Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors: > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the > best _word_ I've seen so far (that is, one that can be found in an > (English) d

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 09:39:40PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors: > > > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that > > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the > > best _word

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

Steve Bowman trying to find a good word to compliment debian-mentors: > Taking these items together, how about making up a really new word that > is really Debianspeak? You could have debee and deber :-) OTOH, the > best _word_ I've seen so far (that is, one that can be found in an > (English)

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

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 03:08:41PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > orig.tar.gz should contain the original upstream source as it is > shipped from upstream. You can use the debian/rules file (which will > appear in the diff.gz file) to specify which files actually get added > to the debian package

Managing automake symlinks

I'd check this myself, but I haven't got a sufficiently easily greppable archive to hand ... I'm maintaining the project I'm currently hacking on as a native Debian package, which also happens to use autoconf and automake. automake likes to make symlinks to some scripts in /usr/share/automake that

dh_shlibdeps : strange message (??)

Hi all, I'm sorry but i still have no experience in perl script so ... this is the output of dh_shlibdeps (on galeon package) dh_shlibdeps -l/usr/lib/mozilla dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/galeon-bin': ` libgtkembedmoz.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembe

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

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 03:08:41PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > orig.tar.gz should contain the original upstream source as it is > shipped from upstream. You can use the debian/rules file (which will > appear in the diff.gz file) to specify which files actually get added > to the debian packag

Managing automake symlinks

I'd check this myself, but I haven't got a sufficiently easily greppable archive to hand ... I'm maintaining the project I'm currently hacking on as a native Debian package, which also happens to use autoconf and automake. automake likes to make symlinks to some scripts in /usr/share/automake tha

dh_shlibdeps : strange message (??)

Hi all, I'm sorry but i still have no experience in perl script so ... this is the output of dh_shlibdeps (on galeon package) dh_shlibdeps -l/usr/lib/mozilla dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on `debian/tmp/usr/bin/galeon-bin': ` libgtkembedmoz.so => /usr/lib/mozilla/libgtkembe

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

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:13:51PM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > I am packaging python-slang, and the upstream tarball contains > precompiled binaries for linux, sparc-solaris and win32. Is it > ok to remove the directory with the binaries from orig.tar.gz? > > People are talking about pristin

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

On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 04:13:51PM +0200, Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > I am packaging python-slang, and the upstream tarball contains > precompiled binaries for linux, sparc-solaris and win32. Is it > ok to remove the directory with the binaries from orig.tar.gz? > > People are talking about pristi

how orig must orig.tar.gz be?

I am packaging python-slang, and the upstream tarball contains precompiled binaries for linux, sparc-solaris and win32. Is it ok to remove the directory with the binaries from orig.tar.gz? People are talking about pristine source and these are ... binaries. I have ITP'ed the packages on wnpp (wit

how orig must orig.tar.gz be?

I am packaging python-slang, and the upstream tarball contains precompiled binaries for linux, sparc-solaris and win32. Is it ok to remove the directory with the binaries from orig.tar.gz? People are talking about pristine source and these are ... binaries. I have ITP'ed the packages on wnpp (wi

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 11:04:52PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > Taking these items together, how about making up a really ew word that is ^-- new yeeesh... -- Steve Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (preferred) Buckeye, AZ <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 08:22:17AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > > On 2915T060004-0700, Rick Younie wrote: > > > Sponsee? Tony made that one up didn't he? I can see the > > > confusion in a couple years when the number of Debian maintaine