Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-29 Thread Eric Kidd
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:27:21PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Would you think it a good strategy for an xmlrpc-c application to link > statically with its own version of your library, because there are > set-ups out there which have a too old, too new, too screwed > installation of xmlrpc-c?

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Just to say thanks to all who helped. I am now leaving for a week (going to France, but not Bordeaux), and will continue on packaging when I get back. Thanks again, Etienne

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >>> What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still >>> complain? >> >>Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error recov

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-29 Thread Eric Kidd
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:27:21PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Would you think it a good strategy for an xmlrpc-c application to link > statically with its own version of your library, because there are > set-ups out there which have a too old, too new, too screwed > installation of xmlrpc-c?

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > From: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > # > Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian > # > package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? > # > # apt-get source lib*-per

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Just to say thanks to all who helped. I am now leaving for a week (going to France, but not Bordeaux), and will continue on packaging when I get back. Thanks again, Etienne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >>> What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still >>> complain? >> >>Do it in preinst (and don't forget to add the proper error reco

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > From: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > # > Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian > # > package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? > # > # apt-get source lib*-pe

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
From: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # > Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian # > package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? # # apt-get source lib*-perl should do it. Silly question : where do I get source packages? I did what I th

[Mikael Hedin ] Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Mikael Hedin
--- Begin Message --- Have a look at www.d.o/devel/misc/, and use the tex-file if you want. It's called 'business card' in english. /Micce -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)980 79176 Swedish Institute of Space Physics +46 (0)8 344979 (home) Box 812, S-981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden+46 (0

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robbe> What additional security does this protocol offer over simple ID > Robbe> checking? IOW, what problem does it solve? > Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identit

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

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that anyone

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robbe> What additional security does this protocol offer over simple ID Robbe> checking? IOW, what problem does it solve? Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identity you verified actually controls the email address

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

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign an Samuel> id. That means that checking for one e-mail address for being Samuel> valid and signing all the ids is just bogus. You may use this Samuel> protocol, but you hav

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > I have seen business cards from other developers who did use the logo. I > think cards fall into the same category as clothing; if you're a Debian > developer and it's not for profit, I think it's safe to use it. However, if > you'

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Stefano, On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting > card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da > visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. 'Business card'

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
From: Paolo Molaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # > Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian # > package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)? # # apt-get source lib*-perl should do it. Silly question : where do I get source packages? I did what I t

[Mikael Hedin ] Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Mikael Hedin
Have a look at www.d.o/devel/misc/, and use the tex-file if you want. It's called 'business card' in english. /Micce -- Mikael Hedin, MSc +46 (0)980 79176 Swedish Institute of Space Physics +46 (0)8 344979 (home) Box 812, S-981 28 KIRUNA, Sweden+46 (0)70 5891533 (mobile)

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robbe> What additional security does this protocol offer over simple ID > Robbe> checking? IOW, what problem does it solve? > Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identi

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

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that anyone

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Robbe" == Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robbe> What additional security does this protocol offer over simple ID Robbe> checking? IOW, what problem does it solve? Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identity you verified actually controls the email address

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

2001-06-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>>"Samuel" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Samuel> It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign an Samuel> id. That means that checking for one e-mail address for being Samuel> valid and signing all the ids is just bogus. You may use this Samuel> protocol, but you ha

official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. From the logos page: Permission has been given to use the official logo on clo

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > I have seen business cards from other developers who did use the logo. I > think cards fall into the same category as clothing; if you're a Debian > developer and it's not for profit, I think it's safe to use it. However, if > you

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Stefano, On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting > card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da > visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. 'Business card'

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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'' What additional security

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) xmlrpc-c applications must run on distros which provide a copy of > libexpat, and ones which don't. Since the libexpat sonames have not > been incremented in a correct manner on all distributions, it's > extremely hard for me rely on pre

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-29 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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 b

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 > package `bloksi': > `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected > dh_builddeb: command returned error code > make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 > > It

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > 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/

official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. From the logos page: Permission has been given to use the official logo on cl

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:12:58AM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > Hello, > hi > > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${perl:Depends} > did you try to use debhelper and dh_perl? cheers -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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'' What additional securit

Re: Packaging xmlrpc-c

2001-06-29 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2) xmlrpc-c applications must run on distros which provide a copy of > libexpat, and ones which don't. Since the libexpat sonames have not > been incremented in a correct manner on all distributions, it's > extremely hard for me rely on pr

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-29 Thread Danie Roux
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 10:48:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package >`bloksi': > `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected > dh_builddeb: command returned error code > make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 > > It

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > 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

Re: debconf and daemons

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Moerz
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:00:47AM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > > [snip] > > - debconf doesn't append '|| true' to the init.d stop in prerm. this > > means that when start-stop-daemon returns 1 the removal/upgrade fails > > miserably if the dae

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 Thread Domenico Andreoli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:12:58AM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > Hello, > hi > > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${perl:Depends} > did you try to use debhelper and dh_perl? cheers -[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://filibusta.crema.unimi.it/~cavok/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, I also had the problem of dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `bloksi': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned error code make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 It seemed t

1st try at packaging perl program

2001-06-29 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 Guide

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 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/es

Re: debconf and daemons

2001-06-29 Thread Michael Moerz
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 04:00:47AM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > > [snip] > > - debconf doesn't append '|| true' to the init.d stop in prerm. this > > means that when start-stop-daemon returns 1 the removal/upgrade fails > > miserably if the da

Re: error when building package

2001-06-29 Thread Etienne Grossmann
Hello, I also had the problem of dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 6 package `bloksi': `Depends' field, missing package name, or garbage where package name expected dh_builddeb: command returned error code make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 It seemed