Re: volunteer for orphaned package cantus, searching sponsor

2005-07-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
/people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html If you really want to follow throught, don't forget to notify the bug report too, so the people can easily lookup the status. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwa

Re: Having a binary package in two source packages

2005-08-07 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
>* gstreamer0.10 source package: > - libgstreamer0.10 binary package > - gstreamer-tools If gstreamer0.8 doesn't build gstreamer-tools anymore, that's ok. If it does, it's a bug, in a way release critical because it'd prevent security updates for gstreamer0.8

Re: pbuilder -- chroot and build-dependencies.

2005-09-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
thout running clean, and then run "pbuilder mldonkey_2.5.28-2.dsc" --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Building packages with epoch

2005-12-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Any suggestions? What is the correct way to build packages with epoch? This is correct -- the epoch is *not* included in the filenames. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Some files in /usr/share/doc/foo stay uncompressed, some are compressed

2006-02-13 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
it'd only confuse. > But in short, don't compress. It is better to end users. I agree here, it's the road of least confusion to the users. The space saved is probably pretty minimal anyway, considering the size of the total doc package already. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar

Re: has webmin disapeared on Etch/Sid?

2006-02-18 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
enced maintainer, and I'd certainly not suggest such package as one to start with as Debian maintainer. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help with the package tracking system commands?

2006-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
question, do not ask whether you may ask a question, that yields unnecessary turnarounds and noise on the lists. And as Justin noted, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is more suited for this question. Thanks, --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 3

Re: RFS: b5

2006-02-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
working with two hats, one of the 'upstream' maintainer creating software for any linux distribution (and only including stuff relevant for that), and one of the package maintainer, including packaging stuff. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diff.gz file missing

2006-03-13 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:43:30PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Which step/tool is supposed to generate a diff. I renamed the original > sources > to cpuinfo-0.4.1.orig.tar.gz before runing dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot Try cpuinfo_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffela

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ther choose for going on the safe side, using only 7-bit latin1. Because of [1], you should write 'Copyright' in full rather than (C) to be on the safe side in a legal sense. --Jeroen [1] http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar +31-30-253 4499 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgp9lV9lhDdyo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#274832: Loading debconf module incorrectly detected for python

2004-10-04 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
; N: > > But, the first 2 lines of my config file are: > > #!/usr/bin/python2.3 > from debconf import * > > So I am thinking this is a lintian bug, or something wrong with the way > I import the library? > > Everything seems to work just fine. > > -- > Bri

Re: Lintian warning bug?

2004-10-04 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
eason for a pre-depends. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: RFH lintian too hush

2004-10-14 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
e list of lintian options one should normally bother with: -I, -i, -o, --show-overrides, -m, --allow-root, -v, -V, -h, --print-version. All other options are maily for uses like the lintian invocation for lintian.debian.org). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Where to submit a bug?

2004-10-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
nd cooperation of Debian maintainers with their upstream. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Bugzilla package in need of help

2004-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
-bin/bugzilla}) == 0 + or die "Can't fix owner of CGI-BINs"; exit 0; Otherwise, it looks okay to me, though I didn't test the package at all. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: compilers that self compile

2004-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:18:39PM -0300, Antonio S. de A. Terceiro wrote: > Hello all, > > How do people in Debian handle compilers that depend on itself to > be compiled? I asked this question a while ago too. Quoting DWN[1]: | Cyclic Build Dependencies. Jeroen van Wolffelaar [11]

Re: compilers that self compile

2004-10-21 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
x27;d be quite hacky, and I'm quite unsure whether such a tactic would be appreciated. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

RFS: nload -- A realtime terminal network usage monitor

2004-01-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
w * Temporary new maintainer: Jeroen van Wolffelaar * New upstream version * Compile fixes in NMU were already fixed in new upstream (Closes: #141920) * Remove debian manpage, upstreams has one now (partially fixes #222170) * Fix debian/rules to execute upstream's `make install'

Re: data files in /etc?

2004-02-13 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
> actually deletes and recreates /etc/mtab, the challenge is... > > challenging.) > > At least some time ago mount was able to deal with /etc/mtab > beeing a link to /proc/mounts. (As long as no loop-devices It breaks usrquota --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How to adopt Debian packages

2004-02-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
system if you want to maintain or fix a Debian package of course! I don't really understand what you mean with this line. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: lintian's warning

2004-03-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ways run fine, as people can have anything as shell, and certainly some shells won't understand that 'cat << EOF > "$archname"' line. If it is not intended to run directly from a shell, but rather used as input like: 'sh /usr/lib/makeself/makeself-header

Re: How to access cvs.debian.org with ssh/rsa keys?

2004-03-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
.debian.org, but 'pserver' is the CVS protocol, you want to use 'ext'. cvs -d :ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/cvs/tetex co test does try a ssh connect (I cannot login), so that seems to solve it (maybe you do need a different port though). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset

2004-03-30 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
idn't check my last assumption). --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
source attached), everything goes magically alright because there _is_ nothing to rebuild? Version numbering w.r.t. (Binary/Source) NMU's is a convention thing, mandated by policy. The archive scripts do not care other than for version ordering. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 03:54:49PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 08:38:54AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Version numbering w.r.t. (Binary/Source) NMU's is a convention thing, > > mandated by policy. The archive scripts do not care other

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:29:31AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In a .dsc, there is a 'Source:' entry (only if source pkg != bin pkg, > > and/or source versionnr != bin versionnr), which points to the s

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:30:54PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:09:09AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > &

Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
(moved to d-d) On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > Any .deb indicates its source, including binary-only NMU's, > > I'm afraid you're wrong there; I have some bin

Re: Binary-only uploads cause dangling 'Source:' reference in .deb's (Was: Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?)

2004-04-02 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:35:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 04:29:54PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 12:28:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote

Re: Separating packages.

2004-04-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
nd about Debian > packaging. It's implied in several places, and it's briefly spelt out in > some other places, but in general, you are referred to "examples" which > vary as much as the packages in the Debian archive. Maybe it's an idea to improve the avail

Re: DD packages overview vs bugs

2004-04-23 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ly the BTS has the correct info at the moment. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
s in any package. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
in full, the Packaging Manual in full? You really _need_ to have read them, and yes, it is much text. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:21:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:04:50PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > - This is probably not okay: > > > > | cd /tmp/l/libinklevel-0.6.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib && rm -fr libinklevel.so > > &

Re: RFS: for two orphaned packages

2004-05-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ig.{guess,sub} ." only works with bash. Use > "cp debian/config.guess debian/config.sub ." Also, better depend on autotools-dev, and copy them from /usr/share/misc/. That way, they are always uptodate. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: xfree86-driver-synaptics blocked by xserver-xfree86 on s390

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
him). It said: Adding xfree86-driver-synaptics makes 1 non-depending packages uninstallable on s390: xfree86-driver-synaptics But xfree86-driver-synaptics wasn't in testing to begin with (at least, afaics). Exact reason I don't understand (Sarge's X did have s390), but it doesn't ma

Re: xfree86-driver-synaptics blocked by xserver-xfree86 on s390

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
- it adds extra workload to ftp-master, which is unnecessary - it means two extra unnessesary uploads, causing extra load on the buildd's, again, quite unneeded --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: xfree86-driver-synaptics blocked by xserver-xfree86 on s390

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:03:38PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:50:09AM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > the subject[1] says it all, will it ever be an xserver-xfree86 for s390? > > otherwise I'd better chance

Re: RFS (kind of) and newbieish problem; TyopoytaORvelo System MOnitor

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
I (that is excluding the a with ) is allowed in debian/control, but if you're going to violate that (unwritten) rule (which is quite common and an understandable wish) you should use UTF-8. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
in unstable. I don't know exactly, but it might be that there is a potential problem closing bugs with the first upload (both are progressed to unstable simultaneously, and if the older one is refused because the newer one happens to get there first, it's bugs aren't closed). I'

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
it's running as root, it has to leave > > them alone -- it does not have permission to do anything else.) The shell never does anything with them. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpDni7XHqxip.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: leo -- a literate editor with outlines for X-Window

2004-05-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
f_path, '/leoConfig.leo')) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shutil.py", line 38, in copyfile fdst = open(dst, 'wb') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/leoConfig.leo' Which indicates to me leo is trying to write to the root filesystem. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpbONn4LfjSm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: leo -- a literate editor with outlines for X-Window

2004-05-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:08:51PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:04:05PM +0100, Xavier Antoviaque wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I try to use the convention proposed by Rob Bradford a few weeks ago. > > > > Package name

Re: RFS: leo -- a literate editor with outlines for X-Window

2004-05-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:24:16AM +0200, Xavier Antoviaque wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:08:51 +0200 > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some remarks, not that I'm not a Debian Developer (yet), but before > > leo can be included in Debian,

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Don't care about m.d.n, simply have your fixed version uploaded with the same version number. m.d.n is unoffical anyway, you in no way have to take care of proper upgrade paths at all. Disadvantage: in bugreports with reportbug, and for the user itself, it's hard to see whether the

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:26:05AM +0200, Remco Seesink wrote: > The manpage of dput doesn't help me with that. Any suggestions how to get > firebird_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz uploaded? -sa on dpkg-buildpackage (or debuild) See dpkg-buildpackage(1) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAI

Re: why are these packages in testing?

2004-06-07 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ed? 'today' means 'just before next mirror pulse', i.e., it will be gone after tonight. Testing scripts run just after a mirror pulse, and have effect only upon next one, so there generally is a delay of about 20 hours iirc. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
aining the package. No, this is plainly wrong, the version number an sich doesn't say anything about whether or not somebody in Debian is maintaining the package. Only the Maintainer: field of the latest package in sid days so, possibly with hints to future changes in wnpp. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: UTF-8 changelog?

2004-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
haracters, you'll need to do so in UTF-8, there is no real policy yet for this issue, but the consensus seems to be it becomes '_if_ you use non-7bit characters, those must be in UTF-8'. So in the latter case, write your name in debian/control in UTF-8 too. --Jeroen -- Jer

Re: UTF-8 changelog?

2004-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:36:14PM +, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: > A levelez?m azt hiszi, hogy Jeroen van Wolffelaar a k?vetkez?eket ?rta: > > > changelog, then lintian figured out that I do an NMU. So I also > > > converted control. > > > Use the -e'You

Re: How to use reportbug from inside a chroot?

2004-07-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
rks by relaying mail onwards via SMTP. Since you're in a chroot, you'll _need_ to use some kind of network socket to get mail out of the chroot -- having your MTA listen locally on 25 and use ssmtp is the staightforward way to do so. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

RFS: phpbb2 (security RC bug, one-time sponsorship of existing package)

2004-07-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:30:39 +0200 Source: phpbb2 Binary: phpbb2-languages phpbb2-conf-mysql phpbb2 Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.10-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
bugs tagged woody (and not sarge or sid) do in no way affect sarge's release, you can safely leave them around for documentation purposes (i.e., letting people know you're aware of the bug in woody, but that it won't be resolved in woody, so people won't file new bugs for it).

Re: out-of-date-standards-version

2004-08-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ractical effect. 3.6.1 has compared to 3.6.0 only a deprecation, with a 'should' (i.e., not 'must'), so you can safely put 3.6.1 and not lying. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

[jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
our <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "James Damour (Suvarov454)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:15:01 -0400 I apologize if you did not intend to have maintainers email you directly, but you didn't specify any o

Re: [jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
es in Debian referring to the debian policy, it is acceptable for contrib to FTBFS due to missing dependencies. Your package doesn't propagate to testing at the moment due to missing depends, but this issue is currently being worked on by Andreas Barth. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL

Re: [jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:03:40PM -0400, James Damour wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:31, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:26:21PM -0400, James Damour wrote: > > > It was my understanding from the Debian Java policy > > > (http://www.debia

Re: [jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-16 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:16:24AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > packages in contrib are allowed to FTBFS due to missing dependencies in > > Debian. You may close any FTBFS bugs on filler caused by missing java2 > I think this should

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
art being the latest MU), zero dots means MU, a property nice to have. Unfortunately, -3sarge1 sorts before -3.1, so if you want as maintainer to backport a NMU to sarge, you're out of luck for straightforward solutions. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: RFH lintian too hush

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
s new, experimental nature, it is only displayed when you enable informative checks, by means of lintian -I. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgp7xbD5fFAug.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
d consider are indeed -I, for some checks we didn't dare to enable by default, and -i, which will give you an explanation for each problem detected, possible with a hint how to fix it. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:08:54PM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Sunday 29 August 2004 11:50, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:44:57AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > I generally use > > > > > > $ lintian *.{deb,dsc,

Re: RFH lintian too hush

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Diverting to lintain-maint, where this is more appropriate... On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:26:13PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:26:35PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:10:21PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > &g

Re: seek for advice of package regexx

2004-09-12 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
bian libpcre library, your program will be smaller, both on disk and in memory (due to sharing with other programs using libpcre) And of course maintainability, you don't have to maintain the pcre code and can blaim^Wask the libpcre maintainer about any bugs in it :-) --Jeroen -- Jero

Re: Suggestions On Getting A Sponsor

2004-09-28 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
mple doesn't natively support multiple boards per package, but as maintainer I've patched it so it _does_ support it, with per-board configuration files. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Upgrade version of lostirc and pharmacy, need support

2004-09-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ders whether it's actually a good idea to have a single keystroke for 'feed to bayes and delete this message, and add to list of potential to-be-blacklisted people'. -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: Package Hijecking?

2004-11-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
package as you did is a mistake. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: DD packages overview vs bugs

2004-04-23 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ly the BTS has the correct info at the moment. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS (kind of) and newbieish problem; TyopoytaORvelo System MOnitor

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
I (that is excluding the a with ) is allowed in debian/control, but if you're going to violate that (unwritten) rule (which is quite common and an understandable wish) you should use UTF-8. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jero

Re: xfree86-driver-synaptics blocked by xserver-xfree86 on s390

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
him). It said: Adding xfree86-driver-synaptics makes 1 non-depending packages uninstallable on s390: xfree86-driver-synaptics But xfree86-driver-synaptics wasn't in testing to begin with (at least, afaics). Exact reason I don't understand (Sarge's X did have s390), but it doesn't ma

Re: xfree86-driver-synaptics blocked by xserver-xfree86 on s390

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
- it adds extra workload to ftp-master, which is unnecessary - it means two extra unnessesary uploads, causing extra load on the buildd's, again, quite unneeded --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xfree86-driver-synaptics blocked by xserver-xfree86 on s390

2004-05-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 12:03:38PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 09:50:09AM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > the subject[1] says it all, will it ever be an xserver-xfree86 for s390? > > otherwise I'd better chance

Re: RFS: for two orphaned packages

2004-05-10 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ig.{guess,sub} ." only works with bash. Use > "cp debian/config.guess debian/config.sub ." Also, better depend on autotools-dev, and copy them from /usr/share/misc/. That way, they are always uptodate. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
s in any package. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
in full, the Packaging Manual in full? You really _need_ to have read them, and yes, it is much text. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: One source package and more then 1 deb

2004-05-01 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:21:01PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 03:04:50PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > - This is probably not okay: > > > > | cd /tmp/l/libinklevel-0.6.2/debian/tmp/usr/lib && rm -fr libinklevel.so &&

Re: Upload of a new package

2004-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
in unstable. I don't know exactly, but it might be that there is a potential problem closing bugs with the first upload (both are progressed to unstable simultaneously, and if the older one is refused because the newer one happens to get there first, it's bugs aren't closed). I'

Re: setgid-wrapper

2004-05-19 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
it's running as root, it has to leave > > them alone -- it does not have permission to do anything else.) The shell never does anything with them. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpQo9E2KojBd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: leo -- a literate editor with outlines for X-Window

2004-05-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
f_path, '/leoConfig.leo')) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shutil.py", line 38, in copyfile fdst = open(dst, 'wb') IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/leoConfig.leo' Which indicates to me leo is trying to write to the root filesystem. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgp86BNIqS1U4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: leo -- a literate editor with outlines for X-Window

2004-05-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:08:51PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 08:04:05PM +0100, Xavier Antoviaque wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I try to use the convention proposed by Rob Bradford a few weeks ago. > > > > Package name

Re: RFS: leo -- a literate editor with outlines for X-Window

2004-05-24 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:24:16AM +0200, Xavier Antoviaque wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2004 22:08:51 +0200 > Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some remarks, not that I'm not a Debian Developer (yet), but before > > leo can be included in Debian,

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Don't care about m.d.n, simply have your fixed version uploaded with the same version number. m.d.n is unoffical anyway, you in no way have to take care of proper upgrade paths at all. Disadvantage: in bugreports with reportbug, and for the user itself, it's hard to see whether the

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 04:26:05AM +0200, Remco Seesink wrote: > The manpage of dput doesn't help me with that. Any suggestions how to get > firebird_1.0.3.orig.tar.gz uploaded? -sa on dpkg-buildpackage (or debuild) See dpkg-buildpackage(1) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAI

Re: why are these packages in testing?

2004-06-07 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ed? 'today' means 'just before next mirror pulse', i.e., it will be gone after tonight. Testing scripts run just after a mirror pulse, and have effect only upon next one, so there generally is a delay of about 20 hours iirc. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

2004-06-08 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
aining the package. No, this is plainly wrong, the version number an sich doesn't say anything about whether or not somebody in Debian is maintaining the package. Only the Maintainer: field of the latest package in sid days so, possibly with hints to future changes in wnpp. --Jeroen -- Je

Re: UTF-8 changelog?

2004-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
haracters, you'll need to do so in UTF-8, there is no real policy yet for this issue, but the consensus seems to be it becomes '_if_ you use non-7bit characters, those must be in UTF-8'. So in the latter case, write your name in debian/control in UTF-8 too. --Jeroen -- Jer

Re: UTF-8 changelog?

2004-06-11 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:36:14PM +, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote: > A levelez?m azt hiszi, hogy Jeroen van Wolffelaar a k?vetkez?eket ?rta: > > > changelog, then lintian figured out that I do an NMU. So I also > > > converted control. > > > Use the -e'You

Re: How to use reportbug from inside a chroot?

2004-07-06 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
rks by relaying mail onwards via SMTP. Since you're in a chroot, you'll _need_ to use some kind of network socket to get mail out of the chroot -- having your MTA listen locally on 25 and use ssmtp is the staightforward way to do so. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED

RFS: phpbb2 (security RC bug, one-time sponsorship of existing package)

2004-07-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 23:30:39 +0200 Source: phpbb2 Binary: phpbb2-languages phpbb2-conf-mysql phpbb2 Architecture: source all Version: 2.0.10-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to retire a bug tagged wontfix,woody?

2004-08-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
bugs tagged woody (and not sarge or sid) do in no way affect sarge's release, you can safely leave them around for documentation purposes (i.e., letting people know you're aware of the bug in woody, but that it won't be resolved in woody, so people won't file new bugs for it).

Re: out-of-date-standards-version

2004-08-03 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
ractical effect. 3.6.1 has compared to 3.6.0 only a deprecation, with a 'should' (i.e., not 'must'), so you can safely put 3.6.1 and not lying. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSU

[jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
our <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "James Damour (Suvarov454)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 11:15:01 -0400 I apologize if you did not intend to have maintainers email you directly, but you didn't specify any o

Re: [jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
es in Debian referring to the debian policy, it is acceptable for contrib to FTBFS due to missing dependencies. Your package doesn't propagate to testing at the moment due to missing depends, but this issue is currently being worked on by Andreas Barth. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL

Re: [jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-15 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 06:03:40PM -0400, James Damour wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 17:31, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:26:21PM -0400, James Damour wrote: > > > It was my understanding from the Debian Java policy > > > (http://www.debia

Re: [jdamour@nycap.rr.com: Re: Please help sorting out which sid updates need to make sarge]

2004-08-16 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 09:16:24AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > packages in contrib are allowed to FTBFS due to missing dependencies in > > Debian. You may close any FTBFS bugs on filler caused by missing java2 > I think this should

Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

2004-08-25 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
art being the latest MU), zero dots means MU, a property nice to have. Unfortunately, -3sarge1 sorts before -3.1, so if you want as maintainer to backport a NMU to sarge, you're out of luck for straightforward solutions. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber &

Re: RFH lintian too hush

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
s new, experimental nature, it is only displayed when you enable informative checks, by means of lintian -I. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl pgpkOzyKeOO0m.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
d consider are indeed -I, for some checks we didn't dare to enable by default, and -i, which will give you an explanation for each problem detected, possible with a hint how to fix it. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

Re: RFH Re: conglomerate_0.7.14-2_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:08:54PM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Sunday 29 August 2004 11:50, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:44:57AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > I generally use > > > > > > $ lintian *.{deb,dsc,

Re: RFH lintian too hush

2004-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Diverting to lintain-maint, where this is more appropriate... On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:26:13PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:26:35PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 05:10:21PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > &g

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