sponsor guide ?

2005-07-24 Thread Eng. Mina Ramses
Hey, In order to be advocated by such a sponsor, I knew that I have to contact this email with information related to my work, my work is to giving support for the OMAP ARM310 Arch. Under Debian , I'm working on porting the kernel to the OMAP ARM310 Proc. And I don't know under which category must

Re: where to put object file

2005-07-24 Thread skaller
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 23:39 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > John, couldn't you just use an ar archive? At the moment there are three drivers: flx_run_static.o flx_stdin_drv_static.o flx_perf_drv1_static.o all of which provide the symbol 'main' .. so I don't see how to put them all in an archive.

Re: where to put object file

2005-07-24 Thread skaller
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 22:25 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sunday 24 July 2005 7:55 pm, skaller wrote: > > I'm talking about the binary package(s). > > Don't forget that Debian is on so many different platforms, compiling the > main.o on one platform is simply not going to work on others. I

Re: where to put object file

2005-07-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 22:25 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > Don't forget that Debian is on so many different platforms, compiling the > main.o on one platform is simply not going to work on others. Oh well, did I misunderstand everything here? I thought main.o is an object file which goes indeed in

Re: where to put object file

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 24 July 2005 7:55 pm, skaller wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:34 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > On 23-Jul-2005, skaller wrote: (BTW: Please put your key on a public keyserver, subkeys.pgp.net is recommended.) > > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:18 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > Why isn

Re: 'hyphen-used-as-minus-sign' lintian warning

2005-07-24 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 24 July 2005 6:03 pm, Antonio S. de A. Terceiro wrote: > All the three ocurrances mean "-1" as a return code in methods > documentation, but changing the source code for this isn't reasonable to > me. Nor should it be, but does that need to be expressed that way in the manpage? > N:

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-24 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I've filed an ITP bug report #319775 for aspell-uz and uploaded the > files I've > built into http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ > > Could anybody please sponsor it? No, this package is quite broken: debian/changelog: aspell-

Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-24 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
Hi all, I've filed an ITP bug report #319775 for aspell-uz and uploaded the files I've built into http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ Could anybody please sponsor it? Thanks, Mashrab. -- Mashrab Kuvatov Ph.D student University of Bremen, IUP Home-page: www.sat.uni-bremen.de/members/m

Re: Sponsor required for bbpager

2005-07-24 Thread skaller
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 12:56 +1000, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > I don't know exactly what is the dsc, but it seems to have > been generated by dpkg-buildpackage, so I put it too. The .dsc file is the source package, more precisely, the master control file of the source package: try using 'less' on i

Re: where to put object file

2005-07-24 Thread skaller
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 13:57 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [skaller] > > That isn't really possible: the file contains main(), and there could > > be more than one such file which do different things (in fact there > > are, but only one is 'standard' at the moment). > liby is presented as a stati

Re: where to put object file

2005-07-24 Thread skaller
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 17:34 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 23-Jul-2005, skaller wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:18 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Why isn't the object file built from source > > It is compiled to save time. > > Save whose time? People who want precompiled binaries will get th

'hyphen-used-as-minus-sign' lintian warning

2005-07-24 Thread Antonio S. de A. Terceiro
Hi, I got a hyphen-used-as-minus-sign lintian warning. The cited manpage (see below) is generated by doxygen. I couldn't think on a reasonable way of fixing that, and couldn't find any tip in the web. All the three ocurrances mean "-1" as a return code in methods documentation, but changing the