Re: setting section for a non-US package

ns in non-US at present, so the policy is not in agreement with practice. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Build-Depends?

o that one can deduce all packages which were used, but that doesn't yet exist. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http

Re: multi binaries packages.

do this ? Make the packages conflict with each other. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free

Re: Bug manipulation

ug)?\#\s*\d+(?:,\s*(?:bug)?\#\s*\d+)*/ig HTH, Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Don

Re: Bladenc Debian Package

n the debian-policy) package - your package doesn't give any lintian errors and preferably no warnings either Good luck! Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EM

Re: Bladenc Debian Package

nce for any announcements on this matter. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: changelog and copyright files

n. How can this > happen? What WWW page? And is it possibly referring to the slink or potato distribution, or is it perhaps a cached copy you were looking at? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ.

Re: What is the package dpkg-iwj?

ums things up. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Debian package && New developer question

ploaded the packages and other files to: > http://www.stone.nu/debian/dl/ Have you also checked the package with lintian? It might pick up other common errors which you might have made. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gil

Re: dh_installinfo not created postinst entry

following replacement for the above would give more appropriate behaviour: if ($file !~ /-\d+$/ && ! $dh{NOSCRIPTS}) { Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to get mails out of the BTS?

nt to the original file? Have a look at the metamail program. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: dependency question

ng as python-gnome has the correct dependencies.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: is this RC?

itions. So upload and ensure that you make it clear in the changelog that (a) There's no new code (b) This is to fix a file corruption problem that prevented compiling from source Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilb

Re: InterBase update

gt; /usr/lib. We install our libraries directly in /usr/lib. > > > > Classic: > > > > /usr/lib/libgds.a > > /usr/lib/libgds.so -> libgds.so.0 > > /usr/lib/libgds.so.0 > > /usr/lib/libgds_pyxis.a > > /usr/lib/ib_util.so > > > >

Re: Location of on-line help files

Somewhere in /usr/share/doc/ if they're intended to be readable as stand-alone documentation, otherwise /usr/share/. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug report address

nt to Debian's bug tracking system and returned since > the package isnät in there? Not as far as I know. But it would be a useful enhancement, especially if the number of "foreign" .debs increases. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: gpg couldn't import pgp keys

nupg/options. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: gpg couldn't import pgp keys

to sign, I import it into my personal keyring. I never feel the need to delete a key from my copy of the Debian keyring; why would I? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpg couldn't import pgp keys

ing funny. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: gpg couldn't import pgp keys

Package: gnupg Version: 1.0.1-2 [Forwarding to BTS] On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:50:47PM -0400, Chad Miller wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 10:22:49AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > It's possible that GPG reads the keyrings in the reverse order to that > > in which they are l

Re: Describing complex Depends - How?

lt;= 0.1.25) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Packaging a shared library

bly want to be storing your library in /usr/lib/libsafe/libsafe.0.0. HTH, Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Packaging a shared library

ember to delete it in the prerm! Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Packaging a shared library

rking, they may be willing to let you do it. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free

Re: Becoming Debian Developer without a package

ages linked to from http://www.debian.org/devel/. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: NM : Dale Scheetz : is NM working fine ?

n details if you are not receiving anything! Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donat

Re: NM : Dale Scheetz : is NM working fine ?

On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 11:30:07AM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>I get all my nm-admin mail through the gated nm-discuss list, and it > >>has *not* been quiet. Please check yo

Re: the current nm- list (Re: NM : Dale Scheetz : is NM working fine ?)

time being? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: the current nm- list (Re: NM : Dale Scheetz : is NM working fine ?)

; > Why not have it among the other lists at lists.debian.org? We're waiting for the listmasters to create the list at lists.debian.org. As soon as they have time, it will be done. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gi

Re: How to convince debuild to produce the .diff.gz?

e package. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: How to convince debuild to produce the .diff.gz?

rmation is in the New Maintainers' Guide. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food

Re: Uploading a new package....

(or similar). Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Uploading a new package....

b in the debian/control file, and foobar (1.2-3) unstable; urgency=low in debian/changelog. Does that help? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Li

Re: Bug#67896: Support patch for dh_builddeps

equire hand modification anyway. (Also, there may be a need for version number listing.) All that this buys you is the list of packages which were used (which is, admittedly, very useful). Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gi

Re: Installed ld.so.preload-manager 0.3.2-2 (source i386)

hich bug report to close. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hun

Re: source and binary versioning

But then you must remember to update *both* changelogs when you do an upload. How you use two changelogs depends on whether you are using a helper package or whatever. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Uni

Re: update-alternatives

--auto" to revert to auto mode. Until that happens, the sysadmin's choices of alternatives are not affected by any installation or removal of alternatives by maintainer scripts. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey,

Re: Version numbers with dates

> that works, why are the KDE packages using an epoch (4) instead of just > 2.0-DATE-DEBIANRELEASE? I'd rather use VERSION-DATE-DEBIANRELEASE if it will > work everywhere. Epochs are just for when things go wrong. Read the packaging manual, section 5, carefully. Julian -- =

Re: A case for Pre-Depends?

was only installed to satisfy a dependency, so prompts to suggest its removal Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: What to do during the NM wait?

u to the list? Julian (current fvwm maintainer) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: splitting a package into several debs

e/doc/debhelper/examples for some ideas. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to

Re: new maintainer needing some fast help

ludes both orphaned packages and other packages which are still maintained but which the maintainer wishes to hand on to someone else. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Big-endian

he problem is that it > lacks some key software (like gdb) that would be nice for debugging... > > Who do I contact? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMA

Re: Build problem with `debuild -rsudo' and LD_LIBRARY_PATH

ection "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES". Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: metamail: wishlist bug

nd out what happens to these tmp files. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: orig.tar.gz

hanged, but the docs haven't been updated. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://www.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: How do I fix a wrong maintainer entry in a package?

ield indicating me. What is the proper way to fix this? Upload a corrected version. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http:/

Re: Not overwriting tarfile with dpkg-buildpackage?

option to dpkg-buildpackage. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

n. (Details were posted to -private.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: When is DAM approval supposed to happen?

reason I posted the answer I did was to help such people without divulging the information posted to -private. (Feel free to check the archives once you're through the process!) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilb

Re: ITP bug closing

changelog if the upload fixes the bug (ii) Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] with an explanatory message. This can also be done instead of (i) once the package has been uploaded, but (i) is the preferred way to do it in this case nowadays. Julian -- =-=-=-=-

Re: dpkg-statoverride sucks

sn't break it, though! dpkg-statoverride is only for the sysadmin to change things *from* their normal settings. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debi

Re: Installing symbolic links

.deb created correctly by the make install? Or am I missing something? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

t this is really dangerous, so the default is non-suid, but the sysadmin could choose to change it if desired. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Develo

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 03:58:24PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Julian Gilbey: > > > But in cases where the only meaningful installation was suid or sgid (for > > example, /bin/su), the deb always held a suid or sgid binary. > > Hmmm, so my use of suidregister/dpkg-st

Re: deleting uploads via queue

es on ftp-master. (I don't off-hand remember where they are kept, though.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://peo

Re: deleting uploads via queue

ackages that has never before been > in debian (except for incoming, obviously)? Yes, and send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to say what you've done and why. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Math

Re: dh_suidregister -> ?

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 07:11:31AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Julian Gilbey: > > > If the binary must be setgid, then you should just chown/chmod the > > binary. If it could be used not-setgid, then use statoverride. > > It can be used non-setgid if the sysadmin is

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

oad a new version. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: How to move package from main to contrib

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 05:43:51PM +, James Troup wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I have packaged vpopmail and put it into main section of Debian. Then > > > somebody reported that it depends on qmail and hence it should be moved >

Re: dpkg-statoverride and creating users in postinst

added the override or the package has. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free fo

Re: Could someone clarify dpkg-statoverride please? (Was Re: dpkg-statoverride and creating users in postinst)

command, and then that becomes the default from then on. Dpkg will automatically examine the statoverride file every time a package is installed to see whether there are any local statoverrides; you don't need to do anything in your maintainer scripts any longer. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Build-Depends

d apply to the depends line. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Build-Depends

will still know what to do with > /my/ package. That is absolutely correct, and what policy dictates on this matter. > If, OTOH, you only need B because A is linked to it, then only A belongs in > your Build-Depends list. Correct. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Package checking

endencies depends on them. The reason is that dependencies change, and you should list only those _you_ need. What others need is their business. Hopefully this will answer your question. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: /etc/ question

maintainer scripts are run. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world

Re: I can't sign .dsc file

a look at the debsign docs! Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Policy and conffile editing

ve bugs filed against them. Because otherwise, every time the package is upgraded, the sysadmin will be asked to check the changes unnecessarily. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Uni

Re: /etc/ question

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:42:38PM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:57:33PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > in your preinst, check for /etc/foo and if it exists, mkdir /etc/package

Re: /etc/ question

py in the preinst, remove the old one in the postinst (with "configure" argument). That'll do the job. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Package checking

-dev, because these packages are both *explicitly* required by the build. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: dh_installdeb & postrm

EBHELPER# line in them. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: /etc/ question

s and the new conffile is left in place; you may not even need to worry about error unwinding. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Dev

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

s, indeed, the best way to handle such situations. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

tted a proposal to -policy about this, cc'd to this list. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Bug#87711: [PROPOSAL] Clarification of example configuration files

utomatically copied to -policy, so that this doesn't get discussed on three mailing lists. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

as far as I know. > > > Where in the goddamned hell did you interpret that I said files in > /usr/share/doc/* should be included in conffiles ?!??!?!? > No, he misunderstood me, not you. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

to do. Good for new packages to be upgrade-ready. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > I talked about the doc section of policy (13.3), Julian Gilbey started > talking about config files; hence the logical implication for the > sufficiently argumentative (me): Julian Gilbey was talking about config > files

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 02:18:39PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:48:06PM +0100, Ove Kaaven wrote: > > > I talked about the doc section of policy (13.3), Julian Gilbey started > > > talking about config files; hence the logical implication fo

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

ns out to have already happened in some places. At the very least, it would be good for packages to not rely on the existence of /usr/share/doc. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. o

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

ne And in the postrm, when called with the argument "purge": for i in scores saves ... do rm -f /var/lib/crafty/$i done Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

rsion numbers. Just make sure the potato one is lower than the woody one. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

lear: there's no $ between the -L and the {. Otherwise, I have no idea. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.deb

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

of LDIR? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

#x27; and see whether there's a typo somewhere? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

the effect of a single dollar sign in a file name or command. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Policy and conffile editing

helper configuration script, but I didn't report them > as bugs because of the above message. Maybe file a wishlist bug against dpkg? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary,

Re: control file and {shlibs:Depends}

t; control; \ fi dh_gencontrol ... Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: debconf and lintian "unknown-control-file"

don't yet know whether that is updated for debconf. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg

Re: Looking for Advocate

an advocate. You probably need a sponsor first, to help check over your package and upload it into the distro. (Sorry, I don't have the time to volunteer to do this.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept

Re: Binary-only upload

e reference says that I should not touch the changelog, even when > updating the version by 0.1 for a binary-only upload?!? Which is impossible to do. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Ma

Re: transition from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc

e's nothing in /usr/doc in the .debs themselves. Also, you can do without the manual symlinking of /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc, as debhelper puts in code to do that (dh_installdocs). Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilb

Re: transition from /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc

to remove it in the preinst of your new package. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg

Re: keeping files from one version to the other.

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:42:06PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > No, it isn't at all. Any configuration files MUST reside in /etc. > > These are not configuration files (the sorts of things used to > > configure a package), but score/state files, if

Re: cvs-- can't remember initial vendor tag

uot;cvs status -v" help you? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

potentially create different binaries with the same version number on the different platforms. Hmm. Why not just go with the potato version? It should work fine on unstable. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept

Re: directory in .deb

lains? If it's lintian and what you're doing is correct, don't worry about it. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

some problems because i was > depending on tcl/tk 8.3, while potato only has tcl/tk 8.2. Yeesh. Sounds yucky. If that's the need, I would be tempted to make a variant .diff.gz just for potato. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: directory in .deb

l executable location etc/ppp/ip-down.d/accounting I would recommend using (dh-make/dh_make and) debhelper rather than debstd. It's much easier to use and more easily fine-tuneable than debstd. Incidentally, this bug has been fixed in unstable and testing. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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