On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:57:29PM +, Stefan V?lkel wrote:
> is there a licence for icons?
Eh? Any licence that expresses the icon author's wishes should suffice.
There's nothing special about icons in that sense.
> I'd like to include an extra icon in one of my packages (revelation). I
> a
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:11:31PM +0200, Arnaud FLORENT wrote:
>
HTML in e-mail messages, especially those to Debian lists, is deeply frowned
upon. Turn it off, and if you can't, switch to a mail program which will
allow you to.
- Matt
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:32:32AM +0200, Stan Pinte wrote:
> Name: knoda
> Licence: GPL
> Short description: knoda is a database frontend for KDE. It is based on
> hk_classes
This description sucks. Don't start with the package name, it's too long,
and what is hk_classes (and why should I, as a
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:50:38AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
> (i)
> I have the package in subversion, so the .svn directories are included
> in the diff. Can I avoid this easily? (I looked at cvs-buildpackage a
> while ago and didn't really like it, so if svn-buildpacka
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote:
> > linda -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/atris_1.0.6-1_i386.changes
> > W: atris; File /usr/games/atris has incorrect file permissions of 2755.
> > The file shown above is in installed into a binary directory, which
> > are currently kn
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:00:32PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
> My upstream's man pages are in directories and not correctly named for
> debhelper.
[...]
> mv doc/fr/man/zoneserver.8 doc/fr/man/zoneserver.fr.8
>
> But that makes the diff huge and it looks horrible. I was hoping diff
> could spot a
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:56:05AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> I'm writing a GUI app that displays a list of scanned files and has some
> U/I bits to help me choose what folder it goes to, the date associated
> with it, &c., and then I press a button and move and rename the file.
>
> The rul
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:39:27AM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:52:17PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote:
> > The sponsor had to sign this so the upload would be accepted.
> > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordpress.html
>
> Can you tell me who signed this?
> http://http.us.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:37:58PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> tripping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>
> > I have a project that I think would be useful, it uses debian as a
> > base. It doesn't contain any binary code, only python and shell
> > scripts. It's an easy to use cluster installer/ma
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:37PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:
> Dear Mentors,
>
> I have a seemingly stupid question. Say I am not a DD yet, and has a
> security bug in a package I help maintaining. Upstream fixed it, so the
> package is ready, but upstream requires new library versio
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:39:22AM +0200, Olivier wrote:
> lintian complains:
>
> out-of-date-standards-version 3.6.0
> N:
> N: The source package refers to a 'Standards-Version' that is starting to
> N: get out of date, compared to current Policy. You can safely ignore
> N: this warning, b
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:48:43AM -0700, liz wrote:
> I am looking for someone to sponsor me in adding a new package to the
> Debian
> unstable tree. The package is called Bitpim http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/
Holy halibut, a 6.5MB RPM for a cellphone bit diddler. Is that chock-full
of p
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:36:06PM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote:
> We are just discussing on irc.freenode.net #debian-edu how to get ILIAS
> elearning asasp into sid
>
> andreas schuldei of skolelinux.no gave me a hint to ask on debian-mentors for
> someone who may give a helping hand.
Andreas s
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:42:20PM +0200, Cl?ment Stenac wrote:
> > http://spong.sourceforge.net/ is accessible, but it certainly does not
> > look as if spong is still maintained.
>
> According to this message
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=393999
> (Spong still under developm
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:05:52PM +0200, Ashraf Emawi wrote:
> hi all,
> i try to build debian-package of a small programm, and i used dh_make to
> get some help. under the directory DEBIAN/ i got files like rules,
> copyright, preinst.ex, postinst.ex, etc... after building package and
> when i
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:14:15PM +0100, Ben Hill wrote:
> This mail registers my intent to take over the package maintenance of
> BOINC as per this bug report:
No it doesn't. A message to the bug report, renaming the bug from an RFP to
an ITP, and changing the bug owner to yourself, would regis
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the
> request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days).
>
> Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings:
> W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib
> usr
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version
> The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be
> necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory
> is in the repository. S
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest
> > picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As i
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> How does one check the differences in policy versions? (And I hope the
> answer isn't "diff"). Anyone?
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz works for me.
Naturally you need the debian-policy package installed fo
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote:
> On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something
> interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually contains a copy
> of pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression library), but libpcre3 is
> already in the deabin arch
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:18:27PM -0500, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> Suppose I have a "library core name" `foo'. The end product will be
> say `/usr/lib/libfoo.so.1.2'. So what should I name my source distribution?
> Before I would name the top level directory just `foo' then, when releasing,
> it wi
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:32:11PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I posted several messages to this list earlier this month about getting
> > my package sponsored. Lots of people gave me great suggestions on how
> > to improve the packing and other general ideas. However no one seemed
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:25:45PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> I maintain the hashcash package. Recent upstream versions have
> included optimized assembly routines for MMX (x86) and Altivec (PPC).
> In order to compile these properly, I need to detect what architecture
> I am compiling under. Wh
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate
> since nothing changed in that package.
I think it's the preferred method, though. Certainly I've had bugs filed on
my packages to upload a new version so t
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:19:24AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:12:27PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate
&
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:52:41PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
> > > Most of the apps are using `./configure && make && make install` so
> > > dh_make
> > > tries to use that way.
> > > In fact the only file you need is debi
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:26 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
>
> > I'd agree it's pretty confusing, but only first time.
> > It's quite easy to understand it.
> I'
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
> First:
> 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of
> scripts built on top of each other is really confusing.
Diversity is often seen as a virtue. That does mean that it can be hard to
separate the need from
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:18:35AM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
> my humble question is: if I have Source: and multiple Package: lines
> described
> in my debian/control file. But how is these debian// subdirectories
> created.. I end up with the firts Package: conctructed in debian/tmp , but I
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:02:44PM -0200, Pedro Kroger wrote:
> --
> EC PostScript Type1 fonts with TFMs for TeX
>
> These are PostScript Type1 renderings and TFMs of the EC variant of
> the standard TeX CMR font family. These fonts include characters w
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:37:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.17.2330
> +0100]:
> > libfactory++-dev - C++ template factory framework
>
> ... that this is my software, which I named libfactory because I did
> not know better.
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:17:01AM -0300, Dani wrote:
> hi! my system is a Debian Testing. I use a Athlon Xp1.7 (x86) and
> I already installed the tools give in "maint-guide". I tried hard _but_
> *all*
> tutorials that I encounter use this estructure:
>
> # apt-get source gcc-X.Y
> # cd gcc-
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:43:50AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote:
> I am still looking for a sponsor for Diogenes! I am sure there is
> someone with some PHP/MySQL/debconf experience out there to look at the
> packages?
Experience, probably. Time is the pressing issue. Out of interest, what
does dio
On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:14:46AM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote:
> I have looked through the MySource documentation and I won't claim that
> Diogenes has all the features of MySource, that just wouldn't be true
> (for instance there is no "plugin" mecanism in Diogenes currently). It
> does however, ha
I found the following problems on an initial investigation of the package:
* No WNPP bug filed.
* Communicates with the user via the console. Consider using debconf notes
instead if it's vitally important.
* "If you chose one of the first three options" on a question that only has
two options i
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 07:57:35PM +0200, Jeremy Lain? wrote:
> Anyhow, diogenes 0.9.9.3-4 fixes this, can you possibly confirm that
> the installation works as expected?
Upload it to my queue (as described at
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship.html) and I'll check it out.
> This still
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:38:04PM +0800, Nima Talebi wrote:
> My name is Nima Talebi and I'd like to become a Debian developer.
This would be a first port of call, I'd say:
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html
That should answer your first round of questions.
- Matt
--
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:04:50AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote:
> "acc" has a somewhat unclear license regarding distribution and
> modification. It includes both a EULA that sounds like a commercially
> purchased binary, and another license file that basically says "modify
> it, but don't sell
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:19:19AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >If they're the typical .h files, /usr/include/acc would be as good a place
> >as any.
> >
> They're not, they're .acs files. I think I'm going to rename the p
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:06:06AM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote:
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> >What are .acs files when they're at home? General data goes in either
> >/usr/share or /usr/lib, depending on the architecture-specificity.
> >
> They're uncompiled
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote:
> Pending a response from Raven, would it be at all acceptable to place
> the acc package somewhere offsite and have the zeth package tell you
> where to get it, or is even that running afoul of policy?
You could put zeth in contri
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:56:22AM +0200, Jos? Luis Tall?n wrote:
> The License reproduced hereunder comes from "AlterMIME". It seems quite
> similar to a modified BSD license, but there are some points which make me
> suspect it could be non-free... can somebody please check it and offer some
>
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:32:19PM -0400, Chris Anderson wrote:
> I'm the current maintainer for xtrlock and it was abandoned upstream
> years ago (1996?). I have an updated package where I rewrote the build
> system since the old one used Imake and some flags that no longer were
> relevant. I fixe
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Stephan Brendel wrote:
> i know, this doesn't belong to Debian Mentors, but i believe the
> campaign from the german police needs to be supported.
"I think the importance of my message trumps topicality". I've heard that
sort of justification before...
Y
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 11:05:06AM +0200, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> The problem is that there's a REAL 'slapd' package on the Debian
> GNU/Linux APT archive(s) which seem to override _my_ virtual
> package(s).
>
> I would like to have my packages to override the 'original' one
> (they have A LOT
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > > I also could use /usr/bin/java instead, which is managed by
> > > alternatives, but again, my app doesn't work with kaffe/gjc/another JRE,
> > > so I don't see the point.
> >
> > I do. The point is that not everyone puts their jr
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:07:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi everybody, I'm looking for a sponsor to upload soon this
> package of mine : plml
>
>http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.dsc
>http://www.lulli.net/WEB/debian/plml_1.0-1.tar.gz
>http://
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:06:26PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > Does your package depend on the Blackdown JRE .deb? If so, then it would be
> > reasonable to rely on that package's file locations.
>
> That was exactly my thought. My package depends on j2re1.4 and uses the
> packages file locati
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 12:47:06AM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> > > 'official' Java package from Blackdown. I have used the Blackdown
> > > package from
> > > deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian/ ./
> > >
> > > which works great. It's very likely, that other j2re1.4 packages (if
> > > there ar
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:09:39PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> If I install my package with dpkg, it run once, after unpacking...
> But if I install the package with apt-get, it run twice: before the
> unpacking (Preconfiguring package) and after the unpacking (Configuring
> package), so I
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 02:11:06PM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> It is a web-based tool written in PHP. The package provide an example
> configuration which have to be modified by the system administrator
> after installing it. In debian/config (but I will move the code in
> debian/postint) I
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:17:45PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> In debian/dirs, you only list the directories that you want to create
> with dh_installdirs - e.g. directories that the upstream Makefiles
> assumes to be present upon installation, or directories to which you
> want to move some files
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:01:34AM +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> >The version of the debian package you produce is taken from the package's
> >topmost changelog entry. For timestamps, you can use touch(1), but I'm
> >having trouble coming up with why you'd want to stamp a file to a
> >particular
>
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 06:11:26PM +0200, Chris Vanden Berghe wrote:
> Is there nobody with a bit of free time willing to sponsor the package
> described below? I expect it to be reasonably painless...
The problem normally is both a lack of free time (I've got nine packages on
my list of "I'll lo
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:30:22AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Just a thought, what do you think about patching the README to remove a
> certain badword from it?
Feel like modifying the kernel sources to do the same thing?
I'd suggest, at most, maybe replacing a few strategic letters with asteri
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:57:29PM +, Stefan V?lkel wrote:
> is there a licence for icons?
Eh? Any licence that expresses the icon author's wishes should suffice.
There's nothing special about icons in that sense.
> I'd like to include an extra icon in one of my packages (revelation). I
> a
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 02:11:31PM +0200, Arnaud FLORENT wrote:
>
HTML in e-mail messages, especially those to Debian lists, is deeply frowned
upon. Turn it off, and if you can't, switch to a mail program which will
allow you to.
- Matt
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a su
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 11:32:32AM +0200, Stan Pinte wrote:
> Name: knoda
> Licence: GPL
> Short description: knoda is a database frontend for KDE. It is based on
> hk_classes
This description sucks. Don't start with the package name, it's too long,
and what is hk_classes (and why should I, as a
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:50:38AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> (i)
> I have the package in subversion, so the .svn directories are included
> in the diff. Can I avoid this easily? (I looked at cvs-buildpackage a
> while ago and didn't really like it, so if svn-buildpackag
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:12:54AM +0200, Marcel Sebek wrote:
> > linda -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/atris_1.0.6-1_i386.changes
> > W: atris; File /usr/games/atris has incorrect file permissions of 2755.
> > The file shown above is in installed into a binary directory, which
> > are currently kn
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:00:32PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
> My upstream's man pages are in directories and not correctly named for
> debhelper.
[...]
> mv doc/fr/man/zoneserver.8 doc/fr/man/zoneserver.fr.8
>
> But that makes the diff huge and it looks horrible. I was hoping diff
> could spot a
On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 05:56:05AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> I'm writing a GUI app that displays a list of scanned files and has some
> U/I bits to help me choose what folder it goes to, the date associated
> with it, &c., and then I press a button and move and rename the file.
>
> The rul
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:39:27AM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 10:52:17PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote:
> > The sponsor had to sign this so the upload would be accepted.
> > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordpress.html
>
> Can you tell me who signed this?
> http://http.us.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:37:58PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> tripping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>
> > I have a project that I think would be useful, it uses debian as a
> > base. It doesn't contain any binary code, only python and shell
> > scripts. It's an easy to use cluster installer/ma
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 11:41:37PM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote:
> Dear Mentors,
>
> I have a seemingly stupid question. Say I am not a DD yet, and has a
> security bug in a package I help maintaining. Upstream fixed it, so the
> package is ready, but upstream requires new library versio
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:39:22AM +0200, Olivier wrote:
> lintian complains:
>
> out-of-date-standards-version 3.6.0
> N:
> N: The source package refers to a 'Standards-Version' that is starting to
> N: get out of date, compared to current Policy. You can safely ignore
> N: this warning, b
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:48:43AM -0700, liz wrote:
> I am looking for someone to sponsor me in adding a new package to the Debian
> unstable tree. The package is called Bitpim http://bitpim.sourceforge.net/
Holy halibut, a 6.5MB RPM for a cellphone bit diddler. Is that chock-full
of prog
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:36:06PM +0200, Thomas Templin wrote:
> We are just discussing on irc.freenode.net #debian-edu how to get ILIAS
> elearning asasp into sid
>
> andreas schuldei of skolelinux.no gave me a hint to ask on debian-mentors for
> someone who may give a helping hand.
Andreas s
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 12:42:20PM +0200, Cl?ment Stenac wrote:
> > http://spong.sourceforge.net/ is accessible, but it certainly does not
> > look as if spong is still maintained.
>
> According to this message
> http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=393999
> (Spong still under developm
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:05:52PM +0200, Ashraf Emawi wrote:
> hi all,
> i try to build debian-package of a small programm, and i used dh_make to
> get some help. under the directory DEBIAN/ i got files like rules,
> copyright, preinst.ex, postinst.ex, etc... after building package and
> when i
On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:14:15PM +0100, Ben Hill wrote:
> This mail registers my intent to take over the package maintenance of
> BOINC as per this bug report:
No it doesn't. A message to the bug report, renaming the bug from an RFP to
an ITP, and changing the bug owner to yourself, would regis
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the
> request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days).
>
> Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings:
> W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib
> usr
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:52:55PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> W: schoolbell source: native-package-with-dash-version
> The package releases for more than just debian. And sometimes it will be
> necessary to adjust the package only for debian but the debian directory
> is in the repository. S
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:06:14PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:12:39PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On the whole, I think you've made a poor compromise. I would suggest
> > picking one way or the other, and going all the way with it. As i
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:53:02PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> How does one check the differences in policy versions? (And I hope the
> answer isn't "diff"). Anyone?
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz works for me.
Naturally you need the debian-policy package installed fo
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 12:48:54PM +0100, Qingning Huo wrote:
> On close inspcetion of the source package, I found something
> interesting. The upstream source code tarball actually contains a copy
> of pcre (Perl-compatible regular expression library), but libpcre3 is
> already in the deabin arch
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:18:27PM -0500, Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> Suppose I have a "library core name" `foo'. The end product will be
> say `/usr/lib/libfoo.so.1.2'. So what should I name my source distribution?
> Before I would name the top level directory just `foo' then, when releasing,
> it wi
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:32:11PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I posted several messages to this list earlier this month about getting
> > my package sponsored. Lots of people gave me great suggestions on how
> > to improve the packing and other general ideas. However no one seemed
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:25:45PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> I maintain the hashcash package. Recent upstream versions have
> included optimized assembly routines for MMX (x86) and Altivec (PPC).
> In order to compile these properly, I need to detect what architecture
> I am compiling under. Wh
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate
> since nothing changed in that package.
I think it's the preferred method, though. Certainly I've had bugs filed on
my packages to upload a new version so t
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:19:24AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:12:27PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate
&
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> I'm looking for one-time-sponsor for my package asc.
> Usually Matthew Palmer uploads asc package for me, but he doesn't respond
> for my mails so I'm looking for someone else to upload it this tim
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to play
> nice with Debian packaging. The library I am packaging (PyGGy) has a few
> python files that double as executable scripts (in short they have '#!
> /usr/bin/pyt
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 10:53:32PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:25:41AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >> I have a silly little problem with getting Python's distutils to pla
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On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 05:22:26PM +0530, Amit Dixit wrote:
>Myself Amit Dixit Working as System Engg. at Hughes Softwares Ltd.
>
>I want to join the Debian as Maintainer.
>
>I need Sponsor for joing the Debian Developer's.
>
>
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On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:54:47AM -0700, C.J. Steele wrote:
> I recently noticed there was no debian package for `tcpshow` (nor is
> tcpshow even being maintained currently) so I've taken the liber
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:52:41PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
> > > Most of the apps are using `./configure && make && make install` so dh_make
> > > tries to use that way.
> > > In fact the only file you need is debian/rule
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:06:01PM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 21:26 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
>
> > I'd agree it's pretty confusing, but only first time.
> > It's quite easy to understand it.
> I'
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:47:45AM -0600, Zach Garner wrote:
> First:
> 1. The sheer number of helper scripts, with layers and layers of
> scripts built on top of each other is really confusing.
Diversity is often seen as a virtue. That does mean that it can be hard to
separate the need from
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 02:18:35AM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
> my humble question is: if I have Source: and multiple Package: lines described
> in my debian/control file. But how is these debian// subdirectories
> created.. I end up with the firts Package: conctructed in debian/tmp , but I
>
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:02:44PM -0200, Pedro Kroger wrote:
> --
> EC PostScript Type1 fonts with TFMs for TeX
>
> These are PostScript Type1 renderings and TFMs of the EC variant of
> the standard TeX CMR font family. These fonts include characters w
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:37:16PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Antonio S. de A. Terceiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.17.2330
> +0100]:
> > libfactory++-dev - C++ template factory framework
>
> ... that this is my software, which I named libfactory because I did
> not know better.
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 09:26:18PM -0500, Ryan Stutsman wrote:
> I am interesting in getting involved with Debian likely by maintaining
> an orphaned package. I don't have a particular one in mind, but I would
> like to get up to speed first.
>
> If anyone would be willing to show me the ropes an
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 09:44:13AM +0100, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
wrote:
> Of course, 'stupid' questions will make you look, well, stupid, so do your
Remember, there are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
Seriously though, a bit of basic research goes a long way, but don't
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:31:02PM +0100, Nico Golde wrote:
> Hi,
> dh_make genererated control files which usually include something
> like this:
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${misc:Depends}
> Can someone explain me how these variables get substituted?
> Because i get this message if i build the p
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 11:51:54AM +, David Given wrote:
> No Spam wrote:
> [...]
> >>I'm not sure that that's what's happening, but it makes sense. You
> >>can easily install a filesystem with "debootstrap - Bootstrap a basic
> >>Debian system".
> >
> >That seems like such overkill.
>
> I'm
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:25:43PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:38 -0600, David Moreno Garza wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 17:28 -0500, Mark Roach wrote:
> > > I am the author of EDSAdmin (Erudite Directory Service Admin). It is a
> > > python+gtk application that aims for
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:22:07AM +0100, Jose Manuel Delgado Mendinueta wrote:
> this is the fourth RFS for my cnet package. It's a graphical
I think by now we've established that none of the regular sponsors here on
d-mentors appear to have the time or the inclination to sponsor your package
at
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 06:11:30PM -0500, Jake Spieker wrote:
> 2. What does becoming a debian maintainer entail?
A fair bit. Peruse the debian-mentors FAQ at
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html for a bit of an
idea of some of the basics (but be warned that what's in there i
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