Re: Accepted ways when upstream author insists on using MANPATH env var?

2000-09-12 Thread Domenico Andreoli
a worse solution could be to wrap TkMan in a script, passing the output of /usr/bin/manpath to an environment variable. brrr... #!/bin/sh # wrap for TkMan export MANPATH=`/usr/bin/manpath` whatever to run tkman On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:57:47AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: TkMan author insists

RE: how to restrict Dependency to certain architectures?

2000-09-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Grab my task-laptop package for an example of how to do this. For x86 I add some intel laptop specific packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help, I get flooded! [Bug#71427: mysql-server]

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
[BTW this is a genuine bug with the BTS, not related to -mentors list, so let's move off of it] On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: I (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) get flooded by identical copies of the mail attached. I count about 40 mails during the weekend and I get

Re: Accepted ways when upstream author insists on using MANPATH env var?

2000-09-12 Thread Domenico Andreoli
a worse solution could be to wrap TkMan in a script, passing the output of /usr/bin/manpath to an environment variable. brrr... #!/bin/sh # wrap for TkMan export MANPATH=`/usr/bin/manpath` whatever to run tkman On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 08:57:47AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: TkMan author insists

Help, I get flooded! [Bug#71427: mysql-server]

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello I (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) get flooded by identical copies of the mail attached. I count about 40 mails during the weekend and I get a new one every couple of hours. Sadly I cannot reach the author as he supplied a wrong email address. I tried some variations of it and mailed the postmaster

Re: loserjabber and xmms or not?

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Surchi
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 05:05:59PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: There are a few options, it seems: you could separate xmms from libxmms (though that would require cooperation of the other author), or build two binary When you link it with xmms, it uses xmms, not only libs. packages for

Re: loserjabber and xmms or not?

2000-09-12 Thread Christian Surchi
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:32:40PM -0500, ^chewie wrote: Actually, have you confirmed that the function calls loserjabber is hitting the libxmms or the mpg123 library? It interacts with xmms in that way. mpg123? no relation with it. What about the ID3 tags library that xmms may be using

automake - debian/rules

2000-09-12 Thread brlewis
I've perused some of the dpkg-related documentation, but maybe I'm missing something simple. If I already am using automake (or otherwise adhering to the GNU coding standards), shouldn't there be some automatic way to generate most of what's needed under debian? I'd like to be able to build a

Re: automake - debian/rules

2000-09-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:30:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've perused some of the dpkg-related documentation, but maybe I'm missing something simple. If I already am using automake (or otherwise adhering to the GNU coding standards), shouldn't there be some automatic way to

Architecture: any

2000-09-12 Thread brlewis
Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Take a look at dh_make, in the dh-make package, and debhelper, in the package of the same name. That helped. Thanks. Now I'm working on the control file. I notice that jserv's control file sets the architecture to any, even though the deb-control man

Re: Spurious lintian errors

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:06:22PM -0400, Franklin Belew wrote: E: mozilla: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/mozilla/components/liblocalmail.so I have 86 errors like that, how do I kill them? (those are not shared libs, and will *never* be linked by ld) Wait for lintian to be fixed so it

Re: Architecture: any

2000-09-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On 12 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look at dh_make, in the dh-make package, and debhelper, in the package of the same name. That helped. Thanks. Now I'm working on the control file. I notice that jserv's control file sets the architecture to any, even though the

Re: Architecture: any

2000-09-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I'm working on the control file. I notice that jserv's control file sets the architecture to any, even though the deb-control man page only mentions architecture all. Which should I use? Use any if you are uploading an arch-specific

Re: Architecture: any

2000-09-12 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Take a look at dh_make, in the dh-make package, and debhelper, in the package of the same name. That helped. Thanks. Now I'm working on the control file. I notice that jserv's control file sets the architecture to any, even

Re: Help, I get flooded! [Bug#71427: mysql-server]

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
[BTW this is a genuine bug with the BTS, not related to -mentors list, so let's move off of it] On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 10:54:09AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: I (aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]) get flooded by identical copies of the mail attached. I count about 40 mails during the weekend and I

how to restrict Dependency to certain architectures?

2000-09-12 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hi, the packaging manual (v 3.2.1.0) says in section 8.1: All fields that specify BUILD-TIME relationships [...] may be restricted to a certain set of architectures. [emphasis by me] From this I conclude that it is not possible to have a (binary) dependency relationship restricted to a

RE: how to restrict Dependency to certain architectures?

2000-09-12 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Grab my task-laptop package for an example of how to do this. For x86 I add some intel laptop specific packages.

Re: how to restrict Dependency to certain architectures?

2000-09-12 Thread Jerome Vouillon
Hi, On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 12:58:52AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: I'm maintaining a package (bibtex2html) that needs the ocaml compiler to build. The ocaml compiler, however, compiles to native code only on some architectures. On others (in particular mk68) it compiles only to ocaml byte