Re: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2011-02-20 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > >> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110220-1 >> of my package "mobile-broadband-provider-info". > > Your version number is wron

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Ben Finney wrote: > When making a new release of a source package that renames one of its > binary packages, at http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> it > is asserted “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to > replace the old with the new one”. > >

Re: Manual usage of quilt does not work any more

2011-02-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:38:56PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > The --unified-reject-files option has been recently removed from patch. > > Remove QUILT_PATCH_OPTS and the problem will go away. Thanks for your (and the others) hint. Either me or Google yesterday was to stupid to find this solu

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > Fix the legal problems and have Dropbox provide the sources for the > > binaries provided by Dropbox. > > Thanks; I didn't think of that. However, I still haven't received any reply > from upstream for my initial e-mail. If Dropbox replies to my e-mail

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-20 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > > I admit that I have no idea whether this will work, and if it is safe to > > package Dropbox like this. However, since it seems that Dropbox is > unlikely > > to ever make it into the Debian ar

Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
Howdy mentors, When making a new release of a source package that renames one of its binary packages, at http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package> it is asserted “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to replace the old with the new one”. Is that still true of APT? Or does APT

Re: RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2011-02-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110220-1 > of my package "mobile-broadband-provider-info". Your version number is wrong, it should be 20110218-1 instead. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/P

Re: RFS: unix-privesc-check

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:56:29 -0500 Michael Gilbert wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "unix-privesc-check". > > * Package name: unix-privesc-check > Version : 1.4-1 > * URL : http://pentestmonkey.net/tools/unix-privesc-check > * License

RFS: enemy-territory

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "enemy-territory". * Package name: enemy-territory Version : 2.60-1 Upstream Author : id Software / Splash Damage * URL : http://www.slashdamage.com/content/wolfenstein-enemy-territory-barracks * License

RFS: gordon

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gordon". * Package name: gordon Version : 0~git20101011-1 Section : utils It builds these binary packages: libjs-gordon - An open source flash runtime written in pure javascript The package appears to be lintian cl

RFS: unix-privesc-check

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "unix-privesc-check". * Package name: unix-privesc-check Version : 1.4-1 * URL : http://pentestmonkey.net/tools/unix-privesc-check * License : GPL-2 Section : utils It builds these binary packages

RFS: yui-builder

2011-02-20 Thread Michael Gilbert
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "yui-builder". * Package name: yui-builder Version : 1.0.0b1-1 * URL : http://yuilibrary.com/projects/builder * License : BSD It builds these binary packages: yui-builder - a build environment for YUI The

Re: Manual usage of quilt does not work any more

2011-02-20 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:33 +0100 Andreas Tille napsal(a): > I'm currently totally clueless in the following situation: I took > a random package I'm maintaining (at least it is the case for three > totally unrelated packages), say texmaker. I obtained the source > tarball, untarred it an

Re: Manual usage of quilt does not work any more

2011-02-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Andreas Tille , 2011-02-20, 23:30: /tmp/texmaker/texmaker-2.2.1$ quilt push Applying patch 10_spelling_dict.patch patch: unrecognized option '--unified-reject-files' patch: Try `patch --help' for more information. Patch 10_spelling_dict.patch does not apply (enforce with -f) The --unified-rej

Re: Manual usage of quilt does not work any more

2011-02-20 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:30:33PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently totally clueless in the following situation: I took > a random package I'm maintaining (at least it is the case for three > totally unrelated packages), say texmaker. I obtained the source > tarball, untarred

Manual usage of quilt does not work any more

2011-02-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm currently totally clueless in the following situation: I took a random package I'm maintaining (at least it is the case for three totally unrelated packages), say texmaker. I obtained the source tarball, untarred it and copied the debian/ dir from SVN into it. Then I tried: /tmp/texmake

RFS: lfm (updated package)

2011-02-20 Thread Daniel Echeverry
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.2-2 of my package "lfm". It builds these binary packages: lfm- simple but powerful file manager for the UNIX console The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 608315 The package can be found

RFS: xkbind

2011-02-20 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xkbind". * Package name: xkbind Version : 2010.05.20-1 Upstream Author : CHG * URL : http://xkbind.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL-2 Section : x11 It builds these binary packages: xkbind

RFS: xnbd

2011-02-20 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xnbd". * Package name: xnbd Version : 0.0.3+hg20110210-1 * Upstream Author : Takahiro Hirofuchi * URL : https://bitbucket.org/hirofuchi/xnbd/wiki/Home * License : GPL-2+ P

RFS: mobile-broadband-provider-info (updated package)

2011-02-20 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 20110220-1 of my package "mobile-broadband-provider-info". It builds these binary packages: mobile-broadband-provider-info - database of mobile broadband service providers The package appears to be lintian clean. The pack

Re: using pristine-tar

2011-02-20 Thread Robert James Clay
Paul,, On Feb 19, 2011, at 8:14 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: I'm working on a package, and I'm thinking about using pristine-tar. Is there a best practices / tutorial set anywhere? What I've been using is the examples info in the man page; i.e., create an archive, create a tag, then do

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-02-20 Thread Robert James Clay
On Feb 20, 2011, at 3:59 AM, Arvind S Raj wrote: And one question-is it possible to view the files in a particular git repository via the browser? Navigating to http://git.debian.org/ git/collab-maint/openteacher.git/ didn't help much. Is there such a provision? The URL for that is a

Re: RFS: evilvte (updated package)

2011-02-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:42:24PM +0800, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.8-1 > of my package "evilvte". (Programming language: C) Uploaded. Thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Stree

Re: RFS: mpg321 (New upstream release, 3rd try)

2011-02-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > The package has been re-uploaded to mentors.d.n. Upload. Thanks. Sven -- And I don't know much, but I do know this: With a golden heart comes a rebel fist. [ Streetlight Manifesto - Here's To Life ] -- To UNSUBSCRIB

RFS: evilvte (updated package)

2011-02-20 Thread Wen-Yen Chuang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.4.8-1 of my package "evilvte". (Programming language: C) It builds the binary package: evilvte The package is lintian clean. evilvte (0.4.8-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream re

Re: RFS: mpg321 (New upstream release, 3rd try)

2011-02-20 Thread Nanakos Chrysostomos
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:08:49PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:23:52PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > > Hi, > > > Removed from debian/rules file. Hi, > > Ok, I think you should do the same with the conditional 'install -s' stuff > because you run dh_strip anyway

Re: RFS: Dropbox

2011-02-20 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote: > I admit that I have no idea whether this will work, and if it is safe to > package Dropbox like this. However, since it seems that Dropbox is unlikely > to ever make it into the Debian archives if it still contained pre-compiled > libraries, this was the

Re: RFS: fonts-johnsmith-induni

2011-02-20 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Hi, I've found sponsor for my package. Thanks to pkg-fonts team which included my package into their team umbrella. Thanks and Regards On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Vasudev Kamath wrote: > From: Vasudev Kamath > To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org > Subject: RFS: fonts-johnsmith-induni > >

Re: RFS: mpg321 (New upstream release, 3rd try)

2011-02-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 11:23:52PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: Hi, > Removed from debian/rules file. Ok, I think you should do the same with the conditional 'install -s' stuff because you run dh_strip anyway. It does no harm but is redundant. > Revised. I hope this is fine for the momen

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-02-20 Thread Arvind S Raj
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 03:13:26PM +0530, Arvind S Raj wrote: > > > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/openteacher.git;a=summary > > > It's already in your debian/control as Vcs-Browser: > > Thanks Andrey! That link is invalid; updat

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-02-20 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 03:13:26PM +0530, Arvind S Raj wrote: > > http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/openteacher.git;a=summary > > It's already in your debian/control as Vcs-Browser: > Thanks Andrey! That link is invalid; updated it to the right one! Wouldn't > have even guess it was wrong :). R

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-02-20 Thread Arvind S Raj
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 02:29:17PM +0530, Arvind S Raj wrote: > > Oh I didn't know that! Made the necessary changes! And one question-is > it > > possible to view the files in a particular git repository via the > browser? > > Navigati

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-02-20 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 02:29:17PM +0530, Arvind S Raj wrote: > Oh I didn't know that! Made the necessary changes! And one question-is it > possible to view the files in a particular git repository via the browser? > Navigating to http://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/openteacher.git/ didn't > he

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-02-20 Thread Arvind S Raj
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Joachim Wiedorn wrote: > Still one point: In the file debian/manpages you need the line: > debian/openteacher.1 > > Reason: debuild always works from the root source directory. Oh I didn't know that! Made the necessary changes! And one question-is it possible

Re: using pristine-tar

2011-02-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 08:14:52PM -0500, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Howdy d-m, > > I'm working on a package, and I'm thinking about using pristine-tar. > Is there a best practices / tutorial set anywhere? I did some > googling, but since nothing jumped out, I figured some of the better > resources