Re: uupdate and .rej files

rom any other diffs for this file. So you should definitely look through all of the .rej files to see why they have failed and whether or not they need to be applied to the new version in a modified way. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: i have a problem with making a .deb file

look into the deb file? 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 with dinstall

t; No. > > Thanks for the confirmation. Any special reason, or it is just that > nobody did it? AFAIK the latter. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU

Re: Specifing library version.

les appropriately. Then everything should work. (Just make sure that you use an option like -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.2,-lc to gcc when you create the shared library.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths

Re: Specifing library version.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:59:20PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:01:24PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > (Just make sure that you use an option like > > -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.2,-lc to gcc when you create the shared library.) > > When linking with g

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

s the file empty? :-) > > Actually, there is a bug in lintian that gives this warning erroneously > if .anchors is a HARD LINK, so also check that. And note that hard links are forbidden by policy. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: dpkg-source unhappy

line Can you check that you haven't put blank lines at the end of the file? I wonder whether that might be doing it? And you don't have anything strange like DOS line endings or something? You can check using od -bc control | less Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

n /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.text.gz. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food t

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

ce_ package, > but recall that we are talking about .deb files. Sorry, I'm wrong. It was only in source packages that they are forbidden. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary

Re: lintian -i file.changes error

t (and soft links with "linkname -> filename"). 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: Custom package versioning

u could use an epoch. 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 Question: Startup Scripts and Config Files

keep the init script as a conffile even if there are "no > admin serviceable parts inside"? Yes. Someone might conceivably want to change bits. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Quee

Re: Policy Questions: Example files in /usr/share/doc

onfig files are not really interesting as examples, just needed by the postinst, then you can put them in /usr/share/$package (say as "default.conf"), and not bother linking them from /usr/share/doc. HTH, Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Policy Question: Startup Scripts and Config Files

h shovels to > distribute it) to have a non-conffile anywhere in /etc. s/non-conffile/non-configuration file/ Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Policy Questions: Example files in /usr/share/doc

d camp: the file is not really documentation, it's got more important functions. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.

Re: Basic lintian errors.

output of dpkg-deb -c for this.) HTH, 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 against libdb1 instead of libdb2

w libc5 packages, do 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 to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/

Re: Support for DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in rules files

will have debugging symbols. Then if there is a need to run a core trace or debug something, you can use the versions in the build tree without having to recompile (which might change stuff). Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Creating a device file unknown to MAKEDEV

d soul help me to solve this dilemma? File a bug against the makedev package. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.d

Re: My su command doesn't work

ated by the PAM library, so you may also do well to give the output of ls -al /lib/security Julian P.S. Do we really need the ms-tnef attachment on a Linux list? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen

Re: gpg keyrings.

developer signatures on packages, then I think it's pretty important that the debian-keyring packages are kept reasonably up-to-date (say, once a month or so), or we'll have a lot of very troubled users Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: gpg keyrings.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:37:52AM +0100, James Troup wrote: > Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (1) It could be documented on http://keyring.debian.org/ > > I'm sure it could...[0] And I would do it if I had the faintest clue what I was talking a

Re: Questions about library names

he earlier 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: dh_testroot ?

an clean up as fakeroot. Try the "debclean" command in devscripts. Makes life really easy. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Develo

Re: Weird source tarballs

and try building it. dpkg-source is pretty intelligent these days, so you probably don't need to worry about the directory name. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London

Re: url (link) changed, please update YOUR links Thanks!

yperlink). Since the email was about 3 years ago, I can't imagine that anyone will use it to find your site :-( This email is likely to be more effective (it's more recent). Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey,

Re: dh_testroot ?

x27;fakeroot debian/rules clean' > > I just "debuild clean". (From devscripts.) debclean is even easier. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debia

Re: dh_testroot ?

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 locally sign a package that has been built on another machine?

ge to know about (that's why I try to keep it in good shape ;-) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.o

Re: perl modules - building debs

make-perl. 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 locally sign a package that has been built on another machine?

in your ~/.gnupg/options file to ensure the correct functioning of this (and possibly other) programs. Aborting 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: perl modules - building debs

where to put it. 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 question

ection 2.4.2 where this is explained in detail. 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: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

* 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: Does debhelper handle build-indep ?

ay be packages for which splitting the build is infeasible. But that's not a problem; just do it all in build-arch and have build-indep depend on build-arch.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths,

Re: Should libfile-temp-perl be removed ?

ing for it's removal. Or replace it by a dummy package which says "you can remove me now". Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer,

Re: Adding device file to /dev.

who run devfsd do not need to have > makedev installed. Should this stuff go into policy? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see h

Re: /usr/share policy

ce you clearly own is OK. The name of a > binary you install sounds like it qualifies. Agreed. (And I don't think /usr/share/ is mandated.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Math

Re: /usr/share policy

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 07:23:08PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Agreed. (And I don't think /usr/share/ is mandated.) > > Every package MUST be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright > and distribution license in the file

Re: OK to use /etc/default for non-init script default data?

a good way to consider doing things. > > If it's the Right > >Thing to do, and it violates policy, we should modify policy. > > Having non-conffile executeable code in /etc would violate policy, and > this is what we both try to avoid. Gosh, yes. That would be horri

Re: OK to use /etc/default for non-init script default data?

etc/default namespace, and it's not intuitive. 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: OK to use /etc/default for non-init script default data?

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:43:56AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:12:19 +0100, Julian Gilbey > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Why not just /etc/foorc or /etc/foo.conf or something like that? > > Because the conffile is not a "real" conffile,

Re: OK to use /etc/default for non-init script default data?

s in /etc? > > Everything else would be a policy violation. Please explain how my suggest would violate policy. If it's the Right Thing to do, and it violates policy, we should modify policy. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Moving a package from main to non-US/main?

. 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: dpkg-genchanges and fileslistfile

keroot > ... > dpkg-genchanges > dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or > directory Can you show us your whole debian/rules file? Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Ma

Re: Replaces: and pre/post rm

l package, then the postrm should be called with the 'disappear' argument instead. This may be something to bring up on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Uni

Re: library soversion

ges will not be satisfied with the new package. However, locally compiled stuff will break. I don't see a good way around that, unless you start calling the library itself by a different name, but that's probably evil. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Replaces: and pre/post rm

ame manually created files). You might also be interested in the call: remove in-favour This might possibly help you. See the policy manual, section 6.4. > I guess, given that, I could even have ${package}.postinst issue > a dpkg --purge for the alternative package... Yuck -- no way

Re: Empty package

if things change, and it's logically nicer too. 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: Replaces: and pre/post rm

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:29:30PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > So was the actually called with the purge > > option? It doesn't appear to have done. > > Not that I can find Good. > Since both packages mus

Re: Replaces: and pre/post rm

/sendmail will be present on the system (it's in both packages). 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: one package, many libraries. dependency break!

ree, thus, for example, for a pspell package: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=debian/libpspell2/usr/lib dpkg-shlibdeps \ debian/pspell/usr/bin/* Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London

Re: Empty package

o. > > Er, YES. Er, NO. My package sgb-src contains 0 (zero) non-control files. It's data.tar.gz is empty (except for ./). Similarly many, many other transition packages. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- J

Re: Empty package

es-not-set-usr-doc-link > > Will the Lintian error prevent it from being installed? Shouldn't do; there is no content there to need a copyright. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths

Re: one package, many libraries. dependency break!

e dh_shlibdeps call correct. (I've sent you a private email on how to do this; basically use the -l option.) Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Li

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

ages. 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: control file question

r details. 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: control file question

e is run on the various different architectures? I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. 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: removing old conffiles on upgrade

t. Yes, dpkg will warn that the old directory is not empty, but don't worry about it. But be careful to check the value of $1 and only to do them when the value is sensible (eg not when it's abort-*). Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 08:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 19-Jun-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:24:52PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > >> And how am I to tell a package that is empty on purpose from one cr

Re: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

ck (lines 1127--1221). There may be some other things which should be blocked out, but this does not seem intrinsically difficult. 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: Bug#101325: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't n

On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:53:07AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:10:36PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > That's what the "next PACKAGE;" achieves. > > Alternatively, in such a case, set a variable $empty_package = 1 and > > then te

Re: lintian: empty (transition) packages shouldn't need a copyright file

their metadata. 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: binary-all packaging

ely ill. Scrap it, copy /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.indep to debian/rules and modify it as necessary to build your package. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of Londo

Re: 1st try at packaging perl program

ctory) Have you done an apt-get update or dselect update? 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: proud maintainer that do no want NUM :-)

has been closed with no rationale. 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: dpkg can't purge init script

s a small point. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg

Re: dpkg can't purge init script

:/# > > > If you have any idea ... As somebody pointed out in this thread, the call to start-stop-daemon should use the --oknodo option. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg

Re: dpkg can't purge init script

e trick. Thanks. > > I don't see the point why this option isn't shipped in the default file. Bug filed against dh-make package. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ

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

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/ -- To UNSUBSCRI

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

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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

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

g? > > 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?

ackage. 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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

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, Q

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

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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

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

uot;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/ -- T

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.th

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: se

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.thehungersit

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: s

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 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julia

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

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