Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

Hi, I'm willing to sponsor you, also since I have a work-related interest in TWiki. Thanks, Ardo Sven Dowideit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello again. > > I'm still hoping that a DD will sponsor my updates to the twiki package. > cheers > sven > > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 00:51, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker) ...

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Daniel Pecos wrote: > Well, I ask for an advocate because of debian web page says this: > > " ... > Applicants can find a sponsor by sending an email to >describing their package and > asking for a sponsor. Developers can find more

Re: Sponsor for TWiki package

Hello again. I'm still hoping that a DD will sponsor my updates to the twiki package. cheers sven On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 00:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, if someone could please sponsor Sven that would be appreciated; I > get enough email to indicate that the twiki package is just useful > e

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:46:31PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > "B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Man autoconf is a hassle. I love autotools / hate m4. My brain hurts > > everytime I mess with aclocal.m4. > > You should never, ever, touch aclocal.m4. It's completely generated

Re: NM-wannabe: dpkg hangs on launching daemon

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 12:24:33AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: > - Debconfig-fied installation > When the postinst script launches the daemon ( by means of > /etc/init.d/webcdwriter ), dpkg just 'hangs', waiting for the daemon. Try to

NM-wannabe: dpkg hangs on launching daemon

Hi all fellow Debian users! ( just subscribed ) Wanting to become a Debian Developer, i took the 'challenge' from the WNPP list to package WebCDwriter [ http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/jhaeger/webCDwriter/ ]. Now, sometime later, I have the package mostly finished, including: - Two

Re: Perl example scripts

> No, I think you want /usr/share/doc//examples: > > greenwood$ find /usr/share/doc -name "examples" -type d -print | wc --lines > 190 > greenwood$ Yeah, you're right - typo on my part, sorry. My fingers are faster than my brain on Fridays. :-) KEN pgp4L7HShhgtk.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: Perl example scripts

No, I think you want /usr/share/doc//examples: greenwood$ find /usr/share/doc -name "examples" -type d -print | wc --lines 190 greenwood$ Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: "The Source will be with you... always." On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > I am packaging the Net::NBName modu

Debian & poldek

Hello. If anyone see poldek application to manage packages in PLD distribution ? It can bo found at: http://poldek.pld.org.pl/. It is very useful, and it has got some lovely feature - like tab completition... If anyone wanna port it to deb and debian ? It is very useful application. -- (\

Re: Perl example scripts

> I am packaging the Net::NBName module from CPAN. This module contains > some example scripts which are installed using the 'EXE_FILES' option > to MakeMaker. Should I install these in /usr/bin, > /usr/share/doc/examples or not at all? (And if not /usr/bin, how > should I change their installat

Re: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker) ...

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:17:18PM +0200, Daniel Pecos wrote: > Well, I ask for an advocate because of debian web page says this: > " ... > Applicants can find a sponsor by sending an email to >describing their package and > asking for a sponsor. Develo

Searching for a sponsor for libpam-radius-auth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all guys, my actual sponsor is on vac and i would like get a new version of the pkg in main to close a bug and to allign to the latest policies. I will really appreciate if someone can take care of it. Pkg is at: http://www.fabbion

Perl example scripts

I am packaging the Net::NBName module from CPAN. This module contains some example scripts which are installed using the 'EXE_FILES' option to MakeMaker. Should I install these in /usr/bin, /usr/share/doc/examples or not at all? (And if not /usr/bin, how should I change their installation locati

Is redirecting stdout/stderr in postinst allowed?

Hi, the developers' reference says in 6.4: | Standard input and output may be redirected (e.g. into pipes) for | logging purposes, so don't rely on them being a tty. So far, so good. But is it o.k. if the script itself performs redirections? For example something like the following in postinst:

Re: debian native and CVS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:30:21PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Bill Allombert wrote: > > > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? > > > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball.

Re: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker) ...

Hi again! > ... > > OK, once and for all, I'm going to put down my interpretation of the purpose > of the advocate in the NM process. If anyone thinks differently, please > speak up. > > The advocate is a Debian Developer (DD) who knows the work of the > prospective maintainer, and is willing to

Re: debian native and CVS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:07:51PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Bill Allombert wrote: > >>I think "-ICVS" passed to dpkg-buildpackage does the trick. See the man > >>page of > >>dpkg-source for details. > > No, this will remove the CVS dirs from the diff, but there are no diffs > > since this a

Re: debian native and CVS

Bill Allombert wrote: >>I think "-ICVS" passed to dpkg-buildpackage does the trick. See the man page >>of >>dpkg-source for details. > No, this will remove the CVS dirs from the diff, but there are no diffs > since this a native package. > I comtemplated switching to non-native for that reason but

Re: debian native and CVS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:55:52PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? > > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. > > cvs-buildpackage Could you give more detail

Re: debian native and CVS

Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. cvs-buildpackage -- bye Joerg (Irgendwo von heise.de): Jesus war ein typischer Student: - Lebte bis er 30 war bei den

Re: debian native and CVS

En réponse à Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello all, > > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. Isn't "cvs export" what you need? -- Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PRO

Re: debian native and CVS

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Bill Allombert wrote: > > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? > > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. > I think "-ICVS" passed to dpkg-buildpackage does the tr

Re: debian native and CVS

Hi Bill, Bill Allombert wrote: > What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? > The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. I think "-ICVS" passed to dpkg-buildpackage does the trick. See the man page of dpkg-source for details. Cheers T. pgphjE2qzTN1C

Re: Forwarding Bugreports

Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Please file a bug against www.debian.org asking them to grab revision > 1.5 of html/Developer.html.in from debbugs. Thanks, done. #188563. cu andreas

debian native and CVS

Hello all, What is the best way to handle native Debian packages under CVS? The problem is to avoid the CVS directories going in the tarball. Cheer, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please CC me)