[Q] How to move to GPG keys...

2000-03-01 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, What do I need to do to move to signing my packages with GPG signatures? Currently my PGP key is the Debian keyring. When I build packages I am warned about RSA keys being deprecated. Thanks. S. -- "Be patient, son. A watched car never crashes." -- Homer J.

Re: Problem compiling pciutils from source...

2000-02-17 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan proclaimed: > cc -O2 -g -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -W -Wno-parentheses > -Wstrict-prototypes -c -o i386-ports.o i386-ports.c > In file included from i386-ports.c:15: > /usr/include/sys/io.h:44: redefinition of `inb' > /usr/include/asm/io.h:78: `inb

Problem compiling pciutils from source...

2000-02-17 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I am trying to compile the latest upstream version of powertweak (http://linux.powertweak.com/). The compilation is failing at the point where the pciutils that come with powertweak are being compiled. Powertweak's upstream author suggested that I try compiling the pciutils package from sour

Questions about making package more conformant to Debian Policy...

1999-11-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am the maintainer of the powertweak package. I have the package in a decent enough shape that I want to make the package more conformant to the Debian Policy manual. Powertweak (http://linux.powertweak.com/) is a software that tweaks various pieces of hardware for optimum / increased performanc

[Fwd: Bug#47294: file conflict]

1999-10-13 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
294: file conflict Resent-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 05:33:02 GMT Resent-From: Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 02:09:02 -0400 From: Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PR

[Q] Which section should Powertweak go into?

1999-07-14 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am in the process of packaging Powertweak for Linux (http://linux.powertweak.com/) Which section should powertweak go into? admin? utils? Thaths -- "Step aside everyone! Sensitive love letters are my specialty. 'Dear Baby, Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: you.'" -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhak

Re: copyright question

1999-06-09 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Taketoshi Sano proclaimed: > So, I proposed the author to change the license as following, > and He agrees to this change now. > > %%% > Redistribution and use with or without modification are permitted provided > that the following conditions are met: > > 1. One of the following (1-a,1-b,1-c) >

Strategy for packaging aspell alternate dictionaries...

1999-03-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am in the process of packaging various alternative dictionaries for the aspell spell checker (currently in potato). I downloaded the upstream source for the alternate dictionaries and tar zxvf-ed them. The README says - <"> Aspell Alternate Dictionary Package Version .10 January 11, 1998 This

What to do when new version available upstream...

1999-02-24 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
What do I typically do when there is a new version available upstream? I previously packaged the aspell spell checker version 0.26.2. The new upstream version is 0.27. Do I - 1. tar zxvf upstream_src.tgz 2. Apply the .diff that was generated when I produced 0.26.2 (and get rid of the files li

Re: [HOWTO?] Splitting one upstream package into several .debs

1999-02-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 01:56:24PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > But I want to build a total of four packages - aspell (containing the > > binaries), libaspell0 (containing the libraries), libaspell-dev (containing > > the header files) and

Re: [HOWTO?] Splitting one upstream package into several .debs

1999-02-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:19:26PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > W: libaspell0: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libaspell.so.0.0.0 > > usr/lib/libaspell.so > > usr/lib/libaspell.so.0.0.0 > > usr/lib/libaspell.so -> libaspell.s

Re: [HOWTO?] Splitting one upstream package into several .debs

1999-02-11 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I have not yet uploaded my packages. My packages are available from > http://www.aunet.org/thaths/hacks/deb/aspell/ Would appreciate if you > folks took a look and told me if things are OK for an upload. I have made some progress since that. Lintia

Re: [HOWTO?] Splitting one upstream package into several .debs

1999-02-10 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Edward Betts wrote: > On Wed, 03 Feb, 1999, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > Thanks for all the help guys. I am now packaging aspell into aspell.deb, > > aspell-dev.deb and aspell-doc.deb Should all of them go into the same > libaspell0 for the libraries? aspell-bin

Re: [HOWTO?] Splitting one upstream package into several .debs

1999-02-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Joey Hess wrote: > All the files above should be broken out into a library package, and a -dev > package. See the packaging manual for details. Thanks for all the help guys. I am now packaging aspell into aspell.deb, aspell-dev.deb and aspell-doc.deb Should all of them go into the same section (

[HOWTO?] Splitting one upstream package into several .debs

1999-02-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am in the process of packaging aspell (and gaspell - a gtk front end to aspell). When I take a virgin upstream source and package it up (using dpkg-buildpackage) I get one huge Debian package. Here is a listing (edited for brevity) of the contents of the package - $ dpkg --contents drwxr-xr-x

debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-07 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have been using debmake+devscripts to build my debian packages till now. How does this compare to debhelper? Also, I remember seeing some post in debian-devel which said that one of these (debmake or debhelper) is being orphaned or is no longer in active development. Should I move to debhelper

Questions about packaging a python script

1998-09-03 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am in the process of packaging linbot - a python script to do link verification. I have a few questions - 1. linbot.py and associated *.py files need to be installed in the same directory. I was thinking of installing these under /usr/lib/linbot/ Is this the Right Thing to do? 2. I will ln -

Package languishing in Incoming

1998-08-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I took up the packaging of LLNL xdir (a non-free package) quite a few weeks back. I have since uploaded to master (to /home/Debian/ftp/private/project/Incoming/) via dupload twice. The package has not made it to slink. The same is happening with another package of mine (imaptool). My changelog

Re: Strategies for packaging a Window Manager

1998-07-10 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Shaleh wrote: > I thought I did see someone working on this?? I forgot to mention in my post. Even if someone else is working on it, I'd like to try packaging it just to understand the packaging system bettwe. > Menu support is nice. I am looking at the control files of the other window manager

Strategies for packaging a Window Manager

1998-07-10 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am beginning the packaging of the blackbox window manager (http://linux.wiw.org/blackbox/). Have not expressed my intent to package yet. I have a few questions - 1. Any suggestions on how I could make my job of interacting with the menu system easier? 2. The source comes with an Imakefile - /

Re: How to get lintian to shut up?

1998-05-22 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > > I am packaging imaptool using deb helper scripts. I am able to generate the > package. However, lintian complains like so - > > E: imaptool: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file e > E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/X11R6/bin/imaptool

How to get lintian to shut up?

1998-05-22 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am packaging imaptool using deb helper scripts. I am able to generate the package. However, lintian complains like so - E: imaptool: md5sums-lists-nonexisting-file e E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/doc/imaptool/README.debian E: imaptool: file-missing-in-md5sums usr/doc/imaptool/change

To master and beyond

1998-05-15 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have finally done it. Had to wade through reams of documentation before I got it right. Have finally managed to package a dynamically linked (against lesstif) xdir (A motif based FTP client). lintian has stopped complaining. What is the easiest method to upload it to master? And what happen

Re: Packaging strategy for dict

1998-03-27 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I am no mentor. But since I had given some thought about this in the past, here goes - Bob Hilliard wrote: > Would it be preferable to make two packages, one containing only > the client and the other containing the server, or make one package > containing both client and server? If making

[PGP] Q about building signed packages

1998-03-27 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
I have finally managed to get 'build' properly building my package. I notice that at the end of the run where pgp is invoked to sign the package I get the following error - Key matching userid 'Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' not found in file &

[How] Static linking

1998-03-26 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Where do I add the '-static' (or is it -B static?) flag in the following line? gcc -o foo -02 -fno-strength-reduce -L/usr/X11R6/lib bar.o blat.o -lXm -lXt -lSM -lICE -lXext -lX11 I want motif to be statically compiled. S. -- "If a gun can protect something as important as a bar, it is good

[Stupid Q] Finding static versus dynamic lib links in binary

1998-03-25 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
How do I find out which libraries a binary links statically to and which libraries a binary links dynamically to? Is it something I find out using ldd? How do I interpret the listing provided by ldd? Thaths -- "If a gun can protect something as important as a bar, it is good enough t

Getting started - Q about post int procedures etc.

1998-03-20 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
So finally I have located a package (xdir) that nobody is working on. I want to build a test package and see if I am qualified enough to become a official Debian developer. Here is what I do - 1. tar zxvf the package. 2. cd directory_of_package 3. deb-make 4. cd debian 5. rm *.ex This is