Re: Moving a package from contrib to main

2000-07-11 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
in dinstall's daily report (which we use to determine which packages need manual processing), once the upload is made. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Find the display

2000-08-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2813T174240+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installation MUST be non-interactive. Says who? (Yes, non-interactive installs are a good thing, but a "must"...) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: need help with library package

2000-08-31 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 2831T162438+0200, peter karlsson wrote: H. S. Teoh: [NON-Text Body part not included] What non-text body? It was perfectly readable text enclosed in the PGP block. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: need help with library package

2000-09-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. ii mutt 1.2.5-1Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
will produce a package with documentation in /usr/doc, whereas building a package with the potato version of debhelper will produce a package with documentation in /usr/share/doc and the /usr/doc symlink. In that case a versioned build-dependency to debhelper is appropriate. -- %%% Antti-Juhani

Re: NMU and ./configure

2000-09-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
cies. Otherwise, bugs should be filed against basically everyone using unversioned debhelper build-dependencies ... Yes. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libraries

2000-10-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001009T214211+0200, Simon Richter wrote: .static.o is bad because it is not portable to other compilers. Um, what compilers do not allow the user to specify the input/output file name? -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
was small in any case. As for the building of separate packages without resorting to cutpaste coding, you can take advantage of GNU Make's target-local variables (see many of my packages for almost-relevant examples). -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: Arch-dependent Depends:

2000-11-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001115T123053-0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: Is there any way I can do this? Use substvars (see dpkg-genchanges(1)). My package "build-essential" does this. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
, it makes no judgement calls). I usually run lintian by hand when checking packages. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-03 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010103T112440-0800, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry proclaimed: dpkg-genchanges is to be called with the -isp arguments if i recall. dpkg-genchanges does not seem to recogonize the -p option. It's -isp, not -i -s -p. It's a contraction from -is -ip -- %%% Antti-Juhani

Re: [Q] dpkg-buildpackage not generating .changes file...

2001-01-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20010103T174923-0800, Sudhakar Chandra wrote: As you can see, dpkg-genchanges does not understand the options. Ah, of course! (Stupid me for not noticing earlier.) The relevant command is dpkg-gencontrol, not dpkg-genchanges. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http

Re: INSTALL.gz with generic installation instructions

2001-01-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
the install in a completely different way, ie. using dpkg or apt). See Policy manual section 6.3, last sentence. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
to Debian systems. This Mail does not require any replies, so don't send me some. Yes it does. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Keep the Deja Archive Alive! http://www2.PetitionOnline.com/dejanews/petition.html

Re: Build-Depends-Indep

2001-01-14 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
be reasonable to have it in many cases (except for the problem outlined in #72335). -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Keep the Deja Archive Alive! http://www2.PetitionOnline.com/dejanews/petition.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Virtual Packages

2001-01-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
ction 12.6. Although it does not seem to define the set of options /usr/sbin/sendmail should support (I'd assume that sendmail is the reference implementation, so go from there). -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Keep the Deja Arc

Re: Priorities

2002-04-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
in my control files, so I can't really understand how this could be happening? (bug#145199) Either the bug is a mistake or the ftpmasters have overridden your package's priority. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, LuK (BSc)* http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#662736: ITP: maxwell -- entropy-gathering daemon

2012-07-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
ones) and should not be sent to control@bugs. By the way, my custom is to never CC control@bugs, instead I tend to BCC it. That way, any reply-to-all to such a message will not get accidentally copied to control@. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi

Bug#666243: RFS: peg/0.1.9-1 [ITP] -- recursive-descent parser generators for C

2012-07-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
of =. Is there any other solution? You can override Makefile variables on the make command line. Thus, $(MAKE) PREFIX=/usr overrides PREFIX for the duration of that call to make. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com

Re: RFS: libnet 1.1.6 (try #2)

2012-07-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. * Compile with -Werror While -Werror is useful during development, it's a bad idea in Debian builds as new compiler versions can suddenly make the package FTBFS (due to newly added warnings). -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com

Bug#680625: RFS: exactimage/0.8.5-5 [ITA]

2012-07-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 02:58:48PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote: * Package name: exactimage Version : 0.8.5-5 Uploaded. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#661853: RFS: kpdftool/0.23.1-1 [ITP] -- GUI to manipulate PDF and PS files using GhostScript and ImageMagick

2012-07-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#661831: RFS: texi2html/5.0-1 -- Convert Texinfo files to HTML

2012-07-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
copyright file. I'm inclined to say that this applies even in your case even though there's a later version you can refer to. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/ signature.asc Description: Digital

Bug#682680: RFS: clean-compiler/2.4-1 [ITP] -- The Clean language compiler

2012-07-24 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
plan to handle compiler bootstrapping? (That's it for now. I'll do a more thorough review once these questions have been addressed.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: libnet 1.1.6 (try #2)

2012-07-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
-support pre-dependency - but you've missed another that needed it). Have you tried building the packages that build-depend on libnet using your updated package? -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani

Re: RFS: libnet 1.1.6 (try #2)

2012-07-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
-dependencies whenever a library package changes in any significant way. I suppose a push to experimental will help with that. Unlikely, I think, unless you coordinate with the reverse build-dependency maintainers. Experimental usage is always manual. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http

Re: Bug#685042: ITP: libpam-ssh -- Authenticate using SSH keys

2012-08-16 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
maintainership without going throug a period of formal ITA or O period). -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/antti-juhani/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Bug#685042: ITP: libpam-ssh -- Authenticate using SSH keys

2012-08-16 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
be considered as removed. Yes, you are right. Sorry for my careless reading of that page. In any case, no ambiguity, it seems. I don't think a package's presence in stable or oldstable alone is a problem. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ http

Re: Bug#685042: ITP: libpam-ssh -- Authenticate using SSH keys

2012-08-16 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
removal notice below it - in retrospect, I should have expected such a pattern, as removals from testing are often preceded by removals from unstable). Sorry for the noise. (I do not need a personal CC, by the way. I am subscribed.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti

Bug#686023: RFS: fonts-pecita/3.4-2

2012-08-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
I've been of some help.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
with a lib*-dev. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Think I found errors in apt-get, need help with wine package

2004-11-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
contains; ignore the problem, please, and just install my files over the files in A. (The magic combination of Conflicts Replaces Provides has different semantics, I supersede A, but that's not derivable from their individual meanings.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
documentation, lurk in upstream user forums and bug tracking systems looking for problem reports, test, test, test and test again. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Output of dpkg-scanpackages as XML

2005-01-07 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
puzzling requirement, IMHO. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian/rules: Moving to debhelper or cdbs

2005-05-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
is to use whatever (non-evil thing that) works for the maintainer. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian/rules: Moving to debhelper or cdbs

2005-05-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20050517T120043-0400, Joey Hess wrote: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: If I were to receive a bug report, say wishlist severity, containing a patch that rewrites one of my packages' debian/rules to use debhelper, I would be very upset: it would feel like an insult toward my style

First package. WNPP. Something

1998-10-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
point, I forwarded my Intention to package Malaga to wnpp shortly after posting it to -devel (forgot to cc the posting). I just noticed that although WNPP was updated recently, it does not list me or Malaga. Is this normal or should I worry? Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7

Re: latex2html in build process

1998-10-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
the following, which I've used successfully. TMP=/tmp TMPDIR=/tmp latex2html ... Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: Lintian error message

1998-11-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
? Have you considered cwebx (CWEB enhanced for ISO/ANSI C)? How do I go about figuring out where the problem might lie? How can I get lintian to give me more information? Try the -i option (IIRC, as I am not on a Debian box now). Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL

Re: Lintian error message

1998-11-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
letter. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: Checking if directory is empty in postrm

1998-11-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 12:07:39PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what you'd use with shell if you needed an error code. ls -1 | grep .\* Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ ** The FAQ

Re: tex4ht - Debian package (fwd)

1999-01-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
belong to debian-legal, not debian-mentors, so I'm crossposting. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.

Re: the package source directory

1999-02-02 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
directory for easier 'install' rule I wouldn't do this. Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% EMACS, n.: Emacs May Allow Customised Screwups (unknown origin)

Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-03-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. Original designs get corrupted - which is why we have a formalised FSSTND, and why we should stick to whatever it says. One of our decided goals is to move away from FSSTND, replacing it with the FHS (sp?). Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http

Re: Binaries for other architectures

1999-04-07 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 02:35:52PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: Lars Who? Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]. He's currently on an indefinitely long leave, though. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Good Times are back again

Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-11 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Good Times are back again! http://www.iki.fi/gaia/zangelding/

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
? Read Chapter 5 of the Packaging Manual, please. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Good Times are back again! http://www.iki.fi/gaia/zangelding/

Re: How to recover the debian/ dir

1999-04-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
to create. (Hint: the process of creating a .deb from source loses information.) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Good Times are back again! http://www.iki.fi/gaia/zangelding/

Re: Chaning a new package still in incoming?

1999-04-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 04:28:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Login to master via telnet and you can remove the file in Incoming. Better use ssh. Telnet sends your password as plain text, IIRC. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: Chaning a new package still in incoming?

1999-04-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 10:29:44PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I use ssh instead of telnet, but doesn't ftp have the same problem? What do we use instead of ftp? It does. We use an anonymous upload queue or scp, depending on the situation. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL

Re: coding...

1999-04-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 09:18:26AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W. Richard Stevens. His books are king. GNU libc manual is surprisingly good, too. (It's free as a bird, btw :-) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: What happened to new-maintainer@debian.org

1999-05-10 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, May 10, 1999 at 02:07:04PM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote: I sent the first application containing all the data ~4weeks ago, resent it ~2 weeks ago That's a mistake. Don't resend your application (especially after two veeks of waiting). It just makes James angry. ;-) -- Antti-Juhani

Re: bin86

1999-05-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
for each arch separately. Then at the source package build time, the dependencies are calculated based on the build architecture. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Good Times are back again! http://www.iki.fi

Re: level of policy

1999-05-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:12:12PM +0200, Andrea Fanfani wrote: Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0 How i can upgrade the level of policy on my distribution. Check that your package meets the newer policy requirements and then manually upgrade the Standards-Version. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho

Re: data and config file placement

1999-06-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
paths determined dynamically. That snippet was from poster's debian/rules. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ... (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)

Re: Fwd: creating man pages

1999-06-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
heuristics. Unless, of course, the .tex file was written with such a conversion in mind. If there is a texinfo file, do I need a manpage? Not having a manpage is a policy violation. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ... memory leaks are quite

Re: Becoming a new developper

1999-06-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
these ar pro­ grams do understand the magic number used by dpkg-deb. The man page is dated 1996; has this changed? -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ... (Bjarne Stroustrup

Re: Source packages?

1999-06-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
about doing that? You should get them as a side effect from the standard packaging procedure. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ... (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C

Re: small c problem

1999-07-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
' */; string = malloc(string_len); if (string == 0) abort(); /* Ugh. Do better error handling. */ snprintf(string, string_len, %s%i, origstring, number); puts(string); free(string); return 0; } -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http

Re: dblibs

1999-07-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 04:06:50PM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote: TO MENTORS: It seems to me that both lib pkgs can coexist on a system. Is that true? Several runtime packages of the same library can coexist easily, given that all installed packages contain the library with a different soname. The

Re: Simple questions about making a package

1999-07-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
either, I hope ;-) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ... (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)

Re: from potato to slink

1999-07-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 03:55:24PM +0200, Jerome Marant wrote: What can I do now with all of this ? (I mean getting a directory where i just have to rebuild a package). dpkg-source -x package.dsc cd package-version/ dpkg-buildbackage -rfakeroot -b -uc -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL

Re: should I have my pgp key signed by a local maintainer?

1999-07-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
or not, though I believe it to be false. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ... (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)

Re: Error in compiling package in POTATO

1999-08-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 05:23:37PM -0400, Patrick Ouellette wrote: FILE *err=stdout; Is this a bug in egcs/gcc or is it new behavior due to fixing a previous bug?? Read the FAQ at /usr/share/doc/libc6/FAQ.gz, Question 3.9. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http

Re: things broke when I went to dpkg-dev 1.4.1.6

1999-08-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% ... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ... (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)

Re: how to write a man page?

1999-09-08 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% (John Cage)

Re: architecture detection

2004-09-28 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
string for the build machine (the machine type we are building on) as well as for the host machine (the machine type we are building for). So, see dpkg-architecture(1) :) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc Description

Re: package name conventions?

2004-11-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
with a lib*-dev. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Think I found errors in apt-get, need help with wine package

2004-11-30 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
contains; ignore the problem, please, and just install my files over the files in A. (The magic combination of Conflicts Replaces Provides has different semantics, I supersede A, but that's not derivable from their individual meanings.) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http

Re: what if the upstream version contains hyphens?

2005-07-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
(as well as the Policy manual in its entirety). -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: question about increasing versionnumbers

2005-08-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Bastian Venthur wrote: What is the best practice, when making small changes to the package like fixing typos and stuff? Should I stick to my initial release or should i alter the Versionnumber everytime I make change? Never assign the same version number to two different versions that you

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: There is no Debian package without a Depends line, as you always need something else to properly use it. Actually, there are over 1500 of them. Some packages survive with the Essentials :) $ grep-dctrl -c -FDepends -e '^$' \

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
with the copyright holders and possibly paid some money for it. Or they might just not care; I've seen magazines with that attitude. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Please send any work-related email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-05 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
, especially its COMPATIBILITY section before using grep-dctrl in any Debian package. Only then do you know why Bastian's suggestion is broken. (In an unrelated note, Bastian, look up -X in the manual page:-) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
need to be able to access it. You could also hardcode the version in the program itself, and do this hardcoding automatically at build time. See grep-dctrl for an example on how to do this (especially its configure.in). -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
are not a programmer. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin ystävien seura Toys - Ohjelmointi on myös taidetta http://www.cc.jyu.fi/yhd/toys/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030321T123756-0500, Matthew Danish wrote: Neither of the programming books I recommended restrict themselves to the theory. Reading books is theory, regardless of what they cover. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030321T142330-0500, Matthew Danish wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:14:26PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On 20030321T123756-0500, Matthew Danish wrote: Neither of the programming books I recommended restrict themselves to the theory. Reading books is theory, regardless

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... (Sorry, no time to give any useful comments.) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030323T154831+, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... Demand? An odd choice of words. On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly

Re: debian-email@lists.debian.org

2003-03-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
want to receive those mails. This was before my time, however. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin ystävien seura Toys - Ohjelmointi on myös taidetta http://www.cc.jyu.fi/yhd/toys

Re: Upstream debian/ dir.

2003-02-17 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
upstream release with the old debian/ directory; I would then, after release, make my debs, and my changes to debian/ were recorded in the diff. I would at that point commit the new debian/ to upstream CVS. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-01 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
with the copyright holders and possibly paid some money for it. Or they might just not care; I've seen magazines with that attitude. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Please send any work-related email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
, especially its COMPATIBILITY section before using grep-dctrl in any Debian package. Only then do you know why Bastian's suggestion is broken. (In an unrelated note, Bastian, look up -X in the manual page:-) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-06 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
need to be able to access it. You could also hardcode the version in the program itself, and do this hardcoding automatically at build time. See grep-dctrl for an example on how to do this (especially its configure.in). -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
are not a programmer. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin ystävien seura Toys - Ohjelmointi on myös taidetta http://www.cc.jyu.fi/yhd/toys/

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030321T123756-0500, Matthew Danish wrote: Neither of the programming books I recommended restrict themselves to the theory. Reading books is theory, regardless of what they cover. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030321T142330-0500, Matthew Danish wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 08:14:26PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: On 20030321T123756-0500, Matthew Danish wrote: Neither of the programming books I recommended restrict themselves to the theory. Reading books is theory, regardless

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-22 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly... (Sorry, no time to give any useful comments.) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin

Re: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6

2003-03-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20030323T154831+, Darren Salt wrote: I demand that Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho may or may not have written... Demand? An odd choice of words. On 20030321T182926+0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: License : GNU Public Licence You *could* of course spell that correctly

Re: debian-email@lists.debian.org

2003-03-27 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
want to receive those mails. This was before my time, however. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin ystävien seura Toys - Ohjelmointi on myös taidetta http://www.cc.jyu.fi/yhd/toys/

Re: [OT] OS Design Book Recommendations

2003-04-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
, the first is hands-off, the second is hands-on. They are different books: MOS 1st ed was published around the same time as OSDI. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% Taiteellisen ohjelmoinnin ystävien seura Toys - Ohjelmointi on myös taidetta

Re: C++ help

1999-09-29 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
, no. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% (John Cage)

Re: Little FAQ for users and maintainers

1999-10-04 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
situations (see packaging manual for more). Plain versioned conflicts is enough most of the time. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% (John Cage)

Re: xterm|rxvt as a suggestion?

1999-10-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 05:58:59AM -0500, Gregory T. Norris wrote: I believe that Suggests: xterm | rxvt should do it. It should be directly underneath the `Depends:' line. Since when has order of fields within control paragraphs mattered? -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL

Re: Build-Depends question re: yacc, ctags, etc.

1999-11-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
and propose a new virtual package, then kick that to the policy group. In the meantime, either choose one or two randomly or list them all yourself. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% (John

Re: Upgrading packages?

1999-11-13 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
create the diff file as is required? man uupdate -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% (John Cage)

Re: CVS, Makefile.in, and other cruft

1999-11-19 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
, only a Makefile.in; autoconf must be run before make. Is autoconf assumed present for building? No, unless you declare a build-time dependency. Is there some policy about this? No. Do whatever you feel is right. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi

Re: Upgrading packages?

1999-11-20 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 11:53:33PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: ~/download/debianize/crashmail-0.52$ uupdate ../crashmail-0.6.zip Old Release crashmail 0.52-1. /usr/bin/uupdate: ${X$.zip}: bad substitution Bug. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia

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