Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra in my control files, so I can't really understand

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20020430T055257+0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra in

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:01:23AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Either the bug is a mistake or the ftpmasters have overridden your package's priority. One common reason for this to happen is that the maintainer changes the priority of the package in the control file - the archive

ETRURIAONLINE

2002-04-30 Thread EtruriaOnLine . it
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Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:52:59PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am helping packaging mplayer; it depends on libsdl; ... Sorry, but I don't really understand why you are working on reinventing packaging that has already been done by

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:35:26PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: What Christian Marillat has been doing was surely done with good intentions in mind; and indeed I have already asked him for any help he wishes to provide; but there were some problems/issues. (btw: didn't you ask yourself

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Andrea Mennucc
it seems we have very different opinions; for me... ... there is non-free-software that can be distributed, and non-free-sw that cannot be distributed (regardless of where) ... upstream authors should be listened to (after all, they do most of the job), and ... courtesy is not an option (at

looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hi, Well, i'm a newbie, trying to be a devel man. I want cooperate with this community that so have helped me. If somebody can help me Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:36:58AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: Hi, Well, i'm a newbie, trying to be a devel man. I want cooperate with this community that so have helped me. If somebody can help me Thanks in advance. Perhaps you could explain a bit about who you are and what

Re: looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Marcelo Leal
First: I'm academic, computer science... under graduate. Almost done (maybe, more one year). I'm brazilian... do not speak english very well, but i'm a very good reader. My books about linux and FreeBSD are in english, all ones. And, maybe, can i help in the translate job. I'm working as

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 27-Apr-2002 Junichi Uekawa wrote: Oohara Yuuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Suppose that a source package makes two .deb, package-data and package (which depends on package-data), and

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Florent Rougon
Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... there is non-free-software that can be distributed, and non-free-sw that cannot be distributed (regardless of where) And? Nobody said the contrary. Jérôme simply said that software that can't be distributed is non-free software, which is (was?) the

Sponsor requested for Linux Bluetooth tools

2002-04-30 Thread Edd Dumbill
Hello, I've been a Debian user for several years, and I'm finally in a position to offer something back in terms of packaging some software. I'm involved with the BlueZ project, which is developing the Linux Bluetooth stack and associated tools and utilities. The BlueZ kernel modules are

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't seem to have understood what cooperative work means. In another mail, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what? The one who uploads the first wins. [...] Obtaining permission is just a matter of courtesy. Pot. Kettle.

Re: looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Marcelo Leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm brazilian... do not speak english very well, but i'm a very good reader. My books about linux and FreeBSD are in english, all ones. And, maybe, can i help in the translate job. Debian specific translation tasks include the translation of package

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Christian Marillat
Robbe == Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't seem to have understood what cooperative work means. In another mail, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what? The one who uploads the first wins. [...] Obtaining

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread David Caldwell
On 05/01/02 03:36:11 +0200 Christian Marillat wrote: Robbe == Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pot. Kettle. Black. Can you translate ? http://www.goenglish.com/2014.asp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra in my control files, so I can't really understand

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20020430T055257+0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: I just got serious bugs filed against two of my packages about dependencies on packages with lower priorities. In one case it is correct (a package with optional depending on one with extra), but in one case all the packages are set to extra in my

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:01:23AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Either the bug is a mistake or the ftpmasters have overridden your package's priority. One common reason for this to happen is that the maintainer changes the priority of the package in the control file - the archive

ETRURIAONLINE

2002-04-30 Thread EtruriaOnLine . it
Visita http://www.etruriaonline.it Questo indirizzo è stato reperito su internet dove era stato reso di pubblico dominio: Se non vuoi ricevere piu questa newsletter clicca qui -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Andrea Mennucc
hi On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:52:59PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am helping packaging mplayer; it depends on libsdl; ... Sorry, but I don't really understand why you are working on reinventing packaging that has already been done by

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 01:35:26PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: What Christian Marillat has been doing was surely done with good intentions in mind; and indeed I have already asked him for any help he wishes to provide; but there were some problems/issues. (btw: didn't you ask yourself

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Andrea Mennucc
it seems we have very different opinions; for me... ... there is non-free-software that can be distributed, and non-free-sw that cannot be distributed (regardless of where) ... upstream authors should be listened to (after all, they do most of the job), and ... courtesy is not an option (at

looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hi, Well, i'm a newbie, trying to be a devel man. I want cooperate with this community that so have helped me. If somebody can help me Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Jérôme Marant
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:25:35PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: It seems you have different ideas; I am not losing my sleep on this. Don't worry, I know who I'm talking to ;-) -- Jérôme Marant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:36:58AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: Hi, Well, i'm a newbie, trying to be a devel man. I want cooperate with this community that so have helped me. If somebody can help me Thanks in advance. Perhaps you could explain a bit about who you are and what

Re: looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Marcelo Leal
First: I'm academic, computer science... under graduate. Almost done (maybe, more one year). I'm brazilian... do not speak english very well, but i'm a very good reader. My books about linux and FreeBSD are in english, all ones. And, maybe, can i help in the translate job. I'm working as

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 27-Apr-2002 Junichi Uekawa wrote: Oohara Yuuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] cum veritate scripsit: Suppose that a source package makes two .deb, package-data and package (which depends on package-data), and

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Florent Rougon
Andrea Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... there is non-free-software that can be distributed, and non-free-sw that cannot be distributed (regardless of where) And? Nobody said the contrary. Jérôme simply said that software that can't be distributed is non-free software, which is (was?) the

Sponsor requested for Linux Bluetooth tools

2002-04-30 Thread Edd Dumbill
Hello, I've been a Debian user for several years, and I'm finally in a position to offer something back in terms of packaging some software. I'm involved with the BlueZ project, which is developing the Linux Bluetooth stack and associated tools and utilities. The BlueZ kernel modules are likely

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't seem to have understood what cooperative work means. In another mail, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what? The one who uploads the first wins. [...] Obtaining permission is just a matter of courtesy. Pot. Kettle.

Re: looking for mentor

2002-04-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Marcelo Leal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm brazilian... do not speak english very well, but i'm a very good reader. My books about linux and FreeBSD are in english, all ones. And, maybe, can i help in the translate job. Debian specific translation tasks include the translation of package

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread Christian Marillat
Robbe == Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't seem to have understood what cooperative work means. In another mail, Jérôme Marant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So what? The one who uploads the first wins. [...] Obtaining

Re: lib sdl

2002-04-30 Thread David Caldwell
On 05/01/02 03:36:11 +0200 Christian Marillat wrote: Robbe == Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pot. Kettle. Black. Can you translate ? http://www.goenglish.com/2014.asp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL