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 gp
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: li
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 control
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/dri
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.
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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 Conflicts
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)
> >
&
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 ti
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/scalapack-
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 remov
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/deb
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 09:38:39AM +0100, J?r?me Marant wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:01:49AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 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
&g
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_pars
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 liba
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 it
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
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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 D
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 d
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 then
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).
-
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
> understood
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
> >
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:
> > > >
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 w
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
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. I
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.
>
> Only
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 /
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-
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 11:44:03AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> Should changelog.Debian.gz apply to the source package and all
> binary packages created from the source[...]?
Yes.
> I have used one changelog for the dictd source package, covering
> both the dictd and the dict binary pa
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:13:16PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> I'm maitaining iiwusynth which includes an unversioned shared library.
A shared library without a version number is broken, or else it is not a
shared library (i.e., it is a plugin or such, and only used by one program).
> Up
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 fil
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 bu
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 06:48:22PM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 12:07:00AM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> > Is there a good tutorial/reference anywhere for how to package (Linux)
> > kernel modules and source, in a way that works with make-kpkg's
> > modules_image?
>
> The l
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 06:43:55PM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> I have been pushing mplayer developers (might even be the cause why they
> do not care about by bug reports anymore) to have the complete code as
> GPL.
>
> So far, as announced in their mailing list, mplayer is completelly GPL,
> ex
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"
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.
&
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 09:08:18PM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote:
> Is there a tool that generates the "/debian/dists/"-tree?
I think that apt-move will do this.
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On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:27:55PM +0200, pp wrote:
> I wonder why this error occurs
> dpkg-scansources: error closing find ($? 256, $! `')
dpkg-scansources executes find(1), and will give this error if find(1)
produces a nonzero exit status upon close. I would expect to see earlier
error output
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:08:19AM +0200, Holger Kubiak wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:04:22 -0400 Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Is there a tool that generates the "/debian/dists/"-tree?
> >
> > I think that apt-move will do this.
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 ar
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 th
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 with
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 seems
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 gener
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 r
On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 05:47:23PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> pbuilder requires root to install the packages inside chroot to
> satisfy dependencies, and to actually move into the chroot.
>
> To be able to satisfy build-dependencies without root privilage,
> one will need to run dpkg with a d
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
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
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 no
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 t
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:
> >
> >
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 confm
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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?
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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/
> >
>
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
>
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
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.
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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
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
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,
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.
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- mdz
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
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
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
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
>
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
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
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
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
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
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
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- mdz
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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- mdz
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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.
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
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- mdz
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 02:58:16PM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> I get this same error with a .so symlink in a -dev package, which is clearly
> architecture-independent and definitely belongs in the -dev under /usr/lib/.
What sort of -dev package is architecture-independent? These are supposed
to
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