Building a program with tcl/tk8.4

2007-05-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear mentors, I preparing a package which by default uses a local copy of tcl/tk. In order to build it against Debian's version, I have turned the #include tk.h into #include tcl8.4/tk.h. It then complains the following: /usr/include/tcl8.4/tk.h:68:20: error: tcl.h: No such file or directory

Re: Building a program with tcl/tk8.4

2007-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear mentors, I preparing a package which by default uses a local copy of tcl/tk. In order to build it against Debian's version, I have turned the #include tk.h into #include tcl8.4/tk.h. This isn't necessary. It then complains the following:

Re: RFS: peless -- GTK Text browser

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:00:57 +0200 Giorgio Pioda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, no, the cleanup refers to the debian package. I've already done it for the most (but not uploaded to my web space). A: Because it breaks the thread of discussion. Q. Why is top-posting such a PITA? You

Re: Building a program with tcl/tk8.4

2007-05-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 24 May 2007 15:24:15 +0900 Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I preparing a package which by default uses a local copy of tcl/tk. In order to build it against Debian's version, I have turned the #include tk.h into #include tcl8.4/tk.h. It then complains the

Re: RFS: peless -- GTK Text browser

2007-05-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
[Added debiam-mentors and dropped Thomas from CC] -=| Paul Elliott, Thu, 24 May 2007 00:29:35 -0500 |=- On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:08:16AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: -=| Giorgio Pioda, Tue, 22 May 2007 21:51:48 +0200 |=- I have packaged a nice GTK text reader that can be very usefull to

Re: RFS: peless -- GTK Text browser

2007-05-24 Thread Giorgio Pioda
Hi Damyan and Paul Damyan Ivanov ha scritto: [Added debiam-mentors and dropped Thomas from CC] -=| Paul Elliott, Thu, 24 May 2007 00:29:35 -0500 |=- On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:08:16AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: -=| Giorgio Pioda, Tue, 22 May 2007 21:51:48 +0200 |=- I have packaged a nice

question about debian packaging.

2007-05-24 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Hi , I am creating one debian package the problem . The package structure is it has two file abc.pl and abc.sh. I want that when I will use dpkg -I package_name . it will copy abc.pl and abc.sh into /tmp and run perl /tmp/abc.pl . How will I do that ? Kind to see your response soon. Thanks

Re: question about debian packaging.

2007-05-24 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 03:36:39PM +0530, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote: I am creating one debian package the problem . The package structure is it has two file abc.pl and abc.sh. I want that when I will use dpkg -I package_name I assume you mean dpkg -i. . it will copy abc.pl and abc.sh

Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. What would you, as maintainer of package A, do? What do you think about leaving the

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Jörg, * Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-24 13:19]: I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. What would you, as

Re: ITA or ITP, for former Debian packages?

2007-05-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 13:30, Neil Williams wrote: If the package is in Debian and orphaned: ITA If the package is not in Debian (whether it ever was before or not): ITP. It makes sense to base your work on the previous package anyway, since that might have solved some issues that you didn't

Re: RFS: peless -- GTK Text browser

2007-05-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Giorgio Pioda, Thu, 24 May 2007 11:33:09 +0200 |=- Hi Damyan and Paul Damyan Ivanov ha scritto: Good. Giorgio, since you don't use make install, this file does not get installed. Is there a reason to prefer debian/install over make install? Either way, please include the .desktop file

Re: question about debian packaging.

2007-05-24 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 04:39:46PM +0530, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote: Yes you are right but I am not able to run the script when I am using dpkg -i abc_1.1.deb And my postinst is a perl file which will change some configuration. Please keep replies on-list. The postinst script should be

RE: question about debian packaging.

2007-05-24 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Hi , Thanks for help I have done it . Thanks Deepak -Original Message- From: Dominic Hargreaves [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 6:15 PM To: Deepak Kumar Tripathi Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: question about debian packaging. On Thu, May 24,

Re: RFS: openglad

2007-05-24 Thread Kari Pahula
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:22:50PM -0400, Simon wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for a sponsor for this package. The package is a I'm currently a bit busy but unless someone else steps up in a few days I can can review and sponsor openglad. I remember that I wasn't quite happy with how others

Adoption of a package that doesn't need work (yet)

2007-05-24 Thread François Févotte
Hello mentors, I recently filed ITAs for eukleides[1] and xeukleides[2]. However, since there had been a QA upload[3] not long before, I don't have any real work to do on the package yet. I'm not sure how I should actually adopt these packages. Should I make a new package only modifying the

Re: RFS: openglad

2007-05-24 Thread Simon
On 5/24/07, Kari Pahula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:22:50PM -0400, Simon wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for a sponsor for this package. The package is a I'm currently a bit busy but unless someone else steps up in a few days I can can review and sponsor openglad. I

Symbol-versioning a C++ library

2007-05-24 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, This is slightly off-topic, for which I apologise. It's just that I learned about symbol versioning during my NM process, and nobody outside Debian seems to understand what it is. :-( I have a library, which I want to package for Debian. I felt it would be a good idea to use symbol

Re: Adoption of a package that doesn't need work (yet)

2007-05-24 Thread Manuel García
On 5/24/07, François Févotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello mentors, I recently filed ITAs for eukleides[1] and xeukleides[2]. However, since there had been a QA upload[3] not long before, I don't have any real work to do on the package yet. I'm not sure how I should actually adopt these

Re: Adoption of a package that doesn't need work (yet)

2007-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Manuel García wrote: On 5/24/07, François Févotte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello mentors, I recently filed ITAs for eukleides[1] and xeukleides[2]. However, since there had been a QA upload[3] not long before, I don't have any real work to do on the package yet. I'm

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:56:08AM +, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A.

RFS: libcomplearn (updated package)

2007-05-24 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.9-1 of my package libcomplearn. It builds these binary packages: complearn-tools - complearn machine-learning command-line utilities libcomplearn-dev - machine-learning through data compression development files

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Mike Hommey, Thu, 24 May 2007 19:39:20 +0200 |=- A standard example of this are bugs in applications that are due to bugs in libraries they depend on. Users would report bugs on the application, but it would be reassigned to the library. Next users reporting the bug would not see it in the

Re: Symbol-versioning a C++ library

2007-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:03:42PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: Then I tried to give the whole shevek::fd class a different version by adding: SHEVEK_2 { global: shevek::fd::*; }; (and some variations.) That didn't work at all: it defines the version: gDO

Re: RFS: peless -- GTK Text browser

2007-05-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
[added the list again] -=| Giorgio Pioda, Thu, 24 May 2007 21:11:19 +0200 |=- If I were you, I'd try to make make install not strip anything, patching if necessary[1]. The problem with dh_install approach is that you have to check carefully if there is something new to install every now

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote: I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. What would you, as maintainer of package A,

Re: ITA or ITP, for former Debian packages?

2007-05-24 Thread Robert J. Clay
Neil, On May 23, 7:40 am, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 May 2007 03:45:44 -0700 Robert J. Clay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your case, I think your ITP should explain why the package should be reintroduced because packages aren't removed without due cause and you would need to

Re: ITA or ITP, for former Debian packages?

2007-05-24 Thread Robert J. Clay
Thijs, On May 24, 11:30 am, Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It makes sense to base your work on the previous package anyway, since that might have solved some issues that you didn't think of yet, and it would be a pity if those resurfaced. That's what I started with for the

Re: RFS: peless -- GTK Text browser

2007-05-24 Thread Giorgio Pioda
Hi Damyan About the signing. the .dsc file is (wrapped): -- Format: 1.0 Source: peless Binary: peless [...] Files: c56508f8e052b10cd799c8e0a9253909 109646 peless_1.108.orig.tar.gz ccdc4f9b61f88c324acbd707f03cb5d2 2659 peless_1.108-1.diff.gz

Re: Building a program with tcl/tk8.4

2007-05-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:49:53AM +0100, Neil Williams a écrit : Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /usr/include/tcl8.4/tk.h:68:20: error: tcl.h: No such file or directory The reason is that /usr/include/tcl8.4/tk.h contains #include tcl.h instead of tcl8.4/tcl.h. Is it a bug?

Re: RFS: scim-thai (updated package)

2007-05-24 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Also post RFS to pkg-ime-devel. More info: this package fixes FTBFS due to recent upstream scim change regarding modules handling. I would appreciate if somebody sponsored it. Thanks, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ On 5/20/07, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL

Re: RFS: peless -- GTK Text browser

2007-05-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Giorgio Pioda, Fri, 25 May 2007 07:17:11 +0200 |=- But why the dpkg-buildpackage command doesn't wrap automatically .dsc It should, unless given '-us' or '-uc' options. and .cheanges? Do I have to activate specific options? Actually my gpg key is set and dpkg is not complaining for a