Re: auto-builders, how do they work?

2002-07-17 Thread Rick Younie
J?rgen H?gg wrote: > > I'm curious about how the auto-builders work, somehow > I didn't find enough info about them, except for buildd > (http://buildd.debian.org/). > > My question is: how do I make my packages available for > all architectures? > (Or at least, as many as possible. :-) > > Shou

Re: auto-builders, how do they work?

2002-07-17 Thread Rick Younie
J?rgen H?gg wrote: > > I'm curious about how the auto-builders work, somehow > I didn't find enough info about them, except for buildd > (http://buildd.debian.org/). > > My question is: how do I make my packages available for > all architectures? > (Or at least, as many as possible. :-) > > Sho

Re: how long does it take to find an AM

2002-06-26 Thread Rick Younie
Duncan Findlay wrote: > > The NM process is full of waiting. Consider it more of a test of > devotion rather than a nuisance. It'll happen eventually, I believe > most of this stuff has to be done manually, and usually by some of the > busiest people Debian has. > > -- > Duncan Findlay, who had

Re: how long does it take to find an AM

2002-06-26 Thread Rick Younie
Duncan Findlay wrote: > > The NM process is full of waiting. Consider it more of a test of > devotion rather than a nuisance. It'll happen eventually, I believe > most of this stuff has to be done manually, and usually by some of the > busiest people Debian has. > > -- > Duncan Findlay, who had

O: tk707 (was Re: Bug#129924: Acknowledgement (RFA: tk707 -- TK-707 Drum Sequencer for sound card or MIDI device))

2002-05-07 Thread Rick Younie
retitle 129924 O: tk707 - a drum sequencer thanks Anyone care to adopt tk707? It's a nice drum sequencer based on the Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer. http://www-lmc.imag.fr/lmc-edp/Pierre.Saramito/tk707 I noodle along to mp3s rather than a drum track now and haven't used it in months. Bug-free

Re: Bug#136374: sbuild: /etc/sbuild.conf should be a conffile

2002-03-04 Thread Rick Younie
Gergely Nagy wrote: > > > > I'd rather not have either a conffile. Currently the user has to > > 'N' on installing a new sbuild.local.conf but it's a nobrainer - > > no diff or thinking required as everything in the new file is > > commented out. > > > > Only if the file was changed. And if it

Re: Bug#136374: sbuild: /etc/sbuild.conf should be a conffile

2002-03-03 Thread Rick Younie
Gergely Nagy wrote: > > > > I'd rather not have either a conffile. Currently the user has to > > 'N' on installing a new sbuild.local.conf but it's a nobrainer - > > no diff or thinking required as everything in the new file is > > commented out. > > > > Only if the file was changed. And if it

Re: Bug#136374: sbuild: /etc/sbuild.conf should be a conffile

2002-03-02 Thread Rick Younie
Cc to mentors for input summary: the sbuild package has three configurations files, each overriding the previous one: /etc/sbuild.conf, /etc/sbuild.conf.local, ~/.sbuildrc. sbuild.conf is for upstream changes, sbuild.conf.local (a conffile currently) for local system-wide changes, .sbuildrc for u

Re: Bug#136374: sbuild: /etc/sbuild.conf should be a conffile

2002-03-02 Thread Rick Younie
Cc to mentors for input summary: the sbuild package has three configurations files, each overriding the previous one: /etc/sbuild.conf, /etc/sbuild.conf.local, ~/.sbuildrc. sbuild.conf is for upstream changes, sbuild.conf.local (a conffile currently) for local system-wide changes, .sbuildrc for

Re: Rebuilding successfully built arches

2002-02-25 Thread Rick Younie
Roland Mas wrote: > Josselin Mouette (2002-02-25 14:00:29 +0100) : > >> I have a problem with the frozen-bubble-lib package : due to a debhelper >> bug, it has been built as an empty package on two arches (sparc and >> powerpc), and marked as successfully built by buildd. >> Is there a good way to

Re: Rebuilding successfully built arches

2002-02-25 Thread Rick Younie
Roland Mas wrote: > Josselin Mouette (2002-02-25 14:00:29 +0100) : > >> I have a problem with the frozen-bubble-lib package : due to a debhelper >> bug, it has been built as an empty package on two arches (sparc and >> powerpc), and marked as successfully built by buildd. >> Is there a good way t

Re: autobuild problem info needed

2002-02-20 Thread Rick Younie
Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > > Recently a newer version of the package that I maintain has > been uploaded into unstable. When I look at the excuses file > it should have been in testing 10 days ago, but there seems > to be a problem with the m68k build. > > Upon further investigation it appears that

Re: autobuild problem info needed

2002-02-20 Thread Rick Younie
Alwyn Schoeman wrote: > > Recently a newer version of the package that I maintain has > been uploaded into unstable. When I look at the excuses file > it should have been in testing 10 days ago, but there seems > to be a problem with the m68k build. > > Upon further investigation it appears tha

Re: Clarification: ports, archs, autobuilders

2001-06-16 Thread Rick Younie
Stephan A Suerken wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like anyone to comment if I am right on these points. > > o There's currently no standard way (for developers) to test > the building of packages on public (alien arch) machines. In general, if your package builds ok in a chroot environment with just

Re: Clarification: ports, archs, autobuilders

2001-06-16 Thread Rick Younie
Stephan A Suerken wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like anyone to comment if I am right on these points. > > o There's currently no standard way (for developers) to test > the building of packages on public (alien arch) machines. In general, if your package builds ok in a chroot environment with jus

Re: Build-depends question

2001-05-15 Thread Rick Younie
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, 17 lines --] > > On mar, may 15, 2001 at 10:45:53 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: >> No, you are right: all you need is docbook-to-man. See policy, >> section 2.4.2 where this is explained in detail. > > Ok, I just readed

Re: Build-depends question

2001-05-15 Thread Rick Younie
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, 17 lines --] > > On mar, may 15, 2001 at 10:45:53 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: >> No, you are right: all you need is docbook-to-man. See policy, >> section 2.4.2 where this is explained in detail. > > Ok, I just readed

Re: buildd building environment

2001-05-04 Thread Rick Younie
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I know a little about buildd, but I guess that it try to build a package > and it if fail someone take its logs and submit a bug report. > At the end of the build process I guess that the build environment is > totally cleaned and that survive only a build log. Most

Re: buildd building environment

2001-05-04 Thread Rick Younie
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I know a little about buildd, but I guess that it try to build a package > and it if fail someone take its logs and submit a bug report. > At the end of the build process I guess that the build environment is > totally cleaned and that survive only a build log. Most

Re: GET help

2001-01-27 Thread Rick Younie
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:18:19PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote: > >> I'm playing with a script and need a push. Why doesn't this >> work? >> >> telnet lists.debian.org 80 >> GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0 &

GET help

2001-01-27 Thread Rick Younie
I'm playing with a script and need a push. Why doesn't this work? telnet lists.debian.org 80 GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0 Accept: */* The following works but why is the full url is required? telnet lists.debian.org 80 GET http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors-0101/ms

Re: GET help

2001-01-26 Thread Rick Younie
Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:18:19PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote: > >> I'm playing with a script and need a push. Why doesn't this >> work? >> >> telnet lists.debian.org 80 >> GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0 &

GET help

2001-01-26 Thread Rick Younie
I'm playing with a script and need a push. Why doesn't this work? telnet lists.debian.org 80 GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0 Accept: */* The following works but why is the full url is required? telnet lists.debian.org 80 GET http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors-0101/m

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-26 Thread Rick Younie
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> >> AFAIK a sponsored upload means all the email is received by the sponser, >> and not the sponsored. > > Not really. If the sponsor does not change the changelog entry, email > goes to whomever is listed there (at least th

Re: the incoming queue for non-US?

2001-01-26 Thread Rick Younie
Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: >> >> AFAIK a sponsored upload means all the email is received by the sponser, >> and not the sponsored. > > Not really. If the sponsor does not change the changelog entry, email > goes to whomever is listed there (at least t

Re: packages not in testing

2001-01-14 Thread Rick Younie
Chris Ruffin wrote: > > electric is the package I'm really concerned about. I uploaded it to > the old woody tree, and it was accecpted. But the package won't go > into testing, and gives the following in update_excuses: > > electric 6.00-1 (new) (low) Maintainer: Chris Ruffin > <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: packages not in testing

2001-01-14 Thread Rick Younie
Chris Ruffin wrote: > > electric is the package I'm really concerned about. I uploaded it to > the old woody tree, and it was accecpted. But the package won't go > into testing, and gives the following in update_excuses: > > electric 6.00-1 (new) (low) Maintainer: Chris Ruffin > <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: creating man pages

2000-12-13 Thread Rick Younie
Drew Parsons wrote: > > As for editing nroff source, that's what I meant with my first question. Is > there no editor for this sort of thing? For handling all the fiddly things > like section breaks and bold text, etc, so I don't have to learn nroff itself. If you use dh_make, the manpage examp

Re: creating man pages

2000-12-13 Thread Rick Younie
Drew Parsons wrote: > > As for editing nroff source, that's what I meant with my first question. Is > there no editor for this sort of thing? For handling all the fiddly things > like section breaks and bold text, etc, so I don't have to learn nroff itself. If you use dh_make, the manpage exam

rpath (was Re: Two questions about policy)

2000-10-03 Thread Rick Younie
Simon Richter wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> rpath hardcodes an item's location. If this item later moves, >> everything using it gets confused. rpath is generally frowned >> upon. > > rpath adds additional path elements to the search list. Libraries are > still fou

rpath (was Re: Two questions about policy)

2000-10-03 Thread Rick Younie
Simon Richter wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> rpath hardcodes an item's location. If this item later moves, >> everything using it gets confused. rpath is generally frowned >> upon. > > rpath adds additional path elements to the search list. Libraries are > still fo

Re: How to sponsor someone and upload a sponsored package?

2000-09-16 Thread Rick Younie
Christian Kurz wrote: > >> > The person who signs the changes file gets mailed >> > My sponsor when I was in the queue would forward me the mails from >> > dinstall/ftp-master, yours probably did this as well > >> Hmm. Nope, Shorty did the signing and upload, however this mail went >> directly to

Re: How to sponsor someone and upload a sponsored package?

2000-09-16 Thread Rick Younie
Christian Kurz wrote: > >> > The person who signs the changes file gets mailed >> > My sponsor when I was in the queue would forward me the mails from >> > dinstall/ftp-master, yours probably did this as well > >> Hmm. Nope, Shorty did the signing and upload, however this mail went >> directly t

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> I think a point could be made for including a bogus bug in a >> guy's first package so he can learn the changelog procedure for >> closing it while he's still in close contact with his sponsor. > > Since ITPs are now reported as bugs against wnpp you have your > traini

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Peter Palfrader wrote: > >> I think a point could be made for including a bogus bug in a >> guy's first package so he can learn the changelog procedure for >> closing it while he's still in close contact with his sponsor. > > Since ITPs are now reported as bugs against wnpp you have your > train

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2914T102042-0700, Rick Younie wrote: >> Anyhow, ignore this specific example. I just mean in the general >> case. Get it close or flog the package until it squeaks? > > Well, in the final analysis, it's the sponsor's neck

Re: Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-15 Thread Rick Younie
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 2914T102042-0700, Rick Younie wrote: >> Anyhow, ignore this specific example. I just mean in the general >> case. Get it close or flog the package until it squeaks? > > Well, in the final analysis, it's the sponsor's neck

Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-14 Thread Rick Younie
How exacting should a sponsor be? A sponsor was reamed on a list a while back because he duploaded a package with a fairly minor error. He'd identified the problem and told the packager to fix it in the next version and said that this was his impression of what a sponsor should do. That is, get

Sponsor's responsibilities

2000-09-14 Thread Rick Younie
How exacting should a sponsor be? A sponsor was reamed on a list a while back because he duploaded a package with a fairly minor error. He'd identified the problem and told the packager to fix it in the next version and said that this was his impression of what a sponsor should do. That is, get

Quiet upstreams

2000-07-12 Thread Rick Younie
This was in -devel a couple days ago: Craig Small wrote: > ... > I have a reasonably good working relationship with the upstream > maintainer Patrick Powell and he does actively maintain LPRng. Actually > he's probably my best upstream maintainer, even including packages where > I am that upstream

Quiet upstreams

2000-07-12 Thread Rick Younie
This was in -devel a couple days ago: Craig Small wrote: > ... > I have a reasonably good working relationship with the upstream > maintainer Patrick Powell and he does actively maintain LPRng. Actually > he's probably my best upstream maintainer, even including packages where > I am that upstrea

Re: Usage of this list.

2000-07-02 Thread Rick Younie
Michael Beattie wrote: > > Would those posting 'Re: .*NM.*' *PLEASE* go and reread the description of > this mailing list. > Whoops. nm-discuss seems to be fubared. Is there another list to talk about the nm process until it gets fixed or moved to d.o? Rick

Re: NM : Dale Scheetz : is NM working fine ?

2000-07-02 Thread Rick Younie
Colin Watson wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I get all my nm-admin mail through the gated nm-discuss list, and it >>has *not* been quiet. Please check your subscription details if you >>are not receiving anything! > > I see the web archives > (http://cipsa.physik.uni-freibu

Re: Usage of this list.

2000-07-02 Thread Rick Younie
Michael Beattie wrote: > > Would those posting 'Re: .*NM.*' *PLEASE* go and reread the description of > this mailing list. > Whoops. nm-discuss seems to be fubared. Is there another list to talk about the nm process until it gets fixed or moved to d.o? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: NM : Dale Scheetz : is NM working fine ?

2000-07-02 Thread Rick Younie
Colin Watson wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I get all my nm-admin mail through the gated nm-discuss list, and it >>has *not* been quiet. Please check your subscription details if you >>are not receiving anything! > > I see the web archives > (http://cipsa.physik.uni-freib

ITP advice please

2000-06-09 Thread Rick Younie
Could I get advice on whether this is a suitable package? The programs are written in the interpreted language rexx. Three are to query search engines -- Debian, Geocrawler, Dejanews. They run from the command line and show the hits in Lynx, sorted by date. The other is nodeps which shows packa

ITP advice please

2000-06-09 Thread Rick Younie
Could I get advice on whether this is a suitable package? The programs are written in the interpreted language rexx. Three are to query search engines -- Debian, Geocrawler, Dejanews. They run from the command line and show the hits in Lynx, sorted by date. The other is nodeps which shows pack

Re: New package

2000-06-09 Thread Rick Younie
>> http://lists.debian.org - everything you need :) >> So, for example if you want to package 'helloworld2000', >> you'd search for it in the bottom of the page, and find out >> if its ITP'd already. > > The search engine on the lists page has been broken for quite some time. geocrawler.com also

Re: New package

2000-06-09 Thread Rick Younie
>> http://lists.debian.org - everything you need :) >> So, for example if you want to package 'helloworld2000', >> you'd search for it in the bottom of the page, and find out >> if its ITP'd already. > > The search engine on the lists page has been broken for quite some time. geocrawler.com als

sponsorship request

2000-02-16 Thread Rick Younie
I'm looking for a sponsor. I've done three packages. They can be downloaded at http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/debian/ and with apt deb http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/debian unstable rexx deb-src http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/debian unstable rexx Package: tkheadlines Description: Headline clicker

Re: Looking for sponsor

2000-02-11 Thread Rick Younie
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 08:39:00PVM -0800, Rick Younie wrote: >> .. >> The only problem lintian has with the two function packages is >> 'useless call to ldconfig' after install/remove but regina >> needs this to find the libs

Looking for sponsor

2000-02-09 Thread Rick Younie
This is a followup to a request for sponsorship a week ago with some more details. I've packaged a couple function libraries for the regina-rexx interpreter and a headlines viewer/clicker that I've written that uses these. I got Joey Hess's opinion before I started that since general programs did

Looking for sponsor

2000-02-03 Thread Rick Younie
I've packaged a couple functions libraries for the existing Debian package regina-rexx and an app that uses these to test them out - rxsock, rexxtk and tkheadlines. These lines in sources.list will pick them up if I've done it right, deb http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/downloads/debian unstable rexx de