dh_install not finding files from orig source (was: Latest upstream versions of files)

2008-06-24 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is no suggestion for the best way to make this happen, though. > Ideally I'd like it to be a simple process for someone else to > generate the upstream-source tarball automatically from the online > files, and get the same result as when I do it. My

Re: Problem with implicit rule for .o files and overriding of CXXFLAGS.

2008-06-24 Thread Rudi Cilibrasi
> > First of all, I would appreciate if somebody could give me a link to an > authoritative documentation that explains that CXXFLAGS (and others) > should be expected to be changed to local values by the user. It seems > to me that many upstream authors ignore this fact and write makefiles > that

Problem with implicit rule for .o files and overriding of CXXFLAGS.

2008-06-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear mentors, while working on an update to the `proda' package, I realised that a compilation option, DVERSION="\"1.00\"", was discarded during the build of the Debian binary package. The reason is very simple: OTHERFLAGS = -DVERSION="\"1.00\"" CXXFLAGS = -g -W -Wall -pedantic $(OTHERFLAGS) pro

Re: beginner's questions

2008-06-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dionysis Kalofonos wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing you because i want to help but i don't know how to start. > > But before i move on to my questions let me say that at the moment i'm > mainly interested in sporadic bug fixing as package maintenance requires > a commitment that at the moment

Re: RFS: xtod

2008-06-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette soirée bien amorcée du mardi 24 juin 2008, vers 22:44, Stefan Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > I sent this to debian-mentors because it's my first package. So i don't > know if debian-games is the right place for this? People in debian-games are usually more interested by

Re: RFS: xtod

2008-06-24 Thread Stefan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:57:30PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Stefan Ritter schrieb: > > Dear mentors, > > > > > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > > > Here not: > W: xtod: binary-without-manpage usr/games/xtod Manpage added. > W: xtod source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.

Re: RFS: xtod

2008-06-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le repas du mardi 24 juin 2008, vers 19:53, Stefan Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xtod". You could seek sponsorship into debian-games team too. -- /* Identify the flock of penguins. */ 2.2.16 /usr/src/linu

Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-06-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du mardi 24 juin 2008, vers 20:24, Thibaut GIRKA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > I'll see about CDBS. In case, I can sponsor CDBS packages and give tips about solving issues with CDBS. Don't drop CDBS just because other developers do not like it. -- Make sur

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-06-24 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, not having reviewed your package again, yet, will look into it tomorror, but some comments for now: On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 08:24:04PM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote: > The original Makefile is incomplete and doesn't provide a clean target. > As a result, the compiled locales are not removed afte

Re: RFS: xtod

2008-06-24 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Stefan Ritter schrieb: > Dear mentors, > > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > Here not: W: xtod: binary-without-manpage usr/games/xtod W: xtod source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.3 (current is 3.8.0) Hello, I think I'll just begin :) * Any reason why it's an native package?

RFS: xtod

2008-06-24 Thread Stefan Ritter
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xtod". * Package name: xtod Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Damian Yerrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.allegro.cc/depot/TetanusOnDrugs/ * License : GPL Section : games It builds these

Re: Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-06-24 Thread Thibaut GIRKA
> - Important: Your package fails to build twice in a row. That means building > it > and trying to build again from the source tree fails. This needs > investigation. The original Makefile is incomplete and doesn't provide a clean target. As a result, the compiled locales are not removed af

Re: RFS: sshfp - DNS SSHFP records generator

2008-06-24 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hola Julien Valroff! El 23/06/2008 a las 21:01 escribiste: > > I've made several changes to your package, listed bellow: > > - I used the pristine tar.gz, as I don't see any reason not to. > The pristine tarball already has a debian/ directory. Keeping it makes > the diff.gz harder to read, but

Re: Fwknop and the install process

2008-06-24 Thread Franck Joncourt
Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: [...] >> So, right now, I would choose to work this way : >> >> - not ask for any questions and not start fwknopd during the install >> process ; a variable would be set to no in /etc/default/fwknop-ser

Re: Fwd: Issue 126 in scim-python: license issue about pinyin_table.txt

2008-06-24 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 06:41:37PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > If there are binary packages which build solely from LGPL sources (they > do not use any GPL-only sources), those packages can be licensed as > LGPL. Sorry for replying to my own mail, but I was writing confusing things. :-) The packag

Re: Fwd: Issue 126 in scim-python: license issue about pinyin_table.txt

2008-06-24 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:32:04PM +0800, LI Daobing (李道兵) wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I got a question from the upstream, the source tarball contains GPL > and LGPL code, and this source tarball can generate several packages. > can I release one package in GPL and another in LGPL? Yes, because th

Re: RFS: syx

2008-06-24 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/6/21 Luca Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "syx". > > * Package name: syx > Version : 0.1.7-1 > Upstream Author : Luca Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://syx.googlecode.com > * License : MIT license > Section

Re: RFS: bluemindo

2008-06-24 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:20:50AM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bluemindo". here it comes to my comments about your package. Please note that this is not a complete list of possible issues or wishes about your package. As sponsoring is an iterative

Re: Which 64 bit cpu assembler to use ?

2008-06-24 Thread Star Liu
I'm very happy to find more answers here, so i try to discuss it more :) first, i think maybe it's necessory for me to post this topic here, for i'm a newbie, have few knowledge on linux, so i heavily depend on the debian system. if i ask questions at other places, they may not use debian, then the

ITR: bluemindo (was: Re: RFS: bluemindo)

2008-06-24 Thread schoenfeld / in-medias-res
Hi, On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:20:50AM +0200, Thibaut GIRKA wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bluemindo". I'm not a DD but as part of my NM process I have been asked to review packages, so its likeley that a good package will be sponsored by my AM. So I intend to review that pac

Re: Fwknop and the install process

2008-06-24 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 07:43:38PM +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote: > Hi, > > I have posted this message on debian-devel, but there is still no > answer. So I give it a try on debian mentors in the hope I can get more > audience :p! > > To make it short first, I would say I do not know how to handle

RFS: bluemindo

2008-06-24 Thread Thibaut GIRKA
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bluemindo". * Package name: bluemindo Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Erwan Briand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://bluemindo.codingteam.net/ * License : GPLv3 Section : sound It builds t

[DONE] Re: RFS: gnu-standards (updated package. no longer non-free)

2008-06-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Tim Retout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23/06/2008): > Hmm, I've removed the refresh rule entirely - there's a description in > debian/copyright for creating the orig tarball. I could create a > get-orig-source rule later, but it would have to fetch from cvs. That's fine. Pending upload, as discussed on I