Request for mentor and sponsor

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What follows is the first of many programs I will be packaging in the next several days, weeks, and months. At my company we are currently making a push to streamline our software development/maintenance/deployment by tunn

Request for a mentor: packages maim and everything

Good evening all.  I am requesting the aid of a mentor in my debian packaging.   So far I have put together 1.5 packages. I have a few more than I would like to do, but I need a few pointers to continue onward. The packages are located at: http://bonci.com/~jaybonci/debian/   If a mentor co

Re: pppd (non-tty devices, pppo{x,atm,e}) package

On Wed, 29 May 2002 16:01, Matthew Bell wrote: > I have created a pppd pacakge from source that has been patched for > non-tty devices (supported as plugins), and am looking for anyone who wants > to use, review, or sponsor/mentor this package. Unfortuanately, I do not > have a http/ftp server a

Re: Sponsorship for GNUMP3d

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:16:49PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > You have to mark it as conffile, see Policy 11.7. > http://www.at.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config%20files Thanks - I've got it sorted out now. (I already had some config file setup; but the init.d mess

Re: Sponsorship for GNUMP3d

Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a bit more tweaking I have a new package for gnump3d, I'm still > having one problem though: > Now running lintian... > E: gnump3d: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile etc/init.d/gnump3d > E: gnump3d: init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/g

pppd (non-tty devices, pppo{x,atm,e}) package

I have created a pppd pacakge from source that has been patched for non-tty devices (supported as plugins), and am looking for anyone who wants to use, review, or sponsor/mentor this package. Unfortuanately, I do not have a http/ftp server atm (hard disk crashed), so you'll have to reque

Re: Sponsorship for GNUMP3d

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:33:26PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > It was my understanding that this should mark the given file as an > init file - but this doesn't appear to be the case; what is it I'm missing? debian/conffiles. You need to mark it as a configuration file for yourself. -- "You

Re: Sponsorship for GNUMP3d

After a bit more tweaking I have a new package for gnump3d, I'm still having one problem though: Now running lintian... E: gnump3d: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile etc/init.d/gnump3d E: gnump3d: init.d-script-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/init.d/gnump3d Finished running lintian. In my rul

Re: Unidentified subject!

Andrea Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Renato Carotone) Tonino Carotone. -- Aaron Isotton http://www.isotton.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on build process

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:31:51PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I grabbed the source to an abondened package. I checked the bug reports > and no bugs were filed. > > I made all the changes to the files in the debian directory and run > debuild on them. All the files were built but t

Re: Changing teTeX default config

On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 01:44:24PM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote: > Sorry, I appear to have lost the message to which I am replying. It is: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2002/debian-mentors-200205/msg00212.html > > You can't change the systems texmf.cnf, but you *can* replace it in

Re: Unidentified subject!

hi To directly add a package to Debian, you must be a Debian mantainer (=DM); to become a Debian mantainer, you may start from New Mantainer (=NM) http://nm.debian.org/newnm.php where you also find good links to what being a DM means; then, after you have applied, you may ask on this list if

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:24:06PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Actually, I didn't realize that /usr/share/xml existed. I think I'll > use that for the next version of xml-resume-library. Thanks! Indeed, /usr/share/xml doesn't yet exists, I proposed that name accordingly to the /usr/share/sgml