Is there a policy for the .desktop files?

2006-04-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all. Applications can be listed in the non-debian menu of desktop managers such as Gnome and Kde by dropping a applicationname.desktop file in /usr/share/applications/. There is a lot activity in Ubuntu to provide applicationname.desktop files to packages which lack them, so I decided to write

Re: Bug#354674: What on earth?

2006-04-15 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:58:05 -0400, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I agree and I take full responsibility for the issue. I'm sorry for the >trouble. I'm fully willing to put back the .la files on request from the >release team, who I should definitely have coordinated with beforehand. >N

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GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread davidek
Dear experts, I am trying to build my own debian packages with GPG signature. I set up gnupg, ran gpg and gpg --gen-key and also filled the variable default-key with my generated keyID in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf. I thought that this is all I have to do, since Debian Maintainer's guide claims that

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:19:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > dpkg-deb: building package `sshguard' in `../sshguard_1.0.0-4_all.deb'. > signfile sshguard_1.0.0-4.dsc > gpg: skipped "Tomas Davidek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>": secret key not > available > gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed:

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Manoj Srivastava: > >> Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is >> technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally viable >> technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The primary >> purpose of

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As other people have pointed out later in the thread, my point was > that I was _not_ having an epoch with dots in it; my version string > was 0:1.2.7:1.2.8-1, which is explicitly allowed by policy (if there > is an epoch, then the upstream version

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:19:33AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> dpkg-deb: building package `sshguard' in `../sshguard_1.0.0-4_all.deb'. >> signfile sshguard_1.0.0-4.dsc >> gpg: skipped "Tomas Davidek <[EMA

Fwd: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-15 Thread Jan-David Salchow
hi auf der debian-devel liste findet gerade eine diskusion ueber einen debian light desktop. hier der stein des anstosses. jan-david "André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > I'm creating a meta package for install a lite desktop for old > machines with poor hardware

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On 14 Apr 2006, Florian Weimer spake thusly: > * Manoj Srivastava: > >> Not quite correct. Policy has the job of docmenting what is >> technically correct, and selecting one of a number of equally >> viable technical options where numerous possibilities exist. The >> primary purpose of policy is

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread Andreas Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear experts, >I am trying to build my own debian packages with GPG signature. I set > up gnupg, ran gpg and gpg --gen-key and also filled the variable > default-key with my generated keyID in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf. I thought that > this is all I have to do, since Debi

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Metzler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Dear experts, >>I am trying to build my own debian packages with GPG signature. I set >> up gnupg, ran gpg and gpg --gen-key and also filled the variable >> default-key with my generated keyID

Re: Is there a policy for the .desktop files?

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Haas
Charles... On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:38:59AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Applications can be listed in the non-debian menu of desktop managers > such as Gnome and Kde by dropping a applicationname.desktop file in > /usr/share/applications/. > > There is a lot activity in Ubuntu to provide app

Possible conflict with XFree 4.5

2006-04-15 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I think that we have a problem when the common library between XFree and /usr/lib are update in /usr/lib. I currently have XFree 4.5, when the library libfontconfig1 was update to version 2.3.2-1 was also updated the file libfontconfig.so to the version 1.0.4 but in the XFree (/usr/X11

Re: regarding gerris package

2006-04-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Hi Kamaraju, On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:33:09AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354032 > > asking for the latest version (0.8.0) of gerris which has been > available since Oct 17, 2005. I have not received any reply to this > bug report e

Bug#362793: ITP: sks -- Cryptographic tool based on ECC

2006-04-15 Thread Nacho Barrientos Arias
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sks Version : 0.92-1 Upstream Author : Nacho Barrientos Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pagina.de/sks * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#362809: ITP: libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl -- Perl module to access OpenSSL multipresicion integer arithmetic libraries.

2006-04-15 Thread Luk Claes
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Ian Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://cpan.org/ * License : same as Perl Programming Lang: Perl Des

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 03:54:27PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As other people have pointed out later in the thread, my point was >> that I was _not_ having an epoch with dots in it; my version string >> was 0:1.2.7:1.2.8-1, which is expli

Re: GPG signing of debian packages

2006-04-15 Thread Jens Peter Secher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Metzler wrote: > - I personally always run dpkg-buildpackage with -uc -us and use > debsign -kkeyid foo_changes to sign the /final/ packages > afterwards. I usually build the packages more than once before > uploading as I often find som

Re: Debian Light Desktop - meta package

2006-04-15 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Christian Perrier wrote: > Well, I haven't followed the rest of the thread (the part where people > wonder which package could pertain to a "Light desktop" task) but I've > seen Joey suggest himself to turn it into a task. So have I. But I am against it nevertheless. Do not get me wrong. I am no

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 14, 2006

2006-04-15 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Felipe Sateler 2006-04-14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Shouldn't package maintainers close these bugs when they have > received help? Yes, definitely. If you are aware of any "solved" RFH bugs, could you ping the maintainers? Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/ signature.asc Des

Re: Upload getting lost

2006-04-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Apt on the other hand (wrongfully) tracks explicitly if you have not >> epoch or an epoch of 0. > > Crap. :-( I forgot to remove the explicit zero epoch from my next > upload. Are you telling me that if I leave no epoch in my following > upload, ap

Bug#362856: ITP: yeahconsole -- drop-down X terminal emulator wrapper

2006-04-15 Thread Damián Viano
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Damián Viano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: yeahconsole Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : knorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://phrat.de/yeahtools.html * License : GPL2 Description : drop-down X terminal e

libgtk2.0-0: changelog.Debian.gz is not an upstream changelog

2006-04-15 Thread Christian Marillat
Package: libgtk2.0-0 Version: 2.8.17-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 4.4 Hi, Apparently you don't understand (or don't care), because this is the second time I file the same bug report (#344125), but as this package isn't a native package the upstream changelog should not be here. If I