How to do input sanitazion in debconf

2006-12-20 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, #400294 suggests that the Debian exim4 packages go to some way to sanizite input delivered via debconf. I am wondering how to properly do this. One would want to either build a state machine or to loop around all debconf questions until the sanitazion has passed. And one needs debconf

RFS: LiE -- computer algebra package for Lie group computations

2006-12-20 Thread Kasper Peeters
Having cleaned up my package with the help of Rodrigo Gallardo, I would now like to get sponsorship for LiE -- computer algebra package for Lie group computations LiE is a computer algebra system that is specialised in computations involving (reductive) Lie groups and their

Packages (using C++) for two different distributions

2006-12-20 Thread Kasper Peeters
Hi, (Please redirect me to the right mailing list if this is off-topic here, apologies for the waste of bandwidth). I have written a program which makes use of the C++ interface of libgmp. On Ubuntu Dapper, this leads to a dependence on libgmpxx3, while the upgraded gcc on Edgy makes this depend

RFS: libphp-simplepie

2006-12-20 Thread Chris Lamb
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libphp-simplepie. * Package name: libphp-simplepie Version : 1.0beta3.2-1 Upstream Author : Ryan Parman and Geoffrey Sneddon * URL : http://simplepie.org/ * License : LGPL Section : web It

Re: Packages (using C++) for two different distributions

2006-12-20 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Kasper Peeters wrote: So the question is: what is the easiest way for me to generate packages for two distributions with incompatible C++ ABIs, given that I have only one machine? I'm not a Debian developer, but I would think the easiest thing to do is to install

Re: Packages (using C++) for two different distributions

2006-12-20 Thread Florent Rougon
Asheesh Laroia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a Debian developer, but I would think the easiest thing to do is to install pbuilder and create a chroot for Debian. Since the source package will be the same (libgmp-dev, I'd guess) for both, you can use pbuilder to generate the Debian package

Re: RFS: libssh -- SSH and SCP library (new package)

2006-12-20 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hi, The name of the binary packages have been changed to avoid conflict with an other library (libssh2 != libssh). The new packages are at the same URL. (http://bigon.be/vrac/libssh/) A direct link to the .dsc file as requested: http://bigon.be/vrac/libssh/libssh_0.2~rc1-1.dsc Regards :)

Re: Fwd: Re: Beginner Maintainer: tremulous-editor, tremulous-mappack

2006-12-20 Thread Salokine
Hi, I'm sorry, it's an error of email address. You can ignore it. Bye. Salokine. Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 08:07, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) a écrit : Le mercredi 20 décembre 2006 02:23, Andrew Donnellan a écrit : Could this be translated into English? On 12/20/06, Salokine [EMAIL

Re: RFS: libssh -- SSH and SCP library (new package)

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Laurent Bigonville wrote: http://bigon.be/vrac/libssh/libssh_0.2~rc1-1.dsc * wondering: the '[ $name ]' is only used when more than one person is doing things within the same upload; here, you're the only one. * tipp: debhelper (= 5.0.0) is over precise, debhelper (= 5) is just

Re: RFS: libphp-simplepie

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Lamb wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libphp-simplepie/libphp-simplepie_1.0beta3.2-1.dsc * should: please mention the reason for the action you did in README.Debian * should: mention the repackaging in copyright, not in README.Debian-source * tipp: remove

Re: RFS: LiE -- computer algebra package for Lie group computations

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Kasper Peeters wrote: http://www.aei.mpg.de/~peekas/debian/lie_2.2.2-1.dsc * tipp: remove the useless empty line at the end of changelog * tipp: it's common to list debhelper as the first depends in Build-Depends * tipp: remove the useless empty line at the end of the manpage. *

Re: Regarding Requested packages

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Eng. Mina Ramses wrote: I want to know, start on packaging any of these requests is concerned with the bug post ( i.e. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337220 ) contents or if it's already in the request list i can work on it , i.e., the package that has a bug post and still

Re: RFS: libphp-simplepie

2006-12-20 Thread Chris Lamb
Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * should: please mention the reason for the action you did in README.Debian * should: mention the repackaging in copyright, not in README.Debian-source * tipp: remove the useless empty line at the end of the changelog file.

Re: RFS: libssh -- SSH and SCP library (new package)

2006-12-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:26, Daniel Baumann wrote: Laurent Bigonville wrote: http://bigon.be/vrac/libssh/libssh_0.2~rc1-1.dsc * wondering: the '[ $name ]' is only used when more than one person is doing things within the same upload; here, you're the only one. * tipp:

Re: RFS: libphp-simplepie

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Chris Lamb wrote: * wondering: why do you prefere php4 over php5 in the depends/recommends? I copied this from other PHP library packages. Maybe alphanumeric sort order looks nicer? :) in case somebody has no php installed before, you make him install php4 rather than php5, which i

Re: RFS: libssh -- SSH and SCP library (new package)

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester wrote: I've updated the package to fix these issues. ...and imported another glitch: * useless empty line at the end of the changelog file. I'm sorry for the different download place, but Laurent and myself haven't got a common place to upload our

Re: RFS: libssh -- SSH and SCP library (new package)

2006-12-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester
On Thursday 21 December 2006 02:18, Daniel Baumann wrote: Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester wrote: I've updated the package to fix these issues. ...and imported another glitch: * useless empty line at the end of the changelog file. Fixed. I used install -D -m 644 to install the

Re: RFS: libssh -- SSH and SCP library (new package)

2006-12-20 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester wrote: According to dh_install man, Files named debian/package.install list the files to install into each package and the directory they should be installed to, so if I'm not mistaken, this will install

Re: RFS: libssh -- SSH and SCP library (new package)

2006-12-20 Thread Jean-Philippe Garcia Ballester
On Thursday 21 December 2006 03:24, Daniel Baumann wrote: good, i would uploaded it.. but why is your orig.tar.gz not maching the upstream ones (different md5)? Laurent's orig.tar.gz has different md5 because from dpkg's point of view, 0.2rc is superior to 0.2, thus he renamed the top