On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:43:34AM +1000, David Schulberg wrote:
> I have a Debian package which starts a service set up by having
> ‘dh_installinit’ in my rules file.
>
> I want the service to start every time my computer boots up.
>
> Does it also have to fire up straight after I install the pa
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:35:53PM +1000, David Schulberg wrote:
> So how can I actually check in my initscript that it is running
> during the installation process so I can skip the start of my
> service at that time?
You wouldn't. You'd add some intelligence to your initscript to
detect that the
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:54:38PM +0200, Xavier Luthi wrote:
> OK. Now let's suppose the password has not been set during the
> package configuration because debconf level was too high. The
> webapp won't allow any authentication becasue the password is not
> set. How to ask for a password?
[...]
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 02:12:12PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
[...]
> I'm not quite sure where to go with this one; not least because I
> don't have a way to reproduce the problem
[...]
I have a Hewlett Packard Model 712/60 workstation running sid, to
which I could give your RSA key login ac
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:41:11PM +0200, Olivier Berger wrote:
> Is there any use in adding your fingerprint to the signature ? ... It
> seems misleading at least, if users think they can trust that... and
> without the public key, it's useless anyway.
It's assumed that your public key can be com
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:59:53PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Even shorter: Sign your mails.
While I won't debate the relative merits, it's definitely not
shorter. According to wc -c your attached PGP signature is 197
characters long.
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On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:00:57AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
[...]
> If you ever reach the actual certificate, you should see the
> issuer is CA Cert, so you should be able to find a way to install
> it.
[...]
On Debian (and thus presumably Ubuntu as well), the public half of
CAcert's Class 1
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 03:26:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> The program is a slideshow-type photo viewer. More specifically,
> it is meant give this functionality on older systems not running
> Gnome or KDE (like mine). It is quite simple, has no extra
> features such as zooming, and
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:18:29AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> We already have the package 'clive' for the same purpose.
And also the youtube-dl package as well.
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:14:42PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> We've been using apt-proxy for about a year, and then found it quite
> buggy. So we moved to using apt-cacher. Now we have loads of problems
> with apt-cacher as well (like currently, a recurring tzdata size
> mismatch error). I was
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:06:10PM -0400, jdgamble wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right group to post to, but I am trying to
> learn how to make deb packages and I seem to go around in circles
> confusing myself.
[...]
It is not. The debian-mentors list is devoted to this particular
topic, s
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:32:14PM -0400, Kris Deugau wrote:
> [This is probably the wrong list for this.]
>
> Ek Zindagoi wrote:
> > I would like to build rpms on a debian system for use on a redhat
> >system. Can I do that on a debian system ?
>
> In short, no; system libraries on a RedHat sys
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:19:45PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
[...]
> Looks good to me at this point. I've gone ahead and uploaded it. You
> should shortly get the notification that it's waiting in NEW.
[...]
Got it--thanks! I'll keep an eye on the new queue and see if/when it
gets into sid.
>
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:45:03AM -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote:
> I received help with the depends scripts earlier but now I have a
> new problem. ${python: depends} is returning a dependency for >
> python 2.3 and << python 2.4. But the package requires python 2.4
> to work. Does anybody know how
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 11:23:31PM +0300, Maxim Vexler wrote:
[...]
> Doing a simple ./configure gets me this :
[...]
The resulting unpacked Debian source package comes with a makefile
at ./debian/rules for configuring, compiling and making the
resulting Debian binary packages.
> So the questions
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:10:34AM +, Anton Piatek wrote:
> I have a feeling you have reinvented the wheel. Sudo can be used without
> a password and can be set on a per-user, per-application basis i.e. give
> user X permission to run Y with/without a password.
Even more flexible, sudo can be
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:17:10AM +0100, Curt Manucredo wrote:
> i could never imagine that it is possible to call a command and then
> have root rights for it, without authentificating on the system with a
> password. so i thought a daemon running as root might solve that problem
> (which i thoug
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:21:56PM +0100, Curt Manucredo wrote:
[...]
> but anyway, next time i can not fall asleep i will ask YOU to read ME
> some manpages ;-)
[...]
My apologies for sounding harsh, but these are basic security
concepts that are fundamental to being able to safely provide
privil
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 09:58:00AM -0300, John Hood wrote:
[...]
> 1. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Binary-Package-Building-HOWTO/
[...]
This is a quick hack for when you have already-compiled software you
want to package for personal use on Debian (commercial applications
or the like).
> 2. http:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:10:48PM -0400, Bryan Donlan wrote:
[...]
> primitives are available for sparc64 as well, but this doesn't
> seem to be an architecture supported by debian - or does it have a
> different name?
[...]
Debian's sparc port supports 64-bit on capable hardware, to my
knowledge
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:07:13AM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
[...]
> an OpenSSH-like library
[...]
What you describe sounds a lot more like OpenSSL than OpenSSH.
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On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 01:27:37PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
[...]
> Technical question: Will things get messed up by renaming the
> source package now? The old lsh (the "light" or "baby" shell lsh)
> is still in oldstable - do we have to wait until sarge is
> archived?
[...]
I'm in a similar
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:08:35PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> The difference is that in your case the other source package is
> called "if-transition", so there should be no technical reason
> stopping you from renaming your package "weather".
>From an archive/build standpoint, I agree. It wo
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:23:20PM +0200, David Dumortier wrote:
[...]
> But I'm a bit confused about the version of the Debian package. Is
> there a licence problem about the version upload ?
[...]
> so I might help for a new release more recent of nagios.
[...]
What version are you looking for?
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:45:54PM +0200, David Dumortier wrote:
[...]
> - for installation I have perms on directories to set, must I put them
> on nagiosgraph.postinst ?
man dh_fixperms
> - what about the version's number ? must I put a 0.9.0 as
> nagiosgraph's version or must I take a 0.9.0-0.
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:53:52PM -0500, Anibal Avelar wrote:
[...]
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.22.1-2
> of my package "centerim".
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> centericq - transitional package for centerim
[...]
If only I were a Debian Developer... As an avid lo
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 09:53:12PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> I am a bit curious why should someone not want to use curses
> but ansi escapes in ruby?
While curses is great for talking to terminals or terminal-like
devices/applications, there are times when you may need to send bare
ANSI or simil
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:30:41PM -0400, Robert James Clay wrote:
> Would I be correct in thinking that it is a bug for files of the
> same name to come from different packages? I ask because there is
> another "ifstat" file in Debian; it's from the ifcico package &
> gets installed in a different
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:02:57PM -, Thomas Dickey wrote:
[...]
> (no point in hardcoding "a few dozen string" definitions, unless
> one _likes_ the nasty comments that people make when they read the
> code ;-)
Completely agree. My point was that, when I've *needed* ANSI color
and similar cap
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:38:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > (no point in hardcoding "a few dozen string" definitions, unless one
> > _likes_ the nasty comments that people make when they read the code ;-)
I took Thomas's comment to mean that it
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:26:37PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-09-17 19:46:20, schrieb David Given:
[...]
> > Now you have both a compiler and a kernel, you can use your
> > compiler to generate a userland --- as set of basic binaries to
> > get your system up and running --- and then
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:34:03PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
[...]
> I'd better see the possibility of getting an access to the offending
> archs to try and figure out what the problems are and to fix them.
> Depending on the archs, it can be easy to get an account (hppa is a very
> good exampl
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:19:12PM +, Neil Williams wrote:
[...]
> What kind of popcon score? i.e. does anyone else think it is a useful
> addition?
I would consider its popularity low (187 popcon installs with 46
votes). Admittedly, Russ sponsored it because he said thought he was
likely to f
On 2012-01-28 17:14:46 +0100 (+0100), Christian Welzel wrote:
[...]
> flex-sdk is licensed unter MPL 1.1
[...]
It's actually the above assertion which is in question and in the
process of being verified, based on my reading.
> The problem is, that the MPL-licensed flex-sdk is not (yet) packaged
>
On 2012-01-28 08:50:32 -0800 (-0800), Joey Parrish wrote:
[...]
> As it stood from Adobe, you had to get the source from SVN, but it
> was full of 1) binaries, 2) forked versions of standard Java libs,
> and 3) outdated versions of standard Java libs. All of these
> things were required in some mix
On 2012-07-16 10:35:03 -0400 (-0400), Aliaksei Sheshka wrote:
> Sorry, but not helpful. They only represent ~13% on nearly default
> Wheezy setup
[...]
While still not a perfect example, my weather-util package has
ISC-licensed and public domain components...
http://packages.debian.org/change
On 2012-07-17 11:38:32 +0530 (+0530), Faheem Mitha wrote:
[...]
> CCL requires itself to build. Since it is not currently in the
> Debian archive, that raises the question of how this should
> happen.
[...]
Having not done this myself, I've seen it discussed ad nauseum on
debian-devel over the yea
On 2012-07-25 15:21:51 + (+), adrelanos wrote:
> I want to create a new package xchat-privacy. Actually no binary files
> need to be installed/replaced. Only a few configuration files have to be
> replaced, such as ~/xchat2/xchat.conf, ~/xchat2/ignore.conf, etc.
>
> What is the correct way
On 2012-08-04 19:22:26 +0200 (+0200), Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> I knew it wasn't going to be into testing soon and it was ok with
> me, but now i am not sure wether compiling with the new hardening
> options is a good reason for asking a freeze exception or not.
Generally, you should only seek a fr
On 2012-09-07 22:32:09 +0300 (+0300), Boris Pek wrote:
[...]
> I need to upload updated package with Ubuntu-specific patch. This
> package will be uploaded into Ubuntu by avoiding Debian archive.
Wouldn't an Ubuntu PPA be more appropriate for that use case? How
does uploading Ubuntu-specific packa
On 2012-09-07 22:57:09 +0300 (+0300), Boris Pek wrote:
[...]
> I usually maintain packages for Debian. But now faced with necessary
> to do Ubuntu-specific update. And usual way of exchanging files is
> not working.
In the past when I've been in that situation, I just open a bug in
Launchpad again
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:36:05AM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote:
[...]
> What really goes on here is that there's a stronger preference towards
> having patches in debian/patches/ m as it is a particular convenience
> for maintainers, as opposed to navigating the source tree for diffs. I
> don't objec
On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 10:19:15AM -0700, Don Raikes wrote:
> This may seem like an odd question, but I am working on some
> debian packages, and would like to put them onto a personal
> package repository so that I can include them in a liveCD I
> maintain.
[...]
I do this (assumed apt-ftparchive
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:04:49AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
[...]
> Or, (ala PINE) the copyright holder could have an odd view of a
> normally acceptable license.
[...]
A less useful example these days, now that recent versions of PINE
(circa Alpine 1.0 in late 2007) are released under
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 08:56:10PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Type the page as a reStructuredText document, then render it to a
> manpage with ‘rst2man’
[...]
Awesome! This thread already had me thinking, "There should be a
reST to TROFF/GROFF path--if there's not I guess I'll write one." I,
too,
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:48:43PM +0200, George Danchev wrote:
> This package is not for us ;-)
[...]
For those who missed the thread on debian-devel, Dario withdrew his
ITP yesterday for similar reasons:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/12/msg00023.html
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:18:22PM +0100, Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hm I'd first consider the size of each of the plugin packages. If
> they're relatively small you could consider grouping them, seems
> like that it is already somewhat done in core, database, encoder,
> metadata, ... if these are no
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:12:16PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> Why not Cc the ITP bug when you send your RFS on -mentors ?
FWIW, I do that (see http://bugs.debian.org/364317 for example)
because, frankly, it seems like the obvious thing to do...
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 09:20:34PM +0100, Erik Schanze wrote:
[...]
> I'm a bit lost to find a way which is compatible to Debian archive and
> packages that are easy to maintain and to follow Debian versions
> (mostly security fixes).
[...]
Have your custom repository use a different distribution
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 10:58:01PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
[...]
> If you use a version control system, there are cvs2cl, svn2cl, git2cl
> and probably other scripts to convert your commit messages into
> GNU-style ChangeLog files, no need to reinvent the wheel here.
[...]
I did anyway--using GitP
On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 02:37:56PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
[...]
> That leaves __one_single__ file (oftpd-0.3.7/COPYING) expressing a
> claim of copyright. The text is below reproduced verbatim. As far
> as I can understand the text there seems to yield no possiblility to
> relate this to
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:52:42PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> You should use python-support.
Yes... in fact, if you use of DH7's rules.tiny example, it will make
python-support fairly automatic (assuming you don't have
particularly unusual build requirements).
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 03:20:10PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what I'm supposed to do with this?
>
> It builds fine in the rest of architectures:
> https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=aqsis
>
> And the log doesn't say anything interesting about what the fa
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:41:53PM +0200, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
[...]
> It takes about ~10 minutes to compile in my 2 year old, dual core
> not very powerful laptop. I don't know how hppa compares to these
> ones, but just in case, buildd official times are:
>
> mipsel: Build
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:35:13PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> Sorry for the ambiguous message subject, one of the packages I am
> building creates configuration files in the users home directory.
> However when I purge the package these files do not get deleted.
>
> Does anyone know where I can
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:11:50PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> Ok, that makes my work easier. Still surprising though, I thought
> the dpkg purge command was meant to as the man page says "remove
> everything". Obviously it cant do this if the home directory is
> off limits.
If you can find where
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:24:51PM +, The Fungi wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 03:11:50PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> > Ok, that makes my work easier. Still surprising though, I thought
> > the dpkg purge command was meant to as the man page says "remove
> > ever
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 04:36:49PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:
> I would be happy for you to file a bug as I am not that familiar with
> the Debian policy on this, and have little experience filing bugs.
Done. See http://bugs.debian.org/593628 and follow up to
593...@bugs.debian.org if you like.
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 09:07:26AM -0700, Gobelli, Marcelo wrote:
> Maybe you can point me to a *reliable* tutorial for debian
> packaging.
[...]
The Debian New Maintainer's Guide is the most recommended:
http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/
The debian-mentors FAQ also has some useful things t
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:46:09PM -0400, Stephen Sinclair wrote:
[...]
> I will assume for now that the vendor's policy is to allow people
> to distribute their header files, since otherwise I can't think of
> any legal way to write open source software that would use their
> device.
Do you have
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:44:56PM -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote:
> wordpress uses /srv/www/.../uploaded pictures
> mediawiki uses /var/lib/mediawiki/images/
>
> Seems like wordpress is doing this correctly - from fhs - /var/lib is for
> "variable state information"
>
> and "/srv : Data for service
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:18:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
[...]
> I recommend against using dates to mark revisions, since there probably
> will be multiple commits in a single day, so there is no way to tell
> which exactly version you did package.
[...]
On one project where I'm upstream (no
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:44:37PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote:
[...]
> Is it always an upstream package worst than a repackaged package?
[...]
>From what I've seen, in most cases, yes.
I am one of the guilty "one pet package" upstream authors who gets
my Debian work uploaded by a graciou
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:49:25AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Personally I believe that Noel's statement is relates to upstream,
> who have their own packaging + their own little repository as
> compared to upstreams like you, who also work on the Debian side.
[...]
Which was more or less my po
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 11:59:27AM +0100, Harald Jenny wrote:
[...]
> Our current idea is to do the installation, run the program in
> postinst to check for config errors and if we find some we issue a
> warning message and cease to restart the daemon - or does anybody
> have a better idea?
Basica
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:49:35AM +0100, Muammar El Khatib wrote:
[...]
> 1.1) There is an error in the link provided in the
> Format-Specification field:
> http://sv.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.mdwn?op=file&rev=135
>
> It should be:
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/dep/web/deps/dep5.m
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:47:28AM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Uhm, sorry, no, file cannot be used to determine encodings. Besides,
> UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII, so everything is all right according
> to file.
A great example is:
fu...@cthulhu:~$ echo // | file -
/dev/stdin: ASCII C++ prog
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:30:08AM +, David Given wrote:
[...]
> at uninstall time neither delete their group, timidity never
> deletes its user at uninstall time at all, and while ssh does
> delete its user, won't this cause problems if orphaned files are
> left with that uid?
[...]
This has
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:33:25PM +, Tony Houghton wrote:
[...]
> I would have thought it would be better to treat them as not to be
> modified by the user/admin; any init configuration should be done via
> /etc/default.
In years gone by, I've frequently had to manually adjust initscript
cont
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:27:39PM +, Tony Houghton wrote:
> I'd consider packages which require editing of the init script instead
> of using /etc/default or similar to be badly designed at best. I know
> fixing the mass of existing packages would be too big a job, but I
> thought it might be
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:21:44PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> What is Debian's policy, if upstream provides its own debian directory
> or package build procedure?
[...]
> Of course I checked Debian's Policy Manual, but AFAICS this subject
> has been successfully ignored by now. Any helpful comme
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:21:57AM +0200, Michael Wild wrote:
[...]
> I'd like the docs only to be built *once* on the build server, not for
> every architecture, since they are architecture independent and building
> them for every architecture would waste hours of time.
[...]
For the moment at l
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 10:02:19AM -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
> I think his package is already Arch:all.
[...]
Ahh, yes, I had missed the package name/source. I agree your
analysis sounds a far more likely scenario given the problem
description.
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 03:49:22PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Agreed. In my packaging, I've been using 0.0.MMDD for that
> purpose - assuming that when/if the upstream developers decide to
> actually roll out a release, they'll use something larger than
> 0.0.1 for a version number :)
Whil
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:28:10AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I see that one uploader of hasciicam is Debian Developer. He is
> the first person to contact for upload or to recommend you as
> Debian Maintainer--that is, to give you upload privilege.
Specifically, according to who-uploads, 1.0-
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:06:25PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> I can't see how someone can claim that AGPL is a free software
> license.
[...]
I was recently reviewing some new software (a FUSE backend) for an
acquaintance who wanted to release it under AGPL3. I did mention to
him the BSD-advert
On 2011-12-16 18:34:22 + (+), Philip Ashmore wrote:
[...]
> I guess I shouldn't post the updates to SourceForge GIT until I
> can get v3c accepted to Debian.
>
> Won't lintian/sponsors complain that the version being submitted
> is newer than the upstream version - the version pointed to b
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