2 pennies, I would have expected yen. :-) scnr, Joey -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Re: How to send in patches?

1998-10-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Lars Bensmann wrote: Hi, I put Maildir-support into wmmail and now I'm wondering how to submit the patch. First of all should I send the patch to the debian maintainer or the upstream auther? That's up to you. Should I file a wishlist bug and attach the patch or should I mail it to

Re: Speaking of new maintainers (WAS Re: getting bugs moved to a new maintainer)

1998-10-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: Shaleh, You had announced on the E-dev list that you were no longer interested in being the .deb maintainer for Enlightenment, and had found two new parties for this. Could you announce this again? You also mentioned the packaging of snaps for Debian. Are

Re: getting bugs moved to a new maintainer

1998-10-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaleh wrote: I just took over the Eterm package. However the bug system still lists the old maintainer. Whom do I contact to get this fixed? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mainly you need to make the appropriate upload. Regards, Joey -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the

Re: Debianize man pages?

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Mitch Blevins wrote: If an upstream author provides a man page, which includes info about paths or install scripts that will not be present in the debianized version, should I modify the man page? Of course. Regards, Joey -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. -- H.

Re: Upstream version update

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: Just a stupid question: What's the official way to realize an upstream version update. It shouldn't be a great problem to manually create a new .orig.tar.gz and a new tree where the new changes are merged in. But maybe there is some way to realize this easier by

Re: Source uploads.

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Leishman wrote: Hi, I am about to upload a package that also requires the source to be uploaded (a new package). How do I go about uploading the source (the .orig.tar.gz) file? I did a test run of dupload, but this didn't seem to notice the .orig file. The .orig.tar.gz is only

Re: Moving from experimental to non-free

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: How do I move a package from experimental to non-free, I mean, what do I have to change in the changelog file? Can I keep the same version number, or do I have to increment it? edit debian/control and modify it so it looks like Section:

Re: debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I have been using debmake+devscripts to build my debian packages till now. How does this compare to debhelper? Also, I remember seeing some post in debian-devel which said that one of these (debmake or debhelper) is being orphaned or is no longer in active

Re: where'd my package go!?#

1998-09-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: a few weeks ago i adopted swisswatch. i update the debian/ stuff, compiled a new package, pgp signature and all, did a dupload (iirc), and figured all would be good. but my package is nowehere to be found. only the older -4 exists everywhere i've looked. Did you look

Re: closing bugs with an upload

1998-09-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Falk Hueffner wrote: Hi, I seem to recall there was a way to close a bug with an upload by noting it's number somewhere. How is that done? I can't find it in the docs... It's not yet implemented. However I can send you my scripts/procmail receipe that does this job for me. Regards,

Re: Lost behind a firewall

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Frederic Peters wrote: Hi. It's the holiday, I finished a few packages and have a problem : I can't use my usual ISP until october. So I use another one but there is a #-^*.#* firewall which doesn't allow uploads. On the other hand, I can send mails using a good old BBS. My question is :

Re: Lintian report: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog?

1998-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Bramer wrote: Hello I have package [g]mc. In this package are some upstream changelog-files: changelog_intl.gz changelog_pc.gz changelog_src.gz changelog_vfs.gz I put all files in /usr/doc/[g]mc/. But I get one Lintian report: W: mc: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog

Re: Recently accepted maintainers

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
[ Justin Maurer wrote: towards a tutorial on the correct way to make one? i apologize if this would be better suited towards -devel or -mentors. Redirected to -mentors ] Justin Maurer wrote: Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Justin is in the process of adopting swisswatch from Rob

Re: One on One with a Mentor, please (fwd)

1998-08-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Dean Rushing wrote: Well I want to give something back for the great learning experience I've had. I just had a breakin, so I'm not quite as happy as I should be, sorry. Great! Well, I was hoping that I could adopt a package,, I'm now trying to find the source for phosphorous,, it is a

Re: all.deb, but i386.changes

1998-08-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Hinzmann wrote: I was expecting an ..all.changes file. Is this name correct? If yes, why? ;) Because the program that names the .changes file is too dumb. Will dlint go into all architectures? Yes. The filename is important for dinstall (I assume). And the field Architecture:

Re: One on One with a Mentor, please

1998-08-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Rasta wrote: Hello, I would like to speak to a mentor about becoming a developer. I have read the Debian Social Contract, developers-reference and packaging. I just want to be sure I can become confident and capable and understand the full scope of this undertaking. I don't want to let

Re: Mirroring sid and slink/hamm sources

1998-08-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: How do I do this from a crontab easiest? Manually I do: cd /pub/Debian.sid rsync -ave ssh -l turbo --delete master.debian.org /debian2/debian/dists/sid . But then I have to enter my passphrase on master... ssh-keygen and don't set a password. Then copy

Re: Package languishing in Incoming

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
I'm sorry, but I can't find either xdir nor ll* in the incoming directory. Please re-upload, then we can see what goes wrong. Regards, Joey -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Package languishing in Incoming

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
This is what dinstall now says: xdir_2.1-2_i386.changes NEW to unstable (new) xdir_2.1-2_i386.deb extra non-free/net Motif based advanced FTP tool - son of LLNL xftp LLNL XDIR, an OSF/Motif-based FTP client, provides a graphical user interface for drag-and-drop file transfer. LLNL XDIR

Re: the dists/stable-updates directory

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: My question is now: is the stuff in stable-updates ever going to be integrated into the stable distribution? If so, what's the timescale on that? Also, are those in charge of the official CD images going to be putting the stuff in stable-updates into the

Re: FAQ? Tutorials and documentation to read for creating .debs

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Hilton Fernandes wrote: Hello! What are the relevant tutorials and documentation that one must read to be able to create Debian packages? I thank your attention very much. 1/ Start lyunx 2/ Go to www.debian.org 3/ Hit 'Development' 4/ Read Regards, Joey PS:

Re: Building of .deb's

1998-08-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Dominik Rothert wrote: What means following (error?) message: no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME (root) at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16. You can happily ignore it. It's only a warning and says that your uid (0) belongs to the LOGNAME root which is not found in the utmp

Re: Has my deb got any problems?

1998-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Ian Lynagh writes: The .deb contains /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/X11 which doesn't seem to be used by the package. Maybe it can be removed. I wondered about that too, but it is in the SVGA servers deb, so I thought I ought to put it in. Was this wrong? In that case, better wait until Overfiend is

Re: Has my deb got any problems?

1998-07-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Ian Lynagh wrote: I was wondering if anyone could take a look at my first deb (available from http://www.lynagh.demon.co.uk/debian/) and see if there are any problems with it. Ian, the .deb looks ok from the point of not installing it. The .deb contains /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/X11 which doesn't

Re: configuration file question

1998-07-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Remco van de Meent wrote: Hey, I hope you can help me with this one... In Incoming on master, there is webalizer_1.20-2_i386.deb. The package itself works fine (at least, as far as I can test it), but I have a problem concerning the upgrade from an earlier version of webalizer. The

Re: replace ?

1998-07-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: Hi ! My jed package is now splitted in jed,jedslc,jedsl-source and rgrep. How or whom can I say to remove the old jedsl package which is no longer needed. Conflicts: jedsl Provides: jedsl Replaces: jedsl BTW: Because I have to binary executable packages (x11 and

Re: ACE

1998-07-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Borella wrote: Has anyone shown an intent for packaging Doug Schmidt's ACE libraries? You should a) look at the wnpp, somewhere in the developers_corner on our web page and b) ask on debian-devel. Regards, Joey -- Install joe (Joey's Own Editor) correct:

Re: Version specific packages

1998-07-09 Thread Martin Schulze
The question is, is it useful to carry several versions of gri? For normal programs/libraries it isn't useful. Emacs is an exception because 19.x and 20.x are different classes. Some Emacs programs only work with 19.x or 20.x. Same goes for the kernel. Regards, Joey -- The only

Re: packages

1998-07-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Arthur Dardia wrote: I'm interested in helping out Debian. I like the idea of a free OS instead of Windows 95 or NT. That's why I decided to try to install linux on my old 486. When I eventually get it installed, I'd like to help the community as much as I possibly can. I was wondering

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-04 Thread Martin Schulze
debstd is depricated, use the debhelper instead. Regards, Joey PS: I'd still do everything by hand though. -- Unable to locate coffee, operator halted. -- Stefan Farsch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (un)subcribe: debian-[private|testing|security-private]

1998-07-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Hinzmann wrote: Can I and how can I change my subscription to the non open mailing lists? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've written a tool that makes address changes easy, so no need to hesitate. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front of

Re: The neverending story?

1998-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
), such an MS-DOS like editor... Bah, who needs that... Anyway: prodoce them, package them and upload them. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact

Re: How to move a directory?

1998-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
on the postinst enough? In the preinst you do tmpdir=/etc/wmakr.sik cp /etc/X11/WindowMaker/Styles/* $tmpdir in the posinst you try to copy these. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey

Re: changes to packaging tools between bo and hamm

1998-06-10 Thread Martin Schulze
to your normal key instead of creating a new one. This can be done with pgp -ke. You could also try to set your id with -m [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Mancill) to dpkg-buildpackage. I'm not sure if that works, it's just an idea. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: bug tracking system

1998-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
, request the details send-details nnn or similar. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / No question is too silly to ask, / / but, of course, some are too silly to answer. -- perl book

Re: uploading packages

1998-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
don't want to use dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-genchanges will create the .changes file for you. (dpkg-buildpackage uses it, afaik). Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / The only

Re: uploading packages

1998-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / The only stupid question is the unasked one / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Uploading packages

1998-05-24 Thread Martin Schulze
-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ /There are lies, statistics and benchmarks. / pgp36rsBJXbbS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Two Q: upstream xforms

1998-05-24 Thread Martin Schulze
it may go into contrib, too. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ /There are lies, statistics and benchmarks. / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Uploading packages

1998-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
. ^ Not needed, afaik. Changes: sound-recorder (0.04-1) unstable; urgency=low Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg

Re: my first package... loads of questions :)

1998-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:27:21AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Martin Schulze wrote: the maintainer. Well, there's just right another, using debhelper partially prevents the package from being compiled on other architectures.[1] [1] We had this problem with binary-sparc where no new perl

Re: How to get lintian to shut up?

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Schulze
, I'm not sure if they generated too few entries though. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: my first package... loads of questions :)

1998-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
with binary-sparc where no new perl package existed so all packages using debhelper couldn't be re-packaged for the Sparc archtitecture. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey

Re: RFC: regarding /etc/shells

1998-05-07 Thread Martin Schulze
late. There are only n packages affected afaik (n10) but it needs to be discussed on debian-policy first. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ /There are lies

Re: Where do orphaned packages go when you pick them up?

1998-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 / pgpzVxb3wgcc6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Greetings and RHIDE

1998-05-02 Thread Martin Schulze
, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / A mathematician is a machine / / for converting coffee into theorems / pgptg4HRq5mbS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new upstream src

1998-05-01 Thread Martin Schulze
the debian/* files, edit changelog and you're done). Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring Debian GNU/Linux motd von irc.funet.fi

Re: Name of a package

1998-05-01 Thread Martin Schulze
-- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring Debian GNU/Linux motd von irc.funet.fi / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: changelog

1998-04-19 Thread Martin Schulze
/control Use Distribution: frozen untable in .changes Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / A mathematician is a machine / / for converting coffee into theorems

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