* Adeodato Simó [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:14:00 +0200]:
> * Roberto C. Sanchez [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:24 -0400]:
> > Couldn't you also Build-Depend on 'ocaml-native-compilers | ocaml'?
> Good idea, but it won't work (at least with the version of sbuild in
> unstable, if buildds are using somethin
* Roberto C. Sanchez [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:28:24 -0400]:
> Couldn't you also Build-Depend on 'ocaml-native-compilers | ocaml'?
Good idea, but it won't work (at least with the version of sbuild in
unstable, if buildds are using something more recent and smarter,
that's another story).
> That
[debian-ocaml-maint CC'ed again, quoting at full for the benefit of
its subscribers.]
* John Skaller [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:40:09 +1000]:
> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 10:30 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Le Dim 12 Juin 2005 08:51, John Skaller a écrit :
> > > How should a package build script cope
[People from debian-ocaml-mail, please keep -mentors CC'ed.]
* John Skaller [Sun, 12 Jun 2005 16:27:21 +1000]:
> I could use a 'build-recommends' dependency,
> but I understand 'recommends'
> is only available for the binary package, not the source.
> Is this correct?
> The situation: the pac
Hello,
[I'm sending this to three lists. Please only reply to -devel unless
the answer is on-topic for some of the others.]
This mail is about making people aware of how actions aimed at
improving Debian, like providing a new version of a library or NMUing
a package, can have negative e
* Li Daobing [Mon, 23 May 2005 15:58:34 +0800]:
> Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > If you'd like to adopt the package instead of NMUing, that'd be great,
> > since the package will receive more attention. I've asked Jeroen van
> > Wolffelaar, currently in charge of the MIA process, and he says
> >
* Li Daobing [Sun, 22 May 2005 15:11:06 +0800]:
Hi!
> > The official maintainer is Anthony Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, but he did not
> > work since Wed, 16 Apr 2003.
If you'd like to adopt the package instead of NMUing, that'd be great,
since the package will receive more attention. I've asked
* Shachar Shemesh [Sat, 21 May 2005 14:28:31 +0300]:
> In order to set it up, apt-get install ccache. Then create a directory
> somewhere and put there symlinks from cc, gcc, c++ and g++ to
> /usr/bin/ccache.
Such directory is already provided by the ccache package itself
(/usr/lib/ccache),
* Anthony DeRobertis [Fri, 20 May 2005 14:18:33 -0400]:
Helo Anthony,
> submitter 203896 !
Just a very minor thing: that should have been "owner", not
"submitter" .
And thanks for adopting!
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* martin f krafft [Thu, 19 May 2005 07:43:41 +0200]:
> One of the messages which fails to verify is here:
> http://madduck.net/~madduck/scratch/mutt-cirrus-1000-8080-10
% md5sum mutt-cirrus-1000-8080-10
b43c01237c4ec2221ba651da1c0a0d4a mutt-cirrus-1000-8080-10
% mutt -f mutt-cirrus-1000
* Roberto C. Sanchez [Wed, 18 May 2005 18:03:23 -0400]:
> I guess that at some point I need to do the identy verification
> step. How does that go? Do I locate some DDs near me and drop
> them an email and see if they are willing to sign my gpg key?
Yes, that's right. You can check http://nm.
* martin f krafft [Thu, 19 May 2005 01:19:02 +0200]:
> Among the first steps: make sure you can sign emails properly. Your
> signature failed to verify on all your posts.
Check your side, martin, verified fine here.
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* Neil Williams [Tue, 17 May 2005 10:22:27 +0100]:
> DEBUILD_DPKG_BUILDPACKAGE_OPTS="-i -ICVS -I.svn"
(Just a minor commnet: "-i" suffices, since the default regex ingores
CVS and .svn, among other things.)
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* Ben Finney [Tue, 17 May 2005 12:00:38 +1000]:
> On 17-May-2005, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > * Ben Finney [Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:56 +1000]:
> > > I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages that currently use
> > > hand-rolled debian/rules files.
> > Which packages, and why?
> I'd rather n
* Ben Finney [Tue, 17 May 2005 11:35:56 +1000]:
> I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages that currently use
> hand-rolled debian/rules files.
Which packages, and why? I mean, there are very cleanly packaged files
that don't use debhelper nor cdbs (see e.g. make). But there can be
* Wesley J. Landaker [Thu, 12 May 2005 20:41:17 -0600]:
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:18, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > Uhm, nice (one fork less), but then you can "quote arguments" (and
> > "$*" won't help here).
> But "$@" will.
No, sorry, it won't (I tested this stuff). At least in my system,
* martin f krafft [Fri, 13 May 2005 04:10:48 +0200]:
> also sprach Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.13.0338 +0200]:
> > >8 /usr/bin/smartenv 8<-
> > #! /bin/sh
> > sh -c "$*"
> >
> #!/bin/sh
> exec $*
Uh
* martin f krafft [Wed, 11 May 2005 19:13:49 +0200]:
> also sprach Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.11.1802 +0200]:
> > #!/usr/bin env - perl -w
> > so, the extra hyphen, the trick?
> No. shebang lines can only take one argument.
This works:
#! /usr/bin/smartenv perl -w
And
* Sebastian Kuzminsky [Tue, 10 May 2005 11:22:17 -0600]:
> I'm also looking to have my GPG key signed (I live in Colorado, USA),
http://nm.debian.org/gpg.php
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* Kevin Coyner [Mon, 09 May 2005 12:07:40 -0400]:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:18:23PM +0200, Adeodato Sim??? wrote..
> > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes
> > As the traffic is obviously too high, I've always had a procmail
> > rule in place that discards uploads of n
* Ben Finney [Mon, 09 May 2005 14:33:27 +1000]:
> What else should I be doing before I embark on getting a package
> ready? Does an overall checklist like the above already exist, that I
> should be following?
IME, reading bits from d-devel-changes [1] will teach you things you
won't learn el
* Eric Lavarde [Sat, 07 May 2005 16:07:50 +0200]:
> Also, I understand that if I start using cdbs, I loose the auto-patching
> functionality of dpkg-buildpackage (i.e. I don't need to care about
> creating patches, the .diff.gz is done for me). Is it correct?
No, unless you use tarball.mk (i.
* gaurav [Mon, 02 May 2005 15:58:00 +0530]:
> Hi,
> We have just initiated Stateless Debian Project
> Detail of project are given below
Perhaps this is best sent to -devel, rather than -mentors.
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* Carlos Z.F. Liu [Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:52:21 +1200]:
> But, if I build the package, CDBS will replace these two files again.
> The problem is that config.(guess|sub).cdbs-orig are same as
> config.guess and config.sub in the final result. Is this correct?
Well, that's the way cdbs is behaving f
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Sun, 24 Apr 2005 15:50:12 -0300]:
> I am a newbie on debian-mentors, and I wish maintain the orfaned package
> crm114
FYI, crm114 was adopted by Debian Developer Milan Zamazal on April 22nd.
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* Romain Beauxis [Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:40:44 +0200]:
> Hi at last!
Hi Romain,
> I found out that there had been an new upstream release for chkrootkit, and I
> intented to package it.
New upstream releases are not material for a NMU, have a look at the
Developers Reference (this is true ex
* George Danchev [Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:43:05 +0300]:
> Hello,
Hi George,
> Here is the situation:
This is pretty technical and specific stuff. If what we can tell you
here doesn't help, perhaps it'd be best that you asked some others
ocaml packages maintainers? Anyway, there we go.
> W
* Frank Küster [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:36:55 +0200]:
OK, after having a look at that section in Policy that every
maintainer loves (which is, of course, §6 Package maintainer scripts
and installation procedure), I think you may find the following bits
useful. I can imagine that important part
* Alexandre [Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:17:52 +0200]:
> > /usr/share/cycle/msg/msgfmt.py:86: FutureWarning:
> > hex/oct constants >
> > sys.maxint will return positive values in Python 2.4
> > and up
> > 0x950412de,# Magic
> You can safely ignore this warning. It is issued when the python sourc
* Bertram Scharpf [Mon, 07 Mar 2005 13:50:37 +0100]:
> As far as I understand, `debian/patches' are applied _after_
> the `./configure' call.
No.
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* Bertram Scharpf [Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:38:06 +0100]:
> Where do I have to change the sources? I can't find it.
debian/patches/000_VERSION
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The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some
people then thin
* Frank Küster [Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:11:18 +0100]:
> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrotee:
> > - : this is truely horrible, moreover, postrm files may live elsewhere
> Where should they live?
There is dpkg --root and dpkg --admindir, both of which can be
specified from /etc/dpkg/dpkg.
* Frank Küster [Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:32:54 +0100]:
> But you forgot to
> remove the cache file after postinst used it.
Of course, thanks for spotting. :)
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* Pierre Habouzit [Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:50:54 +0100]:
> - : this is really not trivial : inetd.conf is sorted by categories,
> and it will be really difficult to put the entries at the right
> place in the postinst
In fact, is not very difficult, since you just feed update-inetd the
* Roger Leigh [Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:13:09 +]:
> > * Roger Leigh [Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:58:03 +]:
> >> Are there any real examples of '~' in use yet?
> > Not in the official archive.
> Anywhere else?
If you mean you need an answer for:
> Is any of this wrong, or is lintian in error?
* Roger Leigh [Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:58:03 +]:
> Are there any real examples of '~' in use yet?
Not in the official archive. Goswin's sentence "But ~ isn't allowed
for sarge, repeat NOT FOR SARGE" really implies that ~ is not allowed
for versions of packages in the official Debian archive
* Frank Küster [Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:16:11 +0100]:
> martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > I use
> > 5.0-0+5.0pre1+2
> > A B C D
> But if you previously had 5.0-6 and now package release candidate 1 for
> 5.1, you can use 5.0-6+5.1pre1-2 or 5.0-0+5.1pre1-2 - both will be
>
* Roger Leigh [Mon, 07 Feb 2005 00:44:19 +]:
> When 5.0.0 comes out, I don't want the -beta and -pre releases to sort
> higher than it, and I'd rather not resort to extra ugliness in the
^^^
> version number. What would you recommend a
* Adeodato Simó [Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:42:57 +0100]:
> about "the minor subset of packages". This way, your package continues
> to work even if the dependencies work.
change (sorry)
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* Maykel Moya [Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:32:07 -0400]:
> list of packages. I can add all of their -dev versions to Build-Depends
> but there are already dependencies among then.
> Do exists a tool to automatize this task, I mean, obtain the minor
> subset of packages that resolved (which their respectiv
* Achim Bohnet [Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:15:13 +0100]:
> $ dpkg --force-help | grep confmiss
> confmiss [!] Always install missing config files
> So 1.5 points for me. 1 for the why (and 0.5 because it's faster
> that purge and install ;)
Indeed! :)
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* Pierre Habouzit [Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:06:50 +0100]:
> but I think other project that cad DOS flyspray are ill projects, since
> "empty" cookie is ok. putting garbage into the cookie is a stupid
> behaviour. anyway, you're right.
"Be strict in what you emit and liberal in what you accept", a
* Jan Kesten [Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:00:31 +0100]:
> Hi Justin,
> > So, you're subscribed to a whole bunch of lists, and you store the
> > messages yourself? Ideally, mbox files would be publically available
> > from www.debian.org, but I can't find them if that's the case.
http://mbox.mewes.tv/
* Pierre Ancelot [Wed, 12 Jan 2005 04:55:36 +0100]:
> Yes, okay, well thank you anibal and thank you all of you, seems i've done
> everything the wrong way :/
In fact you didn't. You did the very first right thing to do, which is
to read documentation and get to know the procedures. If only
* Matthew Palmer [Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:19:46 +1100]:
> > > retitle 211921 ITA
> > Bug#211921: O: hwtools -- Collection of tools for low-level hardware
> > management
> > Changed Bug title.
> This actually shows a bug in debbugs -- it should have failed to allow you
> to change this bug title...
* Ashar Voultoiz [Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:22:10 +0100]:
> Hello,
> I am a developper for MediaWiki ( http://www.mediawiki.org/ ) the php
> wiki engine used by the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.
> I noticed the package wnpp got a bug against mediawiki ( #217571 ) and
> that packaging is ongoing
* Frank Küster [Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:58:32 +0100]:
> this question might be really dumb, but: Where can I find information
> which gcc version is used for sarge? I was under the impression that it
> was gcc-3.3, because gcc-3.4 entered unstable only in July this year
> (when we were thinking to be
* Lawrence Williams [Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:57:49 -0330]:
> I am currently building a program that Depends on libasound2 (>= 1.0.7).
> However, using dh_shlibdeps results in a .deb that, among other things,
> depends on libasound2 (>= 1.0.5).
then, either you or the libasound2 maintainer got som
* Frank Küster [Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:43:34 +0100]:
> for some reason, I am in trouble. Can I make any assumptions about this?
ok, I was missing the point (I thought that the "trouble" was having
/var/lib/tetex not removed and left empty) but now I see that the
real trouble is the font-packag
* Justin Pryzby [Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:22:42 -0500]:
> I believe that the problem is that the diff we use doesn't store
> permission information, and so zcat ../foo-12.diff.gz |patch -p1
> (which *creates* debian/*) doesn't have a chance to restore with
> execute permission.
to add a little bit o
* Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo [Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:27:12 +0100]:
> Do we have *anything* which uses menu entries and it is not
> X-Window-Manager or desktop environment like KDE/GNOME?
> I'm just curious ;)
I'm surprised nobody replied to this. I'd say menu entries are mostly
meant to be used b
* Justin Pryzby [Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:21:02 -0500]:
> By the way, what is /usr/lib/tls/, and why do all of my programs link
> to its libc.so?
(TLS == Thread Local Storage.) I have minimal clue about all this
stuff, but I believe the following statement is correct: the libc6
package ships in
* Frank Küster [Tue, 07 Dec 2004 19:38:21 +0100]:
> > +fixed-in-experimental for maintainer-uploads
> > +fixed for NMUs
> Thank for giving me the fish, also to Adeoato. Will you also teach me
> how to catch it?
well, I know just for having seen it.
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* martin f krafft [Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:26:41 +0100]:
> Why do you need LD_LIBRARY_PATH? are you running the binary during the
> build process?
in the shipped binaries, I think he meant.
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* Frank Küster [Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:36:16 +0100]:
> I'm quite sure I read it somewhere, but cannot currently find it: How
> does the archive software treat bugs that are closed in the changelog of
> an upload to experimental? Are the bugs tagged fixed, or is nothing done
> at all?
they are tagg
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