RFS: mysqltcl 3.03-1 (updated package)
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.03-1 of my package "mysqltcl". It builds these binary packages: mysqltcl - Interface to the MySQL database for the Tcl language The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mysqltcl - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mysqltcl/mysqltcl_3.03-1.dsc It has been sponsored by Luk Claes during the last year but he kindly asked me to search for someone else to sponsor it. So it would be cool if someone could review and upload this package. Cheers, Sven -- There's no need for tears, cause there's no need to cry. That love that you leave will never be denied. [ Flogging Molly - Laura ] Gebuehrenboykott 2008 BU WTAL http://www.boykott-wuppertal.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFS: tclcurl 7.17.1-1 (updated package)
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.17.1-1 of my package "tclcurl". It builds these binary packages: tclcurl- Tcl bindings to libcurl The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tclcurl - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tclcurl/tclcurl_7.17.1-1.dsc It has been sponsored by Luk Claes during the last year but he kindly asked me to search for someone else to sponsor it. So it would be cool if someone could review and upload this package. Cheers, Sven -- There's no need for tears, cause there's no need to cry. That love that you leave will never be denied. [ Flogging Molly - Laura ] Gebuehrenboykott 2008 BU WTAL http://www.boykott-wuppertal.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to build two differently configured binaries from the same source?
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:44:04PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > The user probably doesn't want to use "yabause-gtk" to start the program. > So I think they should conflict. Or you just decide on either library to > build the package and are done. What about using update-alternatives? Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RFS: mysqltcl - Interface to the MySQL database for the Tcl language
Package name: mysqltcl Version: 3.01-2 License: Free to use, modify, redistribute URL: http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/mysqltcl/ Description: Interface to the MySQL database for the Tcl language The mysqltcl package provides a Tcl interface to the mysql database system. . Homepage: http://www.xdobry.de/mysqltcl/ The former maintainer David N. Welton agreed that I take over this package and urged me to search for a sponsor because he is out of time to review the package. This package should address all bugs listed in the BTS for mysqltcl. Would be realy nice if someone could review my changes and sponsor the upload. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to deal with .sty files correctly?
Hello, I'm in the process of packaging dvipost ATM and I'm a little bit puzzled with the 'dvipost.sty' file coming along with dvipost. The makefile installs the dvipost.sty file into /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/misc/ and runs texhash afterwards. So I read http://people.debian.org/~frank/Debian-TeX-Policy/ but could not find something that realy fits so I stayed with the installation path and put the "texhash" run into postinst and postrm. Is this the right way to deal with such stuff? My current state of the package is avaible here: http://sven.stormbind.net/debian/dvipost/ Cheers, Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: autoconf problems (was: How to deal with .sty files correctly?)
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 12:21:37PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote: > Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Frank, first of all thank you for the detailed explanation > > I'm in the process of packaging dvipost ATM and I'm a little bit puzzled > > with the 'dvipost.sty' file coming along with dvipost. > > The makefile installs the dvipost.sty file into > > /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/misc/ > > and runs texhash afterwards. > > > > So I read http://people.debian.org/~frank/Debian-TeX-Policy/ > > but could not find something that realy fits so I stayed with the > > installation path and put the "texhash" run into postinst and postrm. > > > > Is this the right way to deal with such stuff? > > No, not completely. I'll first tell you what's correct and why, and > then we come to the interesting part: How to fix the package's autoconf > scripts. Ah yes the autoconf script is a bunch of bad workarounds. I've to work around some more issue there anyway. *sigh* > Or, no, there's one more interesting part: How to fix the wording of the > Debian TeX Policy. You know, we thought that it should be quite clear > that this is not correct, and that section 3 should "fit" quite well, > especially 3.2. Please read it again, and tell me whether you just > didn't read it carefully enough, or how we should change it. My missunderstanding was that I somehow got the impression that this was all about fonts for latex. My problem is that I still lag some knowledge about how all those latex stuff works. That's why I try to put something like Lyx in between. (Well now I need to digg deeper to get the Lyx package back on track) [broken autoconf] > I think the clean solution would be to change the autoconf script to > output the right thing; and autoconf wizards might be able to do this > (perl and emacs lisp might have similar problems). However, for the > time being, I'd suggest to just move the file after "make install". That's what I'm doing at the moment. :) Cheers, Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why are the buildds able to find a Build-Dep on their own?
Hi all, while working on proftpd backport I've been stumbling about the fact that the proftpd package did not declare a build-dep on the libattr1-dev package. The package is clearly needed if you're going to build it by hand. I've been expecting the package to FTBFS on the buildds but the opposite happens and the pacakge is build correctly. Reading #400738 and #405981 (which were both about this issue) didn't help me either to understand it. Could someone please explain me why the buildds were able to build the package without explizitly knowing about the needed libattr1-dev build-dep? Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sponsorship offering
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 06:23:58PM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > If people in the NM queue would consider the list of packages here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/ToDo > > which need update to a new upstream release, they would be considerate > soon for sponsoring and have an immediate increase of their ranking ;-) > GIS packages are also the most sexy around, so come on and join us. > gpsbabel needs updating to 1.3.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show gpsbabel|grep Version Version: 1.3.3-2 Haven't checked the other but this one seems to be done already. Cheers, Sven -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to upload a debian binary for lyx
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:55:40PM +0200, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi, > There's a team maintaining the lyx package. You can reach it by e-mail > via Debian LyX Maintainers . > Please ask them if you can help them / join their team. Yes you can. ;) We maintain a wiki page http://wiki.debian.org/PkgLyx listing the 'bigger' issue that should be worked out over time and there is still the Debian BTS to find something to work on. I'm currently lacking some time to dedicate to the not so easy to solve bugs. One that comes to mind, that would be a candidate for some love, is #531992. It's not a LyX issue but someone has to find out where to forward it. > * Jonathan Wiltshire [090827 12:43]: > > You want the debian-mentors list. Setting Mail-Followup-To and keeping the > > full text below. Please upload your package somewhere for the mentors to > > review, and drop the other lists when you reply. Not that clever for a package that seems to be actively maintained. At least we're not years behind the last upstream release and the changelog clearly shows recent actions from at least one maintainer. > > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:24:47AM +0100, belahcene wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I generate a debian package for the more recent lyx (1.6.4), I want > > > to share it, how and where to upload it. > > > > > > The file is generated for debian lenny (5.0) and can normally used > > > on recent ubuntu . What makes me courious is where I as one of the maintainer and we as team failed to comunicate so that one person I've never heard of before feels motivated to package a new upstream release without writing a mail to the maintainers first. Taking into account that Juergen (the upstream release manager) prepared the release on Sunday and announced it to the world on Monday we're not lacking this far behind with an upload on Thursday the same week. And the commit mails on the team mailinglist are from Tuesday evening. So it should've been obvious that there is someone working on packaging the new release. So I'm wondering now where we can improve our comunication so that nobody feels the need to waste some energy with doublicating work? Or maybe this is afterall just a gross missunderstanding of how packages are released with Debian/stable? I've to admit that some backports would be nice but last time I tried I had no success to find a sponsor for a bpo upload. I'll promise to work on one again when I'm through NM. Cheers, Sven -- They're the cowards We are rebels We got the power to fight the devil [ AIV - We are rebels ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: RFS: tclxml
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:09:31PM +0200, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
> Hello.
>
> The previous maintainer on tclxml package orphaned it, while package has a
> bug
> rendering it completely unusable, and there's a new upstream version
> available
> with that bug fixed.
>
> I'd like to take over maintainance, and I need a sponsor for that.
Ok a few short remarks after a first look:
* There are a lot of commented out lines in debian/rules - need them or
delete them. ;)
* Is there a reason to build-dep on tcl 8.4? Otherwise build-dep on the
tcl-dev package.
* One should try if you can utilize the 'tcltk-depends' helper script to
get your depends from this tool and the ${tclsh:Depends} variable.
(maybe take a look at tclcurl or mysqltcl)
* Note in debian/copyright that you're now maintaining the package.
There is a pkg-tcltk-devel mailinglist on lists.alioth.org,
it's worth posting RFS there too so that people interested in Tcl related
packages see them.
Sven
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Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 09:17:29AM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: Hi, > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. :-) Uploaded. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- 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/20100410100424.ge11...@marvin.lan
Bug#733258: RFS: kerneltop/0.8-2.2 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 09:21:14PM +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > * URL : http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kerneltop/ Found the same URL in a very old LWN article, but currently it holds some electronic cigarette weblog. Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- 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/20131228123610.gb3...@garkbit.lan
Bug#733258: RFS: kerneltop/0.8-2.2 [put in ITP, ITA, RC, NMU if applicable]
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 03:34:37PM +0100, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > Yes I know. This URL was in the original package, I could not find > alternative resource. I will try to contact upstream, especially when I > have patches to forward. > > I am quite new to this and I am not sure what should be done in this > situation. Keeping it in the debian/copyright file for historic references is fine. Citing it in sponsorship requests like this one might raise some suspicion like it did on my side. I would've just replaced the url with 'down' or 'no longer available'. I'm not sure if there is still some kind of active upstream, could not find something so far. Sven -- There we were, the three of us, the thief the king and I. Finally, we were forced to see, we were equals in the night. [Streetlight Manifesto - The three of us] -- 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/20131228212038.gh3...@garkbit.lan
Re: Bug#756436: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-2
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:44:49AM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: Hi, > Thanks, upload worked. Uploaded to the archive. Thanks. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140731091612.ga4...@timegate.de
Re: Backport ipmitool for stable release
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 07:19:46PM +0200, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: Hi, > on ipmitool exist a bug[1] to add "Dell 13G server" support. > > Therefore my questions: > > - Does Debian have rules when backports are possible? http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index5h3 Two answer your question I guess the main points are: - It builds in a wheezy enviroment. - The relevant release is already part of testing so it has a chance to be part of the next stable release. That is for backports of course not for adding patches to the current stable package as part of a point release. There the rules are slightly different and reviewed by the release team. In either case having the code tested in unstable/testing first is a good starting point. > - What is your opinion about this backport? Sounds like a reasonable request. :) The size of the patch and level of complexity is not high so after having the code in unstable and testing a request for inclusion of patched package in the next point release is not too far fetched. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140803194725.gc4...@timegate.de
Bug#757428: RFS: nullmailer/1:1.13-1 [RC]
On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 01:39:47AM +0100, Nick Leverton wrote: Hi, > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -x > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nullmailer/nullmailer_1.13-1.dsc Thanks, uploaded. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140808115927.ga4...@timegate.de
Bug#762379: RFS: urjtag/0.10+r2007-1.2 [RC, NMU]
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 07:16:01PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: Hi, > Changes since the last upload: > > urjtag (0.10+r2007-1.2) unstable; urgency=medium > > * Non-maintainer upload. > * debian/patches/0010_prefix_REG.patch: (Closes: #756827) > - Prefix all REG_* with BFIN_REG to not clash with enumerators defined in > /usr/include/sys/ucontext.h, this fixes > FTBFS: error: redeclaration of enumerator 'REG_R0' Thanks for your contribution, uploaded. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140921173325.gb7...@timegate.de
Re: Bug#712787: ITP for Distkeys
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:04:37PM -0300, Eriberto wrote: Hi, > Not wrong. The package is in first upload. 2014. > > Please, don't interfer in my revision without a strong motive. Well the point of public discussion on d-m kind of is to have a discussion about different views on certain issues. Sure in the end you've your standards because in the end you sign it. But don't be too surprised that not everyone shares your view in all aspects. And I too think that upload year and copyright year do not have to match in all cases. In the end just a minor point one could or could not demand to be aligned. Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140922171733.ga4...@timegate.de
Bug#768251: RFS: ip2location/7.0.0-1 [ITP]
On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 09:45:25PM -0800, Lim Chris wrote: Hi, > Package name: ip2location > Version : 7.0.0-1 > Upstream Author : IP2Location > URL : http://www.ip2location.com Is this tool of any use without the commercial database? Are there free databases available? Otherwise I think this belongs to contrib. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141106100332.gb4...@timegate.de
Bug#874373: RFS: vnstat/1.17-1+nmu1 ITA
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 02:05:12PM +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote: > I uploaded a new package version in which the not upstreamed patches > are dropped, the maintainer is set to myself and the vcs fields are > updated accordingly. > With #874387 Felix is searching for a new maintainer for this package; > what are the requirements for me to become such? Basically just set yourself as the maintainer (the technical part) and find a sponsor to review and upload the package (the more social part). > Also, I like to ask a technical question: > What is the common dealing with state file upon package purge? > Vnstat saves the network statistics under /var/lib/vnstat and as this > folder is listed in debian/vnstat.install, dpkg warns upon purge > operation that this directory cannot be deleted, because it is not > empty. > Should the directory be emptied in the postrm script or is this > warning acceptable? Should be deleted on purge. I think mariadb packaging nowadays has an additional debconf fronted question if you really want to purge the database. I personally do not think that the value of vnstat history is so huge to implement an additional dialog but YMMV. Sven
Bug#893052: RFS: btrfsmaintenance/0.4.1-1 [I maintain the package]
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:38:37PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi Sven, > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 08:06:13PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > Hi, > > uploaded the package. I've to make up my mind about the kind of linux > > specific > > arch all packaging stuff. > > > > Sven > > Thank you for sponsoring this upload :-) > > Should I leave filing a wishlist bug against dpkg-dev, for the > creation of an arch: linux-all to you, or go ahead and do it myself? I would be surprised if that's the first time we've this issue. So I wanted to search for prior discussions first. Sven
Bug#893052: RFS: btrfsmaintenance/0.4.1-1 [I maintain the package]
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:38:37PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Hi Sven, > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 08:06:13PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > Hi, > > uploaded the package. I've to make up my mind about the kind of linux > > specific > > arch all packaging stuff. > > > > Sven > > Thank you for sponsoring this upload :-) > > Should I leave filing a wishlist bug against dpkg-dev, for the > creation of an arch: linux-all to you, or go ahead and do it myself? Hi Nicholas, I would not fill a bug and I would not change anything else on the package. Introducing something like "linux-all" would also require changes in the archive software and other places. Just telling dpkg that it exists is only a small part of the complete story. After looking around and thinking a bit more about this issue, I think the gain from solving it is very limited. If you try to install btrfsmaintenance on kfreebsd or hurd you'll already be told that the dependencies are not satisfiable because btrfsprogs is not available. In case someone would port it and make it available, the situation gets more complicated. Now you would be able to install the package and have the maintenance scripts available, but you still might be lacking the btrfs support in the kernel. At least at the moment that would not cause any harm because the cron job is not enable by default and I guess the btrfsprogs tools would still fail if executed. So at least there is no harm done to the system. Since this is all very hypothetical I would just ignore this case for now. If you would like to maybe get other viewpoints on this issue feel free to ask on debian-mentors or debian-devel. My opinion is in the end just mine. :) Cheers, Sven
Bug#916859: closed by Andrey Rahmatullin (Re: Bug#916859: RFS: PDF Studio Viewer/2018 [ITP] -- pdf viewer)
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 05:12:39PM -0500, Studio Support wrote: > Hello Andrey, > > Regarding the solution on Bug#916859 about our package "pdfstudioviewer" > > It's free in the real sense of the term, meaning that users don't pay for it. > But it is not open source. Our end-user license is displayed to users upon > running our application the first time. > > We don't care if our application is listed under the Free or the Commercial > products. > > We have a Debian installer so I hope you can use that. Hi, I, and propably many more Debian developers, appreciate that you try to engange with the Debian project, but really we're focused on open source software. You might want to read https://www.debian.org/social_contract.html So yes it's true that we have this sad part called "non-free" on our mirrors but formally it's not really part of the distribution, and still everything shipped in non-free requires to have a source package as well. https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/SourcePackage In the end I can only encourage you to open source your software, otherwise you've to move on and distribute it via your own self hosted repository. Sven
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:22:45PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, > My usual sponsors Sebastian 'tokkee' Harl and Michael Prokop seem to be > missing in action. I kinda doubt that, I guess they're just busy as everyone else is. :) > Can somebody review my updates and upload? Where could one pick up the package for review? Couldn't find it on mentors.d.n nor a bugreport associated with sponsorship-request. I'd guess you've usually worked through the collab-maint git repo? Sven -- 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/20120625161018.ga10...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:10:18PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > I'd guess you've usually worked through the collab-maint git repo? Short round of "nitpicking the wrong way" ;) at what I've found in the git repo. 1) I see no point in listing changes from 2.0.7 and that you've undone them with 2.0.8 because they're fixed in 2.0.8 upstream in the debian/changelog. Those back and forth changes are documented in the VCS history. In my opinion that's enough if someone cares, because they never hit the archive anyway. 2) It's rather non-obvious that you patch the DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS into the upstream makefile instead of debian/rules. Haven't seen that before and I'm not sure what to think of such tactics. Anyway you have to build depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~) because of the makefile snippet you include. 3) I'd skip the capital letters in the short description. It's shortened to fio everywhere else and somewhere in the dev-ref it's mentioned that it's not sentence and thus should not start with a capital letter. Rest seems to be ok at a first glance, though that version jump is a bit late in the release cycle. :-/ Sven -- 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/20120625164202.ga15...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:57:18PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, > > Rest seems to be ok at a first glance, And another small one I would change to be more generic: debian/copyright: -Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-1.32.tar.gz +Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/ > though that version jump is a > > bit late in the release cycle. :-/ > > Well I already tried to get fio 2.0.7 sponsored ;). > > I am using the 2.0.7 for quite a while already and think it is fine. Yeah we should really try to get it included in wheezy. Sven -- 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/20120625170834.ga15...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 07:18:40PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 25. Juni 2012, 19:08:34 schrieb Sven Hoexter: Hi, > > debian/copyright: > > -Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/fio-1.32.tar.gz > > +Source: http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/ > > Shouldn´t this field show what has been used for initial packaging? I'd find that pretty useless, or at least I don't see a value in such historic information. And we've a VCS to keep historic information of a package. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#source-field points at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs#s-copyrightfile and that gives us "In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources (if any) were obtained, .." Often it might feel a bit like a duplication of the homepage field in debian/control but especially in this case those two have very different content. One can of course deduce the right place to look at with the current value, but I don't think it's that useful The webserver even provides a directory listing with the full array of tarballs. Sven -- 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/20120625172938.gc15...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Please sponsor fio (flexible I/O tester)
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 04:22:45PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, > I updated my fio debian package to 2.0.8 of fio. Thanks & uploaded. Sven -- 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/20120626082658.ga17...@sho.bk.hosteurope.de
Re: Bug#703399: FS: udevil/0.4.1-1 ITP
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 09:15:33AM +0100, Mateusz Łukasik wrote: Hi, > > udevil - Mounts and unmounts removable devices and networks > without a I've to admint that I didn't follow the current way of mounting removal devices in desktop enviroments but I'm still wondering what's the advantage of udevil over tools like pmount? Beside that the short description should start in lower case. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis Sven -- We are what you say We are not what you think [ Dead Sara - We are what you say ] -- 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/20130319091737.GB4547@garkbit
Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 11:40:31AM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: Hi, > * URL : http://www.mysqlfanboy.com/mytop/ Unreachable from here currently, when have you reached that site the last time? > * Checked and recreated patchs from old upstream against new version > - Add 01_fix_pod.patch > - Add 02_remove_db_test.patch > - Add 03_fix_newlines.patch > - Add 04_fix_unitialized.patch > - Add 05_fix_terminal_flicker.patch > - Add 06_prevent_ctrl_char_printing.patch > - Add 07_fix_screenwidth.patch (Closes: #565759) > - Add 08_add_doc_on_missing_cli_options.patch > - Add 09_add_mycnf.patch, contains now error handling (Closes: #627300, > #694555) > - Add 10_q_is_quilt.patch > - Add 11_fix_warnings.patch Uh fun to review ... I find the naming of patch 10 a bit confusing or is this a pun I don't get currently? How many of these patches have been proposed for upstream inclusion? Beside that I wonder if it would make sense to rely more on the dh_ tools instead of self crafted stuff like cd debian/tmp ; find . -type f ! -path "./DEBIAN*" -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sed -e 's!\./!!' > DEBIAN/md5sums chmod 644 debian/tmp/DEBIAN/md5sums dpkg-gencontrol -isp chown -R root.root debian/tmp chmod -R go=rX debian/tmp dpkg --build debian/tmp .. dh_perl dh_md5sums It doesn't even make sense to generate the md5sum file first by hand, create the package itself and then run dh_perl and dh_md5sums. dh_perl even throws out a visible message that someting is wrong. And yes that is wrong. The naming of the mytop.example file is also a bit unlucky since that would also match dh_installexamples, and yes I see that's currently not used in this package but could be a source of further confusion. For the maintainerscripts I'll have to reread the relevant policy parts myself first. If it was my package I wouldn't even install a menu item for such a tool but that's up to you in the end. Oh and dh_installmenu exists to free one from the burden of writing the correct maintainer scripts for that task. Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe / each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever / if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- 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/20130505132546.gb2...@garkbit.lan
Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:08:05PM +0200, Werner Detter wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've recreated and uploaded the package to mentors. I've rewritten
> debian/rules from scratch to get
> rid of the "old build style" from the origin package maintainer.
>
> Could anyone please have a look at the package? :)
- verbose mode in debian/rules is still enabled
- the manpage states the wrong homepage (minor issue)
- dependency on libconfig-inifiles-perl got lost
- Please, you run dh_perl read the fine manpage and find out how
${perl:Depends} could help you. Doesn't catch all modules here
but would be a start.
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Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 07:31:30PM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: Hi, > > - the manpage states the wrong homepage (minor issue) > > Well, actually the first releases till Version 1.6 came from origin > upstream -> http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/ > > After 1.6, seems like, another upstream took ofter maintenance, seems > like: http://www.mysqlfanboy.com/mytop/ > > how to handle this? Just patch it as every other issue and pest^inform upstream and propose a patch. As noted that's really minor and if it had been the only issue with the package I would've already uploaded it. I'll check the new package over the weekend but won't get it done today. Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- 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/20130510083823.ga4...@timegate.de
Re: Bug#706820: RFS: mytop/1.9.1-1 ITA
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 05:58:52PM +0200, Werner Detter wrote: > Hi, > > > I'll check the new package over the weekend but won't get it done today. > > updated and uploaded the package. URL in manpage is now also fixed. > Also, I've informed upstream about all patches we've applied and > sent them those. Thanks Werner, uploaded a few minutes ago. Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] -- 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/20130512103541.ga3...@timegate.de
Re: RFS: fio 2.11
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:57:41PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, > Okay, should be fine to go now: I'm in general fine with the package. None the less a remark to maybe think about: a) Is it worth to switch to xz for this package? b) Is it a good idea to force the compression-level to 9? For a) I think maybe for b) I guess buildd maintainers and maybe even devs of weaker arches might hate you. I've no good idea myself how xz works internally but if I recall the threads on d-d correctly about making xz the default a compression level above 6 was deemed way too much. I think even lower levels were proposed as a Debian default when xz will be the default compression method. Oh and the orig.tar.gz is still supplied as .tar.gz maybe getting that switched to xz would make also sense. On the other hand for such a small package the benefit is small. Uploaded, thanks Martin. Cheers, Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe / each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever / if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: fio 2.11
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 09:40:03AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi, > Upstream maintainer Jens Axboe told me that he likely releases a fio 2.12 > this week, which has some patches merged I currently carry in the package. > > I suggest that I remove the compression setting then and do another RFS. > > Would that be okay with you? Fine with me. Feel free to just sent me a link to the .dsc without all the fluffy RFS bug stuff around it. ;) Cheers, Sven -- we live we love we learn and breathe each breath we take makes me believe that we can take this road forever if we take this road together [ AZ0 - Endless Roads ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: radiotray
On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:09:53AM -0500, Elías Alejandro wrote: Hi, > radiotray - online radio streaming player that runs on a Linux system tray I'm probably not in a good position to go and do some nitpicking on other peoples package description but 'a Linux system tray' sounds a bit odd. At least Linux is still the name of a kernel and not the name of desktop enviroment which indeed might have system tray where this application could dock. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- 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/20100506121413.gd1...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: libaosd (updated package)
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:41:47PM +0300, Eugene Paskevich wrote: Hi, > I have just uploaded the new version, 0.2.7-1, > which fixes the no-upstream-changelog lintian warning and > allowed to drop 3 of 4 patches. Please merge the changelog entries for 0.2.6 into one entry for 0.2.7 since 0.2.6 never made it into the archive. What is the reason to make your override targets .PHONY? I fail to understand what this should achieve. I think you can move the LDFLAGS setting out of the override target and set something like LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs,--as-needed,--no-undefined above the %: target and remove the override targets altogether. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- 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/20100803144406.gb10...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: libaosd (updated package)
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 06:54:12PM +0300, Eugene Paskevich wrote: > Or even to this: [...] > Thank you for the tip, Sven! Should be ok. Please rebuild the package with the changes and sent me the link to the dsc and I'll sponsor it. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- 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/20100803160759.gc10...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: libaosd (updated package)
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 07:18:42PM +0300, Eugene Paskevich wrote: Hi, > Uploaded to m.d.n. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libaosd > > Thank you for your interest and support! Uploaded. Thanks for your contribution. :) Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- 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/20100803163418.gd10...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: libaosd (updated package)
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:11:36PM +0300, Yavor Doganov wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote: > > LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs,--as-needed,--no-undefined > > Isn't -z,defs == --no-undefined? Oh right. Good catch. Blame me for copy&paste. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- 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/20100804184713.gi10...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: ripit, a textbased audio CD ripper (updated package) 2nd attempt
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:29:10PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hi, > I am looking once again for a sponsor for the new version 3.9.0-1 of > my package "ripit". It should be uploaded to experimental, please. Uploaded. Thanks. :) Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101005084257.gb1...@marvin.lan
List of tutors [was: Re: RFS: peg-solitaire (Player and Solver)]
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 10:18:37AM -0700, I. De Marchi wrote: Hi, be aware this is all my personal opinion and no consensus of this list or the project. > Congratulations for your thread "Four days". It is difficult for beginners > to find sponsor. I think it would be nice to create a list of tutors. That should achieve what and solve which problem? The innocent people listed now can be drowned with mails about half backed packages in private? Neat idea. Oh and I hope you don't see a tutor/mentor as a teacher. The biggest chunk of learning has to happen by intrinsic motivation on your own. > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/RFS%3A-peg-solitaire-%28Player-and-Solver%29-tp29927880p29928489.html > Sent from the debian-mentors mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Hm subscribing to mailinglist is always a good starting point for participation. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101010180016.ga1...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: xsol (updated package) [A solitaire game for the X Windows system]
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:09:05PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:49:29AM +0200, Mònica wrote: Hi, > > I am looking for a sponsor for a QA upload for the package "xsol", a > > solitaire game for the X Windows system. > > I just had a very first look. In general, it seems fine but something's > off with the orig tarball. It doesn't seem to match the one we already > have in the archive. Did you change anything? Where did you get it? ACK for that and the linking in debia/rules can be shortened. That's also in the package we currently have in the archive. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101020101350.gj1...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: xsol (updated package) [A solitaire game for the X Windows system]
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:25:20AM +0200, Mònica wrote: > I think it's everything solved, but I'm sorry I don't understand what you > mean with "the linking in debia/rules can be shortened" :-( dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libSM.so.6 could be avoided if "debian/xsol/usr/games/xsol" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libICE.so.6 could be avoided if "debian/xsol/usr/games/xsol" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libXext.so.6 could be avoided if "debian/xsol/usr/games/xsol" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols). Could be avoided ... - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o xsol xsol.c -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXt -lICE -lSM -lX11 -lXext + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o xsol xsol.c -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXm -lXt -lX11 Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101021094440.gc1...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: xsol (updated package) [A solitaire game for the X Windows system]
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:40:08PM +0200, Mònica wrote: Hi, > But in Debian archives, there is the "long" solution (I copied from there). I > can't understand why these libraries were linked if they aren't used. Hm I see, guess I looked at the first part of the makefile but it even that is overriden. My fault sorry. > Now, I've uploaded again with all your suggestions. > > Thanks for helping me! Thanks for caring. Uploaded to the archive. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101021104145.ge1...@marvin.lan
Re: RFS: Several packages waiting sponsor
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 06:51:39PM +0100, Innocent De Marchi wrote: Hi, > - peg-solitarie > (http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/peg-solitaire) a small > game with pegs. I am the upstream autor and mantainer. Looks ok. Though I'm not so keen of sponsoring that. Partly because we've the GTK game (with a lot less features) called pegsolitaire (very, similar name though I've no good idea how to avoid that) and partly because I'm not into games. Maybe you can check with the games people if they'd like to have both or consolidate on your version. I'd prefer some consens on that topic with people who care about packages in that area before uploading that. > - Three orphaned packages: > and gentoo (http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gentoo). Had a short look at this one aswell. - There are now two patch files with de.po fixes, I'd like to see them consolidated to one file and passed on to the upstream dev if that hasn't already happened. - Why did you add the .desktop file via a patch? I usually just add them to the /debian/ dir and install them from there. - IMO the debian/copyright file still needs some polish. If you egrep -ri for 'copyright' you'll find some parts from the FSF and Drepper. So as long as I don't find anything else and you sort out the things mentioned above I'm willing to upload it. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101225205952.go1...@marvin
Re: RFS: Several packages waiting sponsor
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 09:59:52PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > So as long as I don't find anything else and you sort out the things > mentioned above I'm willing to upload it. *sigh* It's for sure that you find something more after you've send a mail. - The path to the icon listed in the menu file misses a leading / - Please rename the icon to something speaking for itself - icon_iconify.xpm is awful. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101225211739.gp1...@marvin
Re: RFS: Several packages waiting sponsor
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:29:00AM +0100, Innocent De Marchi wrote: Hi, > >- There are now two patch files with de.po fixes, I'd like to see them > >consolidated to one file and passed on to the upstream dev if that hasn't > >already happened. > > The de.po is partially resolved in the new version. I have adapted > this patch (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314096) > to the new version. I have already sent the patch to the upstream > author. Ok, but I'd still like to see that merged into one patch and preferably add a nice header. Currently the fix-de-po-corrections.patch has a note refering to the bug id and the auto generated debian-changes-0.19.7-1 has the full default header with the complete changelog. My compromise would be to have both changes auto-generated in one patch by dpkg. Beside that quilt is the tool of choice to edit such things. You just have to set QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches. > >- IMO the debian/copyright file still needs some polish. If you egrep -ri for > >'copyright' you'll find some parts from the FSF and Drepper. > > Yo he cambiado un poco el archivo. Espero que este mejor. I think you missed my point here, I guess I wasn't clear. As a start please read http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html The debian/copyright format was ok, I just wanted you to note that most of the files in the m4 directory have a copyright by the FSF. And there are other files aswell with different copyright holders. E.g. the file 'missing' states: # Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # Originally by Fran,cois Pinard , 1996. or po/Makefile.in.in: # Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 by Ulrich Drepper and some more in src/. You'll catch most of them with a 'egrep -ri copyright *' in the package source directory. I know that it's hard sometimes but even for packages which don't have to be reviewed by the ftp-masters I'd like to see a copyright file which at least states the obvious things. This is the best way to avoid any trouble and in the past I've seen some very dubious copyright claims in open source software. It's always good to review such things even if you and the current maintainer believe it's all free and ok. And thanks for catching up with upstream on the other bugs. :) Cheers, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101226192738.ga2...@marvin
Re: RFS: Several packages waiting sponsor
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 09:29:00AM +0100, Innocent De Marchi wrote: > Thank you very much for your attention! And one more issue, and that's something I see frequently with newcomers, so I hope that some other new maintainers may read this mail too and avoid it in the future: Please don't alter the original released tar file from your upstream. Just rename it. Before sponsoring something I always download the original upstream release and check provided checksums and signatures if possible. Why is this important? Take a look at the recent mirror compromise of the Proftpd project. In this case sadly upstream doesn't provide any checksums or signatures which is not ideal and something one should ask for. But still the checksum of the upstream released tarball and the .orig. file on mentors differ. Please fix this and only build with the original, renamed upstream tarball. Thanks. Cheers, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101226194048.gb1...@marvin
Re: RFS: yade-0.60
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 03:40:03PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yade-0.60". > > * Package name: yade-0.60 > Version : 0.60-1 I did not look at the package itself but the versioning here seems to be wrong. I'd guess that the package name should be 'yade' while the upstream version is '0.60'. In the current constelation this would be a new source package with every new release you make upstream e.g. yade-0.61, yade-0.70. That's not something you usually want. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101227155913.gb1...@marvin
Re: RFS: yade-0.60
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:55:38PM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote: Hi, > "yade-0.60" provides virtual package "yade". We want to have multiple > versions installed in parallel. This is a very specific software. Modeling > process can last months, but in most cases different versions of "yade" are > not compatible, that is why we have to support several stable versions. That requires dedication. I'm not sure, but maybe DDs from debian-science might be interested to support this endeavour. Beside that I had a short look at general non-technical things: * The changelog doesn't close an ITP bug. * egrep -ir 'copyright' reveals that your debian/copyright doesn't reflect all the contents of the package. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html is a good starting point. And please feed the package to the latest version of lintian (e.g. not the one from Lenny, in this case use the backport), you'll find some more things to take care of. HTH, Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101227225738.gc8...@colin
Re: RFS: gadmin-rsync (orphaned/updated package)
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 04:41:22PM +0700, Mahyuddin Susanto wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.6-1 > of my package "gadmin-rsync". Please read the developers reference section 5.9 and 5.11 and the Debian policy to understand what a non maintainer upload is, how you can adopt a package and how the fields in debian/control work. Beside that unpack the package you created in a different directory and review the patches you now have in debian/patches. You revert with your changes the carefully crafted patches by the prior maintainer. This automatic patch creation seems to be non-obvious to new maintainers, I'm not sure how we can improve that beside talking about it. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101229103358.gb1...@marvin
Re: RFS: Several packages waiting sponsor
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 06:51:39PM +0100, Innocent De Marchi wrote: Hi, > fldiff(http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fldiff), > and gentoo (http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gentoo). In the meantime I've uploaded those two. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101231181720.gb31...@marvin
Re: RFS: obexpushd (adopted one upload ago)
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 09:00:15AM +0100, Gabriele Giacone wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "obexpushd". Uploaded to experimental (cause of the freeze). And yes, I removed the DMUA flag. If you change the Standards-Version in the future please note aswell if you had to change things or not, I've added a small note this time. And for some bad vibration add a random rant about CDBS. ;) Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20101231184306.gc31...@marvin
Re: RFS: obexpushd (adopted one upload ago)
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 02:00:46AM +0100, Gabriele Giacone wrote: > > Uploaded to experimental (cause of the freeze). > > There are no reverse B-D/Depends so I guess unstable would have been > good too or better, no need to reupload it when squeeze is out. That's not only about reverse deps. Say eg someone finds something RC buggy in the 0.10.2 package currently in unstable and testing. Now you've got a fix which should reach testing sometime in the future. If you've already 0.11.1 in unstable you can't upload a 0.10.2-2 package to unstable so this has to go through t-p-u. This in turn has the disadvantage that it won't be exposed to all unstable users which in turn can not check on a broader scale that your -2 upload is indeed working. The opinion on this topic might vary but I for one prefer it to stick with the principal to keep the usual way of migration through unstable instead of t-p-u. Cheers, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110101101720.gb3...@marvin
Re: [PING] RFR/RFS: openvpn-auth-radius (new package, fixes retitled RFP)
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 10:38:46AM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote: Hi, > Please CC me in a reply, since I am not subscribed to the list. > > Could you reconsider this RFS? Two weeks have passed without a response. * The main technical thing is that I'm not able to double-build the package in the same location. It seems that the clean target in the makefile only removes the build object files with a .o suffix. The 'main' file doesn't have one so it's left behind. Something that should be fixed upstream. Workaround is to delete it in your clean target in debian/rules. * I'm not comfortable with the maintainer address set to a company. I've not yet formed a final opinion on that topic because technically that's just like any team maintained address but having explicitly a company as the maintainer is something new (at least for me). Plus I, as the sponsor, am not part of that team so it's not like sponsoring a team upload but more like sponsoring an individual maintainer upload. I'm not sure how other people in the project feel about it. My main concern as a sponsor in that regard is that you often try to create some kind of trust relationship to the person maintaining that package but if you leave the company for whatever reason the people maintaining the package can change and you can go back to the start. Though if you leave and subsequently orphan the package we'll technically end up in the same situation. Another point might be that a company as a maintainer might suggest that this company has a special role within Debian, donno how innocent users might react to this. Could be avoided if you'd name it 'Cygnusnetwork Debian Team' or something like that. * There is a spurious file debian/clean in the package. Looks like a leftover from a failed build or something like that. Do you use pbuilder/sbuild or something similar? * I would prefer an initial -1 upload. Though that's a matter of personal taste as far as I remember the discussions on that topic. * I don't agree with your backport argument against the dh override_ syntax. backports.debian.org has a dh backport and you only need it to build the source package. Oh and squeeze is not that far away from a release though I know about people still runing etch (and I always cry when I hear those stories). Anyway that's not a show-stopper. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110103130634.ga1...@marvin
Re: [PING] RFR/RFS: openvpn-auth-radius (new package, fixes retitled RFP)
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 07:44:54PM +, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > * There is a spurious file debian/clean in the package. Looks like a > > leftover > > from a failed build or something like that. Do you use pbuilder/sbuild or > > something similar? > > It's used by dh_clean - like debian/install but in reverse. Ouch, learned something new and explains other parts. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110103202924.gg1...@marvin
Re: RFS: subversion (updated package) [lenny-backports, 1.6.12dfsg-4~bpo50+1]
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 03:20:45AM +0100, Michael Diers wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.6.12dfsg-4~bpo50+1 > of my existing backport of package "subversion". Uploaded. > On 2011-01-09, subversion 1.6.12dfsg-4 has migrated to testing. It > addresses the following issues: > > CVE-2010-4539: crash in mod_dav_svn when using SVNParentPath > http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4539 > > CVE-2010-4644: fix server-side memory leaks triggered by 'blame -g' > http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4644 So hereby I request a BSA number. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: subversion (updated package) [lenny-backports, 1.6.12dfsg-4~bpo50+1]
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 03:48:09PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Again? I already assigned one today (017) Eh. Interesting. Looks like I jumped in the middle of someone else work. :-/ Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: RFS: gentoo (updated package already in Debian)
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:37:43PM +0100, Innocent De Marchi wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.19.8-1 > of my package "gentoo". I'll look at it. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110115174211.GA1965@marvin
Re: RFS: Dropbox
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:24:36AM -0800, Vincent Cheng wrote: Hi, > (I've chosen python2.5 over python2.6/3.1 because python2.5 includes all the > python-related libraries that Dropbox needs, whereas python2.6/3.1 only > includes some.) Not sure if it makes sense to go with python2.5 now, consider http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2011/02/msg8.html Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110219142230.GB1970@marvin
Re: RFS: mpg321 (New upstream release, 3rd try)
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:38:15PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.13-1 > of my package "mpg321". from debian/rules: INSTALL_PROGRAM = /usr/bin/install -c What should the -c achieve? Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110219190301.GF1970@marvin
Re: RFS: mpg321 (New upstream release, 3rd try)
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 09:43:21PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > This is the old compatibility switch with the old Unix versions of "install". > Really nothing. Yeah, that's what I got from the infopage. What about droping it? I currently fail to see what it's used for within Debian. Beside that: * debian/copyright should be worked on, it doesn't even list yourself * What about fixing #588051? (if it doesn't break without it I'm for suggests aswell) * Since you're upstream: There's a config.h.in~ in the orig.tar.gz. It seems to be not yet released or at least it's not yet on sf.net, maybe something to remove before uploading it there. * LDFLAGS += -Wl,-z,defs -Wl,--as-needed could limit the dependencies a bit. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110219200943.GG1970@marvin
Re: using pristine-tar
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:14:52PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Howdy d-m, > > I'm working on a package, and I'm thinking about using pristine-tar. > Is there a best practices / tutorial set anywhere? I did some > googling, but since nothing jumped out, I figured some of the better > resources might be common knowledge around here. My guess would be that most people use it together with git and git-buildpackage. It then boils down to having a pristine-tar branch and a debian/gbp.conf with [DEFAULT] pristine-tar = True In general the manpages for both, pristine-tar and git-buildpackage, are helpful. HTH, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110220081337.GA1970@marvin
Re: RFS: mpg321 (New upstream release, 3rd try)
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:23:52PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, > Removed from debian/rules file. Ok, I think you should do the same with the conditional 'install -s' stuff because you run dh_strip anyway. It does no harm but is redundant. > Revised. I hope this is fine for the moment. A simple grep -ir copyright in the source still gives me some more names like Robert Leslie, the FSF, Peter Pentchev, Richard Boulton, MIT and some more if I look closer like Giuseppe Scrivano and Ralph Loader. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html is a good read on the topic. > It doesn't break. It works fine, I've tested it. If you have something better > to suggest you are more than welcome in a next version. Oh why did you drop it? Like the bugreporter I'd list it as a suggested package. You should just not depend on it since it's not required to run mpg321 and not everyone will use it. In debian/changelog please don't list issue under the S-V change which are not related to it. And a typo in the description, s/lighweight/lightweight/, should be fixed. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110220120849.GB1970@marvin
Re: RFS: mpg321 (New upstream release, 3rd try)
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > The package has been re-uploaded to mentors.d.n. Upload. Thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110220151536.GC1970@marvin
Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:42:24PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.8-1 > of my package "evilvte". (Programming language: C) Uploaded. Thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110220151854.GD1970@marvin
Re: RFS: scidavis (updated package)
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:58:04PM -0500, Ruben Molina wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.4-2 > of my package "scidavis". I would upload it but I currently can't build it because of python-qt4 missing sip-api-7.1 which seems to be deprecated. Beside that you can remove README.source from the package. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110226083641.GA2354@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 01:15:17AM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, > Note that I should soon be a DM, so if you do sponsor my package and deem it > appropriate, I'd appreciate a DMUA field. (This is my third NMU of this > package; I'll gladly adopt it once it's orphaned.) Without some more details this looks rather strange. What's up with the current maintainer? Is there some agreement that he'll orphan the package? Oh and for a NMU at least the RC bug should've the diff attached and a message that you plan to NMU etc. Beside that do you know what's the state of all those patches upstream? The 'mail-notification' project on launchpad has some 4.0 version from 2010 while the mailnotify page on nongnu.org (from the same author) holds a version 5.4 from 2008 which seems to be what's in the Debian package. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110301220333.GA16612@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package)
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:25:40AM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, first of all I've uploaded the package. Thanks for fixing it once again. I didn't test the evolution part so I hope that works as well. (flame me later if it breaks ...) > As far as I'm aware LUI Qi is MIA (mia have been notified), but the package > hasn't been QA-orphaned yet. I did contact the maintainer regarding possible > co-maintainership a while ago, after Sandro Tosi suggested it (see the thread > starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2010/05/msg00387.html). Please follow up with mia@ to check the current state of the process. I didn't add the DMUA+Uploader flag because that should definitely not happen in a NMU without an OK from the maintainer and that wouldn't be a NMU anymore. > There is no upstream any more, the package is kept alive by various people > and the patches float around Ubuntu, Fedora and the Debian BTS. 5.4 is the > last upstream release, version 4.0 as available on launchpad is the same as > the January 2007 release available from nongnu.org. Impressive chaos. :( Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110302094206.GC4144@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (updated package)
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 05:51:55PM +0800, LIU Qi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 10:42:06AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, > > Please follow up with mia@ to check the current state of the process. > > I didn't add the DMUA+Uploader flag because that should definitely not > happen > > in a NMU without an OK from the maintainer and that wouldn't be a NMU > anymore. > As discussed earlier in the mailing list, currently I have no enough > time to maintain the package. So I would like to co-maintain the package > with Stephen. And I will return to maintain the package later this > month. Great, that makes it a lot easier. Please negotiate in private for a VCS and a place to host it. Maybe that fits under some Gnome packaging umbrella or collab-maint if you'd like to host it on alioth.d.o. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110302101222.GD4144@marvin
Re: RFS: scidavis (updated package)
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:36:41AM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > I would upload it but I currently can't build it because of python-qt4 > missing sip-api-7.1 which seems to be deprecated. Uploaded. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110303112618.GG2113@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 06:48:04PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3.1-2 > of my package "antennavis". * Do not (never ever!) change prior changelog entries of versions that already hit the archive. * The package fails to build here with pbuilder (-1 and -2), both linking issue. * Tcl 8.4 will be faded out, idealy build-depend on tk-dev only instead of some specific Tcl and Tk version. Maybe use the tcltk-depends (debhelper like) tool to generate the tcl and tk depends. After all I can't test it anyway so you should talk to the debian-hams@l.d.o people about sponsoring and testing the package with equipment. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110303152729.GA16280@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:33:57PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:27:29PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > * The package fails to build here with pbuilder (-1 and -2), both > > linking issue. > > > > I don't have a similar problem. (?) The -1 package: cc -L/usr/X11R6/lib TkAntenna.o AntennaWidget.o ParseArgs.o togl.o ant.o pcard.o VisField.o VisWires.o -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -lXmu -lGLU -o TkAnt /usr/bin/ld: togl.o: undefined reference to symbol 'XUnmapWindow' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'XUnmapWindow' is defined in DSO //usr/lib/libX11.so.6 so try adding it to the linker command line //usr/lib/libX11.so.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [TkAnt] Error 1 The -2 package: cc -L/usr/X11R6/lib TkAntenna.o AntennaWidget.o ParseArgs.o togl.o ant.o pcard.o VisField.o VisWires.o -ltk8.4 -ltcl8.4 -lXmu -lGLU -lX11 -lm -o TkAnt /usr/bin/ld: togl.o: undefined reference to symbol 'glXUseXFont' /usr/bin/ld: note: 'glXUseXFont' is defined in DSO //usr/lib/libGL.so.1 so try adding it to the linker command line //usr/lib/libGL.so.1: could not read symbols: Invalid operation collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [TkAnt] Error 1 Both in a sid pbuilder on i386. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110303154711.GB16280@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:54:37PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: Hi, > I don't know what kind of change we are talking about here, but I > certainly disagree with your "never ever!". Sometimes there are > valid reasons to amend existing changelog entries; please see > Developers Reference 5.1 for an example. Hmpf, yes indeed. There had to be an exception, thanks. But I personally disagree with the exception. Even in case of CVE numbers or similar things that's still some information that didn't exist in the past so IMO it shouldn't be added there. If needed one should add it to a new changelog entry for a new revision but not edit some past entries already in the wild. Donno if I'm alone with this opinion and I'm not eager to fight it with claws here. ;) Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110304120151.GF2111@marvin
Re: RFS: antennavis (updated package - resolves FTBFS with binutils-gold)
On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:55:59PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, > I really don't have the same problem. That's rather strange. > Please try to include the opengl library on the command line as well as the > glut library. Try adding -lGL to the end of LDFLAGS in the Makefile file and > build > the package without using the pbuilder. > Let me know of the result please. Yes, that works. It's enough to add -lGL to the patch. Another mistake on my side: I thought that this software requires some antenna hardware and is more for testing but it seems to be only visualization of models so I think I can test it myself. So no need to bother the ham people. Sorry. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110304121437.GG2111@marvin
Re: RFS: mail-notification (RC bug fix, NMU with maintainer's approval)
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:36:30PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 5.4.dfsg.1-2.4 > of my package "mail-notification". This is an NMU approved by LUI Qi, the > current maintainer. Uploaded. I hope it works cause I can't test the evolution part ... Please consider a) setting up a team VCS so that you can co-maintain it properly and b) forking it with some people from other distros to handle the growing patchset in a more pleasant way. Usually I would offer help at least for a) but I'm busy and/or offline for the next weeks. Thanks, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110314192622.GC2187@marvin
Re: RFS: mpg321 (updated package, 3rd try)
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 08:39:58PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 07:35:07PM +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 19:12, Nanakos Chrysostomos > > wrote: > > > Another DD has told me in the past that I had to split my patches in > > > order for him > > > to accept my package and I should always work in that way for my packages > > > to be accepted. > > > > Well, I don't know if it was just a matter of personal taste of that > > DD, but it's not a requirement. You should provide a single patch for > > a single change, but it's not restricting the patch to touch only one > > file. So, in the example of -K, if the addition of it modifies 5 > > files, it's perfectly fine (and it is *the* standard way) to provide a > > single patch with all the diffs in it. > > I had the same perception as you on the issue but as I said before I had been > told > to follow these instructions. Anyway, your help from now on is precious > because I can > handle in a much better way future patches and versions of my packages. Just in case this has been me, I hope I wrote something about one patch per *issue* you try to fix and not one patch per changed file. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110420180616.GD16713@marvin
Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:38:02PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.9.0-2 > of my package "ripit". Uploaded, thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426123205.GC4051@marvin
Re: RFS: grub-customizer
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:30:05PM +0200, Daniel Richter wrote: Hey, I've been asked some time ago to take a look at this package. I'm still not sure if I'd really like to sponsor it. I'm not sure how exactly we handle software which edits rather vital configuration files and I did not even test it yet. > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "grub-customizer". > > * Package name: grub-customizer > Version : 2.1.2 I started to look at the 2.1.2-3 on mentors.d.n, I hope that's more or less your recent build. * There's a debian/patches/debian-changes-2.1-1 in the package which looks a bit scarry with all those XML in it. Looks like mostly Eclipse meta data except for grub-customizer-2.1/src/config.h. Ideally get rid of it. IMHO the .project directory shouldn't be part of the upstream release. * Why urgency=medium? There's no reason for it. * You should be safe with a debhelper compat level 8. * There's a spurious debhelper.log, just delete it. * The last number in the standards-version can be omitted, should be now 3.9.2. Please read the upgrade-checklist when updating. * I currently don't see a reason why you depend on 'menu' but maybe I've missed something. * The watch file doesn't work. * Since there are copyright notes for the translations, please note them in debian/copyright. * Please avoid the direct linking where possible, usually some LDFLAGS should be enough. (see the dpkg-shlibdeps warnings at the end of the build) * If this tool is only compatible with grub2 maybe the .desktop file should talk about grub2 instead of grub? (I've no idea about the official terminology used by the grub devs) HTH, Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426131644.GA20370@marvin
Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 03:49:30PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Hey Peter, > -Description: Textbased audio CD ripper > +Description: textbased audio CD ripper this is a rather interesting one. After a short look at various packages we seem to have a mixture of upper and lower cases. Maybe we should try to go with one variant and advice that in the policy (except for proper names of course). Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426133346.GB20370@marvin
Re: RFS: ripit (updated package, upload to unstable only)
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:48:16AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Hi, > It seems like lowercase would be the way to go. The description is not > a sentence and capitalizing the first letter makes it feel like a > sentence (when it is not one.) > Since it now feels like a sentence, you also begin to wonder where the > ending punctuation is. It's already noted in the developers-reference, it's just that a lot of us forget about it or ignore it. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-pkg-synopsis Sven, need to fix my packages ;) -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110426140457.GD20370@marvin
Re: RFS: fetchmail-6.3.19 backport to Lenny
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:05:10PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Hi, more or less a full quote for debian-backports > I'm looking for a sponsor for a backport of fetchmail-6.3.19-1 to > Debian Lenny. The main reason for the backport is to forestall at > least the very first requirement of the upstream fetchmail maintainers > when problems are reported - "upgrade to the latest version" :) I wonder if it makes sense to tackle such things for Lenny backports now that we're more or less half through the year of old-stable support. > The package is available at mentors.d.n: > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fetchmail/fetchmail_6.3.19-1~bpo50+1.dsc It should be aimed at -sloppy. > I first sent this as a request for review to the pkg-fetchmail alioth > list (the maintainers of the Debian fetchmail package) - > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fetchmail-maint/2011-April/004071.html > There were no concerns or objections raised, and Nico Golde seems to > approve of the idea, as expressed in his reply - > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fetchmail-maint/2011-May/004075.html Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110510123139.GC2158@marvin
Re: RFS: downtimed (updated package)
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:56:13PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Dear mentors, > > pinging on my initial pledge. Uploaded. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110510223129.GA1872@colin
Re: RFS: mp3splt-gtk (updated package)
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:11:48PM +0200, Gunter Königsmann wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.6.1-1 > of my package "mp3splt-gtk" along as the companion packages "mp3splt" > and "libmp3splt". Uh that's not very nice, this is a hidden NMU against all standards. Did you try to contact the current maintainer? Please read http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#nmu Beside that I would prefer if you would document in a changelog whay you changed in debian/control. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-debian-changelog Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110511101349.GC2096@marvin
Re: RFS: cdpr (updated package)
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:55:59AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.4-1 > of my package "cdpr". * Why are you mangling a prior changelog entry when the changes to debian/rules did not happen back then? * Will something break with compat level 8? If not, why not switch to it directly and while you're at it document it in the changelog. * debian/copyright is a bit delicate. You list Lance O'Connor while all the file headers list MonkeyMental.com. I guess Lance O'Connor is the person behind the domain but IMO debian/copyright doesn't reflect the actual copyright holder given in the code. Seems wrong to me, I'd mention both. But I'm not sure how to correctly reflect this in this fancy new file format for debian/copyright which I don't use. Regarding this new file format I believe most people reference a revision in a subversion repository instead of the wiki page. A minor point is that you reference /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL which is not necessarily GPL2+ but still not totaly wrong if you make use of the '+'. Opinion may vary on that one. * Regarding the examples you install, I'd recommend to use dh_installexamples so they end up in the correct location. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512091906.GA2118@marvin
Re: RFS: ketchup (updated package, adopting, 3rd try)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:22:15AM +0200, Johann Felix Soden wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9.8+hg5533f6de130c-3 > of the orphaned package "ketchup" which I want to adopt. Uploaded. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512093811.GB2118@marvin
Re: RFS: piwigo (updated package)
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 06:43:43PM +0200, Nicolas wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2.1-1 > of my package "piwigo". I think you forgot to merge the changelog from 2.1.2-3 back into the master branch. The french po is there but maybe double check that it's the correct version because there are changes compared to the one in 2.1.2-3 And here you can enter a blank line: +piwigo (2.2.1-1) unstable; urgency=low + * New upstream release S-V got updated to 3.9.2 but isn't mentioned in the changelog. When you add it, please also note if you had make changes for this more or not. IMHO the debian/changelog should also mention that you added an entry to Debian.NEWS The source format conversion and subsequent changes to debian/rules is completly missing in debian/changelog. Such an amount of missing documentation makes me relatively uncomfortable and doesn't motivate me to invest more time to test the binary package at all. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512100302.GC2118@marvin
Re: RFS: cdpr (updated package)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 07:04:50AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, > Not sure about the breakage with compat level 8. This is where I saw > the reference to 7: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#compat That will be almost ever outdated. See man 7 debhelper somewhere near the end about the compatiblity level and the changes. > > A minor point is that you reference /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL > > which is not necessarily GPL2+ but still not totaly wrong if you make use > > of the '+'. Opinion may vary on that one. > > lintian --pedantic complained. I pinged d-devel before and didn't get > a clear answer, IIRC. I'm not sure if there will ever be a final answer to such questions. I don't mind it if you use it this way. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512122558.GJ2118@marvin
Re: RFS: cdpr (updated package)
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:29:43AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: Hi, > I've made the relevant changes and re-uploaded to mentors Uploaded to the archive. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110512160048.GL2118@marvin
Re: RFS: rush (new package)
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 06:55:10PM +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: Hi Mats, > if a repackaging in order to circumvent GFDL-1.3 is not > enough for you to proceed, then nothing will ever satisfy > your desires. Still, I send a further reminder. I just started to look at your package and I'm not sure if I'll work with you towards an upload (I'm offline for the coming week anyway) but here are a few questions and remarks. * The homepage gives me a 404. * Why do you choose to name the source package rush and the binary package gnurush? I somehow miss the point to divert here the source and binary package name. * I think the DEP5 format specification you give recommends to use a svn revision as format specification. While I can only continue to say that I don't care about DEP5 at all, as long as it's not declared to be mandatory by ftp-master, I would appreciate it if those who use it could settle what they would like to use as the format specification. * Some auto generated drepper magic with a copyright notice: po/Makefile.in.in:# Copyright (C) 1995-1997, 2000-2007 by Ulrich Drepper build-aux/* has some more to check (yes, PITA to check them all ...) * While some might have already forgotten about the FHS, your recommended use of /opt is against the idea of /opt. Depending on the general setup, and the content I'd like to serve, I would use /srv or /var. HTH Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110513095903.GA2071@marvin
Re: RFS: nzbget (2nd try)
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 09:36:45PM +0200, Andreas Moog wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nzbget". I only had a very short look at it: * debian/copyright is incomplete. An easy grep -i copyright diggs out some more names. Use something like head *|less to screen all file headers by hand. * This copyright format stuff makes me cry. I'm not sure what should be used but so far I think a majority uses a svn revision for the format definition. * Is there really a texinfo manual somewhere? The rest seems to be ok, though I can't build it currently. > GPL (v2 or later) (with incorrect FSF address) > for all files and I don't know if this will be a problem preventing the > package from inclusion in the archive. I for one don't care, though I've no idea about the ftp-master position. A few days ago some people here agreed that patching it is ok. You should fill a bug upstream anyway. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110513203654.GA1821@colin
Re: RFS: gtklp 1.2.8-1 (updated package)
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:17:12PM +0800, Zak B. Elep wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.8-1 > of my package "gtklp". * Double builds leave some modified m4 files in the diff. (I consider this whole 'autoreconf & delete the files in clean' thing a bit hackish but well, that's up to you in the end. Donno if dh-autoreconf can be integrated nicely with cdbs.) * Adding LDFLAGS += -Wl,--as-needed could shrink the direct depends a lot. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110525090846.GA2146@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 06:07:55PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, > The package is lintian clean (Lintian v2.5.0~rc3) but it not reports (post pbuilder build, lintian 2.5.0 but that shouldn't make a big difference for those warnings) $ lintian -iIv archivemount_0.6.1-2_i386.changes N: Processing source package archivemount (version 0.6.1-2) ... W: archivemount source: format-3.0-but-debian-changes-patch [...] N: Processing binary package archivemount (version 0.6.1-2) ... W: archivemount: possible-unindented-list-in-extended-description The first one is the config.sub replacement. What about using something like the following for your configure target: set -e; if ! [ -f config/config.sub.backup ]; then \ mv config/config.sub config/config.sub.backup; \ ln -s /usr/share/misc/config.sub config/config.sub; \ fi And kind of the reverse for the clean target. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110527193957.GE2197@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:35:43PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:29:49PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > > Will this upload resolve the problem of compiling only > > to linux and kfreebsd and exclude hurd-i386 architecture? > > I changed Architecture Field from any to linux-any. > kfreebsd is not linux so setting linux-any you excluded it. > I think you need to narrow the arch field only when the code *fails to > compile* because, for example, of some linux-only syscall. When it doesn't > build because of missing build-deps, that may change in the future so I > don't do anything (I'm quite new to Debian packaging so I may be wrong > though). The original problem was that fuse-utils wasn't available on kfreebsd (according to the bugreport). Just yesterday(?) Daniel Baumann adopted fuse and changed the package contents and currently fuse-utils is only a dummy package. This requires some re-evaluation of the situation and adjustmend of the archivemount depends. Sven -- I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart, comes a rebel fist [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528065332.GA1834@colin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:48:39AM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 08:53:33AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, > > The original problem was that fuse-utils wasn't available on kfreebsd > The problem was not in kfreebsd but in hurd-i386. I have the slight feeling we're talking about different issue here. According to #613119, which you even close in your changelog, it's been about kfreebsd, and as far as I can tell there's been no fuse-utils package on kfreebsd nor hurd and there is now no fuse package on both of them. So this problem isn't solved at all. I currently can't say if archivemount is of any use without the rest of the fuse tools or not. Looking at the blocking bug #613300 I don't think it is but I've not digged that deep yet. If it is indeed useful to have on kfreebsd without fuse the dependency has to be adjusted accordingly [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64]. Otherwise using linux-any seems to be a good solution, it's not worth to build a package on architectures where it can't be used anyway. > The problem still remains even if Daniel Baumann has adopted and > uploaded a new version of the fuse package. Please check [0] again to see > that the status of hurd-i386 architecture has a dependency installability. > So even with this change archivemount will remain in the current state > and useless for all linux users. I prefer the package to be sponsored > and used for now only from linux and kfreebsd users and when everything is > ready we will upload the package again including the missing architecture. > I included kfreebsd-any in the Architecture Field and re-uploaded the package. > Please bare in mind that the package remains in the current state for more > than 300 days waiting fuse-utils for the hurd-i386 arch. Uh since when is hurd a release architecture? The migration seems to be stopped by the RC bug mentioned above. > > only a dummy package. This requires some re-evaluation of the situation and > > adjustmend of the archivemount depends. > > Do we need that for the moment? IMO it would make sense to do it now while you're at it, I'd guess that Daniel would like to fate out the old fuse-utils package sooner or later anyway. So switching now to a versioned depends on fuse >=2.8.5-2 is IMO reasonable. Beside that: There's still lintian barking at the issue with the description. I'm not sure if lintian is 100% right there and if the deselect issue is still present but double spaces in front of the * should do the trick. IMHO all the (useless) dotted empty lines are a bit ugly, I would revert that. You should also check your changelog, beside closing a bug which isn't fixed with arch kfreebsd-any the changelog only states the change from any to linux-any. The changes to debian/rules are also missing. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528112602.GA2340@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 02:48:59PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 01:26:02PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: Hi, > > You should also check your changelog, beside closing a bug which > > isn't fixed with arch kfreebsd-any the changelog only states the change from > > any to linux-any. The changes to debian/rules are also missing. > > I would like to keep my first change which was only linux-any. Yes, that's ok. > What do you mean > that the changes to debian/rules are missing? I have made the changes you > proposed > and added the reverse one in clean. No more lintian errors. Maybe I'm missing > something here, please enlighten me. You made changes to debian/control and debian/rules and they're not documented in debian/changelog. I'd think of something like this: * Change the dependency on fuse-utils to fuse (>=2.8.5-2). Since fuse 2.8.5-2 fuse-utils package is only a transitional dummy package. * Change debian/rules to keep a backup copy of config.guess in the configure target which will be restored in the clean target, to keep the diff.gz clean. Maybe that's a bit too verbose, but it helps to recap later, why those changes were made. > I hope this time everything is fine and the package could be sponsored. Very close, beside the changelog everything else looks ok. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528122931.GB2340@marvin
Re: RFS: archivemount (updated package, 3rd try)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 03:36:46PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > Re-uploaded to mentors.d.n Uploaded to the archive. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110528130756.GC2340@marvin
Re: RFS: doctrine (updated package, ping)
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:27:01AM +0200, Federico Giménez Nieto wrote: Hi, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.4-1 > of my package "doctrine". I'm not sure how the .orig.tar.gz has been generated (didn't digg deeper) but it contains a lot of 1970's files which will result in an auto-reject by ftp-master. Beside that I would like to lobby for dev-ref 6.2.2 and change s/Tool/tool in the short description. Rest seems to be fine at a first glance. Since this is team maintained I wonder if there isn't someone from the team with some more experience in the area to sponsor the upload? Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529100504.GB2414@marvin
Re: RFS: squidguard (updated package, RC bug fix)
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:43:11PM +0200, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.4-3 of my > package "squidguard". * Oh another DEP5 format definition, and now one that isn't available. I guess that should evolve into some d.n host instead d.o and without the wsvn in it. Or something else. My confusion grows from package to package. :) * I would also document the switch from depends squid | squid3 to squid3 | squid in debian/changelog but YMMV. > And I would be most grateful if a kind sponsor would set the > DM-Upload-Allowed (DMUA) bit. I won't do it for a one shot upload but maybe Kartik would like to jump in. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- 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/20110529114129.GA18249@marvin
