Re: Versionned dependancies on build-essential packages. (was: Re: Where did Bacula 1.38.11-7+b1 come from?)

2007-02-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2007-02-24 Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:30:38PM +0100, Andreas Metzler a écrit : > > Build-Depends: dpkg-dev (>=1.13.19) [...] > [Thread from -devel diverted to -mentors.] I do not follow that list, thanks for the cc. > I was j

Bug#726873: RFS: id3/0.15-4

2013-10-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2013-10-20 Stefan Ott wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "id3" [...] Hello, I have just uploaded the package. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful

Re: Correcting a version number

2013-12-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Lintott wrote: [..] > I have realised that in an earlier package upload, I made a blunder > with regards the version of the package. > The package was versioned as 0.5b0-1, though I somehow missed, despite > testing the watch file that this should have been 0.5~b0-1. > I have seen some di

Re: Correcting a version number

2013-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Daniel Lintott wrote: > On 10/12/13 19:21, Dominik George wrote: >>> [2] http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=vpcs_0.5b0-1 >> In that special case, I'd even say your versioning "mistake" is >> good because upstream's ~ notation is a mess. That char is reserved >> for Debian ;) (yes, that's fals

Re: Different symbols for different architectures

2013-12-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> Seems that different architectures have different symbols. > To me it doesn't look that simple, since the missing symbols are the > same on many arches. It seems like upstream is basing the > presence/absence of some pub

Re: arch-dependent files in "Multi-Arch: same" package

2013-12-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Olе Streicher wrote: > for some of my newly uploaded packages, I got a bug report > 'arch-dependent files in "Multi-Arch: same" package' [1]. The files in > question are in /usr/share/doc/. > However, these differences do not come from differences in the > architecture but from different build en

Re: dh: different dh option for -indep

2013-12-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Olе Streicher wrote: > my package will create a separate arch-independent -doc package with > "sphinxdoc". Since therefore sphinx is not needed for architecure > dependent builds, I moved the build dependency of the package into the > Build-Depends-Indep field in debian/control: > ---

Re: dh: different dh option for -indep

2013-12-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2013, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> MYDHMODS := $(shell if dh_listpackages | grep -q foo-doc ; \ >> then echo "--with autoreconf,sphinxdoc" ; \ >> else echo "--with autoreconf" ; fi) [...] > Nic

Re: Is there a place for ndjbdns in Debian

2014-02-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > I am working on a MaraDNS package, the upstream Author, Sam Trenholme > suggested that maybe it could also worth packaging ndjbdns, a djbdns > fork but with GPL licence and all bugs fixed. Also the upstream of > ndjbdns is quite responsive and active. [...] Hello,

Re: Bug#740482: RFS: [RC][security] imagemagick/8:6.7.7.10-8

2014-03-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-03-02 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "imagemagick" [...] > Changes since the last upload: > Fix three security bug Uploaded.

Re: Bug#740482: RFS: [RC][security] imagemagick/8:6.7.7.10-8

2014-03-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2014-03-02 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Le 2 mars 2014 16:19, "Andreas Metzler" a écrit : >> On 2014-03-02 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >>> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "imagemagick" [...] >> Uploaded. > Rejected by ftpmaster* reupl

Re: RFS since

2003-07-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:08:30PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: [...] > To test your 'closes:' statement (there are other variations) against > the regular expression, do something like this: > > echo 'closes: #201365' | perl -ne 'print "ok\n" if > /closes:\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+(?:,\s*(?:bu

Re: about gzip

2003-07-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:09:09PM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote: > I am using gzip in my debian/rules for zipping > manpage and then i use "cp my_package.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1" This should not be an absolute path but the temporary dir debian

Re: tagging bugs "woody"?

2003-07-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 29.07.03 15:20 Frank Küster wrote: users working with Debian woody often do not look at archived bugs when reporting bugs on a package. Therefore it is likely that bugs that have long been fixed in unstable, but will never be in woody will be reported multiple times again. Therefore on debian

Re: tagging bugs "woody"?

2003-07-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 30.07.03 10:02 Frank Küster wrote: Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: Tagging them as "fixed,woody" sounds wrong to me, they'll be listed as "closed in NMU" and will probably be rereported again. Oh, does tagging "fixed" automatically re

Re: Trying to make my first package...

2003-08-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:45:48AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: [...] > Your file wmxmms_0.1.4-1.tar.gz is not the original tar archive from the > upstream author. > > You need to rename the upstream original tar archive to: > > wmxmms_0.1.4-1.orig.tar.gz Almost. wmxmms_0.1.4.orig.tar.

Re: Problems with UTF-8 in changelog

2003-08-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > I am trying to have my debian/changelog file in utf-8, as required by > standards-version 3.6.0. However, dpkg-parsechangelog seems not to bee > able to parse that: [...] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/Packages/netenv/netenv-0.94.2$ dpkg-pa

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
Chris Niekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To add some information to my previous post (in the hope of attracting > some more attention) > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 02:52:31PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: >> The 'sn' package was orphaned, and I ITA'ed it. I'm not a DD yet, and >> this is my first pac

Re: removing bogus directories in my package

2003-08-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:22:48PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > one of my packages (trickle) had a problem and used to create stupid > directories (/usr/share/man1 etc) (see #207258). this is due to a typo > in debian/rules (shame on me) > i fixed this in a new version, but i don't know how to ha

Re: YMMFPQ (Yet More My First Package Questions)

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:06:16AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:19:44PM +0200, Thorsten Sauter wrote: [...] >> dpkg-buildpackage tries to sign the package with your name, which is >> used in the debian/changelog file. You can change the name (and email) >> in thi

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am rather fluent in sh, but need to look up "shopt -s xpg_echo". This >> is tooo ugly. Just

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > > > Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well > > > as > > > dash. > Bash

Re: RFS: sn - Small NNTP server for leaf sites

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:34:31PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:17:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > PS: Personally I'd switch to Debhelper compatibility 4 instead of 1, too. > > This would get rid of debian/conffiles. [...] > With de

Re: backing up/replacing files from another package

2003-08-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0700, Eric Winger wrote: > The question, basically is this: "How does one have a .deb package which > replaces/overwrites files from another package (in this case a > dependency)?" > > The specific example is this. We want to use autofs. For our turnkey > sys

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:54:49PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally > bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list. I'd > appreciate comments and more questions and answers. > http://people.debian.org/~mpalme

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:06:20PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:52:39AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:54:49PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've f

Do Debian packages need to build properly with umask 0007? (was: Bug#208802: Wrong permissions on exim manpages)

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:50:27AM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote: > As noted, the permissions on the exim manpage from the exim security > update (DSA-376-1) are wrong: they are 640 rather than 644. This breaks > mandb amongst other things, which causes the mandb cron.daily job to > fail. > > It appe

Re: Do Debian packages need to build properly with umask 0007?

2003-09-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:00:32AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:50:27AM +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote: >> As noted, the permissions on the exim manpage from the exim security >> update (DSA-376-1) are wrong: they are 640 rather than 644. This breaks &

Bug in update_excuses?

2003-09-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Quoting http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz#glibc - # glibc (2.3.1-16 to 2.3.2-5) * Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers * Too young, only 3 of 10 days old * locales/hppa unsatisfiable Depends: glibc-2.3.2-5 * out of date on hppa: lib

Re: Bug in update_excuses?

2003-09-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:45:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > So the db3-update predepends on a glibc-update, which cannot happen and > > should stop db3 3.2.9-19.0.1 from becoming "Valid candidate"

Re: FAQ for debian-mentors

2003-09-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:33:01PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > El martes, 9 de septiembre de 2003, a las 14:27, Andreas Barth escribe: > > With a sid build environment you're always on the safe side. > > What about, having the choice of building against both the stable and > the unst

Re: Request for sponorship.

2003-09-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:45:37AM -0400, David Dorgan wrote: > Recently Soren Boll Overgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent > out an RFA for volume.app. I use this every day on all > my debian desktops, also Soren has no problem with > me maintaining this package. > > I have repackaged it (basically t

Re: Request for sponorship.

2003-09-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:37:27PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > The changelog does not close the RFA bug. [...] David, sorry for nuking you with mails, I had overlooked this. One of the first steps in adopting a packahe is changing the Request For Adoption (RFA) to "Intend

Re: Request for sponorship.

2003-09-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:12:18AM -0400, David Dorgan wrote: > Quoting Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Much better. :-) > > TODO: > [snip] > > I've updated the package and it's now available on > sponge.xevion.net/~davidd/volume.app > > Thank

Re: Packaging a software with an existing name

2003-09-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:58:29PM +0200, Emmanuel Lacour wrote: > I would like to make a package for libnss-mysql from > libnss-mysql.sf.net. There is already a libnss-mysql in debian but not > the same (different approach in config files). So what name could I take > for this "alternate" package

Re: How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:16:32PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > A new version of a package that I maintain has changed the name of the > default configuration file. I want to propagate this name change, but > how do I handle it properly? AFAICT, I'm not allowed to touch conffiles > in the maintai

Re: How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:56:02PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Andreas Metzler: > > You could conditionally move the existing configuration file in the > > preinst to the new location. > Thanks. I'm doing something similar with a non-conffile for another of > my p

Re: camsource -- a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software

2003-09-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:15:33PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > Can someone please have a look at my just finished .debs? I just peeked at the diff. > More info on the package can be found at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211538 > > The packages can be found

Re: camsource -- a modularized and multithreaded webcam-streaming software

2003-09-24 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:28:34AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:45:28PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> [...] >> You may generate the devices in postinst without asking the user, you >> just have to depend on makedev. > I am not sure we

Re: camsource-0.7.0-0.balu.2 - ready for sponsoring?

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:41:53AM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: [...] > I've changed the following things from the first .deb I've posted here: > * Added debconf to ask wether to create video devices or not (and removed > that part from the README) [...] Please undo that, either gene

Re: camsource-0.7.0-0.balu.2 - ready for sponsoring?

2003-09-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:18:30PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:01:29AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Please undo that, either generate the devices[1] or don't but don't add > > another debconf question just because you can. >

Re: Looking for sponsor for sitemap update

2003-09-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aaron Isotton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm the maintainer of 'sitemap', but no DD. I made an update. It's > lintian and linda clean. Could anybody upload it, please? > > It's version 2.3-6 from > > http://www.isotton.com/debian/sitemap/ Uploaded and accepted.

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:09:39PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > In the upcoming version of the `emacs-goodies-el' source package, I want > the following to happen to these bianry packages: > > `emacs-goodies-extra-el' >-> removed and contents merged into `emacs-goodies-el' > > `debbug

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:54:35PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> There is not a "standard" to make a package to disappear, but there is >>> something you can do to ensure that "apt-get upgrade" works: J

Re: Renaming a package

2003-10-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:16:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:03:11 +0200, Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] >> quoting a recent discussion on debian-devel: >>> -- From: Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [

Re: Splitting a package

2003-10-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:51:12PM +0200, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > I'd like to know if this justifies splitting a package. AFAIK the > size or the existence of shared libs justify splitting a package, but > not this. > > I've got a package that contains a command line program and a couple

Re: proper way to pack package from multiple sources?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > The syslog-ng package consists of two sources: syslog-ng itself, and > libol. > Now the packege is created by unpacking syslog-ng, dropping the libol > tar.gz into the source tree, and adding the debian dir. > It follows that either

Re: Build-conflicts: ?

2003-10-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 09:35:11PM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > There is a build-time conflict of the zorp package to > python2.1: if I have both python2.1 and python2.2-extclass > installed, then configure exists with an error. If I remove > python2.1, it builds okay. > How can I express this f

Re: library soname changed, now what?

2003-10-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:37:07PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote: > i maintain trickle which links against libevent. now libevent has > changed its soname so my old binary packages depend on libevent0 which > is no longer available as it is replaced with libevent1. i checked and i > have to change abs

Debian Installer sends acknoledgements to uploader, doesn't it?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, today I found this mail in my inbox: | From: Debian Installer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:17:12 -0400 | | Accepted: | exim4-base_4.24-2_m68k.deb | to pool/main/e/exi

Re: splitting a package?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:26:40AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > I have split up the zorp package to zorp, libzorp2 and zorp-pylib. > Also renamed zorp-dev to libzorp2-dev. > > Not uploaded it yet. > > Please advice me on this. I have some questions, but there may be > some issues that I did no

Re: Debian Installer sends acknoledgements to uploader, doesn't it?

2003-10-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:49:54PM +1000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-21 09:34]: > > I don't have a m68k machine and did not do the upload, so I wonder how > > this ended up in my inbox, with me in the To:. I know you get th

Re: dependency on vulnerable version?

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:26:10AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > Zorp depends on libssl. > DSA-393-1 says that libssl 0.9.7c-1 should be okay. > The shlibs file of libssl0.9.7 contains an unversioned dependency, > and because of that, zorp's dependency is also not versioned. > Questions: > -Sh

Re: translations

2003-10-23 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:10:00AM -0700, H3cT0r wrote: > Hi, my name is Hector, from Argentina, i want to know where > could i find a list of all pakages that are not translated to > spanish languajes. I would like to contribute in the > translations. How about http://www.at.debian.org/internati

Re: RFS gdal

2003-10-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:48:11PM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > - as it looks like you are both Upstream and Debian maintainer and > you already added the debian directory into Upstream CVS, it might > make sense to build a native package (i.e. no diff file, at all). Hello, No, unless gdal

Re: RFS gdal

2003-10-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:50:56AM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > > Debian native or not usually should not be chosen on behalf of whether > > upstream=debian-maintainer but on whether the package is Debian > > specific (like dpkg or mime-support) or not.[1] > > * Debian versioning and upstream

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:22:26PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > What happens when you do debian/rules config.status? > > $ ./debian/rules config.status > dh_testdir > # Add here commands to configure the package. > CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 ./configure --host=i386-linux --build=i386-linux > --prefix=

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote: > Am Samstag, 25. Oktober 2003 14:10 schrieb Zenaan Harkness: > > config.status: configure > > dh_testdir > > # Add here commands to configure the package. > > CFLAGS=$(CFLAGS) ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \ > > Thi

Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ "audio" group question(s)

2003-10-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 11:26:35PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Just been tinkering with jackstart and findout out what suid bit means. > I think that the following would be a useful way to have audio software > that requires "root" privileges set up: > > dpkg-statoverride --update --add root a

Re: [Fwd: Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ "audio" group question(s)]

2003-10-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:51:00AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Is there a policy for audio apps in this regard? > > > > No, but there should be, probably. > > Since there are a lot of audio applications starting to > hit sid, eg. jackd, ardour, etc, where would be the place to > discuss "

Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ "audio" group question(s)

2003-10-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 04:57:36PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > dpkg-statoverride --update --add root audio 4754 \ > > > > /usr/bin/jackstart > > > [...] > > > If jackstart always _requires_ SUID root you should not use > > > dpkg-statoverride but ship it SUID in the deb. > > If it re

Re: Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:47:49AM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:43:07PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Audio applications or applets (ie. executable files) requiring realtime > > privileges should be installed as follows: > > - user = root > > - group = audio > > -

Re: Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:31:14PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] > I'm actually starting to wonder whether we should have a general facility > for these sorts of things. Having apps be setuid root and expecting them to > behave responsibility is asking for trouble; it would make much more se

Fixing a b0rked NMU - How long do I have to wait?

2003-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I've made a broken NMU of libgpgme0.4, introducing a /usr/share/info/dir.* rc-bug (218083). I've submitted a patch and tagged the bug accordingly. How long do I have to wait before I can make an upload fixing my own broken NMU? Do I really have to wait again sometime + sometime + delayed-7da

Re: Fixing a b0rked NMU - How long do I have to wait?

2003-10-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:39:17PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:36:48PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > I've made a broken NMU of libgpgme0.4, introducing a > > /usr/share/info/dir.* rc-bug (218083). I've submitted a patch and tagged > >

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-10-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:03:48AM +0100, Andrea Capriotti wrote: [...] > Package: anteater > Version: 0.4.4-1 > Priority: optional > Section: mail > Maintainer: Andrea Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.1-1), libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.1-1) > Architecture: i38

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-10-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andrea Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: anteater > Version: 0.4.4-1 You forgot to retitle the RFP bug (#123920) to an ITP[1] and close the respective bug in the changelog, something like this: * Uploaded to Debian (Closes: #123920) cu andreas [1] http://people.debi

Re: RFS: libfilesys-smbclient-perl

2003-10-31 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:23:06PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > On Friday 31 Oct 2003 19:51, Frank Küster wrote: > > Amit Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > The orig.tar.gz contains the directory renamed to > > > libfilesys-smbclient-1.4/. The original one had Filesys-SmbClient-1.4 > > > as the d

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:27:28PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to > stat. In sarge, /usr/bin/stat is in coreutils - of course I don't need a > dependency on that. However, in woody stat was in a separate > package. Usually packages kee

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:26:24AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:27:28PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> in a package that I maintain (sponsored by a DD), I use a call to > >> stat. In sar

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-03 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andrea Capriotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You forgot to retitle the RFP bug (#123920) to an ITP[1] and close >> the respective bug in the changelog, something like this: >> * Uploaded to Debian (Closes: #123920) > > Done. > > Version 0.4.4-3 is available. I am really sorry for bringing this

Re: Problem with dependency declaration

2003-11-04 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote: [...] > BTW: Since I posted to this ML (and debian-devel), I get more mail > worms than my mailbox at my ISP can hold. Strange for linux developer > MLs... The MLs are mirrored to usenet, and recent worms (Swen) search the local mailfolde

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:14:25AM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote: > Am Montag, 3. November 2003 13:37 schrieb Andreas Metzler: > > I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one, but afaict the > > Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous. > Why? > I found it

Re: RFS: anteater

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:12:02PM +0100, Andrea Capriotti wrote: > > I am really sorry for bringing this up one by one, > No problem. ;) > > but afaict the > > Build-Dependency on docbook-to-man is completely superfluous. > You are right, removed. Version 0.4.4-4 is available. I'll try to find

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conffiles?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > if a package wants to use debconf to manage a configuration file, but > still let the user have the option to manually add entries - is there a > preferred way how to do this? Parse the file and only change the debconf-managed options

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conffiles?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 04:33:03PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: [...] > (BTW, I'm more annoyed by being asked by dpkg that conffiles where > changed "by me or a script" that I didn't even know they existed) [...] Afaik this usually happens if a conffile moves from one package to another.

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 11:01:35AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: [...] > > Put the information from the debconf database into the file, but between > > markers ### begin DEBCONF section for $package... ### end DEBCONF > > section for

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: [...] > > I would say that, even though this is a cop-out, it's a better solution > > than what's in place for tetex today. > Hm, so this is in contrast to what Colin and Andreas said, as fa

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 03:25:28PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: [...] >> Anyway, whatever you do, you are to keep these files up-to-date. > Even if the program I'm packaging doesn't use autotools [...] If your package does not use

Re: subscribing to a single bug

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:42:12AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > I can subscribe to the BTS traffic of a whole package through the > PTS. Is it also possible to just monitor a single bug and be emailed > when something changes? No, not yet. You could subscribe to the package and filterr on X-De

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:44:53PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: [...] > W: fastdep source: newer-standards-version 3.6.1.0 [...] > I sent an email to lintian-maint. So at this point, can I consider my > package lintian-clean? Imho yes. cu andreas

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:43:46PM +, Magosányi Árpád wrote: [...] > + find . -name config.{log,status,cache} |xargs rm -f [...] Two things: Does -name config.{log,status,cache} actually work for you? It doesn't do for me: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/test> touch config.log

Re: Error on dpkg-buildpackage

2003-11-07 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:52:48PM -0300, José Oliveira wrote: > Hi all! Somebody can say me what is happening? I'm trying to build a > .deb and it's generating this error when I run dpkg-buildpackage: > > # Add here commands to configure the package. > CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 ./configure --host=i386-

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:50:09AM +, Magosányi Árpád wrote: > A levelez?m azt hiszi, hogy Andreas Metzler a következ?eket írta: > > Two things: > > Does -name config.{log,status,cache} actually work for you? It doesn't > > do for me: > [] > > Never ever us

Re: [debian-mentors] config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-10 Thread Andreas Metzler
Geert Stappers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:50:09AM +, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: >> A levelezõm azt hiszi, hogy Andreas Metzler a következõeket írta: >> > Two things: >> > Does -name config.{log,status,cache} actually work f

Re: Modifying other packages' conffiles: the not-so-ideal way

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > policy says in section 10.7.4: > , > | If it is desirable for two or more related packages to share a > | configuration file and for all of the related packages to be able to > | modify that configuration file, then the following

Re: symlinks between two packages

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:23:32PM +0100, Nicolas Rueff wrote: > I'm attempting to become DD, so I'm currently packaging some software. > One of this software must be packaged in two parts: one for the client > part (tty/console), one for the X frontend, so the X frontend package > depends on the c

Re: Modifying other packages' conffiles: the not-so-ideal way

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:17:10PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:16:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> policy says in section 10.7.4: > > > >> , > >> | If it is desir

Re: Init.d script, preventing start of one service

2003-11-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
I am redirecting to debian-mentors, imho the more appropriate list. On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:27:03PM +0100, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > In one of the package i maitain i have a config script which begin by > asking if the service attached to this package need to be run. I use a > variable ( stored

Re: Packaging phpLDAPadmin. Newbie's questions.

2003-11-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:47:51PM -0600, David Segonds wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:32:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Check out ucf; it has been specifically written to allow you > > to offer the user a choice, exactly like dpkg does for conffiles. > I looked at the document

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:53:43PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote: > msmtp (0.6.1 & 0.6.2 ) - An "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and probably other MUAs. > msmtp is an "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and probably other MUAs (mail user > agents). > It forwards mails to an SMTP server (for example at a free mail provid

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:22:47AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:53:43PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote: [...] > > wmnetload (1.3) - A network interface monitor dockapp for Window Maker. ^^ Dum

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:14:27PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:55:48AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 10:22:47AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:53:43PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote: >> [...] &

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-25 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:26:15PM -0800, Jess Mahan wrote: > I made a lot of changes to my packages (Thanks BTW for all the helpfull > comments from everyone. > Can you please check them out now, and see if I did it right this time? > deb http://digitalssg.net/debian/ stable main non-US >

Packaging a perl-script

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, I'd like to see http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) in Debian. As the name suggests this is a wonderful tool to test SMTP servers (including starttls and lots of SMTP auth), for all of us who are tired of "telnet foo 25". ;-) However this is only 40KB (with pod) a

Re: Packaging a perl-script

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:46:58PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However this is only 40KB (with pod) and I think it might be rejected > > by ftp-master. - Are there any better possibilities? > Why should they reject it? &qu

Re: Standards-Version

2003-12-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:10:47PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:35:16 +0100 > Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote: > > > So I wonder how I can do that? Is there some ChangeLog for the > > >

Conflicts: foo (>=x && <=y) - how?

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, How do I conflict with a certain range of versions? The package is exim4 and I want to conflict with passwd >=1:* but <=1:4.0.3-8. - Both versions up to 2902-12 and later than 1:4.0.3-8 work for me and I do not want to conflict with them. Is there a nicer way than Conflicts: passwd (=1:

Re: Bootsplash packages.

2003-12-17 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:17:21PM -0500, Matthew A. Nicholson wrote: [..] > I was planning on posting the packages on my website (although I don't > have much bandwith), but I am having problems making a package that > replaces sysv-rc. In order for bootsplash to operate correctly it needs > t

Re: Debian diff / Debian Policy (-dev)

2003-12-20 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:25:10PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote: > I noticed that dh_make doesn't create diffs , why is that? dh_make does not creat debs or .dsc either > Is there a way > to (re)generate the the *.diff.gz ? Manually generate (by simple ranaming of the upstream sources) a correctly

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