Debian policy, a problem or a misunderstand ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi mentors, I read the Debian policy to create my package and i read this at chapter "6.1 Introduction to package maintainer scripts" "The package management system looks at the exit status from these scripts. *It is important that they exit with a n

Re: Perl testing (prove) dependencies

Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now, since confget already depends on debhelper which obviously pulls in > most of Perl, may I just make use of that, or should I add an explicit > build dependency on "perl | libtest-harness-perl", just in case the build > mechanism changes at some poi

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 8:18 AM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to investigate the 'pbuilder' package for maintaining a > chroot specifically to build your packages inside. You should also test your packages in unstable too. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

Alexander Bürger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The package appears to be lintian clean. It was built on Ubuntu > Hardy -- I hope that this is not a problem. It is, really. You should build your packages on an instance of Debian ‘unstable’, since that's the release you are (I presume) claiming it

RFS: swatch (updated package)

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.2.3-1 of my package "swatch". It builds these binary packages: swatch - Log file viewer with regexp matching, highlighting, & hooks The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 450095, 464087, 499509

RFS: fig2sxd

Dear mentors, Dear Vincent, I updated my package "fig2sxd" to version 0.19-1 and I am now looking for a sponsor. The new version works around a problem in OOo with very long polylines. The package appears to be lintian clean. It was built on Ubuntu Hardy -- I hope that this is not a problem. Th

building package with different libs

Hi, I need some advice on building packages with different libs. Assuming that I have software S which needs to be linked against library L. For whatever reason there are several implementations (L1, L2, L3) of this library available. Each of them has its advantages and it would be fine to buil

Perl testing (prove) dependencies

Hi, I have written a small utility for fetching variables from an INI-style configuration file, and ITP'd it at #502543 - confget. Actually, there already is a Debian package for it that I've been using at $REALJOB for a couple of weeks, but now that it seems to be mature enough to be shown to th

Re: A little question of a license THANKS

A Dijous 16 Octubre 2008, Ben Finney va escriure: > Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I think that yes, but I must admit that the legal stuff is something > > unclear to me. > > You've received correct responses (the license is effectively the same > as the 3-clause BSD lice