On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
> I've got a postinst that seems to be executing all code fine with
> `set -ev` but won't actually exit back to the shell.
>
> I'm running a perl script halfway through and it exits cleanly, but
> if I comment it out the postinst finall
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 12:46:31PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> "B. Douglas Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Man autoconf is a hassle. I love autotools / hate m4. My brain hurts
> > everytime I mess with aclocal.m4.
>
> You should never, ever, touch aclocal.m4. It's completely generated
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 11:55:31PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Oh, cool. What options? This machine only has gcj, whose man page
> doesn't seem to list anything relevant.
How about -g?
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:23:29PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> ___
> / Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | AFAIK, there is no automatic way of doing this. What about adding a
> | new tag, something like CBP (cannot be packaged),
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:44:39AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> Where do you live?
This person periodically posts non sequiturs to debian-mentors (and those
who post to it) from a free email account somewhere. Just ignore him or
filter him ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:37:45PM -0400, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> I'm packing libzthread (known to the outside world as ZThread), and I
> have a question over the correct name to give the package.
>
> The current version of ZThread is 2.2.11, and the soname for this is 9.
> I'm really confused o
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 01:17:55PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> what to do with an upgrade bug to woody? The bug just makes the programm
> (it's a getty) to fail _once_ (and only in special envrionments) and after
> that it works right without any manual intervention. The bug is
> http://bugs.deb
On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 06:56:06PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030429 18:49]:
> > When it fails, does it respawn (meaning that the failure is automatically
> > recovered)? If not, then this bug could cause a loss of connectivity to the
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:43:05PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> I am having a problem with one of my packages on hppa, and I can not
> seem to resolve it myself. The bug# is 191124, for reference, viewable
> here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191124
This is either a bug in
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 06:08:06PM -0400, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> This might be slightly off-topic, but it does have to do with the
> building of my package.
>
> When (if ever) are the C++ libraries in testing ever going to be
> updated (as in, compiled with g++ 3x). Right now I'm having problem
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:43:40PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote:
> The obvious way to handle this is to package pyddr as normal, but without
> the ddrmat-related build scripts, and only generate one .deb, then package
> ddrmat-source as normal, and generate a .deb for that. Then upload the two
> sep
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:13:42AM +0200, Jan Schulz wrote:
> My current thinking is, that I will change the base directory from
> /usr/lib/eclipse to /usr/share/eclipse, but will put all 'arch
> dependet' code (about 10 files from various places) directly into
> /usr/lib/eclipse and then set sym
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 11:22:54AM -0700, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> What do we do when upstream is more than willing to package the
> ./debian/ directory officially? It seems this would create a sticky
> relationship when the DD wants to make additional changes that diverge
> from the current source?
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 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
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 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
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