Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-30 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Klaus, As you may have noticed, I am trying to create a package of PPower4 for Debian GNU/Linux and, I've been in contact with some Debian developers that have been kindly guiding me with my task. Unfortunately, it seems that the sources of PPower4 are not available for download on your home

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-30 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Klaus, As you may have noticed, I am trying to create a package of PPower4 for Debian GNU/Linux and, I've been in contact with some Debian developers that have been kindly guiding me with my task. Unfortunately, it seems that the sources of PPower4 are not available for download on your home

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Oct 29 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote: >> Rogério Brito wrote: >> > The problem was that upstream didn't include a tarball. All he distributes >> > is the jar file, a wrapper shell script for calling the jar file (which I >> > adapted to meet things tha

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Oct 29 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote: >> Rogério Brito wrote: >> > The problem was that upstream didn't include a tarball. All he distributes >> > is the jar file, a wrapper shell script for calling the jar file (which I >> > adapted to meet things tha

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Klaus, I think that PPower4 is an excellent piece of software that I use regularly to generate presentations in my Debian GNU/Linux system. As a result, I tried to package it for added convenience, since it seems to work flawlessly with recent versions of kaffe and sablevm (contrary to what

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 29 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > The problem was that upstream didn't include a tarball. All he distributes > > is the jar file, a wrapper shell script for calling the jar file (which I > > adapted to meet things that I would think that would be reasonable in > > De

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear Klaus, I think that PPower4 is an excellent piece of software that I use regularly to generate presentations in my Debian GNU/Linux system. As a result, I tried to package it for added convenience, since it seems to work flawlessly with recent versions of kaffe and sablevm (contrary to what

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 29 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote: > Rogério Brito wrote: > > The problem was that upstream didn't include a tarball. All he distributes > > is the jar file, a wrapper shell script for calling the jar file (which I > > adapted to meet things that I would think that would be reasonable in > > De

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Cameron Patrick
Rogério Brito wrote: > > Only from a quick look, why orig.tar.gz contains only > > pp2p.jar? I suspect style files (and documentation or > > samples ?) could be also included. > > I received a feedback from Frank Küster on debian-mentors and I made some > improvements to the package already. >

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Cameron Patrick
Rogério Brito wrote: > > Only from a quick look, why orig.tar.gz contains only > > pp2p.jar? I suspect style files (and documentation or > > samples ?) could be also included. > > I received a feedback from Frank Küster on debian-mentors and I made some > improvements to the package already. >

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 29 2004, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a > > post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. > > Great! Yes, now with Free JVM in testing, one can work much more conveniently wi

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: >> Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm >> calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was >> obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. > > I fo

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 29 2004, Atsuhito Kohda wrote: > From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a > > post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. > > Great! Yes, now with Free JVM in testing, one can work much more conveniently wi

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: >> Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm >> calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was >> obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. > > I fo

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Packaged PPower4 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:01:03 -0300 > The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a > post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Great! > Since PPower4 has both parts in Java and parts in LaTe

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Atsuhito Kohda
From: Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Packaged PPower4 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:01:03 -0300 > The only program that uses Java that I use regularly is PPower4, a > post-processor for generating presentations with (La)TeX. Great! > Since PPower4 has both parts in Java and parts in LaTe

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: >> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> > I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. >> >> Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or >> texhash again. > > Ooops.

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: >> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> > I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. >> >> Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or >> texhash again. > > Ooops.

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: > And one other thing I just noticed: As far as I can see, there is no > tarball on the project website, and you created one containing the Java > application. But if you create your tarball, please also put the other > upstream files into it. Together with the m

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm > calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was > obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. I forgot to say that I have uploaded a new version of th

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. > > Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or > texhash again. Ooops. Thank you *very much* for your feedback Frank. I a

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: > And one other thing I just noticed: As far as I can see, there is no > tarball on the project website, and you created one containing the Java > application. But if you create your tarball, please also put the other > upstream files into it. Together with the m

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 28 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > Regarding the postrm, yes, it was missing. I put the postinst and postrm > calling texhash, but it seems that I may have deleted the postrm, which was > obviously a fault on my side. I'm doing it again. I forgot to say that I have uploaded a new version of th

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 27 2004, Frank Küster wrote: > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. > > Quite. But the package is lacking a postrm which should call mktexlsr or > texhash again. Ooops. Thank you *very much* for your feedback Frank. I a

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did >> everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the >> packaging. > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did >> everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the >> packaging. > > I can only speak for the TeX part, but

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did > everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the > packaging. I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. A major drawback, however, is

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-27 Thread Frank Küster
Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I would, therefore, appreciate if other people could look to see if I did > everything correctly and what are the points that I could improve on the > packaging. I can only speak for the TeX part, but it seems quite well. A major drawback, however, is