Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg
Hi! Thanks for the response. I've had review on my license by the SFLC and the FSF. See their responses here: https://wiki.unsystem.net/en/index.php/Libbitcoin/License Also I have emails from the Debian mailing list on this issue which I can contribute. Is there anything I need to do to pass that link to the FTPmaster team, or will they see it here? Thanks! On 13/08/14 08:57, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging from their mailing list. Hello, That seems to be one of the cases where we suffer from the slow processing of the NEW queue. New packages have to be checked and approved by the Debian FTPmaster team. They doing a very thourough job in checking packages (particularly licensing) and, from what I witnessed during the last months, it takes more manpower than the team has (considering that the FTPmaster team has several other duties). There is not much you can do, indeed, except patiently waiting. I had to wait for such a long time for a package of mine (openambit) to enter the archive, recently. But, given that I can't really offer the FTPmaster team what they need the most (help), my only option isto be patient PS: please notice that in case the package is rejected for some reason, I noticed that it seems that the FTPmaster team prioritizes checking reuploaded packages (at least this is what happened with my recent NEW packages). We're sometimes desperatly lacking manpower on some key positions in Debian, I'm afraid. (and I use this opportunity to thank the ftpmasters for their work and commitment) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53eb105c.2030...@riseup.net
Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg
Thank you. On 13/08/14 09:20, Charles Plessy wrote: Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging from their mailing list. Le Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 08:57:09AM +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : There is not much you can do, indeed, except patiently waiting. I had to wait for such a long time for a package of mine (openambit) to enter the archive, recently. But, given that I can't really offer the FTPmaster team what they need the most (help), my only option isto be patient Hello Amir and everybody, there is one thing that we can do: increase the quality of the packages that we submit to the NEW queue. Acording to one member of the FTP Master team, up to 80 % of the packages have a problem [0]. Indeed, when I and others have checked packages in the queue, it was not too hard to find imprecisions or omissions in the debian/copyright file. Peer review can help, by making sure that the final controllers (the FTP Master team) do not waste their time reporting defects that others could have found. You can find a process for peer review at the URL below. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview Have a nice day, [0] https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.02.1408060907090.9...@jupiter.server.alteholz.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53eb1221.6000...@riseup.net
Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg
It has now appeared in the repos! Thanks everyone. https://packages.qa.debian.org/libb/libbitcoin.html On 13/08/14 09:20, Charles Plessy wrote: Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging from their mailing list. Le Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 08:57:09AM +0200, Christian PERRIER a écrit : There is not much you can do, indeed, except patiently waiting. I had to wait for such a long time for a package of mine (openambit) to enter the archive, recently. But, given that I can't really offer the FTPmaster team what they need the most (help), my only option isto be patient Hello Amir and everybody, there is one thing that we can do: increase the quality of the packages that we submit to the NEW queue. Acording to one member of the FTP Master team, up to 80 % of the packages have a problem [0]. Indeed, when I and others have checked packages in the queue, it was not too hard to find imprecisions or omissions in the debian/copyright file. Peer review can help, by making sure that the final controllers (the FTP Master team) do not waste their time reporting defects that others could have found. You can find a process for peer review at the URL below. https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReview Have a nice day, [0] https://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.02.1408060907090.9...@jupiter.server.alteholz.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
2 months and no upload for pkg
Hi! A Debian developer Jonas Smedegard has worked with me to package my software since I first opened an ITP in April 2012. Finally we finish to resolve all the outstanding issues after some months, and I was very happy to see it pushed ready to be uploaded on 17 June. https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/libbitcoin_2.0-1.html It's been 2 months. I communicated with the maintainer and he told me to wait a bit but we saw nothing happen yet. I didn't yet contact anyone and wait patiently because I understand Debian devs are busy. However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging from their mailing list. Thanks very much. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: libbitcoin
We have a process for requesting software to be packaged for Debian (RFPs), please read the following: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Thanks. Here it is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670701 - Submit this report on wnpp (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p|q|d|t|s|?]? Bug report written as /var/tmp/wnpp.bug If you want to provide additional information, please wait to receive the bug tracking number via email; you may then send any extra information to n...@bugs.debian.org (e.g. 999...@bugs.debian.org), where n is the bug number. Normally you will receive an acknowledgement via email including the bug report number within an hour; if you haven't received a confirmation, then the bug reporting process failed at some point (reportbug or MTA failure, BTS maintenance, etc.). - However when I check the wnpp RFP bug list, my package never arrives: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=wnpp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335608730.81687.yahoomail...@web121006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
libbitcoin
Hi, I have a project which I've been continuously working on for 1 year now since May 2011 ( http://gitorious.org/libbitcoin?page=17 ). It is used in a number of projects like Electrum ( http://ecdsa.org/electrum/ ) or as backend software for websites ( https://intersango.com/ ). Intersango is the largest exchange in the UK, and 2nd largest worldwide so libbitcoin is being used in a production environment. It is a C++ Bitcoin library (rewrote from scratch) with an asynchronous toolkit based design. It has Python bindings and is at its 1.0 release. Website: http://libbitcoin.org/ Documentation/tutorials: http://libbitcoin.org/doc.html There are packages for Gentoo and Parabola/ArchLinux. I made a simple Ubuntu package: http://gitorious.org/libbitcoin/distpkg I then have been trying to create a Debian package to get it into the repos, however the entire process for creating shared library packages is immensely complex going by these guides: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html Anyway, sorry if this sounds presumptious but if anyone can make a package then contact me and I'll collaborate and make whatever changes are needed to get it to work with Debian. I did make an effort before asking for help, but I'm mostly familiar with upstream processes. --- Install instructions --- There is nothing unusual or funny about the setup. It is just a normal autotools build system with no special modifications or hacks. $ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool libboost1.48-all-dev libdb++-dev libprotobuf-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev git $ git clone git://gitorious.org/libbitcoin/libbitcoin.git $ cd libbitcoin $ autoreconf -i $ ./configure --enable-bdb $ make $ sudo make install A pkg-config is provided: $ pkg-config --cflags --libs libbitcoin -std=gnu++0x -DBDB_ENABLED -I/home/genjix/usr/include -L/home/genjix/usr/lib -lbitcoin -lboost_thread -lboost_system -lboost_regex -lboost_filesystem -lpthread -lprotobuf -ldb_cxx -lcurl The license is AGPL with a lesser clause (I worked with Stallman and Aaron Williamson of the SFLC to create this license). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335548172.33536.yahoomail...@web121004.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: libbitcoin
Interesting! Is it related to libcoin? https://github.com/ceptacle/libcoin Nope. libcoin is a fairly recent new project. libbitcoin is older. Does it (unlike Bitcoin) work on bigendian architectures? Yes it works on big-endian architectures. Also Bitcoin is MIT licensed, whereas this is GPL. I can help you, but am already involved in way too many packages[1] so would prefer that you (or others) stay in the loop and participate in the ongoing maintainance of the packaging. I'd be willing to help engage and maintain the package, and work with the author of the package. I've got to make the software accessible to developers (as it is a library) so I'll do my best to help the Debian developers. Are you also considering packaging some of those projects that use this library? Yes, eventually. I really like this project Electrum: http://ecdsa.org/electrum/ - I think it has massive potential in the future. Compared to other Bitcoin clients, there is no blockchain download and yet it remains secure. So it fixes the biggest usability problems existing currently with Bitcoin. However to get these projects working, the first step is to get their core dependencies out there. Electrum has mainstream appeal. Another cool project using libbitcoin is subvertx which is a handy set of command line tools for working with Bitcoin. The ImageMagick of Bitcoin. Things like create private keys, download the blockchain into an SQL database, construct transactions and dump them offline to stdout, read from pipe and send raw transaction dump to network, examine private keys for addresses, check balances against the blockchain, ... .etc all these low level advanced commands. However it's not a priority since the usage is pretty niche, but I have a personal bias for anything command line :) First step: libbitcoin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335554978.18213.yahoomail...@web121001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
