Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-28 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 02:03:06PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > let me know if these mails are overloading the rest of you mentor > subscribers, i'm not sure what emails should be send private or public > yet... Send it privately to me. Most attachment aren't good for mailing list, especially if it

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-27 Thread Paul Harris
let me know if these mails are overloading the rest of you mentor subscribers, i'm not sure what emails should be send private or public yet... On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:16:54PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > > done it all! that dpkg-bui... thing is pre

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-27 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 02:16:54PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > > apply the diff on the source manually than update the control and the > > changelog files and make a 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'. It should > > work (my rules file used some debhelper scripts which is useful to stay > > policy comp

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-24 Thread Paul Harris
> apply the diff on the source manually than update the control and the > changelog files and make a 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot'. It should > work (my rules file used some debhelper scripts which is useful to stay > policy compliant). done it all! that dpkg-bui... thing is pretty cool :) i ha

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-24 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:13:03PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > hi, > > i have agreed to take VRweb off Fabien Ninoles' hands, and have been > successful in making it work under my Potato system! woo hoo! > > however, i have no idea what the next steps are: > > - What is the technique to rediff a

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-23 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 12:24:22PM -0700, Andrew D Lenharth wrote: > > FHS specifies /usr/share/doc for docs while we use to use /usr/doc > > Who's "we", exactly? Debian's latest Policy uses FHS (plus symlink in > /usr/doc). I agree that we should be migrating to /usr/share

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 12:24:22PM -0700, Andrew D Lenharth wrote: > Well, it uses ./whatever so you can extract a deb anywhere on the fs, (If > you weren't installing it). No, I don't think so - the new tar behaviour has caused this. > FHS specifies /usr/share/doc for docs while we use to use /

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Paul Harris
hi, well it looks like the package is aaalllmmoostt ready (how exciting, my first one!)... however there are problems: - i can't figure out how to stop it from installing the docs to /usr/share/doc. i can't find a reference to "share" in my source install stuff, so i'm assuming my potato-devscrip

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Paul Harris
> > dch: fatal error at line 283: > > Error editing the changelog: Illegal seek > > Probably you changed some bit of required syntax. Strip that out, > change the Maintainer: field in debian/control and try dch again. > > > what am i supposed to do? just manually edit everything? > > Note that

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Andrew D Lenharth
Well, it uses ./whatever so you can extract a deb anywhere on the fs, (If you weren't installing it). FHS specifies /usr/share/doc for docs while we use to use /usr/doc Hope this helps some. Andrew Lenharth Remember, never ask a geek "why"; just nod your head and back away slowly...

vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Paul Harris
hi, i'm in progress of fixing up the whole of vrweb (i think i can close all the bugs! woo hoo), but am having some problems (probably something simple): - I change the maintainer entry (i want to become a debeloper... how many times has someone come up with that one?) and try to run "dch -v 1.5-

Re: vrweb, newbie maintainer/developer

1999-09-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:13:03PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > i have agreed to take VRweb off Fabien Ninoles' hands, and have been > successful in making it work under my Potato system! woo hoo! > > however, i have no idea what the next steps are: > > - What is the technique to rediff a package