RFS: smplayer

2009-11-03 Thread Maia Kozheva
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a new release of my package "smplayer". * Package name: smplayer Version : 0.6.8-1 Upstream Author : Ricardo Villalba * URL : http://smplayer.sourceforge.net * License

Archival of source material forwarded upstream (was: Re: RFS: pidgin-skype).

2009-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 06:26:59PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > In your case, I'd suggest that you should be distributing *both* the > docbook form, and the nroff form that upstream is modifying. [Or at > the very least, the docbook form should be publicly available, even if > it doesn't go

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20091104001114.ga18...@kunpuu.plessy.org>, Charles Plessy wrote: >Le Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:29:00PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : >> You can deliberately destroy the source code of almost anything that >> we distribute in Debian. That doesn't change what the source code was. >> [And honestly,

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Nov 03 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Di, 03 Nov 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: >> provide assurances that the SVG no longer exists at all. You probably >> also should be generating the icons on the fly from the SVG using >> inkscape as you build the package. > > What??? That is a joke, ri

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Nov 03 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:29:00PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : >> >> You can deliberately destroy the source code of almost anything that >> we distribute in Debian. That doesn't change what the source code was. >> [And honestly, I'm not convinced t

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Nov 03 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mi, 04 Nov 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: >> I would rather stick to the interpretation that the preferred form of >> modification is the one upstream uses, even if we think this is not optimal >> and >> we would prefer he had done another way. > >

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Nov 03 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2009-11-03, Don Armstrong wrote: >> It's fairly rare for someone to laboriously create multiple versions >> of icons at different resolutions in PNG. [I know I certainly haven't >> done it since about 1992.] > > Yes and no. Some icon artists create it

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Laager
On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 01:15 +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Yes and no. Some icon artists create it in svg and then export to png > and does pixelmanipulations of each size. > > What's the source here ? Theoretical discussions aside, in this case, I'd distribute both. If the SVG no longer exists, I'

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 04 Nov 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > I would rather stick to the interpretation that the preferred form of > modification is the one upstream uses, even if we think this is not optimal > and > we would prefer he had done another way. Thanks, yes! BTW; If you use help2man the pref

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > I would rather stick to the interpretation that the preferred form > of modification is the one upstream uses, even if we think this is > not optimal and we would prefer he had done another way. The prefered form of modification is the form that is actu

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 04 Nov 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > If everyone would start using inkscape for building icons that are > pre-made then ... well, build-deps are exploding. I don't particularly care whether they're generated on the fly or not, but in many cases, distributing the svg with (some set) of pn

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 03 Nov 2009, Don Armstrong wrote: > provide assurances that the SVG no longer exists at all. You probably > also should be generating the icons on the fly from the SVG using > inkscape as you build the package. What??? That is a joke, right? If everyone would start using inkscape for build

Re: RFS: Algoscore

2009-11-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 19:14 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 20:38 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > Dear mentors, > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "algoscore". > > Some comments, I'm no DD so I can't upload. > > * liblo-dev exists currently only in experimen

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Armstrong schrieb: > In fact, near absolute certainty: > > $ dget -qux > 'http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/p/pidgin-skype/pidgin-skype_0.1-1.dsc' > $ strings pidgin-skype-0.1/icons/48/skypeout.png > IHDR > sBIT > pHYs > tEXtS

Re: RFS: avifile (QA upload)

2009-11-03 Thread Barry deFreese
Yavor Doganov wrote: > At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:06:53 +0300, > Явор Доганов wrote: >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.7.48~20090503.ds-1 >> of the orphaned package "avifile". > >> The upload would fix these bugs: 206467, 227408, 290069, 435169, >> 448736, 473414, 489012, 492040, 5

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Richard Laager
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 18:27 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > * You should probably not depend on pidgin, I guess the plugin >is also useable from finch (the console version). You would want to depend on libpurple0, but that should be happening automatically. (I haven't tried building this

RFS: blazeblogger

2009-11-03 Thread Angel Abad
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "blazeblogger". * Package name: blazeblogger Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Jaromir Hradilek * URL : http://blaze.blackened.cz/ * License : GPL-3 Section : web It builds these binary packa

Re: RFS: Algoscore

2009-11-03 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 20:38 +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "algoscore". Some comments, I'm no DD so I can't upload. * liblo-dev exists currently only in experimental. liblo0-dev, on the other hand (the old package) is for version 0.23.

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 14:06:20 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Don Armstrong schrieb: > > $ dget -qux > > 'http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/p/pidgin-skype/pidgin-skyp > >e_0.1-1.dsc' $ strings pidgin-skype-0.1/icons/48/skypeout.png > > IHDR > > sBIT > > pHYs > > tEXtSoftware > > ww

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > This would mean, that it is created with inkscape, which could also > save the files as svg. So the strings and the used software does not > realy say, that there is a "real source file" of it. It doesn't tell you whether the source code exists anymore

RFS: Algoscore

2009-11-03 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "algoscore". Package name: algoscore Version : 081112-1 Upstream Author : Jonatan Liljedahl URL : http://kymatica.com/algoscore License : GPLv3 Section : sound It builds these binary pack

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 12:29:00PM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > You can deliberately destroy the source code of almost anything that > we distribute in Debian. That doesn't change what the source code was. > [And honestly, I'm not convinced that such deliberate destruction > complies with DF

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Don Armstrong schrieb: > > If the images were created directly as a png, yes. if they were > > created as svg or similar and converted to png (more likely), no. > > More likely? In fact, near absolute certainty: $ dget -qux 'http://mentors.debian.n

RFS: Algoscore

2009-11-03 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "algoscore". Package name: algoscore Version : 081112-1 Upstream Author : Jonatan Liljedahl URL : http://kymatica.com/algoscore License : GPLv3 Section : sound It builds these binary pack

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Armstrong schrieb: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009, Patrick Matthäi wrote: >> Right, the icons are currently non-free, but pngs are also "free" >> and licensable under the terms of the GPL, okay it does not make >> much sense, but yeah.. Source of it? Open i

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian Andres Klode schrieb: > Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2009, 02:07 +0100 schrieb Gabriele Giacone: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-skype". >> >> * Package name: pidgin-skype >> Version : 0.1-1 >>

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 03 Nov 2009, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Right, the icons are currently non-free, but pngs are also "free" > and licensable under the terms of the GPL, okay it does not make > much sense, but yeah.. Source of it? Open it and edit it :) If the images were created directly as a png, yes. if the

Re: RFS: pidgin-skype

2009-11-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2009-11-03, Don Armstrong wrote: > It's fairly rare for someone to laboriously create multiple versions > of icons at different resolutions in PNG. [I know I certainly haven't > done it since about 1992.] Yes and no. Some icon artists create it in svg and then export to png and does pixelmanip

Re: RFS: pgtune

2009-11-03 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Rodolphe Quiedeville wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pgtune". I will take a look at it. Will send you a message later. Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

RFS: pgtune

2009-11-03 Thread Rodolphe Quiedeville
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pgtune". * Package name: pgtune Version : 0.9.3-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License : [fill in] Section : database It

Re: RFS: lesstif2 AND Questions about collab-maint

2009-11-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi mentors, Paul Gevers wrote: > 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 > already incorporated in the current version of les

Re: RFS: avifile (QA upload)

2009-11-03 Thread Yavor Doganov
At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:06:53 +0300, Явор Доганов wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.7.48~20090503.ds-1 > of the orphaned package "avifile". > The upload would fix these bugs: 206467, 227408, 290069, 435169, > 448736, 473414, 489012, 492040, 526536, 538750, 538753, 542527.