Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server (an Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policy files)

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Kauffman
On 09/21/2011 11:43 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 09/21/2011 12:49 PM, Daniel Kauffman wrote: ... for serving Adobe socket policy files. What's that? How do you make them? Adobe Flash Player (since version 9.0.124.0) will not open a socket connection to a server unless the server first

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-22 Thread Ole Streicher
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2011-09-21, 16:42: - libwcs4 and libwcs4-dev - libpgsbox4 and libpgsbox4-dev First of all, don't version your -dev package(s), unless you want to keep multiple versions of it in the archive at the same people. (You

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server (an Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policy files)

2011-09-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/22/2011 03:32 PM, Daniel Kauffman wrote: Adobe Flash Player (since version 9.0.124.0) will not open a socket connection to a server unless the server first authorizes the connection via an Adobe socket policy. This module serves these policies. (Adobe uses a non-standard protocol for

RFS: pidgin-privacy-please

2011-09-22 Thread Stefan Ott
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package pidgin-privacy-please. * Package name: pidgin-privacy-please Version : 0.7.1-1 Upstream Author : Stefan Ott * URL : http://pidgin-privacy-please.googlecode.com/ * License : GNU GPLv3 Section

Re: RFS: pidgin-privacy-please

2011-09-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net writes: Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pidgin-privacy-please/pidgin-privacy-please_0.7.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. I noticed two

Re: RFS: pidgin-privacy-please

2011-09-22 Thread Stefan Ott
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 13:46, Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu wrote: I noticed two things with regards to the package: * The copyright years in debian/copyright's upstream license part do not  match the years of the upstream sources (2005-2008 vs 2005-2010) * debian/copyright claims the

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-22 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx writes: Is the division into main and contrib done automatically based on the dependencies to non-free packages? No, it is done by hand using the Section field in debian/control. And if a package requires a non-free package to build, will it

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-22 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi Ansgar, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org writes: Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx writes: Is the division into main and contrib done automatically based on the dependencies to non-free packages? No, it is done by hand using the Section field in debian/control. OK, so I have to

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx writes: If it has a contrib/non-free build-dependency, the source package needs to go to contrib as well. It cannot build binaries in main in that case. My problem here is: the source package contains libwcs which may be built (and used) completely

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-22 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2011-09-22, 09:51: - libwcs4 and libwcs4-dev - libpgsbox4 and libpgsbox4-dev First of all, don't version your -dev package(s), unless you want to keep multiple versions of it in the archive at the same people. (You probably don't.) Also, unless

Re: Package separation/naming conventions

2011-09-22 Thread Ole Streicher
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: A -dev package should have a strict versioned dependency on all the shared libraries it provides .so symlink for. This is clear, but means that the wcslib-dev would depend on libpgsbox4, and therefore on pgplot5, which is not nice. libpgsbox.a would contain

Re: mentors.debian.net moved to new hardware

2011-09-22 Thread Tony Houghton
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:08:33 +0200 Arno Töll deb...@toell.net wrote: our (not so) old host running http://mentors.debian.net was replaced right before by shiny new hardware. For you, as user you shouldn't hopefully notice the switch. The new hardware is much more powerful and has plenty of

Re: mentors.debian.net moved to new hardware

2011-09-22 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tony, On 22.09.2011 15:51, Tony Houghton wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:08:33 +0200 Does it include the new version of debexpo that was soon to be deployed? In particular I'm waiting for a bugfix to allow uploading to experimental. No, not yet

RFS: kboot-utils -- needed for d-i to complete on PS3

2011-09-22 Thread Antonio Ospite
Hi Debian Mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package kboot-utils, it is needed to make debian-installer complete a successful installation on PlayStation3. I am also the upstream author. * Package name: kboot-utils Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Antonio Ospite

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-22 Thread Stefan Ott
Hello everyone On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 22:56, Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by wrote: You can also drop libid3 as it is now and write a wrapper around some better ID3 tagging library that has the same (or compatible) interface as libid3. Also, I'd merge id3 and id3v2 into one package, or

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-socket-policy-server (an Apache2 module for serving Adobe socket policy files)

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Kauffman
On 09/22/2011 02:38 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 09/22/2011 03:32 PM, Daniel Kauffman wrote: I didn't see a reference to quilt in the Debian Policy Manual and the Debian New Maintainers' Guide section 2.9 seems to suggest that a native package is ok where there is no upstream. No. It's ok to

Question about menu files

2011-09-22 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
Hi, I have this in the menu file: package(wmaker):needs=wmaker \ section=/ title=Exit sort=ZZ \ command=EXIT And I got this lintian error: W: wmaker: menu-command-not-in-package usr/share/menu/wmaker:6 EXIT W: wmaker: menu-item-needs-tag-has-unknown-value wmaker

Re: RFS: kboot-utils -- needed for d-i to complete on PS3

2011-09-22 Thread Gergely Nagy
Antonio Ospite osp...@studenti.unina.it writes: I packaged kboot-utils (Helper tools to generate a kboot.conf file) for debian, and I'd like to ask if someone can *review* the package and maybe eventually sponsor me for upload to the main archive. While I can't sponsor you, I did have a

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Stefan Ott wrote: I realize that replacing a perfectly working little tool like id3 with my mostly untested id3v2 fork might not be the nicest thing to do, but at the moment it's the best solution I can come up with. Thus I was wondering if any of you have