Re: Lintian complaining about ldconfig in postrm-remove

2003-08-25 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:32:14PM +0200, Dominik Stadler wrote: W: atleto: postrm-unsafe-ldconfig N: N: The postrm script calls ldconfig unsafely. The postrm must only call N: ldconfig when given the argument remove. N: N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 9.1.1 for details. N: This

Re: gcc versions and c++ packages

2003-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
David Meggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I had a few questions about how to package a program that needs a new version of gcc, but links to libraries compiled with the an old version of gcc. I have gcc 2.95.3 and gcc 3.3.1 installed. My program won't compile with gcc 2.95.3, so I have

Re: gcc versions and c++ packages

2003-08-25 Thread David Meggy
Searching the mailing lists, oddly shows up nothing. I think the debian mailing list search page needs some fixing. I'm actually using gtkmm1.2 not 2.0 so there is no c102 version. I guess I will send an e-mail to the maintaner and ask. Which leaves me one big question. How do I force my

Re: gcc versions and c++ packages

2003-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
David Meggy wrote: Searching the mailing lists, oddly shows up nothing. I think the debian mailing list search page needs some fixing. I think this was in debian-devel. Since I had the page up in my browser when I read your message here it is.

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-25 Thread Frank Kster
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?utf-8?b?RnJhbmsgS8O8c3Rlcg==?=) writes: Hello all, If there is no working configuration, networking will problably not work at all - this is bad, especially if by bad chance somebody installs the package on a remotely

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?utf-8?b?RnJhbmsgS8O8c3Rlcg==?=) writes: Joshua Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:00:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: - Ask wether the laptop uses PCMCIA or not. If yes, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts should contain the necessary

Re: Need help: difficult NM / requestor

2003-08-25 Thread Roland Mas
Roland Mas (2003-07-24 18:25:55 +0200) : [...] After rehashing the arguments once or twice again, I submitted the following proposal: if Eray fixes the four packages he's supposed to be maintaining, and puts them into an honourable shape, I'll sponsor at least one of them (even if I don't

Re: Need help: difficult NM / requestor

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:52:06AM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: For anyone interested: one month has passed. I've been away for holidays, but I found no email from Eray in my inbox when coming back. Unsurprisingly enough he hasn't contacted me either. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it,

Re: sponsorship for streamripper

2003-08-25 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:14:22PM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote: I seek for an Developer who would sponsor the upload of the Package streamripper. Streamripper is an command-line Tool to rip of Online Streams into track-seperated mp3

Policy query

2003-08-25 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lintian gives me this error: E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip N: N: The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg N: without using a versioned depends. In general a package

Re: Policy query

2003-08-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:55:53PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip N: N: The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg N: without using a versioned depends. In general a package should not N:

Looking for a sponsor for package update

2003-08-25 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the sitemap package, but I'm no DD. I've got an update (2.3-5) which is linda- and lintian clean. It is available at [0]. Could somebody upload it, please? Thank you very much. [0] http://www.isotton.com/debian/sitemap/ Greetings, Aaron --

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Joshua Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:00:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: - Ask wether the laptop uses PCMCIA or not. If yes, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts should contain the necessary information, it is parsed. If no a scheme is set up based on

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-25 Thread Frank Küster
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?utf-8?b?RnJhbmsgS8O8c3Rlcg==?=) writes: Hello all, If there is no working configuration, networking will problably not work at all - this is bad, especially if by bad chance somebody installs the package on a remotely

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?utf-8?b?RnJhbmsgS8O8c3Rlcg==?=) writes: Joshua Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:00:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: - Ask wether the laptop uses PCMCIA or not. If yes, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts should contain the necessary

Re: Need help: difficult NM / requestor

2003-08-25 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:52:06AM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: For anyone interested: one month has passed. I've been away for holidays, but I found no email from Eray in my inbox when coming back. Unsurprisingly enough he hasn't contacted me either. -- You grabbed my hand and we fell into it,

Re: sponsorship for streamripper

2003-08-25 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:14:22PM +0200, Michael Ablassmeier wrote: I seek for an Developer who would sponsor the upload of the Package streamripper. Streamripper is an command-line Tool to rip of Online Streams into track-seperated mp3

Update: Patch needs Sponsor - List of easily NMUed RC bugs

2003-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I went through the RC bug list and collected Bugs with trivial patches and sorted them a bit. They realy don't need much work so if you have a minute pick one. If you want to NMU any of them check the then currently claimed bugs (url under

Re: Bug#207184: libpod-coverage-perl_0.11-1(unstable/ia64): FTBFS: should be arch all?

2003-08-25 Thread Jay Bonci
Would anyone be able to sponsor the fix for this package? It's a roughly one-line change because of a null binary-arch target (was using a binary-indep target by mistake in the debian/rules file). Otherwise, it's a fairly simple package that I'd like to fix so it gets into testing. Please let

Taking over Ada packages

2003-08-25 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Folks, I have just had my GPG key signed by a Debian developer. I also have a number of packages which are ready to install (list below). Now, to move forward in the new maintainer process, I need an advocate. Perhaps Jérôme Marant would be willing to examine my application? If anyone is

search a sponsor for zope-tinytable

2003-08-25 Thread Nicolas Ledez
Hey, I search a Debian sponsor to help me to become Debian maintener for this package. I'd prefer a French maintener (if possible) and/or a zope maintener (if possible). I closed the bug #192837 and successfully make Debian package. Thanks -- Nicolas Ledez - Virtual Net (www.virtual-net.fr)

Policy query

2003-08-25 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lintian gives me this error: E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip N: N: The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg N: without using a versioned depends. In general a package

Re: Policy query

2003-08-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lintian gives me this error: E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip N: N: The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg N: without using a versioned depends. In general a package

Re: Policy query

2003-08-25 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:55:53PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip N: N: The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg N: without using a versioned depends. In general a package should not

Re: Bug#207184: libpod-coverage-perl_0.11-1(unstable/ia64): FTBFS: should be arch all?

2003-08-25 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jay Bonci wrote: Would anyone be able to sponsor the fix for this package? It's a roughly one-line change because of a null binary-arch target (was using a binary-indep target by mistake in the debian/rules file). Otherwise, it's a fairly simple package that I'd like to

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-25 Thread Eric Winger
Got it! My package installed! Thank you Thank you Thank you everyone. I think I was confusing the two types of repositories and how to access them (automagic simple - from the repository howto). Sorry for delayed response. Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Luk Claes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: Policy query

2003-08-25 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:55:53PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Lintian gives me this error: E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip N: N: The package declares a depends on an essential package i.e. dpkg N: without using a versioned depends. In