Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:56:28AM +0100, Alejandro Exojo wrote: Hi. Good evening, However, looking at other packages, I see huge diffs with more than 300K, and including lots of generated stuff. So here are my questions: Often, the only useful thing the .diff.gz does is to create debian/. If

Re: shlibdeps and duplicate-relation depends warnings

2004-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
Morning and happy holidays. Try dh_shlibdeps -l./debian/mplayer-libs-package/usr/lib in ./debian/rules (where that is the directory into which shared libraries are installed). Read about it in dh_shlibdeps(1). Diversions will certainly make it messy .. maybe you shouldn't build mplayer on a

Re: RFS: metar - A METAR downloader/decoder

2004-12-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:42:54PM +0100, Kees Leune wrote: Hi! I am looking for a sponsor for my Metar package. This package is particularly useful is you want to quickly find out what the ^^ if Cool package, I

Re: Looking for a sponsor

2004-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
: This package was debianized by ... It was downloaded from ... Copyright: Upstream Author(s): ... License: You should make the line that says Copyright: look like: Copyright Justin Pryzby or maybe Copyright (C) 2004 by Justin Pryzby which seems

Re: RFS: bmon - Portable bandwidth monitor and rate estimator

2004-12-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:47:50PM +0100, Reto Schuettel wrote: Hi I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: Package: bmon (2.0.1) Since this is my first package I am looking for any feedback! Please delete the first Copyright: line in ./debian/copyright (as per the

Re: postinst, config and preinst

2004-12-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:32:42PM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 13:57 +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: Hey, I'm preparing an upgrade path to the new pdns and want something to know. According to the debian policy: The preinst and postinst are called this way:

Re: Pointers for packaging appreciated (icecream)

2004-12-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:18:39AM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: Package: icecc Description: Distributed compiler, client and server (icecream) to the fastest free server and is as this dynamic. This advantage pays off ^^^

Re: Order of package removal

2004-12-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
I was looking through documentation yesterday and came across something that seemed to imply that this was possible: apt-get remove foo +bar Which I think was going to remove foo and install bar. Untested, Justin On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 03:43:52PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Hello, Is it

Re: Introducing myself and my package

2004-12-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:29:41AM +0100, Ricardo Mones wrote: On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:11:52 +0100 (CET) Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also fails to build at first because debian/rules is not executable, but after chmod'ing it builds and runs fine. Nice toy :)

Re: debhelper not using debian/package/

2004-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
Read debhelper(7); in short, `echo 4 debian/compat` makes it do what you want. Justin On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:42:40PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is debhelper using debian/tmp/ as build directory, instead of debian/package/? The debhelper documentation agrees with my

Re: ud - rewrite?

2004-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
Is bash an option? On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 08:42:33PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: Recently it was raised upon the debian-amd64 list as being the kind of script which is better suited to being python/perl/ruby instead of the compiled C. (Because the C turns out to be a little buggy - and

Re: debconf note

2004-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
, 2004-12-14 at 14:09 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:49:01PM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: Hi, I've read in the policy that you shouldn't add random notes. But i'm not sure of this one: I have pdns and added some debconf questions and i have also moved

Re: debconf note

2004-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 07:49:01PM +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: Hi, I've read in the policy that you shouldn't add random notes. But i'm not sure of this one: I have pdns and added some debconf questions and i have also moved the recursor to a seperated package. The original package

Re: pkg-classifier revised

2004-12-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 05:41:09PM -0400, vegetax wrote: Well , thanks to your previous suggestions i could get a clean package build for pkg-classifier package, so can someone check it? You should run lintian on it. ('debuild' does this automatically). ./debian/control has lines which are

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) writes: On Mon 13 Dec 04, 12:10 PM, Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: $ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:32:47PM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: Instead, install what is presently /usr/games/yadex to /usr/lib/yadex/... and install a one-line wrapper script to /usr/games/yadex: #!/bin/sh -e exec x-terminal-emulator -e /usr/lib/yadex

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:55:55PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.13.2351 +0100]: But I'd like to know -- precisely piece of policy is broken by a menu command invoking x-terminal-emulator -e application? I don't think it's a

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:27:12PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 10:05:28PM +0100, Sven Mueller wrote: In any event, the program starts in a terminal environment, but ultimately must be run in an x11 environment. Do we have *anything* which uses menu entries

Re: creating relocatable packages with dpkg

2004-12-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:05:51PM -0800, No Spam wrote: --- No Spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like the user to be able to do the following: 1) Install the software in a location other than the default. --- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian handles dependencies

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi Kevin, On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:12:44AM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Justin Pryzby wrote: Alternative solutions would be to put the shared libs in /usr/lib, or That's what I've done; I think that makes sense, because compiling a program with XC (the IRAF compiler frontend) will see

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 08:47:01PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: On 12/11/2004 10:21 AM, Justin Pryzby wrote: Oh, yeah, and upstream creates a libc.a which is in the search path .. for now I'm just removing it so that gcc doesn't screw up (shared libraries are renamed, but static onese

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:32:26AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Justin Pryzby [Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:21:02 -0500]: By the way, what is /usr/lib/tls/, and why do all of my programs link to its libc.so? if you boot into a 2.4 kernel, you'll see that your programs no longer link

Re: creating relocatable packages with dpkg

2004-12-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 05:10:25PM -0800, No Spam wrote: --- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure that that's what's happening, but it makes sense. You can easily install a filesystem with debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Debian system. That seems like such overkill

Re: compile from source: to what extent?

2004-12-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
Should I use -L to ensure that I link with $BUILD_DIR libraries and not /usr/lib ones? Yes, I compile shared libraries, then a build system which links with them, then the actual stuff (which also links with them). Justin On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:08:35PM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: Justin

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:26:42AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.07.1937 +0100]: As I understood it, this is exactly the situation Justin is in. Right, just that IRAF is much more obscure than X11.

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:50:01PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.07.1742 +0100]: * martin f krafft [Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:26:41 +0100]: Why do you need LD_LIBRARY_PATH? are you running the binary during the build process? in the

Re: Winmodems in debian

2004-12-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:26:58PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Andrew Zajac [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: The scanmodem script. http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz I have emailed the maintainer of the script and he seemed excited about releasing this utility to debian.

shared libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all. Maintaining the IRAF package, I've added the ability to use shared libraries. This saves considerable disk space, and is also good for runtime efficiency. The libraries are built with IRAF, and are used to compile the build system. Then, the rest of IRAF is built with that. I'm

Re: handling cronjob not defined at install

2004-12-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:26:42AM -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote: Hello List, flawed. So I chopped on the FOM source once more and had the installer write out a conf file in the director where FOM stores other such business, (/var/lib/fom/meta). Then I just set up I think

Re: policy concerning files used by postinst but not to be installed

2004-12-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
The problem is, that if you have postinst delete the files, they are still registered as belonging to the package. Which is bad, because they wouldn't exist. Donno if there's a way of unregistering files (other than parsing /var/lib/dpkg/info/$pkg.list). The only way to use a file which is not

Re: policy concerning files used by postinst but not to be installed

2004-12-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 06:40:55PM +0100, Philipp Meier wrote: On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:11:58AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: The problem is, that if you have postinst delete the files, they are still registered as belonging to the package. Which is bad, because they wouldn't exist. Donno

Re: policy concerning files used by postinst but not to be installed

2004-12-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:29:18PM +0100, rixed wrote: Hello, list-men. Im packaging a program that uses a series of sql patches to upgrade from any version to the latest. Those files are located in a 'patches' directory in the source tree, but are not installed anywhere by make install

Re: some questions on multiple binaries per source

2004-12-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: I'm packaging FreeMind (old version somewhere on the upload path), and the new version is requesting multiple packages. So here two questions: - is there somewhere a specific description of multi-packaging? the new maintainer

compile from source: to what extent?

2004-12-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, I don't want to talk about whether 15k line ./configure scripts are source. I'm unofficially maintaining a nonfree package, IRAF. It install /usr/include/iraf.h, which it uses for compilation (it includes a compiler: xc) as well as to resolve the path to its files (#define HOST

Re: some questions on multiple binaries per source

2004-12-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: I'm packaging FreeMind (old version somewhere on the upload path), and the new version is requesting multiple packages. So here two questions: - is there somewhere a specific description of multi-packaging? the new maintainer

compile from source: to what extent?

2004-12-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, I don't want to talk about whether 15k line ./configure scripts are source. I'm unofficially maintaining a nonfree package, IRAF. It install /usr/include/iraf.h, which it uses for compilation (it includes a compiler: xc) as well as to resolve the path to its files (#define HOST

Re: Question concerning conffiles

2004-11-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
conffiles are a special case of configuration files. They are updated gracefully by the package management system: users are prompted during a package upgrade *only* if 1) the upstream package maintainer updated the conffile and 2) *they* customized the conffile for their own system. A

Re: Question concerning conffiles

2004-11-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
conffiles are a special case of configuration files. They are updated gracefully by the package management system: users are prompted during a package upgrade *only* if 1) the upstream package maintainer updated the conffile and 2) *they* customized the conffile for their own system. A

Re: Xoops bug # 207640

2004-11-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On 28 Aug 2003, Francesco Paolo Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the ITP. He's a developer, so if he still ITP, then there's no need to double the work. But its been 12 months since his mail, so it'd be good to ask him. Maybe he'll sponsor. Justin On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:44:19PM -0600,

Re: Xoops bug # 207640

2004-11-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On 28 Aug 2003, Francesco Paolo Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the ITP. He's a developer, so if he still ITP, then there's no need to double the work. But its been 12 months since his mail, so it'd be good to ask him. Maybe he'll sponsor. Justin On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 12:44:19PM -0600,

Re: RFS: ocrad - an OCR program

2004-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
There was, http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:44:13PM +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote: Hi, funny, I RFS'ed the package some time ago, too ;) http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,ocrad But my version is still 0.8-1... Hm,

shared library package, aips

2004-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, As previously mentioned, I'm packaging AIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System. I've converted the compile process to use shared library rather than static ones such as to decrease memory and disk footprint. I've been doing packages for ~6 months, and some pretty complicated ones,

Re: RFS: ocrad - an OCR program

2004-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
There was, http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 02:44:13PM +0100, Stephan Beyer wrote: Hi, funny, I RFS'ed the package some time ago, too ;) http://www.noxa.de/~sbeyer/debian/packages/?main,src,ocrad But my version is still 0.8-1... Hm,

shared library package, aips

2004-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, As previously mentioned, I'm packaging AIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System. I've converted the compile process to use shared library rather than static ones such as to decrease memory and disk footprint. I've been doing packages for ~6 months, and some pretty complicated ones,

Re: Files from conffiles not being installed

2004-11-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
The connfile (like httpd.conf) should be installed as a normal file to /etc/. There should be a file in debian/ (DEBIAN/, really) which is called 'conffiles' which lists the conffiles. Those files are automatically handled by dpkg. Users are prompted iff they have changed the original conffile

Re: Files from conffiles not being installed

2004-11-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:38 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.15.1632 +0100]: You should also check out /usr/lib/dpkg/ (esp. *.conffiles). Make sure that your conffile

Re: Files from conffiles not being installed

2004-11-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
The connfile (like httpd.conf) should be installed as a normal file to /etc/. There should be a file in debian/ (DEBIAN/, really) which is called 'conffiles' which lists the conffiles. Those files are automatically handled by dpkg. Users are prompted iff they have changed the original conffile

Re: Files from conffiles not being installed

2004-11-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:10:17PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:38 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.11.15.1632 +0100]: You should also check out /usr/lib/dpkg/ (esp. *.conffiles). Make sure that your conffile

AIPS Part II

2004-11-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
Greetings, I mailed the list recently regarding my ITP AIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System. For anyone who might have considered sponsoring, here is some more info regarding its size. Source tar.gz: 67MB Initial .deb Size: 148MB Current .deb Size: 16MB arch dependent, 52MB arch

AIPS Part II

2004-11-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
Greetings, I mailed the list recently regarding my ITP AIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System. For anyone who might have considered sponsoring, here is some more info regarding its size. Source tar.gz: 67MB Initial .deb Size: 148MB Current .deb Size: 16MB arch dependent, 52MB arch

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 07:21:23PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to

Re: New package howto?

2004-10-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
You should retitle that bug to an ITP. Justin On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:23:49PM +0200, MiguelGea wrote: Hello mentors, I found a RFP: Debian Bug report logs - #250538 RFP: libmatheval -- GNU library for evaluating symbolic mathematical expressions I'm not a DD, but I want to package it.

Re: New package howto?

2004-10-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
You should retitle that bug to an ITP. Justin On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 11:23:49PM +0200, MiguelGea wrote: Hello mentors, I found a RFP: Debian Bug report logs - #250538 RFP: libmatheval -- GNU library for evaluating symbolic mathematical expressions I'm not a DD, but I want to package it.

Re: Where to submit a bug?

2004-10-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
You can submit the bug to Debian, and it becomes the maintainer's responsibility to forward it upstream if so necessary. (There is a mechanism, too, for tagging a bug as forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) such that this isn't duplicated. Or, you can submit it to Abiword. TP, Justin On Wed, Oct

Re: Where to submit a bug?

2004-10-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
You can submit the bug to Debian, and it becomes the maintainer's responsibility to forward it upstream if so necessary. (There is a mechanism, too, for tagging a bug as forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) such that this isn't duplicated. Or, you can submit it to Abiword. TP, Justin On Wed, Oct

Re: [antlr] need help for debian/watch syntax

2004-09-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
You want to use: http://www.antlr.org/download/ /download//antlr-(.*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate Uscan will search the html at /download/ for a reference to a newer file. TP, Justin On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:55:15AM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [antlr] need help for debian/watch syntax

2004-09-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
You want to use: http://www.antlr.org/download/ /download//antlr-(.*)\.tar\.gz debian uupdate Uscan will search the html at /download/ for a reference to a newer file. TP, Justin On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 08:55:15AM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:18:20PM -0500, Amos Waterland wrote: I haven't heard anything since I fixed the lintian warning Justin pointed out. Are there any other problems? I hate to do it again, but: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/z$ lintian *{deb,dsc} W: stress source:

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:18:20PM -0500, Amos Waterland wrote: I haven't heard anything since I fixed the lintian warning Justin pointed out. Are there any other problems? I hate to do it again, but: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/z$ lintian *{deb,dsc} W: stress source:

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
It seems that this is really an RFS, because .debs are provided. Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, a line which is # Automatically added by dh_installdocs Indeed, you appear to be using an old debhelper: Build-Depends: debhelper ( 3.0.0)

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
It seems that this is really an RFS, because .debs are provided. Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, a line which is # Automatically added by dh_installdocs Indeed, you appear to be using an old debhelper: Build-Depends: debhelper ( 3.0.0)

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream knows about this and will eventually get round to it. Can the package still be accepted

Re: ITA: mpg321

2004-08-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:35:12PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: Hi, this night I made some small bugfixes to the mpg321 code and send it to Joe Drew, the upstream author and Debian maintainer of mpg321. Looking at the BTS and the changelogs I came to the thought, that development on the

Re: ITA: mpg321

2004-08-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:35:12PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: Hi, this night I made some small bugfixes to the mpg321 code and send it to Joe Drew, the upstream author and Debian maintainer of mpg321. Looking at the BTS and the changelogs I came to the thought, that development on the

Re: advice on site-specific modified .debs

2004-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
I'm going to respond here and hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong or if there's a better way. On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Alexander List wrote: Hello, I am about to create site-specific debs, e.g. patched versions of official Debian packages with local add-ons (that don't

Re: advice on site-specific modified .debs

2004-08-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
I'm going to respond here and hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong or if there's a better way. On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 10:52:42AM +0200, Alexander List wrote: Hello, I am about to create site-specific debs, e.g. patched versions of official Debian packages with local add-ons (that don't

Re: RFS: hotway-cvs: send and receive mail via Hotmail, Lycos, Spray, and MSN

2004-08-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
FYI, there's 'gotmail', too, but that's different functionality. Justin On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:43:41PM -0230, Lawrence Williams wrote: signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: hotway-cvs: send and receive mail via Hotmail, Lycos, Spray, and MSN

2004-08-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
FYI, there's 'gotmail', too, but that's different functionality. Justin On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 10:43:41PM -0230, Lawrence Williams wrote: signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
You are correct; see [1]. Make sure it checks for the existence of all files it needs. Cheers, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ References [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.5

maint scripts

2004-08-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, As per policy, my unofficial package of IRAF now includes a perl script update-extern.pkg.pl which is installed in /usr/bin/. It will be used by external IRAF packages, each of which need to update extern.pkg. Of course, each also depends on IRAF. If memory serves, the script shouldn't

Re: maint scripts

2004-08-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:19:56AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:15:07PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Hi all, As per policy, my unofficial package of IRAF now includes a perl script update-extern.pkg.pl which is installed in /usr/bin/. It will be used

Re: simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
You are correct; see [1]. Make sure it checks for the existence of all files it needs. Cheers, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor x11iraf wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ References [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s9.5

maint scripts

2004-08-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, As per policy, my unofficial package of IRAF now includes a perl script update-extern.pkg.pl which is installed in /usr/bin/. It will be used by external IRAF packages, each of which need to update extern.pkg. Of course, each also depends on IRAF. If memory serves, the script shouldn't

Re: maint scripts

2004-08-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:19:56AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:15:07PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Hi all, As per policy, my unofficial package of IRAF now includes a perl script update-extern.pkg.pl which is installed in /usr/bin/. It will be used

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 3rd, 2004

2004-08-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
52. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ * [53]fftw -- Library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms. ([54]Bug#263126) * [55]fftw3 -- Library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms. ([56]Bug#263125) I'd definitely like to see these stay in Debian. I'll look into picking up the work if

Re: Debian Weekly News - August 3rd, 2004

2004-08-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
52. http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ * [53]fftw -- Library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms. ([54]Bug#263126) * [55]fftw3 -- Library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms. ([56]Bug#263125) I'd definitely like to see these stay in Debian. I'll look into picking up the work if

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-08-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor latex-astro wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:59:47PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: The code uses varargs.h which gcc-3.3 doesn't

converting to nroff format

2004-08-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, Is it possible to convert _to_ nroff man.1 style input? I have an tmac file.. The upstream documentation is in a custom roff-like format. Thanks, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor latex-astro wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ PS, for those

converting to nroff format

2004-08-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, Is it possible to convert _to_ nroff man.1 style input? I have an tmac file.. The upstream documentation is in a custom roff-like format. Thanks, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor latex-astro wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ PS, for those

Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole story see below.. gcc includes /usr/bin/gcc which is pretty much a necessity, I think. I need xmkmf to work too. For now I have Build-Depends: gcc-3.2, but what can I do to force it to actually compile with that,

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:58:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole story see below.. gcc includes /usr/bin/gcc which is pretty much a necessity, I think. I

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 03:10:52AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Hi all, I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole story see below.. Hmm, what is upstream saying about the mess? That's

Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all, I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole story see below.. gcc includes /usr/bin/gcc which is pretty much a necessity, I think. I need xmkmf to work too. For now I have Build-Depends: gcc-3.2, but what can I do to force it to actually compile with that,

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:58:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole story see below.. gcc includes /usr/bin/gcc which is pretty much a necessity, I think. I

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 03:10:52AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: Hi all, I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole story see below.. Hmm, what is upstream saying about the mess? That's

Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

2004-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
, -- Justin aptitude install iraf saods9 eclipse xpa sextractor latex-astro wcstools pyraf http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/ On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:59:47PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: The code uses varargs.h which gcc-3.3 doesn't

Re: dpkg and a symlink that gets a directory

2004-07-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
I think what you want is described in the dpkg programmers manual: A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic links to a directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be left alone and dpkg will follow the symlink if there is one.

Re: dpkg and a symlink that gets a directory

2004-07-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
I think what you want is described in the dpkg programmers manual: A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic links to a directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be left alone and dpkg will follow the symlink if there is one.

Re: package with more than one license: logwatch

2004-07-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
Check out netpbm for a package with many, many licenses. I don't think your case can possibly be worse than that. Anyways, the license file is done in a very systematic way. On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:16:53PM +0200, Willi Mann wrote: Hi! I'm facing a small problem with my package

Re: Silly question about man page

2004-07-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
FYI, dh_installman is, by default, commented out in debian/rules, if you use dh_make to create debian/. Justin signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFS: astronomy software

2004-07-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
Greetings, I come bearing offerings of packages. I have a repository at [1], which includes a several powerful packages for astronomy. For the moment, the packages I wish to be considered are as follows: pport - Description: Control appliances with the parallel port pport allows arbitrary

Re: Silly question about man page

2004-07-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
FYI, dh_installman is, by default, commented out in debian/rules, if you use dh_make to create debian/. Justin signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RFS: astronomy software

2004-07-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
Greetings, I come bearing offerings of packages. I have a repository at [1], which includes a several powerful packages for astronomy. For the moment, the packages I wish to be considered are as follows: pport - Description: Control appliances with the parallel port pport allows arbitrary

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