Re: Some Packaging Questions

2011-08-06 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Baines wrote: > I am looking at trying to package some extra aircraft for FlightGear. As > I think there are too many aircraft to package individually, I was going > to package them in groups according to category (military, > helicopters, ...), should I

Some Packaging Questions

2011-08-06 Thread Christopher Baines
I am looking at trying to package some extra aircraft for FlightGear. As I think there are too many aircraft to package individually, I was going to package them in groups according to category (military, helicopters, ...), should I just use one source package or one source package per group? Most

Re: Some Packaging Questions

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) Build-Depends: How can I find out what belongs in build-depends ? > > Build a chroot with debootstrap and install the build-essential package > and its dependencies. Anything else you have to install to get the > package to build is a build dependen

Re: Some Packaging Questions

2001-09-10 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) Build-Depends: How can I find out what belongs in build-depends ? > > Build a chroot with debootstrap and install the build-essential package > and its dependencies. Anything else you have to install to get the > package to build is a build depende

Re: Some Packaging Questions

2001-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Martin Butterweck wrote: > 1) Build-Depends: How can I find out what belongs in build-depends ? I could >guess, but is there a way to find out for sure ? Last time I forgot >something... Build a chroot with debootstrap and install the build-essenti

Some Packaging Questions

2001-08-31 Thread Martin Butterweck
Hi, I made a small package as described in the new-maintainer-guid and it worked without problems. But I still got some little problems/questions: 1) Build-Depends: How can I find out what belongs in build-depends ? I could guess, but is there a way to find out for sure ? Last time I forgot

Some Packaging Questions

2001-08-31 Thread Martin Butterweck
Hi, I made a small package as described in the new-maintainer-guid and it worked without problems. But I still got some little problems/questions: 1) Build-Depends: How can I find out what belongs in build-depends ? I could guess, but is there a way to find out for sure ? Last time I forgot

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001118T160237-0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > Hmmm I seem to recall James Troup telling me that dinstall > does the check automagically during install It doesn't. However, some ftp-masters (presumably James included) use a script that does this (but the script merely displays the output,

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-23 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001118T160237-0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > Hmmm I seem to recall James Troup telling me that dinstall > does the check automagically during install It doesn't. However, some ftp-masters (presumably James included) use a script that does this (but the script merely displays the output,

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: >... > Another Lintian thing: itgives a this warning when building the > package: > > W: ez-ipupdate: maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token debian/postinst > > I'm not very sure about what it means. Ok, I know, the postinst script > lac

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: >... > Another Lintian thing: itgives a this warning when building the > package: > > W: ez-ipupdate: maintainer-script-lacks-debhelper-token debian/postinst > > I'm not very sure about what it means. Ok, I know, the postinst script > la

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > I was the one who warned Roberto about dinstall doing a lintian > check of uploaded packages prior to installing. These were my > exact words: > > => BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT <= > Your package hass to be able to pass a check with l

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > I was the one who warned Roberto about dinstall doing a lintian > check of uploaded packages prior to installing. These were my > exact words: > > => BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT <= > Your package hass to be able to pass a check with

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Clay Crouch
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:00:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > > Actually that's not true. dinstall does no automatic lintian checks, the > package is only checked (with lintian and otherwise) by a FTP admin when it > is first added to

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Clay Crouch
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 08:00:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > > Actually that's not true. dinstall does no automatic lintian checks, the > package is only checked (with lintian and otherwise) by a FTP admin when it > is first added t

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > > > > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' > > > > > file. I > > > > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a > > > > warning, that's all. > > > > > > Ok, but I was warne

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Clay Crouch
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:27:32PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > > > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' > > > > file. I > > > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts ou

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a > > warning, that's all. > > Ok, but I was warned that lintian "dirty"

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Nov/18/2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a > warning, that's all. Ok, but I was warned that lintian "dirty" packages won't be allowed into the dist

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote: > > > > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > > > > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a > > > > warning, that's all. > > > > > > Ok, but I was warned that lin

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Clay Crouch
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:27:32PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > > > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > > > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a > >

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Also, should I ask the user at install time if he/she wants to have > this script installed? In contrast to Josip, I say install it unconditionally. You get very little gain for making your package install interatively, so it is not worth

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a > > warning, that's all. > > Ok, but I was warned that lintian "dirty"

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Nov/18/2000, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > Ignore it... debconf isn't certified by Policy, so lintian puts out a > warning, that's all. Ok, but I was warned that lintian "dirty" packages won't be allowed into the dis

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:08:47PM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > saw this was a reported bug, but I don't know if I have to wait til the bug is > closed or work my way around it. If it's the latter, how do I do it?

Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
Hi! I'm a new developer and I'm getting ready to upload my first package, ez-ipupdate (a dynamic dns client, see ITP in debian-devel). Anyway, I have a few concerns with it. There they are: Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I saw this was

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Roberto Suarez Soto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Also, should I ask the user at install time if he/she wants to have > this script installed? In contrast to Josip, I say install it unconditionally. You get very little gain for making your package install interatively, so it is not worth

Re: Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 02:08:47PM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I > saw this was a reported bug, but I don't know if I have to wait til the bug is > closed or work my way around it. If it's the latter, how do I do it?

Some packaging questions

2000-11-18 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
Hi! I'm a new developer and I'm getting ready to upload my first package, ez-ipupdate (a dynamic dns client, see ITP in debian-devel). Anyway, I have a few concerns with it. There they are: Lintian (v1.117) complains about the 'config' and 'templates' file. I saw this wa