Re: New developer

1999-02-14 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 01:12:21PM +0100, Giovanni Bortolozzo wrote: > > I'd like this packages be include in Debian 2.1 (they are tested and > behave correctly, and are already included in a pre-2.1 Italian > distribution) so the growing Italian Debian users may take advantage of > them when slin

New developer

1999-02-14 Thread Giovanni Bortolozzo
Hi, my name is Giovanni Bortolozzo. I'm the new "mantainer" of doc-linux-it and doc-linux-it-text (this packages contains respectively Italian translations of Linux HOWTOs and miniHOWTOs in HTML and ascii format). I'm also the coordinator of this translation project (see ILDP Home Page - www.pluto

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 12:12:26PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > And conversely, of course there is at least one technical reason to prefer > doing all the build in the 'build' target - the 'binary' target may be run > as root (more likely fakeroot, I admit, but possibly actual root). > > It seems to

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-14 Thread Jules Bean
On 14 Feb 1999, James Troup wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:43:47PM +, James Troup wrote: > > > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > > > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > > > bu

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-14 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:43:47PM +, James Troup wrote: > > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > > build targets, it should still build stuff. > > N

Re: newbie problems and some questions

1999-02-14 Thread James Troup
Fernando Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - I got an automatically-generated mail confirming my account/password on > master, etc, which also mentioned that I should use [EMAIL PROTECTED] > address > for signing packages, so I had to add this identificator to my pgp key and > send the

Re: dependencies problem

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:01:56AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:39:53PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Yes, this is a common problem if you build a package with both a shared > > library and binaries in it. It's pretty harmless, but ugly, to leave it how > > it is. Your other

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:43:47PM +, James Troup wrote: > No, the build target should be present and should do something, > i.e. build the package. Even if it only depends on the two other > build targets, it should still build stuff. No, section 3.2.1 of the packaging manual says that it is

Re: newbie problems and some questions

1999-02-14 Thread Jules Bean
On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Fernando Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > I'm having some problems uploading a package, but I also think I > must have done something wrong in the process, so please tell me if there is > some big mistake in my procedures: > > - I got an automatically-generated mail confirming

Re: Multi-binary source package

1999-02-14 Thread Jules Bean
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Mark Brown wrote: > I'm trying to split my MPICH package into several binary packages, and > having a hard time seeing where I'm going. Can someone reccomend a > simple multi-binary package that I could look at to see what everything > is supposed to look like - preferrably u

newbie problems and some questions

1999-02-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
Hello, I'm having some problems uploading a package, but I also think I must have done something wrong in the process, so please tell me if there is some big mistake in my procedures: - I got an automatically-generated mail confirming my account/password on master, etc, which also mentio

Re: PGP signing packages

1999-02-14 Thread Fernando Sanchez
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > .dsc and .changes file. Well it tried anyway. My problem is that I am > > using pgp5 and but dpkg-buildpackage seems to want to use pgp2 or gpg for > > Simple answer: don't. Debian currently works with PGP 2.6.x and is > moving over to GNU PG. Pleas