Re: RFS: yale (updated package) [Uploaded]

2008-02-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
upload gliese as soon as I hear back about one minor thing. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: RFS: gliese (updated package) [Uploaded]

2008-02-28 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Francisco García wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1-14 > of my package "gliese". For the benefit of debian-mentors, I'm writing to mention that I have now uploaded this also. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty &l

Re: Test suites

2008-04-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
exceptions like /tmp) * Interactivity None of these are guaranteed to be available on the buildds. (Although minimal interactivity could be scripted with expect or some such.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.o

Re: Sponsor wanted for new newspost package

2008-04-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
spost is not currently in Debian unstable, you should also file an ITP; see this URL: http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-pkgs.en.html#s-newpackage best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG:

Unknown default encoding?

2005-07-21 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
" Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong, if anything? A Google search for this error turned up little besides package build logs, although someone else was wondering about the same thing back in 2003: http://lists.debian.org/debian-apache/2003/08/msg00083.html regards, -- Kevin B

Re: Re: How to use imake with new X policy ?

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to force imake to do that, but you can always move the binary by hand in debian/rules. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 --

Re: first steps (pcfitsio, pyraf and iraf)

2005-10-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
te work on packaging IRAF with him, especially since he owns the open ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/244711 -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 085

Re: Conflict with kernel versions?

2005-11-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t.d script if it's unlikely anyone would run it by hand. To answer the second question, I think it would be fine to have this app in Debian as long as the kernel version requirements were clearly documented in both the package long description (in the debian/control file) and a README.Deb

Re: Question about skim.

2005-11-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
very convenient. Just be sure to keep the regular users in /etc/{passwd,group,shadow,gshadow} in sync in the chroot. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751

Re: Question about skim.

2005-11-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
y packages. Try setting up a sarge or etch chroot, then chroot into it and set up the network interfaces. Then you can update to Sid with APT (of course you have to set up the appropriate /etc/apt/sources.list file in the chroot first, too). Once set up, you may want to look into the "dc

Re: Problem in Debian Quality Assurance ?

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
S doesn't support unusual watch file features. I sent an email about the bug to debian-devel in October, but received no response of any sort: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/10/msg00120.html regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www

Re: changes to upstream sources/HOWTO patch

2005-12-19 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> You've got some examples in /usr/share/doc/dpatch/ then. > > You can also take a look at some packages which build depend on dpatch. But not cernlib, your head will explode :-) -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccart

Re: R-F-NMU: saods9: imtool for astronomy -- #344317: kubuntu patch

2006-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
17: "saods9: fix for FTBFS in > kubuntu dapper and breezy". > > http://bugs.debian.org/344317 Hi Justin, I can get this for you today if no one else has already volunteered. I'll start building it as an NMU now -- just let me know ASAP if someone else has beaten me to the

Re: R-F-NMU: saods9: imtool for astronomy -- #344317: kubuntu patch

2006-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: > >>>This is a request for an NMU, or 1-time sponsorship, whichever you >>>prefer. Aurelien is typically busy; I don't see the need to bug him >>>for a 1 line patch :) >>> >>>Please app

Re: rpath from `avifile-config --libs`

2006-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-config --libs | sed 's/-Wl,-rpath,[^[:space:]]*//g'` would be the first thing I tried. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton,

Re: debian package installation - setting environment

2006-01-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
wrapper script > in $PATH is another possibility). How do I do this? If management will not change its mind about the packaged files going into /opt, it seems to me that putting wrapper scripts into /usr/bin or /usr/sbin (or /bin or /sbin if you need the software available early in the boot pro

dpatch vs. quilt [was: Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link]

2006-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nges any of them!). But now it sounds like I'm missing out on some features by not using quilt. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeto

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Frank Küster wrote: > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that >>allows you to treat shell scripts as "patches"? My inability to find >>such a feature was the main rea

Re: dpatch vs. quilt

2006-01-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Kevin B. McCarty [Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:39:17 -0500]: >> Out of curiosity, does quilt have a mechanism similar to dpatch that >> allows you to treat shell scripts as "patches"? My inability to find >> such a feature was the main reason I opt

Re: debug packages?

2006-02-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ged is a shared library used by the program that the user directly executes? Thanks in advance, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 --

Re: Depending on both runtime and dev packages?

2006-02-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
that package is necessary to compile FORTRAN programs. (It doesn't depend upon the libg2c0 runtime package, but that is because g77 is not itself written in FORTRAN.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccar

Re: debian/rules build/build-indep/build-arch

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
others of my packages. If your documents' build is CPU-intensive, I think the waste of effort to compile them on every arch outweighs the dubious benefit of technically being more Policy-compliant this way. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Depar

Re: Depending on both runtime and dev packages?

2006-02-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Martin Meredith wrote: > Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Davide Puricelli wrote: >> >>> Hi, I'm building a package (a Scheme-to-C compiler) and I split it into >>> three different debs: libfoo0 (runtime libs), libfoo-dev (.a and .la >>> files and

Re: How to 'su' to root from a script using Xdialog?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
This doesn't answer your actual question (which I snipped), but are you familiar with the package "configure-debian" ? It sounds like it is very similar to the goal you are trying to achieve, so maybe it can save you some coding... regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Including .so symlinks in non-dev package: policy violation?

2006-03-24 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
dules", where the new lib is configured to look. (For simplicity I'm assuming the main library and the plugins have soversions that stay in sync. If this is the case, again I see no reason for the plugins to need soversions.) Hope this helps, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Splitting source package; what to do with NEWS files?

2006-07-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
) unstable; urgency=low Important options of the "bar" program changed between versions 0 and 1; they are not backward-compatible. See upstream's changelog for more info. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [date] Later, foo is split up into source packages f

Re: Question on a package split

2006-08-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
underscore "_" is allowed in package names. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Best practice for packages using devhelp for their API documentation

2006-11-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
is a consensus on this matter, should this be documented > somewhere (policy, dev-ref) and bugs be filed against the packages not > complying to this policy? Maybe see what the Debian maintainer of devhelp thinks? Also, what does he think about the possibility of patching devhelp for Debian to l

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
FORTRAN libraries, when possible, be compiled with g77 for the moment. If netcdf does not have any functions returning REAL (single-precision) or COMPLEX, maybe building netcdf with gfortran is OK though. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW:

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
flicted against. Some of these issues could have been caught by comparing the contents of the netcdf binary packages in Sid and your new packages. I find that debdiff is a really useful tool for such comparisons, though of course YMMV. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: changelog entries - ubuntu?

2006-12-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ckage uploaded to Debian is discouraged. I only found one package in Sid at the moment that does this: update-manager, version 0.42.2ubuntu22-7. I think this is because Ubuntu is upstream for this package. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:09, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> This is weird: if you install your new packages of netcdf, the existing >> kst-plugins package (from Sid) on your system should automatically pick >> up the new libnetcdf_c++.so.3 library

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 11:09, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> 1) Why did you make the libnetcdf++3 package into a dummy package and >> move the C++ bindings into the libnetcdf3 package? ÂIf the soname of the >> C++ package needs to evolve faster than

Re: netcdf packages

2006-12-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
fortran.h somewhere (maybe at /usr/include/netcdf/cfortran.h or something similar)? How does a Fortran compilation using libnetcdff ensure that the compiler picks up that file (which it should do to be consistent) and not /usr/include/cfortran.h ? best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PRO

Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
e: > On Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:19:40 -0800 > "Kevin B. McCarty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a dumb library ABI question. Suppose I maintain a library >> libfoo.so that has public functions A(), B() and C(). Now there is a &g

Re: Stupid library ABI question

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:36:28 -0800 "Kevin B. McCarty" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Upstream of my library (Cernlib maintainers) only ships static >> libraries, and the shared library support is hacked in by me. So I >> have com

Re: Library sonames and unstable libraries

2007-01-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
eep track of (or try to prevent) ABI incompatibilities. Hence the soname changes with every new version. I can see why this behavior would be discouraged :-) (Yes, I know Gnome/GTK+ doesn't have this issue; it was just a general statistical observation.) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <

Re: BALLView - a molecular viewer and modeling tool

2007-01-26 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
there was some doubt... I hope this didn't come across as nitpicky, just wanted to make sure things were clear for anyone new to Debian packaging who might be reading the lists. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://ww

Re: netcdf again

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
se holding off on the upload until the Etch release. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Few questions

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
d have both package1 and package2 Depend upon that. That would save disk space on the Debian mirrors, and also save bandwidth for people who install package1 and then later change their minds and want package2 instead (or vice versa). best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phys

Re: netcdf again

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
to be in unstable, there will hopefully be no wait time :-) best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: netcdf again

2007-02-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
#x27;s libtool [1,2]. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00825.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00828.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00830.html best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW:

Re: netcdf again

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
> On Friday 02 February 2007 19:10, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> One cautionary note: If you go with 3.6.2~beta6 for an upstream version, >> your build directory will be named netcdf-3.6.2~beta6. ÂI remember that >> some libtool versions don't like directory na

Re: packages for netcdf 3.6.2 (released today)

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
in debian/control. (note: they would instead be in Build-Depends-Indep if you create an arch: all netcdf-doc package *and* can work out how to get CDBS to generate the docs only in the binary-indep target.) One last thing: please install RELEASE_NOTES as the upstream changelog ("changelog.g

Re: packages for netcdf 3.6.2 (released today)

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
omething other than "netcdf-doc" since various packages (sbuild, apt) don't deal well with binary packages of the same name as an unrelated source package [0]. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2007/01/msg00031.html best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: packages for netcdf 3.6.2 (released today)

2007-03-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 17:47, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> * possibility to build an arch:all documentation package > > The maintainer is encouraging the use of the pre-built docs instead of > building them from the texinfo sources. Would there be a

Re: netcdf with new and improved diffs

2007-03-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
be reasonably easy to put into the Debian build? 3) [of course you know this, I'm leaving it here as a placeholder to remind myself]: the possibility to move the docs from libnetcdf-dev into an arch:all binary package. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics

Re: netcdf with new and improved diffs

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
essages of the form "warning: enumeration value ‘NC_NAT’ not handled in switch". Is this something that could be a problem? Maybe upstream would best know the answer to this... best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: netcdf with new and improved diffs

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:47, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> One minor point is that the orig.tar.gz of a source package that was >> modified for Debian (even just to repack it) should contain a directory >> named >> netcdf-3.6.2.orig >>

Re: netcdf with new and improved diffs

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 15:12, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> Do you plan to post a final 3.6.2-1 version for me to build and upload? >> Or shall I just bump the version number in the 3.6.2-1~pre8 changelog to >> 3.6.2-1, then build and upload that? &

Re: netcdf with new and improved diffs [Uploaded]

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 17:26, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> In order to ensure that upgrades run smoothly, the easiest possibility >> (maybe the only possibility) is for you to also add the epoch, changing >> the version number on your packages to 1:3.

Build-Depends-Indep and buildd question

2003-09-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, I just got an FTBFS bug on cernlib from a buildd. The problem is that the buildd didn't install the Build-Depends-Indep dependency (tetex-bin) before running dpkg-buildpackage (which in turn calls debian/rules build). Therefore the build died in the debian/rules build-indep target. Is this

Build-Depends-Indep and buildd question

2003-09-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
(I tried sending this email to debian-mentors already but it doesn't appear to be in the message archives now, some 16 hours later. Strange. Please CC me any replies since I'm not subscribed to the list.) I just got an FTBFS bug on cernlib from a buildd. The problem is that the buildd didn't in

RFS: wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data (take 2)

2003-09-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ls-dev README.Debian file - Support debug and noopt flags in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in debian/rules * Replace proplist-compat.h macros by WUtil.h functions and remove libproplist0-dev from Build-Depends * Use RReleaseImage() instead of deprecated RDestroyImage() -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EM

Upgrade wmakerconf package to GTK+ 2.x?

2003-10-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi, I recently adopted wmakerconf, which is based on GTK+ 1.2. Upstream seems to be MIA as far as I can tell. (The home page no longer exists, and I found the last upstream release, 2.9, from the windowmaker.org FTP site.) Would it make sense to compile the Debian package against GTK+ 2.x inst

Splitting a binary package: what to do with general README.Debian?

2003-12-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi all, I maintain cernlib. I decided to split the package libmontecarlo1, which contains several shared libraries, into one library for each package, since that seems to be the new trend (see the xlibs split), and also since it was requested in bug # 212409. (This entire discussion also appl

RFS: wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data, comparator

2004-01-06 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
o has access is willing to ship you a hash list. thanks in advance, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: RFS: wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data, comparator

2004-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the three source packages wmakerconf > [2.9-3], wmakerconf-data [0.80.0-2], and comparator [2.2-1] (each produces > one binary package of the same name). The first two are upgrades (the > first close

Re: RFS: wmakerconf, wmakerconf-data, comparator

2004-01-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Please disregard these messages, my original sponsor has gotten back in contact with me. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Size of int vs. long vs. void * vs. Fortran INTEGER

2004-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
r KIND of INTEGER is not specified, on all arches? 3) Is it true that sizeof(int) == sizeof(long), on all *32-bit* arches? 4) Is it true that sizeof(int) < sizeof(long), on all *64-bit* arches? Thanks in advance for responses, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department

Re: Size of int vs. long vs. void * vs. Fortran INTEGER

2004-06-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
on I asked was that I want to know what I can change (e.g. int -> long) to fix things on 64-bit without breaking library ABI compatibility on 32-bit machines. (On 64-bit, breaking library compatibility doesn't matter so much since most of the libs just segfault right now.) -- Kevin B

Excluding some architectures

2004-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
s to fix: changing some master list used by buildds of which packages to compile or not, and removal of existing 64-bit cernlib packages from the archive. Who should I contact for each of these? And how to keep 64-bit arches from seeing the "Architecture: all" Cernlib binary packages

Re: Excluding some architectures

2004-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
hy is such a list necessary when it just duplicates information already in packages' control files? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
n.edu/~kmccarty/dists/sid/main/source/viewglob_0.8.4-1.dsc regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t do so myself. It will be a little while before I put up a new source package, since I'm waiting to hear back from upstream about a possibly problematic compiler warning. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
eparate from the main body of code. Then if there is a bug in debian/rules, or Debian Policy is updated to mandate some new control field, you don't have to release an entirely new tarball just to fix a Debian-specific issue. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P

Re: RFS: viewglob [revised]

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-get source viewglob regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544

RFS: viewglob (new version 1.0.2-1)

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.). > . > Homepage: http://viewglob.sourceforge.net/index.html Thanks to any takers, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Size of int vs. long vs. void * vs. Fortran INTEGER

2004-06-16 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
r KIND of INTEGER is not specified, on all arches? 3) Is it true that sizeof(int) == sizeof(long), on all *32-bit* arches? 4) Is it true that sizeof(int) < sizeof(long), on all *64-bit* arches? Thanks in advance for responses, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department

Re: Size of int vs. long vs. void * vs. Fortran INTEGER

2004-06-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
on I asked was that I want to know what I can change (e.g. int -> long) to fix things on 64-bit without breaking library ABI compatibility on 32-bit machines. (On 64-bit, breaking library compatibility doesn't matter so much since most of the libs just segfault right now.) -- Kevin B

Excluding some architectures

2004-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
s to fix: changing some master list used by buildds of which packages to compile or not, and removal of existing 64-bit cernlib packages from the archive. Who should I contact for each of these? And how to keep 64-bit arches from seeing the "Architecture: all" Cernlib binary packages

Re: Excluding some architectures

2004-06-23 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
hy is such a list necessary when it just duplicates information already in packages' control files? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, N

RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-01 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
n.edu/~kmccarty/dists/sid/main/source/viewglob_0.8.4-1.dsc regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
t do so myself. It will be a little while before I put up a new source package, since I'm waiting to hear back from upstream about a possibly problematic compiler warning. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/

Re: RFS schoolbell - A calenaring server for schools

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
eparate from the main body of code. Then if there is a bug in debian/rules, or Debian Policy is updated to mandate some new control field, you don't have to release an entirely new tarball just to fix a Debian-specific issue. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> P

Re: RFS: viewglob [revised]

2004-09-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-get source viewglob regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

RFS: viewglob (new version 1.0.2-1)

2004-11-30 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
rm, gnome-terminal, konsole, etc.). > . > Homepage: http://viewglob.sourceforge.net/index.html Thanks to any takers, - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
IRAF shared lib directory to /etc/ld.so.conf ... By the way, congrats on getting IRAF to build shared libs -- I hope it wasn't as much of a pain in the @$$ as I found it was for cernlib. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Pr

Re: shared libraries

2004-12-11 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
stream distributes. Oh yes, quite a bit more than a week. But I agree it was worth the trouble. > It still doesn't completely work yet. Probably something about 30 > year old blobs of fortran.. I expect cernlib is the same? Yep, exactly. Got to love scientific code... ;-) -- Kevi

Re: CERN root

2004-12-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
doesn't just link against Xclass or Cernlib, it actually *includes derived code* from them. And it can't be trivially removed or rewritten -- Xclass-derived code provides the core of the GUI, and Cernlib-derived code (MINUIT) provides the core of the function fitter. -- Kevin B

Re: CERN root

2004-12-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ook at them. Maybe they could be fixed and sent upstream. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: CERN root

2004-12-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ncompatible version of ROOT... I don't know the answer to these questions myself, but they'll be important things to consider in packaging ROOT, even if only for a small private set of users due to the licensing issues. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phy

Problem creating mn-fit watch file (packaging comments also welcome)

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
my AM, in case he wants to make any comments. (Hi Joerg!) - -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: Problem creating mn-fit watch file (packaging comments also welcome)

2005-01-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
filename in order to derive a version number before the comparison to the local version. But maybe there wouldn't be much call for that. For people reading emails to bug # 282255: refer here for context: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/01/msg00133.html regards, -- Kevin B. M

Re: renaming a library package (advice and sanity check)

2005-01-15 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
nstall the new libvips-doc package. "apt-get dist-upgrade" would still be required for that. Unless "apt-get upgrade" has special handling for dummy packages that I'm not aware of? regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://ww

Re: reporting lintian and linda overrides

2005-01-20 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
an maintainers' time. Hmm, on a second look maybe I will report the one for viewglob. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 0854

Re: New to the packaging thing... :)

2005-01-27 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ine to specify a Standards-Version of 3.6.1 as Jose did. (cite: debian-policy 5.6.10) regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To

Re: RFS: bookmarkbridge

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
x | konqueror This looks like a useful package. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for an advocate

2005-02-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
://www.nl.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide or in the Debian package "maint-guide" - the debian-mentors FAQ at http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html I hope this helps! regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://ww

RFS: wmakerconf 2.11-1, wmakerconf-data 0.90.0.0-1

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
onfiguration file for Window Maker. In normal circumstances, you > only have to change this package in order to be able to configure a new > version of Window Maker. This package is useless without wmakerconf and > an appropriate version of Window Maker. thanks and regards,

Found a sponsor [was: Re: RFS: wmakerconf 2.11-1, wmakerconf-data 0.90.0.0-1]

2005-03-02 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2005 02:25 PM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > My usual sponsor for wmakerconf and wmakerconf-data, Nicolas Boullis, > has lately had only intermittent connectivity to the Internet. Would > someone therefore be willing to sponsor these t

Re: Help: debian packaging

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
ater, the files will automatically be marked as conffiles since they are installed to /etc. For more details, see dh_install(1) and debhelper(7). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public k

Re: build failure on sparc

2005-03-14 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
the indirect dependencies of kdelibs4-dev take care of everything else. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRI

Including object (.o) files in a package - linda errors

2005-03-18 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
linda gives the same complaints about libcrt1.o (and other object files) in the libc6-dev package. (Lintian doesn't care.) Should I just add linda overrides to ignore the error and warning? thanks in advance, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.prin

Re: help with package restricted to specific arches

2005-03-22 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
search: http://www.wolffelaar.nl/~jeroen/P-a-s-HOWTO.txt The P-a-s maintainers mentioned in that file include LaMont Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> among others. -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.pri

Re: Including object (.o) files in a package - linda errors

2005-03-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Justin, Justin Pryzby wrote: > I was hoping that someone else would respond to this, since I'm just > fumbling for an answer. Maybe I can provoke one:) > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 12:02:34PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> > arcturus[6]:~/Debian/mn-fit

Re: Including object (.o) files in a package - linda errors

2005-03-25 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 03/25/2005 10:41 AM, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Justin Pryzby wrote: >>lin{da,tian} shouldn't complain about an object file which is not >>linked with anything, since, well, it cannot be. > > OK, I will file a bug against linda then. (any objections?) Filed at htt

Re: Splitting package

2005-04-08 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
s would cause an error without the "Replaces" line. ("Replaces" means that the replacing package may overwrite files in the replaced package; it doesn't necessarily mean that one package is a replacement as a whole for the other.) (And don't forget to have the new &q

Re: Sources with missing dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
of dependencies different from APT's. It's also possible that a package will compile in sid but not in sarge, because the sarge testing scripts don't check build-deps. regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~

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