Re: f.el dependency loop (was: Re: Cask & dependencies)

2015-12-14 Thread David Bremner
Sean Whitton writes: > > 3) Disable running f-el's test suite at package build time, but supply a >autopkgtest so the tests will still get run in ci.debian.org. > > 4) Disable running undercover.el's test suite at package build time, but > supply a >autopkgtest

Re: Cask & dependencies

2015-12-14 Thread David Bremner
Sean Whitton writes: > > After: > , > | EMACSFLAGS = -L /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dash-el \ > | -L /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa-src/noflet-* > | test : > | $(EMACS) --no-site-file --no-site-lisp --batch \ > | $(EMACSFLAGS) \ > |

Minutes from Getting your packages into Debian

2012-07-31 Thread David Bremner
]{\hypertarget{#1}{}\hyperlink{back:#1}{\beamerreturnbutton{back}}} \title{Getting your packages into Debian} \author{David Bremner} \titlegraphic{based on notes by Asheesh Laroia, Arno Töll, and Nicolas Dandrimont, shameless cribbing from mailing lists, and stuff I just made up} \date{9 July 2012

Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP]

2012-06-29 Thread David Bremner
Alexander Inyukhin shur...@sectorb.msk.ru writes: Changes from previous package version: * priority changed to optional; * fixed memory leak (cppcheck warning). Sounds good, I'll have a (hopefully final) look at this today. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP] (fix policy violation)

2012-06-13 Thread David Bremner
Alexander Inyukhin shur...@sectorb.msk.ru writes: On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:12:04AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: David Bremner brem...@debian.org writes: I'll have a look at this. I sent a separate mail about some warnings from cppcheck and compilation. These might not be blockers

Bug#676218: RFS: ustr/1.0.4-3 [RC] -- enable hardening flags and multiarch

2012-06-05 Thread David Bremner
Václav Ovsík vaclav.ov...@i.cz writes: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: important Does the RC in your subject refer to release critical? If so, what RC bug does this close? d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-29 Thread David Bremner
Julian Wollrath jwollr...@web.de writes: I prepared a new version, which keeps the changes in the rules minimal but since upstream changed the building process a little bit, minimal changes were needed to get it build. The massive changes of the copyright file were also needed so that it

Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP] (new upstream)

2012-05-27 Thread David Bremner
Alexander Inyukhin shur...@sectorb.msk.ru writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package task-spooler It builds those binary packages: task-spooler - personal job scheduler I'll have a look at this. Alexander, please fix the expiry date on your gpg key; either make a

Re: Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP] (new upstream)

2012-05-27 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner brem...@debian.org writes: I'll have a look at this. I sent a separate mail about some warnings from cppcheck and compilation. These might not be blockers, but the following is, your package currently violates policy 10.1 Two different packages must not install programs

Re: RFS: new powertop version

2012-05-26 Thread David Bremner
Julian Wollrath jwollr...@web.de writes: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a new version of the package powertop, which closes several bugs (e.g. bug #672555). I do this since there was no reaction from the maintainer regarding my patches which fix bug #672555 and would like

Re: Getting rid of control messages revisited

2012-05-24 Thread David Bremner
Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu writes: That sounds like a good idea, though closing mails would be useful on -mentors@ too, not sure whether that counts as bug traffic or control. But that's just a nice to have thing, in my opinion, one can always manually subscribe to interesting RFS bugs

Bug#670589: RFS: newlisp/10.4.0-4 ITP

2012-04-27 Thread David Bremner
Nathan Owens ndow...@gmx.us writes: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] * Package name: newlisp Version : 10.4.0-4 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL

Bug#670589: RFS: newlisp/10.4.0-4 ITP

2012-04-27 Thread David Bremner
David Bremner brem...@debian.org writes: Nathan Owens ndow...@gmx.us writes: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] * Package name: newlisp Version : 10.4.0-4 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email

Re: RFS: open-axiom/1.4.1+svn~2626-1

2012-04-24 Thread David Bremner
Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com writes: Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package open-axiom I will have a look at this. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

DMUA, again.

2011-12-27 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:58:39 +0700, Mahyuddin Susanto udi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gkamus. * Package name: gkamus Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Ardhan Madras aj...@knac.com, Firmansyah leonard_gims...@yahoo.com

Re: NMU done but unresponsive maintainer

2011-12-09 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:58:20 +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl toli...@debian.org wrote: I'm sorry, but personally I don't like to sponsor your NMU. Some of the reasons are: * Only fixing a wishlist bug, nothing else * The wishlisht bug is a new version not detailing why the new version

Re: RFS: open-axiom - new release

2011-12-04 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:36:55 +0400, Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package open-axiom. * Package name: open-axiom Version : 1.4.1+svn~2470-1 I'll have a look at this. Igor: do you want to roll another svn snapshot?

Re: RFS: parcellite 1.0.2~rc5-1 (updated package)

2011-09-14 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:53:20 -0400, Andrew Starr-Bochicchio a.star...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package parcellite. I would also appreciate it if the sponsor would set the DM-Upload-Allowed field. I might be stricter than some, but for me this is a no-go.

Re: RFS: lcmaps

2011-09-12 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:36:53 +0200, Dennis van Dok denni...@nikhef.nl wrote: lcmaps-basic-interface - LCMAPS header files for plug-in development lcmaps-globus-interface - LCMAPS header files for plug-in development lcmaps-openssl-interface - LCMAPS header files for plug-in development

Report from the debconf11 sponsoring/mentors BoF.

2011-09-11 Thread David Bremner
This report started as a summary from the sponsorship BoF held during Debconf 11 in Banja Luka. The full video stream is available on [0]. These were the major points, as interpreted by Arno Töll and David Bremner. As it was being written up, a few relevant things happened with debexpo

Re: How to get a package into experimental

2011-09-08 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:28:03 +0200, Christo Buschek cr...@30loops.net wrote: production and it adds lots of features I wouldn't wanna miss, especially the implementation of the TPROXY protocol. I was wondering if its possible and if it makes sense to upload my packages for this dev version to

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-09-04 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:54:43 +0400, Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: 03.09.2011 19:22, David Bremner пишет: 1. Is it ok to use different lisps on different archs? Or is it better to wait for sbcl (in lenny there were many archs) ? Yes, that is OK. 2. I set build-dep to sbcl

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-09-04 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:35:12 -0300, David Bremner brem...@debian.org wrote: 2. I set build-dep to sbcl = 1.0.30, but I see sbcl has an epoch. Should I change it? sbcl =2:1.0.30 (wheezy and sid have 2) ? no, you don't need the epoch. I have been corrected on IRC that indeed the epoch

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-09-04 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:02:27 +0400, Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, and for next upload please add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git headers Is it ok to use github or whatsoever for this? I think this is not well codified within Debian at the moment, but I would say the corporate nature

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-09-03 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:07:39 +0400, Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: I have upload new version without ./contrib and ./src/include/xpm.h. The latter is going to be removed in upstream, that file is from very old Axiom version. ./contrib is not used now and has unclear license

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-09-03 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:34:23 +0400, Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: What about other architectures (i386, alpha, powerpc, etc)? Do I need another sponsor? :-) How much time does it take for package to appear in repo? Other architectures will be built on the autobuilder network,

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2011-09-02 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 00:39:07 +0400, Alexander Inyukhin shur...@sectorb.msk.ru wrote: * Package name: task-spooler Version : 0.7.0-1~rc1 Upstream Author : Lluís Batlle i Rossel vi...@vicerveza.homeunix.net * URL : http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/ *

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:17:30 +0400, Igor Pashev pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: I saw this message after making symlink /usr/lib/open-axiom/share/hypertex - /usr/share/open-axiom/hypertex And can't reproduce it after purging old version and clean install of new version. OK, for first upload

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:26:22 -0400, Joseph R. Justice jayare...@gmail.com wrote: Or, is this incorrect, and if so what needs to be done and/or who needs to be aware of this connection between OpenAxiom and SBCL such that if if there *is* a fix to SBCL that needs to be incorporated into

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-28 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:01:12 +0400, Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: I have fixed all lintian issues, except two: 1. image-file-in-usr-lib (e. g. usr/lib/open-axiom/share/hypertex/bitmaps/anna_logo.xbm) Hmm. This should be fixed eventually, but if it will be fixed upstream anyway, it

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-28 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 23:11:25 +0400, Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: Non-text part: multipart/alternative Lintian clear. 1. Hypetex data is moved to /usr/share with symlink. 2. Removed shebangs and compiled from ... lines from *.fasl files Now OA packages are lintian clear. Just

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-28 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:34:03 +0400, Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: Non-text part: multipart/alternative Uploaded. http://mentors.debian.net/package/open-axiom Sorry for flooding ;-) Some of these things I should have found earlier, but I thought lintian would keep you busy

Re: RFS: open-axiom

2011-08-23 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:54:42 +0400, Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package open-axiom. * Package name: open-axiom Version : 1.4.1+svn~2299-1 Hi Igor; Thanks for working on this, and for making a source package. You package builds

Re: Package for OpenAxiom

2011-08-20 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:45:44 +0400, Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: I have prepared packages for OpenAxiom: https://github.com/ip1981/open-axiom-debian It would help lazy/busy reviewers if you would provide either a source package uploaded to mentors.debian.net or a git repo that

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-15 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:47:25 +0200, Kilian Krause kil...@debian.org wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed I've not fixed the unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt warning of lintian, but maybe that could be part of the gitpkg fix that would only ship debian/patches (including debian/patches/series) if

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-14 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 12:34:30 +0200, roucaries bastien roucaries.bastien+deb...@gmail.com wrote: They are no patches. It is a bug in gitpkg even after david Bremner patch lintian complain. I'm a bit surprised by that. In any case, try version 0.20 of gitpkg which contains a different fix

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-14 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:41:05 +0200, roucaries bastien roucaries.bastien+deb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, David Bremner brem...@debian.org wrote: I use 0.20, it does not export patches but lintian complain. See the file in mentors. I believe it is a lintian bug. What

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-14 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:06:06 +0200, roucaries bastien roucaries.bastien+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Not fixed in my case: lintian *.changes || lintian --version E: autoconf-archive source: git-patches-not-exported Lintian v2.5.1 Ah, yes. I agree this is a bug, different than the bug we just

Re: RE : : RFS: autoconf-archive (updated package)

2011-07-13 Thread David Bremner
, but I'm not sure yet that this is the best fix. David pgppRfioD7q7Q.pgp Description: PGP signature From e0002bf481955279fbd9e930f08afb25403ac00d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner brem...@debian.org Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:23:24 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] quilt-patches-deb-export-hook

Re: Nitpicking: you are doing it wrong

2011-07-08 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:47:31 -0400, Scott Howard showard...@gmail.com wrote: - debian/copyright not in DEP-5 format; This is accepted and will be policy soon [3]. What should be done eventually must be done immediately. I think you might misunderstand the DEP process, which is easy to

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-09 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:40:54 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: On Debian, you should always install into lib and never use lib64. (Eventually, you may want to use the multiarch directory, but it will still not be lib64.) That was my first thought, but I couldn't find a

Re: /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib

2011-06-09 Thread David Bremner
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:41:34 -0700, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: 9.1.1 point 2: The requirement for amd64 to use /lib64 for 64 bit binaries is removed. Yeah, that is the point that confused me. For me, removing the requirement is not the same as forbidding. Also note

Re: RFS: dylandotnet

2011-05-14 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 14 May 2011 11:32:19 +0200, Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com wrote: It builds these binary packages: dylandotnet - This is the dylan.NET compiler Hi Dylan; It seems like your package ships several .dll files that are not rebuilt during the package build process. By policy 2.2.1,

RE: RFS: dylandotnet

2011-05-14 Thread David Bremner
I took the liberty of redirecting this reply back to the list. You may want to bounce your original message to the list as well. In general, please direct the discussion to the list. I'm not sure why lintian does not catch this, but your changelog needs work. - target should be debian

RE: RFS: dylandotnet

2011-05-14 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 14 May 2011 16:34:14 +0200, Dylan Borg borgdy...@hotmail.com wrote: I have updated the package(the debian dir only). The packagge is opens ource. Open source software can run on Windows!...remove the misconception that Windows software always must cost money. Hi Dylan; non-free is

Re: RFS: jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

2011-04-09 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 23:28:58 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini al3x...@gmail.com wrote: It builds these binary packages: libjansson4 - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data libjansson4-dev - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data (dev) libjansson4-doc - C

Re: RFS: jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

2011-04-09 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 15:26:20 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini al3x...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your review. Uploaded. Feel free to contact me directly for future jansson uploads. I took the liberty of pushing a tag debian/2.0.1-1 to collab-maint (corresponding to version I uploaded). Feel free

ITR: jansson - C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data

2011-04-07 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 23:28:58 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini al3x...@gmail.com wrote: My motivation for maintaining this package is: Thanks to its intuitive and simple API I think this is a very valid alternative to the IMHO more complex json-c which is already in the archive. Many new interesting

Re: Git Package Versioning

2011-03-20 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 22:25:38 +0100, Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de wrote: Please be aware, that + is not the optimal connector. Try dpkg --compare-versions and see: [snip] The version b) is the better way. So please use ~ as connector. That rather depends on your goal. If the

Re: RFS: dwarf-ng

2011-01-28 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:41:32 + (UTC), Fernando xna...@cryptolab.net wrote: The package is not present in debian, it is my first commit. The package can be found on Savannah: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/dwarf-ng/dwarf_0.3.0-1_i386.deb I would be glad if someone uploaded

Re: RFS: hugs98 (NMU, RC bugfix)

2011-01-16 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:08:13 +0100, Felix Geyer debfx-...@fobos.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my NMU of the package hugs98. The upload would fix this RC bug: http://bugs.debian.org/608220 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/hugs98/hugs98_98.200609.21-5.2.dsc Hi Felix;

Re: ITR: robocut (driver for consumer GRAPHTEC cutting plotters like Silhouette SD and craftROBO)

2010-12-20 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:54:03 -0400, David Bremner brem...@debian.org wrote: I intend to review, and all going well sponsor this. Uploaded. Some comments for the next upload: - Can you talk to Tim about re-generating the moc/qrc files at package build time (either don't distribute them

Re: ITR: robocut (driver for consumer GRAPHTEC cutting plotters like Silhouette SD and craftROBO)

2010-12-20 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:17:40 -0500, Markus Schulz sch...@alpharesearch.de wrote: I'm generating the tar.gz file via qmake; make; make dist - please tell me if I need to create this readme file in this case or not? (From debian-policy 4.14 I don't think so, but I'm still learning) No, you

ITR: robocut (driver for consumer GRAPHTEC cutting plotters like Silhouette SD and craftROBO)

2010-12-19 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 20:15:49 -0500, Markus Schulz sch...@alpharesearch.de wrote: I uploaded a new version 1.0.6-1 that fixes a display bug and some other small changes. This driver imports an SVG file from Inkscape and lets the use cut the path. I intend to review, and all going well

Re: RFS: aspell-id; third try

2010-12-11 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:41:33 +0700, Mahyuddin Susanto udi...@debian-id.org wrote: * Package name: aspell-id Version : 1.2-0-4 Upstream Author : Benitius Brevoort benitius.brevo...@kapusin.org * URL : http://translationproject.org/team/id.html * License :

Re: RFS: daisy-player

2010-12-08 Thread David Bremner
On Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:31:37 +0100, Paul Gevers p...@climbing.nl wrote: daisy-player - player for DAISY Digital Talking Books daisy-player-dbg - daisy-player debugging symbols Dear Paul; Is there some media available that people could test this with? I had a quick look at the daisy web site,

Re: RFS: robocut

2010-12-03 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:46:23 -0500, Markus Schulz sch...@alpharesearch.de wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package robocut. * Package name: robocut Version : 1.0.4-1 Upstream Author : Tim Hutt tdh...@gmail.com * URL : https://launchpad.net/robocut *

Re: RFS: twatch

2010-10-21 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:57:25 +0400, Roman V. Nikolaev rsha...@rambler.ru wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package twatch. * Package name: twatch Version : 0.0.4-1 Upstream Author : Roman V. Nikolaev rsha...@rambler.ru * URL :

Re: RFS: disco

2010-10-12 Thread David Bremner
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:31:06 +0200, Janos Guljas ja...@janos.in.rs wrote: Hi David, As I see, there is only one copy of jquery library master/www/js/jquery-1.2.1.js which is removed and linked in debian/rules. Another copy which in disco-doc package as a result of python-sphinx work is also

Re: RFS: disco

2010-10-11 Thread David Bremner
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:13:43 +0200, Niels Thykier ni...@thykier.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- While I am not a python/erlang/etc. packager, I did a small review of your package. It is quite possible that I missed some issues that a second reviewer will find (particularly if

Re: RFS: btag -- interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

2010-10-05 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:50:15 -0300, Fernando Lemos fernando...@gmail.com wrote: * Package name: btag Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos fernando...@gmail.com * URL : http://github.com/fernandotcl/btag * License : BSD Section

Re: packaging qt apps for debian

2010-10-02 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:46:40 +0530, Rustom Mody rustompm...@gmail.com wrote: http://build-common.alioth.debian.org/cdbs-doc.html#id2561450 So you think it maybe better to go the cdbs-qmake-class way? Without wishing to speak ill of CDBS, you will find that more people can help you with

Re: RFS: packagekit

2010-08-30 Thread David Bremner
On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:48:17 +0200, Matthias Klumpp matth...@nlinux.org wrote: somone (pabs?) wrote: Why do you move the upstream helper scripts to /usr/lib? They're scripts and should not be in /usr/share/PackageKit. In this directory we only have documentation of PK. As best I understand

help with dpkg-shlibdeps/library dependencies

2010-03-05 Thread David Bremner
I'm packaging the latest syncevolution (beta2) which needs a snapshot of libsynthesis (3.4.0.5+ds1). It builds fine, and seems to work, but the calculated depencies are wrong. src:libsynthesis makes two library binary packages, libsynthesis0 and libsmltk0 dpkg-shlibdeps computes dependency

RFS: nauty graph isomorphism package (fixes RC bug).

2010-02-13 Thread David Bremner
for me. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: RFS: nauty graph isomorphism package (fixes RC bug).

2010-02-13 Thread David Bremner
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:11:43 -0400, David Bremner brem...@unb.ca wrote: The upload would fix these bugs: 569269 (FTBFS due to appearence of getline in default namespace). Sigh. That should be bug #569626, fixed in a new upload to mentors. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors

RFS: lrslib, package to enumerate solutions to linear inequalities

2009-11-26 Thread David Bremner
rom: David Bremner brem...@unb.ca To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: lrslib Dear All; I am looking for a sponsor for my package lrslib. * Package name: lrslib Version : 0.42c-1 Upstream Author : David Avis a...@cs.mcgill.ca * URL : http

Re: RFS: libplist (Adopted, updated package)

2009-11-21 Thread David Bremner
Sorry for the bizzare spam-like From on that last message. Experimental mail setup gone wild... d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Convenience copies in upstream code: dependencies, removal, copyright, and other issues

2009-10-20 Thread David Bremner
Ben Finney wrote: * Declare dependencies on the version of the library in Debian, even though that version may be later than the convenience copy currently in the original source? Section 4.1.3 of Debian policy says If the included code is already in the Debian archive in the form of

Re: RFS: aegis (updated package, NMU)

2009-09-24 Thread David Bremner
Walter Franzini wrote: The problem may be related to the procedure used to produce the upstream tarball, it is created with file ownership different from root.root and git-buildpackage /probably/ is unable to reproduce it exactly. If you are regenerating the tarball from git you should

Re: RFS: libv8

2009-09-06 Thread David Bremner
At Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:03:10 +, Antonio Radici wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package libv8. * Package name: libv8 Version : 1.3.9-1 Upstream Author : Google v8 team * URL : http://code.google.com/p/v8/ Some comments, from only looking at .dsc

Re: RFS: graph isomorphism package nauty

2009-09-05 Thread David Bremner
I found a silly packaging bug that causes the package to FTBFS almost everywhere. I uploaded a new version to http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/nauty/nauty_2.4~b7-1.dsc or from git://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/nauty.git signed tag: debian/2.4b7rc2 I

Re: RFS: graph isomorphism package nauty

2009-09-05 Thread David Bremner
At Sat, 5 Sep 2009 13:32:26 -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: I'm willing to sponsor nauty. Thanks! I had a very quick look. It builds and seems to produce correct packages. However, there is some weird output during the process: dh --with quilt /usr/share/topgit/tg2quilt.mk

Re: RFS/RFC syncevolution and libsynthesis

2009-08-22 Thread David Bremner
At Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:17:04 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: Hmhm, and syncevolution is supposed to include sync-ui, a GTK interface, which doesn't seem to be included in your package. Is it on purpose? Not exactly on purpose; it just was not enabled by the default configure, so I forgot about

Re: RFS/RFC syncevolution and libsynthesis

2009-08-22 Thread David Bremner
OK, I made a new version of the source package the builds the GUI. There is now, per suggestion, a separate sync-ui binary package. This lets people who only want the command line client to have significantly less dependencies.

RFS/RFC syncevolution and libsynthesis

2009-08-21 Thread David Bremner
, or uploading if they seem OK. Note that both packages are in collab-maint. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: vera++ on debian git: collab maint

2009-08-13 Thread David Bremner
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: I am checking again today for the http view of the vera++ rep and I still cannot see it. Clearly the files are older than 6hours ago, right ? Hi Mathieu. Something (gitweb?) does not like the name vera++.git. I cannot get it to show up even with the url

RFS: graph isomorphism

2009-08-05 Thread David Bremner
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Re: RFS: graph isomorphism package nauty

2009-08-05 Thread David Bremner
Sorry, doze-n-send, strikes again. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/n/nauty - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget

Re: git-buildpackage issues

2009-08-03 Thread David Bremner
At Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:48:12 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: $ \rm -fr rsvndump $ mkdir rsvndump $ cd rsvndump $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/mathieu/Perso/gdcm/Sandbox/debian-med/build-area/rsvndump/.git/ $ git-import-dsc --pristine-tar ../rsvndump_0.5.2.dsc try

Re: RFS: task-spooler

2009-08-03 Thread David Bremner
Thanks for your work packaging this. I'm not a DD, so I can't upload it. 1) I expect whoever does sponsor it will ask you to compress debian/changelog a bit. Typically there should be 1 changelog entry per debian upload. Sorry I didn't mention this in my mail to BTS. 2) Is there any security

Re: New package for pmgraph

2009-06-11 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:21:58 +0100, Noe Gonzalez wrote: I have just started to work with debian packages building, I create a package for the project pmgraph. The package is main to install the war file of the pmgraph project create a mysql database, and install and configure some extra

Re: RFS: scmbug

2009-05-12 Thread David Bremner
At Tue, 12 May 2009 10:26:50 -0700, Kristis Makris wrote: Because it breaks some tools which check archive and makes NMUs needlessly complicated. It sounds like some tools need to be corrected. For example, man dpkg-buildpackage reports a -c parameter for specifying the control file

Re: RFS: scmbug

2009-05-10 Thread David Bremner
Kristis Makris wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 19:16 +0100, Michal Čihař wrote: What do I need to do to change the package into being non-native ? How/where do I specify the non-native version number ? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version (short answer: in

Re: How to get COMMIT right for an already exiting project ( MSEide-MSEgui in the Sid branch ) ?

2009-04-09 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:47:16 +0400, Bobyr Raisa Efimovna wrote: Me'm the maintainer of this project but don't have access right to put updates. Torsten Werner mail.twer...@googlemail.com and Mazen Neifer ma...@freepascal.org helped me to join then with the COMMIT stuff but currently

Re: quilt

2009-03-16 Thread David Bremner
Jaromír Mikeš wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/HolgerLevsen#addingpatcheswithquilttoapackage I used this how-to and my patch is done like this: $ diff -Naur makefile-orig makefile-edited makefile.patch If you use quilt to generate the patches, then quilt will definitely understand them, and put

RFC: new version of bibutils

2009-03-15 Thread David Bremner
Dear mentors, Dear debian-science people; I am hoping that Yaroslav Halchen will continue sponsoring this (Hi Yaroslav!), but I made quite a few changes in this new version including: - soname bump - added a symbol file - converted packaging to topgit - two standards

Re: RFS: lxmusic

2009-03-13 Thread David Bremner
DreamerC wrote: * Package name: lxmusic Version : 0.2.3-1+svn090103 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License : [fill in] Section : sound Hi DreamerC; Please fill in all those

Re: packaging without make

2009-02-21 Thread David Bremner
At Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:19:28 +0100, Michael Rasmussen wrote: I intend to package a web based application which does not contain a build system - no Makefile etc. What is the best way to approach this situation in my package? Create a Makefile or whatever? You can probably do everything

Re: RFS: libdata-compare-perl (updated package)

2009-02-01 Thread David Bremner
At Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:41:04 -0430, Miguelangel Jose Freitas Loreto wrote: I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. You might consider joining the debian perl team, http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org It is never a problem finding someone to upload packages from the team

Re: RFS: premake

2008-11-17 Thread David Bremner
At Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:16:51 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [1 text/plain; utf-8 (quoted-printable)] On Sunday 2008 November 16 11:20, Kaido Kert wrote: Quite a few developers prefer premake for its use of Lua as scripting language, rather than using custom syntax. Sounds like

Re: RFS: maxima (NMU)

2008-07-27 Thread David Bremner
At Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:31:26 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: [1 text/plain; iso-8859-15 (quoted-printable)] OoO Pendant le repas du samedi 26 juillet 2008, vers 19:36, David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : I have prepared an NMU changing the underlying lisp to SBCL

Re: RFS: maxima (NMU) [UPLOADED]

2008-07-27 Thread David Bremner
Riku Voipio uploaded this NMU. Thanks all. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: maxima (NMU)

2008-07-26 Thread David Bremner
non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/maxima/maxima_5.13.0-3.2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards David Bremner pgpurijOTvIuo.pgp Description: OpenPGP Digital Signature

Re: 2nd RFS/RFC vrr: dynamic vector graphics with TeX text

2008-03-24 Thread David Bremner
pabs == Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pabs On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:40 AM, David Bremner pabs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package vrr. This is my second post, essentially unchanged. Since last time I added icons and a .desktop file

2nd RFS/RFC vrr: dynamic vector graphics with TeX text

2008-03-23 Thread David Bremner
. * there is a fair sized doc package. I want to eventually make this a recommends, but since it contains the online help, this requires a little gtk+ hacking to pop up a dialog when the doc package is not present. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RFS/RFC vrr: dynamic vector graphics with TeX text

2008-03-01 Thread David Bremner
to eventually make this a recommends, but since it contains the online help, this requires a little gtk+ hacking to pop up a dialog when the doc package is not present. Kind regards David Bremner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: RFS: Perl packages update.

2008-02-19 Thread David Bremner
Francesco == Francesco Cecconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francesco Hi DD, I'm looking a sponsor for update my perl Francesco packages: Dear Francesco: It would be great if you would join the pkg-perl team. The DDs there are are very helpful about uploading packages. See

Re: Program not supporting UTF8==bug ?

2008-02-15 Thread David Bremner
Thibaut == Thibaut Paumard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thibaut following a [1]bug report on one of my packages Thibaut ([2]yorick), I realize this interpreter has trouble Thibaut dealing with UTF-8 strings. Is it considered a bug in Thibaut itself? This wiki page [A] suggests

Re: RFS/RFC: bibutils; convert bibliographic data between formats

2008-01-27 Thread David Bremner
Charles == Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Le Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:42:39AM +0100, David Bremner a Charles écrit : Charles I have added your package on the following wiki page: Charles http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceBibliography If you Charles

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