Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Neil Spring
On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub endif ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" cp -f /u

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Neil Spring
On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub endif ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" cp -f /usr/

Re: Using ${description}, and debian/substvars.

2003-09-11 Thread Neil Spring
On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 14:31 US/Pacific, Shaul Karl wrote: Can you tell where using ${description} and debian/substvars being documented, and give some examples for package which are made from a single source package and automate using the description in sub-packages? -- I figured out

Re: Using ${description}, and debian/substvars.

2003-09-11 Thread Neil Spring
On Thursday, Sep 11, 2003, at 14:31 US/Pacific, Shaul Karl wrote: Can you tell where using ${description} and debian/substvars being documented, and give some examples for package which are made from a single source package and automate using the description in sub-packages? -- I figured out how

Re: RFS since

2003-07-19 Thread Neil Spring
Luk, I believe your "closes" entries should match the expression, /closes:\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+(?:,\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+)*/ig listed by http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s- upload-bugfix That is, the numbers should be prefixed by "#". -neil On Saturday, July 19,

Re: RFS since

2003-07-19 Thread Neil Spring
Luk, I believe your "closes" entries should match the expression, /closes:\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+(?:,\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+)*/ig listed by http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s- upload-bugfix That is, the numbers should be prefixed by "#". -neil On Saturday, July 19, 2

Re: 10-day delay for testing???

2003-07-11 Thread Neil Spring
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 02:14 AM, Luk Claes wrote: What does the folowing 'problem' mean: The package has not yet entered testing even though the 10-day delay is over. The urgency=low upload has not entered testing for one of the other reasons listed at: http://www.debian.org/doc/man

Re: howto add patches?

2003-07-11 Thread Neil Spring
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 01:33 AM, GCS wrote: I would like to ask how can I add a patch to an existing package? I have created debian/patches, placed my patch there. Adding a 'patch -p1 < ..' seems to be ok for the first time. But second time, it fails, as the source is already patched.

Re: 10-day delay for testing???

2003-07-11 Thread Neil Spring
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 02:14 AM, Luk Claes wrote: What does the folowing 'problem' mean: The package has not yet entered testing even though the 10-day delay is over. The urgency=low upload has not entered testing for one of the other reasons listed at: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/

Re: howto add patches?

2003-07-11 Thread Neil Spring
On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 01:33 AM, GCS wrote: I would like to ask how can I add a patch to an existing package? I have created debian/patches, placed my patch there. Adding a 'patch -p1 < ..' seems to be ok for the first time. But second time, it fails, as the source is already patched. You