MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I had many discussions with developers and I still cannot state about the following question: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Some people ofter unpack the upstream tarball and rename the directory so that the latter comply with

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the md5sum would almost always change, since most

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jérôme! You wrote: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the md5sum would almost always change, since most upstream developers just use the default compression. --

Re: NM help: toolchain

2000-12-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, Hi Tony, I'm in the process of qualifying for a Debian Maintainer and need to deliver some working packages. I've done some, but have problems understanding how the toolchain works (so my Build-Depends and Depends are out of line). Where do

To early for keysigning (Delaware)?

2000-12-11 Thread Harry Henry Gebel
Yesterday I put my name on the applicant list for the New Maintainer program, and I was wondering: Is it too early to put my name on the Debian Key Signing Coordination Page to start looking for someone to sign my key for the identification phase? And if it's not, and someone reading this is

Mailing list manager packaging issues

2000-12-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I'm taking over the Sympa mailing list manager with the agreement of its previous maintainer. This mailing list manager comes with a web software that stores archives in the HTML form. My main problem is storing html archives and bounces: I had a deep look into the Debian Policy and the FHS

MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Jérôme Marant
Hi, I had many discussions with developers and I still cannot state about the following question: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Some people ofter unpack the upstream tarball and rename the directory so that the latter comply with

unattandend maintainer(s) - what do I do?

2000-12-11 Thread Michael Moerz
Hi! Just in case that I have detected an unattandend maintainer who hasn't fixed bugs at least for half a year and never answeres to direct mails ( have been waiting for an answere now more than a month ), what should I do? I am really interested in fixing that outstanding bugs and I would like

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jérôme! You wrote: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the md5sum would almost always change, since most upstream developers just use the default compression. --

Re: MD5 Sums and tarballs

2000-12-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:53:35PM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: Does the md5 sum of the .orig.tar.gz have to be the same as the one of the upstream tarball ? Aren't the orig.tar.gz's packed with gzip -9? If that is the case, the md5sum would almost always change, since most upstream

NM help: toolchain

2000-12-11 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, I'm in the process of qualifying for a Debian Maintainer and need to deliver some working packages. I've done some, but have problems understanding how the toolchain works (so my Build-Depends and Depends are out of line). Where do these ${shlibs...} et al get set, and how? Is there a

Re: NM help: toolchain

2000-12-11 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, Hi Tony, I'm in the process of qualifying for a Debian Maintainer and need to deliver some working packages. I've done some, but have problems understanding how the toolchain works (so my Build-Depends and Depends are out of line). Where do

Re: unattandend maintainer(s) - what do I do?

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:59:31PM +0100, Michael Moerz wrote: Just in case that I have detected an unattandend maintainer who hasn't fixed bugs at least for half a year and never answeres to direct mails ( have been waiting for an answere now more than a month ), what should I do? Speak to