Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-13 Thread Joe Smith
"Daniel Leidert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Am Montag, den 13.02.2006, 01:24 -0600 schrieb Peter Samuelson: That is, to have a .dpatch file whose purpose is to unpack the tarball on 'patch' and delete the tree on 'unpatch'. But as I said: Such a patch would

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 13.02.2006, 01:24 -0600 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Daniel Leidert] > > Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > > > It has now shown to be necessary to apply patches to the upstream > > > docs. I would like to use dpatch for that. > > > > Could you also write a

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:24:07 -0600, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Daniel Leidert] >> Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: >> > It has now shown to be necessary to apply patches to the upstream >> > docs. I would like to use dpatch for that. >> >> Could you als

Re: Native package or not?

2006-02-13 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Joey Hess may or may not have written... > Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> The general suggestion is to not include the debian/ directory in the >> release tarball. The reason is that by the format of the Debian source >> packages no files can be removed by another person's .diff.gz and s

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- Simple GTK program that shows some UNIX/Linux system information

2006-02-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adriaan Peeters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.02.13.1700 +0100]: > * Package name: sysinfo Would you consider calling it gtk-sysinfo? I would want sysinfo to be a console programme :) -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EM

RFS: sysinfo -- Simple GTK program that shows some UNIX/Linux system information

2006-02-13 Thread Adriaan Peeters
Hello, I am looking for a sponsor for sysinfo [1], detailed info below. I already have two packages in Debian: dnstop and sipcalc. I requested an RFS earlier [2], but now this package is based on the existing Ubuntu package by Szilveszter Farkas. Currently the following lintian warnings still exi

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-13 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Margarita Manterola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060213 13:08]: > On 2/13/06, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A small problem with it though: When I put all architecture independant data > > in its own package, lintian starts complaining that the binary lacks a > > manpage. For the moment

looking for a sponsor

2006-02-13 Thread john aikins
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Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-13 Thread Margarita Manterola
On 2/13/06, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A small problem with it though: When I put all architecture independant data > in its own package, lintian starts complaining that the binary lacks a > manpage. For the moment, I moved the manpage back in the arch:any package > (it's small anyway

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-13 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:16:21AM -0200, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > Hi Marc! > > On 2/13/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please, don't treat me as a clueless newbie. The package in question > > is exim4-doc-html, the documentation for Debian's default MTA. The > > fact that I

Re: RFS: sdljump

2006-02-13 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:16:34AM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:42:26PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Finally, the ELF file uses only 68KB, while the whole package uses 1,5 > > MB of arch-independent files. It certainly looks as a candidate for > > package and pack

Proper way of cleaning packages with autotools

2006-02-13 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 07:43:43PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:42:26PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > On 2/12/06, Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -$(MAKE) maintainer-clean > > rm -f config.guess config.sub configure depcomp INSTALL install-sh \

Re: change in a package name

2006-02-13 Thread Ricardo Mones
Hi Tommaso, On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:31:53 +0100 Tommaso Moroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A Debian user some time ago sent me a script very similar to mrename > (which I maintain). > This new script is backward-compatible with the old one, and has some > new features too. > > If I want to