Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, don't know why I broke off mid-sentence like that. My point was that porting 0 A.D. to work with newer versions of Spidermonkey seems to be

Re: RFC/RFS: hg-fast-export

2011-04-11 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 07:33:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: The git-remote-hg project seems like a much more natural way to interact with remote hg repositories. I saw some evidence on the git list and wiki that git-remote-foo is the way forward for foreign VCS support in git. There was even a

Re: Script to create pool mirror with more then one release

2011-04-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Karl, Am 2011-04-11 12:50:11, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: Have you tried any of the resources at [1]? Personally I use a wrapper around apt-ftparchive and a couple of config files. I use it already, any I have a nn TByte Mirror gotten since Slink (any packages ever hit unstable),

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm, I've never thought of porting 0 A.D. to an entirely different JS engine as an option. Is V8's API relatively stable compared to Spidermonkey? V8's ABI looks very unstable, not sure about the API. I am not

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 06:04:43PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: from the replies I've seen so far, it seems that embedding Spidermonkey code in 0 A.D.'s source is a no-no, or at least strongly discouraged. Maybe porting to another JavaScript engine (like Google V8) is the best long-term

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:26:08AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 06:04:43PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: from the replies I've seen so far, it seems that embedding Spidermonkey code in 0 A.D.'s source is a no-no, or at least strongly discouraged. Maybe porting to another

Re: RFS: tucan (updated package)

2011-04-11 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Hi Julián, On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 07:07:13AM -0500, Julián Moreno Patiño wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.10-1 of my package tucan. It builds these binary packages: tucan - Download and upload manager for 1-Click Hosters The package appears to

Re: Script to create pool mirror with more then one release

2011-04-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michelle Konzack wrote: if I have a mirror whichcontain oldstable, stable, testing and unstable, is there a maintainer script to create the Packages/Source files for each release correctly? Both debmirror and the official mirror scripts can handle this just fine, and

RFS: Rodent Beta filemanager

2011-04-11 Thread edscott wilson
From: Edscott Wilson Garcia edscott.wilson.gar...@gmail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: rodent Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package rodent. * Package name: rodent Version : 4.6.2 Upstream Author : edsc...@xfce.org * URL :

debhelper 7 and architecture dependent/independent packages

2011-04-11 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I have a package which builds one architecture dependent and one architecture independent binary package and uses dephelper 7. Due to the weird and kind of incomplete upstream build code, I had to override the dh_autoinstall target with an override_dh_auto_install target in my debian/rules.

Re: Script to create pool mirror with more then one release

2011-04-11 Thread Mahyuddin Susanto
Hi On 04/11/2011 01:59 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote: Good evening Mentors, if I have a mirror whichcontain oldstable, stable, testing and unstable, is there a maintainer script to create the Packages/Source files for each release correctly? Currently I have for each release a seperated

Re: debhelper 7 and architecture dependent/independent packages

2011-04-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Marc Haber mh+debian-ment...@zugschlus.de writes: I have a package which builds one architecture dependent and one architecture independent binary package and uses dephelper 7. Due to the weird and kind of incomplete upstream build code, I had to override the dh_autoinstall target with an

RFS: dacco (updated removed package)

2011-04-11 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9+20071227-5 of my package dacco. It builds these binary packages: dacco-common - Catalan/English dictionary (xml files) The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 620706 The package can be found on

RFS: qdacco (updated package)

2011-04-11 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.2-1 of my package qdacco. It builds these binary packages: libqdaccolib-dev - library for facilitate access to dacco dictionary (devel) libqdaccolib0.7 - library for facilitate access to dacco dictionary (runtime) qdacco -

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Taylor
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:33:47PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011

introduction

2011-04-11 Thread Sim IJskes
Hi, Just to introduce myself. I'm a user of gnuradio. Also an experienced developer. The last 10 years mainly in java. Did a lot of commercial work in C and C++ in the previous century (not gcc). I also packaged some bash scripts in a debian package. So now i took it upon myself to get

Re: RFS: 0ad

2011-04-11 Thread Philip Taylor
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, don't know why I broke off mid-sentence like that. My point was that porting 0 A.D. to work with newer versions of Spidermonkey seems to be a

RFS: parallel

2011-04-11 Thread George Zarkadas
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package parallel. * Package name: parallel Version : 20110205-3 Upstream Author : Ole Tange pri...@tange.dk * URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ * License : GPL (ver.3 or later) Section : utils

creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-11 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, I plan to create a Debian package of a new software which only have a git repository, but no archive file. How should I create such a Debian package? Is it enough to copy the git repo from the internet, remove .git/, rename the main directory of the sources (package-version) and run

RFS: gmult (updated package)

2011-04-11 Thread Mahyuddin Susanto
CC-ing pkg-games Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.3-1 of my package gmult. It builds these binary packages: gmult - figure out which letters are which numbers The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 544923, 622219 The

Re: RFS: python-crypto (adopting package, fixes FTBFS)

2011-04-11 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 04/09/2011 12:06 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote: Hi Sebastian (2011.04.09_10:44:03_+0200) Out of curiosity: what are the pros and cons of dh_python2 and where do dh_pysupport and dh_python2 differ? In view of #617001 I thought I'd stick with the successor of dh_pycentral. dh_python2 is

Re: RFS: parallel

2011-04-11 Thread Joey Hess
George Zarkadas wrote: It builds these binary packages: parallel - Execute jobs in parallel locally or using remote computers I have not figured out what to do about moreutils containing a /usr/bin/parallel that is not entirely command-line compatable with this one. #597050 -- see shy jo

RFS: pdnsd (updated package, RC bug fix)

2011-04-11 Thread Mahyuddin Susanto
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.8-par-2 of my package pdnsd. It builds these binary packages: pdnsd - Proxy DNS Server The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 617644, 617659, 617913, 618671 The package can be found on

RFS: alure (updated package)

2011-04-11 Thread Tobias Hansen
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1-1 of my package alure. It builds these binary packages: alure-doc - AL Utilities REtooled (documentation) libalure1 - AL Utilities REtooled (shared library) libalure1-dbg - AL Utilities REtooled (debugging symbols) libalure1-dev

RFS: sludge

2011-04-11 Thread Tobias Hansen
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sludge. * Package name: sludge Version : 2.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Tim Furnish, Rikard Peterson, Tobias Hansentobias@gmx.de * URL : http://opensludge.sourceforge.net * License : LGPL/GPL Section

RFS: out-of-order

2011-04-11 Thread Tobias Hansen
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package out-of-order. * Package name: out-of-order Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Tim Furnisht...@hungrysoftware.com * URL : http://outoforder.adventuredevelopers.com * License : Freeware with permission to

Re: RFS: sludge

2011-04-11 Thread Tobias Hansen
Am 11.04.2011 23:39, schrieb Tobias Hansen: I am looking for a sponsor for my package sludge. I forgot to mention that this package depends on alure 1.1, see my other RFS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: RFS: parallel

2011-04-11 Thread George Zarkadas
Hi, The next parallel release from that in the package (20110322) includes the --tollef switch and a site-wide config file (/etc/parallel/config) to address this issue. Thus parallel can install by default with --tollef activated in the config file, replacing the /usr/bin/parallel executable

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote: Hello, I plan to create a Debian package of a new software which only have a git repository, but no archive file. How should I create such a Debian package? Is it enough to copy the git repo from the internet,

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-11 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.com, 2011-04-11, 18:52: If there is really no release (and never going to be), (You can never know that...) just pick a nice round number (such as 1.0), and keep git off that. Your version ID would look something like: 1.0[~|+]gitMMDD.HASHHASHHASH-1

Re: introduction

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
Nothing appears to be depending on those libraries so there is nothing blocking their removal. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

How are directories managed.

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Elliott
This may be a FAQ but I could not find the answer in the documentation: How are directories managed? When does a directory get deleted? What is the lifetime of a directory? Is a directory owned by a specific package? Which packages are alowed to deposit files in a specific directory? What

env[HOME] issues

2011-04-11 Thread Elías Alejandro
Hi all, Few days ago my package was uploaded however it didn't builds properly with some architectures like PPC its building log is [1] basically says: Use of uninitialized value $ENV{HOME} in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Source/Package.pm line 258. It worked fine with

Re: env[HOME] issues

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Wise
The issue seems to be in your upstream's setup.py, not in debhelper as you suggest. You cannot rely on a home directory being present on the buildds and should not write anything to it if it exists. The correct fix in this case would to be send upstream a patch so that it building does not touch

Re: RFS: alure (updated package)

2011-04-11 Thread Andres Mejia
On Apr 11, 2011 5:54 PM, Tobias Hansen tobias@gmx.de wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1-1 of my package alure. It builds these binary packages: alure-doc - AL Utilities REtooled (documentation) libalure1 - AL Utilities REtooled (shared library)