Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Jeremy Higgs
Ok, thanks to the help of some, I've configured a lot of the debian package for RCf, but when I install (after running dpkg-buildpackage and lintian), I get a whole lot of errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/rcf-5.0.1# lintian -i rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.changes warning: lintian's authors do not recommend runn

Re: creating a debian package that doesn't require compiling...

2000-12-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:48:59AM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: > > Is there a way I can install the deb package, but test it and see > > that everything works?? > > If you don't want to install the package you can examine its > contents using ar x package.deb. Easier than that: dpkg-deb -c filenam

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > not optimal) to have .orig.tar.gz files unpacking at foo-1.2.3 instead of > foo-1.2.3.orig ? The tools give warnings, but it really doesn't matter. Qui

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Manuel Menal
Jeremy Higgs wrote: JH> Ok, thanks to the help of some, I've configured a lot of the debian JH> package for RCf, but when I install (after running dpkg-buildpackage JH> and lintian), I get a whole lot of errors: JH> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/rcf-5.0.1# lintian -i rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.changes JH> warning: l

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Jeremy Higgs
Your new package is not the problem, here. It seems that the old version of your package provided a broken prerm script. So, when dpkg try to uninstall it before installing the new version, it just crashes.Whatyoucoulddo is just modifying the /var/lib/dpkg/in

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Sven Burgener
Comments below... On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:08:01PM +1100, Jeremy Higgs wrote: [snip] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/rcf-5.0.1# dpkg -i rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 47289 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace rcf 5.0.1-1 (using rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb) ... > /etc/

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
Jeremy Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >/etc/init.d/firewall: [: =: unary operator expected ># Source networking configuration. >. /etc/network/options > ># Check that networking is up. >[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0 Er. Debian doesn't use the same init script setup as Red Hat, you know, an

jove Package - what to do?

2000-12-09 Thread Cord Beermann
Hi. I've built a new jove-package, that now matches the current standards, i also added some debhelper functions, a beginners menu, activated the recovery-function, and fixed the Bug that stops it from working on the Hurd. The current maintainer (Loic Prylli) doesn't respond and hasn't touched th

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > > not optimal) to have .orig.tar.gz files unpacking at foo-1.2.3 instead of > > foo-1.2.3.orig ? > > The

Re[2]: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Manuel Menal
Jeremy Higgs wrote: >>Your new package is not the problem, here. It seems that the old >>version of your package provided a broken prerm script. So, when dpkg >>try to uninstall it before installing the new version, it just >>crashes.Whatyoucoulddo is just modi

Re: quanta-doc ?

2000-12-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > I would like to package some upstream docs for quanta (HTML Editor for KDE > maintaned already by me) as a package quanta-doc but these upstream docs are > set of various HTML documents which are not relative to this application > directly: > > [1] C

need supervision

2000-12-09 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, I've built some Debian packages (and hijacked a few existing ones to be able to sign these). I'm uncertain whether I have ironed enough of the problems out of it to pass. It would be very nice if some of you knowledgable guys&gals could have a look over it (and please tell me what errors I

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > > > not optimal) to have .orig

[policy] orig.tar.gz unpacking to surprisingly named subdir! (Re: orig.tar.gz)

2000-12-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
[ObCrossposts: We should decide what list to discuss this on.] > "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henrique> On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: >> > Should I be filling

Re: [policy] orig.tar.gz unpacking to surprisingly named subdir! (Re: orig.tar.gz)

2000-12-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > [ObCrossposts: We should decide what list to discuss this on.] Please do so in debian-policy (reply-to: set). The BTS bug number for this problem is 79210. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > > > not optimal) to have .orig

2 Questions... lintian/config rewrite

2000-12-09 Thread Paul van Tilburg
Hi! I have a create a perlscript to check hosts and services on it.. it uses configfiles and is not Debian specific. It installs in /usr/local and the config files are preset to look there too.. I've put it in my CVS repos. yesterday, but I want to package this also and put the 'debian'-dir in cvs

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I didn't receive warnings from any tools (otherwise it wouldn't have taken > > months for me to notice the problem). > > Oh? I notice that dpkg-source complains about when building

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > not optimal) to have .orig.tar.gz files unpacking at foo-1.2.3 instead of > foo-1.2.3.orig ? The tools give warnings, but it really doesn't matter. Qu

Re: creating a debian package that doesn't require compiling...

2000-12-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:48:59AM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: > > Is there a way I can install the deb package, but test it and see > > that everything works?? > > If you don't want to install the package you can examine its > contents using ar x package.deb. Easier than that: dpkg-deb -c filena

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Manuel Menal
Jeremy Higgs wrote: JH> Ok, thanks to the help of some, I've configured a lot of the debian JH> package for RCf, but when I install (after running dpkg-buildpackage JH> and lintian), I get a whole lot of errors: JH> root@debian:~/rcf-5.0.1# lintian -i rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.changes JH> warning: lintia

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Jeremy Higgs
>Your new package is not the problem, here. It seems that the old >version of your package provided a broken prerm script. So, when dpkg >try to uninstall it before installing the new version, it just >crashes.Whatyoucoulddo is just modifying the >/var/lib/dp

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Sven Burgener
Comments below... On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:08:01PM +1100, Jeremy Higgs wrote: [snip] > root@debian:~/rcf-5.0.1# dpkg -i rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 47289 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace rcf 5.0.1-1 (using rcf_5.0.1-1_i386.deb) ... > /etc/init.

Re: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
Jeremy Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >/etc/init.d/firewall: [: =: unary operator expected ># Source networking configuration. >. /etc/network/options > ># Check that networking is up. >[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0 Er. Debian doesn't use the same init script setup as Red Hat, you know, a

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > > not optimal) to have .orig.tar.gz files unpacking at foo-1.2.3 instead of > > foo-1.2.3.orig ? > > Th

jove Package - what to do?

2000-12-09 Thread Cord Beermann
Hi. I've built a new jove-package, that now matches the current standards, i also added some debhelper functions, a beginners menu, activated the recovery-function, and fixed the Bug that stops it from working on the Hurd. The current maintainer (Loic Prylli) doesn't respond and hasn't touched t

Re[2]: Having problems with my (newly created) debian package

2000-12-09 Thread Manuel Menal
Jeremy Higgs wrote: >>Your new package is not the problem, here. It seems that the old >>version of your package provided a broken prerm script. So, when dpkg >>try to uninstall it before installing the new version, it just >>crashes.Whatyoucoulddo is just mod

Re: quanta-doc ?

2000-12-09 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote: > I would like to package some upstream docs for quanta (HTML Editor for KDE > maintaned already by me) as a package quanta-doc but these upstream docs are > set of various HTML documents which are not relative to this application > directly: > > [1]

need supervision

2000-12-09 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, I've built some Debian packages (and hijacked a few existing ones to be able to sign these). I'm uncertain whether I have ironed enough of the problems out of it to pass. It would be very nice if some of you knowledgable guys&gals could have a look over it (and please tell me what errors

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > > > not optimal) to have .ori

[policy] orig.tar.gz unpacking to surprisingly named subdir! (Re: orig.tar.gz)

2000-12-09 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
[ObCrossposts: We should decide what list to discuss this on.] > "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Henrique> On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: >> > Should I be filling

Re: [policy] orig.tar.gz unpacking to surprisingly named subdir! (Re: orig.tar.gz)

2000-12-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > [ObCrossposts: We should decide what list to discuss this on.] Please do so in debian-policy (reply-to: set). The BTS bug number for this problem is 79210. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 11:33:05PM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > > Should I be filling a wishlist bug against lintian, or is it ok (although > > > not optimal) to have .ori

2 Questions... lintian/config rewrite

2000-12-09 Thread Paul van Tilburg
Hi! I have a create a perlscript to check hosts and services on it.. it uses configfiles and is not Debian specific. It installs in /usr/local and the config files are preset to look there too.. I've put it in my CVS repos. yesterday, but I want to package this also and put the 'debian'-dir in cv

Re: orig.tar.gz

2000-12-09 Thread Henrique M Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 11:49:49AM -0200, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > > I didn't receive warnings from any tools (otherwise it wouldn't have taken > > months for me to notice the problem). > > Oh? I notice that dpkg-source complains about when buildin