Re: Lintian error message

1998-11-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:33:08PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > If I didn't announce my intention to the right place, please accept > my apologies and let me know where I should do so in future so that > I don't offend anyone. Thanks!! 8-) AFAIK you did do the right thing. More in a private l

Re: Lintian error message

1998-11-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
> On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:20:35PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Help! I just ran lintian on my first package and got the error: > > > > E: cweb source: newer-standards-version 2.5.0 > > Hmm. I haven't seen you announce taking over cweb. I was thinking of > doing the same. Are you taking

Re: Lintian error message

1998-11-12 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:20:35PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Help! I just ran lintian on my first package and got the error: > > E: cweb source: newer-standards-version 2.5.0 Hmm. I haven't seen you announce taking over cweb. I was thinking of doing the same. Are you taking cweb-latex too

Re: Lintian error message

1998-11-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Help! I just ran lintian on my first package and got the error: > > E: cweb source: newer-standards-version 2.5.0 > > How do I go about figuring out where the problem might lie? How can I > get lintian to give me more information? > > Any help appreciated! > >Julian OK, I've sussed it:

Lintian error message

1998-11-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
Help! I just ran lintian on my first package and got the error: E: cweb source: newer-standards-version 2.5.0 How do I go about figuring out where the problem might lie? How can I get lintian to give me more information? Any help appreciated! Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Policy concerning emacs lisp files

1998-11-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Scott Ellis wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Is there any standard policy concerning the installing of emacs lisp > > files contained in a package? Having looked in the /usr/share/emacs > > and /usr/lib/emacsen-common trees, it seems to me that most packages > > install

Re: Policy concerning emacs lisp files

1998-11-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Is there any standard policy concerning the installing of emacs lisp > files contained in a package? Having looked in the /usr/share/emacs > and /usr/lib/emacsen-common trees, it seems to me that most packages > install their .el files under /usr/share/

Policy concerning emacs lisp files

1998-11-12 Thread Julian Gilbey
Is there any standard policy concerning the installing of emacs lisp files contained in a package? Having looked in the /usr/share/emacs and /usr/lib/emacsen-common trees, it seems to me that most packages install their .el files under /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp and their compiled .elc files under

Re: Closing bug report when bug remains in stable?

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel Rosdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Please CC: replies to me.] Hi, > I've got the impression that it's customary to close bug reports as > soon as a fixed version of the package in question is available on > the ftp site. However, this hides the problem in

Re: netscape's .deb package

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hubert Weikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO the prefered way to install netscape communicator is: ... My preferred way is to use Adam Heath's non-installer packages! -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: stupid question...

1998-11-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For an X-based graphical system administration utility (i.e. - > gtksamba), > where goes the binary? /usr/sbin? /usr/X11R6/bin? There's a lot of dispute on this one. I would say, /usr/sbin . > where goes the man page?