Re: non-developer adopting an orphaned package

2002-01-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
ry and put some trace of work in the BTS. It is pretty difficult to see if the person is doing anything useful. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Bug#89433: I want to adopt osh

2002-01-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
tems. > struct.h says: > | #ifndef MAXPATHLEN > | # define MAXPATHLEN 1024 > | #endif [everything else dropped] regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Bug#89433: I want to adopt osh

2002-01-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
hing more than -O2 has problems on some architectures, and it is not advisable to use anything more than -O2 unless you know what you are doing. > > o are you sending the mods to the upstream ? / have you > > contacted the upstream ? > Not yet. Please do. Reducing the -Wall warning

Re: Bug#89433: I want to adopt osh

2002-01-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
in debian/rules. I think all it does is set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="...", unset, and then run debuild. But that is talking about shell. Try testing this snippet: muha.sh: #!/bin/sh echo $MUHA and on the command-line run: $ MUHA="fuu" muha.sh fuu $ MUHA="fuu" && muha.sh regards. junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: gphoto2 (WAS: RE: including full source code in upload)

2002-01-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
. > > And perhaps a doc package but it would be really small. I might be missing something, but what is the soname for libgphoto2 ? regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: gphoto2 (WAS: RE: including full source code in upload)

2002-01-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
/usr/lib/libgphoto.so.2.0.0 or something similar libgphoto2-dev Package would probably contain /usr/lib/libgphoto.so which is a symlink to /usr/lib/libgphoto.so.2, and etc. etc. etc. The soname is the number "2" in this case (but I have not looked at libgphoto2 to check) regards,

Re: Bug#89433: I want to adopt osh

2002-01-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
BLE to the script ? I've accompanied myself with a testing script to check that behavior as well, have you tried running it? > Can you please explain me what I'm missing ? That's what I want to know too. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Bug#89433: I want to adopt osh

2002-01-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
ified otherwise in the command-line. Maybe he was just talking about shell constructs. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Buildd rejected my Build-depends:

2002-01-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
e my package ok both for the former > and the newer version of the ocaml package. If that is the case, it should be enough to specify ocaml (>= version) with high-enough version number (which includes the previous camlp4). At least from the information given from your mail. regards,

Re: Bug#136374: sbuild: /etc/sbuild.conf should be a conffile

2002-03-02 Thread Junichi Uekawa
build, and /etc/sbuild should have been somewhere like /usr/share/sbuild/sbuild.default.conf. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-12 Thread Junichi Uekawa
owitz-config in diff.gz? Binary package names are incorrect, name them "lib"mowitz0 and "lib"mowitz-dev The source package name is fine. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
;s the case, I also have doubts whether it should be called libmowitz"0" Are you sure of the soname version number? regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
1 root root 296592 13 mar 18.42 > /usr/lib/libMowitz.so.0.2.0 > > And the version number of the package is 0.2.0 as well. That sounds like a bad news, a potential sign of upstream changing binary interface between 0.1.0 and 0.2.0 regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Jun

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
incompatible change to the library, and call it 0.3.0 (well, it's only natural). However, in the library sense, if it is binary-incompatible, it should have a new soname, i.e. 1.0.0 regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Finge

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
ign of a changed interface are: o random segfault o irrational behavior regards, junihi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4

Re: Library packaging

2002-03-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
however, be changes in the source which does affect. I don't know if there could be a systematic way to do it. Warning might be possible, but not strict and real checking. Lintian won't be able to do this, because lintian only has access to one version of source at the tim

updated library packaging FAQ(Re: Library packaging)

2002-03-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: Well, now I updated the doc a little bit, I'll post it here. I've received exactly one response so far, and I'm feeling a bit naive about the contents of this document. Please comment: Library packaging Guide (very m

Re: packaging question

2002-04-05 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 00:07:47 + "David H. Askew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok.. so i'm working on packages for jedit .. and I'm contemplating > splitting the documentation into its own sepperate package. That I would object. Splitting the docs when it doessn't have to happen, it not us

Re: Package names case sensitive?

2002-04-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 15:04:41 +0200 Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:42, Stefan Schwandter wrote: > > I know that policy recommends not to use uppercase letters in package > > names, but I'd like to package jack (jackit.sourceforge.net). > > Unfortunately, there alrea

Re: packaging question

2002-04-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
n't really need to care about python-version compatibility, do they ? Their primary aim is to write code that works for them, not write code that works on both. maybe I am wrong, I don't code in python (yet). regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://

Re: Package names case sensitive?

2002-04-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sPackage| awk '{sum+= length($2); i ++} END{print sum / i }' 12.3125 grep-available -FMaintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -sPackage| awk '{sum+= length($2); i ++} END{print sum / i }' 10.3571 regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Ue

Re: shlibdeps

2002-04-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
rkings of tcl/tk, but they are provided as shared libraries. I've got an impression that it will cause problems. For example, try compiling against tck/tk 8.3, and remove 8.3 and install 8.0, and then run the program. The program should fail to start. regards, junichi -- [E

Re: dchroot (?) on developer machines

2002-04-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
a script to do that. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Should "package" depend on exactly the > same version of "package-data"? Why do you have to make it a symlink at all ? By doing that you are distributing a .deb file which does not contain copyright information, etc. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi U

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
do with providing a symlink to usr/share/doc/package that's a maintainer decision. > > Don't just split without good reason. > > Just making sure one of the good reasons was seen in the discussion. Trying, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
having -x version when there is -sdl version ? (is both of them maintained in a good shape or is only one of them?) Note: Splitting packages up causes more work, and maintenance cost. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerp

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
that will (seeing that it is unmaintained) probably decay to unusability. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/li

Re: dpkg compresses diff file differently

2002-06-07 Thread Junichi Uekawa
erent file when it was compressed at a different time. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/ --

Re: how to package conflicting libraries ?

2002-06-10 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:24:39 +0200 Eric Gentilini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > Considering a given library libfoo, which of another version supporting > multithreading is available, called libfoo-mt. > libfoo-mt offers all the functionnalities offered by libfoo and programs > compiling with l

Re: unversioned shared library

2002-06-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
ION@ -version-info 0:0:0 to Makefile.am should create something reasonable for an unstable shared library, suggest using this for the upstream (if they do versioning at all). But I suggest reading libtool/autoconf/automake manual a bit. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa

Re: Libtool for multiple libs in one source package

2002-06-29 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> I have had a similar problem and solved it by exporting a LIBRARY_PATH > variable during the install step : > > replacing >$(MAKE) install ... > by >export LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/debian/tmp/usr/lib; $(MAKE) install ... > > NOTE : LIBRARY_PATH not LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > Hmm... this hack se

Re: unversioned shared library

2002-07-03 Thread Junichi Uekawa
rong Makefile.am Add it somewhere with libiiwusynth_la_SOURCES are defined. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/ -- To UNSU

Re: Libraries and position independent code (-fPIC)

2002-07-26 Thread Junichi Uekawa
gelse.c other.c libtarget.whatever.so: ${sources:.c=.lo} libtarget.a: ${sources:.c=.o} %.lo: %.c gcc -fPIC .. %.o: %.c gcc regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 C

Re: [binary+libs] or [binary] + [libs]

2002-07-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
you have not already read it, is in my sig. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/ -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: pbuilder, debarchiver, quintuple-agent

2002-08-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
ss arguments to > dpkg-genchanges. Try something like: DEBBUILDOPTS=-sa regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/

Re: dependency bootstrapping problem

2002-08-24 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:53:54 -0700 Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are the solutions I've considered: > > * merge them into one source package. This would diverge from >upstreams distribution model. There are many examples of putting multiple source packages in one Debian sou

Re: pbuilder - root privileges? (was: Re: Orig tarball naming)

2002-08-24 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:40:16 -0400 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think you need root privileges to actually enter the chroot jail. > >> Other than that, it does seem like it should be possible to build the > >> chroot image entirely in a fakeroot world, but I remember having tried

Re: Problem with shlibs

2002-09-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 00:04:16 -0300 Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A package that I maintain -- mp3blaster -- doesn't include libsidplay1 > as a dependency, even though it links against it. I hadn't noticed that > because I thought everything was working fine, as I hadn't trie

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:08:16 +0100 Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The "average user" shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / > > or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are > > "owned" by dpkg, so nothing should be installed manually there. > > Running

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
, any file that is in your debian diff will have no executable bit set. It's a common mistake. Set the executable bit in your build, or call them like: /bin/sh some-script. /bin/perl ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-22 Thread Junichi Uekawa
lib/packagename/, but I need to make them available for the runtime > linker. What would be the point of restricting the shared libraries to within the software ? regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-23 Thread Junichi Uekawa
hared libs is usually only "--enable-shared=no" away... regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-23 Thread Junichi Uekawa
libraries, though most seem to access them directly dlopen(). They are different in that they are plugins. Some just do dlopen for the sake of it, but there are applications which are dynamically pluggable. (like LADSPA). regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.n

Re: Build-Depends/Depends wierdness

2002-10-04 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> desktops), so I'm going to believe objdump over ldd at this point. You can try pbuilder. It is designed to do such jobs. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD3

Re: Debhelper files w/ meta values

2002-10-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:59:20 -0600 "Joel Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to specify the following in a Debhelper file (such as > .dirs or .links)? > > usr/include/$(SHELLVARIABLE)/foo.h Why bother using debhelper at all ? You can use variables in debian/rules all right. reg

Re: Debhelper files w/ meta values

2002-10-18 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:29:34 -0600 "Joel Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can use variables in debian/rules all right. > > Er. Because it's helpful? Being able to do dh_installdirs, dh_installlinks, > dh_install (etc) and have the lists in sane files of only that is far > easier to manag

Re: Help creating a c2lib package

2002-10-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
brief description of what it is and what it does would be a big plus. regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG Fingerprint : 17D6 120E 4455 1832 9423 7447 3059 BF92 CD37 56F4 Libpkg-guide: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/

Re: library version equals to project version ?

2002-10-28 Thread Junichi Uekawa
r version upgrades, interface compatibility can be kept, which means interface number does not need to change. avifile-player probably ignores that part, or changes the library version number on every release, or whatever. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer GPG

Re: s390 build

2002-10-31 Thread Junichi Uekawa
At Wed, 30 Oct 2002 06:45:15 -0500, Neil L. Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > due to a compile error. I logged on to trex and attempted to build it in the > unstable chroot. It built without error. Then I noticed that the error in > the buildd log referred to a file /usr/include/c++/3.2/backwa

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-31 Thread Junichi Uekawa
At Thu, 31 Oct 2002 06:58:00 -0500, Neil L. Roeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, gcc 2.95 is still supposed to be what s390 uses. Sounds like someone > > has "tweaked" the s390 buildd. > > Who can I ask to untweak the s390 buildd, and get my package rebuilt? > That's not the point of the

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-11-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > > Who can I ask to untweak the s390 buildd, and get my package rebuilt? > > > > > That's not the point of the bug report, > > you should fix your package to build with gcc-3.2, so > > that the switchover may happen with less pain. > > I will attempt to build it with 3.2 on i386. I was a

Re: Which compiler

2002-11-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> But the plan is to move all architectures to gcc-3.2 for sarge. > I don't know why this hasn't happened already. That at least requires working gcc-3.2 and hence probably working glibc 2.3 for all arches, which has not happened yet. regards, junichi

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> The plan I have come up with is to put all the files it needs into a > debian/patches directory, and alter the Makefile accordingly. This > works just fine, although it makes the resulting .diff about twice the > size of the original source code, and it means it need to be redone > every time th

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> Putting script libraries into /usr/lib does not break systems mounted in > such manner, it only increases number of files that should be stored > separately for each architecture. Yes, I was quite wondering that too, and people tend to disagree on that point, and some people tend to be walking

How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

2002-12-17 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, I have a question. There are packages which probably need to be changed the owner (or suid) in .deb packages. Trying to chown to a user which does not exist will obviously emit an error like this: dh_link dh_strip dh_compress dh_fixperms chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/

Re: SML-NJ Package Names

2003-01-15 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> smlnj-lib : misc libs for sml At least, I don't want binary packages to be named -lib. If they are shared libraries, make it libwhateverX and read libpkg-guide. if they are some SML libraries, name them libsml-whatever-whatever regards, junichi

Re: How to build a package from cvs.

2003-03-01 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> I am (have already) building a new package from the cvs tree, but my question > is: > > Shall I run the autobuild (called bootstrap) on my system and go with the > package using those results or I shall modify my debian/rules to create the > Makefile.in and friends during compilation time? > >

Re: pbuilder - how to use existing apt cache?

2003-03-16 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > Since I'm behind a 64-k ISDN line, I would like pbuilder to use cached > > packages from /var/cache/apt/archives, if available instead of > > unconditionally downloading all the stuff. But unfortunately, > > /var/cache/apt/archives doesn't seem to be accessible from within the > > chroot. > >

Re: age in libraries and debian package names

2003-04-03 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> Hi. > (A special hello to Junichi who is CCed because of his libpkg-guide.) > > I'm having a package that will probably use the age feature of release > numbering. (I.e. libfoo.a.b.1 to indicate that programs linked against > libfoo.a > and libfoo.(a-1) can use it as documented in the libtool

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

2003-04-04 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> To my knowledge, Netfilter's ULOG target (and thus ipt_ULOG.h) > appeared in kernel version 2.4.18. On neither architecture, kernel > versions greater than 2.4.17 are available, so I guess using > ulog-acctd on those architectures would not make much sense, anyhow. I don't think it is intended

Re: libgtop2 NMU and advice asked.

2003-06-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> I am currently preparing a NMU for libgtop2, which is broken and whose > maintainer told me has no time to fix right now. > > Now, the problem was that the libgtop library moved from 0.so.0.0.1 to > 0.so.1.0.1, and the install rules didn't catch this changes. The normal procedure is to rename

Re: libgtop2 NMU and advice asked.

2003-06-08 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > The normal procedure is to rename the binary package to > > libgtop2-1 (it should probably have been libgtop2.0-1, but > > people seem to have their own tastes about this.) > > Ok, thanks for the info, and what is the procedure concerning this and > NMUs ? Also, while this name change mean

Re: RFS: pdsh

2003-06-30 Thread Junichi Uekawa
>Commercialization of this product is prohibited without notifying the >Department of Energy (DOE) or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory >(LLNL)." > > This seems to me to conflict with the GPL, and I'd like confirmation on > that. I guess if it is, then the proper procedure would

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