Re: RFC: comments on the packaging of ppower4?

2006-08-02 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I have updated the packaging of ppower4 (which is a postprocessor for presentations made with LaTeX) and I would like to receive comments on the packaging. The application itself is licensed under the GNU GPL, but I am still awaiting

Packaging non-compiled files

2006-08-02 Thread Kit Peters
I asked a similar question on debian-user, and was recommended to come here instead. At my job, we would like to use apt to distribute certain packages, such as WWW applications written in PHP, to certain other of our machines. The way I had been doing this was to write a simple Makefile with an

Re: Packaging non-compiled files

2006-08-02 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 02/08/06, Kit Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked a similar question on debian-user, and was recommended to come here instead. At my job, we would like to use apt to distribute certain packages, such as WWW applications written in PHP, to certain other of our machines. The way I had

piuparts and sarge

2006-08-02 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Dear mentors, I run sarge on my box. I got pbuilder from backports to sid-compile, but piuparts is not on backports (presumably due to an unmeetable dependency on python IIRC). So I run piuparts in a sid chroot. Is it the only/right way to go? I have to say I had to downgrade tar to sarge's

Re: Packaging non-compiled files

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 02.08.2006, 11:13 -0400 schrieb Kit Peters: I asked a similar question on debian-user, and was recommended to come here instead. At my job, we would like to use apt to distribute certain packages, such as WWW applications written in PHP, to certain other of our machines.

Re: piuparts and sarge

2006-08-02 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Replying to self (partly solved, new question) Le mercredi 02 août 2006 à 17:29 +0200, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : Dear mentors, [...] I run piuparts in a sid chroot. [...] I'm also not sure how to be certain piuparts terminates with a go answer: currently it terminates by listing lsof

Re: piuparts and sarge

2006-08-02 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:40:23PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: I have split my package since the last upload. Therefore two of the packages I have to test are not known to apt-get, only one is. Therefore, piuparts won't do the upgrade test. Is there a way I can get it to do this test? (I can

Re: Packaging non-compiled files

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 11:13 -0400, Kit Peters wrote: At my job, we would like to use apt to distribute certain packages, such as WWW applications written in PHP, to certain other of our machines. Your question has been answered by others, but I would like to suggest that you join the

Where to host a native package as a non-DD

2006-08-02 Thread Neil Williams
I'm in the NM process. I have a number of packages hosted at SourceForge that are platform distribution independent, two of which are already in Debian. I now have a simple package that should (I think) be a Debian native package: dpkg-view, a simple GUI viewer for .deb files for Gtk/Gnome. If

Re: Where to host a native package as a non-DD

2006-08-02 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 22:31, Neil Williams wrote: Hi, I'm in the NM process. I have a number of packages hosted at SourceForge that are platform distribution independent, two of which are already in Debian. I now have a simple package that should (I think) be a Debian native package:

Re: Where to host a native package as a non-DD

2006-08-02 Thread Neil Williams
Neil Williams wrote: I can't use alioth (I only have a customer account). My AM has clarified that I can use alioth as a -guest member so it's now going to alioth. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/

Request for Review: pbnj (Already have a sponsor)

2006-08-02 Thread Joshua D. Abraham
Dear mentors, I am looking for a review of for my package pbnj. I already have a sponsor he simply requested that someone else review it first. * Package name: pbnj Version : 2.0-1 Upstream Author : Joshua D. Abraham * URL : http://www.sf.net/projects/pbnj * License

Request for Review: libnmap-parser-perl (Already have a sponsor)

2006-08-02 Thread Joshua D. Abraham
Dear mentors, I am looking for a review for my package libnmap-parser-perl. I already have a sponsor and he has requested that someone review it first. * Package name: libnmap-parser-perl Version : 1.05-1 Upstream Author : Anthony G Persaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: Request for Review: libnmap-parser-perl (Already have a sponsor)

2006-08-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joshua D. Abraham [Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:53:37 -0400]: he has requested that someone review it first. Out of interest, why? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org One of my most