Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-11 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 17:37]: > > Documentation in /usr/lib/foo? > Sorry? I don't understand what documentation you mean. The .ps file _is_ > the resource. Ah, okay. Sorry, I missunderstood that. Yours sincerely, Alexander -- http://learn.to/quote/ http://www.catb.o

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Joe Smith
Basically this is a postscript file that is used more or less as a shared library. It is debians policy to have shared libraies used by more thasn one debian program to be seperated out into its own package, and linked against. That is the goal of this. Terry is mainly asking if packaging this as

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And actually I fail to see what the benefit is of having a small > postscript document showing me something about barcodes as a debian > package? Or am I missing something? The package I just took a > quick view at just contains a postscript file,

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 16:37 +0100, Terry Burton wrote: > I appreciate your efford, but please let me tell you, that it > is > a) highly uncommon to ask for a package sponsor without an url > to the > source packages. > > PostScript is an interpretted lan

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Terry Burton wrote: > PostScript is an interpretted language, so I fail to understand what you > mean by source packages in this context. That word is part of the Debian jargon. You need to learn the essentials of that jargon before you can effectively package anything for Debian. The main sourc

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Terry Burton
I appreciate your efford, but please let me tell you, that it isa) highly uncommon to ask for a package sponsor without an url to the   source packages.   PostScript is an interpretted language, so I fail to understand what you mean by source packages in this context.  b) your package is far from

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Dear Terry, * Terry Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050810 16:36]: > Okay. I've created a Debian package for Barcode Writer in Pure PostScript at > http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter/files/libpostscriptbarcode.deb. > Are there any DDs willing to examine this and, if all is well, upload it >

Re: Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Terry Burton
PostScript project at http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter .   Would this be the most sensible Debian naming strategy for packaging a PostScript resource?   libpostscriptbarcode - for the PostScript resources libperl-postscriptbarcode - for the Perl API, etc.   Is there a maintainer w

Packaging a PostScript resource

2005-08-10 Thread Terry Burton
http://www.terryburton.co.uk/barcodewriter .   Would this be the most sensible Debian naming strategy for packaging a PostScript resource?   libpostscriptbarcode - for the PostScript resources libperl-postscriptbarcode - for the Perl API, etc.   Is there a maintainer who would be willing to examine