Re: dh_missing and arch/indep

2023-12-14 Thread Santiago Vila
Hmm, wait a moment. I see you are currently using a bunch of "dh_install -p" calls in your execute_before_dh_install target. Maybe the next logical step would be to use debian/*.install files. Thanks.

Re: dh_missing and arch/indep

2023-12-14 Thread Santiago Vila
El 14/12/23 a las 14:31, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel escribió: Hi. Have you tried splitting override_dh_auto_install into override_dh_auto_install-arch and override_dh_auto_install-indep? no effect at all..., it is especially difficult to deal with the nopython, nodoc, nocheck profiles if

Re: dh_missing and arch/indep

2023-12-14 Thread Santiago Vila
El 14/12/23 a las 11:07, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel escribió: So my question is why dh_missing does not understand that the remaining are not installed because they are part of arch packages (bornagain and python3-bornagain) ? Hi. Have you tried splitting override_dh_auto_install into

Re: Help fixing a gettext translation test

2023-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. A similar bug which was fixed in a similar way: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1052859#40 See what Aurelien Jarno (glibc maintainer) said: I have seen that in the meantime you have done a new upload with the en_US.UTF-8 locale, that's a perfectly valid workaround.

Re: Upload for Debian QA

2023-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila
Hi. I see that the previous change was also requested by you (and uploaded by someone else) due to its interaction with Texinfo. If you feel attachment to an orphaned package, you can also adopt it. Thanks.

Re: Upload for Debian QA

2023-11-06 Thread Santiago Vila
El 6/11/23 a las 23:42, Hilmar Preuße escribió: TeXinfo 7.1 does not migrate to testing b/c the test suite of autoproject returns with exit code > 0. I've filed a bug report and created a patch for the issue. The package is maintained by the Debian QA group. What else can be done from my

Re: Cannot create chroots with cowbuilder because of usr-is-merged

2023-10-30 Thread Santiago Vila
El 30/10/23 a las 18:42, Andrey Rakhmatullin escribió: What's the recommended way to convert ones created earlier? Recreate? Install usrmerge? In this case I'd recommend recreating the chroots, if only because after this change in debootstrap the chroot will be cleaner:

Re: Cannot create chroots with cowbuilder because of usr-is-merged

2023-10-30 Thread Santiago Vila
El 30/10/23 a las 17:21, Markus Blatt escribió: W: See /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow/debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details (possibly the package /var/cache/apt/archives/usr-is-merged_38_all.deb is at fault) Try DEBOOTSTRAPOPTS="--merged-usr" in your ~/.pbuilderrc In trixie and sid, all

Re: lintian errors packaging Barry's Emacs

2022-12-27 Thread Santiago Vila
El 27/12/22 a las 13:12, Ole Streicher escribió: Santiago Vila writes: If you don't have deb-src lines, they are the same as the usual deb lines except that they begin with deb-src. Just curious: why are the deb line not used by default here? There is a question during install about deb

Re: lintian errors packaging Barry's Emacs

2022-12-27 Thread Santiago Vila
El 27/12/22 a las 12:28, Barry Scott escribió: How do I go from a installed package and find its debian source? On a Debian/Ubuntu system, if you have deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get source source-package-name will retrieve the source and unpack it automatically.

Re: lintian errors packaging Barry's Emacs

2022-12-26 Thread Santiago Vila
El 26/12/22 a las 16:28, Barry Scott escribió: E: bemacs source: malformed-debian-changelog-version 8.9.3 (for non-native) [debian/changelog:1] It seems that the changelog issue is around lintian mandating a issue to close? I have no issue what do I put in the changelog? Or do I have to

Re: sbuild foo_2.0-2 and upload to NEW

2022-12-18 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello Geert. El 15/12/22 a las 23:12, Geert Stappers escribió: Which paramaters to provide to sbuild to get the .orig.tar.xz included? I think you need both --source and --force-orig-source. (Maybe you were trying only one at a time?) btw: There is a bug about this problem (need to

Re: Doubt: update-alternative during debian/rules? (GTK2 vs GTK3)

2018-11-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 01:26:11PM +0100, JOSE LUIS BLANCO CLARACO wrote: > And my question is: is it "acceptable" to run `update-alternatives` > during debian/rules? [...] I don't think so. Would that work at all if you are using fakeroot?

Re: Version comparison with "+repack"

2016-10-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 11:00:17AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > my package "saods9" has currently a RC release in experimental that is > named > > 7.5~rc+repack-1 > > Now, upstream released a second RC which I want to upload as well: > > 7.5~rc2+repack-1 > > However, it turns out that this

Re: AUTORM: bug closed but still marked for autoremoval

2016-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:31:46AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > You need to make the package migrate into stretch if you want the autoremoval > to stop > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=singular=unstable > armhf is not build anymore, so you can choose from: > 1) fixing

Re: general question about quilt patch handling

2015-11-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 03:00:47PM +0100, Werner Detter wrote: > short question by example: quilt series contains several patches, e.g. > > 1.patch > 2.patch > 3.patch > 4.patch > > let's assume 3.patch which worked for some time but will be no longer > functional > because the 3.patch uses a

Re: Built-Using field

2015-10-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:05:11PM -0200, Giovani Ferreira wrote: > I'll update the unhide package and I need help. > The package has a serious bug #769345, which is about statically-linked > glibc. According to the bug and Debian policy 7.8 is required the > Built-Using field in d/control. > How

Available locales in a buildd

2015-10-04 Thread Santiago Vila
Hello. I'm looking at some of the reasons packages do not build reproducibly, and one of them is different locale settings. Let's say that I want to ensure that some UTF-8 locale is available during the build. It seems my options are the following: * Add a "Build-Depends: locales-all" The

Re: Available locales in a buildd

2015-10-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 06:24:36PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > just use C.UTF-8. [...] Great! This is the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks a lot!

Re: Multi-Arch and debian/control

2015-09-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 02:06:36PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > "multiarch-support is inserted into Pre-Depends via ${misc:Pre-Depends} >by dh_makeshlibs. In order to be able to remove the multiarch-supporti >package from glibc without updating every package, >Pre-Depends:

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 01:25:39PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Santiago Vila wrote: i.e. tell apt-get to ignore recommends. In this case a metapackage using recommends does not seem very useful, I guess. apt-get --install-recommends --install-suggests

Re: why dpkg-buildpackage doesn't care my build targets in debian/rule

2015-05-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:30:58PM +, lumin wrote: I'm trying to package caffe as said [1] at debian-science@ . However I encountered a problem when writing debian/rules. I'd like to take over the whole build process, so I wrote: 32 override_dh_auto_build: build_cpuonly

Re: How to create a metapackage

2015-05-21 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 10:34:05PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 03:29:47PM +0200, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: I guess that they should be either Recommends, or Suggests, but not Depends, right? (So that one can deinstall a single package without deleting

Re: Self-maintained Debian packages best practice

2014-11-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:31:00PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 30/11/14 16:30, Vincent Bernat wrote: In the past, having a `debian/` directory upstream was a pain because we didn't have a proper way to remove a file if needed. Nowadays, it is perfectly fine if you use a 3.0 format.

Re: upstream changes release zip

2014-10-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:08:06PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: hi, upstream Freeplane wants to replace the release zips/.tar.gzs because they contain a freeplane-1.3.12_pre06/ instead of a freeplane-1.3.12/ directory. The software will be re-compiled (md5 changes), but There will be

Re: Required package in build-deps?

2007-01-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Hi, My package (pam-keyring) FTBFS on some buildd[1] because 'kill' is missing. /bin/kill is part of the procps package which has a required priority. I thought that packages with such priority should not be added to build-deps... It's not

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Justin Pryzby wrote: You will have to test with both sarge and etch dpkg (until after etch releases). Colin Watson recently wrote [0] about one of the ssh bugs and how this was complicated for him. You have to include the logic in the preinst, since the prerm is for

Re: Removing self-managed conffiles?

2007-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, I have a package with a bunch of configuration files that are managed by my maintainer scripts and not by dpkg. I now need one of them (a.conf) to vanish. How do I do this in a clean way? I am thinking about the following: (1) Let the new

Re: gettext, autopoint and cvs depends (Build-Depends)

2005-05-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Daniel Leidert wrote: A short question: I have a package, where I run autopoint during build process. Now the situation is, that gettext only suggests, but not depends on cvs. So without adding cvs to 'Build-Depends:', the build fails in a chrooted environment (pbuilder).

Re: debian/rules: Moving to debhelper or cdbs

2005-05-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ben Finney wrote: I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages that currently use hand-rolled debian/rules files. Is the current best practise to use debhelper, or cdbs, or something else? The current best practise is to not assume that everybody wants to use

Re: debian/rules: Moving to debhelper or cdbs

2005-05-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ben Finney wrote: I'm surprised that people have consistently read submit patches as somehow bypassing the maintainer, or telling him what to do. To whom would I be submitting the patches, if not the maintainer? To the maintainer, via the BTS as a wishlist bug. That's

Re: splay upload anyone?

2005-05-01 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 1 May 2005, John Hedges wrote: I've incorporated a patch[1] into splay and would be very grateful if someone would check over the new package[2] and, if all is well, do the upload thing for me. John [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306983 Hmm, I would not use

Re: Package upgrade question

2005-04-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, H. S. Teoh wrote: Hi, I have a question about how to handle the upgrade of one of my packages to a new upstream package. I am currently the maintainer of the package 'smurf', which is now no longer maintained upstream. For various reasons, upstream has moved to a new

Re: Regarding /usr/local with private packages

2005-03-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Christian Hammers wrote: I'm building a private(!) package with files in /usr/local/bin for a host where /usr/local/ is a symlink. Whenever I remove the package the symlink gets removed by dpkg although there are plenty of (non-Debian maintained) files in /usr/local.

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Santiago Vila wrote: This way, apt-get upgrade will install libvips-doc without requiring apt-get dist-upgrade, and this will be done automatically and without user intervention, Are you certain of that? My understanding is that apt-get

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: The recent thread on names of library packages on debian-devel made me decide that I made a mistake in naming one of my packages. Specifically, the vips7.10 source package creates four binary packages: libvips7.10, libvips7.10-dev, libvips7.10-tools,

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Zach Garner wrote: 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Try apt-get source hello for an example package with less layers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

2004-11-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Zach Garner wrote: 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of scripts built on top of each other is really confusing. Try apt-get source hello for an example package with less layers.

Re: variables in postinst?

2004-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to use variables in postinst scripts? Currently, I use a variable for the upstream version with these lines in debian/rules: [...] # Get the upstream version from the changelog. upstream := $(shell head -1

Re: variables in postinst?

2004-10-29 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to use variables in postinst scripts? Currently, I use a variable for the upstream version with these lines in debian/rules: [...] # Get the upstream version from the changelog. upstream := $(shell head -1

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the .orig.tar.gz to exclude the upstream debian directory if it

Re: ignoring upstream debian directory

2004-10-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, David Everly wrote: Is there some mechanism or alternative for using uupdate so that any upstream debian directory can be removed before patching? Don't know about uupdate, but you are allowed to repackage the .orig.tar.gz to exclude the upstream debian directory if it

Re: debmake or dh-make, what should I use?

2004-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Magnus Therning wrote: Is one deprecated in favour of the other, or is it simply another place where Debian offers more options than any other distribution? Yes, you can consider debmake deprecated. I have the intention to kill debmake some day. Until then, I'll

Re: debmake or dh-make, what should I use?

2004-10-16 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Magnus Therning wrote: Is one deprecated in favour of the other, or is it simply another place where Debian offers more options than any other distribution? Yes, you can consider debmake deprecated. I have the intention to kill debmake some day. Until then, I'll

Re: RFS: fpdf-1.52

2004-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, MiguelGea wrote: Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor form the package fpdf-1.52 * Package name : fpdf-1.52 * Version : 1.52 * License : Freeware, It allows modify it and use without restriction and without cost. Freeware is not a license. I doubt such

Re: RFS: fpdf-1.52

2004-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, MiguelGea wrote: Before packaging fpdf I talked with the author about this, and he told me to read FAQ#1: 1. What's exactly the license of FPDF? Are there any usage restrictions? FPDF is Freeware (it is stated at the beginning of the source file). Freeware is not a free

Re: Python package status

2004-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: * Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-21 01:45:58 +0200]: There is a python policy that you should probably read. Thanks. I have checked at http://www.debian.org/devel/ , but I could not find that there. But after searching around

Re: RFS: fpdf-1.52

2004-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, MiguelGea wrote: Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor form the package fpdf-1.52 * Package name : fpdf-1.52 * Version : 1.52 * License : Freeware, It allows modify it and use without restriction and without cost. Freeware is not a license. I doubt such

Re: RFS: fpdf-1.52

2004-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, MiguelGea wrote: Before packaging fpdf I talked with the author about this, and he told me to read FAQ#1: 1. What's exactly the license of FPDF? Are there any usage restrictions? FPDF is Freeware (it is stated at the beginning of the source file). Freeware is not a free

Re: Python package status

2004-07-23 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: * Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-21 01:45:58 +0200]: There is a python policy that you should probably read. Thanks. I have checked at http://www.debian.org/devel/ , but I could not find that there. But after searching around

Re: Python package status

2004-07-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: I would like to ask advice with Python. I have a package, which depends on it, and previously I depended on an exact version (2.3) thus altered the interpreter in each file to be python2.3 instead of generic python. It worked, but upstream

Re: Python package status

2004-07-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: I would like to ask advice with Python. I have a package, which depends on it, and previously I depended on an exact version (2.3) thus altered the interpreter in each file to be python2.3 instead of generic python. It worked, but upstream

Re: How to link against non-public shared libraries?

2004-07-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Milan Zamazal wrote: My package contains binaries using a common shared library, which is not intended to be used by other programs. This is a regular shared library, not a plugin or other object to be explicitly loaded by the binaries, the binaries just normally link to

Re: How to link against non-public shared libraries?

2004-07-13 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Milan Zamazal wrote: My package contains binaries using a common shared library, which is not intended to be used by other programs. This is a regular shared library, not a plugin or other object to be explicitly loaded by the binaries, the binaries just normally link to

Re: One Source with Different Build Dependancies?

2004-06-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am packaging source which builds two binary packages; however, each package has different build dependancies. In fact, the packages' build dependancies conflict. I don't think the dpkg tools have the facility to build one binary but not the

Re: One Source with Different Build Dependancies?

2004-06-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am packaging source which builds two binary packages; however, each package has different build dependancies. In fact, the packages' build dependancies conflict. I don't think the dpkg tools have the facility to build one binary but not the

Re: RFS: secure-delete

2004-01-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:15:18PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: i am looking for a sponsor for secure-delete, it's a small package that quite some people might find usefull. from the control file: Description: tools to wipe files, free disk

Re: debian packages: single diff vs multiple patches (as in rpm)

2003-12-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: As far as I can tell, a Debian package consists of a single source tarball and a single diff. Is this right, or have I missed something? It's right, a Debian source package is usually distributed as a single source and a single diff (sometimes there

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is not a standard to make a package to disappear, but there is something you can do to ensure that apt-get upgrade works: Just make emacs-goodies

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-04 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is not a standard to make a package to disappear, but there is something you can do to ensure that apt-get upgrade works: Just make emacs-goodies

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Peter S Galbraith wrote: In the upcoming version of the `emacs-goodies-el' source package, I want the following to happen to these bianry packages: `emacs-goodies-extra-el' - removed and contents merged into `emacs-goodies-el' `debbugs-el' - replaced by

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-03 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Peter S Galbraith wrote: In the upcoming version of the `emacs-goodies-el' source package, I want the following to happen to these bianry packages: `emacs-goodies-extra-el' - removed and contents merged into `emacs-goodies-el' `debbugs-el' - replaced by

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Andreas Barth wrote: * Ismael Valladolid Torres ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030909 12:58]: Is it in some way mandatory using sid as the developing and packaging environment? I usually have stable installed, and even have built some simple packages against stable

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: El martes, 9 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:27, Andreas Barth escribe: With a sid build environment you're always on the safe side. What about, having the choice of building against both the stable and the unstable version of a library,

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: El martes, 9 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:27, Andreas Barth escribe: With a sid build environment you're always on the safe side. What about, having the choice of building against both the stable and the unstable version of a library,

Re: Do Debian packages need to build properly with umask 0007? (was: Bug#208802: Wrong permissions on exim manpages)

2003-09-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote: This leads to the question stated in the subject: Is it an error in the package if it does not build correctly with umask 0007? If it is an error, is there a straightforward way to fix it, i.e. some magic setting in debian/rules? (/I/ did not find

Re: Do Debian packages need to build properly with umask 0007? (was: Bug#208802: Wrong permissions on exim manpages)

2003-09-07 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote: This leads to the question stated in the subject: Is it an error in the package if it does not build correctly with umask 0007? If it is an error, is there a straightforward way to fix it, i.e. some magic setting in debian/rules? (/I/ did not find

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to handle the existing

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Robert Lemmen wrote: one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo in debian/rules (shame on me) i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to handle the existing

Re: spam in the BTS

2003-03-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Joe Nahmias wrote: quick question: Where is the proper place to report spam in the BTS (bug #137152, to be specific)? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? file a bug? [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are usually very quick at removing the junk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: spam in the BTS

2003-03-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Joe Nahmias wrote: quick question: Where is the proper place to report spam in the BTS (bug #137152, to be specific)? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? file a bug? [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are usually very quick at removing the junk.

Re: Priorities

2003-01-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, martin f krafft wrote: Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go and fix

Re: Priorities

2003-01-18 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, martin f krafft wrote: Can you please shine some light on section 2.2 of the Policy? I understand required and important, but the phrasing of optional and extra are a little cumbersome. I think my packages may not all have the right priorities and before I go and fix

Re: Build-failures

2002-10-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Santiago Vila wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: These are both dependency lines, not build-depends. You should *never* build-depend on libc6, as it is an essential package; [...] Minor nitpick: libc6 is not essential, only essential-de-facto, since most essential packages

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Holger Kubiak wrote: I want to build a package on my computer for several other hosts at work. I use unstable but on some other hosts there is stable. My problem is: Building packages with debhelper causes a dependency (expanded from shlibs:Depends) of the package libc6

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-20 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Holger Kubiak wrote: I want to build a package on my computer for several other hosts at work. I use unstable but on some other hosts there is stable. My problem is: Building packages with debhelper causes a dependency (expanded from shlibs:Depends) of the package libc6

Re: renaming a package

2002-07-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I intend to rename the glut packages from glutg3 glutg3-dev to libglut3 libglut-dev to follow the convention for library package naming. So in the control file, I've specified that libglut3 Conflicts and Replaces glutg3 for versions =

Re: renaming a package

2002-07-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote: On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:04:07 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to rename the glut packages from glutg3 glutg3-dev to libglut3 libglut-dev to follow the convention for library package naming. I prefer libglut3-dev

Re: renaming a package

2002-07-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 04:34:54PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: We should make versioned -dev (binary) packages the exception, not the norm. libglut-dev is better. Think about libglut3-dev, libglut4-dev, libglut5-dev etc. and how libglut-dev makes upgrades much easier

Re: renaming a package

2002-07-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I intend to rename the glut packages from glutg3 glutg3-dev to libglut3 libglut-dev to follow the convention for library package naming. So in the control file, I've specified that libglut3 Conflicts and Replaces glutg3 for versions =

Re: renaming a package

2002-07-28 Thread Santiago Vila
Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 04:34:54PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: We should make versioned -dev (binary) packages the exception, not the norm. libglut-dev is better. Think about libglut3-dev, libglut4-dev, libglut5-dev etc. and how libglut-dev makes upgrades much easier

Re: dpkg compresses diff file differently

2002-06-07 Thread Santiago Vila
Oohara Yuuma wrote: dpkg compresses the diff file differently every time I build .deb . The uncompressed .diff is same. Is this an expected behavior? Yes. This is because gzip stores the time stamp (as well as the name) of the original file inside the compressed one. [ Normally, you don't

Re: dpkg compresses diff file differently

2002-06-07 Thread Santiago Vila
Oohara Yuuma wrote: dpkg compresses the diff file differently every time I build .deb . The uncompressed .diff is same. Is this an expected behavior? Yes. This is because gzip stores the time stamp (as well as the name) of the original file inside the compressed one. [ Normally, you don't

Re: i18n, .po, .gmo, .mo puzzle

2001-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Amaya wrote: I just translated the .po files for one of my packages (gnomekiss) and I am having trouble getting the i18n stuff installed. Please, bear with me, as this is my first attepmt to get in terms with gettext, .po, gtranslator and the rest of the crew :-) First I have seen that

Re: i18n, .po, .gmo, .mo puzzle

2001-12-16 Thread Santiago Vila
Amaya wrote: I just translated the .po files for one of my packages (gnomekiss) and I am having trouble getting the i18n stuff installed. Please, bear with me, as this is my first attepmt to get in terms with gettext, .po, gtranslator and the rest of the crew :-) First I have seen that alll

Re: no shlibdeps in DEBIAN/control

2001-12-11 Thread Santiago Vila
Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: This is what my debian/rules looks like: binary-arch: install-stamp dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_installdirs dh_movefiles dh_installdocs dh_installinfo dh_installmenu dh_installpam

Re: no shlibdeps in DEBIAN/control

2001-12-10 Thread Santiago Vila
Eric Van Buggenhaut: Depends: , libpam-modules (= 0.72-1), adduser, xutils | xbase-clients, gdm-cleaner Are you sure you run dpkg-shlibdeps (or debhelper equivalent) on the ELF binaries in debian/rules? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: no shlibdeps in DEBIAN/control

2001-12-10 Thread Santiago Vila
Eric Van Buggenhaut: Depends: , libpam-modules (= 0.72-1), adduser, xutils | xbase-clients, gdm-cleaner Are you sure you run dpkg-shlibdeps (or debhelper equivalent) on the ELF binaries in debian/rules?

Re: changing a package Architecture:

2001-11-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I just adopted a package which is nothing but a Perl script. Previous maitainer built it using Architecture: any when it had to be Architecture: all (correct me if I'm wrong) Now that I'm uploading a new version of package

Re: changing a package Architecture:

2001-11-28 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: I just adopted a package which is nothing but a Perl script. Previous maitainer built it using Architecture: any when it had to be Architecture: all (correct me if I'm wrong) Now that I'm uploading a new version of package

Re: [BTS] Bug number $bug not found.

2001-10-27 Thread Santiago Vila
Amaya wrote: I am trying to reopen a bug, tag it and merge it with a more recent one. This is the answer I get from the BTS: Debian Bug Tracking System said: Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: reopen 109629 Bug number 109629 not found. tags 109629 upstream Bug number 109629

Re: Mail access

2001-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, peter karlsson wrote: While sifting through the policy upgrade checklist for one of my packages, I came to the information about changing mail access from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail. That's not hard. Also, the upgrade-checklist states that I should [...] include a

Re: Mail access

2001-10-08 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, peter karlsson wrote: While sifting through the policy upgrade checklist for one of my packages, I came to the information about changing mail access from /var/spool/mail to /var/mail. That's not hard. Also, the upgrade-checklist states that I should [...] include a

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
peter karlsson wrote: Santiago Vila: I would first create the Debian source and binary packages for upload, and then distribute the resulting tar.gz elsewhere, in that order. The problem is that I am generating the tar from my CVS (not all of the CVS is exported, there are some MSWIN

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
I said: peter karlsson wrote: so I don't want dpkg-buildpackage to overwrite it. Why does dpkg-buildpackage overwrite it? [...] Oops! I understand. My suggestion is that you arrange things so that dpkg-buildpackage creates the one and only source tarball, instead of creating it in advance by

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
peter karlsson: Santiago Vila: Oops! I understand. My suggestion is that you arrange things so that dpkg-buildpackage creates the one and only source tarball, instead of creating it in advance by hand. I *could* do that, but that would still not solve the problem of the files

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
peter karlsson wrote: Santiago Vila: I would first create the Debian source and binary packages for upload, and then distribute the resulting tar.gz elsewhere, in that order. The problem is that I am generating the tar from my CVS (not all of the CVS is exported, there are some MSWIN

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
I said: peter karlsson wrote: so I don't want dpkg-buildpackage to overwrite it. Why does dpkg-buildpackage overwrite it? [...] Oops! I understand. My suggestion is that you arrange things so that dpkg-buildpackage creates the one and only source tarball, instead of creating it in advance by

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread Santiago Vila
peter karlsson: Santiago Vila: Oops! I understand. My suggestion is that you arrange things so that dpkg-buildpackage creates the one and only source tarball, instead of creating it in advance by hand. I *could* do that, but that would still not solve the problem of the files

Re: Native packages

2001-09-05 Thread Santiago Vila
peter karlsson wrote: How do I get dpkg-buildpackage not to re-build the source tarball when building a native package? No matter what I do, it rebuilds it, which prevents me from keeping the tarball I created from my CVS tree, which also is what I distribute elsewhere. I would first create

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