Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:36:38PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm looking for the incoming queue for non-US. as i see in the debian developer reference, it seems it is reserved only for debian developer. All of the upload queues are reserved for developers. The indirect queues will allow

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:06:18PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:36:38PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm looking for the incoming queue for non-US. as i see in the debian developer reference, it seems it is reserved only for debian developer. All of the

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath: please help me to undestand (bug #78232)

2001-01-25 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:30:11PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Domenico Andreoli wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:39:12AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Domenico Andreoli wrote: uh? how is dpkg-shlibdeps related to libtool?!? Ah...

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath: please help me to undestand (bug#78232)

2001-01-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Domenico, Does the shlibs.local file you posted work the way you want it to? If so, oh my shlibs.local works the way i want. it's ok. adding the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to dpkg-shlibdeps will fix the warning message... I don't know what else needs fixing? what i want to understand end to fix

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:50:53PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: Hi, I intend to pick up the orphaned chbg package and tried to pack the new upstream release. The files are at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/chbg/ Would anybody sponsor the package? Stupid question, its

Re: Building: w or w/o Stripping, w or w/o debugging symbols

2001-01-25 Thread Florian Hinzmann
Hi! On 24-Jan-2001 Colin Watson wrote: Section 4.1 of policy 3.2.0.0/3.2.1.0, or section 11.1 of policy 3.2.1.2 now that the packaging manual has been merged. Oh, merged? So all important information included in the Packaging manual should be present in the Policy now? Or is this work in

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:39:56PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a

Re: Correct section for freeswan ?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:38:09PM +0100, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: What is the correct section for the freeswan (IPSec) package ? My sponsor Henrique de Moraes Holschuh uploaded the package to non-US, but it does not get installed into unstable (since about a week). Currently the section is

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: As part of my new-maintainer process tasks, I'm packaging z81, a Sinclair ZX81/ZX80 emulator. The emulator provides three binaries: a X version (xz81), an SVGA version (z81) and a linux-console version (z81txt). [snip policy]

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Jochen, I get this from lintian: N: unknown interpreter [repeat N times] W: chbg: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link You haven't got the latest version of lintian. Upgrade it and try again; lintian was giving false

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm looking for the incoming queue for non-US. as i see in the debian developer reference, it seems it is reserved only for debian developer. All of the upload queues are reserved for developers. The indirect queues

Re: Building: w or w/o Stripping, w or w/o debugging symbols

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
Florian Hinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24-Jan-2001 Colin Watson wrote: Section 4.1 of policy 3.2.0.0/3.2.1.0, or section 11.1 of policy 3.2.1.2 now that the packaging manual has been merged. Oh, merged? So all important information included in the Packaging manual should be present in

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva (KoV)
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:21:38PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: This means that when a package produces one binary which can optionally have X support (like gnuplot), it should have it. In your case (and mine, lxdoom), separate

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:29:21 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : what i'd like to do is to check what has been uploaded by my sponsor and to look at the reports in case of rejection. for main i look at http://incoming.debian.org, for non-US? There's no

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Ralf Treinen
Stupid question, its ok that applicants look for sponsors before they have been assigned an AM? I'm just curious, because I just uploaded such a package... It is in fact most welcome. -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: In Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:29:21 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : There's no public access to non-US Incoming AFAIR. Anyway, you should get a REJECT email from dinstall if the package gets rejected and you're listed as

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Jochen, I get this from lintian: N: unknown interpreter [repeat N times] W: chbg: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link You haven't got the latest version of

missing bug report email messages

2001-01-25 Thread sharkey
Hi, I'm a relatively new Debian maintainer, and I've now had several bugs filed against some of my packages for which I never received email notification. I've also had bugs filed for which I have received notification. I was just wondering if anyone else out there was having problems with bug

Re: Virtual Packages

2001-01-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010125T195935+0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: Where are each virtual package capabilities listed? I mean, something like: to provide a mail-transport-agent, there must be a /usr/lib/sendmail, which accepts the following options. Does nobody read policy anymore? Policy Manual, section 12.6.

Re: Source package policy problem.

2001-01-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Adam == Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uhh, why are there no redistribution terms on your package? (and since you do not in any way, shape, or form include Dan's code, your code is all that is in the package) Adam There aren't any. The problem is that the source package Adam

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:36:38PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm looking for the incoming queue for non-US. as i see in the debian developer reference, it seems it is reserved only for debian developer. All of the upload queues are reserved for developers. The indirect queues will allow

Re: Source package policy problem.

2001-01-25 Thread Adam McKenna
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:15:14AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Oh, for heavens sake. Start a fresh directory, called foo-installer. Create a ./debian directory. create a script that called create-foo-pkg-now (or something you like better); Also create ./debis-dir-for-foo/debian.

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:06:18PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:36:38PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm looking for the incoming queue for non-US. as i see in the debian developer reference, it seems it is reserved only for debian developer. All of the upload

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath: please help me to undestand (bug #78232)

2001-01-25 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:30:11PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Domenico Andreoli wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:39:12AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Domenico Andreoli wrote: uh? how is dpkg-shlibdeps related to libtool?!? Ah...

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath: please help me to undestand (bug #78232)

2001-01-25 Thread Steve Langasek
Domenico, Does the shlibs.local file you posted work the way you want it to? If so, oh my shlibs.local works the way i want. it's ok. adding the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to dpkg-shlibdeps will fix the warning message... I don't know what else needs fixing? what i want to understand end to fix

Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-25 Thread Christopher Allen
As part of my new-maintainer process tasks, I'm packaging z81, a Sinclair ZX81/ZX80 emulator. The emulator provides three binaries: a X version (xz81), an SVGA version (z81) and a linux-console version (z81txt). I have a few questions about how to properly package these. First, about the X

looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, I intend to pick up the orphaned chbg package and tried to pack the new upstream release. The files are at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/chbg/ Would anybody sponsor the package? Jochen -- http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/ pgp0UNOS00OTR.pgp Description:

Re: chroot and FHS

2001-01-25 Thread Ingo Saitz
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote: I like to build my mysql package with chroot support and therfore jail it somewhere under /var/lib/mysql and link the log files to /var/log. Do you plan to make them officially available in debian? I either statically link it

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:50:53PM +0100, Jochen Voss wrote: Hi, I intend to pick up the orphaned chbg package and tried to pack the new upstream release. The files are at http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wwwstoch/voss/chbg/ Would anybody sponsor the package? Stupid question, its

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:26:32 -0600 Christian T. Steigies [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : Hello, Stupid question, its ok that applicants look for sponsors before they have been assigned an AM? I'm just curious, because I just uploaded such a package... I have no clue whether that

Re: Building: w or w/o Stripping, w or w/o debugging symbols

2001-01-25 Thread Florian Hinzmann
Hi! On 24-Jan-2001 Colin Watson wrote: Section 4.1 of policy 3.2.0.0/3.2.1.0, or section 11.1 of policy 3.2.1.2 now that the packaging manual has been merged. Oh, merged? So all important information included in the Packaging manual should be present in the Policy now? Or is this work in

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:39:56PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a

Re: Correct section for freeswan ?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:38:09PM +0100, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: What is the correct section for the freeswan (IPSec) package ? My sponsor Henrique de Moraes Holschuh uploaded the package to non-US, but it does not get installed into unstable (since about a week). Currently the section is

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: As part of my new-maintainer process tasks, I'm packaging z81, a Sinclair ZX81/ZX80 emulator. The emulator provides three binaries: a X version (xz81), an SVGA version (z81) and a linux-console version (z81txt). [snip policy]

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Joe Drew
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Jochen, I get this from lintian: N: unknown interpreter [repeat N times] W: chbg: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link You haven't got the latest version of lintian. Upgrade it and try again; lintian was giving false

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm looking for the incoming queue for non-US. as i see in the debian developer reference, it seems it is reserved only for debian developer. All of the upload queues are reserved for developers. The indirect queues

Re: Building: w or w/o Stripping, w or w/o debugging symbols

2001-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
Florian Hinzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24-Jan-2001 Colin Watson wrote: Section 4.1 of policy 3.2.0.0/3.2.1.0, or section 11.1 of policy 3.2.1.2 now that the packaging manual has been merged. Oh, merged? So all important information included in the Packaging manual should be present in the

Re: Packaging for X/SVGA/Console

2001-01-25 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva \(KoV\)
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:21:38PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: This means that when a package produces one binary which can optionally have X support (like gnuplot), it should have it. In your case (and mine, lxdoom), separate

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:29:21 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : what i'd like to do is to check what has been uploaded by my sponsor and to look at the reports in case of rejection. for main i look at http://incoming.debian.org, for non-US? There's no public

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Ralf Treinen
Stupid question, its ok that applicants look for sponsors before they have been assigned an AM? I'm just curious, because I just uploaded such a package... It is in fact most welcome. -Ralf.

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: In Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:29:21 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit : There's no public access to non-US Incoming AFAIR. Anyway, you should get a REJECT email from dinstall if the package gets rejected and you're listed as

Re: looking for chbg sponsor

2001-01-25 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:26:32AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: Jochen, I get this from lintian: N: unknown interpreter [repeat N times] W: chbg: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link You haven't got the latest version of

missing bug report email messages

2001-01-25 Thread sharkey
Hi, I'm a relatively new Debian maintainer, and I've now had several bugs filed against some of my packages for which I never received email notification. I've also had bugs filed for which I have received notification. I was just wondering if anyone else out there was having problems with bug