Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 08:56:14AM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > Sorry, I'm not sure you have the right impression of contrib here. Contrib > > packages have to qualify the same standards as the main distributio

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:50:16PM -0600, Zed Pobre wrote: > > > Why is it going to contrib? Last time I checked packages without > > source went in non-free, not contrib. > > Because source is in fact provided (it's in the iraf-common > package, actually, full binaries are in iraf-ibin and

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, You can generate a changes file using dpkg-genchanges as long as you have a changelog file, and a control file. Oh, I missed the changes file following your signature ;-), Or I would have cobbled together a ./debian directory to start you off; get the file started, and then

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-09 Thread G John Lapeyre
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Zed Pobre wrote: > and private was for release-critical issues, the inaccuracy of which has > been made (pointedly) apparant to me several times now. Yeah don't worry about it. Everyone does it wrong at first. Also, develop a thick skin with regard to comments from o

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-09 Thread James Troup
Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ This is definitely not appropriate for debian-private ] > > Could you explain to me what debian-private is, then? A closed mailing list which only developers are subscribed to; it's supposed only to be used for politically or technically sensitive disc

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-09 Thread bruce
Zed, IRAF - that's an astronomical ephemerides, is it not? You can log in to "master" and download the source there, so that it bypasses your modem. We _really_ want to distribute the source. It's not Debian policy to distribute programs without the source if we can get the source at all. I sus

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, [IMHO, in no circumstances does it make sense to cross post to debian-private, since -private is meant for private stuff, and the orhers are not] How did the changes file get created? If dupload can't parse it, there is a good chance that there may be a flaw i

Re: 2nd call for help

1998-03-09 Thread James Troup
[ This is definitely not appropriate for debian-private ] Zed Pobre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tomorrow, if nobody knows what's going on, I will bypass dupload and > upload my packages and the associated .changes files to master > manually. There's nothing wrong with that, I've never used dup