Re: New maintainer's packaging - bewildering variety of information

1998-08-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I am biased about this, so my rationale might not be the best thing to look for. But the bottom line is that you should do what is right for you, and the majority of people start out by using debhelper or equivalent. Helper Package (debhelper) Advantages i) These make it easie

New maintainer's packaging - bewildering variety of information

1998-08-16 Thread Jules Bean
Hmm... I have been a debian developer for about two months now, but those two months have been very busy in my personal life. My only contribution to Debian so far has been a couple of sketchy web pages, and some debating on -policy. Determined to get a move on and start packaging, last night I

Re: One on One with a Mentor, please (fwd)

1998-08-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Dean Rushing wrote: > Well I want to give something back for the great learning experience I've had. > I just had a breakin, so I'm not quite as happy as I should be, sorry. Great! > Well, I was hoping that I could adopt a package,, I'm now trying to find > the source for phosphorous,, it is a me

Re: TCPQuota: postinst, postrm and Depends

1998-08-16 Thread Jules Bean
On 15 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > > > > I could however depend on 'libdbd-mysql-perl | libdbd-msql-perl, msql | > > > mysql' > > > or perhaps '(libdbd-mysql-perl, mysql) | (libdbd-msql-perl, msql)'... Can >

Re: One on One with a Mentor, please (fwd)

1998-08-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 08:05:49AM +0930, Dean Rushing wrote: > On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Rasta wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I would like to speak to a mentor about becoming a developer. I have read > > > the Debian Social Contract, developers-reference and packaging. > > >

Re: TCPQuota: postinst, postrm and Depends

1998-08-16 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Richard Braakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > > I could however depend on 'libdbd-mysql-perl | libdbd-msql-perl, msql | > > mysql' > > or perhaps '(libdbd-mysql-perl, mysql) | (libdbd-msql-perl, msql)'... Can > > one > > write it like that? > > No, but one can alwa