Re: Becoming a new developper

1999-06-24 Thread Joel Klecker
At 17:38 +0200 1999-06-23, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Steve Haslam wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 05:04:02PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: ar can't create .debs Er, why not? .debs are just ar archives with an empty file, control.tar(.gz)? and data.tar(.gz)? in- you

Re: Becoming a new developper

1999-06-23 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Steve Haslam wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 05:04:02PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:30:02AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: I assume that you allow gcc, but I will use ar, tar and gzip for the packaging. ar can't create .debs

Re: Becoming a new developper

1999-06-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 04:14:55PM +0100, Steve Haslam wrote: ar can't create .debs Er, why not? deb(5): Note that many modern versions of ar create archives with different magic numbers. Archives created in this way will not be recognised by dpkg-deb, though these

Becoming a new developper

1999-06-22 Thread Sami Dalouche
Reply-To: I intend to become a new developper but I've a problem. I have succefully (lintian says me only one error related to the man page) packaged gwget, a GTK+ frontend for wget but I'm not an expert in DEB. packaging for now. Is it morally - or policy - correct to become a new developper