Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi, at first thanks Magnus and Frank for the hint to find a documentaion only package to look at. Finally I managed to get working packages, that install mbox-archives of mailinglists under /usr/share/doc/mailinglists (by the way: is this the right list for questions like this? If not just tell

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Justin Pryzby wrote: > Nice idea. Where do you get the mbox from? By now I archiving or better buliding up an archive of different mailinglists. Right now they are stored in a database for easy checking if there are new mails to be added to a specific month. > Seems okay with me. Fine :-) > d

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi Justin, > So, you're subscribed to a whole bunch of lists, and you store the > messages yourself? Ideally, mbox files would be publically available > from www.debian.org, but I can't find them if that's the case. I looked there, but I don't think there are any. That's why we startet collecti

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi Martin :-) > http://mbox.mewes.tv/ exists :-) Didn't know you are subscribed here :-) So just another hello to you, I'm just writing some lines for extracting mails out of the mboxes - hopefully it will work end of the week :-) Cheers, Jan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signatur

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Justin Pryzby wrote: > It seems its not a native package? I think the changelog is consulted > to get the package version (but it must agree with the control file > and the directory name?). Meh, apt-get source debian-goodies for > details:) I took a look :-) And if I change the directory name

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi again, > Why under doc? Compare with > > /usr/share/keyrings/ > /usr/share/images/ > /usr/share/sounds/ > ... > > Not all mailinglists would be documentary in nature. Right, then something like /usr/share/mailinglists or like that would be more appropriate indeed. > Do you have a reader int

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hello, Goswin and others, > You don't have a debian-user-german-200202.orig.tar.gz so the package > is detected as native package. That means that the full version > (200202-1) is taken as upstream version and the directory is expected > to be names such. Ok :-) (learned at lot this weekend :

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-23 Thread Jan Kesten
Hello, Goswin and others, > You don't have a debian-user-german-200202.orig.tar.gz so the package > is detected as native package. That means that the full version > (200202-1) is taken as upstream version and the directory is expected > to be names such. Ok :-) (learned at lot this weekend :

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-24 Thread Jan Kesten
Martin Mewes wrote: > Big Mewes is watching you ;-) > I am proud you being a member to my mbox-project :-) LOL - quite funny who two different projects exist aside doing nearly the same :-) Cheers, Jan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-24 Thread Jan Kesten
Hello :-) > That should be "./debian-user-200202-1" and "debian-user-german-200202 > (1) unstable; urgency=low" then I think. Just a minute before your mail I tried following: ./debian-user-200202-0.1 debian-user-german-200202 (0.1) unstable; urgency=low And that worked fine - it just a differn

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-24 Thread Jan Kesten
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > 0.1 would normaly mean it is an experimental version before the first > release. 1.0 would be the first real release with that scheme. Some I think I'll use this scheme then, right now everything is very experimental and far from complete :-) And while creating them

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-28 Thread Jan Kesten
Hi Justin and others! > server, and asks "Do you want to run the sshd server". It is > probably, at best, borderline acceptable to ask "In what formats do > you want to make the mailinglists available". I agree in that. > This is the right idea. Provide a package which includes the "source" >

Re: Packaging of mailinglist archives

2005-01-29 Thread Jan Kesten
Justin Pryzby wrote: > dh_compress(1): "you can specify on the command line" (but it probably > wants a relative path for files in the build directory, like > usr/share/mailinglists/*). I tried that - and it didn't work. But some times I should read what I have really written, simply forgot a sin

Re: Question to dh_installdocs

2005-03-02 Thread Jan Kesten
Justin Pryzby wrote: >>| chown: changing ownership of `debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/stuffit/unstuff >>| .html': Operation not permitted >>Why does it not work with fakeroot ? How ones these files? Are you sure that debian/tmp is correct? In my packages I use debian//usr... May be I have insufficient