Re: Looking for sponsor

2003-07-02 Thread francesco levorato
Hello Francesco, I couln't find minido listed at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/prospective I'm afraid you haven't filed an ITP (intent to package) for your package. To file an ITP, follow the instructions at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ You will then get an email with a

Re: strictly earlier Conflicts

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:48:02AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: Howdy, Bug #198304 reports that the move of /usr/bin/svnshell from subversion to subversion-tools broke upgrades, and suggests subversion-tools conflict with older versions of subversion. I was planning to add Conflicts:

Re: Academical question: How to package foo and foo-patched?

2003-07-02 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:43:17 +0200, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [creating foo-patched .deb from foo .deb unmaintained by the upstream or the Debian maintainer] How would more experienced Debian maintainers handle this issue? There are some tools which unpack and/or patch the source at

kernel-patch-2.4-supermount-ng up for review

2003-07-02 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi! I'm already a developer but I've never packaged a kernel-patch before. So I would be grateful if someone could take a look at the package at: http://people.debian.org/~mf/kernel-patch-2.4-supermount-ng/ and check if there's something obviously wrong about it, or even better test it :)

Finding dependencies

2003-07-02 Thread Jaime Robles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I am doing my NM process and i have a question that i still don't know how to answer properly O:-) It is about finding dependencies. How can i find the dependencies for a package? I know that there is a hack to find them but... what about

Re: ITP: reportbug says a package of this name exists, but I can't find it

2003-07-02 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Frank! * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-02 19:13]: MOLMOL. But when I entered molmol as the proposed name and reportbug had queried the database, it said: A package by this name already exists; continue? [y|N|?]? However, I cannot find a package of that name, neither in

Can somebody upload the update of sitemap?

2003-07-02 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, could somebody please upload the update of the sitemap package? I'm the maintainer but not (yet?) a debian developer. The new packages (2.3-4) ara available from http://www.isotton.com/debian/sitemap/ The packages are linda and lintian clean. Thank you very much. Aaron Isotton

How to figure out the correct build-dependencies?

2003-07-02 Thread Frank Kster
Hi, dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package depends on. Quite nicely, since I get xlibmesa3 | libgl1, but there seems to be no package named libgl1. And how do I figure out the correct Build-dependencies:-line? Are there any tools? Of course if I use some utilities not

Re: How to figure out the correct build-dependencies?

2003-07-02 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Frank! * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-02 20:53]: dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package depends on. Quite nicely, since I get xlibmesa3 | libgl1, but there seems to be no package named libgl1. And how do I figure out the correct

Re: How to figure out the correct build-dependencies?

2003-07-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 16:23, Frank Küster wrote: dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package depends on. Quite nicely, since I get xlibmesa3 | libgl1, but there seems to be no package named libgl1. apt-cache showpkg libgl1, see the Reverse Provides . And how do I

Re: Finding dependencies

2003-07-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jaime Robles said: Hello. Hello, I am doing my NM process and i have a question that i still don't know how to answer properly O:-) It is about finding dependencies. How can i find the dependencies for a package? I know that there is a hack to find them

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-07-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Pellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Junichi Uekawa wrote: Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This seems to me to conflict with the GPL, and I'd like confirmation on

New Developer

2003-07-02 Thread E. Cermeño
I would like to help Debian. I've seen some packages which are qualified as orphan and I would like to adopt them. I've read the documentation on how to become a developer, and I understood that I need an advocate. The packages I'm interested in are: fda: C malloc debug library (package info)

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-07-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Brian Nelson wrote: Brian Pellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you certain that this is a violation? I believe you were probably refering to the No discrimination against fields of endeavor clause, but is notification considered a restriction? It doesn't require

Re: Looking for sponsor

2003-07-02 Thread francesco levorato
Hello Francesco, I couln't find minido listed at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/prospective I'm afraid you haven't filed an ITP (intent to package) for your package. To file an ITP, follow the instructions at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ You will then get an email with a

Re: strictly earlier Conflicts

2003-07-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:48:02AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: Howdy, Bug #198304 reports that the move of /usr/bin/svnshell from subversion to subversion-tools broke upgrades, and suggests subversion-tools conflict with older versions of subversion. I was planning to add Conflicts:

Re: Academical question: How to package foo and foo-patched?

2003-07-02 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:43:17 +0200, Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [creating foo-patched .deb from foo .deb unmaintained by the upstream or the Debian maintainer] How would more experienced Debian maintainers handle this issue? There are some tools which unpack and/or patch the source at

kernel-patch-2.4-supermount-ng up for review

2003-07-02 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi! I'm already a developer but I've never packaged a kernel-patch before. So I would be grateful if someone could take a look at the package at: http://people.debian.org/~mf/kernel-patch-2.4-supermount-ng/ and check if there's something obviously wrong about it, or even better test it :)

Finding dependencies

2003-07-02 Thread Jaime Robles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. I am doing my NM process and i have a question that i still don't know how to answer properly O:-) It is about finding dependencies. How can i find the dependencies for a package? I know that there is a hack to find them but... what about

ITP: reportbug says a package of this name exists, but I can't find it

2003-07-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, I just wanted to file an ITP bug against wnpp for the program MOLMOL. But when I entered molmol as the proposed name and reportbug had queried the database, it said: A package by this name already exists; continue? [y|N|?]? However, I cannot find a package of that name, neither in

Re: ITP: reportbug says a package of this name exists, but I can't find it

2003-07-02 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Frank! * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-02 19:13]: MOLMOL. But when I entered molmol as the proposed name and reportbug had queried the database, it said: A package by this name already exists; continue? [y|N|?]? However, I cannot find a package of that name, neither in

Can somebody upload the update of sitemap?

2003-07-02 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, could somebody please upload the update of the sitemap package? I'm the maintainer but not (yet?) a debian developer. The new packages (2.3-4) ara available from http://www.isotton.com/debian/sitemap/ The packages are linda and lintian clean. Thank you very much. Aaron Isotton

How to figure out the correct build-dependencies?

2003-07-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package depends on. Quite nicely, since I get xlibmesa3 | libgl1, but there seems to be no package named libgl1. And how do I figure out the correct Build-dependencies:-line? Are there any tools? Of course if I use some utilities not

Re: How to figure out the correct build-dependencies?

2003-07-02 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Frank! * Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-07-02 20:53]: dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package depends on. Quite nicely, since I get xlibmesa3 | libgl1, but there seems to be no package named libgl1. And how do I figure out the correct

Re: How to figure out the correct build-dependencies?

2003-07-02 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 16:23, Frank Küster wrote: dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package depends on. Quite nicely, since I get xlibmesa3 | libgl1, but there seems to be no package named libgl1. apt-cache showpkg libgl1, see the Reverse Provides . And how do I

Re: Finding dependencies

2003-07-02 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jaime Robles said: Hello. Hello, I am doing my NM process and i have a question that i still don't know how to answer properly O:-) It is about finding dependencies. How can i find the dependencies for a package? I know that there is a hack to find them

Re: How to figure out the correct build-dependencies?

2003-07-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Frank Küster wrote: dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package depends on. Quite nicely, since I get xlibmesa3 | libgl1, but there seems to be no package named libgl1. And how do I figure out the correct Build-dependencies:-line? Are there any tools? This is created

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-07-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Pellin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Junichi Uekawa wrote: Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This seems to me to conflict with the GPL, and I'd like confirmation on

New Developer

2003-07-02 Thread E . Cermeño
I would like to help Debian. I've seen some packages which are qualified as orphan and I would like to adopt them. I've read the documentation on how to become a developer, and I understood that I need an advocate. The packages I'm interested in are: fda: C malloc debug library (package info)