package advices

2009-06-17 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
Hi Still learning to package... ;-) I would like to make a package that I will install in a set of "servers". Let's call it "admins_ssh_keys" This package is the set of "public keys" of admins in my department. I would like then to install "admins_ssh_keys" then it: a - creates the right users b

Re: FYI: QA uploads primer

2009-06-17 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
> Or you can point people who don't want to learn how to package things > properly I don't care about those either -- the intended audience was those that could use a tutorial to get a feel for the process before they make up their mind about "how to package things properly" and to eventually adop

Re: FYI: QA uploads primer

2009-06-17 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 00:49, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > ps. please CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed to d-mentors On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:20, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > ps. Please DON'T CC me on replies, I've had enough of this ahahah -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)

Re: FYI: QA uploads primer

2009-06-17 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Can you take discussions like these to d-d? Cause I think any prospective packagers just turn away after reading threads like these. Is it possible to keep these list for mentees to talk to sponsors about questions problems and RFS and not use it as d-d death match platform. Could you please discu

Re: RFS: pslist (3rd try) -- utility that lists, kills, or renices a process and its descendants

2009-06-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:16:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pslist". Here we go again, with my changes after Ben Finney's recommendations, and a Standards Version bump to the just-released Policy 3.8.2 :) * Package name: psli

RFS: wmanager (updated the Debian packaging)

2009-06-17 Thread Peter Pentchev
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.1-6 of my package "wmanager". This is just an update to the Debian packaging - quilt instead of dpatch, debhelper 7.2, Policy 3.8.2, et al (more info below). Mike O'Connor, who sponsored my last two uploads of wmanager, seems to be

Re: package advices

2009-06-17 Thread Ben Finney
Rakotomandimby Mihamina writes: > Hi > Still learning to package... ;-) Thanks for learning, it's good to have more people willing to educate themselves on how Debian's package system works. > I would like to make a package that I will install in a set of > "servers". Let's call it "admins_ssh_

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 16 Jun 2009, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: [snip] Of course you need to look at the C spec to claim that you understand C in depth (you did... didn't you?) and in order to understand why int n=1; int main() { n=n; printf("%d", n); } will not output '1' [snip] I couldn't figure why it wo

Re: package advices

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a389c05.3050...@gulfsat.mg>, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: >Hi >Still learning to package... ;-) > >I would like to make a package that I will install in a set of "servers". >Let's call it "admins_ssh_keys" As Ben mentioned this isn't a valid package name. Replace the underscores with hyph

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello, On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 16 Jun 2009, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > > [snip] > > Of course you need to look at the C spec to > > claim that you understand C in depth (you did... didn't you?) and in > > order to understand why > > > > int n=1; int main(

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090617085905.852619804zzh3...@mail.kalinowski.com.br>, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >On Ter, 16 Jun 2009, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >> Of course you need to look at the C spec to >> claim that you understand C in depth (you did... didn't you?) and in >> order to understand why >> >> int n=1;

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200906171751.13989@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: >> On Ter, 16 Jun 2009, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >> > [snip] >> > Of course you need to look at the C spec to >> > claim that you understand C in depth (you did... didn't you?) a

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <200906171751.13989@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > >int n=1; int main() { int n=n; printf("%d", n); } > > > >Hope this clears things. > > Yeah, and I don't think you *have* to read the C standard to understand why > this doesn

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200906171857.57749@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >Same thing for the trigraphs. puts("What??!"); /* ;) */ -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanas

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <200906171857.57749@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > >Same thing for the trigraphs. > > puts("What??!"); /* ;) */ I meant that they are not very popular and that they are not covered in most books or tutorials. Thus, it is not

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 17 Jun 2009, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: I meant that they are not very popular and that they are not covered in most books or tutorials. Thus, it is not obvious that this: I'd say they are not covered because they were never popular, and nowadays they are basically unnecessary. --

Re: RFS: pslist (3rd try) -- utility that lists, kills, or renices a process and its descendants

2009-06-17 Thread George Danchev
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 05:16:48PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pslist". > > Here we go again, with my changes after Ben Finney's recommendations, > and a Standards Version bump to the just-released Policy 3.8.2 :) > > * Package

RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Kerr
Thank you to George Danchev, Daniel Moerner, and Salvatore Bonaccorso. You have helped me to make my package "lintian clean". Sounds like minty clean... also added a man page. All my time using Linux, I never thought I would write a man page. I kinda liked it! I therefore resubmit the packa

Re: RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean? no.

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Kerr
Well the system e-mailed me back and said : --- Your package does not seem to be lintian clean. 'lintian' is a tool to verify if source package contain obvious packaging errors. These warnings/errors were found: W: kabikaboo source: dh-clean-k-is-deprecated N: N:This package calls dh_clean -

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <200906171954.59429@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <200906171857.57749@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: >> >Same thing for the trigraphs. >> >> puts("What??!"); /* ;) */ > >I meant that they are not very popular and

Re: RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean? no.

2009-06-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a394fad.1060...@shaw.ca>, Dave Kerr wrote: >Well the system e-mailed me back and said : > >--- > >Your package does not seem to be lintian clean. >'lintian' is a tool to verify if source package contain obvious >packaging errors. These warnings/errors were found: >W: kabikaboo source: native-p

Re: RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean? no.

2009-06-17 Thread Dave Kerr
Thank you for the response. My relevant directory looks something like this: kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.changes kabikaboo_1.1/ kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.deb kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.changes kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.deb.asc kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.deb kabikaboo_1.

Re: RFS: kabikaboo --lintian-clean? no.

2009-06-17 Thread Alexander Toresson
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Dave Kerr wrote: > Thank you for the response. > > My relevant directory looks something like this: > >                               kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.changes > kabikaboo_1.1/                 kabikaboo_1.1-3_i386.deb > kabikaboo_1.1-3_amd64.changes  kabikaboo_1

Re: [OT] C (was: QA uploads primer)

2009-06-17 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <200906171954.59429@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > >On Wednesday 17 June 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> In <200906171857.57749@v13.gr>, Stefanos Harhalakis wrote: > >> >Same thing for the trigraphs. > >> > >> put