Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-06-07 Thread Jon Gough
On 7/6/21 9:38 pm, jrb3-beckenbach.us wrote: Hi again, Jon! On 6 Jun 2021, at 20:51, Jon Gough wrote: These suggest that a full cleanup could/should(?) be done including all user generated files. Not at all, because packages do not install any files to any user-$HOME. If the user

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-06-06 Thread Jon Gough
On 5/6/21 5:36 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:43:54AM +1000, Jon Gough wrote: On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote: My conclusion is that application plugin mangers should make use of the platform

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-06-04 Thread Jon Gough
On 5/6/21 8:36 am, Sven Hartge wrote: The Wanderer wrote: I genuinely do not see what insisting on uninstalling plugins at the same time as the main program, for all user accounts, provides as a benefit. The only maybe benefit I've seen suggested is cleaning up to free disk space, and that s

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-06-04 Thread Jon Gough
On 5/6/21 7:59 am, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-06-04 at 17:43, Jon Gough wrote: On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote: I now know what path I need to follow, i.e. have a plugin manager that uses the platform installation

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-06-04 Thread Jon Gough
On 9/5/21 5:40 pm, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:41:13PM +1000, Jon Gough wrote: My conclusion is that application plugin mangers should make use of the platform installation process for installing and uninstalling plugins as it "the platform installation pr

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-05-08 Thread Jon Gough
On 9/5/21 4:31 pm, Mechtilde wrote: Hello Jon, which plugin manager are you talking about. Each application providing plugins has its own mechanism to handle them. So i don't understand what your conclusion is. So I want to know whether my packages can be affected or benefit

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-05-08 Thread Jon Gough
On 8/5/21 10:51 pm, Sven Hartge wrote: Jon Gough wrote:    So, any user installable application extension/plugin which has executables and supporting data is left behind on the system when the owning application is removed or updated using the system installation process? This is accepted

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-05-07 Thread Jon Gough
On 8/5/21 12:17 am, Kris Deugau wrote: Jon Gough wrote: The user install plugins can vary between very simple with a config file and a couple of icons up to complex with large data >1GB and hundreds of icons. So, if debs must not touch files in $HOME but is allowed to create files there

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-05-06 Thread Jon Gough
r use on 'single user' or 'single user account' machines. The cases where a machine is 'multi user' will likely be developers or being 'managed' by ICT people so that will not be an issue. In normal user cases they will use a package manager to uninstall the package and will not go near a command prompt. Jon

Re: Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-05-05 Thread Jon Gough
stuff. As far as I can see most users only know about Downloads, Documents, etc., but nothing about directories that contain '.' as the leading character (most desktops hide these directories). Thanks Jon On 6/5/21 10:01 am, BenoƮt Rouits wrote: Hi Jon, Maybe it would be prefe

Location for user installed plugin libraries and icons

2021-05-05 Thread Jon Gough
ateable config files in a user writeable area, i.e. $HOME/./. What would be a suitable location for the libs, icons, etc. for the user installed plugin? Many thanks Jon

Bug#723626:

2013-09-21 Thread Jon Daley
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013, Tobias Frost wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 19.09.2013, 16:08 -0400 schrieb Jon Daley: Yes, I saw the debian-lintian errors. And I can take a look at those - I wanted to see if I had the packaging procedure down correctly before attacking those. (and those issues have been

Bug#723626:

2013-09-19 Thread Jon Daley
t the upstream link to the tar file was broken - his main site still links to it, so I figure he must have just broken it. If he decides to stop publishing it - is there a process for that? The code is in the public domain. On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Tobias Frost wrote: Hallo Jon, (Disclaimer: I&

Bug#723626: RFS: worklog/1.8-7 [ITA]

2013-09-17 Thread Jon Daley
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the package "worklog", which was orphaned by ema@debian a while back, and due to some recent interest in the package by people other than myself, I've packaged up some bug fixes and ema@debian says he

dependent packages blocked from testing

2013-07-18 Thread Jon Bernard
ntrol [2]: http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?package=ust Cheers, -- Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130718233730.GB19047@helmut.local

Bug#700233: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.09.09-1 [ITP]

2013-02-10 Thread Jon Hulka
acking packaging in publicly accessible VCS. Looks like I have my work cut out for me :-) > By the way what's the point installing that many (14) icons to > "/usr/share/icons/hicolor"? Is it really necessary? Probably not - I'm learning. Thanks, - Jon

Bug#700233: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.09.09-1 [ITP]

2013-02-10 Thread Jon Hulka
y message is even necessary - I'll look into it. Most of your other points are oversight or ignorance on my part. I will change copyright to GPL for all of my code and address the other issues. Thanks again, - Jon On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Here is a re

Bug#700233: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.09.09-1 [ITP]

2013-02-10 Thread Jon Hulka
libr/libre-jigsaw/libre-jigsaw_2012.09.09-1.dsc Changes since the last upload: This is a new package. Regards, Jon Hulka

Bug#661857: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.03.04-1 [ITP] -- jigsaw puzzle game

2012-07-25 Thread Jon Hulka
Nobody was interested in sponsoring I guess. When I get time I'll try Ubuntu. On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Bart Martens wrote: > Hi Jon, > > Both packages at mentors are no longer there. What happened ? > > Regards, > > Bart Martens > -- Sent from my GNU PC

Re: help with intra-package dependencies (library and binary)

2012-05-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:21:37AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Seems the package isn't on mentors yet? I extracted the source tarball > with pristine-tar. Indeed, I later received a rejection: mentors has not updated their keyring to reflect my new PGP key yet. (I then got another rejection for

help with intra-package dependencies (library and binary)

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi, I'm trying to package 'lhasa' but I'm having some trouble. There is a binary package 'lhasa' shipping a binary which depends on a library from a library package 'liblhasa0', all from the same source. (analogous to curl depending on libcurlX from the same source package) My packaging is at htt

Re: is wheezy frozen already?

2012-05-12 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:00:20PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > For the last few freezes, the release team accepted packages uploaded > to unstable before the freeze into testing. No idea if they will do > that again, but I imagine they will. I thought this was a concession for the last freeze, becau

Bug#662754: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.03.04-1 [ITP]

2012-03-06 Thread Jon Hulka
losed > because it was opened by mistake, just close it manually; there's no > need to clutter the changelog with such entries. I've modified the package at mentors.debian.net to only close #660433 Thanks, - Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.

Bug#662754: Subject: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.03.04-1 [ITP]

2012-03-06 Thread Jon Hulka
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libre-jigsaw" Package name: libre-jigsaw Version : 2012.03.04-1 Upstream Author : Jonathan Hulka URL : https://github.com/jon-hulka/libre-jig License

Bug#661857: RFS: libre-jigsaw/2012.02.25-1 [ITP]

2012-03-02 Thread Jon Hulka
t; > Regards, > Ansgar Thanks for your feedback, - Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALkGRC8yw1AyTAEN46x95izUF=5gHPs=ojnpob4qghvqcxu...@mail.gmail.com

Package not uploading

2012-02-27 Thread Jon Hulka
was able to upload the package "libre-jigsaw" yesterday. "libre-jigsaw-pics" appears to upload, but doesn't show up in my packages list, and I don't get a confirmation email. Have I done something wrong? Thanks, - Jon -- Sent from my GNU PC

Re: ITP: wolf4sdl -- SDL-Port of Wolfenstein 3-D and Spear of Destiny

2011-11-28 Thread Jon Dowland
tags 615056 pending thanks Uploaded. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:09:21AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > CC:ing -mentors. > > Am 17.10.2011 11:42, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > >I have prepared a new package of upstream SVN snapshot r262 that > >replaces the non-free MAME OPL2 emulator with a GPL'

RFS: myspell-sv (updated package)

2011-06-04 Thread Jon Lachmann
or me. As I am not a subscriber to the mailing list, please CC me with any replies. Kind regards Jon Lachmann

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Jon Dowland
V8) is the best > long-term solution? It seems to be asking a lot of upstream. Is there a likelyhood for any other package to make use of the old spidermonkey version (when it is old, that is)? I'd expect not, and so I'd think using the bundled version was the sensible choice. -- J

Re: RFS: quakespasm (2nd try)

2011-04-07 Thread Jon Dowland
Hi David, Sorry I missed your first RFP. I have now added basic quake support to game-data-packager and made an upload to experimental. I will hopefully give your package a look real soon and get it uploaded! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Include 0AD, a new fancy 3D RTS

2010-09-09 Thread Jon Dowland
27;s patent license.) Actively enforced patents are forbidden, otherwise, ignored. ftpmaster make the call. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100909155429.gb16...@deckard.alcopop.org

[Fwd: Re: Varkon CAD software]

2010-03-30 Thread jon
Hello Mentors, As noted in the previous email, I would like to become a maintainer for this package, but am painfully unaware of the steps/protocols to do so. Can I please have some help? Thanks Jon York Original Message Subject:Re: Varkon CAD software Date: Fri

RFS: dokuwiki-note

2008-09-30 Thread jon latorre
ry: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dokuwiki-note/dokuwiki-note_20080217-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Jon Latorre Martinez signature.asc Description: Esta p

Re: Anonymous delayed queue?

2008-02-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:41:29AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > On 14/02/2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > > If you or somebody else agree that it is of general interest (in > > private if you want to limit the traffic on this list), I can > > propose an update for the Developpers Reference. > > Is

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2008-02-14 Thread Jon Dowland
e actually do this in packages, so I'd love to hear people's opinions on the matter. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: failmalloc

2008-02-14 Thread Jon Dowland
to pristine upstream after the make clean target, which is particularly nice if you have your tree in a VCS and don't want to keep filtering the sub/guess changes out of commits. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: pidgin-rhythmbox (try 2)

2008-01-31 Thread Jon Dowland
section of the maint-guide means, by default, debian/docs is populated with README, etc. The only file that dh_installdocs will install unprompted is debian/copyright. Thanks for your comments! -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: pidgin-rhythmbox (try 2)

2008-01-28 Thread Jon Dowland
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-rhythmbox". This is a plugin for the pidgin instant messenger client which lets you display the song currently playing in rhythmbox in your user status. Package Name: pidgin-rhythmbox Version : 2.0-1 Upstream author : Jon

Re: Orphaned clanlib package

2007-12-05 Thread Jon Dowland
nd have to rename it to ITP: > *... I've retitled and reowned it to the Debian Games Team. If you've worked on a package please consider joining the team and working on it alongside the others. Info at <http://wiki.debian.org/Games>. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: RFS: prboom (updated package)

2007-11-01 Thread Jon Dowland
mmitted, there's no real rush on package uploads at the moment, so I'd like to wait until the next version for those, and get them into SVN first (so someone else can test them too). -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITP bugs

2007-10-03 Thread Jon Dowland
latter? An ITP bug is a good idea to avoid duplication. I wouldn't bother with a new package just to close an ITP, though. File one and close it by hand when the package is uploaded. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: RFS: gnome-color-chooser

2007-09-18 Thread Jon Dowland
]:~/wd$ cd gnome-color-chooser-0.2.2/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/wd/gnome-color-chooser-0.2.2$ debuild fakeroot debian/rules clean dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-stamp # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. /usr/bin/make distclean make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jon/wd/gnome

Re: How to deliver an binary file

2007-08-23 Thread Jon Dowland
orm of the > work. Is this then justification for putting the sfd in the orig and repacking with a -dfsg suffix to the upstream version? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: alien-arena [updated package]

2007-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:01:41PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > It would be worth providing a link to alien-arena-data, too, as this > package won't install without it. I can't find it at mentors, I assume > it's in pkg-games svn... yup, there it is: this builds fine for

Re: RFS: alien-arena [updated package]

2007-08-20 Thread Jon Dowland
It would be worth providing a link to alien-arena-data, too, as this package won't install without it. I can't find it at mentors, I assume it's in pkg-games svn... -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Svn-buildpakcage ignoring some directories.#

2007-07-19 Thread Jon Dowland
at build time, create it in the build rules. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS template mail and "upload fixes these bugs"

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
uot;The upload would close the ITP #X" as a distinct stanza. Or perhaps "The upload would fix these bugs: #X (ITP) #Y #Z". Thoughts? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: dir2ogg -- audio file converter into ogg-vorbis format

2007-07-18 Thread Jon Dowland
s > software and when it is in unstable, Christian can remove > it from his archive. Is that the best solution? What about people who use his package already? I see that your package is a newer upstream version. Have you contacted Christian at all? -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-17 Thread Jon Dowland
> This should not need to happen. The orig.tar.gz should > hardly ever be repacked. Yes I'm a bit confused by this suggestion. In what circumstances might it be repacked, excluding to meet dfsg requirements (where the correct solution would be changing the upstream version to 1.0-dfsg-1 o

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-06-29 Thread Jon Dowland
doom-package package. I have been offline for a while and have yet to commit my latest work on this, I will do so over the weekend. You might find it interesting. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: pidgin-rhythmbox

2007-06-25 Thread Jon Dowland
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-rhythmbox": A pidgin (formerly gaim) plugin which lets you display the song currently playing in rhythmbox. Package Name: pidgin-rhythmbox Version : 2.0-1 Upstream author : Jon Oberheide URL : <http://jon.

Re: Building a program with the library shipped in Debian, not in orig.tar.gz

2006-09-27 Thread Jon Dowland
xternal pcre (perhaps by default) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reassigning Bugs

2006-09-25 Thread Jon Dowland
o,bar' trick and it works, please let me/the list know (perhaps the bts docs need a docu-bug filed:) ) -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C Tutorial ?

2006-05-17 Thread Jon Dowland
re needed for non-trivial programs, but low-level stuff like vtables etc. are hidden from you quite well. Certainly, you do not know how you might go about implementing an OO abstraction layer in C, at least unless you want to hack on GTK+ or glib/Gobject yourself. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-08 Thread Jon Dowland
ot;threshold", bzip2 should be used instead of gzip for other things in /usr/share/doc. I think PDFs use ZIP internally. ZIP has compression ratios, perhaps PDFs can be re-packed to use a higher ratio? > Random text is just under 50% for me. ^^ How random? You can't adequately

Re: Google sumer of code, need a DD

2006-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
initscripts-ng-devel" project of interest[2]. [1] http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/2006050401-init-systems [2] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/initscripts-ng/ -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: RFS: checkinstall

2006-04-10 Thread Jon Dowland
t; and the debian package puts it somewhere completely different, it doesn't make sense for the debian users to be faced with the wrong information. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suggestion: Time limit for NM process

2006-04-05 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1144019257 past the epoch, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > Okay, I'll bite: Any company that hires 50% of its applicants is > growing damned fast. Certainly faster than is sustainable. This is a bit of a bad analogy: most companies won't have people working for them who they haven

Re: RFS: b5

2006-03-01 Thread Jon Dowland
u currently putting in ./debian/changelog vs. ./ChangeLog (or similar)? -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-01 Thread Jon Dowland
0.0.3-1.diff.gz ^^^ I suggest bumping the package version and making a note of your changes in debian/changelog when you make a change: the tool 'dch -i' from the package source dir will help you do this. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: b5

2006-02-28 Thread Jon Dowland
s perspective, it is often useful to see, at a glance, whether a package upgrade includes `upstream' changes, or debian native changes. The latter are described in debian/changelog (but not the former) and you can read about them by hitting e.g. C in recent versions of aptitude, for exa

create docs in binary indep

2006-01-29 Thread Jon Saints
ny of my -doc creating source packages (e.g. aolserver4 or proftpd) for an example of use." Because I am new to packaging, I am not sure what this means. My package contains dh_installdocs in the binary-arch section of the rules file. Should I simply move dh_installdocs t

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-23 Thread Jon Dowland
don't supply a menu-method. > You could have your package depend on the menu-xdg package, but I > would recommend using desktop files in addition to menu files. But only for those reasons stated above? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-22 Thread Jon Dowland
on when is best to use a desktop file directly, and when it is best to use the menu-system? Or alternatively, why avoid the menu system at all? Should you ever use both? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-21 Thread Jon Dowland
;Applications" to be in Categorie. Are you supplying a menu file and calling dh_installmenu, too, for those people not using a xdg-menu supporting window manager / other menu application? -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages

2005-11-11 Thread Jon Dowland
a content, which would allow migration into main? (just curious) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: question about closing bugs in changelog

2005-10-16 Thread Jon Dowland
.changes. Use -vVERsion with > dpkg-buildpackages. I was also going to ask this question, thank you! -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Looking for sponsor for ntaim

2003-05-14 Thread Jon
ebian.org/ntaim Orphaned: http://bugs.debian.org/192650 -- Jon http://tesla.resnet.mtu.edu BOFH excuse #334: 50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files

Re: greetings! - PennMUSH debian package

2003-03-30 Thread Jon Eisenstein
A few months back, I attempted to package TinyMUSH 3.0, but ran into some trouble with a few clauses that seemed to imply something wasn't quite DFSG free. I had submitted a report to the developers, and they expressed interest in making it compliant. I haven't really done much with the package sin

Re: greetings! - PennMUSH debian package

2003-03-30 Thread Jon Eisenstein
A few months back, I attempted to package TinyMUSH 3.0, but ran into some trouble with a few clauses that seemed to imply something wasn't quite DFSG free. I had submitted a report to the developers, and they expressed interest in making it compliant. I haven't really done much with the package sin

Re: FYI: GNAT 3.15p has been released

2002-11-24 Thread Jon Ward
e interested in taking it over. I've been working on it this weekend - I've retitled the bugs for gnat and gnat-doc to ITA. As I type, my old SparcStation 4 is chugging away with a compile of it. Bear with me, these are my first Debian packages... Jon pgp6UIKJGfUeY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FYI: GNAT 3.15p has been released

2002-11-24 Thread Jon Ward
e interested in taking it over. I've been working on it this weekend - I've retitled the bugs for gnat and gnat-doc to ITA. As I type, my old SparcStation 4 is chugging away with a compile of it. Bear with me, these are my first Debian packages... Jon msg07981/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

GNAT

2002-11-07 Thread Jon Ward
been signed by a present Debian developer. I did ask Phil Hands to sign my key at the recent UK Linux Developers Conference, but he didn't get around to it. Jon Ward -- Birmingham, UK. pgpEfIUVlLCyY.pgp Description: PGP signature

GNAT

2002-11-07 Thread Jon Ward
been signed by a present Debian developer. I did ask Phil Hands to sign my key at the recent UK Linux Developers Conference, but he didn't get around to it. Jon Ward -- Birmingham, UK. msg07770/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Keysigning in Phoenix, AZ

2002-03-25 Thread Jon Franklin
current version is at my website: http://www.getnet.net/~jfranklin thx, -- Jon Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ua mau, ke ea o ka'aina i kapono" The life of the land is preserved by righteousness. -- Hawai'i state motto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Keysigning in Phoenix, AZ

2002-03-25 Thread Jon Franklin
current version is at my website: http://www.getnet.net/~jfranklin thx, -- Jon Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Ua mau, ke ea o ka'aina i kapono" The life of the land is preserved by righteousness. -- Hawai'i state motto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Dealing with file deletions

2001-07-14 Thread Jon Middleton
s are unpacked theres the moved files along with the original ones. Dose anyone konw the best way of dealing with this type of problem ? Thanks -- Jon "However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead." Richard Daw

Dealing with file deletions

2001-07-14 Thread Jon Middleton
s are unpacked theres the moved files along with the original ones. Dose anyone konw the best way of dealing with this type of problem ? Thanks -- Jon "However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead." Richard Daw

Re: GDBM 1.8

2001-06-11 Thread Jon Eisenstein
> > 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 sure that it does not interfere with

Re: GDBM 1.8

2001-06-11 Thread Jon Eisenstein
> > 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 sure that it does not interfere with

GDBM 1.8

2001-06-11 Thread Jon Eisenstein
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 sure that it does not interfere with the regular gdbm

GDBM 1.8

2001-06-11 Thread Jon Eisenstein
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 sure that it does not interfere with the regular gdb

Re: Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jon Middleton
-perl in-case the Perl Maintainer's have any views, I guess any other discussion should happen there ] OK, I'll file a bug against ftp.debian.org acessing for libfile-temp-perl's removal after perl-modules 5.6.1-3 has reached testing. -- Jon "Along with freedom

Re: Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jon Middleton
e Perl Maintainer's have any views, I guess any other discussion should happen there ] OK, I'll file a bug against ftp.debian.org acessing for libfile-temp-perl's removal after perl-modules 5.6.1-3 has reached testing. -- Jon "Along with freedom of speech and fr

Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-29 Thread Jon Middleton
Hi, I'm currently the Maintainer of libfile-temp-perl which as of perl 5.6.1 is included in the main Perl distribution. As the package is now redundant should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for it's removal. Thanks -- Jon "Along with freedom of speech

Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-29 Thread Jon Middleton
Hi, I'm currently the Maintainer of libfile-temp-perl which as of perl 5.6.1 is included in the main Perl distribution. As the package is now redundant should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org asking for it's removal. Thanks -- Jon "Along with freedom of speech

Re: Dependance on an unavailable library

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Eisenstein
> > I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer > > than the version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but > > have not received a response. > > Well, a response _was_ sent. > > | So; go ahead and include the non-shared gdbm1.8. Terribly sorry about that... It ap

Dependance on an unavailable library

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Eisenstein
I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer than the version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but have not received a response. The source package, presumably because it's an uncommonly used version of gdbm, contains the source to 1.8.0 which can be used during the

Re: Dependance on an unavailable library

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Eisenstein
> > I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer > > than the version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but > > have not received a response. > > Well, a response _was_ sent. > > | So; go ahead and include the non-shared gdbm1.8. Terribly sorry about that... It a

Dependance on an unavailable library

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Eisenstein
I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer than the version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but have not received a response. The source package, presumably because it's an uncommonly used version of gdbm, contains the source to 1.8.0 which can be used during th

Sponsor/Teacher Requested

2001-01-18 Thread Jon Eisenstein
hin a user account. This is not to say that the code is insecure, but it is not commonly a root-run process. * Similarly, configuration files and datafiles are not usually kept in /etc or /var, but in something like /home/jon/tinymush/game. * I am not positive, but I believe the program is a

Sponsor/Teacher Requested

2001-01-18 Thread Jon Eisenstein
d within a user account. This is not to say that the code is insecure, but it is not commonly a root-run process. * Similarly, configuration files and datafiles are not usually kept in /etc or /var, but in something like /home/jon/tinymush/game. * I am not positive, but I believe the program is a

Request For Sponsor: libfile-temp-perl & libnetserver-generic-perl

2000-11-29 Thread Jon Middleton
h apt with the following sources.list lines. deb http://www.ixtab.org.uk/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.ixtab.org.uk/debian unstable main contrib non-free -- Jon. "Along with freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, there is freedom to share genera

Request For Sponsor: libfile-temp-perl & libnetserver-generic-perl

2000-11-29 Thread Jon Middleton
h apt with the following sources.list lines. deb http://www.ixtab.org.uk/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.ixtab.org.uk/debian unstable main contrib non-free -- Jon. "Along with freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, there is freedom to share genera

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-06-24 Thread Jon Marler
the kernel, configure it to support "Loadable Modules". After you install the kernel, and reboot, run "modconf". This will let you select which modules to load at start. Hope that helps! Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. debian-mentors is more for new maintainers who need help making new packages. This question would be better aimed at debian-user. pgpcr2xGj7e8y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Snail mail for new-maintainers?

1999-04-29 Thread Jon Marler
not in a major rush, but I would like to become a maintainer. I have allready spoken with a current maintainer about assuming control of a package or two which NEED updating. If snail-mailing the information would help, I'll do it! I'm ready to get on with it! Jon Marler [EMAIL PROTECTED]