Re: backports.org became really shitty for php5-mysql and mysql-server-5.0

2007-03-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e security team or the QA team may be nice enough to do a QA upload of the new version of the package (as many upstream developers release security fixes by releasing whole new versions), but nobody is obligated to do that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: chatplus

2007-03-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
lintian and linda, they will check the source and the binary packages for you. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Legends The Game, new debian package

2007-03-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e appropriate library packages in Debian. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Legends The Game, new debian package

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ends/libvorbis.so.0 > This will certainly get your package rejected by the ftp-masters. All of those libraries exist in their own packages on Debian, you need to link against those. Embedding libraries like that has been a great source of headaches to the security team, hence the policy. Regards

Re: Legends The Game, new debian package

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:17:16PM +0100, olaf wrote: > On Saturday 03 March 2007 19:17, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Are those files platform dependent or platform independent? > > > > Regards, > > > > -Roberto > Hi Roberto > > They are platform indepe

Re: Legends The Game, new debian package

2007-03-03 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
sr/lib/legends/show/ui.unf > Are those files platform dependent or platform independent? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Legends The Game, new debian package

2007-03-02 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
rectory /usr/share/games/legends/ . > Its still only hosted on http://hosted.filefront.com/0laf , but i ll try to > upload it to mentors.debian.net. > Umm, having binaries anywhere in /usr/share is a policy violation. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
t might make it slightly more likely to get what you want. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:59:32PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:28:10 -0500 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Right. However, I think we are rapidly approaching overkill in this > > discussion. How about this: &g

Re: [OT] svn rollback

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ts, no? :-) > No, there is no api to remove revisions, which is why its an unusual > event :). > There is wisdom in what the svn devs did. :-) > Other VCS's however, allow rollbacks to occur much more easily ;). > Yes, like CVS, which "encourages" admins to manually

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
we are rapidly approaching overkill in this discussion. How about this: * the version string includes the date * the changelog mentions the exact rev No ambiguity. Someone interested in the source would (or should) have the wherewithal to look at the changelog or other documentation if he

Re: native packages

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
have a conflict. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
just as looking up a normal release string would > do - it also uniquely identifies the point at which the upstream code > was packaged - again, just as a release string is intended to do. > I see your point. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 09:17:37AM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 19:51 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I disagree. How do I know that r91 was committed two days ago? > > This also does not hold for regular, released versions. I don't see why >

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
;& would be more appropriate. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
t; of the program. Without it, the user would be required to look at the source control upstream to see when it was committed. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
checkout or packup a working directory. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
worlds" approach. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:14:50PM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > On 1/22/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I guess it depends. If there has been no "stable" release with a > >version number, then something like 20070112svn

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
anyone not intimately familiar with development of that package. For something that has had stable releases and you are packaging snapshots between releases, I would do something 1.1.15~20070112svn for the upstream version. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~rob

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:57:14PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I would not seriously expect anyone to sponsor a package of mine with an > > outstanding > > issue like that. > > please read the whole mail about his debian/rules and why

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
son, even when given none, is perfectly valid. > Yes, but enforcing your preferences on someone makes you come off as elitist. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e sorts of preference issues out there. I don't think that pointing them out is wrong, but I don't think that someone forcing their view of what they think is right is justified, unless there is something in policy or the developer reference or lintian/linda to provide justification. Re

Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors

2007-01-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
quot; It is completely different to say, "I won't sponsor your package because I don't like the changelog format you used." Now, if something is a legitimate issue, it should be identified by lintian and/or linda in addition to being mentioned in policy and/or the developer referen

Re: reasons why downgrades are Not Supported

2007-01-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
programs check for older-styler formats of their own files/whatevers and not newer. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: fspanel -- minimalist panel for X

2007-01-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:13:11PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > * the homepage entry should have *two* leading spaces. > IIRC, this was dsicussed recently and it is basically a matter of preference. I could be wrontg, though. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. San

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:59:30PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:32:21PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > I disagree. I think that while it is not the majority, a sizeable > > portion of the user base installs a home-rolled kernel.

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
, I'd file a bug. If I used reportbug, it would also indicate that I had the "correct" kernel installed, but not running and you would end up with a bug report along the lines of "it doesn't work". Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
at is necessary in the way of kernel support and let me sort it out. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
iple versions of a library available and have them all be usable simultaneously. With a kernel, you boot A and kernel B is no longer running or accessible. You boot B and A is no longer running or accessible. By accessible, I mean for runtime use. This is not true of a library. Regards, -R

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
rticular kernel. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2006-12-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
; What if the kernels on those machines are installed by hand? Thus, dpkg won't know about them. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Does a DD become solely responsible for abandonware in Debian?

2006-10-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ou essentially accept the responsibility of being the upstream maintainer as well. On the plus side, you are not likely to disagree with yourself about Debian-related things and you are not likely to do things to make the Debian packaging more difficult than it needs to be. Regards, -Roberto

Re: RFS toshset

2006-10-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 01:50:16PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > tiCo is working on uploading toshset for me. > ^ > > I don't think so *scnr* > I realized that in his last message to me, where he mentioned he

Re: RFS toshset

2006-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
tiCo is working on uploading toshset for me. Thanks, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFS toshset

2006-10-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Would someone kindly upload my new toshset package? http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/debian/uploads/toshset_1.72-1.dsc Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Handling bugs

2006-10-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ian or in upstream mailing list. > It depends. If you feel someone else may erroneously report it, tag it unreproducible, mark it wishlist or something and leave it open. If not, then just close it. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto ht

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
licy and/or the developer reference. Hopefully, you have read both of those. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
imagine it's such a common requirement that there must be good > examples to work from. > Check out tools like cvs-buildpackage or svn-package, depending on your chosen VCS. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Homepage in debian/control (was: RFS: queuegraph (take two))

2006-09-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
orsement by the Debian project. However, if there is a way to tell (by dpkg, apt, aptitude, etc) if a package came from an official repository, then this could work. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Huge private Debian repository...

2006-08-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
> Can anyone point me to the approprieted resources please? > > Curently I have over 480 packages to custom applications to maintain... > You probably want to setup dak. It is now a package officially in Debian and there is an alioth project where development takes

Re: RFS: python-musicbrainz2

2006-08-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 09:08:35AM +0200, Luká?? Lalinský wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > OK. Two more things and I think your package will be ready. > > Thanks a lot for looking at it. > OK. No problem. I will be "sponsoring" your package. That is, I

Re: RFS: python-musicbrainz2

2006-08-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:14:25AM +0200, Luká?? Lalinský wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > [...] > > Basically, you should change the mentioned dependencies so that they are > > Build-Depends instead of Build-Depends-Indep. > > Thanks, I've changed it to:

Re: RFS: python-musicbrainz2

2006-08-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
mentioned dependencies so that they are Build-Depends instead of Build-Depends-Indep. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: Xindy

2006-08-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
gs/debian/xindy_2.2~beta2-1.dsc > > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. > I would like to sponsor this. I will check it out tomorrow and let you know. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:08:50PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > On 8/4/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What is the correct line to get versions from a FTP directory, with > >> files like > >> ftp://ftp.genetics.wus

Re: Help with watch file

2006-08-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
t; > Thank you very much! > > Nelson > > Add "debian uupdate" (without quotes) at the end of the line in the watch file. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How can a non-DD fix broken packages?

2006-05-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
as not been done). In that way, there is a review by a DD and that DD is definitely accepting responsbility, as they are ones patching and uploading. I'm not sure if that is correct, but that is how I have ssen it work. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: courierpassd

2006-05-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
use PAM makes it quite flexible, IMO. However, I can understand the need/desire to have a tool specifically designed to interact with a particular mail server. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: courierpassd

2006-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
enable changing the password via the web. Your efforts might be better spent contributing to those. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: SASL2 (Bug#368370)

2006-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
If you could make your alternate packaging, I would really appreciate it. Could you post the URL to the bug? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
gt;It might be. However, the included information is (probably) not useful >>to end users. > > > So why do you want to include them into a package.? Probably in case someone else wants to grab the source and modify it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What is "stripping" in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
r symbolic information from the compiled binary. This helps to keep the size down. If you only work with interpreted or byte-code-type languages, then you probably don't need to worry too much about what this is. If you work with regular compiled languages (e.g., C and C++) this i

Re: How to build packages from tarballs without makefiles

2006-04-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
with:-lGLU -lGL -lXmu -lXext > -lX11 */ > > Do I put these into debian/rules? Where? > > I was hoping I could make a few changes and run fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage. > > Dave > I would just put those into the debian/rul

Re: howto pack python programs

2006-03-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
? > > BTW: I already know and use dh_python. > > > Kind regards > > Bastian > > Take a look at my releaseforge packages (in Etch/Sid). You might even be able to rip off the debian/ directory from my package and modify it to fit your needs. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Requesting upload sponsor

2006-03-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packaging Qemu Launcher, unmaintained but useful software

2006-02-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
robably get around to it this summer. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pbuilder and scons

2005-12-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:30:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>That is awesome. I have read many docs about make, but never knew that >>the '-' at the beginning of the line caused make to ignore errors from >>that command. Maybe I h

Re: pbuilder and scons

2005-12-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
hat is awesome. I have read many docs about make, but never knew that the '-' at the beginning of the line caused make to ignore errors from that command. Maybe I have just overlooked it all this time. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pbuilder and scons

2005-12-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
l it on my host system. If cdbs is not installed, the clean does not finish. I think that this is because pbuilder will call clean on the host machine so that it can take a clean source archive into the chroot. Maybe try installing scons on your host machine. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Package versioning troubles

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
upgradeable to 2.7.0-8.0.whavever_custom_version > (which I would like to achieve). So plain > apt-get install iptraf > will not do anything > What is the output of `apt-cache policy iptraf` ? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpdY1YivMuS1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Package versioning troubles

2005-11-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
help? http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debrepository http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpwsABuAWrln.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Depends: awk -- Is that required?

2005-11-09 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ny of the alternatives is sufficient. > > Thanks for you knowledge in this. I suspect that it is not necessary: $ apt-cache show mawk |grep "Provides\|Priority" Priority: required Provides: awk -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpiLD27iIuP3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: icecc -- Control Center for IceWM window manager

2005-11-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
ound to it. If you proceed with this, please also examine icewmcp and see whether it or icecc is the better choice. Also, please hijack my two ITA bugs and provide a good upgrade path for the users out there that are still stuck on iceme and/or icepref. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpakxAbaGlW4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Packaging freeloader: problem with python gtk module dependency

2005-11-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
come from the /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/ directory, which > belongs to pythong2.3-gtk2 package. > > Could it be linked to the chroot that does not have correct environment > and cannot find the correct path? If yes, how can I fix this problem? > > Many thanks in advance for your comments. > > Cheers > Julien If you post the sources for what you have done so far, we might be able to provide more help. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgp15nZj5AyFx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e that. Only things relevant to the *user* of the package should go there. Things like what build system are used or what additional development tools are user belong in another README that can be put only in the source package but not the binary package. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanche

Re: More open alternatives to packaging?

2005-10-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
rent people through apt? Currently I could only find a homepage containing source packages, not binaries. So does that place exist? (An a homepage collecting apt sources, but that doesn't help) You mean like apt-get.org or dotdeb.org? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/

Re: debian/rules: create folder into deb

2005-09-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
syntax, that is all you need. Basically, you can place your file somewhere in the debian/ directory. Then after the call to dh_installdirs (I think) you can use a simple mv command to move your file to the desired destination. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpVgj2LmreTn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:07:08PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Tommaso Moroni wrote: > >>Hi! > >> > >>I'm packaging kchmviewer, which uses a version o

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
(TM), it is a Bad Thing(TM). If the official library is suitable, then use it. It will: - absolve you of providing security support for the duplicate code - make the resulting binary packages fewer or smaller - save space on end user systems and repository mirror sites -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez

Re: there was php4-eaccelerator ?

2005-09-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
sabs.com.br/debian > > [] > Jose Carlos > Jose Carlos, Please read the links I provided. That package will not be accepted. The license issues remain unresolved. It will likely have to wait until the program is rewritten. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.ne

Re: Procedure for reporting translation errors

2005-09-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
alization or internationalization bug. If not, you can look up the proper tag and include it manually. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgp05BP5uJsg0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: istanbul - Desktop session recorder (ITP: #316503)

2005-09-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
eam, but there is no reason that you couldn't do it as well. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpr58FGfQRvk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: there was php4-eaccelerator ?

2005-09-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
//lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/05/msg00148.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00130.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00681.html Check the news statements for 2005/07/11: http://eaccelerator.net/HomeUk Probably not a possibility. -Roberto -- Rober

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 08:48:08AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > We are getting quite out of context here but... > > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Therein lies the beauty of mathematics. There are an uncountable > > inf

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 04:03:23PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:52:31PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > Perhaps we can make use of some the recent research in the area of MD5 > > collisions :-) > Only if you don't mind restri

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:33:20PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:30:30PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > > > W. Borgert wrote: > > > > Back to your question: I pers

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
empty file with the new file? That also helps keeps things consistent as dpkg will automatically remove the generated file on package removal or purge. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpp3NcB8Ezdv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: Plash: a shell and restricted environment for running programs with minimum authority

2005-08-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:47:51PM +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:01:40PM +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: > > > I'm looking for a sponsor for putting Plash into De

Re: RFS: Plash: a shell and restricted environment for running programs with minimum authority

2005-08-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
package is not accepted. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto pgpvYa53esX11.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: secpanel -- A graphical user interface for SSH and SCP

2005-08-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
at: > www.ageda.net/debian/secpanel <http://www.ageda.net/debian/secpanel> > > sugestions/et al are welcome. > It appears that the package is already in Debian, though it has been orphaned. You may want to state that, as I was confused why someone would be requesting a sponsor for a p

Re: how use dpatch for binary files ?

2005-07-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
hen upstream left them out. It is version 0.7.1-4, if you care to take a look. http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2005/06/19/debian/pool/main/r/releaseforge/ -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgphGHXl3ZD1c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: libopenspc -- library for playing SPC files

2005-07-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
er links on Google are > dead! > That's not a good indicator of active development :-) -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpD80lLcD0sI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Adapting a package for unofficial archive/retrieval via apt-get

2005-07-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
bian package repository: http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr/?page=debrepository -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpaZW6bW5EX1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Build-Recommends

2005-06-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
then if that is not available, for ocaml. Plus, if the ocaml-native-compilers package becomes available for other architectures, it does not require a modification to the Build-Depends to take advantage of it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpC95LZOnmIX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sponsoring of packages

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
e right price they are willing to spare *more* time. There is nothing wrong with that. If you need something now, you should be prepared to pay for it. If not, you sould be prepared to wait. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgp79Sw6KLv2T.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Packaging of freenx

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:27:58PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 at 10:16 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I asked a while back (on IRC) about packaging the NX components that are > > under the GPL. Someone pointed me to Fabian's packages in Sko

Packaging of freenx

2005-06-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
re is lots more packaging overhead. All together - Good becuase it is much easier to package. Bad becuase updating one component will require an new upload of all the associated packages andsubsequently require that users all download new binary packages. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez

Re: Request for a sponsor for Felix

2005-05-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. -Roberto [0] http://felix.sourceforge.net/current/www/licence.html [1] http://zooko.com/license_quick_ref.html -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr pgpLeqg918ed5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do I specify a particular version intelligently?

2005-05-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I just had a grave bug filed against my releaseforge package. I have traced the fault to an issue with the version of pyqt-tools. If the package is compiled w

How do I specify a particular version intelligently?

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
-tools from Sid (3.14), it needs the corresponding python-qt3. What is the correct way to specify the depends and build depends? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: No debian/ folder in .deb file

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
frastructure for the package. > Why not? Don't you need some of those files to build the .deb in the > first place? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to express dependencies for Java(TM)?

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Michael Koch wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 02:19:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>Also, are there any good references on getting Java apps to compile with >>free Java development tools? (No, I have not yet Googled for this info). > > > Most free runtimes provid

Re: How to express dependencies for Java(TM)?

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Michael Koch wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 01:22:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>elijah wright wrote: >> >>>>I am trying to package a couple of programs that depend on IBM or Sun >>>>JDK (for build) and JRE (for execution). I know that

Re: How to express dependencies for Java(TM)?

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
depends and build- depends. Can someone >> help me out on this? > > > do they *really* depend on a non-free jdk, or will they run with kaffe > or sablevm? > > --elijah > > Yes. All are heavy Swing/AWT apps. TTBOMK, that makes any free java a non-player. -

How to express dependencies for Java(TM)?

2005-05-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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Re: Question on placement and naming of binaries

2005-05-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings mentors, > > I am packaging webcpp (bug #309723). After having created four > other packages, I am beginning to get the hang of this. However, > I have come across a situation which I am not sure how to resolve. > > The install step

Question on placement and naming of binaries

2005-05-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
the file with a mv in debian/rules? webc++ is a sh script that provides a simple text-based menu for webcpp. It is also not executable. Same question as above. webcpp is an ELF binary that has correct permissions. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

Re: RFS - cyrus2courier utility to convert mailboxes

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>A sponsorship for this package would be much appreciated. >> >>Package name: cyrus2courier >>License: BSD (w/ annoying advertising clause) >>Descripti

Re: Question about next step

2005-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
. I live in the Dayton area and would be willing to travel to meet you. A halfway point would be preferred, but I am flexible. -Roberto Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Wed, 18 May 2005 18:03:23 -0400]: > > >>I guess that at some point I need to do the identy verificati

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