Re: Checking if another package is upgraded at the same time

2006-03-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:11:59AM +0200, Kari Pahula wrote: I'm maintaining two interrelated packages, crossfire-server and crossfire-maps. The former depends on the latter. It is possible to upgrade them separately, but upgrading the maps alone leads to problems. The server runs as a

Re: Attempting to adopt two packages

2006-03-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 05:54:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Done some work, now I might be ready. Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 05:35:15PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: contact Matt, but so far I haven't received any response (mail was sent on 11/01/06). I do know I

Re: /etc/conf not installed

2006-03-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:56:44PM +0100, Gerber van der Graaf wrote: I am trying to repair the libgpiv package I've build. The libgpiv_0.3.2-1_i386.deb contains a configuration file /etc/gpiv.conf, as reported by dpkg -c. Extracting the .deb to tmpdir/ (with dpkg -x) gives

Re: adoption request for tcsh -- TENEX C Shell, an enhanced version of Berkeley csh

2006-03-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 20:37 +0100, Martin Godisch wrote: On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 16:36:06 +0800, Cai, Wen Liang wrote: I'm willing to adopt this package if you could give me a hand to guide me in the initial period. I'm a software engineer focusing on middleware and security fields.

Re: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends ????

2006-03-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 02:27:13AM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Dear All, I am in the process of packaging a new package toward closing ITP ;-) and although I defined Build-Depends to depend on debhelper, lintian is not happy anyways What is my problem??? binaries are from

Re: [Q:] Which tool creates the DEBIAN subdirectory

2006-03-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Montag, 13. M?rz 2006 02:28 schrieb Joe Smith: Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I tried to package cpuinfo but it seems that the files in debian/tmp did not make it

Re: [Q:] Which tool creates the DEBIAN subdirectory

2006-03-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 05:02:27PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Montag, 13. M?rz 2006 11:04 schrieb Bas Wijnen: On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: Am Montag, 13. M?rz 2006 02:28 schrieb Joe Smith: Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Re: RFS: libgpiv

2006-03-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:10:41PM +0100, Gerber van der Graaf wrote: Hi, I just uploaded a repaired package to the debian-mentors repository after I got some comments from the previous one. The packages are linda and lintian error free. Lintian issued two warning messages: source:

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:03:05PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:04:32PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: and automake provides a framework for creating makefiles with common and useful targets. Just stuffing autotools into an existing project just adds crud

Re: RFS: nmzmail -- indexes and searches email in maildir folders, especially mutt

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:06:57AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:57:07PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote.. I would suggest to Enhances: mutt, in addition to suggesting it. Also the homepage field is supposedly supposed to be indented with an extra space

Re: RFS: nmzmail -- indexes and searches email in maildir folders, especially mutt

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:47:10AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:18:55AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote.. + -$(MAKE) distclean is evil, see Branden's bug against lintian. Did you look into this? It is #325372. Yes I did, and in all honesty did not follow

Re: Question about rules file

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:51:36AM -0800, Martin Kelly wrote: I am creating a package for the of rtl8180-sa2400 drivers (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400) and I have a question about editing the rules file in debian/ in the source archive after dh_make. I wish for the package

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:41:54PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form? You might be

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 07:00:12PM -, StealthMonger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote: Is there a document describing software packaging good practices

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: Evening... one thing I never really dealt with before are package splits. And since I couldn't find any clear policy on how to define the dependencies properly I'd like to get a second (and even third) opinion on this.

Re: Making multiple-version Python packages with debhelper?

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:17:56PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:50:12PM +0100, Florian Ragwitz wrote: Hello, I was asked to make my python-selecting package support multiple Python versions. Does somebody know the proper way to achieve that with debhelper

Re: Attempting to adopt two packages

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 05:35:15PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: contact Matt, but so far I haven't received any response (mail was sent on 11/01/06). I do know I have to file an ITA bug to each package, but I In the case of installwatch, you should retitle the 'O'rphan bug instead:

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:35:22PM -, StealthMonger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a document describing software packaging good practices for general use, not specific to Debian, preferably in electronic form? I'm not entirely sure I understand what you

Re: RFS: nmzmail -- indexes and searches email in maildir folders, especially mutt

2006-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 10:41:44PM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the package 'nmzmail'. This is a great little program that indexes and searchs email in maildir folders. It truly shines when used in combination with mutt, making searches of your email extremely

Re: Naming conventions for mingw32 packages?

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:51:52PM +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: Dear Debian Mentors, The zlib development package in Debian is called: zlib1g-dev While I do understand the 1, I don't understand the g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/07/msg00682.html In particular, should

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:36:04PM +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: Dear Debian Mentors, As already mentioned in my previous post, I plan to create mingw32 cross compile packages for zlib, SDL, etc., based on the mingw32-* packages. It isn't immediately clear that you intend to make these into

Re: MinGW cross compiled library packages for Debian

2006-03-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:21:37AM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:36:04PM +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: Dear Debian Mentors, As already mentioned in my previous post, I plan to create mingw32 cross compile packages for zlib, SDL, etc., based on the mingw32-* packages.

Re: NEW queue

2006-03-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 05:48:45PM +0900, Kai Hendry wrote: On 2006-03-08T09:00+0100 Miriam Ruiz wrote: Is it my imagination or binary-arch doesn't exist either? Isn't that what .PHONY is for? No; .PHONY is a list of rules which exist, but do not cause files of that name to be created

Re: libapache2-mod-auth-ldap

2006-03-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:12:26PM +0100, Torsten Schlabach wrote: Arnaud, I wonder though what the rule is what modules are part of apache2-common and which ones are separate Debian packages. I would be tempted to assume that everything which is part of the tarball that comes from the

Re: RFC/RFS: ...

2006-03-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:18:10PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: John Buttery wrote: * On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:33:46AM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Andrea Bolognani wrote: I guess you mean libacme-brainfck-perl. Yes. I think there is no need to use such a trick, since the

Re: Making multiple-version Python packages with debhelper?

2006-03-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 14:50:12PM +0100 Florian Ragwitz wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:23:41AM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: Hello, I was asked to make my python-selecting package support multiple Python versions. Does somebody know the proper way to achieve that with debhelper

Re: wannabe package maintainer

2006-03-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On 3/7/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/7/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:29:54PM -0700, Ranjan Grover wrote: Hello I wanna maintain the Gwyddion package (http://gwyddion.net) on the debian system. Gwyddion is a data

Re: Who I contact to remove one package from Debian ?

2006-03-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:52:06PM -0300, Jos? Carlos do Nascimento wrote: Hi, all Im mantainer of *visualboyadvance package and I need to remove it from debian. This package doesnt compile with g++-4.0 or g++-3.4. It just compile with g++-3.3. g++3 will be discontinued in Etch. And

Re: RFC/RFS: bcpp - C(++) beautifier

2006-03-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:29:18AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: bcpp indents C/C++ source programs, replacing tabs with spaces or the reverse. Comparable in functionality: coreutils {,un}expand indent --{no,use}-tabs Unlike indent, it does (by design) not attempt to wrap long statements.

Re: NEW queue

2006-03-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:48:35PM +0900, Kai Hendry wrote: My package webpy has been in the NEW queue for a couple of weeks: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html Is that for a particular reason, or does it usually take that long? 2 weeks isn't too bad; I guess it was much worse in the past.

Re: Packaging XSL stylesheets

2006-03-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:44:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote: I'm going to include some XSL stylesheets of my own in my next release of pilot-qof and these import other stylesheets from a standard library, licenced under the LGPL. Before I create an ITP, is there anything special I should

Bug#355263: policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter)

2006-03-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal Version: 3.6.2.2 File: http://www.us.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:14:29PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 11:41:59PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: * W: The program is licensed

Re: RFS: FSlint - File System lint

2006-03-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 04:47:31PM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:04:30PM +, P??draig Brady wrote: Hi, I've been maintaining FSlint for a few years now and it has proved quite popular. There have even been (buggy) thirdparty debian packages floating around. In

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:23:24PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Some comments about beef: * W: In your debian/rules you included the dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples rules, but there is neither a docs nor a examples. Also, you have a dh_installchangelogs, but the changelog is

Re: first package pcftisio

2006-03-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:51:44AM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: after searching for a copyright, I sent him an email about it: There is not copyright on pCFITSIO. No guaranties either :-) so I was wondering, if such kind of 'NO COPYRIGHT' can be included in debian ?

Re: RFS: cgames

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: cgames is an implementation of some traditional puzzle games for the console by Brian Raiter. These versions are built with ncurses support instead of the niftier (but less portable) Linux console interface with graphical

Re: RFS: cgames

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:19:04PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 09:18:25AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: cgames is an implementation of some traditional puzzle games for the console by Brian Raiter

Re: RFS: b5

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:32:16PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Hello Panu, On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 16:05 +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: Where to get it: http://sange.fi/~atehwa/debian/b5_2.3.dsc http://sange.fi/~atehwa/debian/b5_2.3.tar.gz http://sange.fi/~atehwa/debian/b5_2.3_all.deb

Re: RFS: b5

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:55:13PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:32:16PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Native packages should ideally only be packages that have no real use outside of Debian. Really? I've never seen such a guideline (although I admit it's been

Re: RFS: tinyscheme

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 11:38:00PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, * Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-28 22:19]: Upstream Author: Dimitrios Souflis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build-Depends: debhelper (= 4.0.0), stx2any Package: tinyscheme Architecture: any Description: Very small

Re: RFS: b5

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:18:31PM +0200, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:52:04AM +1100, skaller wrote: It's your call, but since making them non-native is not really that much more work, I'd recommend doing it that way. However there is a reason, it is political, it is

Re: RFS: FSlint - File System lint

2006-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:34:45PM +, P?draig Brady wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:04:30PM +, P??draig Brady wrote: Hi, I've been maintaining FSlint for a few years now and it has proved quite popular. There have even been (buggy) thirdparty debian

Re: RFS: FSlint - File System lint

2006-02-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:04:30PM +, P??draig Brady wrote: Hi, I've been maintaining FSlint for a few years now and it has proved quite popular. There have even been (buggy) thirdparty debian packages floating around. In the latest version (2.14) I have created a debian package, and

Re: help with the package tracking system commands?

2006-02-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:46:55AM -0500, Amadan Korvin wrote: Hi I was wondering if someone on the mentors list woudl be willing to help me with the PTS mailer commands? I am really having trouble but could probably be sorted out with one or two examples... I would suggest to mail the -qa

Re: first package pcftisio

2006-02-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:41:03AM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: I'm waiting for his response. Great, thanks :) still waiting... stil waiting :( o python-cfitsio_0.99.2-1_i386.changes.asc : ??? what stands for .asc suffix ? Oops, I couldn't find one on my system, which is why

Re: scanners for debian

2006-02-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:25:31AM -0600, Servio Benitez wrote: Hi, I wanted to install at least two scanners for debian,apart from Nmap and i dont know which ones are goods and where i can get them. Somebody can help me? This list is for development of debian packages; you

Re: first package pcftisio

2006-02-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:42:18PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: I'm waiting for his response. Great, thanks :) still waiting... ok I think that I start understanding what is a makefile and how works the debianization. so let met tell you what I've done, and correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: dpkg-buildpackage, dpatch and wrong permissions...

2006-02-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:56:13PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: Hi *! I've a strange problem: I've a package with 2 patches, created with dpatch... I compile it with a classic $ fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage BTW dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot might be better, since it runs only the required

Re: dpkg-buildpackage, dpatch and wrong permissions...

2006-02-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:04, Stefano Melchior wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:43:48PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: Ciao Claudio, ... dpkg-source: warning: executable mode 0755 of

Re: dpkg-buildpackage, dpatch and wrong permissions...

2006-02-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 05:05:17PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:19, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 16:04, Stefano Melchior wrote: [cut] the problem is that, if I extract

Re: RFS: xshisen_1.51-2 --- Shisen-sho game for X11

2006-02-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:37:40PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: Hello again! :D On 2/21/06, Margarita Manterola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/10/06, Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual the source package can be found at mentors.debian.net .[1] [1]

Re: Finding dependencies

2006-02-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:54:02PM +0530, Niranjan Nayak wrote: Hi to all I am building the debian of my kde projcet . I have some doubts; How can I find the dependencies for a package ? Is there any hack ? If any what is that and how I will use that one .

Re: first package pcftisio

2006-02-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 02:22:05PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: You should try to get some better response than this. Creative works are, by default, copyrighted. At the very least you need to get the author to send you an email (or make another release of the software) stating that it is

Re: RFS: xshisen_1.51-2 --- Shisen-sho game for X11

2006-02-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:15:35PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: Hi Justin! On 2/21/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Programs don't crash! You should remove that file for testing, debug the non-program, and fix it to do something useful/print a message when the datafile isn't

Re: debian/rules build/build-indep/build-arch

2006-02-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Adeodato Sim?? wrote: Another option worth mentioning would be to do nothing in build-indep if the necessary build-depends-indep are not installed. build-indep: if [ -x /usr/bin/foo ] [ -x /usr/bin/bar ]; then \ foo; \

Re: RFS: xshisen_1.51-2 --- Shisen-sho game for X11

2006-02-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:42:00PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: Hi again! :d On 2/21/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really? Your response here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/02/msg00275.html seems to indicate that you fixed the package not to crash

Re: first package pcftisio

2006-02-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 03:55:28PM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: hi, I'd like to package pcfitsio: http://panoramix.stsci.edu/~npirzkal/python/pcfitsio/ I was thinking to rename it as: python-cfitsio. after searching for a copyright, I sent him an email about it: HI,

Re: RFS: xshisen_1.51-2 --- Shisen-sho game for X11

2006-02-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:17:10PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 2/10/06, Zak B. Elep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual the source package can be found at mentors.debian.net .[1] [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xshisen/ Zak, I've been looking at the package. It

Re: package sysvinit, last.c file

2006-02-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 06:00:15PM +0100, Laurent wrote: I have looking for something in last.c file of sysvinit package (sysvinit-2.86) and I found this : else if (strncmp(ut.ut_user, runlevel, 7) == 0) ut.ut_type = RUN_LVL; at line 720 of file. Is the number 7 normal ?

Re: Users with rights of root

2006-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:04:55AM -0600, Servio Benitez wrote: Hi, I have the version debian 3.1 Sarge, and i need to create an user with the same rights of the root. How can i do it? Well, this is probably the wrong mailing list, unless you are creating a Debian package. You

Re: RFS: ElementTree, ElementTidy, cElementTree

2006-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 11:24:58AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 2/17/06, Torsten Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm searching for sponsors for the above-mentioned packages. ElementTree and cElementTree are already in Debian and just have new versions/revisions. All the packages

Re: RFS: python-harvestman

2006-02-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 12:57:16PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 03:42:41PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: Public domain and the GPL are mutually exclusive. Please don't write this in the debian package description. Also, no need to put the licence in the description.

Re: RFC: PyKaraoke

2006-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:45:50PM +0200, Eddy Petri?or wrote: On 2/14/06, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:53:48PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: I've split the package into two, as I said. I have a problem with lintian anyway, the manpage for all the programs

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:02:08PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, exim4-doc-html includes the exim FAQ, which is a bunch of HTML files and some configuration examples as .txt, in /usr/share/doc/exim4-doc-html/html. The larger of these .txt files are compressed by the build processs, while the

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:42:26PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 2/12/06, Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package can be found at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/sdljump/. It's actually at http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/~shevek/debian/sdljump/ The package is in very good

Re: ITP: wengophone -- A free SIP softphone

2006-02-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Marco Nenciarini wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Nenciarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: wengophone Version : 0.99+svn4179 Upstream Author : Wengo SAS wengophone-devel@lists.openwengo.com * URL

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:35:01AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank K?ster wrote: Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator

Re: Two packages with different version, from the same source

2006-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:47:30AM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi mentors! I have a doubt. I am creating a package of a Firefox/Mozilla extension. Upstream author reselases two .xpi files, one for Firefox and another for Mozilla. Since they are small, I was wanting to create just

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:21:28PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: Hello, After bug report #339387, I added a postinst file to the dummy package gnocatan-meta-server, which does update-rc.d gnocatan-meta-server remove /dev/null || true in order to get rid of the links which were created by the

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 03:41:13PM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:21:28PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: Hello, After bug report #339387, I added a postinst file to the dummy package gnocatan-meta-server, which does update-rc.d gnocatan-meta-server remove /dev/null || true

Re: Removing former conffiles

2006-02-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 10:02:06PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: Bas Wijnen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, how do I solve this? Should I forcefully remove the conffile before calling update-rc.d? It feels really bad to remove files from /etc in maintainer scripts, but perhaps

Re: create password in postinst

2006-02-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:58:00AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Daniel Knabl wrote: ask the user for a password via debconf (store in $CLEARPASS) and then do HASH=`mkpasswd -S 35348090 -H md5 $CLEARPASS` and afterwards the usual sed -e s/default/$HASH/; ... No, that's not ok.

Re: RFS: php-getid3: PHP4 script that extracts useful information from MP3s other multimedia file formats

2006-02-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.3.7 Severity: minor On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:23:24PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 23:49:42 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote This could be priority: extra, unless something not in extra will depend on it. Well ,according

Re: RFS: php-getid3: PHP4 script that extracts useful information from MP3s other multimedia file formats

2006-02-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:32:36PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: Hum.. I'm afraid, I don't understand your point.. Actually, the watch file uses the format: http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php?project=getid3 getid3-(1\.\d*\.\d*)\.zip which is the one refered in your message..

Re: Submission

2006-02-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 02:58:46PM -0500, Larry Owens wrote: How do I find where a package is installed on my hard drive by e.g. apt-get install libpgeasy? For example, how do I find where a typical package, e.g. libpgeasy, is installed? I don't know what you mean. You can get the list of

Re: RFS: php-getid3: PHP4 script that extracts useful information from MP3s other multimedia file formats

2006-02-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:07:53AM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: I have packaged thos php scripts which are very interesting. The ITP is #351184 Packages are available at: http://perso.cti.ecp.fr/~beauxir5/getid3/ I get Host perso.cti.ecp.fr not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

RFS: php-getid3: PHP4 script that extracts useful information from MP3s other multimedia file formats

2006-02-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
./debian/copyrights Please include the years during which the copyright holder made significant code modifications ./debian/control Don't pluralize information This could be priority: extra, unless something not in extra will depend on it. Build-Depends: @cdbs@ I think this is RC and not

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:46:58AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in Debian, you should never install

Re: create docs in binary indep

2006-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 09:12:26PM -0800, Jon Saints wrote: I am new to packaging and just received this feedback on a package I helped to create: I just noticed that gdal packaging needs one more revision because it create a -doc package in the binary-arch section. libgdal-doc is

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
Could you please build your package as nonnative, and preferrably pristine? Otherwise I don't know where to start looking at your work. nonnative means that an .orig.tar.gz of the expected name exists in the parent directory, and pristine means that the tarball is identical to upstreams (not

Re: create password in postinst

2006-01-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:28:47PM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote: Hi folks, me once again. In my postinst I need to generate a MD5 crypted password hash out of a userdefined password. Both of them have to replace the defaults in a MySQL dump file, which I tend to do the following way, unless

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:53:19PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Martin Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not just work with upstream as you seem to be doing - and when the packagings done - download it ... and upload as a debian native package? Surely if upstream keep a debian/

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:35:02AM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:01 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: If it's a simple typo in one line you can also edit the patch file by hand. ... but if it involves insertion or deletion of lines, of patch or of context, then don't

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
Well, maybe it seems, but indeed I DID read it. Not just read, I also Ok, you have to understand that this is borderline possible to do right, and exim4 is probably one of only a handful of packages that will allow this, because its configuration is in a separate package. In one point you are

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 05:22:46PM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote: Hi there, as i use this piece of software already on my own host, i would like to provide it to any other users. for the first steps i have created a directory vexim-2.2.rc1. it includes all of the used files (most are *.php

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:16:25AM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote: Am Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:44:59 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if there is anyone willing and/or able to help me with the next steps i would be very happy. right now i have some questions on how to get debconf

Re: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:48PM +0100, Marcus Better wrote: I use a few packages, such as kernel-patch-exec-shield, which are neglected by the maintainer. What can I do to help if the maintainer is not responding to bug reports or e-mail? I have prepared patches fixing some bugs (even RC)

Re: Bug#347624: DEHS: Error with a valid watch file

2006-01-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:04:55PM +0100, Bluefuture wrote: I have upgraded today dehs system to use the last official released version of uscan in devscripts package 2.6.10. So it now support the same features that uscan 2.6.10 Does this resolve #347624? -- Clear skies, Justin -- To

Re: Problem compiling new upstream version, what to do?

2006-01-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:58:01PM +0100, Armin Berres wrote: Stan Vasilyev wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 12:27 pm, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I'm no DD, but can't you just run autogen.sh and put the difference in your .diff.gz like any other patch? I get this failure, too, so you probably

Re: RFS: Cajun - Audio Jukebox

2006-01-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:41:35PM +, Anton Piatek wrote: Sandro Tosi wrote: Knew I had forgotten to upload something... I think it's better to upload all generated files, even .changes (used to include file in debian) and .build, so DD can have a look at build process log. So, upload

Re: RFC: denyhosts

2006-01-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:24:25PM +0100, Marco Bertorello wrote: Hi, I'm working on a new package called denyhosts. The program is a python script that can monitor a log file (default /var/log/auth.log) for ssh brute-force attack attempts and block them adding an entry in

Re: RFC: denyhosts

2006-01-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:04:33PM +0100, Marco Bertorello wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:29:14 -0500 Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 07:24:25PM +0100, Marco Bertorello wrote: Hi, I'm working on a new package called denyhosts. The program

[OT] iptables kernel dependency Re: RFC: denyhosts

2006-01-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 10:27:33PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes and I think its alot better than adding a bunch of ips to /etc/hosts.deny. And iptables is only a dependency like any other... I have no understanding of what a packetfilter firewall

Re: RFS: GOPchop

2006-01-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 04:24:46PM -0800, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: Then fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot provides fine granularity of what is run under a fakeroot environment, and is therefor preferred (well, by me at least). -- Clear skies, Justin -- To

Re: RFS: GOPchop

2006-01-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi Paul, On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:28:38AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: 5. Build a source package - debuild -S Or just dpkg-source -b foo-1.0/ -- Clear skies, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Packaging converters from ${format} to ISO

2006-01-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:58:04AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 18:02 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: I want to package mdf2iso and b5i2iso, two small utilities that convert proprietary programs' CD image formats into the normal ISO format that cdrecord and Linux's iso9660

Bug#347809: devscripts: Please include script indicating recent uploads (Was: Re: RFX: Gajim, a Jabber client)

2006-01-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: devscripts Severity: wishlist Tags: patch On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:33:15PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: Hi Adeodato, On Thursday, 12 Jan 2006, you wrote: * Martin Zobel-Helas [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 20:13:53 +0100]: it would help if you would mention who your normal sponsor

Re: rpath from `avifile-config --libs`

2006-01-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:26:56PM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: Hi, While packaging swftools, I noticed that `avifile-config --libs` gives -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -laviplay. lintian/linda obviously are not happy with rpath. It is even more annoying because /usr/lib is in the default library search

Re: RFH: open-mpi

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 04:49:12PM +0100, Florian Ragwitz wrote: Hello, I'm currently about to prepare openmpi Debian packages, but I experience the following problems with it: openmpi compiles various shared libraries (libopal, libmpi, libmpi_cxx, liborte, etc.) that don't make much

R-F-NMU: saods9: imtool for astronomy -- #344317: kubuntu patch

2006-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
This is a request for an NMU, or 1-time sponsorship, whichever you prefer. Aurelien is typically busy; I don't see the need to bug him for a 1 line patch :) Please apply the patch given at #344317: saods9: fix for FTBFS in kubuntu dapper and breezy. http://bugs.debian.org/344317 Thanks! --

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