Bug#703399: FS: udevil/0.4.1-1 ITP

2013-03-19 Thread Justin B Rye
Sven Hoexter wrote: >> udevil - Mounts and unmounts removable devices and networks without a Without... a safety net? Oh, "without a password", via SUID. > I've to admint that I didn't follow the current way of mounting removal > devices in desktop enviroments but I'm still wondering wh

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Like I've said before, this is not about eliminating ambiguity. Every >> single word in every single language is ambiguous. It's simply >> unavoidable. It's about choosing the word with the right context

Re: RFS: capstats

2010-01-30 Thread Justin Azoff
right-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright TODO > I: capstats: hyphen-used-as-minus-sign usr/share/man/man8/capstats.8.gz:37 fixed, will send upstream > I: capstats: possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration TODO. I think now that the manpage exists, the README files don't need to

RFS: capstats

2010-01-17 Thread Justin Azoff
d regards CC Replies. -- -- Justin Azoff -- Security & Network Performance Analyst signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: bro

2010-01-15 Thread Justin Azoff
ges. for running bro as a full blown IDS, especially on a cluster or multicore system, you need bro-control. -- -- Justin Azoff -- Security & Network Performance Analyst signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: bro

2010-01-15 Thread Justin Azoff
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:40:56AM +1300, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Justin Azoff > wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bro". > ... > > That said, I would like some feedback on how I am building the package now, &g

RFS: bro

2010-01-15 Thread Justin Azoff
g a multibinary+library+python package this is probably one of the hardest things to package, but I figure if I can tackle this I can do anything. Please CC replies. -- -- Justin Azoff -- Security & Network Performance Analyst signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian policy, a problem or a misunderstand ?

2008-10-18 Thread Justin T Pryzby
zero > status and later in paragraph, if all went well, the script has to exit should not > with non-zero status. > How do i have understand that ? My opinion is that if everything > went well, the exit status has to be zero other else a non-zero > status ? Correct. Justin --

Re: Preferred way to do a chown on package's dirs ?

2008-08-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:16:31PM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote: > Le jeudi 07 août 2008 à 07:49 -0700, Justin Pryzby a écrit : > > > If you change permissions in postinst, you should use > > dpkg-statoverride (see policy for an example). This guarantees that > > (fo

Re: Preferred way to do a chown on package's dirs ?

2008-08-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
UID<100) is guaranteed to exist with globally constant UID on a Debian system. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing of behavior: How to tell the user?

2008-07-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
" } Perhaps you could do something a bit more sophisticated, instead of doing [ ! -e "$f" ] you could do: grep '^[[:space:]]*CVSNTD' "$f" >/dev/null || { dpkg --compare=-versions "$2" le "$v" && { CVSNTD=no

Re: How to detect an upgrade from an older version of a package

2008-07-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
that I'm > upgrading from version < 1.101 and that the upgraded is needed ??? Read /var/lib/dpkg/info/dpkg.postinst, which, when called with $1 = "configure", also is passed the most-recently configure version, if any, in $2. justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

this bug/#436681- backuppc: Web interface password publicly visible

2008-04-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
./...1.diff.gz ./...-3.0.0-4.diff.gz. As it's the only change in the changelog, that's precisely what the output should be. On Wed, Apr 16 2008, 2008 at 14:22:51 -0700, BILAL wrote: [...] To get sources, run "apt-get source ". Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Installing PEAR packages in an idempotent fashion

2008-04-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
"' EXIT pear -q install log 2>"$tempfile" || { ret=$? grep -Fx "$the_error_message" >/dev/null "$t" || { cat "$t" exit $ret } } rm -f -- "$t" trap - EXIT #Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help needed regarding installation

2008-04-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:35:21PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 17:13 +0500, Zainab Rehman wrote: It should be added that there's no need to apt-get source as a privileged user. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &quo

--warn-missing and dh_install?* (Re: Install files with debhelper or make install?)

2008-03-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
an/tmp && find ) | grep -Fvxe "$(cd debian/libfoo0 && find)" \ -e "$(cd debian/libfoo-dev && find)" For --list-missing, add: || [ $? -eq 1 ] For --fail-missing, add: ; [ $? -eq 1 ] Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

list of public usertags?

2008-03-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
Does there exist a list of "public" usertags in use? I'd like to see a big list of these, probably a good use of the wiki. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: maintainer script factorization

2008-02-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
; ] && continue; \ exec <"$$m.in" >"$$m"; \ sed -e "s/^#MAINTSCRIPT-COMMON#$$//; T; r $$f"; \ done [...] dh_installdeb [...] Colin watson wrote about a scenario where

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
>&2; exit 1; } Or use a 2nd rule which creates the upstream file (using wget), and then get-orig-source depends on that rule and does md5sum; tar xzf; manipulate; tar czf. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Exclude config.sub and config.guess from

2008-02-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
! ] || and not the more readable [ ] &&, since the sh -c '' will still exit 1. For the same reason, you need to explicitly exit 0 at the end of some scripts: for a do [...] [ ] && foo done # Necessary due to the test exit 0 Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: gnomecatalog

2008-01-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
d in > the file: > #!/bin/sh > #DEBHELPER# If the postinst can be generated from scratch by debhelper, then just remove it entirely. It's sufficiently intelligent to eg. add set -e in that case (I don't know if that would happen with a shebang+template maintscripts). Justin

Re: [pkg-ntp] - where does /etc/default/ntpdate come from?

2007-12-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
t; > I believe it has something to do with .default suffix but I was not able > to find any docs about what and how it is going on. So where does the > magic happen? I just realized that you weren't asking where the file is used at runtime but rather at compile time. Check dh_instal

Re: Weired problem with apt-get -b source

2007-12-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
t fail? Are you using dpkg/unstable, which does -rfakeroot automatically? Are you specifying any dpkg build options via apt (-oBuild-Options=-rfakeroot)? Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: changelog-should-mention-nmu

2007-12-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 05:52:05PM +0100, chaica wrote: > Uploading my package on mentors.debian.net, I got this message: > > W: yougrabber source: changelog-should-mention-nmu > My package is the first debian package for this soft. My > debian/changelog is the following: > > yougrabber (0.29.2

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
in for a given > command? If so, we could test for that and use it if it exists. > Otherwise, use the fully qualified version There's "type" and "command" and "which" and "whatis" (see the policy huge long bug about this things) but I don't know why

Re: interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:53:33PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Justin Pryzby said: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:13:42PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > This one time, at band camp, Jörg Sommer said: > > > > > > > > Init s

interpretted scripts (Re: service helper package)

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
he default sh? It's still required to declare the interpretter: | If a script requires non-POSIX features from the shell interpreter, | the appropriate shell must be specified in the first line of the | script (e.g., `#!/bin/bash') Justin

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
in the pacakge? Then you don't have to manually remove it in the initscripts. > # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. > check_for_no_start() { > if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then This is probably a good idea to be generally an

dynamic users (Re: dpkg-statoverride (Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface))

2007-11-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:26:42PM -0500, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 5:24 AM, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2007, 20:31 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: > > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:35:00AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote:

dpkg-statoverride (Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface)

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 10:35:00AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > On Nov 9, 2007 9:43 AM, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:35:05AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > > > postinst should use dpkg-statoverride instead of chown > &g

Re: RFS: mediatomb -- open source (GPL) UPnP MediaServer with a web interface

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
some heureustic to try to determine whether the admin did chmod to a different user/group. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file encoding and eol marker in orig.tar.gz

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
be > done in a way which doesn't hide them. When a user sees a package where > the tarball is repackaged "because some files had to be removed", she's > not going to expect any changes other than the removal of some files. > For other changes, we have a nicely working

Bug#450608: debhelper: [DH_FIXPERMS] bin/* are updated with v5 too (Re: Executable's execute permission not getting set)

2007-11-08 Thread Justin Pryzby
Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.42 Severity: minor Tags: patch File: /usr/bin/dh_fixperms User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Usertag: dh_fixperms X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > >> "Bernd" == Bernd Zei

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:39:01AM -0800, varun_shrivastava wrote: > Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:13:22AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: > > You could have libinput0-debug provides:libinput0. > > > > However I still think the best

Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:27:14PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 01/11/2007, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:17:26PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > > Hello, mentors. > > > > > > I&

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:13:22AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: > Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: > > > > Do you mean it adds stuff within a #ifdef to use SDL? Why is it so > > huge? > > > yes it adds code not so huge under #ifdef SDL_ENABLE ... #endif > &

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:42:33PM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: > > hi > actually the library uses g_log kind of debugging technique ie some #defines > are there, so when log is enabled #defines get replaced by g_log(***), and > when its disabled #defines get replaced by (void)0 > > But i hav

Re: Removing non-Linux files from source tarballs

2007-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
l or it would save significant space, (with the justification that people might like to use the debian sources for nondebian things) Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How a package will determine the dependencies

2007-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
commended way to do this [0] is to build with debugging symbols then move the debugging symbols to a separate file, and associate the dbg files with the normal runtime files. Justin [0] see the developers' references and at least one bug against such. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath error message

2007-10-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:35:30PM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: > Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: > > You shouldn't set rpath to /usr/lib since it's in the default search > > path. > > > I haven't set the path any where in the rules file. but i am trying to Wha

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath error message

2007-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
ncludes public shared libraries (/usr/lib/*.so.*). It gets installed to /usr/lib/dpkg/info/ and searched by dh_shlibdeps when building packages to find on what package,version to add a dependency for a given objdump -p |grep -we NEEDED line. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
e binaries may/(have to be able to) be run on variation on that arch. In the case of i386, the binaries have to be able to run on a real 386 [0]. I think all the arch options here will (maybe) cause the binary to fail on such a machine. Justin [0] My understanding is that the packaged kernels don&#

Re: Passing variables to a Makefile

2007-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 12:51:26PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 11.10.2007, 10:52 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > about non-existing directories, like usr/share/dialign-t. You only need > to create the diretories first, if you e.g. use `install' instead of > dh_install or of y

Re: Unable to strip using dh_strip

2007-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:33:48AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: > Justin Pryzby-43 wrote: > > Can you set DH_DEBUG like at the head of the rulesfile and rerun? > > i added line export DH_DEBUG=1 on top of rules file but o/p is same (no > debug kind of o/p displayed) > &

Re: Unable to strip using dh_strip

2007-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:30:21PM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: > > hi >i am trying to build a package using debhelper scripts, but it gives an > error message > > > dh_installdirs -a > dh_install -a > dh_link -a > dh_compress -a > dh_strip -a > dh_fixperms -a > dh_makeshlibs -plibfreetyp

Re: Reason for Failed build on some arch only

2007-10-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
r options: /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev/README.Debian.gz Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Same source package, differents targets

2007-10-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
have different build dependencies and > incompatibles. I think you mean that you have multiple binary package, and the build deps for one of them conflict with the build deps of the other. Neat! Can you give specific detail of the package and dependencies? Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: autoconfigurable package: how to build two configurations?

2007-09-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
does this already. > Preferably, one that uses cdbs. The dev-ref (still) uses vim as an example afaik. A good goal would be to reduce duplication of code within the rules file. Justin References [0] http://lists.debian.org./debian-mentors/2007/05/msg00069.html

Re: Removing transition stuff in debhelper scripts after which time?

2007-09-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
]stable are often dropped. It's only unfortunate that control files afaik still don't support comments to document why the versions and things were there with which to being. . The package itself; eg. it might contain logic to upgrade the format of its datafiles but

Re: Extraeyes needed - Conflicts, Provides, Replaces don't seem to work

2007-09-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
ncies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify > a solution). > I guess it's because *versioned* dependencies on virtual packages are never satisfied. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#443063: net-tools: configure-stamp does nothing

2007-09-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
--- net-tools-1.60/debian/changelog +++ net-tools-1.60/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +net-tools (1.60-17.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * ./debian/rules: Remove useless configure-stamp target. + + -- Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:22:04

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:19:04AM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: > On 09/10/2007 06:40 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote : > >> Then I'll use libxxxy-z (=a.b), which should be inserted by the -V option. > > -V should be using >=. > Are you, Justin, willing to sponsor this package t

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
rid of it. BTW tell your upstream that libc6 unistd.h already defines STDIN_FILENO and such, so main.c essentially just duplicates this. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are soname bumps required when library upgrades break compatibility?

2007-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
sh due to changes in a dependency is a severity:serious bug in that dependency. A crash is always a bug, but many are just severity:normal for non-core functionality or important for things that don't totally inhibit the package's utility. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
ink the ideal situation is that a manually-stopped daemon would cause a message to be printed: "Not starting food: not stopped at preinst time" in the same style of messages that are shown with increasing consistency when things are not enabled in etc/default. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 08:24:19PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: > Justin Pryzby schrieb am 07.09.2007 17:46 Uhr: > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:20:56PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: > >> On 09/07/2007 01:55 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote : > >>> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:54:18AM +0200

Re: RFS: ario

2007-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
to me, but the maintainer wanted their source package to DWTW even if upstream filled in the originally-empty docs files. Also you specify -pario to all the debhelper calls, but they all act by default on the first binary package anyway. Justin

Re: lintian .packlist warning and debian/rules modification

2007-09-09 Thread Justin Pryzby
e debian/tmp but now (depending on DH_COMPAT) use debian/$package. So this is a small-ish lintian bug. You should probably do find ./debian/ instead of find . to avoid removing files from ./ except from ./debian/.. since a strict reading of policy requires that after the "clean" rule

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:20:56PM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: > Many thanks for the quick response! > > On 09/07/2007 01:55 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote : > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Jan Beyer wrote: > >> Furthermore there are lintian warnings, which I d

Re: RFS: gwyddion - Scanning Probe Microscopy analysis software

2007-09-07 Thread Justin Pryzby
scripts and one by me - should I override this, or > take away my hand-written dependency? I think you should drop the manually-added one since the automatic one will always be working with ELF dependency output. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: irrlicht

2007-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:15:28AM -0700, Brandon wrote: > I'm not sure how to actually handle replacing the files. Is it ok to > put them into the orig.tar.gz? I'm sure the answer is in the policy > manual somewhere. The orig.tar.gz can't have any files introduced relative to upstream. > > * lin

Re: Help with -dbg packages for a library

2007-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:57:55AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:29:45AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Dear Debian Mentors, > > > > I have a specific question with regard to -dbg packages for > > libraries. My understanding of generating

Re: Proposed copyright format

2007-09-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
anges. > What are your thoughts on that? Is anyone using the new format already? Seems like a best-practice to me. Using the proposed format too is perhaps the only good way of finding problems or potential improvements. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with --purge and reinstalling

2007-09-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
pport dpkg rollbacks. You have to rename them in preinst (if they're unmodified), remove them in postinst (in the normal scenario when everything works), but rename them back to their original name in postrm abort-upgrade. All conditional on their existence, version checks, and m

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:49:33PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hi Justin, > > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after > > /u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install required

Re: In-Program documentation

2007-09-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
rectory. > > It seems to me as if variant 1 would be the only that makes sense. But > is this okay? Is there another way to do it? What would you recommend? It's a little known requirement that packages continue to work after /u/s/doc is removed. So it's not allowed to install

review: qstardict (Re: Advocate needs)

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 07:12:18PM +0400, Alexander Rodin wrote: > В Пнд, 03/09/2007 в 10:19 -0400, Justin Pryzby пишет: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:15:24PM +0400, Alexander Rodin wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > I have develop program (http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com

Re: Advocate needs

2007-09-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:15:24PM +0400, Alexander Rodin wrote: > Hi all! > I have develop program (http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com) and maintain > Debian package for them. Now I want to put them to Debian. Can anyone to > be my advocate? Hi Alexander, Where are the debian sour

Re: custom boot CD

2007-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
130 lines) whereas d-l is much larger (~11k lines). Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with -dbg packages for a library

2007-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
o develop with it get lib-dev, and also lib-dbg. So I think there should be no performance difference between running with the libraries compiled without -g, compiled with -g, compiled with -g and stripped, and compiled with -g and debug symbols/sections moved to a separate file. It would be neat if you

Re: Package question, disappearing /etc/xinetd.d config file

2007-08-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
ng incorrectly? Can you link to your diff.gz? I'm in particular interested in seeing your maintainer scripts. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFS] stunnel4 (updated package, adoption, RFS repost)

2007-08-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
IR)/debian/stunnel4/usr > 1. I think it is better to use "$(MAKE) -C src" and "$(MAKE) -C doc" >instead of the "cd src; $(MAKE)" and "cd doc; $(MAKE)" constructs. Agreed, but only because you use cd ; make instead of cd && make. Justi

Re: Package requiring a customised version of another package

2007-08-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 10:26:35PM +0100, David Given wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Justin Pryzby wrote: > [...] > >> I have an application I'd like to package --- plasticfs. Unfortunately, > >> due to > >> glibc we

Re: Package requiring a customised version of another package

2007-08-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
) > options. Is this doable, or is it likely to be a lost cause? Please can you give the details of why this is necessary? Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: cellwriter

2007-08-21 Thread Justin Pryzby
> in front of it..?) > > Mm, I've tried to find the mailing list post *I* first read it in lots > of times, but have always failed. It's not policy, but I think most do Well it may have been me (perhaps earlier than these). http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/200

Re: RFS: multiget

2007-08-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
Use Priority: optional > > > > > Hello, > > > > an updated version in mentors.debian.net (fix all above issues), need > > I repost the RFS? > > > Simply answer to this message with "Re: RFS: multiget (still need > sponsor)" or similar. > I at

Re: License issues with md5deep

2007-08-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
sn't this in contrast with the "Lawyer to English" clause? I think that the GPL doesn't put restrictions on makesystems. Or are you also modifying some code (nontrivially)? Even so obvious licenses choices for the Debian packaging are GPL and PD which allow you to distribute the binary package as gpl. Thanks, Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to deliver an binary file

2007-08-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:26:21PM +0200, Christian Welzel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 19. August 2007 12:10 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > > > To be able to include it in diff.gz, you need to encode it. You can use > > But is it such a good idea to put a 120kb encoded file into the diff? > I believe i read

Re: unable to build gdb from source

2007-08-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
andle. IMHO it's a bug, but I suspect many package have similar problems. I supose somebody wants to rebuild the archive and find out? Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tango package

2007-08-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 05:54:38PM +0200, picca wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:48:21 -0400 > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > u should support the general case where the SQL server is on a > > remote host (not local). > > Yes when writing the post

Re: tango package

2007-08-14 Thread Justin Pryzby
e > > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tango > I need a working Mysql server to install the tango-db package. > > Must I put a pre-dep on mysql ? Probably not the right solution. Pre-dependencies should be rare. Also you should support the general case wher

Re: Replacing aclocal.m4

2007-08-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
uild time, and remove the generated files at clean time to get a small diff. autotools-dev/README.DEBIAN discusses such. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: force-overwrite in pdebuild

2007-08-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
es file list (/v/l/dpkg/info). If you remove the 2nd package before the 1st package though, the file will be gone (and the copy from the 1st package will not be put back into place). I note that Conflicts+Replaces is a special overloaded case that means "cause that package to be completely rem

Re: Sponsor Checklist

2007-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
s like pbuilder does? Perhaps apt-cacher? It uses /var/cache/apt-cacher/ though perhaps it could use .../apt/ I don't know if this would pull in things downloaded by apt and not -cacher.. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: open-invaders

2007-07-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
elp? http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/11/msg00042.html Or check some multiple-binary packages [0], or just the ./debian/control output of dh_make "m". The architecture problems are kind of disappointing.. Justin [0] Ones for which there are multiple "Bina

Re: RFS: plastex

2007-07-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:01:06PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > On 7/24/07, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or sed -i -re '1{/^#!/d}' > > > > I note that sed -n -i is a dangerous combination.. > > How do you handle clean target then? Do

Re: RFS: plastex

2007-07-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:36:56PM +0200, François Févotte wrote: > Hello, > > On 7/20/07, Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> lintian spits out warnings about -x flag on the py-files, as they all >> has a shebang, also the setup.py generates a cgpdfpng that only will >> work under OSX,

Re: RFS: command-not-found

2007-07-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:08:47PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "command-not-found". > > * Package name: command-not-found > Version : 0.2.4+debian-1 > Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: shared libraries and _REENTRANT

2007-06-23 Thread Justin Pryzby
ly necessary for compilation of libraries since they might be linked to apps or other libraries which are threaded. So it should probably not be specified in .pc which would make all apps/libs use it. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: mantis (updated package w/ security fix)

2007-06-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:12:47PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.73-4 of my package > "libphp-phpmailer". My normal sponsor for this package seems > unavailable presently and this upload is rather important in that it > fixes a security hole. S

Re: Converting a config file into a conffile

2007-06-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
/debian/dpkg/ http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling I believe UCF will also handle this (but I've never used it). Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: kicad (updated package)

2007-06-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:31:01AM +0100, Richard A Burton wrote: > On 15/06/07, Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A drive-by diff review: > Do I need to increment the Debian part of the version number to upload > to the mentors site? I'd assume it'd be happy with another upload of > -1 sinc

Re: Where does /usr/bin/rename come from ?

2007-06-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:35:50PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I wanted to use /usr/bin/rename in a rules files, and wondered if it > would be present in minimal installs and chroots. To my surprise, > although this program is available on my computer running Etch from a > fre

Re: Need some help with watch files again

2007-06-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 10:25:25PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:24:11AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm again stuck with a debian/watch file. In this special case I try to > > write watch files for garlic and garlic-doc.

Re: Need some help with watch files again

2007-06-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
; > So I tried the following: > > version=3 > http://garlic.mefos.hr/sources/garlic-([\d\.]+)/garlic-([\d\.]+).tar.gz I don't know if there's a better way: |version=3 |opts=downloadurlmangle=s:\./([^/]+)$:$1/$1.tar.gz: \ | http://garlic.mefos.hr/sources/

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:17:15PM +1000, John Pye wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a PyGTK-based program that has an optional dependency on the > package python-matplotlib. > > Is there any way under Debian (and hopefully also Ubuntu) that I can > trigger gtk-debi or something like that when the user

Re: Handling of configuration files not shipped with a newer package version

2007-05-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:00:31PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Samstag, den 26.05.2007, 00:36 -0400 schrieb Justin Pryzby: > > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:08:32AM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > , purging > > > docbook-xml will not purge all config

Re: Handling of configuration files not shipped with a newer package version

2007-05-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
d "best"? I guess, I must add at least > some code to postrm to make sure these directories are removed too, > if /etc/sgml/docbook-xml/3.1.7 still exists. But should I try to remove > this obsolete directory already during upgrade? Conditional on the above .. conditions, yes.

Re: build two binary packages with different configure parameters

2007-05-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
commands look at the DH_OPTIONS from the environment so the arch/indep targets do different things and build different packages. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wrapper script

2007-04-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
. These will use /tmp by default, and handle TMPDIR. Or, if you put the tempfiles in the same dir as the final pathnames, then you can do "mv" and it will be atomic. Or, you can use mkdtemp -d to make a directory directly below the final pathname (also guaranteed to be on the same FS)

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