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
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 09:36:30AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> That's what it does, and since it does the problem occured. Was I unclear
> in my first mail?
I must have been looking at tetex-base rather than tetex-bin, which only
replaces dvipdfm.
> Indeed when updating apt first the problem va
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, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:23:28PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote:
> After checking appropriate docs and asking around and getting different
> answers, I thought I'd see if there was any consensus on this:
>
> How do you deal with new upstream releases? The general answers I'm getting
> seem to be alon
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:45:32PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote:
> * Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:12:18 18:15 -0800]:
>
> > Did I miss anything?
>
> Yeah, the part where you turn this into a poster to be hung on my wall.
...and the unified diff for developers-reference. :-)
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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:33:31PM +0200, David Gil wrote:
> I did it, Depends now looks like this:
>
> Depends: python (>= 2.3), python (<< 2.4)
>
> I have read about it before at debian python policy. But the problem now
> is that my ubuntu friends can not install reddo cause ubuntu use
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:59:04AM +1000, John Skaller wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 13:04 +0200, Arjan Oosting wrote:
>
> > I guess you build it on a Ubuntu system? Maybe next time you could built
> > them in a Debian unstable chroot (with pbuilder). This way you also
> > make sure it compiles
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:17:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I'm looking for an easy way of getting the build dependencies of a
> package. At the moment I do look through the build log manually, and if I
> oversee something Roman Hodek sends a bug report that the m68k
> autobuilder found some m
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:23:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 03:17:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for an easy way of getting the build dependencies of a
> > package. At the moment I do look through the build log manuall
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:30:01PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've perused some of the dpkg-related documentation, but maybe I'm
> missing something simple.
>
> If I already am using automake (or otherwise adhering to the GNU coding
> standards), shouldn't there be some automatic way to g
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:45:54PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:11:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> > >If I run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' as root, files belong to root,
> > >which looks saner, but it doesn't ask for any GPG key.
> >
> > Install the devscripts pac
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Clay Crouch wrote:
> I was the one who warned Roberto about dinstall doing a lintian
> check of uploaded packages prior to installing. These were my
> exact words:
>
> => BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT <=
> Your package hass to be able to pass a check with
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:18:35PM +0100, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
> Upstream sources have no icon for some application.
> How I can add an icon to debian/ in other format than xpm ?
> When I try to do it with icon.png I receive message:
>
> dpkg-source: cannot represent change to debian/icon.p
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:56:37AM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 05:27:25PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Try encoding the binary file with uuencode, shar or a similar tool, and
> > decoding it in debian/rules. Don't forget to Build-Depend on sharut
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:04:35PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Is there any way I can force /usr/src/modules/toshutils to get deleted? I
> think the proper way would have been to add some lines to toshutils.postrm
> or prerm to make sure the file or directory was deleted, but I can't change
> 1
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 02:40:51PM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote:
> In light of the above, one solution that suggests itself is to just stick
> autoconf and automake in the Build-depends line, and
>
> 1. run "make maintainer-clean" in debian/rules(clean), to avoid diffing
>Makefile.in files, an
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 01:00:41AM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > I ship the upstream sources with the original Makefile.in's to avoid a huge
> > diff, and only patched Makefile.am's. I believe the automake-generated
> &g
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:41:55AM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> You might look into making it work with kerberos4kth's krsh/krshd for strong
>authentication
> without the encryption overhead. Unless you really need all communication to be
>encrypted
> (doing classified computations on an u
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:35:45AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> What's the "best" way of maintaining or creating a man page?
>
> I'll be needing to do that with some of my packages, but it just occurred to
> me I don't actually know how, apart from cutting and pasting in a text
> editor. My gue
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:24:01AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> I wouldn't necessarily mind using SGML, but which tools exactly do you use.
> For creating man pages I mean. How do you generate them from SGML?
I use emacs/psgml to edit, and the docbook-to-man package to generate nroff.
> As for
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:57:25PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote:
> "S'P" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> I've another problem with lintian.
>
> Lintian complain if I make a symlink with changelog.Debian like :
>
> /usr/share/doc/gnome-panel-data/change
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:50:10PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> I am building fortunes-bofh-excuses - just a couple of data files for
> fortune.
Is there any reason why they shouldn't be included in fortune proper?
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Eray Ozkural wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:03:55PM -, Mariusz Przygodzki wrote:
> >
> > I am convinced the DAM approval is this kind of bureaucratical decision
> > which can not improve Debian work's quality of any maintaners (it means
> > uno
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 08:15:43AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:14:29PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > How do you handel zour gpg keys when you build on debian machines?
> > I would want to build my packages on a debian machine but would not
> > want to h
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:16:39PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
> how should one treat patches which aren't upstream, like
> backports of a later release to the stable version?
> is there a recommended way? or how are people treating it? or
> people tell me how they do it and i can try the soluti
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:17:00PM -0800, Sudhakar Chandra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> dh_shlibdeps in my debian/rules seems to generate a dependency on a package
> that is not even installed on my system.
What is in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libaspell*.shlibs?
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:03:12PM +, Luis Arocha -data- wrote:
> I'm making the xmorph package and dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot send this
> message:
>
> dpkg-buildpackage: Debian-specific package; upload is full source
>
> and it doesn't generate diff file.
> This is not a Debian specific
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 04:27:14PM -0500, Chris Ruffin wrote:
> Should source packages include config.cache? I don't think so, but
> I'm not absolutely sure.
Definitely not. Think of users who locally recompile the package in a
different environment.
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > You should always be able to backport a patch. If not, I'm sorry, but that
> > this should be one quality of a Debian maintainer, you lack something...
> Marti
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:07:02PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman
>
> | On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
> |
> | > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:13:57AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> | > > You should always be able t
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:13:33PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman
>
> | Not necessarily. The core of the code is written in C, and the maintainer
> | should be able to read and write C comfortably in order to effectively maintain
> | the package. The inter
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 03:56:07AM +0800, zhaoway wrote:
> I saw on package.d.o there is a quality percentage for each package. Would
> you tell me how it counts? bug reports + lintian errors?
Those numbers have nothing to do with the quality of the package; they refer to
the quality of the sea
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:18:19PM -0800, Rick Younie wrote:
> I'm playing with a script and need a push. Why doesn't this
> work?
>
> telnet lists.debian.org 80
> GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0
> Accept: */*
Try this:
GET /debian-mentors-0101/msg00033.html HTTP/1.0
Host:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 08:38:46PM +0100, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Well here lies the problem. MySQL has a --chroot=DIR option but if started
> this way it still uses the databases in /var/lib/mysql but writes the logfile
> and OUTFILE data to the chroot. It also does not require any additional
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:14:11PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Thus spoke Jochen Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2001-01-28 18:52:37:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there any standard way to create a version of a
> > debian package with debugging enabled (i.e. to use
> > the -g compiler switch during compilati
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:12:48PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Now when I do this by hand in debian/rules, it all works just fine. But I
> was given to understand that setting gid mode was better done using
> dpkg-statoverride for security reasons in the postinst script, using
> something like:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:21:59AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> Chad C. Walstrom:
>
> > The easiest way is to maintain a vendor branch in a local repository.
>
> I would prefer not to make unnecessary copies...
In that case, try creating a branch in the upstream CVS module, rather than a
sep
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 06:51:35PM +, Roger Leigh wrote:
> I am having a problem when packaging a shared library (libgimpprint from
> CVS). It is normally named libgimpprint-.so e.g. currently
> libgimpprint-4.1.4.so, but I get errors when packaging (see below).
> However, if I change that na
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:15:12AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
> Upgrading of that pkg is no problem. The old-lib vanishes, the new not
> including the utils installs. Same for the -dev, the old one being
> replaced with the new which includes the utils.
>
> But downgrading naturally blows. Th
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:29:18PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> Sorry to nag. Has anyone got an answer to this question?
I asked a variation on the same question on -devel a few weeks ago, and got
zero responses. Aborting in the preinst is the only way to do anything even
close, but it makes a
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:19:21AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:07:36PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:29:18PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> > > Sorry to nag. Has anyone got an answer to this question?
> >
&g
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:46:00AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello. I have two, simple, questions about building a Debian package using
> dh_make and dpkg-buildpackage.
>
> First question, when I use dh_make how can I get it to insert as revision
> number? I've read the man, the docs, an
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:42:01PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 02:02:53PM -0800, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> > It seems this is at odds with policy, which prohibutes the automated
> > editing of conffiles (such as squid.conf). This is a bit ironic, since
> > asking 'Would
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:29:00AM +0100, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> My problem is : when upgrading the package, the files in /var/lib/crafty are
> overwritten by the original files coming with the new version package. How can
> I preserve these files from being overwritten ? The files are norm
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:08:07PM +, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:52:31PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > It seems to me that it would be overzealous to worry about that now...
> > creating a special /usr/share/ppp directory (or whatever) just for this
> > purpose, and lin
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:39:47PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:26:35 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Then have three scripts. Put the common common code into a third script
> >which is not called directly by init, but have the two init scripts call the
> >third script.
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:44:55PM -0500, Rene Weber wrote:
> - License is BSD, except that it diffs with the license in
> /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD:
>
> C U T H E R E
>
> diff bsd /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
> 0a1
> > Copy
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> However, I'd like to put images in something like /usr/share/web-images,
> since I _might_ end up cluttering around and overwriting files which I
> shouldn't, by placing the images in /var/www/mailman-images. Also, it looks
> mes
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:14:58AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> viewmol, a molecular modelling program I'm packaging, makes use of a number
> of supplementary binary files and scripts to read atomic coordinates from a
> range of different file formats.
>
> By default these utilities are kept in
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:25:43AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote:
> > I like this idea. /usr/share/doc is really not the right place for images,
> > and placing them there simply because it happens to be web-accessible is an
> > unnecessary kludge. Slightly less unappetizing is to place the imag
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:13:46AM +0100, Peter van Rossum wrote:
> If you want them as .Z files, then you should probably tell cvs that
> they are binary files to prevent cvs from doing keyword substitution on
> them. Easiest way to do that is probably by putting "*.Z -kb" in
> CVSROOT/cvswrappe
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:54:19AM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> How do you cope with packages that use autoconf? I.e. for each compile they
> updates some (Make)files, and the they get into the .diff.gz, even though
> they could (and hence should) be left out.
Packages which use autoconf should
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 08:57:44PM +0100, Mikael Hedin wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > from a fresh checkout (using cvs-buildpackage) once everything is ready.
> > This way, only changes that are checked into CVS end up in the .diff.gz.
>
&
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 10:58:44PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote:
> No, for GNU programs, "make clean" is not supposed to delete Makefiles
> - but "make distclean" is. dpkg-buildpackage executes not "make
> clean", but "debian/rules clean". Your clean rule in debian/rules
> should then execute the
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:34:26PM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
> Hello, dear developers!
>
> libggi-target-fbdev.postinst checks /dev for framebuffer entries. If
> none are found, it offers to create them. Now i've received the
> following:
>
> [...]
> I was already wondering about a recent dis
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:51:03AM +0100, Martin Albert wrote:
> Uhm, sorry - that question was silly. I haven't made up my mind wide
> enough, it seems.
>
> All that is left on this issue: Is it ok for postinst to output a
> message of minor priority without pause/prompting for a key?
If at
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:11:35AM -0600, Michael Janssen (CS/MATH stud.) wrote:
> My question is this: All of this is fine and dandy, except that none
> of these packages are useful without a MOSIX kernel. Right now I see
> 4 options:
> 1) Include some sort of patched-kernel source package i
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:46:30AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I'm the upstream maintainer on a PAM module, pam_smbpass, which I'm
> interested in packaging for Debian. The catch is that the module requires
> that a complete (well, nearly complete) copy of the Samba source code be
> available
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:33:15PM +0200, Dennis Schoen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:05:05PM +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> > I have one question regarding creating debian package. Do I need unstable
> > debian for this task? I'm asking because I run potato now and (if possible)
> > wouldn't
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:29:44PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> I am cleaning up my packages, and one improvement
> I want to add is that network daemon runs under its
> own UID, not nobody (as it was until now).
>
> What is the best way of testing (and adding) a new username
> in postinst?
>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> I have a problem. The Webmin distribution consists of various modules.
> It has periodic numbered releases. It also has unnumbered updates of
> individual modules between releases for bug fixes etc. What do I do?
>
> 1. Don't
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:03:12AM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> Is there a ref doc about building packages of dynamic libraries ?
The Policy Manual, Chapter 9, should have all the information you need.
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:41:37AM +0530, Viral wrote:
> I want to know whether I have to import all the keys in the debian-keyring
> into my public keyring to be able to verify signatures, or is there a
> better way, such as defining other public keyrings/querying a keyserver etc.
Install the d
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:47:40PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote:
> You wrote:
>
> > I note that the debian-keyring package is horribly outdated
> > (2000.08.30), how often is it updated? I've reverted to downloading the
> > keyring manually from auric.d.o ...
>
> The sid package should be up to d
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 09:07:34AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am going to upload packages for the s390 architecture. There are still a
> lot of packages which don't support s390 in config.sub and config.guess yet.
> Is it necessary to write a bug report and do a source NMU for each of th
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 12:48:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Are you planning to set up an autobuilder for s390?
>
> Yes, I am currently working on it.
Would you be willing to grant developer accounts on such a system? I am very
interested in working on the s390 port, but I don't ha
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:12:34AM +0530, Viral wrote:
> How do I get my packages to build for the host type 'i386-pc-linux-gnu'
> rather than 'i686-pc-linux-gnu' ?
Use the --host switch to configure.
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On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:29:09AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:12:34AM +0530, Viral wrote:
> >
> > > How do I get my packages to build for the host type 'i386-pc-linux-gnu'
> > > rather than 'i686-pc-linux-gnu' ?
> >
> > Use the --host switch to configure.
>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:23:21PM +1000, Sam Couter wrote:
> Simple question for the day:
>
> Should a package that has a symlink to undocumented(7) also have a Depends:
> on the package that contains undocumented(7) (manpages)? It seems silly to
> me that a package could have a symlink to a no
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 11:01:52PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> I read on -devel that compiling packages with g++ 3 is problematic
> since they will not correctly link with C++ libraries built with an
> older compiler. I figure this will not be a problem for my package
> because it does not d
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:25:08PM +1000, Jason Thomas wrote:
> was wondering if anyone could suggest how to handle this bug. It is fixed in
> new versions of grub.
The bug is not serious enough to justify an update to stable, especially not
when we are preparing for a new release. It's certai
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 11:25:38PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 10:33:20PM +0200, R?mi Perrot wrote:
> >
> > I read in the Debian policy that cgi script of web application must
> > go in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name and should be referred as
> > http://localhost/cgi-
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:37:09PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:45:31PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > If the problem occurs only on certain architectures, you may want to try it
> > yourself on as many as possible before switching enti
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:58:53PM +0200, Rémi Perrot wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 12:43:37AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> > I agree. I've had cricket's CGI scripts in a subdirectory since the beginning.
> > Since they have generic names like '
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:39:13PM +0200, R?mi Perrot wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:06:20AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Make sure you investigate web server support and affected packages first.
> > The more information you provide, the better informed people will b
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:36:17AM +0200, Sebastien Chaumat wrote:
> Is there a kind of global changelog that explain the most significant diff
> between stable and testing (a kind of digest)?
>
> The interest would be to allow new maintainers (who weren't following the
> developpement f
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:16:31PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:50:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> > > So I guess I'm still searching for the answer to my original questions:
> >
> > > 1. Does Debian require
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 05:06:58PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> > > 1. Does Debian require a SONAME for a shared lib?
> >
> > You mean the tag inside the library itself?
>
> Yes.
>
> > All of the shared libraries I have installed on my machine have an
> > embedded SONAME tag. I thought
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 05:41:43PM -0600, Barak Pearlmutter wrote:
> I'm packaging something which upstream distributes as four separate .tgz
> files, each for a vaguely orthogonal hunk of functionality. I'd like to glom
> them all together as one single source package.
>
> Is there nice way to
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:35:16PM -0700, David Parker wrote:
> I'm looking for someone to sponsor me, especially since this is my first
> Debian package.
>
> Database Independent Abstraction Layer for C:
>
> libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to
> the way
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:52:43PM +0700, Bambang Purnomosidi D. P. wrote:
> Is there anybody who can point me to the (something like) HOWTO make a
> multiple binary package?
The easiest thing to do is probably to look at the examples in the dh-make
package and refer to the New Maintainer's Guid
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 09:45:09PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > Unquoted string "supported" may clash with future reserved word at (eval 112)
> > line 1.
> > Operator or semicolon missing before &supported at (eval 112) line 1.
> > Ambiguous use of & resolved as operator & at (eval 112)
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:52:49AM +0200, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote:
> I have been seen interchange at unstable without critical errors since
> August 14.
>
> How long a package must have no critical errors to be copied to testing?
> Where can i find more information on policy about testing/un
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:53:26PM +0100, Nick Phillips wrote:
>
> > I wonder whether anyone can point me at a likely cause for a slightly
> > worrying list of messages I'm getting from dpkg-sou
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 01:05:05PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote:
> The program is called garchiver. It's a replacent for WinZip, with two
> interfaces. The classic WinZip, and then a tree interface. It's a GNOME app,
> written in Python with one widget written in C.
Out of curiosity, what advantages
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:15:50AM +1000, Iain wrote:
> I am trying for the first time to put together a package that creates a
> shared library. I was under the impression that the "Right Way" to do this in
> debian is to use libtool. I inserted the following lines into Makefile.am
>
> lib_LTL
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:52:52AM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:53:08AM +1000, Iain wrote:
> > The upstream developers produce man pages that are in HTML format only. I.e.
> > they follow the usual style of a man page but in html. I was just wondering
> > if there
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 02:13:18PM -0800, Viral Shah wrote:
> mosixview is a GUI admin tool for the mosix cluster.
>
> mosix is available only for the i386 architecture. mosixview, however
> builds for all architectures, but being a mosix admin tool, is useful only
> on i386 machines.
Is it po
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:56:34AM +0100, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> In following I call the old version of the package OP, the transition
> package TP, and the game file I want to keep GF.
>
> 1. If TP is installed over OP it fiddles with
>/var/lib/dpkg/info/OP.list so that GF is no longer i
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:23:19PM +0100, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > * Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20011120 15:07]:
> > > In the 'package installed' mail the installer tells me:
> > > However the relevant part of the changelog reads:
>
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 09:47:28AM +0100, Sven wrote:
> I have a package that i make build-depend on tcl/tk-dev 8.3, but the configure
> process will check for the tcl/tk presence, and get one if available.
>
> It will check for various other versions before 8.3.
Change the configure script to
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 06:13:58PM -0500, Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
> Hello. My name is Bryan "TheBS" Smith of AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc.
> We're the Linux-WLAN guys and have released drivers for Intersil-based
> wireless LAN cards. I'm almost completely new to Debian both as a user
> and a pac
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:50:52AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> I'm currently packaging a Mah-Jong game (see ITP #123146), but I have a
> problem since upstream has several changelogs...
>
> The first one is in a file called CHANGES, and contains stuff like that:
> ---
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:01:40PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Gaetano Paolone
> | #DEBHELPER#
> | ** end postinst ***
> |
> | ** begin makedb.sh ***
> | #!/bin/bash
> | #set -e
> | export SHAREDIR=/usr/share/odontolinux
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 09:45:43AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman
>
> | On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 04:01:40PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> |
> | > * Gaetano Paolone
> | > mkdir -p $TMPDIR || exit 1, I presume?
> |
> | Or, uncomment "s
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:28:21PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote:
> I ITP A+, a programming language and development environment
> (http://aplusdev.org). It will be called aplus-fsf. I have not packaged
> anything before and I have some questions. The new maintainer's guide was
> helpful but did
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 12:20:12AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> > So, what's wrong with this picture? Should I build-depend on bison and
> > generate the file in the build target, or should I modify the makefile
> > to not delete the generated file? Both seem ugly to me. Is there
> > something el
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 08:55:38PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> > make distclean should not delete the files in the first place. The
> > distclean target should remove only generated files which are not included
> > in the distribution (such as object code), and since this bison output is
> > ri
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:56:32PM +0100, Bart Schuller wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:27:12PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> > $(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/packagename
> >
> > and it should be:
> >
> > $(MAKE) install prefix=$(CURDIR)/debian/packagename/usr
>
> I prefer
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