On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:34:08PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> I am packaging an application that currently links with a non-free
> library. Since I'm one of the developers for that application, I asked
> the lead developer if we could modify it to link with a free equivalent
> for Debian, so t
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:54:31PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > You gain nothing in upload time, but it certains give you less hassle to
> > only have one single source tree in CVS, for example.
>
> Yeah, it's a cute hack.
>
> Too bad that
... when trying to build my 1st Debian package, I run into the following
if building on an NFS file system:
bash-2.03$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is xreboot
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.0-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Valentijn Sessink
Hi mentors,
I recently adopted camediaplay, which uses non-FHS lock files for
serial devices; I decided to do it right by installing liblockdev1 and
liblockdev1-dev and patching the source to use them.
It works fine, but the liblockdev1 functions get linked statically to
camediaplay, rather than
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 01:34:08PM -0800, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> I am packaging an application that currently links with a non-free
> library. Since I'm one of the developers for that application, I asked
> the lead developer if we could modify it to link with a free equivalent
> for Debian, so
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:21:19AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Can't find Motif header file Xm/Xm.h. Geomview requires Motif
> (or Lesstif). See the file INSTALL.Geomview for details.
>
> Hmm? lesstif-dev was installe
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:54:31PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> > * Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> > > "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
> >
> > This is not allowe
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:54:31PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> > You gain nothing in upload time, but it certains give you less hassle to
> > only have one single source tree in CVS, for example.
>
> Yeah, it's a cute hack.
>
> Too bad tha
Hi mentors,
I recently adopted camediaplay, which uses non-FHS lock files for
serial devices; I decided to do it right by installing liblockdev1 and
liblockdev1-dev and patching the source to use them.
It works fine, but the liblockdev1 functions get linked statically to
camediaplay, rather than
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:21:19AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Can't find Motif header file Xm/Xm.h. Geomview requires Motif
> (or Lesstif). See the file INSTALL.Geomview for details.
>
> Hmm? lesstif-dev was install
On 5 Mar 2001, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Mikael,
> I'm waiting for DAM approval since new years eve. As the waiting goes
> on, I'm looking for sponsors for the following packages (I have
> ITP/ITA for them long ago):
I can sponsor you.
Below follows which packages are already uploaded and
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> I'm packaging gnubg (gnu backgammon program). I'm a bit worried that this
> name is too short and I should call it gnubackgammon or something.
Why do you think this name is too short? There are even many packages that
have names with only 2 or 3 lette
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:54:31PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> > * Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> > > "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
> >
> > This is not allow
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I'm packaging gnubg (gnu backgammon program). I'm a bit worried that this
name is too short and I should call it gnubackgammon or something.
I asked upstream and they said:
> Personally I have a slight preference for gnubg for consistency, but I
>
On 5 Mar 2001, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Mikael,
> I'm waiting for DAM approval since new years eve. As the waiting goes
> on, I'm looking for sponsors for the following packages (I have
> ITP/ITA for them long ago):
I can sponsor you.
Below follows which packages are already uploaded and
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> I'm packaging gnubg (gnu backgammon program). I'm a bit worried that this
> name is too short and I should call it gnubackgammon or something.
Why do you think this name is too short? There are even many packages that
have names with only 2 or 3 lett
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> Why should the debian.diff contain this binary file, that is not part
> of your port to Debian, but a result of compiling the package?
True
> As the diff is generated at the very beginning of dpkg-buildpackage,
> this means that it was left over fr
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I'm packaging gnubg (gnu backgammon program). I'm a bit worried that this
name is too short and I should call it gnubackgammon or something.
I asked upstream and they said:
> Personally I have a slight preference for gnubg for consistency, but I
>
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> > "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
>
> This is not allowed.
Or rather, it is... kinda. You can have your source package generate two
sets
I am packaging an application that currently links with a non-free
library. Since I'm one of the developers for that application, I asked
the lead developer if we could modify it to link with a free equivalent
for Debian, so that the app could go in "main." He thought that would be
a good idea.
Ho
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> Why should the debian.diff contain this binary file, that is not part
> of your port to Debian, but a result of compiling the package?
True
> As the diff is generated at the very beginning of dpkg-buildpackage,
> this means that it was left over f
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> > "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
>
> This is not allowed.
Or rather, it is... kinda. You can have your source package generate two
set
* Chris Danis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want, maybe add a note echo'd to the user in the postinst
No, this is no good.
1. the messages scroll by to fast to notice, and please don't even
think of adding a "press RETURN to continue" thingy. Thing unintended
installation.
2. this is jus
* Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
This is not allowed.
One source package can only build packages for one section.
See, the structure on the FTP sites reflects this:
dist - main
* Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file
> >during compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which
> >can't diff between the current version and the .orig
This means, that you have to fix "make clean" to remove t
I am packaging an application that currently links with a non-free
library. Since I'm one of the developers for that application, I asked
the lead developer if we could modify it to link with a free equivalent
for Debian, so that the app could go in "main." He thought that would be
a good idea.
H
* Chris Danis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want, maybe add a note echo'd to the user in the postinst
No, this is no good.
1. the messages scroll by to fast to notice, and please don't even
think of adding a "press RETURN to continue" thingy. Thing unintended
installation.
2. this is ju
* Corrin Lakeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file
> >during compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which
> >can't diff between the current version and the .orig
This means, that you have to fix "make clean" to remove
* Steve M Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
> What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a
> "main" and a "contrib" .deb.
This is not allowed.
One source package can only build packages for one section.
See, the structure on the FTP sites reflects this:
dist - main
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a "main"
> and a "contrib" .deb. What would the autobuilder do with that? In
> fact, how would the autobuilder even know that is the case? The
I guess it depends o
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:10:19PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> What I am proposing is a source package that generates *both* a "main"
> and a "contrib" .deb. What would the autobuilder do with that? In
> fact, how would the autobuilder even know that is the case? The
I guess it depends
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file during
> compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which can't diff between
> the current version and the .orig
>
> Personally I think this is a bug in diff (you should be
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:47:24PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> What is the proper way of resolving this? I've currently copied the binaries
> into the .orig (diff allows identical binary files) but this is ugly. Are
> there any better ways?
Use uuencode and uudecode to convert between binary
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I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file during
compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which can't diff between
the current version and the .orig
Personally I think this is a bug in diff (you should be able to diff binary
Hi Brian!
Oh, and hello, Valentijn. Nice to meet you.
Brian Russo wrote:
> Just document it in README.Debian
>
> selectwm, IIRC is similar in this respect.
Yes, it is :) Documenting it in README.Debian works well. If you want, maybe
add a note echo'd to the user in the postinst (IIRC that's the
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 05:38:39PM +0100, Valentijn Sessink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just completed my very first .deb, for a tiny utility named "xreboot"
> (sits in the lower left corner of the screen on the xdm login with a
> [reboot] and [shutdown] button).
>
> Now the only thing that's missing is a
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file during
> compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which can't diff between
> the current version and the .orig
>
> Personally I think this is a bug in diff (you should b
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 09:47:24PM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> What is the proper way of resolving this? I've currently copied the binaries
> into the .orig (diff allows identical binary files) but this is ugly. Are
> there any better ways?
Use uuencode and uudecode to convert between binary
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I'm trying to package a program (gnubg) that generates a binary file during
compilation. However this upsets dpkg-buildpackage which can't diff between
the current version and the .orig
Personally I think this is a bug in diff (you should be able to diff binar
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