Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Nicolas Boullis wrote: > I'd rather set no recommendation at all, or conflict with old > udev... The former, by the way, makes perfect sense for something that isn't absolutely required and will be a complete non-issue when the package is released (even in a few weeks time) along with the res

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 28 July 2005 00:34, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I added language name in Uzbek into Language section. Is it correct > now? >> >> Well, you should also specify Casechars, Not-Casechars, and > > The

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread skaller
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 01:01 +0200, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > The reason a logical 'X isn't installed' does not > > work is that you could install Y, which depends > > on no X, and then just install X. Now Y is silently > > broken by a package that knows nothing about Y. > > As far as I know, su

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
On Thursday 28 July 2005 00:34, Brian Nelson wrote: > Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I added language name in Uzbek into Language section. Is it correct now? > > Well, you should also specify Casechars, Not-Casechars, and They are optional, aren't they? Anyway, ... (see below) >

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:12:16AM +1000, skaller wrote: > > Two methods, one is not tenable: > > (a) X conflicts with no-X implicitly > (b) When Y depends on no-X, if Y is installed, no-X is > synthesised and installed too if it doesn't exist, > (and conflicting with X to prevent X bei

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Mashrab Kuvatov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:27, Brian Nelson wrote: >> * Your aspell-uz.info-aspell is not correct. See >> http://dict-common.alioth.debian.org/dsdt-policy.html#infofile for >> more info. > > I added language name in Uzbek into Language section.

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Mashrab Kuvatov
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 08:27, Brian Nelson wrote: > Almost there, just a few more things: > > * The urgency should be set to low, not high. Fixed. > * Why have you deviated from the upstream version? I don't have a good reason for this. I just blindly followed aspell-en. This time deb and sou

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread skaller
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:22 -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > > Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new > > > no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write > > >

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:22:44AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > > Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new > > > no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:57:35AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Hi. > > Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > If there's currently no way to set up such things, it might be worth > > suggesting to add such a feature to next-generation .deb format. Don't > > you think so? > To be honest, no. > If yo

Re: Looking for python-xlib sponsor

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Martin, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I just adopted python-xlib, fixed the outstanding bugs, and put > the revised package at While you're at it: - If you read Matthew's FAQ, you'll find that the copyright file isn't correct. - You're #249071 has "127.0.0.1" in the comment but "localhost" in the

Re: Looking for python-xlib sponsor

2005-07-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Geert Stappers wrote: > Some advice about requesting a sponsor: reread > http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#rfs > > And for the "interest level" I guess that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > good place for also RFS. Thanks for the advise. Posting to debian-python is certainly a good

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new > > no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write > > "Recommends: no-udev | udev (>= 0.060-1)". > > An elegant solutio

Re: how to prevent binary incompatibilities with libraries (in reference to Bug#320029)

2005-07-27 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need some help with finding a good resolution for Bug#320029. > > In summary, the current version of my 'librmagick-ruby' package was > compiled against libmagick6-dev_6.0.6.x. It works nicely when run > with libmagick6_6.0.6.x, but fails when libmagi

how to prevent binary incompatibilities with libraries (in reference to Bug#320029)

2005-07-27 Thread Mike Williams
I need some help with finding a good resolution for Bug#320029. In summary, the current version of my 'librmagick-ruby' package was compiled against libmagick6-dev_6.0.6.x. It works nicely when run with libmagick6_6.0.6.x, but fails when libmagick6 is upgraded to the version currently in unst

Re: Looking for python-xlib sponsor

2005-07-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > That is what is done with python. Please post also the description > > of the non "default" or "dummy" packages. > > I haven't really changed the description since I adopted the packages, > but here you

Error in the account verification!

2005-07-27 Thread FlexWindow Error
Title: Message Dear FlexWindow user,   The FlexWindow update you send encountered an error in the account verification. As a result your window has not been updated. The cause of the problem is most proba

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Nicolas Boullis wrote: > If there's currently no way to set up such things, it might be worth > suggesting to add such a feature to next-generation .deb format. Don't > you think so? To be honest, no. If you do a Recommends: udev (>= ...), most people will just install the recommended udev a

Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, and I just thought there could be a workaround. I could make a new > no-udev empty package that conflicts with udev, and then write > "Recommends: no-udev | udev (>= 0.060-1)". An elegant solution ;-) > I guess this would behave as expected, but

Re: Sponsor request for aspell-uz

2005-07-27 Thread Frank Küster
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * You probably shouldn't repack the .tar file so that the md5sum will > match the upstream version. Usually for an upstream that distributes > a .tar.bz2, you just want to do "bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2; gzip -9 > foo.tar" and then use the resulting .tar.g