Re: selfmade package installation hangs

2005-07-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 02:33:02PM +0200, Markus Schulz wrote: Am Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2005 19:28 schrieb Tilman Koschnick: On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 14:36 +0200, Markus Schulz wrote: Unpacking replacement antzsystem-dispatcher ... Setting up antzsystem-dispatcher (2.1) ... Starting

Re: RFS: coldfire: packages URL

2005-07-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
Subject: rpncalc: Standards-Version Max-Standards_Version Package: rpncalc Severity: normal On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:23:38PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On 30.06.2005, at 21:32, Claudio Matsuoka wrote: Changed to 3.6.2.1, which I assume it's the latest policy manual version. I noticed

Re: Packages which need themselves to compile?

2005-06-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:31:02PM +0100, David Given wrote: On Thursday 23 June 2005 20:04, John Skaller wrote: [...] No, this is the ACK, the toolchain that was written for Minix. It's been open sourced and, despite having timestamps over twenty years old, still works rather well --- if

Re: Shotgun Debugger: different data packages depending on endianness

2005-06-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:29:45PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, I've packaged a game called Shotgun Debugger, available at: http://sdb.gamecreation.org/ You can see a brief description of the game at: http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Shotgun%20Debugger According to the following web

Re: Shotgun Debugger: different data packages depending on endianness

2005-06-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:06:23PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess you could Recommend: endianpkg1 | endianpkg2. That wouldn't select the approppriate one when installing, will it? Only half the time:) If you assume that i386 is most common

Re: shlibdeps problem

2005-06-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 01:26:30AM +1000, John Skaller wrote: Can anyone throw any light on why I am getting this message: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of rtl/libflx_dynamic.so not recognized The filename doesn't include a soname. Look in /lib/ and /usr/lib/ to see how shared libraries

Re: RFS: reddo internet translator

2005-05-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:24:08AM +0200, David Gil wrote: Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for the reddo application that I develop myself. Package name: reddo Licence : GPL Short description : reddo internet translator Long description: Reddo is a command

Re: Problem with a package running configure

2005-05-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:25:27PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: Hi I am having a problem... When running ./configure on a dir with the source of a program, it reads 3 files inside the dir autoconf/make: depend.mk~ filelist.mk~ modules.mk~ Everything runs fine, it creates the

Re: New maintainer checklist

2005-05-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:33:27PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Howdy mentors, I'm attempting to start my long slide into package maintainership :-) There is a wealth of material available on how to be a Debian package maintainer. I'm trying to find my way through it slowly. Here's what I've

Re: maintain laptop-netconf package and Debian Policy

2005-05-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:38:06AM +0400, Eugene Sudyin wrote: Hello I intend to maintain laptop-netconf package (see WNPP bug #307071: ITA: laptop-netconf -- network detection) So I am ready to close important and normal bugs for this package (see #217029 and #303330) but I am worried

Re: cogito package builds under pbuilder now

2005-05-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 12:04:15PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: I've put up a new version of the cogito package I'm working on (0.8-2) here: http://highlab.com/~seb/debian I added the needed Build-Depends so this version builds with pbuilder under Sarge. I still get lintian

Re: noob needs a little help making a package.

2005-04-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
I searched the new maintainer guide and found and read the section on pbuilder, and also the pbuilder man page, and this (making the package) seems way more complicated than I thought it would be. Could you explain how I use it to find the build dependancies? You list the build-dependencies

Re: Shared library concern

2005-04-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:43:08PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: On 17 Apr 2005, at 20:24, François-Denis Gonthier wrote: The soname doesn't seem to be the problem in that case: E: codeblocks: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib usr/lib/libcodeblocks.so.1.0-beta6

Re: how to know the architecture ?

2005-04-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:09:53AM +0200, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, When I build a debian package, and I fill the dsc file: The .dsc file should be created automatically by dpkg-buildpackage, no? How would I know the binary will run on all architectures or will only run

Re: user feedback during (un)installation

2005-04-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:31:25AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: Sven Mueller wrote: Installations with debian packages are far too verbose already for my taste. Please don't bother the admin (me) with questions at uninstall time as well. I hate giving an (un)install command, only to come back a

Re: --purge and log/spool files

2005-04-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:01:53AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I am packing a program which create at its first start the neccessary config file /etc/program and two directories /var/log/program/ and /var/spool/program/. How should the files and directories be handled if I PURGE

Re: debconf and program generated config

2005-04-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:29:50AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, This is the first experience using debconf to configure a bunch of options in a program. The program I am packing generate a config at its first start. Then the admin must config it and can use the program, else it

Re: debconf and program generated config

2005-04-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:57:32AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi, Am 2005-04-04 20:08:45, schrieb Justin Pryzby: templates: defines the interactive prompts config: this is a shell script which asks the questions defined by templates. It handles things like if you answer

Re: A couple of questions

2005-04-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
That's not a problem. The initial password is an empty file. Since it has a different owner and non-standard permissions it's a bit of a headache to create and remove properly in post{inst,rm}, but no big deal. Just to be clear, there should be no non-conffile configuration file shipped in a

Re: A couple of questions

2005-04-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Justin Pryzby whois jgalt References [0

Re: binary-arch vs binary-indep

2005-03-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:52:09PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Mentors, I am reading me to dead... because I have some tools (BASH/Perl scripts) which are architecture independant but it builds every time as package_X.X.X_i386.deb AND NOT package_X.X.X_all.deb Ist there

Re: using symlinks for manpages

2005-03-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 11:15:36PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, I package a program which creates symlinks with different names which point to one man page. lintian complains that the files are not gzipped. if i only rename them to .gz lintain says: E: mutt-ng:

Re: Including object (.o) files in a package - linda errors

2005-03-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
I was hoping that someone else would respond to this, since I'm just fumbling for an answer. Maybe I can provoke one:) On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:02:34PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hi list, I am packaging mn_fit (source package is named mn-fit; currently stuck in NEW). Upstream tells

Re: file permission

2005-03-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
Oops, I thought I sent this about 12 hours ago.. On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:03:09PM +0200, Charles Majola wrote: martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Charles Majola [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.03.18.1202 +0100]: how does dephelper handle file permissions? issit or to have a file with +x by

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:59:40PM -0300, Lucas Di Pentima wrote: Hello! I'm reading the Policy Manual so I can correct any errors I have in my control file before sending my program to Lucas Wall, that had accepted to be my sponsor. Reading this URL:

Re: Source code extracted to current directory

2005-03-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 08:54:50PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:50:27PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi mentors When we have a program xyz.tgz and when uncompressing it, it extracts everything

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: override disparity

2005-03-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:01:06AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote: I got attached messages for this and previous upload of maint-guide. (I changed everything other than english to extra in this upload since they are secondary info.) What should I do? AIUI, you should file a bug on ftp.debian.org,

Re: build failure on sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:57:21PM +0100, Tommaso Moroni wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:20:42PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:14:56PM +0100, Tommaso Moroni wrote: checking for vsnprintf... yes checking for snprintf... yes checking for X... configure: error:

Re: Replacement package

2005-03-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:51:00AM +0100, Lars Roland wrote: Hi I have created a package that replaces another package, but uses the same dependencies and have the same functionality. Given that I want to maintain a minimum of changes to existing packages I want to know if it is possible to

Re: Replacement package

2005-03-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:04:27PM +0100, Lars Roland wrote: On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:50:13 -0500, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can uses a Provides: in the control file (providing a non-virtual package). http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

Re: re generate a rules file

2005-03-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 09:34:04PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello. I did not make a backup copy of my rules file, and I edited it like a pig. I would like to do it again but with a clean rules file. I would like to re-generate the rules file. How to? A=$(mktemp -d); cd $A;

Re: DESTDIR and .conf file

2005-03-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 08:11:24PM -0300, Lucas Wall wrote: On 03/08/2005 07:15 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:02:19PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: 2 ) To install the configuration file, I append to what I written (in the install section yet

Re: dealing with non-standard upstream packaging?

2005-03-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:53:55PM +0800, pabs wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any info about best practice in the situation where upstream source packaging doesn't use the standard foo-0.1.2/ inside of foo-0.1.2.tar.gz scheme? I suppose repacking the tarball/etc before using

Re: dealing with non-standard upstream packaging?

2005-03-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:03:48PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Justin Pryzby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you have to repackage it, (FE for DFSG compliance), then you should create the tarball name_version.orig.tar.gz which extracts to the directory name-version.orig

Re: fetch souce packages

2005-03-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:58:57AM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, I have a sparc box I want to recompile some packages only available for x86 to make packages for sparc. If I just try to fetch the source package with 'apt-get source package_name' from the sparc it

Re: after the new maintenainer guide

2005-03-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:46:50PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello, I would like to learn building multiple binaries package and libraries. As well as the Debian maintainer guide just covers single binary package and no library, I would like your advices on any document

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 04:14:53PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: Hmm. My first attempt to post this was eaten somewhere along the line. Let's try again... Michelle == Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michelle Am 2005-03-03 21:13:16, schrieb Justin Pryzby: Is dh_installdocs being

Re: after the new maintenainer guide

2005-03-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 10:54:32PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 14:37 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: You should read the Library Packaging Guide [0] Thanks, I will. apt-get -b source will always work; or use debian/rules binary, or dpkg-buildpackage

Re: after the new maintenainer guide

2005-03-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 12:06:45AM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 17:34 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: Do you now understand? No. But dont anger please:-) No worries. Why? And why do you need to modify the rules? I guess you want some special

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:41:54AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: OK, now I am confused, because if I use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -k0xC492F812 it does not work, but fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -k0xC492F812 Is dh_installdocs being called by the binary rule? Rereading your

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:18:57PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, curently I am packing some stuff from differnt Websites and it is the first time I have used dh_installdocs but it give me an error: __( '/home/michelle.konzack/src/stuffit-520/build.log' )__ / |

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:07:16PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2005-03-02 13:27:08, schrieb Justin Pryzby: Why does it not work with fakeroot ? Are you somewhere setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Ehm, - no ! Do I need it ? No:) But I ran into a problem because of it. fakeroot works

Re: Multiple documentation files with the same name

2005-03-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:47:38PM +0100, Mattia Belletti wrote: Hi all - here's Mattia/RedGlow. I'm a brand new wannabe debian packager ^_^. I'm packaging VDE (http://vde.sourceforge.net), and I've encountered a problem: in the source package, multiple documentation files are all named

Re: added files that prevent from packaging

2005-03-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:37:14AM +0100, Hervé Cauwelier wrote: Hi, I'm glad with the dot one because graphviz is now free but my problem is with the Dia one. In a fakeroot environment as debuild launches, Dia insists on creating a user preferences file (some ~/.dia), but cannot due to the

RFS: saods9 -- astronomical image tool

2005-03-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, I seek a sponsor: saods9 - Astronomical image tool DS9 is an application for astronomical imaging and data visualization. DS9 is the modern imtool used by astronomers. It is most distinguished by its support for displaying 16 bit greyscale images (such as FITS). Most

Re: Some questions

2005-03-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:34:44PM +0100, Lars Roland wrote: Hi This may be newbie questions, but anyway here goes: We have a commercial system, that we are planing to make available open source (GPL) - right now the plan is to have deb packages and tgz files for the installation. The tgz

Re: Some questions

2005-03-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 06:15:15PM +0100, Lars Roland wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:51:02 +0100, Romain Beauxis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mardi 1 Mars 2005 16:34, Lars Roland a écrit : 2) When you update the database software from, say, version 1.0 to 1.1 then it would be preferable to

Re: Help about license

2005-02-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
be considered GNU GPL? This is a common mistake, and you should correct upstream, and probably wait until they provide corrected source before trying to get Debian to distribute it. The GPL (a so-called copyleft license) is a license. Copyright 2005 by Justin Pryzby indicates the copyright holder

Re: RFS: tpg - Toy Parser Generator - a parser generator for python

2005-02-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:38:19PM -0500, Mike O'Connor wrote: Package name: tpg Version : 3.0.4 Upstream Author : Christophe Delord [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://christophe.delord.free.fr/en/tpg/ License : GPL Description : Toy Parser Generator - a

Re: Can't make a proper Debian package of a library

2005-02-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 07:46:44PM +, Noel Torres wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nico Golde escribió: | Hello Noel, | | Have a look at this: | http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html | Regards Nico Thnks, I'll look it again (I

Re: Can't make a proper Debian package of a library

2005-02-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:59:20PM +, Noel Torres wrote: Can somebody help me to package it? I want it to become (some day) a piece of Debian. Yes, we will do our best to help you. I think everyone here would prefer that you ask specific questions on-list, and we will reply on-list. That

Re: Can't make a proper Debian package of a library

2005-02-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:42:22PM +, Noel Torres wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby escribió: | On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:59:20PM +, Noel Torres wrote: | Can somebody help me to package it? I want it to become (some day) a | piece of Debian

Re: Can't make a proper Debian package of a library

2005-02-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:57:42PM +, Noel Torres wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby escribió: | On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:25:24PM +, Noel Torres wrote: | Justin Pryzby escribió: | | On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:42:22PM +, Noel Torres wrote

Re: Can't make a proper Debian package of a library

2005-02-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 12:38:12AM +, Noel Torres wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby escribió: | Okay, can you make the build tree, including debian/, publicly | available for us to scrutinize? | | Justin | | http://envite.rolamasao.org/~envite

Re: RFS: ITA: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

2005-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
, the .diff.gz is functionally equivalent to a tar cjf --- debian/. If you have lots of changes, then it doesn't make sense to do it like that (unless you use dpatch, or similar, in which case all of those changes *will* be in debian/). -- Justin Pryzby whois jgalt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: helping script

2005-02-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:52:48PM +, Helder Correia wrote: Hello! Hi, I have used many GNU/Linux systems for 8 years, but only very recently I found Debian, or at least the real wonder it is :) I would like to start the process of becoming a DD as soon as possible, so I want to learn

Re: pdf files in upstream tarball and -doc package

2005-02-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:17:52PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.02.10.2215 +0100]: Should I rebuild the PDF's from the LyX inputs to generate my -doc package (and thus build-depend on lyx), or it's ok to just include the

Re: pdf files in upstream tarball and -doc package

2005-02-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
Justin On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:47:51PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: PDF can be trojaned, so you should at least *provide* a way to generate them from their sources, even if that makefile rule is not called by default, and the additional build

Re: maserver: Dynamic libraries inside a program package

2005-02-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 05:15:07PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 07:36:42AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Yep, you were right, I had to link all the objects. Thanks for the clue!! :) Cool; can you give us a comparison

Re: maserver: Dynamic libraries inside a program package

2005-02-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
-to-the-library? Cheers, -- Justin Pryzby Now seeking qualified employers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: x-no-session-manager - restore default X behavior with gnome/kde installed

2005-02-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 08:53:06AM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 01.54, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: As you can see the package is tiny. All it does is provide a dummy alternative for x-session-manager that is _not_executable_ so the I think this should not

Re: maserver: Dynamic libraries inside a program package

2005-02-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:09:26PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: If I can not put that .so inside the package, the other solution might be getting 3 packages from maserver: libmaserver, libmaserver-dev and maserver itself. libmaserver would have the shared library and libmaserver-dev the header

Re: maserver: Dynamic libraries inside a program package

2005-01-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:31:27AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: Hi, Hiya, Now running lintian... E: maserver: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib usr/lib/libmaserver.so.1.0 Finished running lintian. Try lintian -i: you'll see this type of thing: A shared object was

Re: Newbie question: missing conf file

2005-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:17:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi HI, I take it you are upstream as well? I think the recommended way of doing upstream+debian is to have the .diff include all of ./debian/, such that other distros don't have to deal with it. Also, that way you can do a

Re: Newbie question: missing conf file

2005-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:27:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Justin Pryzby wrote: I take it you are upstream as well? I think the recommended way of doing upstream+debian is to have the .diff include all of ./debian/, such that other distros don't have to deal

Re: making a debian distribution cd.

2005-01-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:58:16AM -, dwiti mehta wrote: I am trying to make a Debian distribtuion CD. I have downloaded netinstaller(Woody) in which i tried to add some packages and follow the steps to make a debian custom Cd given on the wikidebain site.

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:33:29PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: Hi Justin and others! 'ello, Right again. No reason for mailinglists to depend on a relational SQL DB. (Since I can do perfectly good search with zgrep). If you want to allow users to import them into SQL, I recommend providing

Re: Not a valid DEB package error

2005-01-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:57:16PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote: Hi, I created some DEB packages, and everything is OK with one exception: for every package that I created, at instalation time, I get the following error (on Debian Stable and also on Debian Unstable): # apt-get install foo

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:32:17AM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: Hi again, 'ello. FWIW the X.1 numbering scheme is usually for NMU uploads (but that probably doesn't apply to native packages?) [...] Do you have a reader interface for the mbox files? Maybe the scripts from lists.debian.org so

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:09:59PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: Hi, at first thanks Magnus and Frank for the hint to find a documentaion only package to look at. Finally I managed to get working packages, that install mbox-archives of mailinglists under /usr/share/doc/mailinglists Nice idea.

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 05:08:15PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: Nice idea. Where do you get the mbox from? By now I archiving or better buliding up an archive of different mailinglists. Right now they are stored in a database for easy checking if there are new mails

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 06:00:31PM +0100, Jan Kesten wrote: .deb. The .deb *is* the source package, just with a control file and a copyright file and whatever, and compressed and relocated as necessary to /usr/share/. ACK. Forgot to mention - since my package uses dh_compress the

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:19:37PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:37:07PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:12:54PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: - Should I make my own .orig.tar.gz tarball whenever a new upstream release

Re: How to deal with CVS directories in upstream tarballs?

2005-01-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:12:54PM +0100, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: Hello mentors. There is an issue with the upstream tarball, it includes CVS direcories and .cvsignore files. That's not welcome in source packages, as lintian says and I'd like to avoid providing all that CVS stuff. -

Re: RFC and RFS: latex-svninfo

2005-01-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:08:57PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: Frank Küster wrote: , | %% Any modified versions of this file must be renamed | %% with new filenames distinct from svninfo.cfg. ` Furthermore, this sentense renders the package non-free. According to DFSG

Re: upload and package

2005-01-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:04:18PM +0100, Pierre Ancelot wrote: Theoricaly, this shouldn't ever happen but anyways and since it's written, i think i be better to tell about it even if i'm certainly wrong on what really happened. After running dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot as written on

Re: RFC and RFS: latex-svninfo

2005-01-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Your .diff, please? On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:26:13PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: [not subscribed to tetex-maint, so please cc: me if replying there.] Yo! I created a quick package of Achim Brucker's svninfo latex Package. http://www.brucker.ch/projects/svninfo/index.en.html

Re: Adopting an orphan

2005-01-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:22:14AM +0100, Pierre Ancelot wrote: Hi, i am adopting a package to maintain. As it is my very first package, i'm reading many things actualy. i sent a mail to adopt it to the control server and set it as ITA Its good that you want to help, and this will be a good

Re: problems in creating .deb using dpkg-buildpackage!!!

2005-01-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 06:23:39AM -0800, TIFR students wrote: Hi, we're having some problems while trying to create a .deb package using dh_make followed by dpkg-buildpackage command. dh_make works fine.It creates a debian dir n all(We made the necessary changes in the control file),however

Re: two question refarding a package I am adopting

2005-01-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:18:24AM -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote: Sven Mueller wrote: Jereme Corrado wrote on 07/01/2005 21:34: And my second question... The new version, (1.5.4) ships with a little web interface... Well, I don't know how tightly the web interface is linked (not in

Re: Problem creating mn-fit watch file (packaging comments also welcome)

2005-01-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi Kevin, On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 10:00:01AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've ITP'ed Mn_Fit, an interactive fitting and analysis program (bug # 288959), and I have most of the packaging finished. I could use some help figuring

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
I just checked your line, and it works locally. But see this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/242884 Also see the related thread on -devel in October: Sourceforge dislikes uscan is what it boils down to. Justin On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: Hi all, I added a

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: [ I already posted this to debian-dev, they told me here was the right place. I really need help to learn building debian packages ] Hello, I'm learning making debian packages. I choosed to learn on a very

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:09:07PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 08:46 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: Especially where to tell the package builder not to use 'debian/minimalist/DEBIAN/control' but 'debian/control' ? DEBIAN/control is created from debian

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:04:54PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: Luk Claes schrieb: It's indeed very strange. Someone suggested to use something like ftp://ftp2.sf.net/l/la/lam/ldap-account-manager_(.*)\.tar\.gz though. Thus: ftp://ftp2.sf.net/first_letter/2_first_letters/project_name/tarball

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:30:20PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:20 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: If it had been created by dh_make, why wouldn't it find it? Its not created by dh_make. dh_make just creates some template files in ./debian/ (many

Re: Mime type in share as well as lib, or linda problem?

2005-01-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
You may have found youself a lintian bug, as there is no real conclusion to last year's discussion: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/04/msg00094.html Justin On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:52:57AM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: Hi, I have a java package (i.e. Architecture all), freemind,

Re: Output of dpkg-scanpackages as XML

2005-01-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:42:32PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:32:07PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: echo '/Long-Description/entry/packages' ^^^ Should have closed the CDATA tag here. The short description tag should probably be wrapped in CDATA

Re: Advice in 3 packages

2005-01-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 02:24:56AM -0500, Antonio Ognio wrote: Hello mentors and everyone, I'm currently learning to package software for Debian so I'm making some packages just to learn this art ;) I'll try to list briefly what comments/doubts/issues I have with this packages.

Re: How to -- debian distribution CD...

2005-01-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 01:01:35AM -0800, TIFR students wrote: We would like to know if there is any way by which we can create an debian distro ISO which contains packages of our choice. On debian site there r basically 2 ways defined: 2.Using net install. Well we got the basic minimal ISO

RFC: Packages Needing Sponsors page

2005-01-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, I'm trying to clean up WNPP. As you may recall, I'm encouraging people to use ITP+patch to mean This packages is ready to be uploaded, and I'm only waiting on a sponsor. As part of my effort, I've created a webpage [0] of such packages. So, if you have an opened ITP, and you are still

Re: Extracting the ISO image!

2005-01-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:11:29AM -0800, TIFR students wrote: We've been using the extract_compressed_fs command to extract ISOs from a knoppix CD. However on running the command extract_compressed_fs we encountered the following error : $ extract_compressed_fs /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Re: RFS: When, Ben Crowell

2005-01-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:52:00PM +, Ben Crowell wrote: Matthew Palmer wrote: [...] Specifically, you'll need to provide your sponsor with a standard Debian source package (containing orig.tar.gz, diff.gz, and dsc files). when_1.0.15-1_all.deb: Debian binary package (format

Re: Pointers for packaging appreciated (icecream)

2005-01-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:20:42PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:34:12PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: [..] 2. How do I handle the cache directory it uses? Currently I only create it at install, but don't remove it afterwards. I don't want to remove

Re: package xsok

2004-12-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 06:28:57PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: Hi Justin! Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:33:46PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: Carlos Parra Camargo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Contained XPMs stand under BSD-like license, not GPL, see ./etc

Re: New Package: stellarium

2004-12-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:43:31AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: I've just made a new package: Stellarium Astronomy Software Hi Miriam, You might also be interested in SkyChart: http://handhelds.freshmeat.net/projects/skychart/ Its by the author of Cartes du Ciel, which is pretty well known and

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:39:09AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Alejandro Exojo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: Ideally, source packages would contain only true man-written sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being changed, then have

Re:  libraries without version in SONAME

2004-12-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
What package? Is it itself a library? Do other packages actually use its library? Justin On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:06:07PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:36:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking into packaging a software that has a soname:

Re:   libraries without version in SONAME

2004-12-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:17:19PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What package? Is it itself a library? Do other packages actually use its library? No Are there multiple executables? If not, then you might as well just use static linking. Maybe note your rationale in README.Debian.

Re: libraries without version in SONAME

2004-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:36:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I was looking into packaging a software that has a soname: SONAME libyate.so but no version, and also upstream doesn't want any version on this library. During dh_shlibdeps i get : dpkg-shlibdeps: warning:

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