Re: Beginners problem with cvs-buildpackage

1998-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Eeek. I do not actually test the scripts for remote CVS operation (and I haven't done so for months now), since I have a local repository. Could you please do a bash -x /usr/bin/cvs-* whatever and see if you can exactly where things are failing? A script showing the errors would

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
Hi, I never found a good solution to building html docs via latex2html. The source path usually contains a ., which causes latex2html to fail. I have tried all kinds of things to get it work and have not suceeded. Does anyone else know how to solve the problem ? Here is a

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: mcv21I have to run dvips as root - and running latex2html as root worked mcv21fine Doesn't seem to make any difference for me. mcv21 mcv21Does change my essay somewhat though ;) Written in latex ? John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
Thanks for you reply, Joey. MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Speaking of me, I have special rules so I don't have to close MS bug reports on my own, it's all done by some scripts that run MS automatically, both during upload and and after installation. MS Check

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: MS Speaking of me, I have special rules so I don't have to close MS bug reports on my own, it's all done by some scripts that run MS automatically, both during upload and and after installation. MS Check out bugs against my packages for reference.

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Uff. What name would you propose? I will consist of four MS dpkg-divert statements. MS All files are found at MS ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/auto-close-dpkg/ You have already a name: auto-close-dpkg. What is

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Uff. What name would you propose? I will consist of four MS dpkg-divert statements. MS All files are found at MS ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/auto-close-dpkg/ You have

Two dependency fields for the same library?

1998-10-29 Thread Bo Branten
When setting the dependency on a library to a particular version in the controlfile dh_shlibdeps adds another field for the same library on the default version together with the other libaries. Since lintian doesn't complain; is it leagal to have two dependency fields for the same libary? If

NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
I am building a package for a NMU based on a new upstream release. Section 5.5 of the developers-reference manual states: If it is absolutely necessary for someone other than the usual maintainer to make a release based on a new upstream version then the person making the release

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: I am building a package for a NMU based on a new upstream release. Section 5.5 of the developers-reference manual states: If it is absolutely necessary for someone other than the usual maintainer to make a release based on a new upstream version then

Taking over a package...

1998-10-29 Thread Chris Leishman
Hi all, There is a package in non-us (cfs) that hasn't been updated in a VERY long time (I'm fairly sure it's still libc5) and it is currently seriously broken anyway (it wont work and it overwrites ssh's manpage). I tried contacting the current maintainer, but I've had no responce. Since

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: mcv21I have to run dvips as root - and running latex2html as root worked mcv21fine Doesn't seem to make any difference for me. oh :( mcv21 mcv21Does change my essay somewhat though ;) Written in latex ? Of course! ;) Matthew

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Rafael Laboissiere wrote: [...] I suppose that some script in dpkg-dev works incompatibly with the instructions in developers-reference. Any help/patch/comments? MS Help: Simply upload the orig.tar.gz manually.

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS Rafael Laboissiere wrote: [...] I suppose that some script in dpkg-dev works incompatibly with the instructions in developers-reference. Any help/patch/comments? MS Help:

RE: Taking over a package...

1998-10-29 Thread Shaleh
You can do a NMU (Non-maintainer upload) in the meantime, some developers go on sabbatical for a month or so. After that something can be worked out.

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:36:40PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote: The source path usually contains a ., which causes latex2html to fail. I have tried all kinds of things to get it work and have not suceeded. Does anyone else know how to solve the problem ? The error message suggests the

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is how the LaTeX2HTML package builds it own docs in the ./debian/rules file: (cd docs; set -e; TMP=/tmp/l2hbuild$$; export TMP; mkdir $TMP; \ $(MAKE) html; rm -rf $TMP; ) manoj -- We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: antkaiThe error message suggests the following, which I've used antkaisuccessfully. antkai antkaiTMP=/tmp TMPDIR=/tmp latex2html ... I had already tried this and variants, but it didn't work. It may be because /tmp is a symlink, but I

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread John Lapeyre
On 29 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: srivas This is how the LaTeX2HTML package builds it own docs in the srivas ./debian/rules file: srivas srivas (cd docs; set -e; TMP=/tmp/l2hbuild$$; export TMP; mkdir $TMP; \ srivas $(MAKE) html; rm -rf $TMP; ) Hmm, still doesn't work. latex2html

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread John Lapeyre
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, John Lapeyre wrote: lapeyr I had already tried this and variants, but it didn't work. It may lapeyrbe because /tmp is a symlink, but I think that should be allowed. But it lapeyris interesting to know that it solves the problem on some systems. Argh. I put /tmp on

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread James Troup
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any help/patch/comments? Help: Simply upload the orig.tar.gz manually. No, that's plain wrong. If you do that the .changes file won't list it. Instead pass `-sa' to dpkg-buildpackage(1). -- James

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila
Any help/patch/comments? As a work-around, you may use dpkg-buildpackage -sa. -- a422c7f4f958e0c30f8f9a55b6a9b97d (a truly random sig)

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi John == John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John On 29 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: srivas This is how the LaTeX2HTML package builds it own docs in the srivas ./debian/rules file: srivas (cd docs; set -e; TMP=/tmp/l2hbuild$$; export TMP; mkdir $TMP; \ srivas $(MAKE) html; rm -rf

Re: Taking over a package...

1998-10-29 Thread Richard Braakman
Shaleh wrote: You can do a NMU (Non-maintainer upload) in the meantime, some developers go on sabbatical for a month or so. After that something can be worked out. Well with cfs it's no longer a month or so, it's obviously abandoned. It has 500-day-old bugreports that were never even

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread John Lapeyre
On 29 Oct 1998, James Troup wrote: jamesMartin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: james james Any help/patch/comments? james james Help: Simply upload the orig.tar.gz manually. james jamesNo, that's plain wrong. If you do that the .changes file won't list jamesit. Instead pass `-sa' to

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread John Lapeyre
Thanks everyone for replying. I used latex2html -debug and found that pnmcrop was failing. I purged every package that might be used by latex2html and reinstalled them . This new package was then selected: Selecting previously deselected package pnmtopng It is strange, since both apt