debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I'm trying to create my first package, and don't know what to do to get debian/rules to run ./configure. Eg: $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot dpkg-buildpackage: source package is fastdep dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.15-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Zenaan Harkne

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:32, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 04:38:42PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I'm trying to create my first package, and don't know what to do to get > > debian/rules to run ./configure. Eg: > > Assuming you used dh_make, de

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Tar bz2-ing the whole tree (upstream source + my debian subdir) results in 65KB file. Is it better to post this to the list, or just to yourself? tia zen

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Maybe that could help. What about just the whole Debian source > you're working with? Then maybe we could get cooking. Of course, I could upload the files and point to them - doh! Here are * entire tree, not including parent files (eg. .dsc, etc) (upstream + debian subdir): http://homepages.ihu

Re: RFS: avrdude - Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > Description: Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers Just a thought - perhaps, to find someone who would be personally interested in the package, is it sensible to post an RFS to a more specific list? learning zen

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Here are > * entire tree, not including parent files (eg. .dsc, etc) (upstream + > debian subdir): > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/tmp/zenaan/files/fastdep/fastdep-0.15+debian.tbz2 > > * just the debian/ subdir: > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/tmp/zenaan/files/fastdep/fastdep-0.15-

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
What happens when you do debian/rules config.status? $ ./debian/rules config.status dh_testdir # Add here commands to configure the package. CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 ./configure --host=i386-linux --build=i386-linux --prefix=/usr --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info /bin/sh: lin

Re: RFS: avrdude - Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Do you have any suggestions where? It is a very specific package. [EMAIL PROTECTED] may be, or at least someone there might know if there's a better place/ list - just guessing though, as ... > The upstream author is willing to publish the .deb-files at his download > site, > but I would pref

DeMuDi

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does it make sense for a separate "community" style distribution, such as DeMuDi (Debian Multimedia Distribution - see www.agnula.org)?? AGNULA is making a Red-Hat based (ReHMuDi) as well as the Debian based distribution. In my mind, at least before Fedora, it makes sense to have a "red hat based

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> - ie. I want to figure out why it does not run ./configure (properly?) ?? Should have added "now that I've got quotes around my CFLAGS argument" - the point being, it looks to me like ./configure is not getting called at all. tia zen

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> This should read: > CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \ > > Seems to be a dh_make bug to me?!? I think so. Thanks, and to Andreas too. Zen.

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 21:06, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:22:26PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > What happens when you do debian/rules config.status? > > > > $ ./debian/rules config.status > > dh_testdir > > # Add here commands to config

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

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Just been tinkering with jackstart and findout out what suid bit means. I think that the following would be a useful way to have audio software that requires "root" privileges set up: dpkg-statoverride --update --add root audio 4754 \ /usr/bin/jackstart What this says is that each time the file

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

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Debian packaging policy > (usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-files.html#s10.9) says to > have root.root and rwxr-xr-w perms. But in this case I am thinking that Should have read the whole page first... time for bed for me. cheers zen

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

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > Is there a policy for audio apps in this regard? > > No, but there should be, probably. Since there are a lot of audio applications starting to hit sid, eg. jackd, ardour, etc, where would be the place to discuss "policy" in this regard - eg., having an audio group, and suid/sgid on these app

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

2003-10-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > > dpkg-statoverride --update --add root audio 4754 \ > > > /usr/bin/jackstart > > [...] > > > If jackstart always _requires_ SUID root you should not use > > dpkg-statoverride but ship it SUID in the deb. > > If it requires SUID root, then the package is almost certainly buggy. > Please use

Re: DeMuDi

2003-10-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:01, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2003-10-26 20:29:55 + Francesco Paolo Lovergine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200302/msg00567.html > > I really dislike references given without summaries. For offline > readers, this

Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This is a follow up to the jackd/ dpkg-statoverride thread, and a request for comment on the below. Once informally vetted here, I will post to debiam-multimedia. Input appreciated Zen --- Title: Audio Apps Mini Policy Authors: Zenaan Harkness Version: 0.1 Date: 2003-10-28 Applicability: Audio

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

2003-10-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > If it requires SUID 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. > > Sorry to not clarify earlier - it

Re: Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:47, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:43:07PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Audio applications or applets (ie. executable files) requiring realtime > > privileges should be installed as follows: > > - user = root > > - gr

fw: jackd/ audio apps mini policy

2003-11-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
(Thread was on debian-mentors, now being moved to debian-multimedia for those interested...) -Forwarded Message- > From: Robert Joerdens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > That's it for now. Do you guys think a small policy/ re

upstream README

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
If the upstream readme file has, in this case an out of date version number, should I just leave that as is (it has a comprehensive and updated changelog file)? tia zen

html documentation - symbolic links

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
It seems the debuild chain converts symbolic (documentation) links to file copies. Should this be so? My reading of policy says it is up to the maintainer. If this is good practice (as I (naively?) assume) how do I get around this? In my case: the package has: /usr/share/doc/fastdep/html/fastdep.

config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub endif ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess endif Three q

fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/ Sorry it's taken a month, but there in the end... Updated to new upstream release (which includes manpage I submitted upstream), fastdep-0.16. Get it while it's hot... Zenaan (PS RFS while we're here...)

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:31, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/ > > Sorry it's taken a month, but there in the end... > > Updated to new upstream release (which includes manpage I submitted > upstream), fastdep-0.16. > > Get

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:14, Neil Spring wrote: > On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" > >

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" &q

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > - why are these two files copied in? > > Three days ago there was > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200311/msg00030.ht

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:01, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:48:28PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > $ lintian -i *changes > > W: fastdep source: newer-standards-version 3.6.0 > > Note, 3.6.1.0 is the most current. Take a look at > /usr/share/doc

fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:27:23 +1100 Source: fastdep Binary: fastdep Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.16-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 02:03, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Geez, slow down! :P Today fastdep, tomorrow... the world? :) Absolutely. Gotta change the world yesterday, in fact. Although such a POV has been known to cause anxiety and frustration ...

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:41, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Should I email this to the debhelper script maintainer? > > > > Only if you want me to bounce it to the maintainer of the

Re: fw: jackd/ audio apps mini policy

2003-11-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:40, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I thought jackstart was essentially equivalent to a generic wrapper > > - both require RTcap-patched kernel. Which would mean the only > > difference between 2 and 3

recommended sid upgrade method

2003-11-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
nce in download size between 2) and 3). I guess I need to read the man pages to grok the difference there again too. Finally, now there is 5), and I wonder which one it corresponds to... Any ideas appreciated Zenaan -- Mr Zenaan Harkness Phone +61 (0)412 166 990 Please respect the confidentiality of this email.

RFS (Re: fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb)

2003-11-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:11, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Here goes round 3 ... found in the usual place, with the usual links to > the .deb, the directory containing all the build files, the parent > directory, etc. > > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/ This pac

Re: recommended sid upgrade method

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 03:33, Colin Whittaker wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:49:03PM -0500, Neil Roeth wrote: > > On Nov 18, Zenaan Harkness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > apt-get update && apt-get -dy dist-upgrade > > > > and then use "

Re: RFS: fai-bootcd

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Have you forwarded this to Klaus Knopper - does someone have a suitable address to mail it to? That would seem to me to be a useful thing to do. This also sounds like a potentially very useful "enterprise" related package. cheers zenaan

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

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
ter I tried to explain him my ideas. He kind of applied > this idea for PowerPC. Unfortunately I was not able to contact him since > the Alioth project was started. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. -- Mr Zenaan Harkness Phone +61 (0)412 166 990 Please respect the confidentiality of this email.

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

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:40, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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? Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 18:02, Halim Boukaram wrote: > This is my second email. will it reach? > > I've written a fast C library for numerical analysis. > > -integration > -differential equations > -root finding > -interpolation > -fourier analysis > -ploting curves > -misc functions such as rect

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
See my comments below. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 19:04, Halim Boukaram wrote: > I don't know enough to really know, but it sure sounds > impressive. > > Presumably you are aware of the various GNU projects for these > sorts of > libraries? > >

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> PS: > > Zen my library is perfect but if you want I'll try my best to > add some bugs Hey, your libary may well be perfect :) More power to you, dude! http://www.gnu.org/directory/ is the top level GNU software page, and here is the GNU mathematics packages page: http

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 22:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Initially, the simplest route is to find some place to upload it (eg. > create a sourceforge site) and tell people about it - announce it to the > Debian.org, www.GNU.org and Slashdot.org websites. And be sure to clearly state the lic

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 03:33, Craig P. Steffen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Halim, > > If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging > your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as > sys-admins on Linux systems, and th

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: > > > > sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is > > > in > > > .rpm, because that's what they know. >

Packaging .deb vs .rpm - Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 07:49, R. Wood wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:36:11AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness imagined: > > On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > #include > > > > Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: > > > > >

debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I'm trying to create my first package, and don't know what to do to get debian/rules to run ./configure. Eg: $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot dpkg-buildpackage: source package is fastdep dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.15-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Zenaan Harkne

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:32, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 04:38:42PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I'm trying to create my first package, and don't know what to do to get > > debian/rules to run ./configure. Eg: > > Assuming you used dh_make, de

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Tar bz2-ing the whole tree (upstream source + my debian subdir) results in 65KB file. Is it better to post this to the list, or just to yourself? tia zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Maybe that could help. What about just the whole Debian source > you're working with? Then maybe we could get cooking. Of course, I could upload the files and point to them - doh! Here are * entire tree, not including parent files (eg. .dsc, etc) (upstream + debian subdir): http://homepages.ihu

Re: RFS: avrdude - Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > Description: Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers Just a thought - perhaps, to find someone who would be personally interested in the package, is it sensible to post an RFS to a more specific list? learning zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Here are > * entire tree, not including parent files (eg. .dsc, etc) (upstream + > debian subdir): > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/tmp/zenaan/files/fastdep/fastdep-0.15+debian.tbz2 > > * just the debian/ subdir: > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/tmp/zenaan/files/fastdep/fastdep-0.15-

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
What happens when you do debian/rules config.status? $ ./debian/rules config.status dh_testdir # Add here commands to configure the package. CFLAGS=-Wall -g -O2 ./configure --host=i386-linux --build=i386-linux --prefix=/usr --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info /bin/sh: lin

Re: RFS: avrdude - Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Do you have any suggestions where? It is a very specific package. [EMAIL PROTECTED] may be, or at least someone there might know if there's a better place/ list - just guessing though, as ... > The upstream author is willing to publish the .deb-files at his download site, > but I would prefer

DeMuDi

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does it make sense for a separate "community" style distribution, such as DeMuDi (Debian Multimedia Distribution - see www.agnula.org)?? AGNULA is making a Red-Hat based (ReHMuDi) as well as the Debian based distribution. In my mind, at least before Fedora, it makes sense to have a "red hat based

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> - ie. I want to figure out why it does not run ./configure (properly?) ?? Should have added "now that I've got quotes around my CFLAGS argument" - the point being, it looks to me like ./configure is not getting called at all. tia zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> This should read: > CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS)" ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \ > > Seems to be a dh_make bug to me?!? I think so. Thanks, and to Andreas too. Zen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian/rules not running ./configure

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 21:06, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 08:22:26PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > What happens when you do debian/rules config.status? > > > > $ ./debian/rules config.status > > dh_testdir > > # Add here commands to config

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

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Just been tinkering with jackstart and findout out what suid bit means. I think that the following would be a useful way to have audio software that requires "root" privileges set up: dpkg-statoverride --update --add root audio 4754 \ /usr/bin/jackstart What this says is that each time the file

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

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> Debian packaging policy > (usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-files.html#s10.9) says to > have root.root and rwxr-xr-w perms. But in this case I am thinking that Should have read the whole page first... time for bed for me. cheers zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

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

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > Is there a policy for audio apps in this regard? > > No, but there should be, probably. Since there are a lot of audio applications starting to hit sid, eg. jackd, ardour, etc, where would be the place to discuss "policy" in this regard - eg., having an audio group, and suid/sgid on these app

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

2003-10-26 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > > dpkg-statoverride --update --add root audio 4754 \ > > > /usr/bin/jackstart > > [...] > > > If jackstart always _requires_ SUID root you should not use > > dpkg-statoverride but ship it SUID in the deb. > > If it requires SUID root, then the package is almost certainly buggy. > Please use

Re: DeMuDi

2003-10-27 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:01, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2003-10-26 20:29:55 + Francesco Paolo Lovergine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200302/msg00567.html > > I really dislike references given without summaries. For offline > readers, this

Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
This is a follow up to the jackd/ dpkg-statoverride thread, and a request for comment on the below. Once informally vetted here, I will post to debiam-multimedia. Input appreciated Zen --- Title: Audio Apps Mini Policy Authors: Zenaan Harkness Version: 0.1 Date: 2003-10-28 Applicability: Audio

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

2003-10-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> > If it requires SUID 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. > > Sorry to not clarify earlier - it

Re: Audio Apps Mini-Policy, v0.1

2003-10-28 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:47, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:43:07PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Audio applications or applets (ie. executable files) requiring realtime > > privileges should be installed as follows: > > - user = root > > - gr

fw: jackd/ audio apps mini policy

2003-11-01 Thread Zenaan Harkness
(Thread was on debian-mentors, now being moved to debian-multimedia for those interested...) -Forwarded Message- > From: Robert Joerdens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > That's it for now. Do you guys think a small policy/ re

upstream README

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
If the upstream readme file has, in this case an out of date version number, should I just leave that as is (it has a comprehensive and updated changelog file)? tia zen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

html documentation - symbolic links

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
It seems the debuild chain converts symbolic (documentation) links to file copies. Should this be so? My reading of policy says it is up to the maintainer. If this is good practice (as I (naively?) assume) how do I get around this? In my case: the package has: /usr/share/doc/fastdep/html/fastdep.

config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.sub config.sub endif ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.guess)" "" cp -f /usr/share/misc/config.guess config.guess endif Three q

fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/ Sorry it's taken a month, but there in the end... Updated to new upstream release (which includes manpage I submitted upstream), fastdep-0.16. Get it while it's hot... Zenaan (PS RFS while we're here...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:31, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/ > > Sorry it's taken a month, but there in the end... > > Updated to new upstream release (which includes manpage I submitted > upstream), fastdep-0.16. > > Get

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:14, Neil Spring wrote: > On Nov 5, 2003, at 4:53 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" "" > >

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:58, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" ""

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > debhelper puts the following into the "clean" rule in debian/rules: > > > > ifneq "$(wildcard /usr/share/misc/config.sub)" &q

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:36, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:53:48AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > - why are these two files copied in? > > Three days ago there was > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/debian-mentors-200311/msg00030.html

Re: fastdep finally packaged

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:01, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:48:28PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > $ lintian -i *changes > > W: fastdep source: newer-standards-version 3.6.0 > > Note, 3.6.1.0 is the most current. Take a look at > /usr/share/doc

fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 20:27:23 +1100 Source: fastdep Binary: fastdep Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.16-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 02:03, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Geez, slow down! :P Today fastdep, tomorrow... the world? :) Absolutely. Gotta change the world yesterday, in fact. Although such a POV has been known to cause anxiety and frustration ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: config.sub and config.guess | .diff.gz bloat

2003-11-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:41, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:42:59PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Should I email this to the debhelper script maintainer? > > > > Only if you want me to bounce it to the maintainer of the

Re: fw: jackd/ audio apps mini policy

2003-11-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:40, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I thought jackstart was essentially equivalent to a generic wrapper > > - both require RTcap-patched kernel. Which would mean the only > > difference between 2 and 3

recommended sid upgrade method

2003-11-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
nce in download size between 2) and 3). I guess I need to read the man pages to grok the difference there again too. Finally, now there is 5), and I wonder which one it corresponds to... Any ideas appreciated Zenaan -- Mr Zenaan Harkness Phone +61 (0)412 166 990 Please respect the confidentialit

RFS (Re: fastdep_0.16-2_i386.deb)

2003-11-18 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 22:11, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Here goes round 3 ... found in the usual place, with the usual links to > the .deb, the directory containing all the build files, the parent > directory, etc. > > http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~zenaan/zenaan/files/ This pac

Re: recommended sid upgrade method

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 03:33, Colin Whittaker wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:49:03PM -0500, Neil Roeth wrote: > > On Nov 18, Zenaan Harkness ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > apt-get update && apt-get -dy dist-upgrade > > > > and then use "

Re: RFS: fai-bootcd

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Have you forwarded this to Klaus Knopper - does someone have a suitable address to mail it to? That would seem to me to be a useful thing to do. This also sounds like a potentially very useful "enterprise" related package. cheers zenaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

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

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
n me after I tried to explain him my ideas. He kind of applied > this idea for PowerPC. Unfortunately I was not able to contact him since > the Alioth project was started. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. -- Mr Zenaan Harkness Phone +61 (0)412 166 990 Please respe

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

2003-11-20 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 02:40, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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? Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 18:02, Halim Boukaram wrote: > This is my second email. will it reach? > > I've written a fast C library for numerical analysis. > > -integration > -differential equations > -root finding > -interpolation > -fourier analysis > -ploting curves > -misc functions such as rect

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
See my comments below. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 19:04, Halim Boukaram wrote: > I don't know enough to really know, but it sure sounds > impressive. > > Presumably you are aware of the various GNU projects for these > sorts of > libraries? > >

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
> PS: > > Zen my library is perfect but if you want I'll try my best to > add some bugs Hey, your libary may well be perfect :) More power to you, dude! http://www.gnu.org/directory/ is the top level GNU software page, and here is the GNU mathematics packages page: http

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 22:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Initially, the simplest route is to find some place to upload it (eg. > create a sourceforge site) and tell people about it - announce it to the > Debian.org, www.GNU.org and Slashdot.org websites. And be sure to clearly state the lic

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-06 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 03:33, Craig P. Steffen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Halim, > > If you want it to be widely usable, then I would also suggest packaging > your software in .rpm format. I know a lot of people who work as > sys-admins on Linux systems, and th

Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: > > > > sys-admins on Linux systems, and they feel much better when software is in > > > .rpm, because that's what they know. > > > &

Packaging .deb vs .rpm - Re: C library for numerical analysis and math

2004-02-07 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Sun, 2004-02-08 at 07:49, R. Wood wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 07:36:11AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness imagined: > > On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 22:48, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > #include > > > > Zenaan Harkness [Sat, Feb 07 2004, 04:20:47AM]: > > > > >