Re: Bug#444514: marked as done (gpredict: FTBFS: error: 'GtkTooltips' undeclared)

2007-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tained package. For example the Makefile.{am,in} COPYING change: this is purely cosmetic. I disagree that your solution is the best; maintaining patches to upstream sources is a nuisance, while fixing things up afterwards in debian/rules is easier. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROT

Re: /usr/share?

1998-06-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ing that's a conffile or configuration file belongs in /etc though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.

Re: /usr/share?

1998-06-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
er. Well, lib is a misnomer though, and implies something architecture-dependent (which is what /usr/share is trying to avoid). /usr/share will be no more cluttered than /usr/lib, for example. OTOH, we are going to have /usr/share/doc as I understand it, which WILL be another layer. Hamish --

Re: bug #16666 -- assigned to wrong package

1998-06-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ch as I understand it is completely unrelated to WindowMaker. Looking in the Packages file it seems it has been fixed anyway. Hamish (the originally submitter) -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish.

Re: help - deb-make/build

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
sr/man/man1/heyu.1 > ^ > > don't do this :-) Nor this. All paths must be relative if any one else is to be able to compile the source ever. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ft

Re: Did I get this right? (1st attempt at a package)

1998-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
clear that removing it from the configuration file will make it go back to 8000. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http

Re: New release of iptraf

1998-06-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
member correctly, anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: New release of iptraf

1998-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:21:45PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 10:31:44PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > > > > Why not just have the file in /usr/doc/iptraf and run it from > > > there in t

Re: New release of iptraf

1998-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 11:31:02PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > If someone could tell me the /right/ place, please, do it. Marcelo suggested /usr/lib/iptraf, that sounds right to me. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: Definition: "Gold CD"

1998-06-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
al Science discs for $2.30-$2.50 here without too much trouble (although many places sell them for $2.80-$3.00). And from what I hear Kodak discs are better than Verbatim. I use Kodak here. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
am source doesn't build anyway. Perhaps I will try again for slink.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish

Re: Version specific packages

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
bian version is 6. This allows slang0.99.34 (as in slang0.99.34-0.99.38-6) to coexist. emacs does this, for example ({x,}emacs{19,20}), so it might be justified. Ask on debian-policy to be sure. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: Version specific packages

1998-07-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
run together then debian-policy would be appropriate. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- To UNSUB

Re: Bug#24513: mixed dependency: wm2 depends on libc6 and xlib6

1998-07-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
gt; wm2_3-3? I'm partial to moving the version from slink, as it /does/ > fix the bug, and there aren't any new features in wm2 version 4. That would be best -- my NMU had the wrong version number (should be wm2_3-2.1, rather than wm2_3-3) anyway. Hamish (oops :-) -- Hamish Moff

Re: Bug#24513: mixed dependency: wm2 depends on libc6 and xlib6

1998-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o unstable (mapped to slink) only. If > the package should go into frozen (mapped to hamm) as well as > unstable, it should be: > > > wm2 (3-3) frozen unstable; urgency=low What is the date on my upload (3-3)? I believe it was before the freeze. I am probably wrong, but appear not

Re: TCPQuota: postinst, postrm and Depends

1998-08-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
change its implementation to not require C. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: lintian warnings

1998-08-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
r creating the database. Why is it executable though? You cannot just run it. > What should the changes file be named if CHANGES is not good enough? changelog[.gz] Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com

Re: lintian warnings

1998-08-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
et Debian policy. lintian just checks that your package is policy-compliant. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-11-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
this a few times recently. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: Maintaining a non-US package?

1998-11-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ion files (ie /etc/exports) is not allowed. Unless the nfs-server package provides a mechanism for you to add stuff to /etc/exports, you have to let the user do it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.

libtool

1998-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ile.in, libtool complained that -rpath wasn't specified. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: libtool

1998-11-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Nov 21, 1998 at 02:14:36PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I've just encountered libtool and the dreaded -rpath. How do I fix > it so that it doesn't do it? > > There is a top level ./libtool script, and one of the subdirectories's > Makefile.in specifies

Re: xwatch installed in correct section?

1998-12-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
olicy.) Your control file entry will not matter from now on, although it would be best if you changed it to say contrib/x11, because that's what people see if they do "dpkg-deb -I filename.deb" on your package. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: DESTDIR in a native distro. How ?

1998-12-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
lpage.1 $(PREFIX)/man/man1 Then in your debian/rules file, you can do "make install PREFIX=/usr" Or more like "make install PREFIX=debian/tmp/usr" Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.a

Re: DESTDIR in a native distro. How ?

1998-12-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
give just dpkg-buildpackage. It looks ok. I cannot see any advantage over my example but that is up to you. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are

Re: Trouble Building with Original Sources

1998-12-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
original tarball > unpacks to the current directory instead of creating its own > subdirectory. Perhaps that's the problem, but I think that is normally ok. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: No upstream version, et al

1999-01-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
seems like the best suggestion to me. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: question on interaction between net-base and replacement dae

1999-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
mentation about the > right and official way to do this. ;) It does what update-inetd does. Actually, since inetd.conf belongs to netbase, wu-ftp should call the provided modify script (update-inetd). However, since inetd.conf is not a conffile, I'm not sure this is technically a bug.

Re: Some new largish packages: please comment

1999-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
end to write such stupid You think that's bad, look at ham radio software. It's not bad for Linux, but all the Windows stuff costs megabucks. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish

Re: /usr/X11R6/share?

1999-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 02:05:34PM +, Jules Bean wrote: > None of the arguments for keep /usr/X11R6 apply to /usr/share. None of the arguments for keeping /usr/X11R6 apply at all ;-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
omplains about csh-considered-harmful, though. Personally, I think csh-considered-harmful is a purely personal decision and has no place in policy and therefore lintian. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t of each. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org

Re: dependencies problem

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
g-shlibdeps to use the new .shlib file as the local shlib file. The manuals say that the local file should only be used temporarily but there doesn't seem to be another way. I use: dh_shlibdeps -u -Ldebian/libgeda2/DEBIAN/shlibs Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Which targets are mandatory in debian/rules?

1999-02-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
can enable or disable the X support from debian/rules, but the whole thing needs to be cleaned out and rebuilt for whichever version. Hence I have a dummy `build' target. It already does weird stuff during building with objects in other directories... Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD

Re: splitting package

1999-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
and have the debian/rules binary target make two subdirectories of debian/, one for each package, etc. debhelper makes it easy. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of repl

Re: /usr/bin or /usr/bin/X11

1999-03-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
se for X applications which don't > come with the X distribution to stay in /usr/bin. I'm sure that we've discussed this before on debian-policy, and that policy currently says all X applications should install in /usr/X11R6/. I think this is very wrong, but that's what poli

Re: A package depends on a library built from the same source... how?

1999-04-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hlibdeps says that you should only use -L as a temporary measure, but since there doesn't seem to be another way .. You might still need the LD_LIBRARY_PATH if the library depends on any other non-default libraries. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: version numbers

1999-05-17 Thread Hamish Moffatt
upstream maintainer put that zero there > for a reason (though maybe not a good one). I wouldn't do it myself, but I > have no trouble understanding his intent. > > In any case, both dpkg and the upstream author are beyond my control. > Do I have any recourse other than an

Re: Depends from any newsserver

1999-05-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
provides that. An nntp-server virtual package could be worthwhile, perhaps. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. pgpjtTbRAo0V6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Library packages, libtool and automake.

1999-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tarted over and did it by hand. I don't know why we can't trust the upstream Makefile to build the shared library, generally speaking. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Becoming a new developper

1999-06-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
have 1 hour. :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Becoming a new developper

1999-06-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:30:02AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Using only standard unix tools (no dh_make, debstd, or debhelper), > > package X11. You have 1 hour. > > As you please! > > Hmmm, is it ok if t

Re: Autoconf question

1999-06-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
uot;. Or override DESTDIR during "make install", if possible. prefix can affect the program at runtime too. You don't want to hardcode the temporary location into any executables. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Autoconf question

1999-06-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 08:18:26AM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote: > Hamish Moffatt writes: > > > However I suspect you should not be doing "make prefix=..."; > > you should make without overriding prefix, and just override it > > during "make install".

Re: rc.boot

1999-06-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
right; you should put the script in /etc/init.d, but not link it with update-rc.d like every other, only to rcS.d. Quite a few packages already do this so it should not be too hard to find examples. I did it in cnews for example (moved from rc.boot). Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Request for assistance: netbase manpages

1999-07-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
to specify the netmask (is it possible?). I have two networks, 203.14.18.0/25 and 203.14.18.128/25; the .0 network name works fine of course, but the .128 one does not. localnet203.63.216.16 hamishnet 203.14.18.0 peternet 203.14.18.128 Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3T

Re: Request for assistance: netbase manpages

1999-07-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:27:12PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Unfortunately I can't figure /etc/networks out. I can't work out how > to specify the netmask (is it possible?). I have two networks, The impression I get from networks(5) on FreeBSD and Solaris is that it can

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
hey should provide a glibc 2.0 (libc6.0) binary as well, but they don't. My slink system is running the libc5 binary because I don't want to upgrade to potato yet. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Branden uses it to build X, or used to) but it doesn't seem to be. Perhaps pandora (might be slow to access from the USA though)? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: strange multiple packages problem + question

1999-07-28 Thread Hamish Moffatt
error: source package has two conflicting values - > libsgmls-perl and sgmlspl > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code > make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1 The source package name is libsgmls-perl; what is the package name at the top of the changelog? If they differ, you will get this e

Re: Bladeenc

1999-08-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
or bladeenc? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Bladeenc

1999-08-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:36:52AM -0500, Jeff Bachtel wrote: > Done. Any others I should set up while I'm at it? > > > Can somebody please set up a cronjob to post ITPs for bladeenc? Not off the top of my head! bladeenc in particular seems to come up every fortnight or so.

Re: multiple binary packages (again)

1999-08-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
builds both main and > non-US/main binary packages. Can you? Isn't main supposed to be free standing? Clearly the source can't go in main, so the binaries can't either. xpdf and xpdf-i have the same .orig.tar.gz. Mind you, I wouldn't build them from the same source packag

Re: BTS questions

1999-09-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ailability of the example file, if it's too large to include in the > BTS. Don't know sorry. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Which section for wmMatrix?

1999-09-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
tion in the control file is really just a suggestion to the archive maintainers -- the actual section for the package is determined by the override file on master, rather than the section in your package. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Need help with shlibs.local

1999-09-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
on this list a few months back, this seemed to be the best solution. Upstream has since separated the library and binary sources, so I don't have an example on hand. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: new maintainer in Australia

1999-09-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t? > (wow that would be cool). You're welcome to drop over to Melbourne and get your key signed, there's quite a few of us here :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: How to modify /etc/services?

1999-09-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
update-inetd actually allows you to modify any file you like. That doesn't mean you should though. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: protocol: closing bugs

1999-10-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
entries if we couldn't close bug reports until a new release is made. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: protocol: closing bugs

1999-10-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 12:51:34PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 05:44:33PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 01:23:22PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > That said, yes, I would keep them open until potato is released.

Re: arch-specific binary-only rebuild

1999-10-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
h it. And you can't reupload the binary package without a new version number. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: package needs rgb.txt

1999-10-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t that? I only routinely run an X server on one box here, but it's useful to run X programs on some others around the place at times. Those machines have no need for an X server. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: arch-specific binary-only rebuild

1999-10-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 10:31:06AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 12:17:53PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > The changelog will not appear in all the binary packages produced > > > since I won't be upl

Re: arch-specific binary-only rebuild

1999-10-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ionale the same (i.e. to not force a recompile on > every arch), I don't see a good reason why others are allowed to do this > when doing a binary-only NMU and Peter should not be. Hmm, OK I forgot that policy allowed this. Can't say I like it much though. Hamish -- Hamish Moff

Re: Policy 3.0.0 and /usr/X11R6/man ?

1999-10-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I have with stuff > under /usr/X11R6/. It's up to you -- I use /usr/bin for everything. /usr/X11R6 should be disbanded, imho. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
7;t matter what directory the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it, rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar.gz just to fix the directory name; it's better to use "pristine source" -- meaning the exact .tar.gz provided by the upstream author (renamed of course

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 02:13:39PM +, Chris Rutter wrote: > On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory > > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it, >

Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
he .tar.gz is quite reasonable in this case. You have no other solution really. And be sure to flame^H^H^H^H^H politely suggest to the upstream author that they not ship fifos in the .tar.gz. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt Mobile: +61 412 011 176 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rising Software Australia Pty.

Re: how orig should orig.tar.gz be?

2000-01-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ream patches. The rules files unpacks the source, applies the patches, etc. This seems a reasonable exception to the rule, since the real pristine source IS in there. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: how orig should orig.tar.gz be?

2000-01-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 01:10:31PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote: > cp /somewhere/foo-2.23.tar.gz foo-2.23.orig.tar.gz Should be foo_2.23.orig.tar.gz. Cheers Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: ITP: libsdlmixer1.0

2000-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
appear in a new -dev if it's really needed. It's better to migrate the stuff to the new version. Cheers Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Binary Changes Drill

2000-01-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
source. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: patching an original tarball

2000-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
author, which is the whole point (IMHO). Admittedly the upstream patch doesn't belong in the Debian .diff.gz file either, but it should be only a temporary situation until the next upstream version. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: patching an original tarball

2000-01-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
u can make a note if you like. In most cases, the sources probably won't be used again after release so it doesn't really matter. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: shlibdeps warning ?!

2000-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
thread is listed. Of course it should be; if not there may be a libc6 bug. The .shlib files are used by dpkg-shlibdeps. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: rejected package

2000-02-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I just uploaded (with dupload using scp) are 644. That's a little antisocial -- and perhaps dupload can't read your files and gives up, hence the error. Unless dinstall runs as root, it can't read your files -- and I don't even have to check to be pretty sure it doesn't run as r

Re: Smail Config

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ad of smail. exim is similar but much easier to configure. I can't remember how to stop relaying on smail but could help with exim. I have already converted all my machines from smail to exim. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Looking for sponsor

2000-02-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ad. There are other libraries with just .so names that do still have sonames.. actually, lintian doesn't know that your .so file even IS a shared library. You need to modify the linking command in the makefile. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: bug report to a slink version

2000-02-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
y fixed, you can close it. If not, fix it! :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: setgid in /var/cache

2000-02-13 Thread Hamish Moffatt
; after installation, the ownership is set root.root and permissions > are 644. > > Is dpkg preventing my scheme? I can't see why dpkg would prevent it. Can you make your sources and/or deb files available for download? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: pks_0.9.4 - looking for sponsor

2000-02-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ot permitted > chown: debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man8/pgpdump.8.gz: Operation not permitted > chown: debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man8/pks-mail.sh.8.gz: Operation not That looks like you just didn't run it in fakeroot -- it's not required to run fakeroot itself. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK

Re: prerm failed for scanlogd?

2000-02-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
y solution is to add a prerm file, that has a "#!/bin/sh" on top. > What do you think? Is this a bug in debhelper? Or is it documented somewhere? I don't think that's it -- a script without a #! line will run with /bin/sh anyway. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: need to force dinstall to use a new .orig.tar.gz

2000-02-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
alling it. Why? Your .changes file must say you are uploading the .orig.tar.gz else dinstall has no reason to look for it. I think the option to dpkg-buildpackage is -sa or similar. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Source will NOT be uploaded? (fwd)

2000-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
why I needed -sa if I didn't use -b for binary only. Why do you need to upload the original source code again in this case? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Source will NOT be uploaded? (fwd)

2000-02-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
share, no /usr/X11R6/man. Am I > right? I don't know. But here's a simple fix -- put your binary in /usr/bin instead of /usr/X11R6/bin. Policy and the FHS do not say that all X clients go in /usr/X11R6, only that the standard components do. I put all of my binaries in /usr/bin, even fo

Re: some problems...

2000-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the list if you can. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: lynx in ip-up: no terminal

2000-05-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ewer. wget is a page fetch-program and for that > reason "might" be better adapted for the task. lynx has only just started doing this. I filed a bug report this morning. "lynx -dump" should not need a terminal. It is convenient to dump the rendered output to stdout; wge

Re: FHS query

2000-06-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
system admin's use (for third party packages usually); Debian, being the OS vendor, can't touch it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Find the display

2000-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
the console. X is a network protocol, after all. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Find the display

2000-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > I need to restart sawfish, because sawfish crash each times a user upgrade > sawfish. unstable is unstable... And experimental is in project/experimental. Consider it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL

Re: Find the display

2000-08-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 01:11:57AM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote: > echo " WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG - WARNIG" I suggest you spelling WARNING correctly! Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Section of deb packages not in Debian

2000-08-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
t will always be out of date -- at the very least you will need to update the debian/changelog when building the package. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
start up again and I have > to drive over to the system. I have never seen sshd be stopped during an upgrade. I do all my upgrades via ssh. And if something like ssh does go down, there's always a dialup modem line. I've kept one on a remotely deployed machine of mine just for this rea

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
dable or obfuscated. The language lets you do either, and that's a good thing. (Trust me, I use VHDL daily and it's very verbose; sometimes I like nice terse Perl.) The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 05:08:38PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The language is not at fault, the programmers who use it badly are. > > Especially the programmers who choose bad languages in the first place. If there

Re: a bit policy, a bit devel [was: Re: Find the display]

2000-08-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 05:56:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lets see, some regular used feature in Perlk is to use the return > value of a funktion thats stored in $_ or somthing. Sure, you CAN do that in Perl, but you don't have to. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[E

Re: dh_installmanpages: used -p but got man pages in other package too?

2000-09-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
llmanpages -N nut-doc -p nut" Try -Nnut-doc -pnut; no spaces. debhelper(1) does not show any spaces. You should only need -pnut, and not -Nnut-doc. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Accepted ways when upstream author insists on using MANPATH env var?

2000-09-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
o programs to make them work within the Debian environment; that's where Debian adds value versus compiling from source IMHO. Regards Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Question on "Bug#74171: recommends nonexistent package"

2000-10-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
recommendations. Again there was no discussion of this mass bug-filing campaign on debian-devel, as Debian's policy and manuals require. (Unless I missed it and the discussion, which I doubt.) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Installing files in /etc

2000-10-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
ve never understood why an absolute path is needed for that command. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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