Debian-specific packages

2000-02-28 Thread Michael Pearson
Hi, I am both the upstream author and maintainer-in-waiting for two packages: wmxmms_scope and ripple. I'm wondering if I still need to have version numbers such as x.x.x-x rather than x.x.x, even though every change to the actual debian package warrants a minor version change. My packages and s

Re: Debian-specific packages

2000-02-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
* Michael Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000227 19:03]: > I am both the upstream author and maintainer-in-waiting for two packages: > wmxmms_scope and ripple. I'm wondering if I still need to have version numbers > such as x.x.x-x rather than x.x.x, even though every change to the actual > debian pa

Re: Debian-specific packages

2000-02-28 Thread Michael Pearson
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 07:10:09PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: > * Michael Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000227 19:03]: > Hello there. You would not be alone if you were to not use the x.x.x-x > notation; apt, dpkg, and alien all forgo the -x bit. I don't know for > sure that I would recommend it --

Re: Debian-specific packages

2000-02-28 Thread Seth R Arnold
* Michael Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000227 19:54]: > I'm wondering: is there anything in policy about this? Can't seem to find > anything, however I may have missed it. I quickly scanned the policy doc on my machine, and found nothing about it. The closest I came was in the debian FAQs (section

Re: update-alternatives.

2000-02-28 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "Jordi" == Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jordi> Also, I see that vim, elvis and nvi provide an alternative for Jordi> "vi", (in vim's case, priority 20). I think it's not against Jordi> the policy if I provide an alternative for "pico"? This does not work. For alternatives, all affected pa

Re: Debian-specific packages

2000-02-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:23:32PM +1030, Michael Pearson wrote: > > Hello there. You would not be alone if you were to not use the x.x.x-x > > notation; apt, dpkg, and alien all forgo the -x bit. I don't know for > > sure that I would recommend it -- I think I have read somewhere that > > missing

autoconf

2000-02-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, I am trying to package a program using autoconf, automake, the whole bunch of it. I have no experiance with that, my problem is, after building the package, config.in, configure, Makefile, Makefile.am have changed and I get a huge diff file for the package (I needed several tries to build). I t

Re: autoconf

2000-02-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I am trying to package a program using autoconf, automake, the whole bunch > of it. I have no experiance with that, my problem is, after building the > package, config.in, configure, Makefile, Makefile.am have changed and I ge

Re: autoconf

2000-02-28 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:29:01PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:09:45PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > I am trying to package a program using autoconf, automake, the whole bunch > > of it. I have no experiance with that, my problem is, after building the > > packa

Re: autoconf

2000-02-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 02:41:48PM +0100, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > Actually, they only get rebuilt if the date/time on the .in file is newer > > than the date/time on the resulting file, which shouldn't be the case > > usually... > I think there was some discussion about this wrt Build-Depe

RE: Complicated Packaging..

2000-02-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Feb-2000 Eliot Landrum wrote: > > Hello! > > I've been trying to provide complete Debian packages for the 0.9pre2 > release of the Jabber server (jabber.org) but have been stuck on one of the > packages (etherx) because it is kind of a complicated package. > > Not only does etherx instal

gat - GNOME task scheduler

2000-02-28 Thread Justin Penney
I have packaged gat, a GNOME front-end to at and cron. If anyonje is interested in sponsoring this package it is available at http://mail.atipa.com/~jpenney/ Thanks. -- _ ||j |||u |||s |||t |||i |||n ||| |||p |||e |||n ||