Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Palmer: >> I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty >> diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... > That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, > since I have also been d

RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-02 Thread Luciano Bello
ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267685 I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship. My packages for the following are available at: http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/ It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor with lots of pati

RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-02 Thread Luciano Bello
ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267685 I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship. My packages for the following are available at: http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/ It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor with lots of pati

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Palmer: >> I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty >> diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... > That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, > since I have also been d

RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-02 Thread Luciano Bello
ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267685 I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship. My packages for the following are available at: http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/ It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor with lots of pati

RFS: kubication -- KDE network configuration selector

2004-09-02 Thread Luciano Bello
ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267685 I am not a Debian Developer, so I am looking for sponsorship. My packages for the following are available at: http://www.asciigirl.com/kubication/ It's my first complex package from the scratch . Plz, I need a sponsor with lots of pati

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Amos Waterland
Justin Pryzby wrote: > Lintian complains: > > ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, I have updated to current debhelper and incremented package version to 0.18.2: http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/#Debiandeb

Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody have an idea why apt decides "Holding Back tetex-bin rather > > than change dvipdfm"? > > It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and > dist-upgrade t

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Sutherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > > > Indeed. > > These few .so files are impo

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Amos Waterland
Justin Pryzby wrote: > Lintian complains: > > ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, I have updated to current debhelper and incremented package version to 0.18.2: http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/#Debiandeb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anybody have an idea why apt decides "Holding Back tetex-bin rather > > than change dvipdfm"? > > It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and > dist-upgrade t

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Sutherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > > > Indeed. > > These few .so files are impo

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > Indeed. These few .so files are imported from zope and maybe slightly modified. So there is prob

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

RFS: streamline

2004-09-02 Thread Michael MacFadden
All, Hello, I have been having a hard time finding a sponsor for the streamline package. I have never tired to get a package uploaded before and it is totally possible that I am being way to impatient. Quite a few people have helped me out on this list by correcting some errors in my origin

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Sutherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific > > packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a > > debian-native package. > > Thanks to you

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific > packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a > debian-native package. Thanks to you and the others on the list, now that I understand the sit

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matthew Palmer: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, since I have also been doing the upstream releases. The debian subdirectory

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > Indeed. These few .so files are imported from zope and maybe slightly modified. So there is prob

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander -- To UNSUBSCRIB

RFS: streamline

2004-09-02 Thread Michael MacFadden
All, Hello, I have been having a hard time finding a sponsor for the streamline package. I have never tired to get a package uploaded before and it is totally possible that I am being way to impatient. Quite a few people have helped me out on this list by correcting some errors in my original

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Brian Sutherland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific > > packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a > > debian-native package. > > Thanks to you

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
It seems that this is really an RFS, because .debs are provided. Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, a line which is # Automatically added by dh_installdocs Indeed, you appear to be using an old debhelper: Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject: Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools s/calenar/calendar/, or is this a new english word? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:57:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific > packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a > debian-native package. Thanks to you and the others on the list, now that I understand the sit

RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Amos Waterland
Source: stress Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Amos Waterland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0) Standards-Version: 3.5.9 Package: stress Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: A tool which imposes stress on a system 'stress' is a tool which i

Re: RFS: viewglob [revised]

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I have added the viewglob.desktop file provided by Stefan Fritsch for a konsole session, and fixed all the compiler warnings. The new package is at the same location as before. Any takers for sponsoring viewglob? deb-src http://borex.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ unstable main apt-get update apt-get

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Peter Karlsson
Matthew Palmer: I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... That usually works just fine, and it what I do when I release jwhois, since I have also been doing the upstream releases. The debian subdirectory is

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matt Brubeck
Stephen Frost wrote: > I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific > packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a > debian-native package. I also agree. I am both upstream and Debian maintainer for my package, and I find that a non-native package has

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Kevin B. McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, > > but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... > > Why would the diff be empty? I would think it should contain the debian > subdi

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Matthew Palmer wrote: > I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, > but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... Why would the diff be empty? I would think it should contain the debian subdir in any case. It makes no sense to ship a debian directory

Re: RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
It seems that this is really an RFS, because .debs are provided. Lintian complains: ln -sf ../share/doc/stress /usr/doc/stress, a line which is # Automatically added by dh_installdocs Indeed, you appear to be using an old debhelper: Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0)

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject: Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools s/calenar/calendar/, or is this a new english word? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Stefan, You wrote: > that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: > Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the > file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop OK, I'll go ahead and add it. Have you tested it? I don't use KDE so can't do so myself. It will be a l

RFS: stress

2004-09-02 Thread Amos Waterland
Source: stress Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Amos Waterland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0) Standards-Version: 3.5.9 Package: stress Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: A tool which imposes stress on a system 'stress' is a tool which i

Re: RFS: viewglob [revised]

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
I have added the viewglob.desktop file provided by Stefan Fritsch for a konsole session, and fixed all the compiler warnings. The new package is at the same location as before. Any takers for sponsoring viewglob? deb-src http://borex.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ unstable main apt-get update apt-get

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matt Brubeck
Stephen Frost wrote: > I agree with this. Really, debian-native packages are debian-specific > packages. I would strongly encourage you to *not* make this a > debian-native package. I also agree. I am both upstream and Debian maintainer for my package, and I find that a non-native package has

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Stephen Frost
* Kevin B. McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, > > but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... > > Why would the diff be empty? I would think it should contain the debian > subdi

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Matthew Palmer wrote: > I just had another thought -- make a -1 revision with an empty diff. Weird, > but I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work... Why would the diff be empty? I would think it should contain the debian subdir in any case. It makes no sense to ship a debian directory

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Stefan, You wrote: > that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: > Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the > file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop OK, I'll go ahead and add it. Have you tested it? I don't use KDE so can't do so myself. It will be a l

Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody have an idea why apt decides "Holding Back tetex-bin rather > than change dvipdfm"? It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and dist-upgrade the rest, it works fine. Is there yet a draft for Release Notes for sarge? T

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Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest > > picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, > > you're go

Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, tetex-bin previously only declared Replaces:... dvipdfm Provides: ... dvipdfm but no Conflicts. This has the effect that dvipdfm is not removed when tetex-bin is installed, and trying to remove afterwards fails because of some dpkg-divert stuff (see #269235). Note that dvipdfm does no longe

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest > picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, > you're going to have trouble uploading a -2 of anything without a new > upstream ta

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version > The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be > necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory > is in the repository. S

Re: Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody have an idea why apt decides "Holding Back tetex-bin rather > than change dvipdfm"? It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and dist-upgrade the rest, it works fine. Is there yet a draft for Release Notes for sarge? T

RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
I am packaging schoolbell on behalf of upstream (Related to ITP#263088) and seeking a sponsor. Schoolbell is the first publicly available version of the Schooltool server and is a stripped down version that only deals with calendaring and scheduling between groups. This is the first wider releas

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2004-09-02 Thread Muriel Walls
Dear customer! We updated our software catalogue and added new popular products! Now you can get any software item at 90% discount rate! For more information visit us here: http://sanhedrin.infostech.info/index.php?s=4241 With best regards, Product Manager Muriel Walls

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest > > picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, > > you're go

Problems with Provides/Replaces/Conflicts

2004-09-02 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, tetex-bin previously only declared Replaces:... dvipdfm Provides: ... dvipdfm but no Conflicts. This has the effect that dvipdfm is not removed when tetex-bin is installed, and trying to remove afterwards fails because of some dpkg-divert stuff (see #269235). Note that dvipdfm does no longe

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest > picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As it stands, > you're going to have trouble uploading a -2 of anything without a new > upstream ta

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin, that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop Cheers, Stefan -- viewglob.desktop Description: application/desktop

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version > The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be > necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory > is in the repository. S

RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
I am packaging schoolbell on behalf of upstream (Related to ITP#263088) and seeking a sponsor. Schoolbell is the first publicly available version of the Schooltool server and is a stripped down version that only deals with calendaring and scheduling between groups. This is the first wider releas

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin, that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop Cheers, Stefan -- viewglob.desktop Description: application/desktop

Re: RFS: streamline

2004-09-02 Thread Nathaniel W. Turner
Hi Jurij, On Wednesday 01 September 2004 12:48 am, Jurij Smakov wrote: > I have a somewhat different impression, apache2 seems to have its share > of problems. Debian's apache2 packages have seen 12 uploads during the > last two months [0] Yes, there was a botched and now reverted attempt at ena