Re: RFS: winff

2008-07-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Dear mentors, I found several issues myself (copyright of language files and winff icon) and a wrong link to the icon in the desktop file, so those are fixed. I would appreciate comments on/upload of the package. Again available at mentors:

why my program segmentation fault?

2008-07-14 Thread Star Liu
I wrote a program to copy the memory content of - to a file, but it says Segmentation fault, (i use AMD64 lenny, so the address is long), how could i fix it? thanks! #include string.h #include stdio.h void CopyMemoryToFile(char* FilePath, long StartAddress, long OffSet) {

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) Even if mkfontdir were invoked directly or if it's okay to give update-fonts-dir an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to be updated and the warning removed), isn't it also advisable to

Re: why my program segmentation fault?

2008-07-14 Thread George Danchev
Quoting Star Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wrote a program to copy the memory content of - to a file, but it says Segmentation fault, (i use AMD64 lenny, so the address is long), how could i fix it? thanks! you should only fclose() if Memory != NULL, so your function would be

RFS: aumix (updated package)

2008-07-14 Thread Stefan Ott
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.8-21 of my package aumix. It builds these binary packages: aumix - Simple text-based mixer control program aumix-gtk - Simple mixer control program with GUI and text interfaces The package appears to be lintian clean. The

How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, I want to make an update to libapache-mod-log-sql that needs some maintenances in it's SQL databases if we need to upgrade. Namely, it needs some table structure upgrades. I know many hacks to know that I'm upgrading (like doing dpkg -l, etc.), but what is the correct/policy way to know from

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi, I want to make an update to libapache-mod-log-sql that needs some maintenances in it's SQL databases if we need to upgrade. Namely, it needs some table structure upgrades. I know many hacks to know that I'm upgrading

RFS: txtreader: text viewer, mainly used for reading text originally novels (new package)

2008-07-14 Thread LI Daobing (李道兵)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package txtreader. * Package name: txtreader Version : 0.4.4-1 Upstream Author : lsyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.minisrc.com/?q=node/6 * License : GPL-any Section : text It's a general text

RE: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread unifoundry
Original Message Subject: Re: font policy changes From: Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, July 14, 2008 2:26 am To: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 04:05:05PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: I know many hacks to know that I'm upgrading (like doing dpkg -l, etc.), but what is the correct/policy way to know from what version my package is upgrading, so my postinst can run smoothly? Policy 6.6.3 says If

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 3) Even if mkfontdir were invoked directly or if it's okay to give update-fonts-dir an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to be updated and the warning

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 14 juillet 2008, vers 17:50, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : It will always fail, because the user running the script (root) won't normally have access to the X server. See, I thought that too, and then I tried it and it seemed to work fine.

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:50:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It will always fail, because the user running the script (root) won't normally have access to the X server. See, I thought that too, and then I tried it and it seemed to work fine. Maybe

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe HOME was still set to the user's home dir? If XAUTHORITY isn't set Xlib looks in $HOME/.Xauthority, so that may work depending how you get root. Ah, XAUTHORITY was set. Thank you. I didn't know about that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

RFS: dgtdrv: POSIX driver for the DGT chess board

2008-07-14 Thread W. van den Akker
I am looking for a sponsor for my package dgtdrv. * Package name    : dgtdrv   Version         : 1.18-1   Upstream Author : Alexander Wagner * URL             : http://dgtdrv.sourceforge.net * License         : GPL v2   Section         : games It builds these binary packages: dgtdrv - POSIX

RFS: libdgtnix: libraries for using DGT chess board

2008-07-14 Thread W. van den Akker
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libdgtnix. * Package name    : libdgtnix   Version         : 1-9-1   Upstream Author : Pierre Boulenguez * URL             : http://dgtnix.sourceforge.net * License         : GPL v2   Section         : libs It builds these binary packages:

Re: RFS: dgtdrv

2008-07-14 Thread W. van den Akker
On Monday 14 July 2008, Ben Finney wrote: W. van den Akker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: dgtdrv - Posix driver for the DGT chess board POSIX is usually treated as an initialism, so should be spelled in all-capitals. A better synopsis would be: POSIX driver for the DGT chess board

Re: RFS: libdgtnix

2008-07-14 Thread W. van den Akker
On Monday 14 July 2008, Ben Finney wrote: W. van den Akker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libdgtnix-1-9 - Libraries for using DGT chess board libdgtnix-dev - Development libraries dgtnix POSIX driver DGT chess board The package synopsis should be treated as a clause within a sentence, and

RFS: quick-lounge-applet (updated package)

2008-07-14 Thread Diego Fernández Durán
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.12.5-2 of my package quick-lounge-applet. It builds these binary packages: quick-lounge-applet - GNOME panel applet to organise preferred applications The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: IANADD. Policy 6.6.3 says If the package is being upgraded, call: new-preinst upgrade old-version Is it what you are seeking? That wont give me the version number from which I'm upgrading from, will it? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Additional (might be more to his interest, because he talked about his postinst) it says: postinst configure most-recently-configured-version If a package is upgraded the most-recently-configured-version is usually identical to old-version. It isn't if the

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Goirand wrote: Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: IANADD. Policy 6.6.3 says If the package is being upgraded, call: new-preinst upgrade old-version Is it what you are seeking? That wont give me the version number from which I'm

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:26:53AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Additional (might be more to his interest, because he talked about his postinst) it says: postinst configure most-recently-configured-version If a package is upgraded the

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, Thomas Goirand wrote: I want to make an update to libapache-mod-log-sql that needs some maintenances in it's SQL databases if we need to upgrade. Namely, it needs some table structure upgrades. The right way to do this is to test the SQL database itself if it needs to be

Fwd: #372268 - ITP: valkyrie - sponsor wanted

2008-07-14 Thread Hai Zaar
Good day! I'm looking for a sponsor to upload valkyrie package (ITP #372268). I've sent mail a week ago, and since no one has replied, I'm kindly asking again. Please see forwarded mail below for details. Thank you. -- Zaar -- Forwarded message -- From: Hai Zaar [EMAIL

Building Iceweasel on Etch

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Vail
Who should I talk to about building Iceweasel on Etch?  I have a Thinkpad R51 running Etch, and I would like to use that as my build box.

Re: Building Iceweasel on Etch

2008-07-14 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Chris Vail wrote: Who should I talk to about building Iceweasel on Etch? I have a Thinkpad R51 running Etch, and I would like to use that as my build box. Hi Chris, This is not the mailing list to talk about that, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building Iceweasel on Etch

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Vail
I think I need to clarify what I want to do.I work for Websense, which supplies internet filtering software to corporate customers.  My job is to respond to customer issues with that software.  Over the years, I have come across cases where the problem appears to be between the browser and some

Re: Building Iceweasel on Etch

2008-07-14 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Chris Vail wrote: I think I need to clarify what I want to do.I work for Websense, which supplies internet filtering software to corporate customers. My job is to respond to customer issues with that software. Over the years, I have come across cases where the problem appears to be

Re: Building Iceweasel on Etch

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Vail
The FAQ was what I needed; thanks!I will be back when I can be useful. :-) --- On Mon, 7/14/08, Mauro Lizaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Mauro Lizaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Building Iceweasel on Etch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, July 14, 2008,