Re: how to know the architecture ?

2005-04-08 Thread Steve Langasek
No. If you set Architecture: i386, the package will *fail* to build on all other architectures. You should only do this if you *know* the code is not portable. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: pptpconfig & php with pcntl support

2005-04-26 Thread Steve Langasek
s it seems not to be possible. > What is the best way to resolv the situation ? Thanks. * rewrite the app using a language that doesn't suck for GUIs -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Kernel version / upgrade on buildd

2005-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
e trying to build it elsewhere (e.g., on systems with fixed 2.4.27 kernels). Unless there is specific demand for scalapack on sparc, I think it's best to just accept that this package is not portable to sparc with the current generation of stable kernels. -- Steve Langasek postmodern program

Re: Library package naming

2005-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
mp -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | sed -n -e's/^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | sed -e's/\([0-9]\)\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so\.//' Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Library package naming

2005-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
ou can't use it as a build-time check in any sarge packages, but it should help you check function signatures for C libraries in more detail than is available from the compiled libraries. You can also use objdump -T and diff to compare the list of exported symbols in the actual binaries. I recommend using both objdump -T and icheck together for checking whether the ABI has changed. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Library package naming

2005-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:01:30AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.05.08.0120 +0200]: > > No, why would you do that? It's the package name that's wrong > > (confusing) here, not the library name. > I think

Re: Library package naming

2005-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sunday 08 May 2005 12:20 am, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 01:24:31PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Should I change the upstream version numbers of the existing library? > > N

Re: Package name

2005-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
old library package for the same reason, forcing removal of packages depending on it Introducing an SONAME to a library in Debian when it doesn't have one upstream isn't great, but the only sensible alternative is to not ship it as a shared library at all. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Package name

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:16:57PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >>I have still not totally given up on convincing him, though, so I'll be > >>in touch :-) > >It's not acceptable to install a shared library without an SO

Re: Package name

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
hat you can't install the new -dev package on a system that has the old lib installed, because they conflict. One normally wants to be able to build and test binaries for a new library *before* purging the old version of the library... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Package name

2005-05-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:44:47PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >The risk is that you can't install the new -dev package on a system that > >has > >the old lib installed, because they conflict. One normally wants to be > >able > &g

Re: Where should I upload my public key?

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Langasek
nt; the requirement is only that you be a DD. Having your key signed by a DD is a *normal* part of becoming a DD, but not a *required* part. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: may I remove dh_strip ?

2005-05-27 Thread Steve Langasek
e the build-indep and binary-indep targets in debian/rules? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
As a result, it seems to generally be more robust to build-dep on a real package when possible. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:43:50PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 01:51:23AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:15:30AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > [ Mail-Followup-To: set to debian-mentors only ] > > > On Mon,

Re: Packages which need themselves to compile?

2005-06-23 Thread Steve Langasek
re-built > version of the parser into CVS? Well, the alternative to shipping pre-generated sources in the tarball would be to instead do manual bootstrapping for all architectures (i.e, cross-building, or cheating and pulling in a copy of the pre-generated sources from another arch). There

Re: Big-endian

2000-11-12 Thread Steve Langasek
cc really use different default values on arm and PPC than on other architectures? If so, why? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: help: shlibs problem

2000-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
it does not do this. A workaround (to suppress the warning message) is to do something like this in your makefile: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./debian/tmp/usr/lib/ dh_shlibdeps -a Not very pretty, of course. :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath: please help me to undestand (bug#78232)

2001-01-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ding the most recent) can use a '-l ' option to specify additional shared library directories. You may want to Build-Depends: on a specific version of dpkg-dev if you use this. HTH, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath: please help me to undestand (bug#78232)

2001-01-25 Thread Steve Langasek
in the DEBIAN/libcurl.shlibs file; but if you want the build to be clean, this is how to correct the warning. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Testing" hassles

2001-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
ed to allow rebuilding with different compilers, although having Qt Build-Depend on a non-free package is not a very good solution. :/ Is the g++ bug being looked into by the upstream? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build-Depends

2001-02-16 Thread Steve Langasek
ev and libbar-dev. That way if tomorrow the maintainer of libbar decides to patch her package so that it builds "foo-free libbar", the autobuilders will still know what to do with /my/ package. If, OTOH, you only need B because A is linked to it, then only A belongs in your Build-Depends li

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
ckages which are not suitable for upload into Debian that we want to distribute from our own sites? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: building binary-only package with different name?

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
t is used for cross-compiling, e.g. from i386 to powerpc. Unless you have an x86 potato environment set up for cross-building (complete with a second copy of gcc and binutils :), this option won't be of much use. Probably not too important in the present context, but I'm compelled to share tr

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-27 Thread Steve Langasek
believe ${MPI_HOME} references a non-existent /environment/ variable. (Elsewhere the braces may indeed be correct, since you mention the use of multiple makefiles, but if you need to reference a Makefile variable set in the same file, you should normally use parentheses.) HTH, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wierd PETSc build behavior...

2001-02-28 Thread Steve Langasek
appear towards the end of the library string, well past the point where -L{MPI_HOME} shows up. So I'm just on crack... pay no attention to anything I say. :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about shared libraries

2001-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
xt release is libfoo1.so.1? The least-bad option that seems to hold forth is to name the package 'libfoo10' (perhaps with a delimiter between the 1 and the 0?)... and then petition the upstream to un-break their library names... HTH, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about shared libraries

2001-03-21 Thread Steve Langasek
ry /version/. Which makes one much less cumbersome than the other. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about shared libraries

2001-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
27;m sure I can find plenty of examples of libraries that underwent complete rewrites and substantial API changes but didn't find it necessary to add a version to the library name. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PHP library policies...

2001-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
erns with versioned directories are already taken care of for you; if the latter, and if the class files aren't explicitly bound to php4 and up (like PEAR is), you may be in uncharted waters. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

compile-time dependencies on external sources?

2001-03-27 Thread Steve Langasek
using Samba source that's already available in the Debian archives, or including the Samba tree in my package (as part of the diff !?) Any advice, pointers, etc. are welcome. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: compile-time dependencies on external sources?

2001-03-27 Thread Steve Langasek
nd Makefile.in/configure.in DO change frequently. > IMHO one should also always allow for a local copy of the 'donwloadable' > data you would want to fetch from the net. It's probably best to store it in > $TMPDIR Hmm, I think this should be doable, yes; I do somethi

Re: compile-time dependencies on external sources?

2001-03-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Matt, > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:46:30AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > Which parts of the Samba source does it use? Does it just include header > files, or does it compile and link with code there? > There is a module, libpam-smb, which sounds similar to your program, which

Re: libtool headaches

2001-04-28 Thread Steve Langasek
e /package/ would change at the author's discretion. Still, even though it doesn't need to match the release version 2.6.4, 0.0.0 does seem a little low. If you search through the makefiles for 'soname', do you find anywhere that this argument is being passed to libtool (or su

Re: Questions about library names

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
author releases version 0.5 of the package, he can call he library libgpgme.so.0.5.0 if he wants to -- IF the library interface is the same as previous versions. If a program compiled against version 0.4 doesn't work with version 0.5, he must call the library libgpgme.so.1.x.x ... usually

Re: gpg keyrings.

2001-04-30 Thread Steve Langasek
c, and a cronjob to take care of the anonymous rsync on the user's behalf? This way, it's a little more useful to the user than a documentation package would be, and it helps the keyring server by lowering the bandwidth requirements. (Users don't have to go to the central keyserve

Re: Non-Free License? (was Weird source tarballs)

2001-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
tions are not part of the actual license should be enough to get it into main. If the regulation being referenced actually brings the rights of US Gov't. users into line with the rights of everyone else, I think it's DFSG-compliant, but IANAL and that question should probably be ask

Re: PHP library policies...

2001-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
endent files (e.g., PHP class files). You might want to look at the directory structure for some of the other PHP modules (e.g., php4-mysql, php4-pear) to see what directories they use. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: USA crypto rules and libssl-dependent packages

2001-05-14 Thread Steve Langasek
of main. This is what I understand Policy to say currently. If this is not the intent (if packages in main can have build-time dependencies on non-US), then Policy needs to be clarified. > > I'm becoming increasingly frustrated by parochial laws in just one > country affectin

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ettext, but no-one has bother translating the program into any > other languages yet). We have plenty of software in Debian which is English-only, with no support for gettext at all. I see no reason why English should be given preferential treatment. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer --

Re: Non-English software

2001-05-20 Thread Steve Langasek
main reason for wanting licenses in English is so that we can protect ourselves from legal troubles. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Easy way to exclude an arch from a package?

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
e: line in debian/control? Or do I need to list out all the architectures I /do/ want to build it on? Thanks, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Easy way to exclude an arch from a package?

2001-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:57:56PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Hi all, > > I may just be looking in the wrong places in the developers' documentation, in > > which case I apologize in advance. I'm adopting a m

Re: Autoconf test for Debian?

2001-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
igure, can reasonably expect that if they run './configure --sysconfdir=/etc/foo/bar' this setting will be honored. If the program's build scripts are /not/ honoring such settings, I would suggest that this is a genuine bug that ought to be fixed. This doesn't require any Debian-s

Re: /usr/share policy

2001-06-03 Thread Steve Langasek
right' > Packages that are not Debian-native MUST contain a copy of > `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in > `/usr/share/doc/' as `changelog.Debian.gz'. > (Caps mine.) /usr/share/doc/, not /usr/share/. Two different beasts. Ste

Re: Fwd: ITP: glib2, gtk2, inti

2001-06-06 Thread Steve Langasek
le, > so the package names should include also the micro number. If they want to call the upstream package 'gtk 1.3.x' to indicate where in the development cycle they are, that's fine; but the library soname should not be governed by marketing, and upstream /should/ be LARTe

Re: Fwd: ITP: glib2, gtk2, inti

2001-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
erits its own major so number. Anything else is a hazard for our users, regardless of what developers think of the situation. And RedHat is allowed to do what it wants to with its own packages -- Debian didn't get its reputation as a high-quality distribution by following RedHat's lead. St

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
seem possible, there are other ways that have been used in the past to handle the identification requirement. In the meantime, sponsored uploads are a great way to get started with Debian. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > For now I want a sponsor to get garchiver in to Debian. &g

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
on't already know a lot about PKI before they become DD's, never learn more than the mechanics of signing a key -- and that's ok, until we start encouraging them to go out and sign other people's keys. :) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Advocate/Sponsor

2001-06-28 Thread Steve Langasek
KI that uses CAs (such as Thawte) are not entirely compatible with those of a peer-to-peer system (such as PGP). Steve Langasek postmodern programmer [1] And is Thawte really so impervious to corruption that there's not even a *remote* possibility of falsification? Remember that they&

Re: official debian logo on visiting card

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
s 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're going to use these cards in professional dealings, I wouldn't use the logo without getting permission first. HTH, Steve Langas

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-06-29 Thread Steve Langasek
of the uids of someone I found out had asked me to sign a uid that wasn't theirs. I just can't understand why we have to worry about anyone misrepresenting a key as their own when it has their name on it, since that only hurts their digital identity. Steve Langasek postmodern program

Re: GPG Key Signing

2001-07-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >>"Steve" == Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Are you implying that ensuring the person whose identity you > >> verified actually controls the email address and the secret pass >

Re: More problems

2001-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ty of changes noted are specific to the shared debian directory, of which there is precisely one for any set of binary packages that are built from a single source package. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: More problems

2001-07-20 Thread Steve Langasek
g changes to the Debian packaging itself. I suspect you'll find that other uses of this file would not be well-supported by the makers of the related Debian packaging tools. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

moving a conffile?

2001-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
icy wrt my earlier decision to mark the config file as a conffile? Thanks, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upstream library without a SONAME

2001-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
s that don't supply one? I would suggest that it's a maintainer's responsibility, as liaison to the upstream developers, to petition them to adopt SONAMEs in any shared libraries they provide that will be linked by external applications. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upstream library without a SONAME

2001-07-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:50:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > > So I guess I'm still searching for the answer to my original questions: > > > 1. Does Debian r

Re: out of date packages (testing/update_excuses)

2001-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
much attention as most. In fact, last I heard, there was no i386 autobuilder for non-US. You'll probably want to grab the latest sources, build the package yourself, and upload it. (As the maintainer, you'll want to grab the NMU diffs anyways...) Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programm

Re: Alpha question

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
ny non-standard optimizations. However, I'm wondering why this program is incompatible only with the version of gettext found on the alpha architecture. They should be equivalent on all archen. :/ Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alpha question

2001-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
source package from any other packages that bear the same version number, I don't see why you wouldn't. I regularly do my own builds on two architectures before uploading, just to get that extra bit of testing into it. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Alpha question

2001-08-28 Thread Steve Langasek
y the binary .debs from the first build machine over to the second, dpkg-buildpackage will take note of them and will create a .changes file that includes information about both sets of binary packages. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alpha question

2001-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 09:14:13AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, peter karlsson wrote: > > > Is there a way to upload two architectures at once, and include them in the > > > same .changes file? >

Re: versioned shlibs file -- when and why

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Langasek
he library so number (and thereby change the package name). However, a binary compiled against libfoo 2.1.2 that uses foo_read will /not/ work with libfoo 2.1.1, so you need a version in shlibs. HTH, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: AAHHH Lintian!

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Langasek
"dh_installman > debian/XCounter.1" in my debian/rules file, and have tried > adding the x on the end here aswell. No clue on this one, sorry. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ldconfig in postinst

2001-09-03 Thread Steve Langasek
u have two calls to ldconfig in the resulting postinst script, and lintian is expecting only one. :) Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What to do with sources that lack a copyright

2001-09-21 Thread Steve Langasek
omain, or provide users with a license -- simply disclaiming /his/ copyright does not give /us/ any rights. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: looking for a sponsor

2001-10-01 Thread Steve Langasek
nformation about the package, such as copyright information and what the program does. It may also be helpful to mention that you already have created .deb packages for the software. Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: looking for a sponsor

2001-10-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Admar Schoonen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:49:56AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > You can submit an RFP by filing a wishlist bug in the Debian BTS against the > > 'wnpp' package, including 'RFP' in the title of the bug. Pl

Re: build depends on auto{conf,make}

2001-11-25 Thread Steve Langasek
onger in the Debian archive, you have to change you build-deps /again/ Saluti, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg04712/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ReiserFS/XFS/JFS/??FS

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
. To the question of which journalling filesystem is the best choice on Linux, I recommend XFS, because of its combination of maturity as a filesystem in general and maturity on Linux in particular -- but I'm sure you'll get many different answers to this question. :) Regards, Steve Langa

Re: dpkg-reconfigure, policy, and least surprise principle

2001-11-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ed method of handling config files through debconf. It is hopefully doable without any 'hackery': you just need a parser for your config file that can properly extract the current settings. If your postinst is written in POSIX sh, many times sed and awk work very well together as a parser.

Re: [RFC] Hits/directions to using autoconf and friends in Debian

2001-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
27;t part of the value that dpkg-architecture returns. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg04918/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Hits/directions to using autoconf and friends in Debian

2001-10-13 Thread Steve Langasek
y... Ah... yes, you're right. The -gnu doesn't remove the need for config.sub, so there's no point in adding it. My mistake. :) Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg04921/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: "AOL-level help request": Packaging drivers that require kernel/pcmcia-cs source

2001-12-07 Thread Steve Langasek
confuse ourselves too much yet by the fact that wlan-source is a "binary package" in dpkg parlance, especially since we're going to turn around and use it to build /another/ binary package, wlan-module-. dh_make should provide a starting point for creating the binary package con

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
t help us because that term is not legally meaningful. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05114/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What license is 'uncopyrighted'?

2002-01-02 Thread Steve Langasek
e of law; this means there is legal ambiguity surrounding any code distributed with this "license", and we expose our users and distributors to legal risk if we assume it's equivalent to public domain. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05120/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: php and locales

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
I looked. Or, it could be that /etc/environment is not loaded by whatever script starts your webserver; this seems likely. If you run the php script from the commandline using php4-cgi, does it still say "C" instead of "it_IT"? Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05190/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I'm searching an Advocate

2002-01-09 Thread Steve Langasek
nterests with that person within Debian, so letting us know what your interests are makes it easier to put you in touch with a good advocate. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05191/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ">=" on a specific debian version

2002-01-10 Thread Steve Langasek
one limitation is that you can't have a versioned dependency on a virtual package (i.e., a package that exists only in the Provides: field of other packages). Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05212/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Open Motif

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
u build both Lestif and Motif binaries from the same source package, they both still have to go in contrib, because of a Build-Dep on non-free code... Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05221/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: php and locales

2002-01-11 Thread Steve Langasek
ly, all diacritics are omitted. Examples: coöperate preëmpt ... but good luck finding either of those spellings with dict, or anywhere on your Debian system. ;) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05224/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_strip and -X

2002-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
if you have one binary you need stripped, and one binary you need left alone, and dh_strip doesn't do the trick, call strip yourself. strip --remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note path/to/foo.opt Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05268/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: including full source code in upload

2002-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} You probably are missing a call to dh_shlibdeps somewhere above the call to dh_gencontrol. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05273/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_strip and -X

2002-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
ation in the sections that are stripped? It seems to me that this is a bug in the package's build sequence or in the compiler. Or is it a file format that can't be stripped, which dh_strip is trying to act on anyways (which would be a bug in debhelper)? Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05274/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dh_strip and -X

2002-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:54:00PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:12:04PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Incidentally, is there a reason that the bytecode version stores > > important information in the sections that are stripped? It seems to me

Re: gphoto2 (WAS: RE: including full source code in upload)

2002-01-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ovide gui access to a digital > > camera. > > gphoto2 is a library which is used by frontend (gui). A command-line > > frontend is included in the package but others are available. > Then why not libgphoto2? Or something making it more obvious it's a lib?s > YA The pack

Re: a/ispell dependency?

2002-02-04 Thread Steve Langasek
of individual ports at any point in time. Consider also the possibility of a user who might /prefer/ to use ispell instead of aspell, regardless of which port they're running. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05438/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /etc/ld.so.preload handling in package maintainer scripts?

2002-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
preloading a library to ld.so.preload affects all software on the system and a bug in the library can lead to dangerous system instability. Perhaps you could provide specific details on what this library is, and why it needs to be preloaded (instead of, say, provided in a wrapper for a s

Re: /etc/ld.so.preload handling in package maintainer scripts?

2002-02-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:01:24PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:57:06 -0600, Steve Langasek > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As you know, preloading a library to ld.so.preload affects all software > >on the system and a bug in the library can

Re: is this license DFSG compliant ?

2002-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
gt; this clause '#4 Integrity of The Author's Source Code' to be accepted. Yes, all of the restrictions below are equivalent to restrictions included in the GPL. This license is DFSG-free. BTW, debian-legal is a better list for questions about the DFSG-freeness of software. Che

Re: Keysigning in Phoenix, AZ

2002-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
ysign, but no-one is listed as being available to sign a > key here. It looks like there aren't any developers in Arizona at all. According to the public LDAP database at db.debian.org, there are DDs in Tucson and Chandler, AZ. Email privately if you need their contact info.

Re: snd-smotif

2002-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
hings to introduce as a policy amendment, since we're clearly running out of reasons to special-case Motif in policy. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg05925/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: help with bug #143585 - hppa needs -ffunction-sections

2002-04-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:20:02AM -0400, Dale E Martin wrote: > How do I put an arch-specific build flag into a source package? I've > googled a bit, and grepped policy, but I'm not finding the answer. Also, > does anyone know if this is really an hppa issue, or is it a more general > g++ 3.0 i

Re: gpg key validity question

2002-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
have any proof that there isn't someone between you and him that intercepts all of his email and re-signs it with a different key. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06046/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gpg key validity question

2002-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
ng to become a DD, he will need to have a PGP key that has his real, legal name on it, with a valid email address, and this key must be signed by an existing DD. If he doesn't have a PGP key that has his name on it, that's the first step that he must take. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06049/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gpg key validity question

2002-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
later that does have a name on it (not necessarily his), this will mistakenly be accepted by the DAM as identification, correct? Honestly, I don't believe DAM is that sloppy, and I wouldn't worry about it... Given how often people complain about the process being slow, I think it's cle

Re: gpg key validity question

2002-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:20:30AM -0400, christophe barbé wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:11:25AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Upon rereading, I see what you're asking here. You're worried that if > > you sign a uid that doesn't have his name on it, and

Re: Trouble with shared libraries

2002-05-03 Thread Steve Langasek
e received > some messages, but no one help me as i need. > In the Debian Home Page, this list is mentioned for newbies that want > to become a devel man. So, somebody said me about start with translate. > How? another mailing-list? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED]? Steve Langasek postmodern progra

Re: Looking for Sponsorship, and possibly new AM

2002-05-22 Thread Steve Langasek
hould write to the NM frontdesk about it, since they are the only ones who can assign a new AM to you. However, you should talk this over with Ivo before taking such an action on your own -- I suspect most other AM's are /also/ busy, so switching may not do you any good at all. Steve Lan

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