Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]

2003-11-14 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
might have privately replyed, but in this case i'd like the answare to be sent here for logging too. thanks, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Luca, a wannabe

Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]

2003-11-13 Thread Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The fact that i'm not writing mails does not imply that i agree: i'm simply waiting reply to questions i would have asked. Indeed you've at least two seconds to this proposal, but there are still uncovered issue

Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]

2003-11-08 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
ate it with the clean target of debian/rules is dirty trick and is not in the meaning of the target. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Luca, a wannabe ``Good guy

Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]

2003-11-07 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
a new tag in debian/control, implementing debian/rules.version or any other proposal. -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Luca, a wannabe ``Good guy''.

Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]

2003-11-07 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
n another patch, not a solution. The point here is that our sources are becoming more complex each day. We cant go on with patches for long. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ |

Bug#218893: Proposal: debian/rules.version file [Fix for the build-arch problem]

2003-11-05 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
ebian/interface could be a file in which we describe the interface implemented by each component (object) of the source package. $ cat debian/interface rules: , , ... control: , , ... ... ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-

Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses

2003-07-19 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
packages shareing a common license might consider to have a leader package installing their common license under /usr/share/common-license > I think this proposal is a bad idea. I hope it's better now. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as

[PROPOSAL] Policy should not list common licenses but say when a license is common

2003-07-18 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
when a license can be considered common in Debian. I propose to consider common any license that is used by more than X (i suggest X to be 15) absolute number of actively maintained source packages. Licenses that are referenced by less than X-Y (i suggest Y to be 3) source packages, are entitled t

Re: Bug#201883: base-files: Please include Zope Public License in /usr/share/common-licenses

2003-07-18 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
7;ll modify this bug soon. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Luca, a wannabe ``Good guy''. | something in commo

Re: Lintian: image-file-in-usr-lib

2003-03-21 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 03:42:13PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: [...] Sorry, I meant to send that mail to -python, but i used the wrong alias :P ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][-A-Za-z]*[iy]&

Re: Lintian: image-file-in-usr-lib

2003-03-21 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
#x27;ll propose the changes to the upstream. ciao, P.S.: I'm considering the opportunity to package ZEO for zope. Do you think i should go on? -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][-A-Za-z]*[iy]'?s$ | as fine or rude

Re: Joining Maintainer and Uploader filed in a single Maintainers Field

2003-02-08 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:43:30AM +1100, Steve Kowalik wrote: > At 2:20 am, Sunday, February 9 2003, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis mumbled: > I personally think in cases such as alsa-driver and libc6, where you have > the list and all the people who upload the package on one

Joining Maintainer and Uploader filed in a single Maintainers Field

2003-02-08 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
differences among people working on some package. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][-A-Za-z]*[iy]'?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Infinite loop: see `Loop, infinite'.| something in common: they Loop

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-12 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:48:33AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:57:48PM +0100, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis > wrote: > > > > > > URI schemes are not to be used as a means of expressing the purpose of > the URI. I was refering to wik

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
ols in Description: field like: Or whatever. These may easily be parsed and used on packages.debian.org. What about this? ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][-A-Za-z]*[iy]'?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
om to > ; as opposed to the change from > to plus a field for URIs>. The latter is much less intrusive. I would prefer the first, even if it is more intrusive. IMHO an URI filed does not make sense in the package control file, and formatting a source of information (like the copyright

Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

2002-12-11 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
t file can be extracted from the binary packages. Give the copiright file 4 trivial tags, and I'll be hapy to play with them for you. Packaged: Upstream-Authors: Upstream-URI: Copyright: Easy to check, change, extract from binary packages... why not? -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De

Re: [devel-ref, draft 2] homepage in description

2002-12-09 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
tion as the copyright notice; we obviously cannot include the copyright notice in the package control file. My proposal to give a format to the copyright file still stand. This could be the first step, and then we can figure out how to bring this to the users trough dselect etc. ciao, -- Luc

Re: Bug#168761: Documentation is quite messy.

2002-11-12 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
s not to have the same frequency. With this sentence i'm not blaming anyone for this. My offer still stands, even if i suppose i'd contact Randolph Chung first. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][

Re: Objection to change made in debian policy

2002-06-05 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
o me, this demonstrate one of the property of `make', and, at the same time, the fact that with do not have to use only `make', thanks to simple interface. Why do not give me an interface, and let me to use whatever i like? ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant o

Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-26 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
at the election period is over: you were quite friendly. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Luca, a wannabe ``Good guy''.

Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-26 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
cy rocks, and that task may be accomplished be any developer, so the only way i can demonstrate it is doing. ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A-Z][A-Za-z\-]*[iy]'\?s$ | as fine or rude sentences have Luca, a wannabe ``

Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-25 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
eliberately use command -v in my maintainer scripts. Change the rules for all the Debian distribution because you find that 'command -v' is handy, seems quite excessive to me... ciao, -- Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis | Elegant or ugly code as well aliases: Luca ^De [A

Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy

2002-05-25 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
ocs >/dev/null 2>&1; then postinst-suid: if command -v suidregister >/dev/null 2>&1 && [ -e /etc/suid.conf ]; then postrm-suid: command -v suidunregister >/dev/null 2>&1; then prerm-doc-base: command -v install-docs >/dev/null 2>&1; then The same go

Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"

2002-05-03 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
is about freedom. We like open source because it's freedom, it lets you to choose: what if we decide to change to.. rpm? Should we ever achive a sort of consensus on this, a packaging tool independent policy would not need to be changed. Of course, rpm is an example :) ciao, -- Luca - De W

[luca@debian.org: Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practices"]

2002-05-03 Thread Luca - De Whiskey&#x27;s - De Vitis
is mail can be a starting point :) ciao, - Forwarded message from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-project@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Working on debian developer's reference and "best packaging practice