Re: couple quick questions

1999-03-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RC" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RC> what's the easiest way to write a manpage if i don't want to learn RC> troff? :) You could use a .pod file (this is the perl documentation format), which you can convert into a man page. pod2man --section=1 --release="`date +'%d

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1999-03-14 Thread Richard Braakman

Re: couple quick questions

1999-03-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
> "Randolph" == Randolph Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randolph> if a package uses a .xpm file, is there something i can Randolph> do so that lintian doesn't complain about it not being Randolph> an executable file? do i list it as a conffile? chmod -x xgdip.xpm Randolph>

couple quick questions

1999-03-14 Thread Randolph Chung
if a package uses a .xpm file, is there something i can do so that lintian doesn't complain about it not being an executable file? do i list it as a conffile? i.e. tausq[11:56] debian% lintian xgdipc*changes W: xgdipc: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/share/xgdipc/xgdip.xpm even though this is a

Re: First upload

1999-03-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
> "Thomas" == Thomas Schoepf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> A few days ago my application went through, now I am an Thomas> official maintainer. Congratulation and welcome onboard. Thomas> The new package is ready, waiting for being uploaded. Thomas> But in the mail I r

First upload

1999-03-14 Thread Thomas Schoepf
A few days ago my application went through, now I am an official maintainer. The new package is ready, waiting for being uploaded. But in the mail I received as an answer to my application, it says, I have to wait until my public key is put into the Debian keyring. Does that mean I have to regul

Re: Question about conflicts

1999-03-14 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Question for dpkg gurus: > > It is technically possible to make package A to conflict with releases of > B earlier than "p" and also with all releases of B between "r" and "s" > but not with release "q" of B (where p < q < r < s)? > > Thanks. Could you not simply say that your package conflict