Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Justin Pryzby wrote: You will have to test with both sarge and etch dpkg (until after etch releases). Colin Watson recently wrote [0] about one of the ssh bugs and how this was complicated for him. You have to include the logic in the preinst, since the prerm is for

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:43:04PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Marc Haber wrote: I have a package with a bunch of configuration files that are managed by my maintainer scripts and not by dpkg. I now need one of them (a.conf) to vanish. How do I do this in a clean

Re: Removing self-managed configuration files?

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:26:45PM +0100, Florent Rougon wrote: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that acceptable? Or is there anything easier, more elegant, more policy compliant? I think it's the usual, and correct way (sometimes actually performed by ucf, but since you're getting

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 10:28:41PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: You will have to test with both sarge and etch dpkg (until after etch releases). Colin Watson recently wrote [0] about one of the ssh bugs and how this was complicated for him. You have to include the logic in the preinst, since

Why are the buildds able to find a Build-Dep on their own?

2007-01-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
Hi all, while working on proftpd backport I've been stumbling about the fact that the proftpd package did not declare a build-dep on the libattr1-dev package. The package is clearly needed if you're going to build it by hand. I've been expecting the package to FTBFS on the buildds but the opposite

Re: Why are the buildds able to find a Build-Dep on their own?

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:58:33AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: while working on proftpd backport I've been stumbling about the fact that the proftpd package did not declare a build-dep on the libattr1-dev package. The package is clearly needed if you're going to build it by hand. I've been

Re: Why are the buildds able to find a Build-Dep on their own?

2007-01-20 Thread Julien Valroff
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:05:55AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:58:33AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: while working on proftpd backport I've been stumbling about the fact that the proftpd package did not declare a build-dep on the libattr1-dev package. The package

Re: Why are the buildds able to find a Build-Dep on their own?

2007-01-20 Thread Benjamin Mesing
And isn't it a good idea to declare a build-dep even in this case? proftpd would FTBS if libacl1-dev would drop its dependency on libattr1-dev. Is there a commonly accepted rule on these particular cases? There is. If the package directly depends on libattr1-dev (this usually means it

Re: RFS: whitedune : Graphical VRML97 viewer, editor, 3D modeller and animation tool

2007-01-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Philippe, On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 00:35 +0100, Philippe Coval wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package whitedune. Thank you for your work. I've taken a look. I've got the following comments: debian/changelog: * The changelog mentions two previous versions from 2002, but I can't

Re: What to do if my package doesn't build on some architecture

2007-01-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Kumar, On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 20:47 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Now, I would like to know how to bail the package out of this situation. Do I try to fix the problem, referring it to upstream, or is it that I should somehow block this architecture now and keep my fingers crossed hoping it

Re: What to do if my package doesn't build on some architecture

2007-01-20 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 12:52:29PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: So, check whether upstream can solve it and/or tag the bug 'help' and send a mail to the relevant porters list. Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I shall act accordingly. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian

RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sshproxy. * Package name: sshproxy Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : David Guerizec [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://penguin.fr/sshproxy/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Description :

Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Bernat, On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:38 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package sshproxy. There is currently one bug in the package due to a problem in cdbs : bug #386970. I don't know wthat the correct work around is. I'm sorry, I can't help you with this.

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:47:16 +0100, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yes, that sounds sensible. It is, however, frustrating that there is no method (for example, offered by ucf) to do this without that much coding in maintainer scripts. This is the beauty of fre software. If you

Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du samedi 20 janvier 2007, vers 14:52, Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: The package is almost lintian free. I have put an override for INSTALL which contains post-setup instructions. Maybe it makes sense to move these instructions to a file

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:31:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This is the beauty of fre software. If you find it so frustrating, write up a generic tool, and contribute it. And that would follow the grand old UNIX tradition of each command doing one thing well. The task at hand

Re: What to do if my package doesn't build on some architecture

2007-01-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote: I have come across an unexpected (serious), bug in my package libitpp, that it doesn't build on s390. Check http://bugs.debian.org/407555 [snip] Besides, I don't have access to such a machine! You can emulate an s390 using the package Hercules.

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:17:27 +0100, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:31:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This is the beauty of fre software. If you find it so frustrating, write up a generic tool, and contribute it. And that would follow the grand old UNIX

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:38:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:17:27 +0100, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 10:31:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: This is the beauty of fre software. If you find it so frustrating, write up a generic

Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Vinvent, Kust a tiny little comment: - -=| Vincent Bernat, 20.01.2007 15:38 |=- It builds these binary packages: sshproxy - ssh gateway to apply ACLs on ssh connections sshproxy-backend-mysql - ssh gateway to apply ACLs on ssh connections

Re: Removing self-managed configuration files?

2007-01-20 Thread Florent Rougon
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The file is under ucf control (I omitted that to lessen complexity), Hey! We are doctors. You have to tell us _everything_. :-) but ucf does not know about the file any more if it is not in the new package and will therefore not handle it. Uh, if you

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:46:20 +0100, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:38:39AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:17:27 +0100, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There is no need to fork ucf to create a command that provides functionality not

Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du samedi 20 janvier 2007, vers 18:53, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: -=| Vincent Bernat, 20.01.2007 15:38 |=- It builds these binary packages: sshproxy - ssh gateway to apply ACLs on ssh connections sshproxy-backend-mysql - ssh gateway to apply ACLs

RFS: libphp-phpmailer (updated package)

2007-01-20 Thread Kevin Coyner
Dear fellow mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.73-3 of my package libphp-phpmailer. This package is already in the archives. I am simply taking over maintainer responsibilities. It builds these binary packages: libphp-phpmailer - full featured email transfer class for

Re: RFS: libphp-phpmailer (updated package)

2007-01-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
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Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -=| Vincent Bernat, 20.01.2007 21:23 |=- But I get the point and fixed this problem by not using dh_installinit and invoking rc.d by hand. Strange. dh_installinit works for me every time. I don't use cdbs, however so I guess my case is not the

Re: Why are the buildds able to find a Build-Dep on their own?

2007-01-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:54:28AM +0100, Benjamin Mesing wrote: And isn't it a good idea to declare a build-dep even in this case? proftpd would FTBS if libacl1-dev would drop its dependency on libattr1-dev. Is there a commonly accepted rule on these particular cases? There is.

Re: RFS: sshproxy

2007-01-20 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du samedi 20 janvier 2007, vers 22:47, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: But I get the point and fixed this problem by not using dh_installinit and invoking rc.d by hand. Strange. dh_installinit works for me every time. I don't use cdbs, however

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