Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > then in your debian/rules build rule, you can do something like: > MY_VERS=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | > cut -d'-' -f1` > MY_DEB_REL=`head -n 1 debian/changelog | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1 | > cut -d'-' -f2` > MY_PKGNAME=`head -n 1 d

RFS: subversion (updated package) [lenny-backports, 1.6.9dfsg-1~bpo50+1]

2010-05-01 Thread Michael Diers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dear mentors/backporters, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.6.9dfsg-1~bpo50+1 of my package "subversion". Since 2010-01-31, the version in "testing" is 1.6.9dfsg-1. This backport omits the optional ra_serf repository access method

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-01 Thread Ignacio Valdes
Moving on. As suggested I am simply going to have to hack/kludge rpm and deb with a bunch of sed pre-processing of the respective spec, control and postinst to make it work. These two divergent schemes put a large burden of effort on developers and documenters. Wish I could get deb and rpm folks

Re: Status of SIGAR (Was: InVesalius packaging)

2010-05-01 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Thiago Franco Moraes wrote: ... >> I have limited experience with python packages but the principle is that >> the *.pyc files will be created at package install time in the postinst >> script.  This is done by python-support and is described in the Debian >> Pytho

Re: RFS: Various GNUstep packages; looking for a general sponsor

2010-05-01 Thread Luca Falavigna
Il giorno Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:59:05 +0200 Yavor Doganov ha scritto: > I kindly ask anyone who is interested to consider sponsoring the below > packages, and eventually future uploads of core GNUstep (-make, -base, > -gui, -back), hopefully plus other less important ones. Thanks in > advance! I

Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in postinst?

2010-05-01 Thread Thomas Goirand
Ignacio Valdes wrote: > So here is the use case, one that to my knowledge rpm or deb do not > provide much guidance for and deb does not provide control fields for: > Package is a vehicle for installing software that can create multiple > instances. Further, those instances can be very long lived (

Re: RFS: amispammer

2010-05-01 Thread Julián Moreno Patiño
Hi Ansgar, 2010/5/1 Ansgar Burchardt > Hi, > > Julián Moreno Patiño writes: > > > * Package name : amispammer > > Version : 3.1-1 > > > > The upload would fix these bugs: 579499 > > I am not a DD and cannot upload your package, but though I would give > some comments: > > · debian/ru