Re: Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jon Middleton
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:26:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I'm currently the Maintainer of libfile-temp-perl which as of perl 5.6.1 > > > is > > > included in the main Perl distribution. As the package is now redundant > > > should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org

Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
Hi, I'm maintaining mosix. The control file has sections for 3 packages, the binaries, devel files and kernel patch. Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have Section: net How do I specify this in the control file ? Also, I changed the priority of my packages to e

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thus spoke Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-05-31 15:01:25: > > Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have > Section: net > > How do I specify this in the control file ? > Also, I changed the priority of my packages to extra. > Add a Section: to each package. Lik

ITAP: SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2.0 now available

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Coker
The license (which is in the download directory of the FTP server and presumably in the source package as well) is GPL 2.1. This package is a very powerful and exciting way of measuring performance of a network of machines. If used correctly it can allow you to visualise the way that load on o

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010531 11:38]: > > Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have > > Section: net > > Add a Section: to each package. > > Like this: Also, see pop3lite if you want an example. ;-) -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:38:49AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Thus spoke Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-05-31 15:01:25: > > > > Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have > > Section: net > > > > How do I specify this in the control file ? > > Also, I changed th

dh_makeshlibs

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
Hi, dh_makeshlibs puts ldconfig in postinst and postrm. However, lintian complains about ldconfig being run from postrm, and refers to ch. 9 of the policy. What am I missing here, or is it only applicable to a specific case ? Thanks, viral -- Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. > It seems to be ignored, because after installing them, and using > apt-cache show, I don't get the correct result. "apt-cache show" sometimes displays multiple records. Are you sure you're not looking at the wrong o

pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > When I installed pure-ftpd_0.98.4-1_i386.deb , at the end of the > install pure-ftpd said "Starting ftp server: pure-ftpd" and nothing > else happened, i.e. I do not have the prompt, "enter" do not give me > the prompt.If I do a ps I cans see that perl and debconf are stil

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:36:34AM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > > When I installed pure-ftpd_0.98.4-1_i386.deb , at the end of the > > install pure-ftpd said "Starting ftp server: pure-ftpd" and nothing > > else happened, i.e. I do not have the prompt, "enter" do not give me > > the prompt.If I do a

Re: dh_makeshlibs

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >dh_makeshlibs puts ldconfig in postinst and postrm. >However, lintian complains about ldconfig being run from postrm, and refers >to ch. 9 of the policy. > >What am I missing here, or is it only applicable to a specific case ? You're missing bugs #82479, #92236, #

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> This is weird, because the only thing left in the postinst is: >> [orr](0) % tail /var/lib/dpkg/info/pure-ftpd.postinst >> # End automatically added section >> # Automatically added by dh_installinit >> if [ -e "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd" ]; th

Re: Need help on Unlicensed packages (Themes)

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
Colin Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 28 May 2001 21:57:30 +1000 >Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >|On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:31:14PM +0100, Colin Fowler wrote: >|> No Readme - no License - no Copyright. I just took them all, put them >|> together >|> Copyright: >|> Each theme r

Autoconf test for Debian?

2001-05-31 Thread James Bromberger
Hello mentors. I've been thinking about an autoconf test I have for checking that my package is being created on a Debian system. The reason is that I have a very small set of diffs that I want applied to the package only for Debian, and hope at some stage to feed these diffs upstream (things

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Itai Zukerman
Je Thu, 31 May 2001 11:54:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Lunz) scribis: > >> # Automatically added by dh_installinit > >> if [ -e "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd" ]; then > >> update-rc.d pure-ftpd defaults >/dev/null > >> /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start > >>

Re: Autoconf test for Debian?

2001-05-31 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:18:30AM +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > I've been thinking about an autoconf test I have for checking that my package > is being created on a Debian system. The reason is that I have a very small > set of diffs that I want applied to the package only for Debian, and h

Re: Autoconf test for Debian?

2001-05-31 Thread Britton
I would avoid this sort of thing if I were you. If I were upstream I would not accept such patches, and even when I am upstream I like to keep debian specific stuff out of the upstream source. Autoconf only exists because unix standardization is poor, we don't want Linux distributions to balkani

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. > > It seems to be ignored, because after installing them, and using > > apt-cache show, I don't get the correct result. > > "apt-cache show" som

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-31 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
I also do not think that packages should be descriminated because they are in another language than english. Being a swede myself, I'm of course interested in packages available in swedish. However, I currently dont see myself learning japanese or another language than those I already know, and is

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:54:09AM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > >> This is weird, because the only thing left in the postinst is: > >> # Automatically added by dh_installinit > >> if [ -e "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd" ]; then > >> update-rc.d pure-ftpd defaults >/dev/null >

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Is there a way to have debhelper do that? Or should I just not be using >> debhelper for this and put correct code in the postinst myself? > You could add it yourself and use dh_installinit -n, that's what I did for > xinetd. Or try what Itai suggested. Itai's suggestion

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:45:00PM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > > Well, some feel debconf is at fault here, mercilessly taking > > possession of stdout :) > > I knew it probably had something to do with that, I just didn't expect > that debconf and debhelper would conflict like that. Well, it's not

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-31 Thread Casper Gielen
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:37:12PM +0200, Stefan Alfredsson wrote: > What I would like is to have some sort of flag or meta information to > indicate what language/es a package contain, so I can write a script > to easily weed out packages I know I will never use (and maybe include > packages in

Newbie packaging questions

2001-05-31 Thread Brett Cundal
Hi all, I'm trying to put together my own package for gnu-smalltalk, and I'm getting there, but I have some general questions. The current package is split into a main package and a docs package. It's based on gst 1.8.1 and I'm working with 1.95.4. There are some major changes in the package wrt

Re: Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

2001-05-31 Thread Jon Middleton
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:26:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I'm currently the Maintainer of libfile-temp-perl which as of perl 5.6.1 is > > > included in the main Perl distribution. As the package is now redundant > > > should I file a bug against ftp.debian.org askin

Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
Hi, I'm maintaining mosix. The control file has sections for 3 packages, the binaries, devel files and kernel patch. Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have Section: net How do I specify this in the control file ? Also, I changed the priority of my packages to

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Thus spoke Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-05-31 15:01:25: > > Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have > Section: net > > How do I specify this in the control file ? > Also, I changed the priority of my packages to extra. > Add a Section: to each package. Li

ITAP: SGI Performance Co-Pilot 2.2.0 now available

2001-05-31 Thread Russell Coker
The license (which is in the download directory of the FTP server and presumably in the source package as well) is GPL 2.1. This package is a very powerful and exciting way of measuring performance of a network of machines. If used correctly it can allow you to visualise the way that load on

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gergely Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20010531 11:38]: > > Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have > > Section: net > > Add a Section: to each package. > > Like this: Also, see pop3lite if you want an example. ;-) -- Martin Michlma

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:38:49AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Thus spoke Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-05-31 15:01:25: > > > > Now, the devel files should have Section: devel and the rest should have > > Section: net > > > > How do I specify this in the control file ? > > Also, I changed t

dh_makeshlibs

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
Hi, dh_makeshlibs puts ldconfig in postinst and postrm. However, lintian complains about ldconfig being run from postrm, and refers to ch. 9 of the policy. What am I missing here, or is it only applicable to a specific case ? Thanks, viral -- Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. > It seems to be ignored, because after installing them, and using > apt-cache show, I don't get the correct result. "apt-cache show" sometimes displays multiple records. Are you sure you're not looking at the wrong

pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > When I installed pure-ftpd_0.98.4-1_i386.deb , at the end of the > install pure-ftpd said "Starting ftp server: pure-ftpd" and nothing > else happened, i.e. I do not have the prompt, "enter" do not give me > the prompt.If I do a ps I cans see that perl and debconf are sti

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:36:34AM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > > When I installed pure-ftpd_0.98.4-1_i386.deb , at the end of the > > install pure-ftpd said "Starting ftp server: pure-ftpd" and nothing > > else happened, i.e. I do not have the prompt, "enter" do not give me > > the prompt.If I do a

Re: dh_makeshlibs

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >dh_makeshlibs puts ldconfig in postinst and postrm. >However, lintian complains about ldconfig being run from postrm, and refers >to ch. 9 of the policy. > >What am I missing here, or is it only applicable to a specific case ? You're missing bugs #82479, #92236,

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> This is weird, because the only thing left in the postinst is: >> [orr](0) % tail /var/lib/dpkg/info/pure-ftpd.postinst >> # End automatically added section >> # Automatically added by dh_installinit >> if [ -e "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd" ]; t

Re: Need help on Unlicensed packages (Themes)

2001-05-31 Thread Colin Watson
Colin Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 28 May 2001 21:57:30 +1000 >Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >|On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:31:14PM +0100, Colin Fowler wrote: >|> No Readme - no License - no Copyright. I just took them all, put them >|> together >|> Copyright: >|> Each theme

Autoconf test for Debian?

2001-05-31 Thread James Bromberger
Hello mentors. I've been thinking about an autoconf test I have for checking that my package is being created on a Debian system. The reason is that I have a very small set of diffs that I want applied to the package only for Debian, and hope at some stage to feed these diffs upstream (thing

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Itai Zukerman
Je Thu, 31 May 2001 11:54:09 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Lunz) scribis: > >> # Automatically added by dh_installinit > >> if [ -e "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd" ]; then > >> update-rc.d pure-ftpd defaults >/dev/null > >> /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start > >>

Re: Autoconf test for Debian?

2001-05-31 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:18:30AM +0800, James Bromberger wrote: > I've been thinking about an autoconf test I have for checking that my package > is being created on a Debian system. The reason is that I have a very small > set of diffs that I want applied to the package only for Debian, and

Re: Autoconf test for Debian?

2001-05-31 Thread Britton
I would avoid this sort of thing if I were you. If I were upstream I would not accept such patches, and even when I am upstream I like to keep debian specific stuff out of the upstream source. Autoconf only exists because unix standardization is poor, we don't want Linux distributions to balkan

Re: Multiple sections in the control file.

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:52:36PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Viral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I tried that, but it doesn't seem to work. > > It seems to be ignored, because after installing them, and using > > apt-cache show, I don't get the correct result. > > "apt-cache show" so

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-31 Thread Stefan Alfredsson
I also do not think that packages should be descriminated because they are in another language than english. Being a swede myself, I'm of course interested in packages available in swedish. However, I currently dont see myself learning japanese or another language than those I already know, and i

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 11:54:09AM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > >> This is weird, because the only thing left in the postinst is: > >> # Automatically added by dh_installinit > >> if [ -e "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd" ]; then > >> update-rc.d pure-ftpd defaults >/dev/null >

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Jason Lunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Is there a way to have debhelper do that? Or should I just not be using >> debhelper for this and put correct code in the postinst myself? > You could add it yourself and use dh_installinit -n, that's what I did for > xinetd. Or try what Itai suggested. Itai's suggestio

Re: pure-ftpd: zombie postinst under debconf

2001-05-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:45:00PM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > > Well, some feel debconf is at fault here, mercilessly taking > > possession of stdout :) > > I knew it probably had something to do with that, I just didn't expect > that debconf and debhelper would conflict like that. Well, it's no

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-31 Thread Casper Gielen
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:37:12PM +0200, Stefan Alfredsson wrote: > What I would like is to have some sort of flag or meta information to > indicate what language/es a package contain, so I can write a script > to easily weed out packages I know I will never use (and maybe include > packages in

Newbie packaging questions

2001-05-31 Thread Brett Cundal
Hi all, I'm trying to put together my own package for gnu-smalltalk, and I'm getting there, but I have some general questions. The current package is split into a main package and a docs package. It's based on gst 1.8.1 and I'm working with 1.95.4. There are some major changes in the package wr

arch specific details and autobuilder.

2001-05-31 Thread Viral
Hi, Is there a page that tells about the arches that a package was successfully compiled for ? Problems etc ? Thanks, viral -- "Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaa!" PGP signature

Re: arch specific details and autobuilder.

2001-05-31 Thread Bart Warmerdam
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 12:08:58PM +0530, Viral wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a page that tells about the arches that a package was successfully > compiled for ? Problems etc ? Maybe you want to look at http://buildd.debian.org. This is the closest I can think of... Cheers, B. -- To UNSUBSCRIB