Looking for a sponsor for Bible related package

2002-06-23 Thread Victor Porton
Hi, I created a package (http://gldedit.sourceforge.net for details and download) from my own software. It is an editor for Bible study tools. It is alpha. I think it is appropriate for putting to unstable distribution (at least on the site). So I am looking for a sponsor. Well, I never rele

Quick dependency question / Looking for a sponsor: everything/maim/libmail-sender-perl

2002-06-23 Thread Jay Bonci
Hello, I have a quick question for the experienced packager. For the hell of it, in the Everything engine package, I wrote a maintainer script (my postinst) using bash and some sed to do intelligent default guessing and general parsing/escaping. Now sed is in the Filesystem Hierarchy Stan

Re: Quick dependency question / Looking for a sponsor: everything/maim/libmail-sender-perl

2002-06-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:30:06AM -0700, Jay Bonci wrote: > I have a quick question for the experienced packager. For the hell of it, > in the Everything engine package, I wrote a maintainer script (my postinst) > using bash and some sed to do intelligent default guessing and general >

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

2002-06-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:18:28PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, >> inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? >> I need to know it in newsx's wrapper skript to s

Re: nvrec and possible problems?

2002-06-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, contrib/x11 it is then, ... > > But is this a good location? Can it be in contrib, since it is not > possible to package (binary) versions of those packages: [...] contrib is for packages that depend on other stuff outside of Debian. It doesn't matt

Doesn't lintian accept overriding its build-depends-without-arch-dep error?

2002-06-23 Thread Shaul Karl
As previously discussed here ( http://lists.debian.org/2002/debian-mentors-200202/msg00100.html ) I am trying to override lintian's build-depends-without-arch-dep error. Lintian's output line is: E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep I have tried to put in usr/share/lintian/over

RE: Doesn't lintian accept overriding its build-depends-without-

2002-06-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Jun-2002 Shaul Karl wrote: > As previously discussed here > ( http://lists.debian.org/2002/debian-mentors-200202/msg00100.html ) I > am trying to override lintian's build-depends-without-arch-dep error. > > Lintian's output line is: > > E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-de

Re: sponsor wanted

2002-06-23 Thread Botond Botyanszki
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:07:51 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * You should not include INSTALL in .deb . > > > > The interesting thing is that dh_installdocs does this (BUG??). > > Only if you have INSTALL in debian/docs or debian/.docs. > dh_make may have added this for you.

Re: IRCP: copy files via IRDA/OBEX

2002-06-23 Thread NOKUBI Takatsugu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Hi, >> I already have a deb done for IRCP, a simple little utility allowing you >> to send and receive files via the IRDA/OBEX-protocol, which is used e.g. >> in PDAs and Windows 'file beaming'. >> >> after experimenting with this progr

Re: sponsor wanted

2002-06-23 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Botond Botyanszki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Only if you have INSTALL in debian/docs or debian/.docs. >> dh_make may have added this for you. Remove it and all will be well. > I don't have an INSTALL file under debian/, the only one is in the > rootdir of the pacakge. I wouldn't mind removing

Looking for a sponsor for Bible related package

2002-06-23 Thread Victor Porton
Hi, I created a package (http://gldedit.sourceforge.net for details and download) from my own software. It is an editor for Bible study tools. It is alpha. I think it is appropriate for putting to unstable distribution (at least on the site). So I am looking for a sponsor. Well, I never relea

Quick dependency question / Looking for a sponsor: everything/maim/libmail-sender-perl

2002-06-23 Thread Jay Bonci
Hello, I have a quick question for the experienced packager. For the hell of it, in the Everything engine package, I wrote a maintainer script (my postinst) using bash and some sed to do intelligent default guessing and general parsing/escaping. Now sed is in the Filesystem Hierarchy Stan

Re: Quick dependency question / Looking for a sponsor: everything/maim/libmail-sender-perl

2002-06-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:30:06AM -0700, Jay Bonci wrote: > I have a quick question for the experienced packager. For the hell of > it, > in the Everything engine package, I wrote a maintainer script (my postinst) > using bash and some sed to do intelligent default guessing and general

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

2002-06-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:18:28PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> Is there some canonical fast way to check in a script whether inn, >> inn2 or cnews is installed on the system? >> I need to know it in newsx's wrapper skript to se

Re: nvrec and possible problems?

2002-06-23 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Marc Leeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, contrib/x11 it is then, ... > > But is this a good location? Can it be in contrib, since it is not > possible to package (binary) versions of those packages: [...] contrib is for packages that depend on other stuff outside of Debian. It doesn't matte

Doesn't lintian accept overriding its build-depends-without-arch-dep error?

2002-06-23 Thread Shaul Karl
As previously discussed here ( http://lists.debian.org/2002/debian-mentors-200202/msg00100.html ) I am trying to override lintian's build-depends-without-arch-dep error. Lintian's output line is: E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep I have tried to put in usr/share/lintian/overr

RE: Doesn't lintian accept overriding its build-depends-without-

2002-06-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 23-Jun-2002 Shaul Karl wrote: > As previously discussed here > ( http://lists.debian.org/2002/debian-mentors-200202/msg00100.html ) I > am trying to override lintian's build-depends-without-arch-dep error. > > Lintian's output line is: > > E: tkman source: build-depends-without-arch-dep

Re: sponsor wanted

2002-06-23 Thread Botond Botyanszki
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 11:07:51 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * You should not include INSTALL in .deb . > > > > The interesting thing is that dh_installdocs does this (BUG??). > > Only if you have INSTALL in debian/docs or debian/.docs. > dh_make may have added this for you.