Re: laptops

1998-02-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
[You ("David B. Miles")] >I am unable to locate the Help/How To Homepage on Laptops. > >Would someone please make this URL available to me? If you mean the Linux Laptop Homepage, it's http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Other than that, I get most my info from the vendors (in m

Help switching maintainers

1998-02-10 Thread Adam Klein
I recently took over the lpr package from Sven Rudolph. I'm not going to be makeing an upload for a little while, but there are some bugs that can be closed right now. In the developers-reference, it says to send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in order to list my email address on the bug system.

laptops

1998-02-10 Thread David B. Miles
I am unable to locate the Help/How To Homepage on Laptops. Would someone please make this URL available to me? Thanks ahead of time, dblm

Could someone checkout my first package?

1998-02-10 Thread Dale Martin
I'm still not too hip to all of the steps of packaging, so I tried to package a very simple existing package that's looking for a new maintainer - bonnie. If someone could grab it from ftp.ececs.uc.edu:/pub/users/dmartin/debian and tell me what's broken in it, I'd appreciate it. One thing I noti

Re: sp: Does this make sense?

1998-02-10 Thread James Troup
Marcelo E. Magallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is on the control file for sp: > > Package: sp > Architecture: any > Conflicts: sp (<=1.1.1-2) > Replaces: sp > > what's the intention of this? A package conflicting with a previous > version of itself? It makes no sense, please remove it.

sp: Does this make sense?

1998-02-10 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
This is on the control file for sp: Package: sp Architecture: any Conflicts: sp (<=1.1.1-2) Replaces: sp what's the intention of this? A package conflicting with a previous version of itself? Marcelo

advise wanted on addressbook package

1998-02-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
I've taken over maintenance of the 'addressbook' package. I need some advice, not so much on the technical side, but rather the "whats the right way to interpret policy" issue. First off, there's a global config file /usr/lib/addressbook/addressbook.config which clearly needs to be moved into

Re: using <...@debian.org> as maintainer address -- SOLVED

1998-02-10 Thread Adam P. Harris
Thanks to debian-mentors. I've changed my 'addressbook' package to use my debian.org address. The solution is of course to 'pgp -ke' on my key, resubmit that at my leisure, and change the files, re-upload. Am working on some other fixes too. It would be "cute" to masquerade all my debian-re

Re: using <...@debian.org> as maintainer address

1998-02-10 Thread Sascha Runschke
On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 12:23:57PM -0500, Adam P. Harris wrote: > A lot of developers on the policy list seem to think that it would be > better if package maintainers used their debian.org email address as the > maintainer address for any packages they own. It is definetly better, because your