Re: Request for sponsor: adopting browser-history

2001-01-14 Thread Oliver M . Bolzer
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:57:41AM +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I intend to adopt browser-history from Karl M. Hegbloom, but I'm still in the NM queue. Would anyone like to sponsor this package? I have an upload of version 2.8-2 prepared, which can be found at

Re: dh_installchangelogs: installing changelogs

2001-01-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:34:15AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: Whenever this has happened to me with local builds... I have forgotten to add a Debian revision to the package number inside debian/changelog. (I.E. 0.4.1 instead of 0.4.1-1) LOL You're perfectly right of course! That'll

Re: Request for sponsor: adopting browser-history

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
"Oliver M . Bolzer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:57:41AM +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I intend to adopt browser-history from Karl M. Hegbloom, but I'm still in the NM queue. Would anyone like to sponsor this package? I have an upload of version 2.8-2

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:47:21PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On 20010114T010257-0600, Scott Dier wrote: What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? Those are special cases, and warrant access to our non-x86 machines. What about those with sid (me) who want access to

Re: checking for Build-Depends during build?

2001-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Stephen Langasek wrote: Hi all, Hi Stephen, I'm taking on the packaging of a library that has a build-time dependency on the dev package from another library. Do any of the dpkg-dev or debhelper tools check for this line in the control file? I've poked around a bit

Build-Depends-Indep

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
If a source package produces _only_ binary_all packages, is it necessary to have a Build-Depends-Indep: field, or is it sufficient to have a Build-Depends field? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL

Re: Build-Depends-Indep

2001-01-14 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010114T135051-0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: If a source package produces _only_ binary_all packages, is it necessary to have a Build-Depends-Indep: field, or is it sufficient to have a Build-Depends field? It is never necessary to have the Build-Depends-Indep field, although it may be

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-14 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
On Sunday 14 January 2001 20:32, Eric Dorland wrote: Ok... well, since no one seems too bothered by this, I guess it's not a problem. But does anyone know if the DAM has some procedure for picking people out of the queue, or is it all quite willy-nilly? I would say the DAM queue is a full

Re: packages not in testing

2001-01-14 Thread Chris Ruffin
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:01:32PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote: Chris Ruffin wrote: Did you track this down? I had a look yesterday and then got onto other things and didn't reply. electric depends on lesstif1 and there is a problem with that on m68k. I don't know of an easy way of tracking

Debian native package?

2001-01-14 Thread Chris Danis
Hey, What exactly is a Debian-native package? I've seen definitions from "a package with no upstream source" to "written especially for Debian," which seem kind of orthogonal to me. Here's my situation: I'm in the NM queue, currently packaging tclbabel, a piece of software I have written

Re: Debian native package?

2001-01-14 Thread peter karlsson
Chris Danis: I'm in the NM queue, currently packaging tclbabel, a piece of software I have written myself. Because I am both upstream and possibly Debian maintainer, should this be such a native package? It could be, but it does not need to. I have made the programs I write myself native

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Britton
I mean, is it really difficult to see how approving someone who'll maintain a couple of packages that'll get dropped into optional or extra isn't really a high priority? Is it difficult to see how someone might The problem with this logic is that you don't have much chance of being able to

Re: checking for Build-Depends during build?

2001-01-14 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:20:19PM -0600, Stephen Langasek wrote: Hi all, I'm taking on the packaging of a library that has a build-time dependency on the dev package from another library. Do any of the dpkg-dev or debhelper tools check for this line in the control file? I've poked around

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Scott Dier
* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010113 17:31]: Only for very few tasks you will require to be an official Debian are not important, neither is login access to Debian systems. What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? What if I someday end up with a package like

dh_installchangelogs: installing changelogs

2001-01-14 Thread Drew Parsons
I'm trying to package the new upstream version of mirrormagic. It has a changelog in the root source directory called CHANGES. I figure I'm supposed to install this changelog by running dh_installchangelogs CHANGES which is what had worked previously. However, when I do this, all of a sudden

Re: dh_installchangelogs: installing changelogs

2001-01-14 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:06:15PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: I'm trying to package the new upstream version of mirrormagic. It has a changelog in the root source directory called CHANGES. I figure I'm supposed to install this changelog by running dh_installchangelogs CHANGES which is

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread exa
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:02:57AM -0600, Scott Dier wrote: What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? What if I someday end up with a package like that, want to see it for myself, fix the problem, and send the patch upstream like a good developer? Having access to

Re: Request for sponsor: adopting browser-history

2001-01-14 Thread Oliver M . Bolzer
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:57:41AM +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I intend to adopt browser-history from Karl M. Hegbloom, but I'm still in the NM queue. Would anyone like to sponsor this package? I have an upload of version 2.8-2 prepared, which can be found at

Re: dh_installchangelogs: installing changelogs

2001-01-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:34:15AM -0600, Gordon Sadler wrote: Whenever this has happened to me with local builds... I have forgotten to add a Debian revision to the package number inside debian/changelog. (I.E. 0.4.1 instead of 0.4.1-1) LOL You're perfectly right of course! That'll

Re: Request for sponsor: adopting browser-history

2001-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
Oliver M . Bolzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:57:41AM +, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I intend to adopt browser-history from Karl M. Hegbloom, but I'm still in the NM queue. Would anyone like to sponsor this package? I have an upload of version 2.8-2

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010114T010257-0600, Scott Dier wrote: What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? Those are special cases, and warrant access to our non-x86 machines. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Keep the Deja

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Daniel Stone
On 20010114T010257-0600, Scott Dier wrote: What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? Those are special cases, and warrant access to our non-x86 machines. What about those with sid (me) who want access to potato and woody machines to test with weird breakages? (me) Why in

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:47:21PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On 20010114T010257-0600, Scott Dier wrote: What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? Those are special cases, and warrant access to our non-x86 machines. What about those with sid (me) who want access to potato

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:47:44AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: I mean, is it really difficult to see how approving someone who'll maintain a couple of packages that'll get dropped into optional or extra isn't really a high priority? Is it difficult to see how someone might think, oh, I don't

Re: checking for Build-Depends during build?

2001-01-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Stephen Langasek wrote: Hi all, Hi Stephen, I'm taking on the packaging of a library that has a build-time dependency on the dev package from another library. Do any of the dpkg-dev or debhelper tools check for this line in the control file? I've poked around a bit in

Build-Depends-Indep

2001-01-14 Thread Bob Hilliard
If a source package produces _only_ binary_all packages, is it necessary to have a Build-Depends-Indep: field, or is it sufficient to have a Build-Depends field? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way [EMAIL

Re: Build-Depends-Indep

2001-01-14 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010114T135051-0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: If a source package produces _only_ binary_all packages, is it necessary to have a Build-Depends-Indep: field, or is it sufficient to have a Build-Depends field? It is never necessary to have the Build-Depends-Indep field, although it may be

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

2001-01-14 Thread Mariusz Przygodzki
On Sunday 14 January 2001 20:32, Eric Dorland wrote: Ok... well, since no one seems too bothered by this, I guess it's not a problem. But does anyone know if the DAM has some procedure for picking people out of the queue, or is it all quite willy-nilly? I would say the DAM queue is a full

Re: checking for Build-Depends during build?

2001-01-14 Thread Stephen Langasek
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Joey Hess wrote: Stephen Langasek wrote: I'm taking on the packaging of a library that has a build-time dependency on the dev package from another library. Do any of the dpkg-dev or debhelper tools check for this line in the control file? I've poked around a bit in

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-14 Thread Marek Habersack
** On Jan 14, Anthony Towns scribbled: On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 11:47:21PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: On 20010114T010257-0600, Scott Dier wrote: What about odd programs with breakage on non-x86 platforms? Those are special cases, and warrant access to our non-x86 machines. What about

Re: packages not in testing

2001-01-14 Thread Rick Younie
Chris Ruffin wrote: electric is the package I'm really concerned about. I uploaded it to the old woody tree, and it was accecpted. But the package won't go into testing, and gives the following in update_excuses: electric 6.00-1 (new) (low) Maintainer: Chris Ruffin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages not in testing

2001-01-14 Thread Chris Ruffin
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:01:32PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote: Chris Ruffin wrote: Did you track this down? I had a look yesterday and then got onto other things and didn't reply. electric depends on lesstif1 and there is a problem with that on m68k. I don't know of an easy way of tracking

Debian native package?

2001-01-14 Thread Chris Danis
Hey, What exactly is a Debian-native package? I've seen definitions from a package with no upstream source to written especially for Debian, which seem kind of orthogonal to me. Here's my situation: I'm in the NM queue, currently packaging tclbabel, a piece of software I have written myself.

Re: Debian native package?

2001-01-14 Thread Decklin Foster
Chris Danis writes: I'm in the NM queue, currently packaging tclbabel, a piece of software I have written myself. Because I am both upstream and possibly Debian maintainer, should this be such a native package? I don't like making for such packages native. I have one package that I'm also

Debian Accounts Manager - Master or Servant?

2001-01-14 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:10:32AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Once important tasks are done and no other problems with new applicants occur they will be accepted and receive their account. The problem with statements like this, Joey, is that you have no right at all to make them. if you're

Re: Debian native package?

2001-01-14 Thread peter karlsson
Chris Danis: I'm in the NM queue, currently packaging tclbabel, a piece of software I have written myself. Because I am both upstream and possibly Debian maintainer, should this be such a native package? It could be, but it does not need to. I have made the programs I write myself native