Re: RFS: lives
Hello Harry I am looking for a sponsor for the package "lives" which I updated and removed lintian warnings and errors. This is not a non-maintainer upload as the upstream author Gabriel Finch has agreed to list me as an 'uploader' in debian/control. The original maintainer was Gürkan Sengün . here's my current work: http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/lives/nyu/ I think the original maintainer Gürkan Sengün is a Debian Developer as although I can't find him using db.debian.org, a random one of his packages I chose ttf-jura has been uploaded to the repository, but I can't find an RFS for it, only an ITP. Gürkan, if you want to upload lives that's great, but if not don't worry. i'm sorry i'm not a debian developer, but nyu is interested sponsoring the package (i've cc'd him): Robert Millan . The package requires libweed0, which is available from debian-multimedia.org (http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/l/lives/). However, only binary packages exist. Does this need to be uploaded before lives can (a source package would have to be made)? yes you should package libweed first into debian, otherwise lives can not go into main. only packages that work independently inside main, can be main. Also, would a postinst script that downloaded and installed libweed0 be acceptable? If not, is it unacceptable to add an override to suppress lintian warning about symlinks to shared libraries in the main packages? no you can't do that for main packages. thanks for your work, guerkan * Package name: lives Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Gabriel Finch * URL : http://lives.sourceforge.net/ * License : GNU GPLv3 Section : graphics It builds these binary packages: lives - Linux Video Editing System The package appears to be lintian clean (without pedantic). The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lives - - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lives/lives_1.0.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me, or gave me advice. - -- Thanks for any help Harry Rickards GPG Key Info: pub 1024R/58449F6F 2009-06-12 uid Harry Rickards (OpenPGP Card) sub 1024R/D775CCEE 2009-06-12 sub 1024R/9394048C 2009-06-12 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iJwEAQECAAYFAkpsmpsACgkQ+9DWHFhEn286twQAhopYxbsf0d1+EcpR3hpB4pB+ fx2sG6F5fHdDFHPz4ub++dsDjKNs2nhkzb1Lk2c5hB08zHuztWL5+M/8E3qYKDW+ YsRj5ST+ZYN/yGWnd5SnGXkw45LkEGhZBLrgh+vrQ1nQJHRodbLFH43pc8nWjv7R wo1L/LG+bVBwcZ6CxD8= =c3UT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: lives
On 27 Jul 2009, at 07:37, Gürkan Sengün wrote: Hello Harry I am looking for a sponsor for the package "lives" which I updated and removed lintian warnings and errors. This is not a non-maintainer upload as the upstream author Gabriel Finch has agreed to list me as an 'uploader' in debian/control. The original maintainer was Gürkan Sengün . here's my current work: http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/lives/nyu/ That's what I based the packages on (you're still listed ad the maintainer, I just made it lintian clean and upgraded the upstream version). I think the original maintainer Gürkan Sengün > is a Debian Developer as although I can't find him using db.debian.org, a random one of his packages I chose ttf-jura has been uploaded to the repository, but I can't find an RFS for it, only an ITP. Gürkan, i f you want to upload lives that's great, but if not don't worry. i'm sorry i'm not a debian developer, but nyu is interested sponsoring the package (i've cc'd him): Robert Millan . Okay, thanks The package requires libweed0, which is available from debian-multimedia.org (http://www.debian-multimedia.org/pool/main/l/lives/). However, only binary packages exist. Does this need to be uploaded before lives can (a source package would have to be made)? yes you should package libweed first into debian, otherwise lives can not go into main. only packages that work independently inside main, can be main. Okay. I've pretty mich finished packaging libweed, but I won't be able to upload it to m.d.o until later today or (more likely) tomorrow. Also, would a postinst script that downloaded and installed libweed0 be acceptable? If not, is it unacceptable to add an override to suppress lintian warning about symlinks to shared libraries in the main packages? no you can't do that for main packages. thanks for your work, guerkan Thanks Harry Rickards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: lives
here's my current work: http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/lives/nyu/ That's what I based the packages on (you're still listed ad the maintainer, I just made it lintian clean and upgraded the upstream version). That's fine, just make sure, there's only one changelog entry there, the one of you, fixing the RFS bug, and no older ones, since the package wasn't in debian ever... Thanks, Guerkan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: lshell (3rd try)
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 00:51, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > Hola Ignace Mouzannar! Hola Maximiliano! > A few comments, in decreasing severity order: > - You are creating a group lshellg in postinst using groupadd, without > checking the group existance, this would fail on reinstall, or upgrade, so, > you to check the existance of the group, you should use addgroup instead of > groupadd, the group should be called lshell, and it must be a system group > (--system in addgroup). Or you can decide to use adm or nogroup. This has been corrected. > - The tar.gz provided is not the same file that upstream distributes (you had > probably recreated the tar.gz) This has been corrected. > - The license states GPL 2 or any later version, the copyright file refers > the user to the GPL-3 license, while this can hardly be a problem, it might > be better to point the user to the GPL license lshell is distributed under GPL v3 or any later version. I have modified the debian/copyright file to mention the 3rd version of the GPL. > - I personally don't like using cdbs, I suggest you to also learn to package > using debhelper, as well The debian/rules file has been modified to use debhelper without cdbs. Thank you for your tips. Regards, Ignace Mouzannar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS (take 2): libbash
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In , Hai Zaar > wrote: > >I need separate 1777 directory for locks library of libbash, since it > >may create rather complex file structure there, so I do not want to > >put it to just /tmp or /var/tmp/, since it may lead to collisions with > >files created manually by users It took me a while, but I've fixed this issue. Now temporary files are stored under /tmp/.dirlocks-$USER. I've uploaded fixed version to mentors.debian.net. Patrick, can you look at it please? > > That's a *desire*, not a *need*. > > Follow the lead set by GPG, KDE, ORBit, PulsaAudio, SCIM, and SSH.[1] Put > files in /tmp and if you need a "complex directory structure", create a per- > user (or "instance") directory in /tmp and place your files inside. > > mkdtemp is your friend here, although it is not completely portable. > mktemp+mkdir are portable, but make sure your code does not have a race > condition. > > So far you haven't provided any evidence that /tmp or /var/tmp are > inappropriate for your program. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > > [1] Taken together, it is a good crowd to be in. -- Zaar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: qwit - Qt4 Twitter client (2nd try)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos Galisteo schrieb: > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 09:06:18AM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> Re-read my emails, e.g. the qwit.{1,man} thing :) > > OK, mystery solved. I had already fixed it...but in a wrong way. Now it > should be fine :) > >> In my opinion: No. >> There are sponsors who want that, but I am against it. > > Understood. I've uploaded the new package as 0.9-1 [1] > > Thank you again. > > [1] http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qwit/qwit_0.9-1.dsc Okay, uploaded :) - -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, Patrick Matthäi GNU/Linux Debian Developer E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org patr...@linux-dev.org Comment: Always if we think we are right, we were maybe wrong. */ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpt0AYACgkQ2XA5inpabMePlwCfb0mn9u0J93cb1GHJJkhPMMLt 314An1twaQMg+Ni6/pVwSnqZiyMKQZzf =it7v -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: qwit - Qt4 Twitter client (2nd try)
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Okay, uploaded :) Great! Thank you for your help. -- --- Carlos Galisteo PGP_key::http://k-rolus.net/~cgalisteo/cgalisteo.gpg Key_Fingerprint::F888 6FBA 9145 B5A2 C187 66D6 5B8C 027A 69AD BE65 --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: lives
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gürkan Sengün wrote: >>> here's my current work: >>> http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/lives/nyu/ >>> >> That's what I based the packages on (you're still listed ad the >> maintainer, I just made it lintian clean and upgraded the upstream >> version). > > That's fine, just make sure, there's only one changelog entry there, the > one of you, fixing the RFS bug, and no older ones, since the package > wasn't in debian ever... > > Thanks, > Guerkan > > Okay. Shall I also remove you as package maintainer as well? - -- Thanks Harry Rickards GPG Key Info: pub 1024R/58449F6F 2009-06-12 uid Harry Rickards (OpenPGP Card) sub 1024R/D775CCEE 2009-06-12 sub 1024R/9394048C 2009-06-12 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iJwEAQECAAYFAkpt4RYACgkQ+9DWHFhEn2/9xgP+PXMADuMlIt5uf0dyi8sTerC9 o6+eRUaTkYPLbyLZbsVgij7jHuXtS4Acyi3BdwwUGLVy8EF4yMQ/GdlybuvZr1Ah +jxRLSq8LNjHVw7f4LIk7+9xinYZk6Lo86Uwd+rwTzZmDEOpJeaxJ3fs5c0AaWbW HmQ0e08ByGlgDYl/274= =gsI5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
RFS: libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl". * Package name: libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl Version : 1.25-1 Upstream Author : Gregor Mosheh * URL : http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STIGMATA * License : This Perl module is freeware. It may be copied, derived, used, and distributed without limitation. Section : perl It builds these binary packages: libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl - perl module for generating html calendars The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 535528 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl/libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl_1.25-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards, Italo. -- Saudações, Italo Valcy :: http://wiki.dcc.ufba.br/~ItaloValcy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:15:23PM -0300, Italo Valcy wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl". > Hi! Would you like to join the Debian Perl Group and maintain it as part of the team? We have people who will sponsor your uploads ;). Take a look at: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup#Howtogetinvolved Cheers, Ryan -- _ Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl
Hi, Citando Ryan Niebur , em 27-07-2009: Hi! Would you like to join the Debian Perl Group and maintain it as part of the team? We have people who will sponsor your uploads ;). Take a look at: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup#Howtogetinvolved Well... I think no, sorry! I'm not a good perl programmer... I just packaged this perl module because it's very simple and I need it for a Foswiki plugin. Kind regards, Italo. -- Saudações, Italo Valcy :: http://wiki.dcc.ufba.br/~ItaloValcy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: UNS: Re: RFS: lshell (3rd try)
Hola Ignace Mouzannar! El 27/07/2009 a las 12:19 escribiste: > > - You are creating a group lshellg in postinst using groupadd, without > > checking the group existance, this would fail on reinstall, or upgrade, > > so, > > you to check the existance of the group, you should use addgroup instead > > of > > groupadd, the group should be called lshell, and it must be a system group > > (--system in addgroup). Or you can decide to use adm or nogroup. > This has been corrected. There a few ways to check if a group exists, calling sg group_name true is a creative one, I not against the solution, but using getent group group_name is probably a more traditional approach used in a few other packages, in general, it's good to accept the de facto standard. > The debian/rules file has been modified to use debhelper without cdbs. Great, I appreciate the effort, I didn't mean "do it right away", though. Extra comments: - control claims Build-Dependency of debhelper >= 7, but compat says 5, one or the other is wrong, please fix it. - manpage: - Refers to group lshellg instead of lshell - Doesn't mention the default config file (/etc/lshell.conf) - ¿Why is there a section called TODO? - It would be great if you document how to use lshell inside a chroot, maybe even using makejail. -- "La duración de un minuto depende de que lado del baño estés." -- Ley de la Relatividad (Burke) Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl
Hi! On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:59:05PM -0300, Italo Valcy wrote: > Hi, > > Citando Ryan Niebur , em 27-07-2009: > >> Hi! Would you like to join the Debian Perl Group and maintain it as >> part of the team? We have people who will sponsor your uploads ;). >> Take a look at: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup#Howtogetinvolved > > Well... I think no, sorry! I'm not a good perl programmer... I just > packaged this perl module because it's very simple and I need it for a > Foswiki plugin. > I don't see how your abilities with Perl programming are relevant. the only difference between maintaining it inside a team and maintaining it by yourself is that you get more collaboration and help with the maintainance inside the team. If you don't know Perl, then help from people who do know Perl is going to be a good thing. But of course, it's up to you. I just want to know that you are welcome to join the group if you want to. I will do a review of your package sometime within a few hours, however I cannot do the upload since IANADD. Good luck, Ryan -- _ Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:15:23PM -0300, Italo Valcy wrote: > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > - URL: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable > main contrib non-free > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl/libhtml-calendarmonthsimple-perl_1.25-1.dsc > looks good for the most part. a few minor recommendations though. instead of linking to a screenshot in the long description, you should upload the screenshot to screenshots.debian.net (which you may have to do after it is uploaded). and instead of using an author based URL in debian/watch, which won't work if somebody else uploads a new version of this distribution, you should use something based on http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-CalendarMonthSimple/. same goes for the homepage. the homepage should probably be the URL I previously mentioned. -- _ Ryan Niebur ryanrya...@gmail.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature