Re: Using pbuilder to test packages with gcc-snapshot

2008-11-14 Thread Roger Leigh
--use-snapshot option and it will make sure it's installed, and alter the build environment to use it in place of the default gcc. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Pr

Re: zoo: directory traversal security bug

2005-07-14 Thread Roger Leigh
packaging, you shouldn't be packaging it, IMHO. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail. -BEG

Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Is there a recommended way of changing the location of a conffile while still preserving user modifications? In this case, I'd like to move /etc/schroot.conf to /etc/schroot/schroot.conf. Thanks, Roger - -- Roger

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kilian Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Roger, > > Am Sonntag, den 11.09.2005, 13:04 +0100 schrieb Roger Leigh: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Is

Re: Moving conffiles

2005-09-11 Thread Roger Leigh
e to the new location. if [ -f /etc/schroot.conf ]; then echo "Moving /etc/schroot.conf to new location /etc/schroot/schroot.conf" mv /etc/schroot.conf /etc/schroot/schroot.conf fi elif [ "$1" = "abort-upgrade" ] || [ "$1" = "abort-remove&quo

Re: Putting accented characters in manpages?

2005-10-09 Thread Roger Leigh
man groff_char For example, to write your name use "Rog\['e]rio Brito", or for full AT&T troff compatibility, use "\('e" (\[] is groff-specific). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Re: RFS: directnet -- A serverless, mesh network instant messaging client

2006-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
since the release of sarge. > dpkg now considers "~" to sort before anything, even a null string, so > you can use e.g. "1.0.0~rc5". The last time I checked, the archive infrastructure couldn't cope with this, so while you could build and install, you couldn't up

Re: looking for a sponsor

2006-02-15 Thread Roger Leigh
john aikins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [nothing] It's customary to provide details of what you would like sponsoring, plus pointers to the sources. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ Debia

Re: C Tutorial ?

2006-05-06 Thread Roger Leigh
tay with PyGTK! For learning "plain" ISO C, I would suggest one of the many C books that cover all the C89 language basics. If it covers C99, that's even better. If she still wants to learn to use GTK+, she might find this useful: http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/gtk/ogcalc/ (PDF

Re: C Tutorial ?

2006-05-30 Thread Roger Leigh
Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 1146961412 past the epoch, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Note that programming GTK+ in C is not "C programming", >> it's "GObject programming". This requires that you know >> not only about how object

Re: build-indep and buildd

2012-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
until recently. The earliest non-broken version is 8.9.10, though at this point >= 9 is probably best. To test outside a buildd, run "dpkg-buildpackage -b" to check that it's working correctly in addition to plain dpkg-buildpackage. Regards, Roger -- .''

Re: build-indep and buildd

2012-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 01:59:41PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Roger Leigh , 2012-02-01, 12:52: > >>Could someone please gives an update on the status of > >>build-indep target and buildd machine ? I am using the following > >>pattern (as per dh documentation): >

Re: looking for debian developers in manchester to sign my key

2012-02-19 Thread Roger Leigh
riginally in Manchester... in April 2002... yikes! and had to travel to Manchester for the day to meet him. My first and only tour around an ISP!) Also, FYI, there's a Debian-UK mailing list. You might have more success asking there. And as a developer in the UK, you would also be welcome

Re: Status of B-D-I ?

2012-04-02 Thread Roger Leigh
u're using proper build-arch and build-indep targets in your package, this is most likely a transient failure--you could use an explicit versioned build-dep on dpkg-dev to avoid it. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.or

Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-24 Thread Roger Leigh
filesystems? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To

Re: Bug#678705: RFS: e2defrag/0.80 ITP: #678598

2012-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
maintaining the integrity of a filesystem is perhaps one of the most critical functions of the system, and e2defrag has a bad history here--I'd need quite some convincing before I'd consider it safe to include in Debian for end-users to use. Regards, Roger -- .'

Re: Moving /home of a package account, and to where?

2012-07-01 Thread Roger Leigh
ildd:x:116:125:Debian build daemon,,,:/var/lib/buildd:/bin/bash ntop:x:118:128::/var/lib/ntop:/bin/false Debian-gdm:x:120:132:Gnome Display Manager:/var/lib/gdm3:/bin/false colord:x:123:135:colord colour management daemon,,,:/var/lib/colord:/bin/false Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger

Re: Moving /home of a package account, and to where?

2012-07-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 02:56:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 01:04:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 12:44:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > Debian QA decided recently that it is bad to have a system/package > > > ac

Re: Copyright problems for the opensource reimplementation of a closed-source library (ITP #679504)

2012-07-06 Thread Roger Leigh
any implication that anything from the headers has been copied, why not just use the output of "nm [-D]". This is the interface that programs use to link with the library, and is what you need to provide as a drop-in replacement. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roge

Re: RFS: xinetd

2012-08-04 Thread Roger Leigh
stable once we've released wheezy. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `-GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756

Re: RFS: xinetd

2012-08-05 Thread Roger Leigh
en--so the focus is on testing and fixing what we have to make it releasable. So experimental is a fine place for new package versions until the freeze ends. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schro

Re: debian/rules stamp-* targets

2012-09-03 Thread Roger Leigh
to implement a debian/rules > >>file. > > > >I can also suggest to use *-stamp: such files will be removed by dh_clean > >automatically :-) > > From what I can see, the stamp-* files seem to be removed automatically as > well. At least by 'debian/rules

Re: RFS: magicfilter (QA update of the package) (fwd) (fwd)

2009-04-22 Thread Roger Leigh
upstream for magicfilter which is actually maintained last time I looked. Are you just uploading a new version of the old magicfilter sources, or are you intending to package the new upstream? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://peop

Re: RFS: magicfilter (QA update of the package) (fwd) (fwd)

2009-04-24 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 08:05:34AM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Apr 22 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > Are you just uploading a new version of the old magicfilter sources, > > or are you intending to package the new upstream? > > For this time, I just uploaded a

Re: Lintian clean?

2009-05-04 Thread Roger Leigh
es can support this, and the attacker would still have user access to the build environment for the duration of the build. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gu

Re: pbuilderrc BINDMOUNTS option

2009-08-08 Thread Roger Leigh
d/or deleted following umounting, which is why rmdir fails. This may be a pbuilder bug, where it isn't coping properly with failure? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing

Re: can i use 'piuparts' within 'pbuilder'

2009-08-13 Thread Roger Leigh
ity to run checks after a successful build. Having a hookable mechanism to run lintian, piuparts etc. would be great. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gute

Re: Using ccache with sbuild/schroot

2009-10-24 Thread Roger Leigh
't think I did anything) is bind > mounted so this is preserved. That is the default. You can just edit /etc/schroot/mount-defaults (fstab format) to add additional bind mounts, or remove ones you don't want. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :'

Re: Man and UTF-8.

2009-11-17 Thread Roger Leigh
> This lead to > errors and I gave up, replacing them by `'. Guess what? Groff understood what > I wanted and put nice Unicode guillemets in the ouptut! I am quite amazed, > even > if it looks like a strange hack to me. Ye gods, that's nasty. Should be removed IM

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/ be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-26 Thread Roger Leigh
rly at fault here for writing "personal" data into a directory managed by the packaging system. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.so

Re: Debian changelog vs upstream changelog

2009-11-26 Thread Roger Leigh
tream changelog.gz. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Can /usr/share/doc/ be deleted on upgrade ?

2009-11-29 Thread Roger Leigh
automatically generated through some other mechanism and this is the only reasonable way. But, if that was the case, I would still question if it couldn't be done at build time so dpkg could do its job. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux h

Re: git-import-dsc and deleted files

2009-12-02 Thread Roger Leigh
! > Shouldn't git-import-dsc import and commit _all_ changes in the debian > source package, even deletions? Yes, it's (I think) a bug, probably related to #506211. It should be fixed by using git-fast-import in the future. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh

Re: Use, "Depends: locales-all|locales" or not

2010-01-07 Thread Roger Leigh
er the packages are built, and there shouldn't be any problem with this being run on the host system. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Use, "Depends: locales-all|locales" or not

2010-01-07 Thread Roger Leigh
ortunately, there's no straightforward way to do that in > Debian without doing things that are kind of questionable. You are free to call localedef and place the generated locale in a temporary directory, then use that. Is that too ugly? Regards, Roger -- .&#

Re: Use, "Depends: locales-all|locales" or not

2010-01-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:48:18AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 09:50:23AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Absent that, we're considering adding some sort of ugly hack to Lintian > >> to force the locales packag

Re: Use, "Depends: locales-all|locales" or not

2010-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:17:35PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > AFAICT just set the LOCPATH environment variable and all programs will > > pick it up (in addition to LC_xxx to make your locale get used). You > > might not even need to restart l

Re: C.UTF-8 : udeb exist :-)

2010-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
ger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Use, "Depends: locales-all|locales" or not

2010-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
ideas? The generated locale files are binary so aren't too accessible unless you can dump them as parsable plaintext. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Support for non UTF8 encodings

2010-02-26 Thread Roger Leigh
tty much everything uses) will automatically recode from the .po/.mo translation encoding to the locale encoding ('locale -k charmap'). If this isn't happening, rkhunter's localisation is broken. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Lin

Re: Support for non UTF8 encodings

2010-02-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 04:14:27PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:35:20PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote: > > A user recently reported a bug[0] regarding localized messages from > > rkhunter not being correctly displayed with other encodings than UTF-8. > >

Re: How to test a manpage? ‘ nroff -man | less’ does not display like ‘man ’.

2010-07-14 Thread Roger Leigh
run the needed preprocessors. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to use --as-needed

2010-11-17 Thread Roger Leigh
actually need to use --as-needed, or if there are better ways of removing unwanted libraries (such as not linking them in in the first place). Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Pr

Re: How to use --as-needed

2010-11-17 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:12:35PM +, Tony Houghton wrote: > On 17/11/10 13:47, Roger Leigh wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:34:21PM +, Tony Houghton wrote: >>> How should one add --as-needed linker flags to an autotools-based >>> package? I ended up adding C

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-19 Thread Roger Leigh
l sticking point is dpkg-buildpackage, which is used by sbuild. sbuild is actually perfectly capable of installing Build-Depends-Indep and removing Build-Conflicts-Indep when invoked with the -A (build arch-all) option, but there are no buildds building arch-indep packages yet. If we ever throw away

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-20 Thread Roger Leigh
#x27;s also rebuildd for use with pbuilder/cowbuilder if you prefer that. This will take much longer, but should be 100% reliable bar FTBFS bugs. If there was a reliable way of getting make to tell you if a target rule exists or not, that would be much quicker than doing a full rebuild.

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 08:23:59PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 01:29:12PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In <20101120183255.gf12...@khazad-dum.debian.net>, Henrique de Moraes > > Holschuh > > wrote: > > >On Fri, 19 No

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-21 Thread Roger Leigh
ing for sources that (probably) have build-arch/indep: > > % bzcat build-rule-check.bz2 | egrep > '/rules:(build(.*%)+|build-(arch|indep)):' | cut -d":" -f1 | sort -u | wc -l > 572 > > Lots of work to do. Agreed! But, should be an achievable goal for squee

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 05:03:39PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:09:44PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> > >> Now why does it only list 8k sources if it matches the required > >> "bu

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:39:20PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > I checked, and dh currently doesn't support build-arch and build-indep > at all internally (you need to add the rules yourself). I've made a > patch to add proper support which I'll submit once I've

Re: Build-Depends-Indep, please review

2010-11-22 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:42:03PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:39:20PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I checked, and dh currently doesn't support build-arch and build-indep > > at all internally (you need to add the rules yourself). I've made

Re: Workflow with debian/ in VCS

2011-05-15 Thread Roger Leigh
e at will etc. You also gain (with git) signed tags for all upstream imports and debian releases, so you also have integrity checking and cryptographic validation of the entire thing as well. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://peo

Re: [imagemagick] Strange bug in one of my packages need help (maybe glibc bug?)

2011-05-25 Thread Roger Leigh
d_str[37]; uuid_generate(uuid); uuid_unparse(uuid, uuid_str); uuid_clear(uuid); Note that uuid_t is not a pointer, it's a char array which decays to a pointer: typedef unsigned char uuid_t[16]; You can use gdb to check what its value is before the call to uuid_generate and afte

Re: [imagemagick] Strange bug in one of my packages need help (maybe glibc bug?)

2011-05-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:21:07PM +0200, roucaries bastien wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:20:09PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have two strange bug in my package imagemagi

Re: [imagemagick] Strange bug in one of my packages need help (maybe glibc bug?)

2011-05-30 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 02:27:28PM +0200, roucaries bastien wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 01:21:07PM +0200, roucaries bastien wrote: > >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> > On Wed, Ma

Re: Junior packaging tasks within the Debian Printing Team

2011-05-31 Thread Roger Leigh
o an inkjet printer for testing, new contributions would be most welcome. I'll be available to give any help and assistance, having been the primary maintainer for quite a number of years, but no longer having an inkjet printer. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :&

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread Roger Leigh
o from the POV of the distribution as a whole, helpers do provide a tangible and significant benefit. I would argue that not using a helper unnecessarily increases the maintenance burden we all shoulder, and that we should actively encourage further adoption of dh and cdbs. Regards, Roger

Re: Debhelper doesn't know the ‘build-stamp’ target, but Lintian recommends it

2011-07-27 Thread Roger Leigh
)) $(MAKE) -C debian/build doc endif This does all the arch and indep building in the conditionals. The main problems with build-arch: build build-indep: build is that it can cause infinite recursion in combination with dh: build → dh build → build-arch → build → … because bui

Re: Debhelper doesn't know the ‘build-stamp’ target, but Lintian recommends it

2011-07-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:12:37PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Roger Leigh writes: > > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 08:23:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Kilian Krause writes: > > > > > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > > > On T

Re: Using dh to build >1 binary package with different configure options

2011-08-12 Thread Roger Leigh
> cd debian/build-gtk2 && make install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/pkg-gtk2 Note make has a '-C' option to avoid the cd: make -C debian/build-gtk3 make -C debian/build-gtk3 install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/pkg-gtk2 Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roge

Re: New autoconf-archive package

2011-11-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 06:39:48PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110917-1 > of my package "autoconf-archive". Link to the dsc? I'll see if I have time to look at it tonight. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger

Re: debian/rules override_dh_auto_build-indep

2011-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
h to fix this some time back, and it was discussed by the TC months ago. I guess it needs chasing up to get it applied. Once that's done, it will Just Work. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `

Re: debian/rules override_dh_auto_build-indep

2011-11-11 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:19:28PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:25:27AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> On 2011-11-10 08:20, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > >> >   I have been tr

Re: Symbols and C++ inline constructor

2012-01-05 Thread Roger Leigh
symbol table. If it's present then include it, otherwise don't. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public

Re: Symbols and C++ inline constructor

2012-01-08 Thread Roger Leigh
all bad--if you use an inlined function you do appear to get a symbol emitted. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG P

Re: Lintian complaining about ldconfig in postrm-remove

2003-08-24 Thread Roger Leigh
helper (dh_makeshlibs) adds the ldconfig call for you automatically, so you don't need to do it yourself (assuming you're packaging a shared library here). Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Policy query

2003-08-25 Thread Roger Leigh
here is it in the Policy Manual? I'll remove the dependency next time I upload, but I'd like to know where the requirement comes from. Thanks, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB8

Re: Policy query

2003-08-26 Thread Roger Leigh
Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:55:53PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> E: cupsys-driver-gimpprint: >> depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version gzip >> N: >> N: The package declares a depends on an essential

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-16 Thread Roger Leigh
fit together--surely with UCS, most of these become unnecessary (other than keyboard mappings)? Apart from that, I've noticed no brokenness so far. UTF-8 text really does look good! Regards, Roger (looking forward to UTF-8 support in GCC!) -- Roger Leigh

Re: Why Katie thinks it's an NMU?

2004-03-12 Thread Roger Leigh
one digit, not two (NMU) or three (binary NMU). Policy, §5.6.11 may be of some help, and the Developer's Reference, §5.11.4.1. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sig

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Roger Leigh
la files shouldn't be included in anything, they're just plain broken. Even with static libraries? The .la does contain dependency information. I know that using pkg-config .pc files can eliminate this case, but not everything using libtool is using pkg-config yet. -- Rog

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Roger Leigh
te, I'd also be very happy if it was a requirement to build libraries with a miniumum of "-g -ggdb -gdwarf-2", and not strip them. We could provide some mechanism to automatically strip binaries, surely? -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Roger Leigh
angoxft-1.0 -lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 Whew! Yet in reality, -lglademm-2.0 would have sufficed... -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Roger Leigh
aviour is still required). Scott, if you do find the time to look at this, I would be ecstatic! If you don't have the time, I'll try to fit it in myself, since this is my main peeve with pkg-config. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Roger Leigh
Alexander Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:54 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> On a related note, I'd also be very happy if it was a requirement to >> build libraries with a miniumum of "-g -ggdb -gdwarf-2", and not strip >&

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Roger Leigh
Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Roger Leigh
bdl directly on Linux. For example, for Gimp-Print 5.0 (not yet released) I wrote a module loader that works in 3 modes: - libltdl [used when libdl is unavailable] - libdl[the default] - static [useful for debugging and static libs] Add a little configure magic to detect the best optio

Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-04 Thread Roger Leigh
icated graphs/charts--bar charts with error bars are just scratching the surface. There is also grace, which can also do error bars. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your mail.

libtool and building both shared and static libraries

2004-08-04 Thread Roger Leigh
nd static libraries during the same build. Although I didn't see a /requirement/ for providing a static copy in Debian Policy, it does seem to be the status quo. Does anyone actually use them, or are they a waste of space? Would anyone object if I ceased to provide a static libgimppri

Re: ink and libinklevel

2004-09-25 Thread Roger Leigh
rvers to get the status of the printers and such things. Are you planning to work with other inklevel-monitoring programs such as mtink and escputil? How do you integrate with spoolers such as CUPS where the backends can read and log backchannel data? Thanks, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-21 Thread Roger Leigh
documentation appreciated (I could find little about making this type of package). Many thanks, Roger Leigh -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rl117/linux/ For GPG Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-23 Thread Roger Leigh
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will try and get everything working later on today. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rl117/linux/ For GPG Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-24 Thread Roger Leigh
not put in a Conflicts:, I could install both at once, seemingly, although one must have been overwritten). Many thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rl117/linux/ For GPG Public Key: finger

Packaging unversioned shared libraries

2001-02-14 Thread Roger Leigh
y that is N: not installed by this package. N: debian/libgimpprint/DEBIAN/shlibs: libgimpprint 4.1.4 libgimpprint -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ For GPG Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packaging unversioned shared libraries

2001-02-15 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:44:31AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 14-Feb-2001 Roger Leigh wrote: > > I am having a problem when packaging a shared library (libgimpprint from > > CVS). It is normally named libgimpprint-.so e.g. currently > > libgimppri

Re: RFS: rlplot - generate publication quality graphs

2004-07-04 Thread Roger Leigh
icated graphs/charts--bar charts with error bars are just scratching the surface. There is also grace, which can also do error bars. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encrypt your

libtool and building both shared and static libraries

2004-08-04 Thread Roger Leigh
nd static libraries during the same build. Although I didn't see a /requirement/ for providing a static copy in Debian Policy, it does seem to be the status quo. Does anyone actually use them, or are they a waste of space? Would anyone object if I ceased to provide a static libgimppri

Re: ink and libinklevel

2004-09-25 Thread Roger Leigh
rvers to get the status of the printers and such things. Are you planning to work with other inklevel-monitoring programs such as mtink and escputil? How do you integrate with spoolers such as CUPS where the backends can read and log backchannel data? Thanks, Roger - -- Roger Leigh

Versioning prereleases

2005-02-06 Thread Roger Leigh
sort to extra ugliness in the version number. What would you recommend as the correct version numbers to use in the changelog for a smooth upgrade? Are there any examples? Thanks, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Re: Versioning prereleases

2005-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe that post-sarge it's possible to use '~' in version numbers? > > When 5.0.0 comes out, I don't want the -beta and -pre releases to sort > higher than it, and I

Re: Versioning prereleases

2005-02-10 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adeodato Simà <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh [Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:58:03 +]: > >> Are there any real examples of '~' in use yet? > > Not in the official archive. Anywhere else? >Goswin'

Re: RFS2: check -- unit test framework for C

2005-02-17 Thread Roger Leigh
first make it lintian-clean (run "lintian -i uterm_xyz.changes"). The problems are fairly minor. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GP

Re: Stupid shebang tricks

2005-05-11 Thread Roger Leigh
y other configure substitutions to be made (version information, paths and file locations, configuration information etc.) This applies equally to python and any other scripting languages. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Re: RFS: plotutils -- The GNU plotutils (plotting utilities) package

2005-05-11 Thread Roger Leigh
so in 4.2.1-12. If you didn't already, it might be a good idea to regenerate them again with current tools to ensure they are up-to-date. Have you coordinated this with the QA team? The latest upload was just 4 days ago. It's worth asking the developer who did that uplo

Re: RFS: plotutils -- The GNU plotutils (plotting utilities) package

2005-05-14 Thread Roger Leigh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Floris Bruynooghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:45:20PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Floris Bruynooghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> importantly, it doesn't document all of your

Re: Help Requested for testing a Game on a PowerPC Architecture

2005-06-03 Thread Roger Leigh
piler warnings have been fixed, there may be other problems. Regards, Roger - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848. Please sign and encr

Re: Help Requested for testing a Game on a PowerPC Architecture

2005-06-04 Thread Roger Leigh
her he nor me have a powerpc availabe in which we can > test it, so we cannot be sure of it. It Worked For Me™. I started a new game, and played for a few screens without problems. There wasn't any sound, though. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http:

Re: RFD/RFS: gtk+extra-2.0 -- A useful set of widgets for GTK+ 2.0

2005-06-15 Thread Roger Leigh
.. Removing xfree86-common ... Purging configuration files for xfree86-common ... ** Finished at 20050615-1935 Build needed 00:00:03, 5932k disk space - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-21 Thread Roger Leigh
documentation appreciated (I could find little about making this type of package). Many thanks, Roger Leigh -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rl117/linux/ For GPG Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-23 Thread Roger Leigh
Thanks for all the suggestions. I will try and get everything working later on today. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rl117/linux/ For GPG Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or

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