Re: bug reports

2003-05-30 Thread Neil Roeth
On May 30, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Neil Roeth wrote: > > Thanks for the hints. I should have been more clear - I have no problem > > getting the main page, i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are > > links in that page to bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug= for > > each > >

Re: bug reports

2003-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
Neil Roeth wrote: > Thanks for the hints. I should have been more clear - I have no problem > getting the main page, i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are > links in that page to bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug= for each > bug, and I want to get each of those as a local web page, too. That

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
I really think this should go to the debian-perl list so I'm sending it there. The libc-include-perl example below is one of the best arguments I've seen for changing the perl module naming scheme. It's a pity that we didn't think it through more before deciding on it. IIRC we just took the example

How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-05-30 Thread Neil Roeth
I recently had a bug (193950) filed against one of my packages because the shared libraries had "undefined non-weak symbols" - libstdc++ was not being linked in. I resolved it with what I consider a gruesome hack. I discovered that forcing libtool to use g++ while linking would automatically link

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of > the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" tags. I think all I > need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug > was fixed in the NMU of versi

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-30 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 07:14:39PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: > I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and > several of the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" > tags. I think all I need to do is send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug was fixed

advice on closing bugs

2003-05-30 Thread Neil Roeth
I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" tags. I think all I need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug was fixed in the NMU of version 1.2.1-29.3. The fix has been propagated to t

SML/NJ Bugfix and New Packages

2003-05-30 Thread Aaron Matthew Read
My sponsor is unavailable to upload for me right now, so I am seeking a Developer who would like to help me get the following uploaded: 1. A bugfix to the smlnj-runtime package. Fixes a compile problem with the gcc-3.3 compiler. 2. Optionally a set of new smlnj related packages: libckit-s

Sponsoring a Java package

2003-05-30 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hi, I am a new DD, so there are a lot of subtleties out there still waiting for me to learn :) One of them is: A coworker of mine is a co-developer of a Java-based LMS, OpenUSS (http://www.openuss.org). We were talking that it would be interesting to package OpenUSS for Debian - Initially I off

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > José Luis Tallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded >>"libperl-curl-easy" or "libperl-www-curl" instead of the current one... >> >>...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? > > Debian Perl Po

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
José Luis Tallón <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded > "libperl-curl-easy" or "libperl-www-curl" instead of the current one... > > ...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? Debian Perl Policy is quite specific: Foo::B

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread José Luis Tallón
At 09:27 29/05/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: [...] > | > If you look at the packages description, you will see thatit says "This > | > module provides the Perl bindings to libcurl." In the description it > | > tells what the package is. > | C