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

2007-03-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 09:09:23AM -0500, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > A NEWS entry isn't unreasonable. Supporting the old binary might be > nice; a wrapper with a warning rather than a symlink is extra friendly. > Be sure to use "exec" as the last line of a wrapper script to remove > unnecessary me

Re: RFS: yacas (updated package)

2007-03-16 Thread Steffen Joeris
Hi Thanks for taking care of this package. > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.57-3 > of my package "yacas". > > It builds these binary packages: > yacas - Computer Algebra System > yacas-doc - Documentation for Yacas > yacas-proteus - User interface for yacas based on fltk

RFS: yacas (updated package)

2007-03-16 Thread Muammar Wadih El Khatib Rodriguez
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.0.57-3 of my package "yacas". It builds these binary packages: yacas - Computer Algebra System yacas-doc - Documentation for Yacas yacas-proteus - User interface for yacas based on fltk The package is lintian clean. The uplo

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:56 +1100, Andrew Donnellan wrote: > On 3/17/07, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What would you choose and why? > > You could also write a wrapper script around the binary so that the > user can see the license when they first run the program. This gets > arou

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 3/17/07, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What would you choose and why? You could also write a wrapper script around the binary so that the user can see the license when they first run the program. This gets around the dpkg and debconf issues. -- Andrew Donnellan ajdlinuxATgmailD

Re: debian/prerm is executed on *reconfigure*?

2007-03-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:52:18PM +0100, "schönfeld / in-medias-res.com" wrote: > Hi mentors, > hi Dpkg developers, > > i could need some help with a bug that has been reported to be in one of > my packages. According to #408823 my package removes a configuration > file when dpkg-reconfigure is i

debian/prerm is executed on *reconfigure*?

2007-03-16 Thread schönfeld / in-medias-res.com
Hi mentors, hi Dpkg developers, i could need some help with a bug that has been reported to be in one of my packages. According to #408823 my package removes a configuration file when dpkg-reconfigure is invoked. I'm really wondering about this, because that means that dpkg invokes my prerm script

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-16, Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > What would you choose and why? If there is a need for a click-wrap license - look at the sun java packages. But if the license don't require click-wrap, I would just ship it in debian/copyright. People should know that non-free stuff

Re: How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 14:37 +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Hi, Hi Daniel, > > I have a package for a software, that is provided under an academic > license - free for non-profit organisations and academic use, not free > for profit organisations. > So I want to put a debconf template into > pr

How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, I have a package for a software, that is provided under an academic license - free for non-profit organisations and academic use, not free for profit organisations. So I want to put a debconf template into preinst, so the user MUST accept the license, before he installs the package (and of cou