Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:55:40AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:08:44AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hello, when i run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot to create a package, i get the following error: dpkg-deb: parse error, in file

1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I think it is relevant to this list. I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*). I build it w/ the help of the New Maintainer's

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, I also had the problem of dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `bloksi': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned error code make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 It seemed

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:12:58AM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: Hello, hi Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${perl:Depends} did you try to use debhelper and dh_perl? cheers -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `bloksi': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned error code make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 It

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I think it is relevant to this list. I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*). I build it w/ the

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' What additional security does

official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. From the logos page: Permission has been given to use the official logo on

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: I have seen business cards from other developers who did use the logo. I think cards fall into the same category as clothing; if you're a Debian developer and it's not for profit, I think it's safe to use it. However, if you're

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Samuel == Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Samuel It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign an Samuel id. That means that checking for one e-mail address for being Samuel valid and signing all the ids is just bogus. You may use this Samuel protocol, but you have to

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Robbe == Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robbe What additional security does this protocol offer over simple ID Robbe checking? IOW, what problem does it solve? Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identity you verified actually controls the email address and

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that

[Mikael Hedin mikael.hedin@irf.se] Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Mikael Hedin
Have a look at www.d.o/devel/misc/, and use the tex-file if you want. It's called 'business card' in english. /Micce -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)980 79176 Swedish Institute of Space Physics +46 (0)8 344979 (home) Box 812, S-981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden+46 (0)70 5891533

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
From: Paolo Molaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian # package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? # # apt-get source lib*-perl should do it. Silly question : where do I get source packages? I did what I

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Just to say thanks to all who helped. I am now leaving for a week (going to France, but not Bordeaux), and will continue on packaging when I get back. Thanks again, Etienne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:55:40AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:08:44AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Hello, when i run dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot to create a package, i get the following error: dpkg-deb: parse error, in file

1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I think it is relevant to this list. I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*). I build it w/ the help of the New Maintainer's

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, I also had the problem of dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `bloksi': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned error code make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 It seemed

Re: debconf and daemons

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Moerz
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:00:47AM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: [snip] - debconf doesn't append '|| true' to the init.d stop in prerm. this means that when start-stop-daemon returns 1 the removal/upgrade fails miserably if the daemon

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:12:58AM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: Hello, hi Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${perl:Depends} did you try to use debhelper and dh_perl? cheers -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I think it is relevant to this list. I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*). I build it w/ the

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `bloksi': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned error code make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 It

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-29 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: Danie, On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not going to be easy though. A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to be your

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Eric Kidd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2) xmlrpc-c applications must run on distros which provide a copy of libexpat, and ones which don't. Since the libexpat sonames have not been incremented in a correct manner on all distributions, it's extremely hard for me rely on

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' What additional security does

official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. From the logos page: Permission has been given to use the official logo on

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Stefano, On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. 'Business card' in

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: I have seen business cards from other developers who did use the logo. I think cards fall into the same category as clothing; if you're a Debian developer and it's not for profit, I think it's safe to use it. However, if you're

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Samuel == Samuel Tardieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Samuel It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign an Samuel id. That means that checking for one e-mail address for being Samuel valid and signing all the ids is just bogus. You may use this Samuel protocol, but you have to

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Robbe == Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robbe What additional security does this protocol offer over simple ID Robbe checking? IOW, what problem does it solve? Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identity you verified actually controls the email address and the

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that anyone

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Robbe == Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robbe What additional security does this protocol offer over simple ID Robbe checking? IOW, what problem does it solve? Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identity you

[Mikael Hedin mikael.hedin@irf.se] Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Mikael Hedin
---BeginMessage--- Have a look at www.d.o/devel/misc/, and use the tex-file if you want. It's called 'business card' in english. /Micce -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)980 79176 Swedish Institute of Space Physics +46 (0)8 344979 (home) Box 812, S-981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden+46

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
From: Paolo Molaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian # package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? # # apt-get source lib*-perl should do it. Silly question : where do I get source packages? I did what I think

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: From: Paolo Molaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian # package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? # # apt-get source lib*-perl should do

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-29 Thread Eric Kidd
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:27:21PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Would you think it a good strategy for an xmlrpc-c application to link statically with its own version of your library, because there are set-ups out there which have a too old, too new, too screwed installation of xmlrpc-c?