Re: seek for advice of package regexx

uld be even better is to get the upstream maintainer to also do it that way. Have you asked upstream why they ship their package this way? It may be done of a good reason, but going on past packages I have seen this done its at least equally likely that they do it out of ignorance. - Craig --

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

you needed something from there, such as for a dependency. Our security updates a built on stable dist hosts for example. I would have a problem shipping a package that was not even tested on the native environment. How do you know the program is even going to work properly? - Craig

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

package. I probably should mention that dh-make will only use that line if it thinks the package would use it. Basically is there a configure script and is it executable. It usually assumes you type make to make the package but of course that's one line change in one file to fix it. - Crai

Re: How do I get involved?

iners corner at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint ? Also http://mentors.debian.net/ It looks like you're in Brisbane, there are a few Debian maintainers up there for keysigning. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting htt

Re: compile from source: to what extent?

on system to enforce that > goal? Say, if /usr/bin/xc was a completely different program. Then a > normal user would have problems. If the package generates xc then it should use its own xc. At the very least the upstream should specify which one to use and not leave it to some arbitary path s

Re: Intrest in becoming a Debian developer

u need to do. http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org deb

Re: One Source with Different Build Dependancies?

onflict to build these packages appears to me to be saying something is seriously braindamaged. Well-behaved packages don't conflict on themselves. Perhaps it would be better for everyone if you only built one of them? - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C7

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

uld be even better is to get the upstream maintainer to also do it that way. Have you asked upstream why they ship their package this way? It may be done of a good reason, but going on past packages I have seen this done its at least equally likely that they do it out of ignorance. - Craig --

Re: Where to submit a bug?

f in future. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: debmake or dh-make, what should I use?

tance > from now on then. dh-make is still actively worked on. Not everyone likes it but in such a broad organisation that's fine. Libraries are often the most difficult thing to package, both in a general and specific sense. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45E

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

you needed something from there, such as for a dependency. Our security updates a built on stable dist hosts for example. I would have a problem shipping a package that was not even tested on the native environment. How do you know the program is even going to work properly? - Craig

Re: Simple Debian Package Creation?

package. I probably should mention that dh-make will only use that line if it thinks the package would use it. Basically is there a configure script and is it executable. It usually assumes you type make to make the package but of course that's one line change in one file to fix it. - Crai

Re: How do I get involved?

iners corner at http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint ? Also http://mentors.debian.net/ It looks like you're in Brisbane, there are a few Debian maintainers up there for keysigning. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting htt

Re: compile from source: to what extent?

on system to enforce that > goal? Say, if /usr/bin/xc was a completely different program. Then a > normal user would have problems. If the package generates xc then it should use its own xc. At the very least the upstream should specify which one to use and not leave it to some arbitary path s

Re: debhelper not using debian//

dule packages, did it behave itself? - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: RFS: Drivel

about part of your NM anyway. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: RFS: mocp -- music on console player

x27;t already got a sponsor. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: maint-guide update (chapt 6-9, appendix)

nd friends) would also of helped. I'm not sure which one you are talking about now and it would of been nice to see considering how... vocal I am sometimes about the Debian documents. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting ht

Re: RFS: mocp -- music on console player

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 12:15:08PM +0100, Michal Jeczalik Jr wrote: > I have already got a sponsor, sorry. No need to be sorry, glad you have one. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ M

Re: Help about license

tributed. Probably any one of the 20 developers could object. As far as Debian or any other distributor was concerned, it was a complete write-off. The real shame is I don't think that any of the developers wanted it that way. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB

Re: Some questions

rsion ("$2") less than 0.7.3-1, which means it was 0.7.2-something I then call a function upgrading the database from 0.7.2->0.7.3 I keep doing that for each step there are database changes, so there are 8 of these in postinst. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45

Re: RFS: gaim-themes : Smiley themes collection for gaim

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 07:40:19PM +0100, Martin Braure de Calignon wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for this packages. > It exists in ITP list (#297961). > It can be downloaded at : > http://www.enseirb.fr/~braurede/deb_dev/gaim-themes/ I can sponsor this if you like. - Craig --

Re: RFS: tex4ht -- LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML)

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:18:06PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor who will help me to upload tex4ht. Hello Kapil, I use LaTeX and even general some webpages with it (using hyperlatex though). If you haven't got a sponsor then I'll do it. - Cr

Re: upgrading database tables and data

it make sure you get one that uses the compare-versions features and not the old way with a switch statement. I do ask the admin if they want this done automatically. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.a

Re: RFS: phpicalendar -- clean, logical iCal/vCalendar web interface

n. That's a shame because I'm looking for something that does ical, preferbly two-way too. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au

Re: [RFH] Dealing with HTML templates in Web Software

here is not that many changes. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Sponsor for phpSysInfo

Hello Hereward, I'll sponsor you for phpSysInfo if you like and you don't already have a sponsor. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE &

Re: looking for a sopnsor

a URL to the upstream pages. Also dependencies help. For example I keep gtk dev libraries but not qt, so sometinhg linking to gtk is simple for me but for qt is a pain. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-n

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

\\$$deplibs"/' mv libtool-2 libtool chmod 755 libtool -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian de

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

sad thread on BTS and another list debian-devel? about this thing. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <

Re: binary addition in the debian .diff.gz

nzip it in the source, the whole lot will be gzipped again anyway. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian d

Re: dh_make and file package.files

in dh-make. You only have to make that file once per package BTW. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer

Re: mentor request

e you start the NM process you need a GPG key, an advocate and a reasonable idea of how to package something and the general philosophy behind Debian. There are 21 Debian developers in Sweden so you might find someone real close. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB

Re: packaging question

naries are probably arch dependent. You can test this by using a -B, it shouldn't re-make the doc package again (this is what the porters use). - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[E

Re: sponsor for package ragel

of people get involved. > so perhaps someone wants to act as a sponsor for me? > > the program is ragel ( http://www.ragel.ca/ragel/ ), a development tool I'll sponsor it, if you haven't had any previous offers. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45

Re: Changing include directory

milar. Then look at the configure script to see if there is some flag you can use to shift it. Perhaps it could be as simple as ./configure --includedir=\$${prefix}/include/ on debian/rules (I think I got the escapes right) - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45E

Re: libtool problems during "make install"

. Look in the archives (debian-devel iirc) for something like LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL or similar. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: playwriting software

nt to get your key signed. I'm not sure if you're in Texas or Amsterdam (or both) but there's Debian developers in both areas. Have a look at http://nm.debian.org/ too for more information. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12

Re: Question on build process

ar.gz file instead - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: sponsor wanted

have a much better chance of debugging it. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Searching sponsor or advocate for cban and SnortSnarf

orts. > > License: GPL > > Here you can find an example demo: > http://www.silicondefense.com/software/snortsnarf/example/index.html > > And here my package: > http://www.bee-side.com/snortsnarf_0.1-1_i386.deb > Hello Fabio, Have you found a sponsor

Re: $(CURDIR) in debian/rules is not defined?

nvironment variable `CURDIR' will not override this value). Note that setting this variable has no effect on the operation of `make' - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[E

Re: Kernel module packaging

terested in finding out how successful (or otherwise) it is. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian develop

Re: developer vs user wants

what users are going to > want. I'd ship it as I got it. If you're using CVS it's off, if you're using the released code it's on. So the solution is simple if it is the release code you're using. People have said look at the user's best interest. The user

Re: config.* in the diff?

the hppa guys or some other autobuilder. Of course, you can always delete those lines if you are satisfied that you can keep the files up to date yourself. And no, you don't have to build-depends autotools-dev, that's what the test for existence of file is for. But it is probably a goo

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

e for the people who passed each checkpoint in the last three months. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:28:07PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Friday 16 Aug 2002 1:14 pm, Craig Small wrote: > > > The statistics are for the people who passed each checkpoint in the last > > three months. > > Rather at a tangent, but it appears from reading t

Re: nm.debian.org statistics buggy ?

k to James). I'd say a large majority of people do not fit the category. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian

Re: Looking for an advocate to become "taper"-maintainer

? > I'd be very happy if waiting has an end. I didn't know taper was not being maintained, hmm (I probably wouldn't of known this anyway). We're talking about the tape backup program? I'll sponsor your package if you want, from that if all goes well I'll advoca

Re: "ELITE the New Kind" packager is looking for a sponsor

7;t Chris take a mining laser to David? Of course Daniel can package it, Daniel can distribute it, but he cannot put it into Debian and he might be putting himself at a (theoretical?) risk if David is not happy. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5

Re: mplayer in debian ( versus new-maintainer )

your application might get bounced. For example anyone in Sydney Australia saying they cannot get a key signed, with at least 3 maintainers on the GPG exchange page and an active Debian SIG and LUG, is obviously trying hard NOT to get their key signed. The sponsor of mplayer would be an obvious fi

Re: Sponsor request for gkrellmlaunch

gcc-3.2 to compile it, I don't know what is the > policy in this domain. 2.95.4, installing gcc dummy package would pull that in or build-essential - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: Looking for testers/sponsor for new package IRE

- Dependencies - important because I have, say, gtk libs installed but not Qt ones, others have it the other way around. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Looking for testers/sponsor for new package IRE

kage at http://alexandre.pineau.free.fr/ire_debian.htm I have a dependency problem. It wants liballegro4, I got liballegro4a - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE

Re: Looking for testers/sponsor for new package IRE

adable - Craigs notes] (ip = 0x0) - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: questions on packaging

packages I'd > like to maintain is nearly ready. > > Should I wait for my application to be approved or look for a sponsor? > Should I report an ITP even if I'm not a Debian Developer? I'd look for a sponsor and do an ITP, actually the other way around. - Craig -- Craig

Re: debmake and dh-make

, there is interest by the respective developers in maintaining them. - Craig (dh-make author) -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Package Versioning question

't be done. I've gotten bugs about it before, they get closed and I've never seen something yet that is either going to bite the maintainer in future and/or is just plain silly. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Con

Re: debmake and dh-make

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:39:47AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > If debmake is out-of-date, what are the best tools used today to make > a package? dh-make, not that I'm biased or anything - Craig (dh-make maintainer) -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95C

Re: debmake and dh-make

ame as other peoples or even the majority of packages. Quick example, assuming that ./configure exists means it is an autoconf'ed package is a bad assumption. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: Warning about Debian New Maintainer Application

s now That's a concern, Tony has been one of the more active advocates. Hope everything is ok. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Getting a daemon off uid root

tresuid/gid to nobody/nogroup enough? nobody/nogroup is often a bad idea and is an evil remnant of Ye Olde Unix. Far better to make it a uidi gid for itself, which is what most daemons do now. If paranoid, you might like to check your uid and gid after you have set them, to make sure the transistio

Re: Upstream author wants maintainer

t a sponsor, that is a Debian developer who would upload it on your behalf. 2) You could write a RFP (Request For Package) of it 3) You could become a developer yourself. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http:/

Re: The magic of debconf - can I avoid a second run of config?

n I ask is it really neccessary to ask the same questions over and over again. consider two scenarios: I have some special files or I never want them upgraded for some reason I have a DSL connection and want the latest and greatest every time. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 141

Re: Kleandisk

sponsive or had moved on to other projects. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New Maintainer Process

ou are! I assume somewhere in Germany. A key signing pretty much guarantees you need to meet someone. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL

Re: Unofficial package tips

see shy jo, who is not a dh_make user - Craig, who is (as well as the maintainer) -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debi

Re: Packaging Perl programs

t; programs or is the best thing to do to look at similar package and copy > and modify the control files? dh_make is the simplest way, you can of course take the files out of the /usr/share directory as someone else mentioned. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45E

Re: Registro

y who will eventually get his email is a english speaking Australian so the mail needs to be in english... - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[E

Re: bug reports

ED] It nearly does what you want. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Packages with different build dirs than source dirs

ng that uses more than one database variety. mnogosearch for example. I do mkdir build-pgsql cd build-pgsql ../configure . and $(MAKE) -C build-pgsql -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: How to deal with bogus bug reports (#197352)

it. At the very worse tag it wontfix and set it to normal. But its not a real bug and should be closed. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMA

Re: source package question

handle most of these quite well. The fact that the archive extracts out to that directory means the orig.tar.gz is being created. I generally never let that happen by always renaming the upstream tar file to orig.tar.gz as my first step. eg, mv LPRng-3.4.20.tar.gz lprng_3.4.20.orig.tar.gz - Crai

Re: rrdcollect: looking for sponsor.

ed forward let me know and I'll sponsor it. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAI

Re: Build-Recommends?

to the maintainer if they want to have a --with-mysql or --with-pgsql or both. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Sponsor vs. Developer Process?

kaging stuff, should be attempting a sponsored package. It shows you can package something. Your behaviour to bugs that come up or how you upgrade and maintain the package is a good "reference" for your debian maintainership. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D

Re: Sponsor vs. Developer Process?

ackage in the archive, you better have a good reason why. You might not be able to find a sponsor despite months of trying. That might be a good reason. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: Recompiling a package

bblah2-dev installed in unstable. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: creating your own debian package repository

g alphas too. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org PACKAGES=$(shell ls binary-alpha/*.deb) all:

Re: Lintian complaining about ldconfig in postrm-remove

ad up on how to get an override in. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Policy query

In that case you would obviously need a version string. The problem with the lintian message is the emphasis is on the version string, rather than why have it depend on gzip in the first place. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Co

Re: RFS: LDAP Account Manager - 2nd try :)

thinks i have no password. Creating new users works ok, I suspect it is looking for an objectclass of inetorgperson which most of our accounts do not use. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE

Re: RFS: LDAP Account Manager - 2nd try :)

m editing users? - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: RFS: LDAP Account Manager - 2nd try :)

elease. Why cannot objectclasses be added? I have done that several times. Or did you mean LAM cannot add objectclasses yet? BTW, it would be nice if LAM and directory-manager had some commonality with each other. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-N

Re: sponsors?

don't as often as i should. Though I've probably got enough already. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org

Re: cpufreqd braindamaged versions

ave to decide if you are going to do this sort of thing all the time or not. If it this is a once-off, I'd use an epoch. If packaging rc versions is going to be a regular thing, then you need to decide how to put your versions so the rc one appear older than the releases. Most solut

Re: cpufreqd braindamaged versions

for 0.7.2, the 0.7.1 in front means the real 0.7.2 will be newer. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org d

Re: problem with files in /etc/dir.d

gram, so there is no need to list them manually in package.conffiles. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au

Re: dh_make generates Stds. version 3.6.0 but latest is 3.6.1

check of the policy changes, bump the number, then wait for someone to complain. > Can a tool do it? lintian and linda attempt to do it and probably do it well enough. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/

Re: Sponsor for phpSysInfo

Hello Hereward, I'll sponsor you for phpSysInfo if you like and you don't already have a sponsor. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE &

Re: looking for a sopnsor

a URL to the upstream pages. Also dependencies help. For example I keep gtk dev libraries but not qt, so sometinhg linking to gtk is simple for me but for qt is a pain. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-n

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

\\$$deplibs"/' mv libtool-2 libtool chmod 755 libtool -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

sad thread on BTS and another list debian-devel? about this thing. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: binary addition in the debian .diff.gz

nzip it in the source, the whole lot will be gzipped again anyway. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: dh_make and file package.files

h-make. You only have to make that file once per package BTW. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: mentor request

e you start the NM process you need a GPG key, an advocate and a reasonable idea of how to package something and the general philosophy behind Debian. There are 21 Debian developers in Sweden so you might find someone real close. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB

Re: packaging question

naries are probably arch dependent. You can test this by using a -B, it shouldn't re-make the doc package again (this is what the porters use). - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[E

Re: sponsor for package ragel

of people get involved. > so perhaps someone wants to act as a sponsor for me? > > the program is ragel ( http://www.ragel.ca/ragel/ ), a development tool I'll sponsor it, if you haven't had any previous offers. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE

Re: Changing include directory

milar. Then look at the configure script to see if there is some flag you can use to shift it. Perhaps it could be as simple as ./configure --includedir=\$${prefix}/include/ on debian/rules (I think I got the escapes right) - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C7

Re: libtool problems during "make install"

. Look in the archives (debian-devel iirc) for something like LIBTOOL_IS_A_FOOL or similar. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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