RFS: swath - Thai word segmentation program

2006-04-24 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
Dear mentors, I have adopted the orphaned swath package: http://bugs.debian.org/357877 Now I have updated the package with new upstream version. Sponsoring is needed for the upload. Here is the package information: Package: swath License: GPL Description: This is a free word segmentation

RFS: texi2html

2006-04-24 Thread Francesco Cecconi
Hi all DD, I'm looking a sponsor for adopt texi2html [1]! I have another tree packages in Debian! libemail-find-perl libconfig-general-perl libhtml-fromtext-perl Package Name: texi2html Short Description: texi2html is a Perl script that converts Texinfo files to HTML Release: 1.76-4 linda

proper way to package mozilla extensions

2006-04-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi All, I am upgrading to the recent upstream one of the extensions I am maintaining. Finally I made a proper debian/watch file but now I need to decide which way to go on how to keep .orig.tar.gz. I've investigated a few packaged extensions and didn't find an answer to my question: how to

Re: proper way to package mozilla extensions

2006-04-24 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: 1. There are two possible packaging schemes a. Keep only original .xpi in the .orig.tar.gz, and extract/dpatch it at build time. b. Keep unzipped .xpi in .orig.tar.gz. I was going the b. way but now I think that keeping original .xpi

Re: RFS: thailatex (orphaned package for babel-based Thai latex support)

2006-04-24 Thread Frank Küster
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mentors, I have adopted the orphaned thailatex package in the bug: http://bugs.debian.org/357871 And now the brand new package has been dressed up, waiting for sponsoring. I'm willing to look into it and finally sponsor it

Re: proper way to package mozilla extensions

2006-04-24 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
1. There are two possible packaging schemes a. Keep only original .xpi in the .orig.tar.gz, and extract/dpatch it at build time. b. Keep unzipped .xpi in .orig.tar.gz. I was going the b. way but now I think that keeping original .xpi would be better I'm no DD, but I would say (a) is

spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-24 Thread Le_Vert
Hello, Could you check this package before my sponsor upload it ? : http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-package/spcaview/spcaview_20051212-1.dsc http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-package/spcaview/spcaview_20051212-1.diff.gz

Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I'm working on creating .deb packages for one of my projects, with the eventual goal of having it included in the debian distribution. I've browsed through the policy manual, new maintainers guide, etc, and I've successfully created a debian/ directory in my project that allows debuild to

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Tyler, On Tue, April 25, 2006 00:01, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I'm working on creating .deb packages for one of my projects, with the eventual goal of having it included in the debian distribution. Then you've come to the right place for help :) I'm out of town, so just some general

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just include no manpage at all. Don't silence Lintian for it, because man pages need to be made eventually. However, will the binaries really change that much that it creating man pages would be wasted effort? Just some general documentation is already

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 03:01:23PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: I'm working on creating .deb packages for one of my projects, with the eventual goal of having it included in the debian distribution. I've browsed through the policy manual, new maintainers guide, etc, and I've successfully

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. W: libbtt: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libbtt.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/libbtt.so Should I care? Is it a public shared library? (Do other packages link to it?) If not, you can/should try to move it out of /usr/lib. It's

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Tyler MacDonald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1. Do I still need to make it an .orig package, even if it will have a zero-byte diff? Follow these steps: $ cd package.version $ mv debian ../ $ tar zcf package_version.orig.tar.gz ./ $ mv ../debian ./ $ debuild -- -=[ Piotr Ozarowski ]=-

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
sorry, correct version: (I should probably go to sleep...) $ cd package-version $ mv debian ../ $ tar zcf ../package_version.orig.tar.gz ./ $ mv ../debian ./ $ debuild -- -=[ Piotr Ozarowski ]=- -=[ http://www.ozarowski.pl ]=- pgpUvD01r4ygH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay... to make my intentions clear: I've been using debian now since 1999 and don't see myself changing distributions at any point in the future. I love debian. The first thing I do when I get a blank harddrive is install debian on it

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The general rule of thumb is that if there is any intention whatsoever that the package be used on a platform other than Debian, the Debian packaging and the upstream source should be separate. Okay, so what do you guys do about upstream sources

Re: Getting close to releasing my first .deb's... What's next?

2006-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Tyler MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The general rule of thumb is that if there is any intention whatsoever that the package be used on a platform other than Debian, the Debian packaging and the upstream source should be separate. Okay, so

Re: spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:48 +0200, Le_Vert wrote: spcaview : package review needed The convention is RFC: package -- package description http://www.le-vert.net/divers/debian-package/spcaview/spcaview_20051212-1.dsc Best to just specify the dsc/diff so we can go dget -x url.dsc for a more

Re: spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-24 Thread Ted Percival
Paul Wise wrote: * debian/changelog: the version should be 0.0.20051212 or 0.0.0.20051212 or something so that if upstream changes their version scheme, you won't have to use [an] epoch. Isn't that exactly what the epoch is for? -T signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Help needed with architectures getting ignored

2006-04-24 Thread Andree Leidenfrost
Dear mentors, My packages with explicit architecture lists don't get built by the autobuilders. I have checked the Debian Policy, Developer's Reference and New Mainatiner's Guide and believe that the following in the control file should be valid and work: Architecture: amd64 i386 ia64 I upload

Re: Help needed with architectures getting ignored

2006-04-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:37:30PM +1000, Andree Leidenfrost wrote: Dear mentors, My packages with explicit architecture lists don't get built by the autobuilders. I have checked the Debian Policy, Developer's Reference and New Mainatiner's Guide and believe that the following in the control

Re: RFS: weather-util - command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeremy Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 07:35:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: The reference to /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD is not really correct since your software is not Copyright The Regents of the University of California. I'd remove that and just put the full

Re: spcaview : package review needed

2006-04-24 Thread Ben Finney
On 25-Apr-2006, Ted Percival wrote: Paul Wise wrote: * debian/changelog: the version should be 0.0.20051212 or 0.0.0.20051212 or something so that if upstream changes their version scheme, you won't have to use [an] epoch. Isn't that exactly what the epoch is for?

Re: RFS: weather-util - command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

2006-04-24 Thread The Fungi
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:19:45PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] Looks good to me at this point. I've gone ahead and uploaded it. You should shortly get the notification that it's waiting in NEW. [...] Got it--thanks! I'll keep an eye on the new queue and see if/when it gets into sid.

Re: proper way to package mozilla extensions

2006-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: I am upgrading to the recent upstream one of the extensions I am maintaining. Finally I made a proper debian/watch file but now I need to decide which way to go on how to keep .orig.tar.gz. I've investigated a few packaged extensions and didn't