"debugging headers" vs. "devel headers"

1998-10-05 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I created a debugging version of the package I created but the debugging version has a slightly different config.h header. How do you guys handle this situation (i.e. debugging headers slightly different from dev headers). Where should I install the debugging headers? Thanks, -Ossama _

Removing an obsoleted package

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
Hello, In my latest upload of eMusic, libemusic-dev was obsoleted (the author does not build static libs anymore). How can I completely purge this from dselect? Can I? Thanks. Brian

Re: m68k and other binaries

1998-10-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:51:38PM +0200, Philipp Frauenfelder écrivait: > I'm a new maintainer (a few weeks only) and have a package with > Architecture: i386 > Today I got a bug report saying it also compiled on a m68k. Is > there a possibility for me to test (try it out) beforhand or do > I ha

m68k and other binaries

1998-10-05 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi I'm a new maintainer (a few weeks only) and have a package with Architecture: i386 Today I got a bug report saying it also compiled on a m68k. Is there a possibility for me to test (try it out) beforhand or do I have to wait for such bug reports? I.e. are there machines available to produce

Re: HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On this one I have NO idea...I have a SCSI scanner (um...are you SURE its a parallel port scanner?) any way... debian-mentors isn't really the place for this. It is for people who are working on making debian packages. I would suggest reposting to debian-user... there are allot more debian-use

Re: netscape's .deb package

1998-10-05 Thread Hubert Weikert
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: > Greetings again folx. I've got Debian 2.0 "out of the box", and > looked on all 4 CD's for netscape. What I found did not seem to > contain the complete package. I tried to use alien to install > Netscape4 from my redhat 5.1 CD, but this fai

Re: netscape's .deb package -- my solution(s)

1998-10-05 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Bill, thanks for the pointer. I had multiple problems, so it would seem. I'll tell the problems (with solutions) in the hopes others reading this list will benefit from it. (1) trying to ftp from my debian machine to ftp.netscape.com (which I tried at first) failed, because I don't have the ipma

Re: netscape's .deb package

1998-10-05 Thread Bill Norton
Bedrock LAN Administrator wrote: > > Greetings again folx. I've got Debian 2.0 "out of the box", and > looked on all 4 CD's for netscape. What I found did not seem to > contain the complete package. I tried to use alien to install > Netscape4 from my redhat 5.1 CD, but this failed. Netscape's

netscape's .deb package

1998-10-05 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Greetings again folx. I've got Debian 2.0 "out of the box", and looked on all 4 CD's for netscape. What I found did not seem to contain the complete package. I tried to use alien to install Netscape4 from my redhat 5.1 CD, but this failed. Netscape's home page is built like spaghetti, so I woul

HP ScanJet Plus + Debian 2.0

1998-10-05 Thread Bedrock LAN Administrator
Greetings folx. I have an old HP ScanJet Plus connected to my parallel port that I cannot seem to get working with Debian 2.0 no matter what I try. The parallel port has Base I/O address 0x378. I believe that this is /dev/lp0. Someone please confirm / correct this for me. Secondly, I'm running