Re: proud maintainer that do no want NUM :-)

2001-07-09 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 9/07, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: | I know that is a really silly question, but I really dislike "fixed in | NMU" on my own bug pages :-))) Send a mail containing "close ..." in the body (by using the right bug number) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sam

Re: proud maintainer that do no want NUM :-)

2001-07-09 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 9/07, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: | I know that is a really silly question, but I really dislike "fixed in | NMU" on my own bug pages :-))) Send a mail containing "close ..." in the body (by using the right bug number) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that anyone

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 29/06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: | Actually, the real flaw seems to be that my email assumed that | the protocol was going to be used by people who had a modicum of | inductive reasoning. The outline mentions just one ID in the key | being verified and signed, and I assumed that anyone

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification | > were still possible, though severely discouraged. | | Yeah, those

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' | | comments welcome. It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: | * Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010628 16:53]: | > Does the GPG key need to be signed or does it just need to exist? I | > had been under the impression that other forms of identification | > were still possible, though severely discouraged. | | Yeah, thos

Re: GPG Key Signing (Was: Advocate/Sponsor)

2001-06-28 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 28/06, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: | http://people.debian.org/~jaqque/keysign.html | | it does have some weaknesses, but it is a lot stronger than the ``oh, | i've met you, i have checked your ID, and off we go'' | | comments welcome. It has an enormous flaw: you do not sign a key, you sign

Re: add line to /etc/services

1999-07-13 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 13/07, Radovan Garabik wrote: | I am packaging a program | (http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/xtell.html) | which is a daemon, and can run from inetd. As such, it needs | an entry in /etc/services. What is the best way to add a line | to the file? Currently I am using This is fully cove

Re: Uploads for non-US

1999-04-27 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 27/04, Samuel Tardieu wrote: | Where should the non-US uploads take place? I've been recompiling | ssleay for Sparc and now need to upload it, but I guess it's not on master... *blush*, found in the developers guide :-)

Uploads for non-US

1999-04-27 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Where should the non-US uploads take place? I've been recompiling ssleay for Sparc and now need to upload it, but I guess it's not on master... Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: secure temporary directory

1999-04-26 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 26/04, Yann Hirou wrote: | I would like to package an app, that needs a 700 tmp directory. | Where should I put it ? | /var/myapp/tmp looks good, but I'm not sure. /var/spool/myapp could be a better choice Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to handle a few arch-indep files

1999-04-13 Thread Samuel Tardieu
ended for users. Put in under /usr/libexec for example (no need for a manpage), and make mount.app look for it there. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a stupid question about non-free

1999-03-16 Thread Samuel Tardieu
On 16/03, Andrea Fanfani wrote: | If i need to upload a new non-free or a contrib package where i | specify this ? In the debian/control file. Download any non-free or contrib package source and look at the files in the debian subdirectory. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New package problems

1999-03-01 Thread Samuel Tardieu
er get permissions from the author or forget about the package... Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conventions for library naming

1999-02-17 Thread Samuel Tardieu
at need such a library at execution time. Now, if you want to compile programs using this library (instead of just executing them), then you will need the package "libxxxn-dev" or "libxxx-dev". Sam PS/ sometimes, the name is not "libxxxn" but "xxxn" or "xxxn-runtime". -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unstripped library

1999-02-11 Thread Samuel Tardieu
to do so without getting a lintian error? Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Excluding files from source diff

1998-12-29 Thread Samuel Tardieu
>>>>> "Joey" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Joey> Can't you do an export before running dpkg-buildpackage similar Joey> to CVS? Sure, I could, but I would also like to be able to work "in place" to be able to test changes. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Excluding files from source diff

1998-12-22 Thread Samuel Tardieu
Footnotes: [1] For those who don't know PRCS, it's a CM tool similar to CVS in many regards, but I prefer its spirit, see http://www.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/~jmacd/prcs.html -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Really puzzled

1998-10-13 Thread Samuel Tardieu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>>> "Sam" == Samuel Tardieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sam> I'm having some trouble with lintian. I'm building two packages, Sam> gtkada0 and gtkada0-dev, the former containing only the shared Sam> lib

Really puzzled

1998-10-13 Thread Samuel Tardieu
o.6 (0x4016d000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40211000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40229000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2000) Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset:

Packages with shared libraries

1998-10-12 Thread Samuel Tardieu
control file? 4) Links to shared libraries in *deb file - - Lintian reports: W: libxdelta1: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libxdelta.so.1.0.0 usr/lib/libxdelta.so What should I do about this? Thanks for helping me to make better Debian packages :)

Please check adasockets

1998-10-08 Thread Samuel Tardieu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'd like an (more-than-me) experienced Debian maintainer to check the new adasockets package I just uploaded for obvious (and not-so-obvious) mistakes. Thanks in advance :-) Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve