Re: RFS moodss

2006-05-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 18:21 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: debian/README.Debian: contains information that's interesting, but not really very important for people who install the package. I'd turn it into 'regular' documentation. README.Debian is more

Re: RFS: Templayer - HTML Templating Library for Python

2006-05-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 04 May 2006, Paul Wise wrote: They were mostly fine for the current python policy (although a bit overkill). I'm looking forward to a more sane python policy, as described in this email: http://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2006/01/msg00028.html Who is the python policy

A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Panu Kalliokoski
Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in debian/rules. Some are breaches of policy but common enough to focus separate attention to. I wonder, whether

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Ted Percival
Here are two users' checklists that I have used for reference. http://people.debian.org/~neilm/sponsorship.html http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/sponsorship_checklist.html -Ted Panu Kalliokoski wrote: I wonder, whether there is a list of these common gotchas in packaging somewhere, or a

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 02:52:43PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in debian/rules. Some are breaches of

RFC: Yorick (scientific interpreted language) plug-ins

2006-05-04 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hello, I am adopting Yorick and packaging add-ons for this interpreted language aimed at scientific number crunching, data visualisation etc. I know the packages need more work (in particular concerning the copyright files, removing commented-out dh_*lines in rules and rebuilding under sid), so

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, Panu Kalliokoski schrieb: Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in debian/rules. I do that all the time. It is much easier to see that a

Re: Google sumer of code, need a DD

2006-05-04 Thread MarioDebian
On 5/4/06, Laszlo Boszormenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 22:55 +0200, mariodebian wrote: I'm a 3 years debian user and I have presented my personal project to google summer of code. [...] Google admins say me that I need a DD to be a mentor of my project. Can

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:50:29PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Hello, Panu Kalliokoski schrieb: Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in

Re: RFC: Yorick (scientific interpreted language) plug-ins

2006-05-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Thibaut, I know the packages need more work (in particular concerning the copyright files, removing commented-out dh_*lines in rules and rebuilding under sid), so I am not requesting a detailed review, but I think advice on the following few questions would be timely: That's always a

Re: Google sumer of code, need a DD

2006-05-04 Thread Jon Dowland
At 1146760598 past the epoch, MarioDebian wrote: The project is based on shell scripts and understand GNU/Linux init process, any DD can help me during project with the possible problems There has been some blogging activity along these lines[1]... you may also find the

Re: Google sumer of code, need a DD

2006-05-04 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Mario, On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 16:36 +0200, MarioDebian wrote: I have readed the mentors faq [1] and I have understand that the mentor is a student tutor who made a review of student's work along the summer. I suppose that the mentor have to make a dialog with google summer of code

How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Fabian Guter
Hi! I'm using svn-buildpackage to build a debian package. To test with other versions of g++ I changed the link /usr/bin/g++ to point to g++-4.1 rather than to g++-4.0 and change it back after the test. Is there a simpler way to tell svn-buildpackage (or the underlying build tools) which

Re: How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabian Guter wrote: Hi! I'm using svn-buildpackage to build a debian package. To test with other versions of g++ I changed the link /usr/bin/g++ to point to g++-4.1 rather than to g++-4.0 and change it back after the test. Is there a simpler

Re: How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Fabian Guter
Hallo dam, In case your package uses auto*, then configure script most probably honours CC, CXX, CPP and CXXPP environment variables. Put # Force usage of 4.1 export CC=gcc-4.1 export CXX=g++-4.1 export CPP=cpp-4.1 export CXXPP=cpp-4.1 before invoking configure and you should be

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-05-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi mentors! It's been some week since I last sent this RFC/RFS. I guess it's time to send it again :) The package seems to be clean now. Please help this really useful software find his way into the Debian archive! * Package: rhinote Version: 0.7.0 * License: GPL URL:

Re: How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Thomas Girard
Fabian Guter wrote: Hallo dam, In case your package uses auto*, then configure script most probably honours CC, CXX, CPP and CXXPP environment variables. Put # Force usage of 4.1 export CC=gcc-4.1 export CXX=g++-4.1 export CPP=cpp-4.1 export CXXPP=cpp-4.1 before invoking configure and you

Re: How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Thomas Girard
Thomas Girard wrote: You can override these inconditionnally define variables no using environment but using make. I meant You can override these inconditionally defined variables not using environment but using make arguments. Sorry about that. So to summarize, using `make CXX=g++-4.1'

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Florent Rougon
Justin Pryzby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed; my motivation for leaving commented lines around is that it is arguably easier to merge with newer dh_make template files (if one were to do that ..). The reason to not leave them around is that not doing so indicates some level of familiarity

RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-05-04 Thread Vedran Furač
Hi! I'm looking for a sponsor (or sponsors) for the following packages: - bfilter (Simple web filtering proxy, see http://bfilter.sf.net) Was built fine in pbuilder environment. Install, remove, purge and upgrade are successfully tested. Man pages are missing for bfilter and bfilter-gui

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/4/06, Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some issues seem to come up time and again when somebody inspects RFS'd packages. Some of these are not breaches of policy but simply bad practices, like leaving quoted dh_* commands in debian/rules. Some are breaches of policy but common

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do that all the time. It is much easier to see that a program is not being run if it is explicitly commented out rather than just not there, as Makefiles tend to be executed in interesting nonlinear ways, and it doesn't really hurt either. Even the

Re: A list of common gotchas in Debian packaging

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Panu Kalliokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder, whether there is a list of these common gotchas in packaging somewhere, or a checklist for package quality? In a similar vein, I wonder whether there is a checklist of qa procedures to do for a fresh package, like lintian/linda testing,

Re: How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Fabian Guter
Hi! So to summarize, using `make CXX=g++-4.1' should do. OK, that looks simple! But how about passing parameters to make when using svn-buildpackage. I looked into the documentation (also of dpkg-buildbackage) but didn't find anything helpful. Do I have to build 'by hand' using make or is it

Re: How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Eddy Petrişor
On 5/5/06, Fabian Guter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! So to summarize, using `make CXX=g++-4.1' should do. OK, that looks simple! But how about passing parameters to make when using svn-buildpackage. I looked into the documentation (also of dpkg-buildbackage) but didn't find anything helpful.

Re: RFC/RFS: bfilter, aspell-hr, myspell-hr

2006-05-04 Thread Eddy Petrisor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vedran Furač wrote: Linda also complains with message: A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from Which library, which binary? I'm not sure what to do about that. That is a linda bug - aspell-hr (The Croatian dictionary for

Re: How can I simply test building a package with a different compiler version?

2006-05-04 Thread Thomas Girard
[sorry Eddy, resending this to the ml] Eddy Petrişor wrote: On 5/5/06, Fabian Guter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! So to summarize, using `make CXX=g++-4.1' should do. OK, that looks simple! But how about passing parameters to make when using svn-buildpackage. I looked into the documentation