Finally, after much delay, I've got a new version of the FAQ uploaded to
it's usual place at
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html .
Updates in this release:
* Add a comment about telling everyone you got sponsored to reduce
duplication of effort. (Christoph Haas)
*
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:07:17AM -0300, Tiago Saboga wrote:
I am working closely with upstream devs, and I am willing to manage
the debian files in the same sourceforge cvs. I understand that the
upstream tarball should not contain the debian files; OTOH,
sourceforge asks that all files in
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
On 27/06/07, Tiago Saboga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am working closely with upstream devs, and I am willing to manage
the debian files in the same sourceforge cvs. I understand that the
upstream tarball should not contain the
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:49:47PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:50:58AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:59:12AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote:
On 27/06/07, Tiago Saboga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am working closely with upstream devs
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:01:15AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
I've made Konatu font package (ttf-konatu)
http://www.masuseki.com/index.php?u=be/konatu.htm
and I have a question about its license is dfsg-free or not.
It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:04:57PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:15:03AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote:
- The files under src/win32helpers are released under the 4-clause BSD
license which is incompatible with the GPL. Thus distributing them as
part
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:01:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is exactly because it is anyway wrong to not cite authors that it is
better to leave the requirement out of the licence. When we publish
scientific articles, we do not put a
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:51:45PM +0100, Richard Fearn wrote:
I was wondering whether I should change the package from RFA to ITA
now, even though I've got some way to go before I'm competent enough to
create packages. I feel that adopting the package, when I won't be able
to package it
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:17:10AM +0100, Curt Manucredo wrote:
i could never imagine that it is possible to call a command and then
have root rights for it, without authentificating on the system with a
password. so i thought a daemon running as root might solve that problem
(which i thought
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:29:36PM +0100, Curt Manucredo wrote:
i am not quiet sure about sudo, since it asks from time to time a
password.
Then you haven't put NOPASSWD: in the relevant sudoers entry. It works like
a charm.
Oh, and I think that you've totally over-complicated the wheel in
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:44:45PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 01:43:52PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:39:28PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get dist-upgrade
[...]
The following
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:39:28PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
[Note: I updated the package to backport a patch from 1.2.5, which
both a reporter and upstream agree should close #379900. Please, if you
deem the package uploadable, do grab the new version first, from the
same URL:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:33:54PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:37:28PM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:22:41PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
What happens is that liferea is held-back. I've tried adding or taking
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:22:41PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
I do have an issue I need help testing before upload. If I install
etch/sid liferea + liferea-gtkhtml in a chroot, then add a sources
line for my private repository with this new version, apt-get update,
apt-get
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 07:26:00PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
Suppose this:
bzr branch devel.branch my.branch
er...not that one
C-c
This is a question for the bzr lists, not debian-mentors.
- Matt
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:42:13PM +0100, Chris Amthor wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package crotch.
* Package name: crotch
Version : 1.0.1-1
Upstream Author : Chris Amthor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.chroam.de/
* License
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:21:51AM +0100, Johann Rudloff wrote:
I hope it's correct now, but I've one little question:
* your build-depends are wrong. you depend on libgtk2.0-0 instead of
libgtk2.0-dev and libglib2.0-dev
I added both, but is the dependency on libglib2.0-dev really
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 09:15:28AM +1100, Tim Hessint wrote:
So, there is no .dsc or orig.tar.gz.
There needs to be a source package in a Debian upload. A source package
consists of a .dsc plus the files it references. Until you have a source
package, there's no way your package can be
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 10:32:21PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:24:13PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
Because the vast bulk of users do *not* roll their own kernels [yes, an
assumption, but I'm pretty confident here :)].
I disagree. I think that while it
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 02:15:35PM +0100, Salokine wrote:
I learn to create my first new package (tremulous-mappack). I've finished to
create it and download to ftp//mentors.debian.net.
What must I do now to continue integration process ?
Why my package isn't to My Packages view ?
Why
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:44:55PM -0800, Charlie Zender wrote:
2. dh_builddeb warnings with gpg signing
Try passing '-uc -us' to dpkg-buildpackage -- that should tell it to not try
and sign the resulting package upload.
- Matt
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:56:59PM +0100, Székelyi Szabolcs wrote:
I've posted an [0]RFS about 2 weeks ago, but the package has received no
attention from official developers.
What is the usual procedure in this case? Wait longer, re-post the RFS
or try to accept that the package will never
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:36:36PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:19:04PM +0200, Bas Wijnen a écrit :
But that's not what he wants, because then all the people who upgrade to
etch
with also see it then, even though it's irrelevant for them. What he's
asking
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:19:04AM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
The '(if any)' makes me think I can amend the copyright file like this:
It was originally downloaded from
http://home1.stofanet.dk/peter-seidler/ which does not exist anymore.
There is currently no known download location.
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:33:46AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 08:20:15PM -0300, Leo Antunes a écrit :
If that's done then you're job's simple, repackage with the new version
and that's it. Make it as fast as possible though, since your users are
probably a bit
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:44:14PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
For one of the packages I created, the upstream sources I used were a
version 1.x accidentally released as version 2.0 on sourceforge.
Accidentally? Did you package and upload this new upstream release? Has
upstream gone back to
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 05:09:51PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 04:28:14PM +1000, Matthew Palmer a écrit :
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 02:44:14PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
For one of the packages I created, the upstream sources I used were a
version 1.x accidentally
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:33:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does pag compare to pwgen (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pwgen/)?
Cheers,
tony
Hi Tony,
yes, i tested pwgen in thought the same. Pwgen has no option to create a
password list and you cant set the length of the
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:01:57PM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote:
I'm looking for a program like 'what' on BSD, but on Linux (obviously).
This is more a question for debian-user. But I'll say that a bit of shell
plumbing would probably get you what you want:
strings $file | grep '^\$.*\$$'
Of
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 know. My program cant generate
PWs with only letters at time.
And
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:16:06PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
On (16/09/06 21:34), Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, James Westby wrote:
* The debian/copyright file is lacking. There is no copyright
information, what is referred to as Copyright is in fact a License,
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote:
You are programaticaly managing a configuration file in /etc. You
should look into using ucf, that already handles this.
I've had a look at ucf, but I do not
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:18:29PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:47AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote:
Now to detect
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Please don't hijack threads. If you wish to start a new thread, click 'new
message' rather than replying to an existing message and changing the
subject.
- Matt
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:16:40AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
Now lintian complains about the files in /usr/lib/kde3:
E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kded_kdesvnd.so
E
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:49:01PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote:
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 18:59 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote:
Dear package maintainers...
a sponsor of Debian packages today sent an email to the mentors.debian.net
support email address and I would like to forward the suggestion
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ?
It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known tool,
I think).
- Matt
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 09:03:18PM -0700, Steven Hill wrote:
I have been reading the literature on debian packages, and I am trying
to figure out how to tell the package installer to automatically use
apt-get install to satisfy a dependency at installation time - is
there any way to do that?
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:02:24PM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
Once I install the libpq4-hw package dpkg will still complain:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # dpkg -i postgresql-client-8.0-hw_8.0.7-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package postgresql-client-8.0-hw.
(Reading database ... 22134
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 12:32:53PM +1000, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:15 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I strongly suspect that You're Stuffed. For this sort of thing, I typically
just create my own packages with the same name and cross my fingers that
they don't get
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 06:14:39PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
We are working on package of a data acquisition control system (called
mx) which has an executable called motor which has a completely
different function (it is a java editor). This executable conflicts with
an executable of the
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:42:39PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
Is motor generally useful, or is it just used as an internal component of
mx? (not a good name itself, BTW) If the latter, consider putting motor
into /usr/lib/mx.
It is a generally used program for data acquisition and control.
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 01:46:35PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
I am working on packaging probcons, which consists of two main programs
carrying the core functionalities, and a few other programs with
ambiguous names (convert, makegunplut, project) which will not be useful
to the vast majority
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:52:43PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote:
Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd
packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad
practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in debian/rules. Some are
breaches of
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:58:08PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Of course, both php4 and php5 are still out there and probably both
are widely used at this point. There's two ways I can think of to go about
rolling .deb's for each:
- change --with-php-config in my
On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 03:18:23PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
W: winefish; A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from
This package contains a binary that links against a library that is
not in the Depends line. This may also be a bug in the library which
does not have a
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:31:54PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote:
Now I'd like to make it depend on either php4 or php5, so I've
attempted the following:
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, php4 (=4.3) | php5 (=5.1) |
libapache2-mod-php4 | libapache2-mod-php5, php4-mysql (=4 .3) |
I think you're
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:19:23PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
I am very interested in taking over fast-user-switch-applet package
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304763)
I don't own the ITP which is almost one year old, and the owner hasn't
(yet) answered my e-mail.
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:12:46AM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:21:08AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
If there's one thing people are good at here in d-mentors, it's editing long
descriptions to improve them.
Ok, i need comments about this description
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:01:18PM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:25:29PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote:
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Marco Nenciarini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Package
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote:
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I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are
neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is
not responding to bug reports or e-mail?
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:40:12PM +0200, Ivars Strazdins wrote:
Sam Morris wrote:
it should really live in /usr/lib/package name. If the use of /opt
is hard coded into the package then, well, that sucks. :)
It is hard coded into management decision to which I really have no
access
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:13:31PM +1100, skaller wrote:
This is how Wikipedia works and why it is successful. With minimal
fuss I have contributed some comments and a couple of changes.
How easy is it for a Wikipedia comment to contain a rootkit, though?
- Matt
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:14:14PM +1100, skaller wrote:
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 20:44 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
EG: My comp is on the net sometimes and sitting here idle.
I'd be happy if Debian used it occasionally to build binaries.
Where is the web page telling me how to advise
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:10:14PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Indeed, many packages aren't copyrighted by individual person[s];
check out the 'coreutils' package, the copyright of which is held by
some funky group called
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:26:43AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
Dear all!
I have a question concerning packages with epoch: We are preparing a NMU
(maintainer approved) for tipa which currently is of version
2:1.2-2
When I get the source package via apt-get source tipa and rebuild
On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 04:53:50PM -0700, Al Stone wrote:
What's puzzling me is this:
-- the original source tarball used to be acovea-4.0.0.tar.gz,
and I used the name acovea_4.0.0.orig.tar.gz, as is proper.
Check.
-- upstream has changed the name of the source tarball so that
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:00:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:48:26PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
You can remove the transition package now; upgrades skipping a stable
release are not supported.
Interesting, is this policy or just common practice in past
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 01:40:03AM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
Re: Matthew Palmer in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The primary reason I've seen expressed for desire to be added to the
Uploaders field is so that the sponsor can get a quick summary of a
sponsored package's state from the excellent
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:03:10PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
Re: Thaddeus H. Black in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pierre Machard wrote:
Do not worry if I set my name as uploader, so that it's easy for me to
track packages I am sponsoring.
The PTS does perfectly suit this, and you can even
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:13:19PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:30:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called Help Debian, to
http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ (How You
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:33:55PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
George Danchev wrote:
On Friday 09 September 2005 15:01, Matthew Palmer wrote:
--cut--
The FAQ is at: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
a minor typo at:
How do I effectively keep track of my
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:17:01AM -0300, Dani wrote:
hi! my system is a Debian Testing. I use a Athlon Xp1.7 (x86) and
I already installed the tools give in maint-guide. I tried hard _but_
*all*
tutorials that I encounter use this estructure:
# apt-get source gcc-X.Y
# cd gcc-X.Y
#
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 09:26:43AM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
Cogito is a front-end matched with a back-end called GIT. The upstream
package includes both Cogito and GIT. The GIT back-end wants to install a
manpage called git(1), and the bug is that this conflicts with the manpage
of
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:16:02AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I could, but in charity I shall not, point to cases where the
helper packages are used as a crutch, with the developer having no
idea what was going on , and copying rules files around, engaging in
cargo cult
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:56:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are these message genuine, or some kind of spam?
People google for sponsor and get the list e-mail address. It's a kind of
spam, since they've not done even 10 seconds of research to find out whether
we might be interested, but
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 10:28:03PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
Re. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11562029, I've
prepared an NMU of gxine which fixes the RC bug and several other bugs which
are present in 0.4.1. There are a few small packaging changes which shouldn't
cause
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 07:49:08PM +0200, Herv=E9 Cauwelier wrote:
That's my case (well...) and I decided to apply the Separation of
Concerns paradigm: software development and packaging are different
matters, so they are worked and versionned separately.
After a few month of usage, I clearly
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:29:29PM -0600, David Everly wrote:
Does anyone know of a package that I can look at that has a mechanism to
run a series of certain SQL scripts based on upgrading from a certain
version to a certain version?
For instance, when upgrading from 1.1-1 to 1.1-2, I want
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:54:45AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
Hello,
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:01:07AM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
See http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
and http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control
and
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:15:12AM +0200, Alexandre wrote:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
Apart from the fact that I still need to do a man page
for cycle, I have a couple of questions:
I'd advise writing a woman page instead.
Dammit, you beat me to it!
-
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:27:40PM -0400, Albert Huang wrote:
My research group has a project that we believe could be useful to a few
people, and thought about distributing it through the debian
repositories. It seems like it could be a fair amount of trouble for us
to do, though, so I'm in
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:17:22PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
Note that there was a relevant thread on -devel around about last
October. Someone complained that their thesis was in /var/log/apache/
Stupidity like that must not go unpunished. It's worse than leaving your
pr0n in /tmp and then
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:20:26PM -0300, José Carlos do Nascimento wrote:
I would like to adopt zoo package, but how can I do this ?
Just send an email to WNPP ?
What I need to after this ?
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o
(To be added to the FAQ once gluck recovers from it's
Torsten Marek said:
eric (a Python IDE which is built around QScintilla) supports code
completion and tool tips. For that feature to work, it needs API files
which can be autogenerated by some scripts from upstream (one for the
Python builtins modules, the other one for PyQt APIs).
I am
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:48:00PM -0400, Bruno Barrera C. wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 16:56 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
In preference to doing work, I've added an extra section to d-mentors FAQ
entitled For Sponsors. Comments / improvements appreciated.
http://people.debian.org
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:54:36PM +0100, Arjan Oosting wrote:
Hi,
I have packaged gaim-extendedprefs and yesterday I received a bugreport
[1]. After looking at the code in the package, I believe the bug is not
in gaim-extendedprefs but rather an interaction bug between gtk+2.0 and
sawfish.
In preference to doing work, I've added an extra section to d-mentors FAQ
entitled For Sponsors. Comments / improvements appreciated.
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
- Matt
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On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 02:28:37PM +0800, Li Daobing wrote:
Matthew Palmer wrote:
In preference to doing work, I've added an extra section to d-mentors FAQ
entitled For Sponsors. Comments / improvements appreciated.
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
- Matt
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 09:09:51AM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
On Friday 25 March 2005 07:56, Matthew Palmer wrote:
In preference to doing work, I've added an extra section to d-mentors FAQ
entitled For Sponsors. Comments / improvements appreciated.
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 01:28:44PM +1100, Jens Porup wrote:
My problem: in addition to files in lib/, I also want to install a
conffile in etc/, CGI::Application instance scripts in cgi-bin/, and
Template Toolkit templates in tt2/.
How do I tell my rules script about them, so they don't just
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 06:37:08PM -0500, Richard C Bilson wrote:
I maintan a source package, u++, which builds two packages: u++, which
is arch-specific, and u++-doc, which is arch-indep. The u++ binary
package can only be built on certain Debian architectures.
The problem is that now I
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:53:15PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Bug #269329 is an ITP for Open Xchange - the Suse server gone GPL. It's
open since 31 Aug 2004, with a couple of people asking whether the
original submitter is intending to release, but without any actual work
done.
My
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:44:41PM +0200, Jan Zizka wrote:
setserial (2.17-41) unstable; urgency=low
* Closes: #276667: Czech translation of setserial debconf messages
Already fixed in 2.17-40, just closing bug report.
Don't do this. If it isn't fixed in the changes described by this
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:58:57AM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote:
I have a sparc box
I want to recompile some packages only available for x86 to make
packages for sparc.
If I just try to fetch the source package with 'apt-get source
package_name' from the sparc it doesn't work,
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
* Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-23 09:52]:
For those so versed in the jargon soup that the last sentence did not sound
strange to
them, it was supposed to be ironic (despite being factually true).
yes i know this
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:46:24PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
Hello Matthew,
* Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-23 11:04]:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 10:12:19AM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
* Shachar Shemesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-02-23 09:52]:
For those so versed in the jargon soup
Just a quick reminder to everyone that there is a #debian-mentors IRC
channel on irc.debian.org (the FreeNode network) to complement this mailing
list. You can ask for help on any technical problem you might be
experiencing relating to Debian packaging or related topics -- pretty much
the same
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:42:44AM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote:
my name is Martin Theiss and I am looking for an advocate who will guide me
through the new maintainer process.
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
You don't ask random people off the street to advocate you.
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 08:11:42PM +0900, Masami Ichikawa wrote:
browsers. It is aware of X, y and z browsers and bookmark formats.
I'm not familiar with those browsers. Are they packaged for Debian? grin
- Matt
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 05:28:21PM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 11:42:44AM +0100, Martin Theiss wrote:
my name is Martin Theiss and I am looking for an advocate who will guide
me
through the new maintainer process.
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 11:20:28PM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote:
I'm building a program which generates some files under usr/include,
that I don't want inside the package.
What is the recommended way to exclude those packages from being
packaged ?
Remove the files from the tree before running
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:57:47AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
I'm the current flyspray maintainer ... and I should say I don't know
what to do with that bug [1]
Upstream, and I agree on the fact that the problem is not flyspray's
fault. Should I close the bug ? or let it live with
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:00:08AM +0100, Christoph Wegscheider wrote:
According to the developer reference (6.3.4) such changes should be
mentioned in the News.Debian file. I think that's not enough, because
if one doesn't change the conf file rsnapshot will not fail, but will
do things (most
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:31:33AM -0600, elijah wright wrote:
From: TIFR students [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We are trying to make .deb packages using
generally you will probably get more help if you subscribe with your
PERSONAL email accounts and *sign your name* rather than sending mail from
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:22:14AM +0100, Pierre Ancelot wrote:
package hwtools
Ignoring bugs not assigned to: hwtools
This is causing the problem with the 'owner' command -- although the bug
refers to the hwtools package, it's actually reported against the Work
Needed and Prospective Packages
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:40:18PM -0600, Erick Vresnev Castellanos Hern?ndez
wrote:
W: xoops: extra-license-file usr/share/xoops/docs/COPYING.txt
W: xoops: extra-license-file usr/share/xoops/html/class/mail/phpmailer/LICENSE
W: xoops: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:23
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:13:36AM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote:
Antonio == Antonio Ognio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Antonio httplog
Antonio ---
Antonio Main problem I have with this package is it's license: Free
Antonio Software License. Haven't yet realized if this is a custom
Antonio
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:30:04PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.31.1124 +0100]:
Aah, well there's the thing -- we're talking absolute minimum
requirements
Were we?
Yeah, at least I think so. grin The original message in the thread
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:15:46AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.31.0058 +0100]:
Surely there could be an alternate means of specifying the package
version number, since you're not restricted to using the Usual
Debian Tools -- remember
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