Re: On replacing orphaned packages

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > As far as I can tell, no modules depend on it - Maybe I am searching for > this the wrong way, but... There's an apt-cache command which shows reverse depends... Aah, there it is, showpkg. Run that over any package, and it'll show you Reverse Depends (am

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:00AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:35:43PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > so... is there anything i can do other than putting some more > > > documentation in /usr/share/doc? > > > > Err, README.Debian? > > that is what i was implying the

Re: Producing a None-Hardware specific .deb

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ian. Ian Wilkinson wrote: > I am currently the developer of a cgi application (BlueLava, if anyone's > interested :-)). I've read as much as I can find about making .debs but > I can find nothing about producing a none-architecture specific .deb. P

RFS: libchipcard -- An api for smartcard readers (very useful forsome homebanking with gnucash-hbci)

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package. The addition of libchipcard to Debian would substantially increase the number of users benefitting from gnucash's hbci (home banking) extensions (cf. packages gnucash-hbci, libopenhbci, and bug

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:21:32AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:00AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > that is what i was implying there, but was wondering if there was > > something *other* than that :) but with the above suggestion, i think > > it'll be moot, so thanks ag

unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Jonas Fonseca
Hello, I ITP'ed FXRuby (libfox-ruby) some time ago. But in the meantime I've been cought up in another project (typical ;) and also found unofficial libfox-ruby packages[0] (for the unstable ruby interpreter). So I have kind of lost interest in packaging it and want to RFP it instead as I still li

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Don't file a new one, retitle the old one to RFP. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jonas! You wrote: > Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Just retitle the existing bug to an RFP. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |--

Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Celso González
Hi all I'm trying to package a mozilla plugin (enigmail), but i have a problem with build dependences because I need a precompiled mozilla tree. I have several options. Option a) I omit the tar.gz sources and I use a xpi compiled by my own The deb installs this xpi like the mozilla-locale p

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer (was Re: Question about seeking (finding) a sponsor)

2003-02-01 Thread Frank Evers
Hi Chad On Sonntag, 26. Januar 2003 23:55, Chad Miller wrote: > This is something you should do if and when you're pretty sure that > you don't want your work to be just exercise. There's nothing > wrong with packaging something just for the experience, note; you > don't have to be a package ma

Re: Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Richter
Celso, > Option c) > Create a mozilla-dev? package and use this one like build dependence Guess what? There is already a mozilla-dev package. :-) Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 msg08482/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:15:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I'm using dh_perl to calculate the package dependencies for a perl > > script in the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package. I thought this was > > working, but it's not getting the dependencies r

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:57:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dh_perl doesn't (currently) attempt to calculate general module > > dependencies, only core dependencies. > > OK, thanks. > > I guess that, due to the nature of the perl parser, adding this

Re: Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Celso González
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:25:46PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Celso, > > > Option c) > > Create a mozilla-dev? package and use this one like build dependence > > Guess what? There is already a mozilla-dev package. :-) > Ups :-) Great but terrible, now I have to fight with a long Makefile I

question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
hey mentors i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. when i purge the package, i get: balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sugarplum (Reading database ... 69541 files and directories cu

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > I would use the various introspection-related modules to do this (maybe > Devel::Symdump or B?), but it's not possible to get it reliably correct > automatically. I think there are plenty of not-particularly-pathological > scripts and modules in the distribution that would eas

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:55:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Yes, it's very hard to get right and even if you do, mostly, there is > still the issue of mapping perl modules into debian packages, which > would be hard for debhelper to do, as it would have to depend on having Mapping from a perl

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Kemp wrote: > Mapping from a perl module to a Debian package should be trivial, > I would have thought. > > Given the system upon which dh_perl would be run would have the > modules installed it should be a simple matter of running > 'dpkg --search path/to/perl/module.pm' - or am I mi

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > The module package may not even be installed, the module may be used > conditionally, a versioned dependency may be needed, multiple packages > may provide the same module (and a dependency on a virtual package or an > ored dependency ne

Re: question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:43PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum > and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. > when i purge the package, i get: > > balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sug

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:35:43PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > i'm throwing together a cgi script package that requires certain > > lines be added to the apache configuration file on the webserver > > in order to work, so there's no way it can work out of the box as > > far as i can figure, at l

Re: On replacing orphaned packages

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > As far as I can tell, no modules depend on it - Maybe I am searching for > this the wrong way, but... There's an apt-cache command which shows reverse depends... Aah, there it is, showpkg. Run that over any package, and it'll show you Reverse Depends (am

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:00AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:35:43PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > > so... is there anything i can do other than putting some more > > > documentation in /usr/share/doc? > > > > Err, README.Debian? > > that is what i was implying the

Re: Producing a None-Hardware specific .deb

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ian. Ian Wilkinson wrote: > I am currently the developer of a cgi application (BlueLava, if anyone's > interested :-)). I've read as much as I can find about making .debs but > I can find nothing about producing a none-architecture specific .deb. P

RFS: libchipcard -- An api for smartcard readers (very useful for some homebanking with gnucash-hbci)

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package. The addition of libchipcard to Debian would substantially increase the number of users benefitting from gnucash's hbci (home banking) extensions (cf. packages gnucash-hbci, libopenhbci, and bug

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:21:32AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:41:00AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > > that is what i was implying there, but was wondering if there was > > something *other* than that :) but with the above suggestion, i think > > it'll be moot, so thanks ag

unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Jonas Fonseca
Hello, I ITP'ed FXRuby (libfox-ruby) some time ago. But in the meantime I've been cought up in another project (typical ;) and also found unofficial libfox-ruby packages[0] (for the unstable ruby interpreter). So I have kind of lost interest in packaging it and want to RFP it instead as I still li

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:22:30PM +0100, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Don't file a new one, retitle the old one to RFP. Michael

Re: unITPing

2003-02-01 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Hi Jonas! You wrote: > Should I just file an RFP bug somehow or what should I do ? Just retitle the existing bug to an RFP. -- Kind regards, ++ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |--

Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Celso González
Hi all I'm trying to package a mozilla plugin (enigmail), but i have a problem with build dependences because I need a precompiled mozilla tree. I have several options. Option a) I omit the tar.gz sources and I use a xpi compiled by my own The deb installs this xpi like the mozilla-locale p

Re: How to be a great Debian Developer (was Re: Question about seeking (finding) a sponsor)

2003-02-01 Thread Frank Evers
Hi Chad On Sonntag, 26. Januar 2003 23:55, Chad Miller wrote: > This is something you should do if and when you're pretty sure that > you don't want your work to be just exercise. There's nothing > wrong with packaging something just for the experience, note; you > don't have to be a package ma

Re: Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Simon Richter
Celso, > Option c) > Create a mozilla-dev? package and use this one like build dependence Guess what? There is already a mozilla-dev package. :-) Simon -- GPG Fingerprint: 040E B5F7 84F1 4FBC CEAD ADC6 18A0 CC8D 5706 A4B4 pgpBEej03Ntyk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:15:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I'm using dh_perl to calculate the package dependencies for a perl > > script in the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package. I thought this was > > working, but it's not getting the dependencies r

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:57:31PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dh_perl doesn't (currently) attempt to calculate general module > > dependencies, only core dependencies. > > OK, thanks. > > I guess that, due to the nature of the perl parser, adding this

Re: Packagin mozilla plugin

2003-02-01 Thread Celso González
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 02:25:46PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Celso, > > > Option c) > > Create a mozilla-dev? package and use this one like build dependence > > Guess what? There is already a mozilla-dev package. :-) > Ups :-) Great but terrible, now I have to fight with a long Makefile I

question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread sean finney
hey mentors i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. when i purge the package, i get: balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sugarplum (Reading database ... 69541 files and directories cu

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Colin Watson wrote: > I would use the various introspection-related modules to do this (maybe > Devel::Symdump or B?), but it's not possible to get it reliably correct > automatically. I think there are plenty of not-particularly-pathological > scripts and modules in the distribution that would eas

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:55:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Yes, it's very hard to get right and even if you do, mostly, there is > still the issue of mapping perl modules into debian packages, which > would be hard for debhelper to do, as it would have to depend on having Mapping from a perl

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Kemp wrote: > Mapping from a perl module to a Debian package should be trivial, > I would have thought. > > Given the system upon which dh_perl would be run would have the > modules installed it should be a simple matter of running > 'dpkg --search path/to/perl/module.pm' - or am I mi

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > The module package may not even be installed, the module may be used > conditionally, a versioned dependency may be needed, multiple packages > may provide the same module (and a dependency on a virtual package or an > ored dependency ne

Re: question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:43PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum > and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. > when i purge the package, i get: > > balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sug

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Brian Nelson
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hey -mentors > > i'm throwing together a cgi script package that requires certain > lines be added to the apache configuration file on the webserver > in order to work, so there's no way it can work out of the box as > far as i can figure, at least until a