Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-12 Thread James Troup
Chris McKillop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How long does it usually take for the developer application to be > processed? I have heard depressing comments on irc of over 10 > months. Can anyone confirm/deny this for me? Some random comments in no particular order, because I can't be bothered

purging: what should be deleted ?

1999-04-12 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I wonder what should be deleted when purging ? a) only the config files b) config files and empty directories c) every directory INCLUDING files that the user may have installed (since without the package those files are useless) d) config files and empty config-directores and non-config-

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-04-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 09:47:25AM -0700, R Garth Wood wrote: > The docs are very poor to say the least. I think that coding is important > but docs are as well. Nobody can use a undocumented piece of code > unless they read the source and usually by the time you understand the > code you could've

Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-12 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 08:53:12PM -0700, R Garth Wood wrote: > > It took me a month or two, but a large majority of the time it was that I > > kept > > missing the new maintainer team when they called, since there's a time > > difference of at least 5 hours... > > It might be a good idea to emai

Re: A package depends on a library built from the same source... how?

1999-04-12 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:00:10PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 09:33:04PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > >LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/debian/tmp/libbar2/usr/lib dpkg-shlibdeps > > > > but I can't get it to pick the right dependency of foo on libbar2 > > unless

Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-12 Thread R Garth Wood
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: > It took me a month or two, but a large majority of the time it was that I kept > missing the new maintainer team when they called, since there's a time > difference of at least 5 hours... It might be a good idea to email the person before the team actua

Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-12 Thread R Garth Wood
On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Chris McKillop wrote: > > Hello all... > > Well, I am finally getting around to applying to become a > developer so I can help out Jim on the ARM port. How long does it > usually take for the developer application to be processed? I have > heard depressing comm

Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-12 Thread Ed Lang
Hi, On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:38:40AM -0400, Brian Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Chris McKillop wrote: > > Well, I am finally getting around to applying to become a > > developer so I can help out Jim on the ARM port. How long does it > > usually take for the dev