Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:19:27AM +0200, Mashrab Kuvatov wrote: Hi Brian, thanks for reply. I've rebuilt aspell-uz taking into account your feedback. Please have a look, it is at http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ Almost there, just a few more things: * The urgency should be

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * You probably shouldn't repack the .tar file so that the md5sum will match the upstream version. Usually for an upstream that distributes a .tar.bz2, you just want to do bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2; gzip -9 foo.tar and then use the resulting .tar.gz. See

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Nicolas Boullis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write Recommends: no-udev | udev (= 0.060-1). An elegant solution ;-) I guess this would behave as expected, but I think

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Nicolas Boullis wrote: If there's currently no way to set up such things, it might be worth suggesting to add such a feature to next-generation .deb format. Don't you think so? To be honest, no. If you do a Recommends: udev (= ...), most people will just install the recommended udev and

Error in the account verification!

2005-07-27 Thread FlexWindow Error
Title: Message Dear FlexWindow user, The FlexWindow update you send encountered an error in the account verification. As a result your window has not been updated. The cause of the problem is most

Re: Looking for python-xlib sponsor

2005-07-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +0200, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Geert Stappers wrote: snip/ That is what is done with python. Please post also the description of the non default or dummy packages. I haven't really changed the description since I adopted the packages, but here you go:

how to prevent binary incompatibilities with libraries (in reference to Bug#320029)

2005-07-27 Thread Mike Williams
I need some help with finding a good resolution for Bug#320029. In summary, the current version of my 'librmagick-ruby' package was compiled against libmagick6-dev_6.0.6.x. It works nicely when run with libmagick6_6.0.6.x, but fails when libmagick6 is upgraded to the version currently in

Re: how to prevent binary incompatibilities with libraries (in reference to Bug#320029)

2005-07-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need some help with finding a good resolution for Bug#320029. In summary, the current version of my 'librmagick-ruby' package was compiled against libmagick6-dev_6.0.6.x. It works nicely when run with libmagick6_6.0.6.x, but fails when libmagick6 is

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote: Nicolas Boullis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write Recommends: no-udev | udev (= 0.060-1). An elegant solution ;-) I

Re: Looking for python-xlib sponsor

2005-07-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Geert Stappers wrote: Some advice about requesting a sponsor: reread http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#rfs And for the interest level I guess that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is good place for also RFS. Thanks for the advise. Posting to debian-python is certainly a good idea;

Re: Looking for python-xlib sponsor

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Martin, Martin v. Löwis wrote: I just adopted python-xlib, fixed the outstanding bugs, and put the revised package at While you're at it: - If you read Matthew's FAQ, you'll find that the copyright file isn't correct. - You're #249071 has 127.0.0.1 in the comment but localhost in the

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:57:35AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi. Nicolas Boullis wrote: If there's currently no way to set up such things, it might be worth suggesting to add such a feature to next-generation .deb format. Don't you think so? To be honest, no. If you do a

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:22:44AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote: Nicolas Boullis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread skaller
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:22 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote: Nicolas Boullis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write Recommends:

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:27, Brian Nelson wrote: Almost there, just a few more things: * The urgency should be set to low, not high. Fixed. * Why have you deviated from the upstream version? I don't have a good reason for this. I just blindly followed aspell-en. This time deb and source

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:27, Brian Nelson wrote: * Your aspell-uz.info-aspell is not correct. See http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/dsdt-policy.html#infofile for more info. I added language name in Uzbek into Language section. Is it

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:12:16AM +1000, skaller wrote: Two methods, one is not tenable: (a) X conflicts with no-X implicitly (b) When Y depends on no-X, if Y is installed, no-X is synthesised and installed too if it doesn't exist, (and conflicting with X to prevent X being

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
On Thursday 28 July 2005 00:34, Brian Nelson wrote: Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I added language name in Uzbek into Language section. Is it correct now? Well, you should also specify Casechars, Not-Casechars, and They are optional, aren't they? Anyway, ... (see below)

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread skaller
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 01:01 +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: The reason a logical 'X isn't installed' does not work is that you could install Y, which depends on no X, and then just install X. Now Y is silently broken by a package that knows nothing about Y. As far as I know, such things

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 28 July 2005 00:34, Brian Nelson wrote: Mashrab Kuvatov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I added language name in Uzbek into Language section. Is it correct now? Well, you should also specify Casechars, Not-Casechars, and They are optional,