RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-numbers-roman". * Package name: php-numbers-roman Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : David Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klaus Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Numbers_Roman * L

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Yann, On Saturday 15 September 2007 13:22, Yann Rouillard wrote: > It builds these binary packages: > php-numbers-roman - Provides methods for converting to and from Roman > Numerals Are there actual use cases for this package? From the discription it seems to be a bit of a "toy", if you know

RFS: mirmon

2007-09-15 Thread Hideki Yamane
Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "mirmon". It is useful for minitoring mirror servers. For example, I'm using this for monitoring Japanese Debian mirrors. see http://test.mithril-linux.org/debian-mirror-check.html * Package name: mirmon ITP : 442381

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-15 Thread Jörg Sommer
Hallo Florian, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz: > >>> So in the end I agree that would be sensible to exit with 0, if the >>> process is not running, cause their might be different errors to occur >>> when stopping (even though I never met one), but that it

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi Sam, > pyxplot - Command-line plotting package producing publication-quality output > > Chances in this version: > * Repack upstream tarball to remove contained PyX tarball and HTML > documentation. > + 200_build-docs-verbose.patch: don't try to unpack PyX's tarball and > instal

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-15 Thread Sam Morris
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 19:08 +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: > > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyxplot > > - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main > > contrib non-free > > - dget > > http://me

Re: RFS: mirmon

2007-09-15 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, Hideki Yamane wrote > [...] > The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: IANADD but anyways some (hopefully useful) comments. - debian/rules: * There is no reason to keep all those comments, that come from the template you are using for it * Is there any reason to recreate the (

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
Hi Thijs, It's one of the packages suggested by the php-image-graph package which is already in Debian. Graphes can optionally have their axes graduated using roman numbers by using the Image_Graph_DataPreprocessor_RomanNumerals preprocessor. But in fact, I packaged it because it's a dependancy o

Re: RFS: pyxplot

2007-09-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
> > * the package looks good, it is lintian/linda clean and builds in cowbuilder > > * Why not to join the PAPT team and let it maintain as part of it? > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PythonAppsPackagingTeam > > Sounds nice, but I want to keep using git rather than subversion. :( Right. I thi

Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Peter
If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask the question :) I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. It's the first time this has happened. I believe I know why it does

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask > the question :) > > > So what do I need to do to make my package be seen as an update? First of all, I would ask you why you have 1: in the package version. Usually that's add

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote: > If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask > the question :) > > I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. > If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. >

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "php-numbers-roman". > > * Package name: php-numbers-roman > Version : 1.0.1-1 > Upstream Author : David Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klaus Guenther <[EMAIL > PROTEC

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Raphael Geissert
On 15/09/2007, Yann Rouillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, if php-numbers-roman is in main, php-image-graph should rather > recommend php-number-roman, shouldn' it ? > You should take a look at section 7.2[1] of the Debian Policy and 'reconsider' that statement. [1] http://www.debian.org/d

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Peter
Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:20:29PM -0400, Peter wrote: >> If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask >> the question :) >> >> I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. >> If I install an earlier version, my package wo

Re: Packaging question

2007-09-15 Thread Francois-Denis Gonthier
On September 15, 2007 07:20:29 pm Peter wrote: > If I post this question in the wrong list please tell me where to ask > the question :) > > I created an update package and it install perfectly but for one thing. > If I install an earlier version, my package won't show up as an update. > It's the

Re: RFS: php-numbers-roman

2007-09-15 Thread Yann Rouillard
> I think you should talk to upstream and get them to use some other > license like LGPL or BSD. > > The ftp-master's take a particularly hard line on this license and it > may require justifying later on if they decide to get picky. Thanks for your advice. Indeed it seems this licence is not acc

speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-15 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, I am using cowbuilder for building my packages, because the initialization takes like 10s, compared to several minutes with pbuilder on my system. A few days ago, I realized that on one of my systems, it takes 0.5s only to copy the COW directory. I became curious and wanted to know why, so I d

Re: speed of COW directory copying: XFS 20x slower than ext3

2007-09-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Ondrej Certik wrote: I am using cowbuilder for building my packages, because the initialization takes like 10s, compared to several minutes with pbuilder on my system. A few days ago, I realized that on one of my systems, it takes 0.5s only to copy the COW directory. I becam

RFS: qstardict

2007-09-15 Thread Alexander Rodin
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "qstardict". * Package name: qstardict Version : 0.07-1 Upstream Author : Alexander Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com * License : GPL Section : x11 It builds thes