Re: New packager

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > You may want to join or/and ask Debian's Java team[1] about the java > packages - they will (also) be far better equipped for java specific > questions than the general mentors list (and can provide sponsors for > java packages); though for

Re: New packager

Fabrizio Furnari wrote: > Ok, sorry for the previous, long email. > My question is: is there someone who want to help me to package these: > > OpenJump 1.3.1 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/) > Saga 2.0.4 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/files/) > AutoQ3D Community ( >

Re: New packager

Ok, sorry for the previous, long email. My question is: is there someone who want to help me to package these: OpenJump 1.3.1 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jump-pilot/files/) Saga 2.0.4 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/files/) AutoQ3D Community ( http://www.autoq3d.com/downloads/categ

Re: New packager

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:53:46AM +0100, Fabrizio Furnari wrote: > Now, the great of the software we need in ArcheOS are in Java, some are web > applications (some webGIS, and so on). Licensing is not a problem but > packaging is a little more difficult than usual, so the conclusion to write > in

New packager

Hi all, first of all presentations: I'm Fabrizio, Italian, Linux sysadm who's involved from looong time in Debina/Ubuntu/FSF, and so on. I'm an active developer for ArcheOS (www.archeos.eu), a Squeeze-based distro for archaeological purposes, still in development but very promising. For that distro

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:19:02PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm randomly downloading packages. If you can point me to one that > has source code patches correctly applied, I'd really appreciate it. I > want to get it right :-) zlib uses patches. Looking for packages with build dependencies

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:12:14 -0500, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, 31 May 2008 15:19:02 -0500, Paul Johnson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> >> Err, I don't think even half of my packages follow t

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:29:42 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It is certainly preferable to use a patch system such as dpatch or > quilt to register Debian-specific changes. In your o0inion, you mean. It certainly is not in my opinion. > However, it is not mandat

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

Paul Johnson wrote: > So in my usual process of package development, I'd have the original > source, a modified source tree, I'd run "diff -rc orig source > > whatever.patch" after making specific changes and I'd collect those > up. > > Here are some example. GCC's version of objective C has becom

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2008 15:19:02 -0500, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Err, I don't think even half of my packages follow those > guidelines. I fall in the group of people who use a modern SCM for > d

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080531 22:19]: > For example, consider the source for the ess package, an Emacs addon > that I use ("apt-get source ess"). Peruse the diff file, and you > find several items that are not in debian rules, such as this: > > --- ess-5.3.0.orig/lisp/ess-mode.el >

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using a modern SCM is wonderful, but please, get back to the ground, > and think of the possible use cases with what Debian has officially > released, and if that is what warns a certain level of unification. > There are users (let's say within restrict

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 09:41:20 +0300, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sunday 01 June 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Sat, 31 May 2008 15:19:02 -0500, Paul Johnson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: >> > You may recall I was the one who asked yesterday "Why do you >> > encourage package

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 09:12:46 +0300, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sunday 01 June 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: >> George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > So, will you generate at some point a series logically separeted >> > quilt patches and store them in debian/patches/ in the

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 01 June 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm currently not doing this for a very prosaic reason: I don't have a >> simple tool that does it for me, and I'm too busy with other things to >> write one. The choice was to stay with quilt or to give t

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sunday 01 June 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 31 May 2008 15:19:02 -0500, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > You may recall I was the one who asked yesterday "Why do you encourage > > packagers to open the source code and fool around?" I got answers > > which indicate that the

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 07:11:03 +0300, George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sunday 01 June 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: >> "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --cut-- >> > If there were 50 patches, some of which others contribute, there >> > might be a chance to figure which one blows

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sat, 31 May 2008 15:19:02 -0500, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > You may recall I was the one who asked yesterday "Why do you encourage > packagers to open the source code and fool around?" I got answers > which indicate that the source code generally should not be changed > directly

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sunday 01 June 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So, will you generate at some point a series logically separeted quilt > > patches and store them in debian/patches/ in the final diff.gz which is > > the canonical way of Debian to distibute changes. > > I

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

Paul Johnson wrote: >> At some point, >> I'm hoping to be able to generate format 3.0 packages from Git in some way >> that exposes the way that I'm actually working to other people working on >> packages. > > I can't understand why you would do it this way. Seems like it would > lead to hard-to

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, will you generate at some point a series logically separeted quilt > patches and store them in debian/patches/ in the final diff.gz which is > the canonical way of Debian to distibute changes. I'm currently not doing this for a very prosaic reason:

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sunday 01 June 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --cut-- > > If there were 50 patches, some of which others contribute, there might > > be a chance to figure which one blows something up. As long as the > > patches are separate, there's a chance I could back

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

"Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At this point, I've converted most of my packages to use Git, which >> means that the source package as uploaded to Debian has one collapsed >> patch including upstream changes

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I just need to see some examples of how this can be done. I wonder if >> I'm running into a problem that is peculiar to Ubuntu. I can't find >> packages that follow the princ

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

"Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just need to see some examples of how this can be done. I wonder if > I'm running into a problem that is peculiar to Ubuntu. I can't find > packages that follow the principles we were discussing yesterday. In > fact, I can't find any that adhere to

Re: New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 03:19:02PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: >I'm randomly downloading packages. If you can point me to one that >has source code patches correctly applied, I'd really appreciate >it. I want to get it right :-) http://packages.qa.debian.org/usermode The usermode source debian pa

New Packager question again: can you point me to a not flawed package?

OK, thanks for the advice yesterday. I think we are agreeing on principle, it is just the implementation that's concerning me now. I'm starting back at the basics. I'm building stuff for Ubuntu workstations. Because I don't know how to manage patches (did not decipher quilt or cdbs yet, but will

Re: New packager wannabe seeking guidance

> The product is a Java application and it's only prerequisite is a JRE > (or an SDK) version >= 1.4. That's too bad - it can't go to Main then since JDK is non-free. If you know Java, you might want to try if you could make it compile with Kaffe or other Free JREs. > How can I proceed from her

Re: New packager wannabe seeking guidance

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:21:46 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to debian-mentors: > (http://freemind.sourceforge.net). > Would like to make a deb package for it. > How can I proceed from here ? Debian New Maintainers' Guide This document will try to describe building of a Deb

Re: New packager wannabe seeking guidance

> The product is a Java application and it's only prerequisite is a JRE > (or an SDK) version >= 1.4. That's too bad - it can't go to Main then since JDK is non-free. If you know Java, you might want to try if you could make it compile with Kaffe or other Free JREs. > How can I proceed from her

New packager wannabe seeking guidance

Love Debian. Partecipate in an Open Source project called Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net). Would like to make a deb package for it. The product is a Java application and it's only prerequisite is a JRE (or an SDK) version >= 1.4. How can I proceed from here ? Thank you very muc

Re: New packager wannabe seeking guidance

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 18:21:46 +0100, Bob Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to debian-mentors: > (http://freemind.sourceforge.net). > Would like to make a deb package for it. > How can I proceed from here ? Debian New Maintainers' Guide This document will try to describe building of a Deb

New packager wannabe seeking guidance

Love Debian. Partecipate in an Open Source project called Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net). Would like to make a deb package for it. The product is a Java application and it's only prerequisite is a JRE (or an SDK) version >= 1.4. How can I proceed from here ? Thank you very much.

Re: New packager - libnjb

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:31:13PM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > I'm not currently a Debian developer, just a user, and I've never > packaged anything before. I'm interested in packaging libnjb > (and ultimately Gnomad ). > The New Maintainers'

New packager - libnjb

I'm not currently a Debian developer, just a user, and I've never packaged anything before. I'm interested in packaging libnjb (and ultimately Gnomad ). The New Maintainers' Guide is aimed at program packaging, not library packaging.Can anyone give

Re: Hopeful new packager needs help.

On Tuesday 6 July 1999, at 10 h 20, the keyboard of "Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > debian/rules it exists with an error 1, which I'm not quite sure what that > means. Do not expect help without the actual error messages and the involved debian/rules. > The first package I am a

Re: Hopeful new packager needs help.

"Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm new to this list. I am attempting to package a few apps, that I believe > are worth while in the Debian community. I am having trouble though. I have > read the First time HOWTO and the deb-make doc. They seem pretty forward, > but I mu

Hopeful new packager needs help.

Hi, I'm new to this list. I am attempting to package a few apps, that I believe are worth while in the Debian community. I am having trouble though. I have read the First time HOWTO and the deb-make doc. They seem pretty forward, but I must be missing something. When I come to the step of running