RFS: podget

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Vehrs
Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "podget". * Package name: podget Version : 0.5.8 Upstream Author : Dave Vehrs * URL : HTTP://podget.sf.net * License : GNU GPL Section : misc It builds these binary packages: podget - Podcast aggre

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-10 Thread James Westby
On (10/01/07 12:43), Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I'm guessing that people who name libraries like libfoo-1.2.3.so often > tend to (lazily) use the software version number as the release number, > so they don't need to keep track of (or try to prevent) ABI > incompatibilities. Hence the soname change

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:46:59AM +0100, Andreas Fester wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Junichi Uekawa wrote: [Andreas] >> >> so I suppose that the format libfoo-1.2.3.so only exists for historical >> >> reasons, right? IMHO new packages have to use the form libfoo.so.1.2.3 ? >> > >>

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:36:28 -0800 "Kevin B. McCarty" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Upstream of my library (Cernlib maintainers) only ships static >> libraries, and the shared library support is hacked in by me. So I >> have complete control over the soversion, but of co

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:36:28 -0800 "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everyone who answered so far! Unfortunately some of the answers > (Steve Langasek's vs. Neil Williams') seem directly opposed :-) In such cases, I defer to vorlon. :-) > > A better solution for libfoo, IMH

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:36:28AM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Thanks everyone who answered so far! Unfortunately some of the answers > (Steve Langasek's vs. Neil Williams') seem directly opposed :-) I'd > like to try to understand this better since I really know very little > technical deta

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Thanks everyone who answered so far! Unfortunately some of the answers (Steve Langasek's vs. Neil Williams') seem directly opposed :-) I'd like to try to understand this better since I really know very little technical detail about how the runtime linker works. Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 08

Comments re packaging of AFNIX

2007-01-10 Thread Paul Cager
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, Could someone please check my packaging of the AFNIX compiler/interpreter? * Package name: afnix Version : 1.4.2-1 * URL : www.afnix.org * License : BSD-like The package is lintian/linda clean, and fix

Re: Frozen Etch

2007-01-10 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 11:10, Steffen Joeris wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:57, Paul Cager wrote: > > Can I just check that we are still allowed to upload to unstable while > > testing is frozen? (Or rather, in my case, to ask a sponsor to upload). > > According to the release team an

Re: Frozen Etch

2007-01-10 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi On Tuesday 09 January 2007 22:57, Paul Cager wrote: > Can I just check that we are still allowed to upload to unstable while > testing is frozen? (Or rather, in my case, to ask a sponsor to upload). According to the release team and their announcement[0] newer package version which should not

Re: RFS: Legends: The Game

2007-01-10 Thread Daniel Baumann
TerroX wrote: > See list of current packages (debian, loki, sh) here > http://download.legendsthegame.net/ > or full debian install here > http://legendsthegame.net//files/legends_linux-0.4.1.42.deb Size: 118.6 > MB (124,288,308 bytes) > or downloader debian here > http://legendsthegame.net//files/