Re: Unstable

Chris McKillop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One would hope. I did a Replaces and Conflicts and it didn't work. > It did work for the wmaker-kde.deb but it didn't work for the > wmaker-gnome.deb. Could you post the actual replaces and conflicts lines you're using? Does it just fail using

Re: Unstable

On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 10:36:52PM -0600, Erick Kinnee wrote: > > Wouldn't a simple "replaces" work? > One would hope. I did a Replaces and Conflicts and it didn't work. It did work for the wmaker-kde.deb but it didn't work for the wmaker-gnome.deb. I asked here on mentors about this abo

Re: how orig should orig.tar.gz be?

Thanks for both answers, thats what I wanted to hear :-) On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > relative to this source. Now for reference I looked into other packages for > > reference and noted th

Re: about sponsors and maintainers

On Sunday 2 January 2000, at 0 h 12, the keyboard of [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have understood that persons not being a maintainer can get sponsors to > include their debian packages into the distribution. How much work does > a sponsor have to do for me? Typically, 'dpkg-buildpackage' and 'du

Re: how orig should orig.tar.gz be?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > relative to this source. Now for reference I looked into other packages for > reference and noted that some people repackage the upstream source, where it > is not necessary. Easily notable when you look at the owner and group

Re: how orig should orig.tar.gz be?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:11:59PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > stuff, etc). I am speaking about "normal" packages. I am allways using the > upstream source, renaming it to orig.tar.gz and the diffs are created > relative to this source. Now for reference I looked into other packages for >

how orig should orig.tar.gz be?

Hi, I am having a little dispute with another developer about the orig.tar.gz file. As I understand (or probably read somewhere) the upstream source, which ends up as _.orig.tar.gz should be _the_ source from the upstream author, no changes allowed (only under certain circumstances, like completely

Unstable

Hello everyone... I am trying to move WindowMaker back into a single deb package since there is no issue with adding hinting support for both KDE and GNOME into the binary. However, right now the package layout has a wmaker.deb wmaker-plain.deb wmaker-kde.deb and wmaker-gnome.deb. I wan