Updating Debian Package

2008-08-25 Thread Kruti
Hi!! Can someone suggest me some good links which will help me out to know how to update a debian package and also how to make sure that through apt-get the updated package only will be installed.. Thanks for the help.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Updating-Debian-Pack

Re: emergency upload request for TWiki

2008-08-25 Thread Sven Dowideit
ah, thanks :) do I need to find and contact (and bribe with beer?) someone to 'convince release-manager'? Sven Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 24 août 2008, vers > 15:33, Sven Dowideit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > >> I've finally placed a new twik

Re: RFS: GNU FreeDink

2008-08-25 Thread Sylvain Beucler
Hi Brad, > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:52:24PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > > Brad Smith (of #492760 and debian-games team fame) has several patches > > to fix freedink on amd64, among other things. I got other reports of problems under x86_64. Could you send me your changes, even as-is? I will pr

RFS: cracklib2 (updated package)

2008-08-25 Thread Jan Dittberner
From: Jan Dittberner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: cracklib2 (updated package) Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.8.12-5 of my package "cracklib2". It builds these binary packages: cracklib-runtime - runtime support for password

Re: RFS: gxemul -- machine emulator for multiple architectures

2008-08-25 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 25 August 2008 23:04:45 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:08:09PM -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > > There is a change in the diff file that modifies the source code. Most > > probably an auto-generated file, anyway, try to avoid such a change. > > It's not something

Re: RFS: gxemul -- machine emulator for multiple architectures

2008-08-25 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 25 August 2008 22:48:50 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:51:34PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > > The rest of the package looks fine to me. So, complete that, and I will > > sponsor. > > It is corrected and up at > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gxemul

Re: Advice

2008-08-25 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:40:16PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: [..] > I understand the need for a personal mentor but unfortunately debian doesn't > have such a provision. Instead there's the mentors mailing list and irc There _is_ actually a mentoring program by the debian women project. I d

RFS: ocropus

2008-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ocropus". * Package name: ocropus Version : 0.2-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Breuel et al. * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ * License : Apache-2 Sec

Re: --as-needed linker option (was Re: binary-without-manpage)

2008-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
2008/8/22 Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > --as-needed will let the linker throw away all symbols that aren't used. > It always does this when linking static libraries. That's why with > those, it's important that they're in the right order. The same is true > when using --as-needed. The order

Re: RFS: gxemul -- machine emulator for multiple architectures

2008-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:08:09PM -0300, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > > There is a change in the diff file that modifies the source code. Most > probably > an auto-generated file, anyway, try to avoid such a change. > It's not something I've touched, I think it's an artifact of upstream's build

Re: RFS: gxemul -- machine emulator for multiple architectures

2008-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 09:51:34PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > The rest of the package looks fine to me. So, complete that, and I will > sponsor. It is corrected and up at http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gxemul http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gxemul/gxemul_0.4.6.5-2.d

Re: RFS: gxemul -- machine emulator for multiple architectures

2008-08-25 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hola Jonathan Wiltshire! El 25/08/2008 a las 18:25 escribiste: > I have adopted this package and I am now looking for a sponsor for version > 0.4.6.5-1. > It has been orphaned under bug number 482067 and I believe this upload > will close it. > There are various enhancements including an new

Re: RM: dbishell - sponsoring abandoned, dead upstream.

2008-08-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 20:14 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > I'm not sure what is going on with SQLite - it claims SQLite2 when > > Debian has SQLite0 and SQLite3. Have you managed to get dbishell to > > successfully connect to any sqlite database? > > No, because I don't have any sqllite db (that I

Re: RFS: gxemul -- machine emulator for multiple architectures

2008-08-25 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 25 August 2008 20:25:15 Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I have adopted this package and I am now looking for a sponsor for version > 0.4.6.5-1. > > It has been orphaned under bug number 482067 and I believe this upload > will close it. > > There are various enhancements incl

Re: RFS: samefile

2008-08-25 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hola Thorsten Schmale! El 21/08/2008 a las 14:58 escribiste: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "samefile". > > * Package name: samefile > Version : 2.12-1 > Upstream Author : Jens Schweikhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > * URL : http://www.schweikhardt.net/samefile

Re: ITR: dbishell - QA upload

2008-08-25 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi Neil, On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 18:45, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 23:44 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> > Other sponsors have different requirements, these are mine. >> > ;-) >> >> Fine, I just uploaded -9 revision. > > I've been trying to test dbishell and the

Re: RFS: ktechlab (updated package)

2008-08-25 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Hola Georges Khaznadar! El 24/08/2008 a las 22:42 escribiste: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3-10 > of my package "ktechlab". > It builds these binary packages: > ktechlab - circuit simulator for microcontrollers and electronics > > The upload would fix these bugs: 474313

Re: RFS: cdde

2008-08-25 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 06:05:17PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Updated to version 0.3.1, re-uploaded to mentors.debian.net. [...] > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Package sponsored, request cancelled! -- Stanislav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFS: gxemul -- machine emulator for multiple architectures

2008-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Dear mentors, I have adopted this package and I am now looking for a sponsor for version 0.4.6.5-1. It has been orphaned under bug number 482067 and I believe this upload will close it. There are various enhancements including an new upstream release. It appears to be lintian clean. I plan to

Re: emergency upload request for TWiki

2008-08-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du dimanche 24 août 2008, vers 15:33, Sven Dowideit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > I've finally placed a new twiki 4.1.2-4 deb at > http://distributedinformation.com/TWikiDebian/twiki_4.1.2-4_i386.changes > I have put the session files into /var/lib/twik

Re: ITR: dbishell - QA upload

2008-08-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 23:44 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: > > Other sponsors have different requirements, these are mine. > > ;-) > > Fine, I just uploaded -9 revision. I've been trying to test dbishell and the shell syntax is, frankly, completely bizarre and deserves to be MUCH more prominently expl

Re: RFS: swedish - The Swedish Dictionary

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
> On Monday 25 August 2008 16:11:01 Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > > > the tarball is fine now, so that's resolved. I noticed that you've > > > deleted the file README.Debian from the new revision, is that on purpose? > > > > Yes, I should have mentioned it in the changelog, or at least via > > email.

Re: RFS: swedish - The Swedish Dictionary

2008-08-25 Thread Tobias Quathamer
On Monday 25 August 2008 16:11:01 Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > > the tarball is fine now, so that's resolved. I noticed that you've > > deleted the file README.Debian from the new revision, is that on purpose? > > Yes, I should have mentioned it in the changelog, or at least via > email. :-/ Yes, t

Re: RFS: swedish - The Swedish Dictionary

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
> On Monday 25 August 2008 11:30:48 Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > > I was not using the -sa option (include original source) just the -si > > option with dpkg-buildpackage. I have now built it with the -sa > > option and uploaded all the relevant files so hopefully we have a > > better package and a

RFS: cdde

2008-08-25 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Updated to version 0.3.1, re-uploaded to mentors.debian.net. - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cdde - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/c/cdde/cdde_0.3.1-1.dsc I would be

Re: RFS: swedish - The Swedish Dictionary

2008-08-25 Thread Tobias Quathamer
On Monday 25 August 2008 11:30:48 Jeremiah C. Foster wrote: > I was not using the -sa option (include original source) just the -si > option with dpkg-buildpackage. I have now built it with the -sa > option and uploaded all the relevant files so hopefully we have a > better package and a smaller ta

Re: RFS: swedish - The Swedish Dictionary

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
> Hi Jeremiah, Hey Sandro! > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 16:12, Jeremiah C. Foster > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not sure about how to get rid of that old tarball on mentors however. > > You got to build the package with '-sa' option (I leave to you to look > it up in dpkg-buildpackage manpage wh

Re: RFS: cracklib2

2008-08-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 18:50 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jan Dittberner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Lintian has two warning for 2.8.12-3: > > > > 1.) patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff (due to using autogen.sh in > > debian/rules) > > 2.) command-with-path-in-maintainer-script (due