porting a package

1999-09-08 Thread Fernando Sanchez
Hello, I have found that a package for which I am not the maintainer (ocaml) is not being built for i386 architecture in its latest versions (it is ok for powerpc and alpha). I have tried to compile it for i386 and there have been no problems, so I'm thinking about uploading it as

Re: porting a package

1999-09-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:48:43PM +0200, Fernando Sanchez wrote: Hello, I have found that a package for which I am not the maintainer (ocaml) is not being built for i386 architecture in its latest versions (it is ok for powerpc and alpha). I have tried to compile it for i386 and there

Re: porting a package

1999-09-08 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:48:43PM +0200, Fernando Sanchez wrote: Hello, I have found that a package for which I am not the maintainer (ocaml) is not being built for i386 architecture in its latest versions (it is ok for powerpc and alpha). I

how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread David Coe
Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page? Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a syntax reference. Thanks.

Re: porting a package

1999-09-08 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Christian T. Steigies wrote: I dont think the build demons will pick up non-main packages in the near future, but maybe we could have a quinn-diff running on contrib and the non-* directories, so that we at least know when something is not up to date. And somebody could

Re: original package with CRLF as line separators

1999-09-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Radovan Garabik wrote: I am packaging a program, which uses CRLF as end of line (don't ask me how it got there :-)) The problem is, I have to turn it to LF, because the program is a script and won't run with CRLF. But if I do this, *.diff.gz will be as big as *.orig.tar.gz. Isn't there a

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 02:13:31PM +, David Coe wrote: Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page? Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a syntax reference. Thanks. man 7 man There used to be a Man-Page mini-HOWTO, but I can't find it just now. --

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
On 8 Sep 1999, David Coe wrote: Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page? Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a syntax reference. Thanks. man troff seems to be complete reference _ Sep 8, 19:47

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, David Coe wrote: Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page? Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a syntax reference. Thanks. There are two good sources for information, which you may combine: - man(7) (the man man page in section

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Bill White
There is some way to use sgml2txt -man, or so the documentation says. However, last weekend when I was working on a manpage for a program I'm writing I was unable to get it to work sensibly. Does anybody know how this is supposed to work? Is there documentation I have not seen?

doc pakages

1999-09-08 Thread Alexander Kotelnikov
Hi, I'm about packaging gtk/gdk/glib reference aka rdp. The one thing I'm hesitating is that 'source' is of two parts -- gtk/gdk and glib, they are separate and should have, I think, different directories in /usr/doc/. But all the docs I want to store in one directory. So I create directories

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Nick Moffitt
Quoting David Coe: Any hints/clues/pointers on how to write a brand-new man page? have a look at /usr/doc/man-db/manpage.example Debian-specific or not, I'd appreciate a style-guide and a syntax reference. Thanks. I've actually been working on a set of M4 macros that use the

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999, Bill White wrote: There is some way to use sgml2txt -man, or so the documentation says. However, last weekend when I was working on a manpage for a program I'm writing I was unable to get it to work sensibly. Does anybody know how this is supposed to work? Is there

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: There used to be a Man-Page mini-HOWTO, but I can't find it just now. http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh/man_page_howto.html -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6 9PH [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Martin Wheeler
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Martin Wheeler wrote: http://www.shuttle.de/schweikh/man_page_howto.html Whoops. Forget that one. == (new URL: http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html) Thanks for the correction, Roland. -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6