On 7/6/21 9:38 pm, jrb3-beckenbach.us wrote:
Hi again, Jon!
On 6 Jun 2021, at 20:51, Jon Gough wrote:
These suggest that a full cleanup could/should(?) be done including all user
generated files.
Not at all, because packages do not install any files to any user-$HOME.
If the user
On 5/6/21 5:36 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:43:54AM +1000, Jon Gough wrote:
On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote:
My conclusion is that application plugin mangers should make use of the
platform
On 5/6/21 8:36 am, Sven Hartge wrote:
The Wanderer wrote:
I genuinely do not see what insisting on uninstalling plugins at the
same time as the main program, for all user accounts, provides as a
benefit. The only maybe benefit I've seen suggested is cleaning up to
free disk space, and that
On 5/6/21 7:59 am, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2021-06-04 at 17:43, Jon Gough wrote:
On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote:
I now know what path I need to follow, i.e. have a plugin manager
that uses the platform installation
On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote:
My conclusion is that application plugin mangers should make use of the
platform installation process for installing and uninstalling plugins as it
"the platform installation pr
On 9/5/21 4:31 pm, Mechtilde wrote:
Hello Jon,
which plugin manager are you talking about.
Each application providing plugins has its own mechanism to handle them.
So i don't understand what your conclusion is. So I want to know whether
my packages can be affected or benefit
On 8/5/21 10:51 pm, Sven Hartge wrote:
Jon Gough wrote:
So, any user installable application extension/plugin which has
executables and supporting data is left behind on the system when the
owning application is removed or updated using the system installation
process? This is accepted
On 8/5/21 12:17 am, Kris Deugau wrote:
Jon Gough wrote:
The user install plugins can vary between very simple with a config
file and a couple of icons up to complex with large data >1GB and
hundreds of icons.
So, if debs must not touch files in $HOME but is allowed to create
fi
ine is 'multi user' will likely be developers or being 'managed' by
ICT people so that will not be an issue. In normal user cases they will
use a package manager to uninstall the package and will not go near a
command prompt.
Jon
. As
far as I can see most users only know about Downloads, Documents, etc.,
but nothing about directories that contain '.' as the leading character
(most desktops hide these directories).
Thanks
Jon
On 6/5/21 10:01 am, Benoît Rouits wrote:
Hi Jon,
Maybe it would be preferable to use the XDG
.
$HOME/./. What would be a suitable location for the libs,
icons, etc. for the user installed plugin?
Many thanks
Jon
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Tobias Frost wrote:
Am Donnerstag, den 19.09.2013, 16:08 -0400 schrieb Jon Daley:
Yes, I saw the debian-lintian errors. And I can take a look at those - I
wanted to see if I had the packaging procedure down correctly before
attacking those. (and those issues have been
that the upstream link to the tar file was broken - his main
site still links to it, so I figure he must have just broken it. If he
decides to stop publishing it - is there a process for that? The code is
in the public domain.
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Tobias Frost wrote:
Hallo Jon,
(Disclaimer: I'm
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for the package worklog, which was orphaned
by ema@debian a while back, and due to some recent interest in the package
by people other than myself, I've packaged up some bug fixes and
ema@debian says he
://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=ust
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Changes since the last upload:
This is a new package.
Regards,
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into it.
Most of your other points are oversight or ignorance on my part. I will
change copyright to GPL for all of my code and address the other issues.
Thanks again,
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote:
Here is a review:
You might want to join the games
to
/usr/share/icons/hicolor? Is it really necessary?
Probably not - I'm learning.
Thanks,
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Nobody was interested in sponsoring I guess. When I get time I'll try
Ubuntu.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Bart Martens ba...@debian.org wrote:
Hi Jon,
Both packages at mentors are no longer there. What happened ?
Regards,
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Seems the package isn't on mentors yet? I extracted the source tarball
with pristine-tar.
Indeed, I later received a rejection: mentors has not updated their keyring
to reflect my new PGP key yet. (I then got another rejection for
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package libre-jigsaw
Package name: libre-jigsaw
Version : 2012.03.04-1
Upstream Author : Jonathan Hulka jon.hu...@gmail.com
URL : https://github.com/jon-hulka/libre-jig
it was opened by mistake, just close it manually; there's no
need to clutter the changelog with such entries.
I've modified the package at mentors.debian.net to only close #660433
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that, I was able to upload the package
libre-jigsaw yesterday. libre-jigsaw-pics appears to upload, but
doesn't show up in my packages list, and I don't get a confirmation email.
Have I done something wrong?
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thanks
Uploaded.
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:09:21AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
CC:ing -mentors.
Am 17.10.2011 11:42, schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
I have prepared a new package of upstream SVN snapshot r262 that
replaces the non-free MAME OPL2 emulator with a GPL'ed one
am not a subscriber to the mailing list, please CC me with any replies.
Kind regards Jon Lachmann
solution?
It seems to be asking a lot of upstream. Is there a likelyhood for any other
package to make use of the old spidermonkey version (when it is old, that is)?
I'd expect not, and so I'd think using the bundled version was the sensible
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Hi David,
Sorry I missed your first RFP. I have now added basic quake support
to game-data-packager and made an upload to experimental. I will
hopefully give your package a look real soon and get it uploaded!
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Hello Mentors,
As noted in the previous email, I would like to become a maintainer for
this package, but am painfully unaware of the steps/protocols to do so.
Can I please have some help?
Thanks
Jon York
Original Message
Subject:Re: Varkon CAD software
Date: Fri
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contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dokuwiki-note/dokuwiki-note_20080217-1.dsc
I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:41:29AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
On 14/02/2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
If you or somebody else agree that it is of general interest (in
private if you want to limit the traffic on this list), I can
propose an update for the Developpers Reference.
Isn't that
the make clean target, which is particularly
nice if you have your tree in a VCS and don't want to keep filtering the
sub/guess changes out of commits.
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with README,
etc. The only file that dh_installdocs will install unprompted is
debian/copyright.
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Package Name: pidgin-rhythmbox
Version : 2.0-1
Upstream author : Jon Oberheide jon
retitled and reowned it to the Debian Games Team. If
you've worked on a package please consider joining the team
and working on it alongside the others. Info at
http://wiki.debian.org/Games.
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bug is a good idea to avoid duplication. I wouldn't bother with
a new package just to close an ITP, though. File one and close it by
hand when the package is uploaded.
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make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jon/wd/gnome-color-chooser
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Is this then justification for putting the sfd in the orig
and repacking with a -dfsg suffix to the upstream version?
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It would be worth providing a link to alien-arena-data, too, as this
package won't install without it. I can't find it at mentors, I assume
it's in pkg-games svn...
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It would be worth providing a link to alien-arena-data, too, as this
package won't install without it. I can't find it at mentors, I assume
it's in pkg-games svn...
yup, there it is:
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/trunk
time, create it in the build rules.
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it is in unstable, Christian can remove
it from his archive.
Is that the best solution? What about people who use his
package already? I see that your package is a newer
upstream version. Have you contacted Christian at all?
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the ITP #X as a distinct stanza. Or
perhaps The upload would fix these bugs: #X (ITP) #Y #Z.
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hardly ever be repacked.
Yes I'm a bit confused by this suggestion. In what
circumstances might it be repacked, excluding to meet dfsg
requirements (where the correct solution would be changing
the upstream version to 1.0-dfsg-1 or similar)?
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do so over the weekend. You might find it interesting.
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Package Name: pidgin-rhythmbox
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Upstream author : Jon Oberheide jon at oberheide dot org
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like vtables
etc. are hidden from you quite well.
Certainly, you do not know how you might go about
implementing an OO abstraction layer in C, at least unless
you want to hack on GTK+ or glib/Gobject yourself.
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be used instead of gzip for
other things in /usr/share/doc.
I think PDFs use ZIP internally. ZIP has compression ratios,
perhaps PDFs can be re-packed to use a higher ratio?
Random text is just under 50% for me.
^^
How random? You can't adequately compress noise.
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project of interest[2].
[1] http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/2006050401-init-systems
[2] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/initscripts-ng/
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At 1144019257 past the epoch, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
Okay, I'll bite: Any company that hires 50% of its applicants is
growing damned fast. Certainly faster than is sustainable.
This is a bit of a bad analogy: most companies won't have people working
for them who they haven't hired :)
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^^^
I suggest bumping the package version and making a note of
your changes in debian/changelog when you make a change: the
tool 'dch -i' from the package source dir will help you do
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for an example of use.
Because I am new to packaging, I am not sure what this
means. My package contains dh_installdocs in the
binary-arch section of the rules file.
Should I simply move dh_installdocs to a new
binary-indep section in order to solve the policy
violation?
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a menu-method.
You could have your package depend on the menu-xdg package, but I
would recommend using desktop files in addition to menu files.
But only for those reasons stated above?
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Are you supplying a menu file and calling dh_installmenu, too, for those
people not using a xdg-menu supporting window manager / other menu
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BOFH excuse #334:
50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files
A few months back, I attempted to package TinyMUSH 3.0, but ran into some
trouble with a few clauses that seemed to imply something wasn't quite DFSG
free. I had submitted a report to the developers, and they expressed
interest in making it compliant. I haven't really done much with the package
in taking it over.
I've been working on it this weekend - I've retitled the bugs for
gnat and gnat-doc to ITA. As I type, my old SparcStation 4 is chugging
away with a compile of it.
Bear with me, these are my first Debian packages...
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are unpacked theres the moved files
along with the original ones. Dose anyone konw the best way of dealing with
this type of problem ?
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are unpacked theres the moved files
along with the original ones. Dose anyone konw the best way of dealing with
this type of problem ?
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For a package I'd like to make, I need gdbm 1.8.0, while the current
maintainer has stated that he will not upgrade to this version, and that
if I need it I should package it myself. So, here I am, packaging the
library. What should I do to make sure that it does not interfere with the
regular
For a package I'd like to make, I need gdbm 1.8.0, while the current
maintainer has stated that he will not upgrade to this version, and that
if I need it I should package it myself. So, here I am, packaging the
library. What should I do to make sure that it does not interfere with the
For a package I'd like to make, I need gdbm 1.8.0, while the current
maintainer has stated that he will not upgrade to this version, and that
if I need it I should package it myself. So, here I am, packaging the
library. What should I do to make sure that it does not interfere with the
regular
For a package I'd like to make, I need gdbm 1.8.0, while the current
maintainer has stated that he will not upgrade to this version, and that
if I need it I should package it myself. So, here I am, packaging the
library. What should I do to make sure that it does not interfere with the
file a bug against ftp.debian.org acessing for libfile-temp-perl's
removal after perl-modules 5.6.1-3 has reached testing.
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This should
, I'll file a bug against ftp.debian.org acessing for libfile-temp-perl's
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This should
Hi,
I'm currently the Maintainer of libfile-temp-perl which as of perl 5.6.1 is
included in the main Perl distribution. As the package is now redundant
should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for it's removal.
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I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer than the
version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but have not received
a response. The source package, presumably because it's an uncommonly used
version of gdbm, contains the source to 1.8.0 which can be used during
I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer
than the version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but
have not received a response.
Well, a response _was_ sent.
| So; go ahead and include the non-shared gdbm1.8.
Terribly sorry about that... It appears
I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer than the
version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but have not received
a response. The source package, presumably because it's an uncommonly used
version of gdbm, contains the source to 1.8.0 which can be used during
I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer
than the version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but
have not received a response.
Well, a response _was_ sent.
| So; go ahead and include the non-shared gdbm1.8.
Terribly sorry about that... It appears
sed within a user account. This is not to say that the code is
insecure, but it is not commonly a root-run process.
* Similarly, configuration files and datafiles are not usually kept in
/etc or /var, but in something like /home/jon/tinymush/game.
* I am not positive, but I believe the program is a
with the following sources.list lines.
deb http://www.ixtab.org.uk/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://www.ixtab.org.uk/debian unstable main contrib non-free
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