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On 09-May-2005, Ben Finney wrote:
> On 09-May-2005, Andreas Fester wrote:
> > - You should subscribe to debian-devel; this is where development
> > and packaging issues are discussed
>
> At what point is this necessary? I usually read debian-devel by proxy
> (DWN); it&
that /usr/share/can potentially be mounted read-only
for multiple machines of different architectures.
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On 11-May-2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The good thing about the (standard?) shebang convention -- using a
> > first line of '#!/path/to/shell' in the executable file -- is that
> > you can have executable
On 11-May-2005, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:07 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > To what extent should that be used? Is it reasonable to do it for
> > *any* shebang line? '#!/usr/bin/env make'? '#!/usr/bin/env bash'?
> > Are there any downsi
On 11-May-2005, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.11.0307 +0200]:
> > To what extent should that be used? Is it reasonable to do it for
> > *any* shebang line? '#!/usr/bin/env make'? '#!/usr/bin/env bash'?
>
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On 11-May-2005, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > That would be a downside (and kills it for the primary use I had in
> > mind, '#!/usr/bin/env perl -w').
>
> Of course "#!/usr/bin/env perl\nuse warnings;" is equivilant.
That still seems to fall
On 11-May-2005, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > That would be a downside (and kills it for the primary use I had in
> > mind, '#!/usr/bin/env perl -w').
>
> Of course "#!/usr/bin/env perl\nuse warnings;" is equivilant.
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kage like the kernel).
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On 17-May-2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> I don't think there's really consensus on it, but from personal
> experience, I highly favour debhelper for reasons of least surprise:
This seems a good reason, thanks.
On 17-May-2005, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Ben Finney [Tue, 1
On 17-May-2005, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Ben Finney [Tue, 17 May 2005 12:00:38 +1000]:
> > That's exactly what I need help with. What should I do to decide
> > "here's a bunch of hand-rolled stuff that has a direct or indirect
> > debhelper replacement"?
On 17-May-2005, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I'd like to submit patches for a couple of packages that currently
> > use hand-rolled debian/rules files. Is the current best practise
> > to use debhelper, or cdbs, or something else?
>
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ow an end-user to
easily install all these related packages as one action.
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> > work.
>
> Deleted lines "Vcs-*" in "d/control".
Why delete them?
You should be tracking your Debian packaging work in a VCS, and that VCS
repository should be online for others (read-only).
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u have a co-operative upstream who will help in this way.
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rchitecture: all”.
What are you seeing that convinces you the package does not support
“Architecture: all”?
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he contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive |
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s of many such people is, I think, one reason
the channel was created.
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explaining how you collated
the various parts and changes you've made from the upstream source?
In particular, the procedure for making ‘debian/*.1’ and
‘debian/test_file.nc’ should be described, along with rationales that
can be later re-visited if upstream policies change.
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On Wed, 2016-09-14 11:17 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Here are some comments I have for improving the packaging work:
Further:
* The source package should ideally not contain non-source forms of the
work.
I see that there is a tree of generated documentation that is not the
source f
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Octavio Alvarez writes:
> On 10/21/2016 04:56 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I would suggest:
> >
> > :param int max_no_dec: number of rounds we allow [FIXME] to be stuck.
> >
> > where “[FIXME]” must be replaced with something explicit. Is it “the
> > p
Jerome BENOIT writes:
> Before all, thanks for your constructive replies.
>
> On 21/10/16 21:34, Ben Finney wrote:
> > *Some* party is allowed to be stuck, but the current phrasing
> > doesn't say what; the description should be clear and say what that
> > party
Jerome BENOIT writes:
> Hi,
>
> On 21/10/16 12:56, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I would suggest:
> >
> > :param int max_no_dec: number of rounds we allow [FIXME] to be stuck.
> >
> > where “[FIXME]” must be replaced with something explicit. Is it “the
>
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Andrey Rahmatullin writes:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 08:58:21PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > I have uploaded a source package to the ‘expierimental’ queue. Where
> > should I look for its build status?
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php pages have a "Sui
ave about
the leap seconds data from the ‘tzdata’ package?
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the grant is sufficiently clear.
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and let the maintainers of other packages
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standards? This might gain you some co-maintainers and sponsors of the
package.
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program from the same
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o be a three hour tour, why |
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Ben Finney writes:
> You can get the package with ‘dget’:
Sorry, the URL was wrong there. Corrected::
$ dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libj/libjs-zxcvbn/libjs-zxcvbn_1.0+dfsg.1-1.dsc
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ctric house. I forgot and left the |
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On 10-Sep-2014, Eriberto wrote:
> 2014-09-10 19:15 GMT-03:00 Ben Finney :
> > All the control files in a Debian source package are Unicode
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html>,
> > so as
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st’ command instead :-)
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rk, by writing the ‘debian/copyright’
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t’ command is defined, so I don't think it
is a bad configuration. That could be wrong though.
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ctory tree at /tmp/tmphwGgjf
0m1.0s ERROR: piuparts run ends.
E: Piuparts run failed.
=
What can I do to correct this and allow Piuparts to proceed?
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Ross Vandegrift writes:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Ross Vandegrift writes:
> > > Good question. I guess I think of a changelog as history - so changes
> > > I made on 1.15 go with 1.15 whether it was released or not.
> &g
Ross Vandegrift writes:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:23:57AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > As someone who went looking for it recently when you didn't know the
> > recommendation: Where exactly would you expect to find this
> > information, which particular section of
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