Re: gallery setup && /var

2001-12-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Adam Lazur wrote: > > I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where > in /var to put the setup directory. .. > And now my question: > > Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? Why not /var/lib/gallery ? You can have a look to the FHS in order to se

Re: gallery setup && /var

2001-12-07 Thread Adam Lazur
J?r?me Marant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Adam Lazur wrote: > > I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where > > in /var to put the setup directory. > .. > > And now my question: > > > > Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? > > Why not /var/lib/ga

Re: why did the ocaml package not enter woody ?

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Henning Niss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed it seems that lablgtk which depends on an exact version of > ocaml (at least on some architectures) may be the culprit. From > update_excuses.html: > > * lablgtk (- to 1.2.1-3) [...] > + lablgtk (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia6

Re: Package names and perl

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I understand the perl-policy, all packages that contain perl modules are > to be named in the form libfoo-bar-perl. >From my understanding, these are the perl equivalent of a shared library. So the same rule should apply: Only package it seperately

Re: HELP: [Bug#122501: latex2html: should depend on gs for pstoimg]

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is in the Recommends list. If one doesn't have any character that > latex2html wants to convert to an image, it would work properly, hence > only Recommends (I beleive this is the reason from previous maintainer). If latex2html is sufficiently u

testing trouble

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, I'd like to know what's holding up jack, python-cddb and python-id3 from entering woody. Jack depends on the two python-packages, and all depend on python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2), as I understand is mandated by Python-Policy. All of those package built successful ona all arches AFAICT:

Re: gallery setup && /var

2001-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:35:52AM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: > Hmm, I didn't think it fit well last night, but after I've slept for a > while and now have re-read that portion of the FHS, I guess it could be > considered "state information". Compare with /var/lib/mailman (particularly /var/lib/mai

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Packaging gnome-tools with the older libs

2001-12-07 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. I'm the maintainer of gnome-iconedit and I have just the problem, that i won;t build either ... I didn't change anything ... I got this after fixing some include at dpkg-buildpackage ... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/u

"AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user and a packager, but have been quite impressed so far coming from the RedHat/RPM worl

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > I guess I just need someone to say, "for that, read this". > First off, again, I'm kinda confused on where to begin (yeah, > like you haven't heard that before, I know ;-). Is dh_make > where I should start (our package is just a tarball)? I just started playing with d

Re: a suitable program name?

2001-12-07 Thread Geert Stappers
At 21:37 +0100 12/5/01, Hereward Cooper wrote: >Hi there yal, > >Is 'fileconvert-v1-to-v2' a suitable program name within a package (this >is not >the package itself, just a program is supplies). Should it be shorter + more >relevant to the package in comes with? > Yep, make it more relevant to th

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Colin Walters
Bryan-TheBS-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As such, this is going to be almost an "AOL-level" help request. > I'm very sorry for this. All I'm looking for is a little direction, > and I'll RTFM the rest. I've gone through much of the FAQ, > Developer's Reference and New Maintainer's Guide,

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello Bryan, On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. > We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based > wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a us

RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Moerz
Hi! Well I have got a library (libsdlmm-1.0) that has got it's own config script (sdlmm-config) which is utilized by the .m4 macro for automake (AM_PATH_SDLMM). My probleme here is that sdlmm-config --libs outputs: -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDLmm which then 'poisons' every package that w

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. > We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based > wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user > and a pac

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Duncan Findlay wrote: > I've got some good news for you. I've already packaged the linux-wlan > stuff, and my AM said he'd upload it tomorrow. I was going to e-mail you > earlier, but I figured that I had no clue when the packages would be > (finally) uploaded. Cool! Thanx! [ Just don't tell

Re: RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Moerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> First question: -rpath specifies where a library (eventually) MM> will be installed, but what is so bad about that? Let's say, hypothetically, that you were used to building all of your X programs with '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib'. It works, no harm i

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. > We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based > wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user > and a pac

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Re: Package names and perl

2001-12-07 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:37:33PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > As I understand the perl-policy, all packages that contain perl modules are > to be named in the form libfoo-bar-perl. I'm working on a program called > SpamAssassin. While it contains perl modules, its primary purpose is for > its

Re: gallery setup && /var

2001-12-07 Thread Jérôme Marant
Adam Lazur wrote: > > I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where > in /var to put the setup directory. .. > And now my question: > > Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? Why not /var/lib/gallery ? You can have a look to the FHS in order to see

Re: gallery setup && /var

2001-12-07 Thread Adam Lazur
J?r?me Marant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Adam Lazur wrote: > > I'm packaging gallery, a php photo album. I have a question about where > > in /var to put the setup directory. > .. > > And now my question: > > > > Where in /var should the gallery setup directory reside? > > Why not /var/lib/gal

Re: why did the ocaml package not enter woody ?

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Henning Niss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed it seems that lablgtk which depends on an exact version of > ocaml (at least on some architectures) may be the culprit. From > update_excuses.html: > > * lablgtk (- to 1.2.1-3) [...] > + lablgtk (source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64

Re: Package names and perl

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I understand the perl-policy, all packages that contain perl modules are > to be named in the form libfoo-bar-perl. >From my understanding, these are the perl equivalent of a shared library. So the same rule should apply: Only package it seperately,

Re: HELP: [Bug#122501: latex2html: should depend on gs for pstoimg]

2001-12-07 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is in the Recommends list. If one doesn't have any character that > latex2html wants to convert to an image, it would work properly, hence > only Recommends (I beleive this is the reason from previous maintainer). If latex2html is sufficiently us

testing trouble

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Banck
Hello, I'd like to know what's holding up jack, python-cddb and python-id3 from entering woody. Jack depends on the two python-packages, and all depend on python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2), as I understand is mandated by Python-Policy. All of those package built successful ona all arches AFAICT: [

Re: gallery setup && /var

2001-12-07 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:35:52AM -0500, Adam Lazur wrote: > Hmm, I didn't think it fit well last night, but after I've slept for a > while and now have re-read that portion of the FHS, I guess it could be > considered "state information". Compare with /var/lib/mailman (particularly /var/lib/mail

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Packaging gnome-tools with the older libs

2001-12-07 Thread Jan-Hendrik Palic
Hi .. I'm the maintainer of gnome-iconedit and I have just the problem, that i won;t build either ... I didn't change anything ... I got this after fixing some include at dpkg-buildpackage ... gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I/usr/include -I/usr/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H -I/us

"AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user and a packager, but have been quite impressed so far coming from the RedHat/RPM world

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > I guess I just need someone to say, "for that, read this". > First off, again, I'm kinda confused on where to begin (yeah, > like you haven't heard that before, I know ;-). Is dh_make > where I should start (our package is just a tarball)? I just started playing with dh

Re: a suitable program name?

2001-12-07 Thread Geert Stappers
At 21:37 +0100 12/5/01, Hereward Cooper wrote: >Hi there yal, > >Is 'fileconvert-v1-to-v2' a suitable program name within a package (this >is not >the package itself, just a program is supplies). Should it be shorter + more >relevant to the package in comes with? > Yep, make it more relevant to the

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Colin Walters
Bryan-TheBS-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As such, this is going to be almost an "AOL-level" help request. > I'm very sorry for this. All I'm looking for is a little direction, > and I'll RTFM the rest. I've gone through much of the FAQ, > Developer's Reference and New Maintainer's Guide,

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
Hello Bryan, On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. > We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based > wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a use

RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread Michael Moerz
Hi! Well I have got a library (libsdlmm-1.0) that has got it's own config script (sdlmm-config) which is utilized by the .m4 macro for automake (AM_PATH_SDLMM). My probleme here is that sdlmm-config --libs outputs: -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib -lSDLmm which then 'poisons' every package that wo

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote: > Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. > We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based > wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user > and a pack

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Bryan-TheBS-Smith
Duncan Findlay wrote: > I've got some good news for you. I've already packaged the linux-wlan > stuff, and my AM said he'd upload it tomorrow. I was going to e-mail you > earlier, but I figured that I had no clue when the packages would be > (finally) uploaded. Cool! Thanx! [ Just don't tell M

Re: RPATH question

2001-12-07 Thread David Z Maze
Michael Moerz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MM> First question: -rpath specifies where a library (eventually) MM> will be installed, but what is so bad about that? Let's say, hypothetically, that you were used to building all of your X programs with '-Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib'. It works, no harm in