Re: PDF versions of policy documents?

2001-11-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:27:47AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 23-Nov-2001 Alexander Karelas wrote: Are there PDF versions (or any version other than HTML for that matter) of the Debian policy manuals somewhere? I would like to print them. policy.sgml.gz is the original

Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Having got the non-free cfal (Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha, yes, the acronym is backwards :-) compiler to work using my contrib Debian packaging (realplayer-style RPM unpacker), I built PETSc using it, and WOW, is it FAST! On a 600 MHz ev5, it is more than 2.5 times as fast per

New Python Policy and libming

2001-11-24 Thread Erich Schubert
I'm the maintainer of the libming packages. Libming has Python bindings, so i made a package python2-ming. The Python policy has changed now, and Python 2.1 is now the default python, so i recompiled my package. Could someone with python experience (i havn't used python much; i don't like the

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Troup wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha] and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source would become contrib, because

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Nicolas Boullis
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:49:29PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Can I Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha] and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source would become

Help a maintainer wanna be

2001-11-24 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi, I'm the author of GtkGamma (available at http://gtkgamma.sf.net/) and I'd like to be an official maintainer for the Debian package myself. I've built a binary .deb which I've uploaded to the project's site at SF (see above). Everything necessary to build it is included in the tarball.

Bug#119605: pcscd: does not kill daemon on purge (fwd)

2001-11-24 Thread Carlos Prados
Hi, This bug is about the pcscd daemon left running afer purging the pcscd package. I'm not able to reproduce this error on an Intel machine. Maybe it's an Sparc specific bug. I don't have such a machine at hand and thats why I'm asking for help on this list. The pcscd.prerm does stop the

Re: PDF versions of policy documents?

2001-11-24 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:27:47AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 23-Nov-2001 Alexander Karelas wrote: Are there PDF versions (or any version other than HTML for that matter) of the Debian policy manuals somewhere? I would like to print them. policy.sgml.gz is the original

New Python Policy and libming

2001-11-24 Thread Erich Schubert
I'm the maintainer of the libming packages. Libming has Python bindings, so i made a package python2-ming. The Python policy has changed now, and Python 2.1 is now the default python, so i recompiled my package. Could someone with python experience (i havn't used python much; i don't like the

Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, Having got the non-free cfal (Compaq Fortran for Linux Alpha, yes, the acronym is backwards :-) compiler to work using my contrib Debian packaging (realplayer-style RPM unpacker), I built PETSc using it, and WOW, is it FAST! On a 600 MHz ev5, it is more than 2.5 times as fast per

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread James Troup
Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha] and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). -- James

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread Adam C Powell IV
James Troup wrote: Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha] and still have the source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). Right, thanks for pointing this out (I need to RTFP :-). So the source would become contrib,

Help a maintainer wanna be

2001-11-24 Thread Javier Kohen
Hi, I'm the author of GtkGamma (available at http://gtkgamma.sf.net/) and I'd like to be an official maintainer for the Debian package myself. I've built a binary .deb which I've uploaded to the project's site at SF (see above). Everything necessary to build it is included in the tarball.