Re: Call for help with mp3kult's postinst

2001-05-19 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Carlos Laviola wrote: I'm packaging mp3kult (see #94999), and having a bit of trouble to make a perfect debconfized postinst for it. I already have a few nice tests that ensure a more or less smooth installation, but some other tests I plan to include would require MySQL

Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! What's the thought about software which is only available in a non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support for gettext, but no-one has bother translating the program into any other languages

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:17:09PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: Hi! What's the thought about software which is only available in a non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support for gettext, but

debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Abraham van der Merwe
Hi! I've just upgraded one of my package's control files from 3.0.1 to 3.1.1 and now I can't get the damn thing to build correctly. The one problem I'm having is with the configuration file. I have the following in conffiles: snip -- snip -- snip

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, 20 May 2001 at 00:42:10 +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: Hi Colin! One good question is why are you still using debstd? :) Hiehie, yeah, I discovered that debstd is ancient (so is 3.1.1 standard, we're already at 3.5.2 :P) Anyway, I fixed it (just used dh_make, etc.) I really

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Sat, 19 May 2001 12:17:09 +0200 (CEST), peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the thought about software which is only available in a non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Sun, 20 May 2001 00:42:10 +0200, Abraham vd Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Colin! However, if I run debstd, I get the following: One good question is why are you still using debstd? :) Hiehie, yeah, I discovered that debstd is ancient (so is 3.1.1 standard, we're already at

Re: Call for help with mp3kult's postinst

2001-05-19 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Fri, 18 May 2001, Carlos Laviola wrote: I'm packaging mp3kult (see #94999), and having a bit of trouble to make a perfect debconfized postinst for it. I already have a few nice tests that ensure a more or less smooth installation, but some other tests I plan to include would require MySQL

Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! What's the thought about software which is only available in a non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support for gettext, but no-one has bother translating the program into any other languages yet).

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 12:17:09PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: Hi! What's the thought about software which is only available in a non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support for gettext, but

debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Abraham van der Merwe
Hi! I've just upgraded one of my package's control files from 3.0.1 to 3.1.1 and now I can't get the damn thing to build correctly. The one problem I'm having is with the configuration file. I have the following in conffiles: snip -- snip -- snip [EMAIL

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Peter, On Sat, 19 May 2001, peter karlsson wrote: What's the thought about software which is only available in a non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support for gettext, but no-one has bother

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
Abraham van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just upgraded one of my package's control files from 3.0.1 to 3.1.1 and now I can't get the damn thing to build correctly. The one problem I'm having is with the configuration file. I have the following in conffiles: snip --

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: debmake/debstd's development was frozen some time ago, so I doubt it. Most people [1] who use a helper package these days use debhelper. [1] http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/stats/ -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Abraham vd Merwe
Hi Colin! However, if I run debstd, I get the following: One good question is why are you still using debstd? :) Hiehie, yeah, I discovered that debstd is ancient (so is 3.1.1 standard, we're already at 3.5.2 :P) Anyway, I fixed it (just used dh_make, etc.) I really think we should drop

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-19 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:22:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just adopted xabacus. It conflicts with xmabacus because both try to install the same config file /etc/X11/app-defaults/Abacus. maybe using an abacus-common package which owns that conffile... my question now is, is a

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, 20 May 2001 at 00:42:10 +0200, Abraham vd Merwe wrote: Hi Colin! One good question is why are you still using debstd? :) Hiehie, yeah, I discovered that debstd is ancient (so is 3.1.1 standard, we're already at 3.5.2 :P) Anyway, I fixed it (just used dh_make, etc.) I really

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread Tomohiro KUBOTA
Hi, At Sat, 19 May 2001 12:17:09 +0200 (CEST), peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the thought about software which is only available in a non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client for the LysKOM server, which is only available in Swedish (there's some support