Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:50:49PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes (Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository): On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had Which begs the

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes (Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository): On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
PJ Weisberg wrote: Ben Hutchings wrote: Don't even think of doing this in a package uploaded to Debian. Right. I mentioned it mostly for completness, since it's the answer to the question that was actually asked. I almost added, I don't think any Debian packages actually do this, but

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had Which begs the question: why do we even have source.list.d/ suport in the first place (or, if it is really useful to other

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had Which begs the question: why do we even have source.list.d/

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 19:57, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe.  (And it really confused me until I figured

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:50:49PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had Which begs the question: why do we even

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-09 Thread PJ Weisberg
On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 09:14 -0800, Reza Alemi wrote: Hello all, I don't seem to be able to find my answer searching the net, so please forgive me if my question is too trivial. I am packaging a product which is dependent on sun-java6-sdk (upstream says it won't work with openjdk). in

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-09 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010, PJ Weisberg wrote: - It *is* possible to add repositories when you install your package. I'm pretty sure we probably wouldn't want any package in Debian do that tho. -- | .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 14:48 -0800, PJ Weisberg wrote: [...] - It *is* possible to add repositories when you install your package. Google does this in the *.deb files it distributes so that the package manager can find newer versions. If you have a reason to do this (which you almost certainly

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-09 Thread PJ Weisberg
On 11/9/10, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Don't even think of doing this in a package uploaded to Debian. Right. I mentioned it mostly for completness, since it's the answer to the question that was actually asked. I almost added, I don't think any Debian packages actually do

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

2010-11-08 Thread Chris Baines
Hi Rex, In my opinion a more appropriate place for you question would be the Debian mentors list. This list is more meant for Debian development. I have cc'ed it as such. Why do you need to do anything above the normal for this. The package sun-java6-jdk exists in the Debian non-free repository.