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

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
rsion available from http://www.xevil.com/download/stable/xevilsrc2.02r2.zip -- Downloading updated package xevilsrc2.02r2.zip -- Successfully downloaded updated package xevilsrc2.02r2.zip -- Scan finished Cheers, Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

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

2008-09-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
script the grabbing of the file, which debian/watch of course does not support. Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Determining native or non-native package inside pbuilder

2008-09-07 Thread Daniel Moerner
bzr-builddeb. However, these are only wrappers around dpkg-buildpackage, and tell it where to look for the source. -- Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Please review my first debian-package.

2008-09-20 Thread Daniel Moerner
ned out the cruft from dh_make. For instance, you have an extra (s) in the copyright file, README.Debian is just a template, etc. Cheers, -- Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: To maintaining a package....

2008-09-23 Thread Daniel Moerner
now who is my mentor? > > Thank you. You might want to try also reading the debian-mentors FAQ: http://newpeople.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html It has general information, along with links to packaging guides. Daniel Moerner signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: airoscript

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Moerner
cdbs to handle such packaging, see e.g. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/PackagingWithoutCompiling. Cheers, Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help wanted

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Moerner
lways, you can feel free to ask on the mailing list. -- Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: airoscript

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Moerner
lls from debhelper 7 to simplify >> debian/rules. man 1 dh for more information. Some also use cdbs to >> handle such packaging, see e.g. >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/School/PackagingWithoutCompiling. > I'm not sure if that's ok. I mean, i don't like it... Makes sense--whatever works for you. It was just a suggestion. -- Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: airoscript

2008-10-09 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Moerner wrote: > >> Incidentally, this makefile seems to >> have some problems with it (it has an empty clean: target, and no >> .PHONY even though some rules don't create files

Re: RFS: lyricue

2008-10-10 Thread Daniel Moerner
ally, any reason you are using a build: target with a touch build at the end? Most of the time packages I see have build: listed as phony and then call build-stamp, which will touch itself. These are of course minor issues with the package. Cheers, Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-19 Thread Daniel Moerner
t in both debian/ and the root directory of the tarball. You should always check the .diff.gz to see if extra cruft has somehow gotten into the package (this was probably just the result of a mistyped cp command--this error is not in the current version of fig2sxd in the Debian archive). Cheers, Dani

Re: RFS: jigzo

2008-10-25 Thread Daniel Moerner
sions/libGL.so.1.2 dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 (used by debian/jigzo/usr/games/jigzo). dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2 C

Re: RFS: fig2sxd

2008-10-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
tory: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > contrib non-free > dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fig2sxd/fig2sxd_0.20-1.dsc Doesn't look like it uploaded to me. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 2008-10-26 13:55:55 ERROR 404: Not Foun

Re: A bunch of questions: buildd, chm, build dependencies, software patent issue

2008-10-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
in my experience. You could also consider just shipping the package with a Suggests on archmage or some other group of CHM readers, but it would probably be simpler to just ship the HTML. -- Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: RFS: libalberta2 -- adaptive finite element library

2008-10-27 Thread Daniel Moerner
AIL PROTECTED]:~/Work/mentor/libalberta2-2.0.1$ cat debian/dirs usr/bin usr/sbin Cheers, -- Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: codeigniter

2008-10-29 Thread Daniel Moerner
the files (or directories) to install should be given relative to the current directory, while the installation directory is given relative to the package build directory." Cheers, Daniel Moerner [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-dother.en.html#s-dirs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: RFS: cppcheck (3rd attempt)

2008-11-05 Thread Daniel Moerner
rkflows that you can use to manage Debian packaging with VCS systems (some use bzr loom to only maintain the debian/ directory in a single branch, for instance). Just find one that works for you. I use git because git-buildpackage is full-featured and because of git's extensive branching suppo

Re: RFS: aoeui (updated package)

2008-11-17 Thread Daniel Moerner
ui/aoeui.txt -rw-r--r-- root/root 4790 2008-11-17 16:40 ./usr/share/aoeui/notes.txt -rw-r--r-- root/root 4773 2008-10-04 11:16 ./usr/share/doc/aoeui/aoeui.txt.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 2569 2008-10-04 11:16 ./usr/share/doc/aoeui/notes.txt.gz Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner <[EM

Re: Please ignore the tslib upload

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Moerner
ssue if m.d.n should reject packages with ubuntu in their version strings. Daniel -- Daniel Moerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: nast (adopting package, fixing important bug)

2008-12-10 Thread Daniel Moerner
believe that this is because you were copying them over in the configure target, so they would only show up in the .diff.gz generated by a binary build, not a source-only build like you probably did for mentors. Just an FYI, since you now remove them in the clean target this shouldn't happen a

Re: RFS: sqldeveloper-package

2009-02-03 Thread Daniel Moerner
This shows up in lintian: W: sqldeveloper-package source: dh-clean-k-is-deprecated I: sqldeveloper-package: copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright For such a simple package, you might want to use dh calls in debian/rules (man dh). Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: RFS: nedit (updated package)

2009-02-11 Thread Daniel Moerner
c, which is problematic because make clean doesn't remove the renamed binary. Incidentally, it would be trivially to fix the pedantic warning in lintian: P: nedit: copyright-refers-to-symlink-license usr/share/common-licenses/GPL Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: preinst script: warning that downgrading isn't supported.

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
ng/trunk/src/insserv/debian/insserv.templates?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: mupen64plus

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
n out all the *.ex and *.EX files that are left over from dh-make. Be sure to familiarize yourself with: http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: mupen64plus

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Moerner
n who is expected to close it with an upload of the package. Most people would see it as a hijack if you ask for a sponsor when you don't own the ITP. This is nothing to take offense about--just something you learn along the way. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: How do I transfer ownership of a package?

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Moerner
how do I transfer ownership of the ITP to > Jérémy Lal? He just needs to send an email to cont...@bugs.debian.org with these contents: owner 478741 ! thanks Or you can do it, and replace the exclamation mark with his information. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#owner Cheers, Daniel -- Dan

Re: scons /rules

2009-03-07 Thread Daniel Moerner
applies in a few cases though, and getting upstream to fix this is far better than implementing this kind of clean target. Just use "man" to discover the differences between the dh_* commands, and be sure to remove any that you don't need (don't just comment them out). Rega

Re: RFS: qelectrotech

2009-03-08 Thread Daniel Moerner
name and email of upstream] > > > * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] > * License : [fill in] > Section : x11 Please do fill in these headers, as they give some useful background on the package that don't require digging through the diff.

Re: Nested makefile

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying build package where makefile is nested in subdirectory and > dh_make complain to it. > What is right way to solve it? Do you mean beyond make's own support for this? $(MAKE) -C dir/ Daniel

Re: Nested makefile

2009-03-09 Thread Daniel Moerner
rules;h=cb4e6715fe8afd63b07beb8a93b5e6835311b365;hb=HEAD although this example uses debhelper 7, which may not be what you want. Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: debian/rules

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel Moerner
h binary install configure > > # > That is the correct approach, as far as I know. Be aware that you should remove the commented "dh_*" commands prior to attempting to upload the package or getting a sponsor, see the minor issues section of http://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: quilt

2009-03-16 Thread Daniel Moerner
quot;quilt" to use nano like a editor ... I am not > familiar with vim ? :( > Set nano like default editor? > If you use the above method, you will use your own editor to make patches. As quilt's manpage reveals, quilt looks to $EDITOR to see which editor to use. Set that in .ba

Re: Outdated link

2009-03-23 Thread Daniel Moerner
ion in the /usr/share/doc/menu/menu.txt.gz file. I would recommend checking /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE before posting here. -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Use *.dsc files from opensuse to package?

2009-03-29 Thread Daniel Moerner
re are patches upstream hasn't applied, etc. > > Or is it better to use just upstream source? You should always build with pristine upstream source code. I think you meant to ask something else here. Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@

Re: How to get rid of dir-or-file-in-var-run?

2009-05-23 Thread Daniel Moerner
debian-devel: http://www.nabble.com/Why-do-we-have-to-support-tmpfs-for--var-run-(policy-changes-in-3.8.1)-td22876947.html I'm not sure if a proper resolution was found though. Regards, Daniel Moerner -- Daniel Moerner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Confused by .dirs, .install etc

2009-05-24 Thread Daniel Moerner
ow GNU make works with regard to PHONY targets and the like before you jump into using autotools or cmake in my opinion. In any case, the reason to not use obfuscators here is because they don't solve the problem: they won't know what to install any more than a manual call to dh_install.

Re: First steps

2009-05-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
eaning you might want to start with something simpler. Then again, challenges are fun. Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: febootstrap

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Moerner
Fedora Core to Fedora renaming. Febootstrap also seems to have more features. Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: trouble with packaging

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Moerner
share/man/man1/ > -rw-r--r-- root/root     44350 2009-06-01 16:54 > ./usr/share/man/man1/monit.1.gz Looks to me like make install might not even be running--this stuff could have been installed by dh_* commands. > > I feel like I'm missing something in debian/rules but I've tweaked

Re: ITR: febootstrap

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Moerner
lls and perform build (debuild / pbuilder) > automagically without messing up your branch. > You can check out http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/git.html for a description of a workflow like this, it's my personal choice. -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: trouble with packaging

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
lly if you set prefix when you call ./configure you just want to set DESTDIR when invoking make install: $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/monit Daniel -- Daniel Moerner signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: trouble with packaging

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel Moerner
you want to install the package into a local location, this being debian/program_name for modern packages, debian/tmp for some legacy (I think its debhelper compatability level 4 or earlier but I may be totally off here) Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: PapaFactory

2009-06-05 Thread Daniel Moerner
ase file a formal RFP then: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ This list is not the place for this. Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: kabikaboo (lintian)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel Moerner
n package. If you "reportbug wnpp" it will guide you through the steps pretty well, this is also documented at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: partlibrary (QA Upload)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel Moerner
ike a perfect candidate for a QA upload. Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: libsystemu-ruby

2009-07-17 Thread Daniel Moerner
and it provides an easy integration with their svn. Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: gtk2-engines-aurora (2nd try)

2009-07-25 Thread Daniel Moerner
/debian-watch-file-is-missing.html Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: dojo

2009-09-05 Thread Daniel Moerner
On 09/05/2009 03:02 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: > cool, > here are a few notes : > - add to debian/control#libjs-dojo-core description : This package > contains the core Dojo project. > - is the dojo/build.txt file needed by dojo ? if not, don't install it > - add a README.Debian to dojox (although i don

Re: RFS: cvc3

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Moerner
Hi, Very interesting package; I was considering packaging it myself over the holiday season but it looks like you beat me to it! On 12/09/2009 11:57 AM, Christopher L Conway wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cvc3". Please CC: me in any reply. > > * Package na

Re: RFS: cvc3

2009-12-10 Thread Daniel Moerner
On 12/09/2009 11:33 PM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > Daniel, Christopher, > >> Hi, >> >> Very interesting package; I was considering packaging it myself over the >> holiday season but it looks like you beat me to it! >> >> On 12/09/2009 11:57 AM, Christopher L Conway wrote: >>> Dear mentors, >>> >>

Re: Renaming config files

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Moerner
less than ideal. http://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling Regards, Daniel -- Daniel Moerner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/845514791