request for sponsor/mentor in nl

2003-03-05 Thread Paul J Stevens
Hi there, I'd like to get in touch with any debian developers here in the Netherlands who are willing and able to: - sponsor a package I've been maintaining and would like to see uploaded to master. - be my mentor on my path to debian maintainership. The dbmail (upstream: www.dbmail.org) package

Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello: After getting tired of doing multiple installs of data analysis programs on multiple machines, I am trying to make some local Debian packages of software that I use regularly in my research lab. I have more or less successfully packages a program which is mostly C and FORTRAN by

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Carlo! You wrote: Is there a simple way to generate the contents of debian/ for such programs or is the best thing to do to look at similar package and copy and modify the control files? IIRC, the debian/ dir is simply copied from /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make -- Kind regards,

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Carlo I have more or less successfully packages a program which is Carlo mostly C and FORTRAN by following the New Maintainers Guide. I Carlo am running into problems with those programs which are Perl Carlo based. When I run dh_make in the source directory, I get the Carlo error message:

Re: request for sponsor/mentor in nl

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Loschwitz
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Paul J Stevens wrote: Hi there, I'd like to get in touch with any debian developers here in the Netherlands who are willing and able to: I am not living in the netherlands but living 20km away from dutch border in NRW, Germany. If you live

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have more or less successfully packages a program which is mostly C and FORTRAN by following the New Maintainers Guide. I am running into problems with those programs which are Perl based. When I run dh_make in the source

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
You are right. I noticed that immediately after I sent the message. Now for other problems... Thanks, Carlo On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Craig Small wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have more or less successfully packages a program which is mostly C and

RFS: festalon - an NSF music file player

2003-03-05 Thread Joe Nahmias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello mentors, I have a new package that's in need of a sponsor: festalon. As the subject implies it is an NSF (NES Sound Format) music player. There are two binary packages: a command-line player, and an XMMS plugin. The package (along with

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-05 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030304T141459+0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can write the version number to a file? # example: current bash version number BASH_VERSION=`grep-available -P -s Version -n -r '^bash$'` Please see the grep-dctrl(1) manual

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:30:07 -0500, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can write the version number to a file? Why is it that you need to know this in a maintainer

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:25:07 +0100, Jeremie Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, there already have been a lot of suggestions, but why do you need to create the file at install time ? Can't you just generate it in debian/rules, and include it in the package ? Because I don't find that approach

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-05 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Does a maintainer script know the package version, so that it can write the version number to a file? Well, there already have been a lot of suggestions, but why do you need to create the file at install time ? Can't you just generate

request for sponsor/mentor in nl

2003-03-05 Thread Paul J Stevens
Hi there, I'd like to get in touch with any debian developers here in the Netherlands who are willing and able to: - sponsor a package I've been maintaining and would like to see uploaded to master. - be my mentor on my path to debian maintainership. The dbmail (upstream: www.dbmail.org)

Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Hello: After getting tired of doing multiple installs of data analysis programs on multiple machines, I am trying to make some local Debian packages of software that I use regularly in my research lab. I have more or less successfully packages a program which is mostly C and FORTRAN by

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Carlo! You wrote: Is there a simple way to generate the contents of debian/ for such programs or is the best thing to do to look at similar package and copy and modify the control files? IIRC, the debian/ dir is simply copied from /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make -- Kind regards,

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Carlo I have more or less successfully packages a program which is Carlo mostly C and FORTRAN by following the New Maintainers Guide. I Carlo am running into problems with those programs which are Perl Carlo based. When I run dh_make in the source directory, I get the Carlo error message:

Re: request for sponsor/mentor in nl

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Loschwitz
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 04:17:45PM +0100, Paul J Stevens wrote: Hi there, I'd like to get in touch with any debian developers here in the Netherlands who are willing and able to: I am not living in the netherlands but living 20km away from dutch border in NRW, Germany. If you live

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have more or less successfully packages a program which is mostly C and FORTRAN by following the New Maintainers Guide. I am running into problems with those programs which are Perl based. When I run dh_make in the source

Re: Packaging Perl programs

2003-03-05 Thread Carlo U. Segre
You are right. I noticed that immediately after I sent the message. Now for other problems... Thanks, Carlo On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Craig Small wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:05:36AM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: I have more or less successfully packages a program which is mostly C and

RFS: festalon - an NSF music file player

2003-03-05 Thread Joe Nahmias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello mentors, I have a new package that's in need of a sponsor: festalon. As the subject implies it is an NSF (NES Sound Format) music player. There are two binary packages: a command-line player, and an XMMS plugin. The package (along with