Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread أحمد المحمودي
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:13:35AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Sometimes the package is beyond my skill level (such as Java or > complicated maintainer scripts) or written in languages I strongly > dislike (PHP), which means I review part of the package and will not > sponsor it. ---end quoted text--

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Lorenzo De Liso] > I'm a simple debian contributor: I'm trying to get my work in debian > through a sponsor [1] [2]. The problem is that I'm waiting for a sponsor > since 7 days+ (and not only me, in mentors.debian.net there are 20+ > pending packages) [3]. My sponsoring preferences are availabl

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 20:54:28 you wrote: > I for one would like to become > a DD. For a simple reason: it is my OS of choice since years ago, so I > want it to be its best for everybody. But I suffer the problems I > mentioned. How many packages have you worked on for Debian? Maybe it is tim

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
Firstly, 7 days is a very short period of time to be waiting for sponsorship, some have been waiting since 2006. About your two packages: autotrash: sounds like the functionality should be part of GNOME/KDE, please talk to upstream about moving it there. ardentryst: seems like a good fit for the

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 18:22:08 Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 18.12 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha > > scritto: > > I don't think you are going to get a lot of traction for any proposal > > that removes a DD from the upload process. > > > > So, lack of free DDs will

Re: RFS: googlecl (python command-line interface to gdata)

2010-06-09 Thread Jason Holt
A few more dumb questions: "setup.py sdist" creates dist/googlecl-0.9.tar.gz in my project root, but debuild complains about that until I remove it. There's probably an obvious way to tell it to ignore dist/, but I can't seem to find it. Likewise, debuild creates build/ and debian/googlecl/. I

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Hello, Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 17.26 -0700, Russ Allbery ha scritto: > It may be worth noting here that the repository on mentors.d.o is not > intended to serve as an upload queue that someone will process. Rather, > it's intended to provide a place where people can put packages to make it

RFS: googlecl (python command-line interface to gdata)

2010-06-09 Thread Jason Holt
Hello Mentors.  I think I have my python application packaged correctly. Can someone look it over for bugs and give me a hand uploading it to unstable when it's done? Short background: googlecl is a command-line tool to let people access Google services from the command line, like so: google blog

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Lorenzo De Liso writes: > Yes, what Sune said is right. But if it's supposed to be so then new > uploads will be processed slowly or never. It may be worth noting here that the repository on mentors.d.o is not intended to serve as an upload queue that someone will process. Rather, it's intended

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Hello, Il giorno gio, 10/06/2010 alle 09.31 +1000, Craig Small ha scritto: > That's exactly how I work when sponsoring packages. I look after 7 of > them and all 7 have a reason for being there. There is only 9 packages > that are asking for sponsors. > > Whereas for me that would be my worst ni

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 10:44:00PM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2010-06-09, Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > > I'm a simple debian contributor: I'm trying to get my work in debian > > through a sponsor [1] [2]. The problem is that I'm waiting for a sponsor > > since 7 days+ (and not only me, in mentors

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi Panah
I feel like encouraged enough to become a DD. But when I see how complicated is the process of getting a package sponsored, I'm afraid of even thinking about the process of becoming a DD. Or is it just me? On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 09 June 2010

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 18.12 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ha scritto: > I don't think you are going to get a lot of traction for any proposal that > removes a DD from the upload process. > > So, lack of free DDs will always be a potential issue. I suggest you > encourage people to beco

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 18:06:06 Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 22.44 +, Sune Vuorela ha scritto: > > A recommended strategy is to package some apps that are interesting > > enough to get some DDs to work with you, and then you can also most > > likely get them to loo

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Hello, Il giorno mer, 09/06/2010 alle 22.44 +, Sune Vuorela ha scritto: > When I'm sponsoring packages, which happens from time to time, it is > normally packages that I somehow have a interest in. > I think that many other sponsors feel it the same way. Sure and I'm agree about that. > For

Re: A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-09, Lorenzo De Liso wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a simple debian contributor: I'm trying to get my work in debian > through a sponsor [1] [2]. The problem is that I'm waiting for a sponsor > since 7 days+ (and not only me, in mentors.debian.net there are 20+ > pending packages) [3]. Why are

A lot of pending packages

2010-06-09 Thread Lorenzo De Liso
Hi all, I'm a simple debian contributor: I'm trying to get my work in debian through a sponsor [1] [2]. The problem is that I'm waiting for a sponsor since 7 days+ (and not only me, in mentors.debian.net there are 20+ pending packages) [3]. Why are they in pending status and nobody wants to upload

Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)

2010-06-09 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On 2010-06-04, Rogério Brito wrote: > On 06/04/2010 01:36 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Thanks for spotting this! I've just uploaded xpdf with a versioned >> depenedency on libpoppler-dev: >> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xpdf > > Just for the record, it seems that things will brea

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-09 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-09, Daniel Leidert wrote: > b) Let both modules packages provide desktopnova-module and conflict > with each other. Then let desktopnova depend on desktopnova-module. So > the user will have to choose the module package to install. IMO this is > a common solution. This is definately no

Re: desktopnova (rename packages or change dependencies?)

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Dienstag, den 08.06.2010, 20:17 +0200 schrieb Stefan Haller: > On Monday 07 June 2010 17:28:19 Daniel Leidert wrote: > > I would expect a simple third solution: > > > > desktopnova depends on the modules with equal version > > the modules don't depend on desktopnova at all > > > > Why do they

ITR: uwsgi

2010-06-09 Thread David Paleino
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:04:44 +0300, Leonid Borisenko wrote: > * Package name: uwsgi > Version : 0.9.5.1-1 > Upstream Author : Roberto De Ioris > * URL : http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki > * License : GPL-2+ > Section : web I'm going to review it A

RFS: uwsgi

2010-06-09 Thread Leonid Borisenko
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "uwsgi". * Package name: uwsgi Version : 0.9.5.1-1 Upstream Author : Roberto De Ioris * URL : http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki * License : GPL-2+ Section : web It builds these binary package

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Re: RFS: marave - 2nd Attempt

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Chris wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "marave". Here is a review: Since this is an editor and we have tons of those in Debian, your RFS and package description should detail what marave does that others do not. According to the upstream README

RFS: wrapperfactory.app (updated package)

2010-06-09 Thread Yavor Doganov
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.1.0-4 of my package "wrapperfactory.app". It builds these binary packages: wrapperfactory.app - Application wrappers configuration tool for GNUstep The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 581989 Th

Re: About package with potential legal risk

2010-06-09 Thread Holger Levsen
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