Re: RFS: slang-slirp -- Sponsor found

2010-02-27 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, Jörg Sommer jo...@alea.gnuu.de wrote: Dear mentors, thanks for your efforts, I've found a sponsor for this package. Bye, Jörg. -- Macht besitzen und nicht ausüben ist wahre Größe. (Friedl Beutelrock) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

RFS: slgtk -- FTBFS fix, new uploader

2010-02-23 Thread Jörg Sommer
unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/slgtk/slgtk_0.7.6-1.dsc You can find all changes here: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-jed/slgtk.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/jo-next I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Jörg Sommer

RFS: slang-slirp -- FTBFS fix, new uploader

2010-02-23 Thread Jörg Sommer
this package for me. Kind regards Jörg Sommer -- Der Wunsch, klug zu erscheinen, verhindert oft, es zu werden. (Francois de la Rochefoucauld) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Pass argument from Pre-Install-Pkgs to Post-Invoke

2009-02-15 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Julien, Julien Valroff jul...@kirya.net wrote: The aim is to only update file properties of the changed packages. To achieve this goal, I need to get the list of changed packages, which I do in a script invokef through Pre-Install-Pkgs. The file properties can however only be updated

Re: Licensecheck returns UNKOWN, but it's GPL

2009-01-31 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Luca, Luca Niccoli lultimou...@gmail.com wrote: Souce files of the program I'm packaging contain the following header: /* fswebcam - Small and simple webcam for *nix */ /*===*/ /* Copyright (C)2005-2006 Philip Heron

Re: dpatch and .diff.gz files

2009-01-19 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo David, David Paleino d.pale...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:26:33 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 01:01:16PM +1100, Ben Finney a écrit : Examine the ‘foo.diff.gz’ cat foo.diff.gz | lsdiff, for instance lsdiff -z foo.diff.gz | grep -v debian/ lsdiff

Re: A simply project to read

2008-05-21 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre González [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm searching for a simple project to read the code. The package hello is such a package % show hello Package: hello Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 588 Maintainer: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: powerpc

Re: Install files with debhelper or make install?

2008-03-10 Thread Jörg Sommer
Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg Sommer wrote: Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg Sommer wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of mine are simple enough not to need it, but --fail-missing is the option to dh_install. But I want to use dh_installman

Re: Install files with debhelper or make install?

2008-03-09 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Don, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why you generally fail your build if there are files in tmp which do not get installed. In which of your packages you do so? All of mine are simple

Re: Install files with debhelper or make install?

2008-03-09 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Felipe, Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg Sommer wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 08 Mar 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why you generally fail your build if there are files in tmp which do not get installed

Re: Install files with debhelper or make install?

2008-03-08 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Don, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: Colin Watson announced in dda that dh_installman automatically converts manual pages to UTF‐8 encoding. [1] Installing the manual pages with the upstream make install doesn't profit from this. I came

Install files with debhelper or make install?

2008-03-07 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, Colin Watson announced in dda that dh_installman automatically converts manual pages to UTF‐8 encoding. [1] Installing the manual pages with the upstream make install doesn't profit from this. I came to the question if it is generally better to install all files with debhelper. But than I

Re: a package-all package

2007-12-14 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Thibaut, Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm packaging an interpreted language, Yorick, and a bunch of add-ons for that language. I'd like to provide a wrapper package that would depend on all the packages in this family present in main and suggest the one that is in

Re: service helper package

2007-11-28 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo C.J., C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Fully qualified paths to required programs START_STOP_DAEMON=/sbin/start-stop-daemon CAT=/bin/cat ECHO=/bin/echo Why not use

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo C.J., C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper script like the following for services to source? I'm thinking that it would belong somewhere like /usr/share/service-common/init.sh. I have not tested the

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-15 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Florian, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz: So in the end I agree that would be sensible to exit with 0, if the process is not running, cause their might be different errors to occur when stopping (even though I never met one), but that it would make

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/4/07, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after /u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files there. You

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Justin, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after /u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files there. You could do (2) or (3) with links *from* u/s/d though. Where's this written? In the policy? Bye,

Re: debian .orig.tar.gz vs. upstream tar.gz

2007-09-03 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote: Do *not* get the upstream .tar.gz which may have changed for some mysterious reason. I don't think the upstream tar.gz have changed, but your orig.tar.gz is not the same as the upstream tar.gz

Re: debian .orig.tar.gz vs. upstream tar.gz

2007-08-27 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Kapil, Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got hit by this so I wanted to note it down where it might be of use to others. It *is* elementary but then ... Suppose pkg_123.45.orig.tar.gz is already in the Debian archive. To build a new version pkg_123.45-xxx of the

Re: debian/control - Build-Depends vs. Build-Depends-Indep for newbies (+solution)

2007-07-07 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Joachim, Joachim Reichel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the idea to finally separate the build-dependencies between Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep in debian/control. The criterion is the following: put in Build-Depends all those packages that are absolutely necessary to build

Re: Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-25 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Don, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007, Jörg Sommer wrote: I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug

Fix a bug located in a dependency

2007-05-24 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I really would like to hear you oppinion about the following matter: Package A depends on libB. There's a bug in libB. A bug report was files to package A, because the submitter spotted the bug in package A. What would you, as maintainer of package A, do? What do you think about leaving the

RFS: Xindy

2007-05-12 Thread Jörg Sommer
bussy and I should better ask in d-m for a sponsor. So, remove the line and place your name there, if you like. Kind regards, Jörg Sommer -- Der Mensch hat die Atombombe erfunden. Keine Maus der Welt käme auf die Idee, eine Mausefalle zu konstruieren. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Matthias, Matthias Julius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a simple and straghtforward patch system would lower the bar for new packagers, as well as open the way to have .diff.gz files which would only touch the debian directory, instead of

Re: quilt, cdbs, dpatch, but is there even simpler ?

2007-03-21 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi Charles, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:31:06AM -0700, Brandon Philips a écrit : I moved to debian/patches with dpatch. Is this a reasonable solution? use what you like. I usually find quilt simpler, but really, I care much about you beeing

Re: Why info files need to be named info-*.gz?

2006-12-02 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Russ, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the linitan warning info-document-has-wrong-extension refers to Policy 12.2, but I can not find anything about the name scheme in this section. Where is said, that a file in /usr/share/info must be named

Why info files need to be named info-*.gz?

2006-12-01 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, the linitan warning info-document-has-wrong-extension refers to Policy 12.2, but I can not find anything about the name scheme in this section. Where is said, that a file in /usr/share/info must be named info*.gz? Bye, Jörg. -- Die beste Tarnung ist die Wahrheit. Die glaubt einem keiner!

Re: init script output

2006-11-19 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Yaroslav, Yaroslav Halchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would, of course, prefer a solution with the lsb functions. What I want is to know when fail2ban started and when I accidentally tried to start it while the daemon was already running. BTW - it seems that /etc/init.d/skeleton does

How to close an unreproducible bug?

2006-10-07 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I've a report for a bug that I can't reproduce. #235001 The submitter of the report does not use Debian anymore. I marked it “unreproducible moreinfo” one month ago, but nobody provided any infos. I will close this bug, but I don't know which version I should put into the version header to

Re: Override disparity

2006-08-24 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hello Russ, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which leads us to this question: do *-doc packages belong in section doc, or in whatever the main package is (science, in this case)? I prefer putting them in the same section as the main package so

RFS: Xindy

2006-08-21 Thread Jörg Sommer
repository: deb-src http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/debian/ ./ - dget http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/debian/xindy_2.2~beta2-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Jörg Sommer -- Manchmal denke ich, das sicherste Indiz dafür, daß anderswo im Universum

Re: RFS: xindy

2006-08-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo martin, martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.07.29.1918 +0100]: It builds these binary packages: xindy - index generator for structured documents like LaTeX or SGML xindy-rules - index generator for structured documents like LaTeX

RFS: xindy

2006-07-29 Thread Jörg Sommer
://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xindy - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xindy/xindy_2.1.99+2.2-beta2-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Jörg

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-20 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Ben, Ben Hutchings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jörg Sommer wrote: Hallo Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just make sure to use a version that sorts lower than a future actual 2.2 release. Optimaly 2.2~beta2 would be used but I think the DAK still doesn't accept

Re: RFC: xindy

2006-06-08 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Frank, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - According to the README file, Which README file? /usr/share/doc/xindy-rules/README? xindy is distributed as , | -- the xindy scripts and modules in source form | -- the xindy kernel in binary form | -- the xindy run time

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-05 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Goswin, Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just make sure to use a version that sorts lower than a future actual 2.2 release. Optimaly 2.2~beta2 would be used but I think the DAK still doesn't accept those. 2.1.99+2.2-beta might be a good choice. Good objection. I've changed

Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I've created a package for Xindy (#362584) on the basis of a not released upstream source, because the upstream maintainer told me that the old source tree should be replaced and the old source didn't build really fine. Nearly one month ago I've asked the maintainer to release the source,

RFC: xindy

2006-06-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hi, I would like to see my package xindy (#362584) is uploaded to unstable. My package is here: deb-src http://www.minet.uni-jena.de/~joergs/debian ./ * Package name: xindy Version : 2.2-beta2-1 Upstream Author : Joachim Schrod [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: Debian package without released upstream source

2006-06-04 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Nelson, Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On 6/4/06, Jörg Sommer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, my question is: Can I release a package that bases on not-released sources? If so, I request for an sponsor. Otherwise, what should I do? Wait? Well... you can. I saw

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's wishes to leave the symbols in? Why you not provide a -dbg version of your package? If someone has an error and want to report this, he can install the -dbg version to get non

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

2002-10-13 Thread Jörg Sommer
Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Could someone please clarify if it's appropriate to respect upstream's wishes to leave the symbols in? Why you not provide a -dbg version of your package? If someone has an error and want to report this, he can install the -dbg version to get non