Re: /var/state ?

1998-09-07 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed 02 Sep 1998, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > I'm in the process of packaging linpopup (a winpopup lookalike). It > > I've put an initial version of linpopup in ~paul on master, so if anyone > wants to have a look... I've just installed this thing, an

Re: conflicting values

1998-09-07 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Richard Braakman writes: > Why do you call the directory bar if the source package is foo? > > Ideally, these three should match: > >- The name of the directory >- The name of the source package in the control file >- The name of the source package in the debian changelog > > In your

Re: conflicting values

1998-09-07 Thread Richard Braakman
Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > Zed Pobre writes: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > > On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > > > > >I'm using debhelper and building it with 'build -rfakeroot'. I wonder > > >what's > > >the proper way to deal with it. I did

Re: conflicting values

1998-09-07 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Zed Pobre writes: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues wrote: > > >I'm using debhelper and building it with 'build -rfakeroot'. I wonder what's > >the proper way to deal with it. I didn't like the kludges I tried ;-) > > Try "dpkg-buildp

Re: where'd my package go!?#

1998-09-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > > a few weeks ago i adopted swisswatch. i update the debian/ stuff, compiled > a new package, pgp signature and all, did a dupload (iirc), and figured > all would be good. > > but my package is nowehere to be found. only the older -4 exists > everywhere i've looked. Did yo

copyright

1998-09-07 Thread Bernd Schumacher
Is it possible/does it make sence to have 2 different copyrigth-policies for example CMU and GPL in one copyright file? Would the following copyright be ok? > This package was debianized by Bernd Schumacher > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] on > Mon, 07 Sep 1998 19:09:31

conflicting values

1998-09-07 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Hi, This is my first attempt to build a debian package. The source and package names are different, dpkg-source and dpkg-gencontrol complain that source package has two conflicting values I'm using debhelper and building it with 'build -rfakeroot'. I wonder what's the proper way to deal with it.

where'd my package go!?#

1998-09-07 Thread Justin Maurer
a few weeks ago i adopted swisswatch. i update the debian/ stuff, compiled a new package, pgp signature and all, did a dupload (iirc), and figured all would be good. but my package is nowehere to be found. only the older -4 exists everywhere i've looked. help! --

Re: Contradictions for new developers (Was: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stephane" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stephane> On Friday 4 September 1998, at 14 h 12, the keyboard of Manoj Srivastava >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You realize, I hope, that debmake is deprecated by its author, >> and is no longer being in kept in sync wit

Re: Contradictions for new developers (Was: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-07 Thread Lars Steinke
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Out of date documents, incomplete documents (the devscripts package which is > not mentioned), documents which, according to Manoj, contradicts the policy, > etc are the obstacles they encounter. You're speaking out of my mind... Of course ther

Re: Contradictions for new developers (Was: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-07 Thread Sven
and like said, if the actuall maintiner are quit busy, new maintainer should be nice to have to ease a bit the work. A good reason to have upto date new maintainer info. Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Contradictions for new developers (Was: what are the latest debian packaging tools.

1998-09-07 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 4 September 1998, at 14 h 12, the keyboard of Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You realize, I hope, that debmake is deprecated by its author, > and is no longer being in kept in sync with policy. So anyone using > deb-make may have packages that do not conform to p

Re: package upload

1998-09-07 Thread Marc Singer
> > What happens to a package after uploading? > > I've uploaded a new package called snmptraplogd. > Can I see the state of the package online? > > Bernd Schumacher You can see the package waiting to be moved into its appropriate place in /home/Debian/ftp/private/project/Incoming When it

package upload

1998-09-07 Thread Bernd Schumacher
What happens to a package after uploading? I've uploaded a new package called snmptraplogd. Can I see the state of the package online? Bernd Schumacher

init.d script woes

1998-09-07 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
I decided to do some house cleaning and close some bugs tonight I ran into a bit of a stumper on bug #26021 for xfstt. The bug arises due to a slight oversite on my part (I wrote the pid file making/removing code...which the upstream author happily accepted). There is one case where xfstt will