Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, how do I solve this? Should I forcefully remove the conffile before calling update-rc.d? It feels really bad to remove files from

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 06 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: - if it is changed, either keep it and insert a comment at its beginning that it is unused, or move/rename it. In all cases where the file's presence could have a bad effect, I renamed or moved it. Just a

RFC: PyKaraoke

2006-02-07 Thread Miriam Ruiz
PyKaraoke is a free karaoke player written in Python. You can use it to play your collection of CDG, MIDI and MPEG karaoke songs. Upstream homepage is at http://www.kibosh.org/pykaraoke/ PyKaraoke is actually a GUI frontend which controls three libraries, pycdg for CDG files, pykar for MIDI/KAR

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a word of caution here: If the administrator has modified the file, you should not rename or move it, as they may know better than you what they're doing. A proper course of action would be warning them,

RFS: opendchub --- hub clone for Direct Connect (DC) network

2006-02-07 Thread Zak B. Elep
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all! As some of you may already know from -devel, I've adopted opendchub recently from Grzegorz Prokopski (gadek), and now I've finished packaging the new version which fixes a few bugs and updates the autotools stuff. As usual, here's the

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator has left in place your default configuration system. Of course the maintainer should know their package. If the

Re: RFC: PyKaraoke

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PyKaraoke is a free karaoke player written in Python. If that's meant to be the start of the long description, please drop the written in Python, because it's not interesting, and for those who want to know that nevertheless, the information is in the

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator has left in place your default configuration system. Of course the

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Frank Küster
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator has left in place your

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:35:01AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank K?ster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-02-07 Thread Jari Aalto
Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED], insists on keeping the debian changes inside the upstream tarball, orig.tar.gz. This complicates

RE: RFC: PyKaraoke

2006-02-07 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only the frontend seems to be using libwxgtk-python, so I'm planning to separate it into two different binary packages, one with the command line programs (and less dependencies, no wx) and another one, depending on it, with the frontend. I've

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-02-07 Thread Stan Vasilyev
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 13:15, Jari Aalto wrote: Is the upstream using a VCS? (Version control software)? 1) If he is, can he grant you a direct write access. That would be the    easiest. 2) Can he be persuaded into using distributed SCM[1]? That way both of    you can synchronize at

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:28:39AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank K?ster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a word of caution here: If the administrator has modified the file, you should not rename or move it, as they may know better than you

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:47:49PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:28:39AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank K?ster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a word of caution here: If the administrator has modified the file, you

Re: Two packages with different version, from the same source

2006-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:47:30AM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi mentors! I have a doubt. I am creating a package of a Firefox/Mozilla extension. Upstream author reselases two .xpi files, one for Firefox and another for Mozilla. Since they are small, I was wanting to create just