Package split/merge advice

2004-12-06 Thread Rudy Godoy
Hi, I'm the maintainer of torcs[0], a car racing game. Initially I've made four -data packages, one is the base data files, and the others are for -tracks and -cars. Due some filled bugs I've discovered that it needs another -cars package to have the full enjoy of all game's features. My questi

shared libraries

2004-12-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
Hi all. Maintaining the IRAF package, I've added the ability to use shared libraries. This saves considerable disk space, and is also good for runtime efficiency. The libraries are built with IRAF, and are used to compile the build system. Then, the rest of IRAF is built with that. I'm present

Re: substitution variables

2004-12-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:31:02PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > Hi, > dh_make genererated control files which usually include something > like this: > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends} > Can someone explain me how these variables get substituted? > Because i get this message if i build the p

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?=
Nick Lewycky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Frank Küster wrote: >> Nick Lewycky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Is there any plan amongst dpkg type folk to visit and solve this >>>problem? Or even a bug number? >> There are several, of different severities, as you could easily have >> found out y

Re: Winmodems in debian

2004-12-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 07:26:58PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Andrew Zajac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > The scanmodem script. > > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz > > > > I have emailed the maintainer of the script and he seemed excited > > about releasing this utility

Re: substitution variables

2004-12-06 Thread Nico Golde
Hello Frank, * Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-12-06 19:52]: > Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > dh_make genererated control files which usually include something > > like this: > > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends} > > Can someone explain me how these variables get subst

Re: substitution variables

2004-12-06 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?=
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Hi, > dh_make genererated control files which usually include something > like this: > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends} > Can someone explain me how these variables get substituted? > Because i get this message if i build the package: > dpkg-genc

Re: Winmodems in debian

2004-12-06 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?=
Andrew Zajac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > The scanmodem script. > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz > > I have emailed the maintainer of the script and he seemed excited > about releasing this utility to debian. Perhaps he will ask for > sponsorship for his package himself.

Re: substitution variables

2004-12-06 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
06.12.2004 Ð 15:31 +0100 Nico Golde ÑÐÐ(-ÐÐ): > Hi, > dh_make genererated control files which usually include something > like this: > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends} > Can someone explain me how these variables get substituted? > Because i get this message if i build the package: >

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Lewycky
Frank Küster wrote: Nick Lewycky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any plan amongst dpkg type folk to visit and solve this problem? Or even a bug number? There are several, of different severities, as you could easily have found out yourself. I found an 8 year old wishlist bug on dpkg-dev, bug 45

Re: substitution variables

2004-12-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.06.1531 +0100]: > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends} > Can someone explain me how these variables get substituted? man dpkg-genchanges -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMA

substitution variables

2004-12-06 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, dh_make genererated control files which usually include something like this: Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends} Can someone explain me how these variables get substituted? Because i get this message if i build the package: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?=
Nick Lewycky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a crock. The solutions presented is right, but it's lousy by > design. The real problem is that diff, although good for representing > changes from upstream source versus Debian source, can't--and > apparently doesn't--represent the changes from up

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread Nick Lewycky
Frank Küster wrote: "Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: You can add the icon in XPM format. This is plain text. If you want to use the PNGs, you will need to send them to upstream and ask them to include the icons in the source. I haven't found any other way to avoid the problem you ci

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?=
"Carlo U. Segre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > You can add the icon in XPM format. This is plain text. If you want > to use the PNGs, you will need to send them to upstream and ask them > to include the icons in the source. I haven't found any other way to > avoid the problem you cite. You ca

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
06.12.2004 Ð 16:54 +0100 Zoltan Ivanfi ÑÐÐ(-ÐÐ): > Hi, > > I would like to ask your help about the following problem: > > I created a PNG icon for a package that originally (in the orig.tar.gz) > didn't contain one. I get this error when trying to build the package: > > dpkg-source: cannot r

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread Carlo U. Segre
You can add the icon in XPM format. This is plain text. If you want to use the PNGs, you will need to send them to upstream and ask them to include the icons in the source. I haven't found any other way to avoid the problem you cite. Carlo On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Zoltan Ivanfi wrote: Hi, I would

Re: "Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread Andreas Barth
* Zoltan Ivanfi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041206 17:15]: > I created a PNG icon for a package that originally (in the orig.tar.gz) > didn't contain one. I get this error when trying to build the package: > > dpkg-source: cannot represent change to icon.png: binary file contents > changed > > Can you t

"Cannot represent change" error upon PNG file addition

2004-12-06 Thread Zoltan Ivanfi
Hi, I would like to ask your help about the following problem: I created a PNG icon for a package that originally (in the orig.tar.gz) didn't contain one. I get this error when trying to build the package: dpkg-source: cannot represent change to icon.png: binary file contents changed Can you te

Re: Package Maintainer Mentor Wanted

2004-12-06 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:44:13AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote: > Of course, 'stupid' questions will make you look, well, stupid, so do your Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people. Seriously though, a bit of basic research goes a long way, but don't

Re: Package Maintainer Mentor Wanted

2004-12-06 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Monday 06 December 2004 03.26, Ryan Stutsman wrote: > I am interesting in getting involved with Debian likely by maintaining > an orphaned package. I don't have a particular one in mind, but I would > like to get up to speed first. > > If anyone would be willing to show me the ropes and help me