Re: RFS: pipemeter

2010-10-05 Thread Kan-Ru Chen
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Clint Byrum cl...@ubuntu.com wrote: Updated. Uploaded. Cheers, Kanru -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-05 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:29:28PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: Hi everybody, I need help. I am not a DD, nor a DM; nonetheless, I am one of the two current co-maintainers of apt-listbugs. The other one is Ryan Niebur. My problem is that I've lost contact with him: he seems to be

Re: RFS: ripit, a textbased audio CD ripper (updated package) 2nd attempt

2010-10-05 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:29:10PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hi, I am looking once again for a sponsor for the new version 3.9.0-1 of my package ripit. It should be uploaded to experimental, please. Uploaded. Thanks. :) Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hi, Just copying the reply to the original author... he already said that he's not subscribed to the mailing list ;) Cheers. On Tuesday 05 October 2010 09:27:57 Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:29:28PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: Hi everybody, I need help. I am not

Re: Review of gnome-gmail

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Niels, hi list, [...] Thanks for your interest in Debian. It looks like you have not received any feedback on nor found a sponsor for your package yet. I have spent some time reviewing your package and got a few comments for you, which I hope you find useful. Please note that I am

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] I think a possibly good solution would be to set up a mentors.debian.net bug page (similar to other debian resources such as [0]). That would make it much clearer which mentoring tasks are still open. It would also make it possible categorize new submissions, which would help

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org wrote: And what other cultural improvements can we make to debian-mentors? What else can we do to make this place supportive and helpful for the progress of y'all mentees into sparkly Debian contributors and developers? Not

creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread gustavo panizzo gfa
Hi folks, i would like to create a man page for vavoom, based on a wiki page licensed as GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. What can i do? GFDL is not free for debian, and my pkg is for main. thanks! -- 1AE0 322E B8F7 4717 BDEA BF1D 44BB 1BA7 9F6C 6333 signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: RFS: matrixssl

2010-10-05 Thread zeus
Michal Čihař ni...@debian.org writes: Hi please keep the discussion on the list. Sorry forgot to check. Quick look at the package: This it's the funny part, I had some troubles trying to understand what's the NMU didn't find a place to understand and then fix this issue. See

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 05.10.2010 17:17, schrieb gustavo panizzo gfa: i would like to create a man page for vavoom, based on a wiki page licensed as GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. What can i do? GFDL is not free for debian, and my pkg is for main. Well... As a starting point you could read the outcome

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-10-05 17:17 +0200, gustavo panizzo gfa wrote: Hi folks, i would like to create a man page for vavoom, based on a wiki page licensed as GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. What can i do? GFDL is not free for debian, and my pkg is for main. GFDL without invariant sections is fine for

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread gustavo panizzo gfa
am i reading this correctly? http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001 is possible to include documentation licensed as GFDL 1.2 :) On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 12:17:06PM -0300, gustavo panizzo gfa wrote: Hi folks, i would like to create a man page for vavoom, based on a wiki page licensed as

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 05 October 2010 10:17:06 gustavo panizzo gfa wrote: i would like to create a man page for vavoom, based on a wiki page licensed as GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. What can i do? GFDL is not free for debian, and my pkg is for main. You could package the documentation in a

Re: creating a manpage from a GFDL text

2010-10-05 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 05.10.2010 17:54, schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: i would like to create a man page for vavoom, based on a wiki page licensed as GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. What can i do? GFDL is not free for debian, and my pkg is for main. You could package the documentation in a separate

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote: [...] I think a possibly good solution would be to set up a mentors.debian.net bug page (similar to other debian resources such as [0]). That would make it much clearer which mentoring tasks are still open. It would also make it possible

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org wrote: And what other cultural improvements can we make to debian-mentors? What else can we do to make this place supportive and helpful for the progress of y'all mentees into

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Michal Čihař wrote: Lack of interested mentors is indeed an issue. Nobody has unlimited time and chooses what attracts him. For me it usually means things I know and test or which I find interesting after reading RFS email. It is. At the same time, I think that we can

Re: Rescue Plan for apt-listbugs

2010-10-05 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:54:29 +0200 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: [...] Just copying the reply to the original author... he already said that he's not subscribed to the mailing list ;) Thanks a lot! [...] On Tuesday 05 October 2010 09:27:57 Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010

Re: RFS: btag -- interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

2010-10-05 Thread David Bremner
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 00:50:15 -0300, Fernando Lemos fernando...@gmail.com wrote: * Package name: btag Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Fernando Tarlá Cardoso Lemos fernando...@gmail.com * URL : http://github.com/fernandotcl/btag * License : BSD Section

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Vincent Carmona
2010/10/5 Johan Van de Wauw johan.vandew...@gmail.com: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Asheesh Laroia ashe...@asheesh.org wrote: Not something that is implemented overnight, but I think there should be a solution for new packages which are often useful for users, but not (yet?) up to debian

Re: RFS: ripit, a textbased audio CD ripper (updated package) 2nd attempt

2010-10-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Sven Hoexter [101005 10:42 +0200]: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:29:10PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Hi, I am looking once again for a sponsor for the new version 3.9.0-1 of my package ripit. It should be uploaded to experimental, please. Uploaded. Thanks. :) Thanks for your

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Michael Tautschnig
[...] (great ideas w/ color codes) If you want to write up a script (I would use Python), I can imagine how you'd go about doing it... except I don't know how you can download MBOX archives of Debian lists. (I actually struggled with this in the summer of 2006, now that I think about it.)

Re: Four days

2010-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010, Paul Wise wrote: Another demotivator is people who treat the archive as a dumping ground for their pet package; do a one-shot upload to get it in and essentially leave it orphaned after that. I tried to avoid that by having a policy of not sponsoring anything, but I still

Re: RFS: cppcheck, new upstream version 1.45

2010-10-05 Thread Reijo Tomperi
Reijo Tomperi wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package cppcheck. * Package name: cppcheck Version : 1.25-1 Upstream Authors: Daniel Marjamäki hyd_dan...@users.sourceforge.net Reijo Tomperi aggr...@users.sourceforge.net * URL :

Re: RFS: ase - Allegro Sprite Editor

2010-10-05 Thread Oscar Morante
Hi Paul, Thanks for your advice. On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:35:35AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Kan-Ru Chen kos...@debian.org wrote: The files under third_party/freetype should be mentioned, too. In addition, we do not like embedded code copies in Debian.

Bug in frozen package - aim at backports/volatile?

2010-10-05 Thread Stefan Ott
Hey list I have a small question: I'm aware that Debian is currently frozen, thus no new features can be added to squeeze. However, I maintain a package [1] (I'm also the upstream maintainer) which has an annoying but non-critical bug. The package is a parser for TV show episode information and

Re: RFS: btag -- interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

2010-10-05 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hey David, On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:10 PM, David Bremner brem...@unb.ca wrote: I'm not a DD, but hopefully this review can make it easier to sponsor your package. Thanks for your input, it's really appreciated. - It should be documented what extensions/formats are supported.  I  tried some

Re: RFS: matrixssl

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 11:40 PM, z...@gnu.org wrote: By what you said I presume that I should put experimental in the changelog? but I'm sure that it must go in unstable, why it will not go there? Please read the freeze announcement:

Re: RFS: btag -- interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

2010-10-05 Thread Kan-Ru Chen
Hi Bremner, Thanks for the review! Hi Fernando, Thanks for the Debian packaging work, the package is indeed in a very good shape! Uploaded. Cheers, Kanru -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Bug in frozen package - aim at backports/volatile?

2010-10-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In aanlktimup8b_ynec1kuc9p_g2wkq0rlthfz5ul9gc...@mail.gmail.com, Stefan Ott wrote: I have a small question: I'm aware that Debian is currently frozen, thus no new features can be added to squeeze. However, I maintain a package [1] (I'm also the upstream maintainer) which has an annoying but