Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:39:01 -0700]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? when purged, definitely. some developers are even of the opinion that You should simply not remove users [1]

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 20.46, Peter Karlsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? [...] how purging the package should remove it completely. To me, that includes removing

backup-manager official webpage

2004-10-28 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
I'm still looking for a sponsor for this package and people seems to be interested in having backup-manager in the official Debian tree : http://www.michael-prokop.at/blog/index.php?p=259 I've set up a web page dedicated to backup-manager for better communication about this project :

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or texhash again. Ooops. Thank you *very

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:38:51AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:39:01 -0700]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? when purged, definitely. some developers are

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Packaged PPower4 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:01:03 -0300 The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Great! Since PPower4 has both parts in Java and parts in LaTeX,

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [u] wrote on 28/10/2004 11:02: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? I think not removing the user is the safe option: If ever some files (potentially

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. I forgot to

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-28 Thread Kees Cook
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 09:03:25PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:09:32PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: /usr/games doesn't appear in the FHS (anymore?). I think /usr/bin is the right place for it. Ack! Hmm. I was generally using tuxracer's debian files as an example,

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 29 2004, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: From: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Great! Yes, now with Free JVM in testing, one can work much more conveniently with

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the .orig.tar.gz to exclude the upstream debian directory if it

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Repack the upstream tarball sans the bogus debian/ dir, or use one of the unpack-tarball-on-build-tree/-and-patch packaging

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the .orig.tar.gz to

Need a sponsor for the game tecnoballz

2004-10-28 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
I've made an ITP and am looking for a sponsor. * Package name: tecnoballz Version : 0.90.6 Upstream Author : TLK Games http://linux.tlk.fr * URL : http://linux.tlk.fr/games/TecnoballZ/ * License : GPL Description : A breaking blocks game ported from Amiga

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Frank Küster wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Repack the upstream tarball sans the bogus debian/ dir, or use one of the unpack-tarball-on-build-tree/-and-patch packaging styles... Why not just replace the upstream debian dir with your

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Frank Küster wrote: I see no reason for repackaging in this case. It is much better to just delete the upstream debian directory in the unpacked sources and copy As I said, diff/patch cannot delete files in a debian package. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.28.2218 +0200]: Patch cannot delete files. It can: -E or --remove-empty-files Remove output files that are empty after the patches have been applied. Normally this option is unnecessary,

problem understanding debian-qa page about me as a maintainer

2004-10-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian%40incase.de currently shows an sh in the uninstallable/Unstable column however, I'm not sure what this means. Any insight? cu, sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem understanding debian-qa page about me as a maintainer

2004-10-28 Thread Matt Brubeck
Sven Mueller wrote: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian%40incase.de currently shows an sh in the uninstallable/Unstable column however, I'm not sure what this means. sh is the SuperH architecture. You don't need to worry about your package status on sh. The SuperH port is not

Re: problem understanding debian-qa page about me as a maintainer

2004-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.28.2312 +0200]: currently shows an sh in the uninstallable/Unstable column however, I'm not sure what this means. It's the SuperH architecture, which is not being worked on anymore. Probably, this should be removed. -- Please do not send

RFS: pclock: Clock Dock app for Window Maker window manager

2004-10-28 Thread Martín Ferrari
Sorry to bother you again, but since no one has answered yet this RFS, I send it again to the list. This little package is dockapp for WindowMaker featuring an analog clock wih configurable background. It has no bugs filed in the BTS, it's linda an lintian clean. And it's my first package in

Re: RFS: pclock: Clock Dock app for Window Maker window manager

2004-10-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martín Ferrari [Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:43:24 -0300]: PS: On a side note, I put my name which has a non-ascii character in the control and changelog files, with UTF8 encoding. Is that okay? yes, utf-8 is ok. just make sure the name in the control file and the name in the changelog are

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2004-10-28 Thread Alta English
B;uy meds for 8O% 1ess than in regular st0re 100% trusted site from Canada Or;der H;ere http://www.028jsh.com/ Art from that Fund each just Supply provides, Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore. Alta 3192291426468718552--

Re: RFS: pclock: Clock Dock app for Window Maker window manager

2004-10-28 Thread Martín Ferrari
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:55:58 +0200, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: On a side note, I put my name which has a non-ascii character in the control and changelog files, with UTF8 encoding. Is that okay? yes, utf-8 is ok. just make sure the name in the control file and the name

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:56:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.28.2218 +0200]: Patch cannot delete files. It can: The other problem is that if upstream adds a *new* file in the debian/ directory, it won't be deleted by

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Cameron Patrick
Rogério Brito wrote: Only from a quick look, why orig.tar.gz contains only pp2p.jar? I suspect style files (and documentation or samples ?) could be also included. I received a feedback from Frank Küster on debian-mentors and I made some improvements to the package already. The

Re: Packaging kernel patches

2004-10-28 Thread Chirag Kantharia
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 02:28:48PM +0300, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: | 26.10.2004 ?? 12:07 +0530 Chirag Kantharia ??(-): | So, they don't have a .orig.tar.gz which I can use. Though debuild | So make it. Put patches into tarball. There are many packages for that | there is no

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or texhash again. Ooops. Thank you *very much* for your feedback Frank. I am a

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. I forgot to say that I have uploaded a new version of the

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Wednesday 27 October 2004 20.46, Peter Karlsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? [...] how purging the package should remove it completely. To me, that includes removing

backup-manager official webpage

2004-10-28 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
I'm still looking for a sponsor for this package and people seems to be interested in having backup-manager in the official Debian tree : http://www.michael-prokop.at/blog/index.php?p=259 I've set up a web page dedicated to backup-manager for better communication about this project :

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or texhash again. Ooops. Thank you *very

Re: usbmount: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

2004-10-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Martin Braure de Calignon [u] wrote on 27/10/2004 01:18: well I've just find it in 'man mount' It says : (sorry it is translated from french, so probably inexact) for exemple sync is only effective with ext2, ext3 and ufs english manpage: the sync option today has effect only for ext2, ext3

ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread David Everly
Hi, Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Thanks, Dave. -- Encrypted Mail Preferred: Key ID: 8527B9AF Key Fingerprint: E1B6 40B6 B73F 695E 0D3B 644E 6427 DD74 8527 B9AF Information:

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:38:51AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:39:01 -0700]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? when purged, definitely. some developers are

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Packaged PPower4 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:01:03 -0300 The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Great! Since PPower4 has both parts in Java and parts in LaTeX,

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 29 2004, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: From: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Great! Yes, now with Free JVM in testing, one can work much more conveniently with

Re: RFS: icculus's orbital sniper game

2004-10-28 Thread Kees Cook
On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 09:03:25PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 08:09:32PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: /usr/games doesn't appear in the FHS (anymore?). I think /usr/bin is the right place for it. Ack! Hmm. I was generally using tuxracer's debian files as an example,

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the .orig.tar.gz to exclude the upstream debian directory if it

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Repack the upstream tarball sans the bogus debian/ dir, or use one of the unpack-tarball-on-build-tree/-and-patch packaging

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Repack the upstream tarball sans the bogus debian/ dir, or use one of

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the .orig.tar.gz to

Need a sponsor for the game tecnoballz

2004-10-28 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
I've made an ITP and am looking for a sponsor. * Package name: tecnoballz Version : 0.90.6 Upstream Author : TLK Games http://linux.tlk.fr * URL : http://linux.tlk.fr/games/TecnoballZ/ * License : GPL Description : A breaking blocks game ported from Amiga

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Frank Küster wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Repack the upstream tarball sans the bogus debian/ dir, or use one of the unpack-tarball-on-build-tree/-and-patch packaging styles... Why not just replace the upstream debian dir with your

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Frank Küster wrote: I see no reason for repackaging in this case. It is much better to just delete the upstream debian directory in the unpacked sources and copy As I said, diff/patch cannot delete files in a debian package. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.28.2218 +0200]: Patch cannot delete files. It can: -E or --remove-empty-files Remove output files that are empty after the patches have been applied. Normally this option is unnecessary,

problem understanding debian-qa page about me as a maintainer

2004-10-28 Thread Sven Mueller
Hi. http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian%40incase.de currently shows an sh in the uninstallable/Unstable column however, I'm not sure what this means. Any insight? cu, sven

Re: problem understanding debian-qa page about me as a maintainer

2004-10-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.28.2312 +0200]: currently shows an sh in the uninstallable/Unstable column however, I'm not sure what this means. It's the SuperH architecture, which is not being worked on anymore. Probably, this should be removed. -- Please do not send

Re: problem understanding debian-qa page about me as a maintainer

2004-10-28 Thread Matt Brubeck
Sven Mueller wrote: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian%40incase.de currently shows an sh in the uninstallable/Unstable column however, I'm not sure what this means. sh is the SuperH architecture. You don't need to worry about your package status on sh. The SuperH port is not

RFS: pclock: Clock Dock app for Window Maker window manager

2004-10-28 Thread Martín Ferrari
Sorry to bother you again, but since no one has answered yet this RFS, I send it again to the list. This little package is dockapp for WindowMaker featuring an analog clock wih configurable background. It has no bugs filed in the BTS, it's linda an lintian clean. And it's my first package in

Re: RFS: pclock: Clock Dock app for Window Maker window manager

2004-10-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martín Ferrari [Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:43:24 -0300]: PS: On a side note, I put my name which has a non-ascii character in the control and changelog files, with UTF8 encoding. Is that okay? yes, utf-8 is ok. just make sure the name in the control file and the name in the changelog are

i love you

2004-10-28 Thread Alta English
B;uy meds for 8O% 1ess than in regular st0re 100% trusted site from Canada Or;der H;ere http://www.028jsh.com/ Art from that Fund each just Supply provides, Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore. Alta 3192291426468718552--

Re: RFS: pclock: Clock Dock app for Window Maker window manager

2004-10-28 Thread Martín Ferrari
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:55:58 +0200, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: On a side note, I put my name which has a non-ascii character in the control and changelog files, with UTF8 encoding. Is that okay? yes, utf-8 is ok. just make sure the name in the control file and the name

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:56:01PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.10.28.2218 +0200]: Patch cannot delete files. It can: The other problem is that if upstream adds a *new* file in the debian/ directory, it won't be deleted by