apt-get -t, the real story

2002-08-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Can someone please explain to me, at long last, how the apt-get -t option really works (or is supposed to)? The manpage says: -t --target-release --default-release This option controls the default input to the policy engin

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Isabelle

2002-08-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
>> Last time we checked (in the context of distributing the coq >> theorem prover), proofgeneral did not allow redistribution - that >> is, it could not even go into non-free! However, I did not check >> with the current version. Stefan> At least the COPYING file in the main directory shows the

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Isabelle

2002-08-30 Thread Stefan Schimanski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Friday 30 August 2002 21:19, you wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:05:45PM +0200, Stefan Schimanski wrote: > > ProofGeneral: > > - - > > package: proofgeneral > > Description: Proof General is a generic interface for proof > > as

Request for sponsor

2002-08-30 Thread Devin Carraway
(Not having a great success rate with these requests, but I'm trying again since no one's told me I'm doing anything wrong) I've packaged sawfish-themes, the details of which don't really need much explanation. It addresses the matter that except for the few packaged with sawfish itself, there ar

Request for sponsor

2002-08-30 Thread Devin Carraway
(Not having a great success rate with these requests, but I'm trying again since no one's told me I'm doing anything wrong) I've packaged sawfish-themes, the details of which don't really need much explanation. It addresses the matter that except for the few packaged with sawfish itself, there a

Re: Use of the BTS for managing sponsorship

2002-08-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:43:18PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Jérôme Marant > > | On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 03:21:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > | > Then I suggest you scratch your itch without forcing everybody else to > | > have the same itch as you. > | > | I want something t

Re: pbuilder permission problems

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Howard
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:43, Alexandre wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:23:08AM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > > I'm trying to run pbuilder create using an up to date sid mirror, and my > > machine being sid updated just before perl 5.8 made its way into the > > repository (not been able to upgrade

Re: Adding system users and setuid

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Howard
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 17:56, Roger Leigh wrote: > In the work I'm doing on packaging buildd, I would need to have some > programs setuid buildd (and setuid rbuilder and setuid wanna-build). > I can easily create the user in postinst if it does not exist, but > that means I then need to change the o

Re: Use of the BTS for managing sponsorship

2002-08-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 04:43:18PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Jérôme Marant > > | On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 03:21:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | > | > Then I suggest you scratch your itch without forcing everybody else to > | > have the same itch as you. > | > | I want something

Re: pbuilder permission problems

2002-08-30 Thread Alexandre
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:23:08AM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > [sorry if this is the wrong place to ask - please redirect me if needed] > > Hi, > I'm having trouble getting started with pbuilder. > > I'm trying to run pbuilder create using an up to date sid mirror, and my > machine being sid up

Re: pbuilder permission problems

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Howard
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 10:43, Alexandre wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:23:08AM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > > I'm trying to run pbuilder create using an up to date sid mirror, and my > > machine being sid updated just before perl 5.8 made its way into the > > repository (not been able to upgrad

pbuilder permission problems

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Howard
[sorry if this is the wrong place to ask - please redirect me if needed] Hi, I'm having trouble getting started with pbuilder. I'm trying to run pbuilder create using an up to date sid mirror, and my machine being sid updated just before perl 5.8 made its way into the repository (not been able

Re: Adding system users and setuid

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Howard
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 17:56, Roger Leigh wrote: > In the work I'm doing on packaging buildd, I would need to have some > programs setuid buildd (and setuid rbuilder and setuid wanna-build). > I can easily create the user in postinst if it does not exist, but > that means I then need to change the

Re: pbuilder permission problems

2002-08-30 Thread Alexandre
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:23:08AM +0100, Mark Howard wrote: > [sorry if this is the wrong place to ask - please redirect me if needed] > > Hi, > I'm having trouble getting started with pbuilder. > > I'm trying to run pbuilder create using an up to date sid mirror, and my > machine being sid u

C++ libraries

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Koch
Hello list, I have two questions about packaging C++ libraries. 1) Currently my packages Build-Depend on libstdc++-dev. Is it legal to just remove this Build-Depend ? I saw that build-essential depends on g++ which depends on gcc-2.95 (currently) which depends on libstdc++-dev. 2) The library

pbuilder permission problems

2002-08-30 Thread Mark Howard
[sorry if this is the wrong place to ask - please redirect me if needed] Hi, I'm having trouble getting started with pbuilder. I'm trying to run pbuilder create using an up to date sid mirror, and my machine being sid updated just before perl 5.8 made its way into the repository (not been able