debhelper error -- bug?

1998-08-04 Thread Brian Almeida
-p$@ -P$(b)/$@ dh_fixperms -p$@ -P$(b)/$@ dh_installdeb-p$@ -P$(b)/$@ dh_gencontrol-p$@ -P$(b)/$@ dh_md5sums -p$@ -P$(b)/$@ dh_builddeb -p$@ -P$(b)/$@ -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/~bma/ Debia

Re: my pgp key

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Almeida
ger using. Who should I contact to inform them of this change. Probably Martin Schulze or James Troup would be the people to talk to. (Look at the people page for their email addresses, or just use [EMAIL PROTECTED], I think). They deal with most (all?) of the new maintainer applicants. --

Re: my pgp key

1998-09-17 Thread Brian Almeida
On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 12:49:53AM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Igor (Grobman?) is filling in for James Troup. Oh? Is James on vacation? -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian

Removing an obsoleted package

1998-10-05 Thread Brian Almeida
Hello, In my latest upload of eMusic, libemusic-dev was obsoleted (the author does not build static libs anymore). How can I completely purge this from dselect? Can I? Thanks. Brian

Incorrect section

1998-10-06 Thread Brian Almeida
Hello, I have a package that is all stuffed into one section (and an incorrect one, at that). Can I just modify the Section: fields in debian/control, reupload, and have things sort themselves out? Is there anything special I need to do? Thanks, Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Speaking of new maintainers (WAS Re: getting bugs moved to a new maintainer)

1998-10-22 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 05:14:30PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > You had announced on the E-dev list that you were no longer interested > in being the .deb maintainer for Enlightenment, and had found two new > parties for this. > Could you announce this again? You also mentioned the packaging

*.m4 files in -dev packages

1998-11-09 Thread Brian Almeida
n your package. Ask the powers that be about this. I could be wrong. But this should only affect people who compile apps from CVS. and if they are doing that, then they should not be using your package anyway. On 09-Nov-98 Brian Almeida wrote: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/29/29169.htm

need to replace .orig.tar.gz

1999-01-18 Thread Brian Almeida
with another of my packages (esound). How can I get the new .orig.tar.gz into the archive? Thanks, bma -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/~bma/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer PGP Key: 0x3A800C65 http://www.debian.org

libs package - necessary?

1999-02-28 Thread Brian Almeida
One of my packages, eMusic, uses libraries for plugins. They are placed in /usr/lib/eMusic (and thus does not call ldconfig). Do I *really* need a libemusic0 package? Also, the soname does not change between releases - it is always libfoo.so.0.0.0. All packages version depend on each other, sinc

Pseudo-solutions for versioned Provides?

1999-03-01 Thread Brian Almeida
Hi, I'm trying to consolidate emusic into one .deb, and have no problems, except one - the old packages have a versioned Depends: on one another. I know that dpkg can't do versioned Provides...suggestions? Since this is unstable, is it ok if I break them, and make the users manually remove the off

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-04-06 Thread Brian Almeida
aintained by Erick Kinnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > Also, a pointer to PGP (insofar as required to sign packages) would be > appreciated. the scripts will automatically sign the packages when the are built unless told otherwise. -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> De

Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-11 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 10:08:00AM -0500, Chris McKillop wrote: > Well, I am finally getting around to applying to become a > developer so I can help out Jim on the ARM port. How long does it > usually take for the developer application to be processed? I have > heard depressing comments on

Re: Becoming a new Developer

1999-04-12 Thread Brian Almeida
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 08:53:12PM -0700, R Garth Wood wrote: > > It took me a month or two, but a large majority of the time it was that I > > kept > > missing the new maintainer team when they called, since there's a time > > difference of at least 5 hours... > > It might be a good idea to emai

Re: filenames with more than 100 chars ?

1999-05-12 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:48:16PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello list ! > > Well tar has no problems with filenames that are longer than 100 chars. > It just keeps printing ././@LongLink for every file but unpacks without > problems. > > But now lintian starts complaining about it (hey,