frozen/unstable and bug tracking reports

2000-05-05 Thread Domenico Andreoli
i'm the maintainer of curl and curl-ssl, sponsored by Stephane Bortzmeyer, so i'm not an official developer. just few days after potato went frozen, a new release of curl had been published, this was 6.5.2. this one closes bug #56627 opened for curl. well, i packaged the new release (6.5.2-1)

Temporary changelog entries

2000-05-05 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! While developing a new version of a program I am writing, I want to be able to create .deb packages. However, I need a valid date in the latest changelog entry, which I don't have, since it's a pre-release version. What do I do? (I'd prefer it to say something like Unreleased instead of a

Debian package New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread Fredrik Steen
Hi Mentors, I have been using Debian for quite some time now and really want to get my hands dirty and help out making this great distribution even better. I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I have done. I want to be fully prepered and have quality packages when

Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?

2000-05-05 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:30:00PM +1000, Andrew J Cosgriff wrote: dpkg-scanpackages was it. I missed it when I did a man -k Packages. Related to this, I have a question also. One friend has a new hard drive and wants to copy his 3 unofficial potato CDs into it, and make them aptable. So I

Re: What is the package dpkg-iwj?

2000-05-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote: [...] Then if Ian ever wants to pick up the project again, he has the option of helping with the current version, or going back to his old one, with all of the RC bugs still open. It may be worth to mention that Ian Jackson declared recently that he

Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?

2000-05-05 Thread tony mancill
I did this same thing to setup a Debian mirror at work. If you look carefully, all you have to do is delete the existings Packages.gz files (since they are for a single CD) and mv Packages-cd.gz Packages.gz (do the same for the uncompressed packages). It's a lot easier if you do this with a find

Re: Debian package New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread Colin Watson
Fredrik Steen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Debian for quite some time now and really want to get my hands dirty and help out making this great distribution even better. I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I have done. I want to be fully prepered and

Re: Debian package New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread Eric Leblanc
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 08:18:05AM +0200, Fredrik Steen wrote: I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I have done. I want to be fully prepered and have quality packages when I apply for being a new maintainer/developer. Could you put the .dsc, the .diff.gz and the

Re: Debian package New developer question

2000-05-05 Thread fsteen
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Eric Leblanc wrote: |On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 08:18:05AM +0200, Fredrik Steen wrote: | I have made a package of MP3html and would like to get comments how I | have done. I want to be fully prepered and have quality packages when | I apply for being a new maintainer/developer. |