Re: a couple (cgi) packaging issues

2003-03-10 Thread Devin Carraway
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:52:18PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > (Doesn't the stderr from CGI scripts go to the web server's error log > > file anyway? I don't recall seeing a CGI script with its own log file > > before, but I suppose it could make sense if a lot of data is being > > logged.) > >

Re: a couple (cgi) packaging issues

2003-03-10 Thread Devin Carraway
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:52:18PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > (Doesn't the stderr from CGI scripts go to the web server's error log > > file anyway? I don't recall seeing a CGI script with its own log file > > before, but I suppose it could make sense if a lot of data is being > > logged.) > >

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-23 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > If you can avoid those shared libraries it would be best. Libraries > should be either shared in /usr/lib or not shared at all. The halfway > between place is not a mature methodology at this time and contains > many problems. Ignorin

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > If you can avoid those shared libraries it would be best. Libraries > should be either shared in /usr/lib or not shared at all. The halfway > between place is not a mature methodology at this time and contains > many problems. Ignori

Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Devin Carraway
I'm working on a package containing several executables, whose common functionality lives in a few shared libraries. They're linked in the usual way at compile time. Policy says they should live in /usr/lib/packagename/, but I need to make them available for the runtime linker. I know of three w

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:54:17AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > Ideally, there'd be some dead-project listing somewhere; you could ask > your upstream to list the project there. Then interested parties can > pick it up if they so desire. There have been at least a few -- UFO and DOOSS seem to be

Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Devin Carraway
I'm working on a package containing several executables, whose common functionality lives in a few shared libraries. They're linked in the usual way at compile time. Policy says they should live in /usr/lib/packagename/, but I need to make them available for the runtime linker. I know of three

Re: dealing with dead projects

2002-09-22 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:54:17AM -0400, David B Harris wrote: > Ideally, there'd be some dead-project listing somewhere; you could ask > your upstream to list the project there. Then interested parties can > pick it up if they so desire. There have been at least a few -- UFO and DOOSS seem to b

Sponsor request: quelcom

2002-09-18 Thread Devin Carraway
I've packaged David Many'e's "Quelcom" suite of MP3 and WAV editing and utility apps; I'm interested in finding a sponsor for them. Quelcom has some overlap with the sox package, especially as concerns its operations on wav files. Where it differs is in its MP3 editing; it can split and join mp3

Sponsor request: quelcom

2002-09-18 Thread Devin Carraway
I've packaged David Many'e's "Quelcom" suite of MP3 and WAV editing and utility apps; I'm interested in finding a sponsor for them. Quelcom has some overlap with the sox package, especially as concerns its operations on wav files. Where it differs is in its MP3 editing; it can split and join mp3

Request for sponsor

2002-08-30 Thread Devin Carraway
(Not having a great success rate with these requests, but I'm trying again since no one's told me I'm doing anything wrong) I've packaged sawfish-themes, the details of which don't really need much explanation. It addresses the matter that except for the few packaged with sawfish itself, there ar

Request for sponsor

2002-08-30 Thread Devin Carraway
(Not having a great success rate with these requests, but I'm trying again since no one's told me I'm doing anything wrong) I've packaged sawfish-themes, the details of which don't really need much explanation. It addresses the matter that except for the few packaged with sawfish itself, there a

Re: Architecture in _changes file?

2002-08-24 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 01:12:00AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Are arch-independent packages built sent to the buildd machines for > > every architecture, then? > > Of course not, why would they be? Er, originally I had it in mind that I'd seen per-arch changes files propagated into the package

Re: Architecture in _changes file?

2002-08-24 Thread Devin Carraway
On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 12:07:04AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > It just uses your build machine's architecture string, but it doesn't affect > anything. You might as well replace the arch string with foo in the file > name, it wouldn't make a difference, I don't think :) Are arch-independent packag

Architecture in _changes file?

2002-08-24 Thread Devin Carraway
Something that's been vaguely prodding at me for a while -- when I build an architecture-all package, the .deb produced is named packagename_v-r_all.deb as I'd expect, but the build also makes a packagename_v-r_{arch}.changes file for the architecture on which I built the thing. Why is that? Am I

How much redundancy?

2002-08-20 Thread Devin Carraway
Fairly often I've seen ITPs or package sponsorship requests followed up to by questions about redundancy against packages already in Debian. Thus, I'm curious -- what degree of redundancy is acceptable or desirable? As big as a Debian distribution is, there's unavoidable overlap. It's easy to und

How much redundancy?

2002-08-19 Thread Devin Carraway
Fairly often I've seen ITPs or package sponsorship requests followed up to by questions about redundancy against packages already in Debian. Thus, I'm curious -- what degree of redundancy is acceptable or desirable? As big as a Debian distribution is, there's unavoidable overlap. It's easy to un

Sponsor request (perl again)

2002-08-10 Thread Devin Carraway
This is a small Perl module I had need of during a recent project at work, but which wasn't in Debian. Essentially it provides the comparison indicating that (e.g.) 2.10.1pl1-8 is greater than 2.9.8.1-4. Small, simple, perl-only. Packages may be had from http://devin.com/debian/. Package: libso

Sponsor request (perl again)

2002-08-09 Thread Devin Carraway
This is a small Perl module I had need of during a recent project at work, but which wasn't in Debian. Essentially it provides the comparison indicating that (e.g.) 2.10.1pl1-8 is greater than 2.9.8.1-4. Small, simple, perl-only. Packages may be had from http://devin.com/debian/. Package: libs

Request for sponsor: xcdroast

2002-07-24 Thread Devin Carraway
Greetings; I'm looking for a sponsor (and at some stage an advocate, but first things first) for an adoption of the xcdroast package, recently orphaned by Ishikawa Matsumi. I've been using Debian since mid-slink, and have been making small contributions throughout (bug reports, patches, stack trac

Request for sponsor: xcdroast

2002-07-23 Thread Devin Carraway
Greetings; I'm looking for a sponsor (and at some stage an advocate, but first things first) for an adoption of the xcdroast package, recently orphaned by Ishikawa Matsumi. I've been using Debian since mid-slink, and have been making small contributions throughout (bug reports, patches, stack tra

GConf schemas and debian/conffiles

2002-07-14 Thread Devin Carraway
I'm trying to package up acme, a GNOME2 utility for making "multimedia" keyboard buttons work. One problem I've observed: acme uses GConf, which stores schema files under /etc/gconf/. The schema files give the configuration structure and default values, but aren't configuration files themselves,

GConf schemas and debian/conffiles

2002-07-14 Thread Devin Carraway
I'm trying to package up acme, a GNOME2 utility for making "multimedia" keyboard buttons work. One problem I've observed: acme uses GConf, which stores schema files under /etc/gconf/. The schema files give the configuration structure and default values, but aren't configuration files themselves,