Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
Hi, I am packaging libstrophe XMPP library in order to introduce www.profanity.im to Debian. make[2]: Entering directory `/home/tdi/dev/libstrophe-0.8.4' /bin/mkdir -p '/home/tdi/dev/libstrophe-0.8.4/debian/tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 libstrophe.a

watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, if you look at the HTML code of http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ you see strings like: \mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\: 1555754, \mkgmap-r3226-src.zip\: 2194070, and thus uscan stopped working. I guess it will be hard to convince upstream that their new shiny page is a bad idea for

Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-24 08:16, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: dh_install: libstrophe-dev missing files (usr/lib/lib*.a), aborting The libstrophe.a file is installed into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, instead of /usr/lib. When should the .a file be installed into /usr/lib and when into x86... ? The new

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: Any idea how we could make uscan capable to detect and download the latest source anyway? Use a match based on the zip download and downloadurlmangle to transform that to a src tarball. a href=/download/mkgmap-r3226.zip data-bind=attr:

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, if you look at the HTML code of http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ you see strings like: \mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\: 1555754, \mkgmap-r3226-src.zip\: 2194070, and thus uscan stopped working. I guess it will be hard to convince

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 09:44, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, if you look at the HTML code of http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ you see strings like: \mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\: 1555754, \mkgmap-r3226-src.zip\: 2194070, and thus uscan stopped working. I

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 10:32, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 24/04/14 09:44, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, if you look at the HTML code of http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/download/ you see strings like: \mkgmap-r3226-src.tar.gz\: 1555754, \mkgmap-r3226-src.zip\:

No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Hello, I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I appear to be having is that the upstream don't version their uploads. I've emailed the developer a few days ago but haven't received a response so far. I'm wondering what I should version it as if I do not receive a

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 24.04.14 20:12:12, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: Hello, I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I appear to be having is that the upstream don't version their uploads. I've emailed the developer a few days ago but haven't received a response so far. I'm

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2014-04-24 12:45, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: On 24.04.14 20:12:12, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: Hello, I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I appear to be having is that the upstream don't version their uploads. I've emailed the developer a few days ago

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at wrote: On 2014-04-24 12:45, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: On 24.04.14 20:12:12, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: Hello, I'm wishing to package ipad-charge[0] for Debian.[1] The only problem I appear to be having is that the

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at wrote: If that doesn't work, another possibility would be to create a mock version number based on the date, for example MMDD.{7-digit-commit-ID}. ...and possibly prepending it with 0~ in order to avoid you to introduce an

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Apr 24, 2014 1:00 PM, Benjamin Donald-Wilson be...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Christian Kastner deb...@kvr.at wrote: If that doesn't work, another possibility would be to create a mock version number based on the date, for example MMDD.{7-digit-commit-ID}. ​So

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Thanks for the advice. Just one more quick question, should I use date of the commit I'm using or the date that I package it? (last commit was roughly 5 months ago) On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Mattia Rizzolo mapr...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Apr 24, 2014 1:00 PM, Benjamin Donald-Wilson

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Daniel, thanks for your continuous trials to help me. :-) On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 24/04/14 10:32, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 24/04/14 09:44, Daniel Lintott wrote: On 24/04/14 09:04, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, if you look at the HTML code of

Re: No upstream versioning

2014-04-24 Thread Craig Small
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 09:14:08PM +1000, Benjamin Donald-Wilson wrote: Thanks for the advice. Just one more quick question, should I use date of the commit I'm using or the date that I package it? (last commit was roughly 5 months ago) Their commit date. The reason is there is at

Bug#745721: RFS: libzhuyin/0.9.93-1

2014-04-24 Thread 陳昌倬
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Hi All, I am looking for a sponsor for libzhuyin: * Package name: libzhuyin Version : 0.9.93 Upstream Author : Peng Wu alexep...@gmail.com * URL : https://github.com/libzhuyin/libzhuyin * License : GPL2

Re: watch file help needed: Download page of mkgmap changed and is now hiding download files behind JavaScript code

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 24/04/14 12:32, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Daniel, thanks for your continuous trials to help me. :-) No problem! I enjoy a good bit of problem solving! On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:22:22AM +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote: Hope that helps... Not really since I can not confirm that I get

Bug#745721: [Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#745721: RFS: libzhuyin/0.9.93-1

2014-04-24 Thread 陳侃如
ChangZhuo Chen (陳昌倬) czc...@gmail.com writes: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Hi All, I am looking for a sponsor for libzhuyin: * Package name: libzhuyin Version : 0.9.93 Upstream Author : Peng Wu alexep...@gmail.com * URL :

Bug#743950: Updated download URL for python-ebooklib source package

2014-04-24 Thread Daniel James
Hi mentors, Following feedback I have fixed some issues with the source package and re-uploaded it with a -1 suffix. It can downloaded with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/python-ebooklib/python-ebooklib_0.15-1.dsc Changes since the last upload:

Bug#734308: marked as done (RFS: notion/3+2014010901-1 -- tiling tabbed window manager designed for keyboard users)

2014-04-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:23:37 + with message-id e1wdmqz-p1...@quantz.debian.org and subject line closing RFS: notion/3+2014010901-1 -- tiling tabbed window manager designed for keyboard users has caused the Debian Bug report #734308, regarding RFS: notion/3+2014010901-1 --

argument against splitting packages

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi all, In the last couple of days, the following came up multiple times. Splitting binary packages adds to the total amount of packages in Debian. I have heard that (some) people are very careful before they decide to do that. What is the argument? I can come up with one, but I wonder if there

Bug#745609: RFS: eso-midas/13.09pl1.2-1 [ITP] -- European Southern Observatory Munich Image Data Analysis System

2014-04-24 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Ole, your debian/copyright needs some additions: install/unix/systems/Cygwin/values.h is LGPL gui/GraphLib/libsrc/uimxR5/include/msg.h is some Apple license libsrc/readline/* is GPL1+ gui/GraphLib/DESCRIPTION has some additional license information Most important

Re: argument against splitting packages

2014-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Paul Gevers wrote: The one argument that I can come up with is that adding a package also adds about 1kB to the data that everybody in Debian has to download (on every update), also the people that are not interested in the package (which may be many). It also increases

Bug#745777: RFS: ipad-charge/0~20131118.c82b032-1 [ITP] -- USB charging control utility to charge an Apple device

2014-04-24 Thread Benjamin Donald-Wilson
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ipad-charge * Package name: ipad-charge Version : 0~20131118.c82b032-1 Upstream Author : Max Korenkov * URL : https://github.com/mkorenkov/ipad_charge

Re: Library packaging and missing .a file

2014-04-24 Thread Dariusz Dwornikowski
On 24.04.14 10:23:23, Christian Kastner wrote: It is sufficient to change these to eg: usr/lib/*/lib*.a Thanks for this. I have got another problem. Libstrophe only provides .a file, no .so, so basically it should provide only a -dev package. Is it ok to package only -dev, or is it