On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:53:44PM +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote:
Hi List!
I'm packaging a program which offers different options in using different
compile options.
My wish is to provide different binary-packages in the end.
What should be done?
Should I prepare the 'rules' to do
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:28:18PM -0500, Keith wrote:
hello,
i'm looking for a package to get started on for myself and the only one
that i have any knowledge of at all (out of those not currently
maintained) the rhide IDE is the only one i can think of. however i'm not
exactly sure if
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 02:10:06PM -, Paul Cager wrote:
On Mon, February 19, 2007 1:38 pm, Sam Morris wrote:
I am packaging the nemiver debugger, which has a new version that has
split some of its functionality into a
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:03:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:48:21PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
No, you should *not* put libraries into subdirectories of /usr/lib
unnecessarily.
Policy prefers it for this case
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:33:38PM +0100, Matej Kosik wrote:
Dear mentors,
I am trying to create a Debian package for the Pict programming language.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/pict/Html/Pict.html
The package itself is here
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:00:13PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Neil Williams wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:08:39 +0800
Thomas Goirand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have few questions that would help me to solve things in my
package. I have package1 and package2 being same but with
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:06:19PM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is the beauty of free software. If you find it so
frustrating, write up a generic tool, and contribute it. And that
would follow the grand old UNIX tradition of each
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:44:00AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 30.01.2007, 01:54 +0100 schrieb Magnus Holmgren:
I better ask this once and for all...
I maintain a package where the upstream author has two changelog files: A
brief one called Changes, summarizing the
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 02:21:35PM -0600, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 08:46:57PM +0100, Maximilian Wilhelm wrote:
| $ linda -i *.dsc
| W: conntrackd; Maintainer script postinst uses debhelper, but does not
use #DEBHELPER#.
I do not use any debhelper-magic
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:34:28AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
Hi,
I have a package with a bunch of configuration files that are managed
by my maintainer scripts and not by dpkg. I now need one of them
(a.conf) to vanish.
How do I do this in a clean way? I am thinking about the following:
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:17:02PM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Brandon Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are we allowed to disable compiler warnings? What is the preferred
method, if the code is fine, and would require a huge overhaul to fix?
IANADD
However, my feeling is, the less
Package downgrades are not supported. Usually, they will work, since it is
often just replacement of a set of files with different ones (often the same
names) with different contents. I think if there were always true, downgrades
would be no problem (besides the general tendency for higher
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:36:28AM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Thanks everyone who answered so far! Unfortunately some of the answers
(Steve Langasek's vs. Neil Williams') seem directly opposed :-) I'd
like to try to understand this better since I really know very little
technical detail
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:46:59AM +0100, Andreas Fester wrote:
Hi,
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
Too, there are actually two forms of library soname file naming used:
libfoo.so.1.2.3
and
libfoo-1.2.3.so
Only the first one is mentioned in the various packaging guides,
hmmm ?
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:54:57AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello and Happy new year,
curently I am trying to build several programs made for xfree86 for
xorg but I have problems to find the right devel package which
replace xlibs-dev.
You should run the xlibs-split script.
Also I
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:59:47AM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
* 2007-01-09 09:57, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello and Happy new year,
Hi Michelle,
Note: There is a bunch of programs in xbase-clients which segfaults
under Etch (It is not realy funny to work with Etch since I
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 05:56:17PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
Hi,
Hi Dominic,
Inspection of /usr/lib on my system reveals around 50 nonsymlinks of the
form /usr/lib/*.so. Are these all bugs? eg:
./libdb-4.4.so
./liba52-0.7.4.so
./libdb-4.3.so
./libc.so
./libdb-4.1.so
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 07:23:52PM +0100, Luca Bedogni wrote:
Is there a way to know all the bugs affecting packages installed on a
machine?
Something similar to wnpp-alert, but catching all the bugs insted of O, RFP
or similar.
I don't think so. AFAIK the BTS doesn't support retrieving
, it won't do
anything useful, as you note.
I think there are 2 problems:
- Berlios apparently rejects based on User-Agent.
- Strange headers sent by uscan, observed with wireshark
I was hoping that the devscripts maintainers could comment on this.
Justin
Justin Pryzby schrieb:
On Mon, Nov 20
[-mentors is the right list].
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:28:38AM +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
Hi,
Would someone help on how to generate DiffIndex/pdiffs on apt repos?
It seems that knobody knows how:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/10/msg00184.html
If you were to go to
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 09:26:16AM -0500, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
On 18/10/06, Kapil Hari Paranjape [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact, hardly any (none?) of the original contributors and coders of
LiDIA are working on it anymore. I was nagging its sole maintainer
about getting the
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: ...
Stephen Gran: ...
The preinstall script is never run with a configure argument ...
http://bugs.debian.org/391619
http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-mscriptsinstact
Justin
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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:36:24PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
Hello,
Short question, because I wasn't successful to find the answer myself:
How are bugs treated, that are tagged as $oldstable (currently woody)?
Since version tracking is implemented [0], all the distribution tags
mean this
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:16:04PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote:
I seek a sponsor for tktable. The relevant patch closes an RC bug and
will allow me to continue/restart work on a new upstream release of ds9.
I just updated it to include a small, new fix, probably-closing 2
important bugs.
Justin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:59:27PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:20:34AM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
hi folks,
i have a bug report (#377687) which asks for a secure deletion tool to
be installed in /bin instead
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:14:28PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:06:32AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
I'll note that if chattr +s was implemented for ext[23], a local
diversion of /bin/rm would be sufficient.
i don't quite understand this. the way i understand
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:20:34AM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
hi folks,
i have a bug report (#377687) which asks for a secure deletion tool to
be installed in /bin instead of /usr/bin so you can use it in
maintenance mode. makes sense in a way, and is possible when you look at
the library
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:21:01PM +0200, Maxime ROBACHE wrote:
Hello !
I wrote a little sudoku solver in C with Xlib, and I debianized it.
So, I'm looking for a sponsor to upload it on official repository.
package and source can be found at :
http://candide.homeunix.com/xsudoku/
Could
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:21:18PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have found that it is easier to have machines running each distro
you want to build against, but it shouldn't be neccessary. Try a
--distribution etch though; something that
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:23:50PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
Having recently taken over maintaining sawfish, I ran lintian -I on it
and got
I: sawfish: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4848kB 90%
which refers me to
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:33:57PM -0500, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
I another thread I said:
Having recently taken over maintaining sawfish, I ran lintian -I on it
and got
I: sawfish: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 4848kB 90%
and said also that I'll work on splitting that off.
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:56:57PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hi.
Scenario. Package is new (no version uploaded yet). Dependences is
determined: dpkg-depcheck and pbuilder was used. But these tools not
help task determine dependences
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages
which need to connect to X.
If you're aiming to get the package uploaded, this isn't allowed. You
can't assume an X11 environment, or a network connection, or any
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:33:41PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Justin Pryzby wrote:
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
I am trying to use xvfb-run to permit pbuilder to build some packages
which need to connect to X.
If you're aiming to get
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 03:01:43PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Hi Mike.
Mike Hommey wrote:
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 01:58:12PM +0200, Harald Dunkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi Thijs,
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
Hello Harald,
http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/blockade.html shows that
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 06:35:42PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
Hi folks,
Is there a changelog of the Debian policy online?
Actually I would have expected a pointer on
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/, but maybe
I am too blind to see.
upgrading-checklist.txt.gz
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:24:03PM -0500, TNKS wrote:
Hi,
I hope this is not off-topic for this forum. I have a simple question, and
there's _so_ many forums it's tough to find the best one.
I'm a long-time user of Debian trying to learn more about the distribution
and also the Policy.
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 10:52:08AM +0300, Mihai Felseghi wrote:
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On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:25:15AM +0300, Mihai Felseghi wrote:
Hello again mentors, I've started to package from sratch gsubedit
(a subtitle editor for
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 01:51:14PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
Hi!
On 6/23/06, Mihai Felseghi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello dear mentors , please tell me if there is a method of finding
the build depends for a piece of software (so i can fill the
Build-Depends field of the
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:31 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
* On the first upload, debian/changelog should have just one entry.
This is somewhat clumsy if you have a history of this package in
your private/local repository
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:10:53PM +0200, Matej Kosik wrote:
Hello Justin,
Thank you for the your answer.
Justin Pryzby wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:47:37AM +0200, Matej Kosik wrote:
Hello,
I have created a Debian package for `cmarrows'.
This is a METAPOST package
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 10:47:37AM +0200, Matej Kosik wrote:
Hello,
I have created a Debian package for `cmarrows'.
This is a METAPOST package for arrows and braces in the computer modern
style. The arrows offer the same flexibility as the ordinary arrow macro
in metapost. The braces can
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:31:06PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 01:48:07PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:25:19AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote:
! test -e patch-stamp || \
I suppose you mean
test ! -e patch-stamp || \
Doesn't really
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:33:11PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 09:59:40 -0400, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
dpatch uses a patch patch format, where the first column is all
pluses; they're really ugly.
I don't know what version of dpatch you're using, but that's
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 07:50:11AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote:
I have a package that needs four pactches. I put the four patches into
debian/patches and cdbs patches just fine. I want not use cdbs if possible
for I am confused at how exactly it is working, but what debhelper command
do you
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 01:35:57PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:25 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:09 +0100, Adam James wrote:
A minor quibble with your post, the following is from the Debian
Developer's Reference [0]:
Note the
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:10:21PM +0530, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote:
Dear mentor.
Is there any option or file that if will use in vim with extant ion for
example
# vi abc.pl
then It will open the with by default two header #!/usr/bin/perl -w and
use strict
the thing is I don't
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Frank S. Thomas wrote:
Hi Thijs,
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:41, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
* debian/watch: some people prefer to use
http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php instead of direct queries of sf.net.
To quote from uscan's manpage:
#
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:57:17PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* James Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-13 15:46]:
I do code, but work within sales and marketing for my day job. As
I'm a big fan of Debian, I want to help out. Is there a central
non-technical mentors list also?
Not
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:05:43PM +0200, Christian H?tter wrote:
Hello Bas,
By the way, you mentioned lintian and linda, the tools I have used to
test the package as well. However, they disagreed about the question if
the comment section in a binary is necessary or not - can anyone
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:38:17PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 10:20:34PM -0500, Paul Elliott a ?crit :
All the debian style files can be found at:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/peless/ubuntu.510/
Dear Paul,
I had a quick look at your package. Here are some
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 12:49:17AM +0200, Sz?kelyi Szabolcs wrote:
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Huh?
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:18:47PM +0200, Sz?kelyi Szabolcs wrote:
I've sent an ITP on libvrb last night (at about 23:19 CET
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:04:30AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:29 -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
Just use
Depends: probcons (= ${Source-Version})
Please don't use Source-Version - from the dpkg-gencontrol manual:
The source package version (from the changelog
My understanding is that ldconfig does 2 things:
1. Create symbolic links
/usr/lib/foo.so.n is made a link to the most recent library whose
soname is foo.so.n; nothing happens if this is already true.
2. Update the cache file /etc/ld.so.cache
If a library is needed (eg.
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:18:47PM +0200, Sz?kelyi Szabolcs wrote:
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Hi,
I've sent an ITP on libvrb last night (at about 23:19 CET), but I cannot
see it on d-d and in the BTS. However, I got the copy to my personal
inbox.
Do you have the bug
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:41:04PM +0100, P?draig Brady wrote:
Christoph Haas wrote:
Hi, P?draig...
you accidentally replies personally to me instead of sending a followup
to the mailing list.
sorry.
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:06:33PM +0100, P?draig Brady wrote:
build from the
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 01:21:36PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd
packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad
practices, like leaving
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
Hello,
Panu Kalliokoski schrieb:
Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd
packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad
practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 01:01:43AM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
On Monday 01 May 2006 00:11, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:06:59PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
Nobody says that get-orig-source must be only used for repackaging
purposes. I think it is fine to have such
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:11:26PM +, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:06:59PM +0300, George Danchev wrote:
Nobody says that get-orig-source must be only used for repackaging
purposes. I think it is fine to have such target just getting the
upstream source (ok a hash
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:37:09AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
I repackage openafs, for instance, because upstream distributes OpenAFS as
two separate tarballs and dpkg support for multiple upstream source
tarballs is not yet available, because there's *one* file in the MacOS
packaging that
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:53:20PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 05:47:46PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
Hi Frank,
Isn't debian/README.Debian the one you would like to edit?
It might be. However, the included information is (probably) not useful
to end users.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 06:02:26PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DevRef suggests README.Debian-source for information about how a
nonpristine sourceball is repacked; you could use that, or borrow the
naming convention.
That seems like a reasonable
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:19:29PM +0200, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
About one week ago my mentor uploaded my package libgpiv. As I don't
find it yet on the debian repository, I have been looking if the ITP bug
has been closed. This seems not to be the case, yet.
Do you know
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:57:27PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
Hi all,
I've adopted an old package, and in its PTS page I can read The
package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy
(Standards-Version 3.6.2 instead of 3.5.10). and so I'd like to
upgrade to the news Debian
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:07:22PM +0200, Le_Vert wrote:
So everything is ok :-)
I change the subject to RFS...
The package is available here :
http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-package/spcaview/
Thanks !
Let me know if there is still something wrong.
Did you try to get rid of
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:20:38AM +0200, Le_Vert wrote:
Hello,
It seems that debian has change its policies about manpages directories
hierarchy.
Lintian gives me an error if I install manpages
into /usr/share/man/man1/. So I read the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
2.1 and moved manpages
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:09:34PM +0200, Le_Vert wrote:
Le mardi 25 avril 2006 ?? 11:20 +0800, Paul Wise a ??crit :
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:48 +0200, Le_Vert wrote:
spcaview : package review needed
The convention is RFC: package -- package description
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:32:24PM +, roucaries bastien wrote:
Hi,
glosstex was orphaned two month ago. However I use it everyday and I
furthermore I correct a few bugs and I improve it (hyperref).
Could you provide a hypertext link (url) to the source package you
wish to have uploaded?
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:06:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
W: libapache2-mod-bt: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
./usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_bt.so /usr/local/lib
It's not clear where this is coming
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:15:15PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have often wondered if it would be useful to have a check (say, in
lintian ...) grepping the binary package contents for the build
directory ... assuming that the build directory
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:01:23PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
I'm working on creating .deb packages for one of my projects, with the
eventual goal of having it included in the debian distribution.
I've browsed through the policy manual, new maintainers guide, etc, and I've
successfully
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:37:30PM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote:
Dear mentors,
My packages with explicit architecture lists don't get built by the
autobuilders. I have checked the Debian Policy, Developer's Reference
and New Mainatiner's Guide and believe that the following in the control
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 07:21:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, they build on pbuilder and are on m.d.n.
I would be grateful for a sponsor to have a look at, and hopefully, to
upload the packages.
It looks like there are several changes
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:25:20AM +0200, Maxim Vexler wrote:
Hello everyone.
I'm reading the New maintainer's guide.
On page 28 (version 1.2.3,18 January2005) the author speaks about
`stripping' executable and the dh_strip(1) script. Surprisingly, no
where was the reader informed about
How can I tell if an application was meant to be stripped by upstream ?
If it is in any way normal, you can just strip it, and it will just
work. There are some strange ones that keep can't be stripped,
because they keep critical information in some comment section or
such.
Aha, I was
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:14:58AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
When a bug is tagged fixed-in-experimental, does that bug number still
have to appear in debian/changelog for the next upload to unstable or
will the BTS be updated when the package in experimental is replaced?
I know how to
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:07:37PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More concisely, is debian/copyright supposed to include the copyright and
license of the contents of the binary package in which it is contained, or
the
source package from which it is
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 11:49:44PM -0400, artefact wrote:
Hi,
I recently asked for the adoption a new game named Wormux.
I fixed most of the issues people have found after I posted the mail. I
think you can reasonably test the package again. I gave too the address
of the upstream package on
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:02:58PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Is it acceptable to manually close a bug which is fixed in experimental
but not yet in unstable, especially when there are no plans regarding the
upload of the fixed version to unstable in the foreseeable future?
I think so,
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:48:59PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
Justin Pryzby wrote:
The accepted practice is to have a symlink in /usr (or wherever) which
points to the relevant path in /etc. That way, the program doesn't
have to be hacked, if thats complicated, and users can edit
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 08:50:23AM -0400, artefact wrote:
Le 11.04.2006 02:45, Eddy Petri??or a ??crit :
On 4/11/06, artefact [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I recently asked for the adoption a new game named Wormux.
I fixed most of the issues people have found after I posted the mail. I
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:40:20PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
I doubt it. Debian users are used to find their configuration
under /etc, because all packages do that. Even, users of any LSB/FHS
compliant distro expect that. I can't think of a reason why someone
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 05:18:46PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Carlo Segre may or may not have written...
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, David Liontooth wrote:
[snip]
I need a bit more help -- where do I add them to rules?
CFLAGS = -Wall -g
Can I add the Link with line to give
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:20:06AM -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
David Liontooth wrote:
I occasionally run into tarballs without a makefile. How do I turn those
into Debian packages?
Here's an example -- otk_lib from http://otk.sourceforge.net/.
# tar zxvf
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 09:45:02AM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, David Liontooth wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I would just put those into the debian/rules. There is not enough there
to justify a full-blown makefile in my mind.
OK, that's good news, but I need a bit
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 08:52:02PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
Hi,
to make it as easy as possible for purspective package checkers
if you post an RFS on the -mentors list please put all parts
of the source package in a directory (FTP or HTTP).
The reason why I write this is the wmforkplob
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:55:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote:
Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 03:01:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote:
* Package name: zenoss
Version : x.y.z
Version?
Oh ooops - seems like my personal multitasking
Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
* artefact [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060406 15:37]:
I packaged some time ago a game, Wormux. This game is entirely covered
by GPL license. I created the package a few months ago and released 3
versions since then, from upstream updates.
For those who didn't look
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:23:38PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
Hi,
DebHelper uses by default (in the pre-made templates) -Wl,-z,defs in CFLAGS
when running ./configure
CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 -Wl,-z,defs ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) ...
I'm packaging a program (with some libraries
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:23:38PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
I demand that Miriam Ruiz may or may not have written...
DebHelper uses by default (in the pre-made templates) -Wl,-z,defs in
CFLAGS when running ./configure
CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 -Wl,-z,defs ./configure
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:02:49PM -0800, Steven Brown wrote:
debconf-devel mentions that it tries its best to ask multiple questions
per screen, but I've never seen that occur. Is there a way to get it to
ask that way, or maybe some alternate front end that does it? I want to
be sure my
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:33:37PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote:
Hi Mentors,
I'm currently working on a program written in python. The source-tree
looks like this:
foo.py
bar.py
baz.py
ex1.py
ex2.py
ex3.py
where ex*.py are executables and the others not. My question is, where
to
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 05:00:19PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 16:34 +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
The plugin .so's are not designed to be accessed directly. The purpose
is to access them through libsynfig, which is properly versioned. In a
sense, they differ from
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:54:01PM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote:
I'm packaging libggtl (ITP #358659), which uses libsl (ITP #358657).
The latter is rather unfortunately named. The namespace of two letter
acronyms is rather crowded and there is already a /usr/lib/libsl0 in
libsl0-heimdal.
To be
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 03:07:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) debconf talks about setting {false,true} flags to questions. Does
the set of possible flags predefined or can I invent a flag of my
own? For example, can I have an install the package unattendedly
flag?
noninteractively,
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 06:20:21PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently working on a small GTK2 app and while trying to compile it
under a clean pbuilder environment, I get the following error during the
config phase:
checking for GTHREAD... configure: error: Byzanz requires
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:35:18PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote:
Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 18:20 +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote:
checking for GTHREAD... configure: error: Byzanz requires GThread-2.0 =
and XDamage = 1.0 to compile.
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:
Just a question: is it so poorly known that anyone can search for
package contents?
I don't know, but it seems to me that listing and searching files are
intuitively obvious things that any package management system should
do.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:30:06AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
I have more or less made ready a new package for checkinstall and
installwatch (which are now only one package). The new packages are
available through debian.mentors.net [1]
Major differences from previous packages:
1) Merged
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