Re: how to handle bugs (wishlist) in packages we build depend on

2005-04-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* George Danchev [Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:43:05 +0300]: > Hello, Hi George, > Here is the situation: This is pretty technical and specific stuff. If what we can tell you here doesn't help, perhaps it'd be best that you asked some others ocaml packages maintainers? Anyway, there we go. > W

Re: Discriminating between install after purge and install from state rc?

2005-04-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Frank Küster [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:36:55 +0200]: OK, after having a look at that section in Policy that every maintainer loves (which is, of course, §6 Package maintainer scripts and installation procedure), I think you may find the following bits useful. I can imagine that important part

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Philipp Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.05.2313 +0200]: > >Urks, reminds me of those horrible reference counting approaches in > >popular programming languages. Brittle brittle brittle. > > Perhaps the user accounts should just go ``out of scope''? ;) Maybe we could port Java's garb

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On 5 Apr 2005, at 23:06, martin f krafft wrote: Urks, reminds me of those horrible reference counting approaches in popular programming languages. Brittle brittle brittle. Perhaps the user accounts should just go ``out of scope''? ;) Regards, Philipp Kern PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally

Re: main, contrib, non-free

2005-04-05 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Philipp Kern wrote: On 5 Apr 2005, at 12:27, Benjamin Cutler wrote: If your .changes file does not say contrib or non-free, then it will not end up there once it hits the official archives. How could I achieve this if I package something for contrib/non-free? Regards, Philipp Kern Section: (non-f

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.03.0122 +0200]: > I would go with a) because it is more likely to result in consistency > between systems and across time; although b), with its bit more work > for the admin, would be more satisfying and instructive. explain how more consisten

Re: Create user during installation

2005-04-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.02.0102 +0200]: > I suspect the core functionality could be handled with a simple > counter per package-initiated user acocunt, and a scheme by which > add/deluser functional programs can make their existance known and > an iface provided for - an

Re: --purge and log/spool files

2005-04-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-04-05 20:21:14, schrieb David Weinehall: > In this case, with only 2 different alternatives, the best solution > would probably be: > > rm -f /var/log/apache/access.log* /var/log/apache/error.log* I asume, that rm -f /var/log/tddyndns/-??.log should work in all shells, because t

Re: --purge and log/spool files

2005-04-05 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:26:15PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Note that there was a relevant thread on -devel around about last > > October. Someone complained that their thesis was in /var/log/apache/ > > and was deleted when they purged the pac

Re: How adopt an package ?

2005-04-05 Thread Tobias Toedter
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 17:48, José Carlos do Nascimento wrote: > I read this. but I didnt understand. > Send I an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] emailwith subject: > ITA, or send I an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Hi, you need to send your e-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the message bo

Re: How adopt an package ?

2005-04-05 Thread José Carlos do Nascimento
Matthew Palmer escreveu: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:20:26PM -0300, José Carlos do Nascimento wrote: I would like to adopt zoo package, but how can I do this ? Just send an email to WNPP ? What I need to after this ? http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#howto-o (To be added to the FAQ once glu

Re: --purge and log/spool files

2005-04-05 Thread Florent Rougon
Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that there was a relevant thread on -devel around about last > October. Someone complained that their thesis was in /var/log/apache/ > and was deleted when they purged the package. As such, you might > consider something like rm -f /var/log/apache/

Re: [off topic comment] Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 10:15, Alexandre wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > calculate the days until menstruation, the days of > > "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to > > I seriously question the use of such tools as contraceptive method, but > th

Re: [off topic comment] Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On 5 Apr 2005, at 10:15, Alexandre wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: calculate the days until menstruation, the days of "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to I seriously question the use of such tools as contraceptive method, but this is quite off topic h

Re: main, contrib, non-free

2005-04-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On 5 Apr 2005, at 12:27, Benjamin Cutler wrote: If your .changes file does not say contrib or non-free, then it will not end up there once it hits the official archives. How could I achieve this if I package something for contrib/non-free? Regards, Philipp Kern PGP.sig Description: This is a dig

Discriminating between install after purge and install from state rc?

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, it seems I am currently having a blackout. How can I find out in postinst whether the package previously had been in state "rc", or was purged or never installed? It seems every maintainer script that handles a configuration file must check that - otherwise it would violate policy's "must pr

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Charles Majola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050405 15:40]: > >>I request a sponsor for the drip package. > >You chances to find a sponsor for your packages would increase, if you > >would tell us, where to find your packages ;) > The package is described here > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Majola
Alexander Schmehl wrote: * Charles Majola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050405 10:15]: I request a sponsor for the drip package. You chances to find a sponsor for your packages would increase, if you would tell us, where to find your packages ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander The package is describe

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Majola
Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Charles Majola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I request a sponsor for the drip package. Description: GNOME application for encoding a DivX from a DVD Drip is a DVD to DivX conversion application. It's made up out two applications: a DVD reader and a DivX encoder. The reader is

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Bas Wijnen
Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Still, is a warning. Miriam, perhaps you should ask upstream to change 0x950412de to 0x950412deL or similar. Yes, I'm concerned about it even when it's a warning. I've sent an email upstream this morning commenting that problem (and

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still, is a warning. Miriam, perhaps you should > ask upstream to change > 0x950412de to 0x950412deL or similar. Yes, I'm concerned about it even when it's a warning. I've sent an email upstream this morning commenting that problem (and also send

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Alexandre [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:17:52 +0200]: > > /usr/share/cycle/msg/msgfmt.py:86: FutureWarning: > > hex/oct constants > > > sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 > > and up > > 0x950412de,# Magic > You can safely ignore this warning. It is issued when the python sourc

Minimum copyright / author information

2005-04-05 Thread Alejandro Exojo
Hi. I'm packaging a set of emoticons for KDE. At this moment, is just for my own use, and for those who find them useful, but I'm considering that if the package is interesting enough for Debian, the original tarball will need more information which is not provided at the moment. The upstream

Re: main, contrib, non-free

2005-04-05 Thread Benjamin Cutler
Gerber van der Graaf wrote: I recently uploaded some packages (Libgpiv_0.3.1, Gpivtools_0.3.1 and Gpiv_0.2.1) to mentors.debian.net with dupload. It seemed that everything went fine. But to me surprise they have been put in the contrib repository, instead of main. How is the choice of repository co

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Charles Majola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050405 10:15]: > I request a sponsor for the drip package. You chances to find a sponsor for your packages would increase, if you would tell us, where to find your packages ;) Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/

Re: debconf and program generated config

2005-04-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-04-04 21:41:46, schrieb Justin Pryzby: > > > > | tddyndns >/dev/null 2>&1 > Okay, as long as it fails if it should fail. You might only redirect > stderr or only stdout as necessary, to allow for better diagnostics. > Or maybe |grep -v 'message you don't want'. > > Or even |grep '.' &&

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Alexandre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is for python modules that you want to be > imported from other > modules/application. For standalone application, the > policy says that > /usr/share/appname or /usr/lib/appname is fine > (depending on the > presence of C coded extension modules) T

main, contrib, non-free

2005-04-05 Thread Gerber van der Graaf
I recently uploaded some packages (Libgpiv_0.3.1, Gpivtools_0.3.1 and Gpiv_0.2.1) to mentors.debian.net with dupload. It seemed that everything went fine. But to me surprise they have been put in the contrib repository, instead of main. How is the choice of repository controlled, automatically or b

Re: RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Miriam Ruiz
--- Charles Majola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I request a sponsor for the drip package. > > Description: GNOME application for encoding a DivX > from a DVD > Drip is a DVD to DivX conversion application. It's > made up out two > applications: a DVD reader and a DivX encoder. The > reader is a G

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Alexandre
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:53:18AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1) I'm putting python files in /usr/share/cycle/, is > > this right or should they go into /usr/lib/cycle/ or > > something like that? > > Have you read the python policy at > > file:///u

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Frank Küster
Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I'm putting python files in /usr/share/cycle/, is > this right or should they go into /usr/lib/cycle/ or > something like that? Have you read the python policy at file:///usr/share/doc/python/python-policy.html/index.html I didn't read it, only shortl

RFS: biofox

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Majola
* Package name: biofox Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Saleem Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://schematron.unl.edu/biofox/ * License : MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1 Description : bioinformatics tools as an extension on the Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape bro

Re: [off topic comment] Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:15:12AM +0200, Alexandre wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > > Apart from the fact that I still need to do a man page > > for cycle, I have a couple of questions: > > I'd advise writing a woman page instead. Dammit, you beat me to i

RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Majola
I request a sponsor for the drip package. Description: GNOME application for encoding a DivX from a DVD Drip is a DVD to DivX conversion application. It's made up out two applications: a DVD reader and a DivX encoder. The reader is a GUI for the GNOME environment, the DivX encoder a text mode tool.

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Alexandre
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Setting up cycle (0.3.0-1) ... > /usr/share/cycle/msg/msgfmt.py:86: FutureWarning: > hex/oct constants > > sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4 > and up > 0x950412de,# Magic > /usr/share/cycle/msg/msgfmt.py:8

RFS: drip

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Majola
I request a sponsor for the drip package. Description: GNOME application for encoding a DivX from a DVD Drip is a DVD to DivX conversion application. It's made up out two applications: a DVD reader and a DivX encoder. The reader is a GUI for the GNOME environment, the DivX encoder a text mode tool.

[off topic comment] Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Alexandre
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:07:15AM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > calculate the days until menstruation, the days of > "safe" sex, the fertile period, and the days to I seriously question the use of such tools as contraceptive method, but this is quite off topic here, and I'd suggest including a big

RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-05 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Hi, I'm doing my 1st packaging of a python script. It's a program called cycle thas uses wxpython libraries and it's distributed under GNU General Public License. Cycle is a calendar program for women. Given a cycle length or statistics for several periods, it can calculate the days until menstru