[Q] Which section should Powertweak go into?

1999-07-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am in the process of packaging Powertweak for Linux (http://linux.powertweak.com/) Which section should powertweak go into? admin? utils? Thaths -- "Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'" -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhak

Re: save us from well-meaning upstream authors.. :(

1999-07-14 Thread Leon Breedt
Previously, Martin Bialasinski said: > The author knows that you maintain this programm for Debian, right? Or > did you just start? Then you should introduce yourself and ask him to > give you control of the debian directory. He knows I maintain it, and was happy to accomodate me by adding my de

Re: save us from well-meaning upstream authors.. :(

1999-07-14 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Leon" == Leon Breedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leon> In the latest upstream release of a package, the authors put a Leon> debian/ directory into the source that is totally stuffed :(. The author knows that you maintain this programm for Debian, right? Or did you just start? Then you should

RE: save us from well-meaning upstream authors.. :(

1999-07-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 14-Jul-99 Leon Breedt wrote: > In the latest upstream release of a package, the authors put a debian/ > directory into the source that is totally stuffed :(. How will the > diff between upstream and my changes handle this if I remove their > debian/ directory, and use mine instead? > I gave

Re: save us from well-meaning upstream authors.. :(

1999-07-14 Thread Bart Schuller
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 02:45:10PM +0200, Leon Breedt wrote: > In the latest upstream release of a package, the authors put a debian/ > directory into the source that is totally stuffed :(. How will the > diff between upstream and my changes handle this if I remove their > debian/ directory, and

save us from well-meaning upstream authors.. :(

1999-07-14 Thread Leon Breedt
In the latest upstream release of a package, the authors put a debian/ directory into the source that is totally stuffed :(. How will the diff between upstream and my changes handle this if I remove their debian/ directory, and use mine instead? Leon -- Leon J. Breedt| ljb @ debian.org D

Re: Downloading Debian

1999-07-14 Thread Peter Makholm
Rad Bhatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've used Slackware & Red Hat.. I heard Debian is really good.. and I > want to try it out., but i'm confused about what directories I need to > download.. Do you make root disks / boot disks? [] There is a link to the Instalation manual at http:/

Start an ISP on debian?

1999-07-14 Thread André Bell
Do you have experience at or know where I can find information which explains how to setup an ISP on Linux (really I just want to give away free web pages which include custom scripts)? What I'm looking for is information which explains which software to run to accomplish autoregistration of new m