auto-builders, how do they work?

2002-07-16 Thread Jörgen
I'm curious about how the auto-builders work, somehow I didn't find enough info about them, except for buildd (http://buildd.debian.org/). My question is: how do I make my packages available for all architectures? (Or at least, as many as possible. :-) Should I do something or does the auto-buil

auto-builders, how do they work?

2002-07-16 Thread Jörgen Hägg
I'm curious about how the auto-builders work, somehow I didn't find enough info about them, except for buildd (http://buildd.debian.org/). My question is: how do I make my packages available for all architectures? (Or at least, as many as possible. :-) Should I do something or does the auto-bui

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 17:24, Ari Pollak wrote: > Looking at > configure.ac, it really only requires GTK+2 and pspell, so I just added > libgtk2.0-dev to the build-depends. Hm, but it still appears to need libpspell-dev, which isn't in the Build-Depends. If it's left out, my pbuilder build dies

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Scott Dier
* Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020716 13:58]: > would like to get it signed. However, I'm currently bouncing between > Appleton, WI and Omaha, NE, and so it's difficult to schedule anything If you ever make it up near Minneapolis give me a ring. I'll try to keep you in mind if I make it tow

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:58:06PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of > experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging > and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find > useful. I hav

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 17:24, Ari Pollak wrote: > Looking at > configure.ac, it really only requires GTK+2 and pspell, so I just added > libgtk2.0-dev to the build-depends. Hm, but it still appears to need libpspell-dev, which isn't in the Build-Depends. If it's left out, my pbuilder build die

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Ari Pollak
Hm, commenting out the dh_foo lines aren't against any policy, and many packages do it - it's really just for reference in case they have to be added later. There aren't any example debhelper files in the debian/ directory, only commented out lines in debian/rules. I know that upstream should u

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Scott Dier
* Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020716 13:58]: > would like to get it signed. However, I'm currently bouncing between > Appleton, WI and Omaha, NE, and so it's difficult to schedule anything If you ever make it up near Minneapolis give me a ring. I'll try to keep you in mind if I make it to

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 10:36, Ari Pollak wrote: > Yeah, I am registered as a New Maintainer, but the process takes a while > and I've been on "Waiting for DAM to approve blah blah" for more than a > month now. I'm registered under [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've uploaded > updated packages which close the

Re: Bug #148398 - cvs-autoreleasedeb: file /etc/cron.d/cvs-autoreleasedeb not registered

2002-07-16 Thread Daniel Ruoso
ok... But i had did the way he said... Actually, the package was simplified... Em Seg, 2002-07-15 às 22:06, Colin Watson escreveu: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:59:40PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I received this bug report, and I'm a little confused of how to handle > > it. > > > > My package

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 01:58:06PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of > experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging > and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find > useful. I ha

Re: Your password!

2002-07-16 Thread yan
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Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Ari Pollak
Hm, commenting out the dh_foo lines aren't against any policy, and many packages do it - it's really just for reference in case they have to be added later. There aren't any example debhelper files in the debian/ directory, only commented out lines in debian/rules. I know that upstream should

Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Hi all, I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find useful. I have my own APT archive available at http://www.sacredchao.net/sof

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 10:36, Ari Pollak wrote: > Yeah, I am registered as a New Maintainer, but the process takes a while > and I've been on "Waiting for DAM to approve blah blah" for more than a > month now. I'm registered under [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've uploaded > updated packages which close th

Re: Bug #148398 - cvs-autoreleasedeb: file/etc/cron.d/cvs-autoreleasedeb not registered

2002-07-16 Thread Daniel Ruoso
ok... But i had did the way he said... Actually, the package was simplified... Em Seg, 2002-07-15 às 22:06, Colin Watson escreveu: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 02:59:40PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > > I received this bug report, and I'm a little confused of how to handle > > it. > > > > My packag

Re: Your password!

2002-07-16 Thread yan
password.txt Description: Binary data

Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Joe Wreschnig
Hi all, I'm interested in becoming a Debian developer. I have several years of experience in using Debian, and about a year of experience in packaging and maintaining my own software, as well as some other software I find useful. I have my own APT archive available at http://www.sacredchao.net/so

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Ari Pollak
Yeah, I am registered as a New Maintainer, but the process takes a while and I've been on "Waiting for DAM to approve blah blah" for more than a month now. I'm registered under [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've uploaded updated packages which close the ITP bug - I didn't increment the revision, since that

Re: needing to run configure multiple time

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:36:32PM +0200, Alexandre wrote: > I agree. My question was more on the lines of 'is the configure target > mandatory in debian/rules?' Not at all - it's just a convention (popularized by dh_make, I suspect). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTE

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

2002-07-16 Thread Ari Pollak
Yeah, I am registered as a New Maintainer, but the process takes a while and I've been on "Waiting for DAM to approve blah blah" for more than a month now. I'm registered under [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've uploaded updated packages which close the ITP bug - I didn't increment the revision, since tha

Re: needing to run configure multiple time

2002-07-16 Thread Alexandre
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:36:51PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > The problem or rather in the configuration process which uses autoconf. > > It seems to me that I need to run ./configure twice, once with > > PYTHON=python2.1 and the other one with PYTHON=python2.2 > > How about this: > > build/p

Re: needing to run configure multiple time

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:36:32PM +0200, Alexandre wrote: > I agree. My question was more on the lines of 'is the configure target > mandatory in debian/rules?' Not at all - it's just a convention (popularized by dh_make, I suspect). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PRO

Re: needing to run configure multiple time

2002-07-16 Thread Alexandre
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:36:51PM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > The problem or rather in the configuration process which uses autoconf. > > It seems to me that I need to run ./configure twice, once with > > PYTHON=python2.1 and the other one with PYTHON=python2.2 > > How about this: > > build/

Re: Mentor Request

2002-07-16 Thread Martin Domig
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:03:41AM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote: > My name is Philip Hempel, I am looking for someone that would be > willing to sponser me for a package called MessageWall from > http://messagewall.org. > This package hase two libraries that it depends on. The first is > libf

Re: Mentor Request

2002-07-16 Thread Martin Domig
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:03:41AM -0400, Philip S. Hempel wrote: > My name is Philip Hempel, I am looking for someone that would be > willing to sponser me for a package called MessageWall from > http://messagewall.org. > This package hase two libraries that it depends on. The first is > lib