Looking for python-xlib sponsor

2005-07-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I just adopted python-xlib, fixed the outstanding bugs, and put the revised package at http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/debian/source/python-xlib_0.12-5.diff.gz http://www.dcl.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/debian/source/python-xlib_0.12-5.dsc Now I'm looking for a sponsor that helps me uploading the packag

Re: where I find tutorials for made gcc debs?

2005-07-25 Thread Dani
2005/7/25, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:57:03PM -0300, Dani wrote: > > Hi! where I find tutorials for made gcc *.deb's? > > Thank you very much! > Debian is a so-called "binary distribution", which means that most > users just download the .debs and ne

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

2005-07-25 Thread Antonio S. de A. Terceiro
Neil Williams escreveu isso aí: > I use doxygen for source code documentation but DocBook for manpages - I > haven't used doxygen for both. In the doxygen comments, it is v.common to use > -1 - does doxygen work with the recommended escape value? > > > N: '-' must be escaped ('\-') to be inter

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-25 Thread Ben Finney
On 26-Jul-2005, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > I'd like my em8300 package's dependencies to say something like "If you > use udev, I'd recommend you use at least 0.060-1." > [...] > I would translate it to "I'd recommend you have either no udev > installed, or at least version 0.060-1.". > [...] > "Reco

Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-25 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, I'd like my em8300 package's dependencies to say something like "If you use udev, I'd recommend you use at least 0.060-1." (since specific rules for the em8300 drivers were added in that release, tahnks to Marco d'Itri). Unfortunately, the package system certainly can't guess whether udev

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:08:02AM +0200, Roland Gruber wrote: > Hi Geert, > > Geert Stappers schrieb: > > Please avoid "notes", make unattended installs possible. > > you are right, if possible then notes should be avoided. > > But the problem is that the package is not usable after the upgrade

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Roland Gruber
Hi Geert, Geert Stappers schrieb: > Please avoid "notes", make unattended installs possible. you are right, if possible then notes should be avoided. But the problem is that the package is not usable after the upgrade because the user has to recreate some configuration files. The application has

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2005-07-25 Thread Stephanie da Silva
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Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-25 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
Hi Brian, thanks for reply. I've rebuilt aspell-uz taking into account your feedback. Please have a look, it is at http://www.uni-bremen.de/~kmashrab/aspell/deb/ It passed lintian -i test, but linda -i complained about l-uz.cmap file being installed into /usr/lib. Thanks, Mashrab. -- Mashrab K

Re: Sponsor required for bbpager

2005-07-25 Thread Sven Mueller
Cedric Pradalier wrote on 24/07/2005 02:11: > I've seen bbpager is now orphaned and I'd like to take up > the maintainance. I've packaged 0.4.0 (current is 0.3.1) and > lintian is happy. I don't actually think that lintian is completely happy with your package. At least if you ran it with lintian

Re: where I find tutorials for made gcc debs?

2005-07-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:57:03PM -0300, Dani wrote: > Hi! where I find tutorials for made gcc *.deb's? > Thank you very much! Debian is a so-called "binary distribution", which means that most users just download the .debs and never need to deal with compiling from source. If you wa

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Geert Stappers
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:10:07PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Maybe you want to think about these two alternatives: > > - add the debconf message to the package in general (a note like: If you > are upgrading from a version below ..." ) and done Please avoid "notes", make unattended ins

Re: where to put object file

2005-07-25 Thread skaller
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 03:48 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Oh, I didn't mean to imply you couldn't have more than one of these > libraries. Same as you're planning to perhaps have more than one > object file. It's really the same thing, but I think it makes life > easier for people doing manual

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 25.07.2005, 18:40 +0200 schrieb Roland Gruber: > probably this has been asked before but my searches did not give proper > results. > > I want to display a message to the user via debconf. The message should > only appear if the user upgrades from a version below a special value >

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Roland Gruber
Margarita Manterola schrieb: > As shown in the Upgrading diagram I made some time ago [1], and also, > as it is explained in the Debian Policy [2], when doing an upgrade, > the maintainer scripts are called with a second parameter that > indicates the package version. thanks a lot for your fast he

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:08:02PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Is there a standard way to get the old package version and compare it to > > the new one? > > As shown in the Upgrading diagram I made some time ago [1], and also, > as it is explained in the Debian Policy [2], when doing an

Re: sponsor guide ?

2005-07-25 Thread Neil McGovern
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:04:24AM +0300, Eng. Mina Ramses wrote: > 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

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 7/25/05, Roland Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to display a message to the user via debconf. The message should > only appear if the user upgrades from a version below a special value > (0.5.0 in my case). > Is there a standard way to get the old package version and compare it to >

Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Roland Gruber
Hi all, probably this has been asked before but my searches did not give proper results. I want to display a message to the user via debconf. The message should only appear if the user upgrades from a version below a special value (0.5.0 in my case). My first attempt was to check if some directo

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2005-07-25 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
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Re: where to put object file

2005-07-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
[skaller] > Ouch.. main in a library .. well, actually that's an interesting idea > you describe .. but .. (lol): Right, there's no inherent reason main can't go in a library, same as any other global function or variable. > I don't want to do that because it makes sense only if there is > reall