In need of sponsor for Qtella

2002-11-14 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm adopting Qtella and I'm in need of a sponsor. It's a simple package with a tiny diff, available here: http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ Thanks, Brian -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! msg07865/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

php-gtk and php zendapi

2002-11-14 Thread Gaetano Paolone
I have a bug report against php-gtk: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=164619 The error occured when a new version of php was uploaded to unstable. The error is: Warning: php-gtk: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with debug=0, thread-safety=0 module API=20020429 PHP c

php-gtk and php zendapi

2002-11-14 Thread Gaetano Paolone
I have a bug report against php-gtk: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=164619 The error occured when a new version of php was uploaded to unstable. The error is: Warning: php-gtk: Unable to initialize module Module compiled with debug=0, thread-safety=0 module API=20020429 PHP c

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:06:29AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: SL> Tcl is Tcl, so I wouldn't follow its example for, well... anything. Except that Alicq is written entirely in Tcl, so I have to at least respect the choice made by other Tcl programs maintainers. SL> I imagine python stores ever

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:07:45AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: JU> Yes, I was quite wondering that too, and people tend to disagree on JU> that point, and some people tend to be walking around filing RC JU> bugs on this regard. RC bug would definitely be an overkill, I have shown that FHS is a

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:54:40PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:25:15PM +, Mark Howard wrote: > MH> Java programs/libraries (arch independent bytecode) all go in > MH> /usr/share/java, as per policy. I guess your situation isn't all > MH> that different, so th

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:06:29AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: SL> Tcl is Tcl, so I wouldn't follow its example for, well... anything. Except that Alicq is written entirely in Tcl, so I have to at least respect the choice made by other Tcl programs maintainers. SL> I imagine python stores ever

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:07:45AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: JU> Yes, I was quite wondering that too, and people tend to disagree on JU> that point, and some people tend to be walking around filing RC JU> bugs on this regard. RC bug would definitely be an overkill, I have shown that FHS is a

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> Putting script libraries into /usr/lib does not break systems mounted in > such manner, it only increases number of files that should be stored > separately for each architecture. Yes, I was quite wondering that too, and people tend to disagree on that point, and some people tend to be walking

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:25:15PM +, Mark Howard wrote: MH> Java programs/libraries (arch independent bytecode) all go in MH> /usr/share/java, as per policy. I guess your situation isn't all MH> that different, so they should go in /usr/share, IMHO. That shows that Debian interpreted langu

Re: What does dpkg-source mean with this?

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 November 2002 07:16, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Wednesday 13 November 2002 12.18 skrev Paul Cupis: > > It should be called noteedit_2.0.16.orig.tar.gz, per the packaging > > manual. > > Meaning the only modification is to change the na

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:55:08AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: DB>> I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a DB>> proper place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS DB>> 2.1 contains self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on DB>> one hand, .tcl files

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Mark Howard
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:21, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a proper > place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS 2.1 contains > self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on one hand, .tcl > files are arch-independent a

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 04:54:40PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:25:15PM +, Mark Howard wrote: > MH> Java programs/libraries (arch independent bytecode) all go in > MH> /usr/share/java, as per policy. I guess your situation isn't all > MH> that different, so th

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> Putting script libraries into /usr/lib does not break systems mounted in > such manner, it only increases number of files that should be stored > separately for each architecture. Yes, I was quite wondering that too, and people tend to disagree on that point, and some people tend to be walking

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:25:15PM +, Mark Howard wrote: MH> Java programs/libraries (arch independent bytecode) all go in MH> /usr/share/java, as per policy. I guess your situation isn't all MH> that different, so they should go in /usr/share, IMHO. That shows that Debian interpreted langu

Re: What does dpkg-source mean with this?

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 14 November 2002 07:16, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > Wednesday 13 November 2002 12.18 skrev Paul Cupis: > > It should be called noteedit_2.0.16.orig.tar.gz, per the packaging > > manual. > > Meaning the only modification is to change the na

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 11:55:08AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: DB>> I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a DB>> proper place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS DB>> 2.1 contains self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on DB>> one hand, .tcl files

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Mark Howard
On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 10:21, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a proper > place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS 2.1 contains > self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on one hand, .tcl > files are arch-independent a

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:21:59PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a proper > place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS 2.1 contains > self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on one hand, .tcl > files are arch-

FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a proper place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS 2.1 contains self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on one hand, .tcl files are arch-independent and thus belong to /usr/share, OTOH /usr/share is supposed to c

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:21:59PM +0200, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a proper > place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS 2.1 contains > self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on one hand, .tcl > files are arch-

FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
I can't come to agreement with Alicq upstream about where is a proper place to put Alicq optional modules (written in Tcl). FHS 2.1 contains self-contradictory recommendations on that issue: on one hand, .tcl files are arch-independent and thus belong to /usr/share, OTOH /usr/share is supposed to c

Re: What does dpkg-source mean with this?

2002-11-14 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
Wednesday 13 November 2002 12.18 skrev Paul Cupis: > It can be modified. It should be unchanged. Being unchanged has beneifts > including but not limited to allowing users to verify the original tgz with > upstream and clearly showing (in the diff.gz) what changes were made during > packaging. If

Re: What to do with wrong files from upstreams

2002-11-14 Thread Karolina Lindqvist
Wednesday 13 November 2002 22.30 skrev Roger Leigh: > The `clean' rule is run before the build (by dpkg-buildpackage), so I > would do > > find . -name '*.moc' | xargs rm -f > > to remove the .moc files. If they can easily be regenerated, I would > ask upstream to remove them from the tarball (bu