Looking for a sponsor

2001-02-08 Thread Chris Danis
Hey everyone, I've packaged selectwm, a simple little gtk app to choose a window manager to use (or for that matter, any other command to run) upon X startup, or when the previously picked window manager exits. More information is available at http://bugs.debian.org/83761 and at http://www.alt

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Colin Watson wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source > >.tar.gz > >for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on > >i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't wor

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz >for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on >i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working for him. >"apt-get source ev

Looking for a sponsor

2001-02-08 Thread Chris Danis
Hey everyone, I've packaged selectwm, a simple little gtk app to choose a window manager to use (or for that matter, any other command to run) upon X startup, or when the previously picked window manager exits. More information is available at http://bugs.debian.org/83761 and at http://www.al

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Colin Watson wrote: > Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz > >for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on > >i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't workin

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Colin Watson
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz >for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on >i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working for him. >"apt-get source e

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I'd blame tar or the MIPS port, but that he reproduced on i386 completely > > baffles me... > > > See http://bugs.debian.org/84829 > > Well, IMHO, if the md5sums are OK in his side as the bug report states, and > tar sti

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I'd blame tar or the MIPS port, but that he reproduced on i386 completely > baffles me... > See http://bugs.debian.org/84829 Well, IMHO, if the md5sums are OK in his side as the bug report states, and tar still fails to unpack, he must have somehow m

Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working for him. "apt-get source evolver" works just fine for me on i38

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > I'd blame tar or the MIPS port, but that he reproduced on i386 completely > > baffles me... > > > See http://bugs.debian.org/84829 > > Well, IMHO, if the md5sums are OK in his side as the bug report states, and > tar st

Re: Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > I'd blame tar or the MIPS port, but that he reproduced on i386 completely > baffles me... > See http://bugs.debian.org/84829 Well, IMHO, if the md5sums are OK in his side as the bug report states, and tar still fails to unpack, he must have somehow

Bug #84829: tar.gz doesn't unpack

2001-02-08 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I received a bizarre bug report a few days ago, saying that the source .tar.gz for my package doesn't unpack on MIPS, then the guy repeated the problem on i386. The md5sums are right, so I have no clue why it isn't working for him. "apt-get source evolver" works just fine for me on i3

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

2001-02-08 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
Quoting Chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010207 07:50]: > 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. > cvs-buildpackage is a beautiful thing! ;-) Any suggestions, pointers, > flames are fully welcome. ;-) I hav

Re: dependency mess: i'd like boolean operators

2001-02-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:39:33PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > the question is which dependencies should curl-ssl have? > > i'm thinking something like: > Conflicts: curl(<7.4.2-2) > Depends: curl(>=7.4.2-2), libcurl0-ssl(=7.4.2-2) | libcurl1-ssl(>=7.5-1) If you Depend on curl >= 7.4.2-

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

2001-02-08 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
Quoting Chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010207 07:50]: > 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. > cvs-buildpackage is a beautiful thing! ;-) Any suggestions, pointers, > flames are fully welcome. ;-) I ha

dependency mess: i'd like boolean operators

2001-02-08 Thread Domenico Andreoli
i know that this topic has been already discussed in this list but i'm not finding the messages i need, so please help me. my curl package has been uploaded with the following version numbers: ...[some older]... 7.4.2-1 7.4.2-2 7.5-1 ...[some newer]... until 7.4.2-1 included, curl and curl-ssl we

help in interpreting the packaging manual

2001-02-08 Thread Domenico Andreoli
i need to put a "Conflicts: curl-ssl(<7.6-2)" in the control file of my curl package since the curl-ssl packages newer then 7.6-2 know how to handle the co-existence. now reading the packaging manual i found this writing: "A Conflicts entry should almost never have an `earlier than' version clau

Re: dependency mess: i'd like boolean operators

2001-02-08 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 03:39:33PM +0100, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > the question is which dependencies should curl-ssl have? > > i'm thinking something like: > Conflicts: curl(<7.4.2-2) > Depends: curl(>=7.4.2-2), libcurl0-ssl(=7.4.2-2) | libcurl1-ssl(>=7.5-1) If you Depend on curl >= 7.4.2

dependency mess: i'd like boolean operators

2001-02-08 Thread Domenico Andreoli
i know that this topic has been already discussed in this list but i'm not finding the messages i need, so please help me. my curl package has been uploaded with the following version numbers: ...[some older]... 7.4.2-1 7.4.2-2 7.5-1 ...[some newer]... until 7.4.2-1 included, curl and curl-ssl w

help in interpreting the packaging manual

2001-02-08 Thread Domenico Andreoli
i need to put a "Conflicts: curl-ssl(<7.6-2)" in the control file of my curl package since the curl-ssl packages newer then 7.6-2 know how to handle the co-existence. now reading the packaging manual i found this writing: "A Conflicts entry should almost never have an `earlier than' version cla

Re: ITP: OpenSLP - Service Location Protocol (SLP) v2 implementation

2001-02-08 Thread Ganesan Rajagopal
> "Ganesan" == Ganesan Rajagopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I am currently in the NM queue. I am looking for a sponsor to upload > packages for OpenSLP. My experimental packages are available at > ftp://openslp.sourceforge.net:/pub/openslp/CVS. These sources are based on > a current