Re: original package with CRLF as line separators

1999-09-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > I am packaging a program, which uses CRLF as end of line (don't ask me how > > it got there :-)) > > The problem is, I have to turn it to LF, because the program is a script > > and won't run with CRLF. But if I do this

Re: Building Packages on Development Machines

1999-09-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, is it possible to logon to pandora and build these packages without > having root access. Is that the purpose of the fakeroot package? Should be if the -dev packages you need are installed. > Also, if I could build packages on kubrick and fau

Re: Request for sponsor or NMU

1999-09-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:57:39PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote: > > I've recently submitted my application as a prospective new maintainer > > and would like to adopt (if/when my application is approved) some > > orphaned packages. > > Among those I've examined as likely p

Re: debian supported PGP stuff

1999-09-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm going to apply to become a debian developer and I wanna know can I use > combination of DSS key(from pgp5)+gnupg to send request? Yes -- you can do it all with gnupg. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: dpkg "dry-run" mode?

1999-09-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe this is FAQ. I don't have a potato machine handy where I > work. In general, if developers want to try installing packages they > made for "unstable" to check if it installs okay, is there a machine > to do that? Yes -- your home machine. Sorr

Re: Need help with shlibs.local

1999-09-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is driving me nuts and I want to fix it once and for > all. wmaker (src) builds several binary packages, among them, > libwraster1 and libwraster1-dev. The wmaker packages (wmaker, > wmaker-gnome and wmaker-kde) all should depend

Re: @ifinfo handling by makeinfo vs. texi2html

1999-09-12 Thread Adam Di Carlo
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just noticed that ispell.texinfo has a few chunks of > documentation (one of which is its copyright) that are > bracketed by [EMAIL PROTECTED]'' ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifinfo'' pairs. > > This causes those paragraphs to appear in the info > document (gener

Re: Which section for wmMatrix?

1999-09-12 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 11:49:56PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote: > > I've packaged wmMatrix, a WindowMaker dock app that displays The Matrix > > (from the film of the same name). One thing I'm a little unsure about > > is where to put it. It natura

Re: Which section for wmMatrix?

1999-09-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 11:49:56PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote: > I've packaged wmMatrix, a WindowMaker dock app that displays The Matrix > (from the film of the same name). One thing I'm a little unsure about > is where to put it. It naturally goes in x11 as it is an X app, but > one could

Re: binary package version numbers?

1999-09-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
tony mancill wrote: > On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 02:20:07PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > We don't have a scheme which doesn't force other arches to > > > rebuild beacuse of another arch build's mistake, right? > > > > I think that we use -2.0.