Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:36:03AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: Why does it think rsh-client is a virtual package? It is a mixed virtual package. There is a real package rsh-client, but also several other packages provide rsh-client (apt-cache showpkg rsh-client).

Re: debmake and dh-make

2003-02-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
___ / Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Arnaud | | On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:42:34PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: | / Gergely Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | If debmake is out-of-date, what are the best tools used today to |

Re: Why are libraries considered bad victims for first packages?

2003-02-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Michael Still wrote: I have been an open source developer for some time, and am now an experienced Debian user (a whole week under my belt!). Heh. I am interested in getting some of my code available as Debian packages, but the web pages I have been reading imply that it

Re: Why are libraries considered bad victims for first packages?

2003-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:00:30AM +1100, Michael Still wrote: I am interested in getting some of my code available as Debian packages, but the web pages I have been reading imply that it is a bad thing to attempt a library as a first package. Unfortunately most of my code depends on libraries

non conffiles in /etc and loading from templates?

2003-02-10 Thread sean finney
hey mentors, i have a hypothetical situation for you. let's say i were working on a package for sugarplum. now this package is understandably the bane of most spam harvesters out there, enough that they've probably put in a rule to avoid directories named /sugarplum on most peoples web servers.

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Aaron Haviland wrote: Bob Proulx cursed the gypsies with this chant: Bug 179614! It appears to me that this is a similar but not quite identical problem. In that bug the packages were all real packages and none of them were virtual. I could not deduce that any of them were virtual. So

Re: non conffiles in /etc and loading from templates?

2003-02-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I handle non confile configuration files using ucf (which could do with more testing and wider deployment. manoj Package: ucf Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 120 Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 0.11 Filename:

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:36:03AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Matt Zimmerman wrote: Why does it think rsh-client is a virtual package? It is a mixed virtual package. There is a real package rsh-client, but also several other packages provide rsh-client (apt-cache showpkg rsh-client).

Why are libraries considered bad victims for first packages?

2003-02-10 Thread Michael Still
Hey, I have been an open source developer for some time, and am now an experienced Debian user (a whole week under my belt!). I am interested in getting some of my code available as Debian packages, but the web pages I have been reading imply that it is a bad thing to attempt a library as a

Re: debmake and dh-make

2003-02-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
___ / Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi Arnaud | | On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 12:42:34PM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: | / Gergely Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | If debmake is out-of-date, what are the best tools used today to |

Re: Why are libraries considered bad victims for first packages?

2003-02-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Michael Still wrote: I have been an open source developer for some time, and am now an experienced Debian user (a whole week under my belt!). Heh. I am interested in getting some of my code available as Debian packages, but the web pages I have been reading imply that it

Re: Why are libraries considered bad victims for first packages?

2003-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:00:30AM +1100, Michael Still wrote: I am interested in getting some of my code available as Debian packages, but the web pages I have been reading imply that it is a bad thing to attempt a library as a first package. Unfortunately most of my code depends on libraries

non conffiles in /etc and loading from templates?

2003-02-10 Thread sean finney
hey mentors, i have a hypothetical situation for you. let's say i were working on a package for sugarplum. now this package is understandably the bane of most spam harvesters out there, enough that they've probably put in a rule to avoid directories named /sugarplum on most peoples web servers.

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-10 Thread Aaron Haviland
Bob Proulx cursed the gypsies with this chant: Colin Watson wrote: It's a false positive, yes. Please file it as a bug against lintian (also compare #179614). Bug 179614! It appears to me that this is a similar but not quite identical problem. In that bug the packages were all real

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Aaron Haviland wrote: Bob Proulx cursed the gypsies with this chant: Bug 179614! It appears to me that this is a similar but not quite identical problem. In that bug the packages were all real packages and none of them were virtual. I could not deduce that any of them were virtual. So

Re: non conffiles in /etc and loading from templates?

2003-02-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I handle non confile configuration files using ucf (which could do with more testing and wider deployment. manoj Package: ucf Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 120 Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 0.11 Filename: