On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 01:56:30PM +0100, Bram Neijt wrote:
> I'm working on a very simple package which, only has compile time
> dependencies.
> I'm currently on debian unstable, with g++-4.0 as my main compiler
> (it's a C++ program).
>
> I've succesfully created a package and installed it on a
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> I disagree. Soyuz is a reimplementation of the archive software. HCT
> addresses the problem of package publishing within Soyuz. In what scope
> HCT will support 'collaborative maintenance' is AFAIK quite unclear.
HCT is a tool fo
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> hct looks very cool and does seem to solve some of the problems that are
> considered here. When I read https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/HCT , I
> get the sense that it's not actually released yet. Is that the case? If
> no
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:03:53PM -0800, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> I am looking for somebody to sponsor a new package for me. I recently
> packaged it for Ubuntu and it was accepted into the universe repository.
> I have now made a Debian sid source package, [...]
Is there a reason why the source
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 07:13:19AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote:
>
> During a recent upgrade of my Debian Sid box, I noticed the
> following changelog entry:
>
>
> f-spot (0.2.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
>
> * Update to 0.2.2 upstream
>
>
> Perhaps I've already missed a discussion on this
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 09:31:43AM +, David Newgas wrote:
> Bug#345039 is an request for
> "kzenexplorer" (http://kzenexplorer.sourceforge.net/) to be included in
> Debian. It is currently already in Ubuntu
> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/kzenexplorer). I created a brand new Debian
> package (li
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 06:44:31PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 20:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > Debian. It is currently already in Ubuntu
> > > (http://packages.ubuntu.com/kzenexplorer). I created a brand new Debian
> > &g
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:39:27PM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote:
> Hello Bart,
>
> is there some kind of agreement between Debian and Ubuntu concerning the
> distribution part of the version?
The scheme is described here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#UbuntuPackages
which is linked, al
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 01:24:44PM -0400, Simon wrote:
> On 5/27/07, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I found the original code in GNOME just pops up a message, see
>> check_ntp_support in
>> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-system-tools/src/time/time-tool.c?rev=1.17&view=markup
>
> This wo
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 06:56:38AM -0500, Nathan Handler wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > There is already an open RFP for ubuntu-archive-keyring[1], but nobody
> > bothered to package it yet. ubuntu-devel-discuss@l.u.c was CCed twice,
> > but there hasn't bee
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:48:28PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > There is an agrep package already in Debian:
> > >
> > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=agrep&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all
>
> Of course it is this package.
>
> > Huh? This
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:04:46PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > mizar:[~] apt-cache show agrep G Section
> > Section: non-free/text
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 07:10:57AM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote:
> How can i get xxx.a.b.c.changes file from changelog.
dpkg-genchanges is the program which does this. However, you should almost
never need to call this directly. dpkg-buildpackage does it for you.
> By the way, is it true after
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 03:09:09PM +0300, Halil Demirezen wrote:
> I am using gzip in my debian/rules for zipping
> manpage and then i use "cp my_package.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1"
>
> my first question: is it a true usage to put gzip into rules?
> and secondly, should i specify "gzip" as a Build
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 04:20:06PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> You wrote:
>
> > Build-Depends: libcurl2-dev | curl | wget
> > might serve as a workaround?
>
> I guees he would need something like
>
> (Build-Depends: libcurl2-dev) | (Depends: curl | wget)
>
> which isn't possible.
It is po
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
> Suppose there is a package foobar that depends on a library libfoo. AIUI,
> whenever the SONAME changes, the library name should change, so I expect
> this to evolve as libfoo1, libfoo2, etc. What are the proper control
> fields (Depe
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:23:14PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
> I maintain a package that provides a shared library, libosp3c102. The files
> /usr/share/locale/{ja,fr,de,sv}/LC_MESSAGES/sp.mo are part of the package.
> However, they are also part of the package that provided the older version of
>
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:57:51AM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote:
> > If the message files are identical, another solution would be to create a
> > third package with the message files which you depend on in the library
> > packages. (The former should of course conflict with older versions
> > of t
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:08:14AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:39:59PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > No; and, moreover, you should not be relying on machines not under your
> > (or Debian's) control in order to build binary packages that will be
> > uploaded to the
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:34:53PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > This would only be feasible if the message catalog never changed.
> > Presumably, it corresponds to translated strings in the library, which
> > might not be identical in different versions of the library.
>
> Personally I don'
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:30:20AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > But presumably you _would_ have a problem with:
> > - the old library trying to look up a string which isn't there anymore in
> > the new library
> > - the new library trying to look up a string which isn't there in the old
>
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 03:42:40PM -0300, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> I was searching for a package and I've found it. But it´s compiled for
> Debian stable. I use Debian unstable and I would like to compile it for
> my version of Debian.
> How can I recompile it? I have those files:
> progra
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 01:56:22PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> I am trying to have my debian/changelog file in utf-8, as required by
> standards-version 3.6.0. However, dpkg-parsechangelog seems not to bee
> able to parse that:
> [...]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/Packages/netenv/netenv-0.94.2$ dpkg
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:41:51PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > dpkg-parsechangelog seems to have parsed it fine. Perhaps your terminal
> > does not support UTF-8?
>
> Hm, I could check this. However, what made me l
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 09:13:11AM -0700, Eric Winger wrote:
> The Packages.gz was created with: (from inside ~/archive/binary)
>
> apt-ftparchive packages . > /dev/null | gzip > Packages.gz
>
> The Sources.gz was created with: (from inside ~/archive/binary)
>
> apt-ftparchive sources . > /dev/
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:54:49PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> OK, having watched the same questions come past regularly, I've finally
> bitten the bullet and put a bit of a FAQ together for this list. I'd
> appreciate comments and more questions and answers.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~mpa
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:05:07PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> I have ITA'd digitaldj already a long time ago. Sadly, I haven't had
> time for debian packaging for a while. But lately I have, I also had my key
> signed by a DD (2 days ago) so that's also sorted out.
> Not being a DD yet, I can'
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:21:30PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> #ifndef COMPRESS
> -#define COMPRESS "gzip"
> -#define UNCOMPRESS "gunzip -c"
> +#define COMPRESS "/bin/gzip"
> +#define UNCOMPRESS "/bin/gunzip -c"
> #endif
I've never been a proponent of hardcoding paths to programs. T
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:47:42PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:45:48AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > > +#define COMPRESS "/bin/gzip"
> > > +#define UNCOMPRESS "/bin/gunzip -c"
>
> > I've never be
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:21:39PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 11:00:35AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > $PATH is almost always trusted; the exception is setuid programs which
> > should sanitize PATH. xspringies is not setuid, is it?
>
> It
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 09:55:00PM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> You can find at:
>
> http://www.famdijkstra.org/~tdykstra/debian/
Much better, but one more nit:
> + Includes fix from last NMU (Closes: #104974)
http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:32:17AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Much better, but one more nit:
> >
> > > + Includes fix from last NMU (Closes: #104974)
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-re
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:22:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:43:16AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > In this case, it is important to note what actually changed in the
> > package. Personally, I dislike the "maintainer upload, closes:"
>
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 03:44:42PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 6) W: kcdlabel: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath ./usr/bin/kcdlabel
> /usr/X11R6/lib
> [...]
> It's 6 that bothers me. Is this some odd libtool oddity with X that can
> be ignored, or is it something real that I should worry about? I
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:15:37PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Since it is not, I was wondering if others had seen this before.
> Building previous versions of this program (albeit with different
> versions of the various tools) did not produce this lintian warning.
> In fact this prompted me
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:50:43AM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote:
> MIME support sub-policy at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/ it seems to me it
> is the only place to put these files currently (I noticed
> /usr/share/mime-info but it looks gnome-specific).
>
> linda comp
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 02:39:45PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:50:43AM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote:
> > BTW: the file
> > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime_policy.txt.gz
> > referenced on
> > http://w
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:59:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> I have some code that was using :
>
> printf (__func__ "Message", ...);
>
> This doesn't build anymore with gcc 3.x, since __func__ is treated as a
> variable, not a string literal.
>
> What would be the best way of working around t
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:35:03AM +0200, Magosányi Árpád wrote:
> The syslog-ng package consists of two sources: syslog-ng itself, and
> libol.
> Now the packege is created by unpacking syslog-ng, dropping the libol
> tar.gz into the source tree, and adding the debian dir.
> It follows that eithe
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:51:12PM +0200, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote:
> I'd like to know if this justifies splitting a package. AFAIK the
> size or the existence of shared libs justify splitting a package, but
> not this.
>
> I've got a package that contains a command line program and a coupl
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 11:51:12PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:26:42PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > See "(gcc)Function Names". It'd really be best to adapt it to use __func__
> > properly, since this is a standard which will be honored
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:37:07PM +0200, Robert Lemmen wrote:
> - bump the version number a bit and add a respective changelog entry,
> then re-upload
Yes, as with any other change to your package.
> - or ask (where?) to rebuild the source that is already in the archive ?
No, see http://www.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:30:26PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> The funny thing is that I had an informal mail contact with the user and
> asked him to make a formal bug report, so that I could see Depends and
> all. I had no idea that one could turn this info off, and I fear the
> user hasn't, ei
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:43:07PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> This is a follow up to the jackd/ dpkg-statoverride thread, and a
> request for comment on the below. Once informally vetted here, I will
> post to debiam-multimedia.
>
> Input appreciated
> Zen
>
> ---
> Title: Audio Apps Mini P
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:52:52PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> One method is jackd/ jackstart. jackd runs as root, jackstart starts it,
> and can be run as any user, and uses kernel "capabilities" to give jackd
> the required scheduling priority ("realitime").
Why on earth would a sound serve
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:45:08PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Perhaps execcap(8) can be used as base for the "general facility"?
That sounds useful. For our purposes, though, it would need a setuid
wrapper in order to do the other work, and that program could probably just
as easily set the
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:14:59PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Bugs 1,2,3 are tagged with fixed-in-experimental by the uploads of the
> betas. When we finally put 1.1 into unstable, are bugs 1,2,3
> automatically closed or do we have to join the changelogs from the beta
> releases and the 1.1 so t
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules:
dh_make != debhelper.
> ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""
> cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub
> endif
> ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/sh
(this is debian-devel material; please followup there)
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:46:39PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> To do so, I ned to know a little more about apt's guts than I do
> currently, I'm afraid, and I was hoping someone could point me to a good
> reference guide about how apt calls
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:00:45AM +0100, Eike Sauer wrote:
> I packaged kbirthday, a KDE kicker applet that reminds
> of birthdays (which it reads from the KDE adressbook).
>
> I've got one message from lintian and one from linda
> - but two different ones.
>
> linda tells me:
> W: kbirthday;
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0600, David Segonds wrote:
> 1. Even though, Architecture was set to 'all' in debian/packages, the
> 'changes' file I obtain is tagged with 'i386'. Is this normal? The same
> thing happen when I repackage phpmyadmin.
Yes, don't worry about it.
> 2. There is an
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:06:59PM -0600, David Segonds wrote:
> As a newbie, ignoring lintian advices does not seem the right thing to
> do for some reasons. :)
>
> Which raises another question. How good are lintian advices?
>
> If lintian developers spent time integrating those warnings, the
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:51:22PM -0600, David Segonds wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:46:35AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > What's to heavily modify? I presume the config file is a fairly reasonable
> > format, in which case a search 'n replace for 'config_option\s=.*$' to
> > 'config
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:49:03PM -0500, Neil Roeth wrote:
> On Nov 18, Zenaan Harkness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I assume that (generally speaking) as DD's (in NM training or otherwise)
> > are expected to have a reasonably up to date sid install, whether
> > native, chroot, or whatever.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 04:07:06PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> I have to move a config file, and I am not sure of the best way of
> handling it, so I wanted to ask for opinions.
>
> The problem is that I am currently shipping an /etc/default/$package,
> which needs to now become /etc/$package.co
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:30:46PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This is the kind of thing I want to do - how do I extract $old_version?
> I want to do the move if upgrading from >> 5.4-5, but not after that, so
> that I don't keep on doing funky things to users' conffiles. Pointer to
> refs would
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:06:51PM -0800, David Braun wrote:
> The data comes from the USDA as a file designed to be imported into a
> relational database (such as MySQL). It's really not very useful
> otherwise. My question is how do I package this correctly? I want my
> package to import it i
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Florian Zaehringer wrote:
> I am planing to adopt my first package (emelfm, orphaned). So I checked what
> needs to be done to equip myself for this task.
>
> There seems to be one current problems with that package:
> The ToDo says the Standards-Version
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:47:45PM -0800, David Braun wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:42, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I would simply include the SQL dump under /usr/share and leave it to the
> > user where to import it. It's possible that they will want to create a new
> &
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:05:12PM +0100, Thorsten Sauter wrote:
>
> I'm going to adopt cacti[1]. But I have a problems with a clean upgrade
> path to the new upstream version.
>
> Cacti use a mysql database to store the configuration values (including
> users/password, graphic options, layouts,
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 05:04:54PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> I want to do the following to a configuration file: Ignore all updates
> of the conffile inside the .deb (in other words: just keep what's
> installed on the system). At the moment this file is marked as
> conffile.
If the file stop
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 11:02:23PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031228 22:25]:
> > I think you mean "-f" for most of those "-a".
>
> I don't mean "-f", because a symlink is also ok. (But I do perhaps
>
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:06:35AM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> Now I'm strongly considering making the switch to Debian and am
> evaluating moving my whole installation system over to dpkg. dpkg
> seems superior to rpm in almost all respects (richer dependencies,
> better documentation, more r
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:55:55PM +0100, GCS wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:56:33PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > It is also not uncommon to make an orig.tar.gz of (possibly multiple)
> > upstream tarballs by putting them in a directory and tarring that.
> Ofcours
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> Well, they can't go into /usr/bin, they are part of the library.
> However, for some reason upstream decided to put the python equivalent
> of a main() in some of the files that make up the library.
That's a reasonable thing to do
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:30:52AM -0400, Ervin Hearn III wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:48AM +0200, Marco Herrn wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > where can I find information about the structure of Release files? And
> > are there any tools to create them automatically?
> >
> > Regards
> > Marco
>
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:59:33AM +, Ian Beckwith wrote:
>
> > I recently ITA'd ckermit, ("a serial and network communications
> > package"). Packaging the latest version raised lots of (ho
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 06:59:33AM +, Ian Beckwith wrote:
> I recently ITA'd ckermit, ("a serial and network communications
> package"). Packaging the latest version raised lots of (hopefully
> non-stupid) questions:
Do you realize that ckermit is already packaged in stable/non-free and
testi
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:47:15PM +0100, Magos?nyi ?rp?d wrote:
> There are some files in /etc which are actually data files representing
> the state of the system. Like /etc/mtab, /etc/network/ifstate, or
> /etc/lvmconf/* (it is not even a text file).
> These files are written by programs in occ
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:15:54AM +0100, Luca Pasquali wrote:
> author put it under GPL, new debs are here:
>
> http://ketavet.dyndns.org/truncate
Is something so trivial worth packaging? It sounds like it doesn't do
anything that dd doesn't.
If I've misunderstood and this does more, could yo
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:24:01PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> > although I've read the policy again, I am not sure whether it is allowed
> > to store scripts in /usr/share/$package? In particular, scripts that are
> > only meant
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:54:17PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I used a statically-linked binary just a few days ago. I needed to
> resize an NTFS partition on a newly-delivered system which came with
> Windows XP. In the event, I was able to get a statically linked
> binary, copy it onto a flop
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:24:59PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> I am responsible for the package htdig. Htdig is a full-text indexer for
> (local) sites, ie. will generate a full-text (searchable) index of that
> site.
> The thing is written in C++, and comes with loads of libraries. While
>
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:24:10AM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I have simple question which I could not find in the debian policy, maybe
> someone could point me out to that section or the right documentation? Or a
> explanation would be nice. I'm debianizing a package that I wou
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:57:55PM +, n.v.t n.v.t wrote:
> >Why? How big are the components? Would somebdy e.g install package-name
> >without package-icons or the other way round?
>
> It was a example. The person might only want the backgrounds or only the
> icons.
This alone is not suffic
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 04:12:30PM +0100, Tom Huckstep wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 03:43:51PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> > > 1. Add a Depends: on Python
> > > 2. Remove 'teepeedee-share' from the .deb
> > > 3. Put teepeedee-share in a separate package
> > > 4. Replace the 'teepeedee-share'
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 11:29:54AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> Of course, with the current version of dpkg, your point is very good and
> entirely valid.
>
> Thinking ahead, wouldn't it be a good idea to fix dpkg and the package
> list to support a larger number of packages?
The problem wit
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 03:45:46PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 09:18:20AM -0400, Erik Bourget wrote:
> > What's the best/accepted way to have a package add users to a Debian system?
> > I have a daemon that has no need to run as root (but a need to store its own
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:57:27PM +0200, Gianluca Ciarcelluti wrote:
> I developed a package under debian.
> When I try to install it trough "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" it
> continue to reinstall it instead of display the message
> "Sorry, hexedit is already the newest version.".
>
> I w
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:26:57AM +0200, Gianluca Ciarcelluti wrote:
> If coul'd help here is my control file:
> ---
> Source: alga
> Section: unknown
> Priority: optional
> Maintainer: Gianluca Ciarcelluti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:18:11PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> I'm inclined to believe that there are some things that could be done
> about this if someone wanted to. Diffs for the package list has been
> proposed, and it doesn't take many minutes of thinking to see that it's
> actually quit
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 04:20:18PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> I'm not sure what would be best practice to avoid those errors, because
> the admin might have to configure the video device first anyway (though
> the default /dev/video0 is usually a nice guess).
>
> Have an /etc/default/ca
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:30:10PM -0500, Greg Deitrick wrote:
> What is the recommended method for securely creating a temporary named pipe
> in
> C code?
>
> Looking at the man pages for various library calls it appears that tmpfile(3)
> is probably an acceptable means of creating a temporar
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 07:53:46AM -0400, James Damour wrote:
> In this case, this setgid-wrapper concept would work for *all* Java
> applications. I'm still not sure if it will work for shell driven apps
> in general, but it sounds reasonable. Security may be a concern, but I
> believe that a s
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:05:06AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> The problem is that there's a REAL 'slapd' package on the Debian
> GNU/Linux APT archive(s) which seem to override _my_ virtual
> package(s).
>
> I would like to have my packages to override the 'original' one
> (they have A LOT
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:09:43AM -0500, larry wrote:
> To Whom it may concern
> My Name is Larry Sheetz
> I'm a Co owner in a Debian based ISP.
>
> We are currently deploying wireless systems for our isp and noticed that
> there is on debian package that we can find that includes PPPoE in
> Po
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:40:52PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
> I have a question. If an /etc/init.d script hangs indefinately while
> waiting for user input, is this a violation of Debian policy?
>
> See BTS #221751 for more information.
There is no explicit rule in policy about the interacti
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:49:46AM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
> One question I have however, is should it be a policy violation if a
> script hangs waiting for user input? Perhaps the policy document
> should be updated to explicitly deal with this case?
So far, it does not seem to have been a
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:19:27PM -0400, David Krovich wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > So far, it does not seem to have been a problem, but you are welcome to
> > propose it through the normal channels.
>
> Please forgive my ignorance, bu
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:21:23PM -0400, James Damour wrote:
> My understanding of the position of Bob and Mike can be summed up as, "in
> general, shell script's can't be made to use setuid/setgid securely".
> Basically, the problem comes down that a user can manipulate their PATH to
> redefinin
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:11:58AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> I prepared package of imgseek for Debian (it's now in unstable), but
> unfortunatelly it fails to build on every non-i386 architecture.
>
> I tested it with pbuilder on my i386 box, but seems that it's not
> enough. It wo
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 11:55:43AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am packaging source which builds two binary packages; however, each
> package has different build dependancies. In fact, the packages' build
> dependancies conflict.
>
> I don't think the dpkg tools have the facility to build
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version dependency. Is there
> to make dh_shlibdeps add that in?
No. Why do you believe that you need to?
--
- mdz
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:48:39PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:25:06PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> >
> > > Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version depende
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:00:41AM +0200, Pierre HABOUZIT wrote:
> I'm trying to package flyspray. all goes pretty cool atm, except ne
> weird error I really don't understand :
>
> lintian complains about a missing dependency on debconf, whereas I have
> one ... and I don't understand what's the
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> But why nobody has yet taken care about it? There is a patch
> which (maybe) fix the bug without any answer from the maintainers.
If you are interested in seeing this (minor) bug fixed, helpful actions
include:
- Applying the
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:37PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:
> I have a seemingly stupid question. Say I am not a DD yet, and has a
> security bug in a package I help maintaining. Upstream fixed it, so the
> package is ready, but upstream requires new library version from a
> depende
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 06:02:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:58:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > > I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole
> > > story see below..
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> The code uses which gcc-3.3 doesn't support. is
> the new standard. I've done my best to convert the code, but I can't
> solve a crash in the of the functions I had to change.
This is the right approach, and your efforts are bet
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anybody have an idea why apt decides "Holding Back tetex-bin rather
> > than change dvipdfm"?
>
> It seems it's an apt bug; after I put the tetex stuff on hold and
> dist-upgrade t
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