Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:56:35AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > > > >It's using it indirectly for the crypto support. I've added the > > >Build-Depends to make the use more explicit and asked the upstream > >author to add the linking exception for ssl. He agreed about adding it >

Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 04:26:32PM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > Hi Goswin, > > Am Montag, den 11.07.2016, 15:44 +0200 schrieb Goswin von Brederlow: > > > Package: sponsorship-requests > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear mentors, > > > > I

Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 07:12:24PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:44:39 +0200 Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: > > > Dear mentors, > > > > Hi, > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ifstat" > > I have a que

Bug#830788: RFS: ifstat/1.1-9

9 (Closes: #817499, #828348). * Add multiarch support. * Fix bandwidth spelling in manpage (Closes: #617336). * Use dpkg-buildflags for hardening. -- Goswin von Brederlow Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:03:29 +0200 The changes are purely packaging (except the spelling) related and a straight updat

Re: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Proper upgrade path for lib32v4l-{0, dev}?

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:27:34PM +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hello, > > On 7/1/12 10:01 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > > [ CC'ing ia32-libs maintainers for their opinion. ] > > Is the 20120616 or 20120701 version of ia32-libs supposed to go into Wheezy? Yes, 20120616 is already unblocked and 20120

Re: [Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Proper upgrade path for lib32v4l-{0, dev}?

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:01:28PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > [ CC'ing ia32-libs maintainers for their opinion. ] > > On 2012-07-01 16:04 +0200, Gregor Jasny wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > currently my source package v4l-utils builds lib32v4l-0 and > > lib32v4l-dev packages on amd64. I'd like to g

Re: Moving /home of a package account, and to where?

Marc Haber writes: > Hi, > > Debian QA decided recently that it is bad to have a system/package > account created with its home directory in /home/package, as it is > adduser --system's default btw. I am therefore faced with having to > change /home to some non-/home place. Unfortunately, policy

Bug#679739: RFS: ia32-libs/20120701 [RC]

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ia32-libs": Package name: ia32-libs Version : 20120701 Upstream Author : Goswin von Brederlow URL : NA License : GPL Section : o

Re: How to build flavored package if upstream doesn't grok OOT build

Marc Haber writes: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:23:03PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote: >> On 23.06.2012 15:17, Marc Haber wrote: >> > How can I build two flavors of a program with different configure >> > parameters if upstream does not properly handle out-of-tree building >> > and I do not want to dit

Bug#664884: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0.1-1

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libaio-ocaml" * Package name: libaio-ocaml Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Goswin von Brederlow * URL : http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p

Re: upstream source is a source rpm!

Mathieu Malaterre writes: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: >> Mathieu Malaterre writes: >> >>> Paul, >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Paul Elliott >>> wrote: >>>> I can unpack this th

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow [120311 19:51]: >> git-dpm? > http://git-dpm.alioth.debian.org/ > http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit/GitDpm > >> > That would still make git think that your upstream branch is based on >> > yo

Re: upstream source is a source rpm!

Mathieu Malaterre writes: > Paul, > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Paul Elliott > wrote: >> I can unpack this thingy with: >> rpm2cpio source.rpm | cpio -i >> >> But I have questions: >> >> Assuming I have the url of the source rpm, how would one write the watch file >> and get-orig-source:

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Russ Allbery writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: > >> But then you have to split your workflow again. You have to edit >> upstream files in the master branch and debian files in the debian >> branch. Switching between the branches becomes a pain and working in 2 &g

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Goswin von Brederlow [120311 08:10]: >> I tried creating the upstream branch from the master branch and then >> removing the debian dir. But then on the next merge git complains about a >> merge conflict (modify/delete) when

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Russ Allbery writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: > >> I tried creating the upstream branch from the master branch and then >> removing the debian dir. But then on the next merge git complains about a >> merge conflict (modify/delete) when any file in debian/ was cha

Re: scope of variable in prerm script

Brian Mercer Esq writes: > OK, probably a newb question: > > In Ondrej's php5-fpm.prerm script he has: > > [ -z "$DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME" ] && DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME=php5-fpm > dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile /etc/php5/fpm/main.conf > /etc/php5/fpm/php-fpm.conf 5.3.5-1 -- "$@" > > but for mine

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Russ Allbery writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: >> Russ Allbery writes: > >>> http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html > >> Where were you 2 years ago when I first asked about how to use git when >> being both upstream and debian maintainer

Bug#662632: RFS - libaio-ocaml 1.0-1

Hi, I've just uploaded libaio-ocaml_1.0-1_amd64.changes to mentors [1] and also taged it in git [2,3] as debian/1.0-1. The debian/rules file now has a release target that creates the orig tarball, imports it into the upstream branch and pristine-tar branch if needed and tags the release. I could

Re: Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Russ Allbery writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: > >> Given the above idea how would you lay out the git then? > >> With a moments thought I would have 3 branches: >> - master >> - upstream >> - pristine-tar > >> All developement would happen

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Stéphane Glondu writes: > Le 07/03/2012 09:14, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> With a moments thought I would have 3 branches: >> - master >> - upstream >> - pristine-tar >> >> All developement would happen in the master branch. Then before th

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Stéphane Glondu writes: > Le 07/03/2012 09:52, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> That is what major, minor and subversions (x.y.z) are for. If I change >> only something in Debian I would not increment x or y and I would not >> create a new tarball for release on e.g. ocamlf

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Benoît Knecht writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Benoît Knecht writes: >> > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> >> >> The package is native because I am both maintainer and upstream >> >> author. Does a wat

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

ow it gets uploaded. If Stephans Idea below pans out you will get your non-native package. > Le 06/03/2012 10:36, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> Even with a single repository I need to roll out a new orig.tar.gz for >> every upstream change or have to commit upstream changes to &

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Benoit Knecht writes: > Hi Goswin, > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Benoît Knecht writes: >> > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libaio-ocaml" >> >> >> >> * Package name: li

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

tags 662632 - moreinfo thanks Stéphane Glondu writes: > Le 05/03/2012 12:33, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libaio-ocaml" > > I've looked at the git repository (037a448). It is written explicitly in > [1]: >

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Benoît Knecht writes: > retitle 662632 RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1 [ITP] -- OCaml bindings for libaio > tags 662632 moreinfo > thanks > > Hi Goswin, > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libaio-ocaml" >> >>

Bug#662632: RFS: libaio-ocaml/1.0~rc1

Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libaio-ocaml" * Package name: libaio-ocaml Version : 1.0~rc1 Upstream Author : Goswin von Brederl

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

Thibaut Paumard writes: > Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks >> like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. >> >> !!!HURAY!!! >> >> The

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

Jonathan Nieder writes: > (replying on -mentors) > Hi Goswin, > > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some >> confusion. The runtime linker will not be able to differentiate between >> multiarch or ia32-

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

2012 at 04:43:04PM +0100, Thibaut Paumard wrote: >> Le 09/02/12 15:53, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > >> > now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks >> > like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. > >> > !!!HURAY!!! >

Re: How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

Samuel Thibault writes: > Goswin von Brederlow, le Thu 09 Feb 2012 15:53:35 +0100, a écrit : >> 3) What about stable users? >> >> I don't see a way to transition stable users slowly. As said above I >> intent to request removal of ia32-libs for wheezy. So there

How to tell users that ia32-libs will go away

Hi, now that a multiarch dpkg has been uploaded to experimental it looks like we can finaly get rid of ia32-libs* for wheezy. !!!HURAY!!! The problem now is the transition: 1) multiarch and ia32-libs are incompatible Having multiarch packages and ia32-libs installed will lead to some confusion

Re: How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

"Thijs Kinkhorst" writes: > On Mon, January 16, 2012 23:26, Paul Wise wrote: >>> I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until >>> now. >> >> It is not currently accepted by the Debian archive: >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/642801 > > My experience until now is that it's ma

Re: RFS: xxxterm

Luis Henriques writes: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xxxterm". > > * Package name: xxxterm >Version : 1:1.9.0-1 >Upstream Author : Several (Marco Peereboom ) > * URL : http://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/XXXTerm > * License

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

Sven Joachim writes: > 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

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

Russ Allbery writes: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> Er no, this is not how dpkg behaves. It never converts symlinks to >> directories or vice versa, so the actual outcome is¹ that your file gets >> actually installed into /usr/lib through the symlink. This means that >> if another package starts

Please do not sponsor ia32-libs NMUs

Hi, please do not sponsor the ia32-libs* uploads with "+nmu" in the version. Remi: If you want to join the ia32-libs team you are more than welcome to do so. Ia32-libs could certainly use some fresh blood. Request membership in the ia32-libs project on alioth and you will get write access to the

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

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

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

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

David Bremner writes: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:41:34 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> 9.1.1 point 2: >> >> The requirement for amd64 to use /lib64 for 64 bit binaries is >> removed. > > Yeah, that is the point that confused me. For me, removing the > requirement is not the same as forb

Re: Multiarch question

Michael Wild writes: > Hi all > > I have a question concerning multiarch [1,2]. From what I read it is > conceivable to have something like this on a system: > > /usr/{lib,include}/i386-linux-gnu > /usr/{lib,include}/x86_64-linux-gnu > /usr/{lib,include}/x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu > /usr/{lib,include}/s

Re: Can quilt delete or rename a file?

Andriy Senkovych writes: > Hello, Elliott. > > Yes, quilt can remove files. Here is example command sequence to achieve this: > > quilt new patch-name.diff > quilt add file/to/be/removed > rm file/to/be/removed > quilt refresh > quilt pop -a > > 2011/6/1 Paul Elliott : >> >> Can Quilt delete or r

Re: Avoiding useless library dependencies

Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> >>> What's the proper way to fix this warning? >> >> Get this bug fixed: > > An addendum, fuse looks like it needs a new maintainer: > > http://bugs.debian.org624818

Re: LC_MESSAGES=C in debian/rules

Adam Borowski writes: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:48:04AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: >> * Daniel Stender [110429 10:37]: >> > is it best practice to set LC_MESSAGE=C in debian/rules to prevent >> > things like test suite breaking when building within non-English >> > locales? >> >> If you

Re: .changes files without source packages

Daniel Lazzari writes: > Hello, > > Hopefully I have the correct list for this question. If not, I > apologize in advance. > > I have a collection of SDK packages we are building using dpkg -b that > we need to distribute to our external developers. Because some of the > libraries come from propr

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

Roger Leigh writes: > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Output at http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/build-rule-check.bz2 >> > I haven't had time to analyse this, if someone else wants to, >> > that would be cool. >>

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

Roger Leigh writes: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:23:59PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:29:12PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> > In <20101120183255.gf12...@khazad-dum.debian.net>, Henrique de Moraes >> > Holschuh >> > wrote: >> > >On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd Step

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > In <20101120183255.gf12...@khazad-dum.debian.net>, Henrique de Moraes > Holschuh > wrote: >>On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> >But hey, all the maintainer has to do is add 1, in words ONE, char to >>> >debian/rules. Just change "build:" to

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

Roger Leigh writes: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:40:57PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> David Kalnischkies writes: >> >> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:25, أحمد المحمودي >> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:07:07PM +01

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

David Kalnischkies writes: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 19:25, أحمد المحمودي > wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 07:07:07PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> And as discussed before policy disagrees with reality in this. >> >> Would you please ela

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

anatoly techtonik writes: > Hello, > > I've described situation around Build-Depends-Indep at > http://wiki.debian.org/Build-Depends-Indep > I hope it will be useful for people who are looking for description of > this field. However, I am not expert in packaging, and some > information is obviou

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > anatoly techtonik wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:02 AM, أحمد المحمودي >> >> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I thought Build-Depends-Indep is for build-deps that are not needed by >>> clean target. >> >> What is the meaning of name "Build-Depends-Inde

Re: Problem requesting a sponsor on mentors.debian.net

Goswin von Brederlow writes: > Hi, > > I just clicked as "Yes, I want a sponsor" for ia32-libs-core on > mentors.debian.net and got: sorry, wrong destination. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Problem requesting a sponsor on mentors.debian.net

Hi, I just clicked as "Yes, I want a sponsor" for ia32-libs-core on mentors.debian.net and got: Details about package 'ia32-libs-core' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/www/mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/maintainer-packages", line 332, in ? packageDetails(web.formfields.getvalue('packa

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

Ian Jackson writes: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes ("Re: How to add dependencies that exist > in another repository"): >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you >> > describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out

Re: How to add dependencies that exist in another repository

Ben Hutchings writes: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:50:49PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > The packages for Debian there add a source.list.d file as you >> > describe. (And it really confused me until I figured out what it had >> >> Which

Re: Using Quilt with a new package

Scott Howard writes: > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: >> Le Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Daniel Lombraña González a écrit : >>> >>> After that, I kept reading about git-buildpackage and it seems that it >>> should be more easy to maintain those differences betwee

Re: Fwd: Build-Depends-Indep dependencies

anatoly techtonik writes: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: >> Ansgar Burchardt writes: >> >>> anatoly techtonik writes: >>> >>>> Can anybody point me to the part of the policy where Build-Depends and &g

Re: Fwd: Build-Depends-Indep dependencies

Ansgar Burchardt writes: > anatoly techtonik writes: > >> Can anybody point me to the part of the policy where Build-Depends and >> Build-Depends-Indep differences are explained? > > They differ in when they must be satisfied (that is for running which > target in debian/rules). See Section 7.7

Re: Four days

Michael Tautschnig writes: >> Asheesh Laroia writes: >> >> > The cool thing is, you (and others) can do that starting right now: >> > Just email the debian-mentors list saying, "Hey, I'm not a DD, but I >> > can review someone's package. First reply I get is what I'll review!" >> > And if other

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

Paul Wise writes: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: > >> However, I still need confirmation that the git work-flow I am planning >> to follow won't mess everything up. >> Could someone please review it (see )? > > A few minor issues, but it

Re: Four days

Asheesh Laroia writes: > The cool thing is, you (and others) can do that starting right now: > Just email the debian-mentors list saying, "Hey, I'm not a DD, but I > can review someone's package. First reply I get is what I'll review!" > And if other people like the idea, they'll glom on. I'm no

RFS: ia32-libs (updated package)Dear mentors,

b-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/ia32-libs/ia32-libs_20100919.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Goswin von Brederlow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.

Re: Advice on an interesting package

Martin Owens writes: > On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 11:44 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Do we need both? We have neither in Debian (testing/sid) it seems >> anyway. > > Personally I'd say no, but this is for a ppa/unstable so it probably has > different consideratio

Re: Advice on an interesting package

Christoph Egger writes: > Hi! > > Martin Owens writes: >> Add to that the upstream has a tendency to merge in the debian changes >> into the trunk and I think he would like to merge in this directory too. >> I understand that upstream should avoid adding debian to their main code >> repository,

Re: Advice on an interesting package

Martin Owens writes: > Hey everyone, > > I'm trying to sort out the packaging of barry-0.17-git snapshots and > it's got some undesirable features which is making packaging a pain and > I don't really know what the best way to deal with them is. > > It's got multiple binary packages from the same

Re: How to change the version of a package

Ben Finney writes: > Karl Schmidt writes: > >> debchange -v 0.0.20100823 > > I don't use that tool (I use Emacs's mode for Debian changelogs), but > the ‘debchange(1)’ manpage says the ‘--newversion’ option requires > that > you specify the complete version string, including the Debian

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

Osamu Aoki writes: > Hi, > > It is complicated. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 04:45:59PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Osamu Aoki writes: >> > = >> > Case 2: package trans

Re: Package Names Containing Versions

Chris Baines writes: > Sorry, replying to my own message, I have just stumbled upon the Debian > Shared Library Packaging guide > (http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#naminglibpkg > ). Which explains the solution to my problem. > > Chris > > On Thu, 2010-07-29

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

Osamu Aoki writes: > Hi folks, > > Breaks field was added to policy in 3.8 and current stable dpkg supports > it as I understand. So we are ready to use it, as I understand. > > Under this new situation, I would like to confirm what is the best > practice for each case scenario. Please comment

Re: conflicts/replaces/provides vs. breaks/replaces/provides under policy 3.9.1

"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > Not answering the Conflics/Breaks issue, but some remark about Provides. > > * Osamu Aoki [100726 17:27]: >> = >> Case 2: package transition rule >> All the contents of the package foo is inc

Re: How to upload packages with skipped uploads

Osamu Aoki writes: > Hi, > > I just uploaded xpdf and then realized I was not closing bug for the > changelog entries from un-uploaaed versions. > > I just closed them manually but what did I miss to be like this. > > Is there some trick to indicate previos upload was not the previous > version i

Re: purging upstream source tarball, or not?

Paul Wise writes: > 2010/7/17 Sébastien Barthélemy : > >> The project is quite inactive, I don't think they'll bother to make a >> new release. But, I'll file a bug. > > An inactive upstream is another problem. I would suggest joining or > taking over upstream. At least alioth and sf.net allow

Re: purging upstream source tarball, or not?

Sébastien Barthélemy writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to package libcolladadom, and I get a few generic questions. > I already asked them in the RFS [1], but later realized that I would get a > wider audience asking them separately. So here I am. > > Besides collada-dom, the upstream svn and tarballs

Re: Different package sizes on amd64 and (cross)i386

Nicolas Joseph writes: > Maybe but debarchiver reject my upload because the file is already added and > has > a different md5 sum. > > how do you do for real repositories? > > 2010/5/16 Goswin von Brederlow : >> Nicolas Joseph writes: >> >>> Hello, >

Re: Different package sizes on amd64 and (cross)i386

Nicolas Joseph writes: > Hello, > > I try to build a package for i386 and amd64. I cross-build the i386 package > with > the recommendation of the FAQ: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq#line-95 > but > independent architecture packages (common.dev, dev.dev and debian.tar.gz) are > a differe

Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?

Ignacio Valdes writes: > Finally it works! > > The problem was that if you have a tag in the control file like > Conflicts: with no value it will not warn you and will tell you (far) > downstream that something is wrong with dependencies but that is all. > So the problem was simply a Conflicts: w

Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?

Ignacio Valdes writes: > Does reprepro run on rpm based systems? So far I am not finding that > it does. I currently have to use a rpm based repository server for > reasons of history... -- IV Package: reprepro Depends: libarchive1 (>= 2.0.25), libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.7), libdb4.8, libgpg-error

Re: Which how to for apt-get repository on CentOS?

Russ Allbery writes: > Ignacio Valdes writes: > >> Hi all, Building an apt-get repository on CentOS. There seems to be many >> documents on apt-get repository building but they point to many >> different commands like apparently deprecated dpkg-scanfiles, reprepro >> and others. Which one is the

Re: dpkg-shlibdeps: not finding just build libraries

Hector Oron writes: > Hello, > > I am trying to build a package (binutils for cross targets) which now > also builds a shared library (libbfd) which fullfills the dependency > of some binaries just built (objdump; objcopy). > The upstream code builds fine, but, when I trigger dh_shlibdeps > >

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

Thomas Goirand writes: > - Original message - >> We were talking about dpkg-parsechangelog. >> >> MfG >>                Goswin > > Are you saying that dpkg-parsechangelog must also be available in RedHat like > distros? Sorry, I didn't get it, but now I think you are quite right.

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

Thomas Goirand writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Then change that. :) >> >> We have rpm in Debian. Let them have dpkg. >> >> MfG >> Goswin > > As much as I know, dpkg and debootstrap are both available as RPM > packages for C

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

Thomas Goirand writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > 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

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

Ignacio Valdes writes: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Thomas Goirand > > To my experience, it's a lot more easy to be able to maintain BOTH the > rpm >> and the Debian package rather than just porting from one to another. If you >> want to avoid redundancy and want to factor things a bit. Ma

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

Ignacio Valdes writes: > Hi, I want to define a variable such as package_initials in control > file and be able to access %{package_initials} in postinst file. Do I > define it in control file as: > > XC-package_initials: the_initials > > or some other way? > > -- IV mv debian/postinst debian/po

Re: help with dpkg-shlibdeps/library dependencies

David Bremner writes: > I'm packaging the latest syncevolution (beta2) which needs a snapshot of > libsynthesis (3.4.0.5+ds1). It builds fine, and seems to work, but the > calculated depencies are wrong. > > src:libsynthesis makes two library binary packages, libsynthesis0 and > libsmltk0 > > dp

Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt)

Tanguy Ortolo writes: > Le lundi 08 février 2010, Noel David Torres Taño a écrit : >> I do not use it that way. I use 3.0 to have several .orig.tgz files and no >> patches. This is because my package uses content from several upstreams. >> Take that in account when you modify the wiki page

Re: how to compare versions

"Wesley J. Landaker" writes: > On Friday 05 February 2010 04:43:05 Hideki Yamane wrote: >> > This is true in general, although it's perhaps worth noting that a rare >> > pre- depends on a priority required package like debconf by a priority >> > optional or extra package isn't likely to cause any

Re: how to compare versions

Hideki Yamane writes: > Hi Matthew, > > On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 16:04:13 +1100 > Matthew Palmer wrote: >> In short: you don't. >> >> You should make it clear in the NEWS.Debian file that there are >> compatibility issues, and your README.Debian should describe how to perform >> an upgrade manually (

Re: RFS: apt-move (updated package) + adopting

Karl Goetz writes: > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:21:56 +0100 > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> Karl Goetz writes: >> >> > Dear mentors, >> > >> > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.2.27-3 >> > of my package "apt-move"

Re: How to remove the relation between a file and a .deb package

Simon Richter writes: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:44:54PM +0100, M. Frey wrote: > >> I got the Package A with the version 1.0 and 2.0. From version 2.0 >> on it's not necessary to keep track of the file fileB.txt. But I >> want to keep fileB.txt on the target system anyway. > > This mean

Re: RFS: apt-move (updated package) + adopting

Karl Goetz writes: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.2.27-3 > of my package "apt-move". > > It builds these binary packages: > apt-move - Maintain Debian packages in a package pool > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The package can be found on me

Re: The use of epoch in version

Hi, others have given alternatives to the epoch already and I would follow them. You can never get rid of an epoch again so think hard about adding one for the first time. Now to the reason i reply: Mats Erik Andersson writes: > In setting a positive epoch in the control file, I still notice >

Re: Multiples binaries with different versions from one source file?

Russ Allbery writes: > Eric Lavarde writes: > >> I fear I know the (negative) answer, but perhaps I missed something: I >> have one source package which creates a library and an application, >> where each has its own (different) version. The logical approach would >> be to have two binary packa

Re: Custom packages derived from Debian Source Packages

Erik Schanze writes: > Hi mentors, > > I have a question regarding repacking and hope you could give me some > suggestions. > > I'd like to run a special x86 based device with Debian. > I could use most of the common Debian packages, but I have to repack some of > them > for the use on this devi

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

Joachim Wiedorn writes: > Hello, > > Mats Erik Andersson wrote: >> To my dismay the previous maintainer chose to let the 'orig.tar.gz'-file >> contain the packaged and compressed upstream tar archive. My personal >> taste is to abondon this practice, if for no other reason to simplify >> the rul

Re: Reforming 'orig.tar.gz' with included tar-ball.

Mats Erik Andersson writes: > Hello all mentors, > > I am in the process of fulfilling an ITA filed on an orphaned package. > However, I now experience a desire to begin patching the upstream > source for compiling errors and spelling errors in the manual page. > > To my dismay the previous maint

Re: How to write emacs dependency ?

Paul Gevers writes: > Craig Small wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:51:01PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2009-11-11 16:43 +0100, Christoph Egger wrote: Depends: emacs21 | emacs22 | emacs23 | xemacs21, gnus | emacs22 | emacs23 | xemacs21 >>> This does not give you any guarantee

Re: how to make an arch generic package?

randall writes: > hi all, > > i'm a total noob when it comes to building deb packages so i believe > this list is the place to be. > > i'm trying to package my first package, called rsnapshot. the available > version in the repo's is aging and since its just a collection of > scripts it appears t

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