Re: original package with CRLF as line separators

1999-09-13 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 07:23:11PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Radovan Garabik wrote: > > > > > I am packaging a program, which uses CRLF as end of line (don't ask me how > > > it got there :-)) > > > The problem is, I have to turn it to LF, b

Re: Need help with shlibs.local

1999-09-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 05:04:47PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > this is driving me nuts and I want to fix it once and for > > all. wmaker (src) builds several binary packages, among them, > > libwraster1 and libwraster1-dev. The w

Re: debian supported PGP stuff

1999-09-13 Thread Debian Mailing List Processor
On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 05:25:00PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm going to apply to become a debian developer and I wanna know can I use > > combination of DSS key(from pgp5)+gnupg to send request? > > Yes -- you can do it all with gnupg.

Re: debian supported PGP stuff

1999-09-13 Thread James Troup
Debian Mailing List Processor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 05:25:00PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'm going to apply to become a debian developer and I wanna know can I use > > > combination of DSS key(from pg

Re: original package with CRLF as line separators

1999-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > upstream source is tar.gz > I am not sure if repacking is a good idea.. after all, this means modifying > the upstream source, and diff.gz is there for this purpose... A diff to change end of line endings on all files is a perversion of that purpose.

Re: binary package version numbers?

1999-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Hey, glad to see someone's reading the Developer's Reference closely. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>

Re: File names in the Debian archive: *.deb vs *_i386.deb

1999-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zygo Blaxell) writes: > Are the FTP archive maintenance scripts debian-packaged? No. The main one is called 'dinstall' -- it is in CVS I think but no-one has packaged it, unfortunately. Several times people have said, "Real soon now" but it's still not there for some reason.

Re: Ownership of data files

1999-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Bjoern Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working on a program that collects information to be used by the sys > admin. I don't want the collected information to be world writable (even > though this wouldn't be a security hole), but I want the program to run > from user accounts (with write a

Re: porting a package

1999-09-13 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Christopher C Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Currently, Alpha has a mailing list that's like a quinn-diff "on > steroids" that gives the Alpha porters a list of what's different between > i386 and alpha. We usually work from that rather than rely on > debian-devel-changes. It might help