Re: need anexample for debian packaging

2008-07-21 Thread Reema Shah
In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we have to use fakeroot..?

Re: need anexample for debian packaging

2008-07-21 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Reema Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we have to use fakeroot..? fakeroot is not necessary now with new dpkg. -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Blogs:

Re: need anexample for debian packaging

2008-07-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Kartik Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080721 09:25]: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Reema Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we have to use fakeroot..? fakeroot is not necessary now with new dpkg. Reading through the

Re: RFS: libnanoxml2-java

2008-07-21 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Jul 18 04:25, Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/libnanoxml2-java/libnanoxml2-java_2.2.3.dfsg-1.dsc I've had a look at this and it looks pretty good, except you have: Suggests: nanoxml2-doc but the package name is libnanoxml2-java-doc. Other

Re: RFS: scim-python: python bindings and input methods for scim

2008-07-21 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:06:27AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: In License, you have: LGPL-2+ can also be treated as version 2.1 of GNU Lesser General Public License. On Debian systems, the complete text may be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1. LGPL-2+ can also be treated as version

RFS: sclapp and pytagsfs (updated packages)

2008-07-21 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
Hi, I am looking for sponsors to upload new upstream versions of sclapp and pytagsfs. These updates build the following binary packages (with the said changes): python-sclapp (0.5.2-1) - framework for Python command-line applications * New upstream release + sclapp.txt is now licensed

Re: RFS: libnanoxml2-java

2008-07-21 Thread Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
Hello! Thank you for your feedback. I've had a look at this and it looks pretty good, except you have: Suggests: nanoxml2-doc but the package name is libnanoxml2-java-doc. Fixed. By the way, should the copyright text from dh_helper be included in debian/rules like it is now? (Lintian did

Newbie Help - Ruby on Rails packaging questions.

2008-07-21 Thread Richard Hurt
OK, I am attempting to package up redmine and need some general pointers. I'm going through the New Maintainers Guide tutorial and have run into a few things that I need clarification on. 1) Is there any type of automated way to extract license info from a series of files? I am using a

Re: Newbie Help - Ruby on Rails packaging questions.

2008-07-21 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Hurt wrote: OK, I am attempting to package up redmine and need some general pointers. I'm going through the New Maintainers Guide tutorial and have run into a few things that I need clarification on. 1) Is there any type of automated

Re: Newbie Help - Ruby on Rails packaging questions.

2008-07-21 Thread Jan Beyer
On 07/21/2008 03:20 PM, Richard Hurt wrote : OK, I am attempting to package up redmine and need some general pointers. I'm going through the New Maintainers Guide tutorial and have run into a few things that I need clarification on. 1) Is there any type of automated way to extract license

Re: RFS: libnanoxml2-java

2008-07-21 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Jul 21 14:37, Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik wrote: By the way, should the copyright text from dh_helper be included in debian/rules like it is now? (Lintian did not warn me about it so I assumed it was OK) Yeah, that's fine, and possibly required. - Is it safe to do as I have done in

Re: Bug#238904: RFS: commons-vfs

2008-07-21 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon Jul 21 00:57, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: I've just uploaded a new version to mentors.debian.net, you should dget that. Looks good, I've uploaded Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: gimmix

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent Legout
Vincent Bernat a écrit : OoO En cette matinée ensoleillée du mardi 08 juillet 2008, vers 09:54, Vincent Legout [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : * Package name: gimmix Version : 0.4.3-1 Upstream Author : Priyank M. Gosalia * URL : http://gimmix.berlios.de/ *

Re: Newbie Help - Ruby on Rails packaging questions.

2008-07-21 Thread Richard Hurt
After spending a bit of time with licensecheck and a some command line friends I now have a debian/copyright file that conforms to the proposed CopyrightFormat. The problem is that weighing in @ 388 lines, it is huge! It turns out that while most of the files in redmine are GPL they have

Re: RFS: gimmix

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du lundi 21 juillet 2008, vers 20:58, Vincent Legout [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : I'm away for two weeks. I won't be able to answer. I have uploaded your package. Thanks for your contribution! -- Avoid multiple exits from loops. - The Elements of

Re: Newbie Help - Ruby on Rails packaging questions.

2008-07-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début de soirée du lundi 21 juillet 2008, vers 21:11, Richard Hurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : Should I just combine the similar (same person) copyrights into a single one covering all the years or am I supposed to list each one separately? Personnaly, I would merge them. Also,

Re: RFS: libnanoxml2-java

2008-07-21 Thread Sveinung Kvilhaugsvik
- Is it safe to do as I have done in debian/origCleaner.sh (using one more parameter than uscan passes to tell set the tempdir from get-orgi-source) or do I risk that uscan adds parameters without notice? (If adding is the only risk I could pass the tempdir by the second parameter instead and

Re: need anexample for debian packaging

2008-07-21 Thread Ben Finney
Reema Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In building debian packages,why do you require root privileges and so we have to use fakeroot..? The manpage for 'fakeroot(1)' gives the answer: fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have root privileges for file

RFS: libenglab

2008-07-21 Thread Harry Serenis
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libenglab. * Package name: libenglab Version : 0.2.2-1 Upstream Author : BugFest Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://englab.sf.net * License : GPLv2 Section : libs It builds these binary

RFS: ttylog (updated package)

2008-07-21 Thread Robert James Clay
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.c-1 of the Debian package ttylog, which I am adopting. The program can be used to print everything that comes in from a serial port to stdout. The device and the baud rate can be specified on the command line. It builds this