Re: /usr/bin vs /usr/sbin

1999-02-25 Thread Joel Klecker
At 02:13 -0800 1999-02-23, Joseph Carter wrote: LTNT.. => On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 03:45:43AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > sbin is for STATIC binaries. For some reason none of the Linux dists > (unless slackware does and the knghtbrd package has a memleak) actually > use it as designed. Uhm,

packaging question

1999-02-25 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
I have been doing alot of work on the packages that I'm going to maintain once my stuff is finished (new maintainer stuff that is) and lately I have been trying to get the gpg signing to work. The questions I have are these: 1> I see alot of mention that Debian is moving from pgp to gpg for sig

Package-relation-with-self, debhelper

1999-02-25 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hello all this is the last issue holding up my libggi debs. Upon a complete build, the only scary thing lintian barfs is this: W: libggi2: package-relation-with-self depends: libggi2 Will this cause any problems? If so, why does debhelper generate dependencies in such a way that this occ

Re: Package-relation-with-self, debhelper

1999-02-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:25:12PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Hello all > > this is the last issue holding up my libggi debs. Upon a complete > build, the only scary thing lintian barfs is this: > > W: libggi2: package-relation-with-self depends: libggi2 > > Will this cause any pr

Re: Package-relation-with-self, debhelper

1999-02-25 Thread Wayne Cuddy
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:45:42 -0500 > From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Mentors > Subject: Re: Package-relation-with-self, debhelper > Resent-Date: 25 Feb 1999 12:38:48 - > Resent-From: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: r

Re: Package-relation-with-self, debhelper

1999-02-25 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 01:21:13PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > > More than likely you have a binary in this package that uses the > > library (also in this package). If so, you might want to split the > > binaries (and other files that aren't the .so) into a runtime package. > > I am not sure I un

Re: Package-relation-with-self, debhelper

1999-02-25 Thread Edward Betts
On Thu, 25 Feb, 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:25:12PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > > Hello all > > > > this is the last issue holding up my libggi debs. Upon a complete > > build, the only scary thing lintian barfs is this: > > > > W: libggi2: package-relation-

textual works with publishing restrictions.

1999-02-25 Thread Ed Boraas
I ran across a text document the other day that is distributed under the GPL, with the exception that it may not be published in print form without the authors' permission. Is this still DFSG-free? They allow for people to sell it on CD/disk, for example. It also allows distribution of derived work

Re: packaging question

1999-02-25 Thread James Troup
"Ivan E. Moore II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1> I see alot of mention that Debian is moving from pgp to gpg > for signing of packages and everything else. I see that there > are already people moving in that direciton...ie there is a > gpg key ring now. I also see code for it in the package >