RFS: python-itools -- coherent modules for locating, handling and translating contents

2005-06-08 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Hi, I'm in search of a sponsor for python-itools. You will find the administrativa afterwards. Note this package has quite a long story, and the "Initial Release" changelog entry is kind of lost at the bottom. Hopefully, this means the project is active. Thank you in advance! repository pool

RFS: python-itools -- coherent modules for locating, handling and translating contents

2005-04-16 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Hi, I'm in search of a sponsor for python-itools. You will find some administrativa afterwards. This is a first step to finally close #204120 after a year and a half, and being able to package latest upstreams of Localizer. If things go well, why not being myself the DD for these packages in th

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-13 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI a écrit : What about the case in which the upstream maintainer is the Debian maintainer? I create packages for a piece of sofware I've written. That's my case (well...) and I decided to apply the "Separation of Concerns" paradigm: software development and packaging are differ

Re: About control files

2005-03-17 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Lucas Di Pentima a écrit : I see that the source package control file must be in "debian/control", and the binary control file must be in "DEBIAN/control"...am I right? they are different directories? I didn't knew that. that DEBIAN directory is the one generated in a binary package, where the

Re: Help: debian packaging

2005-03-10 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Hervé Cauwelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.03.10.1219 +0100]: I guess you should just copy it to debian/etc//config.d debian//etc//config.d Oops, yes! Remember to ask Debhelper to create this folder by adding a line in your dirs file. or a `mkdir -p -m755` call to

Re: Help: debian packaging

2005-03-10 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Charles Majola wrote: Hi all I need help with this: how do I add configuration files to a debian package. I want to add files to /etc/package-name/config.d I guess you should just copy it to debian/etc//config.d Remember to ask Debhelper to create this folder by adding a line in your dirs file.

Re: re generate a "rules" file

2005-03-08 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: Hello. I did not make a backup copy of my "rules" file, and I edited it like a pig. I would like to do it again but with a clean "rules" file. Have you generated a package yet? If so, you will find it inside the .diff.gz file. If you don't have diff.gz file, it

added files that prevent from packaging

2005-03-01 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Hi, For a source package I'm preparing (first step of a RFP for another), I have a problem with the -doc binary package. Due to a bug in the upstream tarball preparation, a couple of files are missing and prevent the PS manual from being compiled, and as a consequence, the PDF and HTML versions. Th

Re: How-do-I make a non-native Debian package?

2005-02-15 Thread Hervé Cauwelier
Lucas Wall wrote: Even if you wrote the program its a good idea to keep the debian packaging scripts separate and don't make a native package. Basicaly you provide the orig tarball without the debian subdir and put it in the diff files. Is there some litterature about this choice? I hesitated a