dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:31:06PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: You might want to use dh --parallel. I really wonder why it's not debhelper's default. I understand, it can break old packages with buggy makefiles, but it'd be nice to have --parallel both in the examples and as compat 9 default.

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: I really wonder why it's not debhelper's default.  I understand, it can break old packages with buggy makefiles, but it'd be nice to have --parallel both in the examples and as compat 9 default. ... 1. let's change all dh

Confusing ancient-autotools-helper-file error

2011-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Dear list, I am trying to pack the pywcs package, (Python wrapper for wcslib; ITP http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641635) which contains a convienence copy of the wcslib. As required, I ignore the convienence copy of wcslib and use the version packaged for Debian. The

Re: RFS: flex-sdk-4.5

2011-10-17 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Joey Parrish wrote: Does the Debian community standardize on git, or is an svn repo also acceptable? I don't have any experience with git yet, but I'm a frequent user of svn. Git is definitely more popular (and my

Re: Confusing ancient-autotools-helper-file error

2011-10-17 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2011-10-17, 13:42: E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.guess 2003-10-03 E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.sub 2003-08-18 which is completely irrelevant for me (since

Re: Confusing ancient-autotools-helper-file error

2011-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx, 2011-10-17, 13:42: E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.guess 2003-10-03 E: python-pywcs source: ancient-autotools-helper-file wcslib/config/config.sub 2003-08-18 which is

Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Dear list, my upstream package has a file CHANGELOG which does not get installed by default. When I just include this file name into debian/docs, lintian complains about wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog. Is there a simple way to rename this file? Or do I need to write a specific debian/rules

Re: Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Ole Streicher wrote: my upstream package has a file CHANGELOG which does not get installed by default. When I just include this file name into debian/docs, lintian complains about wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog. Is there a simple way to rename this file?

Re: Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:36:25 +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: Dear list, my upstream package has a file CHANGELOG which does not get installed by default. When I just include this file name into debian/docs, lintian complains about wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog. Is there a simple way to

watch file syntax

2011-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Dear list (again :-)), thank you very much for helping so far -- I have now another problem: the upstream url is something like http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs-1.10-4.7.tar.gz, but the URL http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/ just gives some errors, preventing the watch file from working

Re: Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx writes: my upstream package has a file CHANGELOG which does not get installed by default. When I just include this file name into debian/docs, lintian complains about wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog. If you use debhelper compat level 7 or higher,

multiarch and ucf

2011-10-17 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Hi, I'm having a small issue and I'm not exactly sure whether it's a bug or I'm misunderstanding the documentation. I'm packaging tivoli-tsm (an i386-only closed-source application) for internal use. It used to work fine depending on ia32-libs on amd64. Since there are issues with ia32-libs in

Re: Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org writes: Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx writes: my upstream package has a file CHANGELOG which does not get installed by default. When I just include this file name into debian/docs, lintian complains about wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog. If you

Re: Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Guido van Steen
there? (I use debhelper -8.9.0ubuntu1). Are you packaging for Debian of for Ubuntu? If I packaged for Debian I would not use an Ubuntu version of debhelper... On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx wrote: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org writes: Ole

Re: Upstream changelog name change

2011-10-17 Thread Ole Streicher
Guido van Steen vanst...@users.sourceforge.net writes: there? (I use debhelper -8.9.0ubuntu1). Are you packaging for Debian of for Ubuntu? If I packaged for Debian I would not use an Ubuntu version of debhelper... Both. On my desktop, I use Ubuntu, and when everything goes fine, I change to a

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:02:04 +0200 Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:31:06PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: You might want to use dh --parallel. I really wonder why it's not debhelper's default. I understand, it can break old packages with buggy makefiles, but

pre-build target skipped

2011-10-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi, Does anyone knows of any reason why the pre-build target could be skipped ? I am starring at my rules files: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/vxl/trunk/debian/rules?view=markup I cannot spot why pre-build is being skipped. Thanks much ! -- Mathieu -- To

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: I agree, but there's another big problem: autoconf. It runs far more tests than most projects need (especially when using glib which takes care of a large range of compatibility issues for you), and each run takes longer than the actual

Re: multiarch and ucf

2011-10-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-10-17 15:23 +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: I'm having a small issue and I'm not exactly sure whether it's a bug or I'm misunderstanding the documentation. I'm packaging tivoli-tsm (an i386-only closed-source application) for internal use. It used to work fine depending on ia32-libs

Re: watch file syntax

2011-10-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx writes: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dother.en.html#docs | Normally with a watch file, the URL at http://sf.net/gentoo is in my case, this is

RFS: fadecut

2011-10-17 Thread Marco Balmer
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for package: * Package name: fadecut Version : 0.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Marco Balmer ma...@balmer.name * URL : http://github.com/micressor/fadecut * License : GPLv2 Description : toolset to rip

Re: multiarch and ucf

2011-10-17 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I'm having a small issue and I'm not exactly sure whether it's a bug or I'm misunderstanding the documentation. I'm packaging tivoli-tsm (an i386-only closed-source application) for internal use. It used to work fine depending on ia32-libs on amd64.

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:06:00 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: I agree, but there's another big problem: autoconf. It runs far more tests than most projects need (especially when using glib which takes care of a large range of

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:06:00 +0800 Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Tony Houghton wrote: I agree, but there's another big problem: autoconf. It runs far more tests than most projects

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Tony Houghton
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:40:43 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I think writing build scripts in a language like python is very nice (autoconf is too slow, let's use python, spot the irony :)) but

Re: dh --parallel (was: Re: RFS: lebiniou)

2011-10-17 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:40:43 +0200 Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malate...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Tony Houghton h...@realh.co.uk wrote: I think writing build scripts in a language like python is

Re: RFS: flex-sdk-4.5

2011-10-17 Thread Damien Raude-Morvan
Hi Joey, On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:01:11 +0200, Joey Parrish joey.parr...@gmail.com wrote: Note that the Flex SDK itself cannot yet be built from Adobe's source code under Debian, even though the code is released under the MPL. Adobe's build system relies on Cygwin and some outdated and/or

Re: RFS: lebiniou (already in Debian, new upstream version 3.12)

2011-10-17 Thread Olivier Girondel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/17/2011 06:31 AM, Paul Wise wrote: You might want to use dh --parallel. Thanks for the hint, will use this in release 3.13 - -- Olivier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

RFR: blogofile -- Static website compiler and blog engine

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Rütten
Hi, this is a RFR (Request For Review) for my blogofile package. This is a RFR and not a RFS because I know that there are still several issues and open questions which will provoke every possible sponsor to reject the package from an upload. Nevertheless I would embracing any review,

Re: RFR: blogofile -- Static website compiler and blog engine

2011-10-17 Thread Andreas Rütten
Am Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:44:14 +0200 schrieb Andreas Rütten andreasruet...@gmx.de: Sorry but I didn't explain one point well enough: [...] - The package builds fine with debuild respectively dpkg-buildpacke but not with pbuilder or cowbuilder. That's sound for me that there are missing

Re: RFR: blogofile -- Static website compiler and blog engine

2011-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
Andreas Rütten andreasruet...@gmx.de writes: this is a RFR (Request For Review) for my blogofile package. Thank you for working on this package, I am looking forward to its addition to Debian. - Since a few days the watch file included isn't working. Probably this is because of a change

RFS: photoprint (New upstream version: package already in Debian)

2011-10-17 Thread David Stone
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package photoprint. * Package name: photoprint Version : 0.4.2~pre2-1 Upstream Author : Alastair M. Robinson a...@blackfiveservices.co.uk * URL :

RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-17 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, I am looking to upload the new version 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 of my package xz-utils to unstable. It builds these binary packages: xz-utils- high compression-ratio compressor xz-lzma - LZMA Utils compatibility commands xzdec - tiny decompressors liblzma-dev -

berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Elliott
Perhaps this is offtopic, but there are so many packagers here, perhaps I can find an answer. Berlios is closing, I have two small projects, GPLed, that use subversion and publish tarballs, where should I go? I looked at sourceforge, but they are always sending me adds. Too comercial for my

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-17 Thread Ben Finney
Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com writes: I must move my projects before berlios closes. Any suggestions? Alioth is free-software project hosting run by people from the Debian project URL:https://alioth.debian.org/. -- \“Ubi dubium, ibi libertas.” (“Where there is doubt,