Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > Am I using the above scripts wrongly? Was I supposed to substitute the name > of the package instead of #PACKAGE# myself? Yes! > Am I supposed to do something > to get the #DEBHELPER# line in postinst & prerm to work properly? Is > #DEBHELPER# supposed to be there at all?

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > Am I using the above scripts wrongly? Was I supposed to substitute the name > of the package instead of #PACKAGE# myself? Yes! > Am I supposed to do something > to get the #DEBHELPER# line in postinst & prerm to work properly? Is > #DEBHELPER# supposed to be there at all?

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>> But when I run lintian on the changes file, it still whinges about no >> symlink being setup for /usr/doc: >> N: perl checks disabled temporarily >> W: meschach: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link >> W: meschach: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link > > IANADD however it's been my recent experien

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2001-01-11, Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was I supposed to substitute the name of the package instead of > #PACKAGE# myself? Yes. HTH, -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:43:37AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > You'll have to do it manually. The file > > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all > > chanes between subsequent policy versions. Using t

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>> But when I run lintian on the changes file, it still whinges about no >> symlink being setup for /usr/doc: >> N: perl checks disabled temporarily >> W: meschach: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link >> W: meschach: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link > > IANADD however it's been my recent experie

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2001-01-11, Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Was I supposed to substitute the name of the package instead of > #PACKAGE# myself? Yes. HTH, -- Andreas Fuchs, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia! -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Gordon Sadler
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:43:37AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > You'll have to do it manually. The file > > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz contains all > > chanes between subsequent policy versions. Using

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Drew! > > You wrote: > > > What is the appropriate way of bringing meschach into the 21st Century? > > Are there any tools for handling this, or do the changes need to be made > > manually? > > You'll have to do it manually. The

Re: modernising old packages

2001-01-10 Thread Drew Parsons
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:58:14AM +0100, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Drew! > > You wrote: > > > What is the appropriate way of bringing meschach into the 21st Century? > > Are there any tools for handling this, or do the changes need to be made > > manually? > > You'll have to do it manually. Th

Re: abort-install in postrm

2001-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm calling user/groupdel in a package.postrm to remove a user/group used by >the given package when it is purge/remove/abort-install 'd. > >e.g. >... >purge|remove|abort-install) > userdel foo > groupdel bar > ;; >... > >It occurred to me that, I wasn't e

Re: abort-install in postrm

2001-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
Brian Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm calling user/groupdel in a package.postrm to remove a user/group used by >the given package when it is purge/remove/abort-install 'd. > >e.g. >... >purge|remove|abort-install) > userdel foo > groupdel bar > ;; >... > >It occurred to me that, I wasn't