Re: Failed ITP?

2004-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
ose lists aren't being updated. Don't worry about it. By the way, why did you create a new bug rather than retitling the existing one? You shouldn't do that. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: RFS: hatari

2004-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
to be specified, in this example "2.3.0". All four components may still be used if someone wishes to do so. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2004-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
debian > revision. Debian revisions x.1, x.2, etc. are generally used for non-maintainer uploads. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with my program

2004-02-12 Thread Colin Watson
> Why are you surprised? If it's because you prefer info, you can just > > provide a minimal manpage and refer to the info documentation in it. > > I am surprised because i saw programs with an automatic created debian > manpage or without a manpage. It's a bug not

Re: buildd problem

2004-02-16 Thread Colin Watson
ent, so for now I'd say just wait. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: xhangglider package uploaded to mentors

2004-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
looked at this, but why would one generate a new .orig.tar.gz that isn't original? .diff.gz bloat is to be lived with. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: xhangglider package uploaded to mentors

2004-02-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:42:20AM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:16:17AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > Huh? I haven't looked at this, but why would one generate a new > > .orig.tar.gz that isn't original? .diff.gz bloat is to be lived with. >

Re: Multi-person sponsorship

2004-02-19 Thread Colin Watson
ng everything after women - > nobody else has the slightest idea of what does what... In case you haven't seen it: http://cvs.debian.org/dak/docs/README.names?cvsroot=dak -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Restoring cooledit to Debian, perhaps RFS

2004-03-05 Thread Colin Watson
ld be easier since you can reuse the old packaging, though (grab it from snapshot.debian.net if nothing else). Do check for bugs against it that were closed by the removal, though. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Renaming a package, proper values for replaces/conflicts?

2004-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
ful because it adds extra complexity to the unpack order: this is why policy recommends against it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Renaming a package, proper values for replaces/conflicts?

2004-03-07 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 01:17:46PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2004-03-07 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:23:40AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > >> When jumping from 4.3 to 4.5 I'd like to rename pgrep to pcregrep and >

Re: Packaging for Sid on the Debian machines?

2004-03-10 Thread Colin Watson
e also tried something like this, but without > any success. Put a file in each chroot (in /etc, say) identifying it, and then read it into a shell variable in .bashrc so that your prompt can use it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: unreleased fobar_x.y-1 ?

2004-03-12 Thread Colin Watson
ildpackage to force .orig.tar.gz to be included in the .changes. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can I autogen Build-Depends like I can Depends, with shlibs?

2004-03-13 Thread Colin Watson
still need to apply thought to the output. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delayed NMU with dupload

2004-03-14 Thread Colin Watson
ck.debian.org", login => $ENV{DEBUSER} || getlogin() || $ENV{USER} || $ENV{LOGNAME}, incoming => "~tfheen$delayed", dinstall_runs => 1, method => "scpb", }; I then do 'DEB_NMU_DELAY=7 dupload --to tfheen-delayed foo.changes'. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conflicts/replaces confusion

2004-03-15 Thread Colin Watson
they're manually removed. I suggest making them empty packages (save for a /usr/share/doc/foo symlink to /usr/share/doc/python-epydoc) that just depend on python-epydoc, and then make python-epydoc Conflict/Replace pythonX.Y-epydoc (<< whatever-the-first-empty-version-is). -- Colin Wa

Re: wvdial prompts "by hand"... is that release critical?

2004-03-16 Thread Colin Watson
that bug be release critical instead of important? "Should" violations aren't release-critical. Also, it's not listed here: http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt > Is it worth trying to change that so that this gets fixed for Sarge? It

Re: Question about Debian Policy 6.1

2004-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
re in the .diff.gz (as is usual), then dpkg-source will not preserve the execute bit when other people extract your source package. It's better to be consistent. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
an't use that until sarge has been released. In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what you suggest) is a common workaround. It's not too bad to change the tarball name. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Bengali wordlist for aspell

2004-03-20 Thread Colin Watson
. > > read the errors. it is clear what you have forgotten. > you doesn't have a distclean target in your rules file in the debian > directory. Not quite; he doesn't have a distclean target in Makefile (not debian/rules). -- Colin Watson [EM

Re: Delayed NMU with dupload

2004-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 11:13:36AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tollef Fog Heen opened a delayed queue on gluck a little while ago. My > > .dupload.conf rune for this reads as follows: [...] > Is there a way to achieve th

Re: Howto use misc:Depends? [was Re: Should I recommend "less" if I use it in some scripts?]

2004-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
should refer to policy and use the sensible-pager system instead. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should I always clean in debian/rules before making binary?

2004-03-22 Thread Colin Watson
pkg-buildpackage, do something morally equivalent to 'debian/rules build && fakeroot debian/rules binary'. Use dpkg-buildpackage (or debuild, a wrapper around it which sorts out fakeroot and the like) rather than 'debian/rules binary'. -- Colin Watson

Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
r > each locale and be able to recode every config file, man page, Not possible. UTF-8 man pages are not yet supported by groff, and won't be until groff 2.0. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
[Please honour my Mail-Followup-To: header.] On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:41:44PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:05:04AM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > > Heck, if you ask me, Sarge should be known

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-01 Thread Colin Watson
version number to look for the source, so -1.0.1 becomes -1 and -1.1.1 becomes -1.1. Beyond that, I don't believe they care. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
to find the source (which > would be impossible too, is 1.2-0.0.1 a binary NMU of 1.2, or of > 1.2-0? Though nonstandard, the latter isn't forbidden) katie tries both of those possibilities. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
ad katie (and jennifer), you will find it doesn't > care, it uses afaics the 'Source:' header from the .changes. Please see the source_exists function here: http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/dak/katie.py?rev=1.45&cvsroot=dak -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > Any .deb indicates its source, including binary-only NMU'

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Colin Watson
doesn't appeal (remember that neither of us has access to all the architectures). Also I just don't think this is particularly urgent. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
se. Every package containing dynamically linked binaries should use ${shlibs:Depends}. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /proc file system

2001-08-26 Thread Colin Watson
eople can't use self-compiled kernels without using kernel-package, and you also don't know whether an installed kernel package is the running kernel. There's no good way to do this within the Debian packaging framework, as far as I can work out. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /proc file system

2001-08-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 01:01:35AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 07:06:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Colin Watson wrote: > > > But then people can't use self-compiled kernels without using > > > kernel-package, and you also don&#x

Re: Alpha question

2001-08-29 Thread Colin Watson
em, but I can't find it now. Alternatively, just merge them by hand. Make the Architecture: line of the merged .changes file contain the architectures from all the others, and merge all the files named in Files: blocks. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some Packaging Questions

2001-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
exists; it's been rolled into the main policy document, and the parts that aren't actual policy are there as appendices until they find a better home. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: glimpse package is no longer in the Debian archive

2001-08-31 Thread Colin Watson
and in the control bot one day... > > Do it. There's not much reason to use the close command, when > you can just email -done. Either that or cause 'close' to have better behaviour, e.g. send the complete text of the control message to the submitter. (If that's possible, that is.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE: AAHHH Lintian!

2001-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
; program it provides, in which case the packages may transition out of the `/usr/X11R6/' directory at the maintainer's discretion. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Processed: glimpse package is no longer in the Debian archive

2001-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
e nn" in a message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] We're talking about the latter. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: versioned shlibs file -- when and why

2001-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
flip side is that packages might end up with dependencies that are too tight and so find it harder to be upgraded in testing: GNOME packages used to have this problem until the gnome-core maintainer started generating a more accurate shlibs file. Joey, perhaps dh_makeshlibs(1) could have a note in its ma

Re: Help building packages.

2001-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
share/debhelper/dh_make/debian. > If there is anyone out there who wouldn't mind teaching me on a 1v1 > session, I'd be in your debt. I learn better from a actual person > than through docs. If you like, go ahead and e-mail me privately with what you've got and I can point

Re: iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
orwarding mechanism is needed. This can be done with the BSD divert sockets patch for Linux 2.2, or with netfilter's built-in libipq under Linux 2.4. (There's shaper too, although that's kernel-space.) I don't mean to discourage you from packaging this; I'm just c

Re: iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
to your Debianized source package. Are you planning to enter the new maintainer process (http://nm.debian.org/)? You should really do that if you want to maintain a package in Debian. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When can I include my package in stable?

2001-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
ackage. Please have a look at: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-getting.html#s-version http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-frozen http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-stable Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Native packages

2001-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
so is what I distribute elsewhere. If you can't build the Debian package as part of the process of generating the tarball from CVS, I suppose you could use -b and hack the .changes by hand to include the source, although that's rather ugly. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iprelay: sponsor sought

2001-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
the rest of this conversation to private e-mail. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging problems

2001-09-07 Thread Colin Watson
here may still be one or two others to do. > Here I send you the output of the execution: > > Can't locate Log/Agent.pm in @INC newsclipper should depend on liblog-agent-perl. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clearing NMU fixed bugs

2001-09-08 Thread Colin Watson
s saying "fixed in NMU". Closing a bug, which is what you want to do, is distinct from tagging it fixed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-09-26 Thread Colin Watson
hy, 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]

Re: Looking for a sponsor...

2001-09-28 Thread Colin Watson
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]

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: looking for a sponsor

2001-09-30 Thread Colin Watson
n package, the way normal packages work? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: looking for a sponsor

2001-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:54:34PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm not convinced we should have package maintainers who aren't even > > intending to become full-fledged developers; I don't think that's what > >

Re: lintian-warning copyright-lists-upstream-authors-like-dh_make

2001-10-01 Thread Colin Watson
ists-upstream-authors-like-dh_make N: N: There is "Upstream Author(s)" in your copyright file. This is not a N: fixed field name, it's just a default dh_make value. You should adjust N: it. N: You can also run lintian with the -i (or --info) flag to print these automatically. --

Re: I need sponsor/advocate

2001-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
intian -i gipsc_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]

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]

Re: Whoops- extracting source for deb.

2001-10-07 Thread Colin Watson
f.gz | patch -p1' or thereabouts). Cheers, -- Colin Watson [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 the .tar.gz actually contains the Debian diffs too? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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 res

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2001-10-09 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: 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
y 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: [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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]

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]

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
, unless they're in a very constrained style. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: html2man ?

2001-10-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 01:43:51PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:12:17AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:23:43PM +1000, Iain wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a good program for generating man pages from html? > > > Sou

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]

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

2001-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
BTS administrators seem to consider this a feature request rather than a bug report. See #103803. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Yet another person looking for advocate

2001-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
close the corresponding directories (mount points). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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, because the filename has still changed. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package review

2001-11-06 Thread Colin Watson
To: if he wants to reduce the number of people cc'ing him. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "harry up for freeze" strangeness

2001-11-08 Thread Colin Watson
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]

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]

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 Wat

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 [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 nor­ mally be deleted. You may use this option multiple times to build up a list of things to ex

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug #122994

2001-12-19 Thread Colin Watson
't* send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you're not the maintainer. See the various instructions on http://bugs.debian.org/. -- Colin Watson [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]

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]

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]

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]

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 PROTECTED]

Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package

2002-01-09 Thread Colin Watson
_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]

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]

Re: dh_installkpatches missing in action

2002-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
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]

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. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backslash in manpages ???

2002-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
ndent. > 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 the groff package. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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 separator

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]

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]

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