Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Eric Lavarde wrote: > Hi, > > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Stephen Gran wrote: > # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. > check_for_no_start() { > if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled i

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, C.J. Adams-Collier said: > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > > > Why not use echo and cat? Calling echo this way the shell can't use the > > builtin echo command and must spawn a new process. > > Is there a test to determine whether there is

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:51:38PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > > C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # Fully qualified paths to required programs > > > START_STOP_DAEMON=/sbin/start-stop-daemon > > > CAT=/bin/cat > > >

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Eric Lavarde schrieb: > Hi, > > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Stephen Gran wrote: > # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. > check_for_no_start() { > if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:03:57PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: > >Stephen Gran wrote: > # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. > check_for_no_start() { > if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then > >>>This is such a broken behavior. Inits

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 25/11/2007, C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper > script like the following for services to source? > > I'm thinking that it would belong somewhere like > /usr/share/service-common/init.sh. I have not tested the

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 12:32 +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hallo C.J., > > C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper > > script like the following for services to source? > > > > I'm thinking that it would belong somewhe

Re: RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2007/11/27, Piotr Ożarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Miriam, > > You're already in DPMT, how about joining PAPT as well and maintaining > this package there? We can offer for example: > * fixing lintian overrides > * building python extensions for all supported Python versions in > python-pykaraoke

Re: RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
Miriam, You're already in DPMT, how about joining PAPT as well and maintaining this package there? We can offer for example: * fixing lintian overrides * building python extensions for all supported Python versions in python-pykaraoke package * handling new dpkg fields fast (some freaks have who

Re: -dbg package for a suite - one libfoo-dbg package sufficient?

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2007, 06:14 +1100 schrieb Matt Palmer: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:44:14PM +, Daniel Leidert wrote: [..] > > But: the packages for the plugin and the applications are very small, so > > I think creating own -dbg packages for them is not sufficient. But am I > > allowed

Re: RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
Miriam, You're already in DPMT, how about joining PAPT as well and maintaining this package there? We can offer for example: * fixing lintian overrides * building python extensions for all supported Python versions in python-pykaraoke package * handling new dpkg fields fast (some freaks have who

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Stephen Gran wrote: > >>> # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. > >>> check_for_no_start() { > >>> if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then > >> This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in > >> the

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread David Watson
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:47 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Stephen Gran wrote: > >>> # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. > >>> check_for_no_start() { > >>> if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then > >> This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabl

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of the init system. That's

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:47:31 +0800 Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Gran wrote: > > > > That's not quite true - many packages in debian use an enable/disable > > variable in an /etc/default/package file. > > Not talking about any policy, but I personally hate it. Why on earth

RFS: pykaraoke (updated package)

2007-11-26 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.5.1.ds1-1 of my package "pykaraoke". It builds these binary packages: pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player pykaraoke-bin - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player python-pykaraoke - free CDG/MIDI/MPEG karaoke player The package c

Re: RFS: dragbox

2007-11-26 Thread ulrik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Nico, (I would like to be CC'd any replies, if that is not totally out of form) >Hi Ulrik, >* ulrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-26 17:07]: >[...] >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dragbox". >> >> * Package name: dragbox >> Ver

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
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Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 27, 2007 1:03 AM, JackTheDipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, thank you very much for your help! A new version has just been > uploaded to debian mentors and is waiting for reviewing. ;-) > Jack [please reply directly to the list] More review: please spell-check your package descri

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-26 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, [no need to CC me. I never expressed the wish that I want that] On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:34:27PM +0100, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote: > Not too long ago, about 4 years, when Ubuntu didn't exist, I tried to > upload my first package to Debian. It was a package we had been using in > LinEx

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-26 Thread L. Redrejo
El lun, 26-11-2007 a las 16:30 +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld escribió: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > You need a new changelog for Debian starting from scratch and you could > > adapt the copyright (if the license allow it) or just make one new. > > Wh

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 26.11.2007, 10:31 -0500 schrieb Eric Cooper: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:30:56PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > > ...I haven't been able to work out how to do this, because > > http://s48.org/ has a link to 1.7/download.html instead of to 1.7/ > > Here's a version that works, using

Re: -dbg package for a suite - one libfoo-dbg package sufficient?

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:44:14PM +, Daniel Leidert wrote: > From a complete suite I build several packages: a library, a -dev, a > plugin package for mozilla-based browsers and two packages that contain > some applications. > > Now I got 2 crash reports during a short time. I normally rebuil

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Neil Williams
Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: >> Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! > > Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use > the POSIX superset allowed by policy. A script aimed at bsah should > just dec

Re: interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:53:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: > > > > > > > > Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be P

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Stephen Gran wrote: >>> # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. >>> check_for_no_start() { >>> if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then >> This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in >> the configuration of the init system. > > That's not quite

Re: RFS: dragbox

2007-11-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Ulrik, * ulrik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-26 17:07]: [...] > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dragbox". > > * Package name: dragbox > Version : 0.2.5-2 > Upstream Author : Ulrik Sverdrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.student.lu.se/~cif04usv/wi

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Eric Cooper
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:30:56PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > ...I haven't been able to work out how to do this, because > http://s48.org/ has a link to 1.7/download.html instead of to 1.7/ Here's a version that works, using the downloadurlmangle option: version=3 opts=downloadurlmangle=s

RFS: mcl

2007-11-26 Thread Philipp Benner
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mcl". * Package name: mcl Version : 1:06-058-1 Upstream Author : Stijn van Dongen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://micans.org/mcl/ * License : GPL-2 Section : math The MCL package is an imple

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-11-26 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 06:23:50PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > You need a new changelog for Debian starting from scratch and you could > adapt the copyright (if the license allow it) or just make one new. Why? Thats IMHO a very bad way to do it. 1) changelog is to track was has been

Re: interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: > > > > > > Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! > > > > Not strictly true. A script written for us

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:08:12PM +, Daniel Leidert wrote: >>> Please add a debian/watch file. > > version=3 > opts=downloadurlmangle=s/([^\/]+)\/download.html$/$1\/scheme48-$1.tgz/,filenamemangle=s/([^\/]+)\/download.html/scheme48-$1.tgz/ > \ > http://s48.org/index.html \ > ([\d\.]+)/dow

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-11-26 Thread JackTheDipper
Thank you very much for your useful suggestions! Paul Wise wrote: > E, I guess the diff.gz is empty because you are upstream? Can I > suggest that you put the debian/ directory in the diff.gz instead of > your upstream tarball? > Ok, done. > You didn't file an ITP bug and close it in the

-dbg package for a suite - one libfoo-dbg package sufficient?

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, >From a complete suite I build several packages: a library, a -dev, a plugin package for mozilla-based browsers and two packages that contain some applications. Now I got 2 crash reports during a short time. I normally rebuilt the packages with the nostrip option to get better backtraces.

RFS: dragbox

2007-11-26 Thread ulrik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: Ulrik Sverdrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: dragbox Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "dragbox". * Package name: dragbox Version : 0.2.5-2 Upstream Author : Ulrik S

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 26.11.2007, 20:30 +1100 schrieb Trent W. Buck: > [CC'd to mentors; please also CC replies directly to me as I'm not > subscribed to that list.] > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411425 > http://www.s48.org/1.7/scheme48-1.7.tgz > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/p

interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: > > > > Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! > > Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use > the POSIX superset allowed by p

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: > > Init scripts should not use Bash, they should be Posix Shell scripts! Not strictly true. A script written for use with #!/bin/sh should use the POSIX superset allowed by policy. A script aimed at bsah should just declare it's interpreter as #!/

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo C.J., C.J. Adams-Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper > script like the following for services to source? > > I'm thinking that it would belong somewhere like > /usr/share/service-common/init.sh. I have not tested the f

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Matt Palmer
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 04:49:26AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:01:50PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > > # Make sure the RUNDIR exists with correct permissions > > if [ ! -d "$RUNDIR" ]; then > Any reason not to include the rundir in the pacakge? Then you don't > ha

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:01:50PM -0800, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: > is there something like a service-common package that provides a helper > script like the following for services to source? I think the current solution is "provide a template with dh_make", which is somewhat more general since t

Re: scheme48 watch file

2007-11-26 Thread Trent W. Buck
[CC'd to mentors; please also CC replies directly to me as I'm not subscribed to that list.] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411425 http://www.s48.org/1.7/scheme48-1.7.tgz http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/scheme48/ Regarding > Please add a debian/watch file. ...I ha

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 26, 2007 6:20 PM, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of the time, I see people using -O2 instead. I'd find using a poor > optimization level only for some that needs debugging quite frustrating. > Can't people wishing to do debugging recompile the package (and even > remove th

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Paul Wise wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Paul Wise wrote: >>> You might want to support noopt too. >> What's that? > > Like nostrip, but ensures that the package is build with no > optimisation (gcc -O0). Useful for people debugging crashes. Most of

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages) 2nd try, please consider!

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 26, 2007 4:36 PM, Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I did is this: ... > Is that ok like this? Or should I just not backup the files, and delete > them at the clean, as Craig Small suggested (less prone to errors)? Looks fine to me. Removing them on clean is just as good, an

Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface

2007-11-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Nov 26, 2007 3:36 PM, Andres Mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mediatomb". A more thorough review of your package: doc/mediatomb.1 is generated from docbook xml, but that source code isn't available in the source package. This means the package cann