Re: signature check failed on .changes file

2000-08-16 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I suspect the error message is bogus -- I think in it's heart of hearts, the system is really complaining about not having your public key on file. At least that's what I think happened to me when I got a similar message. Jeff

signature check failed on .changes file

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Schwartz
Okay, I'm a brand spanking new maintainer, and I have (AFAIK) followed the New Maintainer's Guide on how to create and upload a package. So after I do the dupload step, I get this email: - PGP/GnuPG signature check failed on gforth_0.4.0-4_i386.changes ERROR: Header line

Re: dpkg-reconfigure calls init.d scripts with start

2000-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Dennis Schoen wrote: > > Since policy does not currently specify what return code an init script > > should return if "start" is run and the daemon is already running, a simple > > fix would be to detect the daemon is running, and just exit with a warning. > > Yes but that way, the changes made in

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:08:38PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. > > Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place. If there is such a thing, Perl is not

Re: signature check failed on .changes file

2000-08-16 Thread Jeff Breidenbach
I suspect the error message is bogus -- I think in it's heart of hearts, the system is really complaining about not having your public key on file. At least that's what I think happened to me when I got a similar message. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

signature check failed on .changes file

2000-08-16 Thread Eric Schwartz
Okay, I'm a brand spanking new maintainer, and I have (AFAIK) followed the New Maintainer's Guide on how to create and upload a package. So after I do the dupload step, I get this email: - PGP/GnuPG signature check failed on gforth_0.4.0-4_i386.changes ERROR: Header line

Re: dpkg-reconfigure calls init.d scripts with start

2000-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Dennis Schoen wrote: > > Since policy does not currently specify what return code an init script > > should return if "start" is run and the daemon is already running, a simple > > fix would be to detect the daemon is running, and just exit with a warning. > > Yes but that way, the changes made i

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:08:38PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. > > Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place. If there is such a thing, Perl is no

Unidentified subject!

2000-08-16 Thread E.L. Willighagen
back to business (was: a bit policy, a bit devel) shall we stop this endless discussion, and do something productive? (like debugging?) Egon

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The whole state debconf is best described as "prototype". Well thank you so much for your observation. It's not true though. > I'm not very > experienced in perl, so I never saw a perl-program before that is so much > less readable than a bad C-code. > > But I don't lik

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread An Thi-Nguyen Le
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:08:38PM +0200, Marius Vollmer typed: } Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: } } > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. } } Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place. No kidding. We should throw out C, C

Unidentified subject!

2000-08-16 Thread E.L. Willighagen
back to business (was: a bit policy, a bit devel) shall we stop this endless discussion, and do something productive? (like debugging?) Egon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The whole state debconf is best described as "prototype". Well thank you so much for your observation. It's not true though. > I'm not very > experienced in perl, so I never saw a perl-program before that is so much > less readable than a bad C-code. > > But I don't li

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread An Thi-Nguyen Le
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:08:38PM +0200, Marius Vollmer typed: } Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: } } > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. } } Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place. No kidding. We should throw out C,

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Marius Vollmer
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place.

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The whole state debconf is best described as "prototype". I'm not very > experienced in perl, so I never saw a perl-program before that is so much > less readable than a bad C-code. Perl can be readable or obfuscated. The language

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:15:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, I hate perl. Its easy to create bugs and hard to fix them. You can do that in any language. Perl is no different to C in that regard. Recently I've been programming a lot in Tcl; too many inconsistencies to be a good langua

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Marius Vollmer
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > The whole state debconf is best described as "prototype". I'm not very > experienced in perl, so I never saw a perl-program before that is so much > less readable than a bad C-code. Perl can be readable or obfuscated. The languag

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 03:15:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah, I hate perl. Its easy to create bugs and hard to fix them. You can do that in any language. Perl is no different to C in that regard. Recently I've been programming a lot in Tcl; too many inconsistencies to be a good lang

Re: Adopting a Package

2000-08-16 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:00:46AM -0400, Steven R . Baker wrote: > I changed the control files, did a dch -i, and stuff, and did > dpkg-buildpackage and it didn't generate a new .changes file, just a > .diff and a .dsc??? Do you have a gpg key with the exact ID in your Maintainer: field? Send the

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Er, debconf includes its own web server. In 256 lines of perl. > (Shittiest web server on earth too, btw.) The whole state debconf is best described as "prototype". I'm not very experienced in perl, so I never saw a perl-program before that is so much less

Re: Adopting a Package

2000-08-16 Thread Jordi Mallach
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 01:00:46AM -0400, Steven R . Baker wrote: > I changed the control files, did a dch -i, and stuff, and did > dpkg-buildpackage and it didn't generate a new .changes file, just a > .diff and a .dsc??? Do you have a gpg key with the exact ID in your Maintainer: field? Send th

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > Er, debconf includes its own web server. In 256 lines of perl. > (Shittiest web server on earth too, btw.) The whole state debconf is best described as "prototype". I'm not very experienced in perl, so I never saw a perl-program before that is so much les