first questions

Hi, I am the author of the GNU HaliFAX viewer and I have pre-packaged it for Debian GNU/Linux. I have been a maintainer since Saturday and although my packaging seemed correct to my applicant manager I still have a few questions for which I have no answer. In

Re: first questions

Welcome ! Thanks to you and to everyone who answered my questions. Once the mail got through the arcane of the Internet I got quick replies. There is no fooling, this is exactly what you should do. Debian native packages are for instance the debian package tools. In almost all situations

Re: libtool headaches

Filip == Filip Van Raemdonck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect this is probably just a problem with the way libtool gets called (either incorrect or incomplete), but I'm not too good on reading Makefile.in's and apparently (to make things even more complicated) the libtool isn't even

diversions

Hi, I am currently packaging gfax. In the Debian Policy it is specified that one, willing to divert an executable, should contact the original executable's maintainer. In my case the lpr provided by gfax is a wrapper to provide the lpr -Pfax command line. Should I contact both the LPRng and

Re: diversions

Wouldn't it be a lot nicer to just add a fax entry to /etc/printcap? I know that at least lprng can handle printing to pipes (I use it to `print' mp3's to mpg123). I have already thought about that. But the problem is that this fax entry is supposed to spawn a graphical utility (requiring

Re: diversions

You should contact them. Also, please understand one thing about diversions: once you add one, you must keep the code to *remove* it around. Even if stop doing a diversion, you will need to move the code to remove it from the *rm scripts to the postinst script (to remove it on upgrades from

first questions

Hi, I am the author of the GNU HaliFAX viewer and I have pre-packaged it for Debian GNU/Linux. I have been a maintainer since Saturday and although my packaging seemed correct to my applicant manager I still have a few questions for which I have no answer. In

first questions

Hi, I am the author of the GNU HaliFAX viewer and I have pre-packaged it for Debian GNU/Linux. I have been a maintainer since Saturday and although my packaging seemed correct to my applicant manager I still have a few questions for which I have no answer. In

Re: first questions

Welcome ! Thanks to you and to everyone who answered my questions. Once the mail got through the arcane of the Internet I got quick replies. There is no fooling, this is exactly what you should do. Debian native packages are for instance the debian package tools. In almost all situations you

Re: libtool headaches

Filip == Filip Van Raemdonck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suspect this is probably just a problem with the way libtool gets called (either incorrect or incomplete), but I'm not too good on reading Makefile.in's and apparently (to make things even more complicated) the libtool isn't even

diversions

Hi, I am currently packaging gfax. In the Debian Policy it is specified that one, willing to divert an executable, should contact the original executable's maintainer. In my case the lpr provided by gfax is a wrapper to provide the lpr -Pfax command line. Should I contact both the LPRng and BSD

Re: diversions

Wouldn't it be a lot nicer to just add a fax entry to /etc/printcap? I know that at least lprng can handle printing to pipes (I use it to `print' mp3's to mpg123). I have already thought about that. But the problem is that this fax entry is supposed to spawn a graphical utility (requiring

Re: diversions

You should contact them. Also, please understand one thing about diversions: once you add one, you must keep the code to *remove* it around. Even if stop doing a diversion, you will need to move the code to remove it from the *rm scripts to the postinst script (to remove it on upgrades from

Re: diversions

That said, good luck with your package. Thanks for helping me. Wolfgang