eggdrop .so plugins

2000-10-24 Thread Ian Eure
hi. i'm adopting eggdrop, while sitting in NM. i've got the latest version of eggdrop building ok, after some heavy Makefile.in hacking, but lintian is giving me this error: -- snip -- E: eggdrop: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/eggdrop/modules/channels.so N: N: The listed shared libraries conta

Adoption

2000-11-17 Thread Ian Eure
hi. when i adopt a package, should i keep the changelog from the previous maintainer? -- __ | "the whole scale of cosmic dimensions are falling from my mouth | in the description of a kiss of the interimlovers" | - einsturzende neubaten, "interim"

when to split up a package

2000-11-22 Thread Ian Eure
are there any guidelines as to when i should split a package into several smaller packages? i maintain eggdrop, which is just under 2mb installed. about 450k of that is documentation. should i think of splitting it off into an eggdrop-doc package? --

Re: New scsiadd packages - advice sought.

2000-12-01 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Dave Baker wrote: > > Just out of the NM queue, I've put together some scsiadd packages and > wondered if someone could take a quick look over them before I upload > to make sure they're up to par. > > I've gone through the maint-guide process to build the packages, so > the

source upload?

2000-12-04 Thread Ian Eure
a while back, it was mentioned that it's now possible to make source-only package uploads. i'm quite interested in doing this, since i wouldn't have to deal with building the package in my woody chroot, but could just upload the source and let the autobuilders have at it. so... can anyone enlighte

binary dependencies

2001-01-08 Thread Ian Eure
hi there. i have a slight problem... i have a package which depends on tcl. problem is that dh_shlibdeps finds tcl8.2 installed, and sticks that in the Depends: field. it would be better if it could depend on tclsh, which is provided by the (many) different versions of tcl instead of being bound to

eggdrop .so plugins

2000-10-24 Thread Ian Eure
hi. i'm adopting eggdrop, while sitting in NM. i've got the latest version of eggdrop building ok, after some heavy Makefile.in hacking, but lintian is giving me this error: -- snip -- E: eggdrop: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/eggdrop/modules/channels.so N: N: The listed shared libraries cont

Adoption

2000-11-17 Thread Ian Eure
hi. when i adopt a package, should i keep the changelog from the previous maintainer? -- __ | "the whole scale of cosmic dimensions are falling from my mouth | in the description of a kiss of the interimlovers" | - einsturzende neubaten, "interim"

when to split up a package

2000-11-22 Thread Ian Eure
are there any guidelines as to when i should split a package into several smaller packages? i maintain eggdrop, which is just under 2mb installed. about 450k of that is documentation. should i think of splitting it off into an eggdrop-doc package? -- ___

Re: New scsiadd packages - advice sought.

2000-12-01 Thread Ian Eure
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Dave Baker wrote: > > Just out of the NM queue, I've put together some scsiadd packages and > wondered if someone could take a quick look over them before I upload > to make sure they're up to par. > > I've gone through the maint-guide process to build the packages, so > th

source upload?

2000-12-04 Thread Ian Eure
a while back, it was mentioned that it's now possible to make source-only package uploads. i'm quite interested in doing this, since i wouldn't have to deal with building the package in my woody chroot, but could just upload the source and let the autobuilders have at it. so... can anyone enlight

binary dependencies

2001-01-08 Thread Ian Eure
hi there. i have a slight problem... i have a package which depends on tcl. problem is that dh_shlibdeps finds tcl8.2 installed, and sticks that in the Depends: field. it would be better if it could depend on tclsh, which is provided by the (many) different versions of tcl instead of being bound t

Re: Personal Mentor

2001-11-29 Thread Ian Eure
On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:52 pm, Sean Dundon wrote: > Hello, > I just started with Linux, I have Potato 2.2r4. I was wondering if I > could find some one who could give me a hand through things on a more > personal basis. I have lots of those little annoying problems like > mounting an

Re: Personal Mentor

2001-11-29 Thread Ian Eure
On Thursday 29 November 2001 04:52 pm, Sean Dundon wrote: > Hello, > I just started with Linux, I have Potato 2.2r4. I was wondering if I > could find some one who could give me a hand through things on a more > personal basis. I have lots of those little annoying problems like > mounting and