tstrap failed
> -> Aborting with an error
> pbuilder create failed
Try using DEBOOTSTRAP=debootstrap in your .pbuilderrc. [Though it
seems to be a bug in cdebootstrap; probably #448210 or similar.]
Don Armstrong
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nary) package for libcwd.
That means that any new version of libcwd will automatically make any
packages (or at least, any user-compiled packages) which use it
instabuggy.
Why not use a proper set of sonames for the library and do proper
versioning so people who want to use your library can continue usi
ll not hammer the poor control bot.
It's no big deal if people send mail improperly to control; it deals
with it fairly sanely.
Don Armstrong
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ou could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe
would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry.
-- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357
http:
y packages, but for multi-binary
packages, it's the only sane way.]
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On Sat, 08 Mar 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > That's why you generally fail your build if there are files in tmp
> > which do not get installed.
>
> In which of your packages you do so?
All of mine are simple enough not t
24 hours of sending that
request. Complaining here about it isn't going to help you much.
Don Armstrong
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world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar
stand-up comedian. Anything bu
lways be making non-native packages; the very
few times you shouldn't, you'll probably already know about when
you're making the package.
Don Armstrong
--
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole
bstantial number of install where the daemon should not be
started (like spamassassin) or where you can't possibly find a default
configuration (this latter case is rare, and you should be asking
questions using debconf to overcome it anyway.)
Don Armstrong
--
THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> I guess I need to reconsider my intention...
There are a lot of packages that could use assistance, so please keep
looking.
Don Armstrong
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-- Tussman's Law
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lawyer, writing or using obscure licenses
is not for you. [And if you're a lawyer, you probably shouldn't be
writing FOSS licenses either.]
Hopefully I'm preaching to the choir on this point, but if not, learn
from matricks.
Don Armstrong
--
There are two types of people in this
ight file by indicating which parts are GPLv2
only and which are GPLv2 or later.
[There *is* a problem with GPLv2 only and GPLv3 or later, but that's a
separate issue.]
Don Armstrong
--
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-- Aesop
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> advice and correct descriptions for non-native english speaker.
"tests VT100 compatibility" is fine. (As in "foo tests VT100
compatibilty" versus "foo can test VT100 compatibility")
Don Armstrong
--
"There are two major products that come
rself.
ITA for Intent To Adopt, actually. See
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ for details.
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ot cooler and
> lolcatter
It is "documnted" on server-control... see if you can find it.
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To UNSU
re a way to do this when submitting the bug report?
Block by (and a few other control mechanisms) aren't support at
submit@ time; it's a valid wishlist bug, and one that I'm going to be
resolving soon.
Don Armstrong
--
The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Ben Finney wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Block by (and a few other control mechanisms) aren't support at
> > submit@ time; it's a valid wishlist bug, and one that I'm going to
> > be resolving soon.
&
Ses that makes this impossible.
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massive
> disturbance in the trust. I'm utterly disappointed, and will stop at
> that point.
I can't parse this at all.
Don Armstrong
--
If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn&#
iffs which apply cleanly in some deterministic order, then
generating a final diff from the merged branch to the tree from the
applied topic diffs.[1]]
Don Armstrong
1: This would obviously be ugly in the case where you had loads of
diffs which conflicted, but I'd suspect this only occu
if it
needs to be updated. [Indeed, ideally the module itself would handle
upgrading itself if it was running an earlier version.]
Don Armstrong
--
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world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-pola
r if the api/abi doesn't change when you move to 1.2.2.
[Though frankly, plugins should be using a frozen API with an
unchanging, well thought out interface; rapidly changing APIs for
plugins is fundamentally broken.]
Don Armstrong
--
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and inv
complex,
pollutes the namespace, and can cause confusion in various different
places.]
Don Armstrong
--
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exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves
only the unanimity of the graveyard.
-- Justice Robe
propriate -v option,
and you're done. Moreover, a new revision makes it easier for everyone
to follow what had changed between a version which was reviewed by the
ftpmasters and the next version that was uploaded.
There's nothing magical about the -1 version number.
Don Armstrong
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, markus schnalke wrote:
> When I configured pbuilder some time ago, I couldn't manage to use
> different locations than /var/cache/pbuilder when using
> cowdancer/cowbuilder with it.
You set BASEPATH instead of BASETGZ (or use --basepath instead of
--basetgz).
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (30/07/2008):
> > There's no reason not to increment the version. You've made a
> > release, and have made changes to that release. Whether it
> > actually hits the archive i
ly correlate with versions that are actually in the
archive.
> Ah, did I forgot to remember that "Our priorities are our users and
> free software"?
Obviously, which is why you should do what I suggested.
You shouldn't treat changelogs of packages which happen to stop off at
NEW any
;s not like this is particularly complicated stuff.]
> mh, so the latest changelog entry should report why the previous
> upload was REJECTED, and what was done to fix it.
Ideally, what was done to fix it is enough, because that'd tell you
why it was rejected.
Don Armstrong
--
As n
www-data foo; stat -c %u foo; rm foo'
1000
33
Don Armstrong
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attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle
had raised the ante on the
sfy your desired goal, because the metadata in the
packages will most likely differ, and libapt will install the new
package anyway.
The right way to solve this problem is to split the -doc packages out.
Don Armstrong
--
"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
For those who
#x27;re not in debian. Will that mean that it can't enter
> in main but contrib?
Suggests: don't have to be satisfiable in main, though in general they
should be satisfiable somewhere. [That is, if no one has packaged
wlandecrypter and mdk3 for Debian anywhere, there's not m
2.2.1.
> Ok, so if that software is only suggest and no dependecy, its all
> ok.
Right, but there's not much point in a Suggests: that can't be
satisfied.
Don Armstrong
--
Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their
faces, and that would be a pigeon who has
tures that this package can build successfully on) I'd suggest
talking to the powerpc porters (and other arch porters) for
assistance.
Don Armstrong
--
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won't rise again.
-- http://www.questionablecontent.net/v
rrectly; thus there's no real advantage for
Debian to use pkg-config if upstream isn't already using it.
Don Armstrong
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freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
values more, it will lose that, too
at the same time.
Why not just something like:
0 0 * * * at now + $(( $RANDOM \% 1440 )) minutes [...]
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Don Armstrong said:
> > On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > I'd like to create a cron entry which is run once a day, at some
> > > random time. This is necessary because the c
secure. [Of course, I haven't
audited at myself; but I do find it useful...]
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I
love
you
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0.1 is a sequence of the integers [0, 1]. Version 0.05 is the
> > sequence of integers [0, 05].
>
> I could solve this with an epoch number in the versions field.
Or you could just say that the version is 0.10-1; which is what
apparently upstream means anyway.
Don Armstrong
--
I
rposes that are "owned" by a user, and to solve
> these problems consistently across a wide variety of platforms.
Just a brief question; how does this module differ from libuser-perl
which is already present in Debian and does the above for at least the
current user.
Don Armstrong
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On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, Jonas Genannt wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > Just a brief question; how does this module differ from libuser-perl
> > which is already present in Debian and does the above for at least the
> > current user.
> It's needed by App::Cache Module.
&g
you're upgrading
from a version after this transition; if that's the case, you
shouldn't rename/delete either.
Don Armstrong
--
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course,
completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death
for free.
-
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just a word of caution here: If the administrator has modified the
> > file, you should not rename or move it, as they may know better
> > than you what they're doing. A
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to know if the file
> > will no longer be read at all; you can't assume that the administrator
> > has left in place yo
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> >> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Right. The problem is that it's not always easy to kn
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You've now got a conffile in a location which is not /etc, namely
> > /var/lib/bla, which cannot be overridden by the administrator.
>
> No, I don't. The program reads it
On Wed, 08 Feb 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The configuration file is the file from which the configuration is
> > read, that is, the file in /var/lib/blah which isn't in /etc.
[...]
> > 1: In the sense that they can&#
uot;GPL
> version 2 or later", that is usually understood as "the latest
> version of the GPL" (although of course the user may choose to use
> an earlier version, as long as it's at least version 2).
Yes, that's what you should do. In the instant case, because the
ack in December of 2005. Are any sponsors who missed the
> original interested?
> The ITP is #341915 and the package is at
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/greasemonkey/
I actually was looking at this earlier, so I'm interested in
sponsoring it... I'll take a look a
On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, Michael Spang wrote:
> > Michael Spang wrote:
> >
> > > Package name: firefox-greasemonkey
> > > Version : 0.6.4
> > > Upstream Author : Aaron Boodman
> > > URL
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Michael Spang wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> >1) You're just providing the xpi file instead of building it from
> >the individual source packages which are present in the upstream
> >source.
>
> As far as I can see, releases are distributed o
s that
only change the packaging information; each version is a new upstream
revision. [You can think of them (somewhat imprecisely, but whatever)
as non-native packages with a null diff.gz if that helps...]
Don Armstrong
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som
and then actually add
the patch itself. Save everyone's sanity, and actually distribute the
real upstream source in the orig.tar.gz, not the "binary" package that
upstream distributes.[1]
See Michael Spang's work on greasemonkey for an example on how to do
this.
Don Armstrong
phers
> sha1sum: extraparanoiccyphers
That's not useful; far better to look at the original .dsc. Finally,
changing it automatically will just end up with it being the same as
the orig.tar.gz put in the .dsc... the copyright file isn't designed
to have that information in it in the first place.
Don
On Mon, 01 May 2006, George Danchev wrote:
> On Monday 01 May 2006 22:05, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Mon, 01 May 2006, George Danchev wrote:
> > > 1) Since debian/copyright already contains the upstream URL I would
> > > add also the hashes against it in a machine parsa
ust as you would for any other
NMU.
Since you're responsible for the NMU anyway, there's really no
sponsoring going on; you're just using a pre-existing patch as the
basis of your NMU.
Don Armstrong
--
Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of
entheogens; it
page: link is useful or not; they should be fully capable of
making this decision.
As far as keeping a repository of package names and their upstream
locations with screenshots, that's really something that freshmeat is
good at, not something that packages.debian.org does well currently.
Don A
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Eddy Petrişor wrote:
> On 6/15/06, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >if someone wanting to NMU is incapable of examining the copyright
> >file to find the location of upstream, they shouldn't be making an
> >NMU.
>
> That is a
ble if they've been deployed elsewhere for testing
first.]
So long as the version inflation isn't gratuitous, having multiple
revisions is no big deal.
Don Armstrong
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IE, generic and expensive.
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h
ase
file a wishlist bug against debbugs with suggestions on how this would
work.]
> Or should I subscribe to bug 987654 to get the notification?
Since you've submitted #987654, you'll know about its closure;
whether you subscribe to it or not is up to you.
Don Armstrong
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o longer see them unless you specify
archive=yes.
Don Armstrong
1: Basically this requires rewriting the test to see whether or not a
bug should be archived.
--
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counter does
27;re good to go. Just make sure you
include the messages in debian/copyright if the new license differs
from what the actual source files say.
Don Armstrong
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Experience of the Past Million Years?
A: Nothing.
-- Bokonon _The F
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 15/10/06, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >but so long as they've sent some sort
> >of message which obviously originated from the copyright holder
> >(signed, or something else)
>
> "
If an upload to checkinstall was required to fix these bugs, then you
should mark them fixed in the appropriate version. Otherwise, you
should reassign them to installwatch, and mark them found in the
appropriate installwatch version.
Don Armstrong
--
I don't care how poor and inefficient
ess ones should be fixed, but needed ones are definetly not a
bug.
> Get one of the packages to Recommend: the other? Downgrade and
> wontfix the bug report (#386685) with a link to the thread on
> -devel? Close it?
Either downgrade and wontfix, or close it. Your choice.
Don Armstr
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006, Prasad Ramamurthy Kadambi wrote:
> On 11/3/06, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >There isn't such a rule. Broken circular dependencies are wrong,
> >and needless ones should be fixed, but needed ones are definetly
> >not a bug.
>
affect the packages you have installed.
Don Armstrong
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time you're unsure about this, you should check:
$ dpkg --compare-versions 2.1~svn-r91 '<<' 2.1~svn-r115 && echo 1
1
Don Armstrong
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-- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242
http://ww
arge.
[You should of course *build* it at least once with 5 because of the
changes to dh_install, but it's not necessary otherwise.]
man 7 debhelper for complete details.
Don Armstrong
--
You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
just close enough to wa
package
itself as opposed to being created with a postinst script, then just
don't include it anymore, and warn once that it's been removed.]
Don Armstrong
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The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one
day that scientific statements do not call for any f
> It then complains the following:
>
> /usr/include/tcl8.4/tk.h:68:20: error: tcl.h: No such file or directory
>
> The reason is that /usr/include/tcl8.4/tk.h contains #include
> instead of . Is it a bug?
No; you need to pass the appropriate -I option to gcc; in this case it
woul
rsion numbers like 1.2-1+1
for your upload, unless you meant 1.2-2.
That said, you should be subscribed to the PTS for the package, and
should make an upload as soon as there is something to fix, even if
it's minor.
You probably should also occasionally email the ITA indicating that
you'
ng in 2) applies and there is something
that needs to be done to package A to fix the bug.
Just to reiterate, the only time you should assign a bug to multiple
packages at the same time (#2) is if the bug can be completely fixed
by fixing the bug in one of the packages.
Don Armstrong
(with the [
one to the library and
> > > > making the "original" bug be blocked by the clone?
> > >
> > > Sadly, the block stuff doesn't even notify the blocked bug when the
> > > blocker bug is closed...
> >
> > This is #323663, I guess.
>
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:04:16AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > Doesn't that fuck up versioning tracking of the BTS ?
> >
> > No, because the bug should only be found in B, not A.
>
> So how would it help users wi
and
would not be averse to having all of it relicensed.
Don Armstrong
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rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
these defects".
-- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_
http://www.don
;
$m->content() =~ m#"(/spool/download/[^"]+)#;
print $1,qq(\n)'
Don Armstrong
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running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to
repetitive music.
http://www.donarmstron
sn't indicate.)
Make sure you include a Version: pseudoheader. [See your other bugs
which have been recently closed by uploads for an example.]
Don Armstrong (with the owner@ hat on the rack)
--
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
rest do not happen at a
gt; again on the New Maintainer's Page as well.
This is actually not an error; people whose accounts have been created
more than 6 months ago are on the "New Maintainers" page instead of
the "Applicants" page.
Don Armstrong
--
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
-- Aesop
h
ge. If no response is forthcoming, then someone may
be willing to sponsor it or incoroporate it into the Debian perl
project.
But regardless, the first step is to actually send mail to Jose and
the ITP; only then can hijacking be contemplated.
Don Armstrong
--
Certainly the game is rigged. Don't
this case, to
build with -v0.2.0 -sa (man dpkg-buildpackage; for details.)
Don Armstrong
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Are you building against Debian distributed libraries or internal
copies?
* Are there potential security issues? (Daemons, tempfile
vulnerabilities, setuid binaries?)
Don Armstrong
--
[A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
class of its potential falsifi
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:48:16 -0700
> Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Considering some of the question marks that have come up regarding
> > sponsored packages, I thought I'd create a little checklist base
w much time and effort
it's going to take to help the maintainer keep the package in a state
that's appropriate for Debian, and only sponsor packages where they
can actually expend that time and effort.
Don Armstrong
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Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't v
ect the file search and/or orphaned package plugins to work?
You get to make a judgement one way or the other; if a significant
population of your users complain that the Recommends: isn't necessary
(or vice versa, that they expected the functionality not present
because you made it a Suggests:)
27;s true that those sorts of things should not generally be
present in an NMU, those issues should have been caught before it was
uploaded in the first place; reminding Loïc of this politely would be
appropriate. Responding in this manner is not.
Don Armstrong
--
Junkies were all knitted
or more depends on
which camp you belong to; FWICT modern usage is tending towards using
it.]
Don Armstrong
--
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot
possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> Le 16 août 07 à 18:52, Don Armstrong a écrit :
>> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote:
>>> Depending on context, yes. In a list where all items are the same
>>> level, a comma before 'and' is poor gramm
e distributing whatever is built from the sfd (ttf
or whatever) in the tarball and not the sfd? [One would hope that
they'd at least be distributing some form of this font.]
Don Armstrong
--
CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US
forces have swooped on an Iraqi
jected it?
Why even bother with this?
Surely
find /path -type f -print0|xargs -0 md5sum > foo.md5sum;
is far superior to any recursion options that md5sum could possibly
come up with.
Don Armstrong
--
why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
It... Doesn't?
we already
distribute can't be used, it's hard for us to give you a definitive
answer.
Don Armstrong
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freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
values more, it will lose that, too
close both. Just close whichever one you feel
like closing and the other will be closed as well.
Don Armstrong
--
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class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
-- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
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g it out. If it's less than
200K, or an insignificant portion of the non-doc package, there's
generally little point.
Most of the time it's pretty obvious. If it's not, err on the side of
not making an extra package, but make one if your users file a bug.
Don Armstrong
--
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ore an upload to DELAYED/5 was even done
(which satisfies 5.11.1 even if for some reason the DELAYED queue is
seen not to) whose maintainer still hasn't responded.
Don Armstrong
--
Identical parts aren't.
-- Beach's Law
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ories exist)
put the script in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly,hourly}. If it needs
to be run more often, then stick a crontab entry in /etc/cron.d.
man cron; and see /etc/crontab; for details.
Don Armstrong
1: Well, ignoring packages like cron and anacrontab, anyway.
--
It has always been Debia
he upstream
> SVN uses.
In general, unless there's a specific reason to do so, you're better
off keeping the same name for the source and the binary. [It's really
to avoid the massively confusing case where source package A builds
binary B and source package B builds binary A.]
Don
y, but I personally hate it. Why on earth
> would you want to have a package NOT to work if you install it? This is
> insane...
Because there are some times when a package works just fine without a
daemon running.
As a trivial example, see spamassassin.
That said, unless you have a really g
distribute in a manner appropriate for
distribution by Debian mirrors. [It's definetly ok to go in contrib,
regardless.]
It'd probably be ideal to get a cc65 compatibility mode for xa65, but
that's almost definetly more work than xa65 people are probably
willing to do.
Don Armstrong
The requirements for a psuedopackage in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544192#10 coupled
with a bug report against bugs.debian.org asking for the creation of
the psuedopackage.
3) DSA gives a final OK on creating the mentors.debian.org name with a
redirect to that subpage.
Don Ar
.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages for an example.
Don Armstrong
--
If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't
have one either?
-- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13
pened to me).
>
> Is it a bad idea to modify BTS or reportbug to automatically subscribe
> submitter in this case?
No, that's actually what needs to happen; I've been procrastinating on
it primarily because it looks like doing it will require writing a
mailing list manager.
Do
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Arno Töll wrote:
> >> Hence, please add a "sponsorship-requests" pseudo-package with
> >> debian-mentors@lists.debian.org as a
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