devel documentation?

1999-02-26 Thread Navindra Umanee
Montreal Fri Feb 26 15:13:29 1999 Is there a package for devel documentation or should I just wget it? Thanks, Navin. (please Cc: me)

Re: Intent to package: vdk-doc

1999-02-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > The licence is: > Copyright (C) 1998 Mario Motta > Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies if this > manual provided that the copyright notice and this permission notice are > preserved in all copies. > Permission is granted to cop

Re: how to pack a xxx.ps.gz documentation file ?

1999-02-26 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Santiago Vila wrote: > > You may just create an .orig.tar.gz for them and that's all. > This way the diffs will only contain the Debian files. Ok. I'll do that. Now, who decides where the packages are going: main or non-free. It looks like this is not clear yet. TIA, Ionutz

Re: how to pack a xxx.ps.gz documentation file ?

1999-02-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > VDK library which I'm packaging has 2 documentation files distributed > separately as ps.gz. How am I supposed to package those files ? There's > no tar.gz, just 2 compressed postscript files. You may just create an .orig.tar.gz for them and that's al

roxen-pike/pike-0.6

1999-02-26 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
I've packed the new roxen 1.2.46 (latest), which includes pike 0.5. Now, there's allready a package called pike* which is pike version 0.6... I can build roxen against 0.6 by unpacking pike_0.6.110.orig.tar.gz into .../pike and rename it to 0.6 and remove the 0.5 directory. That will generate a _

Re: PINE

1999-02-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: > I'm interested in learning how to package pine. I've posted some > experimental packages to http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html. > > I'm aware of the licensing issues, and, since I'm a law student, have > begun correspondence with UW, join

Intent to package: vdk-doc

1999-02-26 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, Here is a bit more complicated problem: - vdk has 2 reference files: vdk041.ps and vdkref04_05.ps - they are distributed on the vdk site as .ps.gz files. The first one is for the obsolete vdk 0.4 and the seccond contain the changes made in the vdk 0.5. There is no tar.gz. I have decided to

how to pack a xxx.ps.gz documentation file ?

1999-02-26 Thread Ionutz Borcoman
Hi, VDK library which I'm packaging has 2 documentation files distributed separately as ps.gz. How am I supposed to package those files ? There's no tar.gz, just 2 compressed postscript files. TIA, Ionutz PS: I want to make somehow a vdk-doc package from them.

PINE

1999-02-26 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I'm interested in learning how to package pine. I've posted some experimental packages to http://ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html. I'm aware of the licensing issues, and, since I'm a law student, have begun correspondence with UW, joined debian-legal, and have begun research into the law as

Re: textual works with publishing restrictions.

1999-02-26 Thread John Hasler
Ed Boraas writes: > Is it DFSG-Free? No. But so far as I know we've never determined that all documents must be DFSG compliant. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI