Re: Looking for Mentor

2004-07-21 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 03:59:33AM +0200, Laszlo 'GCS' Boszormenyi wrote: * Joshua Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-07-19 18:22:29 -0700]: The debian packages and files can be found here: http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~bjosh/ Just fetched. I know they aren't perfect, but its the first one

Re: RFS: lincity - Build maintain a city/country

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Frank! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:30:30AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: I would offer to sponsor you. A few quetions, though: That's great already, thanks a lot. - Why do you not specify a DH_COMPAT level? Just forgotten? True, just forgotten. I erased the respective part from

RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Dear mentors, I going to adopt the fbgrab package[0] with the current maintainer's consent[1], but I need your help as I'm not sufficiently advanced yet in the NM queue[2] to do it completely on my own. In other words, please somebody sponsor my packaging. I've packaged the most recent upstream

Re: RFS: lincity - Build maintain a city/country

2004-07-21 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:53:54AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Frank! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:30:30AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Otherwise the package looks great. Thanks :) Updated files can be found at http://ernst.uni-hd.de/debian/lincity (all checked using pbuilder /

Re: RFS: lincity - Build maintain a city/country

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Frank! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:30:29PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Uploaded. katie just sent me a nice mail, thanks a lot, Frank! Cheers, Flo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber

2004-07-21 Thread Stephan Beyer
Hi, I've packaged the most recent upstream version v1.0, but call it v1.0.0 in order to have a greater version number than the package already present in the Debian archive (v1.0b1). I wondered why Gunnar Monell changed 1.0b1 to 1.0. The only change from 1.0b1 to 1.0 is a correction in the

Re: RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Stephan! Nice to hear some word from you. :) On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:35:06PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: I wondered why Gunnar Monell changed 1.0b1 to 1.0. The only change from 1.0b1 to 1.0 is a correction in the manpage, funny. [...] True, that's the only change. Well, due to the

RFS: libswt3.0-gtk2

2004-07-21 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my libswt3.0-gtk2 package. * Package name : libswt3.0-gtk2 * Version: 3.0 (build 3062) * URL: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php * Licence: Common Public License - v 1.0 * Description: Fast and rich GUI

manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 != 1L It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, however I would like

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 != 1L This is slightly inaccurate. The section of the

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:31:47PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about [...] Here's a random quote from the FHS: In addition, some large

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or Linux-)specific, so that we should change it during packaging, or whether I should ask upstream to change it. No. Here's

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The L probably stands for latex (OK, you knew that) and if they ship enough manpages, they might want to add a suffix. [...] I doubt the interpretation L for LaTeX is correct, it is probably L for local. e.g. the findutils manpages also use

Re: RFS: libswt3.0-gtk2

2004-07-21 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo! * Jesper Zedlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name : libswt3.0-gtk2 As this is a java package, you need to follow the debian java policy: libswt3.0-gtk2-java and *-jni for the jni libs. No idea, how to name the gcj compiled version. I have build three packages (shared library,

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 != 1L It is clear that a manpage

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:51:49PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Here's a random quote from the FHS: In addition, some large sets of application-specific manual pages have an additional suffix appended to the manual page filename. For example, the MH

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:07:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or Linux-)specific, so that we should change

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:22:39PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:07:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I think lintian is way too pedantic here. It doesn't actually make any particular difference to anything; the only thing I know of that programmatically cares about the

RFS: naim - IM client

2004-07-21 Thread Rohit Pidaparthi
Hi naim is an ncurses based console IM client that supports various protocols including IRC, ICQ, AIM and lily. It supports the TOC protocol and it can store buddy lists on the AOL servers. It is great for SSH users who want to be able to remotely IM without a VNC X session which can be very

Re: RFS: naim - IM client

2004-07-21 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 19:50, Rohit Pidaparthi wrote: naim is an ncurses based console IM client that supports various protocols including IRC, ICQ, AIM and lily. It supports the TOC protocol and it can store buddy lists on the AOL servers. It is great for SSH users who want to be able to

Wordpress NMU

2004-07-21 Thread Kai Hendry
A couple of people have asked me to do a NMU on wordpress. I figured as the current maintainer Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich is not a DD I should find his sponsor. It's not in the changelog. It's not in the .dsc http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordpress.html So I am wondering here. How the hell

Re: Wordpress NMU

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:41:11PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote: A couple of people have asked me to do a NMU on wordpress. I figured as the current maintainer Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich is not a DD I should find his sponsor. It's not in the changelog. It's not in the .dsc The sponsor

RFS: gnubik - 3D Rubik's cube game

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Dear mentors, I've packaged the most recent upstream version of gnubik, a very configurable Rubik's Cube game, but I need your help as I'm not sufficiently advanced yet in the NM queue (http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=florian_ernst%40gmx.net) to do it completely on my own. In other words,

Re: RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber

2004-07-21 Thread Stephan Beyer
Hi, I've packaged the most recent upstream version v1.0, but call it v1.0.0 in order to have a greater version number than the package already present in the Debian archive (v1.0b1). I wondered why Gunnar Monell changed 1.0b1 to 1.0. The only change from 1.0b1 to 1.0 is a correction in the

Re: RFS: lincity - Build maintain a city/country

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Frank! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:30:29PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Uploaded. katie just sent me a nice mail, thanks a lot, Frank! Cheers, Flo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Stephan! Nice to hear some word from you. :) On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:35:06PM +0200, Stephan Beyer wrote: I wondered why Gunnar Monell changed 1.0b1 to 1.0. The only change from 1.0b1 to 1.0 is a correction in the manpage, funny. [...] True, that's the only change. Well, due to the

manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 != 1L It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, however I would like

RFS: libswt3.0-gtk2

2004-07-21 Thread Jesper Zedlitz
Dear Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my libswt3.0-gtk2 package. * Package name : libswt3.0-gtk2 * Version: 3.0 (build 3062) * URL: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php * Licence: Common Public License - v 1.0 * Description: Fast and rich GUI

Re: RFS: lincity - Build maintain a city/country

2004-07-21 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:53:54AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: Hello Frank! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:30:30AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: Otherwise the package looks great. Thanks :) Updated files can be found at http://ernst.uni-hd.de/debian/lincity (all checked using pbuilder /

Re: RFS: lincity - Build maintain a city/country

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Frank! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 02:30:30AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: I would offer to sponsor you. A few quetions, though: That's great already, thanks a lot. - Why do you not specify a DH_COMPAT level? Just forgotten? True, just forgotten. I erased the respective part from

RFS: fbgrab - Framebuffer grabber

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Dear mentors, I going to adopt the fbgrab package[0] with the current maintainer's consent[1], but I need your help as I'm not sufficiently advanced yet in the NM queue[2] to do it completely on my own. In other words, please somebody sponsor my packaging. I've packaged the most recent upstream

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 != 1L This is slightly inaccurate. The section of the

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 03:31:47PM +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Frank Küster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about [...] Here's a random quote from the FHS: In addition, some large

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Frank Küster
Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or Linux-)specific, so that we should change it during packaging, or whether I should ask upstream to change it. No. Here's

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi. Andreas Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The L probably stands for latex (OK, you knew that) and if they ship enough manpages, they might want to add a suffix. [...] I doubt the interpretation L for LaTeX is correct, it is probably L for local. e.g. the findutils manpages also use

Re: RFS: libswt3.0-gtk2

2004-07-21 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo! * Jesper Zedlitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Package name : libswt3.0-gtk2 As this is a java package, you need to follow the debian java policy: libswt3.0-gtk2-java and *-jni for the jni libs. No idea, how to name the gcj compiled version. I have build three packages (shared library,

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: teTeX comes with some manpages of section 1L according to the header entry in the file, and lintian complains about W: tetex-bin: manpage-section-mismatch usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz:9 1 != 1L It is clear that a manpage

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:51:49PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Here's a random quote from the FHS: In addition, some large sets of application-specific manual pages have an additional suffix appended to the manual page filename. For example, the MH

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:07:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:40:04PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: It is clear that a manpage in Debian should not have such a section, however I would like to know whether this is Debian- (or Linux-)specific, so that we should change

Re: manpage: Section 1L

2004-07-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:22:39PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:07:36PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: I think lintian is way too pedantic here. It doesn't actually make any particular difference to anything; the only thing I know of that programmatically cares about the

RFS: naim - IM client

2004-07-21 Thread Rohit Pidaparthi
Hi naim is an ncurses based console IM client that supports various protocols including IRC, ICQ, AIM and lily. It supports the TOC protocol and it can store buddy lists on the AOL servers. It is great for SSH users who want to be able to remotely IM without a VNC X session which can be very

Wordpress NMU

2004-07-21 Thread Kai Hendry
A couple of people have asked me to do a NMU on wordpress. I figured as the current maintainer Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich is not a DD I should find his sponsor. It's not in the changelog. It's not in the .dsc http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wordpress.html So I am wondering here. How the hell

Re: Wordpress NMU

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello! On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:41:11PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote: A couple of people have asked me to do a NMU on wordpress. I figured as the current maintainer Gabriel Rodríguez Alberich is not a DD I should find his sponsor. It's not in the changelog. It's not in the .dsc The sponsor

RFS: gnubik - 3D Rubik's cube game

2004-07-21 Thread Florian Ernst
Dear mentors, I've packaged the most recent upstream version of gnubik, a very configurable Rubik's Cube game, but I need your help as I'm not sufficiently advanced yet in the NM queue (http://nm.debian.org/nmstatus.php?email=florian_ernst%40gmx.net) to do it completely on my own. In other words,