dlatest: Query the Debian archive for the latest available version of the package (was: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net)

2009-03-03 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: It would be great to get this into debuild as an option, so that you could pass it some flag and it would do this work to figure out the last Debian version and include all the changelog entries to that point. Maybe someone (Ben, perhaps?) could open a

Re: preinst script: warning that downgrading isn't supported.

2009-03-03 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: Hello, I am working on a package that have a postinst script that process the package's data on upgrade. Is there any current (best) practice to warn the user that downgrading isn't supported? (I mean, explicitly notifying when downgrade is not

Re: preinst script: warning that downgrading isn't supported.

2009-03-03 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: I am working on a package that have a postinst script that process the package's data on upgrade. Is there any current (best) practice to warn the user that downgrading isn't supported? (I mean, explicitly notifying when

RFS: cnetworkmanager

2009-03-03 Thread Alexander Block
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package cnetworkmanager. * Package name: cnetworkmanager Version : 0.8.2-1 Upstream Author : Martin Vidner mvid...@suse.cz * URL : http://vidner.net/martin/software/cnetworkmanager/ * License : GPLv2 Section

RFS: lynis (updated package)

2009-03-03 Thread Francisco M.
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.3-1 of my package lynis. It builds these binary packages: lynis - security auditing tool for Unix based systems Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix. It scans the system configuration and creates an overview of system

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Re: RFS: lynis (updated package)

2009-03-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Francisco M. García Claramonte fgclaramo...@yahoo.es wrote: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lynis/lynis_1.2.3-1.dsc Upstream changed their copyright info (+2009), debian/copyright needs to change too. There is one pedantic lintian complaint:

Re: RFS: cnetworkmanager

2009-03-03 Thread Alexander Block
I've just updated the package on debian mentors to 0.8.2-2. The new upload contains some suggestions made by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. Regards, Alexander Block Alexander Block wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package cnetworkmanager. * Package name: cnetworkmanager

Re: RFS: cnetworkmanager

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Alexander Block wrote: I've just updated the package on debian mentors to 0.8.2-2. The new upload contains some suggestions made by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy. Regards, Alexander Block Alexander Block wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package cnetworkmanager. * Package

Re: 3.0 Quilt packages

2009-03-03 Thread Andreas Hoenen
Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org wrote: On Sunday 01 March 2009 03:46:27 Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Noel David Torres Taño env...@rolamasao.org wrote: Does somebody know if 3.0 (Quilt) format packages are actually accepted in the archive? My mentor

Re: RFS: mupen64plus

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Moerner
I CC'd debian-mentors; I presume you forgot to CC it. If you want private email off of a list, please say so in the message. (But this is not ideal.) On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Félix Arreola Rodríguez fgatuno@gmail.com wrote: I hijack an ITP? Normally, the person who owns the ITP is

How do I transfer ownership of a package?

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Hurt
I am the current owner of Redmine (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478741) but don't have time to work on it any more. Fortunately someone is already stepping up to take it over. My question it how do I transfer ownership of the ITP to Jérémy Lal? --

Re: How do I transfer ownership of a package?

2009-03-03 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Richard Hurt rnh...@kangaroobox.com wrote: I am the current owner of Redmine (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478741) but don't have time to work on it any more.  Fortunately someone is already stepping up to take it over.  My question it how do

Re: How do I transfer ownership of a package?

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:21:01PM -0500, Richard Hurt wrote: I am the current owner of Redmine (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478741) but don't have time to work on it any more. Fortunately someone is already stepping up to take it over. My question it how do I

RFS: osm2go

2009-03-03 Thread Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists)
(This time with the right email address, I hope. Sigh.) I've just updated my packaging of OSM2Go on http://mentors.debian.net to 0.6.13-3, and I'm still looking for a sponsor. The new upload clarifies some outstanding licensing and copyright ownership issues, adds Vcs-* control fields so that

Re: RFS: mupen64plus

2009-03-03 Thread Félix Arreola Rodríguez
, I now understand it. But, I wirte a reply in the ITP (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513322). I'm not sure about how to handle this. I need to contact this person (William Pitcock), becuase he is trying to package it. Well, meanwhile, in mentors.debian.net, i will suspend