RFS: four xmms visualization plugins

2003-11-12 Thread John Lightsey
Hi there, I'm trying to adopt four XMMS plugins and need to find a sponsor. One, xmms-goom, is a new upstream version that fixes 2 RC bugs. The other three packages are minor bug fixes for versions already in Debian. I've put all the necessry files in tar.gz archives located here:

Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
Dear mentors, I am working on packaging phpLDAPadmin which is a php product to manage an LDAP server. I have installed and used the product without any problems and I have a few questions regarding its packaging. I am using yada to help me with the package building process and inspired myself a

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin. Yes. The changes file will always be tagged

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:07:46 -0600 David Segonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, Hi David, [I'm not really a mentor but interrested in phpLDAPAdmin] I am working on packaging phpLDAPadmin which is a php product to manage an LDAP server. [...] Packages are available on

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin. Yes, don't worry about it. 2. There is an

question for a package

2003-11-12 Thread Ottavio Campana
Saturday I received a present: a basic stamp board with sensors and servos . For those who don't know basic stamp it is a microcontroller based on a pic running a basic interpreter. I found a compiler and a software loader for linux, but for it wasn't good organized I decided to

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:57:49AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: If there isn't another README in the package, that sounds like a good way to go - and pest upstream into either splitting the file or renaming it to README. Will do.

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:41:46PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: You could rename it, but it would be better for upstream to rename it if it is not installation instructions. That way, pointers to documentation are consistent

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:06:59PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: As a newbie, ignoring lintian advices does not seem the right thing to do for some reasons. :) Which raises another question. How good are lintian advices? If lintian developers spent time integrating those warnings, they

RFT: charva -- java windowing toolkit for text terminals

2003-11-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Request For Tests (and for Review and for Comments) Hi all, It's the first time I package a jni library ('java native interface') with a java library. Charva uses native bindings to render buttons, listboxes etc. in a terminal. You can apt-get libcharva1-java and libcharva1-jni here: deb

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Geert Stappers may or may not have written... [snip] find . -name exact-name-of-file | xargs rm -f or find . -name exact-name-of-file -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f can be reduced to rm -f exact-name-of-file They can't: consider what happens when ./foo/exact-name-of-file

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:00:39PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: You likely know your users better than anyone else; you are one at least. If you're concerned about whether it would take too much time or effort to implement it correctly, try the (much simpler) conffile approach first, and

RFS: four xmms visualization plugins

2003-11-12 Thread John Lightsey
Hi there, I'm trying to adopt four XMMS plugins and need to find a sponsor. One, xmms-goom, is a new upstream version that fixes 2 RC bugs. The other three packages are minor bug fixes for versions already in Debian. I've put all the necessry files in tar.gz archives located here:

Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
Dear mentors, I am working on packaging phpLDAPadmin which is a php product to manage an LDAP server. I have installed and used the product without any problems and I have a few questions regarding its packaging. I am using yada to help me with the package building process and inspired myself a

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin. Yes. The changes file will always be tagged

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:07:46 -0600 David Segonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, Hi David, [I'm not really a mentor but interrested in phpLDAPAdmin] I am working on packaging phpLDAPadmin which is a php product to manage an LDAP server. [...] Packages are available on

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin. Yes, don't worry about it. 2. There is an

question for a package

2003-11-12 Thread Ottavio Campana
Saturday I received a present: a basic stamp board with sensors and servos . For those who don't know basic stamp it is a microcontroller based on a pic running a basic interpreter. I found a compiler and a software loader for linux, but for it wasn't good organized I decided to

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:57:49AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: If there isn't another README in the package, that sounds like a good way to go - and pest upstream into either splitting the file or renaming it to README. Will do.

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:41:46PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: You could rename it, but it would be better for upstream to rename it if it is not installation instructions. That way, pointers to documentation are consistent

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:06:59PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: As a newbie, ignoring lintian advices does not seem the right thing to do for some reasons. :) Which raises another question. How good are lintian advices? If lintian developers spent time integrating those warnings, they

RFT: charva -- java windowing toolkit for text terminals

2003-11-12 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Request For Tests (and for Review and for Comments) Hi all, It's the first time I package a jni library ('java native interface') with a java library. Charva uses native bindings to render buttons, listboxes etc. in a terminal. You can apt-get libcharva1-java and libcharva1-jni here: deb

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-12 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Geert Stappers may or may not have written... [snip] find . -name exact-name-of-file | xargs rm -f or find . -name exact-name-of-file -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f can be reduced to rm -f exact-name-of-file They can't: consider what happens when ./foo/exact-name-of-file

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-12 Thread David Segonds
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:00:39PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: You likely know your users better than anyone else; you are one at least. If you're concerned about whether it would take too much time or effort to implement it correctly, try the (much simpler) conffile approach first, and