Dependencies and debconf configuration

2005-09-25 Thread Julien Valroff
Hi, As an exercise, I am trying to package as cleanly as possible bootsplash 3.2 and a few themes. I use debconf templates for the configuration. Main bootsplash package depends on a given theme package, which depends itself to bootsplash. I really don't know if it is a good idea, as this leads

Maintainer is mailing list vs NMU

2005-09-25 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi all! While packaging texlive I use as Maintainer field a mailing list at alioth, but in the ChangeLog there actually is my Name/email in the relevant line. So I get source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number warnings from lintian. Is this normal or is there a way to avoid this? Best wishes

Re: Maintainer is mailing list vs NMU

2005-09-25 Thread Decklin Foster
Norbert Preining writes: While packaging texlive I use as Maintainer field a mailing list at alioth, but in the ChangeLog there actually is my Name/email in the relevant line. So I get source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number warnings from lintian. Is this normal or is there a way to avoid

Re: Maintainer is mailing list vs NMU

2005-09-25 Thread Norbert Preining
On Son, 25 Sep 2005, Decklin Foster wrote: While packaging texlive I use as Maintainer field a mailing list at alioth, but in the ChangeLog there actually is my Name/email in the relevant line. So I get source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number warnings from lintian. Is this normal or is

Re: Maintainer is mailing list vs NMU

2005-09-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:42 am, Norbert Preining wrote: On Son, 25 Sep 2005, Decklin Foster wrote: Add yourself to the Uploaders field. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-collabor ative-maint Can I do this when I am not a DD till now, ie don't have a

Re: Dependencies and debconf configuration

2005-09-25 Thread Julien Valroff
Hi Steve, Thank you for your quick answer. Le dimanche 25 septembre 2005 à 01:06 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:38:34AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: [...] * Is there any possibility to force the order of configuration/installation when installing several

Re: Bug#329996: ITP: xmms-oggre -- ogg disk output plugin for XMMS

2005-09-25 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Ryan Schultz in [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: xmms-oggre Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Lars Siebold [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/my-xmms-plugs/ * License : GPL Description : ogg disk output plugin for XMMS I'll

Re: Dependencies and debconf configuration

2005-09-25 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 9/25/05, Julien Valroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But installing a theme without installing the bootsplash utilities is then possible, and totally useless. Don't you think this can mislead users? Tell them, they rather want bootspash than the theme ;) -- regards, Reinhard

Re: Maintainer is mailing list vs NMU

2005-09-25 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Norbert Preining in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add yourself to the Uploaders field. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-collaborative-maint Can I do this when I am not a DD till now, ie don't have a @debian.org email? Think of Uploaders: as Co-Maintainers:.

RFS: aptsh

2005-09-25 Thread Marcin Wrochniak
Hi I'm searching for a sponsor for Aptsh. I'm the author of Aptsh, I've been packaging it since it's initial release and now I've thought it's mature enough to be submitted to Debian. Aptsh is an application similar to apt-shell from Conectiva's apt4rpm - it is a shell-like frontend to Apt's

Re: RFS: aptsh

2005-09-25 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Marcin Wrochniak in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aptsh is an application similar to apt-shell from Conectiva's apt4rpm - it is a shell-like frontend to Apt's command line tools, with features that let users work faster: command completion (which de facto works like bash-completion, with one

Re: Dependencies and debconf configuration

2005-09-25 Thread Julien Valroff
Le dimanche 25 septembre 2005 à 12:38 +0200, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : On 9/25/05, Julien Valroff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But installing a theme without installing the bootsplash utilities is then possible, and totally useless. Don't you think this can mislead users? Tell them, they

Re: RFS: aptsh

2005-09-25 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi Marcin, On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 15:37 +0200, Marcin Wrochniak wrote: On 25/09/05, Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does it do besides command completion? It automatically responds to Apt questions, it finds orphaned packages, it helps to find packages with 'ls' and 'rls'

Re: RFS: aptsh

2005-09-25 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 16:24 +0200, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: 6) I caught a quick FTBFS, add libreadline5-dev to your Build-Depends in debian/control; you _may_ need autoconf as well. You do miss libapt-pkg-dev as well as Build-Depends. Also please remove .svn dirs from the source. Why do you

Re: RFS: aptsh

2005-09-25 Thread Ben Finney
On 25-Sep-2005, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: I just look into it and have some things to change: Packagers seeking sponsors should follow the advice given in the debian-mentors FAQ: URL:http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html 3) please remove lines that you don't need from

Re: RFS: Kat -- Desktop Search Enviroment for KDE

2005-09-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jonas Genannt [Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:14:55 +0200]: Hello, I'm searching for a sponsor for Kat. Uhm. Can you explain what's going on with the ITP? 2005-05-14: #309068 - ITP: kat, by Jean-Remy Falleri 2005-09-16: #328610 - RFP: kat, by Nicolas DEGAND 2005-09-22: you retitle

Re: RFS: webxml -- Simple form-based generator/editor of Tomcat's web.xml files

2005-09-25 Thread Martín Ferrari
Hi! Having passed 7 days without any reply, I resend this message in the hope that somebody would step in.. Thanks. On 9/18/05, Martín Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have packaged a little qt app called webxml, and I would like to ask for someone to check it and upload it if it's