Re: Renaming the package and other things

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:31:06PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi! > > I am maintaining a package called mozilla-firefox-biofox. > Both ths source and the binary package have the same name. Biofox was > always released only to Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was not > supported.

Renaming the package and other things

2005-09-11 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! I am maintaining a package called mozilla-firefox-biofox. Both ths source and the binary package have the same name. Biofox was always released only to Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite was not supported. However, upstream author changed this now. Biofox supports both navigators. I a

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:36:39AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 12-Sep-2005, Carlos Parra Camargo wrote: > > IMO, the description should be about the application, it shouldn't > > be a comparative. > > Agreed. I'd say rather that enough information about the application > should be included so th

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Carlos Parra Camargo
On dom, 2005-09-11 at 20:56 -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > [...] > [0] > http://www.us.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html Thanks a lot Justin, i've changed the description: Description: Perl-based web calendar plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Ben Finney wrote: > On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Then tell the user that, and DO NOT TOUCH /etc/inittab. > > Unless by using a well-defined interface for doing so. To my Well, a broken inittab is a nightmare to repair for anyone without console acces

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 10:36:39AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 12-Sep-2005, Carlos Parra Camargo wrote: > > > > plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and has great features: > > > Can you comment on the differences/advantages/disadvantages of > > > plans vs. webcalendar? This would be

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 08:38:16PM -0400, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Justin Pryzby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > >>On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >>> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith w

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Joe Smith
"Justin Pryzby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: > Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an >

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Ben Finney
On 12-Sep-2005, Carlos Parra Camargo wrote: > > > plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and has great features: > > Can you comment on the differences/advantages/disadvantages of > > plans vs. webcalendar? This would be a useful thing to include in > > the description, too. > > IMO, th

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Carlos Parra Camargo
> > plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and has great features: > Can you comment on the differences/advantages/disadvantages of plans > vs. webcalendar? This would be a useful thing to include in the > description, too. IMO, the description should be about the application, it shou

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 08:51:09AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: > > Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an > > interface for ANY package to touch /etc/inittab. Screwing it up is > > so

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Ben Finney
On 11-Sep-2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: > > The proper way to activate the package *IS* by changing inittab. > Then tell the user that, and DO NOT TOUCH /etc/inittab. Unless by using a well-defined interface for doing so. To my knowledge, such a t

Re: RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Carlos Parra Camargo wrote: > Name: plans > Version: 7.3-1 > Section: web > License: GPL > ITP/ITA Number: 327605 > Description: web calendar > > plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and has great features: Can y

RFS: plans -- web calendar

2005-09-11 Thread Carlos Parra Camargo
Name: plans Version:7.3-1 Section:web License:GPL ITP/ITA Number: 327605 Description:web calendar plans lets you put calendars on the web, is free and has great features: - Browser-Based Management - Multiple Calendars - Recurring Events - International Suppor

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:10:56PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > Kilian Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> >> In this case, I'd like to move /etc/schroot.conf to > >> >> /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. > >> > > >> > mv? Alternatively cp -a&&rm. > >> > >> Yes, but I want to properly comply with po

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Then tell the user that, and DO NOT TOUCH /etc/inittab. > ... > Yes. But AFAIK there are absolutely no plans to provide an interface for > ANY package to touch /etc/inittab. Screwing it up is so utterly callous, > that one would have to be out of his mind to e

Re: RFS aldo - A morse code trainer

2005-09-11 Thread Giuseppe Martino
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 04:22:11PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 03:05:47PM +0200, Giuseppe Martino wrote: > > I have two things to say about this: > - debian/ should not be in the orig.tar.gz, but only in the diff.gz. See [1]. > - Your diff.gz is huge, but it seems to contai

Re: RFS aldo - A morse code trainer

2005-09-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 03:05:47PM +0200, Giuseppe Martino wrote: > New package on: http://dakordhost.homelinux.org/~denever/aldo_debian I have two things to say about this: - debian/ should not be in the orig.tar.gz, but only in the diff.gz. See [1]. - Your diff.gz is huge, but it seems to conta

Re: How can I modify /etc/inittab?

2005-09-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 09 Sep 2005, Joe Smith wrote: > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Don't. /etc/inittab is critical infrastructure on every system where it is > >used, NEVER EVER touch it. > > > >Document what the user has to do to activate the package, instead, and let > >him activate it where he wants, the way he

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Roger Leigh
Kilian Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> In this case, I'd like to move /etc/schroot.conf to >> >> /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. >> > >> > mv? Alternatively cp -a&&rm. >> >> Yes, but I want to properly comply with policy. I only want to do the >> copy on upgrade if the conffile is (a) untouc

Re: RFS aldo - A morse code trainer

2005-09-11 Thread Giuseppe Martino
>Hi, Giuseppe... Hi Christoph and thank you for your reply, >> I have actually already read the New Maintainers Guide, and I have built >> a Debian package for Aldo. > >Very good! Thanks :) >Allow me just express a few thoughts on your debianization: > >- the debian/rules file contains debhelp

Re: RFS: capi2name -- ISDN capi monitor with web interface

2005-09-11 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Jonas, Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2005, 13:27 +0200 schrieb Jonas Genannt: > Hello, > > I'm searching for a sponsor for capi2name. may i dareask why you as the upstream patch daemon/capiconn.c in the debian diff rather than in the upstream tarball? Same goes for debian/capi2name.8. Any reason only

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Roger, > >> In this case, I'd like to move /etc/schroot.conf to > >> /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. > > > > mv? Alternatively cp -a&&rm. > > Yes, but I want to properly comply with policy. I only want to do the > copy on upgrade if the conffile is (a) untouched and (b) the original > exists. I'm

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kilian Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Roger, > > Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2005, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Is there a recommended way of changing the location of a

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Roger, Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2005, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi folks, > > Is there a recommended way of changing the location of a conffile > while still preserving user modifications? > > In this case, I'd like to move /etc/schro

Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Is there a recommended way of changing the location of a conffile while still preserving user modifications? In this case, I'd like to move /etc/schroot.conf to /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. Thanks, Roger - -- Roger Leigh P

RFS: capi2name -- ISDN capi monitor with web interface

2005-09-11 Thread Jonas Genannt
Hello, I'm searching for a sponsor for capi2name. * Package name: capi2name Version : 0.6.7.9 Upstream Author : Jonas Genannt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.capi2name.de * License : GPL Description : ISDN capi monitor with web interface Capi2Nam