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

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 .chang

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

Re: AAHHH Lintian!

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Langasek
t;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

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

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

Re: looking for a sponsor

2001-10-01 Thread Steve Langasek
elevant information 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

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

2001-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
't part of the value that dpkg-architecture returns. Cheers, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpQtiurpGv4d.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2001-10-13 Thread Steve Langasek
x-gnu anyway... 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 pgpMpQTLKs3t9.pgp Description: PGP signature

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 pgpPEOkSv4mfA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ReiserFS/XFS/JFS/??FS

2001-11-29 Thread Steve Langasek
ser. 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. :) Regar

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: "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 containing

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 pgpQaKv7LWsRO.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 pgptyJkIMAklJ.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 pgptkbyUcmuLH.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 pgpOQjq6WNPyi.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 pgpIYkYtFJxoY.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 pgpE3H1Rejilh.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 pgpmyOtND6UYN.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 pgpmA7G3lMq6d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: including full source code in upload

2002-01-17 Thread Steve Langasek
wn 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 pgpUp9RD84wUS.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 pgp6EWIxaPdjN.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
de 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 pac

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 pgpNhJ4t8YNvP.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 specific

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. Steve Langa

Re: snd-smotif

2002-04-07 Thread Steve Langasek
ou do link against motif, then the software belongs in contrib. If you create a dynamically-linked package that depends on the openmotif package, there's no longer any reason for creating a statically-linked package. This would be a good thing that someone who's concerned with such things to

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 is

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 pgpMzofg9N9QY.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 pgpFuy5k8oWly.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 he a

Re: Deleting a MySQL database in postrm

2002-06-17 Thread Steve Langasek
horde2 and imp3 packages have made so far in supporting automatic database creation at package install time, and I also don't have a problem with deleting the databases at purge time -- so long as the package asks before deleting! Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpO3LdZ0W43g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GPG Key question

2002-06-17 Thread Steve Langasek
y to issue a 'delete' command to keyrings, and even if there were, there's no way for keyrings to propogate that command to local GPG rings. The only way to successfully take a GPG uid out of circulation is by appending /more/ information to it that renders it invalid: a revocation certificate. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpF1vJO6nX7k.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 pgpIpnwPlpc53.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Prospective developer looking for an advocate

2002-07-16 Thread Steve Langasek
er, 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 pgpzOSPbGfRuJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gpg passphrase and package building

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
s a bad idea. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp017tjBQ4OM.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 pgpZA5cJsvHrC.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 pgpmKrnA2NVDz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: adding some lines into an existing conf file - without diff

2002-08-06 Thread Steve Langasek
wed to modify this file (not even login itself). The libpam maintainer has a plan for restructuring the PAM config files, making it possible to change the global configuration according to what modules are installed. In the meantime, you should leave it up to the administrator to config

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 pgpM0xd5Nny7G.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

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 pgpOuYIO9XLuR.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 Langasek po

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 pgpf3avd6Tx3H.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 pgpxR25jtVysy.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Build-failures

2002-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
age; nor should you build-depend on libc6-dev, since it's a build-essential package. This is why the package in question is broken on alpha and ia64, where libc is versioned differently. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpFGgZJlHyZD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Build-failures

2002-10-20 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 08:15:08PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > These are both dependency lines, not build-depends. You should *never* > > build-depend on libc6, as it is an essential package; [...] > Minor nitpick: libc6 is not essential, only

Re: HELP!!! New Maint App Process

2002-10-25 Thread Steve Langasek
reating 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 pgpmyIiuMdxfK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: library version equals to project version ?

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Langasek
version > 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 pgpi5CThlQGd4.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 pgpV5W1YsbQ2u.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 pgpbqFt5L0tXE.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 pgpFw8DrrxNG5.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 pgpPo4MivZ9lS.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 pgpj1XA4X07dr.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 pgplcciGgkEUA.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 pgp1vODrdCX6F.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 b

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 pgpgIaouDvecR.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 pgpRwJMe4DHkJ.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 pgpHceTSmulSh.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 pgpJS0v43svpH.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 pgpfOkgi7n4mJ.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 pgp8zVTIL7jAy.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 pgpGxB3ePVYpk.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 pgpvKlH10O1wg.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 pgpjrhzCr0MlD.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 pgp4bJFKFccQw.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 pgpe9oGqZ3hKO.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

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

2003-02-24 Thread Steve Langasek
o expire 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 pgpSeSpjTJ7VA.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 pgpw6co4ZjtQh.pgp Description: PGP signature

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 pgpX5m2Wj9s9t.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

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 myself.

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 pgpXH8J5pXfHz.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 pgp16lDUTt4NI.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 pgpIqPjpvkFE3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Asking for an advocate (gURLChecker) ...

2003-04-11 Thread Steve Langasek
hat no one agrees with you, which is also a lesson along the road to becoming a DD. Being a DD is about *much* more than packaging new software. Most of the programs that NMs package as part of their application do not (or should not) get uploaded to the archive. You're more likely to find an advocate by helping us fix software that's already here. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgp8ANV9TpM6m.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ldapsearch with db.debian.org no more work (?)

2003-05-13 Thread Steve Langasek
apsearch client defaults to protocol 3. There may be something you can add to ldaprc to automate this, but I don't know the syntax; most servers I use are also LDAPv3, so it's not useful for me. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer pgpTocLsqUuEL.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2003-06-01 Thread Steve Langasek
or hate 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 pgpk7HVD5I4zG.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2003-06-01 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 >

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