Re: question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-07 Thread Aubin Paul
Hmm... I'm actually quite familiar with CVS (we use it extensively at work) So, the idea would be that I'd keep the pristine sources in a branch, apply my changes in a 'version' and maintain the debian/ stuff in another branch? Sounds good, but I've usually just made my changes, made a diff, and

Re: How to choose a good first package?

2001-02-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:18:24 -0500 Jimmy cum veritate scripsit : Hi. I would like to play around with some program and try to come up with a .deb for it, in order to learn how to do it. I'd like it to be reasonably simple, but I'd also like not to be duplicating work that's already been

How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread Ondrej Sury
Hello, I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian installer rejected those new packages. Now I don't know how to solve

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Ondrej Sury wrote: Hello, I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian

Re: Testing hassles

2001-02-07 Thread peter karlsson
Christopher C. Chimelis: Alpha has serious gcc/g++ problems with Qt 2.2, so don't expect an alpha upload for quite some timejust fyi :-) So basically, I should change "Architecture: any" to specifically not list alpha (and other platforms lacking Qt)? -- \\// peter -

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian installer rejected those new

Re: Testing hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: So basically, I should change "Architecture: any" to specifically not list alpha (and other platforms lacking Qt)? H...I would say no, personally, only because it's a compiler problem which is likely to be fixed eventually. If it were something

Re: Testing hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: Well, also there is the endian problem. I don't know how 1.4 debs ended up on these machines, because I have a check in configure that disallows compiles on big-endian machines (since the datastructures are defined as little-endian, and I haven't

Re: question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
"Aubin" == Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aubin Hmm... I'm actually quite familiar with CVS (we use it extensively at Aubin work) So, the idea would be that I'd keep the pristine sources in a Aubin branch, apply my changes in a 'version' and maintain the debian/ stuff Aubin in another

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:43:51PM +, James Troup wrote: Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to

Re: ITP: OpenSLP - Service Location Protocol (SLP) v2 implementation

2001-02-07 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
"Ganesan" == Ganesan Rajagopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am currently in the NM queue. I am looking for a sponsor to upload packages for OpenSLP. My experimental packages are available at ftp://openslp.sourceforge.net:/pub/openslp/CVS. These sources are based on a current CVS

Re: question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-07 Thread ^chewie
Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) If I make a bug-fix, and submit it upstream, do I have to wait for the upstream version to apply my fix, or can I just apply it myself. (In one of my packages, there were some GTK warnings, so I fixed those, and sent a patch to the upstream guy, but can

please help me with #78232

2001-02-07 Thread Domenico Andreoli
hi all i have a problem with bug #78232 which i don't figure out how to solve. it is the assle of the -rpath parameter. lintian is reporting this warning against my curl binary package and i'm not understanding how to make it shut up. lintian doesn't provide any information regarding this

Re: question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-07 Thread Aubin Paul
Hmm... I'm actually quite familiar with CVS (we use it extensively at work) So, the idea would be that I'd keep the pristine sources in a branch, apply my changes in a 'version' and maintain the debian/ stuff in another branch? Sounds good, but I've usually just made my changes, made a diff, and

Re: How to choose a good first package?

2001-02-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:18:24 -0500 Jimmy cum veritate scripsit : Hi. I would like to play around with some program and try to come up with a .deb for it, in order to learn how to do it. I'd like it to be reasonably simple, but I'd also like not to be duplicating work that's already been

How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread Ondrej Sury
Hello, I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian installer rejected those new packages. Now I don't know how to solve

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:54:10PM +0100, Ondrej Sury wrote: Hello, I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian

Re: Testing hassles

2001-02-07 Thread peter karlsson
Christopher C. Chimelis: Alpha has serious gcc/g++ problems with Qt 2.2, so don't expect an alpha upload for quite some timejust fyi :-) So basically, I should change Architecture: any to specifically not list alpha (and other platforms lacking Qt)? -- \\// peter -

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian installer rejected those new

Re: Testing hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: So basically, I should change Architecture: any to specifically not list alpha (and other platforms lacking Qt)? H...I would say no, personally, only because it's a compiler problem which is likely to be fixed eventually. If it were something

Re: Testing hassles

2001-02-07 Thread peter karlsson
Christopher C. Chimelis: If it were something like GNAT, where we cannot build it on Alpha at all without pre-existing binaries (which don't exist for alpha-linux), then I would say omit Alpha. Well, also there is the endian problem. I don't know how 1.4 debs ended up on these machines,

Re: Testing hassles

2001-02-07 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, peter karlsson wrote: Well, also there is the endian problem. I don't know how 1.4 debs ended up on these machines, because I have a check in configure that disallows compiles on big-endian machines (since the datastructures are defined as little-endian, and I haven't had

Re: question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Aubin == Aubin Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aubin Hmm... I'm actually quite familiar with CVS (we use it extensively at Aubin work) So, the idea would be that I'd keep the pristine sources in a Aubin branch, apply my changes in a 'version' and maintain the debian/ stuff Aubin in another

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:43:51PM +, James Troup wrote: Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to