1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-28 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I think it is relevant to this list. I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*). I build it w/ the help of the "New Maintainer's Guid

Re: error when building package

2001-06-28 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 03:55:40AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:08:44AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when i run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" to create a package, i get the following >error: > > > > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/esms

Re: error when building package

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:08:44AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hello, > > when i run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" to create a package, i get the > following error: > > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/esms/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 > package `esms': > `Depends' field, missing packa

Re: error when building package

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:08:44AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > Hello, > > when i run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" to create a package, i get the following >error: > > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/esms/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package >`esms': > `Depends' field, missing packag

error when building package

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
Hello, when i run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" to create a package, i get the following error: dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/esms/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `esms': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned e

Re: debconf and daemons

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:00:47AM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying my hand at a somewhat more challenging package this time, which > uses debconf to extract a username and password from the user whichi is > stored in a config file in /etc and used to start a daemon (specif

Re: Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:11:13 +0200, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Braakman (2001-06-28 18:00:46 +0300) : > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: > >> > Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. > >> > >> What item in D

error when building package

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
Hello, when i run "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" to create a package, i get the following error: dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/esms/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `esms': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned e

Re: debconf and daemons

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:00:47AM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying my hand at a somewhat more challenging package this time, which > uses debconf to extract a username and password from the user whichi is > stored in a config file in /etc and used to start a daemon (speci

Re: Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:11:13 +0200, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Braakman (2001-06-28 18:00:46 +0300) : > > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: > >> > Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. > >> > >> What item in

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > | > had been under the impression that other forms of identif

debconf and daemons

2001-06-28 Thread Sam Johnston
Hello all, I'm trying my hand at a somewhat more challenging package this time, which uses debconf to extract a username and password from the user whichi is stored in a config file in /etc and used to start a daemon (specifically a login client). I've got a couple of problems though: - debco

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-28 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:05:55PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ilia Lobsanov wrote: > > > Is there an advocate in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that can sign my key? > > http://www.google.com/search?q=toronto%20debian > ? http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/spo

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification | > were still possible, though severely discour

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' | | comments welcome. It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign

GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > we should also require them to demonstrate a clear understanding of > PKI as part of the NM process. manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to sign a key. i have it available in HTML at http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysig

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > had been under the impression that other forms of identification > were still possible, though severely discouraged. Yeah, those forms still exist. The web

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Duncan Findlay wrote: > I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with > your application, and be a mentor of sorts. > After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. > I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual physi

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-28 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ilia Lobsanov wrote: > Is there an advocate in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that can sign my key? http://www.google.com/search?q=toronto%20debian ? *t Tomas Pospisek SourcePole

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Duncan Findlay
I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with your application, and be a mentor of sorts. After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual physical meeting. Photo ID appears to be acceptible. > >

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > | > had been under the impression that other forms of identif

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > You need a signed gpg key, but not an advocate when you apply -- the > message currently printed is not clear, though. I have fixed that > now. (It should have said that you needed a GPG signd key.) Does the GPG key need to be

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Kidd
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, as maintainer of the expat and libxmltok packages I would > > really appreciate it if you could make an effort to use the > > standalone copy. > > What he said! It avoids

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Danie, On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to be your advocate; in fact, it doesn't have to be your advocate who signs your key

debconf and daemons

2001-06-28 Thread Sam Johnston
Hello all, I'm trying my hand at a somewhat more challenging package this time, which uses debconf to extract a username and password from the user whichi is stored in a config file in /etc and used to start a daemon (specifically a login client). I've got a couple of problems though: - debc

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-28 Thread Ilia Lobsanov
Is there an advocate in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that can sign my key? Ilia Lobsanov Nurey Networks Inc. http://www.nurey.net/ GPG key: http://mail.lobsanov.com/pubkey.gpg

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-28 Thread Uwe Hermann
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:05:55PM +0200, T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ilia Lobsanov wrote: > > > Is there an advocate in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that can sign my key? > > http://www.google.com/search?q=toronto%20debian > ? http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sp

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification | > were still possible, though severely discour

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' | | comments welcome. It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-28 Thread Roland Mas
Richard Braakman (2001-06-28 18:00:46 +0300) : > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: >> > Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. >> >> What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something? > > It's not in Debian Policy, it's

GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 12:13:37PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > we should also require them to demonstrate a clear understanding of > PKI as part of the NM process. manoj came up with a pretty good protocol to sign a key. i have it available in HTML at http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysi

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I > had been under the impression that other forms of identification > were still possible, though severely discouraged. Yeah, those forms still exist. The web

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: > > Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. > > What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something? It's not in Debian Policy, it's a Unix tradition going back 30 years. Richard Braakman

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Duncan Findlay wrote: > I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with > your application, and be a mentor of sorts. > After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. > I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual phys

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-28 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Ilia Lobsanov wrote: > Is there an advocate in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that can sign my key? http://www.google.com/search?q=toronto%20debian ? *t Tomas Pospisek SourcePol

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Kidd
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:54:43PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > 5) xmlrpc-c includes its own copy of expat (under a different soname) for > > binary compatibility with other Linux versions. I'd prefer not to > > change this, because it would make it hard for my users to build

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mikael Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010628 14:29]: > I have a question about that. I filled in the webform on > http://nm.debian.org/newnm.php last week, checked every botton except > the gpg key and if I have an advocate. > The webform warned about that I haven't got my key signed etc. > Shou

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Duncan Findlay
I think that now an advocate is needed to simply say that they agree with your application, and be a mentor of sorts. After an advocate is found, an application manager is assigned. I don't think that there is any requirement for an actual physical meeting. Photo ID appears to be acceptible. >

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > You need a signed gpg key, but not an advocate when you apply -- the > message currently printed is not clear, though. I have fixed that > now. (It should have said that you needed a GPG signd key.) Does the GPG key need to be

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Kidd
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, as maintainer of the expat and libxmltok packages I would > > really appreciate it if you could make an effort to use the > > standalone copy. > > What he said! It avoids

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Danie, On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Danie Roux wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. A developer does not have to be physically proximate to you to be your advocate; in fact, it doesn't have to be your advocate who signs your ke

Re: Finding a sponsor...

2001-06-28 Thread Ilia Lobsanov
Is there an advocate in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that can sign my key? Ilia Lobsanov Nurey Networks Inc. http://www.nurey.net/ GPG key: http://mail.lobsanov.com/pubkey.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-28 Thread Roland Mas
Richard Braakman (2001-06-28 18:00:46 +0300) : > On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: >> > Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. >> >> What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something? > > It's not in Debian Policy, it's

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mikael Andersson
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, > an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to > meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the > community. see http://nm.debian.o

Re: Change of package name or command name.

2001-06-28 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:33AM +0900, Yooseong Yang wrote: > > Yes. poEdit is a horrible name. Command names should be all lowercase. > > What item in Debian Policy? you mean policy 2.3.1 or something? It's not in Debian Policy, it's a Unix tradition going back 30 years. Richard Braakman

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 5) xmlrpc-c includes its own copy of expat (under a different soname) for > > binary compatibility with other Linux versions. I'd prefer not to > > change this, because it would make it hard for my users to build > > binaries t

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-28 Thread Eric Kidd
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 07:54:43PM -0500, Ardo van Rangelrooij wrote: > > 5) xmlrpc-c includes its own copy of expat (under a different soname) for > > binary compatibility with other Linux versions. I'd prefer not to > > change this, because it would make it hard for my users to buil

Re: Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:53:55 +0200, Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. > > For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. sorry i got confused... i'm currently appliing to becom

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mikael Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010628 14:29]: > I have a question about that. I filled in the webform on > http://nm.debian.org/newnm.php last week, checked every botton except > the gpg key and if I have an advocate. > The webform warned about that I haven't got my key signed etc. > Sho

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Danie Roux
I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not going to be easy though. For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:38:36PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian,

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the community. see http://nm.debian.org/ for more info. -- Robert Millan

Need a sponsor for garchiver

2001-06-28 Thread Danie Roux
I need a sponsor. The program is called garchiver. It's a replacent for WinZip, with two interfaces. The classic WinZip, and then a tree interface. It's a GNOME app, written in Python with one widget written in C. It uses autoconf and automake. Because of the Python/C combination, this was an in

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Mikael Andersson
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, > an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to > meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the > community. see http://nm.debian.

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Ardo van Rangelrooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 5) xmlrpc-c includes its own copy of expat (under a different soname) for > > binary compatibility with other Linux versions. I'd prefer not to > > change this, because it would make it hard for my users to build > > binaries

Re: Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:53:55 +0200, Danie Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not > going to be easy though. > > For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. sorry i got confused... i'm currently appliing to beco

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Danie Roux
I would love to have an advocate. Being in Pretoria, South Africa that's not going to be easy though. For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:38:36PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Robert Millan
Do you mean an advocate? When you submit your appliance to join debian, an advocate geographically near will contact you for meeting. You need to meet him/her to prove your identity so debian allows you to join the community. see http://nm.debian.org/ for more info. -- Robert Millan

Need a sponsor for garchiver

2001-06-28 Thread Danie Roux
I need a sponsor. The program is called garchiver. It's a replacent for WinZip, with two interfaces. The classic WinZip, and then a tree interface. It's a GNOME app, written in Python with one widget written in C. It uses autoconf and automake. Because of the Python/C combination, this was an i