Re: Making a package with multiple binaries

2000-10-24 Thread Roger Leigh
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 [EMAIL

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

dh_installman

2002-04-12 Thread Roger Leigh
ecify aditional options? SHould I be using a different syntax in the .manpages files? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Publi

Re: dh_installman

2002-04-13 Thread Roger Leigh
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > I'm getting some errors from dh_installman, and the manpages are not > > getting installed: > > > > $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > > [...] > > dh_installman -i > > U

Library package naming

2002-05-04 Thread Roger Leigh
versioned properly as well as being tiny, so I have just packaged it as a static library. Would 'ijs-dev' be legal (as in publib-dev), or should I use 'libijs-dev' (or is this for shared libs only?). Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number:

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-05 Thread Roger Leigh
ed library is worth the benefits right now. The library is tiny, so it isn't going to gain much in reduced memory usage. I think I will use Sean's suggestion and have a static-only ijs-dev, and once the specification and ABI are stable I will then make it shared. Thanks to all of you f

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-05 Thread Roger Leigh
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > However, the value of having a shared library at this point in time is > > doubtful. gimp-print will Build-Depend on it, and possibly hpijs, but > > I

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The last three all use custom m4 macrocode I wrote (available in the > ac-archive, renamed and specialised for use in ijs). Due to the > unstable nature of the source, I defaulted to -release versioning, and > disabling shared librari

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-07 Thread Roger Leigh
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > Would the following scheme be acceptable to you?: > > > > Package: libijs-0.34 > > contains libijs-0.34.so > > In my little testing, if I

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-07 Thread Roger Leigh
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 06 May 2002, Roger Leigh wrote: > > Is it common or good practice to keep the build for Debian separate > > for upstream, or should I really get my changes incorporated upstream > > first? It's j

Re: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

2002-05-09 Thread Roger Leigh
the library should be installed, and I have never seen any lintian warnings. I don't think it's equivalent to the ld -rpath, or it has no effect on Debian. It has certainly not caused any problems in the year and a quarter of using it. I need to use it because

Re: Library package naming

2002-05-13 Thread Roger Leigh
Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > > > Would the following scheme be acceptable to you?: > > > > > > Package:

Re: Library package naming (and sponsor wanted)

2002-05-15 Thread Roger Leigh
Junichi Uekawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit: > > > One thing I'm not sure about are the Build-Depends. dpkg-genbuilddeps > > and 'dpkg-depcheck -b debian/rules build' both failed on my i386 >

Re: debian/crontab problems

2002-05-20 Thread Roger Leigh
u could also name it `debian/cron.d'. If you are using debhelper compatibility >2, each debhelper file should ideally be prefixed with `.'. See debhelper(1) for the details. HTH, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org **

User interaction in postinst

2002-08-27 Thread Roger Leigh
in this case? Preconfiguring will fail, as I can't get the data to list at that point. The "multiselect" widget type is just what I'm looking for, though. If I can't use debconf, what is the best method for user interaction? Many thanks, Roger Leigh -- Roger Leigh

Re: User interaction in postinst

2002-08-29 Thread Roger Leigh
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh > > | >From what I have read about debconf, the questions it asks are static. > | However, in this case, I can't generate the questions until the > | package is installed: the translations are gettext .

Adding system users and setuid

2002-08-29 Thread Roger Leigh
uildd etc, and then set the setuid bit on all necessary binaries. Is there a standard way to do this, when you do not know the UID in advance? I guess it's not possible to do this at build time? Is postinst the best place for this, or is there a better way? Thanks, Roger -- R

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-09 Thread Roger Leigh
symlink by hand in a postinst. Why not make the symlink it in debian/rules in the binary-(all|arch) rule and package it? If the packages will conflict, there won't be any problems, and it makes the postinst/prerm cleaner. -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, htt

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Roger Leigh
erface for the autoconf developers to preserve. No, basically. > Or if someone can explain to me another way of easily configuring a config > file path from configure. You should create a local "config.site" which tells configure what your local defaults/preferences are. autoconf.i

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 11:00 pm, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > The "average user" shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / > > or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are > > &q

Request for sponsor

2002-10-02 Thread Roger Leigh
Please could someone sponsor an upload of IJS? The source is available from http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/ijs/ as well as i386 binaries. (http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/ijs/ijs_0.34-1.dsc) Many thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - S

Re: Request for sponsor

2002-10-04 Thread Roger Leigh
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.0013 +0200]: > > Please could someone sponsor an upload of IJS? > > Please give me exact information what this does. I'd be happy to > sponsor you if I know m

Re: groff macros for manpages

2002-10-16 Thread Roger Leigh
, the \fR does nothing. > > Can anyone explain the function of `\fr'? Switch to Roman (normal) font. Other choices are I (italic), B (bold) and P (previous style). This turns off the .BI (alternate bold and italic). See groff_man and groff.info. HTH, Roger -- Roger Leigh

Re: CVS dir in package source

2002-10-21 Thread Roger Leigh
/gimp-print-intl.h: * "$Id$" /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print-intl-internal.h: * "$Id$" /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/Makefile.am:## $Id$ Perhaps the files are set to binary type, or something? I just noticed that some of the unexpa

Re: New gnometab to lookup

2002-10-21 Thread Roger Leigh
n't because it won't break if it's not installed (and the .diff.gz will contain the files anyway, making it redundant) because of the conditionals. -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the Countryside Alliance Need Epson Stylus Ut

Incorrect overrides

2002-11-09 Thread Roger Leigh
otify someone, to get it changed? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the Countryside Alliance Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keys

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:21:20AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The escputil package was in section misc, but should have been in > > section utils (a bug was filed to request this). I changed this, but > > there has been

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +0000, 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

Re: What does dpkg-source mean with this?

2002-11-12 Thread Roger Leigh
t-2.0.16/doc/noteedit/afterCombine.png: Cannot open: File exists [...] > tar: noteedit-2.0.16/INSTALL: Cannot open: File exists > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > dpkg-source: failure: tar -xkf - gave error exit status 2 -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Li

Re: What to do with wrong files from upstreams

2002-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
Karolina Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tisdagen den 12 november 2002 21.28 skrev Roger Leigh: > > > It looks like all the files are pre-existing. Try running dpkg-source > > -b from another directory or renaming the noteedit-2.0.16 directory? > > ...

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? >

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:33:50PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe the "incorrect overrides" mail is sent to the uploader, not to > > >

Re: Library help needed

2002-11-25 Thread Roger Leigh
ther than having some medium sized ones.... Personally, I would split them. In gimp-print, 10 binary packages are produced from the same source (using debhelper). Feel free to use it for ideas. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the Co

Packages/Sources/Releases file formats

2002-12-05 Thread Roger Leigh
Is a full description of the formats used in the Packages, Sources and Release files available? Debian Policy only covers these in the old Packaging Manual appendices, and this is looks outdated. Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the C

Re: Packaging plugins for The GIMP

2003-01-21 Thread Roger Leigh
tzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is probably more knowledgeable than me about this, but feel free to contact me with any other questions. HTH, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 availabl

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-28 Thread Roger Leigh
the buildd team to ask whether I can > rename some files, or whether this is not a purely Debian package > and needs to be handled like a package with an upstream and a Debian > diff. You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh

dh_perl

2003-01-31 Thread Roger Leigh
t adding libcompress-zlib-perl to perl:Depends, even if I add /usr/lib/perl5 to dh_perl's options. I could just add the dependency manually, but I'd like to get this working properly. Am I doing something wrong here, or is dh_perl not the correct tool for this? Thanks, Roger -- Roge

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:15:31PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I'm using dh_perl to calculate the package dependencies for a perl > > script in the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package. I thought this was > > working, but i

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-03-21 Thread Roger Leigh
he .global conffiles--these are not supposed to be changed by the user (the .local or non-suffixed version should be used instead; buildd uses a per-user conffile). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public K

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-24 Thread Roger Leigh
t all. Afterwards, I tried learning GTK+, and all made perfect sense! I would have liked to write GTK+ programs from the start, but it's only after three years of doing non-GTK+/non-graphical stuff that I have begun to appreciate the beauty of the design of GTK/GObject, and be in

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
te the roles of upstream and Debian, even though I am now both a Debian and upstream maintainer. For example, I can add additional features to the Debian packages, without changing the upstream tarball. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-06-02 Thread Roger Leigh
age. Does configure.ac call the "AC_PROG_CXX" macro? Without it, automake won't know anything about there being a C++ compiler available. Whether you love or hate libtool, this is not a libtool problem. Are you using libtool 1.5 yet? -- Roger Leigh Printing on

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
e 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 package i.e.

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, Â5.6.11 may be of some help, and the Developer's Reference, Â5.11.4.1. 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.sou

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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

dh_installman

2002-04-12 Thread Roger Leigh
ed to specify aditional options? SHould I be using a different syntax in the .manpages files? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org ** Need Epson Stylus Utilities? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG P

Re: dh_installman

2002-04-13 Thread Roger Leigh
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Roger Leigh wrote: > > I'm getting some errors from dh_installman, and the manpages are not > > getting installed: > > > > $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc > > [...] > > dh_installman -i > > U

User interaction in postinst

2002-08-27 Thread Roger Leigh
in this case? Preconfiguring will fail, as I can't get the data to list at that point. The "multiselect" widget type is just what I'm looking for, though. If I can't use debconf, what is the best method for user interaction? Many thanks, Roger Leigh -- Roger Leigh

Re: User interaction in postinst

2002-08-29 Thread Roger Leigh
Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Roger Leigh > > | >From what I have read about debconf, the questions it asks are static. > | However, in this case, I can't generate the questions until the > | package is installed: the translations are gettext .

Adding system users and setuid

2002-08-29 Thread Roger Leigh
uildd etc, and then set the setuid bit on all necessary binaries. Is there a standard way to do this, when you do not know the UID in advance? I guess it's not possible to do this at build time? Is postinst the best place for this, or is there a better way? Thanks, Roger -- R

Re: Multiple Binary and man pages

2002-09-09 Thread Roger Leigh
symlink by hand in a postinst. Why not make the symlink it in debian/rules in the binary-(all|arch) rule and package it? If the packages will conflict, there won't be any problems, and it makes the postinst/prerm cleaner. -- Roger Leigh ** Registration Number: 151826, htt

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-19 Thread Roger Leigh
erface for the autoconf developers to preserve. No, basically. > Or if someone can explain to me another way of easily configuring a config > file path from configure. You should create a local "config.site" which tells configure what your local defaults/preferences are. autoconf.info documents this. HTH, -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" Support the Countryside Alliance www.march-info.org

Re: Setting a default path with autoconf

2002-09-21 Thread Roger Leigh
Will Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 19 Sep 2002 11:00 pm, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > The "average user" shouldn't be running configure with a prefix of / > > or /usr, and so the default is what they want. /etc and /usr are > > &q

Request for sponsor

2002-10-02 Thread Roger Leigh
Please could someone sponsor an upload of IJS? The source is available from http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/ijs/ as well as i386 binaries. (http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/ijs/ijs_0.34-1.dsc) Many thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - S

Re: Request for sponsor

2002-10-04 Thread Roger Leigh
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.03.0013 +0200]: > > Please could someone sponsor an upload of IJS? > > Please give me exact information what this does. I'd be happy to > sponsor you if I know m

Re: groff macros for manpages

2002-10-16 Thread Roger Leigh
, the \fR does nothing. > > Can anyone explain the function of `\fr'? Switch to Roman (normal) font. Other choices are I (italic), B (bold) and P (previous style). This turns off the .BI (alternate bold and italic). See groff_man and groff.info. HTH, Roger -- Roger Leigh

Re: CVS dir in package source

2002-10-20 Thread Roger Leigh
bar.c > >const char bar_ident[] = "$Id$"; > > in file header.h > > #define HEADER_IDENT "$Id$" Minor nitpick: You must use `$Id:$', or cvs will not expand it. The `:' is needed. -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelih

Re: CVS dir in package source

2002-10-21 Thread Roger Leigh
gimp-print-intl.h: * "$Id$" /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/gimp-print-intl-internal.h: * "$Id$" /home/roger/gimp-print/current/include/gimp-print/Makefile.am:## $Id$ Perhaps the files are set to binary type, or something? I just noticed that some of the unexpa

Re: New gnometab to lookup

2002-10-21 Thread Roger Leigh
n't because it won't break if it's not installed (and the .diff.gz will contain the files anyway, making it redundant) because of the conditionals. -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the Countryside Alliance Need Epson Stylus Ut

Incorrect overrides

2002-11-09 Thread Roger Leigh
otify someone, to get it changed? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the Countryside Alliance Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:21:20AM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > The escputil package was in section misc, but should have been in > > section utils (a bug was filed to request this). I changed this, but > > there has been

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-10 Thread Roger Leigh
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 12:49:02PM +0000, 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

Re: What does dpkg-source mean with this?

2002-11-12 Thread Roger Leigh
t-2.0.16/doc/noteedit/afterCombine.png: Cannot open: File exists [...] > tar: noteedit-2.0.16/INSTALL: Cannot open: File exists > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > dpkg-source: failure: tar -xkf - gave error exit status 2 -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Li

Re: What to do with wrong files from upstreams

2002-11-13 Thread Roger Leigh
Karolina Lindqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > tisdagen den 12 november 2002 21.28 skrev Roger Leigh: > > > It looks like all the files are pre-existing. Try running dpkg-source > > -b from another directory or renaming the noteedit-2.0.16 directory? > > ...

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? >

Re: Incorrect overrides

2002-11-20 Thread Roger Leigh
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:33:50PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I believe the "incorrect overrides" mail is sent to the uploader, not to > > >

Re: Library help needed

2002-11-25 Thread Roger Leigh
ther than having some medium sized ones.... Personally, I would split them. In gimp-print, 10 binary packages are produced from the same source (using debhelper). Feel free to use it for ideas. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the Countryside Alliance Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Packages/Sources/Releases file formats

2002-12-05 Thread Roger Leigh
Is a full description of the formats used in the Packages, Sources and Release files available? Debian Policy only covers these in the old Packaging Manual appendices, and this is looks outdated. Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh "Liberty and Livelihood" - Support the C

Re: Packaging plugins for The GIMP

2003-01-21 Thread Roger Leigh
tzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is probably more knowledgeable than me about this, but feel free to contact me with any other questions. HTH, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-01-28 Thread Roger Leigh
the buildd team to ask whether I can > rename some files, or whether this is not a purely Debian package > and needs to be handled like a package with an upstream and a Debian > diff. You should probably subscribe to buildd-discuss at nocrew.org. Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh

dh_perl

2003-01-31 Thread Roger Leigh
t adding libcompress-zlib-perl to perl:Depends, even if I add /usr/lib/perl5 to dh_perl's options. I could just add the dependency manually, but I'd like to get this working properly. Am I doing something wrong here, or is dh_perl not the correct tool for this? Thanks, Roger -- Roge

Re: dh_perl

2003-02-01 Thread Roger Leigh
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:15:31PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > I'm using dh_perl to calculate the package dependencies for a perl > > script in the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package. I thought this was > > working, but i

Re: joining Debian / packaging buildd

2003-03-21 Thread Roger Leigh
he .global conffiles--these are not supposed to be changed by the user (the .local or non-suffixed version should be used instead; buildd uses a per-user conffile). Regards, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: [OT] A question for programmers - Inspiration

2003-03-24 Thread Roger Leigh
t all. Afterwards, I tried learning GTK+, and all made perfect sense! I would have liked to write GTK+ programs from the start, but it's only after three years of doing non-GTK+/non-graphical stuff that I have begun to appreciate the beauty of the design of GTK/GObject, and be in

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
te the roles of upstream and Debian, even though I am now both a Debian and upstream maintainer. For example, I can add additional features to the Debian packages, without changing the upstream tarball. - -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-07 Thread Roger Leigh
doesn't compute module dependencies. (Closes: #179120, #179170, #179171, #179203) -- Roger Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:26:51 + gimp-print (4.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low * New stable release [...] * The CUPS epson backend uses non-blocking I/O, and so

Re: Flogging a dead horse....

2003-04-10 Thread Roger Leigh
understand m4... it is so sweet when it all works but > setting it up is a nightmare. I have bitter experience of debugging m4, and it's not quick or easy. m4 in itself isn't a difficult language, but the quoting gets quite confusing once they are several deep, and you need to quote quotes

lintian rpath warning

2003-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
Why are libjpeg/libgnutls etc. absolute paths, and why are the libgnutls dependencies expanded by libtool? Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: lintian rpath warning

2003-04-25 Thread Roger Leigh
ckage. That's handy, but it's not a very big issue (I wrote most of the build stuff myself). I am reluctant to do this, because it's a bit ugly. I'll see if libtool 1.5 (just out) improves things, and go from there. Thanks, Roger -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator

2003-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
GTK+, but if anyone wants it, it's yours. This might not be suitable for home brewers who don't have acccess to a lab, though! Roger (ex-brewery lab technician!) -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: RFS: qbrew -- a homebrewer's recipe calculator

2003-04-29 Thread Roger Leigh
Tobias Toedter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 29 April 2003 01:22, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > I have a small GTK+ 2.0 tool > > (http://www.whinlatter.uklinux.net/gtk/ogcalc.c) for calculating %ABV > > and original gravity from present gravity and refractive

Re: libexecdir - helper scripts

2003-05-20 Thread Roger Leigh
t out of the FHS are so political and petty it's not true--the decision was definitely /not/ a technical one. In debian/rules, just use ./configure --libexecdir=\$\{prefix\}/lib to redefine it. -- Roger Leigh Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers

Re: libexecdir - helper scripts

2003-05-22 Thread Roger Leigh
Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 06:54:45PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/lib/${PACKAGE}' > > > > That's evil. The whole point of config

Re: libexecdir - helper scripts

2003-05-23 Thread Roger Leigh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 07:41:33PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > There's an easier way. In your Makefile.am, just do this: > > > > pkglibexecdir = $(libexecdir)/$(PACKAGE) > > > > and then > > > > pkgl

Re: How do I get libtool to use g++?

2003-06-01 Thread Roger Leigh
age. Does configure.ac call the "AC_PROG_CXX" macro? Without it, automake won't know anything about there being a C++ compiler available. Whether you love or hate libtool, this is not a libtool problem. Are you using libtool 1.5 yet? -- Roger Leigh Printing on

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