Re: Changing of behavior: How to tell the user?

2008-07-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:14:51PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: Andreas Tscharner wrote: Dear Mentors, cvslockd is started every time. So I created a configuration file /etc/defaults/cvsnt where an environment variable defines whether or not the daemon gets started. I figured that

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:26:53AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Additional (might be more to his interest, because he talked about his postinst) it says: postinst configure most-recently-configured-version If a package is upgraded the

this bug/#436681- backuppc: Web interface password publicly visible

2008-04-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:22:01PM +0100, sadia jameel wrote: hello dear My name is sadia and i am student of MS(computer science). i want some information relating to bug #436681 that has been fixed now. i am interesting in it and want to know these following questionsabout it:

Re: Installing PEAR packages in an idempotent fashion

2008-04-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 05:13:29PM +0100, Colin Turner wrote: Hi, My package needs a Pear package, specifically Pear Log, it has php-pear in its dependencies. The big problem is installing the package itself in, I presume, the postinst script. My early tests were simply: pear -q

Re: help needed regarding installation

2008-04-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:35:21PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 17:13 +0500, Zainab Rehman wrote: It should be added that there's no need to apt-get source as a privileged user. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

--warn-missing and dh_install?* (Re: Install files with debhelper or make install?)

2008-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 09:03:21PM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: But I want to use dh_installman, dh_installexamples and the linke. I don't want to do a big dh_install run. The goal is to use the helper scripts to take the advantage of them. Agreed, per the first paragraph of dh_install(1).

list of public usertags?

2008-03-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
Does there exist a list of public usertags in use? I'd like to see a big list of these, probably a good use of the wiki. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maintainer script factorization

2008-02-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:07:54PM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote: Hi all, frequently maintainer scripts modify the same files and to avoid duplication of path names etc in all scripts I was wondering if they could be factorized anywhere. The obvious solution of installing something like

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 11:10:01PM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: Second question is regarding a get-orig-source target I have for the package mediatomb. It goes like: # Haven't found a way to use this without running it twice COMPUTED_CHECKSUM = $(shell md5sum $(MEDIATOMB_TARBALL) | cut -d ' '

Re: RFC: Exclude config.sub and config.guess from

2008-02-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:42:34PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: Il giorno Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:19:08 +0100 Daniel Leidert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Copy the config.* scripts after the clean target has been called (e.g. in the config.status target) then they are simply not part of the

Re: RFS: gnomecatalog

2008-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:14:50PM +0100, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: El mié, 09-01-2008 a las 18:24 +0100, José Sánchez Moreno escribió: On mié, 2008-01-09 at 12:21 +, Neil Williams wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:29 +0100, José Sánchez Moreno wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at

Re: [pkg-ntp] - where does /etc/default/ntpdate come from?

2007-12-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:53:39PM +0100, D. Pathirana wrote: Dear mentors! I am new in Debian Package Maintaining. I try to build some packages for my own to get a feeling how everything works. I have read a few docs[1][2] to find a solution for a specific problem that bugs me since days

Re: changelog-should-mention-nmu

2007-12-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:52:05PM +0100, chaica wrote: Uploading my package on mentors.debian.net, I got this message: W: yougrabber source: changelog-should-mention-nmu My package is the first debian package for this soft. My debian/changelog is the following: yougrabber (0.29.2-1)

Re: Weired problem with apt-get -b source package-name

2007-12-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:10:27PM -0800, iluvlinux wrote: steps i followed 1 apt-get source package-name 2 cd package-version 3 dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot above steps builds deb pkg with shared library while using apt-get -b source pkg don't. How does it fail? Are you using

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:01:50PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper script like the following for services to source? I think the current solution is provide a template with dh_make, which is somewhat more general since the

interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use the POSIX superset allowed by policy.

Re: interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:53:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:51:38PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: C.J. Adams-Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Fully qualified paths to required programs START_STOP_DAEMON=/sbin/start-stop-daemon CAT=/bin/cat ECHO=/bin/echo

dynamic users (Re: dpkg-statoverride (Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface))

2007-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:26:42PM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 5:24 AM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 20:31 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:35:00AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 9:43 AM, Justin

Re: file encoding and eol marker in orig.tar.gz

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 03:59:44PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:22:06PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 03:24:40PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: I wouldn't do that. Repackaging is done to make the tarball complient with our standards, not to

Bug#450608: debhelper: [DH_FIXPERMS] bin/* are updated with v5 too (Re: Executable's execute permission not getting set)

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.42 Severity: minor Tags: patch File: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertag: dh_fixperms X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Arnaud Fontaine wrote: Bernd == Bernd Zeimetz

Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:35:05AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: postinst should use dpkg-statoverride instead of chown Really? I thought this was an administrator's tool, and the postinst should do something like getent $u /dev/null || adduser --system --group --home /var/... --shell

dpkg-statoverride (Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface)

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:35:00AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 9:43 AM, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:35:05AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: postinst should use dpkg-statoverride instead of chown Really? I thought this was an administrator's tool

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:39:01AM -0800, varun_shrivastava wrote: Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:13:22AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: You could have libinput0-debug provides:libinput0. However I still think the best way is to compile with debugging symbols

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:13:22AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: Do you mean it adds stuff within a #ifdef to use SDL? Why is it so huge? yes it adds code not so huge under #ifdef SDL_ENABLE ... #endif Can we provide a virtual package libinput-virtual

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:42:33PM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: hi actually the library uses g_log kind of debugging technique ie some #defines are there, so when log is enabled #defines get replaced by g_log(***), and when its disabled #defines get replaced by (void)0 But i have a

Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:27:14PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 01/11/2007, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:17:26PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: Hello, mentors. I'm currently working on Processing (#433270). Now, Processing

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:57:19AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: hi i have a library and want to package it But it has a configuration option as --enable-debug=yes/no So i need to make 2 packages as 1) libinput0 2) libinput0-debug I think the recommended way to do this [0] is to

Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:17:26PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: Hello, mentors. I'm currently working on Processing (#433270). Now, Processing distributes in its source tarball (well, not really a source tarball at all, since it's necessary to get everything from svn), some

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath error message

2007-10-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:35:30PM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: You shouldn't set rpath to /usr/lib since it's in the default search path. I haven't set the path any where in the rules file. but i am trying to What I meant was one should not set rpath to /usr

Re: Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:51:26PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2007, 10:52 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: about non-existing directories, like usr/share/dialign-t. You only need to create the diretories first, if you e.g. use `install' instead of dh_install or of you

Re: Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:52:03AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear mentors, in a package I prepare, there is the following line in a source/Makefile: CPPFLAGS=-O3 -funroll-loops -march=i686 -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx CPPFLAGS is for the C PreProcessor. So it's supposed to have things

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath error message

2007-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 06:17:06AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: hi i am a newbee in packaging and trying out how to package some already available source packages i am trying to pack jpeg62_6b, the package builds successfully but running Is this the same package that caused dh_strip

Re: Unable to strip using dh_strip

2007-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:30:21PM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: hi i am trying to build a package using debhelper scripts, but it gives an error message dh_installdirs -a dh_install -a dh_link -a dh_compress -a dh_strip -a dh_fixperms -a dh_makeshlibs -plibfreetype6

Re: Unable to strip using dh_strip

2007-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:33:48AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: Can you set DH_DEBUG like at the head of the rulesfile and rerun? i added line export DH_DEBUG=1 on top of rules file but o/p is same (no debug kind of o/p displayed) then i uncommented a line

Re: Reason for Failed build on some arch only

2007-10-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 06:52:43PM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: Hi, My package Xosview is failed to build on (atleast) two arch with same reason. Following are links from buildd. mipsel: http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=xosview;ver=1.8.3%2Bdebian-2;arch=mipsel;stamp=1190303855

Re: Same source package, differents targets

2007-10-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:02:32PM +0200, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if the question is a bit silly, but I have a conceptual doubt. I would like to package a soft that with the _same_ source, provides different packages but, this packages have different build

Re: autoconfigurable package: how to build two configurations?

2007-09-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:50:02PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: Hello, Are there any examples of a package that builds two binary packages, each from a distinct run of configure? My specific case is soqt, which provides a Qt interface to Coin (OpenInventor). There is a sentiment [1]

Re: Removing transition stuff in debhelper scripts after which time?

2007-09-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:46:43AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Hi, Today I stumbled over the question: After which time should transition stuff be removed from the debhelper scripts. In this special case I'm talking about install-sgmlcatalog calls in (e.g.) postinst scripts. Adam Di Carlo

Re: Extraeyes needed - Conflicts, Provides, Replaces don't seem to work

2007-09-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:18:24AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could someone take an ehey on this, I'm not seeing the problem... Laptop2/SARGE# apt-get install libglib-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:19:04AM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: On 09/10/2007 06:40 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote : Then I'll use libxxxy-z (=a.b), which should be inserted by the -V option. -V should be using =. Are you, Justin, willing to sponsor this package then, or should I retry with an updated

Bug#443063: net-tools: configure-stamp does nothing

2007-09-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
--- net-tools-1.60/debian/changelog +++ net-tools-1.60/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +net-tools (1.60-17.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * ./debian/rules: Remove useless configure-stamp target. + + -- Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:22:04 -0400

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:32:13PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: Hi! I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' Neat. You can

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:06:42PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Adeodato Simó schrieb: Your init.d script should *not* exit with status non-zero if the daemon was already stopped. You can do that either by passing --oknodo to start-stop-daemon, or by checking by hand if the return

Re: Are soname bumps required when library upgrades break compatibility?

2007-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:27:11PM -0700, Brandon wrote: Thanks for your explanations guys. I get it now. A crash is serious, whether or not the reason is documented in policy. If the crash is the fault of the library, the library gets the RC bug. The statement was that a crash due to changes

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:24:19PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: Justin Pryzby schrieb am 07.09.2007 17:46 Uhr: On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:20:56PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: On 09/07/2007 01:55 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote : On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: And finally

Re: lintian .packlist warning and debian/rules modification

2007-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:40:28PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: I ran debuilder with lintian and received this output (amongst other messages) E: libhtml-treebuilder-xpath-perl: package-installs-packlist usr/lib/perl5/auto/HTML/TreeBuilder/XPath/.packlist N: N: Packages built using the

Re: RFS: ario

2007-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 10:27:08AM +0900, Michal Čihař wrote: Hi On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 23:35:40 +0200 Marc Pavot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ario. [...] I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Please fix following issues: -

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gwyddion. * Package name: gwyddion Version : 2.8-1 Upstream Author : David Nečas (Yeti) [EMAIL PROTECTED], Petr Klapetek [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:20:56PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: Many thanks for the quick response! On 09/07/2007 01:55 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote : On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: Furthermore there are lintian warnings, which I did not quieten. They are about

Re: Proposed copyright format

2007-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:58:31PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote: Dear mentors, there has been some discussion going some time ago on about making the copyright file machine-interpretable. I really like the idea and read the proposal [1]. The new format looks clearer to me and I wonder whether

Re: Help with -dbg packages for a library

2007-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:57:55AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:29:45AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian Mentors, I have a specific question with regard to -dbg packages for libraries. My understanding of generating -dbg libraries is like this: 1. We

Re: RFC: irrlicht

2007-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:15:28AM -0700, Brandon wrote: I'm not sure how to actually handle replacing the files. Is it ok to put them into the orig.tar.gz? I'm sure the answer is in the policy manual somewhere. The orig.tar.gz can't have any files introduced relative to upstream. * lintian

Re: Problem with --purge and reinstalling

2007-09-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:58:32PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Dear mentors, I'm maintaining the yorick-* packages. The source package is split into yorick, yorick-data and yorick-dev. The conffiles are in the -data package. However, yorick.postrm removes these files upon --purge. I guess

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 10:37:21PM +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Hi there, I'am currently in progress of packaging password-gorilla, which is a tcl/tk application. Well everything is fine so far, except that the application contains menu items LICENSE and HELP which rely on files in the

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:49:33PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi Justin, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after /u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required files there. You could do (2) or (3

Re: Advocate needs

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:15:24PM +0400, Alexander Rodin wrote: Hi all! I have develop program (http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com) and maintain Debian package for them. Now I want to put them to Debian. Can anyone to be my advocate? Hi Alexander, Where are the debian sources? Justin -- To

review: qstardict (Re: Advocate needs)

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:12:18PM +0400, Alexander Rodin wrote: В Пнд, 03/09/2007 в 10:19 -0400, Justin Pryzby пишет: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:15:24PM +0400, Alexander Rodin wrote: Hi all! I have develop program (http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com) and maintain Debian package for them

Re: Help with -dbg packages for a library

2007-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:29:45AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Debian Mentors, I have a specific question with regard to -dbg packages for libraries. My understanding of generating -dbg libraries is like this: 1. We build the package with CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS = -g -O2 (for

Re: custom boot CD

2007-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 01:09:21AM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: Hi, I often have problems installing Debian using the official installer, What remains is my own custom boot CD, with the newest kernel. Since I have already used my code several times by now, I decided to share it with you

Re: Package question, disappearing /etc/xinetd.d config file

2007-08-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:12:58PM -0600, Chris Thompson wrote: Hello. I am trying to create a set of debian packages. Everything is going well except that I am trying to add a file into /etc/xinet.d so that the server is started automatically. When I run dpkg -i packagename.deb, I see

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:11:05AM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Package looks fine. I'm currently updating my local pbuilder base and will upload when that is done. Unfortunately, I just realised that there are a few more

Re: Package requiring a customised version of another package

2007-08-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:56:50PM +0100, David Given wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an application I'd like to package --- plasticfs. Unfortunately, due to glibc weirdnesses, it needs a copy of glibc built using custom (non-standard) options. Is this doable, or

Re: Package requiring a customised version of another package

2007-08-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:26:35PM +0100, David Given wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Pryzby wrote: [...] I have an application I'd like to package --- plasticfs. Unfortunately, due to glibc weirdnesses, it needs a copy of glibc built using custom (non

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:12:46AM +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 17:37 -0500, Michael Levin wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 22:38 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote: * debian/control has a format for homepage URLs, which is *two* spaces then Homepage: http://www.example.com/;

Re: How to deliver an binary file

2007-08-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:26:21PM +0200, Christian Welzel wrote: Am Sonntag, 19. August 2007 12:10 schrieb Vincent Bernat: To be able to include it in diff.gz, you need to encode it. You can use But is it such a good idea to put a 120kb encoded file into the diff? I believe i read

Re: License issues with md5deep

2007-08-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:06:13PM +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: Hi all! These days I am trying to package md5deep for Debian[1]. Although it is my first compiled package (the other was in Python), I'm not having any technical problem. I have just a bunch of question for you about the

Re: RFS: multiget

2007-08-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 06:20:19PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Am Sonntag, den 19.08.2007, 22:55 +0800 schrieb LI Daobing: On 8/16/07, Julian Andres Klode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2007, 23:50 +0800 schrieb LI Daobing: Dear mentors, I am looking for a

Re: unable to build gdb from source

2007-08-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:46:29AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Can some one tell me what I am doing wrong here? I am unable to build gdb from source on a machine running sid. I did $apt-get source gdb $cd gdb-6.6.dfsg/ $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot The build log is

Re: tango package

2007-08-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 03:38:25PM +0200, picca wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:25:13 +0200 PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a feedback on my tango package, it is not yet finished but as it use a mysql database and this is my second

Re: tango package

2007-08-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:54:38PM +0200, picca wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:48:21 -0400 Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: u should support the general case where the SQL server is on a remote host (not local). Yes when writing the post I tell to miself but if I want to use

Re: force-overwrite in pdebuild

2007-08-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 06:48:49PM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi I was trying to rebuild my packages against a new version of library but there is a bug in the libraries that one file is in two packages. Is there any way of letting pdebuild force and overwrite of files? You can

Re: Replacing aclocal.m4

2007-08-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:17:26PM +0100, David Given wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm current packaging ufiformat, a USB floppy disk formatter (#436134). It's nearly at the stage of looking for a sponsor, but before that happens I'd like to sound people out about

Re: RFS: open-invaders

2007-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:33:40PM +0200, Siegfried-Angel wrote: Hi, Thanks for looking at it Alexander, and sorry that I did not answer before but I wasn't subscribed to this list and so did not see your reply before. I fixed everything you said (it's online on mentors.deban.net [1])

Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:53:49PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:40:26 -0500 Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. Since the DD/sponsor is the one who creates the uploaded packages, they do not have to insis; they can just make it so. I hope DD's

Re: RFS: plastex

2007-07-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:36:56PM +0200, François Févotte wrote: Hello, On 7/20/07, Carl Fürstenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lintian spits out warnings about -x flag on the py-files, as they all has a shebang, also the setup.py generates a cgpdfpng that only will work under OSX, but I

Re: RFS: plastex

2007-07-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:01:06PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: On 7/24/07, Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or sed -i -re '1{/^#!/d}' I note that sed -n -i is a dangerous combination.. How do you handle clean target then? Do you mean how can you reverse the change to satisfy

Re: RFS: command-not-found

2007-07-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package command-not-found. * Package name: command-not-found Version : 0.2.4+debian-1 Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shared libraries and _REENTRANT

2007-06-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 02:11:25PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: Policy 10.2 says we must compile shared libraries with -D_REENTRANT: You must specify the gcc option -D_REENTRANT when building a library (either static or shared) to make the library compatible with LinuxThreads.

Re: Converting a config file into a conffile

2007-06-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:37:14PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote: Hi, I have a package with a config file that is created by postinst, and I would like to convert this file into a conffile that is handled by dpkg. Is there a way to achieve this in a way so that dpkg will silently replace

Re: RFS: mantis (updated package w/ security fix)

2007-06-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:12:47PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.73-4 of my package libphp-phpmailer. My normal sponsor for this package seems unavailable presently and this upload is rather important in that it fixes a security hole. See

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:31:01AM +0100, Richard A Burton wrote: On 15/06/07, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A drive-by diff review: Do I need to increment the Debian part of the version number to upload to the mentors site? I'd assume it'd be happy with another upload of -1 since it's

Re: Where does /usr/bin/rename come from ?

2007-06-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:35:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear mentors, I wanted to use /usr/bin/rename in a rules files, and wondered if it would be present in minimal installs and chroots. To my surprise, although this program is available on my computer running Etch from a fresh

Re: Need some help with watch files again

2007-06-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:24:11AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Hi, I'm again stuck with a debian/watch file. In this special case I try to write watch files for garlic and garlic-doc. The sources can be found at: http://garlic.mefos.hr/sources/ So I tried the following: version=3

Re: Need some help with watch files again

2007-06-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:25:25PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:24:11AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Hi, I'm again stuck with a debian/watch file. In this special case I try to write watch files for garlic and garlic-doc. The sources can be found at: http

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:17:15PM +1000, John Pye wrote: Hi all, I have a PyGTK-based program that has an optional dependency on the package python-matplotlib. Is there any way under Debian (and hopefully also Ubuntu) that I can trigger gtk-debi or something like that when the user

Re: Handling of configuration files not shipped with a newer package version

2007-05-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:00:31PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Samstag, den 26.05.2007, 00:36 -0400 schrieb Justin Pryzby: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:08:32AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: , purging docbook-xml will not purge all configuration directories anymore: dpkg - warning

Re: Handling of configuration files not shipped with a newer package version

2007-05-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:08:32AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: Hi, The docbook-xml package 4.4 shipped a really old version 3.1.7, that was dropped with package version 4.5. The package itself ships a configuration file for every released version: [ Note: Is it a conffile. ] [..] /etc

Re: build two binary packages with different configure parameters

2007-05-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:07:53PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, I have a package which uses debhelper at build time, and is built by a rather simple configure - make - make install triathlon. As it fails badly on xen, the xen people ask to provide a xen-enabled binary package. Thus, I

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 10:10:29AM +, Sam Morris wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:38:04 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: My question is how to deal with this legacy symlink. I can just rm it on upgrade, but the admin might have put a different symlink there, or depends on the symlink to keep

Re: Wrapper script

2007-04-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:33:15AM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote: Hi everyone, I ITP a package that provides a single binary that expects its input file named in a special way, and writes two files with fixed names. One of those is only temporary and not really usefull, so one usually deletes

Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:22:12PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 23:50 +, James Westby wrote: snip 4. Run tar czf package_upstream-version.dfsg.orig.tar.gz \ package-upstream-version.orig/ (adjusting paths appropriately) I have never

Re: Claiming a binary name used in Sarge but not in Etch.

2007-03-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:50:16AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:02:46PM -0400, Justin Pryzby a écrit : On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:12:47PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:00:20PM +0100, Florent Rougon a écrit : Charles Plessy [EMAIL

Re: debian/prerm is executed on *reconfigure*?

2007-03-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:52:18PM +0100, schönfeld / in-medias-res.com wrote: Hi mentors, hi Dpkg developers, i could need some help with a bug that has been reported to be in one of my packages. According to #408823 my package removes a configuration file when dpkg-reconfigure is invoked.

Re: Need help packaging

2007-03-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:38:41PM -0400, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: Hello, Can someone spend a few minutes explain how to create a debian package from binary files ? I have read the documentation on debian.org and many howto on the web, it is too advanced for what I am trying to

Re: Claiming a binary name used in Sarge but not in Etch.

2007-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 12:32:29PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Dear mentors, When I created the package amap-align (bioinformatics), there was a already a program called amap in Debian. Therefore, I renamed the binary program of my package. However, the old amap package has been removed

Re: Repost: RFC and preliminary RFS: prayer webmail

2007-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:05:55PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Something I've been thinking about: If two packages share a /var/(lib|run|log) subdirectory, how do you know when to remove it? I reckon that it should be removed when the last of the packages has been purged. Both packages

Re: Repost: RFC and preliminary RFS: prayer webmail

2007-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 10:19:57PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Saturday 10 March 2007 21:37, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:05:55PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Something I've been thinking about: If two packages share a /var/(lib|run|log) subdirectory, how do

Re: Where to mention, when several tarballs are merged into one .orig.tar.gz

2007-03-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:22:02AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: Hello, For docbook-xsl I merge two tarballs together docbook-xsl-x.y.z.tar.gz and docbook-xsl-doc-x.y.z.tar.gz. Where should I mention this? debian/README.Debian or better debian/copyright? copyright for sure, perhaps also

Re: Versionned dependancies on build-essential packages. (was: Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?)

2007-02-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:35:44PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:30:38PM +0100, Andreas Metzler a ?crit : Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (=1.13.19) Package: foo Architecture: all Depends: foo-binary (= ${source:Version}), foo-binary ( ${source:Version}.1~),

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