looking for sponsor for gpmudmon-applet

Hello, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package of gpmudmon; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s gpmudmon-applet Package: gpmudmon-applet Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 152 Maintainer: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.1.1-3 Depends

Re: making a debian package of a php development project

Peter Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to make a debian package of our php-based application, so > it can be easily installed on a debian system. But I have a > problem, it seems that you have to have at least 1 main binary in > the package (is that true?) I don't think so. There a

Re: packaging HTML, CGIs, etc.

Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is probably a standard and not-too-difficult way to > selectively add the Mail-Followup-To: header to such a configurable > system as any incarnation of Emacs. I wish I could provide a way, > but I can't. I mailed this privately to Tollef, but s

looking for sponsor for gpmudmon-applet

Hello, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package of gpmudmon; walters@space-ghost:~$ dpkg -s gpmudmon-applet Package: gpmudmon-applet Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Installed-Size: 152 Maintainer: Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 0.1.1-3 De

Re: making a debian package of a php development project

Peter Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to make a debian package of our php-based application, so > it can be easily installed on a debian system. But I have a > problem, it seems that you have to have at least 1 main binary in > the package (is that true?) I don't think so. There

Re: packaging HTML, CGIs, etc.

Jimmy Kaplowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is probably a standard and not-too-difficult way to > selectively add the Mail-Followup-To: header to such a configurable > system as any incarnation of Emacs. I wish I could provide a way, > but I can't. I mailed this privately to Tollef, but

Re: Help building packages.

William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first thing that I did was to use dpkg-deb. My first question > is, what are control/changelog files and how would I create one? > Everytime I try to package something, it tries to locate > 'debian/control' or 'debian/changelog'. The only thing that see

trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

I'm currently in the process of making a package for the XML Resume Library: http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net> My current package is at: http://monk.verbum.org/~walters/debian/experimental> I have two problems with it. First, lintian complains: E: xml-resume-library: changelog-file-not-compr

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Convert it to text. Include the html changelog if it makes sense, > but make changelog.gz be the text version. Right, I am currently converting it to text and including that. But my problem is that policy says specifically that the HTML changelog should b

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could try piping the files through > sed 's|changelog/index\.html|changelog.html.gz|g' > while installing... Eek. I feared someone was going to suggest that. It seems like too much of a hack to me. > No, that would completely defeat the poi

Re: dinstall error message on ftp-master

Salvador Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 10:41:58$ dinstall -n gprolog_1.2.7-1_i386.changes > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie", line 1425, in ? > main() > File "/org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie", line 1361, in main > projectB = pg.connect(Cnf["D

Re: Problem with compiling my package

Jean-Michel Kelbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I make my last dist-upgrade (friday) my package komba2 doesn't > compile [...] > cd . && automake --foreign --include-deps ./Makefile > ./Makefile.am:5: EXTRA_DIST multiply defined in condition TRUE This is probably because your package i

Re: How granular should a package{,set} be?

Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, i think the basic principle is "split everything that people > might want to install independantly or that can be upgraded > independantly" Mmmm...I'd rather go for a basic principle of "Use as few packages as possible, but no fewer". There's n

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

Bryan-TheBS-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As such, this is going to be almost an "AOL-level" help request. > I'm very sorry for this. All I'm looking for is a little direction, > and I'll RTFM the rest. I've gone through much of the FAQ, > Developer's Reference and New Maintainer's Guide,

Re: [installer@ftp-master.debian.org: configwin_0.9-2_i386.changesREJECTED]

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 08:18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So I reupload the package _including .orig.tar.gz_ and I received some > mails like the following, what I have to do? This won't directly solve your problem, but I strongly suggest running dinstall -n on your changes file after you upload.

Re: how many users is too few

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:50, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > I had a look on popularity contest and that said it had 7 recent users. You have to keep in mind that the popularity-contest is almost certainly not a representative sample of our users. So it is likely that more than 7 people use it. > I

Re: New package

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:41, Chris AtLee wrote: > Hi there, > > I've written a small program that I'd like to package and have included > in the debian archive. It's a gnome applet that allows you to set > alarms and then be notified when those alarms go off. Have you looked at "sanduhr"? --

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Ppower4

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:47, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > I didn't know that swing (or basically any GUI) stuff worked with a > JVM in main. You can definitely program GUIs using Java and JVMs in main. See for example: http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/ and http://gnome-gcj.sourceforge.net/

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 18:55, Eric Gentilini wrote: > Hi all, > > I m starting to package a few things and wondered where .xsl files should go ? > These files, in the context I use them, are used to produce different outputs > used externally to the program. There are also ways to produce this out

Re: where to place a .xsl file ?

On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 15:41, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:06:13PM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > I put the xml-resume-library's .xsl files in > > /usr/share/sgml/xml-resume-library/xsl. > > > > Maybe a better place is /usr/share/xml-

Re: w3c-libwww_5.4.0-2 build problems

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 08:31, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:58:39PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > I just uploaded a new version of libwww 5.4.0 to fix #151894 and the > > build failed on sparc and ia64 with really bizarre symptoms. > > I now found out that the build fails

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 19:40, Ari Pollak wrote: > The packages can be found at . > Suggestions welcome. Hmm..the .orig.tar.gz seems to be missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 21:53, Ari Pollak wrote: > Ack, woops. It should be up there now. Ok, I got a chance to look at your package; it looks good to me. I will be happy to sponsor you. I see your GPG key is already signed by a Debian Developer; that's a good sign. You should file an ITP bug no

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 10:36, Ari Pollak wrote: > Yeah, I am registered as a New Maintainer, but the process takes a while > and I've been on "Waiting for DAM to approve blah blah" for more than a > month now. I'm registered under [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've uploaded > updated packages which close th

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 17:24, Ari Pollak wrote: > Looking at > configure.ac, it really only requires GTK+2 and pspell, so I just added > libgtk2.0-dev to the build-depends. Hm, but it still appears to need libpspell-dev, which isn't in the Build-Depends. If it's left out, my pbuilder build die

Re: auto-builders, how do they work?

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 09:58, Rick Younie wrote: > conserver is non-free so the autobuild system doesn't know > about it. I'm not sure all autobuild admins bother with > non-free, for philosophical reasons, so you should look into > building it yourself on each arch yourself if you can. > http://

Re: need sponsor for vegastrike upload

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 13:11, Michael Furr wrote: > err, guess a link to the packages would help: > > deb http://userpages.umbc.edu/~fu1/debian unstable main > deb-src http://userpages.umbc.edu/~fu1/debian unstable main I took a quick look at your packages; the first thing I noticed is that your

Re: developer vs user wants

On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 09:37, Andrew Suffield wrote: > If the developers of limewire want to force people to view the ads, > they must write this into the license (and we punt it to non-free), > otherwise it is completely futile to try and make people do so. Less confrontationally, you might poin

Re: apt configuration

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 00:18, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed > packages. You may want to try my dpkg patch in bug #155676; it will at least be faster. I hope it will be in dpkg proper soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: inclusion of a debian dir in upstream src

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 19:34, Sam Powers wrote: > Is it a good idea to keep a debian directory upstream? I have CVS access, > so I think it'd make it easier for me, and also for others who want to > build custom debs, if the debian files were in CVS. I think the best solution is to keep it in CVS,

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 23:19, Drew Parsons wrote: > Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce > storage and bandwidth costs? Right. I think there will be a point in the future (probably 2-3 years away at least though) though where we can just default to shipping un

Re: Help building packages.

William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The first thing that I did was to use dpkg-deb. My first question > is, what are control/changelog files and how would I create one? > Everytime I try to package something, it tries to locate > 'debian/control' or 'debian/changelog'. The only thing that seem

trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

I'm currently in the process of making a package for the XML Resume Library: http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net> My current package is at: http://monk.verbum.org/~walters/debian/experimental> I have two problems with it. First, lintian complains: E: xml-resume-library: changelog-file-not-compre

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Convert it to text. Include the html changelog if it makes sense, > but make changelog.gz be the text version. Right, I am currently converting it to text and including that. But my problem is that policy says specifically that the HTML changelog should be

Re: trouble with HTML changelogs and SGML catalogs

Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could try piping the files through > sed 's|changelog/index\.html|changelog.html.gz|g' > while installing... Eek. I feared someone was going to suggest that. It seems like too much of a hack to me. > No, that would completely defeat the poin

Re: dinstall error message on ftp-master

Salvador Abreu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 10:41:58$ dinstall -n gprolog_1.2.7-1_i386.changes > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie", line 1425, in ? > main() > File "/org/ftp.debian.org/katie/katie", line 1361, in main > projectB = pg.connect(Cnf["DB

Re: How granular should a package{,set} be?

Erich Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, i think the basic principle is "split everything that people > might want to install independantly or that can be upgraded > independantly" Mmmm...I'd rather go for a basic principle of "Use as few packages as possible, but no fewer". There's no

Re: Problem with compiling my package

Jean-Michel Kelbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since I make my last dist-upgrade (friday) my package komba2 doesn't > compile [...] > cd . && automake --foreign --include-deps ./Makefile > ./Makefile.am:5: EXTRA_DIST multiply defined in condition TRUE This is probably because your package is

Re: apt-howto's package

Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am the author and packager of apt-howto, as soon as it was > translated into english from portuguese, I packaged it and added it > to the DDP, I was adviced, on the -devel list to just create one > package: apt-howto with all the translations o

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

Bryan-TheBS-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As such, this is going to be almost an "AOL-level" help request. > I'm very sorry for this. All I'm looking for is a little direction, > and I'll RTFM the rest. I've gone through much of the FAQ, > Developer's Reference and New Maintainer's Guide,

Re: [installer@ftp-master.debian.org: configwin_0.9-2_i386.changes REJECTED]

On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 08:18, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > So I reupload the package _including .orig.tar.gz_ and I received some > mails like the following, what I have to do? This won't directly solve your problem, but I strongly suggest running dinstall -n on your changes file after you upload.

Re: how many users is too few

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:50, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > I had a look on popularity contest and that said it had 7 recent users. You have to keep in mind that the popularity-contest is almost certainly not a representative sample of our users. So it is likely that more than 7 people use it. > I'

Re: New package

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:41, Chris AtLee wrote: > Hi there, > > I've written a small program that I'd like to package and have included > in the debian archive. It's a gnome applet that allows you to set > alarms and then be notified when those alarms go off. Have you looked at "sanduhr"?

Re: w3c-libwww_5.4.0-2 build problems

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 08:31, Richard Atterer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:58:39PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: > > I just uploaded a new version of libwww 5.4.0 to fix #151894 and the > > build failed on sparc and ia64 with really bizarre symptoms. > > I now found out that the build fails

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 19:40, Ari Pollak wrote: > The packages can be found at . > Suggestions welcome. Hmm..the .orig.tar.gz seems to be missing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 21:53, Ari Pollak wrote: > Ack, woops. It should be up there now. Ok, I got a chance to look at your package; it looks good to me. I will be happy to sponsor you. I see your GPG key is already signed by a Debian Developer; that's a good sign. You should file an ITP bug now

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 10:36, Ari Pollak wrote: > Yeah, I am registered as a New Maintainer, but the process takes a while > and I've been on "Waiting for DAM to approve blah blah" for more than a > month now. I'm registered under [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've uploaded > updated packages which close the

Re: request for sponsor: GtkSpell

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 17:24, Ari Pollak wrote: > Looking at > configure.ac, it really only requires GTK+2 and pspell, so I just added > libgtk2.0-dev to the build-depends. Hm, but it still appears to need libpspell-dev, which isn't in the Build-Depends. If it's left out, my pbuilder build dies

Re: auto-builders, how do they work?

On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 09:58, Rick Younie wrote: > conserver is non-free so the autobuild system doesn't know > about it. I'm not sure all autobuild admins bother with > non-free, for philosophical reasons, so you should look into > building it yourself on each arch yourself if you can. > http://d

Re: need sponsor for vegastrike upload

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 13:11, Michael Furr wrote: > err, guess a link to the packages would help: > > deb http://userpages.umbc.edu/~fu1/debian unstable main > deb-src http://userpages.umbc.edu/~fu1/debian unstable main I took a quick look at your packages; the first thing I noticed is that your d

Re: developer vs user wants

On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 09:37, Andrew Suffield wrote: > If the developers of limewire want to force people to view the ads, > they must write this into the license (and we punt it to non-free), > otherwise it is completely futile to try and make people do so. Less confrontationally, you might point

Re: libxmlsec

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:07, John Belmonte wrote: > I've packaged libxmlsec (bug #152605), a library for performing > signature and encryption operations on XML [...] Cool. > and am looking for a sponsor. I am looking over your packages now. > The required version of libxslt1 wasn't available

Re: libxmlsec

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 21:33, Indra Kusuma wrote: > On 7 Aug 2002, Colin Walters wrote: > > # I much prefer to sponsor people who have at least had their key signed > # by a developer. Have you seen the keysigning coordination page? > # > # http://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php

Re: libxmlsec

On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 21:01, John Belmonte wrote: > Thanks, I appreciate it. I didn't find any problems in your packages; they look good. > OK, I've sent an email off to the maintainer. I think a week or so should be fair. > That's understandable. About three weeks ago I tried to contact the

Re: apt configuration

On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 00:18, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed > packages. You may want to try my dpkg patch in bug #155676; it will at least be faster. I hope it will be in dpkg proper soon.

Re: inclusion of a debian dir in upstream src

On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 19:34, Sam Powers wrote: > Is it a good idea to keep a debian directory upstream? I have CVS access, > so I think it'd make it easier for me, and also for others who want to > build custom debs, if the debian files were in CVS. I think the best solution is to keep it in CVS,

Re: stripping binaries...must we?

On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 23:19, Drew Parsons wrote: > Why does policy ask us to strip binaries anyway? Is it merely to reduce > storage and bandwidth costs? Right. I think there will be a point in the future (probably 2-3 years away at least though) though where we can just default to shipping uns

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 02:09, Marc Haber wrote: > Can anybody name me a package that does a conffile conversion in the > maintainer scripts, and does a decent job? I desparately need to steal > some code ;) I believe netbase does.