Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:40:43PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > or build dependencies on debhelper (>>3.0) > > > > Yes, but since i want ot build the package on both potato and unstable, this > > will not help. > > Why exactly? It's not a crime to create two separate

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010403 18:45]: > > Maybe all manpage needing binaries could be listed somewhere, and > > we could | have a manpage writing task ? > > http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html The web page now shows who is working on the man pages

Re: cvs-- can't remember initial vendor tag

2001-04-03 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:31:27PM -0400, Chris Ruffin wrote: > > How can I extract the vendor tag information from a CVS module? I'm > trying to import new upstream sources but I can't remember the initial > vendor tag that I used to import previous versions! Does "cvs status -v" help you?

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010403 18:45]: > > Maybe all manpage needing binaries could be listed somewhere, and > > we could | have a manpage writing task ? > > http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html The web page now shows who is working on the man pages

Re: cvs-- can't remember initial vendor tag

2001-04-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Chris" == Chris Ruffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> How can I extract the vendor tag information from a CVS module? I'm Chris> trying to import new upstream sources but I can't remember the initial Chris> vendor tag that I used to import previous versions! cvs status -v ; or just le

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > > dh_testversion > > erm, ... this is told to be depredated (or whatever is the correct writting of > this word) by the build dependency stuff. It also don't seems to do anything > on a unstable system. AFAIK,

Re: cvs-- can't remember initial vendor tag

2001-04-03 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 08:31:27PM -0400, Chris Ruffin wrote: > > How can I extract the vendor tag information from a CVS module? I'm > trying to import new upstream sources but I can't remember the initial > vendor tag that I used to import previous versions! Does "cvs status -v" help you?

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread peter karlsson
Steve M. Robbins: > The undocumented page provides no more information than "No manual > entry for foo" (but the former is much longer to read). What is the > point? Personally, I reason that if I get "No manual entry", it is a program that probably shouldn't have entered myself, but if I get und

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:00:31AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > > > What is the point? > > policy :) > > i hate that catch 22. > > can't file a bug

Re: cvs-- can't remember initial vendor tag

2001-04-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Chris" == Chris Ruffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> How can I extract the vendor tag information from a CVS module? I'm Chris> trying to import new upstream sources but I can't remember the initial Chris> vendor tag that I used to import previous versions! cvs status -v ; or just l

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > > dh_testversion > > erm, ... this is told to be depredated (or whatever is the correct writting of > this word) by the build dependency stuff. It also don't seems to do anything > on a unstable system. AFAIK,

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sven LUTHER | Maybe all manpage needing binaries could be listed somewhere, and we could | have a manpage writing task ? http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html :) -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > What is the point? > policy :) i hate that catch 22. can't file a bug, since the package is not in debian[1] can't use undocumented, unless you have a bug ag

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:23:59PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:25:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > The version of debhelper on potato does not recognize > > DH_COMPAT=3. That is a feature in the debhelper ver >3.0. That may > > explain the problem of building

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' i

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread peter karlsson
Steve M. Robbins: > The undocumented page provides no more information than "No manual > entry for foo" (but the former is much longer to read). What is the > point? Personally, I reason that if I get "No manual entry", it is a program that probably shouldn't have entered myself, but if I get un

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Dennis Schoen
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:23:59PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to > > attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? > > A

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:00:31AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > > > What is the point? > > policy :) > > i hate that catch 22. > > can't file a bu

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > The version of debhelper on potato does not recognize > DH_COMPAT=3. That is a feature in the debhelper ver >3.0. That may > explain the problem of building on a potato machine. If i want to do a package that can be compiled even o

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Sven LUTHER | Maybe all manpage needing binaries could be listed somewhere, and we could | have a manpage writing task ? http://qa.debian.org/man-pages.html :) -- Tollef Fog Heen Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > > What is the point? > policy :) i hate that catch 22. can't file a bug, since the package is not in debian[1] can't use undocumented, unless you have a bug a

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:23:59PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like t

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 04:25:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > The version of debhelper on potato does not recognize > > DH_COMPAT=3. That is a feature in the debhelper ver >3.0. That may > > explain the problem of buildin

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3'

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:23:59PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > Hi, > > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to > attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? Aigh, no, please don't do that! Those drive me crazy!! The undocumented page pro

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Karel Gardas wrote: > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to > attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? with dh_undocumented. A quote from its manpage: Note that Debian policy prohibits links to undocumented(7) unless the pac

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Dennis Schoen
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:49:41AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:23:59PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to > > attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? > >

Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi, I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? Thanks, Karel -- Karel Gardas e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the > > > debian/rules. > > > > The version of debhelper on potato do

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the > > debian/rules. > > Some user report me the impossibility of build the same package from

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > The version of debhelper on potato does not recognize > DH_COMPAT=3. That is a feature in the debhelper ver >3.0. That may > explain the problem of building on a potato machine. If i want to do a package that can be compiled even

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Gopal Narayanan
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the > debian/rules. > Some user report me the impossibility of build the same package from the > sources on a debian potato. > The compilation fail on dh_clean that

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:23:59PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote: > > Hi, > > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to > attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? Aigh, no, please don't do that! Those drive me crazy!! The undocumented page pr

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Karel Gardas wrote: > I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to > attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? with dh_undocumented. A quote from its manpage: Note that Debian policy prohibits links to undocumented(7) unless the pa

Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi, I have many binaries compiled from my source package and I would like to attach 'undocumented' man page to these files. How can I do it? Thanks, Karel -- Karel Gardas e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Ivo Timmermans
Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the > > > debian/rules. > > > > The version of debhelper on potato d

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the > > debian/rules. > > Some user report me the impossibility of build the same package from

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Gopal Narayanan
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the > debian/rules. > Some user report me the impossibility of build the same package from the > sources on a debian potato. > The compilation fail on dh_clean tha

DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the debian/rules. Some user report me the impossibility of build the same package from the sources on a debian potato. The compilation fail on dh_clean that right report an error. If I turn DH_COMPAT to 2 all compile correctly even o

DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've done the ocaml-findlib package with 'export DH_COMPAT=3' in the debian/rules. Some user report me the impossibility of build the same package from the sources on a debian potato. The compilation fail on dh_clean that right report an error. If I turn DH_COMPAT to 2 all compile correctly even