Re: Convenience copies in upstream code: dependencies, removal, copyright, and other issues

2009-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Felipe Sateler wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:05 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: This is because we don't only distribute the binaries; we also distribute the source. But the upstream source already has them (in the source files themselves or other files). Sure, but

RFS: lesstif2 AND Questions about collab-maint

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi mentors and mentees, [Sorry for the long mail, there are several issues/questions.] I am looking for a thourough check of my packaging and preferably a sponsor for the new version 1:0.95.2-1 of my package lesstif2 [0]. This new upstream version is only the incorporation of a lot of patches

Re: RFS: ampache (updated package)

2009-10-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Oct 20 2009, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 02:28:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, Oct 20 2009, George Danchev wrote: On Tue, Oct 20 2009, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org wrote: In future check your

Re: RFS: ampache (updated package)

2009-10-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Oct 20 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi Manoj, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] I find that experimental and pedantic add far too much irrelevant chatter, and that it tends to mask the problems one should actually fix. Could you please elaborate a bit more? I'd like to

Re: RFS: texi2html (updated package) fix bug: 534127

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Cecconi
Hi Hauke, On Sunday 18 October 2009 13:33:56 Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Hi Francesco, On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 01:26:39PM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.82-1 of my package texi2html. It builds these binary packages: texi2html - Convert

Re: RFS: texi2html (updated package) fix bug: 534127

2009-10-21 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Francesco, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:26:53AM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote: * You have quite a few lines for the CFLAGS but you're building an arch: all package. Is there something that is compiled or is that bogus? :) done, i have updated the rules To be clear: you didn't have to, I

Re: RFS: ampache (updated package)

2009-10-21 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
Hi Manoj, I'm not going to argue with you about this. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:12:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: There is a time and a place where these lintian options are useful. They certainly have a place, and are recommended for experienced developers, and critical for

Re: RFS: texi2html (updated package) fix bug: 534127

2009-10-21 Thread Francesco Cecconi
Hi Hauke, On Wednesday 21 October 2009 12:09:06 Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: Hi Francesco, On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:26:53AM +0200, Francesco Cecconi wrote: * You have quite a few lines for the CFLAGS but you're building an arch: all package. Is there something that is compiled or is that

Re: Re: RFS: stx-btree

2009-10-21 Thread Ury Stankevich
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Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Finney
Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org writes: Hi Manoj, I'm not going to argue with you about this. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:12:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: There is a time and a place where these lintian options are useful. They certainly have a place, and are recommended for

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog entries saying “make Lintian happy”, etc. Lintian is not a deity to be appeased; it's a tool reporting that the package might need fixing for

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog entries saying “make Lintian happy”, etc. Lintian is not a deity to be appeased; it's a

RFS: qbzr

2009-10-21 Thread stefano karapetsas
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package qbzr. The package is already in Ubuntu and I got inspiration from this package, uploaded by QBzr developers. * Package name: qbzr Version : 0.15-1 Upstream Author : Lukáš Lalinský lalin...@gmail.com * URL :

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Oct 21 2009, Ben Finney wrote: Jan Hauke Rahm j...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:12:21AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: There is a time and a place where these lintian options are useful. They certainly have a place, and are recommended for experienced

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16rc1-1

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
There is one lintian warning: I: lbzip2 source: quilt-patch-missing-description makefile The package fails to unapply the debian patches in the clean rule. As a result, some files get embedded in the diff.gz when built several times in a row: lbzip2-0.16rc1/.pc/applied-patches

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Please join me in public embarrassment of those who write changelog entries saying

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Charlie Smotherman
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:27 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Please join me in public

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements (was: RFS: ampache (updated package))

2009-10-21 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:08:43PM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:27 +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 08:14:54AM -0500, Charlie Smotherman wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Ben Finney

RFS: libnet-tftpd-perl

2009-10-21 Thread Benoit Mortier
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libnet-tftpd-perl. * Package name: libnet-tftpd-perl Version : 0.04-1 Upstream Author : Luigino Masarati lmasar...@hotmail.com * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-TFTPd/ * License : GPL Section

RFS: libpam-storepw

2009-10-21 Thread Benoit Mortier
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libpam-storepw. * Package name: libpam-storepw Version : 0.5-1 Upstream Author : Florian Lohoff f...@rfc822.org * URL : none * License : GPL Section : admin It builds these binary packages:

Re: RFS: stx-btree

2009-10-21 Thread George Danchev
Thanks for your help, i have fixed flaws you notice. Hi, * your binary-indep should not depend on targets that try compile the test- suites (speedtest, wxbtreedemo, testsuite), but should only install architecture independent parts of the source package into the corresponding -dev (headers

RFS: boats (updated package)

2009-10-21 Thread Thibaut GRIDEL
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 200910-1 of my package boats. It builds these binary packages: boats - a race scenario drawing tool The package is lintian clean and builds with pbuilder. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL:

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Finney
Charlie Smotherman cj...@cableone.net writes: No sarcasm or disrespect intended, I actually thought I was being respectful, and polite waiting for the discussion of lintian (which I found very helpful) to be over before I requested sponsoring of ampache-themes. There's no need to wait. The

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-21 Thread Ben Finney
Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org writes: Err, no. Experienced developers might gain some benefit from [pedantic] reports. They are in a separate class for a reason. I do not think inexperienced people need look at these, there is already information overload for novices, let

Library builds with pkg-config

2009-10-21 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello, I am trying to find the correct way of installing a pkg-config specification, the like of /usr/lib/pkgconfig/dummy.ac for the developmental package of a library. Would 1) # debian/control Depends: pkgconfig 2) # debian/rules dh_install debian/dummy.ac

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16rc1-1

2009-10-21 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Paul Wise wrote: Please note that you need to remove the patches after running make clean, since you patch the Makefile. (1) Is it acceptable if I make the clean target in debian/rules depend on the unpatch target, which is defined by /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make and

Re: request for review: lbzip2-0.16rc1-1

2009-10-21 Thread ERSEK Laszlo
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote: (1) Is it acceptable if I make the clean target in debian/rules depend on the unpatch target, which is defined by /usr/share/quilt/quilt.make and seems to do the right thing? Or rather, as the (new) last action of the clean target, invoke

Re: Library builds with pkg-config

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Wise
Usually the upstream build system would do this. If it does not then I'd suggest that you talk to upstream about including the pkgconfig file before putting it in Debian. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: RFS: ampache (updated package)

2009-10-21 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Manoj, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, Oct 20 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi Manoj, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [...] I find that experimental and pedantic add far too much irrelevant chatter, and that it tends to mask the problems one should actually fix. Could you

Re: Lintian pickiness and packaging improvements

2009-10-21 Thread Raphael Geissert
Pedantic tags are Lintian at its most pickiest and include checks for particular Debian packaging styles, *checks that are very frequently wrong*, and checks that many people disagree with. Expect false positives and Lintian tags that you don't