Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-04 Thread James Troup
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:04:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> > ... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ... >> >> Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? >> Before I used i

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-04 Thread James Troup
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:04:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> > ... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ... >> >> Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ? >> Before I used i

Re: Moving package to non-free

2003-11-18 Thread James Troup
Mika Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >>> And additionally: Can a package built from sources in non-free go to >>> contrib or do I have to split the source package? >> While it may (currently) be feasible to d

Re: Moving package to non-free

2003-11-18 Thread James Troup
Mika Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >>> And additionally: Can a package built from sources in non-free go to >>> contrib or do I have to split the source package? >> While it may (currently) be feasible to d

Re: Moving package to non-free

2003-11-18 Thread James Troup
Mika Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to get rid of the RC bug #174456 I intend to move the celestia > packages to contrib (programs) and non-free (data). > The question is how do I do that? > a) File a bug on ftp.debian.org requesting the move. > b) Upload a new version with the sec

Re: Moving package to non-free

2003-11-18 Thread James Troup
Mika Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In order to get rid of the RC bug #174456 I intend to move the celestia > packages to contrib (programs) and non-free (data). > The question is how do I do that? > a) File a bug on ftp.debian.org requesting the move. > b) Upload a new version with the sec

Re: Bug#217592 - Help needed

2003-10-26 Thread James Troup
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tags 217592 +help > thanks > > This seems to be a libtool issue, but I'm not totally sure. Has anyone > experienced something like this (paste from the build log): http://people.debian.org/~keybuk/libtool-pass_all.html -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bug#217592 - Help needed

2003-10-26 Thread James Troup
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tags 217592 +help > thanks > > This seems to be a libtool issue, but I'm not totally sure. Has anyone > experienced something like this (paste from the build log): http://people.debian.org/~keybuk/libtool-pass_all.html -- James

Re: Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread James Troup
Silke Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is > building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See > here the relevant part of the buildlog: It's a libc6 bug; don't worry about it. Your package will be retried when a fix

Re: Building thuban on ARM

2003-08-27 Thread James Troup
Silke Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need some help with a problem of my package thuban. Thuban is > building successfully on almost all architectures except ARM. See > here the relevant part of the buildlog: It's a libc6 bug; don't worry about it. Your package will be retried when a fix

Re: "strictly earlier" Conflicts

2003-07-01 Thread James Troup
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this an "almost never" case? No, this is what Replaces is for. -- James

Re: "strictly earlier" Conflicts

2003-07-01 Thread James Troup
Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this an "almost never" case? No, this is what Replaces is for. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-17 Thread James Troup
Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Only problem now is that fakeroot isn't installed on casals Fixed. > and gpg isn't installed on escher. Err, why do you need gpg? Surely, you're not signing the .changes on remote machines? :-/ > Should I just write debian-admin? In general, ye

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-17 Thread James Troup
Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had no problems getting into debussy, raptor or crest, but casals and > escher denied my login. pdksh wasn't installed; try again. -- James

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-17 Thread James Troup
Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had no problems getting into debussy, raptor or crest, but casals and > escher denied my login. pdksh wasn't installed; try again. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-17 Thread James Troup
Kenneth Pronovici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Only problem now is that fakeroot isn't installed on casals Fixed. > and gpg isn't installed on escher. Err, why do you need gpg? Surely, you're not signing the .changes on remote machines? :-/ > Should I just write debian-admin? In general, ye

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-17 Thread James Troup
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You login and do "dchroot sid". This solves alpha (escher), arm > (debussy), s390 (raptor), m68k (crest) and mips (casals). - You are > only missing ia64. merulo has chroots. -- James

Re: Build non-free ncompress

2003-06-17 Thread James Troup
Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You login and do "dchroot sid". This solves alpha (escher), arm > (debussy), s390 (raptor), m68k (crest) and mips (casals). - You are > only missing ia64. merulo has chroots. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-05-31 Thread James Troup
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> sed -e 's/CC="gcc"/CC="g++"/g' libtool > lt.tmp && mv -f lt.tmp libtool >> >> to force it. What's the right way to get libstdc++ linked in to shared >> libraries of C++ code? The package uses autoconf, automake, libtool, etc. > > Use -lstdc++ [...]? N

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-05-31 Thread James Troup
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> sed -e 's/CC="gcc"/CC="g++"/g' libtool > lt.tmp && mv -f lt.tmp libtool >> >> to force it. What's the right way to get libstdc++ linked in to shared >> libraries of C++ code? The package uses autoconf, automake, libtool, etc. > > Use -lstdc++ [...]? N

Re: Help interpreting buildd log

2003-04-23 Thread James Troup
Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is going on? Some cunning stunt of a genius SNAFUed libpng again; it's not your package's problem. -- James

Re: need help with mips/mipsel buildd logs

2003-02-21 Thread James Troup
Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can anyone tell me what is the problem with foobillard on mips and > mipsel ? The mips and mipsel buildds are the only two (AFAIK) buildds which use -rsudo rather than -rfakeroot (fakeroot doesn't work on them); you should be able to reproduce the prob

Re: need help with mips/mipsel buildd logs

2003-02-21 Thread James Troup
Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > can anyone tell me what is the problem with foobillard on mips and > mipsel ? The mips and mipsel buildds are the only two (AFAIK) buildds which use -rsudo rather than -rfakeroot (fakeroot doesn't work on them); you should be able to reproduce the prob

Re: force libc6 >= 2.2 in autossh

2003-01-23 Thread James Troup
Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:38:47PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > > Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > i got my autossh package sponsored by martin f krafft (thanks!), now > > > Da

Re: force libc6 >= 2.2 in autossh

2003-01-23 Thread James Troup
Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:38:47PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > > Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > i got my autossh package sponsored by martin f krafft (thanks!), now > > > Da

Re: force libc6 >= 2.2 in autossh

2003-01-23 Thread James Troup
Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i got my autossh package sponsored by martin f krafft (thanks!), now > Dan Christensen pointed me out [1] that autossh works fine also in > testing and I've tried it too. Should I force libc6 >= 2.2.5 and let > autossh hit testing? there is any good

Re: force libc6 >= 2.2 in autossh

2003-01-23 Thread James Troup
Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i got my autossh package sponsored by martin f krafft (thanks!), now > Dan Christensen pointed me out [1] that autossh works fine also in > testing and I've tried it too. Should I force libc6 >= 2.2.5 and let > autossh hit testing? there is any good

Re: Stable updates

2003-01-21 Thread James Troup
Phil Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I have a package with fixes that I think may be worthy of going into a > stable point release, do I > - just upload it to proposed-updates (by setting the distribution to >stable in the changelog) and assume that if it is not worthy, it will >s

Re: Stable updates

2003-01-21 Thread James Troup
Phil Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I have a package with fixes that I think may be worthy of going into a > stable point release, do I > - just upload it to proposed-updates (by setting the distribution to >stable in the changelog) and assume that if it is not worthy, it will >s

Re: Help! fceu FTBFS on many archs

2002-12-30 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Nahmias) writes: > I did some research on other packages that use svgalib, and have > seen two possible solutions: If your program uses svgalib exclusively, you need to build-depend on svgalib1g-dev only and change the Architecture: line to 'i386' instead of 'any'. If your

Re: Help! fceu FTBFS on many archs

2002-12-30 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Nahmias) writes: > I did some research on other packages that use svgalib, and have > seen two possible solutions: If your program uses svgalib exclusively, you need to build-depend on svgalib1g-dev only and change the Architecture: line to 'i386' instead of 'any'. If your

Re: source name change

2002-12-08 Thread James Troup
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I ask for the removal of the old one and the upload the new > one? or should I better mail directly the ftp maintainers > explaining the situation so that they can perform the change in a > single run? Upload the new one and then file a bug

Re: source name change

2002-12-08 Thread James Troup
Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I ask for the removal of the old one and the upload the new > one? or should I better mail directly the ftp maintainers > explaining the situation so that they can perform the change in a > single run? Upload the new one and then file a bug

Re: why is linkchecker gone?

2002-12-02 Thread James Troup
Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that my linkchecker package is gone[0] from unstable No, it's not. ftp-master is canonical for what is and isn't in unstable; packages.debian.org doesn't even come close. [Laptop] 13:39:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $fsh auric madison linkchecke

Re: why is linkchecker gone?

2002-12-02 Thread James Troup
Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that my linkchecker package is gone[0] from unstable No, it's not. ftp-master is canonical for what is and isn't in unstable; packages.debian.org doesn't even come close. [Laptop] 13:39:51@tacitus| ~ $fsh auric madison linkchecker -s un

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread James Troup
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ madison gcc|grep unstable madison -s unstable gcc -- James

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread James Troup
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > $ madison gcc|grep unstable madison -s unstable gcc -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build-Depends on certain architecture

2002-10-01 Thread James Troup
Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All the work you are doing is to work around a bug in gcc 3.0 for HPPA, > that is fixed in gcc 3.2. > > So just upgrade the HPPA gcc to 3.2. > Some day it has to be done away. Err, no, it's really not that simple. (Hint: C++ ABI, see -devel archives

Re: Build-Depends on certain architecture

2002-10-01 Thread James Troup
Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All the work you are doing is to work around a bug in gcc 3.0 for HPPA, > that is fixed in gcc 3.2. > > So just upgrade the HPPA gcc to 3.2. > Some day it has to be done away. Err, no, it's really not that simple. (Hint: C++ ABI, see -devel archives

Re: dpkg compresses diff file differently

2002-06-07 Thread James Troup
Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dpkg compresses the diff file differently every time > I build .deb . The uncompressed .diff is same. > Is this an expected behavior? gzipped files have a timestamp -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: dpkg compresses diff file differently

2002-06-07 Thread James Troup
Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dpkg compresses the diff file differently every time > I build .deb . The uncompressed .diff is same. > Is this an expected behavior? gzipped files have a timestamp -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: dinstall problem

2002-05-03 Thread James Troup
christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I looks like the script can't find my login in a database. It's a bug in the version of postgresql running on auric, it silently truncate usernames longer than 8 letters. It'll be fixed when postgresql is upgraded. Until then d

Re: dchroot (?) on developer machines

2002-04-26 Thread James Troup
Phil Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could either (a) ask for the dependencies to be installed You need to do this, regardless. You can and should use dchroot where it's available, but chances are you still need to ask to have dependencies installed. > Ideally, I'd like to do what buildd

Re: dchroot (?) on developer machines

2002-04-26 Thread James Troup
Phil Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could either (a) ask for the dependencies to be installed You need to do this, regardless. You can and should use dchroot where it's available, but chances are you still need to ask to have dependencies installed. > Ideally, I'd like to do what build

Re: help with bug #143585 - hppa needs -ffunction-sections

2002-04-23 Thread James Troup
"Dale E Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I put an arch-specific build flag into a source package? I've > googled a bit, and grepped policy, but I'm not finding the answer. Also, > does anyone know if this is really an hppa issue, or is it a more general > g++ 3.0 issue? It's a hppa

Re: help with bug #143585 - hppa needs -ffunction-sections

2002-04-23 Thread James Troup
"Dale E Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I put an arch-specific build flag into a source package? I've > googled a bit, and grepped policy, but I'm not finding the answer. Also, > does anyone know if this is really an hppa issue, or is it a more general > g++ 3.0 issue? It's a hppa

Re: Should I override lintian (build-depends-without-arch-dep)?

2002-02-15 Thread James Troup
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Lintian says: > > E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep > > > It is true that no architecture-dependent packages are built. However > > dh_testdir > > as part of the build t

Re: Should I override lintian (build-depends-without-arch-dep)?

2002-02-15 Thread James Troup
Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 04:31:49PM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Lintian says: > > E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep > > > It is true that no architecture-dependent packages are built. However > > dh_testdir > > as part of the build

Re: Build-depends, |, and autobuilders

2002-02-05 Thread James Troup
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why won't the buildds parse this properly and, seeing that there's > no atlas2-base-dev, pick up blas-dev and lapack-dev? Because or'ed build-depends are satan spawn and the root of all evil in the world today. Seriously, use arch depends, that's wh

Re: Build-depends, |, and autobuilders

2002-02-05 Thread James Troup
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why won't the buildds parse this properly and, seeing that there's > no atlas2-base-dev, pick up blas-dev and lapack-dev? Because or'ed build-depends are satan spawn and the root of all evil in the world today. Seriously, use arch depends, that's w

Re: Need help with installing po files -- Bug#124167

2001-12-16 Thread James Troup
Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the problem and no hint to solve it ... Well, here's a hint: build-depends & gettext. -- James

Re: Need help with installing po files -- Bug#124167

2001-12-16 Thread James Troup
Jan-Hendrik Palic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the problem and no hint to solve it ... Well, here's a hint: build-depends & gettext. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dupload with openssh

2001-12-09 Thread James Troup
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to make dupload pass the -1 option to scp? I > have to enter my password for each file that is uploaded, which is > undesirable. [Orthogonally, ] Consider using anonymous ftp instead; both ftp-master and non-US have anonymous-ftp u

Re: dupload with openssh

2001-12-09 Thread James Troup
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to make dupload pass the -1 option to scp? I > have to enter my password for each file that is uploaded, which is > undesirable. [Orthogonally, ] Consider using anonymous ftp instead; both ftp-master and non-US have anonymous-ftp

Re: modifying orig.tar.gz

2001-11-28 Thread James Troup
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 28-Nov-2001 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I adopted a package, koth, and wanted to change its build process. > > For that I needed to change its orig.tar.gz, now dinstall is > > rejecting to overwrite it, I'd like to kno

Re: modifying orig.tar.gz

2001-11-28 Thread James Troup
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 28-Nov-2001 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I adopted a package, koth, and wanted to change its build process. > > For that I needed to change its orig.tar.gz, now dinstall is > > rejecting to overwrite it, I'd like to kn

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread James Troup
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). -- James

Re: Semi-contrib packages

2001-11-24 Thread James Troup
Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I "Build-Depends: ccc [alpha], cfal [alpha]" and still have the > source package in main? No, that would violate policy (2.1.2). -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: New key procedure

2001-10-25 Thread James Troup
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a similiar problem (lost key) and mailed keyring-maint a > month or longer ago and didn't get any response yet So, in the future, send some more mail as a pester/reminder? Anyway, I've added your new key. -- James

Re: New key procedure

2001-10-25 Thread James Troup
Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a similiar problem (lost key) and mailed keyring-maint a > month or longer ago and didn't get any response yet So, in the future, send some more mail as a pester/reminder? Anyway, I've added your new key. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: New key procedure

2001-10-25 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just uploading is pretty standard. Anybody can upload anybody's > public key. Anybody can update existing keys but new keys will be ignored. Alexander's key is new. -- James

Re: New key procedure

2001-10-25 Thread James Troup
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just uploading is pretty standard. Anybody can upload anybody's > public key. Anybody can update existing keys but new keys will be ignored. Alexander's key is new. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: [RFC] Hits/directions to using autoconf and friends in Debian

2001-10-14 Thread James Troup
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They should use --buind and --host because that saves on a very > CPU-expensive call to config.guess in the autobuilders. CPU-expensive?? I really wish people would give up trying to justify things with the incredible BS excuse of "saving

Re: [RFC] Hits/directions to using autoconf and friends in Debian

2001-10-14 Thread James Troup
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They should use --buind and --host because that saves on a very > CPU-expensive call to config.guess in the autobuilders. CPU-expensive?? I really wish people would give up trying to justify things with the incredible BS excuse of "savin

Re: problem with build dependencies

2001-10-11 Thread James Troup
Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the following build-depencies: > > Build-Depends: debhelper, autoconf, guile1.4, libguile-dev, g++ (>= 2.95.2), > g++ (<< 3.0), xlibs-dev > > This is because my package does not compile on gcc 3.0. That's the wrong solution; you need to fix yo

Re: problem with build dependencies

2001-10-11 Thread James Troup
Ralf Treinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the following build-depencies: > > Build-Depends: debhelper, autoconf, guile1.4, libguile-dev, g++ (>= 2.95.2), g++ (<< >3.0), xlibs-dev > > This is because my package does not compile on gcc 3.0. That's the wrong solution; you need to fix yo

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread James Troup
Stijn de Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa > architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045): > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=htdig&ver=3.1.5-3&arch=hppa&stamp=1002598209&file=log&as=raw > > > My question is pretty sim

Re: Compiling on hppa

2001-10-10 Thread James Troup
Stijn de Bekker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apparently, the building of my htdig package fails on the hppa > architecture (as is also noted by bug #105045): > > >http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=htdig&ver=3.1.5-3&arch=hppa&stamp=1002598209&file=log&as=raw > > > My question is pretty

Re: dinstall error message on ftp-master

2001-09-25 Thread James Troup
Salvador Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new at this (just out of NM), and I'm about to upload my > packages (gprolog and gprolog-doc). All seems well, except for this > message, which occurs when I try to dinstall -n, on ftp-master: Sorry, I forgot to enable the cron job to sync LDAP an

Re: dinstall error message on ftp-master

2001-09-25 Thread James Troup
Salvador Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new at this (just out of NM), and I'm about to upload my > packages (gprolog and gprolog-doc). All seems well, except for this > message, which occurs when I try to dinstall -n, on ftp-master: Sorry, I forgot to enable the cron job to sync LDAP a

Re: removing package from unstable

2001-08-15 Thread James Troup
werpc, sparc | fvwm-common | 2.2.5-1.1 | testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, powerpc, sparc | 11:42:[EMAIL PROTECTED]| ~ $ >From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt | = | [Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:49

Re: removing package from unstable

2001-08-15 Thread James Troup
| fvwm-common | 2.2.5-1.1 | testing | alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, |powerpc, sparc | 11:42:12@auric| ~ $ >From http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt | = | [Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:49:23 -0400] [ft

Re: dpkg-source: unexpected object

2001-07-02 Thread James Troup
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can not unpack my own packages anymore... where is the bug, in > dpkg-source, in tar, or in my box? Upgrade to dpkg-dev >= 1.9.15 or downgrade to <= 1.9.10. Usual dpkg SNAFU. -- James

Re: dpkg-source: unexpected object

2001-07-02 Thread James Troup
"Christian T. Steigies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can not unpack my own packages anymore... where is the bug, in > dpkg-source, in tar, or in my box? Upgrade to dpkg-dev >= 1.9.15 or downgrade to <= 1.9.10. Usual dpkg SNAFU. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread James Troup
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for > me to download. Hang on if you can't download it, how are you going to use or test it? Or are you saying you're packaging software you neither use nor can test? -- James

Re: chroot testing/unstable environment.

2001-06-27 Thread James Troup
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to package kernel-patch-folk. However, the files are too big for > me to download. Hang on if you can't download it, how are you going to use or test it? Or are you saying you're packaging software you neither use nor can test? -- James -- To UNS

Re: GDBM 1.8

2001-06-11 Thread James Troup
Jon Eisenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a package I'd like to make, I need gdbm 1.8.0, while the current > maintainer has stated that he will not upgrade to this version, and that > if I need it I should package it myself. So, here I am, packaging the > library. What should I do to make s

Re: GDBM 1.8

2001-06-11 Thread James Troup
Jon Eisenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a package I'd like to make, I need gdbm 1.8.0, while the current > maintainer has stated that he will not upgrade to this version, and that > if I need it I should package it myself. So, here I am, packaging the > library. What should I do to make

Re: lame (again!)

2001-05-11 Thread James Troup
Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:14:22PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > >> Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I would like clarify the reason for lame not being included in the debian > > > archives, not even non-US. > > > > http://www.d

Re: lame (again!)

2001-05-11 Thread James Troup
Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 10:14:22PM +0200, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > >> Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I would like clarify the reason for lame not being included in the debian > > > archives, not even non-US. > > > > http://www.

Re: How to locally sign a package that has been built on another machine?

2001-05-10 Thread James Troup
Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since there is no /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa in unstable, would > > backporting the unstable gnupg to potato solve this? > > Yes, sid's gnupg includes RSA. Err, huh? potato (2.2r3 at least) has gnupg 1.0.4-1 which includes RSA. -- James

Re: How to locally sign a package that has been built on another machine?

2001-05-10 Thread James Troup
Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since there is no /usr/lib/gnupg/rsa in unstable, would > > backporting the unstable gnupg to potato solve this? > > Yes, sid's gnupg includes RSA. Err, huh? potato (2.2r3 at least) has gnupg 1.0.4-1 which includes RSA. -- James -- To UNSU

Re: How can I do with gpg key uplopad?

2001-05-08 Thread James Troup
Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:08:10AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > Get gnupg 1.0.5-2 from incoming on pandora. > > Do you plan a package for stable too? No. a) --send-key isn't broken in the stable package only in 1.0.5-1,

Re: How can I do with gpg key uplopad?

2001-05-08 Thread James Troup
Christian Surchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 04:08:10AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > Get gnupg 1.0.5-2 from incoming on pandora. > > Do you plan a package for stable too? No. a) --send-key isn't broken in the stable package only in 1

Re: How can I do with gpg key uplopad?

2001-05-06 Thread James Troup
"Yooseong Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortuately, that gpg command produces the error message like "gpg: > failed sending to `keyring.debian.org': status=406". (my username in > debian machine is yooseong.) > > How can I do for this situation? Please let me know Get gnupg 1.0.5-2 f

Re: How can I do with gpg key uplopad?

2001-05-06 Thread James Troup
"Yooseong Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Unfortuately, that gpg command produces the error message like "gpg: > failed sending to `keyring.debian.org': status=406". (my username in > debian machine is yooseong.) > > How can I do for this situation? Please let me know Get gnupg 1.0.5-2

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-04-29 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) It could be documented on http://keyring.debian.org/ I'm sure it could...[0] > (2) I wouldn't have thought of using anonymous rsync either Err, and? Look, it's very simple: a) anonymous good, automated access to an allegedly secure account bad.

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-04-29 Thread James Troup
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 0 6 */2 * * cd $HOME/.gnupg; scp -q -C > auric.debian.org:/org/keyring.debian.org/keyrings/debian-keyring.{gpg,pgp} . ARGH! FFS, use the anonymous rsync method on keyring.debian.org, that's what it's there for. -- James

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-04-29 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (1) It could be documented on http://keyring.debian.org/ I'm sure it could...[0] > (2) I wouldn't have thought of using anonymous rsync either Err, and? Look, it's very simple: a) anonymous good, automated access to an allegedly secure account bad

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-04-29 Thread James Troup
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 0 6 */2 * * cd $HOME/.gnupg; scp -q -C >auric.debian.org:/org/keyring.debian.org/keyrings/debian-keyring.{gpg,pgp} . ARGH! FFS, use the anonymous rsync method on keyring.debian.org, that's what it's there for. -- James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Package with dinstall

2001-04-11 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:07:59AM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: > > James Troup writes: > > > "Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > &

Re: Package with dinstall

2001-04-11 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:07:59AM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: > > James Troup writes: > > > "Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > &

Re: Package with dinstall

2001-04-10 Thread James Troup
"Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just out of curiosity. Is there any package with dinstall? No. > I'm wondering about using it for maintaining a local non-official > repository... I've been looking for it and didn't found it > anywhere... http://ftp-master.debian.org/

Re: Package with dinstall

2001-04-10 Thread James Troup
"Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just out of curiosity. Is there any package with dinstall? No. > I'm wondering about using it for maintaining a local non-official > repository... I've been looking for it and didn't found it > anywhere... http://ftp-master.debian.org/

Re: Dependance on an unavailable library

2001-03-07 Thread James Troup
Jan 21 16:52:16 2001 | Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: GDBM 1.8.0 | References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mail-Copies-To: never | From: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: 21 Jan 2001 16:52:16 + | In-Reply-To: Jon Eisenstein's message of "Fri, 19

Re: Dependance on an unavailable library

2001-03-07 Thread James Troup
Jan 21 16:52:16 2001 | Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: GDBM 1.8.0 | References: | Mail-Copies-To: never | From: James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: 21 Jan 2001 16:52:16 + | In-Reply-To: Jon Eisenstein's message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:43:2

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then > > somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved > > From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian > > installer rejected those

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

2001-02-07 Thread James Troup
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then > > somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved > > From mail to contrib/mail. I tried to upload fixed packages, but Debian > > installer rejected thos

Re: problems with uploading

2000-09-21 Thread James Troup
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, when I checked http://incoming.debian.org this morning, the > package was not there. It is not in woody yet, either. > Furthermore, it was not announced on debian-changes or > debian-devel-changes. Grr, the Queue Daemon on samosa was stuck at

Re: problems with uploading

2000-09-21 Thread James Troup
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, when I checked http://incoming.debian.org this morning, the > package was not there. It is not in woody yet, either. > Furthermore, it was not announced on debian-changes or > debian-devel-changes. Grr, the Queue Daemon on samosa was stuck a

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