Re: Binary depends

2002-05-23 Thread Steve Langasek
tool that (e.g.) tries to grep through the package sources to find out what other programs it references will turn up lots of false positives on packages that *can* use particular binaries if present, but don't really depend on those external binaries. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer ms

Re: Files in /usr/sbin

2002-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
ut a file in /usr/sbin and > lintian doesn't complain about them; why does it do this for my package? The problem is that you don't have a file *in* /usr/sbin, you have a file *called* /usr/sbin: the argument on the end of that warning is the full path of the file generating the w

Re: Binary depends

2002-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 05:18:13PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:45:47PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:39:16PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > > I have just discovered (via a bug report) that dict and dictd > > >

Re: When to close bugs on old package versions

2002-05-28 Thread Steve Langasek
-related bugs, there are other BTS tags. For my part, I've been tagging such potato-specific bugs as 'potato' and leaving them open, with the expectation that once woody is released we can have a mass closing of all such bugs. (With champagne, etc.) Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06334/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Checking for installed package-alternative in a wrapper-skript

2002-06-22 Thread Steve Langasek
hat directory for a package to function correctly. Checking for actual features that are going to be used is always the safest solution -- and often the most efficient. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06466/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
I'm currently bouncing between > Appleton, WI and Omaha, NE, and so it's difficult to schedule anything > concrete. If you ever make this run on land, you might pass close enough to me (or another DD) to make a physical meeting possible. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06637/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gpg passphrase and package building

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
s a bad idea. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06686/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Evaluating variables in autoconf

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
s the best way to do this? I haven't done much shell or m4 programming, > so this may be a stupid question. You're better off putting this in your Makefile, and passing it to the compiler via -DBASE_PATH=\"$datadir\". Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06691/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: new debs, itp process

2002-07-26 Thread Steve Langasek
points to is that the packager hasn't reviewed the file locations and permissions in the binary package, to ensure that they all comply with policy. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06702/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pam library (and dependancy) policies

2002-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
a place as any. Since no Debian policy can keep admins from referencing files in /usr when they shouldn't, I think this is as good a solution as any. This is not policy, but it's the status quo; I can find at least 3 other PAM modules in Debian that handle this the same way. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg06929/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pam library (and dependancy) policies

2002-08-20 Thread Steve Langasek
is as good a solution as any. > > True, but we can build our software and packages to avoid such > situations. What the admin does is his fault/problem - by choice. What > we build into the system is ours. > > I suppose you could argue that the admin *chose* to enable my P

Re: Looking for information about finding sponsors.

2002-09-20 Thread Steve Langasek
s a waiting list to even get into it. Being actively involved in the Debian development process is considered a prerequisite for applying to become a DD. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07209/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kerberos support for Cyrus: I need help

2002-09-22 Thread Steve Langasek
You may want to pose the question there. It seems to me that if it does work out of the box with MIT and not with Heimdal, you ought to build it for MIT (at least for now). Though I'm curious, why does it need anything other than the SASL module in order to support Kerberos? Steve Lang

Re: Kerberos support for Cyrus: I need help

2002-09-22 Thread Steve Langasek
of hosts and such. I'm not sure I understand the former, and the latter seems a little fishy: the only bits of code that should need to know what Kerberos thinks are the canonical names are within the SASL module itself. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07246/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: inclusion of a debian dir in upstream src

2002-09-24 Thread Steve Langasek
The one package I work on that carries a debian/ directory upstream puts it elsewhere, where it doesn't conflict with official Debian work. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07293/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: HELP!!! New Maint App Process

2002-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
new packages is an easy way to demonstrate that one has many of the skills required to be a DD, but more is demanded of DDs than just raw skill. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07600/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: library version equals to project version ?

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Langasek
on 0.33.7.1 > which depends on libaspell10 version 0.33.7 In both cases, the number that's part of the package name should indicate how many times the ABI has changed. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07643/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to be sure, that /dev/cdrom exists?

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Langasek
it's absent, and then create the link (possibly with some /proc autodetection) if the user agrees to let you create the link. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07645/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: orig.tar.gz

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Langasek
mber every time you have to make changes to the tarball (e.g., libc12_1.6, libc12_1.6+debian.0, libc12_1.6+debian.1), or you can include any subsequent modifications in your Debian diff. Your choice. If you expect to be making frequent changes to how much of upstream's code you're includ

Re: how to be sure, that /dev/cdrom exists?

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:14:50PM +0100, Jan-Hendrik Palic wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:07:07AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> I'm maintaining pbbuttonsd for PPC-Notebooks. > >> I'm preparing the new upstream version and I stuck at this point, that >

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
least, you *can't* compile Qt-based packages using g++ 3.x. If you have some time and energy to devote to the matter, I would suggest talking with the toolchain maintainers about whether there's anything you could do to help get the gcc 3.x transition moving forward. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07687/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:25:09AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > You could just change the Architecture: field in the control file to not > attempt to build on the broken arches, for now. Don't discriminate against architectures because of a temporary build failure. Steve Langasek

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
on alpha? Since the problem is a bug in gcc 2.95, there shouldn't be any alpha-specific problems with Qt compiled with gcc-3.x. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07691/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ompatible), you could change the package name. If you keep the same package name and bump the upstream version, you would reset the Debian version to 1, giving you kdclabel_2.7-KDE3-1. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07693/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: build failures & compiler versions

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:22:33PM -0500, Neil L. Roeth wrote: > On Oct 30, Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The default compiler on alpha is still gcc 2.95, to the best of my > > knowledge. If the autobuilders are using 3.x, this is not reflected in > > the d

Re: advocate location

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Langasek
the ldap-utils package. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07699/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tools for parsing apache conf files (Was: dpkg-reconfigure hacking in postinst)

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
quite effective at parsing Apache config files. I have serious doubts that using debconf is the right answer at all if you aren't in a position to parse the config losslessly. What changes will you be making to these config files that couldn't just as well be left to the admin to handle?

Re: advocate location

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
t should not be, then someone should talk to DSA about getting the LDAP ACLs changed. In the meantime, the only protection of the information in the Debian directory is security through obscurity. For my part, I don't mind having my city published, and I think it's potentially helpful for non-

Re: GNAT

2002-11-07 Thread Steve Langasek
adopt it, you should retitle bug #154098 to an 'ITA' bug instead of an 'O' bug (this, at least, should be in your grasp before you try to adopt a package :). Do you have a likely sponsor for your uploads, or are you in need of one? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg07771/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: FHS ambiguity: /usr/lib or /usr/share?

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Langasek
't follow its example for, well... anything. I imagine python stores everything in /usr/lib, again as a practical concession to the fact that upstream installation directories don't make it easy to use separate paths for arch-independent and arch-dependent objects. -- Steve Langasek postm

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
lly guaranteed to be able to access your LDAP server (which obviously isn't running locally either, with no /usr) until about the same time as /usr is mounted. If you have records that are needed by the system prior to mounting of /usr, these ought to be stored in a local database backend such

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:42:00PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021217 08:47]: > > What information are you trying to store in LDAP that is so essential to > > the system prior to mounting of /usr? > > [...] > Using LDAP in

Re: postinst and debconf again

2002-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
post-installation script returned error exit status 30 > Errors were encountered while processing: > libmidgard > debconf -s postinst > runs without any problem You're missing a '|| true' after the prompt for midgard/error. The question is being skipped by debconf, probably because it's been shown before, and this results in a different return code. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08135/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: postinst and debconf again

2002-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
are fading already in my minds, so it might be ok. It looks like the questions asked are related to things that may not be available on the system (databases) at the preconfigure stage, so in this case I think it's ok to ask in the postinst script itself. -- Steve Langasek postmodern prog

Re: postinst and debconf again

2002-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
code. > With a '||true' no error is returned , but message is not displayed. > Shouldn't be something like db_display ?? Why do you believe this message should be shown to the admin again after it's already been shown once? It is possible, but you should be sure it&#x

Re: postinst and debconf again

2002-12-19 Thread Steve Langasek
probably unnecessary, if all you're doing is displaying a message. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08144/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-20 Thread Steve Langasek
ent at the time drives are being unmounted should not require NSS to do their job; and in fact, on none of the machines where I use nss_ldap have I had problems with drives not being unmounted cleanly. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08149/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: uploading to stable

2002-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
ble until the package in testing has been updated. It's also not possible to use the exact same package version twice when uploading. You must use a unique package version for each upload, while still meeting the version requirements above. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08157/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 12:18:35AM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:39:43PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:07:42AM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > > > The only proper solution (which i was looking into this weekend > >

Re: NSS library dependencies

2002-12-26 Thread Steve Langasek
aybe? How is that relevant? I hardly think 'umount /usr' should be called while /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd is running. And why does RPC care about username resolution? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08176/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Looking for a `light' library deb in order to serve as an example.

2002-12-30 Thread Steve Langasek
bfribidi0_0.10.4-0.1_i386.deb Size: 39624 MD5sum: 52dc182866d95e00510b08d3026ba9b4 Description: Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algorithm FriBiDi is a BiDi algorithm implementation for Hebrew and/or Arabic languages. Regards, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08186/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: smb-network package

2003-01-01 Thread Steve Langasek
P. While this may be fixed in a later version of smbclient, in the meantime you should use the 'net share' command from Samba 3.0 to get a list of shares (net share -S server -U username). Regards, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08199/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: NSS library dependencies

2003-01-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:39:43PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > As libnss-ldap can be configured to use SASL (and as a result, pluggable > > modules), I don't think static linking is a very feasible sol

Re: check my debian package (smarty)..

2003-01-05 Thread Steve Langasek
verts the > icon to 8-bit? The X server will convert the icon to 8-bit: it won't convert it to 24 colors, or even know which 24 colors to convert to. This means that leaving it to the X server to do the conversion wil rapidly exhaust the color map for no good reason. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08230/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Package Versioning question

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
lt 1.0 || echo "oops." oops. $ You could use an epoch, but epochs are worth avoiding if possible. I would recommend using something like '0.1+DR7.10' in place of 'DR7.10', preferably after discussing with upstream to see what version numbers they'd start with when they got to that point. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08332/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [dkg@internetpeople.at: [SMARTY-DEV] Debian package for smarty?]

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Langasek
packaged separately. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08441/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Warning about Debian New Maintainer Application

2003-02-03 Thread Steve Langasek
7; worth of > holidays and sometimes we decide to avoid computers like the plague > whilst doing so :-) Are you familiar with what the Developer's Reference says about one's duties when going on vacation? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08523/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: question about package with binary and library

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Langasek
g as a library. You don't need to ship these as separate packages; you want a single binary package here. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer msg08649/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upstream author wants maintainer

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
clear on what advantages this module provides over the more widely used DBD/DBI interface. Are there ODBC modules available for GNU/Linux systems for RDBMS that can't be accessed through DBD? Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: expiring gpg key, how do I update it?

2003-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
e in a few months, is it > enough to update the expiration date and submit it to the key server? Yes. > Do I have to get my key re-signed? No. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
groomed to do what you need? Is the software already in wide use, or will including it in non-free increase its visibility -- leading more people to use non-free software? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A new package which I would like to add to Debian

2003-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
hibits commercial redistribution, the license is unambiguously non-free. It does allow non-commercial redistribution, so it can be uploaded to non-free. In the future, please send licensing questions to debian-legal. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to detect if Sendmail/Postfix/Qmail is installed

2003-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
Is this > package free? I could not find a license anywhere. I believe it is permitted to depend on a non-free package as a possible, but not preferred, alternative in a list. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
;t heard of any > free-as-in-freedom virus scanner, let alone a production-quality > one. Did I miss something? If yes, please let me know! Have you looked at the packages amavis-ng and clamav? I've heard good things about these DFSG-free virus tools, but haven't tried them yet my

Re: How free does a non-free package have to be?

2003-03-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:07:02AM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Personally, BTW, I would really, really prefer to maintain Free > > > Software, not *only* for political reasons but also because a > > > comm

Re: Seeking help with package naming

2003-03-04 Thread Steve Langasek
I'm going to rip his > hands off :P) I would suggest ccze-perl and ccze-slang. (Isn't libfoo-perl reserved for packages that are perl modules?) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Registro

2003-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
debian.org/CD/vendors/info > Tal vez esta en ingles, pero probablement este traducida en espagnol > tambien. Cierto, la traducción española de esta página está al día. Saludos, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: package does not build everywhere due to midding header -- help sought

2003-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ular set of kernel headers, at all. You should instead fix your package to include copies of any headers that you need for building. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2003-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
te libtool, this is not a libtool problem. Are > you using libtool 1.5 yet? It's *always* a libtool problem. That's why I hate libtool... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2003-06-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:52:00PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: > On Jun 1, Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 01:18:17PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > I recently had a bug (193950) filed against one of my packages because the > &g

Re: copyright file packaging quandry

2003-06-30 Thread Steve Langasek
ght, which we must be able to append information to as needed. If the upstream is on vacation for a few weeks and you think this needs to be resolved before then, the latter is probably the correct interim solution. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Package help in approximative english

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
my name could sound like an > english one, english is not my native language (i'm french)). > Where should i ask help for that ? debian-l10n-english, perhaps? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to use dh-perl

2003-07-12 Thread Steve Langasek
ou're using dh-perl for a Debian package, you'll still need to edit the output *extensively* before uploading. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Langasek
that you intend to go on record as sponsoring this NM, not on grounds of familiarity with his work, but because you're opposed to the existence of a central authority that decides who is given developer access? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: building unstable packages with stable

2003-07-30 Thread Steve Langasek
he Debian archive. Sourceforge has certainly been compromised in the past, and remains a high profile target; I wouldn't want to see it used as a conduit for getting compromised software into Debian. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: copyright file

2003-08-11 Thread Steve Langasek
tions, recently discussed on debian-legal) and accurate as to the identity of the copyright holders and the date of their copyrights. In that sense it is likely to be verbatim, if only because there are only so many ways you can express a copyright notice. Otherwise, this seems correct. Please

Re: when to close bugs

2003-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
oon as there's a fixed version seems to be the most effective way to manage bugs in the BTS, generally speaking. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: timidity-patches

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
g to sponser this package for me? Do you have documentation to show that we have a license to distribute this package (bug #156057)? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: timidity-patches

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:28:16PM -0400, Tommy Moore wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:37:40PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Do you have documentation to show that we have a license to distribute > > this package (bug #156057)? > Hi Steve. I took a look at the copyright f

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Langasek
to the increased coordination required. While Debian isn't exactly collapsing yet, it is important to pay attention to the growth of the distribution. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sponsor and Mentor request

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Langasek
eam has recently switched to Bugzilla for their own public bug tracking. YMMV. :) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: IRAF Deb -- first pass

2003-09-25 Thread Steve Langasek
istributed by Debian." If they're distributed by Debian, they are by definition NOT third party, and therefore cannot touch /opt. > I'll think about it some more, but I'm not convinced that the concept > of breaking it up into /usr/share, /usr/lib, /usr/bin can work. At best, > we might be able to put everything under /usr/share/iraf and use > symlinks to satisfy the policy. This has been done before; see mailman for a well-executed example. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sponsorship for non-NM?

2003-10-10 Thread Steve Langasek
the NM process is usually more than sufficient. I say, go for it. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: kbtin (try #2)

2003-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
*or* 5) doesn't already have? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ "audio" group question(s)

2003-10-26 Thread Steve Langasek
UID root, then the package is almost certainly buggy. Please use a privileged audio device user instead; I'm aware of no reason that audio software should need general root privileges. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
when somebody > accidently installs it on a machine using nfs for /usr. > As I don't use nfs at all, I don't know how to figure this out safely > during configure. Can you point me to the right place? Can you explain in more detail how the call to 'stat' is being us

Re: Special requirements for scripts in /etc/rcS.d?

2003-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:45:31PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> As I don't use nfs at all, I don't know how to figure this out safely > >> during configure. Can you point me to the right place? > > Can

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
tion > file, and thus it belongs there. But to preserve the possibility of > local additions, I would like to find a way for co-existence of > debconf-managed and manually-edited parts. I would say that, even though this is a cop-out, it's a better solution than what's in place for tetex today. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: preferred method for coexistence of debconf- and manual parts in conf[ig ]files?

2003-11-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > >> The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now > >> both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups > &

Re: neglected RC bugs

2003-11-17 Thread Steve Langasek
8 didn't need any *help* being kept out of sarge. Which bug are you referring to? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian/tmp vs. debian/package

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Langasek
ed to the file list for one of the packages. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Fwd: Re: Integrate Knoppix in Debian (was: Re: Debian Enterprise?)]

2003-11-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 09:37:19PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > fyi Er, why did this warrant reposting on a list for answering novice developer questions? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > -Forwarded Message- > > From: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: all, any, alpha -- how to build them? (package split)

2003-11-28 Thread Steve Langasek
ts own target, the rules could just be included under 'build-arch'; but having a separate 'build-aboot' target might make the conditional easier to read). And thanks for working on this bug. If you need another set of eyeballs on your rules once you have them put together, let me know. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debconf db_input in postinst / horde2

2003-12-12 Thread Steve Langasek
a different file, but if the server is local, anyone with > root access can just delete the database by hand anyhow. This solution has a prerequisite of the package postinst script being permitted to *create* such a user, as well as granting it the desired privileges. This hardly seems a

Re: Need a mentor: adoption of tuxeyes, blackened, animals and groovycd

2003-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
ackage is quite insistent on not letting go of it, even though the only upload in the last 6 months (at least) has been an NMU. The history of this package is fairly well documented in bug #202174. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why are these packages removed from testing/sid?

2003-12-29 Thread Steve Langasek
movals listed on ftp-master.debian.org, or listed separately? (Or not at all?) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First multi-binary - could someone please check?

2004-01-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ystem, and does NOT require running X; and there are many other packages that will depend on xlibs that users will want installed on non-X-using systems, so the per-package net impact is much less . I don't see any reason for splitting this into a separate package. Regards, -- Steve Langas

Re: Maintainer: field in .changes

2004-01-20 Thread Steve Langasek
dings, you'd better know precisely how the input is > encoded. The best heuristic is to first check whether it's valid UTF-8, and if it isn't, convert it from latin-1 to UTF-8. This correctly detects the vast majority of texts; but if what you want is UTF-8, it's always b

Re: how do I get rid of browser bug

2004-01-21 Thread Steve Langasek
browser bugs of any kind. Best of luck, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: data files in /etc?

2004-02-12 Thread Steve Langasek
no provision for state files (persistent or not) that are available prior to /var being mounted. Discussion of this issue on debian-devel was extensive last year, but it seems the farthest it got was "get the FHS to sanction it, then we'll consider it". -- Steve Langasek po

Re: Failed build on alpha, would like to investigate

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
e something with > threads). It is definitely a case of missing references to libpthread. The bug is in /usr/lib/lam/lib/liblam.so, which should be linked against libpthread if it depends on it. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: pdfmerge

2004-03-03 Thread Steve Langasek
ts own package. Submitting it for inclusion with gs upstream seems like a good idea. Otherwise, I think the vast majority of users who can't figure out the ghostscript commandline on their own (including myself) will cope with the inefficiencies of pdftk just fine. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
ner is actively involved with addressing precisely these issues upstream), it should soon no longer be necessary to make such a choice. But shipping .la files in non-dev packages should still be a hanging offense. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Development packages.

2004-03-22 Thread Steve Langasek
ligated to support every stone age library implementation available doesn't mean Debian should. Tolerating such known-buggy designs would erode one of Debian's greatest strengths as a platform. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
er static lib was current at the time would be the one provided by this library. With no shared library, there would be no non-dev lib package. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often

2004-04-03 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 07:22:13PM +0200, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:14:22AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Well I thought about it, but this doesn't solve every my doubt. > > > How could I name this package? Are there any policies ab

Re: About Package Creation... (sarge vs sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
ckage that is being uploaded to the archive *was* built on sid, not just that it could have been. For sponsored uploads, this is usually not an issue, since the sponsor ought to be doing a rebuild from source before uploading. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: About Package Creation... (sarge vs sid)

2004-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:02:44PM -0600, Benjamin Cutler wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > >No, you also have to be sure that the package that is being uploaded to > >the archive *was* built on sid, not just that it could have been. > >For sponsored uploads, this is usuall

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

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

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