Hello Jim.
First, the debian-mentors list is for package maintainers and
wanna-be-package maintainers. General questions such as this are normally
aimed at debian-user.
Second, you are probably needing sources.lists lines more like these:
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US
If I am not mistaken, since it is a conffile for netstd, other packages are
forbidden from doing anything with it? I think the proper response is: get
Maintainer: Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to include your service in
/etc/services, then your package depends on a specific version of netstd.
Glenn -- I am not a maintainer, but the way I read it... the afterhours
phone call is made from whoever is close to you. There are several
developers in australia, so likely one of them would call you up to talk for
a bit.
The reason why doing it over the phone is a good idea is that people have a
Peter, as a user, I would be upset if a package included its own version of
rgb.txt... but then you do have to worry about those systems that want
clients but no server.. I say depend.
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 10:58:16AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> I just noticed that xwatch needs /usr/X1
Joe, perhaps suggest in the postinst script that it *can* be setuid/setgid
ahd offer to set it there? (gnuplot does this, if one is looking for a
precedent to follow..)
On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 03:38:38PM -0400, Joe Drew wrote:
> Is it permissable to create binaries, linked against svgalib,
> which
Robert, I don't know of the existance of exactly what you want, but this
might be useful to you:
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/02/26/920045364.html
The license is GPL, so you should be safe. :)
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 12:36:01PM -0800, Robert Stone wrote:
> I am trying to package
I think setgid in the scripts is likely the way to do it (IANADD,Yet) --
would a Suggest: suidmanager
Is suggesting the suidmanager package a good solution? It looks nice.. :)
On Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 06:43:59PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> I am involved in Debianizing a program (I am not the li
IANADD(Y)
I do think /usr/lib/ is the right place for the binaries; mozilla
does it that way, rpm stores scripts and programs there, and now I am
getting tired of looking for more -- so you can't be too far off. :)
Also, if the minimal game dataset does need to be customized before use,
/usr/shar
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:34:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Disclaimer: IATTIMS
[this is a new one to me! :]
[... cutting and compressing ...]
> I'm intending to make the server a seperate package from the dataset(s),
> and to have a -common package on the current assumption I'll have
>
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 08:47:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote:
>
> I'm going to have anything automatic turned off `as-shipped', and merely
> inform the admin to edit the configuration file. Later I'll ad
Having never done any debiandevelopment, Id on't know that I am absolutely
correct, but I am wondering why one arch: line says "any" and the other says
"all". It might be soime fine point in the manual I don't remember, but just
make sure it is correct.
I would put more faith in the line continuat
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:09:07PM +0100, Jordi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 01:03:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed
> > (release critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package.
> > Realize that the new package
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 05:44:22PM +0100, Christoph Baumann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I know this has been discussed before, but I weren't concerned and didn't
> listen, sorry. Just now I submitted an ITP for a package which contains a
> GIF file in it's docu. Should I try to convert it into e.g. JPEG?
I
I am not a packaging expert, but I think you are missing a single lone `.'
in the control file in place of the blank line.
Will this fix it? :)
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 04:33:43PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> Dear Debian-Mentors
>
> I wonder, why my "Build-Depends:" Field is ignored by dpkg-sou
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 02:47:53PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 10:09:37AM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> > I am not a packaging expert, but I think you are missing a single lone `.'
> > in the control file in place of the blank line.
>
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 05:35:33PM +0100, Jordi wrote:
> Also in the WNPP, I saw one app I wanted to package 6 months ago, aterm.
> It's listed under "work in progress" by Samuel Hocevar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]),
> 228
> days in Creation. I remember he told me he was going to package this for
> potato,
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 03:31:33PM -0500, Ben Darnell wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:04:21PM -0800, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> > It is too bad that the only transparent-term built into debian is Eterm,
> > because that thing sucks more than twice as much memory and runs slower, bu
My gut feeling is, after patching the upstream tarball with an upstream
patch, it is still prinstine -- but that is my gut feeling.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 01:30:38AM +0100, Jordi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Upstream maintainer of nano has provided me with a patch that backports an
> outstanding bug in t
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:14:13PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote:
> I'm not sure what to do though. The files in /var/cache/crafty really
> should be configuration files, but I don't know how to fix the
> ownership or permissions of those files when the user does an upgrade
> except to add something to
* Michael Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000227 19:03]:
> I am both the upstream author and maintainer-in-waiting for two packages:
> wmxmms_scope and ripple. I'm wondering if I still need to have version numbers
> such as x.x.x-x rather than x.x.x, even though every change to the actual
> debian pa
* Michael Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000227 19:54]:
> I'm wondering: is there anything in policy about this? Can't seem to find
> anything, however I may have missed it.
I quickly scanned the policy doc on my machine, and found nothing about
it. The closest I came was in the debian FAQs (section
* Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000301 12:57]:
> Hi,
>
> What do I need to do to move to signing my packages with GPG signatures?
> Currently my PGP key is the Debian keyring. When I build packages I am
> warned about RSA keys being deprecated.
If I might ask .. the RSA patent e
* Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000301 20:48]:
> About deprecation of RSA keys, it's now the case that it's possible to
> break 512 bit RSA. 1024 bit is currently safe, but how long will that
> last?
Hopefully another 16.5 years? :)
The RSA support in pgp (and presumably gpg as well) goes a
* Andreas Palsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000413 02:00]:
> Besides the pages on http://www.debian.org/devel/, what else is there
> that is good to know?
Greetings Andreas :)
I myself am not a debian developer, but perhaps one day I shall be. :)
However, I do have a few ideas. First, get a hang for t
* Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000508 01:39]:
> I am searching for something else: How can I access old source
> packages (source packages of obsolete versions of packages)? Is there an
> archive?
I think the official position of Debian is that only stable and unstable
will be maintained on t
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