RFS: gpsd - GPS (Global Positioning System) service daemon (bugfix upload)

2006-07-06 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I'm looking for a one-time sponsor for the gpsd package. My usual sponsor is not available at the moment, and the new upload would fix a serious bug. The changes to the previous revision consist of two lines only, not counting the changelog. Package is here:

Re: RFS: gpsd - GPS (Global Positioning System) service daemon (bugfix upload)

2006-07-06 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 12:19 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hello Tilman, I'm looking for a one-time sponsor for the gpsd package. My usual sponsor is not available at the moment, and the new upload would fix a serious bug. The changes to the previous revision consist of two lines

Re: selfmade package installation hangs

2005-06-29 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:36 +0200, Markus Schulz wrote: Hello, i'm debianizing a software system for my company. this is my first attempt to debianize software and i have a problem with installing one of the created packages. install output: [EMAIL

Re: becoming a maintainer

2005-06-26 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 00:21 -0700, Josh England wrote: Hello, I'm interested in becoming a maintainer for Debian. Specifically, I would like to add and maintain a oneSIS (http://onesis.org) package (for diskless computing). I am an expert linux administrator and have already created a deb

Re: Create user during installation

2005-03-31 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:18 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi all, This question is about a package that will likely not make it into Debian (too specific). I even suspect this has some relevance. I would like to install a package that creates it's own special user and group during

Re: Create user during installation

2005-03-31 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Ugh, no. Do *not* remove users on purge, it's reason for all kinds of problems, amongst others that you can never assure all files owned by that user are removed, and therefore leaving userless files on the system. You can't even

Re: Create user during installation

2005-03-31 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:20 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:13:39PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote: On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 22:47 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Ugh, no. Do *not* remove users on purge, it's reason for all kinds of problems, amongst others

disabling services: update-rc.d vs. /etc/default/package

2004-12-28 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I'm packaging a daemon (gpsd), and I want to give the user the choice if it should be started at boot time or not (it's for GPS receivers, which are most likely not permanently attached to the computer). I have a debconf question to this effect, and currently I am setting a variable in

Re: minimum package name length

2004-12-28 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:16 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Tilman Koschnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm intending to package the Cluster Command Control tool suite [0], commonly refered to as C3. My package name of choice would be c3, but I was wondering if such short names

RFS: c3-tool-suite - Cluster Command Control tool suite

2004-12-28 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I've prepared packages for the Cluster Command Control (C3) tool suite and am know looking for a sponsor. The description reads: The Cluster Command Control (C3) tools are a suite of cluster tools developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that are useful for both administration and

Re: disabling services: update-rc.d vs. /etc/default/package

2004-12-28 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 16:18 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Tilman Koschnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.28.1453 +0100]: Pro /etc/default/package: - There is one single location where the behaviour is configured, and the user can either edit /etc/default/package or use debconf

indirect build dependencies

2004-12-24 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, the build logs for the gpsd package contain the following notice: | Built successfully | | NOTE: The package could have used binaries from the following packages | (access time changed) without a source dependency: | python-dev: /usr/bin/python | xlibs-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so

Re: indirect build dependencies

2004-12-24 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 09:23 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Tilman Koschnick wrote: | Built successfully | | NOTE: The package could have used binaries from the following packages | (access time changed) without a source dependency: | python-dev: /usr

minimum package name length

2004-12-21 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I'm intending to package the Cluster Command Control tool suite [0], commonly refered to as C3. My package name of choice would be c3, but I was wondering if such short names are acceptable. Is there any documentation or general consent? When looking at the existing names, I noticed that

Re: sorting through xlibs-dev dependencies?

2004-12-18 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 00:04, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:39:37PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote: Hi, Hello. I hope this isn't a too dumb question! ;) I'm the maintainer for xwrits, and partway through the NM process. My application manager (Frank

gpsd package (looking for a review)

2004-10-19 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I've prepared a package for gpsd, a GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon. See [0] for the ITP. I'm not looking for a sponsor (someone already offered to upload it as soon it is in good shape), but for opinions. Generally regarding quality, and a couple of specific questions. - The package

gpsd package (looking for a review)

2004-10-19 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I've prepared a package for gpsd, a GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon. See [0] for the ITP. I'm not looking for a sponsor (someone already offered to upload it as soon it is in good shape), but for opinions. Generally regarding quality, and a couple of specific questions. - The package

Re: gpsd package (looking for a review)

2004-10-19 Thread Tilman Koschnick
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 15:52 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Tilman Koschnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.19.1546 +0200]: I'm not looking for a sponsor (someone already offered to upload it as soon it is in good shape), but for opinions. Generally regarding quality, and a couple

Follow-Up to a pending bug

2004-07-22 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I'm new to the Debian BTS, so I might ask the obvious... but I didn't find anything in the documentation. I want to make an addition to a bug report tagged pending. It's about #260810, which suggests a couple of new logcheck rules for postfix. I want to suggest a change of one of the

Follow-Up to a pending bug

2004-07-22 Thread Tilman Koschnick
Hi, I'm new to the Debian BTS, so I might ask the obvious... but I didn't find anything in the documentation. I want to make an addition to a bug report tagged pending. It's about #260810, which suggests a couple of new logcheck rules for postfix. I want to suggest a change of one of the rules