Re: Problems when packaging KTrack for Debian unstable

2003-07-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:44:31PM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote: > transponderdefinitionwidget.cpp: In constructor ` >transponderDefinitionWidget::transponderDefinitionWidget(QWidget*, const >char*, unsigned int)': > transponderdefinitionwidget.cpp:46: error: invalid use of undefined type ` >

Re: building unstable packages with stable

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:05:24PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I'm using sourceforge's compile farm and I'd like to know how to use it to > compile packages for unstable. They use woody. I also have an account on > HP's testdrive systems. Bad idea. Your packages' first point of entry is uns

Re: What are the options on control?

2003-07-31 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:53:42PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I and some friends of mine stated doing some packages for Debian. The > packages are all OK, but there are some things that we would like to know: > What are the options or alternatives that I can put on Section: of the > fi

Re: Problems when packaging KTrack for Debian unstable

2003-08-01 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:59:26AM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote: > I have found part of the error... > KPustButton (at kpushbutton.h), as you said below is in kdelibs4-dev package. > The problem is that the file that should have the "#include " > is automatically generated during building using "uic"

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-12 Thread Joshua Kwan
ove the .ex. I suggest that instead of using newmaint as your bible, source a few simple packages and look at how they do things. -- Joshua Kwan pgpSt7F67YqDB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Joshua Kwan
t; /etc/resolv.conf This could be determined based on ps ax | grep cardmgr or something. It is not necessary to ask a debconf question about it, I think. As for the others, I think they're ok, except that the notice should be priority low. -- Joshua Kwan pgpTV9YdLj9mU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
; just missed it. apt-get install devscripts -- Joshua Kwan pgpHY4qAPj0Em.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: versions of packages no longer in any distribution

2003-08-29 Thread Joshua Kwan
> (opensp-1.5release-3). The source (.dsc and .diff.gz) is fine, I don't need > the binary. Have you tried snapshot.debian.net? All you have to know is when that version was updated, so long as that version was ever in the archive. -- Joshua Kwan pgpYIAq9CAN2c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First Packages

2003-09-03 Thread Joshua Kwan
I digress; I suggest you take a smaller package (hey! adopt a few orphaned or RFA'd packages.. *hint wmweather+ hint*) first so you can learn the ropes of bug tracking and package building completely. Then perhaps you can try a more enterprising venture, mozilla-calendarward. -- Joshua Kwan pgp9qAb3jlUwS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
ope maybe this can help you with your debian/rules wrangling with regards to running configure. Also watch out for the warnings that dpkg-source is giving you. Those look rather ominous. -- Joshua Kwan pgpyX0AwdlQUM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
you need, I can post the whole file, but as mentioned there's no > configure-stamp, dependency or target. Maybe that could help. What about just the whole Debian source you're working with? Then maybe we could get cooking. -- Joshua Kwan pgpJsfC6VM8Vh.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-05 Thread Joshua Kwan
obably nothing did, so you can just safely bump the Standards-Version. -- Joshua Kwan pgp1nsrt9OVfa.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb

2003-11-06 Thread Joshua Kwan
... of course, one could consider > patching lintian, but for the moment I'll stick to getting fastdep done. Geez, slow down! :P Today fastdep, tomorrow... the world? -- Joshua Kwan pgplioIVOJDy4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Joshua Kwan
cal machine; just FYI. -- Joshua Kwan pgpgwQejP1Dz9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: loop-aes (#111167)

2003-11-20 Thread Joshua Kwan
umes that ^^^ > were created by a cryptoapi (kerneli.org) module. encrypted, but otherwise pretty good.. As for the util-linux incompatibility, a Replaces: is the first solution that comes to mind.. -- Joshua Kwan pgp1qSKq45iNc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Best Way to Fix Package Icon

2003-11-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
, nuke it from within debian/rules. IMHO the best way because you don't mess with the upstream source quite as much. -- Joshua Kwan pgpqbqRDOJUuA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: making frottle package

2003-12-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
because I am getting the error, but not sure > what the _right_ way to do this is? The best way is to provide corrected versions of the header in the package source, and change the affected files to include them instead of the ones on the system. -- Joshua Kwan pgpDjovWJ8O3O.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: adoption of irssi debian package

2003-12-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
hat bug (211995) with a subject: ITA: irssi -- IRC file distribution bot nope, $ echo "retitle 211995 ITA: iroffer -- IRC file distribution bot" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope it works out. P.S. please wrap your mailer at 72 characters, thanks -- Joshua Kwan pgp3jc0xQ9n51.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
usr/bin/additional. >My advocate suggested a different solution; is it legal to write > something >like: > > .so /usr/share//additional.1 > > in a man page ? What solution would be cleaner to adopt ? Sure, why not? but maybe the section 1 isn't ne

Re: Debian diff / Debian Policy (-dev)

2003-12-20 Thread Joshua Kwan
> will only look for libgdbm.so when compiling dynamically." This is because people do 'gcc -lgdbm' and not 'gcc /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3.0.0' in general. > -Why is ld only looking for libgdm.so when it's compiled dynamically? Because that's the simplest way of doing things :P -- Joshua Kwan pgptcdFYeR34Y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS [2]: naim - a console, ncurses AIM, ICQ, and lily client

2003-12-23 Thread Joshua Kwan
/lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200312/msg7.html [2] http://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php -- Joshua Kwan pgpDxLGV1l9A7.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cpufreqd braindamaged versions

2004-01-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
y 1:*, and so on. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: wmbatteries

2004-01-05 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:00:31PM +0100, Roberto Cioffi wrote: > It's a dockapp for windowmaker that shows acpi information read from > proc filesystem. How's this better than wmbattery which is already in the archive? -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: albumize, an mp3 organizing tool

2004-01-11 Thread Joshua Kwan
a large portion of people with gigantic music collections from the user base of this program :) To put it in other words, it should (more or less) be a command line version of easytag, which is available in the archive. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Why is debconf not preconfiguring?

2004-02-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
e config script only seems to get run during the postinst. How does apt determine whether to do a 'Preconfiguring packages...' or not? I'm stumped. Another package of mine does get Preconfigured, but I fail to see how it differs from ircd-hybrid. Completely stumped, -- Joshua Kw

Re: RFS: xhangglider package uploaded to mentors

2004-02-17 Thread Joshua Kwan
sted a patch to #192923 - seems to work and you should apply it I think. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: xhangglider package uploaded to mentors

2004-02-17 Thread Joshua Kwan
ably wouldn't justify repacking. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need a Sponsor to upload #157749 - WNPP - 2vcard

2004-02-22 Thread Joshua Kwan
nks ^D -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need a Sponsor to upload #157749 - WNPP - 2vcard

2004-02-22 Thread Joshua Kwan
ected. I don't think owner existed until recently, right? -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: disk full on m.d.o?

2004-06-27 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:50:16 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > You probably want this message sent to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. But if the disk is full no one will see the message... -- Joshua Kwan

Re: disk full on m.d.o?

2004-06-27 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:50:16 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > You probably want this message sent to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. But if the disk is full no one will see the message... -- Joshua Kwan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
Hi all, Using DH_COMPAT=2 in my rules and calling dh_shlibdeps -a.. however, it does nothing! It creates a single substvars file if DH_COMPAT is unset. I don't think this is default dh_shlibdeps behavior. My package is multiple-binary. Right now i have just forgone dh_shlibdeps and I'm using t

Re: DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:45:51PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > This may be a stupid question, but why do you use such a low DH_COMPAT > setting? I read somewhere that it was good for multiple binary packages, but I just read the debhelper manpage and I'm using DH_COMPAT=4 now. Still the sam

Re: DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:37:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > At a guess you may not have any elf binaries installed into > debian//; maybe you're installing into debian/tmp instead. No, if you were watching #debian-devel you know what I did wrong :) (ran shlibdeps/strip before dh_install.) Re

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: > In previous versions of ulog-acctd, I solved the problem by shipping > ipt_ULOG.h in the .diff, but my AM Andrew Suffield told me that this > is an ugly hack -- and I really have to agree. A slightly more elegant way is to bdep on dpa

Re: What to do if $PACKAGE needs $ACCOUNT to _build_

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:30:11AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Which is what my package already does, but it does not even build with > the account not present. I am very unsure about handling this. Just kill the parts of the Makefile that insist on the chowning, and after adding the user in postin

Re: checking dependencies

2003-06-13 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:03:09AM +0200, francesco levorato wrote: > i used the following script as suggested from the nm-guide to realize > which packages the application i am going to configure is going to > depend on: Why not use dpkg-checkbuilddeps? Regards Josh -- New PGP public key: 0x27

Re: MusiXTeX

2003-06-14 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:17:18AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > I'm pretty sure that NMUs shouldn't close bugs themselves - reference the > bug in the changelog, that's all well and good, but don't close the bug. > Only the maintainer should close bugs. Tag all bugs you've fixed as being > fixe

Re: gimp-print/cupsys migration to testing

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:40:35PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: > > > > cupsys | 1.1.19final-1 | testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, > > m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > > cupsys | 1.1.19final-1 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, > > m68k, m

Re: Looking for a sponsor for levee

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:43:11AM +0200, Tim Vandermeersch wrote: > If you are interested you can take a look at the packages I made at the following > URL: > http://users.pandora.be/tim/debian/ It looks nice on first glance, i've never used the program though :) > One last question: Do I need

Re: Package adopt

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:02:38PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > You also need to subcribe to various debian lists. In particular, you > must subscribe to debian-devel. Bzzt, only debian-devel-announce is required. -Josh -- "Notice that, written there, rather legibly, in the Baroque s

Re: Problems when packaging KTrack for Debian unstable

2003-07-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:44:31PM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote: > transponderdefinitionwidget.cpp: In constructor ` >transponderDefinitionWidget::transponderDefinitionWidget(QWidget*, const >char*, unsigned int)': > transponderdefinitionwidget.cpp:46: error: invalid use of undefined type ` >

Re: building unstable packages with stable

2003-07-30 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:05:24PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I'm using sourceforge's compile farm and I'd like to know how to use it to > compile packages for unstable. They use woody. I also have an account on > HP's testdrive systems. Bad idea. Your packages' first point of entry is uns

Re: What are the options on control?

2003-07-31 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:53:42PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > I and some friends of mine stated doing some packages for Debian. The > packages are all OK, but there are some things that we would like to know: > What are the options or alternatives that I can put on Section: of the > fi

Re: Problems when packaging KTrack for Debian unstable

2003-08-01 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:59:26AM +0200, Jaime Robles wrote: > I have found part of the error... > KPustButton (at kpushbutton.h), as you said below is in kdelibs4-dev package. > The problem is that the file that should have the "#include " > is automatically generated during building using "uic"

Re: newbie packaging question

2003-08-14 Thread Joshua Kwan
ove the .ex. I suggest that instead of using newmaint as your bible, source a few simple packages and look at how they do things. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: When to use debconf, and how much?

2003-08-23 Thread Joshua Kwan
t; /etc/resolv.conf This could be determined based on ps ax | grep cardmgr or something. It is not necessary to ask a debconf question about it, I think. As for the others, I think they're ok, except that the notice should be priority low. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: can't install from a local repository - success!!!

2003-08-27 Thread Joshua Kwan
; just missed it. apt-get install devscripts -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: versions of packages no longer in any distribution

2003-08-30 Thread Joshua Kwan
> (opensp-1.5release-3). The source (.dsc and .diff.gz) is fine, I don't need > the binary. Have you tried snapshot.debian.net? All you have to know is when that version was updated, so long as that version was ever in the archive. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First Packages

2003-09-02 Thread Joshua Kwan
I digress; I suggest you take a smaller package (hey! adopt a few orphaned or RFA'd packages.. *hint wmweather+ hint*) first so you can learn the ropes of bug tracking and package building completely. Then perhaps you can try a more enterprising venture, mozilla-calendarward. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
ope maybe this can help you with your debian/rules wrangling with regards to running configure. Also watch out for the warnings that dpkg-source is giving you. Those look rather ominous. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
you need, I can post the whole file, but as mentioned there's no > configure-stamp, dependency or target. Maybe that could help. What about just the whole Debian source you're working with? Then maybe we could get cooking. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-05 Thread Joshua Kwan
obably nothing did, so you can just safely bump the Standards-Version. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb

2003-11-06 Thread Joshua Kwan
... of course, one could consider > patching lintian, but for the moment I'll stick to getting fastdep done. Geez, slow down! :P Today fastdep, tomorrow... the world? -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: msmtp, wmnetload, wmwifi

2003-11-20 Thread Joshua Kwan
cal machine; just FYI. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: loop-aes (#111167)

2003-11-20 Thread Joshua Kwan
umes that ^^^ > were created by a cryptoapi (kerneli.org) module. encrypted, but otherwise pretty good.. As for the util-linux incompatibility, a Replaces: is the first solution that comes to mind.. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Best Way to Fix Package Icon

2003-11-26 Thread Joshua Kwan
, nuke it from within debian/rules. IMHO the best way because you don't mess with the upstream source quite as much. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: making frottle package

2003-12-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
because I am getting the error, but not sure > what the _right_ way to do this is? The best way is to provide corrected versions of the header in the package source, and change the affected files to include them instead of the ones on the system. -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: adoption of irssi debian package

2003-12-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
g > (211995) with a subject: ITA: irssi -- IRC file distribution bot nope, $ echo "retitle 211995 ITA: iroffer -- IRC file distribution bot" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope it works out. P.S. please wrap your mailer at 72 characters, thanks -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Splitting man pages

2003-12-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
/bin/additional. >My advocate suggested a different solution; is it legal to write something >like: > > .so /usr/share//additional.1 > > in a man page ? What solution would be cleaner to adopt ? Sure, why not? but maybe the section 1 isn't needed... --

Re: Debian diff / Debian Policy (-dev)

2003-12-20 Thread Joshua Kwan
> will only look for libgdbm.so when compiling dynamically." This is because people do 'gcc -lgdbm' and not 'gcc /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3.0.0' in general. > -Why is ld only looking for libgdm.so when it's compiled dynamically? Because that's the simplest way of doing things :P -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS [2]: naim - a console, ncurses AIM, ICQ, and lily client

2003-12-22 Thread Joshua Kwan
/lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/debian-devel-announce-200312/msg7.html [2] http://nm.debian.org/gpg_offer.php -- Joshua Kwan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: cpufreqd braindamaged versions

2004-01-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
y 1:*, and so on. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: wmbatteries

2004-01-05 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:00:31PM +0100, Roberto Cioffi wrote: > It's a dockapp for windowmaker that shows acpi information read from > proc filesystem. How's this better than wmbattery which is already in the archive? -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: albumize, an mp3 organizing tool

2004-01-11 Thread Joshua Kwan
a large portion of people with gigantic music collections from the user base of this program :) To put it in other words, it should (more or less) be a command line version of easytag, which is available in the archive. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Why is debconf not preconfiguring?

2004-02-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
e config script only seems to get run during the postinst. How does apt determine whether to do a 'Preconfiguring packages...' or not? I'm stumped. Another package of mine does get Preconfigured, but I fail to see how it differs from ircd-hybrid. Completely stumped, -- Joshua Kw

Re: RFS: xhangglider package uploaded to mentors

2004-02-17 Thread Joshua Kwan
sted a patch to #192923 - seems to work and you should apply it I think. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: xhangglider package uploaded to mentors

2004-02-17 Thread Joshua Kwan
ably wouldn't justify repacking. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need a Sponsor to upload #157749 - WNPP - 2vcard

2004-02-22 Thread Joshua Kwan
nks ^D -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Need a Sponsor to upload #157749 - WNPP - 2vcard

2004-02-22 Thread Joshua Kwan
ected. I don't think owner existed until recently, right? -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
Hi all, Using DH_COMPAT=2 in my rules and calling dh_shlibdeps -a.. however, it does nothing! It creates a single substvars file if DH_COMPAT is unset. I don't think this is default dh_shlibdeps behavior. My package is multiple-binary. Right now i have just forgone dh_shlibdeps and I'm using t

Re: DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:45:51PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > This may be a stupid question, but why do you use such a low DH_COMPAT > setting? I read somewhere that it was good for multiple binary packages, but I just read the debhelper manpage and I'm using DH_COMPAT=4 now. Still the sam

Re: DH_COMPAT=2 and dh_shlibdeps

2003-02-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:37:09PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > At a guess you may not have any elf binaries installed into > debian//; maybe you're installing into debian/tmp instead. No, if you were watching #debian-devel you know what I did wrong :) (ran shlibdeps/strip before dh_install.) Re

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 04:32:56PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: > In previous versions of ulog-acctd, I solved the problem by shipping > ipt_ULOG.h in the .diff, but my AM Andrew Suffield told me that this > is an ugly hack -- and I really have to agree. A slightly more elegant way is to bdep on dpa

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-06 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 12:42:12AM +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: > How would I convert a "Debian native" package into a "normal" one (having > used dh_make to produce the original "native" package)? Best way is to plop the original tarball below your build directory as sourcepackagename_upstreamve

Re: Architecture-Independent MIME package entry and linda

2003-04-07 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:13:02PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote: > > > I get this same error with a .so symlink in a -dev package, which is clearly > > architecture-independent and definitely belongs in the -dev under /usr/lib/. > > Wh

Re: Can somebody upload my update, please?

2003-04-22 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 07:31:53AM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the maintainer of sitemap, and I've got an update. It is lintian > and linda clean, and I don't believe it's ready for upload. It's > available at um, deja vu? and why do you not think it's ready for upload? Regards,

Re: drinking

2003-04-25 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:55:50PM -0400, Anthony Hurd wrote: > I plan to go get wasted tomorrow night, > burn down a few buildings, and raise some > heck. Anyone want to join me? Where do you live? -Josh -- New PGP public key: 0x27AFC3EE pgpZa4YY3EFcd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator

2003-04-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 08:11:22PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote: > qbrew uses a configure script and compiles nearly out of the box -- so as an > experienced developer, you shouldn't have any difficulties in packaging ^^^ > yourse

Re: Example package with doc packages using debhelper?

2003-04-29 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 04:09:26PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote: > I have Bug #181453 (binary-all packages built in binary-arch rules target) > against my package (OpenSLP). I tried using the example in > /usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debianm but ran into some trouble. Before I > spend more time on this

Re: aag - wrapper for apt-get with support for recommend and suggests field

2003-04-29 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:35:28PM -0500, EspeonEefi wrote: > Did you get this from the line in the topic of #debian @ > irc.freenode.net? I jumped as well at first, but the apt that's MIA is > the bot in that channel, not the program in sid, I think. This is true. "use dpkg for now" means use t

Re: Testing of auto-built packages

2003-04-30 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:18:54PM +1000, Berin Lautenbach wrote: > So the question is, is it permissable to put such a basic test of a > library into the rules file that gets executed as part of the build > process? If so, are there any guidelines anywhere as to how one might > go about doing

Re: shared libraries compiled with g++ 2.95 in testing

2003-05-02 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 06:08:06PM -0400, Morgon Kanter wrote: > It seems that g++ 3.2 is the new default compiler for testing (as > evidenced by the recent update of the dependencies for the dummy package > "gcc"). Is there going to be a time when all the C++ libraries are going > to be recompi

Re: Getting hostname

2003-05-04 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 07:34:48PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote: > I want to package a tool. In a shell-script I need access to a hostname > belonging to a given IP. If the package host is installed I get: [snip] A possibility is to use perl, it has a easily accessible gethostbyname implementation.

Re: RFS: Freebirth

2003-05-11 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:38:04AM +0300, Niklas Vainio wrote: > I couldn't find any documentation about different package urgencies. Should > this package be something else than "low" because it fixes an Important bug? That would go under 'low', I think, and the tip is somewhere in devref, IIRC.

Re: What to do if $PACKAGE needs $ACCOUNT to _build_

2003-06-09 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:30:11AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Which is what my package already does, but it does not even build with > the account not present. I am very unsure about handling this. Just kill the parts of the Makefile that insist on the chowning, and after adding the user in postin

Re: checking dependencies

2003-06-13 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:03:09AM +0200, francesco levorato wrote: > i used the following script as suggested from the nm-guide to realize > which packages the application i am going to configure is going to > depend on: Why not use dpkg-checkbuilddeps? Regards Josh -- New PGP public key: 0x27

Re: MusiXTeX

2003-06-14 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 10:17:18AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > I'm pretty sure that NMUs shouldn't close bugs themselves - reference the > bug in the changelog, that's all well and good, but don't close the bug. > Only the maintainer should close bugs. Tag all bugs you've fixed as being > fixe

Re: gimp-print/cupsys migration to testing

2003-06-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:40:35PM +0200, Johannes Rohr wrote: > > > > cupsys | 1.1.19final-1 | testing | source, alpha, arm, hppa, > > i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc > > cupsys | 1.1.19final-1 | unstable | source, alpha, arm, hppa, > > i386, ia64, m68k, m

Re: Looking for a sponsor for levee

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:43:11AM +0200, Tim Vandermeersch wrote: > If you are interested you can take a look at the packages I made at the > following URL: > http://users.pandora.be/tim/debian/ It looks nice on first glance, i've never used the program though :) > One last question: Do I need

Re: Package adopt

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:02:38PM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: > You also need to subcribe to various debian lists. In particular, you > must subscribe to debian-devel. Bzzt, only debian-devel-announce is required. -Josh -- "Notice that, written there, rather legibly, in the Baroque s