Re: help: debuild is getting Permission denied ?

2000-06-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jun 24, 2000 at 03:41:15AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: make install prefix=`pwd`/debian/tmp CONFPATH=`pwd`/debian/tmp/etc/nut BASEPATH=`pwd`/debian/tmp STATEPATH=`pwd`/debian/tmp/var/state/nut make[1]: Entering directory `/home/shaul/debian/nut/nut-0.44.0' /usr/bin/install: cannot

Re: How to convince debuild to produce the .diff.gz?

2000-07-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jul 08, 2000 at 02:30:43PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: I have packaged TkMan and the deb seems to work. However I am not getting a .diff.gz file. Instead, I am told by dpkg-buildpackage that it is a Debian-specific package. Which is not, of course. I have unpacked the src, created a

Re: How to convince debuild to produce the .diff.gz?

2000-07-09 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 09:37:08AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: I have packaged TkMan and the deb seems to work. However I am not getting a .diff.gz file. Instead, I am told by dpkg-buildpackage that it is a Debian-specific package. Which is not, of course. I have unpacked the src,

Re: Turning around a symlink

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 12:20:14PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: I have a problem with gnome-users-guide-en in the current version 1.2-1, there is a symlink /usr/share/doc/gnome-users-guide-en/html - /usr/share/gnome/help/users-guide/C dwww won't follow this symlink, so I turned

Re: Documentation

2000-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:07:29PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: Where does one draw the line about how much documentation should be included? I just finished the first version of my first package, I threw in everything. In debian/docs: ABOUT-NLS This one is probably the generic file

Re: Documentation

2000-08-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:47:59PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: INSTALL Josip If it's generic, don't include it. If it explains only Josip stuff about compiling from source, don't include it either. But beware... it might mention config stuff inside this (or dependencies

Re: /usr/[share/]info/dir.gz ?

2000-08-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:27:08AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: where do /usr/info/dir.gz and /usr/share/info/dir.gz come from? On master usr/share/info/dir.gz is part of emacs20, on va /usr/info/dir.gz is part of emacs20 and on my (potato) system it does not exist at all (no

Re: dh_shlibdeps : strange message (??)

2000-09-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 12:48:18AM +0200, Daniele Cruciani wrote: dh_shlibdeps -l/usr/lib/mozilla dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/galeon-bin': `libgtkembedmoz.so = /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembedmoz.so (0x40505000)' dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown

Re: NMU and ./configure - library upgrades.

2000-09-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:33:25PM +0200, Stefan Alfredsson wrote: 1. Developer lives on the edge and usually has the latest libs installed 2. Package becomes dependant upon bleedingedge version of libs -- BUT it is not really needed, for example gtk1.2.1 might do just aswell as

Re: bugreports potato/woody

2000-10-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 05:17:35PM +, Gerd Knorr wrote: What is the recommended way to deal with bugs which are present in the potato package but already fixed in woody? There is none. You're free to keep them open, or close them. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination

Re: Developers in Ottawa, ON, Canada?

2000-10-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:50:46PM -0500, Warren A. Layton wrote: I am currently in the process of becoming a new maintainer. However, I'm having trouble finding Debian developers near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I know David Huggins-Daines lives here, but he hasn't replied to the 3 messages

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 05:03:21PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: YA $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp This is dangerous, because if a package use i18n the Makefile in po/ don't understand DESTDIR, and all locale aren't installed. YA :( :( :( YA I guess the Makefile in

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:16:21PM -0600, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: debian/rules: make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp BTW s/`pwd`/$(CURDIR)/ -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 08:59:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: I fail to see how to run configure twice, with different options in the build-stamp rule and then install both into the right place in the install rule (I just get identical stuff pacakged in two locations), Well, it's simple really

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 02:46:18PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: debian/rules: make install DESTDIR=`pwd`/debian/tmp BTW s/`pwd`/$(CURDIR)/ Why not just make install DESTDIR=debian/tmp ? I've never understood why an absolute path is needed for that command. It's safer, because

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 10:07:12AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I fail to see how to run configure twice, with different options in the build-stamp rule and then install both into the right place in the install rule (I just get identical stuff pacakged in two locations), Well, it's

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 06:03:07PM +0100, Steve Dobson wrote: dh_testdir mkdir option1-build-dir cd option1-build-dir ../configure --with-one-set-of-options $(MAKE) cd .. Only you can't have cd's on separate lines, because it's a

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:46:15PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Is it ok to put a symlink in /usr/doc to link stcolortool to stcolortool-lprng? If stcolortool package has Depends: stcolortool-lprng. (or the other way around, maybe I misunderstood you) I modified the following target (from the

Re: install-info

2000-10-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 09:08:00AM +0200, Marco Kuhlmann wrote: 1. Although the Debian Policy says that info documents should be put into /usr/share/info, they really *shall* be put into /usr/info for compatibility reasons. No, actually, it's just the dir file that stays in /usr/info. The

Re: export DH_COMPAT=1 or 2?

2000-10-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:36:40PM +0400, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: May be I am missing something, but who can tell me what does mean DH_COMPAT variable? The debhelper(1) manual page explains it. New dh_make set it to 2 in rules and simple binary package built with this rules appears to

Re: Wrong permissions

2000-10-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:11:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: If I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' as root, files belong to root, which looks saner, but it doesn't ask for any GPG key. Install the devscripts package and use 'debuild' instead, which has the added bonus that it

Re: /var/www

2000-10-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:03:26PM -0700, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: I've got a package that would like to place files in /var/www. Note that the admin can (and probably will) set his website root directory to point to someplace else, so you should provide a README.Debian file explaining how

Re: Bug#75868: man-db: Does man-db responsible for /var/cache/man? (fwd)

2000-10-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:19:35AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: The following is probably a dpkg or policy matter that I do not understand. Can you explain it to me? [10:12:54 /tmp]$ dpkg -S /var/cache/man dpkg: /var/cache/man not found. See the relevant bits from

Re: wrong dependency from dh_shlibdeps on xiterm+thai-1.03-1

2000-11-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:19:55PM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: On my woody i386 box, when I try to build xiterm+thai-1.03-1 I've got the wrong dependency from dh_libdeps. If I have xlib6 (3.3.6-13) installed, I'll get the wrong dependency like Depends: libc6 (=2.1.97), xlib6 (=3.3.6-4),

Re: simply curious lintian messages

2000-11-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:58:49PM +0100, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: Is anybody know what's wrong if lintian sings: defined(@array) is deprecated at /usr/share/lintian/checks/perl line 154 (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) defined(%hash) is deprecated at

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a warning, that's all. Ok, but I was warned that lintian "dirty"

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a warning, that's all. Ok, but I was warned that lintian "dirty"

Re: info on the autobuilder?

2000-11-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:22:55AM +0800, zhaoway wrote: i'm wondering where i could find info on the debian autobuilder. What autobuilder? in particular, i'm wondering if a `closes: Bug#X' in changelog could actually close a bug in BTS ? Is that the preferred way to close bugs ? If

Re: Mix of dynamic and static libraries

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: I maintain distributed-net, which is created from multiple architectures of upstream binary-only files. The problem is, I also need to depend on another package, so on certain architectures (ie i386) ${shlibs:Depends} is empty, and on

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:04:13AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_linklint.1.gz: whatis parse for wml_aux_linklint(1) failed i am a new Debian developer, and have no idea how to fix this bug. It appears that previous Debian maintainers added some

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:18:26PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_linklint.1.gz: whatis parse for wml_aux_linklint(1) failed i am a new Debian developer, and have no idea how to fix this bug. It appears that previous Debian maintainers added

Re: Building against old libraries

2000-11-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 02:10:44PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: I have a program that is building against Qt 2.1 that I would like to upload, but I notice that only Qt 2.2 is available in woody, and I would prefer not to install Qt 2.2, since it requires XFree86 4.0.1, which removes a number

Re: Building against old libraries

2000-11-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 02:46:37PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: You can upload the sources only nowadays... There are autobuilders for all platforms that handle the compilations for me, then? Yes, build daemons for i386, m68k, sparc, powerpc should be active. I'm not sure about the alpha

Re: Now another question...

2000-11-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:54:53PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: E: libmstore0: pkg-without-shlibs-has-shlibs-control-file N: N: Though the package does not include any shared libraries, it does have N: a shlibs control file. N: N: Processing binary package libicap0 (version 0.8-1) ...

Re: lintian error: E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:148

2000-12-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:59:37PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote: Does the menu file perhaps have any opened quotes that aren't closed? It seems to be ok. But if I delete everything the foregoing to these three lines I get E: fvwm: old-format-menu-file /usr/lib/menu/fvwm from

Re: E: scsiadd: unknown-control-file templates

2000-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: I'm using debconf to postinst the scsiadd package and lintian complains about the unknown templates file. I've noticed that several other packages also have this same lintian error if they use debconf. Is this a known issue with

Re: Help, I get flooded! [Bug#71427: mysql-server]

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
[BTW this is a genuine bug with the BTS, not related to -mentors list, so let's move off of it] On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: I (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) get flooded by identical copies of the mail attached. I count about 40 mails during the weekend and I get

Re: creating man pages

2000-12-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:24:01AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: If you don't want to do SGML, you could always edit the nroff source directly. This is what has been done historically. I wouldn't necessarily mind using SGML, but which tools exactly do you use. For creating man pages I mean.

Re: question on conffiles

2000-12-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 11:13:14PM -0800, Mike Markley wrote: As read from packaging-manual, there're two ways to handle system specific config files, one to list them in debian/conffiles, the other is (optionally write a /usr/bin/pkgxxxconfig to aid) to write/modify the config file in

Re: lintian bug or not ?

2000-12-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 01:39:13PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: I've this strange output with lintian and I see nothing wrong in these scripts (debhelper scripts) W: sawfish-lisp-source: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:4 [...] if [ -d /usr/doc -a ! -e

Re: .tar.bz2 archives, what to do with dpkg-source ?

2000-12-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:38:17PM +, John Leuner wrote: I issue: $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot which subsequently does: dpkg-source -b makeme-0.00 dpkg-source: building makeme using existing makeme_0.00.orig.tar.gz gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format dpkg-source: failure: gzip

Re: Old bug

2000-12-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:49:53AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've adopting xmorph and I've found a very old bug open. The bug is more than 2 years old. Somebody couldn't load .tga files from gimp in xmorph. I couldn't reproduce the error with gimp in stable and last version of xmorph.

Re: Differing version numbers

2000-12-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 01:56:05PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Is it possible to create two binary debs with different version numbers from one source package, using the standard debian package building tools? Yes. dpkg-gencontrol has an option, "-v", exactly for that purpose. (If you

Re: different sizes for same upstream tarball

2001-01-16 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:00:11PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: The reason I wanted to try a recompressed tarball was that I use cvs-buildpackage to make builds easier; if I have to futz about copying the old .tar.gz into place it could be a little inconvenient, but it's much better than

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:39:56PM +0100, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a

Re: Correct section for freeswan ?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:38:09PM +0100, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: What is the correct section for the freeswan (IPSec) package ? My sponsor Henrique de Moraes Holschuh uploaded the package to non-US, but it does not get installed into unstable (since about a week). Currently the section is

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 01:43:29PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: i'm looking for the incoming queue for non-US. as i see in the debian developer reference, it seems it is reserved only for debian developer. All of the upload queues are reserved for developers. The indirect queues

Re: missing bug report email messages

2001-01-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:45:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a relatively new Debian maintainer, and I've now had several bugs filed against some of my packages for which I never received email notification. I've also had bugs filed for which I have received notification. I was

Re: quality of a package

2001-01-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:21:41PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I saw on package.d.o there is a quality percentage for each package. Would you tell me how it counts? bug reports + lintian errors? Those numbers have nothing to do with the quality of the package; they refer to the

Re: Unrequest?

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:24:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although it hadn't been checked in, someone had already made serious progress on the only package I knew I could really get into working on. How do I request that, at this time, I have no need for anyone to be furthering

Re: getting debian mail-archiv to read at home?

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:04PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote: I want to read up on debian-bsd. I would like to do that in a convenient and well supported manner. Can I get the whole mbox (from where?) and read it at home? Check out master.debian.org:~debian/lists/debian-bsd* --

Re: Getting started

2001-02-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:22:04PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Does my gpg key need to be signed (I live in the sticks, so to speak, probably not too many Debian developers around here), how do I get the 3.0 standards package to do all the things the older 2.6.x.x package did, etc.

Re: Installing symbolic links

2001-02-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:22:07PM -0600, Ben Burton wrote: Hi. I am packaging an application for which the original source installs itself all into the same directory. In order to comply with the FHS, I have split the application into pieces beneath /usr/lib, /usr/share and /usr/bin.

Re: what does maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token mean?

2001-02-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 10:54:00PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: Running lintian, I get warning W: python-popy source: maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token debian/preinst What is a debhelper token? Where does one put it to fix the problem being warned about? % echo 'W: python-popy source:

Re: dh_suidregister - ?

2001-02-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:06:27PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: I am using dh_suidregister in my packages, one of those actually has to register files as sgid games. How do I do that now with dpkg-stateoverride? Is it enough to just set the permissions in debian/rules (as before) and

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:43:03AM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: In the current crafty (17.13-3) these files are conffiles (look in debian/conffiles or debian/crafty.conffiles), which means that they will only overwrite the existing versions if they have not been modified or the user

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: In the current crafty (17.13-3) these files are conffiles (look in debian/conffiles or debian/crafty.conffiles), which means that they will only overwrite the existing versions if they have not been modified or the user

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:32:21PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: It does not violate 13.3 because at the time the package is newly installed, /usr/share/doc/ppp/examples/* exists. ...so the system administrator won't get a chance to delete them and won't cause the program (the script) to

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:15:59AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: This isn't a very constructive thing to argue anyway... no, but it is amusing, popcorn anyone? There ain't no such thing as free popcorn ;( -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification -- To

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 03:33:55AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: This isn't a very constructive thing to argue anyway... no, but it is amusing, popcorn anyone? There ain't no such thing as free popcorn ;( This popping corn is available under the terms of the Free Food License

Re: Imakefile - run xmkmf first?

2001-03-01 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:38:43PM +0100, Valentijn Sessink wrote: Unfortunately, the xreboot sources have an Imakefile instead of a Makefile. Now I don't know enough of imake to know if I should just run xmkmf -a and edit the Makefile as if it were there already (I guess I should *not* do

Re: Library packaging

2001-03-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:08:37PM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: NJAMD works by being loaded with LD_PRELOAD. The normal package contains a shared object (libnjamd.so.0.0.8) and two symlinks to it (libnjamd.so.0 and libnjamd.so), just like most shared objects. Just put the file in a private

Re: Library packaging

2001-03-03 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:39:46AM +1100, Sam Couter wrote: Just put the file in a private directory (i.e. /usr/lib/njamd/ or so) and you'll be fine. No symlinks are necessary I'd think. If the library is in some directory other than a normal library directory, the full path will have to

Re: test if user exists in postinst

2001-04-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:01:08PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: I am cleaning up my packages, and one improvement I want to add is that network daemon runs under its own UID, not nobody (as it was until now). What is the best way of testing (and adding) a new username in postinst?

Re: Gnome mini-freeze...

2001-04-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 01:47:08AM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: I've CC'd the debian-mentors list in hopes that some NMs or candidate NMs will volunteer. I offer to sponsor any uploads. What about us existing maintainers, would it be possible for us to volunteer? ;) ghex

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 10:08:12AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, did you run strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note on the binaries? Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Call strip with '--strip-unneeded' in your debian/rules

Re: porting questions

2001-04-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:28:03AM -0700, Joshua Haberman wrote: I'm trying to do my part to take a load off the porters by ensuring my package compiles on all available architectures. However, I'm running into questions: 1. It seems the only machine with chroots available is vore. What

Re: purging bug of removed package

2001-04-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 05:12:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I have a pending bug on an old package that does not yet exists in debian archive. What I have to do ? Have I to close the bug signalling that the package has been removed from debian or have I to inform someone that the

Re: purging bug of removed package

2001-04-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:47:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: I have a pending bug on an old package that does not yet exists in debian archive. snip Give us more exact information about which packages are included. There's no general rule... (maybe I misread :) OK, the

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:46:56AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Us lazy people would like to save 9 letters on the clean call, and of course we're far too far in sloth as to alias dcln='fakeroot debian/rules clean' I always keep a 'fakeroot debian/rules something' in the shell history, so

Re: task-*

2001-05-16 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 10:07:09AM +0800, Niall Young wrote: I'm creating a bunch of custom task packages, mostly empty with dependencies but a few will need to contain configs and pre-filled debconf entries. It's not too clear from the NMG and the DDR on how to do this. I can

Re: file move between versions

2001-05-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Suppose version 1 of the package had a file named /foo/A, and version 2 had changed the location to be /bar/A. Without doing anything special on the part of the developer, is it always true that upgrading the package version

Re: task-*

2001-05-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:12:29AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Right, but what I'm asking is how to include a handful of plaintext files with filesystem locations in an otherwise empty task-* package. Should I make a custom Makefile or have I missed a useful dpkg tool to help with

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:40:08PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: What does this error message mean? No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. install-info: unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up Your info file should have something like this near the top:

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:18:09PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: In Texinfo sources, you'd write that like this: The source document is an SGML file, which is run through sgml2info. There ought to be a way to do it in your SGML flavor, I guess... It's either that or having to specify

Re: install-info

2001-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:49:52PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: Lintian warns me about that I should add --section to install-info and points me to check for a good section in /usr/share/info/dir, but that directory doesn't exist on my system... It's a file, it's called /usr/info/dir. You can

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:36:34AM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: When I installed pure-ftpd_0.98.4-1_i386.deb , at the end of the install pure-ftpd said Starting ftp server: pure-ftpd and nothing else happened, i.e. I do not have the prompt, enter do not give me the prompt.If I do a ps I cans

Re: Integration of debian/ scripts in packages

2001-06-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:40:26PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Most of the time, no. Upstream debian/ cruft gets in the way of the updated debian/ files, especially if you need to delete files there. Even if upstream keeps its debian/ up-to-date, it will still cause you trouble

Re: Package naming

2001-07-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:37:33AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: Can a single binary package have a different name than the source package it comes from? Yes, it can. I am packaging the LysKOM tty-client, which has the upstream name tty-client, but I have received requests for renaming the

Re: Closing BUGS on a package's changelog

2001-07-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 05:24:23PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: The upstream author gave me a list, and he is reliable. Since he keeps an eye on our BTS, why not try to persuade him to put the bug# into his changelog, when he thinks a bug is down? That's probably not significantly more

Re: Closing BUGS on a package's changelog

2001-07-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 12:21:53PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: * Fixed in previous upload: Closes #xxx, #yyy, #zzz That makes no sense to me; it's just noise in the changelog (and it doesn't tell the submitter anything useful, since it doesn't say *how* Hear, hear. The real reason

Re: How do I control ownership of installed package files?

2001-07-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 10:21:37AM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: It should be noted that this requirement is broken when your rules have something like: install: install-stamp install-stamp: build-stamp install stuff chown someuser stuff binary-arch:

Re: How do I control ownership of installed package files?

2001-07-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 11:24:31AM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: install: install-stamp install-stamp: build-stamp install stuff chown someuser stuff binary-arch: install-stamp build package BTW install-stamp is evil, don't use it. I've

Re: About NM, email and spam

2001-07-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 08:29:09AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: FWIW, I get virtually no spam through my debian.org e-mail address which is what appears on that page. I am getting a W32.Sircam virus attachment every few hours through [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is beginning to drive me nuts.

Re: About NM, email and spam

2001-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 12:57:36AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: FWIW, I get virtually no spam through my debian.org e-mail address which is what appears on that page. I am getting a W32.Sircam virus attachment every few hours through [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is beginning to drive me nuts

Re: after the eventual non-US merge into main

2001-08-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:28:08PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Should the new powstatd (say 1.5.1-2) have: Package: powstatd Version: 1.5.1-2 Provides: ups-monitor Conflicts: powstatd-crypt, ups-monitor Replaces: powstatd-crypt ( 1.5.1-2) Does the version in the Replaces add

Re: Orphaning a package without being able to change maintainer info?

2001-08-10 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:52:49PM -0700, Tor Slettnes wrote: I need to orphan a package that's specific to the ARM architecture, because my Netwinder broke down (We had some severe power spikes about a month ago, which killed it). I no longer have an ARM build machine. The Debian

Re: Processed: glimpse package is no longer in the Debian archive

2001-08-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 04:33:07PM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: close 60852 Bug#60852: glimpse: full of temp races Bug closed, send any further explanations to Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snipped a lot of the same] People! Yes,

Re: Processed: glimpse package is no longer in the Debian archive

2001-09-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 02:26:03PM +0200, Martin Albert wrote: Using 'close' to close bugs, especially those which arn't really fixed but just no longer useful, is WRONG. The submitter only gets If this abuse continues, I might just exercise my ability to disable the close command

Re: clearing NMU fixed bugs

2001-09-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 11:17:47PM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: I've taken over wvdial package with permission. The package had several bugs fixed in former NMUs and I've uploaded a new version to fix another one, but the bugs fixed in former NMUs are still marked as fixed in NMU instead of

Re: clearing NMU fixed bugs

2001-09-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:27:11AM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: I've taken over wvdial package with permission. The package had several bugs fixed in former NMUs and I've uploaded a new version to fix another one, but the bugs fixed in former NMUs are still marked as fixed in NMU instead

Re: clearing NMU fixed bugs

2001-09-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:36:31AM +0300, Baruch Even wrote: I've taken over wvdial package with permission. The package had several bugs fixed in former NMUs and I've uploaded a new version to fix another one, but the bugs fixed in former NMUs are still marked as fixed in NMU

Re: debian/rules and ash

2001-09-13 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:01:29PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: I received a bug report #112103, where somebody complains because my debian/rules doesn't work with ash. Is there a good reason to change this file ? Either fix the nonPOSIXism in the rules file or declare SHELL=/bin/bash.

Re: alpha version numbering

2001-09-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:16:23PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote: [Please CC me, as I'm not on the list.] I'd like to package an alpha release of Tux of Math Command[1]. The upstream version number is 2001.09.07-0102. I believe that upstream will eventually move to the x.y.z numbering scheme.

Re: Upstream changelog

2001-09-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:16:49AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: without seeing the files, why is changelog not human readable? Well, because it has a lot of noise, with minor changes to files that are not interesting for those that do not download the source package. The NEWS file, on the

Re: package name changes and changelogs

2001-09-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 04:29:14AM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote: If I have a package that changed its name because of upstream maintainer's choice, should I merge new and old changelogs or what? I'd do that. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: lintian warning with debian/menu

2001-10-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:26:00AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Now running lintian... W: komba2: menu-item-contains-unknown-tag kderemove /usr/lib/menu/komba2:7 Finished running lintian. How can I correct this ? what does kderemove do? I have never seen this, nor is it in

Re: [BTS] Bug number $bug not found.

2001-10-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:23:53PM +0200, Amaya wrote: I am trying to reopen a bug, tag it and merge it with a more recent one. This is the answer I get from the BTS: Debian Bug Tracking System said: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 109629 Bug number 109629 not found.

Re: [BTS] Bug number $bug not found.

2001-10-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:26:37AM -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:23:53PM +0200, Amaya wrote: I am trying to reopen a bug, tag it and merge it with a more recent one. This is the answer I get from the BTS: Debian Bug Tracking System said: Processing commands

Re: [BTS] Bug number $bug not found.

2001-10-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: I am trying to reopen a bug, tag it and merge it with a more recent one. This is the answer I get from the BTS: [...] I guess it's older than 28 days, but... can't I access it anymore? Unfortunately not, although the BTS

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