[resent due to majordomo brain fault on oss.sgi.com, excuse [Uu]
nonsense below]
Mark Goodwin wrote:
> > Luc, do you intend to put your (very cool, thank you so
> > much!) pcp & pcpmon packages into [Uu]nstable?
>
> Actually, the pcpmon author is Michal Kara. In any case,
> is "[Uu]nstable" a sort of upload area where the Debian
> folks take/accept stuff for review and possible inclusion
> in their distro?
At any time, there are two Debian distributions. One that
is the official one, that is stable (supposed to have
no bugs :-), and one 'not for the public', which is [Uu]nstable.
The only modifications that can occur in the stable
distribution are bugs corrections or security patches.
So, to add a new package, one has to propose it to the
[Uu]nstable branch, which will become, when a freeze is
declared, a stable version.
Currently, the stable distribution's offcial name is
'Potato'. The next stable will be named 'Woody'. Currerntly,
it is in an [Uu]nstable state.
I made two packages for pcp (and pcpmon). One that has been
compiled on a stable 'Potato' box, and another on a 'Woody'
box. That's why I have two directories on my ftp site.
The difference between both are the dependencies, and the
libraries version they have been compiled with.
libc6 2.2-4 for woody, and libc6 2.1.3-13 for potato, for
example.
The potato version allows current users to install it on
their normal distribution. The woody version allows the
developers/testers/crash tests guys to verify that the
package is compatible with the next stable version.
Oops, I found a bug in my package. but not really critical.
To execute /etc/init.d/pcp, there have to be gawk. On Debian
it is not installed by default. So it will complain a little :-)
I'll add it to the dependencies I already have.
Luc Stepniewski
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