Re: Merging source packages

2020-04-25 Thread merkys
't even need to get the old source packages > removed as dak will automatically remove cruft packages. > > https://ftp-master.debian.org/#cruft Thanks for the explanation! Best, Andrius

Re: Merging source packages

2020-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:29 AM wrote: > Instead, I would like to build libfreehep-graphicsio-*-java binary > packages from the single source package, and remove the old source > packages. However, I am not sure if two source packages producing binary > packages with th

Merging source packages

2020-04-20 Thread merkys
Hello, The upstream seems to have merged sources of freehep-graphicsio-* into a single tarball. Thus to update libfreehep-graphicsio-*-java binary packages (currently having their separate source packages) I would have to split the new tarball myself. Splitting is quite some hassle, and gives

Upstream release with two source packages

2015-03-12 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
Hi, I'm thinking to package [1]. This package is in the github and upstream release it with two main directories: one with the C++ version (complete) and another with a python binding against the first one. The Python version cannot be built without the C++ version. Can I have in alioth a

Re: Upstream release with two source packages

2015-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: Can I have in alioth a single repo with two debian packages? How you structure the git repository doesn't have much correlation with what source/binary packages are produced. Feel free to do as you want. If you intend to

Re: Upstream release with two source packages

2015-03-12 Thread Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda
El Divendres, 13 de març de 2015, a les 00:08:07, Paul Wise va escriure: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: Can I have in alioth a single repo with two debian packages? How you structure the git repository doesn't have much correlation with what source/binary

Re: Using the same Alioth git repo for multiple source packages.

2014-11-20 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi, Le 19/11/2014 19:23, Maxime Chatelle a écrit : [...] The package is cakephp. Upstream maintains 3 main branches: 1.3.x, 2.x and 3.x I plan to use the following naming scheme for branches: upstream/1.3.x(fast-forward only branch feeded by upstream releases) debian/1.3.x/master

Re: Using the same Alioth git repo for multiple source packages.

2014-11-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Maxime Chatelle wrote: Is it a good practice to use the same Alioth packaging repository to maintain two (and later, three) source packages ? Obviously the three source package come from the same upstream git repository. The point is to maintain 2 (or 3) development

Re: Using the same Alioth git repo for multiple source packages.

2014-11-19 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 19/11/2014 11:21, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : Hi, On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Maxime Chatelle wrote: Is it a good practice to use the same Alioth packaging repository to maintain two (and later, three) source packages ? Obviously the three source package come from the same upstream git repository

Re: Using the same Alioth git repo for multiple source packages.

2014-11-19 Thread Maxime Chatelle
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:55:20AM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le 19/11/2014 11:21, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : Hi, On Tue, 18 Nov 2014, Maxime Chatelle wrote: Is it a good practice to use the same Alioth packaging repository to maintain two (and later, three) source packages

Using the same Alioth git repo for multiple source packages.

2014-11-18 Thread Maxime Chatelle
Hi, Is it a good practice to use the same Alioth packaging repository to maintain two (and later, three) source packages ? Obviously the three source package come from the same upstream git repository. The point is to maintain 2 (or 3) development branchs of the same software while avoiding

How to use multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages: quid GIT ?

2014-11-13 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Forum, in order to add some missing sample material, I add a second source to the upstream source tarball, then I followed the multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages approach [1]. This approach is currently used for spamassassin [2]. What is the GIT part of this approach

Re: How to use multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages: quid GIT ?

2014-11-13 Thread Vincent Cheng
Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Jerome BENOIT g62993...@rezozer.net wrote: Hello Forum, in order to add some missing sample material, I add a second source to the upstream source tarball, then I followed the multiple upstream tarballs in Debian source packages approach [1

Re: Sign source packages for mentors.debian.net

2013-03-23 Thread Felix Natter
Arno Töll a...@debian.org writes: Hi, hello Arno, Thanks for the quick response. On 21.03.2013 21:08, Felix Natter wrote: Do I have to follow (some of) these steps? http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning yes, the first one is enough though. This is not covered by docs, because that's a

Sign source packages for mentors.debian.net

2013-03-21 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I would like to publish a package to d-mentors for sponsorship soon, and am wondering how to sign the source package for upload. Do I even need to sign packages as a package maintainer (not DM, not DD)? intro-maintainers writes this: How to upload packages to mentors.debian.net? You

Re: Sign source packages for mentors.debian.net

2013-03-21 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 21.03.2013 21:08, Felix Natter wrote: Do I have to follow (some of) these steps? http://wiki.debian.org/Keysigning yes, the first one is enough though. This is not covered by docs, because that's a generic OpenGPG problem not specifically related to Debian (Mentors). You need to

Re: Sign source packages for mentors.debian.net

2013-03-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Arno Töll wrote: yes, the first one is enough though. This is not covered by docs, because that's a generic OpenGPG problem not specifically related to Debian (Mentors). You need to create a key satisfying the Debian keyring maintainers [1]. See any tutorial

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-08 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
come from proprietary code, and others from assets, they should only be binary packages, not source packages. When trying to build a .changes file though, dpkg-genchanges -b always complains about a missing Source field in my control file, even though I though the -b option meant only binary

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-06 Thread Daniel Lazzari
Thanks again for everyone's help on this! For now I'll try generating the changes file by script as we are building the deb packages through the OpenEmbedded build system and it handles the actual packaging for us. In the future I'll look at getting it to build these packages the right way so

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Using dpkg -b directly is still not the right way to build a package. If you don't want to distribute a source package, that's fine don't distribute it. But a debian binary

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
, not source packages. When trying to Using dpkg -b directly is still not the right way to build a package. If you don't want to distribute a source package, that's fine don't distribute it. But a debian binary package should always be built from source package, it's the best way to create a policy

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:03 AM, Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org wrote: Using dpkg -b directly is still not the right way to build a package. If you don't want to distribute a source package, that's fine don't distribute it. But a debian binary package should always be built from source

.changes files without source packages

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Lazzari
, they should only be binary packages, not source packages. When trying to build a .changes file though, dpkg-genchanges -b always complains about a missing Source field in my control file, even though I though the -b option meant only binary packages. Does anyone know how to build a .changes file

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-03 Thread Charles Plessy
be binary packages, not source packages. When trying to build a .changes file though, dpkg-genchanges -b always complains about a missing Source field in my control file, even though I though the -b option meant only binary packages. Does anyone know how to build a .changes file without having

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Lazzari
come from proprietary code, and others from assets, they should only be binary packages, not source packages. When trying to build a .changes file though, dpkg-genchanges -b always complains about a missing Source field in my control file, even though I though the -b option meant only binary

Re: .changes files without source packages

2010-12-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 06:08:42PM -0800, Daniel Lazzari a écrit : /eme-assets /eme-assets/DEBIAN /eme-assets/DEBIAN/control /eme-assets/DEBIAN/postinst /eme-assets/DEBIANprerm /eme-assets/opt /eme-assets/opt/image.jpg /eme-assets/opt/libmine.so I package it up using dpkg -b

Type 3.0 (quilt) source packages aditional original tarballs

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Baines
Dear Mentors, My package uses 4 original tarballs, one of the files within these needs to be patched, however the patch fails. I think this is because it is not extracting the additional original tarballs in to the temporary build directory. This is part of the build log: dpkg-source:

Re: Type 3.0 (quilt) source packages aditional original tarballs

2010-09-01 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:37:37PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote: I think it should say something about the other original tarballs there as well. Is there anything I am missing? Look at my package foundry for an example on how to use multiple tarballs. Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Type 3.0 (quilt) source packages aditional original tarballs

2010-09-01 Thread Chris Baines
Thanks, I was using incorrect names for the additional source packages. Thanks again, Chris On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 15:13 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:37:37PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote: I think it should say something about the other original tarballs

Re: Source Packages (v3)

2010-08-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12197 March 1977, Chris Baines wrote: Those source archives are used to build a toolchain capable of compiling firmware for the Lego Mindstorms NXT. Its critical both for support reasons and for practical size issues that I use the exact same method to compile the device firmware as

Source Packages (v3)

2010-08-04 Thread Chris Baines
the original archives correctly. I have followed the guidelines in man dpkg-source for using version three source packages, unpacking the additional archives to the armtc directory in my source package. This is a list of all the archives in question. lejos-nxj_0.8.5.orig.tar.gz

Re: Source Packages (v3)

2010-08-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:50:28PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote: binutils_2.18.50.orig-armtc.tar.bz2 additional original archive gcc_4.3.2.orig-armtc.tar.bz2 additional original archive newlib_1.16.0.orig-armtc.tar.gz additional original archive That

Re: Source Packages (v3)

2010-08-04 Thread Chris Baines
Those source archives are used to build a toolchain capable of compiling firmware for the Lego Mindstorms NXT. Its critical both for support reasons and for practical size issues that I use the exact same method to compile the device firmware as upstream. Upstream deliberately uses specific

Re: Custom packages derived from Debian Source Packages

2010-01-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Erik Schanze schan...@gmx.de writes: Hi mentors, I have a question regarding repacking and hope you could give me some suggestions. I'd like to run a special x86 based device with Debian. I could use most of the common Debian packages, but I have to repack some of them for the use on

Custom packages derived from Debian Source Packages

2010-01-26 Thread Erik Schanze
Hi mentors, I have a question regarding repacking and hope you could give me some suggestions. I'd like to run a special x86 based device with Debian. I could use most of the common Debian packages, but I have to repack some of them for the use on this device. The packages will be provided and

Re: Custom packages derived from Debian Source Packages

2010-01-26 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:20:34PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote: [...] I'm a bit lost to find a way which is compatible to Debian archive and packages that are easy to maintain and to follow Debian versions (mostly security fixes). [...] Have your custom repository use a different distribution

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-17 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Start with the unpatched upstream source. Copy the debian dir in including debian/patches/. echo 3.0 (quilt) debian/source/format remove patch system from debian/rules if present debuild Thanks for the pointer. However, since the archive does not support Format 3.0 (quilt) yet, I will stick

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi. On May 03 2009, Benjamin Mesing wrote: I've tried to add Format: 3.0 (quilt) to the control file and a Format 3 source package is correctly created (i.e. an orig.tar.gz and a debian.tar.gz), but that resulted in a lintian warning: (...) Does the archive accept 3.0 source packages already

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-16 Thread Paul Wise
2009/5/17 Rogério Brito rbr...@ime.usp.br: Does the archive accept 3.0 source packages already? If yes, then I think that I will migrate some of my packages. No: http://bugs.debian.org/457345 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-16 Thread Rogério Brito
On May 17 2009, Paul Wise wrote: No: http://bugs.debian.org/457345 Thanks. -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito Projects: algorithms.berlios.de : lame.sf.net : vrms.alioth.debian.org

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Benjamin Mesing bensm...@gmx.net writes: Hi, I am having trouble understanding how to build a quilt based source-package. My packaging is based on quilt, but when running debuild, debuild creates a traditional style source package. I've tried to add Format: 3.0 (quilt) to the control file

How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-03 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi, I am having trouble understanding how to build a quilt based source-package. My packaging is based on quilt, but when running debuild, debuild creates a traditional style source package. I've tried to add Format: 3.0 (quilt) to the control file and a Format 3 source package is correctly

Re: How to create quilt-based source packages using debuild

2009-05-03 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Sunday 03 May 2009 08:15:42 Benjamin Mesing wrote: Hi, I am having trouble understanding how to build a quilt based source-package. My packaging is based on quilt, but when running debuild, debuild creates a traditional style source package. I've tried to add Format: 3.0 (quilt) to the

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-30 Thread Brendon Costa
Take a look at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#native_vs_non_native and the question after that (What's wrong with upstream shipping a debian/ directory?). Yep, all sound like good reasons to separate the source distfile and the debian specific data. Currently

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-29 Thread Ben Finney
Brendon Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have those files listed below (Excepting the package_1.0-1.diff.gz) as there are no differences that need to be applied for debian. So a source distribution would just include the .dsc and .tar.gz file. Even when you are acting in both the upstream

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-29 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 29 July 2007, Ben Finney wrote: Brendon Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have those files listed below (Excepting the package_1.0-1.diff.gz) as there are no differences that need to be applied for debian. So a source distribution would just include the .dsc and .tar.gz file.

Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Brendon Costa
Hi all, I have been looking on the web, but have found little in the way of tutorials on how to create a debian source package. I have created a binary package for my project (EDoc++: http://edoc.sourceforge.net/), but want to create a source package and then build the binary one from this. Does

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Franz Pletz
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: I have been looking on the web, but have found little in the way of tutorials on how to create a debian source package. I have created a binary package for my project (EDoc++: http://edoc.sourceforge.net/), but want to create a

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Ben Finney
Brendon Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been looking on the web, but have found little in the way of tutorials on how to create a debian source package. I have created a binary package for my project (EDoc++: http://edoc.sourceforge.net/), but want to create a source package and then

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:13:06AM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: I have been looking on the web, but have found little in the way of tutorials on how to create a debian source package. I have created a binary package for my project (EDoc++: http://edoc.sourceforge.net/), but want to create a

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Brendon Costa
Actually, there is no one-file source package form of a deb like there is for rpms. When you create your binary package, a signed .dsc file is created with which you can create the deb in conjunction with the original upstream tarball and the diff of the debian packaging. Ahh that would

Re: Creating Source Packages

2007-07-28 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:59:53PM +1000, Brendon Costa wrote: Actually, there is no one-file source package form of a deb like there is for rpms. When you create your binary package, a signed .dsc file is created with which you can create the deb in conjunction with the original upstream

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-21 Thread Volker Grabsch
I should adjust my plans to do the following: 1) produce win32 cross compiling packages of some Debian source packages 2) document this, maybe writing a litte howto. 3) publish these packages in an inofficial a Debian APT repository Sadly, there isn't any good documentation about cross compiling

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-14 Thread Jamie Jones
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 00:28 +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: The extra work of duplicate security fixes is IMHO very small compared to the additional infrastructural work of keeping lots of Debian packages win32 portable, duplicating maintaining work which is already done by the GnuWin32 project.

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-14 Thread Volker Grabsch
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:21:56PM +1100, Jamie Jones wrote: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 00:28 +0100, Volker Grabsch wrote: The extra work of duplicate security fixes is IMHO very small compared to the additional infrastructural work of keeping lots of Debian packages win32 portable,

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-14 Thread Frank Küster
Volker Grabsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which of these ways is the current, modern, best practise way of handling such exotic source archives? I don't think that there's a general consensus about that. The Debian New Maintainers' Guide explicitly says that it doesn't cover this topic. The

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-14 Thread Simon Richter
maintainer of these libs to include an extra binary target will be very hard, and the project as a whole may fail if only one of them doesn't like it. Indeed, and this would only be a stopgap solution, but it's better than duplicating source packages. 3) It's much work for a Debian maintainer

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-13 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Volker Grabsch wrote: I'm trying to build Debian cross compiled packages of win32 libraries. As upstream sources I use the (already patched) sources from the GnuWin32 project. (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) IMO what would make more sense is to try to get the patches integrated into

Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-13 Thread Volker Grabsch
Dear Debian Mentors, I'm trying to build Debian cross compiled packages of win32 libraries. As upstream sources I use the (already patched) sources from the GnuWin32 project. (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/) Their source packages are named this way: libpng-1.2.8-src.zip and this ZIP

Re: Handling of GnuWin32 source packages

2006-03-13 Thread Volker Grabsch
: You want to cross compile. So the Debian cross compiling should stay as close as possible to the packages one would normally use with MinGW under Windows. 6) It add in general more work to more persons, than to simply use the GnuWin32 source packages as upstream source. The GnuWin32

bug pages and source packages

2006-02-09 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Mentors! Since I didn't get an answer as d-d, I try it here ... Hope I have more luck! - Forwarded message from Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bug pages and source packages To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 8 Feb

Re: bug pages and source packages

2006-02-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:14:59PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: When I go to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=info it tells me ... to the source package texinfo's bug page ... But when I go to

RFS: kompile -- KDE automatic installer for source packages

2005-12-22 Thread Felipe Sateler
: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=30223 * License : GPL Description : KDE automatic installer for source packages Kompile is a KDE interface for automatic execution of configuration, compilation and installation of source tarballs. It adds a KDE service menu so

Having a binary package in two source packages

2005-08-07 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, Is it possible to ship the same binary packages in two source packages across two distributions? A concrete example would be a tools package which can be built from two major upstream releases that need to be kept in the distribution for the shared libs: short term: - unstable

Re: Having a binary package in two source packages

2005-08-07 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:41:31PM +0200, Lo?c Minier wrote: Hi, Is it possible to ship the same binary packages in two source packages across two distributions? This situation can occur, but should be transitional and short. The archive will let the highest version numbered

Re: Building source packages

2005-07-08 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
to some base level. apt-get --only-source build-dep fred apt-get --only-source -b source fred should do what you want. This is how the pine source packages in are built. Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Building source packages

2005-07-08 Thread John Skaller
and transparently. This occurs recursively for all dependencies, at least up to some base level. apt-get --only-source build-dep fred apt-get --only-source -b source fred should do what you want. This is how the pine source packages in are built. Aha .. thank you! This looks just right. I'll try

Building source packages

2005-07-07 Thread Ben Finney
On 08-Jul-2005, John Skaller wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:27 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: You may as well use the http://mentors.debian.net service to upload your work. It will take care of your files and make them publicly available in a decent repository structure. but (a) it

Re: Building source packages

2005-07-07 Thread John Skaller
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:58 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: On 08-Jul-2005, John Skaller wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 21:27 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: You may as well use the http://mentors.debian.net service to upload your work. It will take care of your files and make them publicly

Merging two source packages

2004-11-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
Hi, I have 2 source packages in the archive (unstable only) that are branches of the same tree, but generate different backages. e.g. source packages A and B which make packages X and Y respectively. I has bothered me to have such duplication and finally some work that upstream did lets me

Re: Merging two source packages

2004-11-02 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Brian Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-11-03 01:09]: What is the best way to go about getting rid of package B? My first instinct is just to upload a new version of A (with new versions of X and Y) and then file a bug against ftp.debian.org? But my first instincts are often wrong. So

Merging two source packages

2004-11-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
Hi, I have 2 source packages in the archive (unstable only) that are branches of the same tree, but generate different backages. e.g. source packages A and B which make packages X and Y respectively. I has bothered me to have such duplication and finally some work that upstream did lets me

RFS: apt-src -- manage Debian source packages

2004-06-16 Thread László 'GCS' Böszörményi
Author : Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : could not find any, sorry :( * License : GPL v2 Description : manage Debian source packages apt-src is a command line interface for downloading, installing, upgrading, and tracking Debian source packages. It makes source package

RFS: apt-src -- manage Debian source packages

2004-06-16 Thread Lszl 'GCS' Bszrmnyi
Author : Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : could not find any, sorry :( * License : GPL v2 Description : manage Debian source packages apt-src is a command line interface for downloading, installing, upgrading, and tracking Debian source packages. It makes source package

Re: Best way to handle replacing a split package with two source packages?

2003-05-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
separate source and binary packages. Do the various scripts/people automatically handle this, or do I have to file some bugs against ftp.debian.org to remove the old ddrmat-source package first? You do not need to contact the ftpmasters in advance. Just upload both source packages as normal

Best way to handle replacing a split package with two source packages?

2003-05-06 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Hi all, I maintain the pyddr and ddrmat-source packages, which are both generated from the same pyddr source package. Upstream is going to split off the ddrmat-related files into a separate tarball since they don't change much, for the next version. The obvious way to handle this is to package

Reporting bugs in source packages

2000-01-05 Thread Jonathan Hall
I have found what appears to be a bug in a source package (ucd-snmp-4.0.1). The bug being that /usr/sbin/snmpd does not exist after installing the snmpd .deb created from the sources with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc. It *does* show up when installing a package made from sources with

Source packages?

1999-06-27 Thread Matthew Sachs
I'm packaging some Perl modules and a program which is a bunch of Perl scripts. Everything in these packages is Perl code (and documentation). Do I need to make source packages for these? How would I go about doing that? -- Matthew Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- random fortune quote -- But like

Re: Source packages?

1999-06-27 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Matthew Sachs écrivait: I'm packaging some Perl modules and a program which is a bunch of Perl scripts. Everything in these packages is Perl code (and documentation). Do I need to make source packages for these? How would I go about doing

Re: Source packages?

1999-06-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 04:52:47PM -0400, Matthew Sachs wrote: Do I need to make source packages for these? Of course. Even if the binaries are identical to the sources, you need some scripting (ie. debian/rules etc) to produce the .debs, and that requires a source package. How would I go

changing names of source packages

1998-06-26 Thread Matthias Klose
Currently I build a binary package A from source package X; now I want to build binary packages A and B from source package Y (which contains the contents of package X), without changing the functionality in binary package A. Is it ok to leave package X alone or do I have to orphan it? Thanks,