Lintain changelog-file-not-compressed error: how can I fix this?

2003-02-12 Thread David Grant
Hi, I'm getting this Lintain error for my package called "gav": E: gav: changelog-file-not-compressed CHANGELOG CHANGELOG is the upstream changelog for the source package and it is in the package source root directory. I have it listed in my debian/docs file along with the upstream README fil

How to install images without getting executable-not-elf-or-scripterror?

2003-02-12 Thread David Grant
Hi everyone, I have a simple package with one binary and a bunch of images should go into "/usr/share/games/gav/themes/classic" I basically modified the upstream Makefile, and changed the install target to look as follows: install: all install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/gam

Re: Lintain changelog-file-not-compressed error: how can I fix this?

2003-02-12 Thread David Grant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:37, David Grant wrote: Hi, I'm getting this Lintain error for my package called "gav": E: gav: changelog-file-not-compressed CHANGELOG CHANGELOG is the upstream changelog for the source package and it

Looking for sponsor for small volleyball game

2003-02-13 Thread David Grant
Hi, I just packaged a small game, called GAV (GNU Arcade Volleyball). The homepage is http://gav.sourceforge.net Here's a screenshot: http://gav.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php?enlarge=beos_1 It's a remake of some old DOS game apparently (although I thought I played this on Atari a long time

Re: Looking for sponsor for small volleyball game

2003-02-14 Thread David Grant
Oohara Yuuma wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:12:39 -0500, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just packaged a small game, called GAV (GNU Arcade Volleyball). Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> packaged gav and filed an ITP on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:52:24 -0500. See #180935.

Re: Looking for sponsor for small volleyball game

2003-02-14 Thread David Grant
Oohara Yuuma wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:12:39 -0500, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just packaged a small game, called GAV (GNU Arcade Volleyball). Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> packaged gav and filed an ITP on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:52:24 -0500. See #180935.

manpages to different packages

2003-02-18 Thread David Grant
Hi, I am the maintainer for the camserv and camserv-relay package (and my sponsor is Barak Pearlmutter). They are both built in the same tree however. But each has its own files in the debian directory such as camserv.files and camserv-relay.files, and camserv.docs and camserv-relay.docs. I

Re: manpages to different packages

2003-02-18 Thread David Grant
David Grant wrote: Hi, I am the maintainer for the camserv and camserv-relay package (and my sponsor is Barak Pearlmutter). They are both built in the same tree however. But each has its own files in the debian directory such as camserv.files and camserv-relay.files, and camserv.docs and

Re: manpages to different packages

2003-02-18 Thread David Grant
David Grant wrote: I have looked at the manpage of dh_installman as well as debhelper, and I thought this might work: dh_installman -pcamserv debian/camserv.1 dh_installman -pcamserv-relay debian/camserv-relay.1 That didn't work, so then I also tried this: dh_installman -pcamserv -Xca

question about package with binary and library

2003-02-19 Thread David Grant
Hi, I want to package mozplugger, which is a new version of plugger (some of you may have heard of it). It creates one binary and one library (which is a *.so netscape plugin file). So does this require two packages? And when I run dh_make, should I choose single binary, multiple binary, or

RFS (Request for Sponsor) for mozplugger

2003-02-19 Thread David Grant
Hi, I'm a debian-developer wannabe looking for a sponsor for a mozplugger package I have created. mozplugger package for i386 is available here: http://room315.dyndns.org:8080/~david/packages It's a remake of this program available here: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html It uses external

Re: plugger

2003-02-20 Thread David Grant
To mentors, I'd like to see mozplugger get into debian. Bastian (see below) the only one of us three who is a developer. Bastian, maybe you'd like to upload yours? If no, it would be cool if someone could please sponsor either Bernard or myself's package? My mozplugger package is available

Re: plugger

2003-02-20 Thread David Grant
Bernard Blackham wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:16:31PM -0500, David Grant wrote: To mentors, I'd like to see mozplugger get into debian. Bastian (see below) the only one of us three who is a developer. Bastian, maybe you'd like to upload yours? If no, it would be cool

Re: Kopete Now Listening Plugin

2003-02-22 Thread David Grant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Saturday 22 February 2003 08:00, Graham Wilson wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:28:32AM +0100, Till Gerken wrote: These are the options Sean Perry (my sponsor) and I have come up with: - remove xmms from the dependency list and move it to suggests (which is

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread David Grant
Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, ... I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims that : $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf And effectively, if i open the .deb, i

Re: A new package which I would like to add to Debian

2003-02-25 Thread David Grant
Kevin J. Kalupson wrote: There is a biology/bio-informatics package which I would like to add to debian. I have easily installed this package under woody and would like to know what steps I should take to turn this piece of software into a deb. My first question is "Am I writing to the correct

Lintain changelog-file-not-compressed error: how can I fix this?

2003-02-12 Thread David Grant
Hi, I'm getting this Lintain error for my package called "gav": E: gav: changelog-file-not-compressed CHANGELOG CHANGELOG is the upstream changelog for the source package and it is in the package source root directory. I have it listed in my debian/docs file along with the upstream README fi

How to install images without getting executable-not-elf-or-script error?

2003-02-12 Thread David Grant
Hi everyone, I have a simple package with one binary and a bunch of images should go into "/usr/share/games/gav/themes/classic" I basically modified the upstream Makefile, and changed the install target to look as follows: install: all install -d $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/

Re: Lintain changelog-file-not-compressed error: how can I fix this?

2003-02-12 Thread David Grant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:37, David Grant wrote: Hi, I'm getting this Lintain error for my package called "gav": E: gav: changelog-file-not-compressed CHANGELOG CHANGELOG is the upstream changelog for the source package and it

Looking for sponsor for small volleyball game

2003-02-13 Thread David Grant
Hi, I just packaged a small game, called GAV (GNU Arcade Volleyball). The homepage is http://gav.sourceforge.net Here's a screenshot: http://gav.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php?enlarge=beos_1 It's a remake of some old DOS game apparently (although I thought I played this on Atari a long tim

Re: Looking for sponsor for small volleyball game

2003-02-14 Thread David Grant
Oohara Yuuma wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:12:39 -0500, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just packaged a small game, called GAV (GNU Arcade Volleyball). Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> packaged gav and filed an ITP on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:52:24 -0500. See #180

Re: Looking for sponsor for small volleyball game

2003-02-14 Thread David Grant
Oohara Yuuma wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:12:39 -0500, David Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just packaged a small game, called GAV (GNU Arcade Volleyball). Ari Pollak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> packaged gav and filed an ITP on Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:52:24 -0500. See #180935.

manpages to different packages

2003-02-18 Thread David Grant
Hi, I am the maintainer for the camserv and camserv-relay package (and my sponsor is Barak Pearlmutter). They are both built in the same tree however. But each has its own files in the debian directory such as camserv.files and camserv-relay.files, and camserv.docs and camserv-relay.docs.

Re: manpages to different packages

2003-02-18 Thread David Grant
David Grant wrote: Hi, I am the maintainer for the camserv and camserv-relay package (and my sponsor is Barak Pearlmutter). They are both built in the same tree however. But each has its own files in the debian directory such as camserv.files and camserv-relay.files, and camserv.docs and

Re: manpages to different packages

2003-02-18 Thread David Grant
David Grant wrote: I have looked at the manpage of dh_installman as well as debhelper, and I thought this might work: dh_installman -pcamserv debian/camserv.1 dh_installman -pcamserv-relay debian/camserv-relay.1 That didn't work, so then I also tried this: dh_installman -pca

question about package with binary and library

2003-02-19 Thread David Grant
Hi, I want to package mozplugger, which is a new version of plugger (some of you may have heard of it). It creates one binary and one library (which is a *.so netscape plugin file). So does this require two packages? And when I run dh_make, should I choose single binary, multiple binary, o

RFS (Request for Sponsor) for mozplugger

2003-02-20 Thread David Grant
Hi, I'm a debian-developer wannabe looking for a sponsor for a mozplugger package I have created. mozplugger package for i386 is available here: http://room315.dyndns.org:8080/~david/packages It's a remake of this program available here: http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html It uses exter

Re: plugger

2003-02-20 Thread David Grant
To mentors, I'd like to see mozplugger get into debian. Bastian (see below) the only one of us three who is a developer. Bastian, maybe you'd like to upload yours? If no, it would be cool if someone could please sponsor either Bernard or myself's package? My mozplugger package is availabl

Re: plugger

2003-02-20 Thread David Grant
Bernard Blackham wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:16:31PM -0500, David Grant wrote: To mentors, I'd like to see mozplugger get into debian. Bastian (see below) the only one of us three who is a developer. Bastian, maybe you'd like to upload yours? If no, it would be cool

Re: Kopete Now Listening Plugin

2003-02-22 Thread David Grant
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Saturday 22 February 2003 08:00, Graham Wilson wrote: On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:28:32AM +0100, Till Gerken wrote: These are the options Sean Perry (my sponsor) and I have come up with: - remove xmms from the dependency list and move it to suggests (which

Re: duplicate-conffile error ???

2003-02-25 Thread David Grant
Jérôme Marant wrote: Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hello, ... I am preparing a new version of one of my packages, and lintian claims that : $ lintian ocaml-base-3.06-1_3.06-16_i386.deb E: ocaml-base-3.06-1: duplicate-conffile /etc/ocaml/ld.conf And effectively, if i open the .d

Re: A new package which I would like to add to Debian

2003-02-26 Thread David Grant
Kevin J. Kalupson wrote: There is a biology/bio-informatics package which I would like to add to debian. I have easily installed this package under woody and would like to know what steps I should take to turn this piece of software into a deb. My first question is "Am I writing to the correct