Re: removed from lists, can't resubscribe.

1998-03-26 Thread Martin Schulze
ied sending a message to the list > maintainer. That is? If [EMAIL PROTECTED] it didn't went through, as I haven't seen it. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / No question is too silly to ask, / / but, of

Re: sdc_1.0.8beta-7_i386.changes REJECTED

1998-03-27 Thread Martin Schulze
binary-indep rule, since we do not have a sdc-doc package (yet) * debian/rules: dpkg-genchanges now uses '-isp' arg * debian/substvars: derived file, removed * README.Debian: add buildinfo information, updates * build, install, build to produce best doco You should receiv

Re: Packaging strategy for dict

1998-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
xen, msql, mysql, xfree86, postgresql etc. etc. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is / / only acquired just after one could have used it. / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Packaging strategy for dict

1998-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
s and 2 binaries to make things simple. 2 source packages if the source comes with to tarballs, one source package if the source for client+server comes with one tarball. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Experience is a useful thi

Re: Conffiles with two binary packages

1998-04-06 Thread Martin Schulze
debian/binary2/DEBIAN/conffiles Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / Never trust an operating system you don't have source for! / pgp7uXZbSO8H1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: waiting time in incoming queue

1998-04-13 Thread Martin Schulze
ng/ ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/Incoming/ Regards, Joey PS: I can fully understand that it's annoying that some packages are hosed in the Incoming directory. -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / Experience is a useful thin

Re: changelog

1998-04-19 Thread Martin Schulze
Use Section: contrib/misc in debian/control Use Distribution: frozen untable in .changes Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / A mathematician is a machine / / for con

Re: new upstream src

1998-05-01 Thread Martin Schulze
more difficult, sometimes it's easier (only copy the debian/* files, edit changelog and you're done). Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Name of a package

1998-05-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country / / Featuring Debian GNU/Linux motd von irc.funet.fi / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Greetings and RHIDE

1998-05-02 Thread Martin Schulze
erver). Ouch! But TV may not be distributed? Ouch ouch ouch. This makes it a real hassle[tm]. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / A mathematician is a machine / / for converting coffee into theorems / pgptg4HRq5mbS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where do orphaned packages go when you pick them up?

1998-05-05 Thread Martin Schulze
k that is in project/orphaned? File a bug against ftp.debian.org. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages.de/~joey/ / VFS: no free i-nodes, contact Linus -- finlandia, Feb '94 / pgpzVxb3wgcc6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC: regarding /etc/shells

1998-05-07 Thread Martin Schulze
. I don't know. I think it's too late. There are only n packages affected afaik (n<10) but it needs to be discussed on debian-policy first. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / / http://home.pages

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

1998-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
ed to upload it into 'frozen unstable' [1] We had this problem with binary-sparc where no new perl package existed so all packages using debhelper couldn't be re-packaged for the Sparc archtitecture. Regards, Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 O

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 t

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

2001-01-21 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 tha

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 jus

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 ft

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK -- CORRECTED

2001-09-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet > > > in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. > > > > > > > It might be a long time away but there is a linux expo in may, you > > will > > definatly be able to get one signed on

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Mike Schacht wrote: > This list of debian machines: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, shows > that some of the machines allow access by "all". There is no further > explanation of who qualifies as "all", or how someone who is "all" can > get access. > > The debian-admin list is given at the Ad

Re: Howto revive the old Debian get-changelog cgi script?

2003-06-11 Thread Martin Schulze
[cc'ing debian-admin and debian-mentors does not make that much sense] Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Here are some possibilities I can think of: > > 1) Follow and parse one of the -changes lists, archive the changelogs in >a machine-readable format, indexed by source/binary package. > 2) Have a

Re: GPG Key Signing in UK -- CORRECTED

2001-09-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > I live in Birmingham, UK and work in London, UK, so arranging a meet > > > in/around these two cities is usually possible at any time. > > > > > > > It might be a long time away but there is a linux expo in may, you > > will > > definatly be able to get one signed on

Re: Machine access for NM Applicants.

2003-05-31 Thread Martin Schulze
Mike Schacht wrote: > This list of debian machines: http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, shows > that some of the machines allow access by "all". There is no further > explanation of who qualifies as "all", or how someone who is "all" can > get access. > > The debian-admin list is given at the Ad

Re: Howto revive the old Debian get-changelog cgi script?

2003-06-11 Thread Martin Schulze
[cc'ing debian-admin and debian-mentors does not make that much sense] Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Here are some possibilities I can think of: > > 1) Follow and parse one of the -changes lists, archive the changelogs in >a machine-readable format, indexed by source/binary package. > 2) Have a

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