Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey writes: > He meant that in this particular case, the UNRELEASED and unstabler > discrepancy *is* in the .changes file. See > http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/velvet/news/20090819T133220Z.html Yeah, Charles also pointed that out to me. I get it now -- that's definitely enough to write

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 04:54:29PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michal Čihař writes: > > Russ Allbery napsal(a): > > >> We had a specific request for Lintian to not warn about UNRELEASED as > >> the distribution so that people could run it on each build and know > >> that any output meant a prob

Re: icon/icon-generic in mime options

2009-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:12:21PM +0200, Paul Gevers a écrit : > > Probably a stupid question, but anyway, I have a question regarding mime > support. In my package I use the icon-generic field, but this field has > only be included in shared-mime-info version 0.40. Should I ask > debian-devel if

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michal Čihař writes: > Russ Allbery napsal(a): >> We had a specific request for Lintian to not warn about UNRELEASED as >> the distribution so that people could run it on each build and know >> that any output meant a problem. Unfortunately, that creates the >> possibility for something like th

RFS: pauker (adopted updated package)

2009-08-20 Thread Andreas Moog
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.8+dfsg-4 of the package "pauker". It builds these binary packages: pauker - generic card based learning program The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 541341 The package can be found on mentor

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:24:40 -0700 Russ Allbery napsal(a): > We had a specific request for Lintian to not warn about UNRELEASED as the > distribution so that people could run it on each build and know that any > output meant a problem. Unfortunately, that creates the possibility for > somet

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Very good point. So only the changelog is borken. > I built the package with its UNRELEASED changelog with sbuild, which > puts the schroot's name in the Distribution field of the changes control > file. The inconsistency with the changelog went unnoticed by our > tools.

developers-reference: Improve "Getting started" to talk about more than New Maintainer's Guide

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: wishlist Excerpts from gregor herrmann's message of Thu Aug 20 11:53:56 -0700 2009: > Wow, cool, thanks a lot! No problem. > Can you image to take a look at the Developers' Reference too? AFAIK > the only mentioning of teams there is in 5.12

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:15:00 -0700, Carl Worth wrote: > > The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams; > > some thoughts from DebConf can be found here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2009/07/msg00083.html > > (especially point 3) > One thought captured in those notes

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090820133354.gb2...@ime.usp.br>, Rogério Brito wrote: >The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mentors that >many new contributors seem to create an artificial need as a reason to >get their contributions in the distribution and choose to package a new >program. Instead you

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Carl Worth
Excerpts from gregor herrmann's message of Thu Aug 20 02:25:09 -0700 2009: > There's a central place for teams in Debian: > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams That's an excellent resource, yes. > The interesting question is how to encourage people to join teams; > some thoughts from DebConf can be fou

Re: Upstream dedicated system and Debian adaptation

2009-08-20 Thread Hector Oron
Hello, I hope it helps... 2009/8/20 Laurent Guignard : > To solve this bug, i need detailled documentation about "ioctl" C function and > SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFADDR parameters of this function. > I will have to work on this and i need documentation to solve bug and > integrate other update to pu

Re: Upstream dedicated system and Debian adaptation

2009-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090820120036.ga4...@portable.home.famille-guignard.org>, Laurent Guignard wrote: >I am the maintainer of a package (dhcp-probe [1]) which is an upstream > dedicated software (Solaris dedicated). >A function doesn't work on Linux system based and give the bug [2]. >To solve this bug, i need d

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 09:39:44PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > The changes file says Distribution: unstable: > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/velvet/news/20090819T133220Z.html Very good point. So only the changelog is borken. I built the package with its UNRELEASED changelog with sbuild, whi

Re: Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Wise
The changes file says Distribution: unstable: http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/velvet/news/20090819T133220Z.html No idea how you did that nor what the consequences are. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Gregor and everybody else. On Aug 20 2009, gregor herrmann wrote: > [Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?] I am not subscribed to -devel (only to -mentors; I asked to be CC'ed on the original message). The reason why I posted to both is that I see a trend in -mento

Package uploaded with UNRELEASED distribution.

2009-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:32:20PM +, Archive Administrator a écrit : > > Accepted: > velvet-example_0.7.50-1_all.deb > to pool/main/v/velvet/velvet-example_0.7.50-1_all.deb > velvet_0.7.50-1.diff.gz > to pool/main/v/velvet/velvet_0.7.50-1.diff.gz > velvet_0.7.50-1.dsc > to pool/main/v/v

Re: newbie: creating a package for web application

2009-08-20 Thread Alejandro Garrido Mota
Don Raikes escribió: > Is there an example of a package that doesn't require the "compilation" of > source to generate but just copies files to the target location? Depends of kind of application. But there are good examples like: phpmyadmin, phpldapadmin, maybe drupal... Bye -- http://www.mog

Upstream dedicated system and Debian adaptation

2009-08-20 Thread Laurent Guignard
Hi mentors, I am the maintainer of a package (dhcp-probe [1]) which is an upstream dedicated software (Solaris dedicated). A function doesn't work on Linux system based and give the bug [2]. To solve this bug, i need detailled documentation about "ioctl" C function and SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFADDR

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 19:07 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > > Perhaps a good way to point it out on an ongoing basis would be a > > central clearing house for “specific teams that a newcomer should > > consider joining”. Is there such a list (and where is it maintained

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:07:42 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: [Any reason why this thread happens on both -devel and -mentors?] > Josselin Mouette writes: > > It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are > > seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to > > the

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 19:07 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Perhaps a good way to point it out on an ongoing basis would be a > central clearing house for “specific teams that a newcomer should > consider joining”. Is there such a list (and where is it maintained)? > Would such a list even make se

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette writes: > It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are > seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to > the archive, consider joining one of the packaging teams looking for > more maintainers: eglibc, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Utopia,

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
Josselin Mouette writes: > It is never pointed out enough that the core packaging teams are > seriously understaffed. Please, before uploading your pet package to > the archive, consider joining one of the packaging teams looking for > more maintainers: eglibc, Mozilla, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, Utopia,

Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 19 août 2009 à 08:55 -0300, Rogério Brito a écrit : > | It is with sadness that I see many NEW packages uploaded to the Debian > | repository and little thought about some packages that are already in > | the distribution, but that are bit-rotting. > | > | Please, if an existing packa

Re: packager tools

2009-08-20 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:30:32PM -0700, Don Raikes a écrit : > Hi, > > In the process of reading the webapps-policy manual, I got to the last page > where a couple of tools were refferenced. > > Namely debconf-common and webapps-common. > > I looked using aptitude and couldn't find anything t