RFS: libnet-dbus-perl -- Perl extension for the DBus message system

2006-08-09 Thread ms419
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:20:31PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: thanks Bart for CCing me. It'd be nice to have libnet-dbus-perl in Debian too. So if you want to take over maintenance, I'm only too happy. I packaged it because system-tools-backends (part of the gnome-system-tools stack) uses

Re: RFS: libnet-dbus-perl -- Perl extension for the DBus message system

2006-06-23 Thread ms419
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:44:43PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: You have dh-make-perl cruft in debian/rules, copyright and control - please fix those up. This is mostly harmless boilerplate and extra comments that aren't needed, but I like to see all the files have what you need and no more.

Re: RFS: libnet-dbus-perl -- Perl extension for the DBus message system

2006-06-10 Thread ms419
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:50:49PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: Can you tell me where it was downloaded from? I prefer to test against the upstream tarball. I am somewhat interested in this, a I would like to be able to script some dbus queries for desktop use, and this seems like a

RFS: libnet-dbus-perl -- Perl extension for the DBus message system

2006-06-09 Thread ms419
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=292684 http://cgi.sfu.ca/~jdbates/debian/pool/libnet-dbus-perl/ Net::DBus provides a Perl API for the DBus message system. The DBus Perl interface is currently operating against the 0.32 development version of DBus, but should work with later

Re: RFS: phpicalendar -- clean, logical iCalendar web interface

2006-04-10 Thread ms419
On Apr 23, 2005, at 7:46 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050412 08:00]: On Apr 11, 2005, at 3:09 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050411 04:10]: Both Chad I really look forward to making this package part of Debian

Re: RFS: phpicalendar -- clean, logical iCal/vCalendar web interface

2005-04-21 Thread ms419
On Apr 17, 2005, at 6:04 PM, Craig Small wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:56:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Both Chad I really look forward to making this package part of Debian - please consider sponsoring it : ) What's happened to the website for the project? It's still down. Yeah - it's

Re: RFS: phpicalendar -- clean, logical iCal/vCalendar web interface

2005-04-11 Thread ms419
On Apr 11, 2005, at 3:09 AM, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050411 04:10]: Both Chad I really look forward to making this package part of Debian - please consider sponsoring it : ) Actually, I would really like to sponsor this package. However, on a first

RFS: phpicalendar -- clean, logical iCal/vCalendar web interface

2005-04-10 Thread ms419
PHP iCalendar is based on v2.0 of the IETF specification. It displays iCal/vCalendar files in a nice logical clean manner with day, week, month, year navigation. It is available in 13 languages includes support for printing, searching, RSS news feeds. Supported applications include Apple

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-auth-kerb -- Apache2 module to authenticate connections using Kerberos

2005-01-20 Thread ms419
On Jan 16, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Ghe Rivero wrote: El dom, 16-01-2005 a las 10:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Yo, I hadn't been following your work on an Apache2 package. Please let me know if I can help. Just take a look to my solution and see what of yours can be added or changed to

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-auth-kerb -- Apache2 module to authenticate connections using Kerberos

2005-01-16 Thread ms419
Yo, I hadn't been following your work on an Apache2 package. Please let me know if I can help. Regards, Jack Just take a look this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=264231 Since libapache-* and libapache2-* share exactly the same code, it should be a a multibinary source package.

RFS: libapache2-mod-auth-kerb -- Apache2 module to authenticate connections using Kerberos

2005-01-15 Thread ms419
mod-auth-kerb is a terrific Apache module to authenticate connections using Kerberos; it even supports GSSAPI negotiation (SPNEGO) - ie. single sign on authentication using Apache2 Kerberos! I repackaged mod-auth-kerb for Apache2 added some more documentation:

debhelper not using debian/package/

2004-12-14 Thread ms419
Why is debhelper using debian/tmp/ as build directory, instead of debian/package/? The debhelper documentation agrees with my experience, that it uses debian/package/ by default, but one of my packages is using debian/tmp/, without -P or --tmpdir options anywhere. Has anyone else

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-29 Thread ms419
On Oct 28, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Sven Mueller wrote: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [u] wrote on 28/10/2004 11:02: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? I think not removing the user is the

variables in postinst?

2004-10-29 Thread ms419
How to use variables in postinst scripts? Currently, I use a variable for the upstream version with these lines in debian/rules: [...] # Get the upstream version from the changelog. upstream := $(shell head -1 debian/changelog | sed 's/^.*(\(.*\)-.*).*$$/\1/') [...] install -o root -g root

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-29 Thread ms419
On Oct 28, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Sven Mueller wrote: Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder [u] wrote on 28/10/2004 11:02: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? I think not removing the

variables in postinst?

2004-10-29 Thread ms419
How to use variables in postinst scripts? Currently, I use a variable for the upstream version with these lines in debian/rules: [...] # Get the upstream version from the changelog. upstream := $(shell head -1 debian/changelog | sed 's/^.*(\(.*\)-.*).*$$/\1/') [...]

Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-27 Thread ms419
If a package creates a user when it is installed, should it remove this user when it is removed, on only when it is purged? I couldn't find this topic in either the Policy Manual or Developers Reference. I did find some interesting information about packages creating removing users, but it

Removing Other Packages' Conflicting Files

2004-07-15 Thread ms419
I am packaging a package - A - which conflicts with only some files in another package - B - (A depends on the rest of B's files). If A also contained the files in B with which it conflicts, I think I would tag A Replaces: B and be done; but A doesn't contain these files, it simply conflicts

Removing Other Packages' Conflicting Files

2004-07-15 Thread ms419
I am packaging a package - A - which conflicts with only some files in another package - B - (A depends on the rest of B's files). If A also contained the files in B with which it conflicts, I think I would tag A Replaces: B and be done; but A doesn't contain these files, it simply conflicts

Fwd: saslauthd from binary package seg faulting?

2004-07-02 Thread ms419
I sent this message to the sasl2-bin package maintainer, but I suspect he's really busy. I haven't received a response. I'm not sure whether to open a bug, because I don't understand the problem. I can't reproduce the problem with the sasl2-bin binary package, compiling the source package on

Re: saslauthd from binary package seg faulting?

2004-07-02 Thread ms419
On Jul 1, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2004-07-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've tried for many months to get saslauthd working with PAM - I happen to use the pam_krb5 module. Now it's working when I build it myself - but I don't know why. I have a pretty stock

Re: saslauthd from binary package seg faulting?

2004-07-02 Thread ms419
On Jul 1, 2004, at 11:50 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: On 2004-07-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I've tried for many months to get saslauthd working with PAM - I happen to use the pam_krb5 module. Now it's working when I build it myself - but I don't know why. I have a pretty stock installation of

Fwd: saslauthd from binary package seg faulting?

2004-07-01 Thread ms419
I sent this message to the sasl2-bin package maintainer, but I suspect he's really busy. I haven't received a response. I'm not sure whether to open a bug, because I don't understand the problem. I can't reproduce the problem with the sasl2-bin binary package, compiling the source package on

make-kpkg, cross compiling for powerpc?

2004-06-30 Thread ms419
How do I invoke make-kpkg to cross compile a kernel for powerpc? I've built and installed gcc-3.3-powerpc-linux. I tried make-kpkg --revision 200406241 --rootcmd fakeroot --arch powerpc kernel_image, without success. Apparently the Specified GNU system type powerpc-linux does not match gcc

make-kpkg, cross compiling for powerpc?

2004-06-30 Thread ms419
How do I invoke make-kpkg to cross compile a kernel for powerpc? I've built and installed gcc-3.3-powerpc-linux. I tried make-kpkg --revision 200406241 --rootcmd fakeroot --arch powerpc kernel_image, without success. Apparently the Specified GNU system type powerpc-linux does not match gcc

One Source with Different Build Dependancies?

2004-06-24 Thread ms419
I am packaging source which builds two binary packages; however, each package has different build dependancies. In fact, the packages' build dependancies conflict. I don't think the dpkg tools have the facility to build one binary but not the other. Nor do I think one can specify different

One Source with Different Build Dependancies?

2004-06-24 Thread ms419
I am packaging source which builds two binary packages; however, each package has different build dependancies. In fact, the packages' build dependancies conflict. I don't think the dpkg tools have the facility to build one binary but not the other. Nor do I think one can specify different

Re: Init Script for Arbitrary Number of Daemons

2004-05-12 Thread ms419
My problem is really starting an arbitrary number... Perhaps I am guilty of some abuse of language; sorry. There is only one daemon, which I am trying to start an arbitrary number of copies of, with an arbitrary number of - possibly - different options. I'd like to be able to do something

Re: Init Script for Arbitrary Number of Daemons

2004-05-12 Thread ms419
My problem is really starting an arbitrary number... Perhaps I am guilty of some abuse of language; sorry. There is only one daemon, which I am trying to start an arbitrary number of copies of, with an arbitrary number of - possibly - different options. I'd like to be able to do something

Init Script for Arbitrary Number of Daemons

2004-05-11 Thread ms419
The skeleton init.d file is a great default for starting _one_ daemon, complete with the $DAEMON_OPTS variable. It's not clear, however, what this newbie package developer should do to start an arbitrary number of daemons, each with - potentially - different $DAEMON_OPTS. It's nice to be