Re: scribes

2006-01-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 02:54:13PM -0700, Joseph Smidt wrote: I intend to package scribes. It depends on gnome 2.12 and Python 2.4. Should I wait to try to package it until those packages are in unstable? They will get there some day right? :) I just didn't know whether it was better to wait

Re: RFC: packer -- dh_make replacement

2006-01-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
I haven't been able to review the main file, but here are some comments on everything else.. On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:53:37PM -0500, Daniel J. Milstein wrote: Hello, I have been working on a debian package generator and I was wondering if people were willing to make suggestions for

Re: /etc is not in Debian Package

2006-01-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:31:28PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Justin, Am 2005-12-27 09:31:54, schrieb Justin Pryzby: On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:55:52PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: | install -m 644 tdnewmsg.conf debian/tmp/etc

Re: single binary, multiple binary,...

2006-01-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:02:46PM +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I want to learn building Debian package (yeah, it has been for a long now...) and need to get a zope2.9 package. Now, the latest available is just zope2.8-2.8.4. As well as it is not really an upgrade of the package

Re: new pkg: libcrypt-simple-per

2006-01-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 12:35:11AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi all! Today is the first day of the year, so I manage to create my first debian package...and it's still libcrypt-simple-perl... This is what I've done: 1. copied tar.gz to libcrypt-simple-perl-0.06.tar.gz You either needed to

Re: Move config-files from /etc into /etc/foobar during package upgrade

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:42:06PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:37:03AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Are there special things I need to care of? Does anyone know a package, where the configuration files moved? I already added a NEWS file. But not every user

Re: Move config-files from /etc into /etc/foobar during package upgrade

2005-12-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:05:41PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Samstag, den 31.12.2005, 08:15 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:42:06PM +, Mark Brown wrote: On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:37:03AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Are there special things I need

Re: [RFS] altermime: utility used to alter mime-encoded mailpacks

2005-12-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:39:43PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 11:11, Julien Valroff wrote: I'm looking for a sponsor for altermime: alterMIME is a small program which is used to alter your mime-encoded mailpacks as typically received by Inflex, Xamime and

Re: RFS: statist - Small and fast terminal-based statistics program

2005-12-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:34:39AM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 21:36 -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: Hello! Hi! This package was discussed here before, but I didn't find a sponsor yet. Below, some information about it: Homepage:

Re: Taking over different packages with a single source package

2005-12-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN (?$B4ZC#BQ) wrote: Op maa 26 dec 2005 18:40:13 +0100 schreef Justin Pryzby: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:34:04PM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN (?$B4ZC#BQ) wrote: Op zon 25 dec 2005 17:30:07 +0100 schreef Justin Pryzby: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005

Re: new pkg: libcrypt-simple-per

2005-12-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 07:33:31PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: Hi all, while still studing new maintainers' guide debian policy to create a correct deb package, should I open an ITP bug? Yes; Against what? Yes, use 'reportbug wnpp'. More in general, what is the usual way to create a new

Re: Proposal for collaborative maintenance of packages

2005-12-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:13:31PM +1100, skaller wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:27 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: skaller wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:37 -0200, Gustavo Franco wrote: I would beg of those with interest in Debian to try to figure out a way to streamline the process

Bug#344972: Please add more pointers to debconf-devel(7) (Was: Re: Policy documentation on debconf)

2005-12-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: developers-reference, www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please mention devconf-devel(7) in the developers reference and at debian.org/devel/ I really hope its clear that debconf-devel needs to have something else pointing to it, since it is the second time in 30 days that someone has

Re: Taking over different packages with a single source package

2005-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:34:04PM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN (?$B4ZC#BQ) wrote: Op zon 25 dec 2005 17:30:07 +0100 schreef Justin Pryzby: On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:14:06AM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote: I find it too bothersome and clumsy to have a source package for each and every font, so I

Re: RFC sim-im (Simple Instant Messenger)

2005-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:45:07PM +0300, Nikolay Shaplov wrote: The source of the sim package is here: http://shaplov.ru/files/sim/sim_0.9.3.svn133.orig.tar.gz http://shaplov.ru/files/sim/sim_0.9.3.svn133-1.diff.gz Consider using debhelper v5. Consider adding copyright notices to

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 06:41:38PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 26 2005, Joey Hess wrote: (policy also contains a formal definition of the debconf protocol amoung other bits of debconf documentation) This I could not find, as I already

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:47:46PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in section 6 of the policy. Can somebody please point me to a reference of how and when it is

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 03:51:44PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: AFAIK there is/can be a configure target in debian/rules. Or, are you talking about ./debian/rules configure target, which probably just calls ./configure

Re: Taking over different packages with a single source package

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:14:06AM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote: Hi list! I'm nearly finished with my /magnum opus/, latex-cjk (a LaTeX macro that allows you to insert Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Vietnamese text in a LaTeX document), which you can find at deb

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:47:46PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I can't find any mention

Re: Remove an ITP

2005-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 02:36:49PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: Hallo Claudio, * Claudio Moratti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-12-22 14:27]: [...] Now I'd like to remove these two ITPs (k9copy depends on vamps) but... Could you point me to the discussion about why vamps can't be in Debian?

Re: dpkg-source and ignore everything outside of debian/

2005-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 05:15:03PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Alejandro Exojo in [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to generate a diff.gz in which only the debian/ directory is included. You can also remove the files which leave a diff cruft in the clean target of ./debian/rules. -- Clear

Re: RFS: libjavascript-rpc-perl -- Perl module to process Remote procedure

2005-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote: Hello, I am searching for an sponsor for my libjavascript-rpc-perl package. * Package name: libjavascript-rpc-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Brian Cassidy * URL :

Re: Remove an ITP

2005-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:09:14PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:01, Rog?rio Brito wrote: Hi, Claudio. On Dec 22 2005, Claudio Moratti wrote: I sent, some time ago, two ITPs: vamps (#320067) and k9copy (#320045)... Right. Since your first announcement

Re: Remove an ITP

2005-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 10:48:00PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Thu, December 22, 2005 20:01, Rog?rio Brito wrote: Packages are ready, but vamps can not enter in Debian, because the upstream author don't want to make public his real identity (now in debian/copyright I've a Vamps Admin

Re: RFS: libjavascript-rpc-perl -- Perl module to process Remote procedure

2005-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 07:51:12AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: On 22-Dec-2005, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 03:30:44PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote: One problem exists,Linda says: W: libjavascript-rpc-perl; Package version 0.1-1 is less than 0.05-1. Its also a problem since

Re: Remove an ITP

2005-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:10:14PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Indeed, many packages aren't copyrighted by individual person[s]; check out the 'coreutils' package, the copyright of which is held by some funky group called

Re: new pkg: libcrypt-simple-per

2005-12-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:23:11AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: Just to make sure we're all talking about the same thing, Sandro, are you referring to this: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/ Yes, I've used this one I bring this up on the list not to

Re: library naming problem

2005-12-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:33:38AM -0500, Steve Halasz wrote: Hi, I've been helping to package the GDAL library. It contains a C and a C++ API. The upstream maintainer has decided not to guarantee ABI compatibility even between minor releases. He updates the SONAME correctly for the C API.

Re: new pkg: libcrypt-simple-per

2005-12-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:36:56AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: By source package, Russ was referring to the following files: libcrypt-simple-perl_0.06-1.dsc libcrypt-simple-perl_0.06-1.diff.gz libcrypt-simple-perl_0.06.orig.tar.gz I think it's a binary package: I take the

Re: RFS: libaudio-mixer-perl -- perl extension for Sound Mixer control

2005-12-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 02:16:48PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Jonas Genannt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am searching for an sponsor for my libaudio-mixer-perl package. Uploaded. * The make clean target has: -$(MAKE) realclean As previously mentioned, I think:

Re: RFS: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

2005-12-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
etch), it contains a bash-script (suggested by Justin Pryzby). Please have a look at it on: http://server01.marioiseli.com/~mario/dpkgs/cdrbq/, if everything is ok, please upload it. Sorry about the delay; I'd been planning on reviewing this for several days and had too many other things

Re: RFS: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

2005-12-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 04:13:27PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:58:11PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: If you do keep it, the postinstall removes cdrtoaster regardless of whether it's a symlink. I think it would be better to do

Re: Creating a randomized cron entry

2005-12-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:48:04PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:55:00PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: Probably the most portable way to handle it is to run the job from cron.daily, but call a wrapper script

Re: How to ensure whether an ITP has been raised for ICE

2005-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 06:09:03PM +0530, Prasad Kadambi wrote: Hi All, I just wanted to know whether an ITP has been raised for packaging ICE (Internet Communication Engine) ? Ice is a middleware like CORBA. Please check http://zeroc.com/ for more details. I searched for the ITP in

Re: pbuilder and scons

2005-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:29:19AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Claudio Moratti wrote: Hi *! I'm working on a package that uses scons... everything goes fine but I find one problem: in order to clean the sources, debian/rules calls /usr/bin/scons -c but pbuilder don't try to

Re: pbuilder and scons

2005-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:30:04AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Paul Wise wrote: As other people noted new and in old threads, this is because pbuilder runs debian/rules clean outside the chroot. To work around it, put a '-' in front of the scons -c line in debian/rules, so that make

Re: RFS - kde window decoration powder

2005-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:53:37PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: On 2005-12-10, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please add the years of copyright holding in ./debian/copyright. Also Done. consider adding, at least to ./debian/rules and ./debian/copyright, a phrase like

Re: RFS: dsbltesters - open proxy/relay testing utilities

2005-12-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:16:19PM +0300, Al Nikolov wrote: Hi, all Seeking for sponsorship for the package (ITP: 273204) Where can one find the package to download and test? Package: dsbltesters Version: 0.9.5-1 Section: net Priority: optional Description: open proxy/relay

Re: new developer needs help getting started

2005-12-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:07:38PM -0500, Martin Stiaszny wrote: Hi. I am software developer by profession, but have never participated in open source development before. I think now is the time for me to finally give back a little bit. Specifically, xterm's scroll bars do not display

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 03:37:19PM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 14:13 +0100, Adriaan Peeters wrote: Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for sysinfo [1], detailed info below. I already have two packages in Debian: dnstop and sipcalc. Hi, i'm not yet a DD. Because i'm

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 09:18:05AM -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Frank K?ster wrote: Mario Iseli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian/changelog: * Initial Debian Release (Closes: 333680) This makes no sense, it is a debian package so the debian can be ommited, the rest is ok.

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 05:23:36PM +0100, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:18 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote: This raises a question. If I have been packaging some software for some time and finally decide to get it into Debian, should I wipe out the entire changelog, remove

Re: RFS: ripit -- Textbased audio cd ripper

2005-12-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:56:47PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hi Nico ;)) On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 the mental interface of Nico Golde told: Hi, * Mario Iseli [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-12-05 00:16]: On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 23:32 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...]

Re: RFS: kmess -- A messenger for KDE with MSN support

2005-12-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 04:12:59PM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: Package name: kmess ITP: 339571 Description: A messenger for KDE with MSN support I would prefer A MSN messenger for KDE, since its apparently limitted to MSN support. This is yet another messenger for Linux. It is optimized for KDE

Re: [RFS] skim - smart common input method platform for KDE

2005-12-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 04:09:22PM +0800, William J Beksi wrote: I am looking for someone to sponsor skim. My package is on Debian mentors (skim_1.4.3): http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/skim/ It is lintian clean but has the following linda warnings listed below. Any comments

Re: RFS: kmess -- A messenger for KDE with MSN support

2005-12-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:48:51PM +, Esteban Manchado Vel?zquez wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:16:40AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 04:12:59PM +0100, Mario Iseli wrote: Package name: kmess ITP: 339571 Description: A messenger for KDE with MSN support I

Re: RFS: cdrbq -- graphical cd burning frontend

2005-12-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:31:45AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This will only make a symlink if cdrtoaster isn't installed. But is there a way to make the symlink if cdrtoaster is installed, and then gets removed?? This is probably a job

Re: [RFS] skim - smart common input method platform for KDE

2005-12-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 06:04:21PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote: On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:07:28AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: Build-Depends: libscim-dev doesn't this mean that you have to bootstrap libscim-dev for all architectures? That is a a showstopper IMHO. OTOH right now I think

Re: RFS: actr5 - Cognitive architecture

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:30:17PM -0500, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: Package: actr5 Architecture: i386 Depends: cmucl Description: Cognitive architecture ACT-R is a cognitive architecture: a theory for simulating and understanding human cognition. More simply put, by simulating an

Re: RFS: etl -- Voria Extended Class and Template Library

2005-11-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:06PM +1100, skaller wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 01:07 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:39:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Voria ETL is a multi-platform class and template library designed to complement and supplement the C++ STL

Re: RFS: etl -- Voria Extended Class and Template Library

2005-11-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:39:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Voria ETL is a multi-platform class and template library designed to complement and supplement the C++ STL. ^^ ^^ What do they mean? I'm halfway serious .. I know in math class complement is 90deg and supplement

Re: Questions about gnu.org versus debian bugs.

2005-11-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 11:49:38AM -0800, Ewa Matejska wrote: Hi, I'm new to filing bugs with Debian and I want to make sure to do this right. If I file a bug against gnu.org (gdb), is it OK for me to file the same bug against the relevant Debian package as well? It reproduces with both.

Re: Re: Questions about gnu.org versus debian bugs.

2005-11-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:23:36PM -0800, Ewa Matejska wrote: Hi Justin, Thank you for your quick response. I will stick with the bug against gdb source on gdb.org. For future reference, which is the correct mailing list? Hmmm debian-user maybe or debian-devel. debian-mentors is about

Re: Re: Questions about gnu.org versus debian bugs.

2005-11-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:21:27PM -0800, Ewa Matejska wrote: Hi, Thank you for your quick response. I've made sure to check whether this bug has already been filed against Debian. I'm sure that this is a bug in the gdb source code because I've compiled the latest gdb source code from

Re: conffiles no longer needed except ...

2005-11-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:50:47AM +0100, Willi Mann wrote: Hi! I have no idea how to properly handle the following situation: My package logwatch previously had all their configuration files in /etc/logwatch/conf. They were marked as conffiles so dpkg was responsible for

Re: ttf's in a game package

2005-11-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:48:43AM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: Split of 88KB (ppracer contains only that single font file, no more), to depend on a 2.4MB package diesn't sound usefull to me. Any other opinion? Lintian isn't suggesting to split your package into 2, of course. It is

Re: RFS: k9copy

2005-11-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:21:16PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: Russ Allbery wrote on 21/11/2005 18:15: Sven Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, if it is not lintian clean, you might need to set suitable overrides. If the reason for the lintian messages is an actual bug in the

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-cband -- An Apache 2 module for bandwidth limiting the webserver

2005-11-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:05:03PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote: Hello, I search an sponsor for libapache2-mod-cband. Could you include the copyright years, the years during the authors were/are developing this application? Thanks, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-cband -- An Apache 2 module for bandwidth limiting the webserver

2005-11-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:50:48PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:05:03PM +0100, Jonas Genannt wrote: I search an sponsor for libapache2-mod-cband. Could you include the copyright years, the years during the authors were/are developing

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 06:54:24PM -0500, Daniel Milstein wrote: For some reason, after I install a desktop file to /usr/share/applications and run dh_desktop in debian/rules, the desktop file will not appear in the menu after the package is installed. What might I be doing wrong? Do you have

Re: RFS: fhist -- File history, comparison and merge utilities

2005-11-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 07:45:27PM +0100, Christopher Sch?tz wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 17.11.2005, 09:32 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: Fixed a couple of things that were wrong with the directories. I created a couple, that the upstream build system does indeed take care of. It came from

Re: RFS: fhist -- File history, comparison and merge utilities

2005-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:18:59AM +0100, Christopher Sch?tz wrote: Package: fhist Version: 1.15-1 Author: Peter Miller License: GPL ITA: 279516 Description: File history, comparison and merge utilities The fhist package contains 3 utilities

Re: change contro to make package not for 4 archs.

2005-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:18:03PM -0200, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: Steve Langasek escreveu: On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:07:05PM -0200, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: I have this bug opened http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337569 but, I dont know how to change

Re: No official upstream sources archive, only tagged SVN directory

2005-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:38:20PM +0600, Ivan Dubrov wrote: Hello, I intend to package the Subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org), but it seems like there is no official source release archive. However, there is tagged directory in the Subversion repository. The problem is that this

Re: change contro to make package not for 4 archs.

2005-11-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:07:05PM -0200, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: Hi, all I have this bug opened http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337569 but, I dont know how to change control file to create .deb just for others archs than alpha m68k mips. Why don't you copy

Re: repack upstream sources or overrides ?

2005-11-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 02:08:59AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: Hi! I am working on #338554 - and I am almost there. I have one big problem, though. Upstream did not run make distclean before releasing the tarball. Of course, linda and lintian complains about this. Should I add overrides

Re: All files are in DESTDIR but non will be copied into the packages

2005-11-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Timo Steuerwald: Timo Steuerwald: I try to create packages for sipX from sipfoundry.org. This is a PBX like asterisk and is composed of a few subprojects like sipXportLib, sipXtackLib... I now tried to create a package for sipXportLib. Firstly, you should know that ./debian/tmp/ was the

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:25:18PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: I've been playing around with packaging up some of my projects for debian. I have gotten it to work, but I'm still having problems understanding some of the features that are available (for instance it took me

Re: Debian Packaging Guide/Tutorial

2005-11-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 04:02:56PM -0500, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 14:39 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: snip A sufficiently generalized piece of documentation would be great, though. Suggestions for content: conffile handling (dpkg.org), maintscripts (debian

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:31:09PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: (most of these problems are probably inherited from the quake2 packaging you used). You will have to fix most of these before someone should sponsor the package. W: quake3-data:

Re: All files are in DESTDIR but non will be copied into the packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 07:25:35PM +0100, Timo Steuerwald wrote: Hi all, I try to create packages for sipX from sipfoundry.org. This is a PBX like asterisk and is composed of a few subprojects like sipXportLib, sipXtackLib... I now tried to create a package for sipXportLib. What I have

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:51PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: That is a tag + security race condition between rm and mkdir. You'll want to use mktemp -d instead. fixed, tnx. I didn't look at your script closely; there may be other problems. Nothing should ever get written to /tmp/

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: Right; You can also do whatever you want to a file whose name is outputted by a successful invocation of mktemp, but note that this probably wont play nice with wget. If fn=`mktemp`, and you wget -O $fn, then wget will probably

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:14:52PM -0500, DoyenGuy wrote: What Debian package is mktemp and tempfile a part of? And/or, is there a command I can issue on a debian system to find out what package a command or program belongs to? dpkg -S bin/mktemp bin/tempfile debianutils: /bin/mktemp

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:48PM +, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Justin Pryzby may or may not have written... On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:09:59PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: [snip] I decided to put the files in /root/ (like it was in the quake2 package). The main reason

Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:42:41PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: /var/cache/install/$PACKAGE? Why not /var/cache/$package/ maybe /v/c/$package/install/ OK, I took the last one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sources]$ ls -al /var/cache/quake3-data/install/ total 78336 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Packages marked Essential: yes have to be operational before they are configured, and packages need not (and should not) depend on them, in the same was as they needn't and shouldn't to build-depend on build-essential packages such as gcc and make. Essential packages are also the only ones which

Re: essential vs. required vs. base

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 01:13:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Packages marked Essential: yes have to be operational before they are configured, and packages need not (and should not) depend on them, in the same was as they needn't and shouldn't

Re: RFS: bubbbros

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:46:38PM -0500, Daniel Milstein wrote: I was wondering if anyone would be interested in sponsoring bubnbros, a 2d platform game that is a clone of Bubble Bobble. Parts of it are released under the MIT License and the rest is under the Artistic LIcense. Its ITP bug

Re: RFS: irmp3 -- mp3 Jukebox (LIRC support)

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:30:23PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: Hi Daniel, Daniel Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Erik Schanze wrote: Your way will not fail, but could be improved. The advantage of Build-Depends on autotools-dev is to have the newest config.* stuff available. There is no

Re: Conflict with kernel versions?

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:38:26AM +, David Given wrote: I'm interested in doing a package for spey, my greylisting SMTP proxy (http://spey.sf.net). This isn't going to happen immediately, but I'm due to make another upstream release soon, and if that goes well I want to start work on

Re: NOOB: Do I seek a sponsor before applying as a new maintainer?

2005-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:20:55AM -0500, DoyenGuy wrote: After looking into the whole new maintainer process and application and documentation and tomes of webpages on the Debian website, I encountered a question. I sent an email three days ago to what I thought was the most logical address,

Re: How to add applications to IceWM menu

2005-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:09:55PM -0800, Stan Vasilyev wrote: I'm packaging two IceWM applications: IceWM Control Center and IceWM Control Panel. The problem I'm having is that when I install a menu file using Debhelper the menu entry only shows up in Blackbox and Fluxbox, not in IceWM and

Re: Sponsor wanted - myspell-cz, libnova more..

2005-11-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:54:56AM +, Petr Kubanek wrote: Hi, I also packed libnova (http://libnova.sf.net, debian directory is in CVS; it's an astronomical calculation library), which I would like to see among Debian packages..if somebody wants to sponsor that, let me know as well.

Re: k9copy and vamps: how to proceed if packages are merged?

2005-11-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:36:48PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: Hi! I'm working on packaging of k9copy and vamps package (ITP: 320045 and 320067). In a first time, packages was separated, but now, the upstream author has merged them.. The problem is that k9copy provides vamps, but with a

Re: RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:07:39PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi! I have prepared a package for the linsmith application. It's an application for electrical engineers that allows to create smith charts, and it's much better than the one already in Debian (xsmc-calc). The packages

Re: RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:22:27PM -0500, pryzbyj wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:07:39PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Hi! I have prepared a package for the linsmith application. It's an application for electrical engineers that allows to create smith charts, and it's much

Re: RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:47:54PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: They are lintian clean, and they build fine inside a pbuilder. I'd need someone to please sponsor the upload. Thank you. Your .diff is 844K, for a 1.4MB .orig. Surely this is a mistake. I'm retrieving a copy now for

Re: RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:36:21PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: Description: a program to make Smith Charts I would suggest a tool to generate Smith Charts, since most of Debian is program, for at least somebody's definition of program. Well, that goes almost as much for tool. But I

Re: RFS: linsmith

2005-11-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 05:44:33PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: On 11/4/05, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *sigh*. Thats a bug in lyx if its true. But I can't confirm it .. I accidentally ran: lyx manual.lyx first, causing an X11 window to open over SSH. So I closed

Re: combined prerm script problem [Bug#337223: fail2ban: leaves garbage around after purge]

2005-11-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:00:20PM -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Dear All, I'm maintaining fail2ban package and got a bug report about garbage left after purge on the package. The problem lies in prerm script which first tries to stop fail2ban and then if stop was successfull removes

Re: combined prerm script problem [Bug#337223: fail2ban: leaves garbage around after purge]

2005-11-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:43:41PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Yaroslav Halchenko said: Dear All, I'm maintaining fail2ban package and got a bug report about garbage left after purge on the package. The problem lies in prerm script which first tries to stop

Re: statist - terminal based statistics program

2005-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:41:35AM -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: Hello! I would like to add a small statistics software to Debian official packages. Statist home page currently is on: http://www.usf.uos.de/~breiter/tools/statist/index.en.html Soon we will have a new release of

Re: dpatch upstream source

2005-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:08:13AM -0500, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: On 2 November 2005 09:13, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I'm working on some big changes for the new upstream of the erlang packages. The biggest change is that the package is now fully using dpatch, *but*, basing

Re: statist - terminal based statistics

2005-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:46:23PM -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:30:06PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: It has to have at least 2 stanzas; the first is for the source package, and the rest are for binary packages created by that source package. Maybe check other

Re: statist - terminal based statistics

2005-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:24:27PM -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 03:03:47PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: Deleted from then end? Most unix editors always put a newline at the end of a file; what editor are you using? I'm using a good editor, but I deleted manually

Re: RFS: stopwatch

2005-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:21:26PM -0500, Daniel Milstein wrote: 2. The upstream package is not *NIX specific, so I am unsure of the appropriateness of sending the manpage upstream. I shall do so if you still insist that I should, however. I would suggest it; they can include it an people can

Re: statist - terminal based statistics

2005-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:51:25PM -0200, Jakson A. Aquino wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 03:30:51PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: It would be possible, but not desirable IMHO, and probably not in the opinion of many people here. Documentation files are rarely used :) Seriously, though

Re: Problem with g++-4.0

2005-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:21:27PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: Hi, Justin, I tested with g++ 3.4 but I get error :( look. /usr/bin/g++-3.4 -fno-exceptions -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -g -O2 `.gnu.linkonce.t._Z14CPUWriteMemoryjj'

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