Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:09:50PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On 2927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote: configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package, and get the same result as

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2928T092438+1200, Michael Beattie wrote: But, if the user has something *extra* installed, that the configure script picks up and uses, because it is optional for the package build... you do the math. That's what Build-Conflicts is for. Or one can hack the configure script. -- %%%

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote: configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package, and get the same result as before (assuming they have

NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Itai Zukerman
A few days ago I had to rebuild gimp1.1 from source to fix a little bug that was stalling my work. I noticed that since I have LPRng installed on my system, ./configure came up with different settings than the gimp binary in the archive was compiled with (specifically, lpstat support was enabled

register-window-manager

2000-09-27 Thread Christian Marillat
Hi, It is safe to remove this from sawfish postinst ? if [ -x /usr/sbin/register-window-manager ]; then /usr/sbin/register-window-manager --add /usr/bin/sawfish fi Christian

Re-title a RFA bug against WNPP

2000-09-27 Thread André Dahlqvist
I have a question regarding adopting a package. If a package has been marked RFA against WNPP, how do I re-title that bug with ITA to show that I intend to adopt it? The info at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp explains that this is what you should do until you have uploaded a package with you as

Re: Re-title a RFA bug against WNPP

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_Dahlqvist?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I simply submit a new bug against WNPP with ITA: package_name as the subject line? Will that rename the already existing RFA bug? It doesn't seam like the right thing to do, so I'm asking here for advice first. No, see

NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Itai Zukerman
A few days ago I had to rebuild gimp1.1 from source to fix a little bug that was stalling my work. I noticed that since I have LPRng installed on my system, ./configure came up with different settings than the gimp binary in the archive was compiled with (specifically, lpstat support was enabled

Re: register-window-manager

2000-09-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:39:36PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: It is safe to remove this from sawfish postinst ? if [ -x /usr/sbin/register-window-manager ]; then /usr/sbin/register-window-manager --add /usr/bin/sawfish fi From X changelog: xfree86-1 (3.3.5-2) unstable;

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
Itai Zukerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few days ago I had to rebuild gimp1.1 from source to fix a little bug that was stalling my work. I noticed that since I have LPRng installed on my system, ./configure came up with different settings than the gimp binary in the archive was compiled with

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote: configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package, and get the same result as before (assuming they have the same version of all the build-dependencies as

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 09:09:50PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On 2927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote: configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package, and get the same result as

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2928T092438+1200, Michael Beattie wrote: But, if the user has something *extra* installed, that the configure script picks up and uses, because it is optional for the package build... you do the math. That's what Build-Conflicts is for. Or one can hack the configure script. -- %%%

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Itai Zukerman
Anybody should be able to build a package when its build-time dependencies are satisfied and end up with the same result as anyone else. This is a policy recommendation. But, if the user has something *extra* installed, that the configure script picks up and uses, because it is optional

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Colin Watson
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote: configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package, and get the same result as before (assuming they have

sphinx

2000-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
In January, you wrote: I'm sure many of you noticed the release of CMU's Speech to Text as 'Open Source' today on slashdot. after carefull inspection of the license, i found that it isn't exactly free. howerver, it's quite close, and uses gnu autoconf, so i decided that it surely needs to be