Re: RFS: quickplay

2008-09-21 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, Charliej wrote: That depends on what your definition of what mature is? If you mean mature as in will the software do what it's suppose to do then yes. If you mean mature as in time then probable not. mature means for me that the package is somewhat ready for use by end users. That means

building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Renner
Moin, I made a small package with some X fonts. First I extracted the fonts into a directory, startet 'dh_make' and after some modifications in postinst etc I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -d'. As far as I see is the deb-package ok. But it is a i386 package, I expected a package for any architecture

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Stephan Peijnik
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 13:41 +0200, Michael Renner wrote: Moin, I made a small package with some X fonts. First I extracted the fonts into a directory, startet 'dh_make' and after some modifications in postinst etc I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -d'. As far as I see is the deb-package ok. But it

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Renner
On Sunday 21 September 2008, Stephan Peijnik wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 13:41 +0200, Michael Renner wrote: Moin, I made a small package with some X fonts. First I extracted the fonts into a directory, startet 'dh_make' and after some modifications in postinst etc I run

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Architecture: any Use 'all' not 'any'. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Siegfried-Angel
Hi, In debian/control, change Architecture: any to Architecture: all. The Architecture field can take the following values: - any: Build the package on all architecture. - i386, amd64, etc.: Only build the package on the indicated architectures. - all: the package is architecture

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:41:31 +0200 Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moin, I made a small package with some X fonts. First I extracted the fonts into a directory, startet 'dh_make' and after some modifications in postinst etc I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -d'. As far as I see is the

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Michael Renner wrote: I made a small package with some X fonts. First I extracted the fonts into a directory, startet 'dh_make' and after some modifications in postinst etc I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -d'. As far as I see is the deb-package ok. But it is a i386 package, I expected a

Re: building for 'any' architecture?

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Renner
On Sunday 21 September 2008, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Michael Renner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Architecture: any Use 'all' not 'any'. thanks so much. To you and all others. CU -- |Michael Renner E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |D-81541 Munich Germany

Update of my book (was: Advice about first package building (from sources))

2008-09-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.09.21.0432 +0100]: I also bought a copy of The Debian System, by Martin F. Krafft, ISBN 1-59327-069-0. […] The book is also dated (it has a DVD of sarge 3.1r0a in the back and now we're approaching a lenny release three years later). I should be

Adding FontPath entry to /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

2008-09-21 Thread Michael Renner
Moin, I managed to build a font package that installs and uninstalls without problems. Therefor I checked how the xfont-base package works. But while there is a FontPath entry for /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc in /etc/X11/xorg.conf there is none entry for the new directory

RFS: sqlmap

2008-09-21 Thread Bernardo Damele A. G.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sqlmap. * Package name: sqlmap Version : 0.6-1 Upstream Author : Bernardo Damele A. G. and Daniele Bellucci * URL : http://sqlmap.sourceforge.net * License :

Re: Update of my book (was: Advice about first package building (from sources))

2008-09-21 Thread Paul Hardy
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 6:13 AM, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nevertheless, in terms of the basics of packages and packaging, not much has changed. I am going to provide additional information in a new edition, but you won't waste time by reading the stuff in the current edition.

RFS: flashblock -- mozilla extension that replaces flash

2008-09-21 Thread Philippe Coval
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package flashblock. * Package name: flashblock Version : 1.3.10a~snapshot20080611-1 Upstream Author : Jesse Ruderman + Contibutors * URL : http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ * License : MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1

Re: RFS: elfrc

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18/09/2008): It builds these binary packages: elfrc - program to convert arbitrary files into elf objects In addition to Patrick's comments, I'd suggest to “s/program to //” this description. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: hpl

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jean Parpaillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] (09/09/2008): Dear mentors, Salut Jean, I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. as you may know, I'm going to be more available nowadays. :) See you tomorrow, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: deb/debian suffixes in packages

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] (17/09/2008): the best way to figure out is to send a patch and see if it is accepted ;) IIRC, a bit of standardization got discussed already (on -devel), so a potential patch sender may want to check that first. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: deb/debian suffixes in packages

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Al Nikolov [EMAIL PROTECTED] (16/09/2008): OTOH, devreference is not a collection of common used practices (what is may be sad) I beg to differ. Once a practice is common enough, it'd quite interesting to have it documented so that others can easily follow what de facto consensus has been

Re: RFS: gnome-art-ng

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Julien Lavergne [EMAIL PROTECTED] (16/09/2008): I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnome-art-ng. The goal of Gnome-art-ng is to replace gnome-art (non maintained upstream, see http://www.miketech.net/gnome-art/index.php). It provides the same features: […] Maybe you could keep the

Re: RFS: mpop - POP3 mail retriever (updated version) (second try)

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Carlos Martín Nieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04/09/2008): I am looking for someone to upload an updated version of mpop. Cyril Brulebois originally reviewed it, but it has been more than a month since that (I've been away from my computer and my keys), so I'm asking in general again. Yes, sorry

Re: RFS: arping (updated package)

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Giuseppe Iuculano [EMAIL PROTECTED] (02/09/2008): My usual sponsor is Cyril Brulebois (kibi), I've tried asking him for an upload several time, but never gotten a response You had on IRC, and that was “too busy to sponsor anything for now”. Mraw, KiBi — M-x catchup-mode signature.asc

Re: How to remove package completely?

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] (17/09/2008): I'd like to remove bluetooth-alsa and libsbc from Debian completely. It was already removed (at my request) from unstable, but it is still in Lenny. How can I remove it from Lenny? Reportbug tell me that package does not exist when trying to

Re: RFS: arping (updated package)

2008-09-21 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Cyril Brulebois ha scritto: You had on IRC, and that was “too busy to sponsor anything for now”. No, that was I'm kinda busy right now, maybe in a few hours. Giuseppe. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS : Mina [Uploaded]

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Damien Raude-Morvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (29/07/2008): I am looking for a sponsor for my package mina. As said through private mail, finally taken care of. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: configobj (updated package)

2008-09-21 Thread Daniel Watkins
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:13:44 +0100 Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.5.3-1 of my package configobj. This has now been uploaded. Thanks to Piotr. :) -- Daniel Watkins (Odd_Bloke) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS and ITA: jzlib (updated package) [uploaded]

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Damien Raude-Morvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (04/08/2008): I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.7-1 of package jzlib. As said through private mail, finally uploaded. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: flashblock -- mozilla extension that replaces flash

2008-09-21 Thread Ben Finney
Philippe Coval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a sponsor for my package flashblock. Thanks for this ITP (bug#469906), I use the Flashblock plugin and find it very neat and useful. It builds these binary packages: flashblock - mozilla extension that replaces flash plugin by a

Re: RFS: sqlline [uploaded]

2008-09-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Damien Raude-Morvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (29/07/2008): I am looking for a sponsor for my package sqlline. Again, after some private mails, finally uploaded. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: flashblock -- mozilla extension that replaces flash

2008-09-21 Thread Mauro Lizaur
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Ben Finney wrote: I'd suggest: web browser add-on that blocks playing each Flash object until clicked Perhaps someone else can suggest a more snappy synopsis that still retains accuracy. Why not the 'official' description of Flashblock? Blocks all Flash

Re: RFS: flashblock -- mozilla extension that replaces flash

2008-09-21 Thread Ben Finney
Mauro Lizaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not the 'official' description of Flashblock? Blocks all Flash content in a web page from loading automatically. I think using it will be more than accurate than re-inventing another desc. Yes, that's good. To make it a noun-phrase description of

Phony patch target: is it necessary ?

2008-09-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, there was recently a discussion on this list about the necessity of using $(QUILT_STAMPFN) instead of patch as a patching target. I had a look at /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make and /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make and realised that only Quilt makes the patch target phony. Is there

Re: Phony patch target: is it necessary ?

2008-09-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello everybody, there was recently a discussion on this list about the necessity of using $(QUILT_STAMPFN) instead of patch as a patching target. I had a look at /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch.make and /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make and realised that only

apt-proxy, apt-cacher approx

2008-09-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, We've been using apt-proxy for about a year, and then found it quite buggy. So we moved to using apt-cacher. Now we have loads of problems with apt-cacher as well (like currently, a recurring tzdata size mismatch error). I was wondering if approx is any better than the other two. Did any of

Re: apt-proxy, apt-cacher approx

2008-09-21 Thread Cameron Dale
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've been using apt-proxy for about a year, and then found it quite buggy. So we moved to using apt-cacher. Now we have loads of problems with apt-cacher as well (like currently, a recurring tzdata size mismatch error).

Re: RFS: flashblock -- mozilla extension that replaces flash

2008-09-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:54:03AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Philippe Coval [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a sponsor for my package flashblock. Thanks for this ITP (bug#469906), I use the Flashblock plugin and find it very neat and useful. It builds these binary packages: