Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > this parsed after upload to close bugs? This is in the developer's reference. I encourage you to read it in its entirety. -- - mdz

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread Leo \"Costela\" Antunes
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:04, josX wrote: > John wrote: > >josX wrote: > >> I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, > >> and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't > >> too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but > >> it is not my fi

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread josX
John wrote: >josX wrote: >> I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, >> and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't >> too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but >> it is not my first interest (packaging/installing etc). OTOH, maybe

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > this parsed after upload to close bugs? This is in the developer's reference. I encourage you to read it in its entirety. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread Leo \"Costela\" Antunes
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 17:04, josX wrote: > John wrote: > >josX wrote: > >> I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, > >> and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't > >> too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but > >> it is not my fi

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Teófilo Ruiz Suárez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El 1-abr-2003 a las 15:33:39, Frank Küster escribió: > > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #1

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread josX
John wrote: >josX wrote: >> I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, >> and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't >> too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but >> it is not my first interest (packaging/installing etc). OTOH, maybe

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Teófilo Ruiz Suárez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El 1-abr-2003 a las 15:33:39, Frank Küster escribió: > > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #1

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread John Belmonte
josX wrote: I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but it is not my first interest (packaging/installing etc). OTOH, maybe it is fun to do, i've n

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: Thank you all. Indeed the link to the developers reference on http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step1 escaped my attention, and this document is all what I longed for so long... Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalis

Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread josX
Hi debian people, I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but it is not my first interest (packaging/installing etc). OTOH, maybe it is fun to do,

Re: RFS: faqomatic

2003-04-01 Thread Jereme Corrado
Hi Francesco, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:24:37AM -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote: > > The current faqomatic maintainer has put the package up for > > adoption and has kindly agreed to let me take it over. I have > > packaged the newest upstream version and am lo

Re: Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread John Belmonte
josX wrote: I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but it is not my first interest (packaging/installing etc). OTOH, maybe it is fun to do, i've no

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: Thank you all. Indeed the link to the developers reference on http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-step1 escaped my attention, and this document is all what I longed for so long... Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalis

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread eichin
Yes, if someone could please sponsor Sven that would be appreciated; I get enough email to indicate that the twiki package is just useful enough to inspire others to try fix it, Sven is the first one to actually do what looks like quite a good job of it, and if someone could actually help him get i

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-01 15:14]: > > Did you ask Mark explicitely for adoption? Hijacking packages > > without notices is not a good practice. > > Martin promised to do something about inactive developers. Yeah, I've been doing stuff for a while. Look on klecker in /o

Got program, howto debianize ?

2003-04-01 Thread josX
Hi debian people, I wrote a program, and i would like to have it in debian format, and if people like it in the debian releases. If packaging isn't too difficult i would have no problems with debianizing it, but it is not my first interest (packaging/installing etc). OTOH, maybe it is fun to do,

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Teófilo Ruiz Suárez
El 1-abr-2003 a las 15:33:39, Frank Küster escribió: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > >> this parsed after upload to cl

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > >> this parsed after upload to close bugs? > >

a lib* file within a package

2003-04-01 Thread martin f krafft
doods, i don't really know what to do in this case. Rex Tsai wants to package proxychains. The package contains libproxychains.so, but ther are no SHLIBS. i told him that instead, he should package libproxychains separately, and make the proxychains package depend on that. To that, he writes: > T

Re: RFS: faqomatic

2003-04-01 Thread Jereme Corrado
Hi Francesco, Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:24:37AM -0500, Jereme Corrado wrote: > > The current faqomatic maintainer has put the package up for > > adoption and has kindly agreed to let me take it over. I have > > packaged the newest upstream version and am lo

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Sven Dowideit
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 22:29, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > > Hello, > > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release > > (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the > > current m

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 15:14, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release >

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is >> this parsed after upload to close bugs? > > Sure it is. So what should I read to learn about thi

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread eichin
Yes, if someone could please sponsor Sven that would be appreciated; I get enough email to indicate that the twiki package is just useful enough to inspire others to try fix it, Sven is the first one to actually do what looks like quite a good job of it, and if someone could actually help him get i

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 13:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? > Is this parsed after upload to close bugs? http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkg

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > > Hello, > > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release > > (01Jan2003) about

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-04-01 15:14]: > > Did you ask Mark explicitely for adoption? Hijacking packages > > without notices is not a good practice. > > Martin promised to do something about inactive developers. Yeah, I've been doing stuff for a while. Look on klecker in /o

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > this parsed after upload to close bugs? Sure it is. mooch -- I say NO to WAR. Not with my silence. Not with my blessing. Say NO now Jesus Clim

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Yes. > Is this parsed after upload to close bugs? Yes. ciao, - -- F: Warum heist ein Löwe eigentlich L

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Frank Küster wrote: > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > this parsed after upload to close bugs? Yes. Actually it probably rather is the changes file generated with the aid of the changelog. cf Developer's Reference 5.8.4 and 6.3 for the details. Cheers T.

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Teófilo Ruiz Suárez
El 1-abr-2003 a las 15:33:39, Frank Küster escribió: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > >> this parsed after upload to cl

Isn't the "dpkg programmers' manual" obsolete?

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, the manpage of update-rc.d refers the reader to the "dpkg programmers' manual". I couldn't find this document on the Debian server, but using google. But the text I found is from 1996 and seems to deal with things that are now in the debian-policy package. So am I missing something, or should

closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Hi all, is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is this parsed after upload to close bugs? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > >> this parsed after upload to close bugs? > >

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > Hello, > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release > (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the > current maintainer to upload the changes. > > Unfortuanatly I get the feel

a lib* file within a package

2003-04-01 Thread martin f krafft
doods, i don't really know what to do in this case. Rex Tsai wants to package proxychains. The package contains libproxychains.so, but ther are no SHLIBS. i told him that instead, he should package libproxychains separately, and make the proxychains package depend on that. To that, he writes: > T

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tuesday 01 April 2003 15:14, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release >

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Sven Dowideit
On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 22:29, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > > Hello, > > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release > > (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the > > current m

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is >> this parsed after upload to close bugs? > > Sure it is. So what should I read to learn about thi

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Paul Cupis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 13:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? > Is this parsed after upload to close bugs? http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkg

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:29:28PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > > Hello, > > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release > > (01Jan2003) about

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > this parsed after upload to close bugs? Sure it is. mooch -- I say NO to WAR. Not with my silence. Not with my blessing. Say NO now Jesus Clim

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Hi all, > > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Yes. > Is this parsed after upload to close bugs? Yes. ciao, - -- F: Warum heist ein Löwe eigentlich L

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Frank Küster wrote: > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > this parsed after upload to close bugs? Yes. Actually it probably rather is the changes file generated with the aid of the changelog. cf Developer's Reference 5.8.4 and 6.3 for the details. Cheers T.

Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Sven Dowideit
Hello, I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the current maintainer to upload the changes. Unfortuanatly I get the feeling that Mark is unavailable (due to time constraints) so I would like to

Isn't the "dpkg programmers' manual" obsolete?

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, the manpage of update-rc.d refers the reader to the "dpkg programmers' manual". I couldn't find this document on the Debian server, but using google. But the text I found is from 1996 and seems to deal with things that are now in the debian-policy package. So am I missing something, or should

closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Frank Küster
Hi all, is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is this parsed after upload to close bugs? TIA, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:36:15AM +1000, Sven Dowideit wrote: > Hello, > I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release > (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the > current maintainer to upload the changes. > > Unfortuanatly I get the feel

Sponsor for TWiki package

2003-04-01 Thread Sven Dowideit
Hello, I made some updates the twiki package to the latest upstream release (01Jan2003) about 2 months ago, and have since been trying to get the current maintainer to upload the changes. Unfortuanatly I get the feeling that Mark is unavailable (due to time constraints) so I would like to