Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:00:04AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > > Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a > > confusing choice. > > VirtualBox src ships with binary *.exe, which are forbidden in Debian. .exe file are fine, as long as they can be rebuilt with free

Re: Re-review request/RFS for current packaging of Red Eclipse

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: > Hello again, upstream has now released Red Eclipse 1.2 and hence this is > partly a RFS, partly a re-review request. ... > [1] > Is this motivation good enough for not using stand-alone Enet? Hmm, I don't have a good answer for that. >

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alexey Eromenko
> Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a > confusing choice. VirtualBox src ships with binary *.exe, which are forbidden in Debian. I don't know specific paragraphs of violations. But I'm just a Debian-student, not mentor (@_@) -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

Re: RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > I note that the package is installable on hurd-*. AFAICT Hurd doesn't > support sound or Alsa so maybe it should not depend on 'hurd' or > should switch to architecture linux-any (or linux-all if that > existed)? The kind folks on #debian-hurd p

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Alexey Eromenko writes: > Yes, you should replace inside sources, and call it ~dfsg. Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a confusing choice. -- \ “Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that | `\ will not admit of even the *possibil

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: > Yes, you should replace inside sources, and call it ~dfsg. In general it should be +dfsg not ~dfsg. ~dfsg/+dfsg should only be added when repacking for DFSG-related reasons, so not in this case. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/Paul

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alexey Eromenko
2012/1/16 Björn Esser : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi there! > > How shall software be handled, when it needs > >    - huge modifactions Modify original sources in Debian. >    - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones >    - to be extended by custom scripts or pr

Re: RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "oss-compat". The updated package > adds a Multi-Arch declaration (#651335) and handles its configuration file > according to policy (#649507, which is RC). > > The dsc is available at > http://mentors

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Sergey, On 16.01.2012 23:57, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > For example, that was not "a very first upload" (of mod_rpaf) for me. > But next time I should convince new sponsor and so on. That's unfortunate, but this happens. I'm sorry for you, and

Re: RFS: couriergrey (3rd)

2012-01-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Marco Balmer writes: > Dear Gergely, debian-mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "couriergrey". Will have a look this week. Sorry for the delays. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
> You seem to misunderstand the DM status. I don't think so, but thank you for explanation. > It is not a Debian Developer > Lite. It does not mean you, as a DM, are trusted to upload any given > package to Debian at any time. It just a meaningless thing for now. See below. > If you got DM sta

Re: RFS: shaarli

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Emilien Klein wrote: > I've worked with upstream Shaarli to fix the issue with the inclusion > of the minified jQuery files. Upstream has released a tarball that > uses the jQuery CDN instead of the local minified files (which have > been removed from the archive)

Re: How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser: > I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. It is not currently accepted by the Debian archive: http://bugs.debian.org/642801 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.

RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Stephen Kitt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "oss-compat". The updated package adds a Multi-Arch declaration (#651335) and handles its configuration file according to policy (#649507, which is RC). The dsc is available at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/oss-compat/oss-comp

Re: RFS: shaarli

2012-01-16 Thread Emilien Klein
2012/1/14 Jakub Wilk : > * Emilien Klein , 2012-01-14, 15:56: > >>  dget -x >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/shaarli/shaarli_0.0.33beta-1.dsc >> >> Shaarli contains the jQuery 1.6.2 minified file, > > > …for which we have no source. This is violation of DFSG §2. > (And additionally,

How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. BR, Björn. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAk8Une4AC

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser: >    - huge modifactions Get those included upstream. >    - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones Make those scripts generic but configurable, send the required changes upstream and drop in a second configuration file overriding the defaults. >    - to be extended

How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! How shall software be handled, when it needs - huge modifactions - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones - to be extended by custom scripts or progs when packaging it for debian? Shall the custom / replaced stuff be pl

Re: RFS: libpam-abl , bug fix , package is already in Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 01/16/2012 07:38 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Alex Mestiashvili , 2012-01-16, 19:21: >> Dear mentors , >> could you please sponsor my package libpam-abl which fixes FTBFS bug >> #655119 >> >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc >> > > The changelog says

Re: RFS: libpam-abl , bug fix , package is already in Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Alex Mestiashvili , 2012-01-16, 19:21: Dear mentors , could you please sponsor my package libpam-abl which fixes FTBFS bug #655119 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc The changelog says "debian/control added DM-Upload-Allowed", but 0.4.2-1 had a

RFS: libpam-abl , bug fix , package is already in Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Dear mentors , could you please sponsor my package libpam-abl which fixes FTBFS bug #655119 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc Thank you , Alex On 05/07/2011 04:59 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > Package name: libpam-abl > License : GPL

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Sergey, On 16.01.2012 17:28, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > Looks like DM does not make sence at all :( > > I'm waiting for upload for months just in case of very > simple changeset (e.g. for rpaf or php-memcached). You seem to misunderstand the

Re: Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
> before this falls through the cracks I've uploaded the package to get > the bug fixed. Thank you. >> I'm sorry, but that was noted in comments. Feel free to drop this >> control field. > > Droped. > >> > I don't see how I can judge if you're able to handle the package or not. >> >> E.g. by lo

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2012-01-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 01/16/2012 03:27 PM, Ivan Reche wrote: The package is just a directory with lots of binaries and it likes to install itself in /opt. Besides that, it needs to set some environment variables (similar to JAVA_HOME and friends). What is the best way to approach this? Do I change the PATH en

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:48:52PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: Hi, before this falls through the cracks I've uploaded the package to get the bug fixed. > > in theory I'm willing to sponsor an upload (well I did the QA upload > > of this package a few month ago) but I don't like people setti

Packaging proprietary software

2012-01-16 Thread Ivan Reche
This is my first post in this list and I couldn't find an older post in the archives which answered my questions. I need to package a commercial application for automatic installation in a cluster, as well as not messing up the system. I want it to integrate well with the Debian environment. The

Re: uscan, dfsg and changelog

2012-01-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 01/16/2012 02:12 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: When I now run "uscan -debug -f" (to check the script), I get uscan debug: [...] -- Found the following matching hrefs: [...] http://foo.bar.edu/foo/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz Newest version on remote site is 1.2.3, local version is 1.2.3+dfsg

Re: uscan, dfsg and changelog

2012-01-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:12:37 +0100, Olе Streicher wrote: > uscan debug: [...] > -- Found the following matching hrefs: >[...] > http://foo.bar.edu/foo/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz > Newest version on remote site is 1.2.3, local version is 1.2.3+dfsg > => remote site does not even have current versio

uscan, dfsg and changelog

2012-01-16 Thread Olе Streicher
Hi, I have a source that needs to be repackaged due to some copyright issues. From the Mentors FAQ, I found that I should name the package "foo-1.2.3+dfsg-1". So, I made a repacking script (should it have a predefined name, btw?) like: 8<--- #!/bin/sh ver=$2 or

RFS: couriergrey (3rd)

2012-01-16 Thread Marco Balmer
Dear Gergely, debian-mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "couriergrey". * Package name: couriergrey Version : 0.3.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Matthias Wimmer * URL : http://couriergrey.com * License : GPL-2+ Section : net On Mon, De