Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by accident? What constitutes empty? Maybe have a lintian warning about an empty package, but no error messages. Julian --

Re: control file question

2001-06-19 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Julian! The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: Build-Depends: libc-arm-version (=2.1) [arm] See policy section 7.1 for details. I

Re: control file question

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: Hi Julian! The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like:

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:54:25PM +0100, Muhammad Hussain Yusuf wrote: Hi, I've just changed the directories of the conffile, binaries etc. to conform with Policy 3.5.5.0. The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and the new one is /etc/filerunner and the problem is that when

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:54:25 +0100 Muhammad Hussain Yusuf [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and the new one is /etc/filerunner and the problem is that when installing new package, and an older version is installed, dpkg gives an error message, and the

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still complain? Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error recovery to move it back should the install fail), and dpkg will not complain. -- One disk to rule them

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by accident? What constitutes empty? Maybe have a lintian warning about an empty package, but no error

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-19 Thread Simon Richter
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: lintian complains about empty packages not having a copyright file. I think it should silently accept empty packages (Severity set to normal because it might actually stop packages from being installed). And how am I to tell a package that

Re: Depricating a library

2001-06-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] immo vero scripsit If you want to provide further hints, upload a final version containing you can remove me without ill effects in the description. I think I would just remove the package, since the package has only entered unstable, and not on testing nor

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by accident? What constitutes empty? Maybe have a lintian warning about an empty package, but no error messages. Julian --

control file question

2001-06-19 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi! Can I put a different Build-Depends for each binary package in a control file or can there only be a Build-Depends for the source package? The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: dietlibc-dev

Re: control file question

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:50:52AM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: Hi! Can I put a different Build-Depends for each binary package in a control file or can there only be a Build-Depends for the source package? You can only have one Build-Depends in the control file for the source package.

Re: control file question

2001-06-19 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Julian! The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like: Build-Depends: libc-arm-version (=2.1) [arm] See policy section 7.1 for details. I

Re: control file question

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 01:39:58PM +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: Hi Julian! The problem I have is that I have a library with same host architecture but different cross compilation targets, so I have things like: Build-Depends supports an arch specification, like:

removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Muhammad Hussain Yusuf
Hi, I've just changed the directories of the conffile, binaries etc. to conform with Policy 3.5.5.0. The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and the new one is /etc/filerunner and the problem is that when installing new package, and an older version is installed, dpkg gives an error message,

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:54:25PM +0100, Muhammad Hussain Yusuf wrote: Hi, I've just changed the directories of the conffile, binaries etc. to conform with Policy 3.5.5.0. The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and the new one is /etc/filerunner and the problem is that when

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:54:25 +0100 Muhammad Hussain Yusuf [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and the new one is /etc/filerunner and the problem is that when installing new package, and an older version is installed, dpkg gives an error message, and the

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:28:27PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 05:54:25PM +0100, Muhammad Hussain Yusuf wrote: Hi, I've just changed the directories of the conffile, binaries etc. to conform with Policy 3.5.5.0. The old conffile dir was /etc/X11/filerunner and

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still complain? Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error recovery to move it back should the install fail), and dpkg will not complain. -- One disk to rule them all,

RE: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

2001-06-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one created by accident? What constitutes empty? Maybe have a lintian warning about an empty package, but no error