Re: ITA-RFS: cronolog - logfile rotator

2011-06-13 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 22:56:00 +0200 Maxime Chatelle wrote: > > Ah I see where that comes from. Those packages with tarball-in- > > tarball > > are rather rare these days. Changing the tarball without renaming it > > won't technically work however. You can still rename the tarball to > > so

Re: RFS: micro-evtd (updated package)

2011-06-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On 06/11/2011 03:24 PM, Ryan Tandy wrote: Dear mentors and ARM porters, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.4-1 of my package "micro-evtd". It builds these binary packages: micro-evtd - Linkstation Pro/Kurobox Pro special features support micro-evtd-udeb - Linkstation Pro/Kurobox P

Re: RFS: freeplane (updated package)

2011-06-13 Thread tony mancill
On 06/08/2011 07:58 AM, Eric Lavarde wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.3-1 > of my package "freeplane". > > It builds these binary packages: > freeplane - Java program to create and edit mind maps. > libjortho-freeplane-java - Java spell-checking libra

Re: RFS: gogglesmm

2011-06-13 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Hendrik Rittich wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gogglesmm". * Package name: gogglesmm Version : 0.12.2-5 Upstream Author : Hendrik Rittich * URL : http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/ * License : GPLv3 Sect

Re: ITA-RFS: cronolog - logfile rotator

2011-06-13 Thread Maxime Chatelle
On 06/13/2011 21:42:14, Christoph Egger wrote: ... > > Ah I see where that comes from. Those packages with tarball-in- > tarball > are rather rare these days. Changing the tarball without renaming it > won't technically work however. You can still rename the tarball to > something like cronolog_1

Re: Stripping non-free/unnecessary files out of orig.tar.gz

2011-06-13 Thread Ove Kåven
Den 12. juni 2011 19:13, skrev Anton Martchukov: > In my package (opencpn) there are couple of binary files > without source code/with unfree license that is required > only for OS X and Windows builds (those are some dlls and > redistributable files). > > Upstream does like to keep them in origi

Re: ITA-RFS: cronolog - logfile rotator

2011-06-13 Thread Christoph Egger
Christoph Egger writes: > Maxime Chatelle writes: >> It appear to be lintian clean. and can be found here: >> http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=cronolog >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cronolog/cronolog_1.6.2-6.dsc > > It seems the .orig.tar.

Re: ITA-RFS: cronolog - logfile rotator

2011-06-13 Thread Maxime Chatelle
On 06/13/2011 14:58:07, Christoph Egger wrote: > Hi! > Hi ! thanks for reply. > It seems the .orig.tar.gz of your upload to mentors.debian.net > differs > From the one in the archive. Did you modify the tarball? where did > you > get it from? Please use the tarball currently in the archive (an

Re: Stripping non-free/unnecessary files out of orig.tar.gz

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Gevers
On 06/12/11 19:13, Anton Martchukov wrote: > Hello All. > > In my package (opencpn) there are couple of binary files > without source code/with unfree license that is required > only for OS X and Windows builds (those are some dlls and > redistributable files). > > Upstream does like to keep the

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, On 2011-06-13 12:56, David Kalnischkies wrote: > With my APT hat on i can tell you that APT (and friends) currently have no > option to forbid the removal of packages without other side-effects. Please refrain from uncondionally stating something about "friends"' functionality. Libcupt actual

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
2011/6/13 Ansgar Burchardt : > David Kalnischkies writes: >> What could be done is tweaking resolver scoring points, but honestly: >> that is black-magic even for me -- and as you can only change this for >> priorities it has side-effects for other packages with this priority and >> these would be

Re: ITA-RFS: cronolog - logfile rotator

2011-06-13 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! Maxime Chatelle writes: > It appear to be lintian clean. and can be found here: > http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=cronolog > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cronolog/cronolog_1.6.2-6.dsc It seems the .orig.tar.gz of your upload to mentors

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
David Kalnischkies writes: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 22:54, Erik Schanze (Debian) wrote: >> Does anybody have an additionally idea how to solve this, to prevent the >> removal of one package without hanging on user input and prevent >> automatic inclusion in PBuilder installation? [...] > > What c

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-13 12:11 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2011-06-11 09:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >>> Except for how dpkg behaves. If your package has a file in /usr/lib64/ >>> and gets installed then dpkg records that that directory belongs to your >>>

Re: How to make a meta package unremovable?

2011-06-13 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 22:54, Erik Schanze (Debian) wrote: > Does anybody have an additionally idea how to solve this, to prevent the > removal of one package without hanging on user input and prevent > automatic inclusion in PBuilder installation? With my APT hat on i can tell you that APT (and

Re: ia32-libs-dev build dependency vs. Ubuntu

2011-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gregor Jasny writes: > Hello, > > I'm the maintainer of v4l-utils and ran into the following problem: > > The last v4l-utils Debian package added a build dependency to libjpeg, > and because I also build 32bit libs on amd64 (for Skype) I had to add an > build dependency on ia32-libs-dev (where li

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2011-06-11 09:22 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Except for how dpkg behaves. If your package has a file in /usr/lib64/ >> and gets installed then dpkg records that that directory belongs to your >> package. Then the next time libc6 gets updated dpkg will try to