Re: What to do with word documents ?

2006-09-18 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:23:21PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: I think that I will provide a PDF, and ship the .doc files (as I they are the source...). If the only reason you ship them is that they are source, be sure to not ship them in the binary package, but only in the source package

Re: pwgen / pagen - only numbers

2006-09-18 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 18.09.2006 at 12:27 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:19:27AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You cant generate passwords with only numbers in it with pwgen. Sounds like a chance for a feature enhancement you could make. But maybe pwgen is better i dont

Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi everybody, if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is installed, why must this dependency be versioned? If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues an error message: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version depends: util-linux

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:29:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is installed, why must this dependency be versioned? If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues an error message:

Re: my projects for debian ? - Answer to Martin

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:01:27 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, thanks. But my tool dont need pipes and my pw.txt file looks like this: password01 pass02 andmore pwgen output file looks likes: password pass02 andmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pwgen -1 10 10 pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat pwd

Re: my projects for debian ? - Answer to Gregor

2006-09-18 Thread acid0
Yo, i wrote this already some mails ago, that i was wrong with much stuff i said about pwgen, cause i did not understand the man page when i tested it some days ago, sorry was my fault. Pwgen is pretty GOOD. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: gregor herrmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet:

question about reporting bugs on my own package

2006-09-18 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
Hi mentors, I have a problem with bug reporting. I maintain a package and found some bugs with it. Is it correct way to report bugs on my own package, or should I just fix these bugs and describe about it on changelog? I briefly read Debian Developer's Reference, but I couldn't find the

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:29:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: if I add a dependency on util-linux because I need that /sbin/getty is installed, why must this dependency be versioned? If I simply add Depends: util-linux lintian complains loudly and issues an error

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:38:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Sounds reasonable. Thanks for the explanation. Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only such short one liners. The same explanation that Steve gave is found in the Debian Policy and/or the

Re: question about reporting bugs on my own package

2006-09-18 Thread tony mancill
Satoru Takeuchi wrote: Hi mentors, I have a problem with bug reporting. I maintain a package and found some bugs with it. Is it correct way to report bugs on my own package, or should I just fix these bugs and describe about it on changelog? I briefly read Debian Developer's Reference, but

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Franz Pletz
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:38:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only such short one liners. Use lintian -i for more verbose output. Cheers, Franz -- Franz Pletz \ A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. www:

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only such short one liners. The same explanation that Steve gave is found in the Debian Policy and/or the developer reference. Hopefully, you have read both of those. If you use lintian -i you get a more detailed

Re: Depending on an essential package

2006-09-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Franz Pletz wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:38:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Sometimes I wished lintian would display hints like yours and not only such short one liners. Use lintian -i for more verbose output. Mea culpa! I indeed missed -i completely. Next time I better learn how to

Re: question about reporting bugs on my own package

2006-09-18 Thread Christoph Haas
On Monday 18 September 2006 16:30, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: I have a problem with bug reporting. I maintain a package and found some bugs with it. Is it correct way to report bugs on my own package, or should I just fix these bugs and describe about it on changelog? I briefly read Debian

Re: RFS: cobalt-panel-utils -- System utilities for Sun Cobalt's LCD and LEDs (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Le mardi 12 septembre 2006 13:54, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.2-2 of my package cobalt-panel-utils. It builds these binary packages: cobalt-panel-utils - System utilities for Sun Cobalt's LCD and LEDs The package is

Re: RFS: museek+ -- daemon and clients for the Soulseek p2p network

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Le samedi 16 septembre 2006 12:22, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package museek+. This is the third post of this RFS, please consider checking and sponsoring museek+. It's really a great software. Thanks in advance. * Package name :

aspell-uz: new upstream release (0.6.0)

2006-09-18 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
Hi all, I updated aspell-uz to a new upstream release. It is available from http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/uzbek-word-list/aspell-uz-0.6.0-1.tar.bz2 Could anybody please have a look at it and upload? Brian? Thanks, Mashrab. -- Mashrab Kuvatov PGP key:

RFS: malaga (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread Timo Jyrinki
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.6-1 of the package malaga. It'd be the first step in having Debian include the new high quality, GPL'd Finnish spellchecking Voikko (http://hunspell-fi.org/tiedostot.php). Existing spellcheckers don't really have the capabilities to

re: RFS: gstm -- gnome ssh tunnel manager (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread Bart Martens
Hi Thierry, I'm interested in sponsoring your package gstm 1.2-3. I will review your package and contact you via e-mail. (I'm still in the NM queue, but my AM requests me to prepare a sponsored package as part of my NM procedure.) Regards, Bart Martens signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: RFS: malaga (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 18 September 2006 20:07, Timo Jyrinki wrote: Dear mentors, Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.6-1 of the package malaga. It'd be the first step in having Debian include the new high quality, GPL'd Finnish spellchecking Voikko

Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-18 Thread Neil Williams
George Danchev wrote: Ok, you have a Source: packagename, which declares two (or more) Package: packagenames which are Architecture: all and Architecture: any, and you need to declare a strict versioned dependency between them, AFAICT, that's the key - am I right in thinking that if the

Re: RFS: malaga (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread Timo Jyrinki
George Danchev kirjoitti: - be binNMU-safe (if possible;-) - for the Package: libmalaga-dev (since it is Architecture: any and strictly depends on a package which is also Architecture: any) use Depends: libmalaga7 ${binary:Version} and Build-Depends: dpkg-dev = 1.13.19 in order to explore

Re: RFS: malaga (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:39:34 +0300, George Danchev wrote: - convert doc-control to UTF-8 since it contains character (ö) which is not present in iso-8859-1 if I'm not mistaken about the current encoding. 'ö' is longer in iso-8859-1 than utf-8 even exists ;-) But I agree that the files in

Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:46:37PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: George Danchev wrote: Ok, you have a Source: packagename, which declares two (or more) Package: packagenames which are Architecture: all and Architecture: any, and you need to declare a strict versioned dependency between

More on Singular's license

2006-09-18 Thread Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso
Hi. Quoting some context below. I have finally received a response from the Singular team, and I have further questions. My original query to debian-mentors@lists.debian.org follows: On 15/09/06, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. I'm trying to learn the process

Re: 'what' on Linux?

2006-09-18 Thread Frits Daalmans
On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:01, Toni Mueller wrote: Dear mentors, I'm looking for a program like 'what' on BSD, but on Linux (obviously). The following is taken from the man page: what - show what versions of object modules were used to construct a file Sample run: $ what /bsd /bsd

Re: Sponsor request for hunspell-uz

2006-09-18 Thread James Westby
On (17/09/06 13:10), Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: Hi all, I've filed an ITP bug report #387824 for hunspell-uz and uploaded the files I've built into http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/uzbek-word-list/hunspell-uz-0.6.deb.tar.bz2 Hi, I can't sponsor as I am not a DD, but I have some comments,

Re: RFS: lisaac (updated package)

2006-09-18 Thread James Westby
On (17/09/06 21:27), PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package lisaac. * Package name: lisaac Hi, a few more comments for you, * What is #CONFIGURE-STAMP# in debian/rules? * You have a file debian/patch-stamp in the source package. This