My Lexmark package

2003-03-09 Thread Derek J Witt
Hey, all. I believe I finally fixed the installer. Due to not having termcap available in postinst (evidently, stdin and stdout is very basic; no extended functions), I put in a short script named install-lexmarkz33 to run the binary installer (in console mode as requested). That way, it works bett

My Lexmark package

2003-03-09 Thread Derek J Witt
Hey, all. I believe I finally fixed the installer. Due to not having termcap available in postinst (evidently, stdin and stdout is very basic; no extended functions), I put in a short script named install-lexmarkz33 to run the binary installer (in console mode as requested). That way, it works bett

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 12:59:35PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:16:18AM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > > Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > > > > > For Sponsorship? > > > > > Comments? > [...] > > Anyone el

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:16:18AM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > > > > For Sponsorship? > > > > Comments? [...] > Anyone else have anything to say? Should I cc -policy and let them > debate it? shou

Re: a couple (cgi) packaging issues

2003-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:36:56AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > - do cgi programs need man pages as well? techinically they're > executables, but i don't know what i'd put there, and they do > live in /usr/lib, so it's a bit ambiguous to me. i looked at > some other packages and none of the

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:04:35PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I just had a brainstorm about the sponsorship process that I wanted to > share for comment. > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > For Sponsorship? This has come up before. I'm told, though, that the

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 12:59:35PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:16:18AM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > > Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > > > > > For Sponsorship? > > > > > Comments? > [...] > > Anyone el

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Graham Wilson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:16:18AM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > > > > For Sponsorship? > > > > Comments? [...] > Anyone else have anything to say? Should I cc -policy and let them > debate it? shou

Re: a couple (cgi) packaging issues

2003-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:36:56AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > - do cgi programs need man pages as well? techinically they're > executables, but i don't know what i'd put there, and they do > live in /usr/lib, so it's a bit ambiguous to me. i looked at > some other packages and none of the

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:04:35PM -0500, Joe Nahmias wrote: > I just had a brainstorm about the sponsorship process that I wanted to > share for comment. > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > For Sponsorship? This has come up before. I'm told, though, that the

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Joe Nahmias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:03:14PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > > > For Sponsorship? > > > Comments? > > > > AFAIK, the set of RFS is not a subset of

a couple (cgi) packaging issues

2003-03-09 Thread sean finney
hey -mentors, stephen gran volunteered to give my package a looking over and eventually an upload (thanks!), and as a result i have another couple of packaging issues for you (and by couple i mean 6): - do cgi programs need man pages as well? techinically they're executables, but i don't know

Sponsor seeking for an ITA

2003-03-09 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello, I would like to adopt worklog, which is in the list of the packages up for adoption, but I'm not a debian developer. I retitled the bug report [1], and uploaded my work which is available here [2]. Is this the correct way to proceed? Thanks in advance. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

Re: RFC: Merging sponsoring system with wnpp

2003-03-09 Thread Joe Nahmias
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:03:14PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Joe Nahmias wrote: > > > What if we add a new type to the wnpp package 'RFS' = Ready/Request > > > For Sponsorship? > > > Comments? > > > > AFAIK, the set of RFS is not a subset of

a couple (cgi) packaging issues

2003-03-09 Thread sean finney
hey -mentors, stephen gran volunteered to give my package a looking over and eventually an upload (thanks!), and as a result i have another couple of packaging issues for you (and by couple i mean 6): - do cgi programs need man pages as well? techinically they're executables, but i don't know

Sponsor seeking for an ITA

2003-03-09 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello, I would like to adopt worklog, which is in the list of the packages up for adoption, but I'm not a debian developer. I retitled the bug report [1], and uploaded my work which is available here [2]. Is this the correct way to proceed? Thanks in advance. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/