RFS: acsccid

2011-08-16 Thread Godfrey Chung
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package acsccid. This release is to correct the udev rules filename (debian/libacsccid1.udev) to fix the problem that the udev rules file was not added to the package. The udev rules file is required by the latest pcscd. The smart card readers

RFS: libsmack (new package, ITP)

2011-08-16 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libsmack. * Package name: libsmack Version : 1.1.git20110809-1 Upstream Author : Brian McGillion brian.mcgill...@intel.com * URL : http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-platform-security * License :

request for pkg review (ITP #538067)

2011-08-16 Thread Hamish
Hi, it is been a while since our last review of the OpenCPN packaging, and the stable release we were working towards has now shipped. Our .deb packaging efforts await further instructions. source tarball: http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/tarballs/opencpn_2.5.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz debian/

Re: request for pkg review (ITP #538067)

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, it is been a while since our last review of the OpenCPN packaging, and the stable release we were working towards has now shipped. Our .deb packaging efforts await further instructions. source tarball:  

Re: request for pkg review (ITP #538067)

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 16 août 2011 13:31:34, Hamish a écrit : Hi, it is been a while since our last review of the OpenCPN packaging, and the stable release we were working towards has now shipped. Our .deb packaging efforts await further instructions. source tarball:

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Stanislav Maslovski's message of Sat Aug 13 06:12:53 -0400 2011: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: I guess, the HTTP-based method does not have this absurd 30 minutes long delay... Trying to login and sort things out... Noticed one more

dh-autoreconf/autotools-dev questions

2011-08-16 Thread Oohara Yuuma
I am packaging a software which uses autoconf and automake. I will regenerate all autotool files with dh-autoreconf. * The upstream tarball contains auto-generated files. Do I have to save these files somewhere before calling dh_autoreconf and restore them in the clean target, or is it

Re: News about the mentors.debian.net transition to upgraded software

2011-08-16 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:50:42AM -0400, Asheesh Laroia wrote: As of Thu Aug 11 08:47:29 UTC 2011, mentors.debian.net now runs the Debexpo code. FTP upload should be working. There is a cron job that looks for FTP-based uploads every 30

Re: dh-autoreconf/autotools-dev questions

2011-08-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Oohara Yuuma ooh...@libra.interq.or.jp writes: I am packaging a software which uses autoconf and automake. I will regenerate all autotool files with dh-autoreconf. * The upstream tarball contains auto-generated files. Do I have to save these files somewhere before calling dh_autoreconf

Re: dh-autoreconf/autotools-dev questions

2011-08-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu, 2011-08-16, 16:16: I am packaging a software which uses autoconf and automake. I will regenerate all autotool files with dh-autoreconf. * The upstream tarball contains auto-generated files. Do I have to save these files somewhere before calling dh_autoreconf

Re: dh-autoreconf/autotools-dev questions

2011-08-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu, 2011-08-16, 16:16: I am packaging a software which uses autoconf and automake. I will regenerate all autotool files with dh-autoreconf. * The upstream tarball contains auto-generated files. Do I have to save these files

Re: RFS: libsmack (new package, ITP)

2011-08-16 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
I would be glad about some feedback about this (first) package for SMACK support. And I would be very glad if someone upload this package for me. Unfortunately I cannot answer the next three weeks. But I will wait for more feedback for better packaging of libsmack (and other smack packages in

Re: dh-autoreconf/autotools-dev questions

2011-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Oohara Yuuma ooh...@libra.interq.or.jp writes: * The software doesn't use AC_CANONICAL or libtool. Running autoreconf manually doesn't generate config.{guess, sub}. Do I have to build-depend on autotools-dev and call both dh_autoreconf and dh_autotools-dev_updateconfig to copy the

Re: Is registered Categories required for debian?

2011-08-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 08:12:12PM -0500, Paul Elliott a écrit : Are debian source packages required to follow http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html A. Registered Categories, of freedesktop's Desktop Menu Specification? Dear Paul, yes, when we use a Desktop menu file,

In a single binary source package how does one fail to install some files?

2011-08-16 Thread Paul Elliott
When I was building a library and I wanted to not install the .la file that make install was creating, I could just leave it out of all of the package.install files and it would not be installed. In a single binary package how do I not install a file that make install creates? Thank You.

Re: In a single binary source package how does one fail to install some files?

2011-08-16 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: When I was building a library and I wanted to not install the .la file that make install was creating, I could just leave it out of all of the package.install files and it would not be installed. In a single