Re: Patching a config file

2005-10-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:00:48PM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote: Package freetype1-tools owns a configuration file, namely /etc/ttf2pk/ttfonts.map. It is a conffile, because it is contained in the package: $ zgrep freetype1-tools

Re: Oracle 10g installer anyone?

2005-10-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 07:20:36PM -0700, Alex Nauda wrote: Package: oracle10g-installer Section: contrib/misc Maintainer: Alex J. Nauda [EMAIL PROTECTED] License: GNU GPL I'd also appreciate some guidance in determining where to install everything. There are two main components in a

Re: Problem with g++-4.0

2005-10-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi, All Im mantainer of visualboyadvance and I have this bug *http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334235* This ocour when I try to compile vba against g++4.0 If I try to compile with g++3.0 , I have no errors. What Can I do ? just force compile with g++3.0 :?or

Re: --disable-rpath doesn't resolve the rpath problem

2005-10-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:27:35PM +0200, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: hi all, i'm packaging knetdockapp, i have in de debian/rules (using cdbs): DEB_CONFIGURE_EXTRA_FLAGS := --disable-rpath --prefix=/usr but lintian says that the problem isn't solved ... W: knetdockapp:

Re: handling of duplicate bts entries

2005-10-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:42:57PM -0400, Jean-Marc Ranger wrote: What's the correct way to handle duplicate entres in bugs.debian.org ? Merge ? Personal feeling would be to close one immediately while providing a link somehow. This is largely up to the maintainer. If they are actually

Re: ifenslave hacks and policy, plus: Re: Needing explanations about BTS usage for wishlist

2005-10-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hello DevRef team, Could you make it more clear what the canonical, best-practice procedure should be for suspected MIA developers? -- Clear skies, Justin On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:22:34PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:22 PM, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: rename build directory?

2005-10-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 12:31:24AM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hi, I use a software named icecast2. it is already packaged, but I need special './configure' options to enable a special feature. Did your question get answered? You can use watchfiles+uscan+uupdate to automate this a

ifenslave hacks and policy, plus: Re: Needing explanations about BTS usage for wishlist

2005-10-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 02:48:09PM +0200, Jerome Martin wrote: Hello Mentors, After discussion in the ifupdown-bonding package thread, I've decided I wanted to submit a proposal to include some of my patches to two debian packages : ifenslave-2.6 and vlan (many thanks to Loic Minier for

Re: python rpm module package

2005-10-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:03:11PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: I want to make a debian package of 'yum'. The goal is not to manage Debian with yum: I just need to host a yum repository on a debian server, and I need some utils embeded in yum. (the equivalents of dpkg-scanpackages ans

Re: How can I change the package's name

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 03:55:38PM -0200, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: Hi, Justin I did it. now my php-imagick source generates php4-imagick and php5-imagick debs. I uploaded and source is NEW. What I need to do now ? Just wait until it is approved. The NEW faq indicates that the

Re: Overriding over Linda/Lintian

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:13:16PM -0400, -.JavaManiac.- wrote: Hello. Im packaging urlgfe,an some others,when i run Linda over the package it gives me 2 warnings about shared libraries,here is the output linda -Di *.changes W: urlgfe; Shared object /usr/bin/urlgfe is linked with

Re: Packaging snapshots

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:37:14AM +1000, Kai Hendry wrote: Just wondering about packaging snapshots of a package. Ok, snapshots could be known as backups. Here I am talking about pulling from say a Subversion repository and building a package. For now I want to do this just to keep tabs

Re: make *.py +x

2005-10-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:07:38AM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: Hello, I made my yum debian package, and when passing it to 'lintian -i', It finds that many *.py files are not executable. I am not really sure where should I make the chmod into the rules file. would you help me?

Re: package state after build

2005-10-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 10:44:00AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommaso Moroni wrote: The knights package uses dpatch to correct some mistakes in po/de.po, thus generating a po/de.gmo which is different from the upstream source. While this

Re: debian and astronomy (was: Re: first steps (pcfitsio, pyraf and iraf))

2005-10-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
Following up on -science. Justin On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 11:59:16AM +0200, Cedric BRINER wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:19:29AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:04:57AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Cedric BRINER wrote: Hi, I'm working as a sysadmin

Re: START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

2005-10-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
I still don't know anything about info format, but I just looked at /usr/share/info/cppinternals.info.gz, which has, on line 5: START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY * cppinternals-4.0: (cppinternals-4.0). Cpplib internals. END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY So, sed -e '5s/^/START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY\n*

Re: Request for beta testers for latex-cjk

2005-10-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 12:22:48AM -0500, Ming Hua wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 07:00:03PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Danai SAE-HAN wrote: 1. I have several subpackages, so each has its own directory in /usr/share/doc/. I wish to centralize

Re: libapache2-mod-cband: source package name

2005-10-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:01:22PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi. Jonas Genannt wrote: So than I run dh_make to make a initial debianize: dh_make -e [EMAIL PROTECTED] -f ../mod-cband-0.9.5.tgz Package name mod_cband is not in a valid format. So that should I do? You could skip

Re: Lintian error binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2005-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:52:51PM +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: I'm packaging kbibtex which is a KDE bibtex editor. Lintian reports the following error for the package: W: kbibtex: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/lib/kde3/libkbibtexpart.so /usr/lib That's totally unnecessary, anyway.. why

Re: How can I change the package's name

2005-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Renaming the source package will force you to go through the new queue again, afaik. You can just change the package name in the first stanza of ./debian/control (the source stanza). -- Clear skies, Justin On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:20:03PM -0300, Jose Carlos do Nascimento wrote: Hi, all

Re: sponsership

2005-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Okay, besides the usual chit-chat about this kind of sponsorship (whatever it is), Does anyone know why some messages come through the list without the usual unsubscription trailer? -- Clear skies, Justin On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:22:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i was just

Re: Request for beta testers for latex-cjk

2005-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:12:30PM +0200, Danai SAE-HAN wrote: (UTF-8 encoding) (I believe that Chinese characters in the From: field caused my email to be blocked, except by debian-users-gb.) Don't think so.. I intend to adopt the cjk-latex package, and since this is my first package, I

Re: START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

2005-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:32:52PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: I'm trying to package xparam. Upstream has an sgml documentation that they processed into an info page. When I try to install the package produced containing said info pages, I get: Unfortunately, I don't know anything about info

debian and astronomy (was: Re: first steps (pcfitsio, pyraf and iraf))

2005-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
once and to give this back to the debian community. the software that I'm willing to package are: pcfitsio, pyraf, iraf IIRC, Justin Pryzby (justinpryzby at users.sourceforge.net) has made unofficial packages of at least IRAF. There have been some possible copyright issues

Re: first steps (pcfitsio, pyraf and iraf)

2005-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:48:31AM +0200, Cedric BRINER wrote: Hi, I'm working as a sysadmin at the Geneva Observatory and we do need some softwares which are not provided by the debian distribution. So I thought that it will be a good idea to do this job well once and to give this back to

Re: Request for substitute sponsor (vim-vimoutliner) and some questions

2005-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:26:55PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: 2) Bug# 216626 http://bugs.debian.org/316626 -- I have tried to close (because it was already fixed in 0.3.4-1), but then the reporter reopened it claiming that it was not fixed in sarge, so it should stay opened. That IMHO isn't

Re: include in mentors faq? Re: DFSG compliant packages (Solution)

2005-10-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:08:07AM +0200, Ghe Rivero wrote: Hi everyone, Justin Pryzby wrote: This is great! I can't think of any improvements right now; surely someone will need it to be generalized, though :) i will do it on the next days... Hope it gets saved for later

Re: include in mentors faq? Re: DFSG compliant packages (Solution)

2005-10-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:57:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:08:07AM +0200, Ghe Rivero wrote: Another one, it depends on some tools, like rpm2cpio to updated properly. Should those tools be included as a dependecies

include in mentors faq? Re: DFSG compliant packages (Solution)

2005-09-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
This is great! I can't think of any improvements right now; surely someone will need it to be generalized, though :) Hope it gets saved for later (at least its archived!); maybe Matt could link to it? -- Clear skies, Justin On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 04:19:29PM +0200, Ghe Rivero wrote: Hi all!

Re: pre-sponsored-package checklist (was: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6)

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:30:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called Help Debian, to http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ (How You Can Help. Perhaps that page should incorporate your (very

Re: [spam?] Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:51:06PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: veronica massawe wrote: I am student of Secondary school, and my full name is Veronica John, I ave 21 years old. I am asking for you to help me just to pay a school fees. I am in form two right now. Per year we need 400$, for

Re: Packaging question (synopsis and its libraries)

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
See my recent message to -mentors and -devel, Nonpublic shared libraries. It sees that rpath could be used here because it is a private library, not used by other packages. In the future, if that changes, it will have to have a soname. For now, you could also just install to

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:00:47PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: You might consider using the -v 0.2.2.1 option in dh_make to convert this to a compliant version number. The second -1 will still be there in the final package because that is the debian

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:42:44PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:00:47PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: You might consider using the -v 0.2.2.1 option in dh_make to convert this to a compliant

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:36:02PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:07:08PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 06:15:12PM +0200, Tommaso Moroni wrote: Hi! I'm packaging kchmviewer, which uses a

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:08:47PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: An excellent point. I imagine that it would also be permissible to repackage the .orig.tar.gz file so that it is gone from there as well. True, but then there is an additional step to

Re: debian/rules: create folder into deb

2005-09-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:26:30PM +0200, nidr wrote: Perhaps you guys have seen some of my other threads over at debian-boot. They are all related to tasksel, as am trying to add my own tasks for personally use. Am grateful for all the help I have got with tasksel so far. But there is still

Re: package maintain help

2005-09-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
You really have to punctuate your sentences. Postinst is for doing things after the package is installed. For example, you might have to register your package with some larger package such that it is recognized and available for use. The prerm undoes this, by unregistering it. Many packages

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:05:10AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: On 28 September 2005 14:07, Justin Pryzby wrote: When I make a new upstream package for Erlang, I need to extract the upstream tar.gz file, which is named otp_src_[version].tar.gz, rename the created directory

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:17:28AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi I am new to packaging and I am trying to package gnuplotfortran whose upstream is located at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplotfortran . The upstream source is called gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.bz2 . I

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:33:45PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Q2) should I create a symbolic link gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.orig.tar.gz which points to gnuplotfortran-0.2.2-1.tar.gz before proceeding with dpkg-buildpackage? I see that it is

Re: Procedure for reporting translation errors

2005-09-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:38:40PM -0400, Maykel Moya wrote: There is a spanish translation error in gthumb. Is the procedure to report it the same for other bugs ? Yup, (Though I'm no translator), I would report a minor bug (unless its really bad) tagged i8n with a patch, preferrably. --

Re: [RFC] mozilla-biofox - Extension to Mozilla/Firefox browsers

2005-09-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:25:22AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: On 24-Sep-2005, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Biofox used to work only on Firefox (as the name says), however upstream author changed and now it works on Mozilla browser too. My doubt here is until when I need to keep generating

Re: diff.gz contains more than just debian directory

2005-09-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 08:51:44PM +0200, Vedran Fura? wrote: Is it OK to have more than debian directory (and files under it) in package_version-rev.diff.gz? I have a lot of other diffs outside debian/ (in aclocal.m4, Makefile.in,...). The problem is that after I run ./configure and then make

Re: uscan, get-orig-source, and making upstream tarball DFSG-free

2005-09-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:50:00AM +0300, George Danchev wrote: On Thursday 15 September 2005 05:44, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:43:10AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: Hi, [ Hmmm, looks like my mailer ate my message... :-( ] For a package of mine, I need

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:50:02AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: Dear DD! I would like to have your comment on the following packaging decision: In packaging the cm-super fonts, i.e. repackaging the pts-tetex-cm-super package, we have two options: 1) Install all font files (*.pfb) as

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:33:20PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:30:30PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: W. Borgert wrote: Back to your question: I personally hate files that are not under dpkg control, because you cannot check using debsums, dpkg -L, dpkg

Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control

2005-09-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:52:31PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:33:20PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:30:30PM +, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: W. Borgert wrote

Re: uscan, get-orig-source, and making upstream tarball DFSG-free

2005-09-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:43:10AM +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: Hi, [ Hmmm, looks like my mailer ate my message... :-( ] For a package of mine, I need to remove a non-free file from every upstream tarball. Doing it by hand is certainly suboptimal, and I might forget to do it. I

Re: Renaming the package and other things

2005-09-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 12:48:46AM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi! Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Nelson A. de Oliveira in [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am planning to rename the source package to biofox only, instead mozilla-firefox-biofox. Why? The user won't see the source package

Re: Renaming the package and other things

2005-09-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:31:06PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi! I am maintaining a package called mozilla-firefox-biofox. Both ths source and the binary package have the same name. Biofox was always released only to Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was not supported.

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:10:56PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: Kilian Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this case, I'd like to move /etc/schroot.conf to /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. mv? Alternatively cp -arm. Yes, but I want to properly comply with policy. I only want to do the

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Carlos Parra Camargo wrote: Name: plans Version: 7.3-1 Section: web License: GPL ITP/ITA Number: 327605 Description: web calendar plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and has great features: Can you

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an interface for ANY package to touch /etc/inittab. Screwing it up is so utterly

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:38:16PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: Yes

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:36:39AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: On 12-Sep-2005, Carlos Parra Camargo wrote: plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and has great features: Can you comment on the differences/advantages/disadvantages of plans vs. webcalendar? This would be a useful

Re: adding new mime-types

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 01:08:04PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Freitag, den 09.09.2005, 12:54 +0200 schrieb vud1: Hi all. I am doing a debian-package for a program that i am writing. My program is an diagram-tool that saves files *.cgt (xml files that i have invented specially for

Re: Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:12:13AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: Hello all, I'm the erlang package maintainer. I've been suggested by someone to make an Erlang package that is not dependant on X11. I found that logic because an Erlang system node doesn't usually require an UI.

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:20:48PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: Hello, The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for getty and it needs to modify /etc/inittab. Is it allowed for my package to do this automatically? Any idea how can I do this automatically? That

Re: Pulling X11 dependency out of the Erlang package.

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:15:07PM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:12:13AM -0400, Fran?ois-Denis Gonthier wrote: - Make a new version of the main package with the X11 dependency removed. Some package works that way (example: ocaml-base vs. ocaml

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:17:50PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: On 9/7/05, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:59:29PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: On 9/6/05, Frank K?ster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:10:25PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Eddy Petri?or wrote: The application I want to package, qingy, is in fact a replacement for getty and it needs to modify

nonpublic shared libraries (repost; was: Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self)

2005-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
at 07:18:17PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared libraries which

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:17:44AM -0400, pryzbyj wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:10:11PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: Hello all, Good morning, - the compile generates a set of 3 libqingy* files; do I have to make a libqingy package, too? It seems that these are probably not meant to

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:59:29PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: On 9/6/05, Frank K?ster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared libraries which are not intended to be used by other

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:10:11PM +0300, Eddy Petri?or wrote: Hello all, Good morning, - if I add dh_shlibdeps to the build then I have a warning during the build of the package - something about misc libs not being defined and some nasty errors during installation, but the package installs

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared libraries which are not intended to be used by other programs? If they aren't used by other programs, there's

Re: dh_shlibdeps in = warnings; dh_shlibdeps out = cyclic dependency on self

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:18:17PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:56:54PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone else also comment on how applications should deal with shared

Re: RFS: gips - an isotopic pattern calculator

2005-09-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 12:43:02AM +0200, Krugaan wrote: Frank K?ster schrieb: Krugaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I splitted the code base to keep the command line version free from the overhead needed by the GUI. If there is a chance to get a sponsor for the command line version, I don't mind

Re: RFS: python-goopy

2005-08-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:48:11PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:40:53PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:51:51PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: It's gone now. However, I haven't included any README.Debian, since the documentation shown by

Re: [RFS] quaneko: An index tool of TXT, PDF, DOC, HTML and others

2005-08-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
web pages is pretty good as well. I got it. Thanks. Just to be clear, a proper copyright notice looks like Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Justin Pryzby, possibly omitting the (C). The problem is that dh_make used to give a ./debian/copyright of the form: Copyright: boilerplate here, and lots of people

Re: predepends/depends order

2005-08-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 02:20:25PM -0400, pryzbyj wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:31:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Impossible. What you need is for the packages you want to preconfigure to Depend on isi-ldap-pre. Which means rebuilding all of them. OH. I see. Sandro Dentella

Re: RFS: python-goopy

2005-08-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:45:19AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:29:37PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:40:35AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: 2.There is one file, functional_unittest.py which is executable. Now, its permissions get set

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:55:32AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Il giorno ven, 19/08/2005 alle 12.12 +1200, Nigel Jones ha scritto: Why not use pwgen or something to generate the password to /etc/pkg/pkg.admin which is chmod'ed 600 to root My 2 cents I really don't like this

Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
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Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 04:25:45PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Hi, I need some help about the use of debconf notes. One of my (web) packages need to setup a password for the administrator account. If the debconf priority is too high (or the system administrator chose the

Re: predepends/depends order

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:31:42PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Impossible. What you need is for the packages you want to preconfigure to Depend on isi-ldap-pre. Which means rebuilding all of them. OH. I see. Sandro Dentella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, I'm preparing a

Re: debconf notes and automatically generated password

2005-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 08:50:01PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: Il giorno gio, 18/08/2005 alle 11.59 -0400, Justin Pryzby ha scritto: I would prefer to have a functionality left disabled, or have the autogenerated password not displayed to me, than to have it displayed on the screen

Re: RFS: ITP: crystalcursors -- X11 mouse theme with the crystal

2005-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:19:15PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Venthur [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: crystalcursors Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Marco Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL :

Re: RFS: ITP: crystalcursors -- X11 mouse theme with the crystal

2005-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:41:13PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:19:15PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: W: crystalcursors: packages-installs-file-to-usr-x11r6 usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/crystalwhiteleft_nonanim/ but I guess it's OK

Re: RFS: ITP: crystalcursors -- X11 mouse theme with the crystal

2005-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:38:36PM +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote: Op wo, 17-08-2005 te 21:11 +0200, schreef Bastian Venthur: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:41:13PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:19:15PM +0200, Bastian

Re: predepends/depends order

2005-08-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:33:37PM +0200, Sandro Dentella wrote: hi, I'm preparing a package that is meant to setup a PDC with ldap and samba mainly for schools. The target that will use it is fairly anaware of most of the quantity of things that should be configured in such a setup

Re: autotools during build

2005-08-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:23:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: Hmm, I'm not really sure whether that fits with policy's intent regarding the effects of the debian/clean target. This must undo any effects that the `build' and `binary' targets may have

Re: RFS: auctiongallery -- Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions

2005-08-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:33:02PM -0700, Stan Vasilyev wrote: Package: auctiongallery Short Description: Generates picture galleries and HTML templates for auction descriptions License: GPL URL: http://home.comcast.net/~deathkrush Author: Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] AuctionGallery is

Re: rpath problem

2005-08-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 10:00:49PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, I'm packaging lufis[1], which will allow me to package captive ntfs, and I've come across an issue with lintian/linda complaining about -rpath Basically, lufis uses shared libraries from lufs, located in /usr/lib/lufs/ on

Re: G77 compiler install issue

2005-08-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
-mentors is the wrong list, you might try debian-user, or, if it is on a testing box, debian-testing. On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:10:45AM -0700, Bill Frame wrote: I just tried to install the G77 compiler, and the Which package? I don't know what the present: g77 default is; looks like g77-3.4?

Re: question about increasing versionnumbers

2005-08-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:30:30AM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:24:54PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Hi Mentors, as I've noticed no one is rightnow interested in sponsoring my tvbrowser-package. But since, I really want to maintain this package (I use it

Re: howto get rid of native-package-with-dash-version?

2005-08-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:32:01PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: Carlo Segre wrote: When dpkg-buildpackage runs, it will find the *.orig.tar.gz file and not make it a native package. Thank you for your hint, I think now I get the idea of what went wrong ;) Ok but one question remains:

Re: where I find tutorials for made gcc debs?

2005-07-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:57:03PM -0300, Dani wrote: Hi! where I find tutorials for made gcc *.deb's? Thank you very much! Debian is a so-called binary distribution, which means that most users just download the .debs and never need to deal with compiling from source. If you want

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:08:02AM +0200, Roland Gruber wrote: Hi Geert, Geert Stappers schrieb: Please avoid notes, make unattended installs possible. you are right, if possible then notes should be avoided. But the problem is that the package is not usable after the upgrade because

Re: Packaging a shared library with non-PIC assembly

2005-07-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:13:47PM -0400, Ryan Schultz wrote: On Monday 11 July 2005 02:22 pm, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:28:00PM -0400, Ryan Schultz wrote: I went ahead and backported all of the 0.0.4 changes into the 0.0.3 code (to keep the shipped OpenSPC

Re: Packaging a shared library with non-PIC assembly

2005-07-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:25:57PM -0400, Ryan Schultz wrote: I'm trying to package libopenspc, so that I can correctly build the CVS (0.0.4) release of xmms-openspc (upstream said to mark it as 0.0.4 because there won't be anymore changes), to package it, and I've encountered what seems to

Re: (better explaining) Re: Hi! I need faqs and tutorials for make gcc*.deb's

2005-07-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:44:40PM -0300, Dani wrote: Hi! Thank's for your ultra quickly response:-) For now, I have more one question: I need learn about * Multiple-binary * in sense of maint-guide. (from one [or two:] souce tarball, to many binaries.deb) The maint-guide teaching me

Re: makefiles

2005-07-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:39:37AM +0200, PY LUYTEN wrote: Hello i try to learn a bit as it seems i am not ready to develop any package. I tryed the maintener guide but need more docs about makefiles, makefiles.am and makefiles.in and could not find it - man being not Well, I'm no DD, but

Re: uploading packages built on an amd64 box inside ia32 chroot

2005-07-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:03:02PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07.07.2005, at 19:56, Geert Stappers wrote: If you have a non ia32 system, then show that and be proud of it. Well at least it should not be possible to upload amd64 binary

Re: DP Manual question: why is 11.8.5 so dated?

2005-07-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:55:46AM -0700, John Hendrickson wrote: 11.8.5 Packages providing fonts States /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ must be used. KDE, GNOME, and others install some fonts in /usr/share/fonts and others in other places as well. If a package violates the policy, then it must

Re: Problem in building c2hs package

2005-07-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:54:10PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva wrote: Hello, I'm trying to build c2hs package, and I have made the debian/* files for it, but when I try to build I get the following problem: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/c2hs-0.13.6/debian$ ls c2hs-config.install

Re: Problem in building c2hs package

2005-07-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:59:04PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva wrote: Em Qua, 2005-07-06 ?s 20:45 -0400, Justin Pryzby escreveu: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:54:10PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva wrote: (...) cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub cp -f /usr/share/misc

Re: Problem in building c2hs package

2005-07-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:18:28PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva wrote: Em Qua, 2005-07-06 ?s 21:12 -0400, Justin Pryzby escreveu: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:59:04PM -0300, Marco Tulio Gontijo e Silva wrote: Em Qua, 2005-07-06 ?s 20:45 -0400, Justin Pryzby escreveu: On Wed, Jul 06

Re: should I create both static and shared libraries manually?

2005-07-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:54:11PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am reading http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#staticonlylibs in order to package a library. That document suggests to provide both static and shared library packages. Yes; the static

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