help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: >=libsdl1.0 which debian provides sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide currently, the only way to get sdl_image and sdl_mixer on a debian system is to compile it fr

Re: help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i don't have woody yet; didn't know they existed. i'll upgrade one of my computers. On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:29:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > > > i'd like to

debian/rules error on clean rule

2004-12-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, A package (yadex) isn't building, and I'm trying to figure out why. I narrowed it down to the clean rule of debian/rules. Here's the relevent portion of debian/rules (echos added by me): clean: clean-tree unpatch clean-tree: checkroot @echo "* ALPHA" rm -

warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
My first package is ALMOST lintian clean. One warning: $ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb W: yadex: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/lib/menu/yadex:2 x-terminal-emulator N: N: The menu item specifies a command which is not available in the N: package. In most cases this is

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 13 Dec 04, 9:07 PM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.13.2055 +0100]: > >?package(yadex): needs="x11" section="Games/Arcade" title="yadex" \ > >h

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 13 Dec 04, 9:43 PM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.13.2135 +0100]: > > But in order to yadex, you MUST have x11. For example, you cannot > > use this program in a virtual console. It

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 13 Dec 04, 10:05 PM, Sven Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote on 13/12/2004 21:49: > >In any event, the program starts in a terminal environment, but ultimately > >must be run in an x11 environment. > > What does it need the terminal for?

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 13 Dec 04, 12:10 PM, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > My first package is ALMOST lintian clean. One warning: > > > >$ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb > >W: yadex: men

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 13 Dec 04, 5:40 PM, David Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Matt Brubeck wrote: > > Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > > > >>Instead, install what is presently /usr/games/yadex to > >>/usr/lib/yadex/... and install a one-line wrapper script to > >>/usr/games/yadex: > >> > >>#!/bin/sh -e

Re: debian/rules error on clean rule

2004-12-12 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sun 12 Dec 04, 4:59 PM, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Sun, Dec 12, 2004: > > > And then it gives up because of the errors. The part that I really don't > > understand is WHY the rm fails. > > Check

Re: warning: menu-command-not-in-package

2004-12-13 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 13 Dec 04, 10:05 PM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.13.2149 +0100]: > > I'm sorry -- I'm drawing a blank. What's OP? > > >From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acrony

Re: pkg-classifier appliance

2004-12-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 14 Dec 04, 1:59 PM, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > also sprach vegetax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.12.14.1346 +0100]: > > The url for the tgz containing the source code, just 1 python file > > and a README is http://files.bighosting.net/lh13023.zip , can > > someone please chec

help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'd like to package a friend's game, but it requires: >=libsdl1.0 which debian provides sdl_imagea library which debian doesn't provide sdl_mixera library which debian doesn't provide currently, the only way to get sdl_image and sdl_mixer on a debian system is to compile it f

Re: help making packages

2000-11-06 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i don't have woody yet; didn't know they existed. i'll upgrade one of my computers. On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 01:29:36PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > > > i'd like to

lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage for every installed executable. ok. i installed manedit and whipped up a placeholder manpage. questions: 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement? is

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Stephen Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 8:56 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > > > made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and > > lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage f

dh_maninstall isn't finding control

2001-11-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, when running dh_installman in /home/p/debian/pdamaze/pdamaze-0.0.20011005/debian which is where the man page is, i get the error: p@satan% dh_installman ./pdamaze.6 dh_installman: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory the control file _is_ th

Re: dh_maninstall isn't finding control (now the manpage)

2001-11-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
g with how i'm doing things, i'd rather not break dh_installman by strong-arming it to work. any more advice? thanks! pete begin: Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > Hi ! > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:15:40AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >

Re: dh_maninstall isn't finding control (now the manpage)

2001-11-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
out what exactly the debhelper scripts do. it's a complicated subject with lots of helper scripts that one should know about. the author did an admirable job, but it could use some more expounding. live and learn. thank you very much! pete begin: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

help with splint

2002-01-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i'm trying to package splint, which uses automake/autoconf. the main problem is that when i install the packages, it puts all the files that should go in /usr/local/splint/share into /share. :( the packager's maintenance guide says that you don't have to hack makefiles for programs that use aut

Re: Is there an strace type program for shared libs

2002-01-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
well, there's ltrace which lists library calls. i don't think you can restrict output to a particular shared library though. i don't think you can restrict gdb to show calls to a particular library either. gdb basically shows information about stacks. it doesn't try to sort or collate this i

Re: Is there an strace type program for shared libs

2002-01-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
specify 20 libraries. neat!!! i had no idea ltrace could do this. learn something everyday. :) pete begin Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > well, there's ltrace which lists library calls. i don't think

lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage for every installed executable. ok. i installed manedit and whipped up a placeholder manpage. questions: 1. is there a way to get past the manpage requirement? is

Re: lintian + man page question

2001-11-08 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
begin: Stephen Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > On Thursday 08 Nov 2001 8:56 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > dear all, > > > > made my first deb package. went fine. checked it with lintian, and > > lintian complained that there _must_ be a manpage f

dh_maninstall isn't finding control

2001-11-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hello all, when running dh_installman in /home/p/debian/pdamaze/pdamaze-0.0.20011005/debian which is where the man page is, i get the error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dh_installman ./pdamaze.6 dh_installman: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory the control file

Re: dh_maninstall isn't finding control (now the manpage)

2001-11-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
y wrong with how i'm doing things, i'd rather not break dh_installman by strong-arming it to work. any more advice? thanks! pete begin: Nicolas Boullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > Hi ! > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:15:40AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >

Re: dh_maninstall isn't finding control (now the manpage)

2001-11-09 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
out what exactly the debhelper scripts do. it's a complicated subject with lots of helper scripts that one should know about. the author did an admirable job, but it could use some more expounding. live and learn. thank you very much! pete begin: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

help with splint

2002-01-21 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
i'm trying to package splint, which uses automake/autoconf. the main problem is that when i install the packages, it puts all the files that should go in /usr/local/splint/share into /share. :( the packager's maintenance guide says that you don't have to hack makefiles for programs that use auto

Re: Is there an strace type program for shared libs

2002-01-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
well, there's ltrace which lists library calls. i don't think you can restrict output to a particular shared library though. i don't think you can restrict gdb to show calls to a particular library either. gdb basically shows information about stacks. it doesn't try to sort or collate this in

Re: Is there an strace type program for shared libs

2002-01-24 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
specify 20 libraries. neat!!! i had no idea ltrace could do this. learn something everyday. :) pete begin Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > well, there's ltrace which lists library calls. i don't think yo