Re: RFS: pose - PalmOS Emulator

2003-08-28 Thread Juan Manuel García Molina
El Jueves, 28 de Agosto de 2003 23:04, Juan Manuel García Molina escribió: > Hi. > > I'd like to seek an sponsor to upload pose package. I forgot the URL [1] to the package: [1] http://www.superiodico.net/debian/upload/pose/ Yours, -- Juan Manuel García Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UN

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi Thomas, * Thomas -Balu- Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-28 10:06]: | And what about people that want to develop modules for camsource? They | might need them. I only see two choices: leave them in the main package | or create an additional camsource-dev package (which I need to figure | ou

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:51PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Yes, that way you have a source structure devoid of the .svn > subdirectories. I use the attached export script to ease the and build > process. It assumes it is run from the project directory and that the > orig source file a

RFS: facturalux - ERP/CRM software for GNU/Linux

2003-08-28 Thread Juan Manuel García Molina
Hi, mentors. I have a package ready for upload, facturalux. This revision corrects an important funcionality bug. You can find the updated package here [1]: [1] http://www.superiodico.net/debian/upload/facturalux/ The changelog says: Changes: facturalux (0.4-2) unstable; urgency=low . *

RFS: pose - PalmOS Emulator

2003-08-28 Thread Juan Manuel García Molina
Hi. I'd like to seek an sponsor to upload pose packages. The package is in Debian repository and it's quite important because it contains the migration to gcc 3.3. The changelog: Changes: pose (3.5-4) unstable; urgency=low . * Use fltk 1.1 instead of fltk 1: + Few ideas 'stolen' fro

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:24:57PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > How do I manage a new Debian package with Subversion? > > The things I've found only scratch the surface a bit, assume a level > of knowledge beyond mine, or assume you're migrating from CVS and > already have made several init

Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-28 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Hi, I've read most of what is available about managing Debian packages with Subversion, but I've been unable to find a comprehensive answer to the following question: How do I manage a new Debian package with Subversion? The things I've found only scratch the surface a bit, assume a level of know

Re: Newly created packages from the wishlist

2003-08-28 Thread Rene Engelhard
Ky Vinh Tran Luu wrote: > that mentors are not too busy preparing for the sid release. There won't be a sid release ever SCNR, Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Thorsten Sauter
Hi Thomas, * Thomas -Balu- Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-28 10:06]: | And what about people that want to develop modules for camsource? They | might need them. I only see two choices: leave them in the main package | or create an additional camsource-dev package (which I need to figure | ou

Re: Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:51PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Yes, that way you have a source structure devoid of the .svn > subdirectories. I use the attached export script to ease the and build > process. It assumes it is run from the project directory and that the > orig source file a

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Can't I even "Depend" on a packag

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depen

Managing Debian packages with Subversion

2003-08-28 Thread Fabian Fagerholm
Hi, I've read most of what is available about managing Debian packages with Subversion, but I've been unable to find a comprehensive answer to the following question: How do I manage a new Debian package with Subversion? The things I've found only scratch the surface a bit, assume a level of know

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:51:09AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > It is a feature, people might have two different secret keys, one used > only for Debian "John Doe 'Debian package key' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" and > another one for his private mail "John Doe 'private' > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Thats a

Re: managing existing packages

2003-08-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Eric Winger wrote: > > > In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number > > of messages & questions. > > > > When running dpkg-scanpackages I got this message: > > > > ! Package spinelli (filename

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > sys

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Thomas -Balu- Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-27 18:07]: [lintian warnings] > you _must_ use sid/unstable to build your packages. If the package is > only for yourself, you can safely ignore the lintian warnings above. I will

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:34:31PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:17:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > PS: Personally I'd switch to Debhelper compatibility 4 instead of 1, too. > > This would get rid of debian/conffiles. [...] > With debhelper 4, the build is d

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > That isn't mandated by POSIX, though, and there are shells in Debian > > that don't do that. I agree with Andreas: use printf instead. > > A sponsor already uploaded th

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > > Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well as > > > dash. > Bash needs

Snob package (need mentor)

2003-08-28 Thread Charles Twardy
For about a year now there has been GPL version of Snob, the automatic classifier that uses Minimum Message Length for induction. It is quite advanced and has consistently outperformed NASA's autoclass in published comparisons, which is more remarkable considering that it was first written in 1968

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Niekel
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:17:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Nitpicking: > * dh_undocumented should not be used any more (actually it is a > NOOP since debhelper 4.1.30 anyway): Removed. > I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This > is tooo ugly. Just use I

Re: managing existing packages

2003-08-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:54:58AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Eric Winger wrote: > > > > > In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number > > > of messages & questions. > > > > > > Wh

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Niekel
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well as > > dash. Bash needs a shopt -s xpg_echo first, I did that in my package. I was still afraid t

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted: This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Can't I even "Depend" on a pa

Re: managing existing packages

2003-08-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Eric Winger wrote: > > > In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number > > of messages & questions. > > > > When running dpkg-scanpackages I got this message: > > > > ! Package spinelli (filename

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
Geert Stappers wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script de

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > That isn't mandated by POSIX, though, and there are shells in Debian > > that don't do that. I agree with Andreas: use printf instead. > > A sponsor already uploaded th

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This > > is tooo ugly. Just use > > -echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \ > > +pri

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Package management is a small part of configuration management, there are defi

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This >> is tooo ugly. Just use >> -echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \ >> +printf

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:51:09AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > It is a feature, people might have two different secret keys, one used > only for Debian "John Doe 'Debian package key' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" and > another one for his private mail "John Doe 'private' > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>". Thats a

Newly created packages from the wishlist

2003-08-28 Thread Ky Vinh Tran Luu
Hi, My name is Ky Vinh, Tran Luu. I wanted to help the project so here's my little contribution: 2 simple packages that were requested on the wnpp (bug #177711). They are located at http://kulax.sf.net/debian/ ... Those are my first packages so they might need some checks before uploading. I j

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:06:16AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: [...] >> dpkg-buildpackage tries to sign the package with your name, which is >> used in the debian/changelog file. You can change the name (and email) >> in thi

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Ganesan R
> "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This > is tooo ugly. Just use > -echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \ > +printf ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw\n" \ > or grab the patch from th

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:34:31PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:17:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > PS: Personally I'd switch to Debhelper compatibility 4 instead of 1, too. > > This would get rid of debian/conffiles. [...] > With debhelper 4, the build is d

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > > Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well > > > as > > > dash. > Bash

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package > which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > systems, we want to have o

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Thomas -Balu- Walter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: > * Thomas -Balu- Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-27 18:07]: [lintian warnings] > you _must_ use sid/unstable to build your packages. If the package is > only for yourself, you can safely ignore the lintian warnings above. I will

Snob package (need mentor)

2003-08-28 Thread Charles Twardy
For about a year now there has been GPL version of Snob, the automatic classifier that uses Minimum Message Length for induction. It is quite advanced and has consistently outperformed NASA's autoclass in published comparisons, which is more remarkable considering that it was first written in 1968

Re: managing existing packages

2003-08-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:54:58AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Eric Winger wrote: > > > > > In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number > > > of messages & questions. > > > > > > Wh

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depends on the foobar inter

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Niekel
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well as > > dash. Bash needs a shopt -s xpg_echo first, I did that in my package. I was still afraid t

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Chris Niekel
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:17:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Nitpicking: > * dh_undocumented should not be used any more (actually it is a > NOOP since debhelper 4.1.30 anyway): Removed. > I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This > is tooo ugly. Just use I

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > sys

Re: managing existing packages

2003-08-28 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Eric Winger wrote: > In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number > of messages & questions. > > When running dpkg-scanpackages I got this message: > > ! Package spinelli (filename pool/spinelli_0.9_i386.deb) is repeat; >ignored that one and usi

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This > > is tooo ugly. Just use > > -echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \ > > +pri

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote: >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this >type of scenario. Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at the same time. Package management is a small part of configuration management, there are defi

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This >> is tooo ugly. Just use >> -echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \ >> +printf

Newly created packages from the wishlist

2003-08-28 Thread Ky Vinh Tran Luu
Hi, My name is Ky Vinh, Tran Luu. I wanted to help the project so here's my little contribution: 2 simple packages that were requested on the wnpp (bug #177711). They are located at http://kulax.sf.net/debian/ ... Those are my first packages so they might need some checks before uploading. I

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:06:16AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: [...] >> dpkg-buildpackage tries to sign the package with your name, which is >> used in the debian/changelog file. You can change the name (and email) >> in thi

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Ganesan R
> "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This > is tooo ugly. Just use > -echo -e ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw" \ > +printf ",s/RUNFROM=.*/RUNFROM=$RET/\nw\n" \ > or grab the patch from th

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Frank Küster
Eric Winger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package > which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > systems, we want to have o

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" Dependency means that a package with a foobar script depends on the foobar inter

Re: Patch needs Sponsor - 20 bugs left - sorted by mtime

2003-08-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joel Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:32:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > TITLE #195527: mysql++: FTBFS with g++-3.3: Missing include > > Severity: serious > > Package:mysql++ > > Age:87 days > > Last changed: 15 days

Re: RFS: pizza-business

2003-08-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Laurent Fousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:34:06AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow écrivait: > > Laurent Fousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm seeking a sponsor for pizza-business, a pizza restaurant > > > simulation game. This closes #180789.

backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Eric Winger
The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a dependency)?" The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey systems, we want to have our own little package, that "configures" the auto

Re: managing existing packages

2003-08-28 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Eric Winger wrote: > In putting my packages to my local repository, I've encountered a number > of messages & questions. > > When running dpkg-scanpackages I got this message: > > ! Package spinelli (filename pool/spinelli_0.9_i386.deb) is repeat; >ignored that one and usi