Re: swac-tools - software for Audio Collections of Words

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:15 PM, nico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is now the procedure to upload package on mentors.debian.net? (it's only data packages, there is no .changes or .dsc files) Currently there needs to be a source package to create the .deb from, so you'll need to create an

Bug #480536 Upload

2008-05-25 Thread Aanjhan R
Hello Mentors, I am not sure whether this is the right place to ask this. I reported a bug http://bugs.debian.org/480536 related to a new upstream release package upgrade sometime back. I have also attached the diff and new orig to the bug report. It would be nice if some mentor, reviews the

Re: RFS: irsim

2008-05-25 Thread Aanjhan R
Hi Vincent! I have re-uploaded the package with the changes mentioned below. Thanks a lot for the time you took to review the package. Package link: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/irsim On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, add an

Re: RFS: lockrun

2008-05-25 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 24 May 2008, Noah Slater wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:46:59PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: Done, and re-uploaded to mentors.d.o Hey, is there any chance someone could take another look at this please? Hey Noah, I'd rather reply with few questions ;-) -- it seems that the

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Michael Schutte
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:53:33PM +0800, Vern Sun wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package vidalia. Hi Vern, I’m not a DD, some comments nonetheless. * Package name: vidalia Version : 0.1.2-2~b2 Upstream Author : Matt Edman [EMAIL PROTECTED], Justin Hipple [EMAIL

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has to be a new low for debian-mentors. Sigh. So was this, please be a bit less abrasive towards potential contributors. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 12:54 +0530, Aanjhan R wrote: Hello Mentors, You appear to be using Hardy and filing to the Debian BTS - the version reported in the BTS does not exist in Debian (fixed). Hardy has now been released, I have no idea whether any new version will be available to Hardy users (I

Re: Bug #480536 Upload

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Aanjhan R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure whether this is the right place to ask this. I reported a bug http://bugs.debian.org/480536 related to a new upstream release package upgrade sometime back. I have also attached the diff and new orig to the bug

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Aanjhan R wrote: Hi Neil! Hi, On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian has systems that alert the maintainer to new releases, so Ernesto will have had a reminder already from DEHS. Not every upstream release needs a Package the

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread Aanjhan R
Hi Neil! On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian has systems that alert the maintainer to new releases, so Ernesto will have had a reminder already from DEHS. Not every upstream release needs a Package the new version bug report. Why not if it contains

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 11:57 +0300, George Danchev wrote: On Sunday 25 May 2008, Aanjhan R wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian has systems that alert the maintainer to new releases, so Ernesto will have had a reminder already from DEHS. Not

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 14:05 +0530, Aanjhan R wrote: Hi Neil! On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian has systems that alert the maintainer to new releases, so Ernesto will have had a reminder already from DEHS. Not every upstream release needs a

Re: RFS: irsim

2008-05-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du dimanche 25 mai 2008, vers 09:12, Aanjhan R [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: Despite COPYRIGHT file at the root of the source code, this software seems not licensed under GPL... It would be better if upstream included a clearer statement about the

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread Aanjhan R
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to detail the improvements in the new release, or at least link to the upstream page that details the improvements, in the bug report itself. Wherever possible, the improvements that are specific or especially

Re: RFS: uvccapture (5th try)

2008-05-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du samedi 17 mai 2008, vers 15:53, Krzysztof Burghardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I am looking for a sponsor for my package uvccapture. * Package name: uvccapture Version : 0.4-1 Upstream Author : Gabriel A. Devenyi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFS: tkgate (updated package)

2008-05-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du mardi 20 mai 2008, vers 20:55, أحمد المحمودي [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0~a11.dfsg.1-1 of my package tkgate. Hi Ahmed! What about bug #474496? Is it fixed? It builds these binary packages: tkgate -

Re: Bug #480536 Mailbomb

2008-05-25 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Neil Williams wrote: --cut-- Why not if it contains couple of important bugfixes? Here I disagree with Neil. While DEHS will detect it, having upstream visiting Debian BTS and emphasizing on new features/bugfixes is a good thing! Actually, I think we agree - the

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Colin Tuckley
Vern Sun wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package vidalia. I'm interested in sponsoring this. I agree with the comments from Michael Schutte, you need to fix those and then I'll take a look. regards, Colin -- Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1903 236872 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id Debian

Re: RFS: moc (updated package)

2008-05-25 Thread Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 10:03:21PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:2.5.0~alpha3-2 of my package moc. [...] I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Uploaded. regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:[EMAIL

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Vern Sun
on 日, 2008-05-25 at 15:57 +0800, Michael Schutte wrote: I’m not a DD, some comments nonetheless. Thank you for your reply. * Put vidalia into the net section. * Upstream’s repo has changed URL, Updated Vcs-* field. * Move Homepage up to Sources stanza. * Indicate why you close #405431 in

Re: RFS: tkgate (updated package)

2008-05-25 Thread أحمد المحمودي
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:43:19PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: What about bug #474496? Is it fixed? Yes it is indeed. I will put that in the changelog. Is the fact that tkgate is using Tcl/Tk important enough to be included in the short description? For an end-user software, this is usually

how to build two differently configured binaries from the same source?

2008-05-25 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi *, I am preparing a package for Yabause[1] and wondering what will be the best practice for me. Yabause has two frontends, one Qt and one Gtk. I would like to ship both. Is there any recipe for debian/rules how to create two identical packages but with one configure option changed?

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Colin Tuckley
Vern Sun wrote: That's great. Updated from version 1.0.2-2~b2 to 1.0.2-2. I've had a look and it mostly looks good. However, as Ansgar said, you have misused the Vcs-* field. Also, your debian/changelog has all of the upstream changelog in it. This is incorrect, debian/changelog is the

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Vern Sun wrote: * Upstream’s repo has changed URL, Updated Vcs-* field. The Vcs-* fields should point to the repository used for the Debian packaging work, not to upstream's repository (unless they happen to be identical of course). Regards, Ansgar -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969

RFS: gnurobots (updated package)

2008-05-25 Thread Bradley Smith
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2:1.1.0-1 of my package gnurobots. It builds these binary packages: gnurobots - Program a robot to explore a world The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 374125 (ITA) Changelog: * New upstream

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: --cut-- Hello, Finally, this is the first ever Debian package for vidalia so it should have a Debian version of -1. I consider such requirement quite suboptimal. 1) you kill history 2) even not being officially published, this source package is in

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 25 May 2008 17:17:04 +0300, George Danchev wrote: I consider such requirement quite suboptimal. [..] 2) even not being officially published, this source package is in the wild and it is a bad idea to just reset its versioning (well unless using epoch which would be compeltely

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Colin Tuckley
George Danchev wrote: On Sunday 25 May 2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: Finally, this is the first ever Debian package for vidalia so it should have a Debian version of -1. I consider such requirement quite suboptimal. 1) you kill history 2) even not being officially published, Please go and

Re: how to build two differently configured binaries from the same source?

2008-05-25 Thread Christoph Haas
Hi, Evgeni... On Sonntag, 25. Mai 2008, Evgeni Golov wrote: I am preparing a package for Yabause[1] and wondering what will be the best practice for me. Yabause has two frontends, one Qt and one Gtk. I would like to ship both. Is there any recipe for debian/rules how to create two identical

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 May 2008, David Paleino wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2008 17:17:04 +0300, George Danchev wrote: I consider such requirement quite suboptimal. [..] 2) even not being officially published, this source package is in the wild and it is a bad idea to just reset its versioning (well unless

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: George Danchev wrote: On Sunday 25 May 2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: Finally, this is the first ever Debian package for vidalia so it should have a Debian version of -1. I consider such requirement quite suboptimal. 1) you kill history 2) even

Re: how to build two differently configured binaries from the same source?

2008-05-25 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:44:04PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: The user probably doesn't want to use yabause-gtk to start the program. So I think they should conflict. Or you just decide on either library to build the package and are done. What about using update-alternatives? Sven -- If

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Sunday 25 May 2008 17:04:32 George Danchev, vous avez écrit : On Sunday 25 May 2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: George Danchev wrote: On Sunday 25 May 2008, Colin Tuckley wrote: Finally, this is the first ever Debian package for vidalia so it should have a Debian version of -1. I

Re: Easy way to retrieve build logs from buildd.d.o?

2008-05-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Frank S. Thomas wrote: # Retrieve all build logs of the package hello. $ getbuildlog.sh hello # Retrieve mips and mipsel build logs of hello 2.2-{1,2}. $ getbuildlog.sh hello '2\.2-.' 'mips(|el)' Do you think this script would be a useful addition for devscripts? Better ask at

RFS: swac-get swac-explore

2008-05-25 Thread nico
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages swac-get and swac-explore. (I wrote about them in my mail swac-tools - software for Audio Collections of Words) Swac-get: = * Package name: swac-get Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Vern Sun
on 日, 2008-05-25 at 21:21 +0800, Colin Tuckley wrote: However, as Ansgar said, you have misused the Vcs-* field. Removed I'm also getting the following lintian warning: W: vidalia: postinst-does-not-load-confmodule N: N: Even if your postinst does not involve debconf, you currently need

Re: RFS: glest, glest-data

2008-05-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I updated the glest and glest-data packages to the latest upstream release (3.1.2). So far there has been no response. Anybody cares to take a look at the updated package? Regards, Ansgar The packages can be found on mentors.debian.net:

Re: RFS: vidalia

2008-05-25 Thread Colin Tuckley
Vern Sun wrote: The package can be found at: - dget http://people.openrays.org/~s5unty/debian/vidalia/0.1.2-1/vidalia_0.1.2-1.dsc The packaging is now good! However, vidalia doesn't work very nicely with the Debian package for Tor. Are you aware of and have you read Item 6 of:

Re: RFS: swac-get swac-explore

2008-05-25 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
nico wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my packages swac-get and swac-explore. (I wrote about them in my mail swac-tools - software for Audio Collections of Words) Swac-get: = * Package name: swac-get Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : [fill in

RFS: swac-get swac-explore

2008-05-25 Thread nico
Dear mentors, I'm sorry. I was so tired that i haven't seen that I had to fill the blank... Swac-get: = * Package name: swac-get Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : Nicolas Vion * URL : http://shtooka.net/soft/swac_tools/en/ * License : GPL v3

RFS: daptup

2008-05-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package daptup. * Package name: daptup Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Eugene V. Lyubimkin * URL : http://sf.net/projects/daptup * License : GPLv3 Section

RFS: daptup (updated)

2008-05-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Filed ITP bug, closed it recent upload. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/daptup - - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - -

Re: RFS: tkgate (updated package)

2008-05-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du dimanche 25 mai 2008, vers 14:22, أحمد المحمودي [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: Is the fact that tkgate is using Tcl/Tk important enough to be included in the short description? For an end-user software, this is usually not the case: don't say that a

Re: RFS: lockrun

2008-05-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Neil Williams wrote: Just re-reading what you said: ... CC=cc endif That will cause troubles when using CC=gcc-4.3 dpkg-buildpackage (for example in i386, where 4.3 is not the default gcc). Something like CC=$(CC) should be used (the intention is to preserve the original $(CC), but of

Re: RFS: lockrun

2008-05-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Noah Slater wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:54:56AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Please upload your key to a public keyserver. Very strange, my key has been uploaded for months. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~ $ gpg --recv-key 0x8FBFCFBF gpg: requesting key 8FBFCFBF from hkp server

Re: RFS: lockrun

2008-05-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:37 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: Neil Williams wrote: Just re-reading what you said: ifneq ($(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE),$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)) CC=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)-gcc else CC=cc endif $(CC) $(CFLAGS) lockrun.c -o lockrun ... CC=cc endif That will cause

Re: RFS: gtk-nodoka-engine

2008-05-25 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 05:32 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: On 25/05/2008, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: The upload would fix these bugs: 443934 Reported by: Diego Escalante Urrelo [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:36:04 UTC. Although I read: Feel free to take over,

Re: RFS: lockrun

2008-05-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Neil Williams wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:37 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: $(OURCC) $(CFLAGS) lockrun.c -o lockrun OUR is the wrong prefix, CROSSCC is probably better. The thing is that it is not always used for cross compiling, so I don't think CROSSCC is the best name either.

RFS: NMU rapidsvn fixes RC bug #482235

2008-05-25 Thread Francesco Namuri
Hi, I've fixed an RC bug of rapidsvn, only a missing build-dep on libmysqlclient15-dev. This is the only change I've made. I hope that this 2 cents in solving RC-bugs are made in the right way... :) Cheers, francesco The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: RFS: daptup

2008-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It builds these binary packages: daptup - see changes in new upgradeable lists after aptitude update That sounds like something that should be in aptitude and maybe enabled by a configuration item. aptitude

RFS: vfu (updated package)

2008-05-25 Thread William Vera
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 4.06-5 of my package vfu. It builds these binary packages: vfu- A versatile text-based filemanager The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 470597, 470615 The package can be found on

gerris/gts: lots of doubts...

2008-05-25 Thread Ruben Molina
Dear mentors, Some days ago I filed and ITP on the orphaned package gerris [1], and then I found I depends on the also orphaned gts [2], so I filed an ITP for this too. [1] http://gfs.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://gts.sourceforge.net/ I need *lots* of help here... This two packages come from

RFS: libspiro (updated package)

2008-05-25 Thread Ruben Molina
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20071029-2 of the package libspiro which I'm adopting. It builds these binary packages: libspiro-dev - a library for curve design (development files) libspiro0 - a library for curve design The package appears to be lintian clean.