Re: Request for Sponsor: kdirstat - Graphical disk usage display

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Mike Schacht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package location: > www.midstatesd.net/~mschacht/debian/kdirstat_2.0.1* > > Be sure to get this version, 2.0.1. The 2.2.0 version depends on some > kde3 libs that have still not made it into unstable. > > From the .deb description: > > KDirStat (K

In need of sponsor for Qtella

2002-11-14 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm adopting Qtella and I'm in need of a sponsor. It's a simple package with a tiny diff, available here: http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ Thanks, Brian -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! msg07865/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Library with "demos", where should demos go?

2002-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm packaging a library which contains a bunch of demos - both the > binaries and the source code gets installed by the library's build > system... > > Would this be a decent approach: > > Installing all the demo binaries in /usr/bin/ > Installing d

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-01-31 Thread Brian Nelson
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hey -mentors > > i'm throwing together a cgi script package that requires certain > lines be added to the apache configuration file on the webserver > in order to work, so there's no way it can work out of the box as > far as i can figure, at least until a

Re: Testing pbuilt packages

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Brett Cundal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:22:51AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Volker Sturm wrote: >> > if I want to get into software development for Debian: Is it recommended to >> > stay with stable or upgrade to sid? >> >> If yo

Re: tight coupling for related libraries

2003-03-25 Thread Brian Nelson
"Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining a package (gmp) that produces a C library (libgmp) and > a C++ library (libgmpxx). The latter links against, and depends on > the internals of, the former. > > The libraries go into different binary packages, but since the

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have anadvodcate?

2003-04-04 Thread Brian Nelson
"B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, but I'm such an old fart... I actually used to run Debian 0.97 > on my old 386 (and it was sooo cool). As far as Linux is concerned, > I have always used Debian and nothing else. For years and years I have > just been a "Debian User" -- now I

Re: Looking for Mentor for Packet 'dvdauthor'

2003-04-05 Thread Brian Nelson
Rene Tschirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to apply for becoming a Debian Packet Maintainer for the packet > 'dvdauthor'. To apply to the New Maintainer process it seems as if I now > need an existing Debian developer who agrees to be an advocate and > verifies my application so that I

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of > the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" tags. I think all I > need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug > was fixed in the NMU of versi

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently had a bug (193950) filed against one of my packages because the > shared libraries had "undefined non-weak symbols" - libstdc++ was not being > linked in. I resolved it with what I consider a gruesome hack. I discovered > that forcing libtool t

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-07-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Pellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Junichi Uekawa wrote: > >>> Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the >>> Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory >>> (LLNL)." >>> >>> This seems to me to conflict with the GPL, and I'd like c

Re: [RFS] slimp3 - MPEG Layer III Streaming Server

2003-07-26 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruno Rodrigues) writes: > Anyone interested in sponsoring my slimp3[1] package and its companions, > libmp3-tag-perl[2] and libaudio-wav-perl[3] ? > > Packages have already been scrutinized by my sponsor Salvador Abreu > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Brian Nel

Re: lintian error "file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/settings/" withQt3-Application

2003-08-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Dominik Stadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I started working on a debian-package. The application uses the Qt-Library as > basis (no KDE). During startup, the application looks in a directory > "/usr/etc/settings/" for system-wide settings for the application. This is > not coded in

Re: lintian error "file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/settings/" withQt3-Application

2003-08-15 Thread Brian Nelson
Dominik Stadler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why Qt should look in /usr/etc? Configure your program with >> --sysconfdir=/etc flag and everything should be OK. > > Thanks for the hints, but the problem is that the application does not use > autoconf/automake/configure, but the build-tool qmake.

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Brian Nelson
John Buttery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Adam Kessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-07 16:35:14 -0700]: >> It's definitely a "scratch an itch" type program. > > So's emacs. For that matter, so's the kernel itself. :) > >> I'm wondering if something relatively simple (the script is about 340

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-08 Thread Brian Nelson
Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, OK, I take it nobody is interested in this package at all, as I > haven't even recieved negative response so far... ;) > > I'll continue to maintain my version of the package until someone > steps forward I can hand it over to who has / doesn't nee

Re: RFS: bbppp -- PPP tool for the blackbox window manager

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:52:08PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> * The patch that changes 0's to NULL's is pointless. In C++, NULL is >> just "#define NULL 0". > > Definitely true. I preferred QA

Re: PHP/MySQL package

2004-03-09 Thread Brian Nelson
David Moreno Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I have plans for packaging a little www-based package. It uses PHP and > MySQL, over Apache. > > In the documentation I been searching, I just can find some resources > with packaging which need to be compilated or so. In the package I w

Re: Bengali wordlist for aspell

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Nelson
Soumyadip Modak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm packaging the bengali wordlist for aspell, for Debian. During > dpkg-buildpackage i get the following errors: > > modak:/home/soumyadip/Debian/aspell/aspell-bn-0.50-1# dpkg-buildpackage > dpkg-buildpackage: source package is aspell-bn-0.50 > dpkg-b

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:18:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Please give me some hints/suggestions what should be done in such >> > situation? Are there any packages with that situation in our archive? >> Since you are the only o

Re: Bug in New Maintainers Guide german translation

2004-04-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Nico Golde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > i found a spelling mistake in the german translation of the new > maintainers guide. > i wrote a patch for this bug. the patch is in the attachment of this mail. > please fix it. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/privat/Doku/debian/maint-guid] $ md5sum > nico_go

Request for sponsor: ITA of mysql-navigator

2002-09-19 Thread Brian Nelson
I'd like to adopt the mysql-navigator package so I'm looking for a sponsor. I've packaged the latest upstream source and cleaned up the package a bit. In particular, I've fixed the 2 RC bugs. If anyone's interested, the packages can be found here: deb http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ ./ deb

Perl postinst script running external commands

2002-10-01 Thread Brian Nelson
I have a perl postinst script that "gets stuck" when running certain external commands. For example, the line `/etc/init.d/apache restart >/dev/null 2>&1 3>&1 4>&1 5>&1`; will freeze the postinst script so that it must be killed. The problem has something to do with using the debconf module,

Re: Looking for a sponsor for bmf

2002-10-07 Thread Brian Nelson
Tom Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've written a Bayesian e-mail filter, http://sourceforge.net/projects/bmf/ > From the project page: > > bmf is a self contained and extremely efficient Bayesian mail filter. See > Paul Graham's article "A Plan for Spam" for background information. It

Re: CVS dir in package source

2002-10-20 Thread Brian Nelson
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Also if he finally refuses this, should I repackage orig.tar.gz without CVS >> dirs or should I leave them, as he has asked, in order to let also debian >> people to try his "debugging method" (of course after an apt-get source, >> at least...). > > I

Re: adopting a package

2002-10-22 Thread Brian Nelson
Andreas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want do adopt the package **larswm**. > > I have several years Linux experience but I'm a newbi to debian. So I need > a quick introdution in "Howto maintain a debian package". http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ -- People said I was dumb, but I

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread Brian Nelson
Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello all, > > I am maintaining a package that fails to build on alpha, hppa, and s390. > It appears that the problem is that those architectures use gcc/g++-3.0, > rather than 2.95, as the default compiler. The source would need to be > modified (not hu

Tools for parsing apache conf files (Was: dpkg-reconfigure hacking in postinst)

2002-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have fewer qualms about a package that only wipes out a config file > when explicitly reconfigured; most of my ire is reserved for packages, > like apt-listchanges, that drop local modifications to such files on > upgrade. Especially when the files are (as

Re: Request for Sponsor

2002-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
"Shiju p. Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I have packaged phpbb (a bulletin board program in PHP) and looking > for a sponsor who can check and upload this package. Since am a newbie > in debian packaging I expect some help from the mentor(s). > > You can download related files from

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-11-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Carlos O'Donell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:25:09AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > You could just change the Architecture: field in the control file to not >> > attempt to build on the broken arches, for now. >> >> D

Re: Tools for parsing apache conf files

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 10:21:43PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > >> > I have fewer qualms about a package that only wipes out a config file >> > when explicitly reconfigured; most of my ire is reserved for packages, >&g

Request for sponsor: PornView

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Nelson
* Package name: pornview Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : "trem0r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pornview.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : GTK+-based image viewer/manager PornView is a GTK+-based image viewer/manager. Features include t

Re: Request for sponsor: PornView

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Brian Nelson wrote: >>* Package name: pornview >> Version : 0.1.0 >> Upstream Author : "trem0r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>* URL : http://po

Re: procps

2002-11-05 Thread Brian Nelson
Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have built a sid chroot by installing debootstrap and > build-essential. The procps package is installed, but the proc > directory in the chroot is empty. This makes it difficult to install > and start/stop the daemon. > > Can anyone advise

Re: Request for Sponsor: kdirstat - Graphical disk usage display

2002-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Mike Schacht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package location: > www.midstatesd.net/~mschacht/debian/kdirstat_2.0.1* > > Be sure to get this version, 2.0.1. The 2.2.0 version depends on some > kde3 libs that have still not made it into unstable. > > From the .deb description: > > KDirStat (K

In need of sponsor for Qtella

2002-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
I'm adopting Qtella and I'm in need of a sponsor. It's a simple package with a tiny diff, available here: http://bignachos.com/~nelson/debian/ Thanks, Brian -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! pgpOacT9Csi6o.pgp Description: PGP signature

dpkg-reconfigure hacking in postinst

2002-11-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Hi Joey, I have a prospective package that checks for the environment variable DPKG_RECONFIGURE=1 in the postinst, and if it decides that it's being reconfigured, it will overwrite its configuration file (not a conffile) based on the debconf answers. The theory is that if a user reconfigures a pa

Re: Library with "demos", where should demos go?

2002-12-09 Thread Brian Nelson
Hugo van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm packaging a library which contains a bunch of demos - both the > binaries and the source code gets installed by the library's build > system... > > Would this be a decent approach: > > Installing all the demo binaries in /usr/bin/ > Installing d

Re: Testing pbuilt packages

2003-02-26 Thread Brian Nelson
Brett Cundal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:22:51AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Volker Sturm wrote: >> > if I want to get into software development for Debian: Is it recommended to >> > stay with stable or upgrade to sid? >> >> If yo

Re: debconf ? for a package that doesn't work out of the box

2003-02-01 Thread Brian Nelson
sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hey -mentors > > i'm throwing together a cgi script package that requires certain > lines be added to the apache configuration file on the webserver > in order to work, so there's no way it can work out of the box as > far as i can figure, at least until a

Re: tight coupling for related libraries

2003-03-25 Thread Brian Nelson
"Steve M. Robbins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining a package (gmp) that produces a C library (libgmp) and > a C++ library (libgmpxx). The latter links against, and depends on > the internals of, the former. > > The libraries go into different binary packages, but since the

Re: Should I sign up for New Maintainer even though I don't have an advodcate?

2003-04-05 Thread Brian Nelson
"B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, but I'm such an old fart... I actually used to run Debian 0.97 > on my old 386 (and it was sooo cool). As far as Linux is concerned, > I have always used Debian and nothing else. For years and years I have > just been a "Debian User" -- now I

Re: Looking for Mentor for Packet 'dvdauthor'

2003-04-05 Thread Brian Nelson
Rene Tschirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to apply for becoming a Debian Packet Maintainer for the packet > 'dvdauthor'. To apply to the New Maintainer process it seems as if I now > need an existing Debian developer who agrees to be an advocate and > verifies my application so that I

Re: Looking for Mentor for Packet 'dvdauthor'

2003-04-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Rene Tschirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Now I hope to get an experienced advocate. :-) >> Can you make the .dsc and .diff.gz files available publicly somewhere? > > Sure. Both files are availabe at > h

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking for a sponsor for playmidi. > > I've fixed some of the reported bugs and applied an extra patch or two of my > own. The diff and dsc files aren't available for download but I'll send them > to anybody who's interested in sponsorship. Are you p

Re: NM's to fix bugs?

2003-04-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Jarno Elonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> unless they can give some demonstration that they're into more than just >> making packages. Fixing bugs, for instance. > > This advice is quite usual on this list. I think there are a few reasons why > it's not as common thing for non-DDs to do as it

Re: RFS: playmidi

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, nil wrote: > >> >From an outsider's point of view Debian looks like the most >> irresponsible distro with no contact whatsoever with original >> package authors. [...] > I have a question for you, though: why is it, do you think, th

Re: Looking for a Sponsor

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
"Antal A. Buss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I'm tring to be a Debian Developer. I made a program to make a mirror > from Debian Distributions server called ddmirror > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddmirror) and follow the guide lines > from Debian Policy, Developers' Reference and Debia

Re: Request for sponsor to become a new maintainer.

2003-04-14 Thread Brian Nelson
"Erik Welander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Request for sponsor to become a new maintainer. > > My name is Erik Welander, and I am making a request for sponsorship in > order to become a new maintainer for a package I have created and > tested. I have read the New Maintainer's Guide and followed

Re: mozgest packages

2003-04-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Joe Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi, > > I've put together a package for optimoz's mouse gestures for mozilla (mozgest) > based on the packages for diggler and tabextensions. > > the package (mozgest) is available at > > deb http://sweeze.stanford.edu/mozgest ./ > > what can I do with

Re: mozgest packages

2003-04-17 Thread Brian Nelson
Celso González <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, i'm trying to package the enigmail and enigmime mozilla plugins and > I have seen that almost every mozilla related package is based on a > precompiled xpi. > Normally the debian package unzip the xpi and install evrything > > Usually these xpis a

Re: source code of a java app?

2003-04-22 Thread Brian Nelson
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i just got MIT's permission to package Starlogo[1] for Debian. It's > a Java application to simulate cellular automata and large > populations on distributed machines. > > The problem that I am currently facing is twofold: First, I am not > entirely su

Re: help me costela

2003-04-25 Thread Brian Nelson
Anthony Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'M IN JAIL. > > That's right. I got put in jail. All > because I went in to the Rabbit yard > and ate a rose bush and a few small > trees. I wasn't the one who > broke in in the first place. It was > The Devil. That's right. The Devil > now lives here.

Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator

2003-05-03 Thread Brian Nelson
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can use the pbuilder package to set yourself up an unstable chroot, > or, if you want to roll your own, see: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot-debian > > (That page has a typo: "debootstrap woody" should be "de

Re: intend to adopt calc, so does someone else--need advice

2003-05-04 Thread Brian Nelson
Craig P Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's THE SNAG: I was sitting down to write to this list to request a > sponsor, I thought I'd check the qa page for the package one more to > make sure I hadn't missed anything. Bug 188998 is from David Rios > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on April 14 saying

Re: Antwort: Re: new package - don't know how to compile

2003-05-14 Thread Brian Nelson
"Matthias Hofer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html Please send only plain text email to the mailing list. >> >what can I do? >> >> I think this means that you need (a more recent version of) GNU > automake. >> What version do you have, if an

Re: How do you upload/build sponsored packages?

2003-05-24 Thread Brian Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Colin Watson wrote: >> I actually don't see how dpkg-buildpackage's >> sign-immediately-after-build defaults ever make sense (except when >> dpkg-buildpackage was originally written, when debsign didn't yet >> exist). Why would you want to waste time signin

Re: advice on closing bugs

2003-05-29 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently adopted several packages (jade, openjade, opensp) and several of > the open bugs were fixed by NMUs, so they have "fixed" tags. I think all I > need to do is send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] that says, "This bug > was fixed in the NMU of versi

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Neil Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recently had a bug (193950) filed against one of my packages because the > shared libraries had "undefined non-weak symbols" - libstdc++ was not being > linked in. I resolved it with what I consider a gruesome hack. I discovered > that forcing libtool t

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-07-02 Thread Brian Nelson
Brian Pellin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Junichi Uekawa wrote: > >>> Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the >>> Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory >>> (LLNL)." >>> >>> This seems to me to conflict with the GPL, and I'd like c

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