Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-18 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:49:35AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hello, Upstram of qtecasound has depricated libqtecasound, and the only application which depended upon libqtecasound (qtecasound, and ecawave) no longer need the library. Would I need to make an empty package of

Re: Clarification: ports, archs, autobuilders

2001-06-18 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
If you got some useful answers on this I would be interested as well to hear them, since a package of mine is stuck in unstable because the autobuilders are not catching up *t Tomas Pospisek

Re: Replaces: and pre/post rm

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:13:53AM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: Ah, very good point. Why not simply add in the purge section a block around it which says: if ! [ -f some file in the .deb which characterises the sendmail(-tls) packages ] then delete a lot of files fi

Re: one package, many libraries. dependency break!

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:28:47PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm working on a package (libpspell2) which installthree libraries (libpspell.so.2.0.2, libpspell-impl.so.3.0.1, libpspell-modules.so.1.0.1), as expected it exports a shlibs which lists all of the three libs. they depend on

Re: Empty package

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:07:57PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: In order to be allowed in the archive, will it be necessary to provide a copyright file? No. Er, YES. Er, NO. My package sgb-src contains 0

Re: Empty package

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Thanks, Julian. This works like a charm, but Lintian has the following objections: E: dict-web1913: no-copyright-file W: dict-web1913: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link W: dict-web1913: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link

lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't need a copyright file

2001-06-18 Thread Simon Richter
Package: lintian Severity: normal Hi, lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal because it might actually stop packages from being installed). Simon -- GPG public key available from

Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] and make new versions of qtecasound and evawave, that have Conflicts: libqtecasound, to make sure it gets removed from systems as well. This is overzealous unless the new versions do actually conflict with the old lib (which I assume is not the

Re: one package, many libraries. dependency break!

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:40:46PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: In the past I have solved this problem by invoking dpkg-shlibdeps with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting that makes it find the libaries in the build tree. This way you get a warning that it couldn't find what package provides

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Jun-2001 Simon Richter wrote: Package: lintian Severity: normal Hi, lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal because it might actually stop packages from being installed).

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-18 Thread Simon Richter
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal because it might actually stop packages from being installed). And how am I to tell a package that

Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-18 Thread Daniel Stone
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:49:35AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hello, Upstram of qtecasound has depricated libqtecasound, and the only application which depended upon libqtecasound (qtecasound, and ecawave) no longer need the library. Would I need to make an empty package of

Re: Clarification: ports, archs, autobuilders

2001-06-18 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
If you got some useful answers on this I would be interested as well to hear them, since a package of mine is stuck in unstable because the autobuilders are not catching up *t Tomas Pospisek

Re: Replaces: and pre/post rm

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 10:13:53AM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: Ah, very good point. Why not simply add in the purge section a block around it which says: if ! [ -f some file in the .deb which characterises the sendmail(-tls) packages ] then delete a lot of files fi

Re: one package, many libraries. dependency break!

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:28:47PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm working on a package (libpspell2) which installthree libraries (libpspell.so.2.0.2, libpspell-impl.so.3.0.1, libpspell-modules.so.1.0.1), as expected it exports a shlibs which lists all of the three libs. they depend on

Re: Empty package

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 01:07:57PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: In order to be allowed in the archive, will it be necessary to provide a copyright file? No. Er, YES. Er, NO. My package sgb-src contains 0

Re: Empty package

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 04:46:20PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Thanks, Julian. This works like a charm, but Lintian has the following objections: E: dict-web1913: no-copyright-file W: dict-web1913: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link W: dict-web1913: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link

lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't need a copyright file

2001-06-18 Thread Simon Richter
Package: lintian Severity: normal Hi, lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal because it might actually stop packages from being installed). Simon -- GPG public key available from

Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-18 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 05:02:12PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 10:49:35AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hello, Upstram of qtecasound has depricated libqtecasound, and the only application which depended upon libqtecasound (qtecasound, and ecawave) no longer

Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-18 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Daniel Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] and make new versions of qtecasound and evawave, that have Conflicts: libqtecasound, to make sure it gets removed from systems as well. This is overzealous unless the new versions do actually conflict with the old lib (which I assume is not the

Re: one package, many libraries. dependency break!

2001-06-18 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 09:39:58PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:28:47PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: the problem is dpkg-shlibdeps that figures out the package(s) from which this should depend on. in fact it sees that libpspell-impl depends on libpspell and

Re: one package, many libraries. dependency break!

2001-06-18 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 04:40:46PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: In the past I have solved this problem by invoking dpkg-shlibdeps with a LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting that makes it find the libaries in the build tree. This way you get a warning that it couldn't find what package provides

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 18-Jun-2001 Simon Richter wrote: Package: lintian Severity: normal Hi, lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal because it might actually stop packages from being installed).