Re: Debian 3.1 packaging documentation

2006-06-13 Thread robert jennings
Thank you Carlo, Actually, I was cutting a few corners and did a quick read through the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible as well as a few other sites (I like IBM's site for quick answers for lots of little tid bits!) and I created the DEBIAN directory with associated files and skipped the dh_install pro

Re: RFS: libjlha-java -- LHA compress/decompress library for Java

2006-06-13 Thread Michael Koch
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 11:51:47PM +0800, Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm writing some programs to decompress LHA files and need to use this > library. Thus, I'm looking for a sponsor for the following package: > > ITP:: #367375 > Package name: libjlha-java

[RFS] ufraw: raw camera image importer

2006-06-13 Thread Hubert Chan
As discussed on -devel [1], Matthias Ulrichs has orphaned ufraw (among others), and I have adopted it. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg03086.html I have prepared a new package, which includes the latest released upstream, and can be downloaded from: http://www.uhoreg.ca/prog

Re: Debian 3.1 packaging documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Carlo Segre
Dear Robert: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, robert jennings wrote: Hello! Okay, so I read the fine manuals and examples from many many places and maybe I'm just alittle tired after I successfully created my first .deb package (binary) but when I went to install it, the dpkg -i xxx.deb installed all th

Debian 3.1 packaging documentation

2006-06-13 Thread robert jennings
Hello! Okay, so I read the fine manuals and examples from many many places and maybe I'm just alittle tired after I successfully created my first .deb package (binary) but when I went to install it, the dpkg -i xxx.deb installed all the files into the root directory and the postinst file was not r

RFS (a bit complicated): hypermail

2006-06-13 Thread Jan Nordholz
Dear list, after Yu Guanghui had filed an RFA[1] on hypermail, I suggested to him two weeks ago that I could shape up the package, and asked him if he would review and upload my changes. He agreed, so I claimed the RFA and did the packaging. However, I haven't received any more replies since then,

Re: I can translate

2006-06-13 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 22:27, DusteD wrote: > Hi, i would like to help the debian project if > there is any need for a english > danish translator. > Where do i go from here ? Hello there, You can help with the translations of Debian Installer, Debian documentation and the Debian web p

I can translate

2006-06-13 Thread DusteD
Hi, i would like to help the debian project if there is any need for a english > danish translator. Where do i go from here ? Best Regards Jimmy Chr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: advocate

2006-06-13 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote: > > > Dear Mentors, > > Can any Debian Developer advocate me . > > I am waiting for an advocate . > Deepak, That's not the way it works. You have to find areas you can contribute to Debian and jump in with both feet. After you have been working

Re: How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:18:19AM +0200, Christian Hütter wrote: > I've the wish to contribute to Debian. However, from all the stuff > needed to be done I would be best at coding, I guess. ... > Now I'm completely unsure what to do in order to help Debian as good as > I can: > (a) "Just" writing

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

2006-06-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rene Engelhard wrote: > - Please make everything -1 since the whole thing is your "* Initial > release" > - Close the ITP (see above) > - up-to-date standards-version is 3.7.2 > - You don't really need the dh_listpackages and find infrastructure >

Ideas for improving debian marketing

2006-06-13 Thread James Duncan
After a discussion with just now, I have signed up to debian-publicity, and will continue these discussion there. My concern about that list is that it seems very low traffic, so I wanted to gather some opinions on my initial ideas here (I'll also post this there). This is fairly freeform thinkin

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

2006-06-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > > - myspell-hr (Croatian dictionary for myspell) > > > > > > Like bfilter, but this one is lintian/linda clean. > > > > > > When I find a sponsor I will add a "Initial upload to debian...closes IT

Re: How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread George Danchev
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 19:05, Christian Hütter wrote: > Hello Bas, > > thank you very much for your kind and informative reply. > > > I think Debian can be a benefit for the free software community by being > > as complete as possible (in terms of free software) > > That is a very good point I did

Re: RFS: flamerobin

2006-06-13 Thread Kari Pahula
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:50:19PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > * debian/control: Architecture is set to "i386 amd64". What prevents > > the package from being usable on other architectures? Are you sure > > you don't mean "any"? > > flamerobin depends on libfbclien

Improving Debian's marketing

2006-06-13 Thread James Duncan
After a discussion with just now, I have signed up to debian-publicity, and will continue these discussion there. My concern about that list is that it seems very low traffic, so I wanted to gather some opinions on my initial ideas here (I'll also post this there). This is fairly freeform thinkin

Re: How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread Andreas Barth
* Christian Hütter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060613 10:17]: > Now I'm completely unsure what to do in order to help Debian as good as > I can: My experience was that the best job was to start working on neglected packages already inside of Debian, that are: - RC bugs - orphaned packages - long-standing

Re: How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:05:43PM +0200, Christian H?tter wrote: > Hello Bas, > By the way, you mentioned lintian and linda, the tools I have used to > test the package as well. However, they disagreed about the question if > the comment section in a binary is necessary or not - can anyone > enli

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

2006-06-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > > - myspell-hr (Croatian dictionary for myspell) > > > > Like bfilter, but this one is lintian/linda clean. > > > > When I find a sponsor I will add a "Initial upload to debian...closes ITP > > bug number" entry to debian/changelog. > > This should be done beforehand

Re: How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread Christian Hütter
Hello Bas, thank you very much for your kind and informative reply. > I think Debian can be a benefit for the free software community by being as > complete as possible (in terms of free software) That is a very good point I didn't consider so far when reading the Social Contract; I will have t

Re: Ways to help Debian

2006-06-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:57:17PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * James Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-13 15:46]: > > I do code, but work within sales and marketing for my day job. As > > I'm a big fan of Debian, I want to help out. Is there a central > > non-technical mentors list also?

Re: RFS: flamerobin

2006-06-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > Hello Damyan, > >> I am looking for a sponsor for flamerobin - а graphical database >> administration tool for Firebird DBMS. (ITP# 334489) > > I can't sponsor you (yet), but I did review your package. Here's some > things I found. Thanks, Thijs, for your time! > * debi

Re: Ways to help Debian

2006-06-13 Thread Joseph Smidt
On 6/13/06, James Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just to clarify, I intend to help out on the marketing side.I know this won't be the most helpful post but I just wanted to say I'm glad to hear this only because I think Debian could really benefit from some good marketing.  Not because current e

Re: Ways to help Debian

2006-06-13 Thread James Duncan
Just to clarify, I intend to help out on the marketing side. On 13/06/06, James Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do code, but work within sales and marketing for my day job. As I'm a big fan of Debian, I want to help out. Is there a central non-technical mentors list also? -- James Duncan

Re: Ways to help Debian

2006-06-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* James Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-13 15:46]: > I do code, but work within sales and marketing for my day job. As > I'm a big fan of Debian, I want to help out. Is there a central > non-technical mentors list also? Not really, but a debian-publicity list has been created recently and it

Ways to help Debian

2006-06-13 Thread James Duncan
I do code, but work within sales and marketing for my day job. As I'm a big fan of Debian, I want to help out. Is there a central non-technical mentors list also? -- James Duncan "To any truly impartial person, it would be obvious that I am right." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: RFS: flamerobin

2006-06-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:57:43PM +0200, Frank S. Thomas wrote: > Hi Thijs, > > On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:41, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > * debian/watch: some people prefer to use > > http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php instead of direct queries of sf.net. > > To quote from uscan's manpage: > >

Re: RFS: flamerobin

2006-06-13 Thread Frank S. Thomas
Hi Thijs, On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:41, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > * debian/watch: some people prefer to use > http://qa.debian.org/watch/sf.php instead of direct queries of sf.net. To quote from uscan's manpage: # If your package is located on sourceforge, use one of the following

Re: vim question.

2006-06-13 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:10:21PM +0530, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote: > > > Dear mentor. > Is there any option or file that if will use in vim with extant ion for > example > > # vi abc.pl > > then It will open the with by default two header "#!/usr/bin/perl -w and > use strict" > the thing is

Re: RFS: flamerobin

2006-06-13 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hello Damyan, > I am looking for a sponsor for flamerobin - а graphical database > administration tool for Firebird DBMS. (ITP# 334489) I can't sponsor you (yet), but I did review your package. Here's some things I found. * debian/control: Architecture is set to "i386 amd64". What prevents the

RFS: flamerobin

2006-06-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Hi, [I'm subscribed] I am looking for a sponsor for flamerobin - а graphical database administration tool for Firebird DBMS. (ITP# 334489) FlameRobin is a graphical database administration tool for Firebird database management system. . Its goals are: - to be lightweight (small footprint,

Re: advocate

2006-06-13 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:05:07PM +0530, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote: > Thanks For quick reply. > Thing is I have done work with debian but not for a single package. > My key has been signed by a existing developer and I am waiting for > advocate > > So what you want I am able to do work in Debi

Re: advocate

2006-06-13 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:56:31PM +0530, Deepak Kumar Tripathi wrote: > Can any Debian Developer advocate me . > I am waiting for an advocate . Have you seen http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint ? An advocate needs to be someone who's already worked with you in a Debian capacity eg by spon

advocate

2006-06-13 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Dear Mentors,   Can any Debian Developer advocate me .   I am waiting for an advocate . Regards,  Deepak Tripathi Aztec Software and Technology Services Limited Maruthi Cha

Re: How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi Christian, On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 10:18:19AM +0200, Christian H?tter wrote: > I've the wish to contribute to Debian. However, from all the stuff > needed to be done I would be best at coding, I guess. Although Debian's > Social Contract doesn't prevent people from writing Debian-specific > sof

Re: grep / perl

2006-06-13 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:26:39 +0530 "Deepak Kumar Tripathi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who is maintaining grep package in Debian . > It is not supporting perl regex . > I am using knoppix STD . I think you questions should be addressed to debian-user list. However information about packages

vim question.

2006-06-13 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Dear mentor. Is there any option or file that if will use in vim with extant ion for example   # vi abc.pl   then It will open the with by default two header “#!/usr/bin/perl –w and use strict” the thing

grep / perl

2006-06-13 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Dear Mentors, Who is maintaining grep package in Debian . It is not supporting perl regex . I am using knoppix STD ..   Regards,  Deepak Tripathi http://deepaktripathi.blo

How can I help Debian best?

2006-06-13 Thread Christian Hütter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list! I've the wish to contribute to Debian. However, from all the stuff needed to be done I would be best at coding, I guess. Although Debian's Social Contract doesn't prevent people from writing Debian-specific software, it IMHO propagates not to