Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> >> Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or > >> assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from > >> the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.) > > You certainly can do that, check out bash/libreadline for instance

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-16 Thread Brian White
> > Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or > > assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from > > the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.) > > Will this be nescessary? The libc5 thing is only temporary, and I do

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-12 Thread Herbert Xu
> On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: >> Another thing to note... Dpkg won't let you build part of a package or >> assign different version numbers to different .deb files created from >> the same source. (At least, I've never been able to get it to do so.) You certainly can do that, check

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-12 Thread Raul Miller
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, another point I am worried about. Included in the tarballs are hooks > into an automated software update mechanism. I have that disabled, as that > would not fit well with the debian way of maintaining things. Anyone else > have ideas on this? On a

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-12 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: > I just uploaded new versions of the netscape3 and netscape4 installers. > They fix all the known bugs. Note that these installers work quite > differently from each other, though that is mostly in the {pre,post}{inst,rm} > scripts. They do have some iden

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-12 Thread Brian White
> > > I intend to package the new communicator that allow free redistribution. > > > It > > > will go into non-free(no source), but at least the users won't have to > > > download the tarball themselves. > > > > That would be great! I posted a couple weeks ago asking for someone to > > help with

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Adam Heath
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Brian White wrote: > > I intend to package the new communicator that allow free redistribution. It > > will go into non-free(no source), but at least the users won't have to > > download the tarball themselves. > > That would be great! I posted a couple weeks ago asking for

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> > Just so there's no confusion: you're refering to the Netscape-branded > > product, right? > > I think we should use the following nomenclature - > > 1. Mozilla - Sources and binaries compiled from the sources downloaded from > http://www.mozilla.org/ > > 2. Netscape Communicator - Binaries d

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Brian White
> I intend to package the new communicator that allow free redistribution. It > will go into non-free(no source), but at least the users won't have to > download the tarball themselves. That would be great! I posted a couple weeks ago asking for someone to help with this because I don't have the

Re: intent to package Netscape Communicator

1998-04-11 Thread Gregory S. Stark
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The nice side effect of my packaging, is that in the original tarball, you > have to download both the static and dynamic versions. My packaging has them > split up. Also, -java is the same between Navigator and Communicator. Any chance of getting a stan