Re: shared libraries

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Küster
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.07.1937 +0100]: As I understood it, this is exactly the situation Justin is in. Also read the LD_LIBRARY_PATH document. The second URL you gave? The citation is from there. Instead of setting

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.08.1026 +0100]: And it is this last step in which the shared library needs to be used, while it is still not installed. How could a linker call help here? I can't figure it out right now, but /lib/ld-linux.so can be told which libraries to

developers-reference: Please document bug handling in experimental uploads (was: experimental uploads and closed bugs)

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Küster
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.3.5 Severity: wishlist Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Andreas Barth said: Do you have a proposal how to write it? If so, please feel free to raise a bug against the developers reference (or remember me often enough

Re: Bug#284714: developers-reference: Please document bug handling in experimental uploads (was: experimental uploads and closed bugs)

2004-12-08 Thread Andreas Barth
tag 284714 pending thanks * Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041208 11:15]: RCS file: /cvs/debian-doc/ddp/manuals.sgml/developers-reference/developers-reference.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.250 diff -u -r1.250 developers-reference.sgml --- developers-reference.sgml 15 Nov 2004 10:35:27

ununderstandable-for-me lintian behavior, and seek for sponsor.

2004-12-08 Thread Niv Altivanik
hi, I've been trying to package glurp, a gtk2.4+ client for MPD (already in Debian), but my package won't pass the lintian test. it fails saying: E: glurp: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file ./usr/share/glurp/pixmaps/player-pause.png and much more, in fact it says none of the files in the package

[RFS, RFA] kxmleditor: XML Editor for KDE (2nd try)

2004-12-08 Thread Alejandro Exojo
Hi. I sent a request for a sponsor for this package, some months ago. The package is up for adoption (bug #255299); his mantainer isn't interested anymore in this package, and some upstream releases have been produced since the last time he could upload a package. He finally packaged the last

Bug#284728: ununderstandable-for-me lintian behavior, and seek for sponsor.

2004-12-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Package: lintian On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:36:56PM +0100, Niv Altivanik wrote: I've been trying to package glurp, a gtk2.4+ client for MPD (already in Debian), but my package won't pass the lintian test. it fails saying: E: glurp: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Küster
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.08.1026 +0100]: And it is this last step in which the shared library needs to be used, while it is still not installed. How could a linker call help here? I can't figure it out right now, but

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.08.1429 +0100]: , ld.so(8) | LD_PRELOAD |A whitespace-separated list of additional, user-specified, ELF |shared libraries to be loaded before all others. This can be used |to selectively override functions in other

Re: Cannot represent change error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-08 Thread Zoltan Ivanfi
Hi, Thanks for the quick replies. Are there any serious initiatives, with traction? dpkg has a horribly long list of bugs and feature requests. I doubt that there is serious action to resolve this one in dpkg1, but rumor goes that about dpkg2. Wouldn't the following simple solution work?

RFS: asymptote: graphics language inspired by MetaPost

2004-12-08 Thread Hubert Chan
* Package name: asymptote Version : 0.53 Upstream Author : Andy Hammerlindl, John Bowman, Tom Prince * URL or Web page : http://asymptote.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : script-based vector graphics language inspired by MetaPost Asymptote is a

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 10:26:42AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: also sprach Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.12.07.1937 +0100]: As I understood it, this is exactly the situation Justin is in. Right, just that IRAF is much more obscure than X11.

RFS: mpgtx - Toolbox to manipulate MPEG files (video, system, and audio)

2004-12-08 Thread Erik Schanze
Dear sponsors! I'd like to ask here for sponsoring of my package mpgtx, because previous sponsor, Chris Danis, seems to be on MIA. * Package name: mpgtx Version : 1.3-3 Upstream Author : Laurent Alacoque [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://mpgtx.sf.net * License

Re: Package split/merge advice

2004-12-08 Thread Florent Rougon
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, technically this works. But then the version numbers do not correspond at all to the version numbers used by upstream. And you get in trouble if upstream changes his packaging and distributes all data in a single tar.gz: dpkg --compare-versions

Re: Package split/merge advice

2004-12-08 Thread Jan Alonzo
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, (on somewhat related topic) I recently filed an RFP on itagalog and aspell-tl and one of the developers said that I should consider merging both sources since they use the same word list. snip way. I'd like to receive advices about the matter. I

Re: Package split/merge advice

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Jan Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, (on somewhat related topic) I recently filed an RFP on itagalog and aspell-tl and one of the developers said that I should consider merging both sources since they use the same word list. snip way. I'd

Re: Cannot represent change error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-08 Thread Nick Lewycky
Zoltan Ivanfi wrote: Wouldn't the following simple solution work? --- /usr/bin/dpkg-source2004-11-11 21:15:52.0 +0100 +++ /home/ifi/bin/dpkg-source 2004-12-08 14:45:00.0 +0100 @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ $ENV{'LC_ALL'}= 'C'; $ENV{'LANG'}=

how are maintainer scripts called when downgrading?

2004-12-08 Thread Jereme Corrado
Hi List, I am trying to make sure that my package, (faqomatic) can be downgraded cleanly. I am not really clear as to which maintainer scripts are called and what arguments are passed. I checked the policy manual and the developers reference as well as some googling; I'm not

Re: how are maintainer scripts called when downgrading?

2004-12-08 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:57:01PM -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote: I am trying to make sure that my package, (faqomatic) can be downgraded cleanly. I am not really clear as to which maintainer scripts are called and what arguments are passed. I checked the policy manual and the

Re: Package split/merge advice

2004-12-08 Thread Jan Alonzo
Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, (on somewhat related topic) I recently filed an RFP on itagalog and aspell-tl and one of the developers said that I should consider merging both sources since they use