Re: debconf

2002-03-14 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: Template: dict-web1913/reconf Type: note Description: Replace dict-web1913 with dict-gcide in /etc/dictd.conf Is your description field really indented by one character? -- see shy jo

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Duggan wrote: When specifying the regexp to be used in a watch file, are backslashes supposed to be escaped? The New Maintainer's Guide says one thing, but the man page for uscan says another. Which is preferred/correct? Install the uscan from unstable, and do not escape backslashes.

Re: Purging the debconf database

2002-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: However, after this action, /var/cache/debconf/config.dat still contains: Name: dict-web1913/reconf Template: dict-web1913/reconf Value: Owners: unknown echo purge | debconf-communicate You at one point ran the config script or postinst by hand, debconf cannot

Re: Purging the debconf database

2002-03-12 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: However, after this action, /var/cache/debconf/config.dat still contains: Name: dict-web1913/reconf Template: dict-web1913/reconf Value: Owners: unknown echo purge | debconf-communicate You at one point ran the config script or postinst by hand, debconf cannot

Re: non-buildability always RC?

2002-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: I maintain freenet-unstable, a free Java application that builds with jikes, but unfortunately not with the version in unstable and testing. I've now got a bug about that and wonder whether it should really be serious. It's not that this package is not buildable in

Re: Bug#136374: sbuild: /etc/sbuild.conf should be a conffile

2002-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Younie wrote: summary: the sbuild package has three configurations files, each overriding the previous one: /etc/sbuild.conf, /etc/sbuild.conf.local, ~/.sbuildrc. sbuild.conf is for upstream changes, sbuild.conf.local (a conffile currently) for local system-wide changes, .sbuildrc for

Re: non-buildability always RC?

2002-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: I maintain freenet-unstable, a free Java application that builds with jikes, but unfortunately not with the version in unstable and testing. I've now got a bug about that and wonder whether it should really be serious. It's not that this package is not buildable in

Re: Bug#136374: sbuild: /etc/sbuild.conf should be a conffile

2002-03-02 Thread Joey Hess
Rick Younie wrote: summary: the sbuild package has three configurations files, each overriding the previous one: /etc/sbuild.conf, /etc/sbuild.conf.local, ~/.sbuildrc. sbuild.conf is for upstream changes, sbuild.conf.local (a conffile currently) for local system-wide changes, .sbuildrc for

Re: directory permission not changed by dpkg

2002-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: I would like to change the permission of a directory in a new version of my package, but it seems that when you upgrade a package, dpkg keep the old permissions on directories. That is correct. It is correct ? on purpose ? Where can I find a good documentation on

Re: directory permission not changed by dpkg

2002-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: I would like to change the permission of a directory in a new version of my package, but it seems that when you upgrade a package, dpkg keep the old permissions on directories. That is correct. It is correct ? on purpose ? Where can I find a good documentation on dpkg

Re: Proper section for perl manpages

2002-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Duncan Findlay wrote: I was wondering what the proper extensions for perl manpages are. My package, spamassassin, currently installs a lot of manpages in section 3 as *.3p.gz. In perl policy, it states that this should be *.3perl.gz, but I've also noticed a large number of packages we

Re: Proper section for perl manpages

2002-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Duncan Findlay wrote: I was wondering what the proper extensions for perl manpages are. My package, spamassassin, currently installs a lot of manpages in section 3 as *.3p.gz. In perl policy, it states that this should be *.3perl.gz, but I've also noticed a large number of packages we

Re: Open Motif

2002-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: It seems to me that this requirement is a relic of the times before OpenMotif was packaged. At that point it was sensible to require statically linked versions of Motif applications so that Debian users could use them without having to get hold of a version of Motif

Re: Open Motif

2002-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: It seems to me that this requirement is a relic of the times before OpenMotif was packaged. At that point it was sensible to require statically linked versions of Motif applications so that Debian users could use them without having to get hold of a version of Motif

Re: Conditional use of debconf

2002-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: I would like to use debconf to present a message to the admin when a package is installed, but only if certain text does not appear in a config file. Without debconf, I could use code something like this in the [post|pre]inst: if !grep -q include

Re: Conditional use of debconf

2002-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: I would like to use debconf to present a message to the admin when a package is installed, but only if certain text does not appear in a config file. Without debconf, I could use code something like this in the [post|pre]inst: if !grep -q include

Re: Bug#126434: ITP: super-sed -- An enhanced version of sed

2001-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Ganesan R wrote: This may be an obvious question. It's not enough to rename the source tarball, I'll have to rename the sed-3.52 directory within the tarball and create a new tarball. Is this still okay? You don't really need to do that, there is currently no requirement about the name of the

Re: dpkg-reconfigure, policy, and least surprise principle

2001-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: This _will_ overwrite the local values, unless Debconf has a writable, local DB as well. I really don't see how to implement this without a writable DB. Is having a writable DB somewhere a requirement of Debconf or is my code broken? If it's broken, what is the fix?

Re: dpkg-reconfigure, policy, and least surprise principle

2001-12-05 Thread Joey Hess
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: This _will_ overwrite the local values, unless Debconf has a writable, local DB as well. I really don't see how to implement this without a writable DB. Is having a writable DB somewhere a requirement of Debconf or is my code broken? If it's broken, what is the fix?

Re: dpkg-source -i on debian native packages

2001-11-26 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Heath wrote: Never build a full release from the cvs work directory. Always cvs export to another directory first. Doing test builds from the cvs work dir is fine. But do final releases from a temp dir. Sometimes, the cvs work dir is poluted, and having a fresh checkout is safer for

Re: dh_maninstall isn't finding control (now the manpage)

2001-11-09 Thread Joey Hess
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls debian/ README.Debian docs pdamaze.manpagespreinst.ex changelog ex.doc-base.package pdamaze.postinst.debhelper prerm.ex conffiles.ex init.d.expdamaze.postrm.debhelperrules* control

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: In general, I'm confused about non-conffile stuff going in /etc. People are used to editing whatever they want to in /etc. It seems like if a package is going to take over a given file (e.g. an /etc/flipit/port symlink), then it should not be in /etc but in /var or

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-23 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: In general, I'm confused about non-conffile stuff going in /etc. People are used to editing whatever they want to in /etc. It seems like if a package is going to take over a given file (e.g. an /etc/flipit/port symlink), then it should not be in /etc but in /var or

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of future options. I don't follow this point. The user will only be informed that the conffile has changed if they have modified it in some way and you change the conffile that's distributed with

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: OK. So you install a file and then customise it to the user. IMHO customising the file on first install does not count as editing a conf file as you are just changing what the user will see as the default config. In your opinion mabe, but not according to policy.

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of future options. I don't follow this point. The user will only be informed that the conffile has changed if they have modified it in some way and you change the conffile that's distributed with

Re: debconf

2001-10-02 Thread Joey Hess
peter karlsson wrote: Is it possible to have different default values to a question in different language setups? I am trying to package a piece of software that can be installed with two different sets of initial data, one in English and one in Swedish, and I wish to have the English

Re: debconf

2001-10-02 Thread Joey Hess
peter karlsson wrote: Is it possible to have different default values to a question in different language setups? I am trying to package a piece of software that can be installed with two different sets of initial data, one in English and one in Swedish, and I wish to have the English

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

2001-09-20 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Walters wrote: The upstream documentation comes as HTML, including the changelog. Policy section 13.8 states that the changelog file must be compressed. However, the changelog is hyperlinked from other parts of the documentation; renaming it to changelog.html.gz would break those

Re: lintian goes wild?

2001-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: main::(/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/asm/unistd.ph:114): 114:eval 'sub __NR_iopl () { not supported;}' unless defined(__NR_iopl); On i386, this line is: eval 'sub __NR_iopl () {110;}' unless defined(__NR_iopl); Hypothesis: on m68k, iopl() is not supported, or

Re: lintian goes wild?

2001-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: #define __NR_olduname 109 #define __NR_iopl /* 110 */ not supported #define __NR_vhangup111 #define __NR_idle /* 112 */ Obsolete #define __NR_vm86 /* 113 */ not supported #define __NR_wait4

Re: lintian goes wild?

2001-09-09 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: main::(/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/asm/unistd.ph:114): 114:eval 'sub __NR_iopl () { not supported;}' unless defined(__NR_iopl); On i386, this line is: eval 'sub __NR_iopl () {110;}' unless defined(__NR_iopl); Hypothesis: on m68k, iopl() is not supported, or

Re: Processed: glimpse package is no longer in the Debian archive

2001-08-28 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: Using 'close' to close bugs, especially those which arn't really fixed but just no longer useful, is WRONG. The submitter only gets the subject line, and that's hardly nice. Especially when you tell people this is a dead package, we won't help you, go find something else.

Re: /proc file system

2001-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: But then people can't use self-compiled kernels without using kernel-package, and you also don't know whether an installed kernel package is the running kernel. There's no good way to do this within the Debian packaging framework, as far as I can work out. Well, this is

Re: /proc file system

2001-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: But then people can't use self-compiled kernels without using kernel-package, and you also don't know whether an installed kernel package is the running kernel. There's no good way to do this within the Debian packaging framework, as far as I can work out. Well, this is

Re: debconf question.

2001-07-31 Thread Joey Hess
Viral wrote: My problem is that, there will be a variable number of nodes for which information is required. This will be only known at runtime. No problem. A single debconf template can instantiate into an unlimited number of individual questions. See the REGISTER command. You can also use

Re: debconf question.

2001-07-31 Thread Joey Hess
Viral wrote: My problem is that, there will be a variable number of nodes for which information is required. This will be only known at runtime. No problem. A single debconf template can instantiate into an unlimited number of individual questions. See the REGISTER command. You can also use

Re: Sample config file

2001-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version in case it exists now. Or will it? I think dpkg handles this ok, and compares the md5sum of the existing file (if

Re: Sample config file

2001-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: The problem is that /etc/multiCDrc is not a conffile yet, so making it a conffile now won't avoid overwriting it when updating to the new version in case it exists now. Or will it? I think dpkg handles this ok, and compares the md5sum of the existing file (if

Re: dpkg-genchanges and fileslistfile

2001-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Niall Young wrote: niall@host:~/Device-SerialPort/Device-SerialPort-0.10$ dpkg-genchanges -fdebian/Device-SerialPort.files dpkg-genchanges: error: badly formed line in files list file, line 1 whose contents is: etc etc/Device usr usr/lib usr/lib/perl5 usr/lib/perl5/5.005

Re: dpkg-genchanges and fileslistfile

2001-06-13 Thread Joey Hess
Niall Young wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Device-SerialPort/Device-SerialPort-0.10$ dpkg-genchanges -fdebian/Device-SerialPort.files dpkg-genchanges: error: badly formed line in files list file, line 1 whose contents is: etc etc/Device usr usr/lib usr/lib/perl5 usr/lib/perl5/5.005

Re: OK to use /etc/default for non-init script default data?

2001-06-07 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: This is the way to do it for an init script. Is it OK to have a file in /etc/default that does not provider defaults for an init script but for an executeable called by users? I don't know. I don't see a lot of advantage over just putting the conffile in /etc. There is

Re: OK to use /etc/default for non-init script default data?

2001-06-04 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: This is the way to do it for an init script. Is it OK to have a file in /etc/default that does not provider defaults for an init script but for an executeable called by users? I don't know. I don't see a lot of advantage over just putting the conffile in /etc. There is

Re: /usr/share policy

2001-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: /usr/share/doc/package, not /usr/share/package. Two different beasts. Ah indeed. Then you're right of course. Sorry. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/share policy

2001-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: Muhammad Hussain Yusuf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a package, gstar, which places various lists of stars in /usr/share/starchart since gstar is a gtk front-end to the starchart programme. My question is: is there any policy or guidelines about naming stuff in in

Re: /usr/share policy

2001-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Gilbey wrote: Agreed. (And I don't think /usr/share/package is mandated.) Every package MUST be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file `/usr/share/doc/_package-name_/copyright' Packages that are not Debian-native MUST

Re: /usr/share policy

2001-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: /usr/share/doc/package, not /usr/share/package. Two different beasts. Ah indeed. Then you're right of course. Sorry. -- see shy jo

Re: Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Gilbey wrote: I'm currently the Maintainer of libfile-temp-perl which as of perl 5.6.1 is included in the main Perl distribution. As the package is now redundant should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for it's removal. Or replace it by a dummy package which says you

Re: Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Gilbey wrote: I'm currently the Maintainer of libfile-temp-perl which as of perl 5.6.1 is included in the main Perl distribution. As the package is now redundant should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for it's removal. Or replace it by a dummy package which says you

Re: debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: I am still a little confused at what the config script does, how do I use it when I want to use debconf in several maintainer scripts, ie preinst and postinst? Add all db_ calls there? Does order matter? Is it a collection of subroutines for the different texts

Re: debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: Now this is confusing like accounting, everything is inversed. I use INPUT to OUPUT a note, ok. And I use GET to set a variable to the return value. Once I stop trying to interprete the meaning of the commands, it actually makes sense, like accounting... We

Re: debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: I am still a little confused at what the config script does, how do I use it when I want to use debconf in several maintainer scripts, ie preinst and postinst? Add all db_ calls there? Does order matter? Is it a collection of subroutines for the different texts and

Re: debconf in preinst and postinst?

2001-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Christian T. Steigies wrote: Now this is confusing like accounting, everything is inversed. I use INPUT to OUPUT a note, ok. And I use GET to set a variable to the return value. Once I stop trying to interprete the meaning of the commands, it actually makes sense, like accounting... We

Re: Upstream maintainer disagree with the package name

2001-05-27 Thread Joey Hess
RĂ©mi Perrot wrote: I recently upload a new package called libglade-perl. After some mail exchange with the upstream maintainer (Dermot Musgrove [EMAIL PROTECTED]), he say that libglade-perl is not a library and he ask me to change the name of the package to glade-perl. He is not wrong since

Re: problem with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot / dh_movefiles: debian/tmp does not exist.

2001-05-25 Thread Joey Hess
Noel Koethe wrote: Ahh, ok. So its a little problem with dh_movefiles which wants to move from debian/tmp by default and/or ignores my export DH_COMPAT=3 in debian/rules. man dh_movefiles (see NOTES) -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: problem with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot / dh_movefiles: debian/tmp does not exist.

2001-05-25 Thread Joey Hess
Noel Koethe wrote: Ahh, ok. So its a little problem with dh_movefiles which wants to move from debian/tmp by default and/or ignores my export DH_COMPAT=3 in debian/rules. man dh_movefiles (see NOTES) -- see shy jo

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better solutions in Debian when two packages share the same file. cu Adrian I'm just looking for the 'better solutions' he

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: It seems the best solution indeed. Is there a way to know if a package has been purged ? dpkg --test-purge ? You'll have to play with dpkg -s | grep Status: I guess -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: Unfortunately some packages still use it; there are 68 packages in the archive that build-depend on it. It's not clear that use of debmake can be considered a bug unless it's actually broken. And really quite a few more seem to use it according to the graph somewhere on my

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: It's your package. One thing you could do when you start working on it is to remove the conflict between xabacus and xmabacus - there are better solutions in Debian when two packages share the same file. cu Adrian I'm just looking for the 'better solutions' he

Re: 2 packages sharing the same config file.

2001-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: It seems the best solution indeed. Is there a way to know if a package has been purged ? dpkg --test-purge ? You'll have to play with dpkg -s | grep Status: I guess -- see shy jo

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Could dh_clean be extended to trap not-allowed-to-remove errors and issue a helpful message similar to dh_testroot? Then dh_testroot could be removed from the clean target, and it would just work for the most common cases, and give good diagnostic for common mistakes.

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Could dh_clean be extended to trap not-allowed-to-remove errors and issue a helpful message similar to dh_testroot? Then dh_testroot could be removed from the clean target, and it would just work for the most common cases, and give good diagnostic for common mistakes.

Re: Long strings in debconf templates (in the short description)

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: I wonder how strict is the about 50 characters or so limitation on the short description for a debconf template is? Well, you're not going to get a serious severity bug about it any time soon. However, debconf frontends are designed with strings of about this length

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-03 Thread Joey Hess
Hamish Moffatt wrote: A lot of packages used to test for root access in the clean target too. That was standard practise before we had fakeroot. I suppose when you were building as root (non-fake), you would end up with directories owned by root, so it made sense that you would need root

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bob Hilliard wrote: The only guidance I can find in policy 3.5.2.0 on the subject of stripping binaries is in section 11.1. Binaries: Note that by default all installed binaries should be stripped, either by using the `-s' flag to `install', or by calling `strip' on the

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor put absolute filenames in .so directives. Heh. There's a man page somewhere in debian that looks something like: a few man header-type things here .so /usr/bin/foo a few man footer-type things here

Re: Lintian errors and warnings

2001-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor put absolute filenames in .so directives. Heh. There's a man page somewhere in debian that looks something like: a few man header-type things here .so /usr/bin/foo a few man footer-type things here

Re: dh_installinfo and --section

2001-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Decklin Foster wrote: - I'm using dh_installinfo to write the install-info call into my maintainer scripts, which produces something like: install-info --quiet /usr/share/info/yafc.info How do I get it to use a section? (If the answer is "file a bug on debhelper", I'll go

Re: dh_installinfo and --section

2001-03-13 Thread Joey Hess
Decklin Foster wrote: - I'm using dh_installinfo to write the install-info call into my maintainer scripts, which produces something like: install-info --quiet /usr/share/info/yafc.info How do I get it to use a section? (If the answer is file a bug on debhelper, I'll go

Re: dh_installman and X11 apps

2001-03-10 Thread Joey Hess
Carlos Laviola wrote: You're not supposed to put the manpage wherever you want to, even if it is a X program. dh_installman puts the manpages into their respective sections, e.g. if you have foo.1, it'll be but on section 1. If you have foo.1x, it'll be but at /usr/X11R6/man/man1 for being in

Re: dh_installman and X11 apps

2001-03-10 Thread Joey Hess
Carlos Laviola wrote: You're not supposed to put the manpage wherever you want to, even if it is a X program. dh_installman puts the manpages into their respective sections, e.g. if you have foo.1, it'll be but on section 1. If you have foo.1x, it'll be but at /usr/X11R6/man/man1 for being in

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Gilbey wrote: No, it isn't at all. Any configuration files MUST reside in /etc. These are not configuration files (the sorts of things used to configure a package), but score/state files, if I recall correctly. So how about this scheme: conffile != configuration file There has been

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

2001-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
Julian Gilbey wrote: No, it isn't at all. Any configuration files MUST reside in /etc. These are not configuration files (the sorts of things used to configure a package), but score/state files, if I recall correctly. So how about this scheme: conffile != configuration file There has been a

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Manfred Wassmann wrote: Well, um, partly so that if dh_installdocs does not do what you want, you can work around it and still be assured of proper permissions once you run dh_fixperms? But if it was done in the first place dh_fixperms was not required. In other words, it would be

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-24 Thread Joey Hess
Manfred Wassmann wrote: Well, um, partly so that if dh_installdocs does not do what you want, you can work around it and still be assured of proper permissions once you run dh_fixperms? But if it was done in the first place dh_fixperms was not required. In other words, it would be

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-22 Thread Joey Hess
Manfred Wassmann wrote: Well, I'm not that familiar with debhelper yet. I mistakenly assumed that dh_installdocs would set the permissions of the installed files. If it just copies that's nuts. BTW I think it would be more suggestive if a command that installs doc files would set the

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-22 Thread Joey Hess
Manfred Wassmann wrote: Well, I'm not that familiar with debhelper yet. I mistakenly assumed that dh_installdocs would set the permissions of the installed files. If it just copies that's nuts. BTW I think it would be more suggestive if a command that installs doc files would set the

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
Manfred Wassmann wrote: Does dh_installdocs know about this? I couldn't find anything like that in the docs. That's where dh_installdocs puts it. If the tool doesn't do everything you need (and it'd be pretty hard to make debhelper handle this edge case any better), there's nothing wrong with

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
Manfred Wassmann wrote: Here is my suggestion (as I am currently in the NM-queue any comments are greatly appreciated): In debian/rules create a temporary doc (it should not be in the source already) and copy the files into that directory. Then you can install the directory with debhelper

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-21 Thread Joey Hess
Manfred Wassmann wrote: Does dh_installdocs know about this? I couldn't find anything like that in the docs. That's where dh_installdocs puts it. If the tool doesn't do everything you need (and it'd be pretty hard to make debhelper handle this edge case any better), there's nothing wrong with

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Jochen Voss wrote: I have a question about debhelper: I try to pack a package which has multiple README files, scattered over several sub-directories. README foo/README bar/README My plan is to install them in the doc directory as doc/README doc/README.foo doc/README.bar Is

Re: debhelper and multiple README files

2001-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Jochen Voss wrote: I have a question about debhelper: I try to pack a package which has multiple README files, scattered over several sub-directories. README foo/README bar/README My plan is to install them in the doc directory as doc/README doc/README.foo doc/README.bar Is

Re: Bug#85850: lxdoom: problem building on alpha

2001-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Drew wrote: dh_gencontrol lxdoom creates a couple of binary packages, one of which (the svgalib binary) is useful only on i386. Therefore, I assigned lxdoom-svga Architecture: i386 only, assuming dpkg-gencontrol would work properly with this. Apparently not. How can I get around this

Re: Bug#85850: lxdoom: problem building on alpha

2001-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Joe Drew wrote: dh_gencontrol lxdoom creates a couple of binary packages, one of which (the svgalib binary) is useful only on i386. Therefore, I assigned lxdoom-svga Architecture: i386 only, assuming dpkg-gencontrol would work properly with this. Apparently not. How can I get around this

Re: help in interpreting the packaging manual

2001-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Domenico Andreoli wrote: now reading the packaging manual i found this writing: "A Conflicts entry should almost never have an `earlier than' version clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package which declared such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of the

Re: help in interpreting the packaging manual

2001-02-10 Thread Joey Hess
Domenico Andreoli wrote: now reading the packaging manual i found this writing: A Conflicts entry should almost never have an `earlier than' version clause. This would prevent dpkg from upgrading or installing the package which declared such a conflict until the upgrade or removal of the

Re: dh_suidregister - ?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
JP Sugarbroad wrote: I'm not sure if dpkg applies statoverrides at unpack time or after scripts have run. At unpack time. The preinst will have run. -- see shy jo

Re: dh_suidregister - ?

2001-02-05 Thread Joey Hess
JP Sugarbroad wrote: I'm not sure if dpkg applies statoverrides at unpack time or after scripts have run. At unpack time. The preinst will have run. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-statoverride sucks

2001-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: Anyway, I tried also using dpkg-statoverride in postinst to set the mode for /usr/lib/games/mirrormagic, not just /var/lib... and do get the same problem: warning: --update given but /usr/lib/games/mirrormagic does not exist So does that mean this part of the problem is

Re: lintian and debhelper questions

2001-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
peter karlsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, just copy the commands you need into your postinst file from /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-doc Is there any way to force debhelper to insert these, rather than to insert them manually? It's alll explained in debhelper's

Re: lintian and debhelper questions

2001-01-30 Thread Joey Hess
peter karlsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes, just copy the commands you need into your postinst file from /usr/share/debhelper/autoscripts/postinst-doc Is there any way to force debhelper to insert these, rather than to insert them manually? It's alll explained in debhelper's

Re: dh_suidregisted and potato/sid packages

2001-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: in sid packages, dh_suidregister is not allowed to be used any more. However, I need my own packages mainly under potato, so I am quite interested that they build under potato as well. Are there any standard procedures for this, or am I left with some nasty if constructs in

Re: dh_suidregisted and potato/sid packages

2001-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: I see. So I need to actually install a chrooted sid to be able to read the manpage. That'll take a few days until I get around doing so... Um, the man page is available in the source package, by cvs, on any one of the debian projects machines that are running unstable, etc. I

Re: dh_suidregisted and potato/sid packages

2001-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: in sid packages, dh_suidregister is not allowed to be used any more. However, I need my own packages mainly under potato, so I am quite interested that they build under potato as well. Are there any standard procedures for this, or am I left with some nasty if constructs in

Re: dh_suidregisted and potato/sid packages

2001-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: I see. So I need to actually install a chrooted sid to be able to read the manpage. That'll take a few days until I get around doing so... Um, the man page is available in the source package, by cvs, on any one of the debian projects machines that are running unstable, etc. I

Re: use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-22 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Hanson wrote: I don't know the design decisions that went into debconf, but what I am suggesting looks consistent with the design document in /usr/share/doc/debconf/specification.txt.gz. In that document, debconf looks very much like a database, and it seems strange that I should need

Re: use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Hanson wrote: Any reason not to do this? Debconf is Not a Registry (TM) -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: use debconf directly from init.d?

2001-01-21 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Hanson wrote: Any reason not to do this? Debconf is Not a Registry (TM) -- see shy jo

Re: dh_shlibdeps quirky behaviour

2001-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
Francis Irving wrote: Basically, when dh_shlibdeps runs from within dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it doesn't generate the file debian/substvars. If I run it at the command line from the same directory, it correctly generates the file. You probably have some DH_COMPAT setting in your rules

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