What is the role of system user bin?

2010-08-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, the Debian Med team tries to support the pacakging of a hostpital management system which is based on the Mumps implementation GT.M. The actual maintainer wants to use the system user bin as owner of the installed files[1]. I personally have no idea for what purpose this system user was

Re: What is the role of system user bin?

2010-08-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: the Debian Med team tries to support the pacakging of a hostpital management system which is based on the Mumps implementation GT.M. The actual maintainer wants to use the system user bin as owner of the installed files[1]. I personally have no

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi again! With the latest upload I fixed everything which was criticized on the packaging: The copyright is clear, it does not FTBFS on pbuilder, the mozilla package has been renamed to browser-plugin, we don't need the dirty hack to remove the source file anymore and new wiki pages have been

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:12:18 +0200, David Bremner brem...@unb.ca wrote: On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:17 +0200, Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org wrote: somone (pabs?) wrote: Why do you move the upstream helper scripts to /usr/lib? They're scripts and should not be in /usr/share/PackageKit. In

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:17 +0200, Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org wrote: somone (pabs?) wrote: Why do you move the upstream helper scripts to /usr/lib? They're scripts and should not be in /usr/share/PackageKit. In this directory we only have documentation of PK. As best I understand

RFS: faenza-icon-theme

2010-08-30 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package faenza-icon-theme. * Package name: faenza-icon-theme Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : [Matthieu James] * URL : [http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228] * License : [GPL] Section

Re: RFS: hydra (updated package)

2010-08-30 Thread William Vera
Hello Mentors! I'm still looking for a sponsor for my package Hydra I appreciate any help Greetings! On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:48 PM, William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.7-1 of my package hydra. It builds these binary

conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Zvi Dubitzky
Hi I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten when installing a package , Yet when I install the built package the package config files are overwriting the existing config files at /etc

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01:46PM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten when installing a package , Yet when I install the built package the package config

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:01:46PM +0300, Zvi Dubitzky wrote: I am having conffiles file placed in debian directory and holding the configuration files ( full path) that should avoid being overwritten when installing a package , Yet when I install the

Package proposal for Jaxl - Jabber XMPP Client Library

2010-08-30 Thread Abhinav Singh
Hi Mentors, I am author of the library and want to create a debian package for Jaxl library. http://github.com/abhinavsingh/JAXL Are there any pre-requisistes before Jaxl debian package can be accepted into stable repositories? -- Abhinav Singh, Founder, Jaxl Inc. Bangalore, India

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org wrote: new wiki pages have been created. (I basically took the information from Fedora) Please move them under the PackageKit namespace, so... http://wiki.debian.org/PackageKit/PackageItemNotFound and so on Also, what was

Re: RFS: faenza-icon-theme

2010-08-30 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. On Aug 30 2010, Adnan Hodzic wrote: * URL : [http://tiheum.deviantart.com/art/Faenza-Icons-173323228] I just did a quick look and you are right that this theme is indeed beautiful. My motivation for maintaining this package is: [I want to build a whole theme, and these

Re: Package proposal for Jaxl - Jabber XMPP Client Library

2010-08-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 30 August 2010 20:16:02 Abhinav Singh wrote: I am author of the library and want to create a debian package for Jaxl library. http://github.com/abhinavsingh/JAXL Libraries generally only enter Debian when some existing application can use them. That said, this is a fine place for

Re: RFS: hydra (updated package)

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:40 AM, William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx wrote: I'm still looking for a sponsor for my package Hydra Is this the same hydra that was removed (#296779) from Debian in 2005 due to being undistributable (#258057)? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To

Request for package review - initial packaging of d-rats

2010-08-30 Thread sconklin Lists
Having previously announced my intent to package the d-rats application, documented in bug #589107, I have completed my initial attempt at packaging. I have packaged a beta release, because the previous major release was unsuitable for debian packaging, and because it may be a very long time

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 30 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Matthew Palmer mpal...@debian.org writes: You should never need to list files in /etc as conffiles, as they're detected and a conffiles written out at package build time (because Policy says all files in /etc are conffiles). This is only true if you're

Re: Package proposal for Jaxl - Jabber XMPP Client Library

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Abhinav Singh abhinavsi...@ymail.com wrote: I am author of the library and want to create a debian package for Jaxl library. Please ensure that your software complies with these guidelines: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide Since it is written in PHP,

Re: RFS: hydra (updated package)

2010-08-30 Thread William Vera
Hello On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:40 AM, William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx wrote: I'm still looking for a sponsor for my package Hydra Is this the same hydra that was removed (#296779) from Debian in 2005 due to being

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Zvi Dubitzky
Hi Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the poped up question when overwriting config files (during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to generate the packge OR is there a debhelper command (dh_..) that will trigger that prior to calling

Re: conffiles

2010-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com writes: Is there a way to put something in DEBIAN directory that will trigger the poped up question when overwriting config files (during package installation) before running dpkg-deb --build to generate the packge Yes, create DEBIAN/conffiles listing all the

Re: RFS: hydra (updated package)

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:22 AM, William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:40 AM, William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx wrote: I'm still looking for a sponsor for my package Hydra Is this the same hydra that