exactly describes a Recommends relationship. It's not
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describes a Recommends relationship. It's not
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a similar problem. I wrote a little python script for it
(debian/html2man.py) which converts those html pages to manpages.
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. The installation
instructions are _not_ the reason for including the file. So it should
not be named INSTALL.
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. The Essential ones
are bash, perl, and probably awk. (awk is not itself Essential but
base-files depends on it.)
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compatibility.
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote:
Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase.
What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something?
It's not in Debian Policy, it's a Unix tradition going back 30 years.
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote:
Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase.
What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something?
It's not in Debian Policy, it's a Unix tradition going back 30 years.
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to them.
Did you contact the maintainer of the other package? It might be
easier to change the name there, because its poedit is not the
primary tool of the package.
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should be blocked
out, but this does not seem intrinsically difficult.
It's slightly more difficult than that, because you do want to keep
the warnings about the control file and other metadata.
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should be blocked
out, but this does not seem intrinsically difficult.
It's slightly more difficult than that, because you do want to keep
the warnings about the control file and other metadata.
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setting that makes it find the libaries in
the build tree. This way you get a warning that it couldn't find
what package provides them, but you don't get a bogus dependency.
I haven't found a cleaner solution.
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setting that makes it find the libaries in
the build tree. This way you get a warning that it couldn't find
what package provides them, but you don't get a bogus dependency.
I haven't found a cleaner solution.
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it in the standard search path. So a
directory under /usr/lib might be a good place for it.
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it in the standard search path. So a
directory under /usr/lib might be a good place for it.
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this section in November and
December, you can find it in the archives for debian-vote.
I can't really comment on the specific problem you found, maybe you
can use it to restart the discussion :)
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ugs that are waiting for upstream to fix?
If you've informed the upstream about the bug, it's forwarded and you
can/should mark it as such. IMHO.
I always just close such bugs. They're fixed. If the next upstream
version doesn't contain my patch, it'll still be in the Debian diffs,
and I can nag
for upstream to fix?
If you've informed the upstream about the bug, it's forwarded and you
can/should mark it as such. IMHO.
I always just close such bugs. They're fixed. If the next upstream
version doesn't contain my patch, it'll still be in the Debian diffs,
and I can nag them again.
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is probably to ask the submitter.
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supplying the
source requires an NDA), or a build dependency on non-free components
that the admins will not install.
Then there are non-free non-US packages, which cannot be build on
machines in the US.
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machines in the US.
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with that when it happens, not before.
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he package can be built at all.
(I don't know what testing does with later builds of a package on
new architectures -- are they moved into testing immediately,
or held for ten days? Is it possible to get such builds into
the archive even if there's already a newer version in unstable?)
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don't know what testing does with later builds of a package on
new architectures -- are they moved into testing immediately,
or held for ten days? Is it possible to get such builds into
the archive even if there's already a newer version in unstable?)
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. If your package depends
on all of those directly (i.e. it invokes their commands or includes
their headers), then you should list them all. But if for example
it only needs B because it needs A, and A needs B, then you should
let A take care of its own dependencies.
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package depends
on all of those directly (i.e. it invokes their commands or includes
their headers), then you should list them all. But if for example
it only needs B because it needs A, and A needs B, then you should
let A take care of its own dependencies.
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ly to have an autoconf macro specifically
for testing for C++ functions.
Note that using C++ kind of defeats the whole purpose of using
autoconf :-) Autoconf is not even very happy about using ANSI C,
because it's not available everywhere.
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an autoconf macro specifically
for testing for C++ functions.
Note that using C++ kind of defeats the whole purpose of using
autoconf :-) Autoconf is not even very happy about using ANSI C,
because it's not available everywhere.
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applications of the distribution rule for and |.
The end result looks complicated but has the same meaning as the
original, and it can be expressed in dpkg's Depends syntax.
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e
upgrade problems in woody are ok since it is "testing".
Then I don't think it's worth the complication.
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problems in woody are ok since it is testing.
Then I don't think it's worth the complication.
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the archive :) IIRC, the archive scanner was originally set up this way.
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to use install -s. With some packages I use
strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment
and with some packages, where I use the upstream makefile to install,
I just leave them in. It's about 1% of the binary size, IIRC.
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strip --remove-section=.note --remove-section=.comment
and with some packages, where I use the upstream makefile to install,
I just leave them in. It's about 1% of the binary size, IIRC.
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to do this. If libfoo 0.1.26 is not
compatible with 0.1.25, then it should have a new major number. Otherwise,
upgrading libfoo is going to get really icky. The svgalib experiment
showed this.
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with the
permissions check was fixed).
Do I simply ignore the errors?
We can add another override for powstatd, or teach Lintian about the
specialness of ups-monitor. In fact, it could then also check that
the package Provides and Conflicts with ups-monitor.
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not be.) Should I just upload
one with Architecture: All and see what fails?
Any, not all.
Please re-read section 4.2.3 of the Packaging Manual.
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can pakcage this xacursor. and if I can,
whether it should be main or non-free. Thanks.
No, without a license statement we cannot legally distribute it.
I see that the author has provided a number of ways to contact him.
Perhaps you can ask the author for a license statement.
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of the A* packets but
I get many bugreports now that claims this behaviour as bugs :-(
Just add a lot of conflicts :-)
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, that is a reasonable course. But remember that mail sent to the
bug number does *not* reach the submitter. Are you sure that you
have contacted them?
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reach a bug's submitter.)
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the postinst, *AND* install the symlink
it wants to make. Otherwise, you leave dangling symlinks when the package
is removed.
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Having a package Conflict with itself is only useful if its name doubles
as a virtual package name. Since no package Provides xpm4g-dev, the
Conflict has no effect. Just remove it.
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Randolph Chung wrote:
what's the easiest way to write a manpage if i don't want to learn troff? :)
Grab a manpage from a similar utility and fill in your own stuff :-)
Learning troff is not hard, though. man(7) tells you all you need to know.
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in the
clean target, and recreate it in the build target.
Of course, this is going to be an icky solution either way, because
it means your package can't autobuild.
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, lynx | wget | libhtml-parser-perl
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the program, which the
license doesn't allow :)
It may be possible to have a Postilion with graphics in non-free,
and one without graphics in main.
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package from another
source instead.
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?
ps used to have this problem... and it was solved by fixing the package.
I don't think there's any other way. At the least, the program should
detect when a config file is an old version, and offer to delete it.
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of swap. Like 128 MB.
I found that building the static-Motif version took a lot more memory
than any other step, so if you're building dynamic only (lesstif),
you might need a less room than I did. Or did Mozilla leave Motif
behind entirely?
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from yours.
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-policy.)
In this case, it was probably a mistake. I don't consciously remember
changing it. utils fits as well as anything, though perhaps admin
would be better. I changed it back to utils yesterday.
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for the rejection.
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Joseph Carter wrote:
Lintian checks against current standards version (or as current as it knows
about) You can probably up the standards version to whatever lintian was
built with. =
No, there are large areas of policy that lintian does not check.
It's a linter, not a validator!
Richard
building
the libc5 packages on architectures that don't want them.
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0.9.4.
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will fail if it's not empty :)
(You can use its return code if you need to check if it succeeded)
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with
distribution frozen unstable.
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Chris Waters wrote:
if [ $(echo * .*) = * . .. ] ; then echo empty dir; fi
Brilliant. :-)
It has only one flaw. *cough*
% mkdir emptydir; cd emptydir
% touch *
% if [ $(echo * .*) = * . .. ] ; then echo empty dir; fi
empty dir
*evil grin*
Richard
replied to.
I say go for it :)
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. See bug#17575 for more information.
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man 7 man is a good start. And pick a manpage for a program similar
to yours, to see how it's structured :)
(There's no one true style for manpages, but it's better to use an
existing one than to invent your own.)
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the keyring in
/debian2/debian/doc/debian-keyring.tar.gz
This is done just before the daily install run, so if your key is
in that tarfile it should be ok.
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the distributions is.
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.
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That's quite a lot of detail :)
Perhaps this should all be written down somewhere and become the
Python Subpolicy? We already have such subpolicies for emacs and
menu files and probably some that I forgot. It could be distributed
in the python package and referenced from debian-policy.
Richard
-perl | libdbd-msql-perl, libdbd-mysql-perl | msql, mysql |
libdbd-msql-perl, mysql | msql
It's not pretty, I'll admit :)
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in any case.
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There is no way to change the override files by myself, isn't it?
Indeed not, you'll have to wait. Fortunately the main archive
now has three maintainers, so it shouldn't take long.
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in other situations with other arguments, and dependencies
are guaranteed for those. (See section 6.2 of the Packaging manual)
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fields including the description
architecture, md5 sums and such.
You are writing the changes file by hand? You should use dpkg-buildpackage
to compile Debian packages, and it creates the changes file for you.
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as I'm concerned it makes the entire license meaningless; there's
nothing you can do with the code that they cannot revoke whenever they
feel like it.
It looks free, right?
Not to me.
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Please submit a bug report for lintian. Do you get this behaviour with
other packages as well, or just tcpquota?
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to be fast with even small bugfixes.
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, otherwise you will have to remember
to update it manually each time there is a new upstream release.
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closing feature
that's in the works will probably view such uploads as non-maintainer
uploads.
It would be a good idea to either change your maintainer address to
match one of the userids on your PGP key, or add the address as a
new userid.
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Ulf Fredriksson wrote:
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Ulf Fredriksson wrote:
tcpquota (1.6.10-1) unstable contrib; urgency=low
You need to upload it to unstable, with section contrib/admin.
Isn't that what 'unstable contrib' should take care of?
Nope, contrib
have not yet been installed, so... ? Now what?
You need to upload it to unstable, with section contrib/admin.
Then it will sit in Incoming until Guy edits the override files,
because packages can't move from one distribution to another without
manual intervention.
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