Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:06:23 -0300 Maximiliano Curia wrote: > Excerpts from Neil Williams's message of mar abr 21 14:53:13 -0300 2009: > > On what basis? apt and dpkg are definitely native packages, as are most > > other packages that use apt and dpkg directly (like emdebian-*). > > Packages that

Re: New Developer Request

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:04:00 -0700 Ramesh wrote: > I went over the currently open buglist to see if I could contribute by > fixing some of them to start with. One of the questions I had is some > bugs are platform specific / hardware specific. > > For eg: > > BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for

Re: RFS: magicfilter (QA update of the package) (fwd) (fwd)

2009-04-21 Thread LI Daobing
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:22, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Hi Rogério, > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:32:46PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: >> Probably this was missed the past few times that I posted to the list. >> >> Please, could anybody sponsor it? > > I've started looking at this package, but got

Re: New Developer Request

2009-04-21 Thread Ramesh
Hi Deepak, I went over the currently open buglist to see if I could contribute by fixing some of them to start with. One of the questions I had is some bugs are platform specific / hardware specific. For eg: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! (AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core) To reproduce the pr

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Excerpts from Neil Williams's message of mar abr 21 14:53:13 -0300 2009: > On what basis? apt and dpkg are definitely native packages, as are most > other packages that use apt and dpkg directly (like emdebian-*). > Packages that use .deb files in explicit manners are often native too - > unless th

Re: Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:02 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Charlie Smotherman writes: > > > The file that lintian is complaining about is > > > > usr/share/ampache/www/modules/getid3/module.archive.gzip.php > > > > As you can see the file clearly does not end with .gz but instead it > > ends in php

Re: Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Charlie Smotherman writes: > The file that lintian is complaining about is > > usr/share/ampache/www/modules/getid3/module.archive.gzip.php > > As you can see the file clearly does not end with .gz but instead it > ends in php. This file is not compressed with gzip but instead adds > gzip functi

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:22:49PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Neil Williams a écrit : > >> Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style > >> changelogs? > > > > Yes. > > And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way? Originally, the debian changelo

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Finney
Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: > Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style > changelogs? > (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog > and new upgrade to must) That type of changelog allows anything at all following the two space indent for entries

Re: Naming recommendation for quilt-managed patches

2009-04-21 Thread Ben Finney
Laurent Léonard writes: > Hi, > > Is there a naming recommendation for patches when using quilt in a Debian > package ? […] > 0X-patch-name.patch ? > 000X-patch-name.patch ? I use names similar to these. 01.foo-bar-baz.patch 02.spim-spam-spom.patch The full-stop ‘.’ makes a slightly

Re: Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:54:12PM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: > W gz-file-not-gzip > > The file that lintian is complaining about is > > usr/share/ampache/www/modules/getid3/module.archive.gzip.php > > As you can see the file clearly does not end with .gz but instead it > ends in php. Thi

Lintian question

2009-04-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
Dear Mentors, While looking at http://lintian.debian.org/tags/gz-file-not-gzip.html I noticed this lintian warning about my package ampache. W gz-file-not-gzip "The given file ends with .gz, which normally indicates it is compressed with gzip. However, it doesn't seem to be a gzip-compressed f

Re: RFS: rhino: New debian package prepared (2nd try)

2009-04-21 Thread Matthew Johnson
I'm uploading rhino and tomcat-native now Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Neil Williams a écrit : >> Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style >> changelogs? > > Yes. And what was the prevous style of changelog allowed, by the way? -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:06:23 +0100 Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Dear all > > Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style > changelogs? Yes. > (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog > and new upgrade to must) The important lines are: > fooba

Re: About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-21 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > [not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] > > Hi, > > I maintain the lksctp-tools package, which builds the libsctp1 binary package. > The package so fare has been fairly straight forward and for version 1.0.9 I > used

dch multi-maintainer mode

2009-04-21 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Dear all Is it still allowed as per 3.8.1 policy to use multi maintainer style changelogs? (Asking because of the explicit statement of one type of changlelog and new upgrade to must) Eg. foobar (1.5.11-1) unstable; urgency=low [ Joe Plow Mber ] * New upstream release [ Vasja Pupkin ]

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:21:18 -0300 Maximiliano Curia wrote: > > It was also mentioned on the last thread so I omit that: > > > fsprotect is 100% tied to a distribution. It cannot be an independent > > program > > that is packaged for debian or other distributions. The core functionality > >

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello, On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Maximiliano Curia wrote: > Excerpts from Stefanos Harhalakis's message of mar abr 21 12:12:02 -0300 2009: > > fsprotect is 100% tied to a distribution. It cannot be an independent > > Anyway, it shouldn't be a native package, native packages need a new > release t

Re: Naming recommendation for quilt-managed patches

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/22 Laurent Léonard : > Is there a naming recommendation for patches when using quilt in a Debian > package ? > > patch-name.diff ? I don't use this because of the extension. > patch-name.patch ? I personally prefer this. > 0X-patch-name.diff ? > 0X-patch-name.patch ? > 000X-patch-name.d

Re: Templates for README.source

2009-04-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:45:39 +0200, Laurent Léonard wrote: > I'm searching for some "standard" templates for README.source about: > - DFSG changes > - Quilt usage (reference to /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source ?) > - Other files removed from the original tarball for various reasons For packages

Naming recommendation for quilt-managed patches

2009-04-21 Thread Laurent Léonard
Hi, Is there a naming recommendation for patches when using quilt in a Debian package ? patch-name.diff ? patch-name.patch ? 0X-patch-name.diff ? 0X-patch-name.patch ? 000X-patch-name.diff ? 000X-patch-name.patch ? an other ? The quilt man page uses "patch-name.diff" in the examples, but I see

Templates for README.source

2009-04-21 Thread Laurent Léonard
Hi, I'm searching for some "standard" templates for README.source about: - DFSG changes - Quilt usage (reference to /usr/share/doc/quilt/README.source ?) - Other files removed from the original tarball for various reasons Were can I find those informations (wiki...) ? Thank you, -- Laurent Léon

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Maximiliano Curia
Excerpts from Stefanos Harhalakis's message of mar abr 21 12:12:02 -0300 2009: > > > I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package "fsprotect". > > 1. why this package is a native package? i think a normal package > > should be better > It was also mentioned on the last thread so I omit

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Paul Wise wrote: > 2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis : > > fsprotect needs a directory under the root filesystem to preexist. Most > > probably it won't be used by normal users, so this won't be common. In > > IRC it was mentioned that it could should use /lib/fsprotect, but t

About symbol versioning, soname bumps and symbols files.

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
[not sure if debian-mentors is the right list, but I try anyway] Hi, I maintain the lksctp-tools package, which builds the libsctp1 binary package. The package so fare has been fairly straight forward and for version 1.0.9 I used a symbols file for libsctp1 which looks like this: libsctp.so.1 li

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis : > fsprotect needs a directory under the root filesystem to preexist. Most > probably it won't be used by normal users, so this won't be common. In IRC it > was mentioned that it could should use /lib/fsprotect, but this directory is > already used to store a helper

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Hello, On Tuesday 21 April 2009, LI Daobing wrote: > 2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis : > > I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package "fsprotect". > 1. why this package is a native package? i think a normal package > should be better It was also mentioned on the last thread so I omit th

Re: RFS: kcometen4

2009-04-21 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:18, John Stamp wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kcometen4". > > * Package name    : kcometen4 >  Version         : 1.0.4-1 >  Upstream Author : John Stamp > * URL             : http://www.mehercule.net/staticpages/index.php/k

Re: RFS: slv2

2009-04-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Jaromír Mikeš wrote: > Problem creating account: ... > Having error: > global name 'name' is not defined Woops, my fault (typo). Should be fixed now. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debia

Re: RFS: slv2

2009-04-21 Thread Jaromír Mikeš
> Od: Free Ekanayaka > JM> I would like to do it, but having problem to log in. > > JM> Should I create new account or try pkg-ml email + passwd? > > I think you have to create a new account: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/DevelopPackaging?action=newaccount Hi there, Problem

Re: RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread LI Daobing
Hello, 2009/4/21 Stefanos Harhalakis : > Dear mentors, > > A month ago I sent the following RFS without anyone offering to sponsor it. > I'm resending it as a reminder. > > I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package "fsprotect". > > * Package name    : fsprotect >  Version         : 1.

RFS: fsprotect (try #2)

2009-04-21 Thread Stefanos Harhalakis
Dear mentors, A month ago I sent the following RFS without anyone offering to sponsor it. I'm resending it as a reminder. I am looking for guidance and a sponsor for my package "fsprotect". * Package name: fsprotect Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Stefanos Harhalakis (me) * U