RFS: windowlab -- Small and simple Amiga-like window manager

2006-01-27 Thread Stan Vasilyev
Package: windowlab Short Description: Small and simple Amiga-like window manager Version Packaged: 1.33-2 Version in Debian: 1.33-1 WindowLab is a Window Manager for the X Window System. Features include click-to-focus, a simple menu/taskbar combination and integration with Debian menu system.

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:11:27 +0100, Daniel Knabl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Einst schrieb Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * postinst is sometimes called with other values (*not* only configure). Though these are perfectly OK, your postinst script will fail. Could you describe what you

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:44:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How many times have you been pointed to Debian policy? Do you mean after I already read it? Then the answer is too many times... And you are still asking questions that neatly show that you didn't read it? And that also

Re: [Update] Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-27 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:30:22PM -0800, Stan Vasilyev wrote: From the last e-mail I got from Thierry it looks like he wants to make a compromise. Since I annoyed him so much with my e-mails, he proposed to start releasing Xdialog in two versions: Xdialog-version.tar.bz2 file with debian

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Knabl said: Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:44:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How many times have you been pointed to Debian policy? Do you mean after I already read it? Then the answer is too many times... And you are still asking questions

Re: RFS: dsbltesters

2006-01-27 Thread Al Nikolov
отправлено в группы и по почте Christoph Haas wrote: - Please close the WNPP bug 273204 which you opened yourself one and a half year ago. Ok, i'll close it. I assumed though that ITP should be closed after that the package was become ready and was appeared in the pool. I'm i wrong?

Re: [Update] Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2006, 19:30 -0800 schrieb Stan Vasilyev: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:14, Stan Vasilyev wrote: I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED], insists on

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Frank Küster
Daniel Knabl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main target in postinst, when someone initially installs the software, is configure, No, not only upon initially installing it. On every upgrade. and in postrm, when someone purges it, it is purge. No, if the package is purged, postrm is called

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:37:42 + schrieb Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Disclaimer: I have not looked at your packaging. The standard way to do this sort of thing is look through the reference for all the arguments your script can be called with, and handle them. so something like:

Custom Debian CD.

2006-01-27 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
I have created my own custom Debian installer CD based on the debian net-inst cd image. I modified the local repository to include some additional packages I would like to have installed by default. I then reburned the iso and installed the system. Everything works perfectly until I try to install

Re: [RFS] OptiPNG - advanced PNG (Portable Network Graphics) optimizer

2006-01-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Nelson A. de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] [060126 17:16]: I am searching for a sponsor for OptiPNG. Files can be obtained from: http://biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br/naoliv/optipng/ and it will close ITP #347993. I won't sponser it myself, as I do not understand cdbs, but some hints: It does

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Daniel Knabl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The main target in postinst, when someone initially installs the software, is configure, and in postrm, when someone purges it, it is purge. For these two targets I found examples by looking at some other packages (phpmyadmin, album, ...) that do very

RFS: pyme

2006-01-27 Thread Arnaud Fontaine
Hello, I need a sponsor for pyme package. My previous sponsor doesn't have the time currently to review the package i have made. * Package name: pyme Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Igor Belyi belyi.users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyme/

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:27:09 +0100 schrieb Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes. The problem is that the Debian policy specifies other targets in the maintainer script. Normally, most people don't implement them and do a 'abort-upgrade|bla|baz) #do nothing'. You don't do so, your

Re: create password in postinst

2006-01-27 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, You can look at debian/passwd.config in the passwd package for a solution written in perl. Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
Could you please build your package as nonnative, and preferrably pristine? Otherwise I don't know where to start looking at your work. nonnative means that an .orig.tar.gz of the expected name exists in the parent directory, and pristine means that the tarball is identical to upstreams (not

RFS: proxycheck

2006-01-27 Thread Al Nikolov
Hi, there I'm seekig for new sponsor of existing package. Package: proxycheck Description: checks existence of open proxy License: GPL URL: http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/proxycheck.html Upstream Author: Michael Tokarev proxycheck is a simple tool that will work on a reasonable *nix system and may be

Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link

2006-01-27 Thread Al Nikolov
Al Nikolov wrote: Excuse me, forgot link to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/proxycheck/ -- Regards, Al Nikolov JID [EMAIL PROTECTED]IRC clown UIN 312108671 PGP 4B50 F1E3 080C 21A2 91F4 8BF0 CD60 3B5A 2ECF 984B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:24:49 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you please build your package as nonnative, and preferrably pristine? Otherwise I don't know where to start looking at your work. nonnative means that an .orig.tar.gz of the expected name exists in the parent

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread justin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:09:56PM +0100, Daniel Knabl wrote: Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 13:24:49 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could you please build your package as nonnative, and preferrably pristine? Otherwise I don't know where to start looking at your work. nonnative

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:21:47 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thats not a sufficient reason to repack the tarball; it is more important that it is pristine (if applicable). Perhaps the clean target can remove them, and then you don't have to look at them nearly as much (instead, the dpkg:

Re: ITP vexim

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Knabl
Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:08:38 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Nearly all Debian packages should be pristine; if you can do that, you should. If upstream *only* exists in CVS, then you can't really, and you can run that command before creating your orig tarball. If upstream has a real

What should I do about unresponsive maintainer?

2006-01-27 Thread Matej Cepl
Hi, I know it is not question for this group, but maybe I would love to know what will happen to me, if I will behave as a maintainer of wvdial, which let bug# 316575 without response for 210 days :-). Thanks a lot for the answer, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG

Re: What should I do about unresponsive maintainer?

2006-01-27 Thread justin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:18:42PM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: Hi, I know it is not question for this group, but maybe I would love to know what will happen to me, if I will behave as a maintainer of wvdial, which let bug# 316575 without response for 210 days :-). This is the realm of the QA

Re: What should I do about unresponsive maintainer?

2006-01-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Matej Cepl wrote: I know it is not question for this group, but maybe I would love to know what will happen to me, if I will behave as a maintainer of wvdial, which let bug# 316575 without response for 210 days :-). You could send a (friendly) reminder and inquiry to the bug report ([EMAIL