Tools for creating / editing manpages

Hi, A while back I asked in #debian-mentors about tools / editors to build man pages without to learn the groff / nroff / etc. I had many useful suggestions and I'd like to summarize the approach I followed at the end as a way to thank the people who step in to help (particularly René Mayorga,

RFS: qt-shutdown-p

From: Christian Metscher To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: qt-shutdown-p (updated package) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.7.0-1 of my package "qt-shutdown-p". It builds these binary packages: qt-shutdown-p - Qt4 program to shutdown the computer T

RFR: lbzip2-0.21-1

Dear Mentors, I kindly request you to review the new version of my package "lbzip2". It seems to be unstable-lintian-clean. Changes in this version: * New upstream release fixes a negligible probability race between the muxer thread printing an error message due to a write error, and the

Re: RFS: bygfoot (Updated package)

> Oh, I forgot to say one thing. If possible, the stored game data > should be arch-independent (that means independent of the endianess > and word size of the processor), so that if you take your $HOME from > your PowerPC computer to your AMD64 one, or if your $HOME is shared > among different com

Re: RFS: parti 0.0.6-1 (new package)

* gregor herrmann , 2010-02-17, 20:49: Re-uploaded to the same location: http://alioth.debian.org/~michi-guest/packages/parti_0.0.6-1.dsc lintian 2.3.3 “-I --pedantic” clean this time around. Looks good; but since I'm not familiar with the python aspects of packaging I hope someone else

Re: RFS: parti 0.0.6-1 (new package)

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:07:14 +0100, Michael Schutte wrote: > > - d/control: Standards-Version -> 3.8.4 (and update your version of > > lintian :)) > Well, crap. That’s what I get for running testing/unstable. :) > > - You might want to fix the following lintian info with a patch: > > "I: x

Re: RFS: bygfoot (Updated package)

El día 17 de febrero de 2010 19:02, Elías Alejandro escribió: >> Also, users expect not to lose previous saved games when upgrading to >> a newer version of the game, so we should do as much as possiible to >> avoid that. It is really annoying to be playing a game and lose your >> saved data afte

RFS: cba

Dear mentors, debian-science, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cba". * Package name: cba Version : 0.3.5-1 Upstream Author : me * URL : http://cbeam.sourceforge.net * License : gpl Section : science It builds these binary packages: cba - c

Re: RFS: parti 0.0.6-1 (new package)

Hi Gregor, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:34:54PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > - d/control: Standards-Version -> 3.8.4 (and update your version of > lintian :)) Well, crap. That’s what I get for running testing/unstable. > - d/copyright: according to DEP5 the Maintainer at the top is the > _

Re: RFS: bygfoot (Updated package)

Paul, I choose this option: >Version numbers in the file/directory names. I'll create a patch to fix it. Your personal favourite seems that the upstream author couldn't fix it (this isn't a excuse) but I think that is quick and easy. Also I'll follow the XDG basedir. > Also, users expect not to l

Re: RFS: bygfoot (Updated package)

2010/2/17 Paul Wise : > 2010/2/17 Elías Alejandro : >> Hi Christoph, >> >>> At least I don't consider this package as long as the preinstal >>> does a find over all home directories. Messing in user's home >>> directories isn't nice and find can take *really* *long*. >> >> I'm agree with the "isn't

RFS: kcm-tablet

Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kcm-tablet". * Package name: kcm-tablet Version : 1.1.3-1 Upstream Author : Jörg Ehrichs * URL : * License : GPL Section : kde

Re: RFS: bygfoot (Updated package)

2010/2/17 Elías Alejandro : > Hi Christoph, > >> At least I don't consider this package as long as the preinstal >> does a find over all home directories. Messing in user's home >> directories isn't nice and find can take *really* *long*. > > I'm agree with the "isn't nice", but how can I keep the

Re: RFS: bygfoot (Updated package)

Hi Christoph, > At least I don't consider this package as long as the preinstal > does a find over all home directories. Messing in user's home > directories isn't nice and find can take *really* *long*. I'm agree with the "isn't nice", but how can I keep the user savegames that belong previous t

Re: RFS: qwit

Hi Patrick. Sorry for the delay, I'm out for holidays and almost completely offline for a few days. > And still in debian/patches/, don't forget to always include the dsc in your > emails. I'm afraid that in the rush of building the package a few hours before leaving to the airport I made a few

Re: RFS: bygfoot (Updated package)

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:01:53PM -0500, Elías Alejandro wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.3.2-1 > of my package "bygfoot". > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bygfoot/bygfoot_2.3.2-1.dsc At least I don't consider this package

Re: RFS: openshot-docs

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Thomas wrote: > * Package name: openshot-docs > Version : 2.0.0-1 > Upstream Author : Jonathan Thomas > * URL : http://www.OpenShotVideo.com > * License : GPLv3 > Section : Documentation (IANADD) I d

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

* Al Nikolov [100125 23:44 +0300] > Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.8.2-1 > > of my package "ripit". > > As far as i see it breaks DPM 2.2.1 by depending on non-free (and even > not-existant in Debian) packages. Would you get rid of these dependenc