Re: RFS: lives

2010-01-10 Thread Harry Rickards
2010/1/9 Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.1.8-1 of my package lives. snip Thanks for uploading! -- Harry Rickards - ha...@linux.com Debian Lenny server | Debian Sid desktop | UNR Karmic netbook A good programmer is someone who

RFS: meta-gnustep (updated package)

2010-01-10 Thread Yavor Doganov
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 7.4 of my package meta-gnustep. It builds these binary packages: gnustep- The GNUstep Development Environment -- user applications gnustep-core-devel - The GNUstep Development Environment -- core development gnustep-core-doc - The

RFS: gcin (updated package)

2010-01-10 Thread Kan-Ru Chen
Hi Gonéri, mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.4.6-1 of my package gcin. It builds these binary packages: gcin - an GTK+ based input method platform for Chinese users gcin-dev - an GTK+ based input method platform - development files gcin-qt3-immodule - an QT3 input

original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Seger, Mark
I fear I may be opening a can or worms but also feel I need to ask. I'm trying to add a changelog to my collectl package and as I don't currently have one, I currently have a file containing release notes, I thought I'd look to see what others are doing as my plan is to just write a perl

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Paul Wise
I assume you are talking about the upstream ChangeLog rather than debian/changelog. The only standard I am aware of for that is the one described in the GNU coding standards document[1]. Many upstreams completely ignore it and the recommended file naming (ChangeLog not CHANGES.TXT or one of the

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Pietro Battiston
Il giorno dom, 10/01/2010 alle 22.58 +0800, Paul Wise ha scritto: I assume you are talking about the upstream ChangeLog rather than debian/changelog. The only standard I am aware of for that is the one described in the GNU coding standards document[1]. The suggested document doesn't mention

A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Reinier Haasjes
Hi, 2 days ago Martin uploaded Aiccu version 20070115-11 for me, that's all oke. But now on the PTS-page [1] there are a few messages: todo * Lintian reports 4 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them. When I uploaded the package was

Re: A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:57:14PM +0100, Reinier Haasjes wrote: Hi, 2 days ago Martin uploaded Aiccu version 20070115-11 for me, that's all oke. But now on the PTS-page [1] there are a few messages: todo * Lintian reports 4 warnings about this package. You should make the

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Yavor Doganov
Some additional comments from me that may or may not be worth reading. Paul Wise wrote: The GNU coding standards document doesn't recommend any specific format for NEWS files. Right -- the format is (and has always been) free-form; it's usually a nested list suitable for Emacs' outline-mode.

Re: A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Christoph Egger
At Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:22:19 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:57:14PM +0100, Reinier Haasjes wrote: Hi, 2 days ago Martin uploaded Aiccu version 20070115-11 for me, that's all oke. But now on the PTS-page [1] there are a few messages: todo * Lintian reports

Re: A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Christoph Egger
At Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:57:14 +0100, Reinier Haasjes wrote: Hi, 2 days ago Martin uploaded Aiccu version 20070115-11 for me, that's all oke. But now on the PTS-page [1] there are a few messages: * mentors.debian.net has version 20070115-11 of this package, you should consider

RFS: ngorca

2010-01-10 Thread ebrosius
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the version 1.0.2-1 of my package ngorca. Package name : ngorca Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Dennis Krzyzaniak ebros...@netgarage.org URL: http://code.google.com/p/ngorca/downloads/list

RFS: mpg321 (updated package)

2010-01-10 Thread Nanakos Chrysostomos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.2.11-1 of my package mpg321. It builds these binary packages: mpg321 - Simple and lightweight command line MP3 player The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Please be aware of the difference between NEWS files and ChangeLog files in the GNU coding standards document. Most upstreams completely ignore this difference. GNU NEWS[3] files are a list of user-visible changes for each release. The GNU coding standards

RFS(JavaMorph)

2010-01-10 Thread Claus Wimmer
From: Claus Wimmer claus.erhard.wim...@googlemail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: javamorph Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package javamorph. * Package name: javamorph Version : 0.0.20090514-1 Upstream Author : Claus Wimmer

Re: A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello, Reinier Haasjes rein...@haasjes.com wrote: * Lintian reports 4 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them. When I uploaded the package was lintian clean (mentors.d.o also told me), is this because lintian.d.o runs on sid and

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: If you use a version control system, there are cvs2cl, svn2cl, git2cl and probably other scripts to convert your commit messages into GNU-style ChangeLog files, no need to reinvent the wheel here. For Bazaar, this is an option to the ‘log’ command: bzr

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: I think NEWS is far and away the more useful of the two files. Usually the full changelog has an overwhelming amount of detail and isn't horribly useful at answering users' questions. How would you relate this valuation against the Lintian checks? Should

Re: A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Ben Finney
Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de writes: Hello, Reinier Haasjes rein...@haasjes.com wrote: When I uploaded the package was lintian clean (mentors.d.o also told me), is this because lintian.d.o runs on sid and a newer version (2.3.1) of lintian (I'm running testing/2.2.18) Download

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: All of the packages for which I'm both upstream and the Debian packager have no traditional ChangeLog file, only NEWS, and install the upstream NEWS file as /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz. Perhaps that

Re: RFS: JavaMorph - IANADD

2010-01-10 Thread Niels Thykier
Claus Wimmer wrote: From: Claus Wimmer claus.erhard.wim...@googlemail.com To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org Subject: RFS: javamorph Dear mentors, Hi Thank you for your interest in packaging for Debian. I am not a Debian Developer; nevertheless I had a look at your package and have a

Re: A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:22:19 +0100 Iustin Pop iu...@k1024.org wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:57:14PM +0100, Reinier Haasjes wrote: Hi, 2 days ago Martin uploaded Aiccu version 20070115-11 for me, that's all oke. But now on the PTS-page [1] there are a few messages: todo

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably be discussed.  When packaging other people's software, I install the upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS as NEWS.gz. For some packages where

Re: A few questions after my first upload (sponsored)

2010-01-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Karl Goetz k...@kgoetz.id.au wrote: I assume when you say 'unstable environment' you don't exclude the possibility of using a backported lintian on (say) stable. I'd specifically exclude that. You need to build under sid to ensure the package will build and

Re: original package changelogs

2010-01-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably be discussed.  When packaging other people's software, I install the upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS as