Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:53:51AM +0100, Terry Burton wrote: Hi, Hello, Would people please examine the package and tell me what problems exist. You can view the files at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc After a very brief look, I can only say I saw a lot of

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Ben Finney
On 06-Sep-2005, Terry Burton wrote: I'm currently packaging the Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript project that I have written. Yay! I like this program, thanks. Debian Policy mandates that programs have a manpage. Since this is a PostScript resource (similar to a shared library) does this

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Paul Wise
Hi, After I have got the source package into good shape, do you have any advise on finding a package sponser? Any volunteers. If you don't find a sponsor, have a read of womble's excellent debian-mentors FAQ[0] (recently updated) and add your sponsorship request to sponsors.debian.net so it

dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Eddy Petrişor
Hello all, I am trying to package qingy (qingy.sf.net) for which there are 2 RFPs - 309672 and 236706 - in BTS for a looong time. I have tried it on my system and seems ok, although there seems to be some kind of race condition in the code resulting in a deadlock if the user changes the tty

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Terry Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would people please examine the package and tell me what problems exist. You can view the files at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc The debian/rules is very bloated, please remove everything which is not needed and not mandated

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Terry Burton
Hi, I've removed the Makefile and made use of dh_install. I've also slimmed the debian/rules file by removing the commented lines and dh_* rules that seem redundant, as suggested. I would appreciate it if someone could offer any assistance in further tidying this up. It is now also building for

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Eric
Hi, Hi, I've removed the Makefile and made use of dh_install. I've also slimmed the debian/rules file by removing the commented lines and dh_* rules that seem redundant, as suggested. I would appreciate it if someone could offer any assistance in further tidying this up. Generally, you just

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Terry Burton
Okay, next round :-) Please recheck files at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc. Target is now /usr/share/libpostscriptbarcode, not /usr/lib/libpostscriptbarcode. Created debian/install file to simplify debian/rules. Added -X option to dh_installdocs to prevent

Re: Problem with one package that use php License

2005-09-06 Thread Jose Carlos do Nascimento
Hi, As I understand, that's php-xml-util, php-xml-serializer (http://pear.php.net/package/XML_Serializer/), php-soap and php-cache. Yes Which other package? Which horde3 version? php-services-weather require these packages,, and horde3 require this one. Horde3 run whitout

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:10:11PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: Hello all, Good morning, - if I add dh_shlibdeps to the build then I have a warning during the build of the package - something about misc libs not being defined and some nasty errors during installation, but the package installs

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Frank Küster
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared libraries which are not intended to be used by other programs? If they aren't used by other programs, there's no need to produce a library. Perhaps it's convienient to create

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, sorry for this, but I think another round might be required: 1. move sample.ps, barcode_with_sample.ps, docs/* from debian/install to debian/docs. 2. I think you should just remove the Depends line (as far as I understand the thing you could just cat barcode_with_sample.ps /dev/lp0 and it

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Terry Burton
Hi, Thanks for all of your assistance Eric. New files available at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/debiansrc. Documentation files moved from debian/install to debian/docs. Depends removed. I would prefer not to have to regenerate the documentation from TeX for the timebeing

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared libraries which are not intended to be used by other programs? If they aren't used by other programs, there's

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Sven Mueller
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote on 06/09/2005 12:29: There is no Debian package without a Depends line, as you always need something else to properly use it. This is not true. For an example look at busybox-static gcc-4.0-base or libc6: aptitude show busybox-static gcc-4.0-base libc6 cu, sven

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Frank Küster
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared libraries which are not intended to be used by other programs? If they

Re: pkg-config

2005-09-06 Thread Mark Seaborn
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Symbol versions are transparent to the application, but when present at build time the linker binds references to that symbol to the specified symbol version -- this allows the runtime linker to distinguish between two different functions with the same

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: There is no Debian package without a Depends line, as you always need something else to properly use it. Actually, there are over 1500 of them. Some packages survive with the Essentials :) $ grep-dctrl -c -FDepends -e '^$' \

Re: pkg-config

2005-09-06 Thread skaller
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 21:31 +0100, Mark Seaborn wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] I think I understand the semantics of ELF versioned symbols, but I don't really understand why they are supposed to be useful. For example, glibc has two versions of chown, GLIBC_2.1 (the

[RFS] grace6: An XY plotting tool

2005-09-06 Thread Li Daobing
Hello, I want to adopt grace6[1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/307358 I rebuild grace6[2], lintian and linda clean. I have upload it to mentors.debian.net[3]. [2] attachment: grace6_5.99.0+final-7_i386.changes [3] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/grace6/ maybe you also like to look

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Joe Smith
I would prefer not to have to regenerate the documentation from TeX for the timebeing since it relies on TeX modules that are not yet part of Debian. Hopefully future Debian releases of the PSTricks packages will remedy this situation making this a sensible option. It would also seem a bit

Re: [RFS] grace6: An XY plotting tool

2005-09-06 Thread Torsten Werner
Package: grace6 Severity: grave Version: 5.99.0+final-7 Christoph Berg schrieb: Re: Li Daobing in [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to adopt grace6[1]. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/307358 I rebuild grace6[2], lintian and linda clean. I have upload it to mentors.debian.net[3]. Hi, the package