Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > b) Add this to your control file: > > > > > > Conflicts: gtksamba > > > Profides: gtksamba > > > Replaces: gtksamba > > > > > > If you use the same config file it will be preserved by dpkg, if not, > > > save it in the preinst script. > > > >

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Mitch Blevins
Julian Gilbey wrote: > > You are suggesting that potato be released containing three different > > packages (which are really the same package)? > > > > gtksamba, gtksamba-gnome, gnosamba > > > > Adding the Conflicts:, Provides:, and Replaces: line makes perfect sense, > > but I'm confused why yo

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Julian Gilbey
> > b) Add this to your control file: > > > > Conflicts: gtksamba > > Profides: gtksamba > > Replaces: gtksamba > > > > If you use the same config file it will be preserved by dpkg, if not, > > save it in the preinst script. > > > > > My initial thought is to treat it

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:20:54PM -0400, Mitch Blevins wrote: > You are suggesting that potato be released containing three different > packages (which are really the same package)? > > gtksamba, gtksamba-gnome, gnosamba > > Adding the Conflicts:, Provides:, and Replaces: line makes perfect sens

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Mitch Blevins
Martin Schulze wrote: > Mitch Blevins wrote: > > How do I handle the case where the upstream author renames a package? > > > > I have a package, gtksamba. > > It is conditionally compiled to produce to binary packages: > > gtksamba and gtksamba-gnome. > > > > Upstream is renaming it to gnosamba,

lists-archives: ownership of files

1999-05-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi, in the last two weeks I've been working with netgod's lists-archives package. Some people told me wmf would be a more adequate choice for list archiving software, I looked at it, but I still like mhonarc's approach better. [ oh, btw, this is on debian-mentors because I'm packaging lists-

Re: Essential stuff in /usr/doc (Was Re: Installing things into a...)

1999-05-23 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On 21 May 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Oh, I would expect that if I remove /usr/doc, I shall have no > access to the documentation thus removed (well, duh). That includes > the documentation only packages. I was not aware we were talking > about doc only packages here, though. > Ju

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Mitch Blevins wrote: > How do I handle the case where the upstream author renames a package? > > I have a package, gtksamba. > It is conditionally compiled to produce to binary packages: > gtksamba and gtksamba-gnome. > > Upstream is renaming it to gnosamba, and dropping support for gtk-only. > T

Re: Menu-entry and Variable holding X-clipboard

1999-05-23 Thread Carey Evans
Gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > you'll probably have to write a wrapper program that grabs the > clipboard and passes it as an argument > > this shouldn't be too hard - i'll leave it up to someone with some X > experience to give you the code ;) OK, here's something I prepared earlier, which s