Re: RFS: xnbd

2011-02-21 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Wouter, On 21.02.2011 11:34, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If true, that would be a breach of copyright. NBD is GPL2 *only*, and the number of people who have contributed to NBD in the past is too numerous to change this anymore (if I had the

Re: RFS: xnbd

2011-02-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 05:45:21PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: FWIW: xNBD derived from the original NBD package and still shares code with it afaict. This might bring up the question whether it is legal to distribute xNBD as GPL-2+ (I can't tell xNBD is a fork though). The license statements made

Re: RFS: enemy-territory

2011-02-21 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Hello, On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:03:41PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: 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 :

Re: RFS: ulatencyd - Daemon to minimize latency on a linux system using cgroups

2011-02-21 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 07:06:50PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: Hi Alessandro, I am willing to review and sponsor your package, but don't have time right now for the actual review. I will make sure to send an answer to you during next week. Any news? Thanks -- perl -E'$_=q;$/=

Re: RFS: openteacher

2011-02-21 Thread Arvind S Raj
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Robert James Clay j...@rocasa.us wrote: The URL for that is a little different; try http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/openteacher.git This is the current value of VCS-Browser field in debian/control. -- Arvind S Raj

RFS: mdk (adopted, updated the packaging a lot)

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1.2.3-2 of my package mdk. I am hereby trying to adopt the package and refresh its packaging a lot; I've left the update to newer upstream versions for the next uploads. It builds a single binary packages: mdk- MIX Development

RFS: basex - XML database and XPath/XQuery processor

2011-02-21 Thread Alexander Holupirek
Hi all, I am looking for a sponsor for the package basex. BaseX is a native XML database and XPath/XQuery processor written entirely in Java. Besides it supports the latest W3C Full Text and Update Recommendations. BaseX can be operated from command line, in client/server mode, or using a GUI.

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Finney
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: Hi, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Ben Finney wrote: at URL: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”. […] In other words: is the dummy

CFLAGS='-g -O2 -O2'; dpkg-buildflags; dpkg-architecture -q switch.

2011-02-21 Thread Regid Ichira
Consider the duplication of the O2 flag in CFLAGS='-g -O2 -O2'. It is taken from the dpkg-buildpackage part of https://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=nutarch=i386ver=2.4.3-2stamp=1293189087file=logas=raw . That duplication is repeated after wards in each compilation line. 1. Can I use

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:03, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: When making a new release of a source package that renames one of its binary packages, at URL:http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package it is asserted “most package managers (including AFAIK apt) do not know to replace

Re: RFS: xnbd

2011-02-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Arno, On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:45:20AM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: Hi Wouter, On 21.02.2011 11:34, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If true, that would be a breach of copyright. NBD is GPL2 *only*, and the number of people who have contributed to NBD in the past is too numerous to change this

parse error in changelog

2011-02-21 Thread Lars Buitinck
Hello, Can someone pinpoint the error in the changelog below: dbxml (2.5.16-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release (Closes: #573859) -- Lars Buitinck larsm...@gmail.com Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:30:22 +0100 When I run dpkg-buildpackage, I get the error parsechangelog/debian: warning:

Re: parse error in changelog

2011-02-21 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, I would just use dch -i , and remove the old entry... On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Lars Buitinck larsm...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Can someone pinpoint the error in the changelog below: dbxml (2.5.16-1) unstable; urgency=low  * Initial release (Closes: #573859)  -- Lars

Re: New try on kstars-data-extra-tycho2

2011-02-21 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Viernes 18 Febrero 2011 13:17:47 Noel David Torres Taño escribió: Hello all: As my prospective sponsor does not give life signals, I come here again to seek for a sponsor of the package kstars-data-extra-tycho2 (and the related ones i'm about to prepare). The package is at m.d.n at

Re: parse error in changelog

2011-02-21 Thread Lars Buitinck
2011/2/21 Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com:  I would just use dch -i , and remove the old entry... Thanks, that worked. The problem was an extra space between email and date. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: parse error in changelog

2011-02-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 21 Fev 2011, Lars Buitinck wrote: Hello, Can someone pinpoint the error in the changelog below: dbxml (2.5.16-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release (Closes: #573859) -- Lars Buitinck larsm...@gmail.com Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:30:22 +0100 When I run dpkg-buildpackage, I get

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

2011-02-21 Thread Bhavani Shankar R
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: Your version number is wrong, it should be 20110218-1 instead. Reuploaded with the correct version number The respective dsc file can be found at:

Re: parse error in changelog

2011-02-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Lars Buitinck larsm...@gmail.com, 2011-02-21, 14:55: parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l5): badly formatted trailer line LINE: -- Lars Buitinck larsm...@gmail.com Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:30:22 +0100 There should be exactly two spaces between the e-mail address and the

Re: RFS: enemy-territory

2011-02-21 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:52:08 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: Hello, On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 08:03:41PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package enemy-territory. * Package name: enemy-territory Version : 2.60-1 Upstream Author : id

Conflicts or Breaks when there is no version number?

2011-02-21 Thread Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
Hi, I came across this issue messing with relationships between packages, more specifically between connman and network-manager, or between ofono and modemmanager. Turns out that ofono/modemmanager or network-manager/connman can't be installed at the same time, because each will interfere with

RFS: hiredis - Minimalistic C client library for Redis

2011-02-21 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package hiredis. * Package name: hiredis Version : 0.9.2-1 Upstream Author : Salvatore Sanfilippo anti...@gmail.com * URL : https://github.com/antirez/hiredis * License : BSD-3-Clause Section : libs It

Re: Conflicts or Breaks when there is no version number?

2011-02-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: [Conflicts should be used] [...] in other cases where one must prevent simultaneous installation of two packages for reasons that are ongoing (not fixed in a later version of one of the packages) I'm just trying to get a good understanding

packaging a new qt application with 2 components

2011-02-21 Thread Steven
Hi Debian mentors, I picked up an existing qt application which was not packaged before. I do maintenance on the source code and would like to create proper Debian packages. I'm fairly new at creating Debian packages, I read some documentation about packaging and did some testing, which goes

Re: parse error in changelog

2011-02-21 Thread Ben Finney
Lars Buitinck larsm...@gmail.com writes: Can someone pinpoint the error in the changelog below: dbxml (2.5.16-1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release (Closes: #573859) -- Lars Buitinck larsm...@gmail.com Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:30:22 +0100 The trailer line is badly formatted, as the

Re: Transition from oldpackagename to newpackagename

2011-02-21 Thread أحمد المحمودي
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 01:28:13PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: Also beside that the package manager might be a bit confused, it confuses maybe the user who will see that his beloved package oldname will be removed in an upgrade to a new version of debian! Its far better in this case to

Re: packaging a new qt application with 2 components

2011-02-21 Thread Steven
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 23:18 +0100, Lars Buitinck wrote: 2011/2/21 Steven redalert.comman...@gmail.com: The original sources are in a remote SVN repository, the project consists of 2 major components, a 'kernel' and a gui. These 2 projects compile separately, although the resulting binary

Re: packaging a new qt application with 2 components

2011-02-21 Thread Lars Buitinck
2011/2/21 Steven redalert.comman...@gmail.com: The original sources are in a remote SVN repository, the project consists of 2 major components, a 'kernel' and a gui. These 2 projects compile separately, although the resulting binary of the gui component is a single file which also contains the

Re: packaging a new qt application with 2 components

2011-02-21 Thread Lars Buitinck
2011/2/22 Steven redalert.comman...@gmail.com: Yes, looking in the directory, I see a single .a file, starting with 'lib' (also the largest file in there). I guess this means it would be easiest to create 2 separate packages, while changing the *.pro file for the gui? If you want to keep them

Re: packaging a new qt application with 2 components

2011-02-21 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-02-21, Steven redalert.comman...@gmail.com wrote: What would be the best approach to deal with this? Note that I'm fairly new at creating Debian packages and developing qt applications (I do have experience in Java, but not with Debian in mind). two tarballs is a v3 source format?