how to create a Release file

2006-04-22 Thread Tomas Davidek
Hello, I am having troubles when creating the Release file for my private repository. According to http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7.en.html#s-deb-pack-sign I create the file via $ rm -f dists/testing/Release $ apt-ftparchive release dists/testing

Re: how to create a Release file

2006-04-22 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomas Davidek wrote: I rather suspect that there is something wrong with the Release file itself, it seems some header is missing. My Release looks like: -- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:45:27 UTC MD5Sum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

Re: how to create a Release file

2006-04-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 21.04.2006, 17:28 +0200 schrieb Tomas Davidek: Hello, I am having troubles when creating the Release file for my private repository. According to http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7.en.html#s-deb-pack-sign I create the file via $ rm -f

RFS - two icon sets for kde - kde-icons-gorilla and kde-icons-korilla

2006-04-22 Thread Sune Vuorela
Hi! I have a couple of ITPs where I finally got the two packages in shape to close http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348101 and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348103 They are quite similar, it is only approx. the name that differs. And the packaging is quite

RFS: weather-util - command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-22 Thread Jeremy Stanley
Seeking a sponsor for upload of my weather-util package. I am also the upstream maintainer (for what it's worth)... Description: command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts This utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather conditions and forecasts.

RFS: libopenobex (1.2-2) and obexftp (0.19-2)

2006-04-22 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Hi, both packages are already in the archive and I am already the maintainer of both (source) packages. However, my sponsors for each of the packages didn't react upon my please upload mails for quite some time now. The (signed) packages can be found at

What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Maxim Vexler
Hello everyone. I'm reading the New maintainer's guide. On page 28 (version 1.2.3,18 January2005) the author speaks about `stripping' executable and the dh_strip(1) script. Surprisingly, no where was the reader informed about the purpose of `striping'. Am I supposed to know this as part of

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Maxim Vexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so where can I learn more about stripping I've tried to search the Debian developers reference guide and the gcc online documentations, as well as google but no useful information has turned up. Check out the strip manpage. :-) When an

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Maxim Vexler wrote: Hello everyone. I'm reading the New maintainer's guide. On page 28 (version 1.2.3,18 January2005) the author speaks about `stripping' executable and the dh_strip(1) script. Surprisingly, no where was the reader informed about the purpose of `striping'. Am I supposed

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Maxim Vexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm reading the New maintainer's guide. On page 28 (version 1.2.3,18 January2005) the author speaks about `stripping' executable and the dh_strip(1) script. Surprisingly, no where was the reader informed about the purpose of `striping'. Am I supposed

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 4/23/06, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Vexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm reading the New maintainer's guide. On page 28 (version 1.2.3,18 January2005) the author speaks about `stripping' executable and the dh_strip(1) script. Surprisingly, no where was the reader

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:25:20AM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote: Hello everyone. I'm reading the New maintainer's guide. On page 28 (version 1.2.3,18 January2005) the author speaks about `stripping' executable and the dh_strip(1) script. Surprisingly, no where was the reader informed about

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
How can I tell if an application was meant to be stripped by upstream ? If it is in any way normal, you can just strip it, and it will just work. There are some strange ones that keep can't be stripped, because they keep critical information in some comment section or such. Aha, I was

Re: What is stripping in binary compilations ?

2006-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it is in any way normal, you can just strip it, and it will just work. There are some strange ones that keep can't be stripped, because they keep critical information in some comment section or such. Aha, I was thinking of:

Re: RFS: python-urwid - Console UI Library for Python

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 12:03 -0400, Ian Ward wrote: The tutorial.html file has been restored to urwid-0.9.3.tar.gz I know this might not be good form (I imagine I could have made a new release), but it was just a build problem that caused it to appear as a zero length file, and the file is