RFS: gnustep-base (updated package)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.20.2-1 of my package gnustep-base. It builds these binary packages: gnustep-base-common - GNUstep Base library - common files gnustep-base-doc - Documentation for the GNUstep Base Library gnustep-base-examples - Examples using the GNUstep Base Library gnustep-base-runtime - GNUstep Base library - daemons and tools libgnustep-base-dev - GNUstep Base header files and development libraries libgnustep-base1.20 - GNUstep Base library libgnustep-base1.20-dbg - GNUstep Base library - debugging symbols The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 588396 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnustep-base - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gnustep-base/gnustep-base_1.20.2-1.dsc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hbc8p6hg.GNUs_Not_Unix!%ya...@gnu.org
Re: RFS: gnustep-base (updated package)
Il 13/02/2011 11:35, Yavor Doganov ha scritto: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.20.2-1 of my package gnustep-base. Uploaded. -- .''`. : :' : Luca Falavigna dktrkr...@debian.org `. `' `- signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RFS: haserl (second try)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package haserl. * Package name: haserl Version : 0.9.27-1 Upstream Author : Nathan Angelacos nan...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://haserl.sourceforge.net * License : GPL-2 Section : interpreters It builds these binary packages: haserl - CGI scripting program for embedded environments The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 611445 My motivation for maintaining this package is: I'm developing a web interface for configuring an embedded device using Haserl, and having haserl installed as a package makes testing locally much easier. It can also be used for CGI scripting in non-embedded environments. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/haserl - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/haserl/haserl_0.9.27-1.dsc - git clone git://git.debian.org/collab-maint/haserl.git I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. P.S. Please CC me in any replies, as I am not subscribed to debian-mentors. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles?
I have a Debian source package. By inspecting its content, how can I tell in advance which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles? Are there documents or URLs that discuss that question? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/405478.45189...@web120711.mail.ne1.yahoo.com
Re: Which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles?
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Regid Ichira regi...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a Debian source package. By inspecting its content, how can I tell in advance which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles? Are there documents or URLs that discuss that question? It depends on your package's debian/rules file. IIRC by default debhelper declares everything under /etc to be a conffile and it is possible to override that if you want to use ucf or similar. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=wkeecs2cc6rtysbum5oyhimnl0+dd1bgow...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles?
Regid Ichira regi...@yahoo.com writes: I have a Debian source package. By inspecting its content, how can I tell in advance which files will be recorded within DEBIAN/conffiles? Are there documents or URLs that discuss that question? If you haven't read DebianPolicy and Debian Developer's Reference, there have something helpful. -- Regards Lei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d57ce66.c438e70a.1f4e.4...@mx.google.com
RFS: libapache2-mod-authn-yubikey
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libapache2-mod-authn-yubikey. * Package name: libapache2-mod-authn-yubikey Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Jens Frey * URL : http://www.coffeecrew.org/software/yubikey-apache-plugin/ * License : Apache-2 Section : web It builds these binary packages: libapache2-mod-authn-yubikey - Yubikey authentication provider for Apache The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 612810 I'd like to see it included in Debian because i'm using my yubikey for authentication every day, and I it would make my life easier :-) The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libapache2-mod-authn-yubikey - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libapache2-mod-authn-yubikey/libapache2-mod-authn-yubikey_1.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards -- ,''`. Alexandre De Dommelin : :': http://www.tuxz.net/blog | IRC : adedommelin . `' GnuPG : http://www.tuxz.net/adedommelin.asc `- signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: gts (updated package)
Hi Ruben, On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:45:06AM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.6+darcs101112-1 of my package gts. Please, update the Format-Specification field of debian/copyright. Your watch file is reporting a new version of the package. Do you have an specific reason for uploading this version instead of the newest one? More than that your package seems pretty good, and I'd be glad of uploading it for you after clarifying what I wrote above. Best Regards, -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. Key fingerprint = 90B8 BFC4 4A75 B881 39A3 1440 30EB 403B 1270 29F1 http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110213154202.ga28...@prank.debian.org
Re: Re: Rules Makefile, Permission Denied
Hey Daniel, Thanks for your help, I have read through a lot of documentation and manuals but I've found it pretty difficult to find the right answers, after your explanation I've only just realized that the paths in the makefile build a kind of mirror of the paths I intend to install to (except within debian/packagename), I knew I wasn't supposed to be installing things directly in the makefile, I just didn't fully grasp how it worked (face palm moment). Thanks again for your time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=-D70_XaDCDwaQgHpDidxQ4=wfvwkzpxo3e...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: tintii (updated package) (second try)
Hi, 2011/2/7 Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org: Hi, Daniel Echeverry epsilo...@gmail.com writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.3-3 of my package tintii. Your changes look okay, but a bit nitpicking about the changelog: + Bumped standard versions 3.9.1 Please mention when no changes were done to comply with the new policy. It makes reviewing a bit easier :) Done! + Set myself as Maintainer Which is more or less the same as New maintainer. in the first line :) Done!. * Switch from override_* targets to files in debian/ There were no override_* targets in d/rules before. The only change I can see is renaming dirs (docs, manpages) to tintii.dirs. Removed. As the debhelper build-dep was also bumped to 7.0.50, did you maybe change the package to use override_* targets and then removed them again? Fixed. Please checkout http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tintii/tintii_2.2.3-3.dsc Regards Daniel -- Epsilon http://www.rinconinformatico.net http://www.fitnessdeportes.com http://www.dragonjar.org Linux user: #477840 Debian user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimjyo9v4e+kl+x-jlvb_-rnjyul+vu3x_gjp...@mail.gmail.com
RE: installing an end user editable file
Hi, Got my Debian packages almost fully working now, everything installs/uninstalls without error. However, when I try to run the newly installed program it wont work properly as it lacks permission to save to file. My program loads a list of hyperlinks from a text file (links.txt), this text file is currently in usr/share/packagename (I've also tried to install it directly to home/user/Documents but that didn't work either) I want my makefile to install links.txt in a manner that will allow my end user to write to the file without permission violation. Cheers. Here's the makefile so far: #!/usr/bin/make -f # Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper. # This file is public domain software, originally written by Joey Hess. # # This version is for packages that are architecture independent. # Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode. #export DH_VERBOSE=1 icon = $(CURDIR)/link-lizard-icon.png script = $(CURDIR)/gtk-link-lizard.py launcher = $(CURDIR)/gtk-link-lizard.desktop links = $(CURDIR)/links.txt DEST1 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/gtk-link-lizard-1.4 DEST2 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/applications build: build-stamp build-stamp: dh_testdir # Add here commands to compile the package. #$(MAKE) touch build-stamp clean: dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-stamp # Add here commands to clean up after the build process. #$(MAKE) clean #$(MAKE) distclean dh_clean install: build clean $(icon) $(script) $(links) $(launcher) dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_prep dh_installdirs mkdir -m 777 -p $(DEST1) mkdir -m 777 -p $(DEST2) install -m 777 $(icon) $(DEST1) install -m 777 $(script) $(DEST1) install -m 777 $(links) $(DEST1) install -m 777 $(launcher) $(DEST2) # Add here commands to install the package into debian/packagename. #$(MAKE) prefix=`pwd`/debian/`dh_listpackages`/usr install # Build architecture-independent files here. binary-indep: build install dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_installchangelogs dh_installdocs dh_installexamples # dh_installmenu # dh_installdebconf # dh_installlogrotate # dh_installemacsen # dh_installcatalogs # dh_installpam # dh_installmime # dh_installinit # dh_installcron # dh_installinfo # dh_installwm # dh_installudev # dh_lintian # dh_bugfiles # dh_undocumented dh_installman dh_link dh_compress dh_fixperms # dh_perl dh_installdeb dh_gencontrol dh_md5sums dh_builddeb # Build architecture-dependent files here. binary-arch: build install # We have nothing to do by default. binary: binary-indep binary-arch .PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim+ycpsifcrrsxiarehzdqpm4c1o_jludk2j...@mail.gmail.com
Re: installing an end user editable file
2011/2/13 james frize jamesfr...@gmail.com: Got my Debian packages almost fully working now, everything installs/uninstalls without error. However, when I try to run the newly installed program it wont work properly as it lacks permission to save to file. My program loads a list of hyperlinks from a text file (links.txt), this text file is currently in usr/share/packagename (I've also tried to install it directly to home/user/Documents but that didn't work either) I want my makefile to install links.txt in a manner that will allow my end user to write to the file without permission violation. Sounds like the file should be installed by the program if it is not found. A default file can be placed in and copied from /usr/share/packagename if it is provided. I don't think /home/user/Documents is a good place for this; prefer ~/.packagename/links.txt instead. You'll probably have to patch up the source code. If the upstream package wants to modify something in /usr/share, it violates the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. Regards, Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik2q0x3+xeveytft4vo3sa3ajtbr--77bsgq...@mail.gmail.com
Re: installing an end user editable file
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 17:11 +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote: [...] I don't think /home/user/Documents is a good place for this; prefer ~/.packagename/links.txt instead. You'll probably have to patch up the source code. [...] shouldn't $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (or $HOME/.config if not set) or $XDG_DATA_HOME ($HOME/.local/share) be used for this kind of data? http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html Best Regards, Julian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
RE: RFS: Cool Reader
Hello Rogério, I've already updated package (fixed issues suggested by Anton Gladky) == Start quote == I've fixed lintinan pedantic findings, changed target to unstable, wrote machine-readable copyright. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cr3 - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cr3/cr3_3.0.43-12.dsc * code compilation complains about warnings, some of them can be serious (it is up to you) I've checked warnings and found nothing serious. Will clean them up later. I have some questions. Some parts of source package are really not used for debian build (e.g. wxWidgets frontend, Android frontend, snapshots of zlib, libjpeg, libpng, libfreetype libraries). Is it ok to leave them in source package? Should I add licensing details to debian/copyright for zlib, libjpeg, libpng, libfreetype libraries? (not used in debian build) == End quote == == Start quote == * Formats: epub (non-DRM), fb2, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr formats supported, can read books directly from zip archives * Most complete FB2 format support: styles, tables, footnotes * Styles can be customized in wide range using external CSS (subset of CSS2 and CSS3) * Hyphenation dictionaries (from AlReader or FBReader) * Pages or scroll view * Table of contents * Text search * Recent books list * Bookmarks (including comments or corrections for text range) * Automatic reformatting of .txt files (autodetect headings etc.) * Customizable look feel, font face/size/weight, colors for text and background, images for backgrounds (tiled or stretched) * Font kerning, anti-aliasing * Optional floating punctuation on right text bound for justified text (punctuation and hyphenation signs moved outside right text block bound, for better visual alignment) * Formatted book is swapped/cached to file, and can be reopened very fast. Also, this feature allows to open books larger than available RAM size. CoolReader can be considered as competitor of FBReader. Provides features missing in FBReader: tables, footnotes, CSS styles. Screenshots are available on http://www.coolreader.org/ == End quote == You should state the version of the GPL that you are using. It uses GPL-2. Should I repost RFS? Wouldn't it be considered as spam/flood? As another point that the potential sponsors would, perhaps, want to know is the language in which the program was written, because many have restrictions to some languages. A quick glance at the git repository that you informed shows that it is written in C++. Yes, it's written in C++. Main part is XML/CSS rendering engine, CREngine, used by different frontends. There are Qt and wxWidgets frontends for desktop. (Qt version is under development, wxWidgets is not supported). Also, there is GUI for e-ink based devices (actually used in Hanlin V3/V5/V3+ devices, and in Azbooka (aka Hanvon n516) - OpenInkpot. It uses its own GUI toolkit, and requires only simple wrapper for screen and keyboard access (currently, supports nanoX and xcb backends). There is also Android port (uses CRengine as JNI library, and frontend written in Java for Android). For Symbian smartphones there is SmartReader - port of coolreader. I'll try to fix cppcheck findings and compilation warnings. Once it's done, should I repost RFS for the package? Best regards, Vadim -Original Message- From: Rogério Brito [mailto:rbr...@ime.usp.br] Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 2:43 PM To: bugg...@fromru.com Cc: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: RFS: Cool Reader Dear Vadim, On 02/02/2011 07:33 AM, bugg...@fromru.com wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package cr3 (Cool Reader 3). Package name: cr3 Version : 3.0.43-2 License : GPL You should state the version of the GPL that you are using. It builds these binary packages: cr3 - e-book reader As I very recently bought a Nokia N900 and the current ebook readers are very, very slow with some books that I purchased from O'Reilly, I am on the market for an alternative and yours sounds promising. But you, perhaps, forgot to include the debian.tar.gz file that contains the packaging itself: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/files/CoolReader3/cr3-3.0.43/cr3_3. 0.43.orig.tar.gz/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/files/CoolReader3/cr3-3.0.43/cr3_3. 0.43-2.dsc/download http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/files/CoolReader3/cr3-3.0.43/cr3_3. 0.43-2_i386.changes/download (...) As another point that the potential sponsors would, perhaps, want to know is the language in which the program was written, because many have restrictions to some languages. A quick glance at the git repository that you informed shows
RFS: archivemount (updated package)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-2 of my package archivemount. It builds these binary packages: archivemount - mounts an archive for access as a file system The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 613119 The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/archivemount - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/archivemount/archivemount_0.6.1-2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Nanakos Chrysostomos signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: gts (updated package)
El dom, 13-02-2011 a las 16:42 +0100, Muammar El Khatib escribió: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:45:06AM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.6+darcs101112-1 of my package gts. Please, update the Format-Specification field of debian/copyright. Your watch file is reporting a new version of the package. Do you have an specific reason for uploading this version instead of the newest one? Hi Muammar, Thanks for your review. I updated the format of debian/copyright to DEP-5 Rev. 166, and I also packaged the latest upstream tarball. I hadn't noticed this new release, but in fact is just including a patch we forwarded from Debian. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gts/gts_0.7.6+darcs110121-1.dsc Kind regards Ruben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: RFS: tintii (updated package) (second try)
Hi, Daniel Echeverry epsilo...@gmail.com writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.3-3 of my package tintii. I just uploaded the package from mentors.d.n. Thanks for your work :) Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8739nretqf@marvin.43-1.org
Re: installing an end user editable file
2011/2/13 Julian Taylor jtaylor.deb...@googlemail.com: On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 17:11 +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote: [...] I don't think /home/user/Documents is a good place for this; prefer ~/.packagename/links.txt instead. You'll probably have to patch up the source code. [...] shouldn't $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (or $HOME/.config if not set) or $XDG_DATA_HOME ($HOME/.local/share) be used for this kind of data? http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html Ah, yes, excuse me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikRn5kDKmJNrg1FynWjAy-A1U-_=jziqc+5z...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package)
Hi, Nanakos Chrysostomos nana...@wired-net.gr writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-2 of my package archivemount. Please use linux-any in the Architecture field if this should be built only on the Linux ports. Hurd doesn't have fuse-utils either so it should also be dropped. Also the formatting of the list in the package description was changed and lots of trailing whitespace added. It might no longer be displayed correctly due to these changes. See also [1] for the reason the leading two spaces. Regards, Ansgar [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y65jde85@marvin.43-1.org
Re: RFS: liblastfmlib
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/13/2011 08:38 AM, Peter Miller wrote: On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 19:25 +0100, Andreas Noteng wrote: The package appears to be lintian clean. I am not a DD, but I see no other responses. In my experience, it is worth trying for 'lintian --pedantic' clean, not just lintian clean. The package seems to be --pedantic clean too.. I read somewhere that library packages should be named lib*, This is correct, you must name library packages lib*. I can't quote the exact Policy section, tho. I've renamed the package. It's available on mentors here: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/liblastfmlib/liblastfmlib_0.4.0-1.dsc Git: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/liblastfmlib.git;a=summary Can I just ssh in and delete the folder to get rid of the old package in the collab-maint git repo?? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNWBxcAAoJELRG7qgympRaXeUQAJkw1p1ZkTj24QbehhRH9rQr ireeZVSVOoENjZvWabpErbOiXdjfW0xxiR2nIt2LByOUHezLpSjjAxwbLaP6IbOm 44rRcX2ztw1YjqpjpKekazkgs9FpHJ2oiG/Vn6Oeh6dMU1D4ZT3KJhb9pDmQ5jN2 DK0FjEijthIwLCBVSPuZO66T7RAo50a1ZmIHnIVkfJAjr6+35wxZuVNvRQsiAv8E P9PVDRAdGadahFKyXY38Vr/Xq6UfzxWXby3egTOclGYYHRlIO3gMciRKMsoBvpC+ oAYu2kGbxsx0oueD9cKMakTFXC64CWFX7yHz/cthcC2N6xxCsSONA4eLVyJ/XYEB WfktpDhgk2IYs6b+hRvoDh3gl7eP+Rc13+A2rP5VUf41uSG8JR1AZAEhOyCYqEzb qNRN4J3xgmibHj4SRQYP9pRIVMFQqY1sn3W1sm00bfEgKiD5DoAkx3tSKhmaTbtP 8zl+mPknKkLEs3kNnkEM43pny9fPNPb6JNHOcNEbdKYspWAYC7dB0dPm3WSX0oWK 5iv9zGlWVMSUSkM8ptAlJPQJrS2964Oe9X0knTBhi3DAFZnlNRGdq5xUY9eYLSZy IpaU1P1GVUcncMSueyYDy/YNDAVEJOtLHARHQdc25gGtAAjA/0+O5gElYPlsXX/k iGlFdRUSnHPHZv9+mMVc =5uS1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d581c62.8080...@noteng.no
Re: RFS: ulatencyd - Daemon to minimize latency on a linux system using cgroups
Alessandro Ghedini wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package ulatencyd. Hi Alessandro, I am willing to review and sponsor your package, but don't have time right now for the actual review. I will make sure to send an answer to you during next week. Cheers, OdyX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ij96jr$tep$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package)
Hi, On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:41:14PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, Nanakos Chrysostomos nana...@wired-net.gr writes: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-2 of my package archivemount. Please use linux-any in the Architecture field if this should be built only on the Linux ports. Hurd doesn't have fuse-utils either so it should also be dropped. Fixed. Also the formatting of the list in the package description was changed and lots of trailing whitespace added. It might no longer be displayed correctly due to these changes. See also [1] for the reason the leading two spaces. I think its better that way. Do you agree? Re-uploaded to mentors.d.n. Cheers, Chris. Regards, Ansgar [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y65jde85@marvin.43-1.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110213181321.ga3...@dinofilaria.home
Re: RFS: poedit (updated package)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Any progress with this package ? Should i make more changes ? Pedro m42 Ribeiro On 26-01-2011 09:04, Ryan Niebur wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:06:53AM +, Pedro Ribeiro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Thanks for the revision. Should I correct this and upload a new 1.4.6.1-4 package or keep the 1.4.6.1-3 version number ? Keep the previous version number with reuploads to mentors. My lack of response to the bug ownership changing should be taken as permission. Pedro is the only owner of that ITA since me. Cheers, Ryan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNWCLuAAoJELLf3v2QhfNwgYAP+wQQPLMpEMr2RktcDaOewKuy j/jt6KZtcAP/Rgxv2ZC/KwV0E9woXRUMNgxvWSKb5+yNeZmzz5OzBkmwlhJpppDc FT6WLIs09jxxgc4glxJx3jO7+JzRDk/OlauLerHpE4e9595G3M5Wiips41ksjUaQ 64UbNiV3z48g51kE1eaxMKxdzuxKZ9+GKNjUTlKdlVVZjJzGLRX3GlW12IhSxRJD 7FRiAvilBgrJPdUmZaRmDstXEay6dG7xuryjUzskESnR10IoruoRpZlfEw0C/Rmq 6si55r0Skz4ht8sCo+sHjKj9EXuV2DRORCZ/W0n/Rr/7CMiT73Tf0WOTB37vfSrV LGOBCQP9KaO+qCJ7QDShbq8cay88WjBRv+1CjiKmFUgHi5eBtZCcDqD6RXWDpu8F WxGXf/IawjOxBve7Ic9m1/R8jnrWYjhR55KlE0XdNacwhOPdb/+KGDvO0GyDnW5n IlR/TM919vhx4nte/M6LyLYhHmrJvTjkxyJqqHWljojO9HxdzpJdLDSO8VRLgvX3 SP79ISE33TLVmIcqslc4s+zn9wwpAV6VxBar4n9/9rZFUw5rUWFCRD6FCsqizOf2 WE0aEVlLA5ur/0mTQ4WmWB2AdZFIOQGuBb4mFFx6pI4/Wh8IHHzt9yK9neycTQyk 9yp5XSq36SmVl3x9xKHb =MtYQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d5822f0.6080...@gmail.com
Re: Re: installing an end user editable file
Cheers Lars, I'm looking at installing the links.txt file to ~/.packagename/links.txt, but I don't seem to be able to use the ~wildcard. Using this line in my makefile: DEST3 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/~/.gtk-link-lizard It just creates a directory called ~ on the destination drive? It doesn't seem to want to replace the wildcard with /home/user I'm also unsure what you mean by patch up the source code? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTin1Bdh67Aq0df5QhFzNboDvkSrnen=dh-lug...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: ulatencyd - Daemon to minimize latency on a linux system using cgroups
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 07:06:50PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
Hi Alessandro,
Hello
I am willing to review and sponsor your package, but don't have time right
now for the actual review. I will make sure to send an answer to you during
next week.
Thank you for your interest. Please note that I've just updated the package
to the latest upstream version.
The new package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/u/ulatencyd/ulatencyd_0.4.6-1.dsc
And on git.debian.org (same links).
Take the time you need for the review :)
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Re: RFS: poedit (updated package)
Am Sonntag, den 13.02.2011, 18:29 + schrieb Pedro Ribeiro: Hi all, Any progress with this package ? Should i make more changes ? Hi Pedro, you've got a wrong bug number in your changelog. For closing the ITA bug, you want #543856. Moreover, it would be great if you could add a debian/watch file. With regard to using quilt, you might want to remove the Build-Dependency on quilt, since you're using the source format 3.0. You need to remove the patch/unpatch logic in debian/rules for that, too. See http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/DebSrc3.0 for more information. It would be nice to have a short description of the patch, see http://lintian.debian.org/tags/quilt-patch-missing-description.html and http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ The last nitpick would be that you're using an unnecessary lintian override, so please remove it. Other than that, I would be happy to sponsor that package for you. Feel free to ping me directly when your package is ready. Regards, Tobias -- Tobias Quathamer | If God had really intended men to fly, Hamburg, Germany | he'd make it easier to get to the airport. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: RFS: Cool Reader
Hi, Vadim. Please, just continue keeping me CC'ed. I am not currently subscribed to -mentors. On Feb 13 2011, buggins wrote: Hello Rogério, I've already updated package (fixed issues suggested by Anton Gladky) Great. == Start quote == I've fixed lintinan pedantic findings, changed target to unstable, wrote machine-readable copyright. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cr3 - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cr3/cr3_3.0.43-12.dsc Great. I just downloaded it. * code compilation complains about warnings, some of them can be serious (it is up to you) I've checked warnings and found nothing serious. Will clean them up later. Some of the problems with reallocating a larger piece of memory may be critical, especially with embedded computers or phones. BTW, a new version of cppcheck was just uploaded to unstable and it would be nice if you could run those. I have some questions. Some parts of source package are really not used for debian build (e.g. wxWidgets frontend, Android frontend, snapshots of zlib, libjpeg, libpng, libfreetype libraries). Right. Is it ok to leave them in source package? Should I add licensing details to debian/copyright for zlib, libjpeg, libpng, libfreetype libraries? (not used in debian build) Yes, it is OK to leave them in the source package, but you have to state the license in debian/copyright and, in any case that you have sources with conflicting licenses, state that what you are doing is OK, since you are not using them. * Formats: epub (non-DRM), fb2, txt, rtf, html, chm, tcr formats supported, can read books directly from zip archives * Most complete FB2 format support: styles, tables, footnotes * Styles can be customized in wide range using external CSS (subset of CSS2 and CSS3) * Hyphenation dictionaries (from AlReader or FBReader) * Pages or scroll view * Table of contents * Text search * Recent books list * Bookmarks (including comments or corrections for text range) * Automatic reformatting of .txt files (autodetect headings etc.) * Customizable look feel, font face/size/weight, colors for text and background, images for backgrounds (tiled or stretched) * Font kerning, anti-aliasing * Optional floating punctuation on right text bound for justified text (punctuation and hyphenation signs moved outside right text block bound, for better visual alignment) * Formatted book is swapped/cached to file, and can be reopened very fast. Also, this feature allows to open books larger than available RAM size. You should add those features to the long description. They are very useful to know when deciding which package one should install. CoolReader can be considered as competitor of FBReader. Provides features missing in FBReader: tables, footnotes, CSS styles. You may tell that in the long description also, but such a comment may become Screenshots are available on http://www.coolreader.org/ Perhaps you may want to use that page in the Homepage field of the control file instead of the one from sourceforge? Also, when your package gets accepted, you may want to choose one screenshot and upload it to http://screenshots.debian.net. You should state the version of the GPL that you are using. It uses GPL-2. Should I repost RFS? Wouldn't it be considered as spam/flood? Yes, you *will* have to repost a RFS whenever you update the package. Just keep in mind that some sponsors *don't* like to see the debian revision incremented until the package reaches the main Debian repository. Regarding the license, is it GPL-2 or GPL-2+? If a sponsor runs the licensecheck program on the crengine directory, he/she will get a lot of No copyright or UNKNOWN messages. Just stick some boilerplate in those files and you're done. As another point that the potential sponsors would, perhaps, want to know is the language in which the program was written, because many have restrictions to some languages. A quick glance at the git repository that you informed shows that it is written in C++. Yes, it's written in C++. Main part is XML/CSS rendering engine, CREngine, used by different frontends. OK. Please, put the indication of the language in the RFS, so potential sponsors can decide if they want to upload or not. There are Qt and wxWidgets frontends for desktop. (Qt version is under development, wxWidgets is not supported). As a side comment: It's great to have a Qt frontend, especially since the Nokia N900 comes with it and that would mean one fewer dependency to install. I'll try to fix cppcheck findings and compilation warnings. Great. Once it's done, should I repost RFS for the package? Yes, definitely. Hope this helps, -- Rogério Brito :
Re: Re: installing an end user editable file
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:24:06PM +, james frize wrote: I'm looking at installing the links.txt file to ~/.packagename/links.txt, but I don't seem to be able to use the ~wildcard. Is this in rules file? If so you cannot do that at all. It doesn't make any sense for a package to install a file in the users home directory. Generally there is a /etc/package/whatever file for defaults and any user specific files would be in /usr/share/doc/package/examples The file in examples should really tell people what to do, e.g.: # This is an example file for whatever, you can copy this to # ~/.whatever/myfile There are many problems with getting a package installer to install files in a user's home directory. Perhaps the first one I can think of is, which user's directory? - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZhttp://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110213213840.ga32...@enc.com.au
RFS: volumeicon
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package volumeicon. * Package name: volumeicon Version : 0.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Maato (I have contacted upstream to see if he has a preferred name, but have not yet heard back) * URL : http://www.softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html * License : GPLv3 Section : sound It builds these binary packages: volumeicon - systray volume icon for alsa The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 586522 My motivation for maintaining this package is: although there are volume-control applets for several of the major panels already in Debian, nothing is available for Tint2 (my panel of choice) and other more bare-bones panel systems. Volumeicon sits in the system tray and is panel-agnostic, so it provides this functionality for those who don't use one of the major panels. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/volumeicon - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/volumeicon/volumeicon_0.3.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Thanks! -- Andrew Gainer signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Re: installing an end user editable file
Hey Craig, thanks for the help, Basically I'm copying over a text file that has a list of web links in, after the program is installed the file needs to be edited by the end user, so I'm trying to put the file in a place where a regular user would have permission to both read and write to the text file. Some people have suggested putting it in home/user/.packageName but I can't seem to be able to do that, been trying to use ~/ and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME but I just end up with everything being installed in folders called ~ or DG_CONFIG_HOME I need a way of finding the correct user path, I've been reading the info on this page: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html But I can't get my head round that either?? Here's the part of my make file where I specify the destination paths: # Icon and script go here DEST1 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/gtk-link-lizard-1.4 # Desktop launcher goes here DEST2 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/applications # Links.txt goes here DEST3 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/SOMEHOW I NEED THE HOME/USER PATH HERE??/.gtk-link-lizard Thanks again. Jim. On 13 February 2011 21:38, Craig Small csm...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:24:06PM +, james frize wrote: I'm looking at installing the links.txt file to ~/.packagename/links.txt, but I don't seem to be able to use the ~wildcard. Is this in rules file? If so you cannot do that at all. It doesn't make any sense for a package to install a file in the users home directory. Generally there is a /etc/package/whatever file for defaults and any user specific files would be in /usr/share/doc/package/examples The file in examples should really tell people what to do, e.g.: # This is an example file for whatever, you can copy this to # ~/.whatever/myfile There are many problems with getting a package installer to install files in a user's home directory. Perhaps the first one I can think of is, which user's directory? - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTikBeVcyM4H 3-xfu4pnihq9qkczp7mlae3...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Re: installing an end user editable file
Sorry forgot to clarify, yeah it's in my rules makefile. On 13 February 2011 21:55, james frize jamesfr...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Craig, thanks for the help, Basically I'm copying over a text file that has a list of web links in, after the program is installed the file needs to be edited by the end user, so I'm trying to put the file in a place where a regular user would have permission to both read and write to the text file. Some people have suggested putting it in home/user/.packageName but I can't seem to be able to do that, been trying to use ~/ and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME but I just end up with everything being installed in folders called ~ or DG_CONFIG_HOME I need a way of finding the correct user path, I've been reading the info on this page: http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html But I can't get my head round that either?? Here's the part of my make file where I specify the destination paths: # Icon and script go here DEST1 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/gtk-link-lizard-1.4 # Desktop launcher goes here DEST2 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/usr/share/applications # Links.txt goes here DEST3 = $(CURDIR)/debian/gtk-link-lizard/SOMEHOW I NEED THE HOME/USER PATH HERE??/.gtk-link-lizard Thanks again. Jim. On 13 February 2011 21:38, Craig Small csm...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:24:06PM +, james frize wrote: I'm looking at installing the links.txt file to ~/.packagename/links.txt, but I don't seem to be able to use the ~wildcard. Is this in rules file? If so you cannot do that at all. It doesn't make any sense for a package to install a file in the users home directory. Generally there is a /etc/package/whatever file for defaults and any user specific files would be in /usr/share/doc/package/examples The file in examples should really tell people what to do, e.g.: # This is an example file for whatever, you can copy this to # ~/.whatever/myfile There are many problems with getting a package installer to install files in a user's home directory. Perhaps the first one I can think of is, which user's directory? - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTin_5DvwgAS==spfpatdqdvog7jgcy8iajjap...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: volumeicon
I'm not a DD, no sponsorship here! :) On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Andrew Gainer gainer.and...@gmail.com wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package volumeicon. * Package name : volumeicon Version : 0.3.0-1 Upstream Author : Maato (I have contacted upstream to see if he has a preferred name, but have not yet heard back) * URL : http://www.softwarebakery.com/maato/volumeicon.html * License : GPLv3 Section : sound It builds these binary packages: volumeicon - systray volume icon for alsa The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 586522 My motivation for maintaining this package is: although there are volume-control applets for several of the major panels already in Debian, nothing is available for Tint2 (my panel of choice) and other more bare-bones panel systems. Volumeicon sits in the system tray and is panel-agnostic, so it provides this functionality for those who don't use one of the major panels. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/volumeicon - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/volumeicon/volumeicon_0.3.0-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Thanks! -- Andrew Gainer debian/rules I'd remove all the extra comments from the top. You can make that file three lines long :) debian/copyright Consider switching to DEP5 patches/fix-oss-reference.patch Consider using DEP3 Why are you including this patch? It looks like if the system does not support OSS, it won't use it. Is there a bug with the detection? debian/control Please wrap your lines at 80 on the build-depends, it's perfectly OK to do that, just bump it in :) consider using the Vcs-* control fields, they are quite helpful to people looking at the package, or apt-get source folks. Also, the PTS picks up on it, which is nice. The Suggests line is also for applications that work well with this package, not applications that do similar things. I'd remove that line ( unless of course, volumeicon may use those in some way, in which case it's OK to keep ). My internet is quite nasty right now, I'll run the build and lintian when I have a moment on my netbook later in the day ( if no one else gets back ) Cheers! Paul P.S. I recall someone wanting this package in Debian a while back, thanks for doing it! -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikfefpmvsqtkfep-wsg7gjemvnklagsihnmo...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: gts (updated package)
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:13:50PM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: El dom, 13-02-2011 a las 16:42 +0100, Muammar El Khatib escribió: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:45:06AM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.6+darcs101112-1 of my package gts. Please, update the Format-Specification field of debian/copyright. Your watch file is reporting a new version of the package. Do you have an specific reason for uploading this version instead of the newest one? Hi Muammar, Thanks for your review. I updated the format of debian/copyright to DEP-5 Rev. 166, and I also packaged the latest upstream tarball. I hadn't noticed this new release, but in fact is just including a patch we forwarded from Debian. I see. So, it is OK. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gts/gts_0.7.6+darcs110121-1.dsc Uploaded. Thanks for your contribution. Regards, -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. Key fingerprint = 90B8 BFC4 4A75 B881 39A3 1440 30EB 403B 1270 29F1 http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110213223320.ga1...@prank.debian.org
Re: Re: installing an end user editable file
On 2/13/11, Craig Small csm...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 06:24:06PM +, james frize wrote: I'm looking at installing the links.txt file to ~/.packagename/links.txt, but I don't seem to be able to use the ~wildcard. Is this in rules file? If so you cannot do that at all. It doesn't make any sense for a package to install a file in the users home directory. Generally there is a /etc/package/whatever file for defaults and any user specific files would be in /usr/share/doc/package/examples The file in examples should really tell people what to do, e.g.: # This is an example file for whatever, you can copy this to # ~/.whatever/myfile There are many problems with getting a package installer to install files in a user's home directory. Perhaps the first one I can think of is, which user's directory? An obvious answer is ALL users' directories, but the question arises, even users that don't exist yet? That's why Lars suggested creating a default file in /usr/share and having the program copy it to the user's directory when it's run. You can't do that in the Debian installer, though, so you would have to patch (i.e. modify) the source code of the application itself. Why must this file be user-modifiable? Must all users of the system be able to modify it such that everyone then uses the modified file? What are the possible consequences if one user is an asshole and makes modifications with the intent of doing damage? This can be done; many games store a high-score list that anyone can modify by playing the game. But have you thought about those issues? Is it necessary? -- -PJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=u3ygyspgo9454jq+w+wf9v2mhfciodhmfh...@mail.gmail.com
Re: installing an end user editable file
In AANLkTikBeVcyM4H=0d3-xfu4pnihq9qkczp7mlae3...@mail.gmail.com, james frize wrote: Basically I'm copying over a text file that has a list of web links in, after the program is installed the file needs to be edited by the end user, so I'm trying to put the file in a place where a regular user would have permission to both read and write to the text file. Which user? All users? Should each user have a separate copy? Normally, per-user configuration files would be created by that user. An example could go into /usr/share/packagename where a user could copy it into their home directory. You could also install something into /etc/skel; the contents of this directory are normally copied into a new user's home directory when the user is created. Keep in mind that that while many Debian installations are effectively single- user, that Debian is designed to support multiple users and to move cleanly from having one real user to many real users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: RFS: volumeicon
[snip] debian/copyright Consider switching to DEP5 Hadn't heard of this, but it looks both fancy and good. Done. Great! :) It's nice for making stuff machine parse-able. [snip] The source can be built *either* for OSS or for ALSA; when built for OSS, one of the library references doesn't line up with Debian's file structure, so this patch changed it. Presently, however, I'm building only the ALSA version, so this patch is unnecessary. Removed. Cool. Upstream might want to know about the bug so that it can be fixed for someone actually trying to use OSS ( but you're right, secondary to your role as a debian packager ) :) [snip] consider using the Vcs-* control fields, they are quite helpful to people looking at the package, or apt-get source folks. Also, the PTS picks up on it, which is nice. Upstream doesn't have any sort of version control for this project. A quick Googling suggests that this is, however, for version control on the Debian site, which is neat. However, it looks like only DD's get accounts on collab-maint. Should I go ahead and include the git link, then ask my future sponsor to turn on the repository? You can have it created for you -- I'm not sure ( now that I think about it ) if you need the package uploaded or not to have it made. Worth looking into ( your future sponsor will let you know ;) ) for sure. The Suggests line is also for applications that work well with this package, not applications that do similar things. I'd remove that line ( unless of course, volumeicon may use those in some way, in which case it's OK to keep ). Volume Icon just provides a status icon and a single volume slider. However, it has the option to invoke a real mixer application on click, so I SUGGESTed a few of these. 100% perfect rational :) I did notice one problem with the build system that I don't know how to diagnose, which I expect you will see too. Perhaps you can comment on it: dpkg-shlibdeps throws a slew of warnings of the form warning: dependency on libfontconfig.so.1 could be avoided if debian/volumeicon/usr/bin/volumeicon were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). There are no explicit references to the many, many libraries it mentions in the code, so I'm not sure where these links are coming from. Ah, that means that you're doing a -lfontconfig, but it's not being called anywhere in the code. It's a warning from your linker, just letting you know that the ELF will be linked against something that can (and should) be removed. You can tweek the build flags for that guy (totally worth doing!) Thanks again for taking the time to take a look! --Andrew Did the build, I did not see the error. Logs here[1]. Still worth looking into :) Built with pbuilder -- 0.198ubuntu2, with a natty chroot, on maverick, i686 [1]: http://pastebin.com/sWmAi9KJ Good luck ( and keep up the great attitude! ) -Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTinnmZWp1d=u_ibyiixqkpg48sn_vhzqa+jpf...@mail.gmail.com
Re: installing an end user editable file
Cheers PJ and Boyd, To be honest I never thought about having multiple users, just learning about the packaging process and I'm experimenting with what I can do. But I guess it's a much better idea to have a template and a copy for each user, will have to add it to the source. Thanks for the responses. Jim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikjh9x_knp-u719qd2ykp0ffn8owbjiz32xs...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: volumeicon
CC'ing -mentors On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Andrew Gainer gainer.and...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks once again for your help. Just one question, now: Ah, that means that you're doing a -lfontconfig, but it's not being called anywhere in the code. It's a warning from your linker, just letting you know that the ELF will be linked against something that can (and should) be removed. You can tweek the build flags for that guy (totally worth doing!) On investigation, it appears that the problem comes from these three lines in the Makefile.in files: GTK_CFLAGS = @GTK_CFLAGS@ GTK_LIBS = @GTK_LIBS@ LIBS = @GTK_LIBS@ @ALSA_LIBS@ where $(LIBS) and $(GTK_CFLAGS) are used later in the actual invocations of the compiler and linker. The variables @GTK_CFLAGS@ and @GTK_LIBS@ are being replaced with calls to lots of libraries, most of which are not needed. I don't know much about the Automake system or GTK, so I'm not sure what the correct fix is. For now, I've simply added a patch which replaces the above lines with GTK_CFLAGS = -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include GTK_LIBS = -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 LIBS = $(GTK_LIBS) $(ALSA_LIBS) This seems to represent a minimal subset of the included libraries which are actually required (at least on my system). With this patch in place, debuild runs cleanly and without the warnings. However, I have no idea whether this is the correct response or a fragile/system-specific/generally awful patch. Can you comment? --Andrew Yeah, that can be a bit finikey. It's not the end of the world for sure, but you might want to look into `pkg-config' to do some of the work for you :) It might also be good to test with binutils-gold. I think I have that on my system -- could be why it worked without error here :) Cheers! Paul -- All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors. #define sizeof(x) rand() :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik8p2m_o-yawwzedddq3v67puw2pfrvbgbyb...@mail.gmail.com
Re: RFS: volumeicon
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.com wrote: Upstream doesn't have any sort of version control for this project. A quick Googling suggests that this is, however, for version control on the Debian site, which is neat. However, it looks like only DD's get accounts on collab-maint. Should I go ahead and include the git link, then ask my future sponsor to turn on the repository? You can have it created for you -- I'm not sure ( now that I think about it ) if you need the package uploaded or not to have it made. Worth looking into ( your future sponsor will let you know ;) ) for sure. You can get access to the collab-maint git repo without being a DD. Get a public alioth account (one with -guest appended onto a user name), upload your ssh key, and then apply for membership with the collab-maint team [1]. Your ssh key that you upload to alioth will get you onto alioth.debian.org. From their you can get to the git repo and set one up for your project [2]. The wiki at [2] has great instructions on how to do that. Cheers, Scott [1] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/collab-maint/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinl6nsddbhspjdlxkk1ev+epnu1xww8uajn_...@mail.gmail.com
