Re: authorization

2000-12-02 Thread Pete Lypkie
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:34:36AM -0500, Some Linux User wrote: > am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really > anything useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process of > appling to become a part of the community (become an appliciant)? thank you. > -holl

Re: authorization

2000-12-02 Thread Rando Christensen
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:34:36AM -0500, Some Linux User wrote: > > am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really > > anything useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process > > of appling to become a part of the commu

Re: authorization

2000-12-02 Thread Britton
> am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really > anything useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process of > appling to become a part of the community (become an appliciant)? > thankyou. -holland If you want to maintain a package that will be part of the of

the "right" way to handle caps in package/program names

2000-12-02 Thread tony mancill
I'm working on a package for ripperX, which comes in a ripperX_2.0 tarball and extracts itself into ripperX-2.0 directory, and produces a "ripperX" binary. When I left things as they were upstream, dh_make doesn't complain, but I get all kinds of problems actually trying to build the package. (dp

Re: E: scsiadd: unknown-control-file templates

2000-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: > I'm using debconf to postinst the scsiadd package and lintian complains > about the unknown templates file. I've noticed that several other > packages also have this same lintian error if they use debconf. > > Is this a known issue wit

Re: the "right" way to handle caps in package/program names

2000-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:28:49AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > I'm working on a package for ripperX, which comes in a ripperX_2.0 tarball > and extracts itself into ripperX-2.0 directory, and produces a "ripperX" > binary. > > Is there a prescribed method for handling upstream source like this?

Re: authorization

2000-12-02 Thread Steve Robbins
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:34:36AM -0500, Some Linux User wrote: > > am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really > > anything useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process of > > appling to become a part of the comm

Re: E: scsiadd: unknown-control-file templates

2000-12-02 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: > > I'm using debconf to postinst the scsiadd package and lintian complains > > about the unknown templates file. I've noticed that several other > > packages also have this same lintian error if

Re: authorization

2000-12-02 Thread Rando Christensen
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:34:36AM -0500, Some Linux User wrote: > > am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really > > anything useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process > > of appling to become a part of the comm

Re: authorization

2000-12-02 Thread Britton
> am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really > anything useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process of > appling to become a part of the community (become an appliciant)? > thankyou. -holland If you want to maintain a package that will be part of the o

the "right" way to handle caps in package/program names

2000-12-02 Thread tony mancill
I'm working on a package for ripperX, which comes in a ripperX_2.0 tarball and extracts itself into ripperX-2.0 directory, and produces a "ripperX" binary. When I left things as they were upstream, dh_make doesn't complain, but I get all kinds of problems actually trying to build the package. (d

Re: E: scsiadd: unknown-control-file templates

2000-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: > I'm using debconf to postinst the scsiadd package and lintian complains > about the unknown templates file. I've noticed that several other > packages also have this same lintian error if they use debconf. > > Is this a known issue wi

Re: the "right" way to handle caps in package/program names

2000-12-02 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 08:28:49AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > I'm working on a package for ripperX, which comes in a ripperX_2.0 tarball > and extracts itself into ripperX-2.0 directory, and produces a "ripperX" > binary. > > Is there a prescribed method for handling upstream source like this?

Re: authorization

2000-12-02 Thread Steve Robbins
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Pete Lypkie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 12:34:36AM -0500, Some Linux User wrote: > > am i correct in saying that to be able to mantian a package or really anything >useful for debian that i need to at least be in the process of appling to become a >part of the community

Re: E: scsiadd: unknown-control-file templates

2000-12-02 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:19:31PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: > > I'm using debconf to postinst the scsiadd package and lintian complains > > about the unknown templates file. I've noticed that several other > > packages also have this same lintian error i