Re: alpine_1.0+dfsg-2_source.changes REJECTED

2008-01-12 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gated. Feel free to revamp the discussion. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) B

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > supported upstream via versioned symbols. Can you please argument this? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what?

Re: Using symbols files

2008-01-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:44:32AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:35 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 06:56:18PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Quick summary: IMHO, symbols files are largely irrelevant if not > >

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
can I move from one split area to the other? Only with the mouse pointer??? Can you please consider applying a patch to the package which adds key bindings for the above mentioned actions? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.un

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-18 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
e work to your package she can simply do debcheckout / work-work-work / debcommit, and be happy with that. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-19 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
consider document the key bindings in the man page and, for the split commands, also in the pop-up menu (that's where usually people learn about key bindings)? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org}

Re: RFS: terminator

2008-01-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
d, are still to be addressed. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],cs.unibo.it,debian.org} -<%>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scem

Re: packages.qa website shows old version @mentors.d.n

2008-08-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
not easy to perform version comparisons there (XSLT stylesheets ...). Before implementing full-fledged version comparison in XSLT, I was hoping the problem gets fixed mentors.d.n side. Cheers. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/08/PTS_integrated_with_mentors_and_gifts/ -- Stefano Zac

Re: packages.qa website shows old version @mentors.d.n

2008-08-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:34:25PM -0300, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I forgot to mention: please Cc-me in further posts to this thread, as I'm not currently subscribed to -mentors. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL P

sbuild vs relative paths

2005-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
bdir from which "../ocamlopt" is invoked unsuccessfully. Am I missing something important about sbuild and its setup on the various autobuilders? Cheers. [1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=ocaml&ver=3.08.3-4&arch=powerpc&stamp=1122732142&file=log&as=raw

Re: sbuild vs relative paths

2005-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:06:45AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > ocamlopt is a '/usr/bin/ocamlrun script text executable' and most > likely that error means the interpreter '/usr/bin/ocamlrun' could not > be found. Gotcha! I was mislead by the error m

Re: sbuild vs relative paths

2005-07-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:02:17AM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote: > Julien Cristau helped to find the answer: > > % head -n 1 ocamlopt > #!/usr/bin/ocamlrun > > So the command not found is ocamlrun and not ocamlopt! What a nice bug :-) Thanks for the info. -- Stefano Zacch

upgrades skipping stable releases

2005-10-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:48:26PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > You can remove the transition package now; upgrades skipping a stable > release are not supported. Interesting, is this policy or just common practice in past releases? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student

Re: Creating a randomized cron entry

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
bability of 1 / (number of minutes in a day) probability of success? Of course you should have persistency of the seed used by that function and you may choose a coarser granularity than 1 minute. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.o

Re: Creating a randomized cron entry

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ements that the program should be run once per day, no more, no less ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimens

Re: Creating a randomized cron entry

2005-12-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
:00 AM) which does something like SHELL=/bin/bash 0 6 * * * root sleep $(( $RANDOM % max_gap )) ; your_command Where max_gap is the number of seconds corresponding to the latest time you want your script to be run - 6:00 AM. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny B

non-standard configure && cdbs

2006-01-08 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
proper way to do it with cdbs? I tried something like: configure/foo:: ./configure bla bla bla but this leads to ./configure being executed twice, one time before the actual building, another before the installation. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD stu

Re: non-standard configure && cdbs

2006-01-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 07:10:38AM +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > Just put this into your debian/rules and remove the above: > > DEB_CONFIGURE_USER_FLAGS := bla bla bal This variable apparently is used only in autotools.mk, and I'm not using that class. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Co

Re: non-standard configure && cdbs

2006-01-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
anyway. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a

Re: RFS: vim-latexsuite

2006-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
r sponsor) should get in touch with someone else of the pkg-vim-maintainers alioth project. Even only because the latest debian available version of vim-latexsuite is on the svn repository of that project. What about starting asking to be added to the alioth project? Thanks for your work! Cheers.

Re: RFS: vim-latexsuite

2006-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
centralized place for coordinating vim related work and since that place was used in the past for maintaining vim-latexsuite, it would be good for Franz to commit its work there. I also suggest him to ask for review and sponsorship of his work _also_ to pkg-vim people. What's wrong with that? C

Re: RFS: vim-latexsuite

2006-04-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ad outside pkg-vim it wont be such a big deal. Thanks again for your work! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional

Re: How to include information about a source package ?

2006-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
file in the resulting .deb. I don't think there is a general consensus, but maybe we can propose a best-practice ... What about debian/README.maintenance ? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www

Re: How to write a good manpage ?

2006-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
the manpage. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly b

Re: Managing Apt through Python - was Re: Managing Apt through Perl

2006-09-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
for Python? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache search apt python ... python-apt - Python interface to libapt-pkg ... Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's an

Re: Who sponsored the NMU of clustalw?

2006-11-06 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ts uploaded! :-) -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema? /\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la demo scema\/right keys at the

Re: variables from shell output in makefile

2006-11-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:04:48PM -0300, andremachado wrote: > I found the "$(shell command parms)" . > But it still leaving EXT_DIR empty. > Please, what am I doing wrong? try adding export SHELL=/bin/bash early in your makefile. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- C

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ion control system (subversion in this case). The same can't be said for the SVN revision number. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/

Re: SVN snapshot versioning

2007-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. [1] i.e. yesterday or earlier in the time line -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dema ?/\All one has to do is hit the (15:57:15) Bac: no, la de

[OT] svn rollback

2007-01-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
without manually fiddling in the repository at all? If this is *not* the case and you're meaning committing a patch undoing a past change, then the new commit will get a greater revision number. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL P

Re: RFS: pict

2007-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
inary /usr/lib/pict/src2tex is not stripped. > because > #256900: ocaml: Ocaml compiled programs cannot be stripped, hence either > don't work or violate policy > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256900 > > It is possible to build the package in the pbuilder en

Re: RFS: gtk-vim-syntax (new package)

2007-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
aid I'm willing to sponsor your package, but please have a look at my comments above and act accordingly where needed. Thanks for your packaging work! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bo

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Probably an update-alternatives like mechanism can be used? > What would be the best way of doing that from python, if such a thing > exists? So, no answer for this, but I hope in the future to be able to answer: "just run debian-install-missing X Y Z". Cheers. -- Stefano Zac

Re: Prompt to install missing software?

2007-05-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 05:06:38PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I don't think anything like that does exist, but I thank you for Sorry, a better target for this discussion would have been -devel. I've reposted there my reply, please follow-up there if interested in the discus

Re: mentors.debian.net reloading

2007-10-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
if you have any other questions. /me going to update the above blog post mentioning where the code is now. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science ... now what? [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ (15:56:48) Zack: e la demo dem

Re: automatically parseable debian/copyright

2007-11-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ving not found any objection in the end. So, I would say that we actually have reached a consensus on that format. We are simply missing wide acceptance, but that would come with time ... and any package adopting the new format would help :) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
#x27;ll come back given that I've sought in the past very similar legal advice for Debian's "PPA" [2] [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg0.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de con

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-24 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
. Let me know, Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg0.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/01/msg00508.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack ..

call for volunteers: Debian liaisons for Google Code-In

2011-10-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
eedback from past admins, it'd be wise to have at least 3 volunteers before deciding to apply. Many thanks in advance!, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} . o . Maître de conférences .. http://upsilon.cc/zack .. . . o Debian Proje

Re: How to handle config file that has changed names

2003-09-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
debian developer reference? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -- Master in Computer Science @ Uni. Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} - http://www.bononia.it/zack/ " I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you hear

renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a new one which generates the same binary packages. This seems to be the best approach but I'm a bit scared about the transition phase ... would it be possible to upload the new package before the old one is removed? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny B

Re: renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ng with last version 20040120 while new upstream author has actually has a last version 1.3.3. Obviously 1.3.3 is less then 20040120, how can I cope with this issue? TIA, Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- h

garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
er of ... probably because it can't overwrite a file on the ftp server. I've solved the problem for the .dsc bumping the debian version of the package but I can't bump the version of the .orig.tar.gz? Hints? TIA -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, It

Re: garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:07:48PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Hints? > In the same vein as Andreas, but as apprentice dput comaintainer with the > inevitable advertisement: Thanks! (to Andreas as well). I've just used dcut, I hope it will work :) Cheers. -- S

retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
all archs? Usually I send mail to the interested port list, but I don't want to spam each debian-arch mailing list. I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed in that package. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD studen

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t against the wrong library since bug in package A completely inhibit succesfull builds of B. Thanks both to Matthew and Steve, I will go for an upload. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.

uploading packages built on an amd64 box inside ia32 chroot

2005-07-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
es built inside that chroot? The only strange thing I notice on binaries built there is that ldd reports a dynamic dependency on "linux-gate.so.1" which is not there for binaries build elsewhere. Thanks in advance to all mentors. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science

Re: making backport debs with dpkg-buildpackage

2005-07-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
gt; compiler and which libstdc++ libraries dpkg-buildpackage to use? I suggest to use pbuilder with a sarge chroot in which you use both apt repositories of the official sarge distribution _and_ an apt repository of yours with packages already backported. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Comp

upload to master or ftp-master

2001-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
- Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.students.cs.unibo.it (130.136.3.134) "Information wants to be Open"

e-mail address changed

2001-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've changed my e-mail address, so my last upload of a package seems to be a NMU, how I fix the problem ? This is the line reported in the last changes file, the second is my new e-mail address: Maintainer: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Stefano Zacchiroli (Za

Re: e-mail address changed

2001-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
anually. ok, but I also want know how to change the first e-mail address given when I do the package, so that this problem does not come back when I do the next upload. -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacch

Re: e-mail address changed

2001-03-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:30:25PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:42:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > ok, but I also want know how to change the first e-mail address given > > when I do the package, so that this problem does not come back when I

upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
A Bye -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.students.cs.unibo.it (130.136.3.134) "Information

developping of deb and clean dpkg database

2001-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
that does not belong to the right section. Is there a clean way to remove info related to some packages ? Currently my solution is to manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/* files, but I wonder about the existence of some cleaner way to do it. TIA -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTEC

DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
correctly even on a potato. So, why (and when) I have to use DH_COMPAT=3 ? Tnx -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bol

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ompiled even on a potato machine, what I have to do ? I think about using DH_COMPAT=2 and all the old tools (like dh_installmanpages instead of dh_installman and so on). Is something wrong in this approach ? Exists a way to tell dh_make to use the old tools ? -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchi

uupdate and .rej files

2001-04-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ave to look for ... Moreover, the package seems to work correctly even if I ignore the existence of .rej file, is it possible ? Help needed TIA -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Studen

m68k compilation, account needed ?

2001-04-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
request an account on kullervo for compilation test ? -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.stud

purging bug of removed package

2001-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I have a pending bug on an old package that does not yet exists in debian archive. What I have to do ? Have I to close the bug signalling that the package has been removed from debian or have I to inform someone that the packge is defunct ? -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EM

Re: purging bug of removed package

2001-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 05:12:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I have a pending bug on an old package that does not yet exists in > > debian archive. > Give us more exact information about which pac

buildd building environment

2001-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
snapshot of the build environment ? I asked this cause I receive a bug report, but I need to better know the situation in which the failure occured to find and solve the bug. Tnx -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.un

forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
(bugs.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED]) the bug is still marker as outstanding. Is this a delay or I have to do somethin else mailin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? TIA, cheers -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~za

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
AIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#96252: marked as forwarded (netstring_0.9.3-1 build failure on m68k) Your message dated Tue, 22 May 2001 12:05:34 +0200 with mes

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:51:42PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:49:38PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > > It would help if you told us the bug number you are talking about. > > the bug is #96254, package xstr. oops, i made a mistake on the bug

porting problem and how to request help

2001-06-07 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ocaml-xstr and fill a new one against ocaml-findlib? TIA, cheers. -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy Sys

arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
May exists in freezed distribution (and later in stable) a package that isn't available on a architecture? Tnx, cheers. -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate student of Computer Science @ University of Bo

Re: arch disparity and freeze

2001-06-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 06:47:05PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > If it's completely unavailable, that's fine (unless it being unavailable ok > If it's out of date, that will keep it out of testing. what does "out of date" mean in this contest? Cheers -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTE

official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I want make my own visiting cards (I'm not sure on the term 'visiting card', I hope is the right translation of the italian term 'biglietto da visita') and I want put in it the official debian logo, the bottle one. From the logos page: Permission has been given to use the official logo on clo

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:53:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > I have seen business cards from other developers who did use the logo. I > think cards fall into the same category as clothing; if you're a Debian > developer and it's not for profit, I think it's safe to use it. However, if > you'

proud maintainer that do no want NUM :-)

2001-07-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi mentors, I've uploaded one of my package with the wrong gpg uid ("Stefano (Zack) Zacchiroli" instead of "Stefano Zacchiroli" :-P), so the uploaded have been marked as NMU, is it possibile to change this status? I've tried to reupload the package but seems to m

dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
Hi mentors, I've an upstream archive which contains two dangling symlinks and I obviously want them not to be part of the final binary package, whick is the best solution? I try to remove them but the .diff.gz seems to not consider this fact, so when I extract the debianized source tree the

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 09:22:38PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Why do you need to remove them? As long as they are not installed > into the binary package it is not a problem. right! but these files resides in an example dir that is installed as whole and I don't wont to specify on a file by fi

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 10:28:11AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > for i in debian/tmp/...examples/* ; do [ -r "$i" ] && rm -f "$i" ; done > That might do it... well, good hint! (inverting the test obviously or I remove all 'good' files ...) Tnx Cheers -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <

Re: dangling symlinks in upstream archive

2001-08-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 08:30:36AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > right! but these files resides in an example dir that is installed as > > whole and I don't wont to specify on a file by file basis which file > > have to be installed ... > > OK.. so install the files and then remove them from de

oops I've deleted some hidden file from incoming

2001-08-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've erroniously deleted some file from /org/ftp.debian.org/incoming on auric while I'm trying to remove other files. The file I've removed are: /org/ftp.debian.org/incoming/ocaml-xstr_0.2-3_arm.deb /org/ftp.debian.org/incoming/ocaml-xstr_0.2-3_ia64.deb /org/ftp.debian.org/incoming/ocaml-xstr_0.

Re: oops I've deleted some hidden file from incoming

2001-08-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:59:32AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Probably because they were uploaded between the time you did ls > and the time you did the rm. what about the build daemon? does it retry to build the packages or not? -- Stefano "Zack" Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 335388

renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
a new one which generates the same binary packages. This seems to be the best approach but I'm a bit scared about the transition phase ... would it be possible to upload the new package before the old one is removed? TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny B

Re: renaming source package

2004-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ng with last version 20040120 while new upstream author has actually has a last version 1.3.3. Obviously 1.3.3 is less then 20040120, how can I cope with this issue? TIA, Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- h

garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
er of ... probably because it can't overwrite a file on the ftp server. I've solved the problem for the .dsc bumping the debian version of the package but I can't bump the version of the .orig.tar.gz? Hints? TIA -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, It

Re: garbage during upload, dput wont work

2004-07-26 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 01:07:48PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Hints? > In the same vein as Andreas, but as apprentice dput comaintainer with the > inevitable advertisement: Thanks! (to Andreas as well). I've just used dcut, I hope it will work :) Cheers. -- S

retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-27 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
all archs? Usually I send mail to the interested port list, but I don't want to spam each debian-arch mailing list. I can also reupload a new version of B, but it would be inappropriate since nothing changed in that package. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD studen

Re: retriggering the building of a package on all archs

2004-09-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
t against the wrong library since bug in package A completely inhibit succesfull builds of B. Thanks both to Matthew and Steve, I will go for an upload. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.

Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
by ocaml. What's the problem with that? It has worked properly for two years or so. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,bononia.it} -%- http://www.bononia.it/zack/ If there's any real truth it's that the

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ble bugs in sbuild/apt. But still there's no real problem ATM with our solution, thus please stop asserting statements like "You can't Build-Depend on virtual packages". Thanks. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROT

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
fix this behaviour in future versions of apt? The expected behaviour for it should be to choose the greater version if several version of a single package provide a virtual package. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- Computer Science PhD student @ Uny Bologna, Italy [EMAIL PROTECTED],debian.org,

upload to master or ftp-master

2001-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
- Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.students.cs.unibo.it (130.136.3.134) "Information wants to be O

e-mail address changed

2001-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I've changed my e-mail address, so my last upload of a package seems to be a NMU, how I fix the problem ? This is the line reported in the last changes file, the second is my new e-mail address: Maintainer: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Stefano Zacchiroli (Za

Re: e-mail address changed

2001-03-20 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
anually. ok, but I also want know how to change the first e-mail address given when I do the package, so that this problem does not come back when I do the next upload. -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.i

Re: e-mail address changed

2001-03-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:30:25PM +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:42:12PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > ok, but I also want know how to change the first e-mail address given > > when I do the package, so that this problem does not come back wh

upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
A Bye -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.students.cs.unibo.it (130.136.3.134) "Information wants t

developping of deb and clean dpkg database

2001-03-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
that does not belong to the right section. Is there a clean way to remove info related to some packages ? Currently my solution is to manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/* files, but I wonder about the existence of some cleaner way to do it. TIA -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTEC

DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
correctly even on a potato. So, why (and when) I have to use DH_COMPAT=3 ? Tnx -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bol

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ompiled even on a potato machine, what I have to do ? I think about using DH_COMPAT=2 and all the old tools (like dh_installmanpages instead of dh_installman and so on). Is something wrong in this approach ? Exists a way to tell dh_make to use the old tools ? -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchi

uupdate and .rej files

2001-04-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
ave to look for ... Moreover, the package seems to work correctly even if I ignore the existence of .rej file, is it possible ? Help needed TIA -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Studen

m68k compilation, account needed ?

2001-04-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
request an account on kullervo for compilation test ? -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Student of Computer Science at University of Bologna, Italy SysAdm of verdicchio.stud

purging bug of removed package

2001-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
I have a pending bug on an old package that does not yet exists in debian archive. What I have to do ? Have I to close the bug signalling that the package has been removed from debian or have I to inform someone that the packge is defunct ? -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EM

Re: purging bug of removed package

2001-04-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 05:12:52PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I have a pending bug on an old package that does not yet exists in > > debian archive. > Give us more exact information about which pac

buildd building environment

2001-05-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
snapshot of the build environment ? I asked this cause I receive a bug report, but I need to better know the situation in which the failure occured to find and solve the bug. Tnx -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.un

forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) the bug is still marker as outstanding. Is this a delay or I have to do somethin else mailin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? TIA, cheers -- - Zack - Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ# 33538863 Home Page: http://www.students.cs.unibo.it/~zacchiro Undergraduate Stud

Re: forwarding bugs

2001-05-23 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
AIL PROTECTED] (Debian Bug Tracking System) To: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#96252: marked as forwarded (netstring_0.9.3-1 build failure on m68k) Your message dated Tue, 22 May 2001 12:05:34 +0200 with mes

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