Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 11:24:49PM +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > > On 2006-08-20 20:00:57, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > >If the current build system supports those arches, and yours does > >not, > You can hardly call it the "Current build system" as it is a number of > Makefiles in which you n

Re: using long long and printf("%m") in debian

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:48:29PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > su, 2006-08-20 kello 18:08 +0200, Wouter Verhelst kirjoitti: > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 03:59:17PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > [...] > > > fprintf(stderr, "Could not read file: %s: %s\n", filename, > > > strerro

Re: heimdal & KCM

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:45:16AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > * create heimdal-kcm package. > Pros: very flexible. > Cons: users may not realise it exists. Use a suggests or recommends header in heimdal-clients. Most dpkg frontends will tell users about packages in those, these days. -- Fun w

Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

Hi, I found this problem in vim's English manual when I tried[1] to package the Chinese translation of vim documents. To know the problem, just type ":help manual-copyright" in vim editor. It clearly states that the Vim user manual and reference manual are using Open Publication License, v1.0 or l

Re: heimdal & KCM

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:45:16AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > I have been requested to add KCM to the Debian packages - see bug #379245. > > Based on my limited understanding, KCM is a system wide daemon that > keeps track of user's Kerberos tickets, in memory, so they don't need > to be stored in

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Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

As complement to what Wouter and Michael have replied... On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 23:24:49 +0200, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > What I have made is a generic package which just does not concerns > itself with other arches than for GNU/Linux. If people wants to compile > for *BSD or Solaris they can get

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

On 2006-08-21 12:50:01, Guillem Jover wrote: I'm not talking about upstream but Debian ports (see below). Also you said you are taking over upstream, and reducing its portability seems as well a step back... It is not that I am removing something - except for stuff doing GUI for MS Windows a

Re: Packaging software which does not use autotools

On 2006-08-21 13:53:01, Michael Rasmussen wrote: The deb-src are available here: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tptest3 You can find a more resent and polished version here: http://ftp.datanom.net/tptest3/ -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michae

Re: Status of inetd for etch

On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:40:48 +0200, Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am Samstag 19 August 2006 15:25 schrieb Marc Haber: >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:21:22 +0200, Hendrik Sattler >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >The suggestion to use "nodaemon" as default for exim4 when only handling >> >

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

[ quoted text reordered ] On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:15:38PM +1200, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote: > In my point of view, the OPL license make the vim manual non-free. It > shouldn't be put in main as part of vim-runtime package. Some "procedural" comments. Please file a bug about that against vim-runtim

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:32:13PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Some "procedural" comments. Please file a bug about that against > vim-runtime and Cc the bug report in this discussion, this will let the > debian vim maintainers follow the discussion; alternatively please at > least Cc th

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

On Aug 21, "Carlos Z.F. Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found this problem in vim's English manual when I tried[1] to package > the Chinese translation of vim documents. To know the problem, just > type ":help manual-copyright" in vim editor. It clearly states that the > Vim user manual and re

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:47:36PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:29:40AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >>> * Michael Biebl [Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:12:59 +0200]: that "dpkg --compare-versions '0.09' '

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?-

* Lionel Elie Mamane: > Well, I have found one. Myself. You just have to interpret the part > after the second point as the integer part of an infinitesimal: > > Let ε be an infinitesimal, that is a strictly positive number > (that is ε > 0) smaller than any strictly positive real number > (tha

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

* Carlos Z. F. Liu: > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/03/msg00226.html This talks about a different OPL, not the VIM one. The one below, downloaded from . The "you may not sell this work" (clause 1) looks troubling, though, although there eixs

Re: Please comment the license of vim manual and reference

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:42:30PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Carlos Z. F. Liu: > > > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/03/msg00226.html > > This talks about a different OPL, not the VIM one. This may actually be a typo in the Vim documentation. The help specifies that it uses

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Re: heimdal & KCM

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * create heimdal-kcm package. > Pros: very flexible. > Cons: users may not realise it exists. I think this plus a Recommends in heimdal-clients is the best approach. > I haven't investigated yet how to make KCM be used by default (I think > standard up

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Re: heimdal & KCM

> "Steinar" == Steinar H Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steinar> Does this mean other programs wanting to read tickets Steinar> (say, rpc.gssd from nfs-common) will have to be patched Steinar> to read the tickets? In that case, I very much object to Steinar> having this

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Re: heimdal & KCM

Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Steinar" == Steinar H Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steinar> Does this mean other programs wanting to read tickets > Steinar> (say, rpc.gssd from nfs-common) will have to be patched > Steinar> to read the tickets? In that case, I