Re: Packaging strategy for dict

1998-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 06:29:30PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > The debian/rules file can be written to produce both packages. > > In such a case would the uploaded package consist of one source package > > and two .debs ? > > I would say 2 sources and 2 binaries to make things

Re: Packaging strategy for dict

1998-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
On Thu, Mar 26, 1998 at 09:20:38PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I am packaging the client/server software from the Dict Project > . The client program queries a server, either on the > local host, a local network, or the internet, and receives the > response by TCP. > > Some users would

ssh while release

1998-03-30 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I yesterday tried to upload my packages using "release". This doesn't work. I had problems with ssh. The "make-ssh-known-hosts" didn't work. Actually it didn't find any key for the specified hosts. I tried all combinations of debian.org, ftp.debian.org, master.debian.org etc. (and the same

MajorVersion change, package name and dpkg

1998-03-30 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, the upstream author of my package libsidplay, which is actually called libsidplay1, changed the major version of the library from '1' to '1.36'. If I want my package to apply this change, do I need to rename it to libsidplay1.36 (which would cause deb's like libsidplay1.36_1.36.13-1)? Wh

Re: menu-methods?

1998-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > > menu is installed, it's ok. Now the problem: If the window manager is > > installed and configured BEFORE menu is even installed, the files are not > > going to get the excutable bit, and update-menus (when installed) will > > ignore them. Am I missing something here? Oh, I mi

Re: menu-methods?

1998-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: > this is an hyper-paranoid test for the existance of a) menu; b) the files > being there. I got this idea from a debmake-generated postinst. Reading > menu's documentation (chapter 3), that's the recommended action. Now, WHY? > If menu is not installed, those files are

Re: build from CVS and upload

1998-03-30 Thread Adam P. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ole J. Tetlie) writes: > > I build my packages from CVS and it works very good. But > > now I don't know, if I can upload the resulting .tar.gz. > > > > Since the CVS is the upstream CVS and the debian directory > > is already in, it would be the best solution. But somehow > > I

Re: sdc_1.0.8beta-7_i386.changes REJECTED

1998-03-30 Thread Adam P. Harris
Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [You (Debian Installer)] > > >Rejected: sdc_1.0.8beta-7.dsc refers to > > >sdc_1.0.8beta.orig.tar.gz, but I can't > > > find it in Incoming. > In these days this is a result of somebody removing files from the > archive. Yes. I guess sdc must have