Re: diversions

2001-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> That said, good luck with your package. Thanks for helping me. Wolfgang

Re: diversions

2001-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> You should contact them. Also, please understand one thing about diversions: > once you add one, you must keep the code to *remove* it around. Even if stop > doing a diversion, you will need to move the code to remove it from the *rm > scripts to the postinst script (to remove it on upgrades from

Re: diversions

2001-05-05 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> That said, good luck with your package. Thanks for helping me. Wolfgang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diversions

2001-05-05 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> You should contact them. Also, please understand one thing about diversions: > once you add one, you must keep the code to *remove* it around. Even if stop > doing a diversion, you will need to move the code to remove it from the *rm > scripts to the postinst script (to remove it on upgrades fro

Re: diversions

2001-05-05 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> Wouldn't it be a lot nicer to just add a "fax" entry to /etc/printcap? > I know that at least lprng can handle printing to pipes (I use it to > `print' mp3's to mpg123). I have already thought about that. But the problem is that this fax entry is supposed to spawn a graphical utility (requiring

Re: diversions

2001-05-05 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> Wouldn't it be a lot nicer to just add a "fax" entry to /etc/printcap? > I know that at least lprng can handle printing to pipes (I use it to > `print' mp3's to mpg123). I have already thought about that. But the problem is that this fax entry is supposed to spawn a graphical utility (requirin

diversions

2001-05-05 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I am currently packaging gfax. In the Debian Policy it is specified that one, willing to divert an executable, should contact the original executable's maintainer. In my case the lpr provided by gfax is a wrapper to provide the lpr -Pfax command line. Should I contact both the LPRng and BSD

diversions

2001-05-04 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I am currently packaging gfax. In the Debian Policy it is specified that one, willing to divert an executable, should contact the original executable's maintainer. In my case the lpr provided by gfax is a wrapper to provide the lpr -Pfax command line. Should I contact both the LPRng and BSD

Re: libtool headaches

2001-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> "Filip" == Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect this is probably just a problem with the way libtool gets called > (either incorrect or incomplete), but I'm not too good on reading > Makefile.in's and apparently (to make things even more complicated) the > libtool isn'

Re: libtool headaches

2001-04-28 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> "Filip" == Filip Van Raemdonck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suspect this is probably just a problem with the way libtool gets called > (either incorrect or incomplete), but I'm not too good on reading > Makefile.in's and apparently (to make things even more complicated) the > libtool isn

Re: first questions

2001-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> Welcome ! Thanks to you and to everyone who answered my questions. Once the mail got through the arcane of the Internet I got quick replies. > There is no fooling, this is exactly what you should do. Debian > native packages are for instance the debian package tools. In almost > all situations

first questions

2001-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I am the author of the GNU HaliFAX viewer and I have pre-packaged it for Debian GNU/Linux. I have been a maintainer since Saturday and although my packaging seemed correct to my applicant manager I still have a few questions for which I have no answer. In http://www.debian.org/doc/developers

first questions

2001-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I am the author of the GNU HaliFAX viewer and I have pre-packaged it for Debian GNU/Linux. I have been a maintainer since Saturday and although my packaging seemed correct to my applicant manager I still have a few questions for which I have no answer. In http://www.debian.org/doc/developers

Re: first questions

2001-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
> Welcome ! Thanks to you and to everyone who answered my questions. Once the mail got through the arcane of the Internet I got quick replies. > There is no fooling, this is exactly what you should do. Debian > native packages are for instance the debian package tools. In almost > all situations

first questions

2001-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I am the author of the GNU HaliFAX viewer and I have pre-packaged it for Debian GNU/Linux. I have been a maintainer since Saturday and although my packaging seemed correct to my applicant manager I still have a few questions for which I have no answer. In http://www.debian.org/doc/developer

first questions

2001-04-26 Thread Wolfgang Sourdeau
Hi, I am the author of the GNU HaliFAX viewer and I have pre-packaged it for Debian GNU/Linux. I have been a maintainer since Saturday and although my packaging seemed correct to my applicant manager I still have a few questions for which I have no answer. In http://www.debian.org/doc/developer