Re: [RANT] [OT] Bloating dependencies instead of using recommends (was: Re: RFS: sqlkit)

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Wise
Why is this rant on debian-mentors? Seems to be more relevant for debian-devel, planet.d.o or LWN. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

[RANT] [OT] Bloating dependencies instead of using recommends (was: Re: RFS: sqlkit)

2009-09-09 Thread Rogério Brito
On Sep 04 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 04 September 2009 13:14:43 Alessandro Dentella wrote: > > So I'd really prefer to leave those 2 drivers as dependencies. > > Recommends, right? As a user it annoys me to no end when the packager > Depends > on something the system will w

Re: RFS: acct (updated package)

2009-09-09 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I suspect that the upstream makefiles don't rebuild the info documents by > default.  That's not uncommon.  Check to see if there's an additional > makefile target that will do so (and build-depend on texinfo, of course). > Thanks, I managed

Re: RFS: acct (updated package)

2009-09-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 6.5.1-1 > of my package "acct". > It builds these binary packages: > acct - The GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting > The package still shows two lintian errors on the binary package: >

Re: RFS: gforth (updated, fix FTBFS)

2009-09-09 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Pentchev schrieb: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.7.0+ds1-5 > of my package "gforth". The only change in this version is > that, with the kind assistance of Frans Pop and the other > members of the debian-hp

Re: RFS: sqlkit

2009-09-09 Thread Alessandro Dentella
Hi all, On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 02:48:27PM +0200, Alessandro Dentella wrote: > Hi all, > > I uploaded [1] a version that fixes all issues that you addressed apart from > XS-Python-Version since I don't know how to fix it with cdbs: > > > > and add XS-Python-Version > > > > When I added tha

RFS: sqlrelay (new upstream release 0.41)

2009-09-09 Thread Renat Sabitov
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new upstream version 0.41 of package "sqlrelay". It builds these binary packages: libdbd-sqlrelay-perl libfirstworks-sqlr-perl libsqlrelay-0.41 libsqlrelay-java libsqlrelay-ruby libsqlrelay-tcl php5-sqlrelay python-sqlrelay sqlrelay sqlrelay-dev

Re: RFS: vera++

2009-09-09 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Joachim Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> I made a new upload which I believe fixes all of the above. Thanks again. >> >> $ dupload -t mentors ../vera++_1.1.1-2_amd64.changes >> dupload note: no announcement will be sent. >> Checking signatures bef

RFS: nfoview (updated package)

2009-09-09 Thread Alessio Treglia
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.6-2 of my package "nfoview". It builds these binary packages: nfoview- a simple viewer for NFO files The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 545724 The package can be found on mentors.debian.ne

RFS: acct (updated package)

2009-09-09 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 6.5.1-1 of my package "acct". It builds these binary packages: acct - The GNU Accounting utilities for process and login accounting The package still shows two lintian errors on the binary package: E: acct: info-document-missing-