Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debian repositories

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 03:35:27PM -0400, Alan O'Neill wrote: > The package I'm ready to submit installs the 32-bit version of GT.M > 5.4.000A. Additionally, I'll be able to build a package for the 64-bit > version. Are there different source tarballs for 32 and 64 bit? I'm just asking becau

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debian repositories

2010-09-06 Thread Alan O'Neill
Hi Andreas, Thanks for the tips on SVN -- very helpful! When last I wrote, I had begun to think that you and I were working with one different assumption, and from what you just wrote, it is now confirmed. The package I have built is not a source package, it is a binary package. I have comp

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debian repositories

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 09:29:34AM -0400, Alan O'Neill wrote: > Thanks for the tips on SVN -- very helpful! :-) > When last I wrote, I had begun to think that you and I were working with > one different assumption, and from what you just wrote, it is now > confirmed. The package I have built

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread K.S. Bhaskar
I am catching up on e-mail and will try to respond to all the issues thoughtfully discussed by Andreas and Alan in this single response. Preference for no root owned files in the .deb distribution files: I have a preference for not including any files owned by root in the .deb distribution file

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Bhaskar, here are two short comments about unpacking binary packages and dependance on libicu. Le Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar a écrit : > > Preference for no root owned files in the .deb distribution files: I have a > preference for not including any files owned by

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 01:59:33PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Preference for no root owned files in the .deb distribution files: I have a > > preference for not including any files owned by root in the .deb > > distribution > > files.  This makes it easy for anyone who wants to analyze a pac

Re: FreeMedForms project

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Eric, On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 12:57:04AM +0200, Eric MAEKER wrote: > Thank you for your help on providing a package for FreeDiams 0.4.2. This > was a great enjoyement to work with you on this. I hope it was an enjoyment to work in the Debian Med team - thus I just post to the list because the

Re: Connecting those interested in getting GT.M into the Debianrepositories

2010-09-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:40:55PM -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > Writabilty of files: I prefer for an installed version of GT.M to not > have *any* writable files, even if root-owned and only owner-writable. Debian policy has a read-only mounted /usr partition in mind. While in practice this is