Re: irda-utils: howto dist-upgrade when package name has changed?

2004-09-07 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello frank.. sorry that it took so long, but i had my head full of other stuff lately. * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-23 11:20 +0200]: Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: i am the maintainer of irda-utils which recently got this bug filed against it: http

Re: irda-utils: howto dist-upgrade when package name has changed?

2004-09-07 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello frank.. sorry that it took so long, but i had my head full of other stuff lately. * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-23 11:20 +0200]: Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: i am the maintainer of irda-utils which recently got this bug filed against it: http

irda-utils: howto dist-upgrade when package name has changed?

2004-08-23 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello list... i am the maintainer of irda-utils which recently got this bug filed against it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267278 the fix suggested there does not work. the problem is that the package(s) in stable are called irda-tools and irda-common and the current version

irda-utils: howto dist-upgrade when package name has changed?

2004-08-23 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello list... i am the maintainer of irda-utils which recently got this bug filed against it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267278 the fix suggested there does not work. the problem is that the package(s) in stable are called irda-tools and irda-common and the current version

Re: preinst, postinst, etc

2004-08-16 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello ashraf... * Ashraf Emawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-16 15:33 +0200]: hi all, i try to build debian-package of a small programm, and i used dh_make to get some help. under the directory DEBIAN/ i got files like rules, copyright, preinst.ex, postinst.ex, etc... after building package

Re: preinst, postinst, etc

2004-08-16 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello ashraf... * Ashraf Emawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-08-16 15:33 +0200]: hi all, i try to build debian-package of a small programm, and i used dh_make to get some help. under the directory DEBIAN/ i got files like rules, copyright, preinst.ex, postinst.ex, etc... after building package

RFTS: irda-utils

2004-07-28 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hi folks... as my current sponsor has to renew his gpg-key and the freeze for sarge is about to happen in the foreseeable future, i hereby put a request for a temporary sponsor for the package irda-utils. some important things have changed from -4 to -5, so i believe to need a couple of uploads

Re: RFTS: irda-utils

2004-07-28 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello.. 10 minutes after i sent this, i got my account @debian.org... so forget about the sponsor thing, but you might have a look at it, anyway. :) bye, sebastian * Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-28 16:21 +0200]: as my current sponsor has to renew his gpg-key and the freeze

RFTS: irda-utils

2004-07-28 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hi folks... as my current sponsor has to renew his gpg-key and the freeze for sarge is about to happen in the foreseeable future, i hereby put a request for a temporary sponsor for the package irda-utils. some important things have changed from -4 to -5, so i believe to need a couple of uploads

Re: RFTS: irda-utils

2004-07-28 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello.. 10 minutes after i sent this, i got my account @debian.org... so forget about the sponsor thing, but you might have a look at it, anyway. :) bye, sebastian * Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-28 16:21 +0200]: as my current sponsor has to renew his gpg-key and the freeze

Re: mysteries of /etc/default/*

2004-07-19 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello... thanks for all your answers. i think it is now clear to me. * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-19 09:20 +0200]: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 15 July 2004 15.15, Martin Dickopp wrote: Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/etc/default

Re: mysteries of /etc/default/*

2004-07-19 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello... thanks for all your answers. i think it is now clear to me. * Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-19 09:20 +0200]: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 15 July 2004 15.15, Martin Dickopp wrote: Sebastian Henschel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [/etc/default

mysteries of /etc/default/*

2004-07-15 Thread Sebastian Henschel
howdy folks... in the last couple of months, i realized that more and more packages are using a file in /etc/default/ for the configuration of their init-scripts. i searched in debian-devel and debian-mentors, looked into the policy 10.7 and asked a maintainer of such a package, but did not find

mysteries of /etc/default/*

2004-07-15 Thread Sebastian Henschel
howdy folks... in the last couple of months, i realized that more and more packages are using a file in /etc/default/ for the configuration of their init-scripts. i searched in debian-devel and debian-mentors, looked into the policy 10.7 and asked a maintainer of such a package, but did not find

direct mknod inevitable or drop old stuff in irda-utils?

2003-04-29 Thread Sebastian Henschel
changed sometime after kernel 2.0.x. so my question is: shall i drop the support for the old nodes, too? personally, i am favoring that solution, but what do you think? cheers, sebastian -- ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import

public access to crest.d.o

2003-02-25 Thread Sebastian Henschel
, which user and which password are supposed to used when connecting to crest.d.o being all? or does it work differently? do i have to apply somewhere? cheers, sebastian -- ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import pgpv9Az4jTqoC.pgp

Re: Adopting a package without being DD?

2003-01-14 Thread Sebastian Henschel
before filing ITA myself? perhaps you should look for a sponsor (someone who would upload the package for you), first. otherwise you should not wait an arbitrary time to ITA, just do it. :) cheers, sebastian -- ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de

Re: Adopting a package without being DD?

2003-01-14 Thread Sebastian Henschel
before filing ITA myself? perhaps you should look for a sponsor (someone who would upload the package for you), first. otherwise you should not wait an arbitrary time to ITA, just do it. :) cheers, sebastian -- ::: sebastian henschel ::: kodeaffe ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de

Re: new package name for gtk-engines-mgicchikn

2002-11-27 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello sven.. Received at 2002-11-27 / 09:01 by Sven Luther: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:17:54PM +0100, Sebastian Henschel wrote: i am currently adopting the package gtk-engines-mgicchikn, whereas one task is to rename the package. There was a discution on naming gtk engines package

Re: new package name for gtk-engines-mgicchikn

2002-11-27 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello sven.. Received at 2002-11-27 / 09:01 by Sven Luther: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:17:54PM +0100, Sebastian Henschel wrote: i am currently adopting the package gtk-engines-mgicchikn, whereas one task is to rename the package. There was a discution on naming gtk engines package

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