Re: Rationale behind script-not-executable lintian warning

2005-12-25 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 00:59, Frank Küster wrote: > "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > shebang line does _not_ indicate executability, it's the magic number > > that indicates it's a script instead of machine code (see e.g > > http://foldoc.org/?shebang) > > > > if it's me

Re: Policy documentation on debconf

2005-12-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:59:07 -0200, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, Lionel. > On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:37:11PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: >> > * http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/debconf-debconf/tutorial-doc.html >> Ah yeah, this seems to

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ah yeah, this seems to contain the information. Thanks a lot. Is there a > good reason it is not in the policy? If not, I'll file a bug to get it > there. Policy describes the config script in section 3.10.1. A reference in the maintainer scripts

Policy documentation on debconf (was: Re: Package's configure script)

2005-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Lionel. On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:37:11PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > But you question below left me with an impression that it could be > > related to the config script of the package that is made to use > > debconf stuff in a package. Is this

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:57:33PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:47:46PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > >>> I can't find an

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 05:37:11PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in >> section 6 of the policy. > But you question below left me with an impression that it could be > related to the config sc

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:47:46PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >>> I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in >>> section 6 of the policy.

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Lionel and others. On Dec 25 2005, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in > section 6 of the policy. I see that many others have replied regarding the auto* configure script. But you question below left me with an impression that it could

Re: Taking over different packages with a single source package

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 12:14:06AM +0100, Danai SAE-HAN wrote: > > Hi list! > > I'm nearly finished with my /magnum opus/, latex-cjk (a LaTeX macro > that allows you to insert Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and > Vietnamese text in a LaTeX document), which you can find at > > deb http://chine

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 03:51:44PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > > AFAIK there is/can be a configure target in debian/rules. > > Or, are you talking about ./debian/rules configure target, which > > probably just calls ./configu

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 09:24:38AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > AFAIK there is/can be a configure target in debian/rules. > Or, are you talking about ./debian/rules configure target, which > probably just calls ./configure, or maybe sets up some symlinks or > such? That's what I meant. grego

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:47:46PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > > > I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in > > section 6 of the policy. Can somebody please point me to a reference > > of how and when

RFS: dict-xdict -- An English to Chinese Dictionary

2005-12-25 Thread Emfox Zhou
Hello, i'm searching a sponsor for this[1] en-cn dict lib for dictd server. * Package name: dict-xdict Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Fu Jianjun * URL or Web page : (none) * License : GNU GPL Description : An English to Chinese Dictionary This package contains the

Re: Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in > section 6 of the policy. Can somebody please point me to a reference > of how and when it is run (what arguments, etc)? AFAIK there is/can be a configure target

Package's configure script

2005-12-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I can't find any mention of the configure script of packages in section 6 of the policy. Can somebody please point me to a reference of how and when it is run (what arguments, etc)? Thanks, -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?