Re: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
Justin Pryzby wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/12/msg00194.html Yep. This too: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg7.html -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Q1) Where am I doing wrong? How can I get rid of this error? I think that this has to do with the -1 in the name of the original tarball. No. Please read the Debian Policy: Only the part of the version

Re: RFS: dict-freedict -- Freedict dictionary packages

2005-09-29 Thread Joost van Baal
Hi Pierre, On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:57:54AM +0200, Pierre Machard wrote: I was about to upload Kestutis Biliunas package, when I saw recent activities in the BTS. That's why I am sending this email. On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:48:14AM +0300, K?stutis Bili?nas wrote: I am looking

Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6

2005-09-29 Thread Emfox Zhou
2005/9/29, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Comments: * Delete all the Makefile.in, config.h.in during debian/rules clean, or make otherwise make it so that they are not in the diff.gz done * Any reason for using experimental instead of unstable in the

pre-sponsored-package checklist (was: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6)

2005-09-29 Thread Joost van Baal
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:05:47PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: snip H, I wonder where this should be spelled out so people get it right: 1. Get interested in a package 2. Find it is not in debian 3. Check if it can be packaged and if it is already being packaged 4.

Re: pre-sponsored-package checklist (was: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6)

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called Help Debian, to http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ (How You Can Help. Perhaps that page should incorporate your (very nice!) checklist. And/or maybe it should link to

Re: RFS: dict-freedict -- Freedict dictionary packages

2005-09-29 Thread Pierre Machard
Hi, On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:36:03PM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:43:25AM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: plan to upload today. I've just uploaded K??stutis's latest version of 1.2-1 . Ok that's nice. Cheers, -- Pierre

Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6

2005-09-29 Thread Emfox Zhou
2005/9/29, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 17:19 +0800, Emfox Zhou wrote: * short and long description in debian/control needs improvement. A one line long description is not enough. improved I suggest adjusting the grammar. ahhh, sorry for my poor

[glurp, skippy] SponsorZ wanted.

2005-09-29 Thread xaiki
Hello, hello, the glurp[0] and skippy[1] packages are already in the archive, and back From my long period of inactivity I'm now needing sponsors for these packages. These uploads fix bugs ! they are good for your karma =) everything can be found here: [0]

Re: pre-sponsored-package checklist (was: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6)

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:30:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called Help Debian, to http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ (How You Can Help. Perhaps that page should incorporate your (very

Re: pre-sponsored-package checklist (was: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6)

2005-09-29 Thread Joost van Baal
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:13:19PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:30:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called Help Debian, to http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ (How You

Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread veronica massawe
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Re: [spam?] Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread Damyan Ivanov
veronica massawe wrote: I am student of Secondary school, and my full name is Veronica John, I ave 21 years old. I am asking for you to help me just to pay a school fees. I am in form two right now. Per year we need 400$, for schol fees, this is for accomodation and food and other things. My

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-29 Thread Andreas Fester
Hi, Thomas Viehmann wrote: [...] not necessarily. It must be the original, but it must not be pristine. One reason could be to remove autotools dependencies, another could be to remove files which would otherwise be removed by the clean target and would end up in a huge diff.gz. Sorry, but I

Re: [spam?] Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Jeudi 29 Septembre 2005 20:51, Damyan Ivanov a écrit : A very interesting question is Is this spam or not? Well, try to send him a mail, you'll see :) Personally, I won't :) Romain -- They tried to fool the black population, By telling them that Jah Jah dead. But II know that Jah no dead!

Re: [spam?] Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:57 +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Jeudi 29 Septembre 2005 20:51, Damyan Ivanov a écrit : A very interesting question is Is this spam or not? It is more not than yes. I think she is just a too young girl doesn't know about life, internet and things in general. She

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Fester wrote: Sorry, but I have to point out that your recommendation describes the very opposite of Debian best packaging practices. I am just not sure how strong this practice should be seen. My Quite frankly, I was disappointed that this recommendation didn't get more criticism. The

Re: [spam?] Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:51:06PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: veronica massawe wrote: I am student of Secondary school, and my full name is Veronica John, I ave 21 years old. I am asking for you to help me just to pay a school fees. I am in form two right now. Per year we need 400$, for

Re: [spam?] Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Jeudi 29 Septembre 2005 21:11, Laszlo Boszormenyi a écrit : On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 20:57 +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Jeudi 29 Septembre 2005 20:51, Damyan Ivanov a écrit : A very interesting question is Is this spam or not? It is more not than yes. I think she is just a too young

Packaging question (synopsis and its libraries)

2005-09-29 Thread Andreas Fester
Hi, I am currently adopting synopsis, a source code documentation tool specially suited for python, but also useable for C and C++. I created a first package from the new upstream version which is available at http://www.littletux.net/debian. The package is not yet lintian clean, and this leads

Re: [spam?] Sponsorship

2005-09-29 Thread Christian Aichinger
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:57:38PM +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote: Le Jeudi 29 Septembre 2005 20:51, Damyan Ivanov a écrit : A very interesting question is Is this spam or not? Well, try to send him a mail, you'll see :) Personally, I won't :) Isn't it totally irrelevant anyway? Last time I

Re: Packaging question (synopsis and its libraries)

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
See my recent message to -mentors and -devel, Nonpublic shared libraries. It sees that rpath could be used here because it is a private library, not used by other packages. In the future, if that changes, it will have to have a soname. For now, you could also just install to

Re: duplicate library code in a package

2005-09-29 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:22:43PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Sorry, but I have to point out that your recommendation describes the very opposite of Debian best packaging practices. - Basically, the only reason to repackage upstream is to avoid license problems. Dropping unneccessary

Re: pre-sponsored-package checklist (was: Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6)

2005-09-29 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:13:19PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:30:29PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:16 +0200, Joost van Baal wrote: On http://www.debian.org/ there is a link called Help Debian, to http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ (How You

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: You might consider using the -v 0.2.2.1 option in dh_make to convert this to a compliant version number. The second -1 will still be there in the final package because that is the debian revision. The cause that lintian has suggested does not seem to be your

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:00:47PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: You might consider using the -v 0.2.2.1 option in dh_make to convert this to a compliant version number. The second -1 will still be there in the final package because that is the debian

Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 18:23 +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Hi, Paul Wise wrote: * Delete all the Makefile.in, config.h.in during debian/rules clean, or make otherwise make it so that they are not in the diff.gz Why's that? What's the alternative? Mainly because for

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Carlo Segre
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:00:47PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: You might consider using the -v 0.2.2.1 option in dh_make to convert this to a compliant version number. The second -1 will still be there in the final

Re: lintian warning native-package-with-dash-version

2005-09-29 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:42:44PM -0500, Carlo Segre wrote: On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:00:47PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: You might consider using the -v 0.2.2.1 option in dh_make to convert this to a compliant

Re: RFS: FileZilla3 - GUI ftp client of wxwidgets2.6

2005-09-29 Thread Emfox Zhou
Note that bootstrapping autotoolage at build-time is an official QA nightmare [1] and if Dante would put 1. Don't believe me, look at Sam Hocevar's QA meeting talk slides: http://sam.zoy.org/lectures/20050910-debian/img16.html Yes, this is what EmfoxZhou was doing before, running