Re: changelog.Debian.gz as a symbolic link

2006-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Székelyi Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm packaging a simple library building a shared lib and a development > package as usual. The -dev package depends on the one containing the > shared library. Policy says that it is permitted in this situation to > symlink documentation coming with

Re: shc -- #335278 broken packaging -- non-DD NMU prepared

2006-07-25 Thread Russ Allbery
George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Saturday 15 July 2006 03:48, Russ Allbery wrote: >> lintian warns if you do an NMU without mentioning it in the changelog, >> but although it has the necessary information to do so, it doesn't do >> the inverse. Committing a fix now. > Thanks for y

Re: RFS (dget optimized): subcommander -- qt based multiplatform subversion client, diff & merge tool

2006-07-25 Thread Andreas Fester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Bas, Bas Wijnen wrote: [...] > compiler". There is no such thing as "GNU/GPL". Ok; I suppose I simply copy&pasted that from another RFS ... > The copyright file doesn't contain this error, so that's fine. However, it > also doesn't contain the

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Williams
Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:33:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > [...] >> I've generated a gpg key to sign the Release files and I'm using >> mini-dinstall on the server. It appears to be working, Release and >> Release.gpg are created and gpg can verify that the signature i

Re: mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:33:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: [...] > I've generated a gpg key to sign the Release files and I'm using > mini-dinstall on the server. It appears to be working, Release and > Release.gpg are created and gpg can verify that the signature is good. [...] > Yet apt-get u

mini-dinstall, repository signing and apt-get authentication

2006-07-25 Thread Neil Williams
I'm trying to sort out my trivial apt repository properly so that my sponsor can obtain my packages more easily. I've generated a gpg key to sign the Release files and I'm using mini-dinstall on the server. It appears to be working, Release and Release.gpg are created and gpg can verify that the s

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:54, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:30 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > I'm open to suggestions. The importer that processes uploaded packages > > just takes into account the *.dsc and *.changes files AFAIK. None of > > them contain the one-line descript

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 13:30 +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > And being on the whishlist line, May long description be included in > > the RFS templates too? > > I'm open to suggestions. The importer that processes uploaded packages just > takes into account the *.dsc and *.changes files AFAIK. No

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:16, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > Matthew Palmer написа: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > >> Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ? > > > > It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known > > tool, I think). > >

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Christoph Haas
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 11:46, martin f krafft wrote: > I am sure you've heard about dget: pass it a .dsc file and it will > download the source package. This is vastly better than having to > browse to a directory and select the files by hand. > > Thus I kindly ask all sponsees to always include t

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Matthew Palmer написа: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: >> Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ? > > It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known tool, > I think). It would be good if this is used in mendors.d.n-generated RFS temp

RFS: feedparser

2006-07-25 Thread Carlos Galisteo
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.1-5 of the package "feedparser". It builds these binary packages: python-feedparser - Universal Feed Parser for Python The package is lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 374499 (ITA) The package can be found on mentors.

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.25.1107 +0100]: > It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is > a little-known tool, I think). You rock, thanks a lot! -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: RFS (dget optimized): subcommander -- qt based multiplatform subversion client, diff & merge tool

2006-07-25 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:08:29PM +0200, Andreas Fester wrote: > * Package name: subcommander > * License : GNU/GPL I didn't really look at the package, just at the copyright file. The reason is that you said GNU/GPL, which is incorrect. "GNU/Linux" means "a combination of the GNU s

Re: chm to pdf

2006-07-25 Thread Frank Küster
"Deepak Kumar Tripathi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > Is their any tool available in Debian that convert .chm files to .pdf . This list is for discussions about creating Debian packages; your question seems more appropriate for a user list ([EMAIL PROTECTED], or one of the lists

RFS (dget optimized): subcommander -- qt based multiplatform subversion client, diff & merge tool

2006-07-25 Thread Andreas Fester
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for subcommander, a graphical client for subversion: * Package name: subcommander * Description : Subcommander supports most subversion features. Its tight integration of repository browser a

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:46:47AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Matthew, could we please add this to the FAQ? It shall be done. I'll also note about dget (which is a little-known tool, I think). - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

chm to pdf

2006-07-25 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Dear mentors, Is their any tool available in Debian that convert .chm files to .pdf . Thanks *** * Deepak Tripathi .---. * * Open Source Developer/ \* * [EMAIL PROTECTED]@./* *

plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

2006-07-25 Thread martin f krafft
Hi, I am sure you've heard about dget: pass it a .dsc file and it will download the source package. This is vastly better than having to browse to a directory and select the files by hand. Thus I kindly ask all sponsees to always include the full path to the .dsc file in sponsor request emails.

tool in /bin

2006-07-25 Thread Robert Lemmen
hi folks, i have a bug report (#377687) which asks for a secure deletion tool to be installed in /bin instead of /usr/bin so you can use it in maintenance mode. makes sense in a way, and is possible when you look at the library dependencies. but should it be done? i didn't find anything in the pol