Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
[ I already posted this to debian-dev, they told me here was the right place. I really need help to learn building debian packages ] Hello, I'm learning making debian packages. I choosed to learn on a very simple software: minimalist. Installing it from source is just about copying a single file

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Matthijs Mohlmann
Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: [ I already posted this to debian-dev, they told me here was the right place. I really need help to learn building debian packages ] Hello, I'm learning making debian packages. I choosed to learn on a very simple software: minimalist. Installing it from sourc

Re: XOOPS Debian Package

2005-01-06 Thread Francesco Paolo Lovergine
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 05:40:18PM -0600, Erick Vresnev Castellanos Hernández wrote: > W: xoops: possible-bashism-in-maintainer-script postinst:23 > 'p{("a".."z","A".."Z",0..9)[int(rand(62))]}' You can either remove this kind of bashism or use explicitly /bin/bash in the shee-bang line. The latt

Re: Output of dpkg-scanpackages as XML

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Watkins
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:24:46PM +, David Given wrote: > It's still an ad-hoc solution, though; does anyone know of versions of > the standard textutils that know about Unicode? the Plan 9 ones would use utf-8, but I suppose they're not POSIX. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Roland Gruber
Hi all, I added a debian/watch file to my package ldap-account-manager some time ago. But the status on Debian Health is still that no watch file is existent. This is the Debian Health page of my package: http://dehs.alioth.debian.org/maintainer.php?name=ldap-account-manager The file contains th

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > I added a debian/watch file to my package ldap-account-manager some time > ago. But the status on Debian Health is still that no watch file is > existent. I've had the same problems on my packages - my watch file is practically id

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: | On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: | | |>I added a debian/watch file to my package ldap-account-manager some time |>ago. But the status on Debian Health is still that no watch file is |>existent. |

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luk Claes wrote: | Dominic Hargreaves wrote: | | On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: | | | | | |>I added a debian/watch file to my package ldap-account-manager some time | |>ago. But the status on Debian Health is still that n

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
I just checked your line, and it works locally. But see this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/242884 Also see the related thread on -devel in October: "Sourceforge dislikes uscan" is what it boils down to. Justin On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > Hi all, > > I added a

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:17:24AM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > [ I already posted this to debian-dev, they told me > here was the right place. I really need help to learn > building debian packages ] > > Hello, > I'm learning making debian packages. > I choosed to learn on a ve

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:41:55AM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > I just checked your line, and it works locally. But see this bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/242884 > > Also see the related thread on -devel in October: "Sourceforge > dislikes uscan" is what it boils down to. Sorry, I should have b

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 08:46 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > I choosed to learn on a very simple software: minimalist. > That's okay; in fact its one of the best ways I know of to learn about > something new. :-) > > Especially where to tell the package builder not to use > > 'debian/minimalist/D

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread David Given
On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:17, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: [...] > I'm learning making debian packages. > I choosed to learn on a very simple software: minimalist. Are you aware that minimalist has already been packaged? Package: minimalist Priority: optional Section: mail Installed

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:09:07PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 08:46 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > Especially where to tell the package builder not to use > > > 'debian/minimalist/DEBIAN/control' but 'debian/control' ? > > DEBIAN/control is created from

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Nico Golde
hi, * Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-06 17:26]: > [ I already posted this to debian-dev, they told me > here was the right place. I really need help to learn > building debian packages ] > > Hello, > I'm learning making debian packages. > I choosed to learn on a very

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Roland Gruber
Luk Claes schrieb: It's indeed very strange. Someone suggested to use something like ftp://ftp2.sf.net/l/la/lam/ldap-account-manager_(.*)\.tar\.gz though. Thus: ftp://ftp2.sf.net//<2_first_letters>// so the problem might be that I use HTTP in my watch line? The strange thing is that the watch file

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roland Gruber wrote: | Luk Claes schrieb: | |> It's indeed very strange. Someone suggested to use something like |> ftp://ftp2.sf.net/l/la/lam/ldap-account-manager_(.*)\.tar\.gz though. |> |> Thus: |> ftp://ftp2.sf.net//<2_first_letters>// |> | | | so t

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Roland Gruber in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >ftp://ftp2.sf.net//<2_first_letters>// > > so the problem might be that I use HTTP in my watch line? I'd always use http in favour of ftp. ftp is obsolete. For sf.net, use the following page to watch (works for every project that has released any files

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Berg wrote: | Re: Roland Gruber in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | |>>ftp://ftp2.sf.net//<2_first_letters>// |> |>so the problem might be that I use HTTP in my watch line? | | | I'd always use http in favour of ftp. ftp is obsolete. | | For sf.net, use

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Luk Claes in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lam/ > > The problem is that this kind of URLs > (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net) do not work with dehs. Of course you have to tack the filename with the () pattern to the end. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http:

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Berg wrote: | Re: Luk Claes in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | |>| http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lam/ |> |>The problem is that this kind of URLs |>(http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net) do not work with dehs. | | | Of course you have to tack the file

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:04:54PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > Luk Claes schrieb: > >It's indeed very strange. Someone suggested to use something like > >ftp://ftp2.sf.net/l/la/lam/ldap-account-manager_(.*)\.tar\.gz though. > > > >Thus: > >ftp://ftp2.sf.net//<2_first_letters>// > > so the proble

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 16:35 +, David Given wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:17, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote > > I'm learning making debian packages. > > I choosed to learn on a very simple software: minimalist. > Are you aware that minimalist has already been packaged? Yes. I l

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:50 +0100, Nico Golde wrote: > please do not cross post on debian-devel. -devel isnt the > right list. I did not: - I asked on -devel. - They told me it was the wrong place - I had to re-post. Crossposting would have been "posting at -mentors & -devel at the same time".

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > #!/usr/bin/make -f > > export DH_VERBOSE=1 > > configure: > > build: > > clean: > > install: > > dh_testdir > cp minimalist.pl $(CURDIR)/debian/minimalist > > binary-indep: > > binary-arch: > > dh_builddeb > > binary: bi

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:20 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > If it had been created by dh_make, why wouldn't it find it? > Its not created by dh_make. dh_make just creates some template files > in ./debian/ (many of which are usually deleted). All of them need to > be edited to be useful. I edite

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:04:54PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > Luk Claes schrieb: > >It's indeed very strange. Someone suggested to use something like > >ftp://ftp2.sf.net/l/la/lam/ldap-account-manager_(.*)\.tar\.gz though. > > > >Thus: > >ftp://ftp2.sf.net//<2_first_letters>// > > so the proble

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 07:30:20PM +0100, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 11:20 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > If it had been created by dh_make, why wouldn't it find it? > > Its not created by dh_make. dh_make just creates some template files > > in ./debian/ (man

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:42 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > http://www.ibiblio.org/... Yes! I had to 'mkdir ./debian/DEBIAN' manually. :-) Anyway, manually creating ".debian/DEBIAN" is not clearly mentionned in tha Debian new Maintainer guide. -- ASPO Infogérance http://aspo.rktmb.org/acti

Re: Cant build a simple package.

2005-01-06 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 13:42 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/... > > Yes! I had to 'mkdir ./debian/DEBIAN' manually. :-) > Anyway, manually creating ".debian/DEBIAN" is not clearly mentionned in > tha Debian new Maintainer gui

Re: Advice in 3 packages

2005-01-06 Thread Antonio Ognio
> > The name I choosed for the packages is: liblog4sh-shell. I guess it > > correctly > > reflects it's a library for the shell and it's name is "log4sh". Is this > > right? > > Looks fine to me. Nice. I keep it then. > available. So if this does work out cleanly, it would be cool if you > cou

Re: Debian Health/watch files

2005-01-06 Thread Miguel Gea Milvaques
El dj 06 de 01 del 2005 a les 13:03 +, en/na Dominic Hargreaves va escriure: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 01:53:37PM +0100, Roland Gruber wrote: > > > I added a debian/watch file to my package ldap-account-manager some time > > ago. But the status on Debian Health is still that no watch file is

GNOME Packaging Policy

2005-01-06 Thread Antonio Ognio
I've just found this document and I'm pasting the url for anyone interested in packaging GNOME apps for Debian: http://www.burtonini.com/computing/gnome-policy.html I'll make the software I'm packaging (Gnome Screen Ruler) comply with this policy. Does anybody know of any additional information s