RFS: docbook-defguide -- DocBook: The Definitive Guide - HTML version

2007-12-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello all, I would like to ask for a sponsor for my docbook-defguide package. The reason why I ask on this list: I need a sponsor with a big box - fast enough and with at least 1GB RAM (more is better). On my system the package needs 16 hours to build and the maximum heap size for Java is set to 1

Re: MIME support in Debian.

2007-12-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 22.12.2007, 23:34 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > The Debian mime policy requires packages register through update-mime, > which according to its manpage uses /etc/mailcap and > /usr/lib/mime/packages. However, I noticed the /usr/share/mime and > /usr/share/mime-info directories th

Re: MIME support in Debian.

2007-12-23 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 24.12.2007, 01:39 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:01:21PM +0100, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > > > Current GNOME and the upcoming KDE 4 both uses the shared-mime-info > > database in /usr/share/mime. > > > > IMHO y

Re: MIME support in Debian.

2007-12-30 Thread Daniel Leidert
CC to Charles, because his mails are e week old. Am Montag, den 24.12.2007, 22:18 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > To summarise our discussion, I have created the following wiki page: > > http://wiki.debian.org/MimeTypesSupport Ok, I will take a look at it. [snip] > There are still two things I

Re: DocBook documentation format

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Gilles Filippini wrote: > My upstream has just included localized documentation in DocBook format. > I'm not sure how I should deal with this doc. > > According to [1], documentation should be in HTML and the XML DocBook > format should stay in the source package. > > But looking for similar

Re: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-10 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 10.02.2008, 17:30 -0200 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, David Paleino wrote: > > I'm packaging gnome-translate (ITP #292909), and everything builds fine. A > > lintian check on the .changes file throws: > > > > E: gnome-translate source: outdated-autotoo

Re: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-11 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 11.02.2008, 14:17 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > Am Montag, den 11.02.2008, 10:54 +0100 schrieb David Paleino: > > Il giorno Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:53:48 +0100 > > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > > > I suggest to mandate &quo

RFC: Exclude config.sub and config.guess from

2008-02-11 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 11.02.2008, 14:45 +0100 schrieb David Paleino: > Il giorno Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:17:54 +0100 > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > We simply copy config.sub and config.guess into the build directory for > > some years now and I never obs

Re: Lintian: outdated-autotools-helper-file

2008-02-11 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 11.02.2008, 10:54 +0100 schrieb David Paleino: > Il giorno Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:53:48 +0100 > Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > I suggest to mandate "remove all generated files in the clean target" > > (formulated in a way which includes "generated by upstream", not on

Re: RFC: Howto exclude config.sub and config.guess updates from .diff.gz

2008-02-11 Thread Daniel Leidert
Sorry, I broke the subject with my last post. I wanted to adjust it, but forgot finish the subject line. Really sorry. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with watch file -- pre-release upstream versions

2008-02-11 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 11.02.2008, 02:23 +0100 schrieb Székelyi Szabolcs: > What's the usual way of handling "preX" upstream version numbers in > watch files? I'm having trouble because uscan considers 1.0pre3 newer > than 1.0. IMO you have two options: 1) Ignore the pre-versions by a rule like http://

Re: RFC: Howto exclude config.sub and config.guess updates from .diff.gz

2008-02-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 11.02.2008, 19:48 +0100 schrieb Bernhard R. Link: > * Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080211 15:21]: > > If you care > > and if you want to avoid this: preserve the original config.* scripts > > and put them back in the clean-target. This increases

RFS: docbook2X (0.8.8-6), docbook-defguide (2.0.17+svn7549-2), xmlto (0.0.20-1)

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
be + found (closes: #439214). + * debian/patches/00list: Adjusted. + + -- Daniel Leidert (dale) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:08:08 +0100 + docbook2x (0.8.8-5) unstable; urgency=low * debian/control: Homepage field transition. diff -u docbook2x-0.8.8/debian/control d

[DONE] RFS: docbook-defguide (2.0.17+svn7549-2)

2008-02-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 13.02.2008, 18:27 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/incoming/packages/debian-xml-sgml/docbook-defguide_2.0.17+svn7549-2.dsc > http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/incoming/packages/debian-xml-sgml/docbook-defguide_2.0.17+svn7549-2_i386.changes > Clo

RFS: docbook-xsl (1.73.2.dfsg.1-3)

2008-02-16 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, Because my usual sponsor is still busy, I would like to request a one-time sponsorship for my docbook-xsl package. The version 1.73.2.dfsg.1-3 closes: http://bugs.debian.org/445901 http://bugs.debian.org/447958 http://bugs.debian.org/449582 http://bugs.debian.org/464708 http://bugs.debian.org

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 16.02.2008, 23:10 -0500 schrieb Andres Mejia: > I have two questions. First question is; > > Is it at all possible to write a get-orig-source target that calls an > external > script to handle generating the orig tarball? Of course. > The problem I'm facing is when the get-ori

Re: Writing get-orig-source targets to conform with policy

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 17.02.2008, 23:58 +0100 schrieb Bas Wijnen: [..] > The get-orig-source target specifies that it must work from anywhere. Where do you read this? The policy says, that it "[..] may be invoked in any directory [..]". To my understanding, this is not a "must work from anywhere". I ag

Re: The get-orig-source target as stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-18 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 18.02.2008, 11:54 -0500 schrieb Andres Mejia: > I've been told that the policy for the get-orig-source target states that > it "...fetches the most recent version of the original source package...". > However, I've seen others using the get-orig-source target to regenerate the > o

Re: Bug#466550: Please clarify the get-orig-source target stated in Policy 4.9

2008-02-19 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 19.02.2008, 15:16 +0100 schrieb Alexander Schmehl: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.7.3.0 > Severity: wishlist > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dear policy team, > > recently the get-orig-source target of debian/rules has been discussed

Re: Help needed for packaging a library

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 00:41 +0100 schrieb Georgi Chulkov: > I'm trying to package a very simple hello world library, before I move to > more > complex things. The problem is that dpkg will not include the most important > files in the finished package. Here's what I did, step by step (on

Re: Removing .pl extension in files from a package using debhelper and CDBS.

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 15.04.2008, 15:30 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > I am preparing a very simple pacakge (mage2tab) that uses CDBS and > debhelper: > > anx159《mage2tab》$ cat trunk/debian/rules > #!/usr/bin/make -f > include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk > > I would like to keep this file

Re: Examples

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 05.05.2008, 14:50 +0200 schrieb Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik: > When there are two packages, packagename (that contains a library) and > packagename-doc (that contains documentation and examples), do the > documentation and examples go in /usr/share/doc/package or > /usr/share/doc/packagen

Re: Problem with implicit rule for .o files and overriding of CXXFLAGS.

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 26.06.2008, 09:18 +1000 schrieb Trent W. Buck: > Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > while working on an update to the `proda' package, I realised that a > > compilation option, DVERSION="\"1.00\"", was discarded during the build > > of the Debian binary package. Th

Re: Problem with implicit rule for .o files and overriding of CXXFLAGS.

2008-06-26 Thread Daniel Leidert
Sorry for the CC. I was away and missed the discussion :) Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 13:24 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > while working on an update to the `proda' package, I realised that a > compilation option, DVERSION="\"1.00\"", was discarded during the build > of the Debian binary packag

Re: Problem with implicit rule for .o files and overriding of CXXFLAGS.

2008-06-27 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 27.06.2008, 10:16 + schrieb Yavor Doganov: > В Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:14:55 +0200, Daniel Leidert написа: > > > or tell him to better use one of the following: > > > > DEFS += -DVERSION="\"1.00\"" > > This won't work. Th

Re: binary-without-manpage

2008-08-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > It is probably because I'm trying to hack past midnight, but I can't > get dh_installman to install my manpage properly, meaning that lintian > report binary-without-manpage. > > If someone could tell me what I am doing wrong, I'd be grateful. You simply don't install

Re: Need help writing watch file for unusual, troublesome case.

2008-09-05 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 16:31 -0700 schrieb Brandon: > Creating a separate script wouldn't really make much sense in my case. > I was only fixing the watch file as a formality. Upstream is dead, so I > wouldn't be using it, but it would satisfy projects like dehs, and my > QA page warns me abo

Re: Peer review of copyright files.

2008-12-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 00:15 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Although it should never happen, sometimes a new package we submit to our > archive managers is rejected because the description of the copyright status > of > its files is either incorrect or lacunar. This is waste of precious

Re: How to debug problems in postinst using debconf / dbconfig common

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel Leidert
Andreas Tille wrote: > I try to build a package from mlstdbnet for Debian Med. The > packaging stuff is available here: [..] > If I build the package I get an error message but failed > to track down the problem: > > ~> sudo dpkg -i mlstdbnet_2.0.0-1_all.deb > (Reading database ... 341999 files a

Re: Display upgrade note

2005-07-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 25.07.2005, 18:40 +0200 schrieb Roland Gruber: > probably this has been asked before but my searches did not give proper > results. > > I want to display a message to the user via debconf. The message should > only appear if the user upgrades from a version below a special value >

Re: autotools during build

2005-08-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 12.08.2005, 02:12 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:15:41AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > I have some packages which use autotools. I thought it would be good to > > compile as much as possible, so it is clear all the sources are correct. > > That > > mean

Re: autotools during build

2005-08-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 12.08.2005, 06:12 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:50:33PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > Aside from wasting (a little) > > > space in the archive, that makes it harder for NMUers or passing > > > developers > &

Re: Adding own Software?

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 16.08.2005, 01:00 +0200 schrieb Dirk Nolting: > During my PhD thesis I started to develop a program to calculate the > isotopic distribution of a molecule. AFAIK there is no program within > debian to do this. Therefore I would like to contribute this program to > debian. Do i

Re: pkg-config

2005-09-03 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 03.09.2005, 20:24 +1000 schrieb skaller: > On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 22:11 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > Er... that's certainly not enforceable. > > > > > Sure it is. If they're not provided, then lintian fails > > > the package, and the sponsors refuse to upload it, > > > sa

Re: Change version number only for a different build.

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 05.09.2005, 15:06 +0200 schrieb Antonio Ospite: > Hallo, > > I'm learning something about debian packages, policy and repository, and > I'm trying to make an automatic repository (hence with a "pool" > directory), but i have a question. Can you help me, please? > > Since my package

Re: adding new mime-types

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 09.09.2005, 12:54 +0200 schrieb vud1: > Hi all. > > I am doing a debian-package for a program that i am writing. My program > is an diagram-tool that saves files *.cgt (xml files that i have > invented specially for my application). > > I would like to integrate my program with gn

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 11:59 +0200 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > Fathi Boudra wrote: > > > Le Jeudi 13 Octobre 2005 10:53, Bastian Venthur a écrit : > >> Hi mentors, > >> In order to keep track of my changes in the development of my packages > >> I've decided to put my "debian" folder with al

Re: managing my packages with svn

2005-10-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 15:32 +0300 schrieb Damyan Ivanov: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 11:59 +0200 schrieb Bastian Venthur: > >>Does anything speak against my method? BTW: how do I make pdebuild and > >>debuild to ignore the .svn di

Re: Overriding over Linda/Lintian

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 18.10.2005, 14:13 -0400 schrieb -.JavaManiac.-: > Im packaging urlgfe,an some others,when i run Linda over the package > it gives me 2 warnings about shared libraries,here is the output > > > linda -Di *.changes > W: urlgfe; Shared object /usr/bin/urlgfe is linked with version 0

Re: Menu problems

2005-11-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 19.11.2005, 20:51 -0500 schrieb Daniel Milstein: [update menu from .desktop file] > Nevermind; I figured it out. > > For those searching through the archives, the problem was that KDE did not > have all of the menu categories listed at freedesktop.org in its system. In > additio

Move config-files from /etc into /etc/foobar during package upgrade

2005-12-30 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I'm currently preparing an update for a package. Until now, the configuration file(s) was/were located in /etc. Now there are changes, which make it more useful to have the configuration files inside /etc/foobar. The configuration files look like foobar.conf*. Are there special things I ne

Re: Move config-files from /etc into /etc/foobar during package upgrade

2005-12-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 31.12.2005, 08:15 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:42:06PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:37:03AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > > > > Are there special things I need to care of? Does anyone know a

Re: Extra debian repository

2006-01-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 14.01.2006, 06:05 +1100 schrieb Matthew Palmer: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 08:04:01PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote: > > - the repository created is a trivial one (something like "deb > > http://server/dir1/dir2 dir3/"), and dir3 containes the packages > > involved and the Packages.gz (

Re: Lintian Warnings and Modifying Upstream Source

2006-01-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 21.01.2006, 13:15 -0800 schrieb Cameron Dale: > I'm trying to create a new package for Debian, and I have some Lintian > warnings that I'm not sure how to deal with. [..] > > W: torrentflux: extra-license-file var/www/torrentflux/adodb/license.txt > > The first 4 are easily fixed

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 24.01.2006, 13:14 -0800 schrieb Stan Vasilyev: > I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html > > The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, insists on keeping > the debian changes inside the upstream tarball, o

Re: [Update] Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-27 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 26.01.2006, 19:30 -0800 schrieb Stan Vasilyev: > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:14, Stan Vasilyev wrote: > > I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html > > > > The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, insist

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > The eximdoc4 source package is built from two upstream tarballs, one > with the texinfo docs and one with the html docs. To massage this into > Debian source package format, the two upstream .tar.bz2 tarballs are > tar.gz'ed together to

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 13.02.2006, 01:24 -0600 schrieb Peter Samuelson: > [Daniel Leidert] > > Am Sonntag, den 12.02.2006, 20:01 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber: > > > It has now shown to be necessary to apply patches to the upstream > > > docs. I would like to use dpatch for that. &g

[linda] W: A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from

2006-04-18 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello all, I need some help trying to fix the following linda warning: W: winefish; A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from This package contains a binary that links against a library that is not in the Depends line. This may also be a bug in the library which does not ha

Re: how to create a Release file

2006-04-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 21.04.2006, 17:28 +0200 schrieb Tomas Davidek: > Hello, >I am having troubles when creating the Release file for my "private" > repository. According to > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7.en.html#s-deb-pack-sign > I create the file via > > $ rm

Re: how to create a Release file

2006-04-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 25.04.2006, 10:34 +0200 schrieb Tomas Davidek: > Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > >apt-ftparchive(1) gives: > > release > > The release command generates a Release file from a directory > > tree. It recursively searches the given directory for Packages, > > Packages.g

doc-base and sub-directories

2006-05-20 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, A short question about the doc-base control files. I have a package, where the documentation contains several sub-directories in the form doc/*.html doc/app-part1/*.html doc/app-part2/*.html ... Now what is the right for the doc-base control file (I looked into the doc-base docs and also

Re: doc-base and sub-directories

2006-05-20 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 20.05.2006, 13:26 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > A short question about the doc-base control files. I have a package, > where the documentation contains several sub-directories in the form > > doc/*.html > doc/app-part1/*.html > doc/app-part2/*.html > ...

Re: doc-base and sub-directories

2006-05-22 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 20.05.2006, 07:43 -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Am Samstag, den 20.05.2006, 13:26 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > > >> Now what is the right for the doc-base control file (I looked into the > >>

Closing bugs tagged as $oldstable

2006-07-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, Short question, because I wasn't successful to find the answer myself: How are bugs treated, that are tagged as $oldstable (currently woody)? When these bugs can be closed? Or do they have to stay open for all the time? How do you treat such bugs? Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Closing bugs tagged as $oldstable

2006-07-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 31.07.2006, 11:19 -0400 schrieb Justin Pryzby: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:36:24PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Short question, because I wasn't successful to find the answer myself: > > How are bugs treated, that are tagge

Re: Packaging non-compiled files

2006-08-02 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 02.08.2006, 11:13 -0400 schrieb Kit Peters: > I asked a similar question on debian-user, and was recommended to come > here instead. > > At my job, we would like to use apt to distribute certain packages, > such as WWW applications written in PHP, to certain other of our > machi

Re: How to write a good manpage ?

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 17.08.2006, 14:20 +0200 schrieb Marco Bertorello: > Hi Mentors, > > I always used help2man to generate a manpage for those packages that > hasn't one. > > But now, I'm working on a package that has a non useful help output: > > $ gcstar --help > Usage: /usr/bin/gcstar [[-u|--u

Re: How to write a good manpage ?

2006-08-17 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 17.08.2006, 15:46 +0300 schrieb Damyan Ivanov: > Marco Bertorello написа: > > I always used help2man to generate a manpage for those packages that > > hasn't one. > > > > But now, I'm working on a package that has a non useful help output: > > > > $ gcstar --help > > Usage: /us

Re: Huge private Debian repository...

2006-08-28 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 28.08.2006, 14:08 +0200 schrieb Michelle Konzack: > since I am Debian GNU/Linux Consultant I have many customized packages > or Customer specific Applications. I run my ownRepository and a devel > server andnow it give me problems with the administration, because I > have too much

Re: n00b lib packaging question

2006-08-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 29.08.2006, 12:44 -0400 schrieb Jean-Sebastien Pilon: > I am trying to create packages from sources for libpcap compiled with > the libpfring library. This compiles no problem. When I am packaging > though... there are the issues coming up Wink > > # fakeroot debian/rules clean >

RE: n00b lib packaging question

2006-08-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 29.08.2006, 15:54 -0400 schrieb Jean-Sebastien Pilon: [..] > > What's inside libpcap-ring1.install and libpcap-ring-dev.install? You > > need to "copy" the files from debian/tmp to debian/$package > > > # cat debian/libpcap-ring1.install > usr/local/lib/lib*.so.* > > # cat deb

Re: Huge private Debian repository...

2006-08-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 31.08.2006, 13:02 +0200 schrieb Antonio Ospite: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:24:08 +0200 > "Andreas Fester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Antonio Ospite wrote: > > [...] > > > debpool is also a handy alternative for a private repository: > > > > > > http://packages.debian.org/ex

Re: Huge private Debian repository...

2006-09-01 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 01.09.2006, 10:27 +0200 schrieb Antonio Ospite: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:30:46 +0200 > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > > > > With those little changes it will be perfect for me :) > > > >

Re: Huge private Debian repository...

2006-09-04 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 04.09.2006, 19:13 +0200 schrieb Antonio Ospite: [..] > To put package descriptions on my site [1] I use a combination of > dctrl2xml [2] and a xslt stylesheet to produce the html code, very > little scripting needed. If you want more details you can ask. > > dctrl2xml can produce a

binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I currently try to understand, what I need to do to make my packages binNMU-safe (I package several libraries). For a package I want to put into Debian soon, I'm now trying to make it binNMU-safe. But what's behind this? I tried to find documentation that explains the phrase (I understand,

Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-12 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > Hello, > > I currently try to understand, what I need to do to make my packages > binNMU-safe (I package several libraries). For a package I want to put > into Debian soon, I'm now trying to make it bin

Re: Building a program with the library shipped in Debian, not in orig.tar.gz

2006-09-14 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 15.09.2006, 09:46 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > I am preparing Debian packages for EMBOSS (the European Molecular > Biology Software Suite, www.emboss.org), and I run in the following > problem: > > EMBOSS is shipped and built with its own copy of libpcre. As a result, > the EMB

Re: binNMU safe and ${binary:Version} or ${source:Version}

2006-09-15 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 12.09.2006, 15:56 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: [Questions about binNMU and new variables] Thanks to all, who answered. This helped a lot to understand better binNMUs and the related packaging requirements. I started a new Wiki site, that currently only contains a link to this

Re: Weired things creating packages

2006-09-15 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Freitag, den 15.09.2006, 01:19 +0200 schrieb Michelle Konzack: [..] > Architecture: all [..] > After building I get this: > > 8<-- > -rw-r--r-- 1 73132 2006-09-12 15:38 > xmms-skin-debian-4.0-etch_0.1.0-1_all.deb > -rw-r--r--

Re: RFS to fix RC bug: rssreader.app

2006-09-20 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 20.09.2006, 22:41 +0300 schrieb Yavor Doganov: > James Westby wrote: [..] > > * Please switch to ${binary:Version} in debian/control. > > Done. Don't forget to also add the build-dependency 'dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.19)' then. See the thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/200

How to request binNMUs?

2006-09-24 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, I would like to know, how a binNMU can be requested? I ran into http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=375868 and found, that e.g. libgoffice-0-dev, libgoffice-0-3, libgoffice-1-2, gthumb contain .la-files, that contain references to libgnomeprint-2-2.la. IMHO a binNMU should fix

Re: How to request binNMUs?

2006-09-25 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 24.09.2006, 23:30 +0200 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > I would like to know, how a binNMU can be requested? > > by asking on -release. Thanks. Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: RFS: knetstats

2006-12-18 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 14.11.2006, 16:28 +0530 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "knetstats". Just one more minor issue. There is a formatting bug in the manpge. The whole phrase "knetstats is a network activity status program that sits in KDE's" i

Re: Multiple upstream changelog files

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 30.01.2007, 01:54 +0100 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: > I better ask this once and for all... > > I maintain a package where the upstream author has two changelog files: A > brief one called Changes, summarizing the changes, and a detailed one called > ChangeLog, which contains a det

Re: Multiple upstream changelog files

2007-01-30 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 30.01.2007, 00:35 -0500 schrieb Justin Pryzby: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:44:00AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 30.01.2007, 01:54 +0100 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: > > > I better ask this once and for all... > > > > > > I m

Re: Building docbook manpages (Re: RFS: crotch)

2007-01-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 01.02.2007, 09:12 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:00:48PM +, Paul Cager a écrit : > > > > I thought docbook2man (or docbook-to-man) would be the best way to do > > it, but it can't handle the XML produced by doclifter (it only really > > works for

Re: Building docbook manpages

2007-02-03 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 03.02.2007, 17:04 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:57:21AM +0100, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > > > > > xsltproc -o debian/ -''-nonet > > > /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl > > &

RFS: docbook-xsl 1.72.0.dfsg.1-1 and docbook2x 0.8.7-1

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, My regular sponsor seems to be in vacation, so I ask for someone else, who uploads the following packages to Debian (experimental): docbook-xsl 1.72.0.dfsg.1-1 http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/incoming/packages/docbook-xsl_1.72.0.dfsg.1-1_i386.changes docbook2x 0.8.7-1 http://debian.wgdd.de/debi

Re: RFS: docbook-xsl 1.72.0.dfsg.1-1 and docbook2x 0.8.7-1

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 27.02.2007, 23:27 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > My regular sponsor seems to be in vacation, so I ask for someone else, > > who uploads the following packa

Re: RFS: docbook-xsl 1.72.0.dfsg.1-1 and docbook2x 0.8.7-1

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 04.03.2007, 10:25 +1100 schrieb Aníbal Monsalve Salazar: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > >docbook-xsl 1.72.0.dfsg.1-1 > >http://debian.wgdd.de/debian/incoming/packages/docbook-xsl_1.72.0.dfsg.1-1_i386.changes > > Uploaded.

Where to mention, when several tarballs are merged into one .orig.tar.gz

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, For docbook-xsl I merge two tarballs together docbook-xsl-x.y.z.tar.gz and docbook-xsl-doc-x.y.z.tar.gz. Where should I mention this? debian/README.Debian or better debian/copyright? Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Where to mention, when several tarballs are merged into one .orig.tar.gz

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Sonntag, den 04.03.2007, 01:32 + schrieb Paul Cager: > Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Hello, > > > > For docbook-xsl I merge two tarballs together docbook-xsl-x.y.z.tar.gz > > and docbook-xsl-doc-x.y.z.tar.gz. Where should I mention this? > > debian/README.

Re: RFS: docbook-xsl 1.72.0.dfsg.1-1 and docbook2x 0.8.7-1

2007-03-05 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 27.02.2007, 23:27 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:01:52PM +0100, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > My regular sponsor seems to be in vacation, so I ask for someone else, > > who uploads the following packa

How to put a license (question) in preinst/debconf

2007-03-16 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, I have a package for a software, that is provided under an academic license - free for non-profit organisations and academic use, not free for profit organisations. So I want to put a debconf template into preinst, so the user MUST accept the license, before he installs the package (and of cou

Re: From local source tree to Debian package

2007-03-19 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2007, 11:32 +1100 schrieb Ben Finney: [..] > Writing a bunch of 'cp' or 'install' commands in the 'debian/rules' > file seems like drudgery and is certainly prone to error. What tools > are there to assist Debian packagers in making this task more > automated? dh_install, d

Re: From local source tree to Debian package

2007-03-20 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2007, 10:00 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: [..] > I am sometimes wondering what is the best approach for packages with no > makefiles : > > a) dh_install, IMHO the perfect tool for this approach. > b) Write a Makefile, submit it to Upstream, and ship it in the debian >

Re: manpage tools

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 28.03.2007, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: > What tools do you prefer for writing manpages (e.g. for commands that lack > one > from upstream)? DocBook XML/XSL > A DocBook XML file is modern, maintainable, can be converted to other formats > as well, and is suggested by

Re: manpage tools

2007-03-28 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Mittwoch, den 28.03.2007, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: [manpage creation] > So what other alternatives are there, not counting help2man and pod2man? I forgot: gmanedit, manedit Regards, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: manpage tools

2007-03-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 29.03.2007, 11:00 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: [docbook-xml/xsl for writing manpages] > - The copyright statements are grouped together, so it its not obvious > which one is for the manpage and which one is for the software. I opened a feature request. I think about something

Re: manpage tools

2007-03-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 29.03.2007, 20:41 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:30:02PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > > - If there are multiple upstream authors, it may look like that I am > > > part of their team as there is no clear separator. > >

Re: manpage tools

2007-03-29 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, den 29.03.2007, 20:41 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:30:02PM +0200, Daniel Leidert a écrit : > > > - If there are multiple upstream authors, it may look like that I am > > > part of their team as there is no clear separator. > >

Re: Encoding a manpage in unicode ?

2007-03-31 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 31.03.2007, 12:35 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > I wanted to encode some of the manpages I wrote in Unicode, > but although xsltproc converts them fine, nroff is not able to pipe > something correct to less, and french accents or chinese characters > are not correctly displa

.changes file over several package releases

2007-04-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hello, Some time ago (just a few weeks) I saw a .changes file, that contained entries for several package releases: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=373770;msg=21 Which "trick" is used to create such package releases, so the .changes file contains the entries for several releases

Re: .changes file over several package releases

2007-04-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Samstag, den 21.04.2007, 22:42 +0300 schrieb Kari Pahula: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:36:56PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Some time ago (just a few weeks) I saw a .changes file, that contained > > entries for several package releases: > > dpkg-buildpackage -v$VERSI

Re: Removing an obsolete symlink

2007-04-24 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 24.04.2007, 11:38 +0200 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst: > I could use some advice on how to handle the following situation. > > I adopted a web application package that used to set a symlink under > /var/www: /var/www/phpmyadmin -> /usr/share/phpmyadmin. This was not good: > we shouldn'

Re: what is the right place for pkgconfig files ?

2007-05-14 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 17:11 +0200 schrieb picca: > On my debian testing system I have .pc files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ > and /usr/share/pkgconfig/ > > Which one is the right one ? /usr/lib for pkg-config files of arch-dependent packages /usr/share for files of arch-independent packages (the

Re: what is the right place for pkgconfig files ?

2007-05-14 Thread Daniel Leidert
Damn. Please forget the other mail (hit the wrong key). I found some reference from 2003. Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 20:20 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 16:54 +0100 schrieb Neil Williams: [${datadir}/pkgconfig] > > Is this documented explicitly somewhere &

Re: what is the right place for pkgconfig files ?

2007-05-14 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Montag, den 14.05.2007, 16:54 +0100 schrieb Neil Williams: > On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:29:00 +0200 > Daniel Leidert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > /usr/lib for pkg-config files of arch-dependent packages > > /usr/share for files of arch-independent packages (these fi

uscan: Filename pattern missing version delimiters ()

2007-05-21 Thread Daniel Leidert
Hi, I wanted to add a watch file for docbook-ebnf. The related files are found at http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/ebnf/. Unfortunately the whole package only consists of the dbebnf.dtd files in the version sub-directories. So I thought, I could use something like the following for debian/wat

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