Re: to use upstream scons or not

2007-07-21 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 03:18:23AM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: When you have a upstream package that are using scons, is there a good way to incorperate that into a debian package, or should a new build script be written? The Second Life viewer uses scons to build, but I'm using dh_install

Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?

2007-07-21 Thread David Paleino
2007/7/21, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:05:45PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : This would violate the Debian Policy section 12.1, reading [..] Each program, utility, and function should have an associated manual page included in the same package. [..]. Hi

SOLVED: Re: Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

2007-07-21 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Adeodato. Thank you very much for the instructions. On Jul 17 2007, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Rogério Brito [Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:15:02 -0300]: Should I maintain it in disagreement with the Debian Policy? You really can't do that, nothing will work. Ok. So, again my question: should I

Re: RFS: adonthell (updated package)

2007-07-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi Anthony! * Joseph Nahmias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070628 23:18]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.4.release-1 of my packages adonthell and adonthell-data, which build these binary packages: [snip] I don't see this new version on the mentors site. All that's there is

Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?

2007-07-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 21.07.2007, 10:14 +0200 schrieb David Paleino: 2007/7/21, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:05:45PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : This would violate the Debian Policy section 12.1, reading [..] Each program, utility, and function should have

Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?

2007-07-21 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 21 July 2007, Daniel Leidert wrote: --cut-- Or, alternatively, create an emboss-manpages package (arch: all) to Depend on (as I already stated). Where is the advantage of such an effort? There is none. You would have to install two packages instead of simply one and you don't

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Thierry Randrianiriana schrieb: On 7/20/07, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Just tested it. Seems, Recommends is not enough for python-dbus and python-gmenu. Gimmie crashes, when either python-gmenu or python-dbus are not installed: [..] So, both should be added to Depends.

RFS/RFC: dictconv

2007-07-21 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, I've made a dictconv deb, It builds these binary packages: dictconv - Dictconv convert a dictionay file type in another dictionary file The package is not finished, debian/changelog is incomplete, because I've not opened the ITP bug, first I wish to have your commnents and a mentor

Re: Nagios version

2007-07-21 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:01:20AM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Friday 20 July 2007 22:53, Christoph Haas wrote: David, please use your real email address. workaround.org is a domain hosted by myself and I'm pretty positive I didn't give you a freedotfr hostname in that domain.

dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote: On 10:24 Tue 20 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:07:00AM -0700, Brandon Philips wrote: On 18:35 Sun 18 Mar 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:08:17PM -0800, Brandon Philips

Re: dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide

2007-07-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Osamu Aoki [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:59:20 +0900]: If someone makes checking on the archive how many packages build depends on dpatch and quit, and tell me quilt is getting enough popularity, I may consider changing text there to mention quit may be used as an alternative to dpatch. (I thoght

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:40:26AM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi Charles, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips a écrit : I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you

Re: dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide

2007-07-21 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 05:59:20AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: If someone makes checking on the archive how many packages build depends on dpatch and quit $ grep-dctrl -FBuild-Depends dpatch -sPackage /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.mx.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_source_Sources|wc -l 1461 $

Re: dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:38:55PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Osamu Aoki [Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:59:20 +0900]: If someone makes checking on the archive how many packages build depends on dpatch and quit, and tell me quilt is getting enough popularity, I may consider changing text there to

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-07-21 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing comfortable with it than me. You may want to read[0]. Wow, quilt is much easier to use. The

Re: Auto-building many manpages: redundant work for the buildds ?

2007-07-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:14:17 +0900, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Le Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:05:45PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : This would violate the Debian Policy section 12.1, reading [..] Each program, utility, and function should have an associated manual page included

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-07-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I was unclear. On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 12:59:44PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing comfortable

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:50:11PM +0900, Osamu Aoki a écrit : I guess the original poster (not me) felt even doing this simple task was more than just cp andom.diff ebian/patches/01_some_patch.dpatch. I like dpatch approach to lead people to add description since it documents patch well.

OK, let's build the manpages offline.

2007-07-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 03:14:15PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : Hi Daniel, Since it is not a MUST, but just a SHOULD, would it mean that it would be acceptable to ship the manpages with the doc anyway ? Where is the advantage of such an effort? There is none. You would have