Re: RFS: gtklp -- Frontend for CUPS written in GTK+

2004-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-29 Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: automake --add-missing --copy autoconf ‐‐force‐missing is missing. - Just for the archives. cu andreas

Re: use locale for python package test

2004-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-29 GCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain a package, which needs en_US locale for testing the build. I did it as writing en_US to /etc/locale.gen and generate the locales again, if it's not yet done. Then set LC_ALL to en_US, and do the test. So far, so good, it works. But now I

Re: RFS: gtklp -- Frontend for CUPS written in GTK+

2004-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-29 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 09:43:32AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] Imho the build-depency on gnutls should simply be droppep, gtklp does not use gnutls, it is just a libtool artefact caused by libcupsys2-dev, which already depends

Re: RFS: gtklp -- Frontend for CUPS written in GTK+

2004-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-29 Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: automake --add-missing --copy autoconf forcemissing is missing. - Just for the archives. cu andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use locale for python package test

2004-04-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-29 GCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I maintain a package, which needs en_US locale for testing the build. I did it as writing en_US to /etc/locale.gen and generate the locales again, if it's not yet done. Then set LC_ALL to en_US, and do the test. So far, so good, it works. But now I

Re: RFS: gtklp -- Frontend for CUPS written in GTK+

2004-04-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-27 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] * New maintainer (Closes: #244199, #245619) * New upstream version (Closes: #209172, #194459) * Fixed typo in man page (#170642), patch forwarded to upstream * Fixed translation bug (#226839), patch forwarded to upstream

Re: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org

2004-04-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-27 William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:27:59AM +0200, GCS wrote: public part to any keyserver like pgp.mit.edu then search someone who volunteers to sign your key and plan a meeting. [...] I don't understand how to do the snipped part above. On

Re: RFS: gtklp -- Frontend for CUPS written in GTK+

2004-04-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-27 Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] * New maintainer (Closes: #244199, #245619) * New upstream version (Closes: #209172, #194459) * Fixed typo in man page (#170642), patch forwarded to upstream * Fixed translation bug (#226839), patch forwarded to upstream

Re: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org

2004-04-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-27 William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:27:59AM +0200, GCS wrote: public part to any keyserver like pgp.mit.edu then search someone who volunteers to sign your key and plan a meeting. [...] I don't understand how to do the snipped part above. On

Re: Problem with Files section in .changes

2004-04-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-16 Steffen Nissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to upload files to mentors.debian.net an error occurs because of errors in the .changes file. I can see what the error is, but unfortunately I do not know how to fix them. The files section is as follows and I believe that the

Re: Problem with Files section in .changes

2004-04-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-16 Steffen Nissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When trying to upload files to mentors.debian.net an error occurs because of errors in the .changes file. I can see what the error is, but unfortunately I do not know how to fix them. The files section is as follows and I believe that the

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:12:02AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Brian Nelson wrote: Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] * You should change the RFP for stripclub to an ITP (just change the bug title), and then close the bug in the changelog. My first attempt to do this kinda

Re: RFS: stripclub - Online Comic Reader/Archiver

2004-04-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:12:02AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: Brian Nelson wrote: Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] * You should change the RFP for stripclub to an ITP (just change the bug title), and then close the bug in the changelog. My first attempt to do this kinda

Re: package adding users

2004-04-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-07 Erik Bourget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [adding users] adduser is the correct tool. See policy 9.2.2. I do not think that useradd follows, e.g., the uid allocation guidelines in that section, and adduser's semantics are more convenient

Re: package adding users

2004-04-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-07 Erik Bourget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [adding users] adduser is the correct tool. See policy 9.2.2. I do not think that useradd follows, e.g., the uid allocation guidelines in that section, and adduser's semantics are more convenient

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-06 Erik Bourget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? Policy 9.2. | Packages which need a user or group, but can have this user or | group allocated dynamically and differently on each system, should | use adduser

Re: package adding users

2004-04-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-06 Erik Bourget [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system? Policy 9.2. | Packages which need a user or group, but can have this user or | group allocated dynamically and differently on each system, should | use adduser

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would like to split

Re: new maintainer application question

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:17:47PM +0200, GCS wrote: I am applied[1] for a Debian Developer role, but as I see, Front Desk is stalling; I can't see any progress on applicants who have been advocated. So I have a couple of questions: - may I hope that Front Desk will assign an AM to me before

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I would like to split

Re: new maintainer application question

2004-04-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 05:17:47PM +0200, GCS wrote: I am applied[1] for a Debian Developer role, but as I see, Front Desk is stalling; I can't see any progress on applicants who have been advocated. So I have a couple of questions: - may I hope that Front Desk will assign an AM to me before

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the Debian New Maintainters' Corner, but from what I saw, it looked like the first step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to do it get to know some of the

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to package some very useful set of utilities[1]. It depends on library of the same author[2]. Unfortunatelly SONAME of this library changes with every new version. And to make this problem more annoying, new

Re: Becoming a Developer...

2004-04-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-04-02 Benjamin Cutler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off I'll admit I only gave a quick glance at the Debian New Maintainters' Corner, but from what I saw, it looked like the first step wasn't an automated thing. It sounds like the first thing I need to do it get to know some of the

Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-03-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-31 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] man (mostly) supports you running in a UTF-8 locale by means of some complicated iconv kludges. [...] Hmm. I seem to be doing something seriously wrong. man is completely unuseable for me in uxterm with UTF-8 locale.

Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-03-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-31 Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-03-31 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] man (mostly) supports you running in a UTF-8 locale by means of some complicated iconv kludges. [...] Hmm. I seem to be doing something seriously wrong. [...] indeed

Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-03-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-31 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] man (mostly) supports you running in a UTF-8 locale by means of some complicated iconv kludges. [...] Hmm. I seem to be doing something seriously wrong. man is completely unuseable for me in uxterm with UTF-8 locale.

Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-03-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-31 Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-03-31 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] man (mostly) supports you running in a UTF-8 locale by means of some complicated iconv kludges. [...] Hmm. I seem to be doing something seriously wrong. [...] indeed

Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset

2004-03-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-30 Martin-Éric Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If I change my locale setting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1], debsign can no longer find my GPG key, because it expects the accent on my name to be encoded in UTF-8, even though the key was created in Latin-1. Have you tried adding a

Re: Need help getting package built on arm

2004-03-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-30 Steve Halasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My package, qgis, has failed to build on arm. The error is: uic: error while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Which was caused by broken X11 maintainer scripts at this time.

Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset

2004-03-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-30 Martin-Éric Racine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If I change my locale setting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1], debsign can no longer find my GPG key, because it expects the accent on my name to be encoded in UTF-8, even though the key was created in Latin-1. Have you tried adding a

Re: Need help getting package built on arm

2004-03-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-30 Steve Halasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My package, qgis, has failed to build on arm. The error is: uic: error while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Which was caused by broken X11 maintainer scripts at this time.

Re: checkroot.sh script

2004-03-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-28 Brian T Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before attempting to post a bug to Debian directly, I wanted to ask the people here if perhaps I am doing something incorrectly. I installed Debian sarge on the sparc64 arch, then went out and grabbed the 2.6.4 kernel source from

Re: checkroot.sh script

2004-03-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-28 Brian T Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before attempting to post a bug to Debian directly, I wanted to ask the people here if perhaps I am doing something incorrectly. I installed Debian sarge on the sparc64 arch, then went out and grabbed the 2.6.4 kernel source from

Re: WNPP bugs are not closed with upload

2004-03-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-26 Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:03:15AM +0100, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote: Hi, my packages (ttf-isabella and alleyoop) are now available with unstable but the wnpp bug reports are still open. The bug reports are: #190317, #208916

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps and libtool interaction

2004-03-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-26 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am packaging libhid for Debian, which I wrote and prepared with libtool. Next to the library, the libhid0 package also includes a binary /usr/bin/libhid-config, which is linked against libhid0. When I make the Debian package,

Re: Should I recommend less if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-22 Number Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of the scripts I include with my package use less (as well as sed, tr, and grep). I know for a fact less is not installed by default. (Not sure about this others). Should every little ordinary thing like less be included in my

Re: updating gdal library

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:39:19PM +0100, Silke Reimer wrote: First I don't know how to fill the Depends for libgdal1-dev correctly. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#AEN75 explains the following: The -dev package should depend on all -dev

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:49PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 20.49, Stephen Frost wrote: .la files shouldn't be included in anything, they're just plain

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-22 Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:49PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: [libtool brokenness] Yes, it did :-|. Could you point me to a documentation where I could read about these problems, and under what

Re: Should I recommend less if I use it in some scripts?

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-22 Number Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some of the scripts I include with my package use less (as well as sed, tr, and grep). I know for a fact less is not installed by default. (Not sure about this others). Should every little ordinary thing like less be included in my

Re: updating gdal library

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:39:19PM +0100, Silke Reimer wrote: First I don't know how to fill the Depends for libgdal1-dev correctly. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#AEN75 explains the following: The -dev package should depend on all -dev

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:49PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Stephen Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: * Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 20.49, Stephen Frost wrote: .la files shouldn't be included in anything, they're just plain

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 06:28:43PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Personally I think the payoff is ok, due to dlopen in glibc (NSS, iconv) static linking is unreliable anyway. This I don't understand. What is the relation between dlopen calls

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-22 Roger Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:26:49PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: [libtool brokenness] Yes, it did :-|. Could you point me to a documentation where I could read about these problems, and under what

Re: .diff.gz became as big as upstream source

2004-03-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-21 GCS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a small package, which generates configure, Makefile[.in] at every compilation. Why? Do you patch configure.(in)? See /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz, especially the part after »fix the timestamp skews using a proper chain of

Re: [Solved] Re: Bengali wordlist for aspell

2004-03-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-20 Soumyadip Modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 03:06, Brian Nelson wrote: The configure script that comes with the aspell dicts is homebrew (not created by autoconf), and thus does not accept most of those options. Edit those out of the debian/rules file.

Re: [Solved] Re: Bengali wordlist for aspell

2004-03-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-20 Soumyadip Modak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 03:06, Brian Nelson wrote: The configure script that comes with the aspell dicts is homebrew (not created by autoconf), and thus does not accept most of those options. Edit those out of the debian/rules file.

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Everton da Silva Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd start hitting up the maintainers (and upstreams) of packages which *could* use SRV records, regardless of whether they currently do or not, and suggest it to them. I plan to push

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released. In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what you suggest) is a common workaround. It's not too bad

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Everton da Silva Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd start hitting up the maintainers (and upstreams) of packages which *could* use SRV records, regardless of whether they currently do or not, and suggest it to them. I plan to push

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released. In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what you suggest) is a common workaround. It's not too bad

Re: dh_make generates Stds. version 3.6.0 but latest is 3.6.1

2004-03-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-16 Number Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If dh_make generates debian/control at Standards-Version: 3.6.0, and the latest Standards-Version: is 3.6.1, how can I verify my project actually meets the correct standards (if I just bump the number)? Can a tool do it? No. Check policy's

Re: dh_make generates Stds. version 3.6.0 but latest is 3.6.1

2004-03-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-16 Number Six [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If dh_make generates debian/control at Standards-Version: 3.6.0, and the latest Standards-Version: is 3.6.1, how can I verify my project actually meets the correct standards (if I just bump the number)? Can a tool do it? No. Check policy's

Re: silly questions about devel machines

2004-03-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-13 Magosányi Árpád [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to check if I could fix an arch-dependent bug, so I have to compile my package on an arm, powerpc or s390. Picked bruckner from the list, done a dchroot sid. Now I would need tla to get the source (I could work around it), and

Re: silly questions about devel machines

2004-03-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-13 Magosányi Árpád [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to check if I could fix an arch-dependent bug, so I have to compile my package on an arm, powerpc or s390. Picked bruckner from the list, done a dchroot sid. Now I would need tla to get the source (I could work around it), and

Re: Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-10 Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to compile and pack on different architectures, but after my first attempt I realized that all Debian hosts are running Woody, not Sid. Question: how and where do I build for Sid? Has '+chroots' anything to do with it? (Like

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-09 Luca Pasquali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] and now a strange, dumb-sounding request: if you mentors have better/more useful packaging exercises to suggest me, I'll welcome the advices, it may be a strange request but I'm not a programmer, I mainly use console to do network

Re: Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-10 Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to compile and pack on different architectures, but after my first attempt I realized that all Debian hosts are running Woody, not Sid. Question: how and where do I build for Sid? Has '+chroots' anything to do with it? (Like

Re: RFS: truncate (now it's free, for real!)

2004-03-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-09 Luca Pasquali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] and now a strange, dumb-sounding request: if you mentors have better/more useful packaging exercises to suggest me, I'll welcome the advices, it may be a strange request but I'm not a programmer, I mainly use console to do network

Renaming a package, proper values for replaces/conflicts?

2004-03-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I know this is a standard szenario, but the natural solution conflicts with suggestions in policy. When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep to pcregrep and to provide seamless upgrades I'd introduce a dummy package pgrep depending on pcregrep, however replaces/conflicts gives

Re: Renaming a package, proper values for replaces/conflicts?

2004-03-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:23:40AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep to pcregrep and to provide seamless upgrades I'd introduce a dummy package pgrep depending on pcregrep, however replaces

Re: Renaming a package, proper values for replaces/conflicts?

2004-03-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:23:40AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep

Renaming a package, proper values for replaces/conflicts?

2004-03-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I know this is a standard szenario, but the natural solution conflicts with suggestions in policy. When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep to pcregrep and to provide seamless upgrades I'd introduce a dummy package pgrep depending on pcregrep, however replaces/conflicts gives

Re: Renaming a package, proper values for replaces/conflicts?

2004-03-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:23:40AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep

Re: How to access cvs.debian.org with ssh/rsa keys?

2004-03-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-06 Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently been given write access to the tetex directories on cvs.debian.org, but it seems when I login, the password is blown over the net in plaintext. I have put my rsa key into the LDAP system, and can login e.g. into gluck with

Re: How to access cvs.debian.org with ssh/rsa keys?

2004-03-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-06 Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently been given write access to the tetex directories on cvs.debian.org, but it seems when I login, the password is blown over the net in plaintext. I have put my rsa key into the LDAP system, and can login e.g. into gluck with

Re: scripts in /usr/share/$package?

2004-03-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: although I've read the policy again, I am not sure whether it is allowed to store scripts in /usr/share/$package? In particular, scripts that are only meant to be called by postinst (or prerm), never by a user. They could go to

Re: scripts in /usr/share/$package?

2004-03-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: although I've read the policy again, I am not sure whether it is allowed to store scripts in /usr/share/$package? In particular, scripts that are only meant to be called by postinst (or prerm), never by a user. They could go to

Re: How do I compile for different architectures?

2004-03-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-04 Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm maintaining a package in non-free, which means that it will probably never be compiled automatically (lowest priority). So I need to do that myself. And I can find the available compile hosts on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi. I

Re: How do I compile for different architectures?

2004-03-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-04 Jörgen Hägg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm maintaining a package in non-free, which means that it will probably never be compiled automatically (lowest priority). So I need to do that myself. And I can find the available compile hosts on http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi. I

Re: RFS: New version of cvs-autoreleasedeb

2004-02-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-02-20 Eike zyro Sauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raphael Goulais schrieb: - Why do you remove /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb.log at postrm, since the log files are in /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb/ ? Also, I don't think you should remove the log files anyway, even on a purge. Is

Re: RFS: New version of cvs-autoreleasedeb

2004-02-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-02-20 Eike zyro Sauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raphael Goulais schrieb: - Why do you remove /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb.log at postrm, since the log files are in /var/log/cvs-autoreleasedeb/ ? Also, I don't think you should remove the log files anyway, even on a purge. Is

Re: data files in /etc?

2004-02-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-02-12 Magosányi Árpád [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some files in /etc which are actually data files representing the state of the system. Like /etc/mtab, /etc/network/ifstate, or /etc/lvmconf/* (it is not even a text file). These files are written by programs in occasions one

Re: data files in /etc?

2004-02-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-02-13 Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Magosányi Árpád [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040212 22:52]: -if one wants to make the boot process unable to modify configuration, they will also be stumbled upon. (And given the fact that mount actually deletes and recreates /etc/mtab, the

Re: problem with files in /etc/dir.d

2004-02-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-02-12 Filippo Rusconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I effectively get the said file in debian/polyxmassdata/etc/polyxmass.d/polyxmassdata.conf telling me that the make install target has worked ok. However, I also noticed that this file is referenced here:

Re: problem with files in /etc/dir.d

2004-02-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-02-12 Filippo Rusconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I effectively get the said file in debian/polyxmassdata/etc/polyxmass.d/polyxmassdata.conf telling me that the make install target has worked ok. However, I also noticed that this file is referenced here:

Re: Help packaging Synaptics TouchPad driver

2004-02-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:19:04PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: [I'm sending this message here as it seems that debian-x wasn't the most appropriate place] xfree86-driver-synaptics is an xserver-xfree86 driver that supports special features of synaptics touchpad devices (a pointing device).

Re: Help packaging Synaptics TouchPad driver

2004-02-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:19:04PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: [I'm sending this message here as it seems that debian-x wasn't the most appropriate place] xfree86-driver-synaptics is an xserver-xfree86 driver that supports special features of synaptics touchpad devices (a pointing device).

Re: RFS: secure-delete

2004-01-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:15:18PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: i am looking for a sponsor for secure-delete, it's a small package that quite some people might find usefull. from the control file: Description: tools to wipe files, free disk space, swap and memory Even if you overwrite a

Re: Multiple binary source per-package dh_ options?

2004-01-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:01:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: I am working on a multi-binary source, and what I want to do is pass different options to different packages. Is this possible? I see the -p option common to all debhelper programs, but how to do this? dh_installinit -p foo -n

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2004-01-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:30:47AM +0100, Alexander Bürger wrote: Anyhow, besides the fact I don't like your changelog entry for -2.1 ( * Fix packaging problem - which? I know, but changelog is for documenting the actual changes) i'll see over this, the package otherwise is ok and

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2004-01-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:45:41PM +0100, Alexander Bürger wrote: Argh. This is just plainly _wrong_. Read policy and developers reference about versioning what -2.1 actually means... I'm sorry, but I cannot find anything negative about 2.1 as debian revision. [...] says lt to me. Please

Re: Delayed upload doesn't work (nor SSH to ftp-master)

2004-01-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:47:56PM +0200, Jarno Elonen wrote: Delayed uploading by ftp doesn't seem to work (missing directory) and ftp-master doesn't let me in with SSH/SCP (altough master, for example, does). Is this still an intentional restriction due to the server compromise or/and am

Re: RFS: ike-scan

2003-12-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 30.12.03 12:12 Benoit Mortier wrote: Le Lundi 29 Décembre 2003 23:54, Jochen Friedrich a écrit : [...] - do you really need to link /usr/share/doc/ike-scan to /usr/doc? If not, you might remove the postinst and prerm scripts. thats what lintian wanted but linda not so i removed it You should

Re: RFS: ike-scan

2003-12-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 30.12.03 12:12 Benoit Mortier wrote: Le Lundi 29 Décembre 2003 23:54, Jochen Friedrich a écrit : [...] - do you really need to link /usr/share/doc/ike-scan to /usr/doc? If not, you might remove the postinst and prerm scripts. thats what lintian wanted but linda not so i removed it You

Re: Debian diff / Debian Policy (-dev)

2003-12-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:25:10PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: I noticed that dh_make doesn't create diffs , why is that? dh_make does not creat debs or .dsc either Is there a way to (re)generate the the *.diff.gz ? Manually generate (by simple ranaming of the upstream sources) a correctly

Re: Bootsplash packages.

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: [..] I was planning on posting the packages on my website (although I don't have much bandwith), but I am having problems making a package that replaces sysv-rc. In order for bootsplash to operate correctly it needs to

Re: Bootsplash packages.

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: [..] I was planning on posting the packages on my website (although I don't have much bandwith), but I am having problems making a package that replaces sysv-rc. In order for bootsplash to operate correctly it needs to

Conflicts: foo (=x =y) - how?

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, How do I conflict with a certain range of versions? The package is exim4 and I want to conflict with passwd =1:* but =1:4.0.3-8. - Both versions up to 2902-12 and later than 1:4.0.3-8 work for me and I do not want to conflict with them. Is there a nicer way than Conflicts: passwd

Conflicts: foo (=x =y) - how?

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, How do I conflict with a certain range of versions? The package is exim4 and I want to conflict with passwd =1:* but =1:4.0.3-8. - Both versions up to 2902-12 and later than 1:4.0.3-8 work for me and I do not want to conflict with them. Is there a nicer way than Conflicts: passwd

Re: Standards-Version

2003-12-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:35:16 +0100 Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote: So I wonder how I can do that? Is there some ChangeLog for the Debian

Re: Standards-Version

2003-12-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:35:16 +0100 Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote: So I wonder how I can do that? Is there some ChangeLog for the Debian

Packaging a perl-script

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I'd like to see http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) in Debian. As the name suggests this is a wonderful tool to test SMTP servers (including starttls and lots of SMTP auth), for all of us who are tired of telnet foo 25. ;-) However this is only 40KB (with pod)

Re: Packaging a perl-script

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:46:58PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However this is only 40KB (with pod) and I think it might be rejected by ftp-master. - Are there any better possibilities? Why should they reject it? Only 40kb is not a reason. (If its

Packaging a perl-script

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I'd like to see http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) in Debian. As the name suggests this is a wonderful tool to test SMTP servers (including starttls and lots of SMTP auth), for all of us who are tired of telnet foo 25. ;-) However this is only 40KB (with pod)

Re: Packaging a perl-script

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:46:58PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However this is only 40KB (with pod) and I think it might be rejected by ftp-master. - Are there any better possibilities? Why should they reject it? Only 40kb is not a reason. (If its

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:26:15PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote: I made a lot of changes to my packages (Thanks BTW for all the helpfull comments from everyone. Can you please check them out now, and see if I did it right this time? deb http://digitalssg.net/debian/ stable main non-US

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:26:15PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote: I made a lot of changes to my packages (Thanks BTW for all the helpfull comments from everyone. Can you please check them out now, and see if I did it right this time? deb http://digitalssg.net/debian/ stable main non-US

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