Re: dh_perl

2002-01-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:24:52PM +0100, Alex Berger wrote: > hi list, > > does dh_perl only check for any dependecies on the package 'perl' or also > for any perl modules which are used in the scripts, eg. for libwww-perl?? It will find any perl scripts, and add the appropriate dependencies

Re: QUestions about packaging debian .debs

2002-01-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:02:29AM -0500, Scott wrote: > First question (of many to come): using dpkg-buidpackage, I use the > option -k and sign the package successfully (I think). How on > earth do I check to see if the .deb is signed and correctly signed? > During the process of the build, i

Re: version number issue

2002-01-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 06:43:49PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote: > I'm thinking about packaging gphoto2-2.0 beta4dev9 instead of beta3. > How should I number my package to be able to provide later a beta4? > > gphoto2-2.0beta2 is in the archive today. > So as already discuted here, I will use g

Re: Can't set architecture in .dsc

2002-01-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:19:13PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > I am having problems setting the 'Architecture' field in one of my package's > .dsc files. Here is my debian/control: > > > Source: gnade > Section: l

Re: Can't set architecture in .dsc

2002-01-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 07:42:38PM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > I tried setting 'Architecture' in the general section of the control file > as well, but got the following error: > > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown information field Architecture in input > data in general section of contro

Re: dh_shlibdeps problems

2002-01-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:14:15PM -0700, Kristis Makris wrote: > I've been having problems with a dpkg-buildpackage process stopping with > the following error message: > > > [snip] > dh_shlibdeps > dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: ldd on `debian/tmp/2.4/packages/xmc/dr

Re: shlibs explaination

2002-01-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 06:04:25PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote: > Isn't dh_shlibdeps aware of the libs provided by the package being > built? Not by default. Use the -l option to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Buildd rejected my Build-depends:

2002-01-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:38:52PM +0100, Judica?l Courant wrote: > Build-depends: debhelper (>= 3), ocaml (>= 3.01), camlp4 (>= 3.01) > > in the control file of my package. > > The latest upstream version of ocaml now provides camlp4, and the debian > package Replaces:, Provides:, and Conflict

Re: Buildd rejected my Build-depends:

2002-01-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 02:18:34PM +0100, Judica?l Courant wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 21:59, Matt Zimmerman wrote : > > > You might try: > > > > Build-depends: debhelper (>= 3), ocaml (>= 3.01), ocaml (>= X) | camlp4 (>= 3.01) > > > > wher

Re: Compiler Warnings

2002-01-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:56:55PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Compiling a source file that #includes /usr/include/syslog.h > produces: > > /usr/include/sys/syslog.h:80: warning: initialization discards qualifiers \ > from pointer target type > > repeated 70 t

Re: Sparc buildd failed with a strange error -- what to do?

2002-01-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:41:57PM +0100, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote: > The sparc buildd tried to build Scalapack and failed in > dh_shlibdeps after more than 6 hours with the following error > message: > [...] > >LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/libfakeroot:/usr/lib/64/libfakeroot:/build/buildd/scalapa

Re: Already present debian directory in upstream sources

2002-02-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:17:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm packaging a piece of software that already has a debian/ subdirectory > inside upstream sources. As it is a low quality package (a nearly > unmodified dh_make generated package), I've rewritten it completely and > have remo

broderic@korrnet.org

2002-02-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Has anyone else gotten one of these? It arrived shortly after I sent a message to -mentors, and a google search reveals a couple of similarly random public postings to -mentors in December: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2001/debian-mentors-200112/msg00192.html http://lists.debian.org/de

Re: dhelp_parse error?

2002-02-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:51:54PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > When installing or purging the package I am developing, I get the message > "dhelp_parse: no title found for directory windowmanagers". Does anyone > know what I need to do to make this go away? I don't explicitly call > dhelp_par

Re: Writing an apt-method?

2002-02-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:26:20PM +1000, David Findlay wrote: > How does one go about writing an apt-method? Is there some documentation > somewhere? Thanks, Look at the methods/ directory in the apt source for several examples. If you are using C++, you can use the pkgAcqMethod class from lib

Re: Easy way to create a binary-only .DEB??

2002-02-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:21:11AM -0500, Craig wrote: > Here's what i'm trying to do: > > * Create a .DEB that contains only 2 simple binaries, plus a couple of > dependencies. (i'll have another package, tar ball for right now, for the > source code). Is this for your personal use, or is i

Re: taking dependencies

2002-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:36:03AM +0100, pp wrote: > Hello all at monday :) > > Is there any (I do not say easy) way > to automagically take dependencies from configure > script and place it in control files? apt-get install auto-apt -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Kernel Patch Packages

2002-03-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:59:42AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > My kernel-patch packages were all built against the source tree from > ftp.kernel.org. All except two of them came from the upstream that way. > > If someone reports a bug against these packages about problems applying to > the

Re: Bug#138451: xmms-cdread: Segfaults when trying to play CD

2002-03-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 11:50:42AM -0500, Ari Pollak wrote: > I'm the maintainer of the xmms-cdread Debian package, and I just got the > following bug report. It gives me absolutely no useful information, and I > haven't the slightest idea where to even begin tracking down the bug. I > really

Re: New package

2002-03-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 02:56:29PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 11:41, Chris AtLee wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I've written a small program that I'd like to package and have included > > in the debian archive. It's a gnome applet that allows you to set > > alarms and the

Re: New package

2002-03-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:48:28PM -0500, Chris AtLee wrote: > If something optionally uses gnome, should the package include the > .gnorba and .desktop files, or should a separate -gnome package be made? Just include them, unless you are building two packages (with and without GNOME support).

Re: no changes file

2002-03-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 07:22:56PM +, David H. Askew wrote: > I realize that it is basically a debian policy to seperate documentation > and binarys into seperate packages, so that people who don't want the > documentation don't have to install it. However, the policy manual as I > understoo

Re: New package

2002-03-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:22:49AM +0100, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rather than a second workalike program which relies on GNOME, I'd be > > interested in something with this functionality that did not use GNOME > >

Re: New package

2002-03-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:56:43AM +0100, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:22:49AM +0100, Manfred Wassmann wrote: > > > > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >

Re: Tagging 88054 help

2002-03-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 09:20:58PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > tags 88054 help pending > thanks You should review the definition of the "pending" tag. I do not think that it is appropriate here. > Regarding > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=88054&repeatmerged=yes > > I am not sure

Re: Tagging 88054 help

2002-03-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:24:24AM +0200, Amaya wrote: > Matt Zimmerman dijo: > > You should review the definition of the "pending" tag. I do not think > > that it is appropriate here. > > Sorry, I got that impression from: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs

Re: Databases and purging

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:32:19AM -0500, Juan Alvarez wrote: > your question its similar to: > > dpkg --purge bash, > > remove .bash_profile in the user home directory? oviously not (IMHO) This is not a similar situation, as .bash_profile is not created by the package installation process.

Re: Sponsor for PyXMMS and PyXMMS-remote

2002-04-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:33:37PM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:37:37PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends} > > > > which I think should be OK since it is in the debhelper(1) manual page. > > Onl

Re: changelog and /usr/share/doc/package as a symlink

2002-04-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 10:09:12AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 27-Apr-2002 Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate scripsit: > > > >> Suppose that a source package makes two .deb, "package-data" and "package" > >> (which depends on "package-data"), and

Re: E: foo source: debian-files-list-in-source

2002-05-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:02:33AM +0200, Sebastian Muszynski wrote: > Am Samstag, 4. Mai 2002 10:45 schrieb Jamie Wilkinson: > > If you make debian/rules clean remove "files", then it won't matter that > > it's in the upstream source -- then you can make a lintian override for > > that error. >

Re: Request for sponsor for package romeo

2002-05-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:01:04AM +0100, Stephen Stafford wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 04:48:12PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > > > Is there a good reason to use docbook to write the man page? I find it a > > little cumbersome. I tried it briefly, but I think I'll stick to groff. > > Be

Re: xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0). Can you explian?

2002-05-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 04:53:29PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > xlibs (4.1.0-16) depends on xlibs (>> 4.1.0) and on other packages. > Assuming this is not an error, how can it be and what does it achieve? It looks like it is probably an automatically generated dependency detected by dpkg-sh

Re: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-05-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 04:37:20PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > aclocal.m4, ltconfig and ltmain.sh are built by libtool? Or is that local > stuff done by the upstream? ltconfig and ltmain.sh are from libtool. They are used to generate the 'libtool' script actually used during the build. aclocal.

Re: symlinks in upstream and cvs-buildpackage

2002-05-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 08:27:45PM -0500, Paul Baker wrote: > Since dpkg-source ignores that I have removed the symlinks, when I later > do the `cvs-inject mapserver_3.5-1.dsc` it of course dies on the symlinked > files. I can use cvs-inject -F to have it remove the symlinks, but I'm > wondering

Re: debian/crontab problems

2002-05-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:24:58AM -0400, Kevin C. Krinke wrote: > When I run deb-make from within the appropriate directory it creates the > sub directory "debian" with various example file (denoted by the .ex > suffix). This is all fine and dandy and I haven't needed any of these > files until

Re: Binary depends

2002-05-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 11:37:42AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Sounds like a good enough heuristic to be worth implementing, if someone > has the interest. Someone already had the interest, and implemented it: auto-apt. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: How to make a kernel-patch*.deb package

2002-06-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:19:03PM -0700, Brian Warkentin wrote: > I'd like to create my own kernel-patch-???.deb package using some diff > files that I currently use to manually patch my kernel source before > using make-kpkg. Is there documenation for doing this somewhere? apt-get install dh

Re: Tight versions depends

2002-07-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 11:18:27PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > I'm having some trouble I can't seem to find the answer to. Mailutils > creates both 'mailutils-pop3d', and 'libmailutils0'. The two need to > tightly depend on one another, since the ABI hasn't stabilized yet. > > In my control fi

Re: auto-builders, how do they work?

2002-07-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:14:25AM +0200, J?rgen H?gg wrote: > Should I do something or does the auto-builders recompile my package by > themselves when a new version of my package has been accepted? You do not need to do anything, except fix any errors which arise when the autobuilders try to b

Re: Compiling C++ without -g

2002-08-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 03:00:41PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > Is there a way to prevent autoconf from appending "-g" to every g++ command > line? I really want to reduce the diskspace and CPU time required to build my > package, but autoconf seems to assume if you have g++ you have to have "-g

Re: Compiling C++ without -g

2002-08-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 09:37:59PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: > On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > e.g. > > > AC_PROG_CXX calls _AC_PROG_CXX_G which if successful unconditionally appends > > > "-g" to the command line. > > >

Re: How to specify architectures *not* to be built?

2002-08-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:08:46PM +0200, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > I have one package (radvd) that builds only on Linux (and the *BSDs), > but not on the Hurd. How dow I specify that arch requirement in the > control file? Policy D 2.3 seems to indicate I can only sepcify a list > of supported a

Re: Main, contrib or non-free?

2002-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:51:03PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > I have a question about a program that I am thinking about packaging: > It is a transfer program? licened according to GPL, but comes with some > program code that you download to the remote computer. That code is > also GPL, but t

Re: Why db_input ... || true

2002-08-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 10:52:38PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote: > I saw in the debconf-tutorial, section "The config script" that the > example had a line > > db_input medium foo/like_debian || true > > Whats the reason for the or'd true-command. Could it be, that my > postinst-script exists wit

Re: architecture in script

2002-08-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 04:28:53PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Hi, how can I easily determine the host architecture string in a > maintainer script? dpkg-architecture is in the dpkg-dev package, which I > obviously cannot depend on. I could massage the output of uname or arch, > but that seem

Re: architecture in script

2002-08-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Aug 17, 2002 at 11:49:24PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Matt> Your question has already been answered, but why do you need > Matt> this information in a maintainer script? > > The package uses a generic name for one of its configuration files. I > want to create a symlink from the gene

Re: apt configuration

2002-08-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:18:51PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I am trying to make apt always run debsums_gen on the just-installed > packages. I think it should be possible, but the apt.conf manpage is > terrible :( Can anyone give me an example of a setup where some > nontrivial shell code

Re: lintian errors in my waimea package

2002-08-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 07:03:31PM -0600, Jay Graves wrote: > Hello > I have actively been trying to package the waimea window manager to be > sponsored. There was an error in the 0.3.3 upstream code that has been > fixed in the cvs branch. I have made a new package against the cvs > branch and

Bug#159918: libsidplay1 contains no shlibs file

2002-09-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: libsidplay1 Severity: serious Justification: policy 9.1 On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:04:16AM -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote: > A package that I maintain -- mp3blaster -- doesn't include libsidplay1 as > a dependency, even though it links against it. I hadn't noticed that > because I thought

Re: building packages on unstable for stable

2002-09-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 05:05:25PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Holger Kubiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > But I have another problem: When I build the package with debuild there > > is no problem, when I build with pdebuild, all scripts (one bash, one > > perl) in /usr/bin are n

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 08:54:19PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Devin Carraway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > I'm working on a package containing several executables, whose common > > functionality lives in a few shared libraries. They're linked in the > > usual way at compile

Re: Handling application private libs

2002-09-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:49:50PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > Sometimes this happens because it makes sense to share the library within > > the (to conserve resources), but either: > > > >

Re: Perl postinst script running external commands

2002-10-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 09:43:56AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > This is a good reason for not using debconf. > > The interface between a program and libraries it uses should be defined, and > it should be designed in a way to minimise harm to other programs. * #50595: debconf: Use of conf

Re: game with small library

2002-10-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:51:45PM +0200, thomas wrote: > I'm trying to package a game (http://taxipilot.sf.net), that comes with a > really small shared library. The only reason this library exists, is that the > provided functionality has to run inside the sound-server. Likely, it will > never b

Re: [debhelper style] install target

2002-10-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 09:17:25PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > As you see, all the dh_install commands are in the binary target, so in fact > 'install' do not fully install the package. > > I think it is better for 'install' to really install, so that > we can make debian/rules install and loo

Re: [debhelper style] install target

2002-10-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:26:54PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:23:48PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The 'install' target is a convenient way to separate the installation > > (from the perspective of the upstream source) from installation

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

2002-10-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:46:23PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Netbase does indeed convert /etc/network/interface on upgrade, but > that is not a dpkg-conffile. And it should not be a dpkg conffile if it is modified by maintainer scripts. > When I tried it, dpkg replaced the conffile in place wit

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

2002-10-25 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:05:40PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advise him to do, when his > upstream changed the file format? Inform the user about the change, and optionally provide a conversion script. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

2002-10-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 08:30:51AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:04:47 -0400, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 04:05:40PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advise him

Re: Converting dpkg-conffile in postinst

2002-10-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:33:51PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > itz> Are you missing Marc's point? What do you advise him to do, when > itz> his upstream changed the file format? > > Matt> Inform the user about the change, and optionally provide a > Matt> conversion script. > > Does that me

Re: orig.tar.gz

2002-10-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 07:41:23PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > > It's easy enough to create an orig.tar.gz: > > > > tar -czvf libc12_1.6.orig.tar.gz libc12-1.6/*.bz2 > > > > produces one. > > Actually, this should be > > tar -czvf libc12_1.6.orig.tar.gz libc12-1.6.orig/ Why? --

Re: orig.tar.gz

2002-10-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:32:36PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.28.2008 +0100]: > > > Actually, this should be > > > > > > tar -czvf libc12_1.6.orig.tar.gz libc12-1.6.orig/ > > >

Re: orig.tar.gz

2002-10-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 09:34:28PM +0100, Tore Anderson wrote: > Disclaimer: I'm not in the keyring, and have therefore never uploaded a > package myself, so I don't know if my suggestion is worthless, > but nobody else seems to mention what appears to me as the >

Re: orig.tar.gz

2002-10-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:30:15PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.28.2041 +0100]: > > If you don't know why it is so, then why are you instructing others to do > > this? > > why does dh_make do it? dh_make

Re: orig.tar.gz

2002-10-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:24:16AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, very often upstream distributes package foo as dir foo only, not > as foo-1.2.3, so you have to repackage it anyway, or am i missing > something ? The name of the subdirectory is not significant; dpkg-source will handle it. --

Re: dpkg-reconfigure hacking in postinst

2002-11-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:09:54PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > I have fewer qualms about a package that only wipes out a config file when > explicitly reconfigured; most of my ire is reserved for packages, like > apt-listchanges, that drop local modifications to such files on upgrade. > Especially w

Re: Some questions about patching source

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:21:07PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > The problem I am having with putting it together is that in order for it > to build from source, it needs a compiled xscreensaver source tree to pull > some headers and other things from. You may want to look into apt-src; there is s

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:45:43AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > The upload was sponsored, so perhaps the sponsor got the mail? > > If they did the sponsoring badly, yes. He/She should have built the package > as you had it,

Re: Replacing a single file with Replaces:

2002-11-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:32:53PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > Try using Conflicts: instead of (or in addition to) Replaces: That means something entirely different. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File a bug against my own package?

2002-11-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:21:45AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > Should I file a bug against my own package to report the related problem, > that libxmltv-perl should depend on libhtml-tableextract-perl (>=1.08-1), > or should I just track this on my own? A good rule of thumb is that if you e

Re: File a bug against my own package?

2002-11-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:02:27AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Well, the changelog doesn't really matter, as few people ever look at > it. I strongy object to both of these assertions. Developers, myself included, read changelogs constantly, and it is important for them to be useful and inform

Re: pure python and postinst

2002-11-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:06:55PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > they are not included because that would just be extra space taken up in > the .deb file for something which can be generated on the users machine. No, that is the point of a .deb, to pre-generate and pre-install things for the user

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:33:50PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I believe the "incorrect overrides" mail is sent to the uploader, not to > > the maintainer. As such, it most likely went to the sponsor, who was >

Re: Library with "demos", where should demos go?

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:51:51PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > Unless the demos are useful for something other than a demonstration, I > would not install them in /usr/bin. Instead, I would put them in > /usr/share/doc/package_name/examples/. I'd also put the demo source in > there. The source

Re: Library with "demos", where should demos go?

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:17:15AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:06:14PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The source is fine there, but binaries must not go in /usr/share. If > > the demos are useful in binary form, they should go in /usr/bin. If &g

Re: Library with "demos", where should demos go?

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:19:26PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 09:51:29PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:06:14PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > The source is fine there, but binaries must not go in /usr/shar

Re: How to change file owner for deb packages properly?

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:36:07PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > chown netsaint debian/netsaint-neat/usr/lib/cgi-bin/netsaint/neat.cgi > chown: `netsaint': invalid user > > > > I have seen several packages which do this and fail, > and what is the proper way to fix that ? This sort of thing i

Re: Sponsor for distributed computation daemon: protein folding

2003-01-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:38:10PM +0100, Daniel Bonniot wrote: > The original tar file is huge (22MB) because it contains the (big) > binaries for three architectures (i386, powerpc and hppa). You should ask upstream kindly not to do this, and instead ship the binaries in separate tarballs. Th

Re: What to do with logfiles on purge?

2003-01-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:26:01PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Is it ok to simply remove logfiles on purge? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s11.8 -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: multiple binary package with different version-numbers?

2003-01-31 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:49:16PM +0100, Antoine Mathys wrote: > I am packaging OTTER, an automated theorem prover, and MACE, a model finder. > The otter-3.2 sources come with mace-2.0 bundled in, so I naturally made > a multiple binary package. > > My problem is that I want to produce otter_3.

Re: question about conffiles and prerm/postrm

2003-02-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:39:43PM -0500, sean finney wrote: > i'm working on a package that has a directory in /etc/sugarplum > and in this directory two conffiles and one other (empty) directory. > when i purge the package, i get: > > balthasar[/home/seanius/sugarplum]13:17:02# dpkg --purge sug

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-08 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:14:01PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Running lintian on the resulting .deb results in the following output. > I know this is coming from the fields module of lintian. But I got > lost in the perl. > > W: myserverbundle: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depe

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:36:03AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > This may be a false positive, since you should not need an alternative > > for mixed virtual packages. > > Policy Manual section "2.3.5 Virtual packages" says nothing about mixe

Re: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends rsh-client

2003-02-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 07:14:16PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bug 179614! It appears to me that this is a similar but not quite > identical problem. In that bug the packages were all real packages > and none of them were virtual. I could not deduce that any of them > were virtual. So I will fi

Re: packages for 3.0r2

2003-02-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:51:15AM +0100, A Mennucc1 wrote: > for some reason, it seems that auto-builders are not catching up > on my packages for woody-proposed-updates Assuming that you uploaded sparc binaries, it looks like everything worked fine. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Upstream debian/ dir.

2003-02-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:34:18PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > I'm sure I've seen this hashed over in the past, so feel free to point me > at list archives. > > I'm the Debian maintainer for pksd, an OpenPGP keyserver. I've been asked > by upstream if I want to maintain the debian/ director

Re: lintian error

2003-02-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 10:29:36AM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > is this a bug in xlibs? No, xlibs speaks the truth. If anything, this is a (minor) bug in dpkg-shlibdeps. To fix this, dpkg-shlibdeps would need to understand when a dependency introduced by one library obsoletes that introduced b

Re: Is sid recommended?

2003-02-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:08:08AM +0100, Volker Sturm wrote: > if I want to get into software development for Debian: Is it recommended to > stay with stable or upgrade to sid? Like most other things, there is a tradeoff here which depends on what your needs are. If you're developing software O

Re: Build-Depends on source of a different package?

2003-02-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 01:17:13PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Is there a right way for using the source of a different > debian-package? Look into apt-src if you are interested in developing this kind of idea. The source-dependency approach has many pitfalls, and is not something that is sup

Re: Unofficial package tips

2003-02-28 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:33:47PM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote: > Bug reports > --- > The standard tool for reporting bugs is "reportbug". > Your package should have: > File /usr/share/bug/mypackage/control: > Send-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > See /usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.develope

Re: How to obtain current package version number?

2003-03-04 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > how can a package learn about its current version number? > > Parsing /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/changelog.gz is out of the question > since /usr/share/doc need not be present, and calling dpkg --list > $PACKAGE and parsing its output loo

Re: How to mantain a package... easily

2003-03-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 09:53:37AM +0100, Jaime Robles wrote: > ?Is there any way to avoid checking all the files in /debian and editing the > Makefiles and so on every time the sources are updated? apt-get install cvs-buildpackage -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Really strange : my package doesn't compile from source.

2003-03-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:15:17PM -0500, Jean-Michel Kelbert wrote: > /bin/sh /tmp/k3b-0.8.1/admin/missing --run automake-1.6 --foreign > ./Makefile Don't let configure run autoconf, automake, etc. Use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE. > cd . && perl admin/am_edit Makefile.in > cd . && /bin/sh /tmp/k3b-0.8.

Re: Help with RC bugs

2003-03-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 05:59:09PM -0600, Graham Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 06:48:55PM -0300, Leo Costela Antunes wrote: > > SECOND (#184431): what's the best practice with packages that have a > > *-gnome (1.2) version that requires applet support? Now that gnome 1.2 > > support is g

Re: Shared library

2003-03-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:25:09AM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Section 11.2 of Debian Policy says: > >You must specify the gcc option `-D_REENTRANT' when building a library >(either static or shared) to make the library compatible with >LinuxThreads. > > Is this obsolete?

Re: General programming questions list?

2003-03-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:41:11PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > Where should I post general programming questions? What are some good > (interactive) resources? I'm still reading the required and suggested new > maintainer's documentation, so forgive me if it's pointed out somewhere. I apol

Re: May I temporarily move away a conffile of a conflicting package?

2003-03-23 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 04:52:09PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > For a complete discusssion see http://bugs.debian.org/183357 > > Currently the exim4-packages cannot provide /usr/sbin/exim (only > /usr/sbin/exim4) because exim v3's init script up to version 3.36-4 uses > something aequivalent t

Re: Uploading perl modules made by dh-make-perl?

2003-03-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:22:02AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > I am currently preparing packages for rrfw, a network statistics tool like > mrtg and cricket but much more flexible. rrfw needs a whole bunch of perl > packages that are not even in unstable, so these packages need to go into > Debian

Re: closing bugs in changelog

2003-04-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > is there any automatic behind the (Closes: #12345) in the changelog? Is > this parsed after upload to close bugs? This is in the developer's reference. I encourage you to read it in its entirety. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Please have a look at this package

2003-06-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 10:07:07PM +0200, Kevin Tappe wrote: > could you be so kind and have a look at the package located at > http://www.zerodivide.de/debian/rotn > > It is a tiny tiny programme for rotating characters. ie you can use it > like rot13. > > But beware this is the first .deb i ha

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