New Maintainer Questions

ainer (there was a list posted to debian-private), so I want to make certain that I am not expected to do anything myself. Thanks in advance, -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Help: Why am I kicked out of -devel list?

this message has been in the queue too long. This looks very relevant, and might be because the domain name server at your ISP/Uni is not very reliable. Then again, it could be a problem with Debian's computers, too, but this seems unlikely. > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >CNAM

Re: Strange permissions problem.

oot or not as I don't use it). [1] Not really C but you should get the idea... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp8O8byjrNae.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: install script...

eady have this capability built in - although the original poster didn't say if automake was being used, I strongly suspect this to be have been the case. Of course, I could always be mistaken. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpMfBaMenL8X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kerberos

iple packages from the same source, so I guess somebody else will have to you you there. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpuPQWYJVF8x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: when to chown a file

t;, you can use the -o and -g options to set the ownership to what you want. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpLUdut9iz5G.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

;John Smith" really does have the private key before signing the public key. Of course, I have never attended a key signing meeting, so I don't know how/if this checking is usually done. I think the usually way is to check the fingerprint of the key. Come to think of it, I don't think

Re: PGP and verifying ids / emails

ery important for ssh, but maybe not such an issue for PGP. 2. Of course, you also have to identify his name and E-Mail address, to give other people an indication as to who has the private key. You then sign it so nobody else can tamper with it. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpuZ7H8irl8T.pgp Description: PGP signature

CVS and upstream source

make the source files?? Or am I approaching this from the wrong angle What should I do? eg perhaps I should somehow tell cvs-upgrade not to install configure and */Makefile.am (any others I have missed)? Thanks in advance. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgptSNgYEHecy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CVS and upstream source

in relation to other computers on the Internet. It is about comparing the time on different files on my computer. Currently I have hacked around the problem by providing dummy versions of aclocal, automake, and autoheader that do nothing. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpdoaFjLKHzD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CVS and upstream source

; .deps > gmon.out > config.cache > Makefile > Makefile.in > config.h > config.h.in > config.log > config.status > config.guess > stamp-h > stamp-h.in > aclocal.m4 > install-sh > missing > mkinstalldirs > configure > language-*.tar.gz > core > -- Thanks for this. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpNwmpYgt7Bu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Directory 'foo' not empty, so not removed

plement in current versions of dpkg, however it is what I would like to see ;-). It would prevent dpkg from forgetting about directories that cannot be deleted, unless the user really wants this to happen. Similarly, it would still work for configuration files that dpkg doesn't know about

Curses postgresql conflicts with ncurses.

e, so I would rather get it going before I experiment with better designs (probably a bad method - I know). For the moment, I will delete the definition in /usr/include/postgresql/c.h, as it looks very nonstandard (it uses type char). -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

multi-source package

Y is many megabytes, even when compressed. I suspect most of it is not used (not sure yet). Would it still be practical to package this program? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpvQoTlnGOys.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: multi-source package

ilding the binary package should be easy, so I want go into details here. Suggestions? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpWq4Y05gQYN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

oved to adduser. That way you can configure the user with one program call, and not worry about usermod. In case anyone hasn't already guessed, my system is still slink, so potato may have changed something. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp2bBmwyo68w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: nscd confuses my preinst :-(

On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:11:27AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Hello > > On Sat, 25.09.99 10:21 +1000, Brian May wrote: > > If useradd is the wrong program to use (thats my guess), then the same > > functionality should (IMHO) be moved to adduser. That way you can &

Re: protocol: closing bugs

g bugs in unstable, when the bugs still exists in stable... I previously mentioned this on debian-private, too, but it seems to have got lost in with all the other messages sent at the time. Because nothing in it is private, I have attached that message here. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -

Re: [Fwd: Bug#47294: file conflict]

ed a bug report concerning this - should I? Last I heard, it was the goal of dpkg to allow downgrades as well as upgrades, so I think this should really be fixed. Feel free to repost into debian-devel as appropriate. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: setgid stuff

s). The slink version of debhelper puts "dh_fixperms" before "dh_suidregister": dh_fixperms -a dh_suidregister -a I hope this has been fixed in the potato version... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debhelper: dh_fixperms should come after dh_suidregister (was: Re: setgid stuff)

ter cannot remove the suid bit, as it was already removed. This seems like a bug in dh_make. dh_fixperms should run after dh_suidregister, or not at all. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: debhelper: dh_fixperms should come after dh_suidregister (was: Re: setgid stuff)

aintainer's decision to have a SetUID program, not the upstream maintainer (as dh_fixperms overrides anything set by the upstream Makefile). At least, the Debian maintainer must be aware of programs that are SetUID. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

config files

seems to solve 1. I am sure I have seen ideas on 2 and 3, but can't seem to find them now. If nothing has been standardised, I will invent my own method (I have some good ideas on how to do this), but thought this was a common situation... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: i386 build daemon

buildd/ia32 should Martin> pick up the package. How do you upload a source only package? dpkg-buildpackage doesn't seem to have any options for source only uploading - or have I missed something? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: i386 build daemon

lus Martin> .orig.tar.gz if that's the first versin. Sorry to sound completely dumb, but how do you generate these files? Let me try to guess cd .. dpkg-source -b dir-1.0 cd dir-1.0 dpkg-genchanges cd .. gpg --clearsign *.changes Is that correct? Is there any automatic way of doing these steps? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Binary Changes Drill

debian/rules automatically extracts the prestine source and applies patches to it. As far as dpkg-source is concerned, there is no diff file, hence no problems with binaries. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Build-Depends?

ssion that it is possible to have Build-Depends automagically set. If so, how? I have looked in the debian-policy and packaging-manual, and found nothing. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dh_installinfo ?

installs the info page as well as dh_installinfo, this is especially a problem with both install it in a different places. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [boot-floppies] `mke2fs' and new Linux 2.2 ext2 features ?

ar I have asked about exactly this problem on both debian-user and kernel-devel without success. At one stage, I felt the problem was the newer version of pcmcia-cs, but now suspect the kernel again. 2.0.36 works on this computer fine - why should I change it? -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

heimdal shared libraries

dal-lib to heimdal-lib0 2. have heimdal-lib provide and conflict heimdal-lib 3. tell everyone to upgrade packages that depend on heimdal-lib. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HOT OPENINGS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS!!!

Sender: $listreq" \ -uDate: -aMessage-ID: -aResent-Message-ID: \ -a"To: $listaddr" -a"Resent-From: $listaddr" -A"X-Loop: $listaddr" \ -a"Subject: Unidentified subject!" ${reply_to:+"-a$reply_to"} \ -a"X-Mailing-List: <$listaddr> $ARCHIVE" [...] not sure why... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: HOT OPENINGS IN AUSTIN, TEXAS!!!

to master.debian.org Perhaps my "From:" address is confusing. Have a look at my "Sender:" address instead. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: changelog and copyright files

ions consistent. Not that I really understand the details, but it was enough to satisfy my curiosity. Have a look at the debian-devel archives (not sure when, sometime this year, or December last year I think) for details. Or perhaps I filled a bug against www.debian.org. Sorry, I can't remember now. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: what creates a Packages{,.gz} etc. file ?

building of the *.deb file comes from "dpkg-deb -b". You must have a DEBIAN directory though containing at least control. I hope this helps... -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dh_movefiles

lldocs to install it directly from the source directory. I am not sure if it can move just one file into a directory though (html/). If however, you have all html files in one directory called html, you can use it to copy the whole directory in one go. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Error Message

king it. You probably could also play around with /etc/syslog.conf, to redirect the message away from the console. Please sent followups to debian-user. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dir permissions

ed. Only the selinux policy needs to be changed. It sounds like a good idea to me, it restricts what files games can access if they are somehow compromised. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dir permissions

uld be required. Only the selinux policy needs to be changed. It sounds like a good idea to me, it restricts what files games can access if they are somehow compromised. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]