Re: RFS: firefox-greasemonkey

2006-03-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Michael Spang wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > >1) You're just providing the xpi file instead of building it from > >the individual source packages which are present in the upstream > >source. > > As far as I can see, releases are distributed only as XPInstall > archives. The u

Re: RFS: firefox-greasemonkey

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Spang
Don Armstrong wrote: >On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > >Ok, a couple of major/minor issues: > >1) You're just providing the xpi file instead of building it from the >individual source packages which are present in the upstream source. > > As far as I can see, releases are distri

Re: RFC: swftools - a collection of utilities for SWF file manipulation

2006-03-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 11:40 +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote: > I would like to get some comments for packaging the next upstream > release of swftools. * debian/watch: best remove the comments, and probably unsplit the line. * debian/changelog: might want to use NMU-style numbers un

Re: RFS: firefox-greasemonkey

2006-03-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Michael Spang wrote: > > Michael Spang wrote: > > > > > Package name: firefox-greasemonkey > > > Version : 0.6.4 > > > Upstream Author : Aaron Boodman > > > URL : http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ > > > License

Re: RFS: firefox-greasemonkey

2006-03-12 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Michael Spang wrote: > Michael Spang wrote: > > > Package name: firefox-greasemonkey > > Version : 0.6.4 > > Upstream Author : Aaron Boodman > > URL : http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ > > License : No restrictions > > Description : firefox ex

Re: RFS: firefox-greasemonkey

2006-03-12 Thread Michael Spang
Michael Spang wrote: > Package name: firefox-greasemonkey > Version : 0.6.4 > Upstream Author : Aaron Boodman > URL : http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ > License : No restrictions > Description : firefox extension which enables customization of > webpages with use

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-12 Thread Craig Small
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:47:28PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: > > "Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>So I must ask why do people dislike the autotools? Are there really > >>problems that outweigh the benefits of b

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-12 Thread Joe Smith
"Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So I must ask why do people dislike the autotools? Are there really problems that outweigh the benefits of being able to compile the program on strange architectures with little d

Re: [Q:] Which tool creates the DEBIAN subdirectory

2006-03-12 Thread Joe Smith
"Rainer Dorsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I tried to package cpuinfo but it seems that the files in debian/tmp did not make it into the .deb file: debian/tmp is only used if debian/compat does not exist or contains '1'. My guess is that your package

[Q:] Which tool creates the DEBIAN subdirectory

2006-03-12 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I tried to package cpuinfo but it seems that the files in debian/tmp did not make it into the .deb file: silverboxy:/home/rd/SW.nobackup/cpuinfo# dpkg -L cpuinfo /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/cpuinfo /usr/share/doc/cpuinfo/README /usr/share/doc/cpuinfo/TODO /usr/share/d

RFS: vamps

2006-03-12 Thread Claudio Moratti
Hi! My sponsor is full of work, and he has not time to check and upload the new vamps package... so I need a sponsor ;-) Package on the PTS: http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vamps.html The new version: htp://www.knio.it/debian/vamps/ Thanks in Advice ;-) Claudio -- ~~>MaXeR <~~ Home: htt

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:03:05PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:04:32PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > and automake provides a framework for creating makefiles with > > common and useful targets. > > > Just stuffing autotools into an existing project just adds crud, > > w

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:59:17 + Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's all fine, uploaded. I personally have no problem with the use of > the word 'brainfuck' in the package description, when it's an > interpreter for the language 'brainfuck'. It's gonna hit NEW queue > anyway, so if t

Re: Non-Debian packaging practice

2006-03-12 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:04:32PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > 3. Version differences: This is a legitamate gripe. The autotools don't > > work nearly as wel as they could when developers > > are using different versions. However, I see no way to easilly fix this. They could have done more f

RFC: swftools - a collection of utilities for SWF file manipulation

2006-03-12 Thread Simo Kauppi
Hi, I would like to get some comments for packaging the next upstream release of swftools. This package is based on the latest development snapshot and should not be uploaded to debian, but I would like to get some comments on the packaging so that by the time the official 0.8.0 is released, I wo