Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 23:20]: > I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll > snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have > implemented what you talked about. The problem is that for some reason, > I can't install the pac

Re: packaged perl module

2003-08-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:47:48AM -0700, Josh Lauricha écrivait: > I'm renaming the libtext-csv-perl module to libtext-csv-xs-perl (it > provides Text::CSV_XS not Text::CSV). > > It is lintian clean, however linda complains that an arch specific file > end up in /usr/share/perl5 > > If I have it

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I did: I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in public_html I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html I added deb-src http

Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Max Gilead
Hello! I sent this mail to this list about two weeks ago and nobody volunteered... well, this package is rotting on my hard disk and I'd like to upload it to the Debian community to use. Is there anything wrong with my application? Should I do anything else before applying for a sponsor here? An

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 12:05, Max Gilead wrote: > > I sent this mail to this list about two weeks ago and nobody volunteered... > well, this package is rotting on my hard disk and I'd like to upload it > to the Debian community to use. Could you put up your packages somewhere, including source?

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I did: > > I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool > > I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in > public_html > > I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html > > I added

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Max Gilead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I sent this mail to this list about two weeks ago and nobody volunteered... > well, this package is rotting on my hard disk and I'd like to upload it > to the Debian community to use. Is there anything wrong with my application? > Should I do an

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Max Gilead
Michel Dänzer wrote: Could you put up your packages somewhere, including source? Yes, of course. I'll put it on my FTP today or tomorrow. Regards, Max

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Max Gilead
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: How good are you with upstream? He doesn't seem to have a public cvs repository for his sources. We have good contact, he's very responsive and willing to coordinate the efforts. You could apply on http://alioth.debian.org/ and provide cvs access to the upstream

RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-23 Thread Chris Niekel
Hi, The 'sn' package was orphaned, and I ITA'ed it. I'm not a DD yet, and this is my first package, so I would like to receive some feedback on it. It is available at http://niekel.net/debian/sn_0.3.5-2_i386.deb The other generated files are in the same directory. Thanks, Chris Niekel --

When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Frank Küster
Hello all, I know that there has been debate about the use and abuse of debconf; some packages have been critized to be much to verbose and ask unnecessary stuff. However, to me it's not quite clear what necessary would mean. Therefore I'm looking for a place where I could read about that (perhap

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread dstibbe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/archive$ ls > Packages.gz Sources.gz binary-i386 source k... now this is where you are wrong the structure should be like this : ~/archive/binary-i386/Packages.gz ~/archive/source/Sources.gz and those two files point to wherever your packages might be ( normally you'd

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:00:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > - Ask wether the laptop uses PCMCIA or not. > > If yes, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts should contain the necessary > information, it is parsed. > > If no a scheme is set up based on /etc/network/interfaces and > /etc/resolv.conf

Patch needs Sponsor - List of easily NMUed RC bugs

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I went through the RC bug list and collected Bugs with trivial patches and sorted them a bit. They realy don't need much work so if you have a minute pick one. If you want to NMU any of them check the then currently claimed bugs (url under claimed bugs). So here we go: g++-3.3 fixes: ---

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?utf-8?b?RnJhbmsgS8O8c3Rlcg==?=) writes: > Hello all, > > If there is no working configuration, networking will problably not work > at all - this is bad, especially if by bad chance somebody installs the > package on a remotely administered machine. Therefore one option would

RFS: xtoolwait (orphaned package)

2003-08-23 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
xtoolwait starts one X client in the background, waits until it has mapped a window and then exits, which can be useful for systems with a small amount of memory or slow disk drives (including bootable CD-ROMs). It was orphaned a while ago (wnpp bug #192675), and I'd like to adopt it, but I'll nee

RFS: lfingerd -- a simple, secure Python finger daemon

2003-08-23 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
I need a sponsor for lfingerd. Description: a simple, secure Python finger daemon lfingerd is a simple finger server designed to run from inetd. It simply returns a user's .plan file, or .plan- if a client queries for username+. . lfingerd is written in Python, and is small enough to be audi

Update: Patch needs Sponsor - List of easily NMUed RC bugs

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I went through the RC bug list and collected Bugs with trivial patches > and sorted them a bit. They realy don't need much work so if you have > a minute pick one. If you want to NMU any of them check the > then currently claimed bugs (ur

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Eric Winger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030822 23:20]: > I think part of the problem, is that the original problem got lost. I'll > snip your comments, because I believe I understand and correctly have > implemented what you talked about. The problem is that for some reason, > I can't install the pac

Re: packaged perl module

2003-08-23 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:47:48AM -0700, Josh Lauricha écrivait: > I'm renaming the libtext-csv-perl module to libtext-csv-xs-perl (it > provides Text::CSV_XS not Text::CSV). > > It is lintian clean, however linda complains that an arch specific file > end up in /usr/share/perl5 > > If I have it

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I did: I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in public_html I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html I added deb-src http

Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Max Gilead
Hello! I sent this mail to this list about two weeks ago and nobody volunteered... well, this package is rotting on my hard disk and I'd like to upload it to the Debian community to use. Is there anything wrong with my application? Should I do anything else before applying for a sponsor here? And

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 12:05, Max Gilead wrote: > > I sent this mail to this list about two weeks ago and nobody volunteered... > well, this package is rotting on my hard disk and I'd like to upload it > to the Debian community to use. Could you put up your packages somewhere, including source?

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I did: > > I put the *.deb, *.dsc, *.diff, *.orig.tar.gz in public_html/pool > > I run dpkg-scanpackages pool /dev/null|gzip -9c> pool/Packages.gz in > public_html > > I run dpkg-scansources pool|gzip -9c> pool/Sources.gz in public_html > > I added

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Max Gilead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I sent this mail to this list about two weeks ago and nobody volunteered... > well, this package is rotting on my hard disk and I'd like to upload it > to the Debian community to use. Is there anything wrong with my application? > Should I do an

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Max Gilead
Michel Dänzer wrote: Could you put up your packages somewhere, including source? Yes, of course. I'll put it on my FTP today or tomorrow. Regards, Max -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for sponsor for Neverball game package

2003-08-23 Thread Max Gilead
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: How good are you with upstream? He doesn't seem to have a public cvs repository for his sources. We have good contact, he's very responsive and willing to coordinate the efforts. You could apply on http://alioth.debian.org/ and provide cvs access to the upstream sourc

RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-23 Thread Chris Niekel
Hi, The 'sn' package was orphaned, and I ITA'ed it. I'm not a DD yet, and this is my first package, so I would like to receive some feedback on it. It is available at http://niekel.net/debian/sn_0.3.5-2_i386.deb The other generated files are in the same directory. Thanks, Chris Niekel --

When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Frank Küster
Hello all, I know that there has been debate about the use and abuse of debconf; some packages have been critized to be much to verbose and ask unnecessary stuff. However, to me it's not quite clear what necessary would mean. Therefore I'm looking for a place where I could read about that (perhap

Re: can't install from a local repository

2003-08-23 Thread dstibbe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/archive$ ls > Packages.gz Sources.gz binary-i386 source k... now this is where you are wrong the structure should be like this : ~/archive/binary-i386/Packages.gz ~/archive/source/Sources.gz and those two files point to wherever your packages might be ( normally you'd

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:00:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > - Ask wether the laptop uses PCMCIA or not. > > If yes, /etc/pcmcia/network.opts should contain the necessary > information, it is parsed. > > If no a scheme is set up based on /etc/network/interfaces and > /etc/resolv.conf

Patch needs Sponsor - List of easily NMUed RC bugs

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hi, I went through the RC bug list and collected Bugs with trivial patches and sorted them a bit. They realy don't need much work so if you have a minute pick one. If you want to NMU any of them check the then currently claimed bugs (url under claimed bugs). So here we go: g++-3.3 fixes: ---

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?utf-8?b?RnJhbmsgS8O8c3Rlcg==?=) writes: > Hello all, > > If there is no working configuration, networking will problably not work > at all - this is bad, especially if by bad chance somebody installs the > package on a remotely administered machine. Therefore one option would

RFS: xtoolwait (orphaned package)

2003-08-23 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
xtoolwait starts one X client in the background, waits until it has mapped a window and then exits, which can be useful for systems with a small amount of memory or slow disk drives (including bootable CD-ROMs). It was orphaned a while ago (wnpp bug #192675), and I'd like to adopt it, but I'll nee

RFS: lfingerd -- a simple, secure Python finger daemon

2003-08-23 Thread Dwayne C. Litzenberger
I need a sponsor for lfingerd. Description: a simple, secure Python finger daemon lfingerd is a simple finger server designed to run from inetd. It simply returns a user's .plan file, or .plan- if a client queries for username+. . lfingerd is written in Python, and is small enough to be audi

Update: Patch needs Sponsor - List of easily NMUed RC bugs

2003-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I went through the RC bug list and collected Bugs with trivial patches > and sorted them a bit. They realy don't need much work so if you have > a minute pick one. If you want to NMU any of them check the > then currently claimed bugs (ur