Re: RFS: obdgpslogger [ITP #580176]

[Niels Thykier]

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On 2010-08-16 01:28, Gary Briggs wrote:
> 
> Dear mentors,
> 
> [...]
> * Package name: obdgpslogger
>   Version : 0.15-1
>   Upstream Author : Gary Briggs  [myself]
> * URL : http://icculus.org/obdgpslogger/
> * License : GPLv2+
>   Section : science
> 
> It builds these binary packages:
> obdgpslogger - Suite of tools to log OBDII and GPS data
> 
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> 
> [...]
> I would be glad if someone could become my mentor for this and hopefully
> future packages.
> 
> Thank-you very much for your time,
> Gary
> 
> 

Hi Gary,

First off, thanks for your interest in packaging this package for
Debian. I have done a little review of your package, though IANADD so I
cannot upload your package even if you address all my comments. Also a
DD may have additional comments on top of mine.

As far as I can tell the package embeds a copy of sqlite3, which is
already packaged in Debian (as libsqlite3-dev). Optimally you would not
ship this in your tarball at all.

There are several files in the package not under GPL v2; you can find
some (possibly all) of them by running:
  licensecheck -r  * | grep  -v v2\ or\ later

Their copyright holders and licenses should be listed in
debian/copyright. Also "Michael Carpenter" is listed as a copyright
holder of a handful of files, but he is not mentioned in d/copyright.

On a related note, the copyright file refers to the versionless GPL from
common-licenses, which implies Debian is relicensing it under GPL-3 or
later (lintian finds this with issue --pedantic).

Your package is also missing a watch file (lintian reports this with
- -I). Even though you are your own upstream and therefore undeniable
aware of new upstream releases it is good practise for future packages -
and it would also be nice to have in case you at some point in the
future retire either your upstream or your downstream "hat".

I did not have time to run test it - unfortunately I do not own hardware
needed either, so at best I would run the simulator.

~Niels

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ldconfig message

[Zvi Dubitzky]

Hi

Can anybody explain the meaning of the following message issued at time of 
running:  dpkg -i  :

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
/sbin/ldconfig.real: libraries libvirt.so.0.4.4 and libvirtm.so in 
directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.
/sbin/ldconfig.real: libraries libvirtm.so and libvirtm.so.0.7.0 in 
directory /usr/lib have same soname but different type.

thanks

Zvi Dubitzky 
Email:d...@il.ibm.com
IBM Haifa Research LaboratoryPhone: +972-4-8296182
Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL 



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Re: Subject: RFS: testng (updated package)

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Marcus Better wrote:


Hi,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.11+dfsg-2 of my package
"testng".


Hey Marcus,

Have you talked with the Debian Java team about this? If not, take a look 
at http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/JavaPackaging and introduce yourself to 
the mailing list!


-- Asheesh.

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Re: php-fpdf - watch and epoch trouble

[Thomas Goirand]

Alessandro De Zorzi wrote:
> the problem is that uscan believes that 1.53 newer than 1.6
IMHO, the problem is rather than upstream is using a silly
numbering system. uscan is quite right that 6 is a smaller
number than 53, don't you think?

If I was you, I would try to get in touch with upstream, and
have them change version numbers for something that isn't
as silly as now. Debian wont be the only distribution having
issues with it!

Thomas


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Re: Multiple ITP's

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:07:03PM +0100, Chris Baines wrote:

> > ITPs are meant for coordinating work on packages not in the archive,
> > i.e. where there is no Maintainer (capital M) yet. If an updated
> > source package adds new binaries, there is no need for an ITP.

> By "splitting down the base package" I mean creating individual source
> packages for the component parts that build there own binary packages,
> this is because the component parts have separate version's.

If it's the same software, then it is unlikely that someone else will
want to package those separately from you (because there is already a
version in the archive), hence no need to coordinate.

   Simon


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RFS: glogg (third try, new version)

[Nicolas Bonnefon]

Dear mentors,

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

* Package name: glogg
  Version : 0.8.0-1
  Upstream Author : Nicolas Bonnefon 
* URL : http://glogg.bonnefon.org/
* License : GPL-3
  Section : utils

It builds these binary packages:
glogg  - A smart interactive log explorer using Qt4

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 578214

glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through 
long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system 
administrators in mind and can be seen as a graphical, interactive 
combination of grep and less.


I am the upstream maintainer and use glogg a lot for my day job as a
developer on embedded systems. It is quite useful when digging for
information in long log files thanks to the interactive regexp driven
search/filtering and colouring.

This is the first debian package I'm trying to have uploaded but I'll do
my best to maintain it up to Debian standards!

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/glogg
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/glogg/glogg_0.8.0-1.dsc

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

Kind regards

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Re: php-fpdf - watch and epoch trouble

[nikrou77]

Hi Alessandro,

I think you could change you  watch file like that :
version=3
opts=dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg$// \
http://www.fpdf.org/en/download.php 
dl.php\?v=([0-9])([0-9])([0-9])?\&f=tgz

I tested with local version 1.6.0 and not 1.6 !

Regards,
Nicolas

2010/8/17 Alessandro De Zorzi 
Hi all,
I maintain php-fpdf from few days, download available trough web page:

http://www.fpdf.org/?lang=en

upstream relased 1.6 (should be 1.60) version after 1.53 so mychangelog use 
epoch,
package is also a dfsg

my debian/watch

version=3
opts=dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg$// \
http://www.fpdf.org/en/download.phpdl.php\?v=([0-9])([0-9]*[0-9])\&f=tgz

$   uscan --report-status --debug

uscan debug: matching 
pattern(s)(?:(?:http://www.fpdf.org)?\/en\/download\.php)?dl.php\?v=([0-9])([0-9]*[0-9])\&f=tgz
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
 dl.php?v=16&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=153&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=152&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=151&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=15&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=141&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=14&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=131&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=13&f=tgz
Newest version on remote site is 1.53, local version is 1.6.dfsg
 (mangled local version number 1.6)
 => Newer version available from
    http://www.fpdf.org/en/dl.php?v=153&f=tgz
-- Scan finished

the problem is thatuscan believes that 1.53newer than 1.6

TIA
Alessandro (lota)





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php-fpdf - watch and epoch trouble

[Alessandro De Zorzi]

Hi all,
I maintain php-fpdf from few days, download available trough web page:

http://www.fpdf.org/?lang=en

upstream relased 1.6 (should be 1.60) version after 1.53 so my changelog
use epoch,
package is also a dfsg

my debian/watch

version=3
opts=dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg$// \
http://www.fpdf.org/en/download.php
dl.php\?v=([0-9])([0-9]*[0-9])\&f=tgz

$   uscan --report-status --debug

uscan debug: matching pattern(s)
(?:(?:http://www.fpdf.org)?\/en\/download\.php)?dl.php\?v=([0-9])([0-9]*[0-9])\&f=tgz
-- Found the following matching hrefs:
 dl.php?v=16&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=153&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=152&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=151&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=15&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=141&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=14&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=131&f=tgz
 dl.php?v=13&f=tgz
Newest version on remote site is 1.53, local version is 1.6.dfsg
 (mangled local version number 1.6)
 => Newer version available from
http://www.fpdf.org/en/dl.php?v=153&f=tgz
-- Scan finished

the problem is that uscan believes that 1.53 newer than 1.6

TIA
Alessandro (lota)