[Two in one here]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Buddha M.D. Buck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't think it's really a wasted effort. There is a lot of
> information there, most of it is FAQ-material. Probably half of the
> questions asked in debian-mentors could be answered by it. Spr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Leishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 11:14:48PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 06:48:51PM +1100, Chris Leishman wrote: >
>> The postinst modifies the /etc/exports file to add a 2 lines as
>> follows
>>
>> I do
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I would like to know on which given package other packages depend.
>> (yes, this has been posted somewhere last month, but I cannot find
>> this)
> pkg-revdep from pkg-order.
O
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 29 Oct 1998, James Troup wrote:
james> Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
james>
james> > Any help/patch/comments?
james>
james> Help: Simply upload the orig.tar.gz manually.
james>
james> No, that's plain wro
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, Eeek. I do not actually test the scripts for remote CVS
> operation (and I haven't done so for months now), since I have a
> local repository. Could you please do a bash -x /usr/bin/cvs-*
> and see if you can exactl
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>> > "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> writes:
>>
MS> Uff. What name would you propose? I will consist of four
MS> dpkg-divert statements.
>>
MS> All files are found at
MS> ftp:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For an X-based graphical system administration utility (i.e. -
> gtksamba),
> where goes the binary? /usr/sbin? /usr/X11R6/bin?
There's a lot of dispute on this one. I would say, /usr/sbin .
> where goes the man page?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hubert Weikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> IMHO the prefered way to install netscape communicator is:
...
My preferred way is to use Adam Heath's non-installer packages!
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joel Rosdahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Please CC: replies to me.] Hi,
> I've got the impression that it's customary to close bug reports as
> soon as a fixed version of the package in question is available on
> the ftp site. However, this hides the problem in
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes:
> I am trying to repackage a new upstream Stanford GraphBase (sgb). I
> would like to include the source code in the .deb package, as the
> value of the included programs is really as a demonstration of what
> the library c
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Gilbey) writes:
>[Me]
>> Hmm. Interesting. So how do you use it? You *extend* the library?
>> Or you just read about it? ;)
> You use the library as any library by linking it to your code.
> However, imagine if some library had no indepen
"Raphael" == Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Le Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 11:34:06AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer
> écrivait:
>> Is there a policy about developer's Web pages? I saw that I can put
>> pages on master and they are available as
>> http://master.debian.org/~bortz. But I would li
"Allan" == Allan M Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What is the correct location for (java) jar files? /usr/lib/java
> /usr/share/lib/java
> Or something else?
> It would (also?) be useful to have a $DIR with symlinks from other
> locations, say: /usr/lib/jdk1.1/lib -> $DIR for buildin
"Peter" == Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wrote:
>> I'd be pleased if someone could take a look at my xwatch package in
>> ~psg/ on master. I'll upload it only after I get blessing, since
>> it's my first package.
> One glitch I'm aware of is that I'm still using hamm, so may
"Mitch" == Mitch Blevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> James Troup wrote:
>> Yep. `-sa' to dpkg-buildpackage is your friend. See the fine
>> manual for more details.
> =20 Very good, thanks. This will help me to avoid this problem in
> the future. For now, do I just manually upload the *.orig.t
Package: debmake
Version: 3.5.15
Severity: normal
debmake is guilty of allowing, indeed, seeming to encourage packages
to modify the conffiles of other packages.
>From Policy v. 2.5.0.0:
Only packages that are tagged conflicting with each other may specify
the same file as conffile. A packa
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just started maintaining the 'chos' package which had a grave bug
> report filed against it
> (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/29/29223.html) in the slink
> distribution. The bug can cause severe super block curruption and
>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 02:14:36PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>> I've just encountered libtool and the dreaded -rpath. How do I fix
>> it so that it doesn't do it?
>>
>> There is a top level ./libtool script, and one of
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Dorsch) writes:
> What is the right procedure to do a non-maintainer upstream release?
> I do not want to upload my non-maintainer debian packages to the
> Debian server, but potentially distribute them.
Yes, you still should follow NMU gu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@>, Nathan Sandver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I'm having a problem with dupload. I'm hoping someone on this
> list can help me. Does anyone have an explanation for this:
> darkland:~$ ps aux | grep dupload ares 21678 30.8 82.0 105720 51920
> 5 R 12:43 0:42 \ pe
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK I've deprecated the xemacs19 packages leaving only the xemacs20
> packages (the xemacs20-nomule package is equivalent to the xemacs19
> package and has newer el files, is more stable, and is faster to
> boot).
> OK so
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As a new package maintainer I would very much appreciate it if some
> kind soul could take it upon them to occasionally put themselves
> through the traumatic and boring ordeal of answering dumb questions
> on the subject of
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Are developers _required_ to run unstable? I know it makes a whole
> lot of sense for debugging purposes, otherwise it never get stable.
> But until I upgrade my PC at home that will be difficult to do.
Good question
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> seriously tough, in the new maintainer doc it says that encrypting
>> is not per mitted in francebut signature yes ? does anyone know
>> something about it ?
> I do (I studied the law, I even asked for a formal auth
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When is the correct time to apply a patch to the upstream
> source? I have a small patch to the source code of the dictd source
> code. Of course, I am submitting it to the upstream author, and I
> hope he will incorp
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I mailed my intention to overtake linux-conio to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
> I got the following reply:
[...]
> (You are assumed to be in the process of becoming a Debian Developer
> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 19981201.)
[...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've used /var/state, and I don't add anything to smb.conf
> automatically or ask anything during install.
Sounds good.
> However, if there was
> already a linpopup entry in smb.conf, but commented out, I re-enable
> it.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, When I ran deb-make on my package source, it appended a "1" to
> the package name in debian/control, for example. Why does deb-make
> do this?
BTW, while debmake is supported and does work, you probably want to be
us
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Zephaniah> This seems to come up a bit too often, hmm, perhaps
Zephaniah> something in the policy could help?
> Develoeprs reference, maybe. This is not a policy issue.
*perk up* Huh? What? What are we talking a
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stephen J. Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> I would personally save the minor bug for unstable and if you really
> feel you need to change the maintainer field...just change that and
> re-upload with the text in the changelog reflecting that you are the
> n
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi ! I have a problem with my wwwoffle package: it has a config
> file /etc/wwwoffle.conf. When installing I try to convert existing
> config files with a shipped config file converter and only if that
> fails because
"Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oscar Levi wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 06:22:47AM +0900, Ionutz Borcoman wrote: >
>> James Troup wrote: > > > > Ionutz Borcoman
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > If I run this
>> as root, how can I sign the package, as my pgp k
"Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I want to package the VDK libs. But I have to take a decission:
> how to make the dbg package.
First off, this is all described in the Packaging Manual.
> The VDK, if compiled with "-g -DVDKDEBUG" can provide additional
> information,
"Dave" == Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the help...But just out of curiousity, is all this
> described all in one place somewhere? I don't like to think I was
> being completely blind...I was going to mail the bloke who is
> writing the new version of the deb new maintainers
"Matthias" == Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it allowed to use /usr/doc/, if no binary
> packages with the exists? I don't see anything in
> the policy, which explicitely forbids this.
It can use that dir, but there must be at least a symlink for
/usr/doc// .
--
.Adam Di [EM
"Oscar" == Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 01:35:07AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> Yes; I think the other advice was rather bad.
> Really. That sounds like a jab. Is there an ego needing a snack?
No, I don't think so. M
"Oscar" == Oscar Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 02:38:16AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>> It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell
>> them to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only.
> I read that he ne
"Ionutz" == Ionutz Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Collins wrote:
>> Sounds to me like you just need to run ldconfig as root one time
>> to update your ld.so.cache file. It should resolve your problem the
>> Right Way.
>>
> I have a posinst that says:
> #!/bin/sh
> set -e
> ldconfi
"James" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It is bad advice for someone asking help about fakeroot to tell
>> them to also use sudo or super. Pick one and one only.
> It's not bad advice. I see
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:05:17 +0100 (CET), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Ok, I have just read the web page. It says:
> * Creating a Package using Debmake (hopefully this and the
> following will be merged) Note: use of debmake is deprecated. Use
> debhelper instead. Once someone w
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:38:21 +0100 (CET), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Please, consider to sumbit a wishlist bug against
> developers-reference if this is not clearly stated there.
It is, but only in newer (unofficially released) versions. I'm going
to actually have a whole chapter
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:16:04 -0600, "Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> #!/bin/sh -e [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ] && update-menus
> I've got a bug report that says it is. Ash bails out with exit
> status 1 if update-menus doesn't exist.
This is irrelevant to you original question,
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:14:08 +0800, Anthony Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi Debian developers, I'm still very new in creating Debian
> packages, so here are two of my silly questions :)
> Q1: What should be the version of a package if the upstream source
> does not have a version number? Shoul
James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The phone calls do often cause delays.
Isn't there some information I can add to the developer's reference
about (a) what time of day they should expect your call (GMT) and,
maybe (b) giving new-maintianer the right phone number or a couple of
numbers in
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That's OK, except that this package currently has 258 symlinks, and
> both the number and details are likely to change on a fairly regular
> basis. The thought of keeping that up to date is quite terrifying.
> There must surely be a better way?
No, not
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to create a small package for myself (for `local'
> part of the archive :)
>
> The package consists of a script that processes an SGML-file and produces a
> HTML file. The resulting file makes use of an external stylesheet I want to
> put
Matt Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The other day I uploaded OPIE to master, but somehow fscked up and
> uploaded
> opie_2.32-1.tar.gz
> instead of
> opie_2.32.orig.tar.gz and
> opie_2.32-1.diff.gz
>
> How can I correct my earlier blunder?
Remove the files from Incoming or
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16-May-99 Leon Breedt wrote:
> > Is it possible to do this?
> >
> > I.e. have one source package build for both us & non-us?
> >
>
> As long as I can tell it before package build to NOT build the non-us, yes.
> Otherwise it could be illegal, immoral or
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 11:19:58AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > > The package consists of a script that processes an SGML-file and produces
> > > a
> > > HTML file. The resulting file makes use of an external s
Matt Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 17 May 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Matt Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > The other day I uploaded OPIE to master, but somehow fscked up and
> > > uploaded
> > > opie_2.32-1.tar.gz
>
E O Fredrik Liljegren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm. I have a related question.. I have dtd's in xml.. I guess they
> according to this system should be put under /usr/lib/xml/dtd/ with a
> soft link from /usr/lib/xml/eduml/dtd/ (eduml is what the dtd is for)?
>
> Could I put them udner /usr/s
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The question is:
>
> Do I leave this as it is,
> or do I create the jazip group in the package installation?
>
> Policy says that I should create a Dynamically allocated system
> group (range 100-999) using adduser --system after checking with
>
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 12:27:53AM -0400, Rod wrote:
> > i have installed redhat 5.1 on another machine and understand that Linux
> > names drives differently than Windows/Dos, my question here is how will
> > Debian GNU/Linux "see" my single HD with multi
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 10:12:12PM +0200, Andrea Fanfani wrote:
> > Standards-Version: 2.4.0.0
> >
> > How i can upgrade the level of policy on my distribution.
>
> Check that your package meets the newer policy requirements and then
> manuall
Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I finally found time to upload an upgraded prcs package. I did mass
> bug-hunting, closing seven of them. I hope that I did not introduce even
> more than that with my fixes!
Well, I hope your mailing patches for fixes upstream...
> I am actuall
LEBLANC ERIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've applied to become a developer, but I read that the backlog is
> > rather long, so I have a couple of questions.
I'm not really sure that this is true. My reports are pretty
consistent -- it takes anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months. The latter
is
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 09:44:25AM +0200, Nicolas LAURENT wrote:
> > where could i find sources of 'dbootstrap' ?
> The boot-floppies package is what you're looking for.
Yes -- if you wanna help develop that -- and help is much needed, go
run
John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just started to package nightfall (an astronomy application)
> and when I run lintian everything is fine except I get a load of:
>
> W: nightfall: executable-not-elf-or-script
> usr/share/nightfall/doc/C/Introduction.html
Shouldn't this be in /u
John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > John Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > 1) how do I make these non executable.?
> > chmod a-x
> I know how to do it manually! How do I do it in the debian/r
"Jeremy W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My new system, which I'll describe later in detail to see if
> there are any compatibility inconsistencies, is being shipped to me,
> and my intent it to put the Debian distribution on it, as I've heard
> it's probably the best (though not most user-
Gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> after a "remove", i no longer run the checker, so no new messages will
> be quarantined - should i also stop running the cron script or is it
> a good idea to continue removing old messages?
Probably you should check if the pkg is in remove state and exit early
Nicolas LAURENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> where can i find kernel-image-$(kver)-scsimod_*.deb?
> (I work on boot-floppies package)
I don't know -- can you subscribe to the rather low volume debian-boot
list and ask there?
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
Alexander Shinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I must have modified something for the first package. So
> I edited the .changes file to include the .orig.tar.gz file, and re-ran
> dupload, then logged in and deleted the files in rejected.
Unless you are very wizardly, hand-editing .changes files
Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [one last try, because nobody answered me]
> > Can anybody give me a hint where in the policy/packaging-manual is a
> > rule that decides whether -doc packages should go to /doc or,
> > toghether with the binary package in /net or /x11 etc.
> >
> > T
David Coe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just noticed that ispell.texinfo has a few chunks of
> documentation (one of which is its copyright) that are
> bracketed by [EMAIL PROTECTED]'' ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ifinfo'' pairs.
>
> This causes those paragraphs to appear in the info
> document (gener
"Marcelo E. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> this is driving me nuts and I want to fix it once and for
> all. wmaker (src) builds several binary packages, among them,
> libwraster1 and libwraster1-dev. The wmaker packages (wmaker,
> wmaker-gnome and wmaker-kde) all should depend
Gopal Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe this is FAQ. I don't have a potato machine handy where I
> work. In general, if developers want to try installing packages they
> made for "unstable" to check if it installs okay, is there a machine
> to do that?
Yes -- your home machine. Sorr
Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm going to apply to become a debian developer and I wanna know can I use
> combination of DSS key(from pgp5)+gnupg to send request?
Yes -- you can do it all with gnupg.
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 09:57:39PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote:
> > I've recently submitted my application as a prospective new maintainer
> > and would like to adopt (if/when my application is approved) some
> > orphaned packages.
> > Among those I've examined as likely p
Paul Serice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, is it possible to logon to pandora and build these packages without
> having root access. Is that the purpose of the fakeroot package?
Should be if the -dev packages you need are installed.
> Also, if I could build packages on kubrick and fau
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Radovan Garabik wrote:
>
> > I am packaging a program, which uses CRLF as end of line (don't ask me how
> > it got there :-))
> > The problem is, I have to turn it to LF, because the program is a script
> > and won't run with CRLF. But if I do this
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> upstream source is tar.gz
> I am not sure if repacking is a good idea.. after all, this means modifying
> the upstream source, and diff.gz is there for this purpose...
A diff to change end of line endings on all files is a perversion of
that purpose.
Hey, glad to see someone's reading the Developer's Reference closely.
--
.Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zygo Blaxell) writes:
> Are the FTP archive maintenance scripts debian-packaged?
No. The main one is called 'dinstall' -- it is in CVS I think but
no-one has packaged it, unfortunately. Several times people have
said, "Real soon now" but it's still not there for some reason.
Bjoern Brill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working on a program that collects information to be used by the sys
> admin. I don't want the collected information to be world writable (even
> though this wouldn't be a security hole), but I want the program to run
> from user accounts (with write a
Christopher C Chimelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Currently, Alpha has a mailing list that's like a quinn-diff "on
> steroids" that gives the Alpha porters a list of what's different between
> i386 and alpha. We usually work from that rather than rely on
> debian-devel-changes. It might help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> I don't agree with this change. I would rather it get asked always,
> and that the default is for the button that enables the new features
> and rejects Linux 2.0 compatability be highlighted by default, so
> that pressing [Enter] will take that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
> I see this as an argument for leaving the question in; that is, don't
> make it a `verbose'-mode only question. I would like it to default
> to the 2.2 kernel case, but offer the compat mode.
I disagree. I would assent to change the default and t
Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How is this issue going to affect the users?
It's hard for us to say exactly. Hence, I tend to be rather
conservative.
> E.g.: Can one boot up a slink system then access a /home directory on a
> potato built fs.
If the 2.2 ext2fs features are enabled, n
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from
> Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the
> network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap.
What architecture?
> I've managed to
> activate and m
Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working my way through a peculiar install (the box is a briq from
> Total Impact http://www.totalimpact.com ). The box is booting over the
> network and I haven't been able to run dbootstrap.
What architecture?
> I've managed to
> activate and
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