On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:18:35PM +0100, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
Upstream sources have no icon for some application.
How I can add an icon to debian/ in other format than xpm ?
When I try to do it with icon.png I receive message:
dpkg-source: cannot represent change to debian/icon.png:
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:56:37AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Try encoding the binary file with uuencode, shar or a similar tool, and
decoding it in debian/rules. Don't forget to Build-Depend on sharutils (or
whatever
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:00:41AM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote:
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
I ship the upstream sources with the original Makefile.in's to avoid a huge
diff, and only patched Makefile.am's. I believe the automake-generated
makefiles will automatically
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:41:55AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
You might look into making it work with kerberos4kth's krsh/krshd for strong
authentication
without the encryption overhead. Unless you really need all communication to be
encrypted
(doing classified computations on an
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:35:45AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page?
I'll be needing to do that with some of my packages, but it just occurred to
me I don't actually know how, apart from cutting and pasting in a text
editor. My guess
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:03:55PM -, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
I am convinced the DAM approval is this kind of bureaucratical decision
which can not improve Debian work's quality of any maintaners (it means
unofficial
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:15:43AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
How do you handel zour gpg keys when you build on debian machines?
I would want to build my packages on a debian machine but would not
want to have my
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:16:39PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
how should one treat patches which aren't upstream, like
backports of a later release to the stable version?
is there a recommended way? or how are people treating it? or
people tell me how they do it and i can try the solutions
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:17:00PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
Hi,
dh_shlibdeps in my debian/rules seems to generate a dependency on a package
that is not even installed on my system.
What is in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libaspell*.shlibs?
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:03:12PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote:
I'm making the xmorph package and dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot send this
message:
dpkg-buildpackage: Debian-specific package; upload is full source
and it doesn't generate diff file.
This is not a Debian specific
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:27:14PM -0500, Chris Ruffin wrote:
Should source packages include config.cache? I don't think so, but
I'm not absolutely sure.
Definitely not. Think of users who locally recompile the package in a
different environment.
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that
this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something...
Martin? It
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:07:02PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Matt Zimmerman
| On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
|
| On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
| You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:13:33PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Matt Zimmerman
| Not necessarily. The core of the code is written in C, and the maintainer
| should be able to read and write C comfortably in order to effectively maintain
| the package. The interfaces for other
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:56:07AM +0800, zhaoway 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 quality of the
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:18:19PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote:
I'm playing with a script and need a push. Why doesn't this
work?
telnet lists.debian.org 80
GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
Try this:
GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0
Host:
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:14:11PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
Thus spoke Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2001-01-28 18:52:37:
Hi,
is there any standard way to create a version of a
debian package with debugging enabled (i.e. to use
the -g compiler switch during compilation)?
you
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:21:59AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
Chad C. Walstrom:
The easiest way is to maintain a vendor branch in a local repository.
I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies...
In that case, try creating a branch in the upstream CVS module, rather than a
separate
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:51:35PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
I am having a problem when packaging a shared library (libgimpprint from
CVS). It is normally named libgimpprint-version.so e.g. currently
libgimpprint-4.1.4.so, but I get errors when packaging (see below).
However, if I change
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:15:12AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
Upgrading of that pkg is no problem. The old-lib vanishes, the new not
including the utils installs. Same for the -dev, the old one being
replaced with the new which includes the utils.
But downgrading naturally blows. The
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:19:21AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:07:36PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:29:18PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
Sorry to nag. Has anyone got an answer to this question?
I asked a variation on the same
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:46:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello. I have two, simple, questions about building a Debian package using
dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage.
First question, when I use dh_make how can I get it to insert as revision
number? I've read the man, the docs, and so
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:29:00AM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
My problem is : when upgrading the package, the files in /var/lib/crafty are
overwritten by the original files coming with the new version package. How can
I preserve these files from being overwritten ? The files are
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:08:07PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
It seems to me that it would be overzealous to worry about that now...
creating a special /usr/share/ppp directory (or whatever) just for this
purpose, and linking
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:39:47PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:26:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Then have three scripts. Put the common common code into a third script
which is not called directly by init, but have the two init scripts call the
third script. This
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:44:55PM -0500, Rene Weber wrote:
- License is BSD, except that it diffs with the license in
/usr/share/common-licenses/BSD:
C U T H E R E
diff bsd /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
0a1
Copyright
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
However, I'd like to put images in something like /usr/share/web-images,
since I _might_ end up cluttering around and overwriting files which I
shouldn't, by placing the images in /var/www/mailman-images. Also, it looks
messy,
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:25:43AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images,
and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an
unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the images in
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:13:46AM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote:
If you want them as .Z files, then you should probably tell cvs that
they are binary files to prevent cvs from doing keyword substitution on
them. Easiest way to do that is probably by putting "*.Z -kb" in
CVSROOT/cvswrappers.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:34:26PM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
Hello, dear developers!
libggi-target-fbdev.postinst checks /dev for framebuffer entries. If
none are found, it offers to create them. Now i've received the
following:
[...]
I was already wondering about a recent
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:51:03AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
Uhm, sorry - that question was silly. I haven't made up my mind wide
enough, it seems.
All that is left on this issue: Is it ok for postinst to output a
message of minor priority without pause/prompting for a key?
If at all
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:11:35AM -0600, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote:
My question is this: All of this is fine and dandy, except that none
of these packages are useful without a MOSIX kernel. Right now I see
4 options:
1) Include some sort of patched-kernel source package in
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:33:15PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
I have one question regarding creating debian package. Do I need unstable
debian for this task? I'm asking because I run potato now and (if possible)
wouldn't like
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:03:12AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
Is there a ref doc about building packages of dynamic libraries ?
The Policy Manual, Chapter 9, should have all the information you need.
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:41:37AM +0530, Viral wrote:
I want to know whether I have to import all the keys in the debian-keyring
into my public keyring to be able to verify signatures, or is there a
better way, such as defining other public keyrings/querying a keyserver etc.
Install the
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:47:40PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
You wrote:
I note that the debian-keyring package is horribly outdated
(2000.08.30), how often is it updated? I've reverted to downloading the
keyring manually from auric.d.o ...
The sid package should be up to date, I
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:48:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you planning to set up an autobuilder for s390?
Yes, I am currently working on it.
Would you be willing to grant developer accounts on such a system? I am very
interested in working on the s390 port, but I don't have
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:12:34AM +0530, Viral wrote:
How do I get my packages to build for the host type 'i386-pc-linux-gnu'
rather than 'i686-pc-linux-gnu' ?
Use the --host switch to configure.
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:23:21PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
Simple question for the day:
Should a package that has a symlink to undocumented(7) also have a Depends:
on the package that contains undocumented(7) (manpages)? It seems silly to
me that a package could have a symlink to a
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:01:52PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
I read on -devel that compiling packages with g++ 3 is problematic
since they will not correctly link with C++ libraries built with an
older compiler. I figure this will not be a problem for my package
because it does not
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:25:08PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
was wondering if anyone could suggest how to handle this bug. It is fixed in
new versions of grub.
The bug is not serious enough to justify an update to stable, especially not
when we are preparing for a new release. It's
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:25:38PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:33:20PM +0200, R?mi Perrot wrote:
I read in the Debian policy that cgi script of web application must
go in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name and should be referred as
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:39:13PM +0200, R?mi Perrot wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:06:20AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
Make sure you investigate web server support and affected packages first.
The more information you provide, the better informed people will be about
the proposal
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Sebastien Chaumat wrote:
Is there a kind of global changelog that explain the most significant diff
between stable and testing (a kind of digest)?
The interest would be to allow new maintainers (who weren't following the
developpement from
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:06:58PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
1. Does Debian require a SONAME for a shared lib?
You mean the tag inside the library itself?
Yes.
All of the shared libraries I have installed on my machine have an
embedded SONAME tag. I thought this was
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:41:43PM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote:
I'm packaging something which upstream distributes as four separate .tgz
files, each for a vaguely orthogonal hunk of functionality. I'd like to glom
them all together as one single source package.
Is there nice way to
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:35:16PM -0700, David Parker wrote:
I'm looking for someone to sponsor me, especially since this is my first
Debian package.
Database Independent Abstraction Layer for C:
libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to
the way
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:52:43PM +0700, Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. wrote:
Is there anybody who can point me to the (something like) HOWTO make a
multiple binary package?
The easiest thing to do is probably to look at the examples in the dh-make
package and refer to the New Maintainer's
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:45:09PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Unquoted string supported may clash with future reserved word at (eval 112)
line 1.
Operator or semicolon missing before supported at (eval 112) line 1.
Ambiguous use of resolved as operator at (eval 112) line 1.
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:53:26PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote:
I wonder whether anyone can point me at a likely cause for a slightly
worrying list of messages I'm getting from dpkg-source when using
dpkg-buildpackage
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:05:05PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
The program is called garchiver. It's a replacent for WinZip, with two
interfaces. The classic WinZip, and then a tree interface. It's a GNOME app,
written in Python with one widget written in C.
Out of curiosity, what advantages
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:52:52AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:53:08AM +1000, Iain wrote:
The upstream developers produce man pages that are in HTML format only. I.e.
they follow the usual style of a man page but in html. I was just wondering
if there was a
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:13:18PM -0800, Viral Shah wrote:
mosixview is a GUI admin tool for the mosix cluster.
mosix is available only for the i386 architecture. mosixview, however
builds for all architectures, but being a mosix admin tool, is useful only
on i386 machines.
Is it
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:56:34AM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
In following I call the old version of the package OP, the transition
package TP, and the game file I want to keep GF.
1. If TP is installed over OP it fiddles with
/var/lib/dpkg/info/OP.list so that GF is no longer in
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:23:19PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Andreas Rottmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20011120 15:07]:
In the 'package installed' mail the installer tells me:
However the relevant part of the changelog reads:
Take a
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:47:28AM +0100, Sven wrote:
I have a package that i make build-depend on tcl/tk-dev 8.3, but the configure
process will check for the tcl/tk presence, and get one if available.
It will check for various other versions before 8.3.
Change the configure script to
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:01:40PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Gaetano Paolone
| #DEBHELPER#
| ** end postinst ***
|
| ** begin makedb.sh ***
| #!/bin/bash
| #set -e
| export SHAREDIR=/usr/share/odontolinux
|
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:45:43AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Matt Zimmerman
| On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:01:40PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
|
| * Gaetano Paolone
| mkdir -p $TMPDIR || exit 1, I presume?
|
| Or, uncomment set -e and guard whichever commands (presumably few
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:20:12AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
So, what's wrong with this picture? Should I build-depend on bison and
generate the file in the build target, or should I modify the makefile
to not delete the generated file? Both seem ugly to me. Is there
something else I
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
make distclean should not delete the files in the first place. The
distclean target should remove only generated files which are not included
in the distribution (such as object code), and since this bison output is
rightly
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:24:52PM +0100, Alex Berger wrote:
hi list,
does dh_perl only check for any dependecies on the package 'perl' or also
for any perl modules which are used in the scripts, eg. for libwww-perl??
It will find any perl scripts, and add the appropriate dependencies on
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 06:43:49PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote:
I'm thinking about packaging gphoto2-2.0 beta4dev9 instead of beta3.
How should I number my package to be able to provide later a beta4?
gphoto2-2.0beta2 is in the archive today.
So as already discuted here, I will use
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:19:13PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
I am having problems setting the 'Architecture' field in one of my package's
.dsc files. Here is my debian/control:
Source: gnade
Section: libs
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:42:38PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
I tried setting 'Architecture' in the general section of the control file
as well, but got the following error:
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field Architecture in input
data in general section of control
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:14:15PM -0700, Kristis Makris wrote:
I've been having problems with a dpkg-buildpackage process stopping with
the following error message:
[snip]
dh_shlibdeps
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: ldd on
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 06:04:25PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote:
Isn't dh_shlibdeps aware of the libs provided by the package being
built?
Not by default. Use the -l option to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:38:52PM +0100, Judica?l Courant wrote:
Build-depends: debhelper (= 3), ocaml (= 3.01), camlp4 (= 3.01)
in the control file of my package.
The latest upstream version of ocaml now provides camlp4, and the debian
package Replaces:, Provides:, and Conflicts:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:18:34PM +0100, Judica?l Courant wrote:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 21:59, Matt Zimmerman wrote :
You might try:
Build-depends: debhelper (= 3), ocaml (= 3.01), ocaml (= X) | camlp4 (= 3.01)
where X is the version which incorporates the former contents
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:56:55PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
Compiling a source file that #includes /usr/include/syslog.h
produces:
/usr/include/sys/syslog.h:80: warning: initialization discards qualifiers \
from pointer target type
repeated 70 times.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:41:57PM +0100, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
The sparc buildd tried to build Scalapack and failed in
dh_shlibdeps after more than 6 hours with the following error
message:
[...]
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:17:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm packaging a piece of software that already has a debian/ subdirectory
inside upstream sources. As it is a low quality package (a nearly
unmodified dh_make generated package), I've rewritten it completely and
have removed
Has anyone else gotten one of these? It arrived shortly after I sent a
message to -mentors, and a google search reveals a couple of similarly
random public postings to -mentors in December:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2001/debian-mentors-200112/msg00192.html
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:51:54PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote:
When installing or purging the package I am developing, I get the message
dhelp_parse: no title found for directory windowmanagers. Does anyone
know what I need to do to make this go away? I don't explicitly call
dhelp_parse or
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:26:20PM +1000, David Findlay wrote:
How does one go about writing an apt-method? Is there some documentation
somewhere? Thanks,
Look at the methods/ directory in the apt source for several examples. If
you are using C++, you can use the pkgAcqMethod class from
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Craig wrote:
Here's what i'm trying to do:
* Create a .DEB that contains only 2 simple binaries, plus a couple of
dependencies. (i'll have another package, tar ball for right now, for the
source code).
Is this for your personal use, or is it
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:36:03AM +0100, pp wrote:
Hello all at monday :)
Is there any (I do not say easy) way
to automagically take dependencies from configure
script and place it in control files?
apt-get install auto-apt
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On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:59:42AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
My kernel-patch packages were all built against the source tree from
ftp.kernel.org. All except two of them came from the upstream that way.
If someone reports a bug against these packages about problems applying to
the
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:50:42AM -0500, Ari Pollak wrote:
I'm the maintainer of the xmms-cdread Debian package, and I just got the
following bug report. It gives me absolutely no useful information, and I
haven't the slightest idea where to even begin tracking down the bug. I
really
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:56:29PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:41, Chris AtLee wrote:
Hi there,
I've written a small program that I'd like to package and have included
in the debian archive. It's a gnome applet that allows you to set
alarms and then be
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:48:28PM -0500, Chris AtLee wrote:
If something optionally uses gnome, should the package include the
.gnorba and .desktop files, or should a separate -gnome package be made?
Just include them, unless you are building two packages (with and without
GNOME support).
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:22:56PM +, David H. Askew wrote:
I realize that it is basically a debian policy to seperate documentation
and binarys into seperate packages, so that people who don't want the
documentation don't have to install it. However, the policy manual as I
understood
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:22:49AM +0100, Manfred Wassmann wrote:
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rather than a second workalike program which relies on GNOME, I'd be
interested in something with this functionality that did not use GNOME
at all (or optionally).
man
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:24:24AM +0200, Amaya wrote:
Matt Zimmerman dijo:
You should review the definition of the pending tag. I do not think
that it is appropriate here.
Sorry, I got that impression from:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags
pending The problem
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:32:19AM -0500, Juan Alvarez wrote:
your question its similar to:
dpkg --purge bash,
remove .bash_profile in the user home directory? oviously not (IMHO)
This is not a similar situation, as .bash_profile is not created by the
package installation process. In
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:37:37PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote:
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
which I think should be OK since it is in the debhelper(1) manual page.
Only if
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On 27-Apr-2002 Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Oohara Yuuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit:
Suppose that a source package makes two .deb, package-data and package
(which depends on package-data), and
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Sebastian Muszynski wrote:
Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2002 10:45 schrieb Jamie Wilkinson:
If you make debian/rules clean remove files, then it won't matter that
it's in the upstream source -- then you can make a lintian override for
that error.
Okay.
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:01:04AM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote:
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 04:48:12PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
Is there a good reason to use docbook to write the man page? I find it a
little cumbersome. I tried it briefly, but I think I'll stick to groff.
Before I
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:53:29PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs ( 4.1.0) and on other packages.
Assuming this is not an error, how can it be and what does it achieve?
It looks like it is probably an automatically generated dependency detected
by
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
aclocal.m4, ltconfig and ltmain.sh are built by libtool? Or is that local
stuff done by the upstream?
ltconfig and ltmain.sh are from libtool. They are used to generate the
'libtool' script actually used during the build.
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:27:45PM -0500, Paul Baker wrote:
Since dpkg-source ignores that I have removed the symlinks, when I later
do the `cvs-inject mapserver_3.5-1.dsc` it of course dies on the symlinked
files. I can use cvs-inject -F to have it remove the symlinks, but I'm
wondering
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:24:58AM -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote:
When I run deb-make from within the appropriate directory it creates the
sub directory debian with various example file (denoted by the .ex
suffix). This is all fine and dandy and I haven't needed any of these
files until now.
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:37:42AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
Sounds like a good enough heuristic to be worth implementing, if someone
has the interest.
Someone already had the interest, and implemented it: auto-apt.
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On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:19:03PM -0700, Brian Warkentin wrote:
I'd like to create my own kernel-patch-???.deb package using some diff
files that I currently use to manually patch my kernel source before
using make-kpkg. Is there documenation for doing this somewhere?
apt-get install
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:18:27PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
I'm having some trouble I can't seem to find the answer to. Mailutils
creates both 'mailutils-pop3d', and 'libmailutils0'. The two need to
tightly depend on one another, since the ABI hasn't stabilized yet.
In my control file I
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:00:41PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
Is there a way to prevent autoconf from appending -g to every g++ command
line? I really want to reduce the diskspace and CPU time required to build my
package, but autoconf seems to assume if you have g++ you have to have -g
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 09:37:59PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote:
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
e.g.
AC_PROG_CXX calls _AC_PROG_CXX_G which if successful unconditionally appends
-g to the command line.
Try passing CFLAGS to configure, e.g. CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs),
but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the
control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to indicate I can only sepcify a list
of supported
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:51:03PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging:
It is a transfer program? licened according to GPL, but comes with some
program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is
also GPL, but the
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote:
I saw in the debconf-tutorial, section The config script that the
example had a line
db_input medium foo/like_debian || true
Whats the reason for the or'd true-command. Could it be, that my
postinst-script exists with return
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