Package clobbering

See http://packages.debian.org/sid/libdkim-dev for the resulting mess. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) "Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing

Re: Package clobbering

On söndagen den 27 januari 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 17:27 +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > A quick question I dare not ask -devel: > > Don't be scared of -devel (it's usually -private or -policy where the > real flamefests happen). :-) It

Re: bits from the DMs/NMs/AMs?

and a recommendation by my AM, * my AM has checked that my PGP key is signed by at least one DD. therefore I think that everyone who has got to the DAM approval stage should automatically (or semi-automatically) gain DM status. Earlier steps of the NM and DM procedures could also be integrated. --

Re: [OT] : gpg fingerprint in mail's signature ? - Was: Re: RFS: gtkwhiteboard (now dfsg compatible)

x27; mail software can automatically fetch the key, like mine does. > I also disagree that signed mails are shorter, and you would > probably that I don't have my secret key at hand any time I post to mailing > lists. The body that we see is shorter. Either way it's not a big

Re: RFS: nemesis (updated package)

rth it. You shouldn't be afraid of epochs, but it would be a bit silly if you had to increment it each time upstream releases a new one-digit minor version, so I suggest that you try to convince upstream that version strings aren't decimal numbers and that subsequent releases should b

Re: lintian complaining about modified files

suppose that these files get changed in the build process. > > What is the correct way to get this problem solved? You can simply gunzip /usr/share/doc/dpatch/examples/dpatch/01_config.dpatch.gz and put it in debian/patches (and list it in 00list) and it will take care of things. --

Re: Build-depend on source of a debian package

name of that other source package? It sounds like it would be better if the package you're making were built from it instead. -- Magnus Holmgren -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

d of the paragraph speaking about "apt-get source". What's wrong with apt-get source? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpFfbTlTAWzH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:28, martin f krafft took the opportunity to write: > also sprach Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.07.27.1124 +0100]: > > > Or just dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main//pkg.dsc > > > > > > instead of t

Re: plea to sponsees about announcing location of packages

On Thursday 27 July 2006 12:59, Thijs Kinkhorst took the opportunity to write: > On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 12:48 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > > > What's wrong with apt-get source? > > > > > > You have to add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list to make it work. &g

Re: RFS: beep-media-player-musepack -- Bmp plugin to read Musepack (MPC) files

a-player will be > removed soon. If it works with audacious or bmpx, please rename the > binary package. It will? Why is that? There is no Serious bug filed against it. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpzXFX2Fpzbj.pgp Description: PGP signature

RFS: libmail-dkim-perl

are valid and affect DFSG-freeness, they quite surely aren't going to go after us/you. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpLZMUtTadS0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: libmail-dkim-perl

On Sunday 08 October 2006 00:10, Magnus Holmgren took the opportunity to say: > Hello, dear mentors! > > I'm looking for a temporary sponsor of my package "libmail-dkim-perl". > Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has previously shown interest, but now > when I&

Re: RFS: exaile

suggest it. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpQo6j0HANDw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which script to install file in /etc/default

age in the package build directory, with "package" replaced by the package name. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgp29YyHSOpDl.pgp Description: PGP signature

RFC and preliminary RFS: prayer webmail

#x27;s still in use c) use dpkg -l to see if the other package is still installed d) avoid sharing directories under /var e) do something else? Thank you for your interest! -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpbaBZdbwffs.pgp Description: PGP signature

RFS: sa-exim -- Use spamAssassin at SMTP time with the Exim v4 MTA

There are no changes in executable code at this time. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpc86j8EuLK4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: sa-exim -- Use spamAssassin at SMTP time with the Exim v4 MTA

On Saturday 02 December 2006 18:05, Amaya wrote: > Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > it would be most kind if one or more of you could take a look at the > > new sa-exim package I've prepared, thereby adopting it. (But don't > > upload it yet; I'd like upstream t

Re: RFS: sa-exim -- Use spamAssassin at SMTP time with the Exim v4 MTA

On Saturday 02 December 2006 03:03, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > From changelog.Debian: > > [...] > * Repackaged against pristine upstream tarball. > [...] Nope, not this time. Is it possible to overwrite files already in the archive, and if so, how? Do I have to modify the u

Re: RFS: array-info

the upstream tarball is no issue even if one wants to import the package into one's own CVS and use cvs-buildpackage, for example. > btw, just a hint: it would be simpler using dpatch than applying the > patches 'on your own'. And with the right build-dependencies t

Re: Frozen Etch

;t the preferred way. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpXjoATd1zQh.pgp Description: PGP signature

"changelog has a useless empty line" (was: Re: RFS: speedometer)

iner <$maintainer_address> $date 8< There is always a blank line after the maintainer line before the following (chronologically previous) entry. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpjRGuQ27dfC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Multiple upstream changelog files

be installed as "changelog"? I'd guess the brief one, since it's the one users are most likely to want to read first, but on the other hand it looks a bit confusing with both a changelog(.gz) and a ChangeLog. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple upstream changelog files

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 08:52, Marcus Better wrote: > Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > I maintain a package where the upstream author has two changelog files: A > > brief one called Changes, summarizing the changes, and a detailed one > > called ChangeLog, which contains a det

Re: Multiple upstream changelog files

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 01:54, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > I maintain a package where the upstream author has two changelog files: A > brief one called Changes, summarizing the changes, and a detailed one > called ChangeLog, which contains a detailed list of changes made to the > va

RFS: nettle (adopted) 1.15-1

Etch with the above changes (except the "New upstream version", of course), and if so, whether I should rename the .orig tarball. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpMgHkbPsstp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Repost: RFC and preliminary RFS: prayer webmail

alone; let root delete it manually when it's no longer needed b) use dpkg -S to see if it's still in use c) use dpkg -l to see if the other package is still installed d) avoid sharing directories under /var e) do something else? Thank you for your interest! -- Magnus Holmgren

Re: Repost: RFC and preliminary RFS: prayer webmail

On Saturday 10 March 2007 21:37, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:05:55PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > > Something I've been thinking about: > > > > If two packages share a /var/(lib|run|log) subdirectory, how do you know > > when to remov

RFS: pmk (adopted): utility to configure software sources

to know which variants of the name of a configuration file to delete in addition to the file itself, in order to do like dpkg. I've used file~, #file#, file.bak, and file.ucf-{old,dist,new}. URL of the DSC: http://www.kibibyte.se/download/debian/pmk_0.10.1-1.dsc -- Magn

Re: Native package versus orig

On Sunday 18 March 2007 21:49, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Also, a native package means that there > is no .diff.gz. That means that every version creates a new > .orig.tar.gz which consumes more mirror space. (Except that it isn't a .orig.tar.gz but just a .tar.gz.) -- M

Re: ITA/RFS: libspf2 -- Sender Policy Framework library, written in C

re's even a real RFC. But I could change the wording. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpSAgOjgFqEZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

ITA/RFS: libspf2 -- Sender Policy Framework library, written in C

Standards-Version to 3.7.2 without changes. * Apply 20_spf_dns_include_std_headers.patch: Include arpa/nameser.h and netdb.h from spf_dns.h instead of defining the constants needed unless certain HAVE_ macros are defined (Closes: #405885). -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL

Re: ITA/RFS: libspf2 -- Sender Policy Framework library, written in C

On Friday 23 March 2007 20:53, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:23:38PM +0100, Magnus Holmgren > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > > Have not taken a look at the package, but does the short description > > > Description: Sender Policy Framework library, w

Re: ITA/RFS: libspf2 -- Sender Policy Framework library, written in C

On Friday 23 March 2007 20:23, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > I have created a new version of libspf2 and intend to adopt it if I can > find a sponsor (and/or co-maintainer). It fixes (hopefully) all outstanding > bugs except one. 20_64bit_types.patch may need some testing. I hope that >

manpage tools

manual page was written ... for the Debian ..." Authors section. So what other alternatives are there, not counting help2man and pod2man? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpgZArXZObt1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A french developper want help you :)

tive), and if so, follow the relevant procedure from http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/. > * If it's not: File an ITP and create a package of that project > * Ask one of the DDs here to upload your package -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc

Re: where find multiple packages from one source guide

the unneeded, commented-out debhelper commands. And third, if you put the lists of files to install in files instead of on the command line, you only need two targets and debian/rules becomes cleaner (on the other hand, providing a way to build just a single binary package, just compiling

Re: how pass variables from files for dh_install into rules?

e. Commonly when you have a multi-binary source package you set DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp and let "make install" install everything there. Then you just use dh_install to separate the files into the right packages. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make or $(MAKE) ?

ut it helps with some "manual" uses. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgpEjTBAWJpNz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: please, review and enhance "How to split a package into several smaller packages"

e of your tutorial. There's nothing about dpatch that makes it particularly better suited for multi-binary source packages, and nothing in that text is specific to this kind of packages. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

y real-world use? > > > I've seen implementations of that on the Internet. I admit that this > > > is not enough reason to package it though. > > There's even one in Postscript. What about packaging it ? http://bugs.debian.org/185958 http://www.godi

Re: bugs on specific arch

docs/psdoc. The Makefile there runs $(top_srcdir)/src/gnuplot ps_symbols.gpi, and my guess is that something goes wrong there. > http://bugs.debian.org/410565 Seems that you already fixed this, right? -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail ne

Re: manpage tools

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 18:00, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 28.03.2007, 17:01 +0200 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: > > [manpage creation] > > > So what other alternatives are there, not counting help2man and pod2man? > > I forgot: gmanedit, manedit Unfortunate

RFS: nettle (1.15-2) -- a low level cryptographic library

algorithms for the application to use in any environment and in any way it needs. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) pgp5SzAs41VBj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Done: RFS: nettle (1.15-2) -- a low level cryptographic library

On Wednesday 16 May 2007 20:35, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > I'm looking for a sponsor to upload a new version of nettle, a low level > cryptographic library. The upload would fix the serious bug #415034. vorlon took care of this. Thanks. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAI

RFS: lsh (formerly lsh-utils) (new version: 2.0.3-1) -- SSH2 server and client

eview Build-depends: Drop patchutils, dpatch (temporarily), comerr-dev (redundant), po-debconf (redundant), xutils (makes no difference); add autotools-dev, scsh-0.6 (as alternative to guile-1.6). -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail ne

Re: RFS: lsh (formerly lsh-utils) (new version: 2.0.3-1) -- SSH2 server and client

On Sunday 27 May 2007 13:27, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Even though I don't really want to, I'm looking for a mentor to upload the > new version of lsh that I've prepared. Oh, and here is the DSC URL: ftp://ftp.kibibyte.se/debian/pool/main/l/lsh/lsh_2.0.3-1.dsc -- Magnus H

Re: package name conflicts with oldstable [was: RFS: lsh...]

is that in your case the other source package is called "if-transition", so there should be no technical reason stopping you from renaming your package "weather". Only perhaps that "weather" may be too generic a name. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: nettle -- a low level cryptographic library (new versions)

ettle-dev as nettle-dev. * No longer install sexp-conv as an alternative; conflict with lsh-utils (<< 2.0.3-2, which is anticipated to stop shipping an identical sexp-conv and depend on nettle-bin instead). * Link with --as-needed to avoid unnecessary NEEDED tags. -- Magnus Holmg

Re: RFS: nettle -- a low level cryptographic library (new versions)

On Thursday 07 June 2007 00:13, Jens Peter Secher wrote: > On 6/6/07, Jens Peter Secher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/6/07, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm looking for a sponsor to upload two new versions (unstable and > &g

Re: Nagios version

an unqualified address in the From: field, which your mail server (and mine) qualified with the local domain. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) "Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabbl

Re: RFS: lsh (formerly lsh-utils) (new version: 2.0.3-1) -- SSH2 server and client

is written by Niels Möller and predates OpenSSH. The URL of the DSC is: ftp://ftp.kibibyte.se/debian/pool/main/l/lsh/lsh_2.0.3-1.dsc For reference, my previous post follows: On Sunday 27 May 2007 13:27, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Hello, mentors! > > Even though I don't really wa

RFS: pyscrabble

crabble - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyscrabble/pyscrabble_1.6.2-1.dsc I would be glad if someone checked and perhaps even uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, -- Mag

Re: RFS: pyscrabble

lose button in the About dialog didn't work. An updated package has been uploaded to mentors.d.n. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

RFS: lsh (updated package)

h_2.0.4-dfsg-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: ITA: libdbi + libdbi-drivers (updated packages)

number that announce that the package is > orphaned, but sorry, I can't find it any more in my (huge) mail log. Did you look at http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/orphaned ? You should take ownership of http://bugs.debian.org/24 and http://bugs.debian.org/25. -- Magnus Holmgren[E

Re: Added requirement for translation of debconf templates

.org/international/l10n/po-debconf/, which shows the translation status for every package. Is there any point nagging the translation teams also? -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: simultaneous installation lib and lib-mpi

changes to how packages are built, but it might still be meaningful to bring it up on -devel, which I've done now. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Building localy

nc > > > giving me this error > > > > Any reason you're using sudo instead of -ffakeroot? > > No I will use -fakeroot You don't even need -rfakeroot; dpkg-buildpackage uses fakeroot by default (since Etch, I think). -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: mpview

ecated > W: mpview source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.3 (current is 3.8.1) Hang on a second. When does mentors.d.n put "The package appears to be lintian clean" in the RFS template? When lintian reports no errors or warnings, or as soon as there are no errors? -- Magnus

Lintian clean? (was: Re: RFS: mpview)

On lördagen den 2 maj 2009, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > 2009/5/2 Magnus Holmgren : > > On torsdagen den 26 mars 2009, Michal Čihař wrote: > >> Dne Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:21:29 +0100 > >> > >> Adam Ziaja napsal(a): > >> > The package appears to be l

Re: debian/copyright verbosity

ary product, they can read the copyright statements of the individual files. But there is no guarantee that those are complete, and *we* certainly can't guarantee that. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Dash and dot in package version

y uploaded e.g. version 1.2-3 of a package, and then somebody files a bug that the tarball contains some non-free file, and you'd like to upload 1.2~dfsg-1 to fix it without waiting for a new upstream release. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc D

Re: RFS: kio-ftps (updated package)

on number, although it's technically part of the "upstream version". The drawback is that "-" is, somewhat counter- intuitively, greater than "+". -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Taking care of existing packages

too). A package can be removed from unstable after someone files an RM bug against the ftp.debian.org pseudopackage. It will then automatically disappear from testing, again once no packages in testing depend on it. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFS: gsoap (updated package)

debian/compat (5). * Please fetch current versions of config.guess and config.sub before running configure and remove or restore them in the 'clean' target. The old package fetched them in the 'clean' target, which is wrong. -- Magnus Holmgrenholmg...@debian.org Debian Developer signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.