Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Paul Harris
hi, well it looks like the package is aaalllmmoostt ready (how exciting, my first one!)... however there are problems: - i can't figure out how to stop it from installing the docs to /usr/share/doc. i can't find a reference to "share" in my source install stuff, so i'm assuming my potato-devscrip

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Paul Harris
> > dch: fatal error at line 283: > > Error editing the changelog: Illegal seek > > Probably you changed some bit of required syntax. Strip that out, > change the Maintainer: field in debian/control and try dch again. > > > what am i supposed to do? just manually edit everything? > > Note that

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Andrew D Lenharth
Well, it uses ./whatever so you can extract a deb anywhere on the fs, (If you weren't installing it). FHS specifies /usr/share/doc for docs while we use to use /usr/doc Hope this helps some. Andrew Lenharth Remember, never ask a geek "why"; just nod your head and back away slowly...

new maintainer in Australia

1999-09-22 Thread Paul Harris
hi, i thought i would split up the email in two. anyway i'm the new (i hope) maintainer for vrweb and have almost got it to upload-stage, and i would like to look at becoming an official debian developer (who doesn't?). is the waiting list really bad? i live in Perth, Australia, which is about as

vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Paul Harris
hi, i'm in progress of fixing up the whole of vrweb (i think i can close all the bugs! woo hoo), but am having some problems (probably something simple): - I change the maintainer entry (i want to become a debeloper... how many times has someone come up with that one?) and try to run "dch -v 1.5-

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:13:03PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > i have agreed to take VRweb off Fabien Ninoles' hands, and have been > successful in making it work under my Potato system! woo hoo! > > however, i have no idea what the next steps are: > > - What is the technique to rediff a package