Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread Ben Finney
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:03:28PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: I've seen many recommendations that the 'debian/' directory should not be part of the 'foo_X.Y.orig.tar.gz' tarball but should always be added by the 'foo_X.Y-Z.diff.gz', even in the

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread Panu Kalliokoski
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:03:28PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: So that leads to the question: What best practices are there for creating the Debian sources ('foo_X.Y.orig.tar.gz', 'foo_X.Y-Z.dsc', 'foo_X.Y-Z.diff.gz') automatically from a source working tree that already contains the 'debian/'

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's what I do for releases as well. For normal testing builds though (that's to see if the package builds and works without planning a release), creating a tarball and unpacking it first is too much work IMO. So I wrote a script to do these things for

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:42, Russ Allbery wrote: Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's what I do for releases as well. For normal testing builds though (that's to see if the package builds and works without planning a release), creating a tarball and unpacking it first is too

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Ben, if you create yourself the orig.tar.gz, the building tools from debian don't try to create it themselves. i.e. something like: tar cvzf foo_X.Y.orig.tar.gz --exclude=foo-X.Y/debian foo-X.Y before actually building the package should solve your problem. Hope this helps, Eric -- You

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.07.0714 +0200]: That's what I do for releases as well. For normal testing builds though (that's to see if the package builds and works without planning a release), creating a tarball and unpacking it first is too much work IMO. So I wrote a

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.09.07.0803 +0200]: Unfortunately, Debian doesn't yet have a 'bzr-buildpackage' package. James (and I) are working on it: http://wiki.debian.org/BzrBuildpackage -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin

Re: RFS: lisaac

2006-09-07 Thread picca
Hello * lintian errors: E: lisaac-doc: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl E: lisaac-common: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl E: lisaac: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl For thoses errors. In fact the text of the Cecillv2 licence

Re: How to register manpages?

2006-09-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-01 15:07:08, schrieb Eddy Petrisor: On 31/08/06, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But unfortunatly it can not rename files while using dh_install and I like to see a dh_installpo like the dh_installman which put the manpage.CC.N in the right CountryCode section... So, if

Question about packing swhoisd

2006-09-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Mentors, Currently I try to pack the swhoisd and make the german localization. Now I have problems with some things like autoconf, automake and such, since I do not know what to do (never used it). I have allready compiled swhoisd for arround 3 years (!!!) but do not know anymore how,

Re: RFS: lisaac

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Hello, * lintian errors: E: lisaac-doc: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl E: lisaac-common: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl E: lisaac:

Re: Question about packing swhoisd

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas Girard
(sorry, forgot to CC: debian-mentors@) Hi Michelle, Hello Mentors, Currently I try to pack the swhoisd and make the german localization. [...] co RCS/swhoisd,v swhoisd make[2]: co: Kommando nicht gefunden You will find the co program in the rcs package. HTH, Thomas -- To

Re: RFS: lisaac

2006-09-07 Thread picca
True. Have a look at how to deal with lintian's overrides: file:/usr/share/doc/lintian/lintian.html/ch2.html#s2.4 (tip: you want to override 3 binary type packages) I will check this thanks. As long as you are reachible via these addresses it is not a big deal. Of course it would be nice

Re: Question about packing swhoisd

2006-09-07 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le mardi 05 septembre 2006 à 18:46 +0200, Michelle Konzack a écrit : Hello Mentors, Currently I try to pack the swhoisd and make the german localization. Just my 2 cents... [...] ./configure works fine with the exception of the beginning and the missing error:

Re: Question about packing swhoisd

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/7/06, Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: I have no clue what the RCS package is (I did have a look on google, it does have a co command), or what this well-named missing file is supposed to do. RCS is the Revision Control System, think along the lines of CVS, SVN, etc. It's

Re: RFS: qsa-x11-free

2006-09-07 Thread Rubén Darío Ponticelli
I've uploaded it again. I've fixed some bugs (mkspecs was wrongly named mkspects) and made a clearer rules design using dpatch. By the way ¿are you an uploader? Would you sponsor the package or I have to keep searching? El Miércoles, 6 de Septiembre de 2006 18:03, Adam Cecile escribió: Ok some

Re: RFS: bobcat (updated package) - fixes FTBFS on 64-bit arch's

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 01 September 2006 15:38, George Danchev wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.10.2-1 of my package bobcat. It builds these binary packages: libbobcat1 - run-time (shared) Bobcat library libbobcat1-dev - headers and documentation for the Bobcat

Subject: RFS: bisonc++

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package bisonc++. * Package name: bisonc++ Version : 1.4.0-1 Upstream Author : [fill in] * URL : [fill in] * License : [fill in] Section : devel It builds these binary packages: bisonc++ -

Subject: RFS: c++-annotations

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package c++-annotations. * Package name: c++-annotations Version : 6.4.0f-1 Upstream Author : Frank B. Brokken * URL : ftp://ftp.rug.nl/contrib/frank/documents/annotations/ * License : GPL Section :

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread Joey Hess
Interesting thread. I've never thought about generating the tarball this way, though I do have a lot of native packages that probably shouldn't be. If one general-purpose tool to handle this rises to the top and is usable by many people, it would be a good candidate for addition to devscripts.

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread Florent Rougon
Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, someone noted that this script is vulnerable to a symlink attack in /tmp. I haven't found a good solution for that though, because I want to have a reachable build tree under a normal name, where I can see what all the files look like. If you

Re: Subject: RFS: bisonc++

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 9/8/06, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upstream Author : [fill in] * URL : [fill in] * License : [fill in] It would be nice to actually fill these in. -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG -

Re: Subject: RFS: c++-annotations

2006-09-07 Thread tony mancill
Hello George, I'm looking at this package. Here are a couple of comments so far: debian/control: * The package Architecture should be all instead of any - this will prevent the (identical) package from being built for every Debian architecture. * You can remove ${shlibs:Depends} from Depends:

Re: Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-07 Thread kku
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package personalbackup. IANADD, so I can't sponsor. But my comments, anyways: You should not depend in postgresql, since that is just a transitional package. Depend on an specific version, or on several. In a related note, should you depend on

Re: Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote: You are programaticaly managing a configuration file in /etc. You should look into using ucf, that already handles this. I've had a look at ucf, but I do not think it fits my need (unless I have overlooked something). I have a template

Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote: You are programaticaly managing a configuration file in /etc. You should look into using ucf, that already handles this. I've had a look at ucf, but I do not

Re: RFS: cobalt-panel-utils (updated package)

2006-09-07 Thread Le_Vert
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:29:37 +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.2-2 of my package cobalt-panel-utils. It builds these binary packages: cobalt-panel-utils - System utilities for Sun Cobalt's LCD and LEDs

Re: Subject: RFS: c++-annotations

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 08 September 2006 00:05, tony mancill wrote: Hello George, Hello, I'm looking at this package. Here are a couple of comments so far: Thanks for looking at the package and your comments. debian/control: * The package Architecture should be all instead of any - this will prevent

Re: RFS: bisonc++

2006-09-07 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 07 September 2006 23:43, Andrew Donnellan wrote: On 9/8/06, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Upstream Author : [fill in] * URL : [fill in] * License : [fill in] It would be nice to actually fill these in. Oh, sure. Copypaste nuisancies ;-) Thanks

Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-07 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:47AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote: Now to detect that the user did (not) change the conf file, I check the md5sum of the content

Re: RFS: personalbackup

2006-09-07 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:18:29PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 10:01:47AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 05:26:53PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:27:43PM +0200, kku wrote: Now to detect that