iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-05 Thread Martin F Krafft
Hi, I packaged iprelay from http://www.stewart.com.au/ip_relay/ and now I need a sponsor. Here is a short description of the program, from the webpage: ip_relay can shape the TCP traffic forwarded through it to a specified bandwidth and allow this specified bandwidth to be changed on-the-fly.

When can I include my package in stable?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin
Hi, What are the conditions for a package to be included in stable? I have looked through the policy document to find any clues on this but I couldn't find anything. Currently, I maintain the kvirc (and kvirc-doc, kvirc-dev) packages which have been in unstable since June 20 this year. There

Re: warning in Plex86

2001-09-05 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | This code is EXTREMELY EXPERIMENTAL, and may well result in a | Should this warning determine that this software should stay in 'unstable' and not get into 'testing' untill they make a stable release? IMHO no. People will file bugs if it is

iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-05 Thread Martin F Krafft
Hi, I packaged iprelay from http://www.stewart.com.au/ip_relay/ and now I need a sponsor. Here is a short description of the program, from the webpage: ip_relay can shape the TCP traffic forwarded through it to a specified bandwidth and allow this specified bandwidth to be changed on-the-fly.

Re: iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: I packaged iprelay from http://www.stewart.com.au/ip_relay/ and now I need a sponsor. Here is a short description of the program, from the webpage: ip_relay can shape the TCP traffic forwarded through it to a specified

Re: iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 06:59:08PM +0200, Martin F Krafft wrote: well, it doesn't need netfilter or anything. you basically say something like iprelay -b 2048 10873:ftp.us.debian.org:873 and now 0.0.0.0:10873 is a port through which you can access ftp.us.debian.org:873 with at most 2 kbps

Re: iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-05 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Colin Watson (on Wed, 05 Sep 2001 11:36:24AM -0500): Can you describe how this package differs from shaperd? Package: shaperd Description: A user-mode traffic shaper for tcp-ip networks. Shaperd is a user-mode program that can shape traffic passing through a Linux box. As it

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 -

Re: Native packages

2001-09-05 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, peter karlsson wrote: 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.

Re: Native packages

2001-09-05 Thread 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. On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:49:51PM +0200, peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake forth: Hi! How do I get

Re: Native packages

2001-09-05 Thread Santiago Vila
peter karlsson wrote: 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. I would first create

Re: Native packages

2001-09-05 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:49:51PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: 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

When can I include my package in stable?

2001-09-05 Thread Robin
Hi, What are the conditions for a package to be included in stable? I have looked through the policy document to find any clues on this but I couldn't find anything. Currently, I maintain the kvirc (and kvirc-doc, kvirc-dev) packages which have been in unstable since June 20 this year. There are

Re: When can I include my package in stable?

2001-09-05 Thread Britton
I think it becomes part of stable automaticly when the current unstable changes into stable. Security upgrades are the only exception I know of. Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Robin wrote: Hi, What are the conditions for a package to be