Re: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:07:08PM -0600, Chewie wrote: > Updated and ready: http://www.wookimus.net/debian Candidate package gtimer-1.1.5-1 (source, i386) is now apt-get'able deb http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ ./ deb-src http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ ./ -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROT

Re: How to choose a good first package?

2001-02-06 Thread Brian Russo
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:18:24PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi. I would like to play around with some program and try to come up with a > .deb for it, in order to learn how to do it. I'd like it to be reasonably > simple, but I'd also like not to be duplicating work that's already been done.

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > I've found that Qt builds surprisingly well if I use Compaq's cxx compiler. > It might be nice if the qt packages were structured to allow rebuilding with > different compilers, although having Qt Build-Depend on a non-free package is > not a very good

Re: question about libraries in packages.

2001-02-06 Thread ^chewie
Aubin Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) If I make a bug-fix, and submit it upstream, do I have to wait > for the upstream version to apply my fix, or can I just apply it > myself. (In one of my packages, there were some GTK warnings, so I > fixed those, and sent a patch to the upstream guy, bu

Re: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:07:08PM -0600, Chewie wrote: > Updated and ready: http://www.wookimus.net/debian Candidate package gtimer-1.1.5-1 (source, i386) is now apt-get'able deb http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ ./ deb-src http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ ./ -- Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PRO

Re: How to choose a good first package?

2001-02-06 Thread Brian Russo
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:18:24PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi. I would like to play around with some program and try to come up with a > .deb for it, in order to learn how to do it. I'd like it to be reasonably > simple, but I'd also like not to be duplicating work that's already been done

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: > I've found that Qt builds surprisingly well if I use Compaq's cxx compiler. > It might be nice if the qt packages were structured to allow rebuilding with > different compilers, although having Qt Build-Depend on a non-free package is > not a very good

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > So, if you had your package for 26 days, the possibility is that qt2.2 > > hasn't been available on all arches when you had it installed. > > Have you tried looking at the build logs and its date ?

Looking for sponsor

2001-02-06 Thread Michael Janssen \(CS/MATH stud.\)
Hi! I am a new maintainer (no AM yet) and have packaged a couple of things for debian and am looking for a sponsor. The packages are - vgrabbj -- command-line v4l grabber (can daemonize) xtet42 -- (Adopted) x tetris game for 1 or 2 players I have more packages on the way, but these t

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > So, if you had your package for 26 days, the possibility is that qt2.2 > hasn't been available on all arches when you had it installed. > > Have you tried looking at the build logs and its date ? Alpha has serious gcc/g++ problems with Qt 2.2, so don

How to choose a good first package?

2001-02-06 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi. I would like to play around with some program and try to come up with a .deb for it, in order to learn how to do it. I'd like it to be reasonably simple, but I'd also like not to be duplicating work that's already been done. Can someone recommend a good package? I've been scanning freshmeat for

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > So, if you had your package for 26 days, the possibility is that qt2.2 > > hasn't been available on all arches when you had it installed. > > Have you tried looking at the build logs and its date ?

Looking for sponsor

2001-02-06 Thread Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.)
Hi! I am a new maintainer (no AM yet) and have packaged a couple of things for debian and am looking for a sponsor. The packages are - vgrabbj -- command-line v4l grabber (can daemonize) xtet42 -- (Adopted) x tetris game for 1 or 2 players I have more packages on the way, but these

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > So, if you had your package for 26 days, the possibility is that qt2.2 > hasn't been available on all arches when you had it installed. > > Have you tried looking at the build logs and its date ? Alpha has serious gcc/g++ problems with Qt 2.2, so do

How to choose a good first package?

2001-02-06 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
Hi. I would like to play around with some program and try to come up with a .deb for it, in order to learn how to do it. I'd like it to be reasonably simple, but I'd also like not to be duplicating work that's already been done. Can someone recommend a good package? I've been scanning freshmeat fo

Re: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:31:37AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > try running lintian on your packages: > > W: gtimer source: newer-standards-version 3.5.0 > E: gtimer: copyright-refers-to-old-directory Updated and ready: http://www.wookimus.net/debian Source: gtimer Binary: gtimer Architec

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:54:14 +0100 (CET) peter cum veritate scripsit : > It means that all of them built 1.4 (which is weird, since it shouldn't > build on big-endian machines anyway -- there are checks in configure to > prevent that). When I check the links provided, they seem to fail on > that th

Re: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:31:37AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > W: gtimer source: newer-standards-version 3.5.0 > E: gtimer: copyright-refers-to-old-directory > > The first message is because I have not updated lintian yet. The > second one is a violation. You should point to > /usr/share

RE: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Feb-2001 Chewie wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:02:05AM -0800, David Whedon wrote: >> I'm happy to sponsor you. > > OK. The packages are available at: > > http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ > > They are not yet apt-get'able, as I have not taken the time to figure > out scanpackages

Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:02:05AM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > I'm happy to sponsor you. OK. The packages are available at: http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ They are not yet apt-get'able, as I have not taken the time to figure out scanpackages and scansources. That's coming soon though.

"Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm having major problems getting my package turqstat go through from unstable to testing, and since testing was reset to potato, the current version in testing is severely outdated. Anyway, looking at http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html I see this: turqstat 2.0.1 (curre

Re: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:31:37AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > try running lintian on your packages: > > W: gtimer source: newer-standards-version 3.5.0 > E: gtimer: copyright-refers-to-old-directory Updated and ready: http://www.wookimus.net/debian Source: gtimer Binary: gtimer Archite

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Feb-2001 Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:16:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> > >> > It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it with lintian -I. >> > >> >> I mod'ed them to be warnings in a recent release as an experiment. >> Was curious to know h

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:54:14 +0100 (CET) peter cum veritate scripsit : > It means that all of them built 1.4 (which is weird, since it shouldn't > build on big-endian machines anyway -- there are checks in configure to > prevent that). When I check the links provided, they seem to fail on > that t

Re: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:31:37AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > W: gtimer source: newer-standards-version 3.5.0 > E: gtimer: copyright-refers-to-old-directory > > The first message is because I have not updated lintian yet. The > second one is a violation. You should point to > /usr/shar

RE: Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Feb-2001 Chewie wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:02:05AM -0800, David Whedon wrote: >> I'm happy to sponsor you. > > OK. The packages are available at: > > http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ > > They are not yet apt-get'able, as I have not taken the time to figure > out scanpackage

Package ready for critique/testing: gtimer_1.1.5-1

2001-02-06 Thread Chewie
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:02:05AM -0800, David Whedon wrote: > I'm happy to sponsor you. OK. The packages are available at: http://www.wookimus.net/debian/ They are not yet apt-get'able, as I have not taken the time to figure out scanpackages and scansources. That's coming soon though.

"Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm having major problems getting my package turqstat go through from unstable to testing, and since testing was reset to potato, the current version in testing is severely outdated. Anyway, looking at http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html I see this: turqstat 2.0.1 (curr

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 06-Feb-2001 Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:16:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> > >> > It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it with lintian -I. >> > >> >> I mod'ed them to be warnings in a recent release as an experiment. >> Was curious to know

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:11:31AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Julian Gilbey: > > > If the binary must be setgid, then you should just chown/chmod the > > binary. If it could be used not-setgid, then use statoverride. > > It can be used non-setgid if the sysadmin is paranoid, yes (then the >

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:57:04AM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > But it's not in the overrides file yet... it's a completely new package, > that was the point of this... if it wasn't new, the section in the debs > wouldn't matter much, but for new packages, the section information in the > new package

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:11:31AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Julian Gilbey: > > > If the binary must be setgid, then you should just chown/chmod the > > binary. If it could be used not-setgid, then use statoverride. > > It can be used non-setgid if the sysadmin is paranoid, yes (then the >

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:57:04AM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > But it's not in the overrides file yet... it's a completely new package, > that was the point of this... if it wasn't new, the section in the debs > wouldn't matter much, but for new packages, the section information in the > new packag

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:16:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it with lintian -I. > > > > I mod'ed them to be warnings in a recent release as an experiment. > Was curious to know how much of Debian this would affect. You could

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
Quoting Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010206 07:50]: > libs, but it contains devel). And since the files in ftp-master's incoming > is owned by troup because of the queue daemon, I can't just rm these and > upload anew... I suppose I could file a bugreport if the ftp maintainers Did you try to d

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:46:26PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > I've packaged and uploaded gmime packages (libgmime0 and libgmime-dev), > > but since auric was down, I had uploaded it into the queue daemon on > > samosa. Now the daemon installed my stuff

Re: lintian: binary-has-unneeded-section

2001-02-06 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:16:56AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > > It's an info-level message, so you (should) only get it with lintian -I. > > > > I mod'ed them to be warnings in a recent release as an experiment. > Was curious to know how much of Debian this would affect. You could

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:46:26PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > I've packaged and uploaded gmime packages (libgmime0 and libgmime-dev), > but since auric was down, I had uploaded it into the queue daemon on > samosa. Now the daemon installed my stuff into ftp-master (auric), but I > just discovered t

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
Quoting Ove Kaaven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010206 07:50]: > libs, but it contains devel). And since the files in ftp-master's incoming > is owned by troup because of the queue daemon, I can't just rm these and > upload anew... I suppose I could file a bugreport if the ftp maintainers Did you try to

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Ove Kaaven
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:46:26PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > I've packaged and uploaded gmime packages (libgmime0 and libgmime-dev), > > but since auric was down, I had uploaded it into the queue daemon on > > samosa. Now the daemon installed my stuf

Re: deleting uploads via queue

2001-02-06 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:46:26PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > I've packaged and uploaded gmime packages (libgmime0 and libgmime-dev), > but since auric was down, I had uploaded it into the queue daemon on > samosa. Now the daemon installed my stuff into ftp-master (auric), but I > just discovered

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-06 Thread Joey Hess
JP Sugarbroad wrote: > I'm not sure if dpkg applies statoverrides at unpack time or after > scripts have run. At unpack time. The preinst will have run. -- see shy jo

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-06 Thread JP Sugarbroad
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:11:31AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > Packages should almost never call dpkg_statoverride themselves. > > Earlier, that meant that the setuid/setgid bits got cleared > automatically by some daemon, is that not true anymore? Also, since the > setgid/setuid bit isn't i

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

2001-02-06 Thread peter karlsson
Julian Gilbey: > If the binary must be setgid, then you should just chown/chmod the > binary. If it could be used not-setgid, then use statoverride. It can be used non-setgid if the sysadmin is paranoid, yes (then the cache functions will be non-operative). JP Sugarbroad: > Packages should alm