Re: RFS: akregator - RSS feed aggregator for KDE

2004-07-01 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Some preliminary comments as I have not yet had time to look at the package proper: - the diff.gz is pretty much empty, it just patches the debian/changelog. I have not been able to verify if the upstream tarballs contain debian/* as the files do not seem to be on the sf.net mirrors yet. From the

Re: RFS: akregator - RSS feed aggregator for KDE

2004-07-01 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Some preliminary comments as I have not yet had time to look at the package proper: - the diff.gz is pretty much empty, it just patches the debian/changelog. I have not been able to verify if the upstream tarballs contain debian/* as the files do not seem to be on the sf.net mirrors yet. From the

Re: RFS : sailcut - sail design and plotting software

2004-06-02 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> * Does it really have no command-line flags at all? The manpage > seems to say so. So far there are no command-line flags, you can just specify the name of a file to open. I still gave the manpage a bit of a polish as it was really dry! > * Have a look at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-leg

Re: RFS : sailcut - sail design and plotting software

2004-06-02 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> * Does it really have no command-line flags at all? The manpage > seems to say so. So far there are no command-line flags, you can just specify the name of a file to open. I still gave the manpage a bit of a polish as it was really dry! > * Have a look at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-leg

RFS : sailcut - sail design and plotting software

2004-06-01 Thread Jeremy Lainé
age name: sailcut Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Authors: Robert Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A sail design and plotting software S

RFS : sailcut - sail design and plotting software

2004-06-01 Thread Jeremy Lainé
age name: sailcut Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Authors: Robert Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeremy Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : A sail design and plotting software S

Re: drbd package

2004-05-17 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Currently, the stable version of drbd is the 0.6.x series. A new > version is on the way, the 0.7.x series. I'd like to package the > new 0.7.x version in debian, but keep the 0.6.x series in Debian as > well. How should I go about this? If the 0.7.x series is going to be the development versi

Re: drbd package

2004-05-17 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Currently, the stable version of drbd is the 0.6.x series. A new > version is on the way, the 0.7.x series. I'd like to package the > new 0.7.x version in debian, but keep the 0.6.x series in Debian as > well. How should I go about this? If the 0.7.x series is going to be the development versi

Re: RFS: lis -- SVR4 compatible STREAMS (+help on lintian)

2004-05-11 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi again Thomas, I just had a look at your control file.. it's HUGE as you define all the kernel-lis-modules-2.4.26-1-(386|586tsc|etc..) packages! I suggest you take a look at how alsa or pcmcia-cs are packaged and create an "lis-source" package in your control file. You should not be building a

Re: RFS: lis -- SVR4 compatible STREAMS (+help on lintian)

2004-05-11 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Uploaded to http://mentors.debian.org/ Failed to fetch http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lis/lis_2.16.16.orig.tar.gz 404 Not Found Looks like you didn't include the original source with your upload. This is because your package version is neither -0 nor -1, so dpkg-genchanges did no

Re: RFS: lis -- SVR4 compatible STREAMS (+help on lintian)

2004-05-11 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi again Thomas, I just had a look at your control file.. it's HUGE as you define all the kernel-lis-modules-2.4.26-1-(386|586tsc|etc..) packages! I suggest you take a look at how alsa or pcmcia-cs are packaged and create an "lis-source" package in your control file. You should not be building a

Re: RFS: lis -- SVR4 compatible STREAMS (+help on lintian)

2004-05-11 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Uploaded to http://mentors.debian.org/ Failed to fetch http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lis/lis_2.16.16.orig.tar.gz 404 Not Found Looks like you didn't include the original source with your upload. This is because your package version is neither -0 nor -1, so dpkg-genchanges did no

Re: removing MySQL data on purge

2004-05-05 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> A better solution would be detecting whether a password is needed > (i.e. the debian-sys-maint or whatever the account is called is not > available) and if so, prompt the user via debconf at purge. Trying to be guess whether a password is needed seems rather risky as the database could very well

removing MySQL data on purge

2004-05-05 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Upon purging a package, it is expected that all installed data should be removed. The package "diogenes" installs a MySQL database and a MySQL user by prompting the user via debconf for the admin user/password. I want to give users the possibility to remove that database and user when the package

Re: removing MySQL data on purge

2004-05-05 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> A better solution would be detecting whether a password is needed > (i.e. the debian-sys-maint or whatever the account is called is not > available) and if so, prompt the user via debconf at purge. Trying to be guess whether a password is needed seems rather risky as the database could very well

removing MySQL data on purge

2004-05-05 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Upon purging a package, it is expected that all installed data should be removed. The package "diogenes" installs a MySQL database and a MySQL user by prompting the user via debconf for the admin user/password. I want to give users the possibility to remove that database and user when the package

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi Matthijs, When you have a multibinary package, debian/tmp is the default place where files get put. It's then up to you to move those files out of there to put them into the various binary packages' directories, for instance using dh_movefiles (see manpage) if you use debhelper. In your case,

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi Matthijs, When you have a multibinary package, debian/tmp is the default place where files get put. It's then up to you to move those files out of there to put them into the various binary packages' directories, for instance using dh_movefiles (see manpage) if you use debhelper. In your case,

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi Matthew, > I have gone ahead and made the changes so that you can see them in > action. This is done in 0.9.9.3-5 which I have uploaded to your > queue. As far as I can tell, that deals with the last item on your > initial review of the package, let me know if you find anything > else! Have yo

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi Matthew, > I have gone ahead and made the changes so that you can see them in > action. This is done in 0.9.9.3-5 which I have uploaded to your > queue. As far as I can tell, that deals with the last item on your > initial review of the package, let me know if you find anything > else! Have yo

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-16 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Would this be ok? I have gone ahead and made the changes so that you can see them in action. This is done in 0.9.9.3-5 which I have uploaded to your queue. As far as I can tell, that deals with the last item on your initial review of the package, let me know if you find anything else! Jeremy -

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-16 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Upload it to my queue (as described at done > I'd say that if the problem can be detected at the time the config > script runs I've thought about it, and yes, it *can* be done though it requires sucking a wwwconfig-common script into the config script, as we cannot depend on wwwconfig-common b

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-16 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Would this be ok? I have gone ahead and made the changes so that you can see them in action. This is done in 0.9.9.3-5 which I have uploaded to your queue. As far as I can tell, that deals with the last item on your initial review of the package, let me know if you find anything else! Jeremy -

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-16 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Upload it to my queue (as described at done > I'd say that if the problem can be detected at the time the config > script runs I've thought about it, and yes, it *can* be done though it requires sucking a wwwconfig-common script into the config script, as we cannot depend on wwwconfig-common b

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> > * I never got asked the DB admin questions, so installation > > failed. I think I've got it : diogenes.config tried to figure out the database admin and password by using wwwconfig-common's mysql-localadmpass.get (which reads /etc/mysql/my.cnf /var/lib/mysql/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf) and if it got an

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> > * I never got asked the DB admin questions, so installation > > failed. I think I've got it : diogenes.config tried to figure out the database admin and password by using wwwconfig-common's mysql-localadmpass.get (which reads /etc/mysql/my.cnf /var/lib/mysql/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf) and if it got an

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> > * Automatic installation failed to properly install the apache > > config. Ok, got it, /etc/diogenes/apache.conf needed to be created before calling the wwwconfig-common scripts that get it included in httpd.conf! The fixes in my previous email as well as this one are included in the 0.9.9.3-

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> > * Automatic installation failed to properly install the apache > > config. Ok, got it, /etc/diogenes/apache.conf needed to be created before calling the wwwconfig-common scripts that get it included in httpd.conf! The fixes in my previous email as well as this one are included in the 0.9.9.3-

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi Matthew, Thanks for taking the time to look at the package! I have a few questions, especially regarding the database configuration. > * No WNPP bug filed. fixed, I have filed an ITP > * Communicates with the user via the console. Consider using debconf > notes instead if it's vitally impor

Re: Issues found with diogenes

2004-04-15 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi Matthew, Thanks for taking the time to look at the package! I have a few questions, especially regarding the database configuration. > * No WNPP bug filed. fixed, I have filed an ITP > * Communicates with the user via the console. Consider using debconf > notes instead if it's vitally impor

Re: RFS for ITA: xcruise -- Fly about a 3D-formed file system

2004-04-14 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! > After this upload only two wishlist bugs and one important > (segfault, unreproducible on my system, being investigated) will be > left. I get a segmentation fault on my system, it's pretty strange.. If I just run xcruise, the velocity starts to go negative, and increasingly so (it goes to

Re: RFS for ITA: xcruise -- Fly about a 3D-formed file system

2004-04-14 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! > After this upload only two wishlist bugs and one important > (segfault, unreproducible on my system, being investigated) will be > left. I get a segmentation fault on my system, it's pretty strange.. If I just run xcruise, the velocity starts to go negative, and increasingly so (it goes to

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Aarrrgh! If you'd happened to package this a couple of months > ago, I would have been so incredibly happy. Ah well.. Diogenes *has* been packaged since 2 Dec 2003 but I wanted to make sure the packages were rock solid before looking for a sponsor :) > If you can hold off for a couple of d

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Aarrrgh! If you'd happened to package this a couple of months > ago, I would have been so incredibly happy. Ah well.. Diogenes *has* been packaged since 2 Dec 2003 but I wanted to make sure the packages were rock solid before looking for a sponsor :) > If you can hold off for a couple of d

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Experience, probably. Time is the pressing issue. Out of interest, > what does diogenes do (apart from WebDAV, which isn't of pressing > interest to me personally) that other content management systems, such > as MySource, don't do? I have looked through the MySource documentation and I won't

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am still looking for a sponsor for Diogenes! I am sure there is someone with some PHP/MySQL/debconf experience out there to look at the packages? Cheers, Jeremy On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:02:27 +0200 Jeremy Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking fo

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> Experience, probably. Time is the pressing issue. Out of interest, > what does diogenes do (apart from WebDAV, which isn't of pressing > interest to me personally) that other content management systems, such > as MySource, don't do? I have looked through the MySource documentation and I won't

Re: RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-04-13 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am still looking for a sponsor for Diogenes! I am sure there is someone with some PHP/MySQL/debconf experience out there to look at the packages? Cheers, Jeremy On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:02:27 +0200 Jeremy Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking fo

RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-03-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for "Diogenes", a web content management system. Here is the relevant information: Package : diogenes License : GPL v2 Upstream : Jeremy Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://opensource.polytechni

RFS : diogenes - web content management system

2004-03-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for "Diogenes", a web content management system. Here is the relevant information: Package : diogenes License : GPL v2 Upstream : Jeremy Lainé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://opensource.polytechni

Re: unofficial sylpheed-claws packages

2004-03-08 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Cancel my last, I hadn't seen the messages on debian-devel :) Jeremy -- http://www.jerryweb.org/ : JerryWeb.org http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ : Sailcut CAD http://mpf70.sourceforge.net/: MPman MP-F70 support for Linux

unofficial sylpheed-claws packages

2004-03-08 Thread Jeremy Lainé
If someone is interested in working on packages for sylpheed-claws (please, pretty please as Gustavo Noronha Silva is currently unavailable!), you can use the diffs I put online to save a little time. I took Gustavo's patches for 0.9.6 and made the necessary changes to make them work for sylpheed-

Re: unofficial sylpheed-claws packages

2004-03-08 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Cancel my last, I hadn't seen the messages on debian-devel :) Jeremy -- http://www.jerryweb.org/ : JerryWeb.org http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ : Sailcut CAD http://mpf70.sourceforge.net/: MPman MP-F70 support for Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

unofficial sylpheed-claws packages

2004-03-08 Thread Jeremy Lainé
If someone is interested in working on packages for sylpheed-claws (please, pretty please as Gustavo Noronha Silva is currently unavailable!), you can use the diffs I put online to save a little time. I took Gustavo's patches for 0.9.6 and made the necessary changes to make them work for sylpheed-

Re: debconf db_input in postinst / horde2

2003-12-12 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Thanks for all the input! From this discussion I conclude that in my package's case there is no call for db_input in postinst, so I just commented out those calls and lintian/linda are happy :) Maybe it would be useful to summarise the cases where you are pretty forced to use db_input calls in pos

Re: debconf db_input in postinst / horde2

2003-12-12 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Thanks for all the input! From this discussion I conclude that in my package's case there is no call for db_input in postinst, so I just commented out those calls and lintian/linda are happy :) Maybe it would be useful to summarise the cases where you are pretty forced to use db_input calls in pos

debconf db_input in postinst / horde2

2003-12-11 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am trying to put the finishing touches on a package of Diogenes, a web content management system. The package relies on a MySQL database, and this database is created based on some information provided by the user through debconf. I am down to one lintian warning : W: diogenes: postinst-use

debconf db_input in postinst / horde2

2003-12-11 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am trying to put the finishing touches on a package of Diogenes, a web content management system. The package relies on a MySQL database, and this database is created based on some information provided by the user through debconf. I am down to one lintian warning : W: diogenes: postinst-use

Re: Sponsor for a bootstrapping Java++ compiler

2003-05-03 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> >To achieve this I use the "deb-makepkg" script below. > > > Thanks a lot, I will look at this. Shouldn't this advertised > publicly, and a package made for it? I have rewritten my script in Perl, cleaned it up, removed hard coded values and now both package name and version are extracted from

Re: Sponsor for a bootstrapping Java++ compiler

2003-04-30 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> AFAIK, this is not OK. Though I used to do it myself too. The > correct way, I believe is to make a tar.gz file, like the one which > is online, and build the Debian package from that. To achieve this I use the "deb-makepkg" script below. You need to adjust the BUILDIR to wherever you build your

Re: (one more attempt at an) RFS: sugarplum

2003-03-08 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Sweet package, I got it to run on Apache2 in 3 minutes flat. I am unfortunately not a DD so lets hope someone steps up! Thanks for the good work and good luck.. Jeremy -- http://www.jerryweb.org/ : JerryWeb.org http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ : Sailcut CAD http://mpf70.sourceforge.net

Re: (one more attempt at an) RFS: sugarplum

2003-03-08 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Sweet package, I got it to run on Apache2 in 3 minutes flat. I am unfortunately not a DD so lets hope someone steps up! Thanks for the good work and good luck.. Jeremy -- http://www.jerryweb.org/ : JerryWeb.org http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ : Sailcut CAD http://mpf70.sourceforge.net

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. done, but no reply so far. In the meantime, I have started work using your package as a base, and have got the buildd package to generate an /etc/default/buildd via debconf. It is structured exactly like the current /etc/buildd/buil

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. done, but no reply so far. In the meantime, I have started work using your package as a base, and have got the buildd package to generate an /etc/default/buildd via debconf. It is structured exactly like the current /etc/buildd/buil

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> You might be interested in > http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/buildd/ Definitely, I'm looking through it right now. > You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. Done, and browsing through the archives I see I'm going pretty much the same way as you as I also rely on autoco

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-29 Thread Jeremy Lainé
> You might be interested in > http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/buildd/ Definitely, I'm looking through it right now. > You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. Done, and browsing through the archives I see I'm going pretty much the same way as you as I also rely on autoco

joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-28 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am interested in becoming a Debian developer and have already produced a number of Debian packages, but they fall in the "pet packages" category referred to in another thread on this list. The most recent ones are mpf70-source and mpf70-utils, respectively the source for a kernel module (bui

joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-28 Thread Jeremy Lainé
Hi! I am interested in becoming a Debian developer and have already produced a number of Debian packages, but they fall in the "pet packages" category referred to in another thread on this list. The most recent ones are mpf70-source and mpf70-utils, respectively the source for a kernel module (bui