Re: Making package.

2001-05-20 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Tommy! You wrote: > Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single > binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's > guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I > do: > dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it compiles fine a

Making package.

2001-05-20 Thread Tommy Moore
Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I do: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it compiles fine and asks me for my gpg password whi

Making package.

2001-05-20 Thread Tommy Moore
Hi guys. I'm trying to put together a package that contains a single binary program and have followed all the steps in the New Maintainor's guide and have managed to form the binary package. For some reason when I do: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot it compiles fine and asks me for my gpg password wh

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Christian Surchi
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Since English is the lingua franca of debian-legal, I think the main reason > for wanting licenses in English is so that we can protect ourselves from legal > troubles. Can you assure programmers for all over the world that an engli

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Sam Couter
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since English is the lingua franca of debian-legal, I think the main reason > for wanting licenses in English is so that we can protect ourselves from legal > troubles. How? Are there even any lawyers subscribed to debian-legal? Which languages do th

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: > ... > > Please go ahead. If someone non-Swedish finds the software in > > Debian packages and feels it is very useful, he/she may start > > a project to translate it into English or other languages. It > > is exciting! > > However, the software wil

Re: dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:46:23AM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > hi, > > i generate a config file in my postinst, hence it's not marked as > a conffile. so if the package is purged i have to remove it by > hand in the postinst: > # purge the config file which is created in the postinst script > i

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Christian Surchi
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:04:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Since English is the lingua franca of debian-legal, I think the main reason > for wanting licenses in English is so that we can protect ourselves from legal > troubles. Can you assure programmers for all over the world that an engl

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Sam Couter
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since English is the lingua franca of debian-legal, I think the main reason > for wanting licenses in English is so that we can protect ourselves from legal > troubles. How? Are there even any lawyers subscribed to debian-legal? Which languages do t

dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-20 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, i generate a config file in my postinst, hence it's not marked as a conffile. so if the package is purged i have to remove it by hand in the postinst: # purge the config file which is created in the postinst script if [ "$1" = purge ] ; then rm /etc/modlogan/modlogan.conf fi ok, i've

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, 20 May 2001, Radovan Garabik wrote: > ... > > Please go ahead. If someone non-Swedish finds the software in > > Debian packages and feels it is very useful, he/she may start > > a project to translate it into English or other languages. It > > is exciting! > > However, the software wi

Re: dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:46:23AM +0200, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > hi, > > i generate a config file in my postinst, hence it's not marked as > a conffile. so if the package is purged i have to remove it by > hand in the postinst: > # purge the config file which is created in the postinst script >

dpkg tries to remove a config file twice ...

2001-05-20 Thread Othmar Pasteka
hi, i generate a config file in my postinst, hence it's not marked as a conffile. so if the package is purged i have to remove it by hand in the postinst: # purge the config file which is created in the postinst script if [ "$1" = purge ] ; then rm /etc/modlogan/modlogan.conf fi ok, i've

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:18:09PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > In Texinfo sources, you'd write that like this: > > The source document is an SGML file, which is run through sgml2info. There ought to be a way to do it in your SGML flavor, I guess... > > It's either that or having to specify

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread peter karlsson
Josip Rodin: > Your info file should have something like this near the top: It hasn't. It starts like this: ===[ cut ]=== This is lyskom.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0 from /home/peter/tmp/sgmltmp.lyskom32294.info.2. \input texinfo ^_ File: lyskom.info, Node: Top, Next: Inledning,

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:40:08PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > What does this error message mean? > > "No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. > install-info: unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up" Your info file should have something like this near the t

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:18:09PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > In Texinfo sources, you'd write that like this: > > The source document is an SGML file, which is run through sgml2info. There ought to be a way to do it in your SGML flavor, I guess... > > It's either that or having to specify

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-20 Thread Christian Marillat
"CW" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CW> Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> debhelper isn't compliant with the latest policy (Change with example >> path). CW> I think you're misreading the upgrading-checklist (well, it could I've just read upgrading-checklist and

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread peter karlsson
Josip Rodin: > Your info file should have something like this near the top: It hasn't. It starts like this: ===[ cut ]=== This is lyskom.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.0 from /home/peter/tmp/sgmltmp.lyskom32294.info.2. \input texinfo ^_ File: lyskom.info, Node: Top, Next: Inledning

Re: install-info

2001-05-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 04:40:08PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > What does this error message mean? > > "No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. > install-info: unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up" Your info file should have something like this near the

install-info

2001-05-20 Thread peter karlsson
What does this error message mean? "No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. install-info: unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up" I get it when trying to install my program, which has an info file. I have not done anything special about it more than let debhe

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:34:03AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > At Sat, 19 May 2001 12:17:09 +0200 (CEST), > peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's the thought about software which is only available in a > > non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client f

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-20 Thread Christian Marillat
"CW" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CW> Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> debhelper isn't compliant with the latest policy (Change with example >> path). CW> I think you're misreading the upgrading-checklist (well, it could I've just read upgrading-checklist and

install-info

2001-05-20 Thread peter karlsson
What does this error message mean? "No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'. install-info: unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up" I get it when trying to install my program, which has an info file. I have not done anything special about it more than let debh

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >debhelper isn't compliant with the latest policy (Change with example >path). I think you're misreading the upgrading-checklist (well, it could probably be clearer there anyway). debhelper is still correct to install examples in general into /usr/shar

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 09:34:03AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > At Sat, 19 May 2001 12:17:09 +0200 (CEST), > peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's the thought about software which is only available in a > > non-English language? I am thinking about packaging a client

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-20 Thread Colin Watson
Christian Marillat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >debhelper isn't compliant with the latest policy (Change with example >path). I think you're misreading the upgrading-checklist (well, it could probably be clearer there anyway). debhelper is still correct to install examples in general into /usr/sha

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-20 Thread Christian Marillat
"CL" == Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CL> On Sun, 20 May 2001 00:42:10 +0200, Abraham vd Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Colin! >> >> > >However, if I run debstd, I get the following: >> > >> > One good question is "why are you still using debstd?" :) >> >> Hiehie, yea

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-20 Thread Christian Marillat
"CL" == Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CL> On Sun, 20 May 2001 00:42:10 +0200, Abraham vd Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Colin! >> >> > >However, if I run debstd, I get the following: >> > >> > One good question is "why are you still using debstd?" :) >> >> Hiehie, yea

Re: debstd woes

2001-05-20 Thread Carlos Laviola
On Sun, 20 May 2001 00:42:10 +0200, Abraham vd Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Colin! > > > >However, if I run debstd, I get the following: > > > > One good question is "why are you still using debstd?" :) > > Hiehie, yeah, I discovered that debstd is ancient (so is 3.1.1 standard, > we'r