Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-30 Thread William Grant
Hi Jason, -mentors, Hi all, Inspired by recent discussion on these lists, I decided to help out with some existing packages. One of them was soundconverter, a GTK app for converting between sound formats. It was a little behind on the upstream releases, so I updated the package and emailed

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-30 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:19, Ben Finneyben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Any volunteer to file write a well-argumented request for removal […]? The package has now been removed URL:http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bk2site/news/20090823T163928Z.html

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-30 Thread Ben Finney
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:19, Ben Finneyben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: The package has now been removed URL:http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bk2site/news/20090823T163928Z.html but I can't find any public request for removal. Can we please see that

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-30 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:32, Ben Finneyben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:19, Ben Finneyben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: The package has now been removed URL:http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bk2site/news/20090823T163928Z.html

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:00:18PM +0200, Sandro Tosi a écrit : On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 05:19, Ben Finneyben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Any volunteer to file write a well-argumented request for removal […]? The package has now been removed

RFS: soundconverter [Was: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer]

2009-08-30 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi all, If anyone wants to sponsor an updated version of the package, it's ready on mentors.d.n: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/soundconverter - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget

Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-30 Thread Jason Heeris
Hi Charles, one week if definitely short, especially in August :) Oh yes, I would have waited anyway, I just wanted to know what I might need to do in three weeks (or with certain other packages). It seems to be sorted now anyway. Nevertheless, thank you very much for caring for

RFS: bluemindo (updated package)

2009-08-30 Thread Thibaut GIRKA
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.3-1 of my package bluemindo. It builds these binary packages: bluemindo - simple yet powerful audio player The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-30 Thread Ben Finney
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: When will you start reading replies instead of blindly replying? That's akin to asking “when will you stop thinking about a blue elephant?” You're assuming behaviour when you can't possibly know it. Please don't jump to hostile conclusions.

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-30 Thread Ben Finney
Thanks for addressing the questions and helping make the process clearer. Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: The maintainer of bk2site has been inactive for more than one year (I just checked with the mia-query tool). The “echelon” information indicates that he posted somewhere in May

Re: RFS: poco (updated package)

2009-08-30 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
2009/5/27 George Danchev danc...@spnet.net: The only thing I'm not happy with is the staticaly linked zlib with libpocofoundaton shared object and its debug variant. Can we please fix that to dynamically link with the system provided libz, or is there any reason I'm not aware of to use the

Re: RFS: poco (updated package)

2009-08-30 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 30 August 2009 16:41:26 Krzysztof Burghardt wrote: 2009/5/27 George Danchev danc...@spnet.net: The only thing I'm not happy with is the staticaly linked zlib with libpocofoundaton shared object and its debug variant. Can we please fix that to dynamically link with the system

Re: Re: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer

2009-08-30 Thread Felipe Sateler
Jason Heeris wrote: But all of this hard work only makes sense if the maintainance problem of soundconverter is solved in the long term. Maybe you can see if a packaging team, for instance http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia, would like to adopt it, with you as a maintainer if you would

Re: RFS: parcellite (updated package)

2009-08-30 Thread Andrew SB
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Andrew SBa.star...@gmail.com wrote: Hello again mentors, On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Andrew SBa.star...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This is a ping on my RFS for parcellite (0.9.1-1) which was first posted to mentors on March 19th. I just refreshed the

Re: RFS: poco (updated package)

2009-08-30 Thread Krzysztof Burghardt
2009/8/30 George Danchev danc...@spnet.net: * it would be better to explicitly build-depends on zlib1g-dev Dependency add and new package uploaded to mentors.d.n. Regards, -- Krzysztof Burghardt krzysz...@burghardt.pl http://www.burghardt.pl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Taking care of existing packages

2009-08-30 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On söndagen den 30 augusti 2009, Ben Finney wrote: Thanks for addressing the questions and helping make the process clearer. Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: The maintainer of bk2site has been inactive for more than one year (I just checked with the mia-query tool). The “echelon”

Re: RFS: burn 0.4.3-2.1+lenny1 (Lenny security bug fixes)

2009-08-30 Thread Ben Finney
Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org writes: That's why I didn't change other things; without these 2 changes I just couldn't upload it (didn't feel right). I doubt RMs will reject it (only few lines were changed in order to fix obvious and important mistakes) For the record: As it turns out,

what happen to 'bootsplash'?

2009-08-30 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
hello all. i have a question: what happen to 'bootsplash' package? it is a project that is currently inactive but some people wants to use it yet .. and there is a potent consumer of it: (open)suse distribution i know that it requires a linux kernel patch and it may be difficult to maintain and

Re: what happen to 'bootsplash'?

2009-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
This question is probably on the wrong list, debian-user would have been more appropriate. These days you want splashy or plymouth. The latter is the way of the future because it uses kernel mode setting. If you really want bootsplash, see snapshots.debian.net:

Re: RFS: soundconverter [Was: soundconverter: want to help, can't contact maintainer]

2009-08-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:30:30PM +0800, Jason Heeris a écrit : Hi all, If anyone wants to sponsor an updated version of the package, it's ready on mentors.d.n: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/soundconverter - Source repository: deb-src

Re: what happen to 'bootsplash'?

2009-08-30 Thread Leinier Cruz Salfran
thanks pab, i was reading about plymouth .. looks interesting .. can be available for 'squeeze' release? .. well, my intentions was to know if it possible to upload 'bootsplash' (reloaded) .. i was working on it because i'm 'bootsplash' lover .. i made some changes, fixes and finally adapted to

Re: RFS: bluemindo (updated package)

2009-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
Uploaded, thanks for your contribution to Debian! For future uploads, please contact this list and I'll sponsor you if I am able. Apologies for the other mail, pressed the wrong button. Some comments for the next upload: audioscrobbler.py is available in seven packages in Debian. It would be