On Tue, 30 May 2006, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> Packages containing some contrib material, without which the package functions
> well, can indeed go in main AFAIK.
Yes. That's enough. If you agree on that why do you need after that to
find a complicated explication on why finally this is not OK ?
> Howe
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Can't you just ship those ten lines in contrib, and the rest in main?
> This may be archive bloat, but surely it's arch:all, so that minimizes
> the bloat at least. I am not over fond of the freer-than-free holy
> wars, but it does seem like this script i
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > A downloader package is a bit of grey area; much like a typical
> > "contrib" package, it has some more-or-less hardcoded string that
> > points to non-free data; it does not, however, depend on anything
> > outside of main to function (since mai
On Thu, 04 May 2006, Paul Wise wrote:
> They were mostly fine for the current python policy (although a bit
> overkill). I'm looking forward to a more sane python policy, as
> described in this email:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/01/msg00028.html
>
> Who is the python policy mai
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Ian Ward wrote:
> >Given than Ian is the upstream author of the module, he is of course
> >welcome in the team if he so wishes. Ian, just give me your alioth login
> >if you are interested.
>
> Sure, but I am not a debian developer.. should I create a guest account
> on aliot
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Paul Wise wrote:
> You are welcome to take over maintainership of it, or co-maintain it
> with me, perhaps buxy can add you to the python-modules SVN.
Given than Ian is the upstream author of the module, he is of course
welcome in the team if he so wishes. Ian, just give me yo
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Steve Langasek wrote:
> denyhosts-python2.3/2.4 do contain a python module. If and when the Great
> Python Reorganization finally happens, this ought to be a single denyhosts
> package depending on python (>> 2.3), python (<< 2.5).
This can already be done with python-support
Hi,
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Marco Bertorello wrote:
> denyhosts-python2.3
> denyhosts-python2.4
> denyhosts-common
>
> the binaries are stored in packages -python2.X but the manpage (common
> to alla packages) is stored in denyhosts-common.
Why would you have a binary in -python2.3 *and* in -python
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 9:26 am, Adriaan Peeters wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > What is the correct way to handle copyright statements for translations?
> > When the package has only a few translations, I can easily add the
> > copyright statements to debian/
Hi,
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Amadan Korvin wrote:
> OK i've been trying to get my subscriptions all configured properly to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've read and re-read and re-re-read the
> help-file, and no matter what I do I can't get anything but the
> default configuration to work.
Which help file ?
[Same crosspost than last time + debian-devel, but reply-to set to a new
list]
Hello everybody,
following the previous mail on the subject, I revised a bit the proposal
and started to write down the design of the infrastructure.
I also created a mailing list where everybody interested to help sh
Hi Stefan,
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Stefan Potyra wrote:
> I'll just try to restart the discussion with a proposal:
> Currently I maintain one package (min12xxw, see [1]) for ubuntu, have filed
> an
> ITP (#334093) in debian but haven't tried hard enough to find a sponsor yet.
>
> Since this packag
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, skaller wrote:
> > These things take time.
>
> Indeed. However change must start with awareness.
We're quite aware of our limitations, but we can't make miracles.
There's a lot to do and this thread proves that some people are willing to
make things change for people like y
Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 11:04 +0100, Christoph Haas a écrit :
> > This infrastructure is seriously needed in Debian because:
> > - team maintenance with SVN is more and more popular, and a good web
> > interface above a SVN repo of Debian packages would help all those
> > teams
>
> If ther
Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 09:44 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit :
> First, technical issues:
>
> * Chances are very low that you will get Ubuntu people to use svn
> instead of bzr. bzr is the "official" VCS in Ubuntu, it is written in
> Python, the "official" language in Ubuntu. Making Ubuntu peop
Hello Daniel,
Le lundi 19 décembre 2005 à 08:24 +0100, Daniel Holbach a écrit :
> > - team maintenance with SVN is more and more popular, and a good web
> > interface above a SVN repo of Debian packages would help all those
> > teams
>
> I'd be in favour or a bzr solution, not because of rand
[ Sorry for the crosspost, but the subject is of interest to many people ]
Hello everybody,
following the last discussion at the Debian-QA meeting on Darmstadt, it
appears that the proposal called "Collaborative maintenance" is of generic
interest :
- for Debian sponsors and Debian mentors
- for
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:47:48AM -0700, Josh Lauricha écrivait:
> I'm renaming the libtext-csv-perl module to libtext-csv-xs-perl (it
> provides Text::CSV_XS not Text::CSV).
>
> It is lintian clean, however linda complains that an arch specific file
> end up in /usr/share/perl5
>
> If I have it
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:47:48AM -0700, Josh Lauricha écrivait:
> I'm renaming the libtext-csv-perl module to libtext-csv-xs-perl (it
> provides Text::CSV_XS not Text::CSV).
>
> It is lintian clean, however linda complains that an arch specific file
> end up in /usr/share/perl5
>
> If I have it
Le Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:30:03AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr écrivait:
> I would like to discuss the exact requirements for this at debconf and
> I hope some PHP hackers will be around who can implement this. Matt,
> ISTR that you will be at debconf but I'm not positive; can you
> confirm this? I t
Le Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 12:30:03AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr écrivait:
> I would like to discuss the exact requirements for this at debconf and
> I hope some PHP hackers will be around who can implement this. Matt,
> ISTR that you will be at debconf but I'm not positive; can you
> confirm this? I t
Le Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 09:47:38AM +0200, Jörgen Hägg écrivait:
> But if the perl-module has both binary and nonbinary files?
Then it's ok to leave the .pm where they have been installed in the
first place that's why it's only a warning and not an error.
> Should all files for a perl module r
Le Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:37:01PM +0100, Karolina Lindqvist écrivait:
> Only that I don't know what to tell apt-get to reinstall such files. And
> then,
> if another file should not be reinstalled, only the essential ones, how to
> deal with that?
>
> There does not appear to be any option to
Le Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:37:01PM +0100, Karolina Lindqvist écrivait:
> Only that I don't know what to tell apt-get to reinstall such files. And then,
> if another file should not be reinstalled, only the essential ones, how to
> deal with that?
>
> There does not appear to be any option to apt
Le Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:09:56PM -0400, sbt écrivait:
> Hi,
Hi,
> I am not (yet) a developer and have indicated my intention to adopt the
> recently-orphaned package "xeuklides" to start the process of becoming
> one. In the process of making the simple changes to adopt it, I
> discovered t
Le Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:09:56PM -0400, sbt écrivait:
> Hi,
Hi,
> I am not (yet) a developer and have indicated my intention to adopt the
> recently-orphaned package "xeuklides" to start the process of becoming
> one. In the process of making the simple changes to adopt it, I
> discovered
Le Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:39:01AM +0200, Ludovic Drolez écrivait:
> Rejected: weex_2.6.1-4woody1.dsc is NEW for woody-proposed-updates.
> Rejected: weex_2.6.1-4woody1_i386.deb is NEW for woody-proposed-updates.
> Rejected: weex_2.6.1-4woody1.diff.gz is NEW for woody-proposed-updates.
[...]
> So wh
Le Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:39:01AM +0200, Ludovic Drolez écrivait:
> Rejected: weex_2.6.1-4woody1.dsc is NEW for woody-proposed-updates.
> Rejected: weex_2.6.1-4woody1_i386.deb is NEW for woody-proposed-updates.
> Rejected: weex_2.6.1-4woody1.diff.gz is NEW for woody-proposed-updates.
[...]
> So w
Le Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:12:18PM +0100, Andrew Suffield écrivait:
> We've had this discussion before, on -newmaint, and other places. "Go
> and find a better idea" does not mean "Try and push the same idea on a
> different group of people".
Because you're the one who will make the ultimate decis
Le Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:12:18PM +0100, Andrew Suffield écrivait:
> We've had this discussion before, on -newmaint, and other places. "Go
> and find a better idea" does not mean "Try and push the same idea on a
> different group of people".
Because you're the one who will make the ultimate deci
Le Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen écrivait:
> | That's why I want us to switch to use the BTS.
>
> This is usually called shotgun debugging. Try another solution until
> you find one which fits. Obviously, this is not a good way to debug
> problems.
Well, I have reasons
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:16:11PM -0300, Leo Costela écrivait:
> (again, I obviously don't), but you could be more concise and just make
> up a list of Pro's and Con's for each system, then we could stand on
Duh, the various arguments have been given numerous times already.
I'll sum up yet anothe
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:09:53PM +0100, Mark Brown écrivait:
> The BTS is all well and good but it isn't the answer to all our
> problems.
It's the same for all bugs (even bugs on usual packages), people learn
to CC the submitter or to use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] form. And as you
said, debian-ment
Le Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:00:40PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen écrivait:
> Most of my sponsorees haven't come from the CGI of yours, but from
> this list, or #debian-devel.
I know that. I observe myself that the CGI is most of the time out of
touch with the reality. That's why I want to get rid of it.
Le Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 03:27:17PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen écrivait:
> | That's why I want us to switch to use the BTS.
>
> This is usually called shotgun debugging. Try another solution until
> you find one which fits. Obviously, this is not a good way to debug
> problems.
Well, I have reasons
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:16:11PM -0300, Leo Costela écrivait:
> (again, I obviously don't), but you could be more concise and just make
> up a list of Pro's and Con's for each system, then we could stand on
Duh, the various arguments have been given numerous times already.
I'll sum up yet anoth
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:09:53PM +0100, Mark Brown écrivait:
> The BTS is all well and good but it isn't the answer to all our
> problems.
It's the same for all bugs (even bugs on usual packages), people learn
to CC the submitter or to use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] form. And as you
said, debian-men
Le Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:00:40PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen écrivait:
> Most of my sponsorees haven't come from the CGI of yours, but from
> this list, or #debian-devel.
I know that. I observe myself that the CGI is most of the time out of
touch with the reality. That's why I want to get rid of it.
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:31:20PM +0200, Rune B. Broberg écrivait:
> You are the person trying to change something, you should prove your
> point, instead of worrying about people not proving why this should not
> be established.
I'm the guy who invented sponsorship, I'm the one who wrote the
spo
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:31:20PM +0200, Rune B. Broberg écrivait:
> You are the person trying to change something, you should prove your
> point, instead of worrying about people not proving why this should not
> be established.
I'm the guy who invented sponsorship, I'm the one who wrote the
sp
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli écrivait:
> It's not bad, is an hack. Fullfill our need but isn't the right place.
It's a smart hack. As is the "ftp.debian.org" or "lists.debian.org"
pseudo-package ...
> This has also a drawback: reconstructing history of threads betw
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:12:46PM +0200, Peter Palfrader écrivait:
> > Sorry, you're just unconstructive... what overhead
>
> The overhead of managing the bug.
It's not your work, but the sponsoree work. And managing the bug is not
harder for the sponsoree than managing its CGI entry or anything
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:21:35AM +0200, Peter Palfrader écrivait:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> > Also, if you realize a bit, mailing the BTS means mailing debian-mentors
> > as a side effect since debian-mentors is the maintainer of the
> > sponso
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:55:45AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli écrivait:
> IMO a BTS based approach is a nice idea expecially for the availability
> of history (usefull for the AM) and (even if less important) because
> it's more 'official' than the current CGI approach to my eyes.
>
> Anyway pollut
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:05:31PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli écrivait:
> It's not bad, is an hack. Fullfill our need but isn't the right place.
It's a smart hack. As is the "ftp.debian.org" or "lists.debian.org"
pseudo-package ...
> This has also a drawback: reconstructing history of threads bet
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:12:46PM +0200, Peter Palfrader écrivait:
> > Sorry, you're just unconstructive... what overhead
>
> The overhead of managing the bug.
It's not your work, but the sponsoree work. And managing the bug is not
harder for the sponsoree than managing its CGI entry or anythin
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:21:35AM +0200, Peter Palfrader écrivait:
> On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>
> > Also, if you realize a bit, mailing the BTS means mailing debian-mentors
> > as a side effect since debian-mentors is the maintainer of the
> > sponso
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:55:45AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli écrivait:
> IMO a BTS based approach is a nice idea expecially for the availability
> of history (usefull for the AM) and (even if less important) because
> it's more 'official' than the current CGI approach to my eyes.
>
> Anyway pollu
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:57:11AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> And, as usual, we're obsessed about overruling people and forcing the
> issue instead of working through the problems that other people have
> identified.
What problem has been identified ?
I've seen no real problem !
Saying "a
Le Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 07:38:17PM +0200, Peter Palfrader écrivait:
> I disagree. I don't see how this could work. FWIW I sponsor single
> uploads of single packages. People seeking sponsors should mail to
> -mentors. a BTS is not needed.
The BTS is to keep track of who request uploads of each pac
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:57:38AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> need to convince me that it's good. If that turns out to be harder than
> doing it yourself, then do it yourself. Whatever. The only way you're
Why do I always find things to do that I can't do myself ?
Be sure that if I could ha
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:57:11AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> And, as usual, we're obsessed about overruling people and forcing the
> issue instead of working through the problems that other people have
> identified.
What problem has been identified ?
I've seen no real problem !
Saying "a
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:49:56AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:40:51PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > If you agree with me, please send a mail to the bug log so that
> > aj can be convinced
>
> ...that you're all a bunch of nutcases th
Le Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 07:38:17PM +0200, Peter Palfrader écrivait:
> I disagree. I don't see how this could work. FWIW I sponsor single
> uploads of single packages. People seeking sponsors should mail to
> -mentors. a BTS is not needed.
The BTS is to keep track of who request uploads of each pa
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:57:38AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> need to convince me that it's good. If that turns out to be harder than
> doing it yourself, then do it yourself. Whatever. The only way you're
Why do I always find things to do that I can't do myself ?
Be sure that if I could h
Le Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 03:49:56AM +1000, Anthony Towns écrivait:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 04:40:51PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > If you agree with me, please send a mail to the bug log so that
> > aj can be convinced
>
> ...that you're all a bunch of nutca
Hi people,
I already proposed this a long time ago. I want to use the BTS to manage
the sponsorship request. I think it's a good idea because the current
CGI is awful (no way to update his own entry, hosted on a non debian
machine) and because the BTS can easily fullfill that role.
The current CG
Hi people,
I already proposed this a long time ago. I want to use the BTS to manage
the sponsorship request. I think it's a good idea because the current
CGI is awful (no way to update his own entry, hosted on a non debian
machine) and because the BTS can easily fullfill that role.
The current C
Le Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:24:20PM +0200, Sven LUTHER écrivait:
> So i would like to know, which of the gnome approach (uploading to
> experimental) or the perl approach (using a staging area) is better or
> more recomended, and also if there is some documentation available on
> building a staging
Le Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:24:20PM +0200, Sven LUTHER écrivait:
> So i would like to know, which of the gnome approach (uploading to
> experimental) or the perl approach (using a staging area) is better or
> more recomended, and also if there is some documentation available on
> building a staging
Le Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:23:07PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > A same kind of problem is likely to happen for the conffiles and other
> > non-conffiles configuration files that I move from wwsympa to sympa
> > and that are been removed in wwsympa postrm.
>
> I'm afraid you're on your own
Le Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:23:07PM -0400, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > A same kind of problem is likely to happen for the conffiles and other
> > non-conffiles configuration files that I move from wwsympa to sympa
> > and that are been removed in wwsympa postrm.
>
> I'm afraid you're on your own
Le Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:13:15PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer écrivait:
> but still http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz
> > shows:
>
> * freenet-unstable (0.4.3+20020328-1 to 0.4.3+20020409-1)
> * Maintainer: Robert Bihlmeyer
> * Too young, only 1 of 10 days old
Le Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 08:13:15PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer écrivait:
> but still http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz
> > shows:
>
> * freenet-unstable (0.4.3+20020328-1 to 0.4.3+20020409-1)
> * Maintainer: Robert Bihlmeyer
> * Too young, only 1 of 10 days ol
Le Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:04:24AM -0500, Paul Serice écrivait:
> Other than orphaning the packages I maintain, what else do I need to
> do before quitting?
Inform debian-private & notify keyring-maint,
please check the developers reference :
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/developer
Le Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:16:05AM +0100, Marcelo E. Magallon écrivait:
> Fine with me. Where's the said page?
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/
(it's linked from the developer corner on the Debian wen site)
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~
Le Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:09:32AM -0500, Warren A. Layton écrivait:
> Recently, I spotted login.app on the WNPP page, which needs a new maintainer.
> Since I use this program a lot, I think this would be ideal.
> Unfortunately, the documentation regarding becoming a new maintainer
> says little ab
Le Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:19:19AM +1100, Timshel Knoll écrivait:
> Hi,
>
> I'm the maintainer of parted, which has an RC bug at the mo. My sponsor
> (Torsten Landschoff) is away at the moment and I need a new package (which
> fixes the RC bug) the be checked & uploaded for me, so I'd be grateful
Le Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:41:22AM +0100, Jérôme Marant écrivait:
> cvs login works but i don't know what to do in order to download
> gnome-apt.
$ export ...
$ cvs login
$ cvs co gnome-apt
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/
CD Debian : http://tux.u-
Le Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:46:05PM -0400, Raul Miller écrivait:
> I wrote:
> > By the way, I don't suppose anyone knows why I'd be getting /lib
> > defined in rpath on some perl .so files? [Looking at perl this should
> > only be happening if I was running IRIX.]
>
> Or solaris. But I'm running n
Le Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 02:54:08PM +0800, Paul Harris écrivait:
> i am curious to know what everyone's plans are to deal with the
> long-developer-waiting-list problem. i'm sure you have discussed this
> heaps, i just can't seem to find any threads.
There has been discussion in debian-devel and -m
Le Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 12:54:23AM +0100, Frankie Fisher écrivait:
> Maybe you could downgrade it or something.
No please close it if :
- the bug submitter doesn't respond to your questions
- you can't duplicate the problem with the last version
- the bug is quite old
- nobody else complained abo
Le Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 04:17:04AM -0500, Stephen R. Gore écrivait:
> Is this acceptable/normal? Does a GUI app that uses GUI help need a
> man page regardless?
No, it's not acceptable. Please read man dh_undocumented. Yes you still
need man page.
dh_undocumented sclient.1
Cheers,
--
Raphaël H
[ I cced some future developers that expressed their interest in the
sponsorship ]
[ Follow-up on debian-devel please ]
Hi,
the sponsor idea has some success so I wrote a CGI script to keep
track of people looking for sponsors.
Here it is :
http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/
Le Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 02:19:25PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman écrivait:
> Do the default web server configurations allow symlinks like this?
Apache does but I don't know about the other webserver.
> Hmm...I don't like the sound of that. The postinst will have to chown
> directories to this user, whic
Le Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 07:00:37PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman écrivait:
> cricket-0.70
> |-- doc (documentation)
> | `-- neta-paper
=> /usr/share/doc
> |-- images (used by the CGI)
An already used solution was to put them in /usr/doc// and then
the images were available as /doc// in the web tree.
Le Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:44:08PM +0200, Jérôme Marant écrivait:
> I'd like to read Packages[.gz] files,
# apt-cache dumpavail
> read/modify files in
> /var/lib/dpkg and other package administration things.
Those files are not modified by apt but by dpkg.
> Does the libapt-pkg library allo
Le Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:53:13AM -0700, tony mancill écrivait:
> dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or
> directory
The file debian/files is removed by dh_clean. Check that you don't call
dh_clean somewhere unexpected. For a multi-binary package you may have to
us
Le Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:55:33AM +0200, Domenico Andreoli écrivait:
> > care not to install in main something that could not be exported by US
> > residents.
> right, i have to break source in two anyway. i can't put source in main
> distribution that require some non-US packages, can i?
No.
Ch
Le Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 09:36:22PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli écrivait:
> in order to get both version i have to configure/make sources (for
> plain version), save somewhere plain binary and clean reconfigure/remake
> all (for ssl flavour).
>
> well, multiple binary packages support goes well when w
Le Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 06:50:04PM +0200, Oliver écrivait:
> Hi,
>
> I try to compile the apache modul for fastcgi but the linker can not found
> the ldbm library. Can somebody help?
It's a basic problem I think :
$ zgrep libdbm.so /rack/ftp/debian/dists/potato/Contents-i386.gz
usr/lib/libdbm.so
Le Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:28:10AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog écrivait:
> > deb http://www.skunkpussy.ic24.net/debian unstable main
An apt source file is not enough for me, I want the source as well the
binary packages but your server doesn't allow directory listing so I can't
see the
Le Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 06:34:39AM -0700, Robert Jones écrivait:
> I have downloaded all of the i386 unstable tree, but as main is 1.2 gigs
> or so, I'm not sure how to split it up onto CDs to do the installation.
You can build CD images for potato with YACS :
http://pandora.debian.org/~hertzog/ya
Le Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 04:36:25AM +0100, Frankie Fisher écrivait:
> While I am waiting for my maintainership to go through (if it ever will), I
> have put version 0.1.11 of SoundTracker (i386+source) on a website. Here is
> the line for sources.list:
>
> deb http://www.skunkpussy.ic24.net/debian
Le Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:28:21PM +, Steven V. Russo écrivait:
> I wonder if anyone can tell me why no one has responded to me from
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted my application months ago, and
> sent two follow up applications. I believe I followed their procedure
> as closely as possible.
Le Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:14:41PM -0400, Benjamin Gray Darnell écrivait:
> I have a package (pose - PalmOS emulator) that should be in contrib, but
> I just noticed that it is currently in main. Is there a line I should add
> to the control file to make this change, or should I email the archive
Le Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 08:43:50PM +, Lazarus Long écrivait:
> I believe libgeo-metar-perl to be consistent with standard naming
Yes it's ok.
> um, dists/potato/main/binary-i386/interpreters/libwww-perl_5.44-2.deb
Yes interpreters is the most used for perl modules. Sometimes maintainers
put
Le Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 09:32:08PM +0200, Radovan Garabik écrivait:
> 1) I am the author of program I am packaging. To save myself
> some work, I have packaged it as a native debian package. Is this
> allowed? (There was some discussion about it a long time ago,
> and it seemed possible to do so)
[ Large crosspost to start the discussion, please reply to debian-devel
only. Simply respect the reply-to. ]
Hello everybody,
you may or not be aware that getting a Debian developer is quite long. I
want to propose a solution to facilitate the integration of new
Debian developers.
It's quite s
Le Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 02:36:30AM +1200, Michael Beattie écrivait:
> > I'd like to do that, but am not yet a sanctioned developer;
> > do you think I should send that email, or do I really have
> > to wait? Thanks.
I think you should wait. What I would suggest is that you find someone
who wou
Le Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Jérôme Marant écrivait:
> Hi,
>
> The Debinaa New Maintainer's Guide explains how to package
> apps from sources. But sometimes, one just have binaries (mainly when
> non-free).
> So, how to package from binaries?
Put your binaries in the source packag
Le Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 06:45:44PM +0100, Jules Bean écrivait:
> fakeroot seems to have some problems, but it does still work. I think
> it's better to use fakeroot when it works (and sudo if fakeroot doesn't
> work for a particular package) than to always use sudo.
>
> Sudo is dangerous if there
Le Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 01:21:40PM +0100, Oliver Elphick écrivait:
> I put commands in debian/rules to fix this, but somehow that isn't reflected
> in the .deb files.
>
> Here's an extract from the build output; commands are in the rules file.
I suppose you're using fakeroot ... you shouldn't any
Le Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 12:04:01AM +1000, Shao Zhang écrivait:
> A package that contains only one font file.
> I have followed the HOWTO. But my problem is that this is not a src
> file. So there
> is no need for a make file.
If you have no makefile then modify the rules file in
Le Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 11:50:36AM +0200, Sami Dalouche écrivait:
> I'm learning how to create a package but I don't understand why the dirs
> file exists. All the directories are created when we type a make install,
> aren't they ?
Usually yes. But you may need additional (empty or not) directori
Le Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 08:58:03AM -0400, Kermit Tensmeyer écrivait:
> Why must the system need (db 1.85, db 2.1.2, db 2.4.3 new potato db 2.6.X>)? From the list of things that broke when I
> upgraded then only software that seemed to have a real dependence
> might be the nss_db code.
>
> bind,
Le Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 04:17:11AM +, Bradley Bell écrivait:
> Where does one look to see if a certain package has anybody working on it?
> i.e. when it is not currently in the distribution, and is not listed in
> the WNPP...
You should post in Intent to Package on debian-devel and if somebody
Le Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 09:52:17AM -0500, Kermit Tensmeyer écrivait:
> /lib/libdb.so. => libdb-2.0.7.so
> /usr/lib/libdb.so => libdb-2.0.7
> /usr/lib/libdb2.so => libdb2.so.2.4.14
/lib/libdb.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.1.so
/lib/libdb.so.3 -> libdb-2.1.1.so
/lib/libdb1.so.2 -> libdb1-2.1.1.so
/usr/l
Le Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:03:54PM -0500, Kermit Tensmeyer écrivait:
> Can someone explain to me, the hows and whys of libdb and libdb2 as
> used in Debian 2.1.
libdb == libdb2. It's provided by the glibc2.1 ...
If you want to use the old db 1.85 you must compile your programs with
-ldb1
> It
Le Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Matthew Sachs écrivait:
>
> I'm packaging some Perl modules and a program which is a bunch of Perl
> scripts. Everything in these packages is Perl code (and documentation).
> Do I need to make "source" packages for these? How would I go about doing
> tha
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