Re: How to detect if Sendmail/Postfix/Qmail is installed

2003-02-25 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:37:25PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > to throw even more monkeywrenches in the gearbox, some people may have > compiled an MTA outside of the packaging system, and be using qmail/ > sendmail/postfix (the uspported MTA's) but not have it registered with > apt/dpkg a

Re: How to detect if Sendmail/Postfix/Qmail is installed

2003-02-25 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:14:25PM +0100, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:37:25PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > to throw even more monkeywrenches in the gearbox, some people may have > > compiled an MTA outside of the packaging system, and be using qmail/ > > sendmai

public access to crest.d.o

2003-02-25 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello list, there is a bug reported (Bug#178971) against one of my packages which only seems to occur on m68k. since i want to test my package before the next release, i thought about doing test-runs on crest.d.o. the website at db.d.o/machines.cgi says that this machine is accessble by "all". so

duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims that : $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf And effectively, if i open the .deb, i see that /etc/ocaml/ld.conf is listed two times as conffile. N

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, ... > > I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims > that : > > $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb > E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf > > And effectively, if i open the .deb, i see tha

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:58:11PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, ... > > > > I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims > > that : > > > > $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb > > E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplica

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi! On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:31:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, ... > > I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims > that : > > $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb > E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf > > And effectively, i

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hello Sven, Sven Luther wrote: > I am using debhelper, and i guess one of the debhelpers is responsible > for this. Does anyone have an idea of where this is coming from ? man debhelper says that for compat mode >= 3: Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile by dh_installdeb. Chee

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread David Grant
Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, ... I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims that : $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf And effectively, if i open the .deb, i

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Debhelp automaticaly adds every /etc file to conffile. >>So, remove this entry from ocaml-base-3.06-1.conffiles. >> > I've been getting this error too. I just have a conffiles file in my > debian directory. It contains one /etc/ line. But if I > remove

no debian/ocaml-native-compilers-3.06-1/DEBIAN/control ???

2003-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, It is me again, ... While trying to build my package on sparc, i get : dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file `debian/ocaml-native-compilers-3.06-1/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory which has me trully baffled. The package builds fine on i386, and two other b

A new package which I would like to add to Debian

2003-02-25 Thread Kevin J. Kalupson
There is a biology/bio-informatics package which I would like to add to debian. I have easily installed this package under woody and would like to know what steps I should take to turn this piece of software into a deb. My first question is "Am I writing to the correct list?". If I am not writi

Is sid recommended?

2003-02-25 Thread Volker Sturm
Hi, if I want to get into software development for Debian: Is it recommended to stay with stable or upgrade to sid? Regards, Volker Sturm -- Volker Sturm +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: A new package which I would like to add to Debian

2003-02-25 Thread David Grant
Kevin J. Kalupson wrote: There is a biology/bio-informatics package which I would like to add to debian. I have easily installed this package under woody and would like to know what steps I should take to turn this piece of software into a deb. My first question is "Am I writing to the correct

Re: How to detect if Sendmail/Postfix/Qmail is installed

2003-02-25 Thread Martin Baehr
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:37:25PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > to throw even more monkeywrenches in the gearbox, some people may have > compiled an MTA outside of the packaging system, and be using qmail/ > sendmail/postfix (the uspported MTA's) but not have it registered with > apt/dpkg a

Re: How to detect if Sendmail/Postfix/Qmail is installed

2003-02-25 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:14:25PM +0100, Martin Baehr wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:37:25PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > to throw even more monkeywrenches in the gearbox, some people may have > > compiled an MTA outside of the packaging system, and be using qmail/ > > sendmai

public access to crest.d.o

2003-02-25 Thread Sebastian Henschel
hello list, there is a bug reported (Bug#178971) against one of my packages which only seems to occur on m68k. since i want to test my package before the next release, i thought about doing test-runs on crest.d.o. the website at db.d.o/machines.cgi says that this machine is accessble by "all". so

duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims that : $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf And effectively, if i open the .deb, i see that /etc/ocaml/ld.conf is listed two times as conffile. N

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, ... > > I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims > that : > > $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb > E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf > > And effectively, if i open the .deb, i see tha

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:58:11PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello, ... > > > > I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims > > that : > > > > $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb > > E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplica

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi! On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:31:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, ... > > I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims > that : > > $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb > E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf > > And effectively, i

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hello Sven, Sven Luther wrote: > I am using debhelper, and i guess one of the debhelpers is responsible > for this. Does anyone have an idea of where this is coming from ? man debhelper says that for compat mode >= 3: Every file in etc/ is automatically flagged as a conffile by dh_installdeb. Chee

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread David Grant
Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, ... I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims that : $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf And effectively, if i open the .d

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread Jérôme Marant
David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Debhelp automaticaly adds every /etc file to conffile. >>So, remove this entry from ocaml-base-3.06-1.conffiles. >> > I've been getting this error too. I just have a conffiles file in my > debian directory. It contains one /etc/ line. But if I > remove

no debian/ocaml-native-compilers-3.06-1/DEBIAN/control ???

2003-02-25 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, It is me again, ... While trying to build my package on sparc, i get : dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file `debian/ocaml-native-compilers-3.06-1/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory which has me trully baffled. The package builds fine on i386, and two other b