Claiming a binary name used in Sarge but not in Etch.

2007-03-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear mentors, When I created the package amap-align (bioinformatics), there was a already a program called "amap" in Debian. Therefore, I renamed the binary program of my package. However, the old amap package has been removed from Etch, so I would like to know if it is possible to provide our use

Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-09 Thread James Westby
On (09/03/07 23:50), James Westby wrote: > On (09/03/07 23:54), Benjamin Mesing wrote: > > How do I invoke dpkg-source to create the .orig.tar.gz file? > > > > I would say that you don't need dpkg-source to, tar + gzip should work > just fine. > > Most (all?) builder scripts are happy with just

Re: Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-09 Thread James Westby
On (09/03/07 23:54), Benjamin Mesing wrote: > Hello, > > the developer reference describes how to do the repackaging of upstream > source. > Among others the following two points are mentioned for the > repackaged .orig.tar.gz: > * should use -.orig as the name of > the top-level dir

Creating a source tarball for repackaged source using dpkg-source -b

2007-03-09 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, the developer reference describes how to do the repackaging of upstream source. Among others the following two points are mentioned for the repackaged .orig.tar.gz: * should use -.orig as the name of the top-level directory in its tarball. This makes it possible to dis

RFS: predictive - text autocompletion package for Emacs

2007-03-09 Thread Jan Michael C. Alonzo
Hi everyone! I would like to request for a sponsor of my predictive package. 'predictive' is useful not only for text editing but also can be useful for other major modes like, for example, LaTeX. The following are the package details: Package name : predictive Version: 0.16.3-1 Upst