Re: RFS: libtie-cache-perl (updated package)

2008-03-04 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Deepak Tripathi, Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 09:07:15PM +0530 |=- Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.17-4 of my package libtie-cache-perl. Deepak, You're a member of pkg-perl Is there any particular reason not to add libtie-cache-perl to group's packages and

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:06:10PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote.. I looked at rhinote again. Looks o.k. except for one small thing in the debian/changelog ... Fixed. The package is at the usual location. Andrea Your md5sum check between upstream's file and your .orig.tar.gz file

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:57:33 -0500 Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your md5sum check between upstream's file and your .orig.tar.gz file do not match. This needs to be addressed. This is quite strange. I'll check as soon as the upstream site goes back online -- there seems to be some

NMU package: bitcollider

2008-03-04 Thread Salvatore Ansani
Hi guys, I made a new version of bitcollider package (revision: 0.6.0-1.1). Can I safely upload it on mentors ?? I need to respect any policy before upload ?? I sent an email to old mantainer but I didn't receive any response. Regards, Salvatore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:37:11 +0100 Andrea Bolognani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:57:33 -0500 Kevin Coyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your md5sum check between upstream's file and your .orig.tar.gz file do not match. This needs to be addressed. This is quite strange.

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:45:24PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote.. So apparently the different md5sum is due to the fact the upstream tarball was created from a FAT filesystem, while the one in Debian's archives was created by dpkg-buildpackage on a GNU/Linux system (compression level

Re: RFS: libtie-cache-perl (updated package)

2008-03-04 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Hi Dam, there is not a particular reason but when i first started this package i was not member after that i was become an member and after which i am maintaining in perl it is under Debian-perl Group. PS: I will put next release from Debian-perl Thanks Deepak Tripathi On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at

Re: NMU package: bitcollider

2008-03-04 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Salvatore Ansani wrote: Hi guys, I made a new version of bitcollider package (revision: 0.6.0-1.1). Can I safely upload it on mentors ?? I need to respect any policy before upload ?? I sent an email to old mantainer but I didn't receive any response. As I understand

RFS: gruler - measure objects on screen with a variety of metrics

2008-03-04 Thread Siegfried-Angel
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my new package gruler. * Package name: gruler Version: 0.8-1 Upstream Author: Ian McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL: http://gnomecoder.wordpress.com/screenruler/ * License: GPLv2+ Section: utils It only build one binary, with the same name as

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-04 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:45:24PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote.. So apparently the different md5sum is due to the fact the upstream tarball was created from a FAT filesystem, while the one in Debian's archives was created by dpkg-buildpackage on a GNU/Linux system (compression level

Re: RFS: NMU: orange -- extracts CAB files from self-extracting installers

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 16:07 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Barry deFreese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is another one of my way too intrusive NMUs that closes RC bug #465633 and bug #400257 as well as quite a bit of package cleanup, standards update, etc.

Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
I've been busy with other things elsewhere but some recent uploads from mentors are confusing me and potentially giving the wrong impression to those whom we mentor and sponsor, IMHO. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg2.html I hope to see you all there fixing bugs

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Neil Williams
2. Perhaps it would be better to have all of the source code changes done through dpatch or quilt. I know this is an NMU and being unobtrusive is important, but there are quite a few upstream source code changes which I think would be better off in a patch system.

how to make a binary-indep package?

2008-03-04 Thread William Francis
I have a collection of files that I wish to put into a debian package. none need compilation as they are just scripts and config files and there is no Makefile of any kind. From my reading, I've made a .tar file with my directory structure in it then run dh_make and then edited the control file

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Cyril Brulebois
On 04/03/2008, Neil Williams wrote: So why are we doing this now? This is an NMU - minimal changes scenario. Well, maybe the world isn't *that* black and white. Remember, NMUs are a way to help people fix their bugs, get their packages back into shape, etc. IANADD, etc., but I already got a

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Barry deFreese
Cyril Brulebois wrote: On 04/03/2008, Neil Williams wrote: So why are we doing this now? This is an NMU - minimal changes scenario. Well, maybe the world isn't *that* black and white. Remember, NMUs are a way to help people fix their bugs, get their packages back into shape, etc.

Re: RFS: nettee

2008-03-04 Thread Joel Franco
On Sat 23 Feb 08 14:02, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Hi, On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:46:27PM -0300, Joel Franco wrote: A long description is really difficult because the 2 words say all :) no, they don't. Imagine you would be someone who is interested in cloning a system, but you never heard about

Re: RFS: NMU: orange -- extracts CAB files from self-extracting installers

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neither orange in the archive nor the result of your NMU even work for zip files (with unzip installed) nor other files where it should work. From strace, it looks like it is acually extracting stuff, but then

Re: how to make a binary-indep package?

2008-03-04 Thread Mauro Lizaur
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:06 PM, William Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there an example of a rules file for this case somewhere? Will I would recommend you to take alook at the font packages for example, ttf-summersby which simply installs a ttf font type and doesn't compile anything

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008, Neil Williams wrote: Note: only fix bugs that are already filed to the BTS The rest of the normal NMU rules still apply: The following quote invites other fixes as well! On Sun, 02 Mar 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:37 +, Neil Williams wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rcalc/rcalc_0.5.0-1.3.dsc http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rcalc/news/20080303T143226Z.html This NMU seems to introduce more changes than allowed via NMU. So I agree with Neil Williams on his

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 21:31 -0500, Barry deFreese wrote: I agree with William, I'm glad that you agree with Neil Williams. I need to watch my Ps and Qs. However, in this case voc is MIA. I don't think that Sam is MIA. So ideally I suppose what I should do is orphan the package and

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:37 +, Neil Williams wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rcalc/rcalc_0.5.0-1.3.dsc http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rcalc/news/20080303T143226Z.html This NMU seems to

Re: Requests for sponsors to upload NMUs

2008-03-04 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:57 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Bart Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 23:37 +, Neil Williams wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rcalc/rcalc_0.5.0-1.3.dsc

Re: bits from the DMs/NMs/AMs?

2008-03-04 Thread Neutron Soutmun
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Wise wrote: If you are in NM, a DM, an AM, just having packages sponsored by DDs or maybe recently became a DD, I'd love to hear from you. Hello, For the reason which I choose debian because it is the high quality distro that I ever met.