gt;
> OK, how do I cope with missing build-depends? I tried to build on one of
> the chroots on pergolesi, but that doesn't know about dpkg-checkbuilddeps
> or dpkg-buildpackage...
There's no point in building on pergolesi for uploads to the archive yet
an
sr/lib//scriptname; fi
[ ! -f /usr/lib//scriptname ] || /usr/lib//scriptname
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does uninstallable means here? missing dependencies?
>
> I think it means: not tried yet. Because neither hurd, nor sh are part
> of the official release.
sh doesn't even have a libc6 in the archive. I always ignore both of
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e (e.g. the text of an e-mail) in
debian/copyright.
> And using Raster3D for commercial purposes, still includes it on
> non-free category?
Restrictions on commercial use definitely exclude it from main. Sounds
like non-free.
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rticular .orig.tar.gz
has been part of a previous upload, it need not and probably should not
be mentioned in later .changes that use the same original upstream
source archive.
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... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...
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On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 07:04:52PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > ... or indeed any such obfuscated patching system ...
>
> Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ?
> Before I used it for one of my pa
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:17:20AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2004-09-04 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I recommend using a good revision control system instead, which offers
> > similar benefits to developers while leaving things clear for users.
>
&
On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 02:50:35PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0200, Michael Schiansky wrote:
> >> Why do you call dpatch 'obfuscated' ?
> >> Before I used it for one of my
ring security
> > scrutiny).
>
> Just upload a new, fixed version.
Note that you need to upload a new version anyway, as components (main,
contrib, non-free) are not overridden by the archive administrators.
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if someone has a way around this, I'm
> interested).
It happens because the md5sum of the signed .dsc has to be included in
the .changes, so two separate gpg runs are required.
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its package description. The debmake package contains debstd, which is a
monolithic program occupying roughly the same space as debhelper, and
deb-make, which is analogous to dh_make.
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 09:35:32PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.10.17.2031 +0200]:
> > That isn't an accurate description of debmake, as should be clear
> > from its package description. The debmake package conta
nce when the day ends.
debian/rules files don't need to have a complete debhelper usage manual
embedded in them. Use the documentation.
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depend on it
directly. Consider (however unlikely) that FreeMind stopped using Java;
if the plugin still must have Java itself independent of FreeMind, it
should have its own dependency on it.
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> |-- pkg-classifier_0.5-1.tar.gz
> |-- pkg-classifier_0.5-1_i386.changes
> |-- pkg-classifier_0.5-1_i386.deb
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documentation for any package-building helpers you're using. For
instance, debhelper has a fine set of man pages.
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t, and both check out a-ok.
>
> URI to .dsc & .diff.gz files:
>
> http://simonraven.nuit.ca/src/quik/quik_2.1-3.diff.gz
> http://simonraven.nuit.ca/src/quik/quik_2.1-3.dsc
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>So is there any unexpected problems with NM ?
There's also a complete absence of traffic at the nm-discuss mailing
list web archives; are said archives still working, or has discussion
simply died down?
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Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:33:17PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 01:03:31PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> > There's also a complete absence of traffic at the nm-discuss mailing
>> > list web arc
section 10.4 of the Developer's Reference:
# Technically speaking, the following Perl regular expression is what is
# used:
# /closes:\s*(bug)?\#\d+(,\s*(bug)?\#\d+)*/gi
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--no-verbose --batch --output -' (roughly from /etc/Muttrc) might work
as a viewer in /etc/mailcap.
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~]$ cat foo
all:
echo '\\$$'
[cjw44@riva ~]$ make -f foo
echo '\\$'
\\$
[cjw44@riva ~]$
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get notified (just a wild guess, might
>be the changelog entry too).
>
>At least /I/ got a few xzyz is INSTALLED|REJECTED|NEW mails.
Hmm, I didn't for denemo, and I'm listed both as Maintainer: and in the
changelog. Maybe Debian's mail or my mail was a bit broken at that time.
nd I'm not sure about the remaining two
cases.
Could we please have some guidance about this in the packaging manual?
Every time I try to work this out I get a different answer. At least if
all packages do it the same way then any future bugs in
update-alternat
s handle this?
Should I just leave the symlinks in there and build-depend on automake?
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stalled already... yucks.
It happens every time I build a package inside fakeroot (i.e. every time
I build a package). It doesn't actually cause a dependency on fakeroot,
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Are the X fonts required for the rest of it to work? If so, the
dictionary and scripts will have to go into contrib.
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>On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:04:19PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> It happens every time I build a package inside fakeroot (i.e. every time
>> I build a package).
>
>Eww. Is the bug filed, with an appropriate severity?
Yes,
lace, you might
want to post your debian/rules so we can see if there's some other bug
there.
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>advice first.
No, see /usr/doc/debian/bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt for how to use the
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m; unfortunately, libhdb is part of heimdal-lib on Debian, and
since I didn't have the relevant development packages installed the
build then failed. As a workaround, I added a line to debian/Policy.sh
to specify exactly which optional libraries I wanted to be used.
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Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2927T182035+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> configuration system should probably be patched so that you can. Anybody
>> should be able to install all the build-dependencies, build the package,
>> and get the same
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2928T012303+0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> I couldn't see it in policy, which was why I weakened my original
>> statement.
>
> If build-time dependencies are specified, it must be possible to build
>
Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But I want to know where it is written about what should go to -dev
>package, and what to the library one.
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch4.html#s4.3
/usr/share/doc/packaging-manual/packaging.html/ch-sharedlibs.htm
or a higher epoch for the lifetime of that package name.
>If that works, why are the KDE packages using an epoch (4) instead of
>just 2.0-DATE-DEBIANRELEASE?
I guess there was some numbering problem at some point in the past.
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enefit for you of
sorting near xemacs21, so that users would be more likely to notice it.
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>Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values -
>>xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21
>>dh_gencontrol: command returned error code
>[...]
>>When do dpkg-gencontrol s
ch will make the decision for you. And this is all in the base
system, so you don't need any extra dependencies.
There is no pager virtual package - that's easy enough to find out by
looking at the Packages entries for 'less', 'most', etc., or by looking
in /usr/share/do
e both outside and inside Debian, so I don't think
you have to faithfully record which is which while a package is in
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u.
> dh_installdirs
[...]
> cd debian/tmp && install -d `cat ../dirs`
dh_installdirs should already have done this.
> install -s crafty debian/tmp/usr/games/crafty.bin
A DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip facility (see policy 4.1) would be nice
here.
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typo.
- Forwarded message from Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:33:17 +
From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ITP: binfmt-support --
this particular
class of Lintian warnings, if you're sure that the dependencies are
correct.
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use /etc/init.d rather than /etc/rc.d/init.d, and expect packages with
initialization scripts to use update-rc.d.
As well as the New Maintainer's Guide, you should read the Packaging
Manual, which will probably go a long way to answering other questions
you may have.
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priate code fragments in these scripts for you, though you
may have to poke it a bit to get update-rc.d to do exactly what you
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really a redundant test.
Your best bet would probably be to look at the init.d script that
dh_make installs by default (you'll find it in
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debian/init.d.ex) and modify that to suit
your circumstances, rather than trying to rewrite the existing script
for the Debian s
w.bitwizard.nl/sig11/>.
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>Packages are at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/debian>
>(1.0.2 will be there shortly after I submit this bug report).
In case people were discouraged by 1.0.2 being somewhat broken with
regard to upgrading (oops), I upload
wg-dev [!hurd-i386], groff
>
>or:
>
>Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 2), libncurses-dev, xlib6g-dev, groff
>Build-Depends: xlib6g-dev [!hurd-i386], xviewg-dev [!hurd-i386]
>
>?
The former looks more appropriate.
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ead the documentation but I´ve know idea why there is
>> this problem. Can anybody help me?
>
>http://sourceforge.net/contact.php
... and it'll help if you give the SourceForge people more information
than "something goes wrong", or they
up my application and send it to the DAM. Would anyone like to
sponsor me in the meantime? If so, I'll file an ITA.
[1] Linux 2.2 has a more flexible way of handling it, but the userspace
tools are much more difficult to use.
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redefines loads of stuff Linux already has. Getting rid of that causes
more problems, though (starting with parameter types to signal() being
wrong); let us know how far you get.
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>Is there any guide, hints or example package in order to
>make a package containing perl scripts & perl modules?
>(No compiled sources at all)
Try the Perl policy, in perl-5.6-doc or similar:
/usr/share/doc/perl-5.6-doc/perl-policy/.
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flagged them as an unknown field.
[...]
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Try upgrading to the version of lintian in unstable (which has generally
better checks anyway). It should install cleanly on potato systems.
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s wierd.
The .changes file contains the md5sums of the files you're uploading,
including any architecture-specific .deb. There will be separate
.changes files generated for each different architecture as your package
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also serves as a handy build-dependency
checker), copy the package into the chroot, and dpkg-buildpackage as
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;new-postrm abort-install old-version' is called; when
'new-preinst install' fails, 'new-postrm abort-install' is called. So if
your preinst's install step calls useradd, you should unwind that with
userdel in the postrm's abort-install step.
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I intend to adopt browser-history from Karl M. Hegbloom, but I'm still
in the NM queue. Would anyone like to sponsor this package? I have an
upload of version 2.8-2 prepared, which can be found at
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/debian/>.
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>On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 01:57:41AM +, Colin Watson
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...
>> I intend to adopt browser-history from Karl M. Hegbloom, but I'm still
>> in the NM queue. Would anyone like to
hack together a Debian native
package for the time being. When releases with purely packaging changes
are infrequent, this can make sense. As stability approaches, though,
eventually the package should gravitate towards the "written especially
for Debian" definition.
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are built on a number of different
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ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
INSTALL = install -s
else
INSTALL = install
endif
install:
$(INSTALL) foo debian/package/usr/bin/foo
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>On 24-Jan-2001 Colin Watson wrote:
>> Section 4.1 of policy 3.2.0.0/3.2.1.0, or section 11.1 of policy 3.2.1.2
>> now that the packaging manual has been merged.
>
>Oh, merged? So all important information included in
>
Florian Hinzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 25-Jan-2001 Colin Watson wrote:
>> Most of the example code I showed was just setting Makefile variables,
>> so it should go outside any targets (normally near the top of
>> debian/rules). Depending on the structure of
es upstream, though, and keeping a
log of everything you do, there should be no problem. I certainly
wouldn't have any qualms about applying a patch that was already in
upstream CVS or whatever, which fixed an annoying bug, but which just
hadn't made it into an upstream release yet.
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agent (for sendmail),
libgnome-dev (for gnome-config), libncurses5-dev (for termcap.h),
and zlib1g-dev (for zlib.h). Some of these seem a bit unlikely for a
library - BZIP2_PATH and SENDMAIL_PATH don't actually seem to be
used, so perhaps the che
kes parameters that tell update-rc.d
>what params to use to setup the init script. However, I want to control the
>two output packages seperately.
Call dh_installinit twice, using the -p flag (before --, of course) to
control which package gets altered in eac
ch was in ./lib/Channel.C)
>to #include "../include/waili/Channel.h"
>and such for the rest.
I would use a -I switch instead. Patching the locations of header files
in the source code itself feels wrong, and is less clean.
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rring to this dcgettext__ symbol, not the gettext
executable ... What are those trailing underscores doing there? Am I
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need to move that into contrib too.
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ostrm
abort-upgrade' and 'postrm abort-install' need to move the file back if
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se's; would people have set the severity to
'fixed' under those circumstances before tags were implemented? All "new
upstream" version bugs could be tagged fixed straight away if your
definition is right ...
I prefer to just send a note to the bug saying that it *will be
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>True or False: a .deb may NOT contain hard links ?
False. perl-base contains some, for instance.
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>
>in debian/rules.
Why couldn't you use 'dh_installchangelogs ChangeLog' to achieve the
same effect? I wouldn't mention it except that you specifically said
"not with debhelper".
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modified.
Sounds like a large amount of extra error-prone work to me, although I
suppose running dh_make every so often is one way of keeping some bits
of policy vaguely up to date. I just use uscan/uupdate to unpack the new
source and try to apply the old diffs for me.
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ich don't
>explain that much, and don't seem very readable ...
Looking at multi-binary packages by competent maintainers?
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probably the most
common complaint I hear about man.
man may stop supporting this in the future, precisely because it
unavoidably causes such a usability problem immediately after you've
installed some new man pages which it has to search. I should really
find out how
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>Bob Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The gzip package has a similar situation with gunzip and zcat,
>>but it has created gunzip.1 and zcat.1 as hardlinks to gzip.1. Since
>>man can deal with a manpage with multipl
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Colin Watson wrote:
>>You should not create hard links in the manual page directories, nor
>>put absolute filenames in .so directives.
>
>Heh. There's a man page somewhere in debian that looks something like:
&g
f the package worry about cleaning up after itself.
The main situation where you need to be concerned about old versions of
your package is where you've previously made a mistake in the maintainer
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re a more generic approach?
File bugs and wait. Section 8.2.1 of the developer's reference describes
when you can do source NMUs as a porter; it's shorter than for
non-porters, although at least for unreleased architectures it's not a
bad idea to give the maintainer a bit of cl
doubt it.
Most people [1] who use a helper package these days use debhelper.
>Also, why is chown failing? What's it trying to chown the files to?
root, probably, who's supposed to own documentation files.
>The structure of my source tree is as follows:
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>debmake/debstd's development was frozen some time ago, so I doubt it.
>Most people [1] who use a helper package these days use debhelper.
[1] http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/stats/
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on it. It's not clear that use of debmake can
be considered a bug unless it's actually broken.
Maybe the package description should just mention that it isn't being
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be able to exclude certain directory trees, and /usr/share/doc is one of
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ng dh_make-generated stuff, try
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debianm/rules for an example. It passes -a
and -i to various debhelper commands to work on architecture-dependent
and -independent binary packages respectively. Aside from that you need
to have the appropriat
eters. Am I using the wrong syntax ? I'm using debhelper 3.0.19.
You're slightly out: see update-rc.d(8). You probably want something
more like:
dh_installinit -- defaults 90 10
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name of the package to bar-0.2.tar.gz)
>>
>> The only thing which comes to my mind is treating the old package
>> as 'conflict' for the new one, but there must be a more elegant
>> solution!?
>
>Michael,
>Use Conflicts: foo, and Replaces: foo.
Plus Provid
issing bugs #82479, #92236, #93655, and #95283. ;) As far as I
know, debhelper's code is fine - no doubt Shaleh would appreciate it if
somebody came up with a good patch for lintian.
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disclaimer of copyright from the authors. (That is, "no copyright" means
that it defaults to us not being able to use it at all - public domain
takes an explicit statement of renunciation of copyright.)
Something like the X11 licence (http://www.x.org/terms.htm) might be a
reasonably
>in /usr/share?
/usr/share/ is usual, and mentioned (if not mandated?) in
policy, but (personally) I would say that anything that's not too
confusing and that's in a namespace you clearly own is OK. The name of a
binary you install sounds like it qualifies.
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got error messages on a missing file in app-defaults.
Yes. [rummages] See current policy, section 12.8.6.
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shouldn't be
shipped with the source package; in fact, lintian will complain if you
do.
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 at 18:05:58 +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:29:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I'm very glad to hear that work's being done on dpkg-source that should
> > (if I understand it correctly) obsolete this hack.
>
> m
reinst and I don't have the unpacked
files handy at that point to do additional replacement logic myself.
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chitecture(s)). If it's out of
date, that will keep it out of testing.
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Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing.
>
>what does "out of date" mean in this contest?
It means that the most recent source vers
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