RFS: hibernate

2005-10-21 Thread Cameron Patrick
Hi all, My usual sponsor can no longer upload for me as he has tendonitis. Is anyone else willing to upload a new release of hibernate for me? It's a relatively small package. Package: hibernate Description: activates your computer's suspend functionality This package provides a way to activat

Re: RFS: hibernate

2005-10-23 Thread Cameron Patrick
Simon Richter wrote: > Cameron Patrick wrote: > > > My usual sponsor can no longer upload for me as he has tendonitis. Is > > anyone else willing to upload a new release of hibernate for me? It's > > a relatively small package. > > Done. Thanks. Ca

Re: Going nuts over debconf

2005-11-04 Thread Cameron Patrick
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > And the proper fix is to call db_stop AND of course fix the daemon to close > open fds it doesn't need. Unfortunately, there are only kludgy ways to do > so as the kernel won't tell you which FDs you have that are open. That's not quite true. On Linux you ca

Re: [SoftwareSuspend-devel] RFS: hibernate

2004-10-09 Thread Cameron Patrick
Hi, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I haven't been reading my Debian or swsusp mail for a while. Erich Schubert wrote: > i'll be sponsoring this upload. Thanks Erich. > Cameron, i'm doing the following changes to your package, please tell > me if that is okay so i can upload for yo

Re: [SoftwareSuspend-devel] RFS: hibernate

2004-10-09 Thread Cameron Patrick
Bernard Blackham wrote: > > Also, if it's going into the Debian > > archive soon, do you want to commit the mawk fixes and release 0.99? > > (There are a few bug fixes sitting in svn at the moment.) > > The mawk bug doesn't have a fix yet except perhaps using perl > intead. I might just resort to

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-29 Thread Cameron Patrick
Rogério Brito wrote: > > Only from a quick look, why orig.tar.gz contains only > > pp2p.jar? I suspect style files (and documentation or > > samples ?) could be also included. > > I received a feedback from Frank Küster on debian-mentors and I made some > improvements to the package already. >

RFS: hibernate

2004-09-23 Thread Cameron Patrick
ron. Package: hibernate Priority: extra Section: utils Installed-Size: 161 Maintainer: Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.98-1 Replaces: suspend-script (<= 0.94-1) Depends: dash Suggests: grub, kernel-patch-swsusp Conflicts: suspend-script (<= 0.94-1) Filename:

RFS: hibernate

2004-09-23 Thread Cameron Patrick
ron. Package: hibernate Priority: extra Section: utils Installed-Size: 161 Maintainer: Cameron Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.98-1 Replaces: suspend-script (<= 0.94-1) Depends: dash Suggests: grub, kernel-patch-swsusp Conflicts: suspend-script (<= 0.94-1) Filename:

Re: [SoftwareSuspend-devel] RFS: hibernate

2004-10-09 Thread Cameron Patrick
Hi, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I haven't been reading my Debian or swsusp mail for a while. Erich Schubert wrote: > i'll be sponsoring this upload. Thanks Erich. > Cameron, i'm doing the following changes to your package, please tell > me if that is okay so i can upload for yo

Re: [SoftwareSuspend-devel] RFS: hibernate

2004-10-09 Thread Cameron Patrick
Bernard Blackham wrote: > > Also, if it's going into the Debian > > archive soon, do you want to commit the mawk fixes and release 0.99? > > (There are a few bug fixes sitting in svn at the moment.) > > The mawk bug doesn't have a fix yet except perhaps using perl > intead. I might just resort to

Re: Packaged PPower4

2004-10-28 Thread Cameron Patrick
Rogério Brito wrote: > > Only from a quick look, why orig.tar.gz contains only > > pp2p.jar? I suspect style files (and documentation or > > samples ?) could be also included. > > I received a feedback from Frank Küster on debian-mentors and I made some > improvements to the package already. >

Re: Strange problem, symlinks and parent dirs

2004-12-02 Thread Cameron Patrick
Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > This is exactly what I was thinking of about this problem, but if run > "cd .." the symlink works as a normal directory, it is transparent. > So my question is: is there any possibility to fix that? Is it a > kernel problem, a pwd issue, a shell issue or what? The fa

Re: pkg-classifier appliance

2004-12-13 Thread Cameron Patrick
vegetax wrote: > the pkg-classifier is a simple but increadibly usefull command,its purpose > is to classify your current package database,to organize all the packages > you have on your system without making a single change to them,in order to > avoiding potencial problems,how? by creating symbol

Re: Patching the upstream sources, and the debian diff

2004-12-30 Thread Cameron Patrick
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alejandro Exojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.30.1031 +0100]: > > > Ideally, "source" packages would contain only true man-written > > > sources. If your diff is big because generated files are being > > > changed, then have ./debian/rules:clean target remove t

Re: RFC and RFS: latex-svninfo

2005-01-13 Thread Cameron Patrick
Frank Küster wrote: > , > | %% Any modified versions of this file must be renamed > | %% with new filenames distinct from svninfo.cfg. > ` > Furthermore, this sentense renders the package non-free. According to DFSG (4): 4. Integrity of The Author's Source Code [...]

Request for comments/co-maintainer: nvu -- a complete web authoring system for Linux

2005-01-27 Thread Cameron Patrick
[Cc'ing the RFP/ITP open for this package, plus the submitters. Apologies to those who may receive multiple copies.] Hi, I've prepared some Debian packages for the latest version of nvu, a graphical web page editor. (More info at .) My source and binary packages are at http

Re: singular they (was: RFS(2): autoreply - A safe, rate-limited auto-responder)

2005-02-01 Thread Cameron Patrick
Frank Küster wrote: > Just in case anybody is also reading -project... > > > Blars Blarson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do think that it should be objectivly compared with vacation before > > Debian decides to add it to to their archives. > ^ In some

Re: dealing with non-standard upstream packaging?

2005-03-07 Thread Cameron Patrick
pabs wrote: > I was wondering if there is any info about best practice in the > situation where upstream source packaging doesn't use the standard > foo-0.1.2/ inside of foo-0.1.2.tar.gz scheme? I thought that dpkg-source took care of renaming the directory that the upstream tarball produced? Ce

Re: fetch souce packages

2005-03-07 Thread Cameron Patrick
Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > If I just try to fetch the source package with 'apt-get source > package_name' from the sparc it doesn't work, because the package is not > available for sparc. Which package is it? If the binary packages aren't available, you'll have to specify the name o