Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21 dh_gencontrol: command returned error code [...] When do dpkg-gencontrol say that there are conflicting values? When you

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:38:42AM +, Colin Watson wrote: I tell a lie, there's another possibility. Check that the changelog names your source package correctly (i.e. by the same name as used in debian/control). Thanx!!! Stupid me! Changed changelog, error changed it back, changed control

help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread zhaoway
hi, should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? thanks, zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001118T160237-0600, Clay Crouch wrote: Hmmm I seem to recall James Troup telling me that dinstall does the check automagically during install It doesn't. However, some ftp-masters (presumably James included) use a script that does this (but the script merely displays the output,

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-23 Thread Pete Lypkie
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:29:01PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: I guess I can try debian-x. It's just a hassle having to subscribe to 2 dozen different mailing lists just to answer one question, that's all. You can find the archives of all of the public lists at http://lists.debian.org/

Re: help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, zhaoway wrote: hi, should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? It's OK if you can fix

Re: Mix of dynamic and static libraries

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: I maintain distributed-net, which is created from multiple architectures of upstream binary-only files. The problem is, I also need to depend on another package, so on certain architectures (ie i386) ${shlibs:Depends} is empty, and on

How are huge, daily builds handeled?

2000-11-23 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I would like to provide the wine snapshots as debian packages. THe builds are demanding, though (list is from the guy who did this before): - about 4 Pentium-133 CPU-hours per build (between 1 and 7 builds per week), - about 96MB of RAM, - about 700MB of free disk space for the builds

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:18:15PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: Package: wml Version: 2.0.6-2 Severity: normal Hi, for many wml manpages, mandb complains that: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_txt2html.1.gz: whatis

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:04:13AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_linklint.1.gz: whatis parse for wml_aux_linklint(1) failed i am a new Debian developer, and have no idea how to fix this bug. It appears that previous Debian maintainers added some

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:49:03AM +, Colin Watson wrote: [Moving to debian-mentors, where this should go.] Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21 dh_gencontrol: command returned error code

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: Ola Lundqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21 dh_gencontrol: command returned error code [...] When do dpkg-gencontrol say that there are conflicting values? When you

Getting rid of x3270

2000-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
I've been putting this off for a while, but I really need to do something about the x3270 package that I maintain. I took it over two years ago, meaning to sort out what the license was, but there doesn't seem to be much chance of even getting a license on it that allows it to be in non-free. My

3270 CICS send/receive/ind$file? (was Re: Getting rid of x3270)

2000-11-23 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi Carey and *: Is there any software out there that can do CICS send and recieve? Err, lemme qualify that... anything free that can build on a posix? -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer:

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:38:42AM +, Colin Watson wrote: I tell a lie, there's another possibility. Check that the changelog names your source package correctly (i.e. by the same name as used in debian/control). Thanx!!! Stupid me! Changed changelog, error changed it back, changed control

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:17:51AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Drew Parsons wrote: On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:41:51PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: When I try to start X (using either startx or xdm, I didn't try xinit), it starts loading, and then the computer freezes up utterly.

help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread zhaoway
hi, should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? thanks, zw

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001118T160237-0600, Clay Crouch wrote: Hmmm I seem to recall James Troup telling me that dinstall does the check automagically during install It doesn't. However, some ftp-masters (presumably James included) use a script that does this (but the script merely displays the output,

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-23 Thread Pete Lypkie
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:29:01PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: I guess I can try debian-x. It's just a hassle having to subscribe to 2 dozen different mailing lists just to answer one question, that's all. You can find the archives of all of the public lists at http://lists.debian.org/ and

Re: help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, zhaoway wrote: hi, should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? It's OK if you can fix

Re: Mix of dynamic and static libraries

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: I maintain distributed-net, which is created from multiple architectures of upstream binary-only files. The problem is, I also need to depend on another package, so on certain architectures (ie i386) ${shlibs:Depends} is empty, and on

How are huge, daily builds handeled?

2000-11-23 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I would like to provide the wine snapshots as debian packages. THe builds are demanding, though (list is from the guy who did this before): - about 4 Pentium-133 CPU-hours per build (between 1 and 7 builds per week), - about 96MB of RAM, - about 700MB of free disk space for the builds (these

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:18:15PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: Package: wml Version: 2.0.6-2 Severity: normal Hi, for many wml manpages, mandb complains that: Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_txt2html.1.gz: whatis

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:04:13AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_linklint.1.gz: whatis parse for wml_aux_linklint(1) failed i am a new Debian developer, and have no idea how to fix this bug. It appears that previous Debian maintainers added some