Re: lintian warning - ?

2002-08-09 Thread Michael Koch
Am Samstag, 10. August 2002 05:36 schrieb Stephen Gran: > Hello all, > I am making a .deb of a program, in this case kcdlabel, and I'm getting > the following warning from lintian: > W: kcdlabel: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/kcdlabel > /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib If configure supports it y

Re: lintian warning - ?

2002-08-09 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Stephen> Hello all, I am making a .deb of a program, in this case Stephen> kcdlabel, and I'm getting the following warning from lintian: Stephen> W: kcdlabel: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/kcdlabel Stephen> /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib Stephen> I don't know enough about the fundamentals of

lintian warning - ?

2002-08-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am making a .deb of a program, in this case kcdlabel, and I'm getting the following warning from lintian: W: kcdlabel: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/kcdlabel /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib I don't know enough about the fundamentals of coding to know what it means, much less how to

Sponsor request (perl again)

2002-08-09 Thread Devin Carraway
This is a small Perl module I had need of during a recent project at work, but which wasn't in Debian. Essentially it provides the comparison indicating that (e.g.) 2.10.1pl1-8 is greater than 2.9.8.1-4. Small, simple, perl-only. Packages may be had from http://devin.com/debian/. Package: libs

lintian warning - ?

2002-08-09 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, I am making a .deb of a program, in this case kcdlabel, and I'm getting the following warning from lintian: W: kcdlabel: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/kcdlabel /usr/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib I don't know enough about the fundamentals of coding to know what it means, much less how to

Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), > but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the > control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to indicate I can only sepcify a list > of supported ar

How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-09 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Hi! I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to indicate I can only sepcify a list of supported archs, which is not what i want. I would like something like Architectu

Re: Sponsor request for memtester

2002-08-09 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0500, Lonnie Sauter wrote: > Oliver- > > I have no problems with you updating the sysutils package if you wish. > If you would like to have the package we could arrange it. I have been > looking to find something different to work on in any case. Okay, I th

Re: Sponsor request for memtester

2002-08-09 Thread Lonnie Sauter
Oliver- I have no problems with you updating the sysutils package if you wish. If you would like to have the package we could arrange it. I have been looking to find something different to work on in any case. Thanks, Lon On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:06, Oliver Kurth wrote: On Wed, Aug 0

staging area ?

2002-08-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... I am packaging the ocaml language and some related libraries. There was a new release lately, which i packaged, but was somewhat buggy, and now i wish i had released it first into experimental (like gnome2 does) or a staging area (like perl does), since i cannot easily take it out of u

Are you coming to Marbella?

2002-08-09 Thread Maria Garcia
Title: Tures Andalucia 2002 - Residential Tourism Fair   Dear Sir or Madam: We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive event to enjoy Marbella, one of the most charming places in Andalusia, in the South of Spain. TURES Andalucia® 2002, the

perl sponsor request

2002-08-09 Thread Mark Howard
hi, My usual sponsor, Simon Richter, is having problems finding time for Debian at the moment. He also doesn't know perl or perl-policy very well, so doesn't want to take on this package. Hence, I'm looking for a new sponsor. I have packaged the libgtk-handyclist-perl as it is needed by another

Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), > but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the > control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to indicate I can only sepcify a list > of supported a

How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-09 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Hi! I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to indicate I can only sepcify a list of supported archs, which is not what i want. I would like something like Architect

Re: Sponsor request for memtester

2002-08-09 Thread Oliver Kurth
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:24:33AM -0500, Lonnie Sauter wrote: > Oliver- > > I have no problems with you updating the sysutils package if you wish. > If you would like to have the package we could arrange it. I have been > looking to find something different to work on in any case. Okay, I t

Re: Sponsor request for memtester

2002-08-09 Thread Lonnie Sauter
Oliver- I have no problems with you updating the sysutils package if you wish. If you would like to have the package we could arrange it. I have been looking to find something different to work on in any case. Thanks, Lon On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:06, Oliver Kurth wrote: On Wed, Aug

staging area ?

2002-08-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... I am packaging the ocaml language and some related libraries. There was a new release lately, which i packaged, but was somewhat buggy, and now i wish i had released it first into experimental (like gnome2 does) or a staging area (like perl does), since i cannot easily take it out of

Are you coming to Marbella?

2002-08-09 Thread Maria Garcia
Title: Tures Andalucia 2002 - Residential Tourism Fair   Dear Sir or Madam: We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive event to enjoy Marbella, one of the most charming places in Andalusia, in the South of Spain. TURES Andalucia® 2002, the

perl sponsor request

2002-08-09 Thread Mark Howard
hi, My usual sponsor, Simon Richter, is having problems finding time for Debian at the moment. He also doesn't know perl or perl-policy very well, so doesn't want to take on this package. Hence, I'm looking for a new sponsor. I have packaged the libgtk-handyclist-perl as it is needed by anothe

Re: pbuilder, debarchiver, quintuple-agent

2002-08-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: Your work sounds VERY interesting! :) > Besides being cumbersome, the above recipe requires me to edit the > .changes file resulting from pbuilder. Is there a way to avoid this? > I cannot find a way to make pbuilder pass arguments to >

Re: pbuilder, debarchiver, quintuple-agent

2002-08-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: Your work sounds VERY interesting! :) > Besides being cumbersome, the above recipe requires me to edit the > .changes file resulting from pbuilder. Is there a way to avoid this? > I cannot find a way to make pbuilder pass arguments to

linuxfocus multiple base package question / documentation and i18n stuff thrown in too

2002-08-09 Thread Jay Bonci
I just submitted an ITP for linuxfocus. I wanted to ask the right way to name the package, and what the policy is on packages that only exist as groups of other packages. I know virtual packages are ones that provide a proxy for another package, but what is the reverse of that. Did I miss something