Re: README.source for dpatch

2008-08-19 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Jörg Sommer wrote: Hi, the new policy version 3.8.0 recommends a README.source that describes how to use the patch system. I'm using dpatch and I thought the dpatch maintainer publish a README.source with their package. But it didn't happen until now. Does anyone who uses dpatch has writte

Re: Processing (#433270), no upstream tarball, other questions

2008-12-07 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Three, and here my Java ignorance begins to show, I see that the upstream source also includes some .jar for which I am not sure I can find the corresponding source. How can I gather more

Re: Best practice for Java?

2005-07-23 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, here some answers, if you have some more questions, the debian-java@lists.debian.org mailing list might be a better place, especially if you plan to make your application with a free alternative of Java (i.e. not Sun's and not Blackdown's). Jarle Aase wrote: Hi, I'm about to make a lit

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello Bart, is there some kind of agreement between Debian and Ubuntu concerning the distribution part of the version? I ask this because you seem to assume that: X.Y.Z-K (Debian) << X.Y.Z-L (Ubuntu) X.Y.Z-K (Debian) << X.Y.Z-KubuntuA (Ubuntu) (also dfsg stuff doesn't s

Re: .deb issue

2007-08-04 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, actually, you're supposed to use dh_installmenu (or cdbs) in your rules file, and not add yourself the update-menu commands into the postinst/rm files. I _guess_ that the menu file isn't installed at all and that something else takes care of adding the menu point into the Gnome menu. What I

Re: RFS: groovy

2007-10-21 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello Glen, please take care that groovy is already packaged for Debian (version 0.1.0beta10-3), though it's more or less orphaned. I looked into packaging a more recent version, but: - the current package is pretty ugly (many binaries in it) - cleaning it up would mean adding many packages in

Re: service helper package

2007-11-26 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, Thomas Goirand wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: # Check whether we were configured to not start the services. check_for_no_start() { if [ "$SERVICE_DISABLED" = "yes" ]; then This is such a broken behavior. Initscripts are enabled and disabled in the configuration of the init system. That's

Re: wwwoffle

2012-06-11 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Enrico, your best start is probably http://www.debian.org/devel/ and especially the New Maintainers' Guide (at least, that's how I started). Good luck, Eric On 12/06/12 06:23, Bart Martens wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 03:12:46AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, I've seen wwwof

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 15/07/12 20:08, Daniel Martí wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 06:04:25PM +, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:51:46AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? No idea. Probably not. As far as

How to properly register a program in KDE/GNOME

2009-11-20 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, I'm trying to get FreeMind files to be properly opened with FreeMind within KDE/GNOME (and probably other freedesktop compatible desktops), e.g. click in Konqueror on a FreeMind file (shown with the FreeMind icon) and FreeMind is opened with the file. I'm quite at the end of my knowle

Re: How to properly register a program in KDE/GNOME

2009-11-22 Thread Eric Lavarde
, no need to copy me. Daniel Leidert wrote: Am Samstag, den 21.11.2009, 08:33 +0100 schrieb Eric Lavarde: I'm trying to get FreeMind files to be properly opened with FreeMind within KDE/GNOME (and probably other freedesktop compatible desktops), e.g. click in Konqueror on a FreeMind file

Re: How to properly register a program in KDE/GNOME

2009-12-05 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I now know why it's not working, it's because I'm testing under KDE 3.5 (Lenny) and it makes a difference for xdg-utils! OK, here it is: - under a sid chroot, i.e. without Desktop environment: $ DISPLAY=:0 XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=100 xdg-mime query filetype New\ Mindmap.mm Running /usr/bi

Re: Debian + Home automation packages

2010-01-17 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, George Danchev wrote: * Generally, your sponsor(s) would want to test the packages, however that would need certain home automation infrastructure to be in place which is not available everywhere, so you might need to suggest a way to simulate their operation if that is easily possible.

Multiples binaries with different versions from one source file?

2010-01-27 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, I fear I know the (negative) answer, but perhaps I missed something: I have one source package which creates a library and an application, where each has its own (different) version. The logical approach would be to have two binary packages created from the same source, with two differe

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-07 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello, On 07/06/10 17:08, Stefan Haller wrote: As far as I can see, there are currently two ways to avoid circular dependencies: [...] (2) Rename the binary packages to: * desktopnova-gnome * desktopnova-xfce * desktopnova-common [...] Solution #2 is much better, bec

RFS: freeplane - A Java program to create and edit mind maps

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Lavarde
entors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/freeplane/freeplane_1.1.1-1.dsc - and also present in Svn-Java svn+ssh://ewl-gu...@svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-java/trunk/freeplane I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind r

Re: bt747: doubts on licenses and embedded libraries

2011-05-15 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello Monica, interesting that you're now working on bt747: I'm also using this program to download my GPS tracks and flag my photos, wanted as well to package it, and basically silently gave up as I looked into it :-P Anyway I'm happy that someone has more courage and/or time to do it! On 15

RFS: freeplane (updated package)

2011-06-08 Thread Eric Lavarde
/freeplane/freeplane_1.1.3-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Eric Lavarde PS: Lintian currently complains about the class-path manifest, but we agreed on the Debian Java list that this is a special case (due to OSGi specifics) that Lintian might be able t

Re: Depending on a -bin package built from the same source version

2013-03-10 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 10/03/13 18:48, Antonio Valentino wrote: The question is how to specify the the dependency. The GUI app have to depend from binaries built from the same source code (not previous of later versions). For what I can understand the correct approach should be the one described in [3,4], som

Re: Depending on a -bin package built from the same source version

2013-03-10 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 10/03/13 20:17, Antonio Valentino wrote: Hi Sven, hi Eric, Il 10/03/2013 19:59, Sven Joachim ha scritto: On 2013-03-10 19:26 +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: On 10/03/13 18:48, Antonio Valentino wrote: Configuration item 'binary:polsarpro Depends:2' has a wrong value:

Re: help to fix lintian problems, NMU issue

2013-07-09 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 09/07/13 08:20, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 11:37:25AM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 12:04:28PM -0700, Tong Sun wrote: However, the upstream chose to put 0.9.5-1 in the changelog file, You shouldn't care about changelog entries added by the

Re: packaging of a python script

2013-09-06 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 06/09/13 11:31, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Hi All, I have a little python project which creates one executable script. where should go the project.py ? is there a special place for a script which later can be imported by other python script ? The question is of course also if one script ju

Bug#723582: Bug#724324: RFS: metar/0.2-1 ITP

2013-09-24 Thread Eric Lavarde
The other question might be if this new package is really required because both seem to do the same thing... Fernando, you're the upstream author, you might want to join forces with the other author. Eric Tobias Frost wrote: >Hallo Fernando, > >please do not open new bug when you upload a ne

Re: debian/watch question: 1.0 -> 1.02

2013-10-06 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Felix, have you tried to use uversionmangle to add a 0 at the end of 1.0 -> 1.00 ? Cheers, Eric On 06/10/13 17:16, Felix Natter wrote: hi, I am about to finish the jmapviewer package (http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-osm/jmapviewer.git;a=summary) but have a small problem with the ne

Re: Packaging GNUstep automatically

2013-12-27 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, gregor herrmann wrote: >On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:12:56 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: >> > Packaging is out of the scope of Debian? That's an unexpected >response. :-) >> You asked about automated packaging, which isn't something we do in >>

Re: Real newbie ....

2014-04-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Barry, Are you saying that you're trying to build a Debian package under Ubuntu? It's the same package format but else I'd say that you're asking for the kind of strange behavior you're describing. Cheers, Eric On 14 April 2014 16:03:35 CEST, Barry Drake wrote: >On 13/04/14 23:08, Tobias Fro

some questions on multiple binaries per source

2004-12-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I'm packaging FreeMind (old version somewhere on the upload path), and the new version is requesting multiple packages. So here two questions: - is there somewhere a specific description of multi-packaging? the new maintainer tutorial isn't really explaining much and I couldn't find anythi

some questions on multiple binaries per source

2004-12-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I'm packaging FreeMind (old version somewhere on the upload path), and the new version is requesting multiple packages. So here two questions: - is there somewhere a specific description of multi-packaging? the new maintainer tutorial isn't really explaining much and I couldn't find anything

Re: some questions on multiple binaries per source

2004-12-02 Thread Eric Lavarde
wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:06:24PM +0100, Eric Lavarde wrote: - more specific question: one of the additional packages is a plugin, FreeMind itself "requires" Java, the plugin "requires" Java and FreeMind. Am I supposed to write in the control file that the plugin

Mime type in share as well as lib, or linda problem?

2005-01-05 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I have a java package (i.e. Architecture all), freemind, and linda gives me the following warning: W: freemind; File /usr/lib/mime/packages/freemind contained in /usr/lib of Architecture: all package. I've seen, there is a /usr/share/mime/packages directory but nothing in it, I am supposed

Re: upload and package

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, no problem, nothing was upload_ed_, everything is ready for the described upload. Eric > > Theoricaly, this shouldn't ever happen but anyways and since it's written, > i > think i be better to tell about it even if i'm certainly wrong on what > really > happened. > > [...] > > dpkg-buildpack

Re: help in chages necessary for rules file( creating .deb packages)

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, have you read the "Debian New Maintainers' Guide"? That's what I started with recently, and it's pretty easy to follow. Install it with "apt-get install maint-guide" or have a look at http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/. Cheers, Eric > > We are trying to make .deb packages using > dh_mak

Enforce dependency on non-free version of Java?

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I just sent this answer to an user, and now I have doubts: is there a way to enforce dependency on a non-free Version of Java? Thanks, Eric Original Message Subject: Re: Bug#292182: freemind will not start Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:29:49 +0100 From: Eric Lavarde <[EM

[Fwd: Bug#291946: freemind: Installs with java1.3 but won't works]

2005-01-27 Thread Eric Lavarde
in advance, Eric Original Message Subject: Bug#291946: freemind: Installs with java1.3 but won't works Resent-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:18:03 UTC Resent-From: Pierre Ancelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Eric Lavarde <

[Fwd: Bug#296258: freemind: Integration into GNOME/KDE]

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Lavarde
o: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:28:30 +0100 From: Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Johannes Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Is it tolerated to have compiled libraries in a package?

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, the new version of FreeMind is coming with a whole lot of pre-compiled libraries (jar files to be precise). Some of these libraries already exist in Debian, so fine; one isn't free but I can do without, so acceptable (it's the online help, so it's not so nice, but well); and three are not (

Re: [Fwd: Bug#296258: freemind: Integration into GNOME/KDE]

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Lavarde
fixes, it doesn't go forward. Matt Brubeck wrote: Eric Lavarde wrote: I got the below bug report, and I'm a bit hesitating: on one side I understand the wish from the requester, and it would be a useful extension of the package; on the other hand, I already use update-menus and updat

Re: Is it tolerated to have compiled libraries in a package?

2005-02-25 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, package is anyway already in contrib. So OK!? Eric Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:35:22AM -0800, Matt Brubeck wrote: Eric Lavarde wrote: the new version of FreeMind is coming with a whole lot of pre-compiled libraries (jar files to be precise). Some of these libraries

About the usage of cdbs

2005-05-07 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, I had a first look at cdbs and it looks quite neat, but, from the documentation, I don't understand how I am supposed to start packaging: 1. from scratch (possibly starting from an existing package using cdbs) 2. or using dh_make, and then cdbs'itting it. (the rules file is actually not the pr

Re: pre-built pwc modules for official debian kernel

2005-05-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, perhaps a bit off-topic but we had the discussion already a while ago, and I don't come further on what is the "Right Thing To Do". My understanding after the last discussion is that: - if one use a standard kernel, say kernel-image-2.6.10-1-k7 - one install as well kernel-headers-2.6.10-1-k7

Re: pre-built pwc modules for official debian kernel

2005-05-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
return to Continue?"; \ fi; \ done make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/pwc' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `kdist_image'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/pwc' Modul

Re: pre-built pwc modules for official debian kernel

2005-05-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
l build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain. 3. make-kpkg strongly suggests the usage of fakeroot. Why then? Cheers, Eric Victor Seva wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eric Lavarde wrote: Nevertheless, if I try to compile pwc as non-root (how it s

Re: pre-built pwc modules for official debian kernel

2005-05-14 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, as a last input, I compile pwc the ugly way and it worked, only some warnings, but I'm not experienced enough to say if they're important. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/modules/pwc$ make make -C /lib/modules/2.6.10-1-k7/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/pwc modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr

Re: pre-built pwc modules for official debian kernel

2005-05-15 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, it seems I haven't been clear enough: - the fact that I need to be root to compile the pwc module is _not_ something you are responsible for. I think it's a problem between kernel-headers-2 and make-kpkg (either kernel-headers-2 should be installed belonging to group src, group-stick

Re: Starting an application on login

2014-06-03 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi Daniel, On 3 June 2014 20:54:58 CEST, Daniel Lintott wrote: >Hi Mentors! > >I'm currently packaging a notification application, BuildNotify [1]. > >It only makes sense to start the application when the user logs in, >which can be done using the $(HOME)/.config/autostart directory or >adding an

Re: Packaging Java Tomcat web app howto ?

2008-08-06 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Olivier, I move this thread to debian-java, where it belongs :-) - debian-mentors in Bcc I think that the short answer is that there is no such howto, but I might be wrong: - there was a thread about the topic http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2007/12/msg00039.html (and you can search furthe

Re: Advice about first package building (from sources)

2008-09-17 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Laurent, Al Nikolov said: > Laurent Guignard wrote: > >> I have read the main documentation about pbuilder but i haven't seen if >> it is possible to build a package from upstream sources. >> In all examples, the command is like "pbuilder build ???.dsc" >> >> What is the correct method to build

Re: Global environment variable.

2008-09-30 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
And if it's nevertheless a packaging question (i.e. how to add a global variable as part of the installation of a package), the policy states that no executable can depend on the definition of a global variable, hence your package should not define any global variable (but you should document that

Re: Processing (#433270), no upstream tarball, other questions

2008-12-08 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso said: > 2008/12/7 Eric Lavarde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Looking quickly through the binary download, you might have quite a lot >> of >> fun (JOGL is in Debian, Gluegen isn't, JNA neither, Antlr is there, dxf >> viewer not, etc...)

Re: RFS: ganttpv

2008-12-18 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, Jonathan Wiltshire said: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:12:38PM -0700, Brian C. Christensen wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ganttpv". >> >> * Package name: ganttpv >> Version : 0.11a-1 >> Upstream Author : Brian C. Christensen >> * URL : http://ww

Re: Packaging Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript

2005-09-06 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, sorry for this, but I think another round might be required: 1. move sample.ps, barcode_with_sample.ps, docs/* from debian/install to debian/docs. 2. I think you should just remove the Depends line (as far as I understand the thing you could just "cat barcode_with_sample.ps > /dev/lp0" and it

get-orig-source to be called from any directory?

2005-12-19 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hello, I'm trying to add a 'get-orig-source' target to my debian/rules file, and it looks like this: get-orig-source: debian/export-freemind-cvs.sh 0.8.0+01 FM-0-8-0 It works quite fine, but the Debian policy manual specifies under [1] that "This target may be invoked in any directory",

Re: Menu registers in GNOME but not in KDE/XFCe, Why?

2006-08-29 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hello, did I miss an answer to the below email, or is the question more stupid than I thought? Thanks, Eric > Hi, > > I have the problem that menu entries I've created are properly registered > in Gnome, but neither in KDE nor in XFCe. And I have no clue what I'm > missing. > > The 'debian/menu'

Re: Packaging automation - separation of 'debian/' directory

2006-09-07 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi Ben, if you create yourself the orig.tar.gz, the building tools from debian don't try to create it themselves. i.e. something like: tar cvzf foo_X.Y.orig.tar.gz --exclude=foo-X.Y/debian foo-X.Y before actually building the package should solve your problem. Hope this helps, Eric -- You don't

Re: Subject: RFS: mantis (updated package)

2006-11-29 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hi, >> * debian/copyright is incomplete, you need to list all copyright >> holders and their licenses. e.g. adodb and phpmailer is missing (and >> likely also others, stopped after finding these two). > > Hmm. Do i really need to do this? Because my debian/rules don't install > them, as

Re: Multiples binaries with different versions from one source file?

2010-01-28 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
Hello, OK, I got the point ;-), I'll keep the same version for both binaries. A README.Debian will do the trick to avoid complete confusion. Thanks for the insights, Eric -- Eric de France, d'Allemagne et de Navarre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: Restrictive Artwork License

2013-12-29 Thread Eric Lavarde - Debian
==> I'm not sure what my (tablet) mailer did with my initial posting, but you might have got it garbled, hence I apologize and send it again. Eric Hi, I would tend to agree with what Paul wrote but IANAL and you should ask on debian-legal for a more authoritative answer. A few more comments below