Re: Removing lintian warnings? (package games/dmagnetic)

2019-10-07 Thread dettus
n a warning, merely a wishlist item. Likewise, autopkgtests are nice but I don't really see a way to make one for this package. On Oct 7, 2019, at 01:25, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: Despite my best effords, there are still a handful of lintian warnings left. Naturally, I would like to g

Re: Removing lintian warnings? (package games/dmagnetic)

2019-10-07 Thread Adam Borowski
ne for this package. > > > On Oct 7, 2019, at 01:25, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > > > Despite my best effords, there are still a handful of lintian warnings > > > left. Naturally, I would like to get rid of them: > > > > > >I debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri

Re: Removing lintian warnings? (package games/dmagnetic)

2019-10-07 Thread Thomas Dettbarn
; Hello! > > > > Currently, I am trying to get my package dMagnetic into > > Debian's repository. You can find it at > > > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/dmagnetic > > > > Despite my best effords, there are still a h

Re: Removing lintian warnings? (package games/dmagnetic)

2019-10-07 Thread Matthew Fernandez
> On Oct 7, 2019, at 01:25, Thomas Dettbarn wrote: > > Hello! > > Currently, I am trying to get my package dMagnetic into > Debian's repository. You can find it at > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/dmagnetic > > Despite my best effords, there are

Removing lintian warnings? (package games/dmagnetic)

2019-10-07 Thread Thomas Dettbarn
Hello! Currently, I am trying to get my package dMagnetic into Debian's repository. You can find it at https://mentors.debian.net/package/dmagnetic Despite my best effords, there are still a handful of lintian warnings left. Naturally, I would like to get rid of them: – Package is n

Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrew Worsley
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 21:53, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:31:12PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > > > > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). > > > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > > > > I got no bites previously - perhaps I have

Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:31:12PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > > > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). > > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > > I got no bites previously - perhaps I have to make a stronger case to > more users. Sorry? > > > 2. The sou

Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrew Worsley
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 20:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:05:42PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers I got no bites previously - perhaps I have to make a stron

Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:05:42PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > I assume the Errors are show stoppers... > > 1. Should I strip out the .exe files from the github repository and > igno

lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrew Worsley
I am compiling a script writing package (celtx) which compiles on buster with lintian errors and would appreciate some suggestions about how to fix them. In particular when should I add overrides or fix the upstream source (which may prevent it from building on non-debian machines?) It's an old pi

Re: Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

2018-02-11 Thread Jose G. López
Hi, On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:16:47 +1100 Ben Finney wrote: > That specification would mean the recipient can choose to redistribute > the work under *any* of those license conditions. I think that is not > what you mean to specify. Absolutely right, it's a combining work and should be used "and".

Re: Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

2018-02-10 Thread Ben Finney
"Jose G. López" writes: > License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-or-later or CC0-1.0 > or CC-BY-3.0 or LGPL-2.1-or-later or GPL-2.0-or-later That specification would mean the recipient can choose to redistribute the work under *any* of those license conditions. I think that is not wha

Re: Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

2018-02-10 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 08:22:26AM +0100, Jose G. López wrote: > License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GPL-2.0-only or GPL-3.0-or-later or CC0-1.0 > or CC-BY-3.0 or LGPL-2.1-or-later or GPL-2.0-or-later The License field is "Formatted text, with synopsis". Only the first line is the list of license names. In o

Lintian warnings converting copyright to machine-readable

2018-02-09 Thread Jose G. López
Hello!, I'm packaging gigalomania and want to convert copyright to machine-readable format but I'm having lintian warnings I don't know how to fix. The original copyright is here: http://gigalomania.sourceforge.net/#licences There are a lot of images with different authors embed

Bug#877196: Please fix lintian warnings

2017-10-09 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
On 09/10/17 19:14, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Ghislain Please fix the following issues: W: nfft source: unnecessary-testsuite-autopkgtest-header W: libnfft3-2: transitional-package-should-be-oldlibs-optional oldlibs/extra Both of these are already addressed. Are you building from the right tag?

Bug#877196: Please fix lintian warnings

2017-10-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Ghislain Please fix the following issues: W: nfft source: unnecessary-testsuite-autopkgtest-header W: libnfft3-2: transitional-package-should-be-oldlibs-optional oldlibs/extra W: libnfft3-doc: embedded-javascript-library usr/share/doc/libnfft3-doc/html/jquery.js please use libjs-jquery Thank

Re: request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

2016-04-28 Thread Tiago Ilieve
Martin, On 28 April 2016 at 07:51, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > yep, for signing on github, just sign it, and in "releases" tab you should > have some "upload additional files" > where you can upload it (I'm going through my memory) This process is documented on wiki.d.o[1], although worth me

Re: request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

2016-04-28 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, (note: from now on I'll answer to the RFS bug :) ) >OK, great. I called it python3-tldp, given that the preferred >Python support these days for Debian is Python3 (and I'm following >tox and other examples). yep >My package builds and tests against Python2, but I don't plan on >botheri

Re: request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

2016-04-27 Thread Martin A. Brown
Hello and greetings again Gianfranco, No problem at all. I wandered around a bit, have made a mistake or two, improved my package (I think), filed an RFS (in the wrong way [0]), and of course the ITP [1], but have started to get a feel for how the whole process is supposed to work. >just the

Re: request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

2016-04-27 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Martin, sorry for the lag >>For python-tldp (source) which creates python3-tldp (binary): >Rename the upstream or change the name of the source package in >debian/control to say 'tldp'? just the changelog and control file (Source section) the binary is good called python-tldp >OK. I wi

Re: request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

2016-04-22 Thread Martin A. Brown
Thank you again for your replies, Gianfranco, >>I would like to get both my new package (python3-tldp) and a revised >>ldp-docbook-stylesheets on the conveyor belt into the Debian >>universe. > >ok > >>After trying to understand the flow of work and the current status >>with these two packages

Re: request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

2016-04-22 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Martin >I would like to get both my new package (python3-tldp) and a revised >ldp-docbook-stylesheets on the conveyor belt into the Debian >universe. ok >After trying to understand the flow of work and the current status >with these two packages, I have come up with the following plan. >

request more advice: lintian warnings and python-tldp + ldp-docbook-stylesheets

2016-04-21 Thread Martin A. Brown
Hello, A week ago, I asked for a bit of orientation advice since I have needed improvements for the ldp-docbook-stylesheets. With Gianfranco's advice (thank you, again), I am launched. Since then, I have: * played with the existing packaging for ldp-docbook-stylesheets * learned the ba

Re: blt repackaged again, please advise on last lintian warnings

2013-03-06 Thread Markus Wanner
Paul, On 03/07/2013 06:29 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > version 5 is the version we've been using "around here" for a few > years. There never was an official -5 in Debian, of course, and I'm > starting to see why. Fair enough. >> Two things to mention here: that I stripped "-O2 -g" as well, becaus

Re: blt repackaged again, please advise on last lintian warnings

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Markus Wanner wrote: > Paul, > > I'm not a DM/DD, but I'll try to help. > Thanks! Thats very kind of you to spend your time and share the knowledge. > On 03/05/2013 05:34 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Hi, everybody. I'm back, now humbled by linitian's might. Inste

Re: blt repackaged again, please advise on last lintian warnings

2013-03-06 Thread Markus Wanner
Paul, I'm not a DM/DD, but I'll try to help. On 03/05/2013 05:34 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hi, everybody. I'm back, now humbled by linitian's might. Instead > of putting my blt package revisions onto the mentors server, and > probably wasting your storage on another not-yet-done package, I > u

blt repackaged again, please advise on last lintian warnings

2013-03-04 Thread Paul Johnson
w warnings. What about the rest? These lintian warnings affected the blt package as it stood before I tried to adopt it. The blt includes a couple of important patches that solve segmentation faults, and it fixes up tens of lintian warnings. At the current time, these are the lintian warnings I&#

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Alexander Reichle-Schmehl , 2011-11-24, 15:11: ... and I think your check for the 32-Bit architecture is incomplete, but I miss the machine to test that ;) I'm not sure what you mean by that. Which check do you think is missing? You do the following: machine=`uname -m` [..] elif [ "$machine

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 24.11.2011 14:19, schrieb Ole Wolf: >> ... and I think your check for the 32-Bit architecture is incomplete, >> but I miss the machine to test that ;) > I'm not sure what you mean by that. Which check do you think is missing? You do the following: machine=`uname -m` [..] elif [ "$machine

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 24.11.2011 14:41, schrieb Ole Wolf: > I actually thought I was required to include a copy of the GPL, but > removing it is easy. :) For the binary package take a look at /usr/share/common-licenses/. And IMHO should your debian/copyright make it clear, that the GPL is just for your packag

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Ole Wolf
Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl : Others already commented on the lintian warning thing, however looking at your package it doesn't qualify for main; as long as it downloads some stuff it qualifies at most contrib, your changelog doesn't actually describe your changes, you seem to install

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Ole Wolf
Quoting Paul Wise : What does this app do? Can it not be replaced with something more standard, say OpenSSL? The application takes care of authorizing users against a centralized server using login, password, and a keycard (made of paper; you may laugh now). It also works as a PKCS#11 key toke

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Ole Wolf
Quoting Alexander Reichle-Schmehl : ... and I think your check for the 32-Bit architecture is incomplete, but I miss the machine to test that ;) I'm not sure what you mean by that. Which check do you think is missing? (It installs fine on both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures, though, inclu

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: > That would be a preferred solution, but regrettably not an option. The > background is that the Danish government has mandated the use of a shared > authorization service which creates keys for each individual in Denmark. The > private keys are cr

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Ole Wolf
Quoting Gergely Nagy : It does condemn your package to contrib at best. I have no feelings about that at all; I just want to make the package easily available. :) Does that require me to submit an RFS somewhere else than here on this list? -- OLE WOLF[1] Rødhættevej 4 * 9400 Nørresundby

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Ole Wolf writes: > I could perhaps download the library and include it in the "nemid" > package, and the first versions of "nemid" actually did just that. > However, I've been unable to get a response from the company that provides > the application about the distribution rights of their software

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 24.11.2011 13:57, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: > Others already commented on the lintian warning thing, however looking > at your package it doesn't qualify for main; as long as it downloads > some stuff it qualifies at most contrib, your changelog doesn't actually > describe your ch

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Ole Wolf
Thanks for all the prompt replies! Quoting Gergely Nagy : Out of curiosity, why the need to download the lib? Couldn't it be included in the "source" someway? That would be a preferred solution, but regrettably not an option. The background is that the Danish government has mandated the us

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 24.11.2011 12:51, schrieb Ole Wolf: > I'm getting some lintian warnings on one of my packages (at > http://mentors.debian.net/package/nemid): ]..] > The reason is quite evident: the nemid package doesn't include a > library; instead, the postinst and postrm scri

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Ole Wolf writes: > I'm getting some lintian warnings on one of my packages (at > http://mentors.debian.net/package/nemid): > > W: nemid: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig > W: nemid: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig Lintian overrides are what you seek. Since yo

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:51:43 +0100, Ole Wolf wrote: I'm getting some lintian warnings on one of my packages (at http://mentors.debian.net/package/nemid): W: nemid: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig W: nemid: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig The reason is quite evident: the

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/24/2011 12:51 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: > I'm getting some lintian warnings on one of my packages (at > http://mentors.debian.net/package/nemid): > > W: nemid: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig > W: nemid: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig > > The reason is quite

Re: How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Kai Wasserbäch
Dear Ole, Ole Wolf schrieb am 24.11.2011 12:51: > I'm getting some lintian warnings on one of my packages (at > http://mentors.debian.net/package/nemid): > > W: nemid: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig > W: nemid: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig > > The re

How to suppress expected lintian warnings?

2011-11-24 Thread Ole Wolf
I'm getting some lintian warnings on one of my packages (at http://mentors.debian.net/package/nemid): W: nemid: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig W: nemid: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig The reason is quite evident: the nemid package doesn't include a library; in

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: > I'm sure I got the impression from some web page that provided a howto on > building a package. I don't recall which one, unfortunately. Ok. > Nevertheless, the reason I relied on that web page was that I find it > difficult to follow manuals su

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Ole Wolf
Quoting Paul Wise : Ah, my bad. I thought lintian should only be applied to the .deb files. It might be interesting to find out where you got that impression from, so that we can prevent other people from getting the same impression in the future. I'm sure I got the impression from

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Boris Pek
Hi, > I've noticed that the lintian check on my mentors uploads are a bit more > strict than the lintian checks on my PC; for example, lintian on mentors > catches version numbering intended for debian native packages. I want to > eliminate such warnings and errors before I upload rather than d

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: > Ah, my bad. I thought lintian should only be applied to the .deb files. It might be interesting to find out where you got that impression from, so that we can prevent other people from getting the same impression in the future. -- bye, pabs ht

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Ole Wolf
Quoting Niels Thykier : How do you use lintian? lintian pkg_ver_arch.deb lintian src_ver.dsc lintian src_ver_arch.changes Ah, my bad. I thought lintian should only be applied to the .deb files. -- OLE WOLF[1] Rødhættevej 4 * 9400 Nørresundby Telefon: 9632-0108 * Mobil: 2467-5526 * S

Re: Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-10 10:59, Ole Wolf wrote: > I've noticed that the lintian check on my mentors uploads are a bit more > strict than the lintian checks on my PC; for example, lintian on mentors > catches version numbering intended for debian native packages. I want to > eliminate such warnings and errors

Additional lintian warnings in mentors upload

2011-11-10 Thread Ole Wolf
I've noticed that the lintian check on my mentors uploads are a bit more strict than the lintian checks on my PC; for example, lintian on mentors catches version numbering intended for debian native packages. I want to eliminate such warnings and errors before I upload rather than discovering them

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-19 Thread Russ Allbery
David Kalnischkies writes: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 00:58, Russ Allbery wrote: >> You can't use disappearing packages with Policy-compliant packages so >> far as I can tell, since it would require both packages provide the >> same /usr/share/doc directory and changelog file, which is a Policy >

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-19 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:51:11 +0100 Tony Houghton wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:41:33 +0200 > David Kalnischkies wrote: [Snip] > I'd rather keep the name "roxterm" for the GTK3 version if that's OK. > I don't really want the main package to be named after a library > dependency and have to re

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 00:58, Russ Allbery wrote: > David Kalnischkies writes: > >> Sidenote: I am not sure why the usage of 'disappearing packages' was >> removed from the wiki as dpkg and APT support them in squeeze - at least >> in my eyes it looked like the holy grail to prevent maintainers

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-18 Thread Russ Allbery
David Kalnischkies writes: > Sidenote: I am not sure why the usage of 'disappearing packages' was > removed from the wiki as dpkg and APT support them in squeeze - at least > in my eyes it looked like the holy grail to prevent maintainers from > using all these half-working tricks in battle again

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-18 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:41:33 +0200 David Kalnischkies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:39, Tony Houghton wrote: > > package too, eg to roxterm-gtk3. In the latter case would adding > > "Replaces: roxterm" cause it to automatically replace roxterm at > > apt-get upgrade (or only dist-upgrade?)

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-18 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 01:39, Tony Houghton wrote: > package too, eg to roxterm-gtk3. In the latter case would adding > "Replaces: roxterm" cause it to automatically replace roxterm at apt-get > upgrade (or only dist-upgrade?) or would I have to make a meta-package? No. 'Replaces: A' is just a h

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:30:55 +0300 "Andrew O. Shadoura" wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:19:44 +0100 > Tony Houghton wrote: > > > roxterm-legacy: binaries compiled and linked with GTK2 > > roxterm: binaries compiled and linked with GTK3 > > roxterm-common: All the other files > > An off-topic q

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Russ Allbery
depend on > roxterm-common. > I've got 3 lintian warnings: > W: roxterm-legacy: menu-icon-missing usr/share/pixmaps/roxterm.xpm > W: roxterm: menu-icon-missing usr/share/pixmaps/roxterm.xpm > W: roxterm-common: desktop-command-not-in-package > usr/share/applications/roxt

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:19:44 +0100 Tony Houghton wrote: > roxterm-legacy: binaries compiled and linked with GTK2 > roxterm: binaries compiled and linked with GTK3 > roxterm-common: All the other files An off-topic question: why've you chosen this naming scheme? Why 'legacy'? In particula

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Niels Thykier
t with each other and both depend on > roxterm-common. > > I've got 3 lintian warnings: > > W: roxterm-legacy: menu-icon-missing usr/share/pixmaps/roxterm.xpm > W: roxterm: menu-icon-missing usr/share/pixmaps/roxterm.xpm Newer versions of Lintian should have enough informat

Re: Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: > W: roxterm-legacy: menu-icon-missing usr/share/pixmaps/roxterm.xpm > W: roxterm: menu-icon-missing usr/share/pixmaps/roxterm.xpm > W: roxterm-common: desktop-command-not-in-package > usr/share/applications/roxterm.desktop roxterm > > Should

Solving lintian warnings for multi-package roxterm

2011-08-17 Thread Tony Houghton
I've split roxterm in to three packages: roxterm-legacy: binaries compiled and linked with GTK2 roxterm: binaries compiled and linked with GTK3 roxterm-common: All the other files roxterm-legacy and roxterm Conflict with each other and both depend on roxterm-common. I've got 3 lintia

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:46:58AM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: > > > The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but > > rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in > > Debian, you should never install

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-21 13:44:28, schrieb Russ Allbery: > The error message isn't about its presence in the source package but > rather its presence in the generated binary package. In general, in > Debian, you should never install additional copies of the GPL, the LGPL, > or other common licenses; instead

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 13:15 -0800, Cameron Dale wrote: > W: torrentflux: extra-license-file var/www/torrentflux/adodb/license.txt Other people have pointed out the solution to this, however, it indicates to me that torrentflux includes a copy of adodb. Please don't install that copy, unless the t

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Cameron Dale
On 1/21/06, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first four you're probably going to have to just live with unless > upstream repackages their source better. (The first two aren't even > really problems in my opinion; the I: level of lintian output is just > informational and isn't someth

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Cameron Dale
On 1/21/06, Stan Vasilyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just remove var/www/torrentflux/adodb/license.txt after the installation. You > definitely want to keep this file in the source package. You can then add a > reference to LGPL in debian/copyright like this: > > On Debian systems, the complete t

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Cameron Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to create a new package for Debian, and I have some Lintian > warnings that I'm not sure how to deal with. I know I could fix all of > them by removing some files from the upstream source, but I'm not sure >

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 21.01.2006, 13:15 -0800 schrieb Cameron Dale: > I'm trying to create a new package for Debian, and I have some Lintian > warnings that I'm not sure how to deal with. [..] > > W: torrentflux: extra-license-file var/www/torrentflux/adodb/license.txt > >

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Stan Vasilyev
On Saturday 21 January 2006 01:15 pm, Cameron Dale wrote: > > The first 4 are easily fixed by removing the files. The last one is a > little more problematic, but I asked on debian-legal, and as the > license file is for the LGPL, then the package can redistribute it > under the GPL, and I think th

Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Cameron Dale
I'm trying to create a new package for Debian, and I have some Lintian warnings that I'm not sure how to deal with. I know I could fix all of them by removing some files from the upstream source, but I'm not sure if this is justified. I read the "Best Packaging Pract

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-09-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:55:18PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > There are about 1

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-09-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:55:18PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > > > > > There are about 1

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-09-01 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:55:18PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > > > There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream > > > knows about t

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-09-01 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:55:18PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > > > There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream > > > knows about t

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream > > knows about this and will eventually get round to it. Can the package > > still be acc

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the > request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). > > Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: > W: schoolbell: image-

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream > > knows about this and will eventually get round to it. Can the package > > still be acc

Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Sutherland
I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib usr/lib/schoolbell/schooltool/browser/www/user2.png There are about 10 of these

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the > request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). > > Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: > W: schoolbell: image-

Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Sutherland
I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib usr/lib/schoolbell/schooltool/browser/www/user2.png There are about 10 of these

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:42:31AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > On Jan 9, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:05:42AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > Mmmm, the man page about dh_installman is quite obscure... > > > Ok, you should write something l

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:42:31AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > On Jan 9, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:05:42AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > Mmmm, the man page about dh_installman is quite obscure... > > > Ok, you should write something

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:45:23AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > > On Jan 9, Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlin

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:45:23AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > On Jan 9, Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so.0.0.0 > > > > /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so" (warning) This p

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so.0.0.0 > > > /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so" (warning) This package is an interpreter, and the > > > shared > > > libraries are for

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:45:23AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > > On Jan 9, Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symli

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so.0.0.0 > > /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so" (warning) This package is an interpreter, and the > > shared > > libraries are for running that, NOT to be linked against, so I think this is > > benign and

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:45:23AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > On Jan 9, Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so.0.0.0 > > > > /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so" (warning) This

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:05:42AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > dh_installman and dh_installmanpages work differently. Check their > > > manuals. If you

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mmmm, the man page about dh_installman is quite obscure... > Ok, you should write something like > > debian/a+.1 > debian/aplus-fsf.1 > > within debian/manpages or debian/a+.manpages That did it. Thanks! -- Neil L. Roeth [

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Robert Bihlmeyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so.0.0.0 > > > /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so" (warning) This package is an interpreter, and the > > > shared > > > libraries are for

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:05:42AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > dh_installman and dh_installmanpages work differently. Check their > > > manuals. If yo

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Neil L. Roeth
On Jan 9, Francesco P. Lovergine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mmmm, the man page about dh_installman is quite obscure... > Ok, you should write something like > > debian/a+.1 > debian/aplus-fsf.1 > > within debian/manpages or debian/a+.manpages That did it. Thanks! -- Neil L. Roeth

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:57:30PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > I made packages for A+ and ran lintian on them. One of them spits out a few > warnings and one error that I'd like to resolve, but I do not know how. I > hope someone can help, since when I finish this I'll have built my first > Deb

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:26:16AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:05:42AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > dh_installman and dh_installmanpages work differently. Check their > > > manuals.

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:05:42AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > dh_installman and dh_installmanpages work differently. Check their > > manuals. If you tried dh_installmanpages here you got all ok, I think. > > Or

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:57:30PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > I made packages for A+ and ran lintian on them. One of them spits out a few > warnings and one error that I'd like to resolve, but I do not know how. I > hope someone can help, since when I finish this I'll have built my first > De

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > 2) "binary-without-manpage a+" (error) I call dh_installman in debian/rules, > > but it appears to have no effect. I tried building the package with a file > > called debian/aplus-fsf.1 (the same name as the package) an

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