Re: RFS: wordpress-openid [was: Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?]

2008-08-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
Andreas Schildbach wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >> Andreas, please don't take these wrong but your packages really need a >> lot of changes and reading the documentation and looking at different >> packages and even reading the reviews pos

Re: RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread David Baird
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please write the synopsis to conform with the Best Packaging Practices > http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-pkg-synopsis>. > In general, the synopsis it should fit in a sentence templ

Re: RFS: wordpress-openid

2008-08-28 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Ben Finney wrote: > Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: >>> I: wordpress-openid source: debian-watch-file-is-missing >> What if there is no site to watch on? > > If 'uscan' can't work for the package, create a 'debian/watc

Re: RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:18:29AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > We already have the package 'clive' for the same purpose. And also the youtube-dl package as well. -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); PGP(9E8DFF2E4F5995F8FEADDC5829ABF7441FB84657); SMTP([EMAIL PROTECTED]); IRC([EMAIL PROTECTED]); ICQ(114362511)

Re: RFS: wordpress-openid

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > I: wordpress-openid source: debian-watch-file-is-missing > > What if there is no site to watch on? If 'uscan' can't work for the package, create a 'debian/watch' file that consists of

Re: RFS: wordpress-openid [was: Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?]

2008-08-28 Thread Mauro Lizaur
Andreas Schildbach wrote: > > By the way, is there any PHP-related policy or best practice for PHP > packaging, like there is for Java? > Hi Andreas, There's a draft of the PHP Policy [0] which is kinda empty, also you may ask on the debian-webapps list [1]. Or read the PHP page on the Wiki [2] (

Re: Bug#496930: ITP: dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Dehennin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description : Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems > > DVC is an attempt to build a common infrastructure for various > distributed revision control systems. Actually supported are tla, > bazaar, bzr, git, mercurial, darcs a

Re: RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread Ben Finney
Radostan Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It builds these binary packages: > get-you- Download videos from various videosites like YouTube... Please write the synopsis to conform with the Best Packaging Practices http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bp

Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?

2008-08-28 Thread Raphael Geissert
[Please don't send me a copy of the message, thanks.] Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Raphael Geissert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> (xlintian is an alias to the dev copy of lintian on my machine, which >> also happens to have a couple or more checks that should/will be a

RFS: wordpress-openid [was: Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?]

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Raphael, On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:23 -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Andreas, please don't take these wrong but your packages really need a lot > of changes and reading the documentation and looking at different packages > and even reading the reviews posted for other packages could help you

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 00:03 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Unless you have explicit permission to use GPL version 1 _or any later > version_ which menas you can use GPL-2. If you can do that, please do. He is including a LICENSE file that says GPL v2 and includes a complete copy of the l

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
El Thursday 28 August 2008 22:07:55 Michal Čihař escribió: > Hi > > Dne Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:04:15 +0200 > Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > > > I have uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net. > > - why have you kept configure-stamp target? also remove configure > from .P

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hello Michal, On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 22:07 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > > > - also license information in debian/copyright does not seem to be > > > sufficient, you should be more detailed (or use new machine readable > > > format, see http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat) > > > > Tha

Re: RFS: plasma-netgraph

2008-08-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2008-08-28, Salvatore Ansani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "plasma-netgraph". > > * Package name: plasma-netgraph >Version : 0.3-1 >Upstream Author : John Varouhakis > * URL : http://code.google.com/p/iv

Re: RFS: atmailopen (2nd attempt - updated description)

2008-08-28 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Hi Vincent, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Somefiles haveadifferent license.Forexample, > libs/Atmail/spellChecker.php. The license given as URL is non-free. You > will need to work with upstream to sort this out. Check all files > individually. The license which is i

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:04:15 +0200 Andreas Schildbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > I have uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net. - why have you kept configure-stamp target? also remove configure from .PHONY - what is reason for commented out dh_* command in debian/rules > > - a

Re: RFS: netmon-applet (updated package)

2008-08-28 Thread George Danchev
On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:17:20 Stephan Peijnik wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4-12 > of my package "netmon-applet". Hello, here are some comments, you might want to address: 1) debian/copyright lacks important information - linux-data.c is

Re: Becoming a new contributor

2008-08-28 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 03:26:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > The program is a slideshow-type photo viewer. More specifically, > it is meant give this functionality on older systems not running > Gnome or KDE (like mine). It is quite simple, has no extra > features such as zooming, and

Bug#496930: ITP: dvc -- Emacs front-end to distributed version control systems

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Dehennin
Package: wnpp Owner: Daniel Dehennin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Severity: wishlist Tags: patch * Package name: dvc Version : 0r20080828 Upstream Author : Stephan Reichoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://download.gna.org/dvc * License : GPL Description : Emacs

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Dionysis Kalofonos
Hi Sebastian, thank you for your reply. I was also advised to use debootstrap instead, and that tool worked fine. However, having read your message now i get the impression that something fishy has happened. regards -- Dionysis Kalofonos Sebastian Harl wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Dionysis Kalofonos
Thank you Ricardo, That did the trick. However, now i wander whether would be appropriate to bring up this inconsistency between the two tools. For instance the Debian Reference document section 8.6.35.1 states: A chroot Debian environment can easily be created by the debootstrap command in

RFS: netmon-applet (updated package)

2008-08-28 Thread Stephan Peijnik
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4-12 of my package "netmon-applet". It builds these binary packages: netmon-applet - GNOME2 Network Load Applet The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 270036, 335916, 449867 The package can be fo

Re: RFS: disc-cover

2008-08-28 Thread Stefan Ott
Thanks! Also, I'll have a look at the things you mentioned. cheers Stefan On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 20:20, Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OoO En ce début d'après-midi nuageux du lundi 28 juillet 2008, vers > 14:08, "Stefan Ott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : > >> I am looking for a

Re: RFS: phpmyid

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Schildbach
Hi Vincent, hello Michal, thanks for helping me with the package. I have uploaded a fixed package to mentors.debian.net. On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:02 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > In debian/changelog, remove the mention about this package being your > first. Most users are not interested in thi

RFS: get-you

2008-08-28 Thread Radostan Riedel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "get-you". * Package name: get-you Version : 0.8.5-1 Upstream Author : [Dominik Burgdörfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : [http://get-you.calyrium.org] * License :

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Sebastian Harl
Hi, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Dionysis Kalofonos wrote: > i am trying to create a chroot environment for sid using the command > > cdebootstrap -v --flavour=minimal sid /sid http://ftp.debian.org/deb > > under etch. In general, *debootstraping Sid under Etch is not supporte

Re: sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Ricardo Ichizo
Hello Dionysis, On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:18:30AM +0200, Dionysis Kalofonos wrote: > Hello, > > i am trying to create a chroot environment for sid using the command > > cdebootstrap -v --flavour=minimal sid /sid http://ftp.debian.org/deb > > under etch. > Try it with debootstrap. deboo

sid chroot

2008-08-28 Thread Dionysis Kalofonos
Hello, i am trying to create a chroot environment for sid using the command cdebootstrap -v --flavour=minimal sid /sid http://ftp.debian.org/deb under etch. however i get the following error message: O: The following NEW packages will be installed: O: apt-utils lzma O: 0 upgraded, 2 ne

Re: RFS: fdclone (updated package, QA upload)

2008-08-28 Thread Sandro Tosi
Hi all, On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:35, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Ralf kindly checked and uploaded this package: thanks! :) Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.or

RFS: plasma-netgraph

2008-08-28 Thread Salvatore Ansani
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "plasma-netgraph". * Package name: plasma-netgraph Version : 0.3-1 Upstream Author : John Varouhakis * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ivplasma/ * License : GPL Section : kde It builds these bi