Re: intend to adopt calc, so does someone else--need advice

2003-05-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Martin Michlmayr dijo [Sat, May 10, 2003 at 03:02:53PM +1000]: > * Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-09 23:31]: > > over the country - Some are to lure people into Free Software, some > > (with more technical audiences) are to promote applying for NM. In fact, > > Please don't promote apply

Re: lintian and linda

2003-05-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
Holger Kubiak wrote: > There is an 3.5.6-entry in debian/control. How can I test if my package > complies 3.5.9.0? debian-policy package. upgrading-checklist.txt > BTW: On which packages should I use linda and lintian? In the manpage for > lintian I found: > >If you specify a .changes file,

lintian and linda

2003-05-10 Thread Holger Kubiak
Hello, I made a package and tested it with lintian: W: source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.5.6 There is an 3.5.6-entry in debian/control. How can I test if my package complies 3.5.9.0? BTW: On which packages should I use linda and lintian? In the manpage for lintian I found: If you sp

Re: webCDwriter: Native vs. Non-native package

2003-05-10 Thread José Luis Tallón
At 08:43 10/05/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:53:16AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: [...] > *Since the program needs some SUID executables I do two things: > - tell the user to run 'dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord' to enable recording for > unprivileged users; warn about security im

Can somebody upload the "sitemap" update?

2003-05-10 Thread Aaron Isotton
Hi, I'm the maintainer of sitemap, and I've got an update. It is lintian and linda clean, and I believe it's ready for upload. It's available at http://www.isotton.com/debian/sitemap I'm talking about version 2.3-2. Thanks. Aaron Isotton [ http://www.isotton.c

Re: webCDwriter: Native vs. Non-native package - MOSTLY SOLVED

2003-05-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 03:09:59AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote: > At 01:33 10/05/2003 +0100, you wrote: > >On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:53:16AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote: > >> *Since the program needs some SUID executables I do two things: > >> - tell the user to run 'dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord'

Looking for a sponsor for FireHOL

2003-05-10 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, A week ago, i created a package for FireHOL (). I've seen that there is an "old" ITP (>100 days old, no activity), mailed the sender of the ITP six days ago and got no response. I've written a manpage for firehol (there was none b

looking for a sponsor

2003-05-10 Thread Bill McGair
Hi- I would like to become a Debian developer. I've read the Social Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines. I picked the gtklsof package off the requested packages list and built it as a debian package. It seemed fairly straightforward for a 1st package. So now I have a deb of it, any

Re: webCDwriter: Native vs. Non-native package

2003-05-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:53:16AM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: [...] > *Since the program needs some SUID executables I do two things: > - tell the user to run 'dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord' to enable recording for > unprivileged users; warn about security implications > - chown root.cdrom; chmod

Re: intend to adopt calc, so does someone else--need advice

2003-05-10 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-05-09 23:31]: > over the country - Some are to lure people into Free Software, some > (with more technical audiences) are to promote applying for NM. In fact, Please don't promote applying for NM. Promote doing work instead. After people have done excellent