Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
this is a lintian bug, or something wrong with the way I import the library? Everything seems to work just fine. -- Brian Sutherland

Re: Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:28:30PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > No, I think it is a bug to use python in the config script. > > Hm, good catch.

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
te into /usr/share/foo and copying it to the config dir in the postinst? (Policy 10.7.3) -- Brian Sutherland

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
ontain the file in > the lists file anymore, so dpkg does not know this file ever > existed... > > Sorry for the noise, and thanks for your answer. Ah, then I misunderstood the question sorry, -- Brian Sutherland

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Sutherland
3a5.en.html There is also this reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg01156.html -- Brian Sutherland

simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Brian Sutherland
the package is uninstalled, the cron job is disabled? Thanks, -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Re: simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Brian Sutherland
Im stunned. Three answers in under an hour. Thanks world. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Sutherland
ce at the start of a file not marked executable. But these are not intended to be run. Would it be best to simply patch the offending #!... out of existence? -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-09-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:55:18PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > >

RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 2543kB 45% And will get bigger. W: schoolbell: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly Huh? [1] www.schooltool.org [2] http://www.tsf.org.za/ -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
gt; description in the .changes I just looked at didn't have an ending period... Any rules/conventions on that? -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
kage with only the architecture few dependent files? Would -dep be the right suffex? -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > Indeed. These few .so files are imported from zope and maybe slightly modifi

Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Sutherland
e the administration and management of schools, especially in poor countries, even a little bit, that would be a very good thing. [1] www.schooltool.org [2] http://www.tsf.org.za/ -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously go

Re: Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-06 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:26:42PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > As a note for any potential sponsor I would like to say that the I would like to suspend my request as I have found a potential sponsor. -- Brian Sutherland

Merging two source packages

2004-11-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
the bug first? Any other beartraps? Thanks, -- Brian Sutherland

Advice on debconf - locales settings

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
a multiselect doesn't provide ordering? -- Brian Sutherland That both ladies finally believed beyond any doubt something which had originally been pure conjecture is not in the least unusual. We, intelligent people though we call ourselves, behave in an almost identical fashion... - N. Gogol

simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Brian Sutherland
the package is uninstalled, the cron job is disabled? Thanks, -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: simple cron packaging question

2004-08-05 Thread Brian Sutherland
Im stunned. Three answers in under an hour. Thanks world. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Lintian warnings questions

2004-08-31 Thread Brian Sutherland
ce at the start of a file not marked executable. But these are not intended to be run. Would it be best to simply patch the offending #!... out of existence? -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." --

Re: Lintian warnings questions

2004-09-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:13:00AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:55:18PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:09:40AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > >

RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
-dep-package-has-big-usr-share 2543kB 45% And will get bigger. W: schoolbell: description-synopsis-might-not-be-phrased-properly Huh? [1] www.schooltool.org [2] http://www.tsf.org.za/ -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
gt; description in the .changes I just looked at didn't have an ending period... Any rules/conventions on that? -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
kage with only the architecture few dependent files? Would -dep be the right suffex? -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoolander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? Indeed. -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously good-looking." -- Derek Zoola

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 11:08:48PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 04:48:37PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > .so files? Should it be libschoolbell and libschoolbell-dev? > > Indeed. These few .so files are imported from zope and maybe slightly modifi

Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-03 Thread Brian Sutherland
e the administration and management of schools, especially in poor countries, even a little bit, that would be a very good thing. [1] www.schooltool.org [2] http://www.tsf.org.za/ -- Brian Sutherland "There has got to be more to life than just being really, really, really, ridiculously go

Re: Round 2, RFS schoolbell - A calendaring server for schools

2004-09-06 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:26:42PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > As a note for any potential sponsor I would like to say that the I would like to suspend my request as I have found a potential sponsor. -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
te into /usr/share/foo and copying it to the config dir in the postinst? (Policy 10.7.3) -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: transitioning from conffile to ucf

2004-10-14 Thread Brian Sutherland
ontain the file in > the lists file anymore, so dpkg does not know this file ever > existed... > > Sorry for the noise, and thanks for your answer. Ah, then I misunderstood the question sorry, -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
this is a lintian bug, or something wrong with the way I import the library? Everything seems to work just fine. -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:28:30PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > > Brian Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > No, I think it is a bug to use python in the config script. > > Hm, good catch.

Re: Remove User on Remove, or Purge?

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Sutherland
.en.html There is also this reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg01156.html -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Merging two source packages

2004-11-02 Thread Brian Sutherland
the bug first? Any other beartraps? Thanks, -- Brian Sutherland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Advice on debconf - locales settings

2004-12-01 Thread Brian Sutherland
a multiselect doesn't provide ordering? -- Brian Sutherland That both ladies finally believed beyond any doubt something which had originally been pure conjecture is not in the least unusual. We, intelligent people though we call ourselves, behave in an almost identical fashion... - N.

Re-introduction of a package

2005-01-25 Thread Brian Sutherland
ticed? (The package seems to be in a half removed limbo.) Thanks in advance, -- Brian Sutherland It's 10 minutes, 5 if you walk fast. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re-introduction of a package

2005-01-25 Thread Brian Sutherland
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:20:31PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:16:50PM +0100, Brian Sutherland wrote: > > I'm not sure how I should go about handling Bug# 282968 on > > ftp.debian.org. > > > > I need to re-introduce the package

Re: RFC: cycle (calendar program for women, written in python)

2005-04-06 Thread Brian Sutherland
> /usr/share/cycle/msg/msgfmt.py:86: FutureWarning: > hex/oct constants > AFAIK these warnings are when python finds a piece of code that probably will break in a future version of python. Good idea to get it fixed now. -- Brian Sutherland It's 10 minutes, 5 if you walk fast. -