Re: Again: where to put -doc packages ?

1999-07-28 Thread David Coe
I don't know the official answer, but here's what (as a long-time debian user) I'd suggest: If the foo-doc package is documentation for foo, it should go in the same group as foo. If the package doesn't have a corresponding non-doc package, or documents many packages, it should go in the doc sect

Again: where to put -doc packages ?

1999-07-28 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello [one last try, because nobody answered me] > Can anybody give me a hint where in the policy/packaging-manual is a > rule that decides whether -doc packages should go to /doc or, > toghether with the binary package in /net or /x11 etc. > > The current situation on the FTP server is not clear.

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails (fwd)

1999-07-28 Thread Jor-el
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Adam, Your statements seem to be based on the assumption that Debian communication is the sum total of my email. Not true. I indeed use procmail, and have done so for quite sometime now, and I even venture to suggest that I might be able to teach you a t

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-28 Thread Jor-el
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Send your questions to ``ASK ZIPPY'', Box 40474, San Francisco, CA 94140, USA On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Adam Rogoyski wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jor-el wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I recently had a developer sign my PGP key, but I havent yet > > resolved in m

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-28 Thread Buddha Buck
> >You are missing the point here. I met you, learned by Government > issued ID that you are, infact, Kenneth Stephen, which is the name that > appears on the pgp key who's fingerprint you gave me at our meeting. Upon > retrieving your actual public key and verifying the fingerprint, I know

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

1999-07-28 Thread Adam Rogoyski
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > I recently had a developer sign my PGP key, but I havent yet > resolved in my own mind some of the points he brought up. > > I use two email ids : this one (Jor-el <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) and > another one which uses my real name, and which f

Re: DEVELOPING FOR DEBIAN

1999-07-28 Thread Christian Kurz
On 99-07-28 Steven V. Russo wrote: > I wonder if anyone can tell me why no one has responded to me from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted my application months ago, and > sent two follow up applications. I believe I followed their procedure Would you please read in the mail archives about this? Th

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails (fwd)

1999-07-28 Thread Adam Rogoyski
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jor-el wrote: > 3. As I pointed out in my email, if the developer in question > wasnt sure that the email id of Jor-el belonged to me, then he wouldnt be > able to sign the following id too : "Bob Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This is > so ridiculous, becuase it is perfec

Re: DEVELOPING FOR DEBIAN

1999-07-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:28:21PM +, Steven V. Russo écrivait: > I wonder if anyone can tell me why no one has responded to me from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted my application months ago, and > sent two follow up applications. I believe I followed their procedure > as closely as possible.

Re: DEVELOPING FOR DEBIAN

1999-07-28 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:28:21PM +, Steven V. Russo wrote: > I wonder if anyone can tell me why no one has responded to me from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted my application months ago, and > sent two follow up applications. I believe I followed their procedure > as closely as possible...

Re: /usr/cgi-bin ?

1999-07-28 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:10:07PM +0200, Jozef Hitzinger wrote: > > smartupstools .rpm package puts files in /usr/cgi-bin & /usr/misc. > these are not in FHS nor FSSTND, but I thought RedHat holds the FHS. red hat does *not* hold the the FHS in all areas. From what I've heard, debian holds the

Re: /usr/cgi-bin ?

1999-07-28 Thread Will Lowe
> smartupstools .rpm package puts files in /usr/cgi-bin & /usr/misc. > may I put the files there in .deb too, or should I put them elsewhere? They probably belong elsewhere. What are the files? > (hm - am I asking the question on the right list?) Yes. :)

/usr/cgi-bin ?

1999-07-28 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
smartupstools .rpm package puts files in /usr/cgi-bin & /usr/misc. these are not in FHS nor FSSTND, but I thought RedHat holds the FHS. may I put the files there in .deb too, or should I put them elsewhere? (hm - am I asking the question on the right list?) -- jozef :-) Hi! I'm a .signatur

DEVELOPING FOR DEBIAN

1999-07-28 Thread Steven V. Russo
I wonder if anyone can tell me why no one has responded to me from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted my application months ago, and sent two follow up applications. I believe I followed their procedure as closely as possible... How can I get a response from them?! I am really eager to develop for De

when to chown a file

1999-07-28 Thread Jozef Hitzinger
Hi there. I'm trying to debianise smartupstools (www.exploits.org, very nice). If it'll do, I'd like to apply for a maintainer (it's going to be funny too, as I read the mails here), but for now I'm quite stuck: There are two daemons, running as nobody.nogroup, and they need to access the state

Re: strange multiple packages problem + question

1999-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 08:59:34PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > Source: libsgmls-perl > Section: text > Priority: optional > Maintainer: Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Standards-Version: 2.5.1.0 > ... > dh_gencontrol > dpkg-control: error: source package has two conflicti

strange multiple packages problem + question

1999-07-28 Thread Ardo van Rangelrooij
Hi, I'm trying to split libsgmls-perl (formarly also known as sgmlspm) into libsgmls-perl and sgmlspl using the following control file and rules file: == Source: libsgmls-perl Section: text Priority: optional Maintainer: Ardo van Ra

Re: how to name a prerelease package

1999-07-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 07:26:04PM +, David Coe wrote: > So I don't want to replace the current ispell with it, > until it has been released, but do want to package it and > make it available to users who want to try it (and help > test/debug it). This sounds like experimental (see the new ma