Re: bugs for nonexistant packages

2000-02-27 Thread Darren O. Benham
It will not happen automaticly. There is a number of people who feel that bugs like that should not be closed incase the pacakge comes back into the distro... if the package changed names, then the bugs should be reassigned. On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 01:04:45PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > the "tclmid

Re: Lintian warnings for no-{section|priority}-field

2000-02-20 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 11:52:27AM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Why does lintian issue a warning in this case? Since a package > with these fields in debian/control and not in > debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control can be installed in the distribution and > work properly, isn't this lintian warning unne

Re: pks_0.9.4 - looking for sponsor

2000-02-14 Thread Darren O. Benham
I'll take a look at the package when I get to work (about 2 hours). I'm really interested in an Opensource public key server. On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 04:08:06PM +0100, Richard Zoni wrote: > I've set up an apt-source for binary-i386 and sources: > deb http://caristudenti.cs.unibo.it/~zoni/ debian/

Re: lintian is not approving what dh_compress does?

2000-02-08 Thread Darren O. Benham
Do a "dpkg --contents package.deb" on the finished deb and then mail us the output. Also attach one of the zipped files that get erroneously reported (changelog is one of them?) from out of the debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/ directory. On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 04:09:41PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > Atta

Re: Lintian: pkg-without-shlibs-has-shlibs-control-file

1999-11-30 Thread Darren O. Benham
*that* I don't know... On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 11:27:24PM -0500, Ben Darnell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 08:11:58PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > > Lintian first dumps the obj info of the file by running "objdump" on it. > > Then the output is s

Re: Lintian: pkg-without-shlibs-has-shlibs-control-file

1999-11-30 Thread Darren O. Benham
Lintian first dumps the obj info of the file by running "objdump" on it. Then the output is searched for the string "SONAME" Here's the regex: /^\s*SONAME\s*(\S+)/o On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 08:20:12PM -0500, Ben Darnell wrote: > I am adopting wxgtk2.1 from Brian Bassett and bring it up to the

Re: Merging Packages

1999-10-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
I think, if you check with Marcelo's messages.. he's not orphaning the packages.. just will have no connectability for a while and was looking for someone to NMU it... if that's the case, I'd contact him before making such as drastic change... On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:33:36PM -0500, Chris McKill

Re: lintian: unknown-section unknown-priority

1999-10-22 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:51:36PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I have just built a new package for dict-elements-19990120 to be > FHS compliant. Lintian gives the following warnings/errors: > > bob:vc-/0:dict-elements>lintian dict-elements_19990120-2_i386.changes > W: dict-elements: unknown

Re: CPU specific binaries

1999-10-19 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 03:02:23AM +1000, debian wrote: > There are a couple of linux distro's out there (stampede + enoch) that have > optimised binaries for a specific cpu (eg. K6, pentium, p2 etc) they claim > pretty good performance improvements. > > I mentoned this a few days on irc and got

Re: should I have my pgp key signed by a local maintainer?

1999-07-29 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 04:51:53PM +, David Coe wrote: > When I submitted my application I attached a scanned > license and passport as requested, because I didn't > know any local debian maintainers (still don't). > > I recently read something in -devel that implied this > could delay process

Re: DEVELOPING FOR DEBIAN

1999-07-28 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 06:28:21PM +, Steven V. Russo wrote: > I wonder if anyone can tell me why no one has responded to me from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submitted my application months ago, and > sent two follow up applications. I believe I followed their procedure > as closely as possible...

Re: /usr/cgi-bin ?

1999-07-28 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 08:10:07PM +0200, Jozef Hitzinger wrote: > > smartupstools .rpm package puts files in /usr/cgi-bin & /usr/misc. > these are not in FHS nor FSSTND, but I thought RedHat holds the FHS. red hat does *not* hold the the FHS in all areas. From what I've heard, debian holds the

Re: PGP key signing

1999-07-22 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 05:25:19PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to get my PGP key signed by any debian developer in > Austin, Texas. I am trying to become a developer myself. > > One question though. Is it essential that I upload my public key > to any of the public key rep

Re: developer-in-waiting using bts?

1999-07-21 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Jul 21, 1999 at 04:55:19AM +, David Coe wrote: > I've announced (on -devel) my intention to adopt an orphaned > package (ispell) while waiting for my developer application > to be processed. > > I'm working on some of the open bugs, and would like to > contact one (or more) of the bug

Re: Guidance while adopting freeamp package

1999-07-20 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 02:28:49PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: > Well, my first questions are: > > I have been working with the old package, updating it to the latest > release of freeamp. I have changed the Standards-Version to 3.0.0 > from 2.4.0. The documentation, which I expected to be installe

Re: Guidance while adopting freeamp package

1999-07-20 Thread Darren O. Benham
This is the list... On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 10:59:41AM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: > I have spoken with the old maintainer, and am adopting the freeamp > package. I have downloaded the old source from ftp.debian.org and > have created a newer package based on more recent upstream sources. > However,

Re: mystery packages

1999-07-04 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 04:17:11AM +, Bradley Bell wrote: > Where does one look to see if a certain package has anybody working on it? > i.e. when it is not currently in the distribution, and is not listed in > the WNPP... > > -Brad > WNPP also has a list of "Intent to Package" If you don't

Re: small c problem

1999-07-01 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 03:19:05PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > The following problem will help me finish v0.1 of my wizard radio control > program which I will ITP and upload soon.. > > > > I know its the wrong place to ask, but its really easy, and I feel stupid > asking in a newsgroup..

Re: maint-doc and dh_make

1999-06-27 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 05:08:11PM -0400, Rahsheen Porter wrote: > Ok, I'm trying to follow the maint-guide to build my own package. The problem > is that the doc is assuming that dh_make is doing things that it isn't doing, > like creating the .orig dir and making a default changelog entry. I foll

Re: question about kernel sources .config

1999-06-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:46:25PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Thank you for the quick reply. Do you have any idea how I might > identify the correct list? I just subscribed to this list from that > page and I was specifically looking for something along these lines. > Needless to say, I missed i

Re: question about kernel sources .config

1999-06-25 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 02:20:53PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Is there a new boot floppy installation system under development or > what am I missing? I would certainly appreciate any suggestions or > clarification someone could give me. > That's the same problem our current boot floppy timam is

Re: I sent unsigned attachments to new-maintainer.

1999-05-30 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > I sent an application to be a maintainer. There was > no active maintainer nearby, so I attached a scanned > copy of my driving license. > I thought I had elm figured out. As it turns out, only > the body of the message was pgp-si

Re: Updating packages before being developer

1999-04-26 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 11:07:14PM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote: > Hi. > > I'm not yet a developer (shouldn't take long, I've already got a reply from > the > New Maintainers Group), but I got already a couple of packages, and I'm > working > on those packages, i.e., fixing bugs, packaging new r

Re: lintian warning about scripts not executable

1999-04-16 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 03:40:14PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I'm not worried about the third; not much I can do about that > short of cahnging that filename and link just to make lintian quiet. Send a note about this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to see how they want to handle that. > The first two

Re: images in diff files ?!

1999-03-28 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sun, Mar 28, 1999 at 11:32:53PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > You should just be able to use dpkg-source, which will place any files > you have added to the original source tree into the diff. This is how > all of the files in debian/ are handled. When I've done something like that, (as I recal

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-21 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 10:16:30PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > whereas dh_make produced one that did this (from memory): > > #!/bin/sh > > if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus ; then update-menus ; fi > > if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus ; then update-menus ; fi > Whoa. That's weird. it's the progra