Re: (2nd try) RFS: Erudite Directory Service Admin

2004-12-22 Thread Peter Karlsson
Mark Roach: > These are native packages i.e. The debian packaging info is part of > the upstream tarball (I am the author). It is my understanding that > since there is no difference between upstream and packaged versions > no diff is necessary... isn't this right? When I've released upstream sof

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Karlsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? IMHO, when it is purged. At least if it may own the configuration files that removing the package may leave behind. For the package I have that create

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread Peter Karlsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? IMHO, when it is purged. At least if it may own the configuration files that removing the package may leave behind. For the package I have that creates a

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matthew Palmer: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, since I have also been doing the upstream releases. The debian subdirectory

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matthew Palmer: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, since I have also been doing the upstream releases. The debian subdirectory is

Re: How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-21 Thread Peter Karlsson
Andreas Metzler: > You could conditionally move the existing configuration file in the > preinst to the new location. Thanks. I'm doing something similar with a non-conffile for another of my packages, so I'll just copy the working code from that. I was just unsure whether I was allowed to do it

Re: How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-21 Thread Peter Karlsson
Andreas Metzler: > You could conditionally move the existing configuration file in the > preinst to the new location. Thanks. I'm doing something similar with a non-conffile for another of my packages, so I'll just copy the working code from that. I was just unsure whether I was allowed to do it

How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-21 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! A new version of a package that I maintain has changed the name of the default configuration file. I want to propagate this name change, but how do I handle it properly? AFAICT, I'm not allowed to touch conffiles in the maintainer scripts, but this would mean that the old configuration would j

How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-21 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! A new version of a package that I maintain has changed the name of the default configuration file. I want to propagate this name change, but how do I handle it properly? AFAICT, I'm not allowed to touch conffiles in the maintainer scripts, but this would mean that the old configuration would j

Re: package author and maintainer

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
Mattia Dongili: > any suggestion? For jwhois, where I act as upstream "release manager" and Debian developer, I usually put the debian directory in the upstream tarball, and then build it for Debian. I call the version -1, though, but the diff is empty for the -1 version (it is nonempty -2). It i

Re: package author and maintainer

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
Mattia Dongili: > any suggestion? For jwhois, where I act as upstream "release manager" and Debian developer, I usually put the debian directory in the upstream tarball, and then build it for Debian. I call the version -1, though, but the diff is empty for the -1 version (it is nonempty -2). It i

Re: Registro (translated)

2003-04-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
Jordi S. Bunster: > Maybe someone else can help this guy with this one, maybe someone > that knows more about how CD vendors can contribute back to debian, > and make the difference between "Official CD" and the other stuff > clear. http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info contains all the informati

Re: Registro (translated)

2003-04-03 Thread Peter Karlsson
Jordi S. Bunster: > Maybe someone else can help this guy with this one, maybe someone > that knows more about how CD vendors can contribute back to debian, > and make the difference between "Official CD" and the other stuff > clear. http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/info contains all the informati

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matt Zimmerman: > If the program cannot be compiled using free tools, then it is not very > free. Well, that's a matter of definition. I'll have a look at using another cross-assembler. Fortunately, there seems to be a GPL'ed 6502 cross-assembler, so I'll have a look into using that one instead.

Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging: It is a transfer programĀ¹ licened according to GPL, but comes with some program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is also GPL, but the program used to compile those sources is not DFSG free. The remote

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matt Zimmerman: > If the program cannot be compiled using free tools, then it is not very > free. Well, that's a matter of definition. I'll have a look at using another cross-assembler. Fortunately, there seems to be a GPL'ed 6502 cross-assembler, so I'll have a look into using that one instead

Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging: It is a transfer programĀ¹ licened according to GPL, but comes with some program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is also GPL, but the program used to compile those sources is not DFSG free. The remot

Re: Safe removal of a user while purging

2002-06-29 Thread Peter Karlsson
Magnus Ekdahl: > "...Note, however, that the postrm cannot rely on any non-essential packages > to be present during the purge phase" (deluser isn't essential). > If there aren't any way, is this script safe enough? Why not just run the regular account deletion, and post an error message if i

Re: Safe removal of a user while purging

2002-06-29 Thread Peter Karlsson
Magnus Ekdahl: > "...Note, however, that the postrm cannot rely on any non-essential packages > to be present during the purge phase" (deluser isn't essential). > If there aren't any way, is this script safe enough? Why not just run the regular account deletion, and post an error message if

Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with "optional" depending on one with "extra"), but in one case all the packages are set to "extra" in my control files, so I can't really underst

Priorities

2002-04-29 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with "optional" depending on one with "extra"), but in one case all the packages are set to "extra" in my control files, so I can't really unders

Re: Uploading GPG keys

2002-04-02 Thread peter karlsson
Me: > Did I misunderstand something, or is the keyring server down? D'uh! GnuPG doesn't like my proxy. If I disable the proxy, it works just fine. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter

Uploading GPG keys

2002-04-02 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! According to the docs I an update my key on the Debian keyring by giving the command gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --send-keys 0x6394265E but I cannot get it to work. Everytime I try (from different machines) I get the error message gpg: error sending to `keyring.debian.org': eof

Re: Uploading GPG keys

2002-04-02 Thread peter karlsson
Me: > Did I misunderstand something, or is the keyring server down? D'uh! GnuPG doesn't like my proxy. If I disable the proxy, it works just fine. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/pete

Uploading GPG keys

2002-04-02 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! According to the docs I an update my key on the Debian keyring by giving the command gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --send-keys 0x6394265E but I cannot get it to work. Everytime I try (from different machines) I get the error message gpg: error sending to `keyring.debian.org': eof

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-16 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: > That doesn't tell much. > objdump -p /usr/lib/libMowitz.so | grep SONAME er$ objdump -p /usr/lib/libMowitz.so | grep SONAME SONAME libMowitz.so.0 > That sounds like a bad news, a potential sign of upstream changing > binary interface between 0.1.0 and 0.2.0 I don't know

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-16 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: > That doesn't tell much. > objdump -p /usr/lib/libMowitz.so | grep SONAME er$ objdump -p /usr/lib/libMowitz.so | grep SONAME SONAME libMowitz.so.0 > That sounds like a bad news, a potential sign of upstream changing > binary interface between 0.1.0 and 0.2.0 I don't kno

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-15 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: > Are you sure of the soname version number? It is at least the version used in the files: $ ls -l /usr/lib/libMowitz.* -rw-r--r--1 root root 400490 13 mar 18.42 /usr/lib/libMowitz.a -rw-r--r--1 root root 717 13 mar 18.41 /usr/lib/libMowitz.la lrwxr

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-15 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: > Are you sure of the soname version number? It is at least the version used in the files: $ ls -l /usr/lib/libMowitz.* -rw-r--r--1 root root 400490 13 mar 18.42 /usr/lib/libMowitz.a -rw-r--r--1 root root 717 13 mar 18.41 /usr/lib/libMowitz.la lrwx

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: > Without too much looking at, my first question is: why do you have > mowitz-config in diff.gz? It seems that it is not removed properly when doing a make distclean. I'll fix that. > Binary package names are incorrect, name them "lib"mowitz0 and > "lib"mowitz-dev Okay. I was a

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread peter karlsson
Junichi Uekawa: > Without too much looking at, my first question is: why do you have > mowitz-config in diff.gz? It seems that it is not removed properly when doing a make distclean. I'll fix that. > Binary package names are incorrect, name them "lib"mowitz0 and > "lib"mowitz-dev Okay. I was a

Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! When upgrading Siag Office to its latest version I found that parts of the code had been broken out into a library. Since I have never before packaged a library I would appreciate some help to check whether I am doing things correctly or not. Could someone please have a look at the files that

Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! When upgrading Siag Office to its latest version I found that parts of the code had been broken out into a library. Since I have never before packaged a library I would appreciate some help to check whether I am doing things correctly or not. Could someone please have a look at the files tha

Re: Looking for a sponsor

2002-01-14 Thread peter karlsson
David Given: > E: vbcc: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/man/ > - --- what's this? E: vbcc: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/man/ N: N: As of policy version 3.0.0.0, Debian no longer follows the FSSTND. N: N: Instead, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 2.1, is N: used. You can find it in /usr/share

Re: Looking for a sponsor

2002-01-14 Thread peter karlsson
David Given: > E: vbcc: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/man/ > - --- what's this? E: vbcc: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/man/ N: N: As of policy version 3.0.0.0, Debian no longer follows the FSSTND. N: N: Instead, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), version 2.1, is N: used. You can find it in /usr/shar

Re: Problem with menu package

2001-11-29 Thread peter karlsson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > looks like every other icon entry: Exactly. That is why I am confused. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html

Re: Problem with menu package

2001-11-28 Thread peter karlsson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > looks like every other icon entry: Exactly. That is why I am confused. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Problem with menu package

2001-11-28 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I am trying to add icons to the menu entries for the Siag suite, but I am having problems getting the icons to be recognized. I have this in the menu file: ?package(xsiag): needs="X11" section="Apps/Math" \ title="Siag" longtitle="Siag Office Scheme-in-a-Grid" \ command="/usr/bin/siag" ic

Problem with menu package

2001-11-28 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I am trying to add icons to the menu entries for the Siag suite, but I am having problems getting the icons to be recognized. I have this in the menu file: ?package(xsiag): needs="X11" section="Apps/Math" \ title="Siag" longtitle="Siag Office Scheme-in-a-Grid" \ command="/usr/bin/siag" i

Re: Python scripts

2001-10-28 Thread peter karlsson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > Gregor just posted his draft of the python packaging policy. Give it a peak. And... where do I find that? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html

Re: Python scripts

2001-10-28 Thread peter karlsson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > Gregor just posted his draft of the python packaging policy. Give it a peak. And... where do I find that? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.htm

Python scripts

2001-10-28 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I am planning to package a Python script that will aid another package I already have in Debian. Since I don't really know much about Python I wonder what packages I need to depend on. Is it enough to depend on python-base? The script starts with these lines: import sys import nntplib import

Python scripts

2001-10-27 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I am planning to package a Python script that will aid another package I already have in Debian. Since I don't really know much about Python I wonder what packages I need to depend on. Is it enough to depend on python-base? The script starts with these lines: import sys import nntplib impor

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: > Sure, install the package 'g++-3.0'. Hmm, interesting. It doesn't show up when I do dpkg -l, but obviously apt knows about it. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/pet

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: > The problem is not really with hppa, but with g++-3.0. > Here's what I do to test build (another package) using g++-3.0 : Is it possible to get g++ 3 for i386 somewhere? That would make it a lot easier to test if things work... :) -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: > Sure, install the package 'g++-3.0'. Hmm, interesting. It doesn't show up when I do dpkg -l, but obviously apt knows about it. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/pe

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread peter karlsson
Peter S Galbraith: > The problem is not really with hppa, but with g++-3.0. > Here's what I do to test build (another package) using g++-3.0 : Is it possible to get g++ 3 for i386 somewhere? That would make it a lot easier to test if things work... :) -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.s

Need help evaluating package

2001-10-09 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I have created a package of the LysKOM server (ITP bug #114231). Since this is the first server I have packaged, I would appreciate if someone would test and see that it works well on other systems than my own... :) The package can be found at http://www.softwolves.pp.se/deb/ It only has one

Need help evaluating package

2001-10-09 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I have created a package of the LysKOM server (ITP bug #114231). Since this is the first server I have packaged, I would appreciate if someone would test and see that it works well on other systems than my own... :) The package can be found at http://www.softwolves.pp.se/deb/ It only has on

Mail access

2001-10-08 Thread peter karlsson
While sifting through the policy upgrade checklist for one of my packages, I came to the information about changing mail access from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail. That's not hard. Also, the upgrade-checklist states that I should "[...] include a suitable Depends field; details in [12.6]". What Depe

Mail access

2001-10-08 Thread peter karlsson
While sifting through the policy upgrade checklist for one of my packages, I came to the information about changing mail access from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail. That's not hard. Also, the upgrade-checklist states that I should "[...] include a suitable Depends field; details in [12.6]". What Dep

Re: debconf

2001-10-03 Thread peter karlsson
Robert Bihlmeyer: > I'd guess English, at least the templates I look at use English in > 'Default' even if 'Choices' was translated. Okay. I'll try again. > Shouldn't purging the package (i.e. debconf's PURGE command) remove > all settings? I ran the config script manually, so debconf said that

Re: debconf

2001-10-03 Thread peter karlsson
Robert Bihlmeyer: > I'd guess English, at least the templates I look at use English in > 'Default' even if 'Choices' was translated. Okay. I'll try again. > Shouldn't purging the package (i.e. debconf's PURGE command) remove > all settings? I ran the config script manually, so debconf said tha

Re: debconf

2001-10-03 Thread peter karlsson
Joey Hess: > Yes, you can localize the Default field. Default-se or whatever. Should I write the translated default choice in the translated language or in English? I can't get it to work, but that's probably because I've already saved a setting to the debconf database and can't get rid of it. -

Re: debconf

2001-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
Joey Hess: > Yes, you can localize the Default field. Default-se or whatever. Should I write the translated default choice in the translated language or in English? I can't get it to work, but that's probably because I've already saved a setting to the debconf database and can't get rid of it.

Database location

2001-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Where's the best place to put a conferencing system's database files? I have currently put them in /var/spool/packagename/, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea, as FHS states that spool should be for more temporary data (this database file will be kept all time when the conferencing system

Database location

2001-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Where's the best place to put a conferencing system's database files? I have currently put them in /var/spool/packagename/, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea, as FHS states that spool should be for more temporary data (this database file will be kept all time when the conferencing syste

debconf

2001-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Is it possible to have different default values to a question in different language setups? I am trying to package a piece of software that can be installed with two different sets of initial data, one in English and one in Swedish, and I wish to have the English version default when asking i

debconf

2001-10-02 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Is it possible to have different default values to a question in different language setups? I am trying to package a piece of software that can be installed with two different sets of initial data, one in English and one in Swedish, and I wish to have the English version default when asking

Re: What to do with sources that lack a copyright

2001-09-22 Thread peter karlsson
Francesco P. Lovergine: Hmmm, doesn't > here is a blessing: > **May you do good and not evil. break the "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" part of DFSG? > **May you share freely, never taking more than you give. Not to speak of "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software".

Re: What to do with sources that lack a copyright

2001-09-21 Thread peter karlsson
Francesco P. Lovergine: Hmmm, doesn't > here is a blessing: > **May you do good and not evil. break the "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor" part of DFSG? > **May you share freely, never taking more than you give. Not to speak of "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software"

RE: Upstream changelog

2001-09-19 Thread peter karlsson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > without seeing the files, why is changelog not "human readable"? Well, because it has a lot of noise, with minor changes to files that are not interesting for those that do not download the source package. The NEWS file, on the other hand, just lists the actual compound cha

RE: Upstream changelog

2001-09-18 Thread peter karlsson
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry: > without seeing the files, why is changelog not "human readable"? Well, because it has a lot of noise, with minor changes to files that are not interesting for those that do not download the source package. The NEWS file, on the other hand, just lists the actual compound ch

Upstream changelog

2001-09-18 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I am thinking of removing the upstream source level changelog from the binary package for jwhois, and instead use its NEWS file, which contains a history in human readable format. Is this wise? Is there any policy on what should be considered the upstream changelog? Must the source level chang

Upstream changelog

2001-09-18 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I am thinking of removing the upstream source level changelog from the binary package for jwhois, and instead use its NEWS file, which contains a history in human readable format. Is this wise? Is there any policy on what should be considered the upstream changelog? Must the source level chan

orig.tar.gz problems

2001-09-16 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! An NMU upload for a package that I am adopting was uplodad as if it was a Debian native package, with a name-x.y-1.1.tar.gz with the sources, with no diffs or orig.tar.gz. I wish to upload a new version, correct with a diff against the orig.tar.gz. Can I somehow re-upload the orig.tar.gz for x

orig.tar.gz problems

2001-09-16 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! An NMU upload for a package that I am adopting was uplodad as if it was a Debian native package, with a name-x.y-1.1.tar.gz with the sources, with no diffs or orig.tar.gz. I wish to upload a new version, correct with a diff against the orig.tar.gz. Can I somehow re-upload the orig.tar.gz for

Re: Native packages

2001-09-07 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > If you insist that the tarball must be created first, follow Julian's > suggestion and make your package non-native by creating an .orig.tar.gz > tarball (in this case the .diff.gz is typically the debian/* files). I don't want to make it non-native, since that means I would have

Re: Native packages

2001-09-07 Thread peter karlsson
Julian Gilbey: > For what reason was it rejected? Wrong syntax or wrong checksum. I couldn't manage to get the files 100% correct, so in the end I gave up... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves

Re: Native packages

2001-09-07 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > If you insist that the tarball must be created first, follow Julian's > suggestion and make your package non-native by creating an .orig.tar.gz > tarball (in this case the .diff.gz is typically the debian/* files). I don't want to make it non-native, since that means I would hav

Re: Native packages

2001-09-07 Thread peter karlsson
Julian Gilbey: > For what reason was it rejected? Wrong syntax or wrong checksum. I couldn't manage to get the files 100% correct, so in the end I gave up... -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolve

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Colin Watson: > If you can't build the Debian package as part of the process of > generating the tarball from CVS, I suppose you could use -b and hack the > .changes by hand to include the source, although that's rather ugly. I tried hacking the changes file by hand, but my upload got rejected th

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > Including MSWIN and OS/2 specific stuff in a Debian source tarball > should not be a problem. Well, the packages structure are different on the different platforms, and also my MSWIN/OS2 source packages also contain binaries, plus that the source is CRLF formatted there, and that

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > Oops! I understand. My suggestion is that you arrange things so that > dpkg-buildpackage creates the one and only source tarball, instead of > creating it in advance by hand. I *could* do that, but that would still not solve the problem of the files in the tarball being owned by

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Colin Watson: > If you can't build the Debian package as part of the process of > generating the tarball from CVS, I suppose you could use -b and hack the > .changes by hand to include the source, although that's rather ugly. I tried hacking the changes file by hand, but my upload got rejected t

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > I would first create the Debian source and binary packages for upload, > and then distribute the resulting tar.gz elsewhere, in that order. The problem is that I am generating the tar from my CVS (not all of the CVS is exported, there are some MSWIN and OS/2 specific stuff there

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Mike Markley: > You probably don't want to do this... since a native package has no > .diff.gz, the source tarball must contain everything used to generate the > set of binary packages you're uploading. It does, I just untarred it to a directory and ran dpkg-buildpackage there. I don't wnat dpkg-

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > Including MSWIN and OS/2 specific stuff in a Debian source tarball > should not be a problem. Well, the packages structure are different on the different platforms, and also my MSWIN/OS2 source packages also contain binaries, plus that the source is CRLF formatted there, and tha

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > Oops! I understand. My suggestion is that you arrange things so that > dpkg-buildpackage creates the one and only source tarball, instead of > creating it in advance by hand. I *could* do that, but that would still not solve the problem of the files in the tarball being owned by

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Santiago Vila: > I would first create the Debian source and binary packages for upload, > and then distribute the resulting tar.gz elsewhere, in that order. The problem is that I am generating the tar from my CVS (not all of the CVS is exported, there are some MSWIN and OS/2 specific stuff there

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread peter karlsson
Mike Markley: > You probably don't want to do this... since a native package has no > .diff.gz, the source tarball must contain everything used to generate the > set of binary packages you're uploading. It does, I just untarred it to a directory and ran dpkg-buildpackage there. I don't wnat dpkg

Native packages

2001-09-05 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! How do I get dpkg-buildpackage not to re-build the source tarball when building a native package? No matter what I do, it rebuilds it, which prevents me from keeping the tarball I created from my CVS tree, which also is what I distribute elsewhere. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se

Native packages

2001-09-05 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! How do I get dpkg-buildpackage not to re-build the source tarball when building a native package? No matter what I do, it rebuilds it, which prevents me from keeping the tarball I created from my CVS tree, which also is what I distribute elsewhere. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.s

Re: Alpha question

2001-08-28 Thread peter karlsson
Steve Langasek: > I regularly do my own builds on two architectures before uploading, just > to get that extra bit of testing into it. Is there a way to upload two architectures at once, and include them in the same .changes file? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concer

Re: Alpha question

2001-08-28 Thread peter karlsson
Steve Langasek: > I regularly do my own builds on two architectures before uploading, just > to get that extra bit of testing into it. Is there a way to upload two architectures at once, and include them in the same .changes file? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement conce

Re: More problems

2001-07-20 Thread peter karlsson
Steve Langasek: > Do you ever intend to release this software as a tarball for use outside > of Debian? Yes, the tarball that I create for Debian is also distributed from my homepage (together with Debian packages compiled for potato, for those that do not use unstable), along with a RAR package

Re: More problems

2001-07-20 Thread peter karlsson
Steve Langasek: > Do you ever intend to release this software as a tarball for use outside > of Debian? Yes, the tarball that I create for Debian is also distributed from my homepage (together with Debian packages compiled for potato, for those that do not use unstable), along with a RAR package

Re: More problems

2001-07-20 Thread peter karlsson
Steve Langasek: > Since this is the Debian changelog rather than an upstream changelog, the > majority of changes noted are specific to the shared debian directory, of > which there is precisely one for any set of binary packages that are built > from a single source package. Well, first of all,

Re: More problems

2001-07-19 Thread peter karlsson
Steve Langasek: > Since this is the Debian changelog rather than an upstream changelog, the > majority of changes noted are specific to the shared debian directory, of > which there is precisely one for any set of binary packages that are built > from a single source package. Well, first of all,

Re: More problems

2001-07-19 Thread peter karlsson
Wichert Akkerman: > You can't do that, changelogs have to be shared. Why? The changelog lists what was changed between the versions, and that differens between the two binary packages I created (there was a feature only added to the command line version, not the GUI version), and I want that refl

Re: More problems

2001-07-19 Thread peter karlsson
Wichert Akkerman: > You can't do that, changelogs have to be shared. Why? The changelog lists what was changed between the versions, and that differens between the two binary packages I created (there was a feature only added to the command line version, not the GUI version), and I want that ref

More problems

2001-07-18 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! What does this mean? dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - turqstat and xturqstat My source package "turqstat" generates two binary packages, "turqstat" and "xturqstat". They each have their own changelogs (debian/changelog and debian/xturqstat.changelog), and

Re: Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog

2001-07-18 Thread peter karlsson
peter karlsson: > I'm getting a weird error from debhelper; it says that it cannot > parse the changelog: D'uh! I forgot I split the changelog into one per each binary package generated from the sources. The error message was for the *other* changelog file... -- \

More problems

2001-07-18 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! What does this mean? dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - turqstat and xturqstat My source package "turqstat" generates two binary packages, "turqstat" and "xturqstat". They each have their own changelogs (debian/changelog and debian/xturqstat.changelog), and

Re: Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog

2001-07-18 Thread peter karlsson
peter karlsson: > I'm getting a weird error from debhelper; it says that it cannot > parse the changelog: D'uh! I forgot I split the changelog into one per each binary package generated from the sources. The error message was for the *other* changelog file... -- \

Re: Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog

2001-07-18 Thread peter karlsson
Eric Van Buggenhaut: > > . > ^^^ > You sure about that period ? It's just in the parsed output, not in the original, and I think is supposed to look like that. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.sof

Re: Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog

2001-07-17 Thread peter karlsson
Eric Van Buggenhaut: > > . > ^^^ > You sure about that period ? It's just in the parsed output, not in the original, and I think is supposed to look like that. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.so

Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog

2001-07-17 Thread peter karlsson
file dh_gencontrol: command returned error code make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 ===[ cut ]=== The weird thing with it is that dpkg-parsechangelog does not give any errors: ===[ cut ]=== $ dpkg-parsechangelog ; echo $? Source: turqstat Version: 2.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: peter kar

Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog

2001-07-17 Thread peter karlsson
e character sets used in Fidonet and Usenet today. -- peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:45:00 +0200 ===[ cut ]=== It complains about line 6, which is part of the comment. This is really weird, does anyone have any ideas? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp

Package naming

2001-07-03 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! Can a single binary package have a different name than the source package it comes from? I am packaging the LysKOM tty-client, which has the upstream name tty-client, but I have received requests for renaming the Debian package to lyskom-tty-client. Can I do that without changing the name of

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