RFS: second request for robotour, animal, dbacl, gyach-improved

2006-01-24 Thread Zak B. Elep
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have previously posted some Requests for Sponsors for robotour,[0] animal,[1] and dbacl,[2] as well as a Request for Testing on gyach-improved.[3] Unfortunately, there were no takes for either the RFSes or the RFT, so I am again calling

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:59 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: To get working dpatches I recommend using the 'dpatch-edit-patch' command. Great tool! But tell me: I had a look at the man page, but I did not see how to go on or edit an already existing dpatch. For example, I made my dpatch: $

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread John Lightsey
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:01 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:59 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: To get working dpatches I recommend using the 'dpatch-edit-patch' command. Great tool! But tell me: I had a look at the man page, but I did not see how to go on or

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:35:02AM -0600, John Lightsey wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:01 +0100, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: If it's a simple typo in one line you can also edit the patch file by hand. ... but if it involves insertion or deletion of lines, of patch or of context, then don't

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Meredith
Are you still interested in sponsoring this? http://debian.dev.sourceguru.net/rar/ Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote: Hi Martin, On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 12:19 +, Martin Meredith wrote: The package I've just uploaded to mentors.debian.net, [...] Two minor problems for the first look. Please

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:01 AM, Rakotomandimby Mihamina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 18:59 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote: To get working dpatches I recommend using the 'dpatch-edit-patch' command. [...] I had a look at the man page, but I did not see how to go on or

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:38 +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: Then when compile, I see that I made a typo. I dont wana re-edit the whole code I modified. How should I do? The man page is quite clear, imho. So just run dpatch-edit-patch foo again. Well... May be should I consider reading

Re: sponsor needed (after review)

2006-01-24 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Daniel Knabl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:55:55 +0100 schrieb Daniel Knabl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: as i use this piece of software already on my own host, i would like to provide it to any other users. Now it seems that most of the work is finished. [0] No, the package is in a

RFS: python-bluetooth

2006-01-24 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi all I'd like to have this package in Debian. Later it will be used by Wammu [1]. Here is information about python-bluetooth: * Package name: python-bluetooth ITP : 349705 [2] Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Albert Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED], Calvin On [EMAIL

What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Stan Vasilyev
I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED], insists on keeping the debian changes inside the upstream tarball, orig.tar.gz. This complicates the development process. First of all, when

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED], insists on keeping the debian changes inside the upstream tarball, orig.tar.gz. This complicates

Re: understand dpatch

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Incidentally, while I've used dpatch in the past and it does work, after some personal experience and playing around with both, I've become convinced that quilt really is a better solution. It's a bit more intuitive to work with, it has more interesting functionality, and the patches are a little

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:23:34PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Yeah, I agree with your general argument, but I can also see where he's coming from. He's applying the RPM model where this is how people normally handle RPMs of software that Red Hat itself isn't maintaining. He probably doesn't

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Stan Vasilyev
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:23, Russ Allbery wrote: What I would do if I were you would be to make the changes you need to make to the upstream debian directory to have the package work the way that it should and send the diffs back to upstream as a courtesy, but not wait for a new upstream

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:23, Russ Allbery wrote: What I would do if I were you would be to make the changes you need to make to the upstream debian directory to have the package work the way that it should and send the diffs back to upstream as a

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 24.01.2006, 13:14 -0800 schrieb Stan Vasilyev: I have a situation with a Debian package xdialog: http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xdialog.html The upstream author, Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED], insists on keeping the debian changes inside the upstream tarball,

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Rakotomandimby Mihamina
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 13:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: What I would do if I were you would be to make the changes you need to make to the upstream debian directory to have the package work the way that it should and send the diffs back to upstream as a courtesy, but not wait for a new upstream

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Stan Vasilyev
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:52, Daniel Leidert wrote: Maybe you should also tell him, that not every user getting the upstream sources may be happy with your packaging files (e.g. because of your decision of (build-)dependencies and configure options, different available library versions

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Stan Vasilyev
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:52, Russ Allbery wrote: But I end up repackaging the upstream source anyway.  The .orig.tar.gz is not the same file that Thierry puts on his website. Why?  Do you have to remove some files for DFSG-compliance? Sorry, what I meant was my orig.tar.gz ends up

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Martin Meredith
Why not just work with upstream as you seem to be doing - and when the packagings done - download it ... and upload as a debian native package? Surely if upstream keep a debian/ directory in the tarball then it would automatically be assumed as a debian native package? Get the pre-release, make

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Stan Vasilyev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:52, Russ Allbery wrote: Why?  Do you have to remove some files for DFSG-compliance? Sorry, what I meant was my orig.tar.gz ends up being the pre-release version, not the official version released on the website. This work

Re: What to do if the upstream keeps debian directory in original tarball?

2006-01-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Martin Meredith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not just work with upstream as you seem to be doing - and when the packagings done - download it ... and upload as a debian native package? Surely if upstream keep a debian/ directory in the tarball then it would automatically be assumed as a

Re: RFS: rar (non-free package - I'm sure you all know what rar is!)

2006-01-24 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 16:34 +, Martin Meredith wrote: Are you still interested in sponsoring this? Yes, I am just a bit overloaded. But why do you need libstdc++5-3.3-dev for building rar? You wrote that otherwise the libstdc++5 dependency would not come in as the binary dependency. The