Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-16 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:37:39PM +0200, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I outlined in the mentors.debian.net thread I'm a great fan of not having different uploads with the same revision number. So I'd even like to enforce that uploads to mentors.debian.net with the same revision

Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

2007-07-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear people! I think that I need some of your help. I have filed an ITP bug #433168 http://bugs.debian.org/433168. I have adopted almost the same wording than Dr. Jens Schmalzing, which, as you certainly know, died in 2005. The problem is that the package distributed by Apple (now, APSL v2.0)

RFS: thwab-lib

2007-07-16 Thread Ahmed El-Mahmoudy
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package thwab-lib. * Package name: thwab-lib Version : 1.1.2-1 Upstream Author : Muayyad Saleh Alsadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.thwab.net * License : GPL Section : misc It builds these

Re: Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

2007-07-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Dear mentors, On Jul 16 2007, Rogério Brito wrote: (...) The name of the package is diskdev_cmds-332, which poses a problem, as I understand it. I got a tarball from www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.4/ and put it on my homepage www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/debian/diskdev_cmds-332.tar.gz.

Re: Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

2007-07-16 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Hi, I guess you're trying to package HFS+ tools for Linux ? I already made a package, based on darwin sources + gentoo patches. Here is the package: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/hfsprogs/hfsprogs_332.14-1.dsc (Works on i386 and amd64). Rogério Brito a écrit : Dear mentors,

Re: RFS: libsbc (updated package)

2007-07-16 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
2007/7/14, Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0cvs20070327-2 of my package libsbc. It has only 2 small changes to debian/rules and debian/control need to be lintian checklist compliant. Review will took 5 minutes :) No one interested?

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-16 Thread Thierry Randrianiriana
Hi Michael, Sorry for the delay, I'm very busy these last weeks, I changed the package and uploaded it. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gimmie/gimmie_0.2.7-1.dsc Michael Biebl wrote: Thierry Randrianiriana schrieb: [...] the package looks well done, I only have some smaller

Re: RFS: ftpsync -- fast ftp directory synchronization

2007-07-16 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Am Montag, den 16.07.2007, 06:45 +1000 schrieb Matthew Palmer: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:13:58PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package ftpsync. Any major feature improvements over sitecopy? - Matt ftpsync can create index.html files. Version

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-16 Thread Christoph Haas
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:30:39PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:41:57 +0200 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:31:29AM +0200, I wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: However, the .dsc file

Re: RFS: libsbc (updated package)

2007-07-16 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Krzysztof Burghardt, 16.07.2007 11:24 |=- 2007/7/14, Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.0cvs20070327-2 of my package libsbc. It has only 2 small changes to debian/rules and debian/control need to be lintian checklist compliant. Review

Re: RFS: libsbc (updated package)

2007-07-16 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Krzysztof Burghardt, 16.07.2007 16:37 |=- 2007/7/16, Damyan Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder how these tiny changes result in growing the .diff.gz from 2.4K to 230K :) Was this intentional? It wasn't. Sorry. It seems generated files like Makefile.in got into diff. Yep! I will

RFS: folding (updated package)

2007-07-16 Thread Zachary Palmer
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.04+2 of my package folding. It builds these binary packages: folding- The [EMAIL PROTECTED] distributed computing client The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

2007-07-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Adam. On Jul 16 2007, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: I guess you're trying to package HFS+ tools for Linux ? Yes, exactly. But there wasn't any ITP bug, was there? I didn't see it when I last searched for one, but I may have missed this one. I already made a package, based on darwin sources

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.07.15.1819 +0200]: Martin - my only problem with this collapsing of the changes is that debian/changelog would need to be edited by the sponsor to achieve this without causing yet another rebuild and upload to mentors.d.n cycle. This, I don't

Re: Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

2007-07-16 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
Hi, In fact I just made this quick'n dirty package for my own use and never really planned to upload it into the archive :) However, I'd be really happy if someone else takes care of it. Please go ahead ! PS: Yes sources have been repacked, and dskdev_cmd really doesn't mean anything, so I

ITS: warsow (corrected package)

2007-07-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070716 00:50]: The package appears to be lintian clean. Uh? Definetly not lintian clean. $ lintian warsow_0.31.dfsg-2_i386.changes W: warsow: menu-item-creates-new-section Games/Action /usr/share/menu/warsow:5 W: warsow: wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog

lintian clean? (was: ITS: warsow (corrected package))

2007-07-16 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-16 19:48]: * Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070716 00:50]: The package appears to be lintian clean. Uh? Definetly not lintian clean. [...] Thats why it was change from is to appears to be :) The host running mentors.d.n is not an unstable

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:28:09 +0200 martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, we're not here to agree on one procedure, are we — because we likely never will. True. :-) You gave your new policies and I added my 2¢ in the form of showing you how I do things. Or would like to do them.

Re: Broken uploads to mentors.debian.net

2007-07-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:06:26 +0200 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How come the .dsc file mentions an orig file that is not uploaded? All files mentioned in the .dsc file must be uploaded. I'm confused. Is there some way of detecting a failed FTP upload and removing the

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Thierry Randrianiriana wrote: Hi Michael, Sorry for the delay, I'm very busy these last weeks, I changed the package and uploaded it. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gimmie/gimmie_0.2.7-1.dsc Michael Biebl wrote: 4.) ./configure checks for a couple of python modules like

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-16 Thread Ondrej Certik
There is also another point that I think wasn't yet mentioned - I, as a non DD, create packages mainly because I myself want them, because it is very comfortable. However, with a new package, it takes usually a month or two, until it hits the unstable (many days to find a sponsor and fix all

Re: lintian clean? (was: ITS: warsow (corrected package))

2007-07-16 Thread Alexander Schmehl
[ dropping debian-devel-games; topic moved ] Hi! * Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070716 19:53]: Thats why it was change from is to appears to be :) The host running mentors.d.n is not an unstable box, I guess we have to wait for a new lintian backport or Chris maybe have time to try the

RFS: python-pyxattr (updated package)

2007-07-16 Thread Iustin Pop
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.2-1 of my package python-pyxattr. It builds these binary packages: python-pyxattr - module for manipulating filesystem extended attributes The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 368616, 373348,

Re: lintian clean? (was: ITS: warsow (corrected package))

2007-07-16 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-16 21:28]: [ dropping debian-devel-games; topic moved ] * Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070716 19:53]: Thats why it was change from is to appears to be :) The host running mentors.d.n is not an unstable box, I guess we have to wait for

RFS: envctrl

2007-07-16 Thread David Johnson
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for my package, envctrl. This package contains sources for kernel modules that can only be built on sparc64. I appreciate that this makes the package difficult for most people to sponsor/fully review. If you don't have such a machine, I'd still appreciate

Re: RFS: envctrl

2007-07-16 Thread Julian Andres Klode
At first I am no DD, but here are some notes: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/e/envctrl/envctrl_20070716-1.dsc Please use a better version like 0+20070716, so you can later upload a version like 0.1 to debian without using epochs. Some notes/questions: * the package

Re: RFS: envctrl

2007-07-16 Thread Julian Andres Klode
A few other things: 1. Homepage: http://www.david-web.co.uk/index.php?p=envctrl should be Homepage: http://www.david-web.co.uk/index.php?p=envctrl (with 2 spaces at the beginning) 2. Do not install the modules to /lib/modules/*/extra/, this is only for linux-modules-extra. Maybe install it

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-16 Thread Charlie
Ondrej Certik wrote: There is also another point that I think wasn't yet mentioned - I, as a non DD, create packages mainly because I myself want them, because it is very comfortable. However, with a new package, it takes usually a month or two, until it hits the unstable (many days to

Re: RFS: gimmie

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Michael Biebl wrote: 4.) ./configure checks for a couple of python modules like gmenu etc, which are are not added to the the Depends list of gimmie. Could you elaborate on that? Should these python modules be added to the list of runtime dependencies? fixed, I added these dependencies to

Re: RFS: envctrl

2007-07-16 Thread Kel Modderman
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:42:58 am Julian Andres Klode wrote: 2. Do not install the modules to /lib/modules/*/extra/, this is only for linux-modules-extra. Maybe install it to misc? Please explain where this policy came from? It is news to me. 3. envctrl-modules-_KVERS_.postinst.modules.in

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-16 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -=| Charlie, 17.07.2007 00:04 |=- Ondrej Certik wrote: uploads it to the NEW queue with a version 0.6.0-1, but it waits there for a month, but I need updates of my package now, so I create versions 0.6.0-1oc1, 0.6.0-1oc2, ..., and when the

Re: RFS: envctrl

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Baumann
Kel Modderman wrote: Please explain where this policy came from? It is news to me. if the package is going to be integrated into the conglomeration package, the packages build with m-a shall not install its module into the directory where the conglomeration package does. apart from that, it is