Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:04:13AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_linklint.1.gz: whatis parse for > > wml_aux_linklint(1) failed > > i am a new Debian developer, and have no idea how to fix this bug. > It appears that previous Debian maintainers added

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:18:15PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > Package: wml > Version: 2.0.6-2 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > for many wml manpages, mandb complains that: > > Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: warning: > /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_txt2html.1.gz:

How are huge, daily builds handeled?

2000-11-23 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I would like to provide the wine snapshots as debian packages. THe builds are demanding, though (list is from the guy who did this before): - about 4 Pentium-133 CPU-hours per build (between 1 and 7 builds per week), - about 96MB of RAM, - about 700MB of free disk space for the builds (these

Re: Mix of dynamic and static libraries

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > I maintain distributed-net, which is created from multiple architectures > of upstream binary-only files. The problem is, I also need to depend on > another package, so on certain architectures (ie i386) ${shlibs:Depends} > is empty, and o

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:04:13AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_linklint.1.gz: whatis parse for >wml_aux_linklint(1) failed > > i am a new Debian developer, and have no idea how to fix this bug. > It appears that previous Debian maintainers added so

Re: Bug#77840: whatis problem in wml manpages

2000-11-23 Thread Denis Barbier
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:18:15PM +0100, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > Package: wml > Version: 2.0.6-2 > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > for many wml manpages, mandb complains that: > > Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: warning: >/usr/share/man/man1/wml_aux_txt2html.1.gz:

How are huge, daily builds handeled?

2000-11-23 Thread Andreas Schuldei
I would like to provide the wine snapshots as debian packages. THe builds are demanding, though (list is from the guy who did this before): - about 4 Pentium-133 CPU-hours per build (between 1 and 7 builds per week), - about 96MB of RAM, - about 700MB of free disk space for the builds (these

Re: help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, zhaoway wrote: > hi, > > should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload > fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? > > or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave > other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? It's OK if you can

Re: Mix of dynamic and static libraries

2000-11-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 05:40:48PM -0500, Joe Drew wrote: > I maintain distributed-net, which is created from multiple architectures > of upstream binary-only files. The problem is, I also need to depend on > another package, so on certain architectures (ie i386) ${shlibs:Depends} > is empty, and

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-23 Thread Pete Lypkie
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:29:01PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > I guess I can try debian-x. It's just a hassle having to subscribe to 2 > dozen different mailing lists just to answer one question, that's all. > You can find the archives of all of the public lists at http://lists.debian.org/

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001118T160237-0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > Hmmm I seem to recall James Troup telling me that dinstall > does the check automagically during install It doesn't. However, some ftp-masters (presumably James included) use a script that does this (but the script merely displays the output,

Re: help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, zhaoway wrote: > hi, > > should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload > fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? > > or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave > other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? It's OK if you ca

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-23 Thread Pete Lypkie
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:29:01PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > I guess I can try debian-x. It's just a hassle having to subscribe to 2 > dozen different mailing lists just to answer one question, that's all. > You can find the archives of all of the public lists at http://lists.debian.org/

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001118T160237-0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > Hmmm I seem to recall James Troup telling me that dinstall > does the check automagically during install It doesn't. However, some ftp-masters (presumably James included) use a script that does this (but the script merely displays the output,

help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread zhaoway
hi, should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? thanks, zw

help on bugfix

2000-11-23 Thread zhaoway
hi, should bug-fix-upload be a batch job? i.e. every upload fixes as many as possible bugs/lintian errors etc. ? or is it okay to upload for easy-fix-bug(s) while leave other maybe-difficult-but-obvious-bugs for the next upload? thanks, zw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:17:51AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:41:51PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > When I try to start X (using either startx or xdm, I didn't try xinit), it > > > starts loading, and then the computer freezes up utterl

Re: new X freezes computer

2000-11-23 Thread Drew Parsons
On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:17:51AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 09:41:51PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > When I try to start X (using either startx or xdm, I didn't try xinit), it > > > starts loading, and then the computer freezes up utter

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:38:42AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I tell a lie, there's another possibility. Check that the changelog > names your source package correctly (i.e. by the same name as used in > debian/control). Thanx!!! Stupid me! Changed changelog, error changed it back, changed contro

3270 CICS send/receive/ind$file? (was Re: Getting rid of x3270)

2000-11-23 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi Carey and *: Is there any software out there that can do CICS send and recieve? Err, lemme qualify that... anything free that can build on a posix? -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer:

Getting rid of x3270

2000-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
I've been putting this off for a while, but I really need to do something about the x3270 package that I maintain. I took it over two years ago, meaning to sort out what the license was, but there doesn't seem to be much chance of even getting a license on it that allows it to be in non-free. My

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - >>xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21 >>dh_gencontrol: command returned error code >[...] >>When do dpkg-gencontrol say that there are conflicting values? >

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:38:42AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > I tell a lie, there's another possibility. Check that the changelog > names your source package correctly (i.e. by the same name as used in > debian/control). Thanx!!! Stupid me! Changed changelog, error changed it back, changed contr

3270 CICS send/receive/ind$file? (was Re: Getting rid of x3270)

2000-11-23 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi Carey and *: Is there any software out there that can do CICS send and recieve? Err, lemme qualify that... anything free that can build on a posix? -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer:

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:49:03AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > [Moving to debian-mentors, where this should go.] > > Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - > >xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21 > >dh_gencontrol: command returned erro

Getting rid of x3270

2000-11-23 Thread Carey Evans
I've been putting this off for a while, but I really need to do something about the x3270 package that I maintain. I took it over two years ago, meaning to sort out what the license was, but there doesn't seem to be much chance of even getting a license on it that allows it to be in non-free. My

Re: When do this occur?

2000-11-23 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values - >>xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21 >>dh_gencontrol: command returned error code >[...] >>When do dpkg-gencontrol say that there are conflicting values? >