RFS: anubis (updated package, fixes RC bug)

[Krzysztof Burghardt]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.1.1+dfsg1-2
of my package "anubis".

It builds these binary packages:
anubis - an SMTP message submission daemon

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 529901

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/anubis
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/anubis/anubis_4.1.1+dfsg1-2.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards,
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Re: RFS: gtklp (updated package)

[Michal Čihař]

Hi

Dne Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:08:43 +0800
"Zak B. Elep"  napsal(a):

> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 22:48 +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote:
> > Note that I'm not closing the door on separating patches as files
> > altogether; I may go back to simple-patchsys style when I have more than
> > a handful of patches to keep.
> 
> And go back, I did. ;)

Thanks :-).

> I've updated my gtklp to 1.2.7-2, here's the changelog:
> 
> gtklp (1.2.7-2) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Use TopGit and Quilt to manage patches
>   * Re-add debian/patches, autogenerated from git branches
>   * debian/rules: call autogen.sh after applying patches
> 
> dget
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gtklp/gtklp_1.2.7-2.dsc

Uploaded.

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[ping] Re: RFS: gimp-gap (FTBFS, 2 other "serious bugs")

[Thibaut Paumard]

Hi,

I have not received any answer to this message, I'd be very happy if  
someone volunteered...


(TODO list added below)

Le 7 août 09 à 10:45, Thibaut Paumard a écrit :

Dear mentors,

I have prepared a new upload of my package gimp-gap. I would be  
grateful if someone would upload it for me (I'm a DM but this  
package doesn't have the Dm-Upload-Allowed field yet). It fixes  
serious bugs:

- FTBFS on ia64;
- inclusion of external libraries, including patent-problematic  
ffmpeg.


To get the source package:
dget 
http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/perso/thibaut-paumard/debian/pool/main/g/gimp-gap/gimp-gap_2.6.0+dfsg-1.dsc

Complete changelog:
 * Remove convenience copies of external libraries libmpeg3
   (Closes: #537727) and ffmpeg (Closes: #537725).
 * Bug fix: "implicit pointer conversions", thanks to dann frazier
   (Closes: #536528).
 * add ${misc:Depends} in the dependencies (lintian warning).
 * set debhelper compatibility level to 7 (lintian warning).
 * Changed all -1 dependencies to -1~ to make backporting easier
   (suggested by lintian).
 * mangle version in watch file (suggested by lintian).

Best regards, Thibaut.


TODO:

For the next upload, I am working on getting gimp-gap to compile  
nicely against debian's ffmpeg. I have a "working" version, but I  
still require to ship 10 files from ffmpeg in the source package (a  
100-fold improvement compared to shipping all of ffmpeg, and this  
solves the patent problem).


As soon as the latest version of libmpeg3 is available, I will enable  
it.


Regards, Thibaut.

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Re: RFS: gtklp (updated package)

[Zak B. Elep]

On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:09 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Dne Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:08:43 +0800
> "Zak B. Elep"  napsal(a):
> > dget
> > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gtklp/gtklp_1.2.7-2.dsc
> 
> Uploaded.

Yay!  Thanks for the upload!

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RFS: choqok

[Andrey Voronov]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "choqok".

* Package name: choqok
  Version : 0.6.6-1
  Upstream Author : Mehrdad Momeny 
* URL :  http://choqok.gnufolks.org/
* License : GPLv.3
  Section : kde

It builds these binary packages:
choqok - KDE micro-blogging client

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 543956

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/choqok
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/choqok/choqok_0.6.6-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

Kind regards
 Andrey Voronov


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Re: QA uploadable packages for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Sandro Tosi]

Hi Petr,
thanks for your email.

Since everyone can do QA uploads (it's not only the QA team ;) I think
this is a perfect task for any perspective maintainer to do some
packaging job. I'm adding mentors in the loop (quiting your email in
toto), so that maybe some guy there wants to prepare the upload and
ask for sponsorship (I'd say here and on -bsd).

Regards,
Sandro

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:30, Petr Salinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there are QA uploadable packages for "ReleaseGoals/kFreeBSD".
>
> - already QA uploaded:
>
> #379778 fte: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (due to unsatisfied Build-Depends on
> libgpmg1-dev)
> #542592 libvncserver: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD ( "-s" have to passed to
> debhelper)
> #322207 audiooss: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD
>
> - orphaned:
>
> #448736 avifile: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd
> #416258 pdp: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD: missing OS detection
> #542748 sg3-utils: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD
>
> May you consider them, please.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>                        Petr
>
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Re: QA uploadable packages for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Cyril Brulebois]

Sandro Tosi  (28/08/2009):
> Hi Petr,
> thanks for your email.

(For those wondering, I had it privately some days ago, but the reply
I was writing got lost.)

> Since everyone can do QA uploads (it's not only the QA team ;) I
> think this is a perfect task for any perspective maintainer to do
> some packaging job. I'm adding mentors in the loop (quiting your
> email in toto),

(What did you drink?) (Petr reads -bsd@ anyway.)

> so that maybe some guy there wants to prepare the upload and ask for
> sponsorship (I'd say here and on -bsd).

Please don't forget -bsd@, see below. A test build on one kfreebsd-*
arch would be nice, no need to upload to fix an FTBFS and get another
build failure.

> > #379778 fte: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (due to unsatisfied Build-Depends on
> > libgpmg1-dev)

Without looking back to the packages, I seem to recall that: this
patch was quite intrusive and would need double-checking.

> > #542592 libvncserver: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD ( "-s" have to passed to
> > debhelper)

This doesn't work. dh gets -a + -s and no matter in which order, that
fails.

> > #322207 audiooss: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD

I think that one is mostly OK, but I wanted to double-check something
too.

> > - orphaned:

Didn't look at those yet.

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Re: RFS: lives

[Harry Rickards]

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On 08/28/09 12:20, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:48:48AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> It would be great if you could upload the newest revision of lives.
>> There is no new upstream version, so the changes are just in debian/.
>> Changelog is as follows:
>>
>> lives (1.0.0-5) unstable; urgency=low
>>
>>   * Removed the bit about PATH from debian/wrapper/lives
>>   * Removed duplicate entry of Niels Elburg from debian/copyright
>>   * Added the right dependencies taken from the packaging notes
>>   * Fixed debian/watch to not think pre-release versions are newer than
>> release ones
>>   * Replaced automake1.10 with automake
>>   * Made frei0r-plugins-dev and frei0r-plugins not for kfreebsd
>>   * Made libavc1394, libavc1394-dev, libraw1394 and libraw1394-dev not for
>> kfreebsd
>>   * Added SVN and VCS Browser URL's to debian/control
>>   * Made the end of the smogrify manpage a bit more formal
>>   * Removed the autogen.sh bit from debian/rules as it doesn't seem to work
>> Seeing as autogen.sh doesn't seem to be needed dh must do all the stuff
>> automatically
>>
>>  -- Harry Rickards   Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:30:14
>> +0100
>>
>> You can simply get the new debian folder from SVN
>> (svn://svn.debian.org/svn/collab-maint/deb-maint/lives/trunk/debian) and
>> add it to the current version of lives from the mainm repository (i.e,
>> apt-get source lives first). You will have to remove the .svn
>> directories in debian/ and debian/watch/ though. As long as the .svn
>> directories are removed, it's lintian clean with information, pedantic
>> and experimental enabled, although a few experimental info messages are
>> shown about spelling error's in the actual binary.
> 
> -Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, 
> ${perl:Depends}, mplayer, sox, imagemagick, frei0r-plugins, libweed0 (>= 
> ${source:Version}), lives-data, python
> +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, 
> ${perl:Depends}, mplayer, sox, imagemagick, frei0r-plugins[!kfreebsd-i386 
> !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386], libweed0 (>= ${source:Version}), lives-data, 
> libsox-fmt-all, libdv4[!hurd-i386], libsdl1.2debian, libsdl1.2debian-all, 
> libogg0, libtheora0, liboil0.3, libraw1394-11[!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 
> !hurd-i386], libavc1394-0[!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386]
> 
> These don't belong in Depends.  Shared library dependencies are automatically
> generated.
> 
> Btw, when you fix this, please provide a .dsc.
> 
Okay. Removed them from Depends. I've created a .dsc and uploaded to
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_1.0.0-5.dsc



I'm also CC'ing this to d-ment...@l.d.o as you requested via IRC.
Lintian clean with info and pedantic tags displayed.

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Re: QA uploadable packages for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Sandro Tosi]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 14:19, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Sandro Tosi  (28/08/2009):
>> Since everyone can do QA uploads (it's not only the QA team ;) I
>> think this is a perfect task for any perspective maintainer to do
>> some packaging job. I'm adding mentors in the loop (quiting your
>> email in toto),
>
> (What did you drink?) (Petr reads -bsd@ anyway.)

s/quiting/quoting/ anyhow

The target is Petr (yes, directly) and mentors (to look for packagers,
hence the full quote)

Hope this clarify, if not be specific. There is no need to be
sarcastic all the times.

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Re: QA uploadable packages for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Cyril Brulebois]

Sandro Tosi  (28/08/2009):
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 14:19, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Sandro Tosi  (28/08/2009):
> >> Since everyone can do QA uploads (it's not only the QA team ;) I
> >> think this is a perfect task for any perspective maintainer to do
> >> some packaging job. I'm adding mentors in the loop (quiting your
> >> email in toto),
> >
> > (What did you drink?) (Petr reads -bsd@ anyway.)
> 
> s/quiting/quoting/ anyhow
> 
> The target is Petr (yes, directly) and mentors (to look for packagers,
> hence the full quote)
> 
> Hope this clarify, if not be specific. There is no need to be
> sarcastic all the times.

quiting + toto made me smile, sorry for being amused.

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Re: QA uploadable packages for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Charles Plessy]

Le Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 02:09:06PM +0200, Sandro Tosi a écrit :
> >
> > - orphaned:
> >
> > #448736 avifile: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd
> > #416258 pdp: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD: missing OS detection
> > #542748 sg3-utils: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD
> >
> > May you consider them, please.

Of course, one can consider if these packages are good candidates for archive
removal before speding time on them.

Have a nice week-end,

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Re: QA uploadable packages for GNU/kFreeBSD

[Cyril Brulebois]

Cyril Brulebois  (28/08/2009):
> > > #322207 audiooss: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD
> 
> I think that one is mostly OK, but I wanted to double-check
> something too.

Uploading.

Also, people wanting to work on those packages may want to join
#debian-kbsd (OFTC) to coordinate and avoid double-work.

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Re: RFS: choqok

[Noah Meyerhans]

These packages should not be uploaded at this time.  The ITP bug
(543956) was filed by me, not by Andrey.  One typically doesn't close
somebody else's ITP without coordinating with the submitter.

I'll get in touch with Andrey off-list to try and straighten things out.

noah

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Re: RFS: burn 0.4.3-2.2 (Lenny security bug fixes)

[Felipe Sateler]

Ben Finney wrote:

> Felipe Sateler  writes:
> 
>> I believe packages with updates to stable debian releases are versioned
>> -+lenny1 or something like that.
> 
> Felipe Sateler  writes:
> 
>> BTW, I know this is not a hard requirement, but it is to easily detect
>> stable updates.
> 
> Okay. Given that the release team has approved a specific set of changes
> that includes the package release version string, would I need to seek
> approval again when changing that string?

I'm not sure, but I would think not. After all, the change is irrelevant to 
the software functionality.

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RFS: libsockets

[Leinier Cruz Salfran]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libsockets".

* Package name: libsockets
  Version : 2.3.6-1
  Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom 
* URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/
* License : GPL
  Section : libs

It builds these binary packages:
libsockets-dev - C++ Sockets Library - development files
libsockets2 - C++ Sockets Library

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 544074

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsockets
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsockets/libsockets_2.3.6-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.

I have followed the recomendations of Michal Čihař .. I have fixed:
- debian/copyright
- debian/control
- patch system
- other things.

After build I tested with lintian:

# lintian -I --pedantic libsockets_2.3.6-1_i386.changes 
warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with root privileges!
I: libsockets2: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libsockets.so.2.3.6


Kind regards
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Re: RFS: lives

[Harry Rickards]

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On 08/28/09 13:20, Harry Rickards wrote:

> Okay. Removed them from Depends. I've created a .dsc and uploaded to
> 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_1.0.0-5.dsc
> 
> 
> 
> I'm also CC'ing this to d-ment...@l.d.o as you requested via IRC.
> Lintian clean with info and pedantic tags displayed.
> 

Thank you whoever uploaded it!

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RFS: tictactoe-ng

[Alex Launi]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tictactoe-ng".

* Package name : tictactoe-ng
  Version : 0.3.1-1
  Upstream Author : Alex Launi 

* URL : https://launchpad.net/tictactoe
* License : GPL-3
  Section : games

It builds this binary package: tictactoe-ng - A fun, simple, TicTacToe
game using cairo and telepathy tubes

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tictactoe-ng

- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tictactoe-ng/tictactoe-ng_0.3.1-1.dsc

Thanks a lot to anyone who can help me get this uploaded into Debian.

-- 
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Re: RFS: tictactoe-ng

[Christoph Egger]

Alex Launi schrieb:
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "tictactoe-ng".
> 
> * Package name : tictactoe-ng
>   Version : 0.3.1-1
>   Upstream Author : Alex Launi  >
> 
> 
> * URL : https://launchpad.net/tictactoe
> * License : GPL-3
>   Section : games
> 
> It builds this binary package: tictactoe-ng - A fun, simple, TicTacToe game 
> using cairo and telepathy tubes
> 
> 
> 
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net :
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tictactoe-ng
> 
> 
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
> contrib non-free
> - dget 
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tictactoe-ng/tictactoe-ng_0.3.1-1.dsc
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot to anyone who can help me get this uploaded into Debian.
> 
> -- 
> --Alex Launi

Hi Alex!

I'm not a Debian Developer yet and so I can't sponsor your upload.
However I'm a active Member of the Debian Games Team[0]. We are always
looking for motivated people wanting to work on gaming in Debian so if
you're interested, you could drop us a note on the Mailinglist[1] or
visit us on IRC. (sponsoring is quite easy once if you are in ;) )

While I was at it I tried to build your package, however it failed to
build on debian/sid i386 as you can see in the logfile I attached. Also
you might want to drop pycentral in favor of python-support ;)

Regards

Christoph

[0] http://wiki.debian.org/Games
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I: Running in no-targz mode
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I: Current time: Fri Aug 28 23:21:01 CEST 2009
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I: mounting /proc filesystem
I: mounting /dev/pts filesystem
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Depends: cdbs (>= 0.4.49), debhelper (>= 7), python-all-dev, python-central (>= 0.5.6), python-distutils-extra
dpkg-deb: building package `pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy' in `/tmp/satisfydepends-aptitude/pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy.deb'.
Reading package lists...
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  html2text{a} intltool{a} intltool-debian{a} libcroco3{a} libdb4.5{a} 
  libexpat1{a} libglib2.0-0{a} libhtml-parser-perl{a} 
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  python-distutils-extra{a} python-minimal{a} python2.4{a} python2.4-dev{a} 
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Re: RFS: libsockets

[Leinier Cruz Salfran]

I updated to '2.3.6-2' .. changelog:

libsockets (2.3.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Improved 'debian' directory inspired in 'giflib' source package
  * Improved patch system: switched to 'quilt'
  * Added debugging symbols package

 -- Leinier Cruz Salfran   Fri, 28 Aug 2009
17:16:00 -0400

Lintian:
# lintian -I --pedantic libsockets_2.3.6-2_i386.changes 
warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with root
privileges!
I: libsockets2: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libsockets.so.2.3.6



El vie, 28-08-2009 a las 12:10 -0400, Leinier Cruz Salfran escribió:
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libsockets".
> 
> * Package name: libsockets
>   Version : 2.3.6-1
>   Upstream Author : Anders Hedstrom 
> * URL : http://www.alhem.net/Sockets/
> * License : GPL
>   Section : libs
> 
> It builds these binary packages:
> libsockets-dev - C++ Sockets Library - development files
> libsockets2 - C++ Sockets Library
> 
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> 
> The upload would fix these bugs: 544074
> 
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsockets
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
> contrib non-free
> - dget 
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libsockets/libsockets_2.3.6-1.dsc
> 
> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
> 
> I have followed the recomendations of Michal Čihař .. I have fixed:
> - debian/copyright
> - debian/control
> - patch system
> - other things.
> 
> After build I tested with lintian:
> 
> # lintian -I --pedantic libsockets_2.3.6-1_i386.changes 
> warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with root privileges!
> I: libsockets2: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/libsockets.so.2.3.6
> 
> 
> Kind regards
>  Leinier Cruz Salfran


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RFS: update-inetd (98% popcon; closes ITA and 10 other bugs)

[Serafeim Zanikolas]

[please CC me on replies, I'm not subscribed]

Hi,

I need a sponsor for my adoption of update-inetd. This upload closes 11 bugs,
a couple of which are a decade old(!), and adds a rather extensive test suite.

dget http://members.hellug.gr/serzan/tmp/deb/update-inetd_4.32.dsc

FYI I plan to migrate update-inetd to triggers, based on input from Roger
Leigh (see #541872 msg35 onwards), but that's long-term (over a stable
release), so this upload is just bug fixing.

Cheers,
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Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

[Joe Smith]

Hi,

I'm having an issue getting dpkg-shlibdeps to resolve dependencies properly.
The output lists:

dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for shared
library libmylib-0.8 (soname 0, path libmylib-0.8.so.0, dependency field
Depends)

But I can run dpkg -S libmylib-0.8 and it shows:

libmylib: /usr/lib/libmylib-0.8.so.0
libmylib: /usr/lib/libmylib-0.8.so.0.0.0

Same output for dpkg -S libmylib-0.8.so.0. The libraries also exist and the
application can run. Running ldd on the application spits out:

libmylib-0.8.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmylib-0.8.so.0 (0x)

libmylib is build with autotools and passes -release 0.8 to libtool. It
generates:

libmylib-0.8.so.0
libmylib-0.8.so.0.0.0
libmylib.so
libmylib.la
libmylib.a

and the application links with "-lmylib". The libmylib.la file points to
libmylib-0.8.so.0. The .so.0 and .so.0.0.0 files are packaged into libmylib
debian package and the .so, .la are packaged into libmylib-dev package.

Everything builds and packages fine including the application, but since
dpkg-shlibdeps can't find the dependencies for libmylib-0.8, it doesn't list
libmylib package as a dependency in the .deb file.

I've installed libmylib_0.8.deb package manually with dpkg -i.

If possible, I'd like to keep the dependencies and such as generic as
possible. I have many versions of the package that all are not compatible
with each other so if you link against libmylib-0.8.so you need to have v0.8
to run and the same for 0.9 and so on. I don't want it to be backwards
compatible, so that I don't break any functionality in future releases. For
this, I've used the -release tag for libtool.

I'd also like, if possible, to have the application have no hardcoded
versions. Currently, it links against libmylib, which pulls in whatever one
corresponds to the last version of libmylib-dev package installed.

Can you provide any insight on how I can get dpkg-shlibdeps to pick this up
automatically without having to hardcode the libmylib (= 0.8) dependency and
having to change that every time a new library is compiled against?

Thanks,
Clancy

Any "efficient" way to specify target arches?

[Rogério Brito]

Hi there.

Just a quick question: how does one would specify that a given package
should be compiled in all but a small set of arches?

Of course, I could list all the supported arches (instead of "any"), but
this has an annoying drawback: arches change names (e.g., arm), new
arches are included (avr32), etc.

I have one package that is primarily intended for Linux arches and,
thus, I would like to specify something like:

Architectures: all [! kfreebsd-i386, ! kfreebsd-amd64, ! hurd-i386]

but I suppose that that's not really allowed (is it?).

I just read the policy, but this wasn't addressed there.


Thanks in advance, Rogério Brito.

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Re: RFS: burn 0.4.3-2.2 (Lenny security bug fixes)

[Ben Finney]

Felipe Sateler  writes:

> Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > Felipe Sateler  writes:
> > 
> >> I believe packages with updates to stable debian releases are
> >> versioned -+lenny1 or something like that.
> > 
> >> BTW, I know this is not a hard requirement, but it is to easily
> >> detect stable updates.
> > 
> > Okay. Given that the release team has approved a specific set of
> > changes that includes the package release version string, would I
> > need to seek approval again when changing that string?
>
> I'm not sure, but I would think not. After all, the change is
> irrelevant to the software functionality.

Well, I don't know exactly what needs to be done here.

The examination of this updated release for stable was discussed on
‘debian-release’ and this issue didn't arise at all; I can only assume
the chosen version string was not worth commenting on in that
discussion.

I don't want to change the version string based on a guess. I can't find
any mention of the convention you're describing in the Developer's
Reference or the Policy; what should I read to know what you're
referring to?

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Re: RFS: burn 0.4.3-2.2 (Lenny security bug fixes)

[Steffen Joeris]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:33:22 am Ben Finney wrote:
> Felipe Sateler  writes:
> > Ben Finney wrote:
> > > Felipe Sateler  writes:
> > >> I believe packages with updates to stable debian releases are
> > >> versioned -+lenny1 or something like that.
> > >>
> > >> BTW, I know this is not a hard requirement, but it is to easily
> > >> detect stable updates.
> > >
> > > Okay. Given that the release team has approved a specific set of
> > > changes that includes the package release version string, would I
> > > need to seek approval again when changing that string?
> >
> > I'm not sure, but I would think not. After all, the change is
> > irrelevant to the software functionality.
>
> Well, I don't know exactly what needs to be done here.
>
> The examination of this updated release for stable was discussed on
> ‘debian-release’ and this issue didn't arise at all; I can only assume
> the chosen version string was not worth commenting on in that
> discussion.
>
> I don't want to change the version string based on a guess. I can't find
> any mention of the convention you're describing in the Developer's
> Reference or the Policy; what should I read to know what you're
> referring to?
It really doesn't matter. The only thing is you shouldn't have a version 
number that is higher than the one in the next release.
Most of the people in the sec team prefer a version number that has the 
codename in the version, mainly to make it plain that this is a special update 
for this release. This was also adopted by the release team in the past, but 
as said it is not a requirement.

Cheers
Steffen


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Re: RFS: burn 0.4.3-2.2 (Lenny security bug fixes)

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney  writes:

> I don't want to change the version string based on a guess. I can't
> find any mention of the convention you're describing in the
> Developer's Reference or the Policy; what should I read to know what
> you're referring to?

Found it:

5.8.5.4. Preparing packages to address security issues
[…]

Be sure to verify the following items:
[…]

* Make sure the version number is proper. It must be greater than
  the current package, but less than package versions in later
  distributions. If in doubt, test it with dpkg --compare-versions.
  Be careful not to re-use a version number that you have already
  used for a previous upload, or one that conflicts with a binNMU.
  The convention is to append +codename1, e.g. 1:2.4.3-4+etch1, of
  course increasing 1 for any subsequent uploads. 


http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#bug-security-building>

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RFS: burn 0.4.3-2.1+lenny1 (Lenny security bug fixes)

[Ben Finney]

Howdy mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new release 0.4.3-2.1+lenny1 of my
package ‘burn’ in Lenny. Since it's implemented in Python, I'm asking on
both ‘debian-mentors’ and ‘debian-python’.

It builds these binary packages:
burn - Command line Data-CD, Audio-CD, ISO-CD, Copy-CD writing tool

The upload would fix these bugs: 542329, 542750

Both these bugs are tagged ‘security’, so the ‘urgency’ setting in the
changelog entry is ‘high’.

The debdiff against the version currently in Lenny (0.4.3-2.1) is online
at http://pastebin.ca/1546649>. If you want to sponsor this upload,
please apply that diff to the current Lenny package and upload the
result.

The acknowledgement from the ‘debian-release’ forum for this change to
go into Lenny (note that the diff being discussed had a version string
that was not correct; that has been fixed now) is at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/msg00396.html>.

Please let me know whether anything further needs to be done before this
package can be sponsored into Lenny.

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Re: Taking care of existing packages

[Ben Finney]

Charles Plessy  writes:

> here is an example : bk2site. I am sure that newcommers can learn a
> lot by resolving the situation of this package.

I would like to learn from example on this too.

> Any volunteer to file write a well-argumented request for removal […]?

The package has now been removed
http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bk2site/news/20090823T163928Z.html>
but I can't find any public request for removal. Can we please see that
request so the learning-by-example can continue?

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soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

[Jason Heeris]

Hi all,

Inspired by recent discussion on these lists, I decided to help out with
some existing packages. One of them was soundconverter, a GTK app for
converting between sound formats. It was a little behind on the upstream
releases, so I updated the package and emailed the maintainer to offer
my assistance.

That was a week ago, and I haven't heard back, so my question is: what
do I do now? (I realise a week isn't *that* long, and possibly doesn't
qualify the word "can't" in the subject line, but I'd still like to know.)

Cheers,
Jason


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Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

[Paul Wise]

Best to consult the documentation:

http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/beyond-pkging.html#mia-qa

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Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

[Jason Heeris]

Thanks for the advice :)

It's a useful page, but a little confusing. It seems to mix up the
concept of maintainer and developer (I realise these weren't always
different), and it doesn't mention where to find the mia-query tool (or
what it means by "the system is available on..." ie. www? ftp? ssh?

But I will wait another three weeks and poke around a little more (I've
just noticed that it seems to be a sponsored upload, so I can contact
the DD as well).

Cheers,
Jason


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Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

[Paul Wise]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Jason Heeris wrote:

> It's a useful page, but a little confusing. It seems to mix up the
> concept of maintainer and developer (I realise these weren't always
> different), and it doesn't mention where to find the mia-query tool (or
> what it means by "the system is available on..." ie. www? ftp? ssh?

Please file a bug on the developers-reference package about this section.

The system runs on qa.d.o, to query it, DDs can login via SSH and run
the command.

Non-DDs can get DDs to login and run the command for them. The best
way to get that done quickly is to ask people on the #debian-devel
channel to run the command and tell you when the last activity of the
person was.

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Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

[Mike Hommey]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:09:21PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote:
> Can you provide any insight on how I can get dpkg-shlibdeps to pick this up
> automatically without having to hardcode the libmylib (= 0.8) dependency and
> having to change that every time a new library is compiled against?

Is the application built from the same source package as libmylib ? If
so, try the -S option of dpkg-shlibdeps. Otherwise, does you library
package include a shlibs or a symbols file ? If not, you need to invoke
dh_makeshlibs (if you use debhelper).

Mike


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