Re: removing old conffiles on upgrade

2001-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) wrote: >Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: >>> What if you MOVED the file, rather than copying it: would dpkg still >>> complain? >> >>Do it in prei

Re: undocumented(7)

2001-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
d(7)-using package depends on manpages.) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: undocumented(7)

2001-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
miss >undocumented(7). The reporters of #32019 and #53214 both did, although I suppose debootstrap is making it more and more likely that people will have things like manpages installed. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: missing file in my package

2001-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
root -g root `pwd`/esms `pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/bin/esms You aren't using DH_COMPAT=2 or 3, are you? When that is set, the various debhelper commands (like dh_installdocs, which is installing your documentation, and dh_builddeb, which calls dpkg to construct the .deb

Re: Closing BUGS on a package's changelog

2001-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
. I'd been pointing people at the version in incoming), I'd build with 'dpkg-buildpackage -v'. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: undocumented(7)

2001-07-08 Thread Colin Watson
> means -- try "man undocumented" if you are unsure. It seems a bit silly, because, well, that's what undocumented(7) says except in less detail. It also seems like more cruft in the already crufty man binary. Feel free to write a patch if you t

Re: How do I control ownership of installed package files?

2001-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
y all the files are still owned by your ordinary user account after the build finishes. To see what the binary package contains without installing it, use 'dpkg-deb -c foo.deb'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I control ownership of installed package files?

2001-07-19 Thread Colin Watson
a ~]$ fakeroot [root@riva ~]# touch foo [root@riva ~]# chown bin foo [root@riva ~]# ls -l foo -rw-rw-r--1 bin root 0 Jul 19 21:40 foo -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Sponsors?

2001-08-02 Thread Colin Watson
o version 4, be aware that Markus Hetzmannseder has packaged that (as gap4* - I've just realized that some of them are sitting in incoming/REJECT though, bah), and I'm sponsoring him. That said, he hasn't responded to my mails about problems in the packages. -- Colin Watson

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 11:27:55PM +0430, Pratik Sinha wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote > > Since you're not a Debian developer, you can't use debrelease/dupload to > > upload to master.debian.org (it should be ftp-master.debian.org now > > anyw

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-08-03 Thread Colin Watson
than that line > > $default_host = "master"; Since you're not a Debian developer, you can't use debrelease/dupload to upload to master.debian.org (it should be ftp-master.debian.org now anyway). What are you trying to use debrelease for? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which gcc to use to build packages ?

2001-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
U/Linux systems. . This is currently version 2.95.4 for this architecture (i386). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "invalid ICMP error to broadcast"

2001-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
able. > > What should I do to get rid of them? Try 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses'. To make this permanent, put 'net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses=1' in /etc/sysctl.conf. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [

Re: Help with dpkg-buildpackage

2001-08-14 Thread Colin Watson
k it's a > Debian-native package? What did I do wrong? You should rename eazel-engine-0.3.tar.gz to eazel-engine_0.3.orig.tar.gz (make sure the hyphens and underscores are as shown there) and rebuild. That way the tools will notice that an upstream archive is available and build the .diff.

Re: creating a library package

2001-10-22 Thread Colin Watson
bet is to look at an existing package. There are plenty of small libraries around that you could take a look at. Also, dh_make can construct sample rules files for libraries which you can then customize. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
, unless they're in a very constrained style. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with config.cache

2001-10-25 Thread Colin Watson
your clean rule; unlike copyright problems, there's no urgent need to delete them from the upstream tarball. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [BTS] Bug number $bug not found.

2001-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
BTS administrators seem to consider this a feature request rather than a bug report. See #103803. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yet another person looking for advocate

2001-10-27 Thread Colin Watson
close the corresponding directories (mount points). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dh_maninstall isn't finding control

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
run dh_installman from the upstream > source directory. Indeed. Consider where it gets run from in debian/rules. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: glk packages

2001-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
t I want the file > to be removed again when the implementation is removed, and I don't > think conffiles are ever removed. Conffiles are removed when the package is purged. Configuration files should behave the same way (i.e. remove them in 'postrm purge'). -- Colin Wats

Re: single perl script packages

2001-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
the right approach, although strictly speaking it needs a build-dependency update. Check the policy for details. Apart from having the right dependencies on perl, you can mostly treat Perl programs like any other programs. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: dupload oddities

2001-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
gt; > Blunty, you screwed up the 0.11-1 build. Bump the upstream version > number (append a + or something) and upload that. No need for that. Just build with the -sa option to dpkg-buildpackage. dinstall will happily replace a .tar.gz with an .orig.tar.gz with the same version number, b

Re: Package review

2001-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
wants to reduce the number of people cc'ing him. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg-statoverride question

2001-11-14 Thread Colin Watson
end on > dpkg as it is part of base am I wrong? The criterion is essential rather than base - but yes. As you suggest (I think), a versioned dependency on dpkg (>= 1.7.0) is required for dpkg-statoverride regardless of the fact that dpkg is essential. -- Colin Watson

Re: "harry up for freeze" strangeness

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
SuperH) aren't available and thus can't be installed, but since sh isn't in testing that's not a concern. (As far as I know sh doesn't have a working autobuilder, and it's certainly falling behind.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for a sponsor...

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
ary version: It works, but there are some things which should be written, namely some triggers to ensure database consistency, access control, etc. Sorry, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Some problems with debian/rules file...

2001-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
plain why, and how I would go about fixing it? Perhaps (guessing) you have spaces rather than tabs at the beginning of the line following that comment? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for a sponsor...

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:19:44AM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 05:10:25PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:58:44PM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote: > > > Hello, I'm in the process of adopting the package "barracuda&

Re: I need sponsor/advocate

2001-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
psc_0.4.2-1_i386.deb You should run lintian over the .changes files rather than the .debs. Running lintian on the .debs means that it can't check your source package. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Whoops- extracting source for deb.

2001-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
f.gz | patch -p1' or thereabouts). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Whoops- extracting source for deb.

2001-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
s the .deb, the .orig > > and a big gap in my hardrive. > > Back to square one then. At least it is all good experience! > > Sounds to me like you didn't name your .orig.tar.gz correctly, which > means it doesn't create a .diff.gz. ... and in that case, perhaps th

Re: Need a sponsor/advocate

2001-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
s > > /usr/share/man/man1/todos.1.gz > > Thanks, I've added a conflict line to my package: > <ftp://ftp.indigita.com/other/david/eol/eol_1.0.2-2_i386.deb> Perhaps you could rename the binary instead? Adding a conflict because of a filename clash is really a last reso

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
the > .changes file as a result. That seems backwards. I think that's correct. My understanding is that Maintainer: in the .changes essentially means the developer doing the upload. Changed-By: should always be the person who made the most recent changelog entry. -- Colin Watson

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 12:20:20PM -0700, Mike Markley wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:06:32AM -0500, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake >forth: > > > I get Changed-By: the sponsoree, and Maintainer: me in the > > > .changes file as a result. That seems back

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:30:53PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin> I think that would be appropriate. > > Colin> Exactly what are the intended semantics of Maintainer: an

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 12:05:16PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Colin Watson wrote: > > If this is your only rationale, it is spurious, as you're talking about > > Maintainer: in debian/control while I'm talking about Maintainer: in the > > .chan

Re: Testing update-Excuses

2001-10-10 Thread Colin Watson
endency is versioned on (>= 2.2.3-7), but libc6 2.2.4-1 is in > testing. > > Any idea what is keeping libming out of testing? > Is it php4 missing for ia64 and arm which is keeping the whole libming > out of testing? Yes. See update_output.txt: tried: libming (0) 1

Re: sdl 1.1.5

2001-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
1.1 isn't in unstable any more. I'd guess that your best course of action is to build-depend on libsdl1.2-dev and make sure your package is linked against that. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: [RFC] Hits/directions to using autoconf and friends in Debian

2001-10-14 Thread Colin Watson
ANONICAL_HOST > (c) AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM Also gettext (#100038, but upstream didn't seem terribly interested in changing this). This unfortunately introduces the need for triplet knowledge into packages that are otherwise entirely architecture-agnostic. -- Colin Watson

Re: Fw: Bug#115631: xmms-jess needs to depend on the current libsdl1.2debian libs

2001-10-15 Thread Colin Watson
vel-200110/, search for SDL, follow the very first link, search for '1.2debian'.) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dh_clean issues

2001-12-03 Thread Colin Watson
item --exclude=item Exclude files that contain "item" anywhere in their filename from being deleted, even if they would norĀ­ mally be deleted. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to ex

Re: building a sponsored package

2001-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:40:46AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 08:40:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > However, I can see we aren't going to get anywhere with argument by > > repeated assertion. :) > > Do we need to take this to debian-de

Re: gathering debconf information from another package

2001-12-14 Thread Colin Watson
self. (Interesting - I hadn't noticed the part of policy 7.2 before that talks about what you can rely on in the prerm and postrm. On the odd occasion where I've needed something there, I've just thrown in a plain dependency and not worried about it too much.) -- Colin Watson

Re: bug #122994

2001-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
27;t* send mail to n-done@bugs if you're not the maintainer. See the various instructions on http://bugs.debian.org/. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#123769: Problems for evolution into woody

2001-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
tem > ready in January or so, The base system has already been frozen, FYI, although the freeze hasn't reached the point where it concerns evolution yet. Some of GNOME is involved in the current stage of the freeze. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What should I do about bug #121621?

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
k then? (TFM doesn't > seem to be available for R) cron(8), in the "DEBIAN SPECIFIC" section. It refers you to crontab(5) for the format itself. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Sponsoring a package

2001-12-28 Thread Colin Watson
't set yourself as the maintainer as far as the BTS is concerned, though. It does mean you get the automatic notifications from the installer. Also, if Maintainer: in the .changes differs from Maintainer: in the control file (via the .dsc), the upload will be

Re: Conditional use of debconf

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
t be asked (i.e. the message won't be displayed). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fixing permissions

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
you're not the upstream maintainer) or, as you mentioned, to run chmod before running the script. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fixing permissions

2002-01-06 Thread Colin Watson
ad). dpkg-source makes debian/rules executable, so this isn't a problem when building from freshly downloaded source. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uploading

2002-01-08 Thread Colin Watson
ter.debian.org? Please - help me. If someone want I can send > diff file You need to apply as a new maintainer and find a sponsor to upload your packages for you until you have a Debian account. Start at http://nm.debian.org/>. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROT

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
on dh_installman's command line. (Is the man page really that obscure? Maybe I just know what it's talking about already ...) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:42:31AM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > On Jan 9, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:05:42AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > > > Mmmm, the man page about dh_installman is quite obscure... > > > Ok,

Re: Open Motif

2002-01-11 Thread Colin Watson
m without having to get hold of a version of Motif themselves. While it still makes sense for OSF/Motif, I think this requirement is obsolete for OpenMotif. Can anyone in the policy group comment on this? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: dh_installkpatches missing in action

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
It is not in "debhelper" > (either pre- or post-version 3.4.x). http://packages.debian.org/ says that it's in the dh-kpatches package in unstable. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Dependency logic

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
s is not only sloppy but can break some tools > > How else am I supposed to construct this dependency? That seems to be a bug in lintian (see also #122742). I wrote the current iteration of that check, so I'll take a look at it. In the meantime I think you can just ignore it. --

Re: backslash in manpages ???

2002-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
e-dependent. > Could someone help me out, and tell me either how to correctly escape > the \ in man pages or hint me on the correct documentation about it ? You've already got the answer (\e), but you can find a good reference for the language in the groff(7) man page, which is part of

Re: backslash in manpages ???

2002-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:49:24AM +0100, Sven wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:57:32AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > In *roff, \w'string', where ' is any character, gives you the width of > > string. groff sees \wait{sec}, assumes you're using the separa

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

2002-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
ging the upstream > version number (sorry, I know that this isn't really clean but the > upstream performs minor changes in a few hour and doesn't change the > version number). I suggest using a date-based versioning scheme for the .orig.tar.gz, such as configwin_0.9-200

Re: Hi!

2002-02-06 Thread Colin Watson
t will allow you to build > packages from source, but with full optimisations for your processor. i.e. > You would be able to install your complete debian system with all the > optimisation for your processor(amd, p3, whatever). I assume you've already seen p

Re: /etc/ld.so.preload handling in package maintainer scripts?

2002-02-07 Thread Colin Watson
reload-manager package do anything like what you want? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Only binary package (without source one)?

2002-02-09 Thread Colin Watson
package. Every Debian package is generated from a source package. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changes in a conffile

2002-02-14 Thread Colin Watson
their > config files after an upgrade -- man-db man-db only ever altered its configuration file in the postinst when it wasn't a conffile. I only decided some months ago that it would be better off managed by dpkg. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Strange build error on ARM

2002-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:20:31PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > tclsh ./www/index.tcl `cat ./VERSION` >index.html > make[1]: *** [index.html] Error 139 [...] > Has anyone got an idea what 'Error 139' means? The child process (tclsh) segfaulted (139 = 128 + 11 = signal

Re: upstream numbering scheme debian compliant ?

2002-02-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:50:09AM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > But... Wouldn't it be nice to have dpkg understand "alpha/beta" in version > numbers? It'll be in dpkg 1.10, although it's not clear whether it'll be valid to use it until that makes it into

Re: dh_make and file package.files

2002-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
> > in debian directory? > > Or am I to modify it by hand every time? > > I don't know debian/my_package.files, but dpkg-gencontrol > (or dh_gencontrol) will create debian/files. That's completely different, sorry. debian/*.files is used by dh_movefiles. -- Colin Wa

Re: watch file syntax

2002-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
uns once a day (just before 8pm GMT) to install accepted packages into the pool, and the mirrors update shortly after that. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with dpkg-buildpackage

2002-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
#x27;re building multiple programs, in which case you'll have to find out exactly how #123741 was fixed. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: package my files into .deb?

2002-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
target yourself. The examples that show $(MAKE) being called in the build target are just that - examples. It's not mandatory. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New package

2002-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
file > /usr/share/applets/Clocks/alarm_applet.desktop Policy section 11.7 says "Any configuration files created or used by your package must reside in /etc." If you need the file to be accessible from its current location as well, make a symlink. -- Colin Watson

Re: New package

2002-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 01:14:41AM -0500, Chris AtLee wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 19:30, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:41:07AM -0500, Chris AtLee wrote: > > > E: alarm-applet: file-in-usr-marked-as-conffile > > > /usr/share/applets/

Re: Dependencies on programs relating different DBs

2002-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
sion of that check, I think you can safely ignore that error. Please try applying the patch I sent to bug #122742 to your /usr/share/lintian directory and see if that quietens lintian's complaints. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBS

Re: General question about maintaining a package

2002-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
ill be just as good as everyone else's. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ${shlibs:Depends} - What is it?

2002-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
n't sound like you have any shared library dependencies to be substituted there - programs not written in C/C++ generally don't - so it's also more correct to remove it in your case. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: 1.2 after 1.2pre

2002-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
s containing strings of letters which the package management system cannot interpret (such as ALPHA or pre-), or with silly orderings (the author of this manual has heard of a package whose versions went 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1, 2.1, 2.2, 2 and so forth). (policy chapter 4) -- Colin Watson

Re: glimpse for debian?

2002-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
?pkg=glimpse&archive=yes (all archived bugs against glimpse; the ones closed by Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo are the ones that were still open when the package was removed) Regards, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Problem with conffiles

2002-04-09 Thread Colin Watson
to use the --force-confmiss option to dpkg to reinstall it, although you probably don't want to use that option indiscriminately (it's marked as dangerous in 'dpkg --force-help'). -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: dh_installman

2002-04-14 Thread Colin Watson
ait until master (a.k.a. lintian.debian.org) is upgraded to woody post-release. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Switching to dbs, upload repacked orig.tar.gz?

2002-04-15 Thread Colin Watson
order for the archive maintenance software to install it - there's no way around that. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sponsor for PyXMMS and PyXMMS-remote

2002-04-19 Thread Colin Watson
tually adds to misc:Depends ('grep misc:Depends /usr/bin/dh_*'). It doesn't cause a real problem besides the unsightly warning if you aren't, though. (Not a Python person, sorry.) -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Fwd: Re: New Package Developer

2002-04-26 Thread Colin Watson
hc > GHCVERSION := $(shell ghc --version | tr -d "a-zA-Z ,") > GHCDSTLIB = debian/tmp/lib/ghc-${GHCVERSION}/Fudgets > > The question then is this a good form for a Debian package? Provided that you build-depend on ghc (versioning the build-dependency if appropriate?

Re: New Package Developer

2002-04-26 Thread Colin Watson
01' or should I just keep the version > as 'h13u'? Depends, really. What would other examples of this versioning scheme be? The main thing you should consider is whether 'dpkg --compare-versions lt ' will always be true. -- Colin Watson

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-29 Thread Colin Watson
a > portion, they should be distributed separately) The original poster was talking about one source package generating multiple binary packages, so I don't think that's really relevant. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sponsored upload classified as NMU, what went wrong?

2002-05-12 Thread Colin Watson
D]> Your sponsor can solve this by using the -k flag to dpkg-buildpackage rather than -m. Some documentation recommends using -m, but this only results in katie thinking the upload is an NMU, as you've noticed. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSU

Re: New Maintainer Process latency

2002-05-18 Thread Colin Watson
developer if they're going to maintain packages. If nothing else, I usually don't want to sponsor the package until the end of time. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help fixing non-i386 bugs

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
a if I was building a package for upload. > Should I use a chroot (imagine dozens of users install their own > chroot on a single machine...)? You need root privileges to chroot. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: changing teTeX default config. for buildd

2002-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
build ... our current build systems only scale because, except for a very few special cases like glibc and gcc, packages are required to build without manual intervention. debian-reference needs to use a local texmf.cnf so that it can be built automatically. If this isn't possible, I think tetex

Re: Bug#149486: FTBFS: bad build depends

2002-06-09 Thread Colin Watson
forwards any connection to a remote host. By the way, if you haven't got it already in your local copy, do remember to upgrade the Standards-Version: to something more current (such as at least the first version where build-dependencies were defined). :) -- Colin Watson

Re: sponsor wanted

2002-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
y if you have INSTALL in debian/docs or debian/.docs. dh_make may have added this for you. Remove it and all will be well. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for builder :-)

2002-06-21 Thread Colin Watson
wx root/root 0 2002-06-21 16:15:17 ./usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.3 -> libXm.so.3.0.1 The package name must be changed to libmotif3. I'll file a bug about this in a moment. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}

2002-06-24 Thread Colin Watson
the environment in which it is built, because of the way dynamic linking works. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for builder :-)

2002-07-10 Thread Colin Watson
renchiesteam.tuxfamily.org/download/debian/openmotif-2.2.2-1_i386.deb Er, openmotif is already in Debian ... -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dir permissions

2002-07-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 03:37:29PM +0200, Michael Koch wrote: > Can someone give me an example how to achieve this ? dpkg/debhelper always > seems to reset my permissions. Do the chmod after calling dh_fixperms. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Tight versions depends

2002-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
ls-imap4d: package-has-a-duplicate-relation libmailutils0, > > libmailutils0 (= 20020713-1) > > This is referred to as a bug in lintian. See the bts for more info (-: Is it? It does look like a duplicate relation to me (the second implies the first) ... -- Colin Watson

Re: GConf schemas and debian/conffiles

2002-07-14 Thread Colin Watson
luding it in /etc in the .deb (perhaps /usr/share/, or autogenerated) and managing it in your maintainer scripts. Any file that actually goes in /etc in a .deb will be blithely overwritten by dpkg on each upgrade, which isn't allowed. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Re: Looking for somebody to sponsor an upload

2002-07-15 Thread Colin Watson
ich appears to be obsolete because oo2c conflicts with it. I think voberon-dev should depend on libooc-x11-dev instead, but I don't know anything about Oberon. Any comments? -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug #148398 - cvs-autoreleasedeb: file /etc/cron.d/cvs-autoreleasedeb not registered

2002-07-15 Thread Colin Watson
conffiles and so aren't in the .deb and aren't listed in 'dpkg -S' output, so long as they follow the rules for how configuration files must be handled. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: needing to run configure multiple time

2002-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 02:36:32PM +0200, Alexandre wrote: > I agree. My question was more on the lines of 'is the configure target > mandatory in debian/rules?' Not at all - it's just a convention (popularized by dh_make, I suspect). -- Colin Watson

Re: de: snmpkit_0.9-5.woody.1_source.changes REJECTED (me too)

2002-07-18 Thread Colin Watson
ex 2.6.1-5 > > And I tried the following packages uploads which were all rejected (< or >): > weex 2.6.1-0woody1 > weex 2.6.1-5woody1 > weex 2.6.1-6woody1 Try -4woody1. -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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