Re: How to get lintian to shut up?

1998-05-22 Thread Martin Schulze
er that old version generated abandoned md5sum files, I'm not sure if they generated too few entries though. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, cont

Re: Uploading packages

1998-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
ED]> > Description: > sound-recorder - Direct-to-disk recording and play-back programs. ^ Not needed, afaik. > Changes: > sound-recorder (0.04-1) unstable; urgency

Re: my first package... loads of questions :)

1998-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 11:27:21AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > the maintainer. Well, there's just right another, using debhelper > > partially prevents the package from being compiled on other > > architectures.[1] > > > > [1] We ha

Re: Uploading packages

1998-05-24 Thread Martin Schulze
soundcard", "record from the bttv board", "record keystrokes" ... I believe that's what Markus tried to point out. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ /There are lies, statistics and benchmarks. / pgp36rsBJXbbS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Two Q: upstream & xforms

1998-05-24 Thread Martin Schulze
code or so. Please refer to its maintainer and to the copyright file inside. If XFMail is based on it and has a DFSG complient license it may go into contrib, too. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http:/

Re: Uploading packages

1998-05-25 Thread Martin Schulze
> similar task, such as n editors, n pagers or so. > > Do you mean to say that I can read mail with vi too? ;-) Didn't you know that? :r /var/spool/mail/jk Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / /

Re: uploading packages

1998-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
mpile Debian packages, and it creates the changes file for you. If you don't want to use dpkg-buildpackage, dpkg-genchanges will create the .changes file for you. (dpkg-buildpackage uses it, afaik). Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg /

Re: uploading packages

1998-06-08 Thread Martin Schulze
key, too, please. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / The only stupid question is the unasked one / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: bug tracking system

1998-06-09 Thread Martin Schulze
how do I know if a bug has been closed or not? Get the control page, request the details send-details nnn or similar. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / No question is too silly to ask, / / but,

Re: changes to packaging tools between bo and hamm

1998-06-10 Thread Martin Schulze
IL PROTECTED] keypair? I'd suppose you add that ID to your normal key instead of creating a new one. This can be done with pgp -ke. You could also try to set your id with -m "[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Mancill)" to dpkg-buildpackage. I'm not sure if that works, it's just

Re: The neverending story?

1998-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
set of tiny programs to > help the newbie under Debian (or Linux), such an MS-DOS like editor... Bah, who needs that... Anyway: "prodoce" them, package them and upload them. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / /

Re: How to move a directory?

1998-06-28 Thread Martin Schulze
files without much trouble. Is a warning on the postinst enough? In the preinst you do tmpdir=/etc/wmakr.sik cp /etc/X11/WindowMaker/Styles/* $tmpdir in the posinst you try to copy these. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / /

Re: (un)subcribe: debian-[private|testing|security-private]

1998-07-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Hinzmann wrote: > Can I and how can I change my subscription to the > non open mailing lists? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've written a tool that makes address changes easy, so no need to hesitate. Regards, Joey -- Whenever you meet yourself you're in a time loop or in front o

Re: debstd trouble with multi-binary package

1998-07-04 Thread Martin Schulze
debstd is depricated, use the debhelper instead. Regards, Joey PS: I'd still do everything by hand though. -- Unable to locate coffee, operator halted. -- Stefan Farsch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: packages

1998-07-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Arthur Dardia wrote: > I'm interested in helping out Debian. I like the idea of a free OS > instead of Windows 95 or NT. That's why I decided to try to install > linux on my old 486. When I eventually get it installed, I'd like to > help the community as much as I possibly can. I was wondering

Re: Version specific packages

1998-07-09 Thread Martin Schulze
The question is, is it useful to carry several versions of gri? For normal programs/libraries it isn't useful. Emacs is an exception because 19.x and 20.x are different classes. Some Emacs programs only work with 19.x or 20.x. Same goes for the kernel. Regards, Joey -- The only stup

Re: ACE

1998-07-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Borella wrote: > Has anyone shown an intent for packaging Doug Schmidt's ACE > libraries? You should a) look at the wnpp, somewhere in the developers_corner on our web page and b) ask on debian-devel. Regards, Joey -- Install joe (Joey's Own Editor) correct: Joe

Re: replace ?

1998-07-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi ! > > My jed package is now splitted in jed,jedslc,jedsl-source and rgrep. > How or whom can I say to remove the old jedsl package which is no longer > needed. Conflicts: jedsl Provides: jedsl Replaces: jedsl > BTW: Because I have to binary executable packages (x1

Re: configuration file question

1998-07-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Remco van de Meent wrote: > Hey, > > I hope you can help me with this one... > > > In Incoming on master, there is webalizer_1.20-2_i386.deb. The package > itself works fine (at least, as far as I can test it), but I have a problem > concerning the upgrade from an earlier version of webalizer. >

Re: Has my deb got any problems?

1998-07-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Ian Lynagh wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could take a look at my first deb > (available from http://www.lynagh.demon.co.uk/debian/) and > see if there are any problems with it. Ian, the .deb looks ok from the point of not installing it. The .deb contains /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/X11 which doesn't

Re: Has my deb got any problems?

1998-07-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Ian Lynagh writes: > >The .deb contains /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/X11 which doesn't seem to be used > >by the package. Maybe it can be removed. > > I wondered about that too, but it is in the SVGA servers deb, so I > thought I ought to put it in. Was this wrong? In that case, better wait until Overfie

Re: Building of .deb's

1998-08-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Dominik Rothert wrote: > What means following (error?) message: > > no utmp entry available, using value of LOGNAME ("root") at > /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 16. You can happily ignore it. It's only a warning and says that your uid (0) belongs to the LOGNAME "root" which is not found in the

Re: the dists/stable-updates directory

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > My question is now: is the stuff in stable-updates ever going to be > integrated into the stable distribution? If so, what's the timescale > on that? Also, are those in charge of the official CD images going to > be putting the stuff in stable-updates into the dire

Re: FAQ? Tutorials and documentation to read for creating .debs

1998-08-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Hilton Fernandes wrote: > Hello! > > What are the relevant tutorials and documentation that one must read > to be able to create Debian packages? > > I thank your attention very much. 1/ Start lyunx 2/ Go to www.debian.org 3/ Hit 'Development' 4/ Read Regards, Joey PS: ftp.debian.org/

Re: Package languishing in Incoming

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
I'm sorry, but I can't find either xdir nor ll* in the incoming directory. Please re-upload, then we can see what goes wrong. Regards, Joey -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Package languishing in Incoming

1998-08-06 Thread Martin Schulze
This is what dinstall now says: xdir_2.1-2_i386.changes NEW to unstable (new) xdir_2.1-2_i386.deb extra non-free/net Motif based advanced FTP tool - son of LLNL xftp LLNL XDIR, an OSF/Motif-based FTP client, provides a graphical user interface for drag-and-drop file transfer. LLNL XDIR simultan

Re: Mirroring sid and slink/hamm sources

1998-08-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > How do I do this from a crontab easiest? > > Manually I do: > > cd /pub/Debian.sid > rsync -ave ssh -l turbo --delete master.debian.org > /debian2/debian/dists/sid . > > But then I have to enter my passphrase on master... ssh-keygen and don't set a password. The

Re: all.deb, but i386.changes

1998-08-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Florian Hinzmann wrote: > I was expecting an ..all.changes file. > Is this name correct? If yes, why? ;) Because the program that names the .changes file is too dumb. > Will dlint go into all architectures? Yes. The filename is important for dinstall (I assume). And the field Architecture:

Re: One on One with a Mentor, please

1998-08-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Rasta wrote: > Hello, > I would like to speak to a mentor about becoming a developer. I have read > the Debian Social Contract, developers-reference and packaging. > > I just want to be sure I can become confident and capable and understand > the full scope of this undertaking. I don't want to le

Re: One on One with a Mentor, please (fwd)

1998-08-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Dean Rushing wrote: > Well I want to give something back for the great learning experience I've had. > I just had a breakin, so I'm not quite as happy as I should be, sorry. Great! > Well, I was hoping that I could adopt a package,, I'm now trying to find > the source for phosphorous,, it is a me

Re: Recently accepted maintainers

1998-08-20 Thread Martin Schulze
[ Justin Maurer wrote: > towards a tutorial on the "correct" way to make one? i apologize if this > would be better suited towards -devel or -mentors. Redirected to -mentors ] Justin Maurer wrote: > > > Justin Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Justin is in the process of adopting swisswat

Re: Lintian report: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog?

1998-08-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Michael Bramer wrote: > Hello > > I have package [g]mc. In this package are some upstream changelog-files: > changelog_intl.gz > changelog_pc.gz > changelog_src.gz > changelog_vfs.gz > > I put all files in /usr/doc/[g]mc/. But I get one Lintian report: > W: mc: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog

Re: Lost behind a firewall

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Frederic Peters wrote: > Hi. > > It's the holiday, I finished a few packages and have a problem : I can't use > my usual ISP until october. So I use another one but there is a #-^*.&#* > firewall which doesn't allow uploads. On the other hand, I can send mails > using a good old BBS. > My question

Re: closing bugs with an upload

1998-09-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Falk Hueffner wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to recall there was a way to close a bug with an upload by > noting it's number somewhere. How is that done? I can't find it in the > docs... It's not yet implemented. However I can send you my scripts/procmail receipe that does this job for me. Regards,

Re: where'd my package go!?#

1998-09-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Justin Maurer wrote: > > a few weeks ago i adopted swisswatch. i update the debian/ stuff, compiled > a new package, pgp signature and all, did a dupload (iirc), and figured > all would be good. > > but my package is nowehere to be found. only the older -4 exists > everywhere i've looked. Did yo

Re: debmake + devscripts vs. debhelper

1998-10-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I have been using debmake+devscripts to build my debian packages till > now. How does this compare to debhelper? Also, I remember seeing some > post in debian-devel which said that one of these (debmake or debhelper) > is being orphaned or is no longer in active

Re: Moving from experimental to non-free

1998-10-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > How do I move a package from experimental to non-free, I mean, what do I > have to change in the changelog file? Can I keep the same version > number, or do I have to increment it? edit debian/control and modify it so it looks like Section: non-free/ Rega

Re: Upstream version update

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > Just a stupid question: > What's the "official" way to realize an upstream version update. > > It shouldn't be a great problem to manually create a new .orig.tar.gz > and a new tree where the new changes are merged in. But maybe there is > some way to realize this easier

Re: Source uploads.

1998-10-14 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Leishman wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am about to upload a package that also requires the source to be > uploaded (a new package). How do I go about uploading the source > (the .orig.tar.gz) file? I did a test run of dupload, but this didn't > seem to notice the .orig file. The .orig.tar.gz i

Re: Debianize man pages?

1998-10-16 Thread Martin Schulze
Mitch Blevins wrote: > If an upstream author provides a man page, which includes > info about paths or install scripts that will not be present > in the debianized version, should I modify the man page? Of course. Regards, Joey -- The MS-DOS filesystem is nice for removable media. --

Re: getting bugs moved to a new maintainer

1998-10-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Shaleh wrote: > I just took over the Eterm package. However the bug system still lists the > old > maintainer. Whom do I contact to get this fixed? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mainly you need to make the appropriate upload. Regards, Joey -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the

Re: How to send in patches?

1998-10-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Lars Bensmann wrote: > Hi, > > I put Maildir-support into wmmail and now I'm wondering how to submit the > patch. > > First of all should I send the patch to the debian maintainer or the > upstream auther? That's up to you. > Should I file a wishlist bug and attach the patch or should I mail it

Re: Speaking of new maintainers (WAS Re: getting bugs moved to a new maintainer)

1998-10-21 Thread Martin Schulze
Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > Shaleh, > > You had announced on the E-dev list that you were no longer interested > in being the .deb maintainer for Enlightenment, and had found two new > parties for this. > > Could you announce this again? You also mentioned the packaging of > snaps for Debian. A

Re: How is the freeze enforced?

1998-10-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > I know that my concept of time is flawed at best (I often have no idea what > day of the week it is, much less the real date, or even month > without looking atthe display of my pager) but... I was sure it had been > frozen. Well, you're somewhat right, slink was ann

Re: Debian-JP and Debian package.

1998-10-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Fabien Ninoles wrote: > Just my 2 pennies, I would have expected yen. :-) scnr, Joey -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Re: First time pkg help.

1998-10-24 Thread Martin Schulze
matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote: > I am packaging xfont3d, xfpovray, and xfcolor. They all depend on xforms. > I have the xforms-dev package installed, but when I go to build the > packages, the make files cannot find the forms.h file. I symlinked the > file to /usr/include/forms.h, and now the I can

Re: removing conffiles

1998-10-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > Hi, > > here is a quick one: > > will dpkg remove a conffile on a upgrade, if I remove it from the > package? I guess so. Why don't you try it on your system? Make a backup before. Regards, Joey -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee in

Re: man page

1998-10-26 Thread Martin Schulze
> > I've got a package that has no man page. I've some spare time > > and would like to write it. The question is now: how should I do > > that? What tools do you recommend? Where should I start reading > > about these tools? Read man(7). Tools? Use an editor of your choice. I know that emac

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > I have seen debian/changelog files in some packages in which the keyword > `closes' is set at the first line of new entries. However, the > packaging-manual (version 2.4.1.2, section 3.2.3) states that: > >urgency is the value for the Urgency field in the .chang

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > MS> Speaking of me, I have special rules so I don't have to close > MS> bug reports on my own, it's all done by some scripts that run > MS> automatically, both during upload and and after installation. > MS> Check out bugs against my packages for referenc

Re: keyword=value in debian/changelog

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > >>>>> "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MS> Uff. What name would you propose? I will consist of four > MS> dpkg-divert statements. > > MS> All files are found at > MS&

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > > I am building a package for a NMU based on a new upstream release. > Section 5.5 of the developers-reference manual states: > > If it is absolutely necessary for someone other than the usual > maintainer to make a release based on a new upstream version then

Re: NMU: Incompatibility between dpkg-dev and developers-reference

1998-10-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > >>>>> "MS" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MS> Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > >> [...] > >> I suppose that some script in dpkg-dev works incompatibly with the > >> i

Re: Maintaining a non-US package?

1998-10-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Chris Leishman wrote: > > > Hi, > > I was wondering if someone could give me a quick rundown on maintaining > a non-US package, ie. how to upload, what the section name in the package > should be and anything else that is relevant. Simply upload it to nonus.debian.org, there's also an incoming

Re: wannabe packager asks help

1998-12-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Btw. debian-mentors would be more appropriate for this kind of questions. I lost the beginning of this thread, but did you call dpkg-shlibdeps? Just a quick idea 'cause s/o made that mistake yesterday. Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose

Re: how long does it take be assigned as a packager ?

1998-12-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Ionutz Borcoman wrote: > Hi, > > I have sent 2 e-mails to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] requiring to be > assigned as the packager of > > libvdk > langdrill It can take a while. Please remember that there are several tasks to do wrt. Debian. Regards, Joey -- Linux - the c

Re: Diversions example?

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Mitch Blevins wrote: > Will someone please point me to a package that has a good example > of diversions. I am assuming that this is what I need to package > gnumaniac, which replaces the outdated man pages in the *-utils > gnu packages. Jein. I understand that dpkg-divert is only a workaround.

Re: packaging on master/va

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
[You should tell your mail program/editor to split up lines after about 70 characters. ] Andrew Feinberg wrote: > I'm a new maintainer, and I'd like to be able to keep the > package I'll be doing on master or va. The problem is, I don't know > how I would go about repackaging without breaking the

Re: Packaging beyond one's means

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Jason Henry Parker wrote: > When I struggled to compile mozilla in 16M of ram, I got ENOMEM at > total of three times, I nearly had to shut the box down completely to > get it compiled. > > If I'd run out more often, I wouldn't consider this; but mozilla *is* > going to be a good browser, espescia

Re: Excluding files from source diff

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Samuel Tardieu wrote: > I maintain several packages using PRCS[1] and I'd like not to have the > package.prj and .prcs_aux files (located in the top directory) showing > up in the diff, since they don't belong to the sources. > > Is there anyway to tell dpkg-buildpackage to exclude some files fr

Re: Gnu Privacy Guard

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
Anthony W. Juckel wrote: > I was just wondering what the status was of gpg and its relation to the > debian project. Can new developers user gpg keys instead of pgp keys (it GnuPg is becoming more stable. > debian project. Can new developers user gpg keys instead of pgp keys (it Currently you

Re: Determining if package installed

1998-12-29 Thread Martin Schulze
LaMont Jones wrote: > I have a package (Postfix) that wants to behave differently if NIS is > installed (more to the point, if there is an NIS alias map). Since I've > managed to remain almost completely clueless on NIS, I was hoping someone > could tell me the best way to see if NIS is installed,

Re: Installing XWindows

1998-12-31 Thread Martin Schulze
[ Please direct your submission to debian-user@lists.debian.org which is the proper list for such things.] crown victoria wrote: > I installed the Debian's linux base system on my PC. > I tried launching the X Windows, however I could > not locate startx or xdm programs in the Unix directories. >

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Mitch Blevins wrote: > How do I handle the case where the upstream author renames a package? > > I have a package, gtksamba. > It is conditionally compiled to produce to binary packages: > gtksamba and gtksamba-gnome. > > Upstream is renaming it to gnosamba, and dropping support for gtk-only. > T

Re: Package renaming?

1999-05-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > b) Add this to your control file: > > > > > > Conflicts: gtksamba > > > Profides: gtksamba > > > Replaces: gtksamba > > > > > > If you use the same config file it will be preserved by dpkg, if not, > > > save it in the preinst script. > > > >

Re: TIP vs. Pico

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Jordi wrote: > Hello! > > I plan to upload a sponsored package, TIP (Tip isn't Pico). Some time ago, > there was a discusion in debian-devel, about the building of a Free Pico > clone. In the middle of that discussion, somebody named TIP, this enhanced > and GPLd Pico clone. Since then, have been

Re: TIP vs. Pico

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Surchi wrote: > On 28-Dec-99 Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I guess currently pine depends on pico, thus in the future it would > > depend on tip | pico (in that order) > > No, pine and pico comes from the same source package (pine), but no > dependencies. Do t

Re: TIP vs. Pico

1999-12-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Jordi wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 03:51:37PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > Christian Surchi wrote: > > > On 28-Dec-99 Martin Schulze wrote: > > > > > > > I guess currently pine depends on pico, thus in the future it would > > > > depend

Re: i386 build daemon

2000-01-06 Thread Martin Schulze
Matt Kern wrote: > Does anyone run an i386 build daemon? I run slink on my own dev box and so > find it difficult to build packages for potato. It runs on samosa, iirc. Since you've got an account on pandora, you're able to compile on a potato box. Thus, simply make a wonderful and nice source

Re: i386 build daemon

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin> Since you've got an account on pandora, you're able to > Martin> compile on a potato box. Thus, simply make a wonderful >

Re: i386 build daemon

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Schulze
Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How do you upload a source only package? > > Martin> You're not really asking this question, are you? > > Yes ;-) > > Marti

Re: Mp3 encoders

2000-01-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hello!, > > The other day I was wondering why there aren't any Mp3 encoders in the > distribution. Is there any law that prevents us from including them? There are patent issues that prevent their inclusion, iirc. Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards

Re: Autobuilders and closed bugs

2000-01-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Joe Drew wrote: > How exactly do autobuilders work? Will, within a certain period of > time, a package appear in (for example) the m68k ftp archive of > my packages, built by an autobuilder daemon on an m68k machine? Sure. See http://buildd.nocrew.org/ > As well - closed bugs still show up in th

Re: Autobuilders and closed bugs

2000-01-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Martin Schulze wrote: > Sure. See http://buildd.nocrew.org/ Stephen Hardman wrote: > Ah! buildd.debian.org Regards, Joey -- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.

Re: nmu & man page

2000-01-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Elegant Dice wrote: > hi, > > i'm the maintainer for vrweb (diff email for > holidays), and dropped out of the world for a while > (exams and stuff). 2 of the (simple) bugs were NMU > fixed (not a complaint: thanks Javier) but are marked > 'outstanding'. > > what does that mean? do i need to clos

Re: Build-Depends?

2000-01-23 Thread Martin Schulze
Seth R Arnold wrote: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:47:53PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:09:37AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > I am not a packaging expert, but I think you are missing a single lone `.' > > > in the control file in place of the blank line. >

Re: [Q] How to move to GPG keys...

2000-03-03 Thread Martin Schulze
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > What do I need to do to move to signing my packages with GPG signatures? Maybe this helps: http://www.infodrom.north.de/~joey/GnuPG-Mini-HOWTO.txt Regards, Joey -- Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! Please always Cc to me when

Re: Who tests stuff in Incoming/ ?

2000-04-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > I'm not even a maintainer yet, but I was thinking of signing up, and helping > get stuff moving from Incoming. > > How does stuff get from Incoming to the main tree, anyway? Automatically with manual interaction by the ftp maintainers. I guess it would be better

New-maintainer - STOP THAT SHIT

2001-01-13 Thread Martin Schulze
People, stay calm! For a lot of work, no "official Debian Maintainership" is required: . Fixing bugs . Working on boot floppies . Revising bug reports . Quality assurance . Testing . Helpping the web team . uploading packages (through a sponsor) Only for very few tasks you will require to

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-01-22 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian Hammers wrote: > Hi > > As MySQL has a bad security problem and is accordingly to a @mysql.com person > no longer supported in potato's version my only chance is to build the latest What do you want to express? The security problem is no longer supported in the potato version? Fine. :

Re: Security upgrade for potato by new major version and distro change?

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Schulze
Jürgen A. Erhard wrote: > There are patches that simply cannot be backported. There are others > that are hard to backport even for the upstream maintainers who are > *deep* into the code. > > So demanding of a "packager" to "always be able to backport" is too > strong. fwiw: granted. > [I fin

Re: debian infrastructure out of sync? where's the reference debian package archive?

2001-03-26 Thread Martin Schulze
T.Pospisek's MailLists wrote: > A user reported to me that he can't find libstl for unstable. I checked > and it was available on my mirror and I told him so thinking maybe it was > a problem with pools and the package being somewhere in the middle of a > transfer. Upon which he later reported that

Re: dh_testroot ?

2001-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:50:37PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > I just noticed the debian/rules file for mirrormagic which I inherited from > > Joey Hess uses dh_testroot to check that the build is run as root (or > > fakeroot). > > > > I'm wondering what the just

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
Santiago Vila wrote: > James Troup wrote: > > The canonical source for the debian keyring _is_[2] kerying.debian.org > > (via anon-rsync); period. The package is a convenience, nothing > > more[3]. > > A package which is horribly outdated is everything but a "convenience". File a bug against ftp

Re: fakeroot

1998-01-27 Thread Martin Schulze
maintain packages you need a hamm system. Fakeroot needs libc6 afaik, it may not run with libc5 but you can find out by manually compiling it for bo. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / linux: Unbekannter Terminaltyp

Re: Removing package from master ?

1998-01-29 Thread Martin Schulze
should > the announcement be posted ? Make a posting that you're removing it and move it out of the way of dinstall (btw. dinstall is working at *this* moment). I'd also suggest that you contact the author to release his copyright. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTE

Re: A question.

1998-02-15 Thread Martin Schulze
each other in real life and cannot assure that either of you is the person you must not sign either key Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / linux: Unbekannter Terminaltyp/ / Ich weiß nich

Re: bo-unstable: which `Distribution' field is right?

1998-02-17 Thread Martin Schulze
bo-unstable This should be it. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only / / proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth /

Re: Packaging imlib

1998-02-17 Thread Martin Schulze
that calls a You need to publish your intent on debian-devel. Please coordinate with Sean E. Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who also intents to package it. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Beware of bugs in the above

Re: conventions for packaging.

1998-02-19 Thread Martin Schulze
/Network or Apps/Misc? I'd suggest Apps/Network Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Wer ist Germany.Net? http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / - Dauerwerbesender seiner Abbonenten.-- Lutz Donnerhacke /

Re: help ...

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Schulze
meone test the package to see if i did > something wrong with it (in particular, i didn't liked some message > i get about utmp and logname). Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home

Re: Modifying upstream README

1998-02-24 Thread Martin Schulze
ource file (with notes, that I have modified it, of course) ? As long as you don't modify it in the upstream archive but only in the debian diff.gz that's ok. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / /

Re: Question about new-maintainers@debian.org

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
akes 1 day, normally some more. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 /

Re: new maintainer docs

1998-03-09 Thread Martin Schulze
les to your machine. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / No question is too silly to ask, / / but, of course, some are too silly to answer. -- perl book /

Re: my kde packages

1998-03-11 Thread Martin Schulze
; beeing root. I would even prefer to create them using a user's prefix > instead of the later used. How would I do this? fakeroot should be a package of itself. It's only available as libc6 variant, it won't work with libc5. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMA

Re: HELP w/ my package

1998-03-15 Thread Martin Schulze
ovides / conflicts fields? Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Install joe (Joey's Own Editor) correct: Joe's Own Editor / -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe&q

Re: Package rejected due to missing source entry, (help)

1998-03-16 Thread Martin Schulze
directory called debian with the control files, right? That's the source. Run dpkg-source -b over it and you're done. You might want to take a look at other debian-version-equals-upstream-version packages, too. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129

Re: Package rejected due to missing source entry, (help)

1998-03-20 Thread Martin Schulze
On Sat, Mar 21, 1998 at 12:16:30AM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Martin Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Problem is: there is no source, just some scripts to maintain the > >> databases, two rulesets for sendmail and documentation. My > >&

Re: pgp key ???

1998-03-22 Thread Martin Schulze
, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: help w/ lintian messages

1998-03-23 Thread Martin Schulze
, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&

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