Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-12-04 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 15:17 +0100, Cesare Tirabassi wrote: > On Sunday 02 December 2007 01:34:14 you wrote: > > > I'd like to hear what Paul, Mirco and Cesare have to > > say on this subject. > > Not being a Debian maintainer myself, I don't really feel entitled to say > what > you should do or

Re: communication, friendlyness, DDs (Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging)

2007-12-04 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > > Really, it may have sounded more rude to you, then it was meant to be. > > > > But I was really annoyed by such a statement, > > > > That rather implies you were unfriendly, at least I'm often (too) > > unfriendly, > > Misusing "then" an

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-geoip (updated package)

2007-12-04 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Michael Mende schrieb: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.0-1 of my package "libapache2-mod-geoip". It builds these binary packages: libapache2-mod-geoip - GeoIP support for apache2 The package appears to be lintian iand linda clean. The upload would fix these bu

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-04 Thread Francesco Namuri
Il giorno 04/dic/07, alle ore 23:01, Russ Allbery ha scritto: Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Il giorno 04/dic/07, alle ore 01:23, Russ Allbery ha scritto: The problem is that libtool doesn't think that lib64 is on the regular library search path and hence decides that it need

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Il giorno 04/dic/07, alle ore 01:23, Russ Allbery ha scritto: >> The problem is that libtool doesn't think that lib64 is on the regular >> library search path and hence decides that it needs to add rpath, which >> is broken at several different levels

Re: rpath issue on 64 bit architectures

2007-12-04 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, and thanks for the help... Il giorno 04/dic/07, alle ore 01:23, Russ Allbery ha scritto: Francesco Namuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm thinking this because after the call of ./configure the generated libtool file contains all the lib variables set to corresponding lib64 directory e

Re: [FHS] doc compiled by postinst

2007-12-04 Thread Felipe Sateler
Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I want some documentation for my packages to be compiled during > postinst and I am wondering were the best place to store this > documentation is. Any reason for why this can't be done at build time? You list reasons for building the documentation, bu

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-12-04 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:35:31PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2007/12/2, Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 1) Copyright / license issues: By removing important information from > > the previous packaging you might insult the packaging license. > > Redistribution in Debian might theref

Re: policy for file headers

2007-12-04 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:20:32PM +0100, David Bremner wrote: > Can someone point me to policy about file headers? For license information, there is no Debian policy, because this is not up to Debian to change. The copyright holder may distribute code with a license. How she does that is up to

[FHS] doc compiled by postinst

2007-12-04 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Dear mentors, I want some documentation for my packages to be compiled during postinst and I am wondering were the best place to store this documentation is. Rationale: This issue come up for the yorick* packages. Yorick is an interpreted language, and I have packaged several add-on packa

RFS: libapache2-mod-geoip (updated package)

2007-12-04 Thread Michael Mende
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.0-1 of my package "libapache2-mod-geoip". It builds these binary packages: libapache2-mod-geoip - GeoIP support for apache2 The package appears to be lintian iand linda clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 400980 The package c

Re: Ubuntu-to-Debian packaging

2007-12-04 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi Miriam, On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:35:31PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > While I do believe that, as a general rule, it's much better to keep > old changelog entries, I'm pretty sure it's not illegal at all > toremove them (IANAL) as long as you keep the copyright statements. It > might not be po

Re: RFS: konq-pdf (2nd try, new upstream release)

2007-12-04 Thread Giuseppe Benigno
Il giorno dom, 25/11/2007 alle 16.24 +0930, Paul Wise ha scritto: > On Nov 25, 2007 1:29 PM, Giuseppe Benigno > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cool, so the best way forward is to open a bug at http://bugs.kde.org/ > on the kdeaddons package (that is what produces konq-plugins) asking > for those