RFS: nagiosgrapher (updated package)

2007-08-18 Thread Hendrik Frenzel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.6.1rc5-1 of my package nagiosgrapher. It builds these binary packages: nagiosgrapher - Charting add-on for Nagios The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these

Re: RFS: nagiosgrapher (updated package)

2007-08-18 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, [0] dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/n/nagvis/nagvis_1.1rc3-1.dsc ping me on monday an i will look into that package. Greetings Martin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# man real-life No manual entry for real-life -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: advice on maintainting packages on alioth ?

2007-08-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
Thomas Jollans wrote: Hello mentors, In future, I would like to maintain my packages in Mercurial (or git) repositories. It seams the best place for these to be would be alioth, but I'm not sure where is the best place -- should I rather request a private sub-directory or apply for

Re: advice on maintainting packages on alioth ?

2007-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18/08/2007): AFAIK, collab-maint does not have git/hg repos. It only has a svn one. If the package is unlikely to have co-maintainers, then I think it would be overkill to ask for a dedicated project. You may have more luck with any related projects (ie, if it

Re: advice on maintainting packages on alioth ?

2007-08-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 01:36:30PM -0400, Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Jollans wrote: Hello mentors, In future, I would like to maintain my packages in Mercurial (or git) repositories. It seams the best place for these to be would be alioth, but I'm not sure where

Re: advice on maintainting packages on alioth ?

2007-08-18 Thread Andres Mejia
On 8/18/07, Cyril Brulebois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18/08/2007): AFAIK, collab-maint does not have git/hg repos. It only has a svn one. If the package is unlikely to have co-maintainers, then I think it would be overkill to ask for a dedicated project. You

Re: advice on maintainting packages on alioth ?

2007-08-18 Thread Andres Mejia
On 8/18/07, Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/18/07, Cyril Brulebois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe Sateler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18/08/2007): AFAIK, collab-maint does not have git/hg repos. It only has a svn one. If the package is unlikely to have co-maintainers, then I think it

using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
Hi All: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Since these are headers and not real libraries, would it violate policy for

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Carlo Segre wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Since these are headers and not real

FSF old address in coyright statements

2007-08-18 Thread Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz
My upstream's copyright statements in source files contain the old FSF mailing address. I will contact them about this problem but, while they react should I a) Faithfully reproduce their copyright statement in the package's debian/copyright and give wrong information to users, or b) Use the

Re: FSF old address in coyright statements

2007-08-18 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18/08/2007): My upstream's copyright statements in source files contain the old FSF mailing address. I will contact them about this problem but, while they react should I a) Faithfully reproduce their copyright statement in the package's

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to ignore the local copy and use the libboost-dev dependency instead. Since

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
Carlo Segre wrote: Upstream prefers to continue distribution in the tarball and it would avoid having to continually patch the configuration scripts. Maybe you could convince upstream of providing a --with-system-boost option to use either the provided copy or the external ones. --

Re: FSF old address in coyright statements

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:55:38 +0200 Cyril Brulebois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18/08/2007): My upstream's copyright statements in source files contain the old FSF mailing address. I will contact them about this problem but, while they react should

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Felipe Sateler wrote: Carlo Segre wrote: Upstream prefers to continue distribution in the tarball and it would avoid having to continually patch the configuration scripts. Maybe you could convince upstream of providing a --with-system-boost option to use either the

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Carlo Segre
I appreciate your comments On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:10:39 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my packages uses the boost headers and distributes them in the original tarball. I have been modifying the configuration scripts to

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:24:32 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Potential problems: 1. file collisions. Make sure the internal versions are installed as package-specific libraries, NOT into /usr/lib/ directly. The boost libraries are simply includes, no binary libraries are

Re: using boost headers

2007-08-18 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Neil Williams wrote: On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:24:32 -0500 (CDT) Carlo Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the thing aobut boost, it is not a library but basically a set of functions taht gets included in your program. Those functions have to live somewhere. Headers are useless

Re: RFS: gconf-cleaner - GConf database cleaner

2007-08-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
Rogério Brito wrote: On Aug 10 2007, Julien Valroff wrote: Le vendredi 10 août 2007 à 17:32 +1000, Paul Wise a écrit : That was probably CDBS, not dh_installdocs. I don't think it is a bug, because not everyone lists the upstream authors in the copyright file. You are right, but

Re: RFS: gconf-cleaner - GConf database cleaner

2007-08-18 Thread Felipe Sateler
Rogério Brito wrote: On Aug 09 2007, Paul Wise wrote: Some minor issues: AUTHORS file doesn't need to be installed (debian/copyright covers it) Actually, some times it doesn't. You can see for yourself in the xine-lib that I have one contribution of a deinterlacing algorithm and some

Re: RFC: irrlicht

2007-08-18 Thread Raphael Geissert
Sorry for the late response. On 17/08/07, Andres Mejia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/17/07, Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday night I uploaded to mentors a new version of the package. Changes: * debhelper files are now generated from templates so the package version