> That's not true. There are many packages in contrib which do not have
> all their dependencies in non-free. E.g., the bunch of java packages
> which do not work with anything but a non-free java compiler -- a java
> compiler which Debian itself cannot distribute (and therefor is not in
> non-free
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: newlib
Version : 1.12.0.20041126
Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/
* License : GPL, LGPL, BSD, and others
Description : a simple ANSI C library and math library
N
I just found this list [1] of NEW packages. I'd like to remove one of
my packages from the queue. Who do I contact?
Cheers,
Shaun
[1] developer.skolelinux.no/~pere/debian-NEW.html
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I packaged Freevo for Debian and uploaded it some time ago. It has now
seen some attention from the FTP masters, but I've since started using
MythTV instead of Freevo. If anyone's interested in taking over the
package and uploading it, drop me a message.
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In the following email Chris suggests that I add support for bit
torrent magnet:// URLs under Gnome2 in the Azureus package by setting
the gconftool-2 parameter /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command
to call Azureus. This seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do, but
it must be done for each
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I no longer use this package myself. It would be better off with a maintainer who does use it.
Cheers,
Shaun
simulavr: Atmel AVR simulator
simulavr simulates the Atmel AVR family of micro-controllers,
emulates a gdb remote target, and displays register and memory
Is it possible to mark a particular message to the BTS (as in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) as spam? This information could be used for
filtering the web page reports, or possibly training the spam filter.
Thanks!
Shaun
A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out
that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even
though it builds on AMD64. Since it turns out this package has never
worked on AMD64, this bug is not a regression, but the status-quo.
Should such a bug be grave,
Would anyone in the Calgary area like to meet up for lunch and a
key-signing some time this week? The tentative location is a
restaurant, to be determined, on Ninth Avenue in Inglewood.
Please cc me in your reply. Cheers!
Shaun
Recently I've been using umn [1] in my watch files for SourceForge
packages. It looks like this link is dead now. I find I have to update
the watch file for all my SourceForge packages every six months or so.
Finding a new link that works is usually not trivial. Does anyone
maintain a list of worki
On Apr 4, 2005 11:06 AM, Michael Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use something like
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/projectname/somefile-(.*)\.tar\.gz
>
> Works for me.
Doesn't work for me though. Instead of a tarball, I get an HTML file
that starts with...
Select a Mirror for File: /libnj
On Apr 4, 2005 5:02 PM, Free Ekanayaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Example:
>
> http://prdownloads.sf.net/a/al/alsamodular/ams-(.*)\.tar\.bz2
This doesn't work for me:
$ cat debian/watch
version=2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/n/ne/neutrino/neutrino-(.*)\.tar\.gz
debian uupdate
$ uscan
neu
t.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pyenchant/ \
> pyenchant-([\d.]*).tar.gz debian uupdate
>
> HEAnet never failed for me, by the way.
>
> Hope this help,
>
> Seo Sanghyeon
On Apr 4, 2005 11:21 AM, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently I've been u
heers,
Shaun
On 4/26/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey! Shaun Jackman generously offered to meet in New Westminister over
> lunch to exchange gpg signatures
>
> Meeting other debian/linux/open source folks would be totally awesome!
>
> I can be in New West
Does apt-get have a command to upgrade all the dependencies of a
package? Currently I use 'apt-cache show package' and upgrade each of
the dependencies one by one, but it seems to me this is a job for
apt-get if ever there was one. If this requires a new command, perhaps
'apt-get upgrade package' o
Hello,
How do I use a Debian machine, such as bruckner, to test a source
package by compiling for powerpc? I see bruckner has a sarge chroot.
What's the magic command to start the build in this chroot? I know of
pbuilder -- though I haven't used it much admittedly -- but there is
no pbuilder comma
On 4/30/05, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [Andreas Metzler]
> > There is no automatic building, you have change to the sarge chroot
> > using dchroot and use dpkg-buildpackage or whatever.
>
> I could have sworn I'd heard about logging into debian machines as
> 'username+sarge' o
On 4/30/05, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do I use a Debian machine, such as bruckner, to test a source
> > package by compiling for powerpc? I see bruckner has a sarge chroot.
> > What's the ma
you there!
>
> Jack
>
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > I can definitely recommend Kirin Sushi, which is across the street
> > from the Skytrain station. There is also the Spaghetti Factory next
> > door. Not quite as convenient, but up the st
There will be a key signing at 12:30 on Wednesday, May 4th at Kirin
Sushi - across the street from the New Westminster SkyTrain station -
31 8th St - (604) 521-1833
See you all there!
Shaun
Does anyone know of a filter that translates a diff -pu to a ChangeLog
stub? The terms diff and ChangeLog produce nothing but noise for
search results. If not, I'll just sit down and write it myself, but it
sure seems like something a hundred other developers would have done.
Thanks!
Shaun
I've recently put a number of my packages up for adoption, mostly
because I no longer use them. They are all in good shape, and haven't
been much trouble. Here's the list:
gnomad2 - Manage a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox
gnusim8085 - Graphical Intel 8085 simulator
neutrino - GNOME shell for managing
If a -dev package is architecture independent -- for example contains
only a symlink from the .so to the .so.X file and possibly a .pc file
-- what's the best dependency on the libfooX package, keeping in mind
binnmuability?
Depends: libfooX (>= ${source:Version}), libfooX (<< ${source:Version}.1
On 11/19/06, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey,
gah, im blind today, so I accepted azureus. It should have been a
reject, as you now will lose the orig tarball. dak bug, sorry.
Simple fix for you: Upload a new one, ie slightly changing upstreams
version number.
Sorry for that, but da
On 11/22/06, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:25:54PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> >On 11/19/06, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Simple fix for you: Upload a new one, ie slightly changing upstreams
> >> vers
On 11/22/06, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/22/06, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 01:25:54PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > >On 11/19/06, Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Simple
Although SWT uses Java, it is not entirely platform independent. It
requires one jar for 32-bit architectures and one jar for 64-bit
architectures. I could change libswt-gtk-3.2-java to be an
Architecture: any package -- it's currently an all package and does
not support 32-bit architectures -- bu
When using CDBS, what is the best way to conditionally apply an
architecture-dependent patch. I'm using CDBS, but not yet using a
patch system such as simple-patchsys, dpatch, or quilt, so
recommendations of a patch system are welcome. Currently I have...
ARCH64 := alpha amd64 ia64
ifneq (,$(fil
On 11/28/06, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you use simple-patchsys, you can prepend before any "include" line:
ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH),m68k)
DEB_PATCHDIRS = debian/patches debian/patches/$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)
endif
to add debian/patches/m68k to the list of directories with patches t
On 11/28/06, Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But you will have complicated dependency problems. Or at least
users will install the wrong version, or do you intend to only release
the 64 bit version on 64 bit systems? and the 32 bit version on 32 bit
systems? I do not really see the point
On 11/28/06, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm personally leaning towards to two arch: all packages (one 32-bit,
one 64-bit) and a meta-package which depends on the right one. I am
considering and open to the one arch: any package though. If it
affects the decision, the bin
Here is my list:
64-bit: alpha amd64 ia64
The rest are 32-bit.
Am I missing any?
Perhaps this is a suitable feature for dpkg-architecture.
Cheers,
Shaun
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How do I identify which packages on my system are from
stable/testing/unstable/none-of-the-above?
For a single package, I use `apt-cache policy xxx'. I would like a
summary of this information that fits on a single line.
Thanks,
Shaun
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On 12/11/06, Mikhail Gusarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
SJ> For a single package, I use `apt-cache policy xxx'. I would like
SJ> a summary of this information that fits on a single line.
Probably apt-show-versions will help you.
Exactly what I wanted! Thanks,
Why is the buildd not finding debhelper?
Thanks,
Shaun
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=monotone&ver=0.31-3&arch=powerpc&file=log
Automatic build of monotone_0.31-3 on malo by sbuild/powerpc 99.99
Build started at 20061205-2149
...
** Using build dependencies supplied by package:
Build-D
On 12/12/06, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
I don't see any conflicts between the -java packages, only the -jni
packages. I guess the -jni packages do need to conflict with each other
then, if they have file conflicts.
Thank you for bringing to my attention that only the -jni pa
NMU as necessary. See you in the new year!
Cheers,
Shaun
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Monotone has a bug (#404616) that seems to only affect powerpc. I
don't have access to a powerpc machine myself, so I'd like to use
bruckner.debian.org to troubleshoot the bug. How do I use the Etch
chroot on bruckner to install monotone and its dependencies and run
monotone without root access to
It has been reported that swt-gtk -- and azureus, which depends on it
-- does not work on amd64. I suspect this is true of all 64-bit
architectures. If you have access to a 64-bit architecture besides
amd64, I would very much appreciate your help with this bug. The
version in Sarge (libswt-gtk3=3.0
* Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox
libnjb - Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox library
gnomad2 - Manage a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox
neutrino - GNOME shell for managing your Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox
* LaTeX
glosstex - prepare glossaries and lists of acronyms
pic2fig - convert PIC drawings to FIG drawings
On 4/9/06, Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox
> > libnjb - Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox library
> > gnomad2 - Manage a Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox
>
> I have a Creative Zen touch which use these so I can take them. I would
> rather work with someone to com
> I could test on alpha, but there's no version of swt-gtk in sarge for this
> architecture.
>
> Why is it the old versions of this package which need testing, not the
> current version?
Don't worry about testing the Sarge version then; that only applies to
ia64. If you could test libswt-gtk-3.1=3
file.
-- Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:55:10 -0600
On 4/4/06, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder if there's a way to figure out what the status of the
> monotone package is. The current Debian
What format should Origin and Label be set to for Release files on
people.debian.org? It seems to me there should be some best common
practice for Debian developers publishing extra-experimental packages.
I thought the two labels should be set to some selection of...
Shaun Jackman <[EM
I can type -- slowly -- but I won't be doing any package maintenance
for three to six weeks.
Cheers,
Shaun
My broken wrist has healed -- yeah! -- so I'm back from that
`vacation', and now I'm on my way to Montréal for a week.
Cheers,
Shaun
I recall there's a tool that builds small .deb packages that Provides
some dependency, without doing any actualy work. What package is this
tool in? Try as I might, I haven't been able to find it.
Thanks,
Shaun
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> > > Shouldn't you include a year?
> >
> > It's not required. And I get bored by updating them.
>
> The year should be included. Here is a reference:
> http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html
If only one year is listed in a source file / copyright file, should
it be the first year the work st
I'm packaging SWT for GTK version 3.1M4, which is a prerelease of 3.1.
I want to eventually package 3.1. What options do I have for numbering
the prerelease so that 3.1 is a greater version number? If I
understand epochs, I could name the next one 1:3.1, although I'm not
particularly fond of that s
I'm using the following APT line
deb http://download.kde.org/stable/3.1.2/Debian stable main
When I update, the Release file is ignored by apt-get. Why is this?
Also, I can't seem to upgrade or install the new packages. What have
I done wrong here?
Thanks,
Shaun
# apt-get update
Hit h
Yes! Thanks. I didn't know of the apt-cache policy command. Because
the Release file was broken upstream, apt assigned it a priority of
-1. I added the following lines to apt/preferences:
Package: *
Pin: origin download.kde.org
Pin-Priority: 951
Thanks,
Shaun
> Blind shot:
>
> $ apt-cache pol
I'm having trouble using nvaudio with kernel-image-2.4.20-3-k7. The
nvaudio module is segfaulting. If this is working for someone, can
you please e-mail me privately?
Thanks,
Shaun
2.4.20 is the Linux kernel version. k7 means optimise for Athlon. What
does 3 mean?
Please cc me in your reply.
Thanks,
Shaun
I was having trouble with the nvaudio module crashing. I've found a
magic incantation that works for me. I thought I'd post it here.
Cheers,
Shaun
apt-get install gcc-3.3
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.20-3-k7 kernel-headers-2.4.20-3-k7
ln -s /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.20-3-k7 \
/lib/modules/
I can't get uscan to work with the following watch line. Could
someone please point out my mistake?
Please cc me in your reply.
Thanks,
Shaun
# Site Directory Pattern Version Script
http://www.geekshop.be /rien/lcab/?page=down lcab-(.*).tar.gz debian uupdate
The testing requirements for libnjb-dev [1] says that it is...
trying to update libnjb from 2.1-1 to 2.1-2 (candidate is 14 days old)
libnjb is waiting for ncurses
ncurses is only 3 days old. It must be 5 days old to go in.
ncurses is not yet built on m68k: 5.4-8 vs 5.4-9 (missing 7 binaries:
I
I had a hard drive fail on me today, and I'm heading out of town
tonight, so I won't be able to deal with it until I get back in a
about a week. So, in the mean time, I'm pretty much out of commission.
If you have a burning desire to fix something, go ahead and NMU.
Cheers,
Shaun
For for the first time since potato, I reinstalled Debian from scratch
on my main box. Hoorah for dist-upgrade! One experience I took away
from the installation is how impressed I was with partman, the
debian-installer partition management tool. This was my first time
using SATA, LVM, and RAID -- I
What's wrong with this Build-Depends line?
Build-Depends: ia32-libs-dev [amd64], debhelper (>= 4.1.16)
E: eagle source: invalid-arch-string-in-source-relation amd64
[build-depends: ia32-libs-dev [amd64]]
Thanks,
Shaun
debhelper 4.9.5
lintian 1.23.11
2005/8/23, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> also sprach Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.08.24.0044 +0200]:
> > What's wrong with this Build-Depends line?
> >
> > Build-Depends: ia32-libs-dev [amd64], debhelper (>= 4.1.16)
> >
>
2005/8/24, Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> * Shaun Jackman
>
> | What's wrong with this Build-Depends line?
> |
> | Build-Depends: ia32-libs-dev [amd64], debhelper (>= 4.1.16)
>
> Unless eagle is a toolchain package, you shouldn't build-dep on
>
I am trying to help move swt-gtk into testing. The excuses [1] for
swingwt, which depends on swt-gtk, says...
* swingwt is waiting for swt-gtk
* Updating swt-gtk makes 2 depending packages uninstallable on arm:
libswingwt0, swingwt-demo
These excuses seem to be circular between swingwt an
2005/9/29, Daniel Ruoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Em Qui, 2005-09-29 às 19:05 +0200, Bastian Blank escreveu:
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:52:21PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
> > > I'm having some problems, but I think it's because gcc is confused about
> > > which toolchain to use, because it still d
I haven't found a great sysfs node to use for Creative Labs devices.
This is the best I've found so far:
$ udevinfo -ap /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-2.3/1-2.3:1.0
...
looking at class device '/sys/bus/usb/devices/1-2.3/1-2.3:1.0':
SUBSYSTEM="unknown"
SYSFS{bAlternateSetting}=" 0"
SYSFS{bInt
y seem to be created though:
$ find /dev /sys -name \njb*
$
I would like the /proc/bus/usb node to be symlinked to /dev/njb%d,
with the correct permissions applied, as well as loading the "fuse"
kernel module. Is this possible?
Cheers,
Shaun
2005/10/10, Shaun Jackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:05 PM, William Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> Further, I understand the concept of an upstream provider and
> understand that I don't have one in this case, unless I sort of fake
> it somehow. Is that wise or is there a well understood method of
> having an .
... and after the sailing trip I'm moving and changing jobs. So, I
won't be spending much time on Debian for the next couple months. NMU
as necessary. If anyone is interested in adopting any of my packages
on a more permanent basis, please contact me.
Cheers,
Shaun
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azureus has a RC bug filed against it, #449176. Why did it migrate to testing?
Cheers,
Shaun
On Nov 24, 2007 4:39 PM, Debian testing watch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FYI: The status of the azureus source package
> in Debian's testing distribution has changed.
>
> Previous version: 2.5.0.4-1
>
On Nov 24, 2007 11:05 PM, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 05:52:31PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> > azureus has a RC bug filed against it, #449176. Why did it migrate to
> > testing?
>
> Because there's no version inform
The unstable link at http://packages.debian.org/freeguide shows
version 0.8, but http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/freeguide
shows version 0.7.2. Why is this?
Cheers,
Shaun
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Strange. At packages.debian.org/free
The unstable link at http://packages.debian.org/freeguide shows
version 0.8, but http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/freeguide
shows version 0.7.2. Why is this?
Cheers,
Shaun
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: torrentocracy
Version : 0.0.9
Upstream Author : Gary Lerhaupt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://www.torrentocracy.com/
* License : GPL
Description : RSS (real simple syndication) plugin for MythTV
Torrento
> Users need a hierachical layout in order to find software. Keyword
> by themselves are not that much useful since they would be only appropiate
> to the language used. Several disadvantages:
>
> 1.- more difficult to translate than sections
Not true if the keywords are limited to a specifi
I'm working in Calgary, Alberta for the next three months. If
anyone's interested in a key-signing, drop me a line.
Cheers,
Shaun
I'm packaging a library that includes three separate binary packages.
1) the shared library (libnjb0)
2) the dev library (libnjb-dev)
3) sample code (libnjb-samples)
I would like debhelper to create three separate package.substvars files, but
it's only creating the one substvars. I've read all th
I'm looking for a Debian developer in Vancouver, Canada to sign my key. If
you fit the bill, please reply!
Thanks,
Shaun Jackman
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I am looking for a sponsor for two packages: kionjb and libnjb.
kionjb lets you view and manipulate the tracks on your Creative Labs Nomad
Jukebox MP3 player. It is a KIO::Slave and requires KDE2. Source is available
at the kionjb web site
http://sf.net/projects/kionjb/
libnjb is a shared li
I want to compile an arm-elf GNU development toolchain (binutils, gcc,
newlib). I'd like the end result to be an arm-elf-gcc_3.0.4-1_i386.deb
package that I can install and manage through dpkg. My usual method is
download the the binutils, gcc, and newlib sources, and "./configure
--target=arm-
I found the toolchain-source package. An amazing package! tpkg-make works
fabulously. It raised a couple questions for me though.
Can binutils-multiarch be used instead of building a specific
binutils-arm-elf?
Whenever I build arm-elf-gcc I have to apply a small patch to
gcc/config/arm/t-arm-elf
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-17
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: libnjb
Version : 0.8b
Upstream Author : John Mechalas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://libnjb.sf.net
* License : BSD
Description : Creative Labs Nomad Jukebox driver libra
I have a source package with two binary packages. One binary package
is arch i386 amd64, the other is arch all containing the
architecture-independent data files. The resulting dsc file is
Architecture: amd64 i386 all
which lintan complains about:
E: eagle source: magic-arch-in-arch-list
I'm guess
Hi Adrian,
I maintain SWT (swt-gtk) for Debian. If you send me the diff and dsc,
I'll look over your work this weekend. Adnan Hodzic was also
interested in adopting swt-gtk and azureus. If you like, you could
collaborate with him. Thanks for considering adopting swt-gtk and
azureus. They could use
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