Re: Maintainer override in bug tracking system

1999-07-23 Thread Peter Makholm
"Martin Bialasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changing the title of the bug would be better. The subject of the > simgle mails added to the report is not that visible along the other > headers. Doh yes. Don't read what I write but what I mean! -- I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to

Re: Maintainer override in bug tracking system

1999-07-22 Thread Peter Makholm
"Michael Beattie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No offence, but why is it that non-developers are suddenly jumping up and > down wanting to do this and that?? I find this a strange behaviour > pattern. And I myself, feel that If you arent a maintainer, you cant do > these things. [IMHO:] Everybo

Re: Downloading Debian

1999-07-14 Thread Peter Makholm
Rad Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used Slackware & Red Hat.. I heard Debian is really good.. and I > want to try it out., but i'm confused about what directories I need to > download.. Do you make root disks / boot disks? [] There is a link to the Instalation manual at http:/

Re: Becoming a new developper

1999-06-23 Thread Peter Makholm
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using only standard unix tools (no dh_make, debstd, or debhelper), > package X11. You have 1 hour. As you please! Hmmm, is it ok if the build isn't finished after 1 hour? Is vi a standard unix tool or should I use cat, tail and head? I assume that y

Re: New Maintainer Questions

1999-06-10 Thread Peter Makholm
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - How do I go about uploading a new package that has never been uploaded > before? Just upload it. You will receive a message saying it's a new package and it will take some time to install it. but thats ok. > - Are all Debian developers meant to receive a

Re: Binaries for other architectures

1999-04-06 Thread Peter Makholm
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lars runs dbuild on the source from time to time, but from > conversations with him, I gather he doesn't even vaguely have time to > process all the logs it produces. [...] Lars Who? I don't think I've heard a call for volunteers. If the logs aren't big

Re: how do I create orig.tar.gz archive ?

1999-01-29 Thread Peter Makholm
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter is correct. Just a small note: it is VERY important that the > .orig.tar.gz IS the original tar.gz (the name doesn't matter); if it can't > be done[1], then it can't, but if you can use pristine source, please do use Anything special to d

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-25 Thread Peter Makholm
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I think csh-considered-harmful is a purely personal > decision and has no place in policy and therefore lintian. What does it say if you're using foosh? Lintian should at least warn if the instalation scripts are using anything not in base

Re: Offline package maintaning?

1998-12-15 Thread Peter Makholm
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is it possible to use dupload from a non-debian box? > Probably, it's just perl, but you don't have to use dupload, you can > always do it by hand; [...] I know but I will probaly forget to send announces all the time. Why do it by hand if I can get s

Offline package maintaning?

1998-12-14 Thread Peter Makholm
I'm consider to becomming a debian maintainer and I have a few packages I want to packages. My problem is that my debianbox (or linux for that sake) isn't on the net. At work we're using HPUXes and I would like to upload from there. dupload depends on dpkg but I don't see why. Is it possible to u