Re: Request for a sponsor for getwifi

2005-05-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joshua D. Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.0212 +0200]: > I am have not used waproamd, however, getwifi currently joins > wireless networks with a similar configuration. It is meant to be > run to join networks that you are using regularly. The updates > I have been working on wi

Re: Library package naming

2005-05-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.0120 +0200]: > No, why would you do that? It's the package name that's wrong > (confusing) here, not the library name. I think I would disagree. Upstream has not read the libtool manual. In short: do not use -release unless you are publis

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Re: Library package naming

2005-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:01:30AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.0120 +0200]: > > No, why would you do that? It's the package name that's wrong > > (confusing) here, not the library name. > I think I would disagree. Upstream has not rea

Re: Request for a sponsor for getwifi

2005-05-08 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On 5/8/05, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Joshua D. Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.0212 +0200]: > > I am have not used waproamd, however, getwifi currently joins > > wireless networks with a similar configuration. It is meant to be > > run to join networks that yo

Re: Library package naming

2005-05-08 Thread Neil Williams
On Sunday 08 May 2005 12:20 am, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:24:31PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > Should I change the upstream version numbers of the existing library? > > No, why would you do that? It's the package name that's wrong (confusing) > here, not the library nam

Re: RFS: erlang & erlang-base

2005-05-08 Thread Philipp Kern
On 07.05.2005, at 19:03, François-Denis Gonthier wrote: After I said there was no O or RFA, some people on #debian-mentors recommended that I put up an ITA to claim the package. I really don't know if it was the Right Thing to do in retrospect but nor the Debian NM and Reference guide had no

Re: cannot make (my first) debian package

2005-05-08 Thread Bas Wijnen
Ricardo Mones wrote: > On Thu, 05 May 2005 10:23:19 -0400 > "Brenda J. Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway your case is clearly different, your source is a kpr file not > a pdf one. > > >>If not, then how should I proceed? I can put the .kpr, .ps and .pdf >>in the package... I could pl

Re: Library package naming

2005-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2005 12:20 am, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:24:31PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Should I change the upstream version numbers of the existing library? > > No, why would you do that? It's

Re: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2005-05-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 09 May 2002, Marc Haber wrote: > From the docs I found, there is no legitimate reason for any package > to define rpath on a Debian system. Is this correct? Does this also > apply to other Linux systems? It is correct for anything that shall end up in the usual ld.so directories. It does n

Re: RFS: I'm looking for a sponsor for xlogmaster (an orphaned kackage).

2005-05-08 Thread Patryk Cisek
> * Why don't you want these files to be conffiles ? Because they're not a configuration files and I think they definitly shouldn't be listed in conffiles. If for example the READMEs change in the future, dpkg will ask the user if he/she wants the newer version of them, but that shouldn't be que

Re: RFS: I'm looking for a sponsor for xlogmaster (an orphaned kackage).

2005-05-08 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Dimanche 08 Mai 2005 14:40, Patryk Cisek a écrit : > > * If they really mustn't be, they maybe don't belong to /etc (a README > > might be more appropriate in /usr/share/doc) > > Yes, maybe they should be in /usr/share/doc, however it's good to have them > in /etc. That's why I asked if it's a g

Re: RFS: erlang & erlang-base

2005-05-08 Thread François-Denis Gonthier
On May 8, 2005 07:04 am, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 07.05.2005, at 19:03, François-Denis Gonthier wrote: > > After I said there was no O or RFA, some people on #debian-mentors > > recommended > > that I put up an ITA to claim the package. I really don't know if > > it was the > > Right Thing to do i

Re: RFS: erlang & erlang-base

2005-05-08 Thread François-Denis Gonthier
On May 8, 2005 07:04 am, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 07.05.2005, at 19:03, François-Denis Gonthier wrote: > > After I said there was no O or RFA, some people on #debian-mentors > > recommended > > that I put up an ITA to claim the package. I really don't know if > > it was the > > Right Thing to do i

Re: RFS: I'm looking for a sponsor for xlogmaster (an orphaned kackage).

2005-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Patryk Cisek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because they're not a configuration files and I think they definitly > shouldn't be listed in conffiles. If for example the READMEs change in > the future, dpkg will ask the user if he/she wants the newer version of > them, but that shouldn't be questiona

Re: Request for a sponsor for getwifi

2005-05-08 Thread Joshua D. Abraham
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:37:54AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Joshua D. Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.0212 +0200]: > > I am have not used waproamd, however, getwifi currently joins > > wireless networks with a similar configuration. It is meant to be > > run to join netwo

Re: RFS: I'm looking for a sponsor for xlogmaster (an orphaned kackage).

2005-05-08 Thread Patryk Cisek
> I thought the user would only be prompted if the file changed *and* they > had made local modifications to the old file. The last is fairly unlikely > for READMEs. Yes that's true. I've included these READMEs to conffiles now. Changed package files are at: http://poczta.prezu.one.pl/xlogmaster/

Re: RFS: I'm looking for a sponsor for xlogmaster (an orphaned kackage).

2005-05-08 Thread Joe Wreschnig
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 21:04 +0200, Patryk Cisek wrote: > > I thought the user would only be prompted if the file changed *and* they > > had made local modifications to the old file. The last is fairly unlikely > > for READMEs. > Yes that's true. I've included these READMEs to conffiles now. Change

Re: debian package of cogito-0.9 available

2005-05-08 Thread Martin Waitz
hoi :) On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:42:39PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > I think the package is ready for a wider audience. I just updated it > to the just-released upstream version 0.9, it's available here: why do you patch the Makefile? does 'make prefix=/usr' not work? -- Martin Waitz

Re: will you be my daddy?

2005-05-08 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:12 +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > I'm interested on this package. However It appears to me that there > is no ITP for cogito. So for shortly, Anibal could be your daddy. -- David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.damog.net/ Women should be obscene an

Re: debian package of cogito-0.9 available

2005-05-08 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Martin Waitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ] On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:42:39PM -0600, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: ] > I think the package is ready for a wider audience. I just updated it ] > to the just-released upstream version 0.9, it's available here: ] ] why do you patch the Makefile? ] does 'ma

cogito_0.10-1 available

2005-05-08 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
Get it here: http://highlab.com/~seb/debian Before 0.10, the upstream installed both the binaries (actually shell scripts) and the shell libraries in /usr/bin. Starting with 0.10, the shell libraries are moved to /usr/lib/cogito. This seems to me like a fine thing to do, any reason Debian

New maintainer checklist

2005-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy mentors, I'm attempting to start my long slide into package maintainership :-) There is a wealth of material available on how to be a Debian package maintainer. I'm trying to find my way through it slowly. Here's what I've done: - Pick an itch (package) to scratch: lojban-common (bug #30

Re: cogito_0.10-1 available

2005-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before 0.10, the upstream installed both the binaries (actually shell > scripts) and the shell libraries in /usr/bin. Starting with 0.10, the > shell libraries are moved to /usr/lib/cogito. This seems to me like a > fine thing to do, any reason D

Re: cogito_0.10-1 available

2005-05-08 Thread Ben Finney
On 08-May-2005, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Before 0.10, the upstream installed both the binaries (actually > > shell scripts) and the shell libraries in /usr/bin. Starting with > > 0.10, the shell libraries are moved to /usr/lib/cogito. This > > s

Re: cogito_0.10-1 available

2005-05-08 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 08-May-2005, Russ Allbery wrote: >> If they're really just shell libraries (and hence >> platform-independent), they should go into /usr/share rather than >> /usr/lib per the FHS. > Relevant sections of the FHS: > 4.4 /usr/lib : Libraries for progr

Re: Request for a sponsor for getwifi

2005-05-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joshua D. Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.2022 +0200]: > I will give waproamd a try and see the problems it has. However, > there are many programs that do similar, if not the same function > (ex text editors). I will let everyone know when I have an update. Sure, and that's go

Re: New maintainer checklist

2005-05-08 Thread Andreas Fester
Hi Ben, Ben Finney wrote: Howdy mentors, I'm attempting to start my long slide into package maintainership :-) Welcome :-) I also started this journey some weeks ago, maybe some hints can help you: - In addition to the documents below, reading the New Maintainers Guide: http://www.debian.org/doc/