Re: [Fink-devel] Validating fink packages

2003-06-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 02:23 AM, Rohan Lloyd wrote: It checks 2 things: 1. No files are placed directly in /sw/share/emacs/site-lisp (they should be in a package subdirectory) 2. No byte compiled .elc files are installed (they should be compiled during postInst by /sw/lib/emacsen-common/p

Re: [Fink-devel] vnc-3.3.7-1 migrating to stable

2003-06-04 Thread David
On Dienstag, Juni 3, 2003, at 04:50 Uhr, Steven Tamm wrote: Hi *, I'm the package maintainer for vnc-3.3.7, and a couple people were asking me how to get it migrated from unstable to stable. The list archives appear to be down so I couldn't find out for myself. The documentation talks nebul

Re: package validation [was Re: [Fink-devel] vnc-3.3.7-1 migrating to stable]

2003-06-04 Thread Charles Lepple
Charles Lepple said: > Also, anyone looked into porting Debian's fakeroot system for builds? > (apologies if this has been discussed; I can't get to the archives to > check). Sorry, it was a proxy problem on my end, and I just got through to the archive. I found the fakeroot threads. -- Charles

package validation [was Re: [Fink-devel] vnc-3.3.7-1 migrating to stable]

2003-06-04 Thread Charles Lepple
Christian Schaffner said: > - Check for them touching anything outside of %d or %b during build and > install. Not legal except in very special cases. I got tripped up by this with one of my submissions. Basically, I never would have caught it myself, since the man page ended up in the right place

Re: [Fink-devel] vnc-3.3.7-1 migrating to stable

2003-06-04 Thread Christian Schaffner
Hi Steven I had a quick look at your package. The only problem I found was that you have a '/sw' in your patch file. You should replace that with PREFIX and have it tested again. What normally needs to be done for testing a package (written by Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): - fink validate o

RE: [Fink-devel] vnc-3.3.7-1 migrating to stable

2003-06-04 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
My understanding is that if you've gotten sufficient positive feedback (by your standards) on the package, then you can request to have it migrated, which effectively means that somebody with commits access will put the .info/.patch files into stable. So you've basically done what's required. A

[Fink-devel] vnc-3.3.7-1 migrating to stable

2003-06-04 Thread Steven Tamm
Hi *, I'm the package maintainer for vnc-3.3.7, and a couple people were asking me how to get it migrated from unstable to stable. The list archives appear to be down so I couldn't find out for myself. The documentation talks nebulously about how the packages need to be "tested" first. How