Re: Creating a transition package for source and binary switching

+ Peter Fritzsche (Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:45:35 +0200): Hi, I wanted to ask how to do a transition package the right way. Current situation is that there is a package with 3:1.1-2 in debian which changed the name and version numbering slightly. Now I wanted to create a package with the new

Re: packaging guide questions

At Sat, 30 May 2009 01:39:00 +0100, Stanisław Pitucha wrote: Hi, I've got two questions I couldn't find answer to... (at least in the official guide). Could you answer them / point me at the correct mailing list? If there is a source package which generates: a common library

Re: Bug 510765 won't appear as closed

+ Don Armstrong (Thu, 14 May 2009 13:24:29 -0700): a message to control with 'close ' (deprecated, because it doesn't tell the submitter that it was fixed, [...]) Well, AFAIK they do get a mail that the bug has been closed, with subject acknowledged by developer and a generic blurb about

Re: Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

+ Paul Wise (Sun, 03 May 2009 15:56:23 +0800): m.d.n (currently) only has source packages to deal with so that makes the lintian warnings from there much less useful. Will/could/should debexpo require that uploads are accompanied with binaries, even if to throw them away after running eg.

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

+ Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:25:57 +1000): Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Well, not even that, many of them are a pure matter of personal preference, or apply directly only to him: 1. Use mentors.debian.net 2. Increment the package

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

+ Adeodato Simó (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:09:31 +0200): + Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:25:57 +1000): Note that not everything in Neil's guidelines are appropriate to *every* package. Well, not even that, many of them are a pure matter of personal preference, or apply directly only to him

Re: Criteria for sponsoring packages

+ Ben Finney (Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:19:33 +1000): Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: I really cannot support Ben's sweeping generalisation that my page is suitable for every package prepared for Debian. Er, that's not what I stated. Indeed, I said exactly the opposite in another

Re: How to build-depend on linux-headers

+ Luca Niccoli (Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:25:18 +0200): 2009/4/27 Jonas Meurer jo...@freesources.org: Hey, I'm not absolutely sure about it, but linux-libc-dev might be the answer to your questions. Yes! I was completely mistaken, I thought the headers I needed were in my system because I

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

Neil, I am writing to let you and the list and all sponsorees who may be reading this thread know that I don’t agree with most of what you’re saying, and that I don’t like the tone in which you are writing your thoughts, and that I think you are a harmful influence regarding these matters in

Uploaded (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

+ Elimar Riesebieter (Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:04:15 +0200): Dear mentors, Hello, Elimar. (Elimar is one of our capable ALSA maintainers, by the way.) I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.7.0~beta20090329-1 of my package ripit. It builds these binary packages: ripit -

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

+ Michael Biebl (Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:40:23 +0200): [not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] [I’m moving to -devel in search of a wider audience, and dropping -mentors via Bcc to avoid the crosspost. Hopefully interested -mentor readers can move to -devel without much

Re: Could somebody upload this? TIA. (was RFS: quick-lounge-applet (updated package))

22, 2009 at 15:42, Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: It’d be great if somebody would take a look into uploading this package, since it’s needed for the gnome-desktop transition. Many thanks in advance! + Diego Fernández Durán (Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:17 +0200): Dear mentors, I am

Re: Could somebody upload this? TIA. (was RFS: quick-lounge-applet (updated package))

+ Diego Fernández Durán (Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:28:39 +0200): About the cowbuilder error, I successfully compiled 2.12.5-6 package with pdebuild. I don't know exactly what is failing. When you sent your initial RFS, gnome-desktop 2.26 hadn’t been uploaded to unstable yet, that’s why succeeded.

Could somebody upload this? TIA. (was RFS: quick-lounge-applet (updated package))

It’d be great if somebody would take a look into uploading this package, since it’s needed for the gnome-desktop transition. Many thanks in advance! + Diego Fernández Durán (Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:17 +0200): Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.12.5-6 of my package

Re: Questions about the changelog file

+ Laurent Léonard (Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:42:52 +0200): Hi, Hello, Laurent. Thanks for your interest in writting good changelog entries. It’s an inquietude I’d like to see more often in our maintainers. Is there a standard or a recommendation for the content of the changelog file ? As others

Re: cgal build failure on alpha and hppa

+ Joachim Reichel (Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:05:21 +0200): I understand that libgl1-mesa-glx and libglu1-mesa are not available on hppa in the required versions (= 7.4). But what is the problem on alpha? That libglu1-mesa 7.4 became available on alpha only very recently, and the buildd machine did

Re: Properly obsoleting old subpackages

+ Mikhail Gusarov (Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:42:06 +0700): Hi, Hello, Mikhail. I've got source package (pyinotify) with 3 binary packages built from it: python-pyinotify, python-pyinotify-dbg and python-pyinotify-doc. In new upstream release author dropped the binary module (hence there is no

Re: Properly obsoleting old subpackages

+ Mikhail Gusarov (Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:59:48 +0700): AS You should just stop building them, and the old versions will get AS removed from the archive semi-automatically. Ok, I will just drop the -dbg package. Given it depends on python-pyinotify (= ${binary:Version}), will it be removed

Re: dante: libc6 dependency: can't migrate to testing?

+ Peter Pentchev (Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:27:06 +0300): Hi, Hello, Peter. I've been seeing this for the past two weeks: http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=dante libdsocksd0/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: libc6.1.1 ( 2.9) libsocksd0/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: libc6.1.1 ( 2.9) ...and

Re: out of date on mips: siege (from 2.66-2)

* Tristan Greaves [Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:53:53 +0100]: Hi all, Could someone please explain the above Excuse for me? (I understand the _what_ but not the _why_ in this instance). https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=siege My package has successfully built on the other

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

* Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: Hello, [-mentors only Bcc'ed to drop it from the discussion] Executive summary: concerns about ia32-apt-get raised, lesser hack proposed for comments. before Lenny ftpmaster asked us (ia32-libs maintainers) to do something about

Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use (was Re: Point to semi-official backported packages?)

* Paul Wise [Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:35:44 +0900]: On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net wrote: (And yes, I know about backports.d.n; maybe I'll get 'round to submitting or maintaining stuff there at some point, but for the present it is a bit easier for me to keep

Re: override a package dependency (without rebuilding package)

* Jérémy Lal [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:52:49 +0100]: Hi, is there a way to change a package dependency without rebuilding it ? For example, gimp2.6 depends on libwebkit-1.0.1, and i want latest libwebkit-1.0.2 installed. I don't really care to break that dependency since gimp will work without

Re: debian/control

* Jaromír Mikeš [Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100]: Hello, I am not sure what to fill to Section in control file for my new package I am building. Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) Section: sound sounds appropriate to me. -- - Are you sure we're

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

* Giacomo A. Catenazzi [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:56:20 +0100]: how to had new services in /etc/services database? By filing a bug like #353835 (against netbase). -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: 3.0 Quilt packages

* Andreas Hoenen [Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:21:18 +0100]: This link might be of interest to you: http://bugs.debian.org/457345 Looks like it will need some more time :-( Take a look again by reloading it in your browser. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato

Re: 3.0 Quilt packages

) is somewhat misleading. Raphael's message was initially sent to debian-...@lists.debian.org, and later bounced to the bug report. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org «¡Pero si es

Re: exception and RFS: unionfs-fuse - fix RC bug

changes? Unblocked by Luk. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org I promise you. Once I enter into an exclusive relationship, I sleep with very few people. -- Denny Crane

Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

think different. Me, I believe having a readable diff.gz is motivation enough as to repack the tarball.) Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

Re: Bypassing mentors http/ftp area durng sponsorship (was: Re: Introducing spurious revisions ... )

off-topic on this thread, but pristine-tar is precisely about that: giving you the extra bits needed to ensure that the reconstructed tarball will be bit-by-bit identical to the original one.) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

* Martin Meredith [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:05:11 +]: Hey Martin, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * history: I haven't seen this argument fly be in (this and other instances of) this discussion, but the answer is that the proper place to record

Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

this scheme. Okay, we have more worrysome differences within Debian. But it would be more okay if these developers would reckon (in their daily doings) that many (?) of us don't agree this should be, by any means, standard practice in Debian, and that better alternatives exist. -- Adeodato Simó

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

, or rather just fix it silently? ^^ In case there were any doubts, with under that scenario I meant to imply that such botching of debian/rules had been introduced in the current version, not in an already uploaded one. -- Adeodato Simó

Re: RFS: remote-hellanzb-gui

* Arnaud Fontaine [Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:09:46 +0100]: You could get rid [...] of debian/docs as cdbs already installs the files listed. «Explicit is better than implicit.» (Maybe not on -mentors, but surely on -python. ;-) -- Adeodato Simó dato

Re: RFH: How to get latest moc into Lenny (Bug#489804)

not mail -release this one time. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Javier Álvarez - Septiembre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: taglib-rusxmms, librcc, librcd

://rusxmms.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Section : libs Hello ivan. Please remove me from the Uploaders field of this package, I keep receiving mail about uploads to mentors.debian.net. Many thanks in advance, -- Adeodato Simó dato

Re: repackaged .orig.tar.gz (was: RFS: libmsn)

to libmsn0.2, we want the source package name to remain constant. Please fix that. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Dar Williams - After

Re: RFS: libmetalink

* Michal Čihař [Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:56:47 +0100]: - Vcs-Bzr: lp:libmetalink ... is this standard way of specifying bzr repositories? It is Launchpad-specific but, alas, the launchpad plugin is included in bzr core, so anybody who does `bzr branch lp:libmetalink`, it will work. -- Adeodato

Re: RFS: libmsn

. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment: the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he

Re: RFS: libmsn

* Pau Garcia i Quiles [Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:39:45 +0100]: Should I rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make tamper-checking more difficult, or not rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make tamper-checking easier? You should not, dpkg-source copes well enough. -- Adeodato Simó

Re: repackaged .orig.tar.gz (was: RFS: libmsn)

* gregor herrmann [Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:15:07 +0100]: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:30 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: Should I rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make tamper-checking more difficult, or not rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make tamper-checking easier? You

Re: GPG Keys

. It is true that AFAIK you won't be able to put more than key in the Debian keyring, should you become a DD or a DM. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

Re: debconf questions

* Andreas Tscharner [Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:31:42 +0100]: If I execute the .config file, the expected screen (it's a note) is shown Hm, I thought you're not supposed to use debconf to display notes, and that NEWS.Debian is preferred. -- Adeodato Simó dato

Re: Question regarding package dependance

by default, unless somebody takes action to remove them. Does that answer your question? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Family - El

Re: Question regarding package dependance

* Stefanos Harhalakis [Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:51:28 +0200]: On Saturday 08 November 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: In my opinion, you should just invoke the configure script with the paths of all programs as they are found in Debian, eg.: % ./configure --with-tar=/bin/tar --with-postgresql

Re: RFS: fex (2nd attempt)

because of it. For extra points, you can ask other DDs you already know for their opinion, and work with that. Good luck, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org - Oh my God, you're

Re: Different suggests/recomends according to architecture

at all in doing that for Recommends, though: you want psyco just not installed, not random crap pulled in. :-) HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org In my opinion, the most

Re: RFS: bzr-diffstat

some similar decicions, in particular one should try to avoid packaging crap. As for non Unix-y stuff, it should be up to packages who care, IMHO. :-) Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Re: building package with different libs

to build package meep-mpi-hdf5serial, meep-mpi-hdf5mpich and meep-mpi-hdf5openmpi at the same time? If the different implementations conflict among them, I don't think you can build all three SL{1,2,3} binary packages from the same source package. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: building package with different libs

mechanism has to be a bit complicated... Care to ellaborate? I don't think in that case the build-dependencies conflict, OR they are built from the same source package. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: How to correctly handle different lib trunks

in place, after determining that there was no ABI breakage on mipsen. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Russian roulette in bash: ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -rf ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: gift-gnutella (updated package)

Your message is encrypted, please don't send encrypted mail to mailing lists. :-) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

introduced by a version uploaded by a DD. That is, you'll need 0.99+dfsg-1 sponsored, and then you'll be able to upload regularly. Make sure you use XS-DM-Upload-Allowed in debian/control, and not just DM-Upload-Allowed. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

not care less about what the primary UID is.) Have a nice day, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Javier Álvarez - No se asombren

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

* Asheesh Laroia [Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:07:25 -0800]: Where is XS-DM-Upload-Allowed documented? I only see DM-Upload-Allowed documented at http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003 . If you have a look at #453400 and Policy 5.7, and you should get the picture. :) Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: RFS: qterm (updated package)

* LI Daobing [Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:36:15 +0800]: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.4.0-6 of my package qterm. Package looks good, I uploaded it. Sorry for the delay. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

needs fixing. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Hooverphonic - Heartbeat (Remix) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Uploaded (Re: RFS: qterm)

, and debian/*.ex * update debian/compat to 5 * change Home Page in debian/control to Homepage It would've been good to mention in debian/changelog the addition of XS-Vcs-Svn to debian/control. No need to modify the changelog in future uploads, though. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: RFS: harvestman (updated package)

implementation, in this case /usr/lib/python2.4/xml/parsers/expat.py. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore

Re: dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide

---|---| sid | 598 | 1505 I believe it's very appropriate to at least mention quilt in the new maintainer guide. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

get different revisions as to work easily with them, but there are no lost debian revisions, which would seem undesirable for me. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

Re: Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

the tarball, but just rename it: % mv diskdev_cmds-332.tar.gz diskdev-cmds_332.orig.tar.gz (Assuming that the version number is 332). Also, you have to name your source package diskdev-cmds (or some other Policy-compliant name), not diskdev_cmds, that is not possible. HTH, good luck. -- Adeodato

Re: include aoTuV patch

a blank page with just a link to the parent package. It's a Bazaar branch, so you have to retrieve it with: % bzr get http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-xiph/libvorbis Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: include aoTuV patch

were fixed in the Bazaar branch a week ago: http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-xiph/libvorbis +It also makes the package binNMU'able. This is not true, it already was. ) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: [RFC] Kernel module and dpkg-divert

^ ^ ^ You are giving a wrong package name. It should be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@', not fuse-modules. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFS: enblend

. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. -- Dijkstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: pastebinit

the Ubuntu maintainer about maintaining only one package for both distributions still apply. [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/05/msg00281.html Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Re: Rebuilding the whole archive.

, not in the normal Debian repositories because (I assume) they're not regarded as useful for non-debian.org machines. They're publicly available as well, albeit in a sort of hidden repository. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: Installation path changes in -dev package

, what you did is ok. If not, custom practice is to CC them, just in case. Good job! -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org - I'm sorry for laughing. I'd explain if I could. - It's

Re: RFS: lastfm (updated package)

/usr/lib/lastfm i18n/*.qm /usr/lib/lastfm/i18n bin/data/about_generic.png /usr/share/pixmaps/lastfm ... ---8- With that, also the debian/dirs is mostly unnecessary, since needed directories are created by dh_install. HTH, cheers, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: RFS: lastfm (updated package)

/pool/main/l/lastfm/lastfm_1:1.1.3.0-1.dsc ^^ I've seen stanzas like this in most RFS. Are they autogenerated in some way? If so, the code needs to be teached to strip the epoch from the dsc. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

your key has not been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can't get rid of the comment by any other means than making a new key. If it hasn't been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can remove the UID. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

if this means a public server. I don't know what mentors.debian.net does (eg. if they store the key, etc.), but FYI a search for Gudjonsson on a couple of public servers does not yield any results matching your name. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es

Re: RFS: proda

* Charles Plessy [Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:18:30 +0900]: About debian/rules: - The configure rule is mandatory I've never heard such a thing, where does this affirmation come from? Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFS: ed2k-shutdown

add in the future). Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. -- Earl Wilson

Re: RFS: ed2k-shutdown

* David Paleino [Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:22:12 +0200]: Adeodato Simó ha scritto: Hi, Hi, (Please reply to the list.) Please create a single source/binary package ed2k-tools that contains both ed2k-shutdown and ed2k-hash (and any other utilities that the ed2k-tools.sf.net project may add

Re: Executing tests during package building?

))) test else @echo Slow-cpu arch detected, skipping test endif -8-- Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Re: RFS: feedparser -- Universal Feed Parser for Python

* Carlos Galisteo [Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:32:50 +0200]: Jonathan McDowell (previous mantainer) (JFTR, Joe Wreschnig.) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org The reasonable man adapts

Re: Request for Review: libnmap-parser-perl (Already have a sponsor)

* Joshua D. Abraham [Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:53:37 -0400]: he has requested that someone review it first. Out of interest, why? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org One of my most

Re: changelog.Debian.gz as a symbolic link

^ ^ ^ and one depends on the other with (= ${Source-Version}) --| symlink the /usr/share/doc/libpac-dev to the /usr/share/doc/libpac. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Re: changelog.Debian.gz as a symbolic link

also mention that the main benefit I see from linking the doc directories is not space savings, but making it easier for users to access documentation: whichever directory they enter, it's all there. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian

Re: pgplot5 binary package

, or porter uploads (#1), are preferred. I have found the pages on porting and using the -B option in dpkg-buildpackage but then is it OK to just use dput as usual to upload? Yes, taking into account my previous paragraph. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato

Re: s390 build box?

*not* be evil. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Rosa León - ¡Ay, amor! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What to do when a package fails to build on one arch ?

for the bug (eg., build with -O0 instead of -O2), you may consider applying it for m68k only. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org When all is summed up, a man never speaks

Re: RFC: quilt-el

this, because it makes hard to drop specific patch if upstream accepts the patched feature. Uh? In the case above, you have no problems if upstream accepts either change1 or change2. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFC: quilt-el

else... Option (3) is the way to go if you think you're know what are doing and others don't disagree. ;-) It can get messy if further bugs are discovered by users, though, but chances are slimmer if the maintainer is a regulgar user of the package. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

I said, I thought there was a process regarding adoption. Confirmed. And thanks for bringing this to our attention in such a polite manner. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

Re: [RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

installed outside the pbuilder. ;-) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed

Re: executable name collision

, you both rename. This procedure is described in the first paragraph of Policy §10.1. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Amon

Re: Question about linux-wlan-ng-firmware in main

, the attached patch should be enough to fix RC Bug#368857 HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Amon Tobin - Mission diff -u

Re: W: A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from

name (a simple regex, I think). I believe Steve Kowalik plans on removing this check. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Acaba de... Acaba de una vez... Acaba de una vez

Re: Package in new queue needs update

(or is there anything else to do this)? Bump. You can only use the same one if it's been rejected, afaik. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Any life, no matter how long and complex it may

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

; not that any tools would take it into account afaik, but it can act as a bit of documentation. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Capitalism is the extraordinary belief

Re: debian/rules build/build-indep/build-arch

; \ fi Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Alejandro Sanz - Cuando nadie me ve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: More on touch-fu (was Re: Re-libtooling + automake)

* Zak B. Elep [Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:24:14 +0800]: Hi Adeodato! :) Hi! On 1/31/06, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, if you insist on using touch-fu (I myself prefer it), you should investigate what the right order of the arguments to touch is. For this, running `make -d

Re: RFS: treeline and treeline-i18n

they?). This would mean repackaging, though. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Lighthouse Family - Let it all change -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: debug packages?

think what you want is: % echo 5 debian/compat % dh_strip --dbg-package=foo-dbg HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org I try to keep an open mind, but not so open

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

investigate what the right order of the arguments to touch is. For this, running `make -d` and seeing why things are getting regenerated helps. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato

Re: dpatch vs. quilt [was: Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link]

copies of each file to be moved, which breaks if upstream changes any of them!). No, in quilt patches are patches, not scripts. :) Why don't you move files around in debian/rules, anyway? Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

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