Re: RFS: 0ad

[Vincent Cheng]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Paul Wise  wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Vincent Cheng 
> wrote:
>
> > Oops, don't know why I broke off mid-sentence like that. My point was
> that
> > porting 0 A.D. to work with newer versions of Spidermonkey seems to be a
> lot
> > of work for very little gain and lots of opportunities for potential
> > breakage. Philip addressed this already in an earlier message [1].
> > However, the Debian Mozilla team doesn't seem to be very enthusiastic
> about
> > supporting an older version of Spidermonkey in the long run. What would
> be
> > the best course of action now? I don't want to pressure upstream to port
> 0
> > A.D. to a newer Spidermonkey version if they have no desire to do so (and
> I
> > have no clue how to port software), I can't pressure the Debian Mozilla
> team
> > to maintain an older Spidermonkey version for a single piece of software
> > (and I'm sure that they have a lot of other work to do), and from the
> > replies I've seen so far, it seems that embedding Spidermonkey code in 0
> > A.D.'s source is a no-no, or at least strongly discouraged.
>
> Maybe porting to another JavaScript engine (like Google V8) is the
> best long-term solution?
>
> Hmmm, I've never thought of porting 0 A.D. to an entirely different JS
engine as an option. Is V8's API relatively stable compared to Spidermonkey?


> > In an earlier message [2], you suggested that various .ttf fonts
> > (DejaVuSans.ttf, DejaVuSansMono.ttf, texgyrepagella-regular.otf,
> > texgyrepagella-bold.otf) should be removed from the source package. But
> on
> > the other hand, since the fonts are source code for the glyphs, they
> > shouldn't be removed, right? Sorry, but I can't help but feel somewhat
> > confused...
>
> That was before I knew how they were being used in this package, keep
> them in the source package unless upstream introduces build-time or
> run-time text rendering.
>
>
All right, I'll leave the fonts in the source tarball then.

- Vincent

Re: RFC/RFS: hg-fast-export

[Andrey Rahmatullin]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 07:33:20AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> The git-remote-hg project seems like a much more natural way to
> interact with remote hg repositories. I saw some evidence on the git
> list and wiki that git-remote-foo is the way forward for foreign VCS
> support in git. There was even a GSoC project to get git-remote-svn
> into git. No idea about when it or git-remote-hg will be complete
> though.
Yes, I've got some responses about it on debian-devel@ / #622172.

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Re: Script to create pool mirror with more then one release

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello Karl,

Am 2011-04-11 12:50:11, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> Have you tried any of the resources at [1]?
> Personally I use a wrapper around apt-ftparchive and a couple of config
> files.

I use it already, any I have a nn TByte Mirror gotten since  Slink  (any
packages ever hit unstable), but the problem is, if you have  more  then
one version in the pool e.g..

   pool/main/m/my-package/my-package_1.0.0_i386.deb
  my-package_2.0.0_i386.deb
  my-package_3.0.0_i386.deb

where the packages  are  respectively  unstable,  stable  and  oldstable
"dpkg-scanpackages" and "apt-ftparchive" make no difference between  the
three packages and take always the one with the highest version.

I was thinking I can tell "dpkg-scanpackages"  with  a  "override"  that
"2.0.0" is for example "stable"... and if I run

cd debian/
dpkg-scanpackages pool/main Overrides/stable 
>dists/stable/main/binary-386/Packages

it select the versions I setup in the "Overrides/stable"

Also I have tried the Options "FileList" and "SourceFileList"and put the
name of the "debs" and "orig.tar.gz" into it which I want to add, but it
seems not to work.

I do not now why, because I do not get an error message.  :-/

Any hints?

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Re: RFS: 0ad

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Vincent Cheng  wrote:

> Hmmm, I've never thought of porting 0 A.D. to an entirely different JS
> engine as an option. Is V8's API relatively stable compared to Spidermonkey?

V8's ABI looks very unstable, not sure about the API.

I am not particularly knowledgeable in the area of JavaScript engines.

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Re: RFS: 0ad

[Jon Dowland]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 06:04:43PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > from the replies I've seen so far, it seems that embedding Spidermonkey
> > code in 0 A.D.'s source is a no-no, or at least strongly discouraged.
> 
> Maybe porting to another JavaScript engine (like Google V8) is the best
> long-term solution?

It seems to be asking a lot of upstream.  Is there a likelyhood for any other
package to make use of the old spidermonkey version (when it is old, that is)?
I'd expect not, and so I'd think using the bundled version was the sensible
choice.


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Re: RFS: 0ad

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:26:08AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 06:04:43PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > from the replies I've seen so far, it seems that embedding Spidermonkey
> > > code in 0 A.D.'s source is a no-no, or at least strongly discouraged.
> > 
> > Maybe porting to another JavaScript engine (like Google V8) is the best
> > long-term solution?
> 
> It seems to be asking a lot of upstream.  Is there a likelyhood for any other
> package to make use of the old spidermonkey version (when it is old, that is)?
> I'd expect not, and so I'd think using the bundled version was the sensible
> choice.

There are several packages using spidermonkey, and they are originally
designed for various versions of spidermonkey. If we'd keep these
bundled versions, we'd have 10 copies of different versions of (security
hazardous) spidermonkey in the archive. If we'd package all of them as
separate packages, we'd have 10 spidermonkey packages. The sensible
choice is to either avoid using spidermonkey, or use the latest
available in Debian.

Mike


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Re: RFS: tucan (updated package)

[Muammar El Khatib]

Hi Julián, 

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 07:07:13AM -0500, Julián Moreno Patiño wrote:
> Dear mentors,
> 
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.10-1 of my package "tucan".
> 
> It builds these binary packages:
> tucan - Download and upload manager for 1-Click Hosters
> 
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
> 
> The upload would fix these bugs: 573561, 595156, 608293
> 


Just two tiny remarks. The first one, erase the blank space at the end of the
file debian/tucan.menu

The other one is that you updated watch file for closing #573561, and I am
getting 404 Not Found:

$ uscan --report 
uscan warning: In watchfile debian/watch, reading webpage
  http://code.google.com/p/tucan/downloads/detail?name= failed: 404 Not Found

Could you tell me if you get the same problem as well?

More than that, it will be ok for me to upload the package. I'll be waiting for
your response. 

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Re: Script to create pool mirror with more then one release

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> if I have a mirror whichcontain oldstable, stable, testing and unstable,
> is there a maintainer script to create  the  Packages/Source  files  for
> each release correctly?

Both debmirror and the official mirror scripts can handle this just fine,
and on the same pool (just like they are in the official mirrors).

Now, if you want to CREATE said files from a list of .debs, well, these
scripts won't do that.  I think apt-ftparchive can do that (from apt-utils).

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RFS: Rodent Beta filemanager

[edscott wilson]

From: Edscott Wilson Garcia 
To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: RFS: rodent

Dear mentors,

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

* Package name: rodent
  Version : 4.6.2
  Upstream Author : edsc...@xfce.org
* URL : http://rodent.xffm.org/
* License : GPL-v3
  Section : utils

It builds these binary packages:
rodent - Advanced user filemanager for Linux/BSD systems

The package appears to be lintian clean.

My motivation for maintaining this package is:
I am the upstream maintainer. You can find more information about this
project at
http://rodent.xffm.org and at the sourceforge resource
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xffm/

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rodent
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rodent/rodent_4.6.2.dsc

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


Kind regards
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debhelper 7 and architecture dependent/independent packages

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

I have a package which builds one architecture dependent and one
architecture independent binary package and uses dephelper 7. Due to
the weird and kind of incomplete upstream build code, I had to
override the dh_autoinstall target with an override_dh_auto_install
target in my debian/rules.

However, when the buildd uses --binary-arch, my
override_dh_auto_install fails when it tries to install files into the
architecture-independent part of the package, probably due to the
directories listed in debian/indep-binary-package.dirs not having been
created since we are running with --binary-arch.

override_dh_auto_install_indep does not seem to be available.

How do I specify "install"-type operations that are only to take place
when building architecture (in)dependent packages? If I need to
specify my own install-indep and install-arch stanzas in my
debian/rules, is there a possibility to jump back into debhelper 7's
automatic behavior after doing my local things?

Greetings
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Re: Script to create pool mirror with more then one release

[Mahyuddin Susanto]

Hi

On 04/11/2011 01:59 AM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Good evening Mentors,
> 
> if I have a mirror whichcontain oldstable, stable, testing and unstable,
> is there a maintainer script to create  the  Packages/Source  files  for
> each release correctly?
> 
> Currently I have for each release a seperated pool and symlink the files
> into the "real" public mirror but this is not very funny with this bunch
> of symlinks.
> 
> Any suggestions, hints, HOWTOOs or wiki  entries  I  have  currenly  not
> found?
> 
> Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
> Michelle Konzack
> 

You can use reprepro, reprepro can separate binary/source into specific
release
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Re: debhelper 7 and architecture dependent/independent packages

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

Marc Haber  writes:
> I have a package which builds one architecture dependent and one
> architecture independent binary package and uses dephelper 7. Due to
> the weird and kind of incomplete upstream build code, I had to
> override the dh_autoinstall target with an override_dh_auto_install
> target in my debian/rules.

I had similar problems myself and stopped using override_* targets for
commands that should only run when building the arch-indep packages.
Instead I now use

--8<---cut here---start->8---
%:
dh $@

binary-indep:
dh --before dh_install $@
dh_install -i
find debian/btanks-data/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644 
dh --remaining $@

binary: binary-arch binary-indep
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

(taken from btanks with the additional override_* targets stripped)

Regards,
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RFS: dacco (updated removed package)

[Innocent De Marchi]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9+20071227-5
of my package "dacco".

It builds these binary packages:
dacco-common - Catalan/English dictionary (xml files)

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 620706

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dacco
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/dacco/dacco_0.9+20071227-5.dsc

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

This package was removed from sid to remove a package (hident) which depended.

Kind regards
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RFS: qdacco (updated package)

[Innocent De Marchi]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.8.2-1
of my package "qdacco".

It builds these binary packages:
libqdaccolib-dev - library for facilitate access to dacco dictionary (devel)

libqdaccolib0.7 - library for facilitate access to dacco dictionary (runtime)
qdacco - offline Dacco Catalan <-> English dictionary frontend (qt)

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 620706

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qdacco

- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qdacco/qdacco_0.8.2-1.dsc

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

This package was removed from sid to remove a package (hident) which
depended indirectly (via dacco-common).

Kind regards
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Re: RFS: 0ad

[Philip Taylor]

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Adam Borowski  wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 06:22:23PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Adam Borowski  wrote:
>> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:33:47PM +0100, Philip Taylor wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 1:24 AM, Paul Wise  wrote:
>> >> > Preferably you would render text at run-time, since that
>> >> > enables i18n. For finding font files use fontconfig (preferred) and or
>> >> > a build-time parameter for finding them.
>> >>
>> >> My main concern is that that wouldn't provide sufficient consistency -
>> >> different versions of Freetype, or the same version with different
>> >> configuration (bytecode interpreter, autohinter, etc), might render
>> >> the same font quite differently and break the look of the game.
>> >
>> > Why won't you force the settings then?  If you are afraid the user's
>> > configuration might be ill-fitting, specify them by hand.
>>
>> The important ones that I'm aware of are compile-time settings
>> (TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER/TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING)
>
> These two are used only if you choose bytecode hinting.  Just specify any
> other option if you're afraid of inconsistency.

I played with this a bit, and it looks like the bytecode interpreter
is necessary for some of the fonts we use.

http://zaynar.co.uk/0ad-pub/fonts/fonts-default-hint.png - the normal
rendering (using default font options in Cairo, which handles
antialiasing etc automatically).
http://zaynar.co.uk/0ad-pub/fonts/fonts-no-hint.png - FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING.
http://zaynar.co.uk/0ad-pub/fonts/fonts-auto-hint.png -
FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT (or a version of Freetype with the patented
code disabled).

The autohinter makes everything much uglier. The main font (Pagella)
doesn't use hinting - with FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING enabled it's actually
the same when using the game's converted .ttf or the original .otf, so
I think I can remove the converted .ttf files entirely and use the
NO_HINTING flag when rendering it. But the DejaVu Sans Mono in the
top-left corner looks like it really needs the original bytecode
hinting, to avoid being ugly or blurry.

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introduction

[Sim IJskes]

Hi,

Just to introduce myself. I'm a user of gnuradio. Also an experienced 
developer. The last 10 years mainly in java. Did a lot of commercial 
work in C and C++ in the previous century (not gcc). I also packaged 
some bash scripts in a debian package. So now i took it upon myself to 
get gnuradio 3.3.1 packaged. Bdale Garbee did send me some info to get 
started, but is unable to answer all my questions. I've fixed a DSO 
linking issue, but some other python linking issue is biting now. I know 
of another person who claims to have packaged gnuradio 4, but i haven't 
seen the package yet.


I've removed the following packages from the original, as they seem to 
have disappeared from gnuradio, or have been replaced by debian supplied 
packages. Maybe somebody could comment on my removal:


libgromnithread-dev
libgromnithread0
libmblock-dev
libmblock0
libpmt-dev
libpmt0

My intent is to deliver the patches to Bdale as soons as i have 
something to show for. It is not clear to me if he will find the time to 
create a final package for upload to debian.


Gr. Sim


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Re: RFS: 0ad

[Philip Taylor]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Paul Wise  wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Vincent Cheng  wrote:
>
>> Oops, don't know why I broke off mid-sentence like that. My point was that
>> porting 0 A.D. to work with newer versions of Spidermonkey seems to be a lot
>> of work for very little gain and lots of opportunities for potential
>> breakage. Philip addressed this already in an earlier message [1].

To clarify slightly: I'm happy to port to SpiderMonkey 1.8.5, which is
the newest release (two weeks old). (The version numbers in e.g.
'libmozjs-dev 1.9.1.18' are Gecko version numbers, not SpiderMonkey
version numbers, and don't correspond to any official standalone
SpiderMonkey release, so they're older than 1.8.5). If there are
occasional further standalone releases of SpiderMonkey in the future,
I expect I'll be happy to port to them too.

The main constraint is that any given version of the game will only
support a single SpiderMonkey release (and will use that same release
across all Linux distros and all other platforms). If we use something
like libmozjs-dev 1.9.1.18, there's no guarantee that libmozjs-dev
1.9.1.19 won't break API compatibility or cause multiplayer sync
errors, so I don't want to use a version like that. But if we support
the js185-1.0.0.tar.gz release then a hypothetical bugfixed
js185-1.0.1.tar.gz should work too (that stability being the purpose
of the standalone releases), and we can stick with that until there's
a new standalone release series that we can port to (or until it
becomes apparent there won't be any more standalone releases and then
we can revisit the problem), so it should be less of a maintenance
burden than the alternatives.

> Maybe porting to another JavaScript engine (like Google V8) is the
> best long-term solution?

I believe that will never happen - it'd be a huge amount of work for
very little benefit (and that's assuming V8 does provide a stable API
that they will never break in order to make Chrome 5% faster - I don't
know if that's the case).

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RFS: parallel

[George Zarkadas]

Dear mentors,

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

* Package name: parallel
  Version : 20110205-3
  Upstream Author : Ole Tange 
* URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
* License : GPL (ver.3 or later)
  Section : utils

It builds these binary packages:
parallel   - Execute jobs in parallel locally or using remote computers

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 518696

Changelog:
  parallel (20110205-3) unstable; urgency=low
* Applied DEP-3 headers to patches
* Converted patches to include only essential and not tools-versions changes
  parallel (20110205-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Fixed package dependencies
  parallel (20110205-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release (Closes: #518696)

My motivation for maintaining this package is: 
It is a utility full with features for its intended task and actively
maintained (currently with a monthly release cycle); it contains also
a few other nice little tools, like niceload; and it is official GNU 
software. Thus, a nice selection to start with for trying to become
a Debian Developer.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/parallel
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/parallel/parallel_20110205-3.dsc

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

Kind regards
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creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

[Joachim Wiedorn]

Hello,

I plan to create a Debian package of a new software which only have a git
repository, but no archive file. How should I create such a Debian
package? 

Is it enough to copy the git repo from the internet, remove .git/, rename
the main directory of the sources (-) and run dh_make
with --createorig to auto-create the orig directory?

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RFS: gmult (updated package)

[Mahyuddin Susanto]

CC-ing pkg-games

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.3-1
of my package "gmult".

It builds these binary packages:
gmult  - figure out which letters are which numbers

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 544923, 622219

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gmult
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gmult/gmult_7.3-1.dsc

I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. here is
changelog that i made

gmult (7.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #622219)
  * debian/control:
- Add myself as Uploaders. (Closes: #544923)
- Bump Standards Version to 3.9.2 no source changes.
- Change Homepage field to Launchpad.
  * debian/watch: Change upstream homepage to Launchpad.
  * debian/copyright: Rewritting as dep-5 format.
  * Dropped unused patch:
- debian/patches/10_desktop_file_warns.diff
- debian/patches/10_ftbfs_wtf.diff
- debian/patches/fix_gtkmm_detection
- debian/patches/ftbfs_gcc-4.3.diff

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Re: RFS: python-crypto (adopting package, fixes FTBFS)

[Sebastian Ramacher]

On 04/09/2011 12:06 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Sebastian (2011.04.09_10:44:03_+0200)
>> Out of curiosity: what are the pros and cons of dh_python2 and where do
>> dh_pysupport and dh_python2 differ? In view of #617001 I thought I'd stick 
>> with
>> the successor of dh_pycentral.
> 
> dh_python2 is aiming to be the replacement to dh_pysupport and
> dh_pycentral. But not everyone is in agreement about that, yet.
> dh_python3 is the only helper for Python 3.
> 
> dh_python2 is simpler, in that it ships a static symlink farm for every
> supported Python version at build time. This means the package needs to
> be rebuild every time we change the supported Python versions in Debian.
> Seeing as Python 2.7 is the last version of Python (python3 is a
> separate stack in Debian), this shouldn't be an issue.
> 
> Having the package only be useful for versions of Python it's been
> tested with (assuming it has a test-suite) isn't a bad thing.

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Re: RFS: parallel

[Joey Hess]

George Zarkadas wrote:
> It builds these binary packages:
> parallel   - Execute jobs in parallel locally or using remote computers

I have not figured out what to do about moreutils containing a
/usr/bin/parallel that is not entirely command-line compatable with this
one. #597050

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RFS: pdnsd (updated package, RC bug fix)

[Mahyuddin Susanto]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.8-par-2
of my package "pdnsd".

It builds these binary packages:
pdnsd  - Proxy DNS Server

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 617644, 617659, 617913, 618671

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pdnsd
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
- dget
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pdnsd/pdnsd_1.2.8-par-2.dsc

This revision will fixes RC bug (FTBFS and broken init script). i'm also
rewriting d/rules for compatibility with pararel-build.

Here is debian/changelog

pdnsd (1.2.8-par-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/03-autotools.patch: Dropped not needed anymore and make
FTBFS on kfreebsd-* because it was restoring patch from kfreebsd
patches.
(Closes: #617659)
  * debian/patches/06_man_prefix.patch: Fix manual page path to
$prefix/share.
  * Add maintainer script to deleting files during uninstall packages.
(Closes: #617913)
- debian/postrm
- debian/prerm
  * Fix broken init.d script, Thanks to RjY :
(Closes: #617644)
- debian/init.d
- debian/pdnsd.conf
  * debian/init.d: Rewriting to LSB-compliant, Thanks to Martin Dziobek.
(Closes: #618671)
  * debian/changelog: Fix wrong bug number in 1.2.8-par-1.
  * debian/control:
- Move Vcs-browser field to git browser rather than anonscm.
- Bump Build-Dep of debpelper to 7.0.50~ since used dh_override.
- Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2.
  * debian/rules: Rewriting to using simple rules.

 -- Mahyuddin Susanto   Sun, 10 Apr 2011 01:17:29 +0700

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RFS: alure (updated package)

[Tobias Hansen]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1-1
of my package "alure".

It builds these binary packages:
alure-doc  - AL Utilities REtooled (documentation)
libalure1  - AL Utilities REtooled (shared library)
libalure1-dbg - AL Utilities REtooled (debugging symbols)
libalure1-dev - AL Utilities REtooled (development files)

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 620697

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alure
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alure/alure_1.1-1.dsc
- pkg-games git browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/alure.git

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

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RFS: sludge

[Tobias Hansen]

Dear mentors,

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

* Package name: sludge
  Version : 2.1.1-1
  Upstream Author : Tim Furnish, Rikard Peterson, Tobias 
Hansen
* URL : http://opensludge.sourceforge.net
* License : LGPL/GPL
  Section : games

It builds these binary packages:
sludge-devkit - Development tools for creating SLUDGE adventure games.
sludge-doc - Documentation for SLUDGE
sludge-engine - Runtime engine for playing SLUDGE adventure games.

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 612862

My motivation for maintaining this package is:
I maintain the Linux port upstream and want it to be easily installable.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sludge
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/sludge/sludge_2.1.1-1.dsc
- pkg-games git browser:http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/sludge.git

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

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RFS: out-of-order

[Tobias Hansen]

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "out-of-order".

* Package name: out-of-order
  Version : 1.0-1
  Upstream Author : Tim Furnish
* URL : http://outoforder.adventuredevelopers.com
* License : Freeware with permission to redistribute
  Section : non-free/games

It builds these binary packages:
out-of-order - comedy science fiction adventure game

The package appears to be lintian clean.

The upload would fix these bugs: 615984

My motivation for maintaining this package is:
It's a great game and I packaged the SLUDGE engine,
which runs the game and is needed for Out Of Order, anyway.

The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/o/out-of-order
- Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main 
contrib non-free
- dget 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/o/out-of-order/out-of-order_1.0-1.dsc
- pkg-games git browser:http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/out-of-order.git

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

Kind regards
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Re: RFS: sludge

[Tobias Hansen]

Am 11.04.2011 23:39, schrieb Tobias Hansen:

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


I forgot to mention that this package depends on alure 1.1, see my other 
RFS.



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Re: RFS: parallel

[George Zarkadas]

Hi,

The next parallel release from that in the package (20110322) includes
the --tollef switch and a site-wide config file (/etc/parallel/config)
to address this issue.

Thus parallel can install by default with --tollef activated in the
config file, replacing the /usr/bin/parallel executable without breaking
scripts.

Or if this (the replacement) is not wanted for any reason, then the
alternatives mechanism could be used.

I 'll have a closer look at the available options and come back with 
the next version of the package, that will also close #597050. 

Meanwhile, any ideas or suggestions are welcomed.

regards
George Zarkadas

Στις 11-04-2011, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 16:10 -0400, ο/η Joey Hess έγραψε:
> George Zarkadas wrote:
> > It builds these binary packages:
> > parallel   - Execute jobs in parallel locally or using remote computers
> 
> I have not figured out what to do about moreutils containing a
> /usr/bin/parallel that is not entirely command-line compatable with this
> one. #597050
> 



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Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Joachim Wiedorn  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I plan to create a Debian package of a new software which only have a git
> repository, but no archive file. How should I create such a Debian
> package?
>
> Is it enough to copy the git repo from the internet, remove .git/, rename
> the main directory of the sources (-) and run dh_make
> with --createorig to auto-create the orig directory?

You may just package off the git tree -- roll a .tar.gz for every
release. You must note this in the changelog.

If there is really no release (and never going to be), just pick a
nice round number (such as 1.0), and keep git off that.

Your version ID would look something like:

1.0[~|+]gitMMDD.HASHHASHHASH-1

In the "real" world, here was an unstable fluxbox release (before the
1.3.0 release)

fluxbox 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2

Hope this helps!

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>
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Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

[Jakub Wilk]

* Paul Tagliamonte , 2011-04-11, 18:52:

If there is really no release (and never going to be),


(You can never know that...)


just pick a nice round number (such as 1.0), and keep git off that.

Your version ID would look something like:

1.0[~|+]gitMMDD.HASHHASHHASH-1


Version numbers don't need to be "nice" or "round"; they should make 
sense, however. 1.0+something for a piece of software that is not 
planned to be released certainly doesn't.


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Re: introduction

[Paul Wise]

Nothing appears to be depending on those libraries so there is nothing
blocking their removal.

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How are directories managed.

[Paul Elliott]

This may be a FAQ but I could not find the answer in the documentation:

How are directories managed? When does a directory get deleted? What is the 
lifetime of a directory? Is a directory owned by a specific package?

Which packages are alowed to deposit files in a specific directory? What 
exactly 
are the rules?

If a package wants to put files in a directory, how does the package "know" 
that the directory will live longer than the file?

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env[HOME] issues

[Elías Alejandro]

Hi all,
Few days ago my package was uploaded however it didn't builds properly
with some architectures like PPC its building log is [1] basically says:

Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string at 
/usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Source/Package.pm line 258.

It worked fine with previous version[2].
I was building with qemu ppc environment (sid) and it builds fine.
Do you know something about this? probably some python problem or some else?

Thanks in advance.

[1] 
https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=radiotray&ver=0.6.3-1&arch=powerpc&stamp=1301635623&file=log
[2] https://buildd.debian.org/build.php?&pkg=radiotray&arch=powerpc


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Re: env[HOME] issues

[Paul Wise]

The issue seems to be in your upstream's setup.py, not in debhelper as
you suggest.

You cannot rely on a home directory being present on the buildds and
should not write anything to it if it exists.

The correct fix in this case would to be send upstream a patch so that
it building does not touch $HOME nor ~/ in any way.

A workaround in this case would probably be to create an empty
directory and set $HOME to that while running the upstream build
scripts.

PS: I'd suggest using the new status pages, the ones you linked to are
going away soon:

http://buildd.debian.org/radiotray

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Re: RFS: alure (updated package)

[Andres Mejia]

On Apr 11, 2011 5:54 PM, "Tobias Hansen"  wrote:
>
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1-1
> of my package "alure".
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> alure-doc  - AL Utilities REtooled (documentation)
> libalure1  - AL Utilities REtooled (shared library)
> libalure1-dbg - AL Utilities REtooled (debugging symbols)
> libalure1-dev - AL Utilities REtooled (development files)
>
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
>
> The upload would fix these bugs: 620697
>
> The package can be found on mentors.debian.net:
> - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alure
> - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable
main contrib non-free
> - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/alure/alure_1.1-1.dsc
> - pkg-games git browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-games/alure.git
>
> I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me.
>
> Kind regards
>  Tobias Hansen

I'll take a look at this soon.

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Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

Paul Tagliamonte  writes:
> fluxbox 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2

Hmm, what is it common to have "git" before the date? What if upstream
switches to a different VCS? Wouldn't you then need e.g.

fluxbox 1:1.1.1+bzr20110412

to make sure your new version is actually newer? To me it would sound
more logical to use something like

fluxbox 1.1.1+20100908git.df2f51b-2

instead.


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