Re: SML/NJ Packaging Difficulties

2003-07-16 Thread Sven Luther
compiler suite, which is then used to rebuild everything. I believe that maybe smlnj has some similar mechanism, maybe you should ask upstream about this. Friendly, Sven Luther

xemacs specific .el

2003-08-29 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have a package that installs a xemacs specific .el file, which naturally don't build with the emacs20 package i have installed. Is there a way of specifying that only xemacs installs should build a given .el or something such ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: xemacs specific .el

2003-08-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:30:38PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: > On Aug 29, Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have a package that installs a xemacs specific .el file, which > > naturally don't build with the emacs20 package i have installed. > > > > I

Re: xemacs specific .el

2003-08-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 08:57:36AM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: > On Aug 30, Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:30:38PM -0400, Neil Roeth wrote: > > > On Aug 29, Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > I have a package that

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
aylist file, or hand append files, but that's it. It also doesn't die when you relaunch the X server, which is rather nice when doing X driver work :))) It also is a true C application, and not a bunches of script. It uses libxine for playing sounds. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-08 Thread Sven Luther
to 8-9000 packages should scale the same way up to 30K or > 40K packages? You are aware that some mirror are already on the very limit of not having enough place on their 100Go partition for the debian archives and were asking for near term solutions. That said, a small (arch: all probably) script should probably not even be visible in the archive. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: randomplay: command-line shuffle music player

2003-09-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:45:37PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:37:40AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Adam Kessel wrote: > > > > I've written a fairly simple com

Re: [OT] Virus W32/Swen@MM spreading...

2003-09-19 Thread Sven Luther
tions anyway, but some of you still seem to need/use it ;) BTW, the attachement is of md5sum b09e26c292759d654633d3c8ed00d18d. Anyone know of an easy way to filter out emails where a given attachement has a particular md5sum ? My tries with uudeview, grep, sed and med5sum where not that much of a success. Friendly, Sven Luther

gcc 3.3 and __func__ ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
ntf ("%sMessage", __func__, ...); Works, but seems a bit ugly, and there are _lots_ of those lines. Is there a compiler switch to consider __func__ as string literal or something such ? Naturally, using 2.95 kinda works, but i don't think this is a good idea. Thanks for your help. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: gcc 3.3 and __func__ ...

2003-10-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:26:42PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:59:43PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I have some code that was using : > > > > printf (__func__ "Message", ...); > > > > This doesn't build a

Re: Debian Installer sends acknoledgements to uploader, doesn't it?

2003-10-22 Thread Sven Luther
this discussion will be void. I have really came to know him only since the oldenburg meeting a bit less than a month ago, but i guess he would be no worse than our average DD, and he has sure done more work in this last month that our average DD does, especially on the debian-installer work. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Put a program in the gnome menu

2003-11-06 Thread Sven Luther
tor & gnome-randr-applet). When gnome is launching, there are little icons in the splash screen, and one of the applets (hardware-monitor) doesn't show a little icon, only the small gnome foot used for icon-less applets. Any idea on how to add such a gnome splash screen icon ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
ce of debian supports it, and make it a release goal ? I doubt it is still time for sarge, but maybe for sarge+1 ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:48:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:40:35PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:07:59AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > > > Of course, UTF-8 whereever possible is a nice goal to strive after, > >

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:22:36PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:38:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:48:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Depends how practical that is, I guess. For example, it's still unknown > &

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-16 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:44:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:22:36PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:38:23PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > &g

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:45:41AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > I choose fr_FR.UTF8 or something such in gnome GDM. > > And it IS just like that in your /etc/locale.gen as well? fr_FR only won't > do. I have man

Re: UTF-8 in copyright files?

2003-12-18 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:48:41AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:23:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:44:35PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:00:26PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > We

how to test for architecture in perl base pre/postinst scripts ?

2004-02-23 Thread Sven Luther
fered way of doing this ? Thanks for your help. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: how to test for architecture in perl base pre/postinst scripts ?

2004-02-23 Thread Sven Luther
s is available when using debootstrap, since it is needed in base-install on debian-installer. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: how to test for architecture in perl base pre/postinst scripts ?

2004-02-24 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:20:10AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > > Yeah, seems reasonable, now i only need to find out how to call it > > from perl. > > %arch = split /[=\n]/, qx(dpkg-architecture) or die q(dpkg-architecture >

Re: dependencies issue

2004-02-26 Thread Sven Luther
hat didn't > work well. Build it in a pbuilder, and add everything it is missing. Or alternatively in a clean chroot, is actually faster. look at the debootstrap manpage for info on how to build one. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: RFS: mpd - Music Player Daemon, and clients

2004-03-30 Thread Sven Luther
ave the full > support of the upstream authors, and have myself contributed to the > upstream development of mpc and mpd. BTW, how does it compare to quark, which also has the same client/server design, and which i package. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Unicode conversion goals for Sarge (was Re: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-charset)

2004-03-31 Thread Sven Luther
nd that this be a release criteria for sarge+1 ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: motion - please do a sponsored upload for me (new revision with debconf fix)

2004-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
or once again offering to help me with an upload. BTW, what is the deal with motion and 2.6 kernels ? I am under the understanding that it requires the videoloop or whatever module, which is not only abandoned upstream, but also not yet ported to 2.6 kernels. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: motion, 2.6, and v4l loopback device [WAS Re: motion - please do a sponsored upload for me (new revision with debconf fix)]

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
is using linux with a set of surveillance cameras. I think they use the vloopback device to have more than one app access the video device, namely motion and then vlc for video streaming server. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Problem regarding copyright of Moscow ML...

1998-12-02 Thread Sven LUTHER
ink they don't want someone using part of their virtual machine into a JVM without some money going back to them, and since Java is quite hot right now, i understand them quite well. Friendly, Sven LUTHER

pgp signing ...

1998-12-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cd package-version dh_make and promptly i had a source package that i modified as needed. but then, when i tried to build the package with dpkg-buildpackage, pgp complained about not finding Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is normal since i used my private addres

non-free, contrib or main ?

1998-12-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
, Sven LUTHER

Re: OCAML Debian package

1998-12-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
package mlgtk, an ocaml binding to gtk+, but it is still a bit alpha software. Right now i am not maintaining any other packages, and i am writhing my phd thesis on camlous stuff, so i will need quite recent packages of it ... if you do it, you could also add the mli2html patch, it is quite nice for doing some documentation ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: Chaning a new package still in incoming?

1999-05-05 Thread Sven LUTHER
also, altough dotted debian versions are ususally reserved for NMUs. or you could do a -1.updated or or something like that ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER

gmp2 ????

1999-05-05 Thread Sven LUTHER
/lib/libgmp2.so How do i tell the autostuff how to search for the library in the right place ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: Building from a source package

1999-05-14 Thread Sven LUTHER
y nice, install it and then run : dbuild package.dsc and it will build the package for you. There are certain option you have to set so the package don't get signed, but i don't remember them so check the man page. you can also p[ut them in a .rc file, so you don't have to rewrite them each time. Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: arch-specific binary-only rebuild

1999-10-21 Thread Sven LUTHER
e. This way the sources of everything will be available, but we don't force rebuilding of packages for the other arches, ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER

dh_installinfo ?

2000-01-25 Thread Sven LUTHER
install the stuff contained in ocaml.info as correct info files, including generating the correct prerm/postinst instruction. Am i correct in thinking that these is a dh_installinfo bug or not ? Please respond to me directly, as i am not subscribed to debian-mentors Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: dh_installinfo ?

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:19:36PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 25-Jan-2000 Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Hello, ... > > > > i received a bug against one of my packages saying that the .info > > documentation is not available by info directly, and th

Re: dh_installinfo ?

2000-01-26 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 12:19:36PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 25-Jan-2000 Sven LUTHER wrote: > > Hello, ... > > > > i received a bug against one of my packages saying that the .info > > documentation is not available by info directly, and th

multi binaries packages.

2000-01-27 Thread Sven LUTHER
seems mute about it. Also if i want both executables to have the same name, how can i do this ? Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Sponsoring ...

2001-02-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i have checked the packages and there are ok. Now, what is the correct way for his packages to be uploaded into debian. I thought that buildiing and signing the package myself, and then uploading would be ok, but

Re: Sponsoring ...

2001-02-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Hello, ... > > Hi Sven, > > > I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i > > have > > checked the packages and

Re: Sponsoring ...

2001-02-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Hello, ... > > Hi Sven, > > > I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i > > have > > checked the packages and

Question about testing and multi binaries ...

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
seem very readable ... Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
angelog file and add a new entry there. (is there a tool for doing this, or do i need to do it by hand like i currently do ?) -> copy the rest of the stuff, checking it is still needed/don't need to be modified. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Do I need 'unstable' for development?

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
t, to build potato bug fixes or other such things. Or vice-versa ... Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Question about testing and multi binaries ...

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:23:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Say i have a multi-binary package, where one of the binaries does not get > >build for one of the arches (namely arm in this case). > > > >In this case, doe

Re: upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:18:26AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What i use to do is either : > > > > 1) just apply the diff file to the new package, chmod +x debian/rules, and > > check that nothing broke. >

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
system in the rules file ? This could be handy for other kind of stuff also. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > I've done the ocaml-findl

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
; explain the problem of building on a potato machine. > > If i want to do a package that can be compiled even on a potato machine, > what I have to do ? What about testing the content of /etc/debian_version, and if it is potato, then set DH_COMPAT to 2 ? (the propper sh stuff is left as a

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
not in the spirit of the policy. Maybe all manpage needing binaries could be listed somewhere, and we could have a manpage writing task ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:40:43PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > or build dependencies on debhelper (>>3.0) > > > > Yes, but since i want ot build the package on both potato and unstable, this > > will not help. > > Why exactly

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:17:06PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:44:34AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Why exactly? It's not a crime to create two separate packages; one > > > for stable and one for unstable. You can change the build >

Re: Python script

2001-04-05 Thread Sven LUTHER
page. I think it is called > help2man. Also note, (altough script may only be an example for you, in this case just ignore me) but script is already an existing binary of the bsdutils package (required and in base). Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: m68k compilation, account needed ?

2001-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
ccounts are generally available. I could attempt > to compile your package if you post a URL for the source. I have > an m68k running unstable here. Stefano, i am sure your fix (if it is the one i suggested) will work. Just let the autobuilder build it, and then close the bug. You may look at

Re: Advice needed on changing upstream source.

2001-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
: 1.2.3.cvs.2001.04.11 or somethign such (i know there is a policy on date-like versions, please read it). Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: Advice needed on changing upstream source.

2001-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
sa > > With pools, you should no longer do this. Just change the upstream version number, adding a 'a' to the end or something such will make pools happy (especially good if you did upload a bad .orig.tar.gz to the pool). Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: corel install

2001-04-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
shutdown -r now will reboot, shutdown -h now will halt the box. You need acpi/or whatever that stuff is named working with your motherboard to have it switch off your box. Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

2001-05-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
ere were the patent don't apply. India could be a likely candidate, i think, but then maybe they only don't like patent on medicine or such ? Friendly, Sven Luther

Re: porting problem and how to request help

2001-06-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
ake the bugreport to you ? what does he have to say about this ? Friendl,y, Sven Luther

Re: motion - please do a sponsored upload for me (new revision with debconf fix)

2004-08-20 Thread Sven Luther
or once again offering to help me with an upload. BTW, what is the deal with motion and 2.6 kernels ? I am under the understanding that it requires the videoloop or whatever module, which is not only abandoned upstream, but also not yet ported to 2.6 kernels. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: motion, 2.6, and v4l loopback device [WAS Re: motion - please do a sponsored upload for me (new revision with debconf fix)]

2004-08-25 Thread Sven Luther
is using linux with a set of surveillance cameras. I think they use the vloopback device to have more than one app access the video device, namely motion and then vlc for video streaming server. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build-Recommends

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Luther
situations like this: > > Build-Depends: ocaml-native-compilers [!m68k !mips !mipsel !s390], >ocaml [m68k mips mipsel s390] Bah, you just need to build-depends on : ocaml-best-compilers, and it does the necessary magic for you. ocaml-best-compilers is provided by o

Re: Build-Recommends

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Luther
any brokeness in dpkg and co to make this move more smoothly, if needed. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Luther
Notice that i mentioned this to elmo and aj in oslo already, during debconf'03. elmo was not so interested, but aj mentioned it was a reasonable use of virtual packages. And to stefano, the problem was mostly with the autobuilders logic being too broken to handle virtual packages correctly an

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Luther
des which is non deterministic and > strongly discouraged. > > As I said in the past this needs a real metapackage that then depends > on the actual ocaml package. We don have this problem, as for both ocaml- and ocaml-best-pacackages, there is only one real pasckage providing thos

Re: Build-Recommends

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Luther
situations like this: > > Build-Depends: ocaml-native-compilers [!m68k !mips !mipsel !s390], > ocaml [m68k mips mipsel s390] Notice that this kind of things is mentioned in the ocaml-packaging-policy, did you read it ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cope with bad package

2005-06-13 Thread Sven Luther
> The bug is fixed in the CVS repository, 3.08 bug-fix branch. > > - Xavier Leroy > --- So, can someone grab the patch from the bugfix branch and apply it to the debian package ? I would do it but i am far from my ssh/gpg keys for another two weeks. Friendly, Sven Lu

Re: Build-Depend on virtual packages

2005-06-14 Thread Sven Luther
behaviour in future versions > of apt? The expected behaviour for it should be to choose the greater > version if several version of a single package provide a virtual > package. No, but now is the time to fix this, at the start of the release cycle, so maybe we should fill an impo

Re: Felix package

2005-06-14 Thread Sven Luther
did) the fix in svn, and only an upload is needed. I will do so in two weeks once i come back to my gpg key if nobody does this before. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sponsoring ...

2001-02-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i have checked the packages and there are ok. Now, what is the correct way for his packages to be uploaded into debian. I thought that buildiing and signing the package myself, and then uploading would be ok, but

Re: Sponsoring ...

2001-02-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Hello, ... > > Hi Sven, > > > I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i have > > checked the packages and there are ok.

Re: Sponsoring ...

2001-02-15 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 06:03:10PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Hello, ... > > Hi Sven, > > > I am sponsoring someone who wants to become a new maintainer, and well, i have > > checked the packages and there are ok.

Question about testing and multi binaries ...

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
seem very readable ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
angelog file and add a new entry there. (is there a tool for doing this, or do i need to do it by hand like i currently do ?) -> copy the rest of the stuff, checking it is still needed/don't need to be modified. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Do I need 'unstable' for development?

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
ble environment, to build potato bug fixes or other such things. Or vice-versa ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about testing and multi binaries ...

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:23:23AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Say i have a multi-binary package, where one of the binaries does not get > >build for one of the arches (namely arm in this case). > > > >In this case, doe

Re: upstream new version

2001-03-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:18:26AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What i use to do is either : > > > > 1) just apply the diff file to the new package, chmod +x debian/rules, and > > check that nothing broke. >

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
system in the rules file ? This could be handy for other kind of stuff also. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:16:57PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:11AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > I've done the ocaml-findl

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
; explain the problem of building on a potato machine. > > If i want to do a package that can be compiled even on a potato machine, > what I have to do ? What about testing the content of /etc/debian_version, and if it is potato, then set DH_COMPAT to 2 ? (the propper sh stuff is left as a

Re: Undocumented binary

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
not in the spirit of the policy. Maybe all manpage needing binaries could be listed somewhere, and we could have a manpage writing task ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-03 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:40:43PM +0200, Ivo Timmermans wrote: > Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > or build dependencies on debhelper (>>3.0) > > > > Yes, but since i want ot build the package on both potato and unstable, this > > will not help. > > Why exactly

Re: DH_COMPAT 2 or 3 ?

2001-04-04 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:17:06PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:44:34AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Why exactly? It's not a crime to create two separate packages; one > > > for stable and one for unstable. You can change the build >

Re: Python script

2001-04-05 Thread Sven LUTHER
page. I think it is called > help2man. Also note, (altough script may only be an example for you, in this case just ignore me) but script is already an existing binary of the bsdutils package (required and in base). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: m68k compilation, account needed ?

2001-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
ccounts are generally available. I could attempt > to compile your package if you post a URL for the source. I have > an m68k running unstable here. Stefano, i am sure your fix (if it is the one i suggested) will work. Just let the autobuilder build it, and then close the bug. You may look at

Re: Advice needed on changing upstream source.

2001-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
: 1.2.3.cvs.2001.04.11 or somethign such (i know there is a policy on date-like versions, please read it). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advice needed on changing upstream source.

2001-04-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
sa > > With pools, you should no longer do this. Just change the upstream version number, adding a 'a' to the end or something such will make pools happy (especially good if you did upload a bad .orig.tar.gz to the pool). Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: corel install

2001-04-12 Thread Sven LUTHER
shutdown -r now will reboot, shutdown -h now will halt the box. You need acpi/or whatever that stuff is named working with your motherboard to have it switch off your box. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Re: Where's lame

2001-05-11 Thread Sven LUTHER
ere were the patent don't apply. India could be a likely candidate, i think, but then maybe they only don't like patent on medicine or such ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: porting problem and how to request help

2001-06-06 Thread Sven LUTHER
ake the bugreport to you ? what does he have to say about this ? Friendl,y, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for a sponsor for Ppower4

2002-05-15 Thread Sven Luther
to be quite outdated (last time i looked, which is already some time ago). Is it ok to upload such a package to contrib, and use the jdk available elsewhere, or should i try to build it with java tools available in main (it uses swing and threads among other stuff). Friendly Sven Luther -- T

Re: Binary depends

2002-05-24 Thread Sven Luther
packages that *can* > use particular binaries if present, but don't really depend on those > external binaries. Well, you could try running the program through strace, and then look at all the opened files (with the proper strace flag) and then run dpkg -S on them. Same as for autodetectin

Re: Changing teTeX default config

2002-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
it, like you have to do when you change the one in /etc ? BTW, i too found that the default are too small for the tex files i am doing, but then i use mfpic ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question on build process

2002-05-29 Thread Sven Luther
u are doing a native debian package, which does not have .diff file. A reason for this hapening, even when the upstream tarball is there, is that the name is wrong (often happens when the _ after the package name an d before the version is a - as upstream source often use, and is difficult to spo

Re: looking for a TeX guy to (help to) package PassiveTeX

2002-06-18 Thread Sven Luther
e me. you can enhance the different size of tex by modifying /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and running texconfig init as root afterward. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reqest for review: ArgoUML java packages

2002-07-09 Thread Sven Luther
oc/argouml is desesperately empty, and learning directly from the interface is not the best of solutions. Also some examples would be welcome in such a argouml-doc package. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upstream's debian/ directory

2002-07-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
ise you have to repack the source tarball (removing it yourself). Or you could ask them to upgrade the debian directory to your new work, so other people can easily rebuild out of CVS and other such things. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: renaming a package

2002-07-29 Thread Sven LUTHER
utg3 are versioned, and a Provides: can't satisfy > versioned dependencies. Are there any plans to fix dpkg so it finally supports versioned provides ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what to do with binary conffiles ?

2002-07-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
eed to remove the conffiles from /var. > > > > Why not just ship the files in /usr/lib or something and then in the > > postinst copy them to the place the package access them from if they > > aren't already there? > > > > I like this idea. Thanks for the tip

staging area ?

2002-08-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
build a staging area, i need some kind of copy of the dinstall scripts or something such and run them on a private subdirectory somewhere ? Any help or hint to information would be welcome. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

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