RE: copyright files

1999-02-01 Thread Shaleh
On 01-Feb-99 Mark Ng wrote: > > I am working on a package that is GPLed, but the author > pre-pends his own disclaimer just before the GPL. > > If I just copy the copyright file into the package's doc dir, > lintian emits an error. (obviously). > > Should I prune the GPL from the copyright file

copyright files

1999-02-01 Thread Mark Ng
I am working on a package that is GPLed, but the author pre-pends his own disclaimer just before the GPL. If I just copy the copyright file into the package's doc dir, lintian emits an error. (obviously). Should I prune the GPL from the copyright file and say that the software is distrubuted und

RE: Including both `production' and `alpha' releases of a packag

1999-02-01 Thread Shaleh
Several games ship the game as .real and as a shell script which sets up needed parameters. Perhaps you could have .alpha and .stable and either a) symlink or b) provide a script which calls one or the other based on a conf file or command option.

Including both `production' and `alpha' releases of a package

1999-02-01 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hey, I have two packages of which I'd like to include two versions in the potato distribution, at least temporarily: majordomo and pciutils. There is an alpha version of the long-awaited majordomo 2.x available in a CVS-tree, which I'd like to package if possible. On the pciutils package: work is

Re: configuration file placement

1999-02-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:35:06PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > On 31-Jan-99 John Travers wrote: > > The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in > > /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can > > I > You may have to edit the program's cod

Always in /etc? (was RE: configuration file placement)

1999-02-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Shaleh wrote: > Personally I do not think EVERY package belongs in /etc. Sytem control, > sure. > But small things, no. I am aware of the current policy, but I think a strict > "everything goes here" is bound to have problems. I disagree. One of the good things about De

wmaker has a critical problem while updating alternatives

1999-02-01 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, Like I stated in a previous message of mine, I'm having trouble with diversions. This seems to be the situation: > lagrange:~# md5sum /usr/X11R6/bin/asclock* /usr/X11R6/man/man1/asclock* > b706384a5d65706fab204e10b2da0558 /usr/X11R6/bin/asclock > b706384a5d65706fab204e10b2da0558 /u