Re: Bug#19503: sp: Illegal version number

1998-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This bug was my mistake. I have also closed it, trhe very same day, as soon as blood returned to my brain and I could think again. manoj >>"Yann" == Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Package: sp Version: 1.3-1.1-2 Severity: importan

Re: GIMP depends on fonts, but fonts don't have to be in a package..

1998-03-14 Thread Herbert Xu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > How can I provide for this in the GIMP package? If I remove the > dependancy on xfnt75 and xfnt100, I'll get bug reports that GIMP > crashes without informative information (it's because it needs the > fonts and can't get them). If I leave the dependancy

Re: GIMP depends on fonts, but fonts don't have to be in a package..

1998-03-14 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, > GIMP *needs* access to the 75bpp X fonts *and* the 100bpp X fonts. So > I made the gimp package depend on xfnt75 and xfnt100. No problems > there, but some people don't install xfnt75 and xfnt100, and instead > use xfs to serve the fonts out. Just to make it clear, my situation is somewhat

Re: GIMP depends on fonts, but fonts don't have to be in a package..

1998-03-14 Thread Mark W. Eichin
I'm not sure of a good way. There are other bug reports because of the dependencies within X11. Perhaps something like an "xfs-client" dummy package that provides serveral xfnt values? The problem is the need to go around the system a bit - after all, you don't really *know* what fonts xfs will

Re: Bug#14600: GIMP depends on fonts, but fonts don't have to be in a package..

1998-03-14 Thread Mark Baker
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 12:06:03PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > How can I provide for this in the GIMP package? If I remove the > dependancy on xfnt75 and xfnt100, I'll get bug reports that GIMP > crashes without informative information You'll get them anyway. Depending on fonts being installe

Re: Bug#19503: sp: Illegal version number

1998-03-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Yann Dirson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Package: sp > > Version: 1.3-1.1-2 > > Severity: important > What do other think ? It certianly will compare correctly, so long as you realize that - compared to any other single character will loose. Jason -- E-mail

Re: Apology to the authors of helper packages

1998-03-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
The statement was reasonable in the context of Manoj's demand to a new developer that he be an expert on shell scripts. No one is an expert on everything and we need to combine our talents. Variety is good. Someone might not know much about shell scripts but be an expert in C++. Debian can have all

Re: Bug#19503: sp: Illegal version number

1998-03-14 Thread Yann Dirson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Package: sp > Version: 1.3-1.1-2 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > This is not a legal version number. I (who suggested this version number for sp) use such a numbering scheme for packages ss2g, comerr2g, ssg-dev, comerrg-dev, which are, as sp_1.3 is inclu

Re: Apology to the authors of helper packages

1998-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This is old hat, and I think it should not be raked up again, but: >>"Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> The statement was reasonable in the context of Manoj's Christoph> demand to a new developer that he be an expert on shell Christoph> scripts.

Wht remove /usr/local dirs in prerm rather than postrm?

1998-03-14 Thread Rob Browning
Is there some good reason? I guess it depends on the interpretation of "postrm". It seemed to me like it might make sense to remove them in the postrm where you know that anything that might have referenced this directory is gone, and can't be executed again. Just curious. I don't think it'll