Re: Looking for sponsor for upload of sitemap 2.6-3

2004-12-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:50:02PM +0100, Aaron Isotton wrote: I'm the maitainer of the package sitemap (already in unstable and testing); I'm looking for a sponsor to upload the new version. What is it, what does it do, etc? You'll usually get more interest from potential sponsors if you

Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 08:47:48AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.30.0807 +0100]: We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for creating .deb package (assuming u have all the source files needed). Depends on how you

Re: How to : convinience package (or virtual package)

2004-12-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:25:26PM -0800, tifr stud wrote: We need to know the following. How to create a virtual or convinience package for debian web site listing. For example a package called 'kdeedu' contains all the educational packages like khangman,kalzium etc. What they have done is

Re: About creating .deb packages

2004-12-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:58:09PM -0800, TIFR students wrote: We would like to know which files are absolutely necessary for creating .deb package (assuming u have all the source files needed). Depends on how you want to create the .deb. Bare minimum is ar, tar, gzip, and cp, more or less.

Re: your mail

2004-12-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 07:28:42PM -0500, Jake Spieker wrote: I would like to do something small if possible, and as I understand it, there is a way so that I can help someone? I don't think I have the ability to do a package on my own. Other thoughts? You could act as a co-maintainer of a

Re: your mail

2004-12-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 06:11:30PM -0500, Jake Spieker wrote: 2. What does becoming a debian maintainer entail? A fair bit. Peruse the debian-mentors FAQ at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html for a bit of an idea of some of the basics (but be warned that what's in there

Re: (2nd try) RFS: Erudite Directory Service Admin

2004-12-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:25:43PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:38 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:28 -0500, Mark Roach wrote: I am the author of EDSAdmin (Erudite Directory Service Admin). It is a python+gtk application that aims for easy

Re: Fourth RFS: cnet, a network simulator

2004-12-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:22:07AM +0100, Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta wrote: this is the fourth RFS for my cnet package. It's a graphical I think by now we've established that none of the regular sponsors here on d-mentors appear to have the time or the inclination to sponsor your package at

Re: creating relocatable packages with dpkg

2004-12-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:51:54AM +, David Given wrote: No Spam wrote: [...] I'm not sure that that's what's happening, but it makes sense. You can easily install a filesystem with debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Debian system. That seems like such overkill. I'm trying to do

Re: Package Maintainer Mentor Wanted

2004-12-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:44:13AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: Of course, 'stupid' questions will make you look, well, stupid, so do your Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. grin Seriously though, a bit of basic research goes a long way, but

Re: substitution variables

2004-12-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:31:02PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, dh_make genererated control files which usually include something like this: Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends} Can someone explain me how these variables get substituted? Because i get this message if i build the

Re: Package Maintainer Mentor Wanted

2004-12-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:26:18PM -0500, Ryan Stutsman wrote: I am interesting in getting involved with Debian likely by maintaining an orphaned package. I don't have a particular one in mind, but I would like to get up to speed first. If anyone would be willing to show me the ropes and

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:37:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.17.2330 +0100]: libfactory++-dev - C++ template factory framework ... that this is my software, which I named libfactory because I did not know better. It's

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:37:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.17.2330 +0100]: libfactory++-dev - C++ template factory framework ... that this is my software, which I named libfactory because I did not know better. It's

Re: sponsor wanted - ec-fonts-mftraced (lilypond's fonts)

2004-11-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:02:44PM -0200, Pedro Kroger wrote: -- EC PostScript Type1 fonts with TFMs for TeX These are PostScript Type1 renderings and TFMs of the EC variant of the standard TeX CMR font family. These fonts include characters with

Re: sponsor wanted - ec-fonts-mftraced (lilypond's fonts)

2004-11-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:02:44PM -0200, Pedro Kroger wrote: -- EC PostScript Type1 fonts with TFMs for TeX These are PostScript Type1 renderings and TFMs of the EC variant of the standard TeX CMR font family. These fonts include characters with

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:52:41PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: Most of the apps are using `./configure make make install` so dh_make tries to use that way. In fact the only file you need is debian/rules. It

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:26 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: I'd agree it's pretty confusing, but only first time. It's quite easy to understand it. I'm hoping

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: First: 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Diversity is often seen as a virtue. That does mean that it can be hard to separate the need from

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:18:35AM +0200, George Danchev wrote: my humble question is: if I have Source: and multiple Package: lines described in my debian/control file. But how is these debian/Package:/ subdirectories created.. I end up with the firts Package: conctructed in debian/tmp , but

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:52:41PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: Most of the apps are using `./configure make make install` so dh_make tries to use that way. In fact the only file you need is debian/rules. It

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:26 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: I'd agree it's pretty confusing, but only first time. It's quite easy to understand it. I'm hoping

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote: First: 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Diversity is often seen as a virtue. That does mean that it can be hard to separate the need from

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:18:35AM +0200, George Danchev wrote: my humble question is: if I have Source: and multiple Package: lines described in my debian/control file. But how is these debian/Package:/ subdirectories created.. I end up with the firts Package: conctructed in debian/tmp ,

Re: `tcpshow` package

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Apologies for the Cc if you're subscribed; a lot of people treat this list as a write-only medium] On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:54:47AM -0700, C.J. Steele wrote: I recently noticed there was no debian package for `tcpshow` (nor is tcpshow even being maintained currently) so I've taken the

Re: `tcpshow` package

2004-10-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Apologies for the Cc if you're subscribed; a lot of people treat this list as a write-only medium] On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:54:47AM -0700, C.J. Steele wrote: I recently noticed there was no debian package for `tcpshow` (nor is tcpshow even being maintained currently) so I've taken the

Re: Need Sponsor

2004-10-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Apologies for the duplicate if you're subscribed] On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:22:26PM +0530, Amit Dixit wrote: Myself Amit Dixit Working as System Engg. at Hughes Softwares Ltd. I want to join the Debian as Maintainer. I need Sponsor for joing the Debian Developer's. I

Re: Need Sponsor

2004-10-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
[Apologies for the duplicate if you're subscribed] On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:22:26PM +0530, Amit Dixit wrote: Myself Amit Dixit Working as System Engg. at Hughes Softwares Ltd. I want to join the Debian as Maintainer. I need Sponsor for joing the Debian Developer's. I

Re: Python executables inside libraries

2004-10-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play nice with Debian packaging. The library I am packaging (PyGGy) has a few python files that double as executable scripts (in short they have '#!

Re: Python executables inside libraries

2004-10-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:53:32PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play nice with Debian packaging

Re: Python executables inside libraries

2004-10-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play nice with Debian packaging. The library I am packaging (PyGGy) has a few python files that double as executable scripts (in short they have '#!

Re: Python executables inside libraries

2004-10-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:53:32PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play nice with Debian packaging

Re: RFS: asc - turn-based strategy game

2004-10-20 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: I'm looking for one-time-sponsor for my package asc. Usually Matthew Palmer uploads asc package for me, but he doesn't respond for my mails so I'm looking for someone else to upload it this time. I haven't gotten any e

Re: RFS: asc - turn-based strategy game

2004-10-19 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: I'm looking for one-time-sponsor for my package asc. Usually Matthew Palmer uploads asc package for me, but he doesn't respond for my mails so I'm looking for someone else to upload it this time. I haven't gotten any e

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed in that package. I think it's the preferred method, though. Certainly I've had bugs filed on my packages to upload a new version so

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:19:24AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:12:27PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed in that package. I think it's the preferred method, though. Certainly I've had bugs filed on my packages to upload a new version so

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:19:24AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:12:27PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed

Re: name for a library

2004-09-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:18:27PM -0500, Boris Kolpackov wrote: Suppose I have a library core name `foo'. The end product will be say `/usr/lib/libfoo.so.1.2'. So what should I name my source distribution? Before I would name the top level directory just `foo' then, when releasing, it will

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:32:11PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: Hi, I posted several messages to this list earlier this month about getting my package sponsored. Lots of people gave me great suggestions on how to improve the packing and other general ideas. However no one seemed

Re: architecture detection

2004-09-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:25:45PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: I maintain the hashcash package. Recent upstream versions have included optimized assembly routines for MMX (x86) and Altivec (PPC). In order to compile these properly, I need to detect what architecture I am compiling under. What

Re: name for a library

2004-09-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:18:27PM -0500, Boris Kolpackov wrote: Suppose I have a library core name `foo'. The end product will be say `/usr/lib/libfoo.so.1.2'. So what should I name my source distribution? Before I would name the top level directory just `foo' then, when releasing, it will

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:32:11PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: Hi, I posted several messages to this list earlier this month about getting my package sponsored. Lots of people gave me great suggestions on how to improve the packing and other general ideas. However no one seemed

Re: architecture detection

2004-09-27 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:25:45PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: I maintain the hashcash package. Recent upstream versions have included optimized assembly routines for MMX (x86) and Altivec (PPC). In order to compile these properly, I need to detect what architecture I am compiling under. What

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually contains a copy of pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression library), but libpcre3 is already in the deabin

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote: On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually contains a copy of pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression library), but libpcre3 is already in the deabin

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: How does one check the differences in policy versions? (And I hope the answer isn't diff). Anyone? /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz works for me. Naturally you need the debian-policy package installed for

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: How does one check the differences in policy versions? (And I hope the answer isn't diff). Anyone? /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz works for me. Naturally you need the debian-policy package installed for

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory is in the repository. So I

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, you're going

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory is in the repository. So I

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, you're going

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib

Re: BOINC

2004-08-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:14:15PM +0100, Ben Hill wrote: This mail registers my intent to take over the package maintenance of BOINC as per this bug report: No it doesn't. A message to the bug report, renaming the bug from an RFP to an ITP, and changing the bug owner to yourself, would

Re: BOINC

2004-08-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:14:15PM +0100, Ben Hill wrote: This mail registers my intent to take over the package maintenance of BOINC as per this bug report: No it doesn't. A message to the bug report, renaming the bug from an RFP to an ITP, and changing the bug owner to yourself, would

Re: preinst, postinst, etc

2004-08-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:05:52PM +0200, Ashraf Emawi wrote: hi all, i try to build debian-package of a small programm, and i used dh_make to get some help. under the directory DEBIAN/ i got files like rules, copyright, preinst.ex, postinst.ex, etc... after building package and when i try

Re: preinst, postinst, etc

2004-08-16 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:05:52PM +0200, Ashraf Emawi wrote: hi all, i try to build debian-package of a small programm, and i used dh_make to get some help. under the directory DEBIAN/ i got files like rules, copyright, preinst.ex, postinst.ex, etc... after building package and when i try

Re: RFS: spong - system and network monitoring system

2004-08-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:42:20PM +0200, Cl?ment Stenac wrote: http://spong.sourceforge.net/ is accessible, but it certainly does not look as if spong is still maintained. According to this message http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=393999 (Spong still under development),

Re: RFS: spong - system and network monitoring system

2004-08-13 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:42:20PM +0200, Cl?ment Stenac wrote: http://spong.sourceforge.net/ is accessible, but it certainly does not look as if spong is still maintained. According to this message http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=393999 (Spong still under development),

Re: sponsor for bitpim

2004-08-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:48:43AM -0700, liz wrote: I am looking for someone to sponsor me in adding a new package to the Debian unstable tree. The package is called Bitpim http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/ Holy halibut, a 6.5MB RPM for a cellphone bit diddler. Is that chock-full of

Re: php mentor needed for ILIAS E-Learning getting into sid (?sarge?)

2004-08-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:36:06PM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote: We are just discussing on irc.freenode.net #debian-edu how to get ILIAS elearning asasp into sid andreas schuldei of skolelinux.no gave me a hint to ask on debian-mentors for someone who may give a helping hand. Andreas

Re: sponsor for bitpim

2004-08-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:48:43AM -0700, liz wrote: I am looking for someone to sponsor me in adding a new package to the Debian unstable tree. The package is called Bitpim http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/ Holy halibut, a 6.5MB RPM for a cellphone bit diddler. Is that chock-full of

Re: php mentor needed for ILIAS E-Learning getting into sid (?sarge?)

2004-08-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:36:06PM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote: We are just discussing on irc.freenode.net #debian-edu how to get ILIAS elearning asasp into sid andreas schuldei of skolelinux.no gave me a hint to ask on debian-mentors for someone who may give a helping hand. Andreas

Re: out-of-date-standards-version

2004-08-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:39:22AM +0200, Olivier wrote: lintian complains: out-of-date-standards-version 3.6.0 N: N: The source package refers to a 'Standards-Version' that is starting to N: get out of date, compared to current Policy. You can safely ignore N: this warning, but

Re: out-of-date-standards-version

2004-08-03 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:39:22AM +0200, Olivier wrote: lintian complains: out-of-date-standards-version 3.6.0 N: N: The source package refers to a 'Standards-Version' that is starting to N: get out of date, compared to current Policy. You can safely ignore N: this warning, but

Re: security fix dependency

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:37PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: Dear Mentors, I have a seemingly stupid question. Say I am not a DD yet, and has a security bug in a package I help maintaining. Upstream fixed it, so the package is ready, but upstream requires new library version

Re: security fix dependency

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:37PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: Dear Mentors, I have a seemingly stupid question. Say I am not a DD yet, and has a security bug in a package I help maintaining. Upstream fixed it, so the package is ready, but upstream requires new library version

Re: Some advice for a non-binary package

2004-07-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:37:58PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: tripping [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have a project that I think would be useful, it uses debian as a base. It doesn't contain any binary code, only python and shell scripts. It's an easy to use cluster installer/maintainer.

Re: Some advice for a non-binary package

2004-07-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:37:58PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: tripping [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I have a project that I think would be useful, it uses debian as a base. It doesn't contain any binary code, only python and shell scripts. It's an easy to use cluster installer/maintainer.

Re: Wordpress NMU

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:39:27AM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:52:17PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: The sponsor had to sign this so the upload would be accepted. http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordpress.html Can you tell me who signed this?

Re: Wordpress NMU

2004-07-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:39:27AM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:52:17PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: The sponsor had to sign this so the upload would be accepted. http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordpress.html Can you tell me who signed this?

Re: where do scripts go?

2004-07-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:56:05AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: I'm writing a GUI app that displays a list of scanned files and has some U/I bits to help me choose what folder it goes to, the date associated with it, c., and then I press a button and move and rename the file. The rules

Re: where do scripts go?

2004-07-11 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:56:05AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: I'm writing a GUI app that displays a list of scanned files and has some U/I bits to help me choose what folder it goes to, the date associated with it, c., and then I press a button and move and rename the file. The rules

Re: dh_installman

2004-07-08 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:00:32PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote: My upstream's man pages are in directories and not correctly named for debhelper. [...] mv doc/fr/man/zoneserver.8 doc/fr/man/zoneserver.fr.8 But that makes the diff huge and it looks horrible. I was hoping diff could spot a

Re: packaging newbie...: .svn directories / perldoc -- manpage

2004-07-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:50:38AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: (i) I have the package in subversion, so the .svn directories are included in the diff. Can I avoid this easily? (I looked at cvs-buildpackage a while ago and didn't really like it, so if svn-buildpackage

Re: RFS: atris - Alizarin Tetris

2004-07-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote: linda -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/atris_1.0.6-1_i386.changes W: atris; File /usr/games/atris has incorrect file permissions of 2755. The file shown above is in installed into a binary directory, which are currently known as

Re: RFS: atris - Alizarin Tetris

2004-07-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote: linda -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/atris_1.0.6-1_i386.changes W: atris; File /usr/games/atris has incorrect file permissions of 2755. The file shown above is in installed into a binary directory, which are currently known as

Re: RFS: knoda

2004-07-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:32:32AM +0200, Stan Pinte wrote: Name: knoda Licence: GPL Short description: knoda is a database frontend for KDE. It is based on hk_classes This description sucks. Don't start with the package name, it's too long, and what is hk_classes (and why should I, as a

Re: RFS: knoda

2004-07-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:32:32AM +0200, Stan Pinte wrote: Name: knoda Licence: GPL Short description: knoda is a database frontend for KDE. It is based on hk_classes This description sucks. Don't start with the package name, it's too long, and what is hk_classes (and why should I, as a

Re: mutiple binary package

2004-06-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:11:31PM +0200, Arnaud FLORENT wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN HTML in e-mail messages, especially those to Debian lists, is deeply frowned upon. Turn it off, and if you can't, switch to a mail program which will allow you to. - Matt

Re: mutiple binary package

2004-06-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:11:31PM +0200, Arnaud FLORENT wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN HTML in e-mail messages, especially those to Debian lists, is deeply frowned upon. Turn it off, and if you can't, switch to a mail program which will allow you to. - Matt

Re: Licence for Icons

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:57:29PM +, Stefan V?lkel wrote: is there a licence for icons? Eh? Any licence that expresses the icon author's wishes should suffice. There's nothing special about icons in that sense. I'd like to include an extra icon in one of my packages (revelation). I

Re: Licence for Icons

2004-06-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:57:29PM +, Stefan V?lkel wrote: is there a licence for icons? Eh? Any licence that expresses the icon author's wishes should suffice. There's nothing special about icons in that sense. I'd like to include an extra icon in one of my packages (revelation). I

Re: RFS: yaffa -- secure ftp client

2004-06-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:30:22AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Just a thought, what do you think about patching the README to remove a certain badword from it? Feel like modifying the kernel sources to do the same thing? I'd suggest, at most, maybe replacing a few strategic letters with

Re: RFS: yaffa -- secure ftp client

2004-06-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:30:22AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: Just a thought, what do you think about patching the README to remove a certain badword from it? Feel like modifying the kernel sources to do the same thing? I'd suggest, at most, maybe replacing a few strategic letters with

Re: RFS: metapixel

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:11:26PM +0200, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: Is there nobody with a bit of free time willing to sponsor the package described below? I expect it to be reasonably painless... The problem normally is both a lack of free time (I've got nine packages on my list of I'll look

Re: RFS: metapixel

2004-06-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:11:26PM +0200, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote: Is there nobody with a bit of free time willing to sponsor the package described below? I expect it to be reasonably painless... The problem normally is both a lack of free time (I've got nine packages on my list of I'll look

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:17:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: In debian/dirs, you only list the directories that you want to create with dh_installdirs - e.g. directories that the upstream Makefiles assumes to be present upon installation, or directories to which you want to move some files in

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:34AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: The version of the debian package you produce is taken from the package's topmost changelog entry. For timestamps, you can use touch(1), but I'm having trouble coming up with why you'd want to stamp a file to a particular time...

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:17:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: In debian/dirs, you only list the directories that you want to create with dh_installdirs - e.g. directories that the upstream Makefiles assumes to be present upon installation, or directories to which you want to move some files in

Re: Package review and comment wanted

2004-06-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:34AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: The version of the debian package you produce is taken from the package's topmost changelog entry. For timestamps, you can use touch(1), but I'm having trouble coming up with why you'd want to stamp a file to a particular time...

Re: How many times run debian/config?

2004-05-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:09:39PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: If I install my package with dpkg, it run once, after unpacking... But if I install the package with apt-get, it run twice: before the unpacking (Preconfiguring package) and after the unpacking (Configuring package), so I

Re: How many times run debian/config?

2004-05-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:11:06PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: It is a web-based tool written in PHP. The package provide an example configuration which have to be modified by the system administrator after installing it. In debian/config (but I will move the code in debian/postint) I try

Re: How many times run debian/config?

2004-05-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:09:39PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: If I install my package with dpkg, it run once, after unpacking... But if I install the package with apt-get, it run twice: before the unpacking (Preconfiguring package) and after the unpacking (Configuring package), so I

Re: How many times run debian/config?

2004-05-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:11:06PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: It is a web-based tool written in PHP. The package provide an example configuration which have to be modified by the system administrator after installing it. In debian/config (but I will move the code in debian/postint) I try

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: I also could use /usr/bin/java instead, which is managed by alternatives, but again, my app doesn't work with kaffe/gjc/another JRE, so I don't see the point. I do. The point is that not everyone puts their jre in

Re: PLML Sgml System Package [ looking for upload ]

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:07:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I'm looking for a sponsor to upload soon this package of mine : plml http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.dsc http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.tar.gz

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:06:26PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: Does your package depend on the Blackdown JRE .deb? If so, then it would be reasonable to rely on that package's file locations. That was exactly my thought. My package depends on j2re1.4 and uses the packages file locations.

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:47:06AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: 'official' Java package from Blackdown. I have used the Blackdown package from deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ ./ which works great. It's very likely, that other j2re1.4 packages (if there are any) are

Re: Sponsor for Ontographics?

2004-05-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: I also could use /usr/bin/java instead, which is managed by alternatives, but again, my app doesn't work with kaffe/gjc/another JRE, so I don't see the point. I do. The point is that not everyone puts their jre in

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