On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:35:16AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Is it necessary to dedicate a package to this one tiny tiny program?
> >
> > Also, there is already a program called 'rot13' or 'caesar' in bsd
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:28:55AM +, Alan Woodland wrote:
> For the next version of a package which I currently have sponsored in
> Debian (mozilla-mozgest) I want to add support for mozilla-firebird
> (preliminary packages are avalible from
> http://people.debian.org/~eric/debian/i386) and m
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 08:51:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> I am currently preparing packages for rrfw (see bug#186828). The
> daemons that come with rrfw run as user rrfw, and the Makefiles of
> that package insist on chowning some files to rrfw at build time. That
> - of course - fails when th
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 08:35:00AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:01:07PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >If the files need
> > certain ownership on the installed system, set the permissi
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 11:55:04AM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> The debian/changelog entry:
>
> > musixtex (1:0.112-1) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> > * New upstream release (Closes: #193729)
Include a note in the changelog explaining that it is an NMU.
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 06:21:25PM +0200, Marcel Meckel wrote:
> The package name should be "libwxgtk2.4" and version "2.4.1-thermoman".
> So i called dh_make -l in that directory and after modifying all necessary
> files under debian directory i did a
>
>dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
Packagin
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:30:26PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
> I was wondering over this (partially hypothetical) question:
>
> If I find a program that contains quite a few bugs (causes crashing of the
> program, no external data loss), should it be packaged?
>
> The program I found contained
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:19:21PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> Because I still use it[...]
I have to ask...why? :-)
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On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 06:19:21PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> According to the machines list, I can get access to a machine running
> sid for hppa, powerpc, sparc and mipsel. This leaves alpha, arm, ia64
> and s390 before ncompress can move into testing, and then also m68k and
> mips befor
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:00:12PM +0100, James Troup wrote:
> Err, why do you need gpg? Surely, you're not signing the .changes on
> remote machines? :-/
I keep a copy of my own public key on some Debian machines so that I can
sanity-check my own signature on packages.
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:43:58PM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
> > Dunno about fakeroot, but why do you want gpg on escher? You really
> > don't want to be storing your private GPG key on machines you don't
> > control; copy the built files back to a secure machine and sign there
> > instead.
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:52:15AM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> I'm a wannabe Debian maintainer (already applied the NM program). I
> packaged a small daemon (cpufreqd) of which I'm also the author.
>
> I was wondering If I need to package the sources with or without the
> .diff.gz archive.
>
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 05:39:25PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> in a program I am packaging, a copy of the source of libtiff, libpng and
> libjpeg is included (and was originally linked statically). In the
> Debian package, I use the respective Debian libraries, linking
> dynamically, and these di
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:30:15PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> >I don't think it is worthwhile to try to delete them; the mere presence
> >of these directories should not confuse anyone.
> I tend to disagree since it is not instantly
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 don
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.
> Ofcourse y
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 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 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 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 1
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/uns
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-source when usin
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 d
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_LTLI
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 t
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 in
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 pos
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 l
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 pack
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 n
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 els
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
> > rig
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
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 o
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, it
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