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

2011-10-20 Thread Roger Light
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: Not getting into any war, but it seems 90% of everyone thinks Git is a way better than BZR, and that the 10% that remains are BZR extremists. Since VCS is all about sharing your sources (unless you don't care about others

Re: dh --parallel

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Best file a couple of bugs about that on autoconf upstream: Please implement autoreconf -jX Please implement ./configure -jX Autoconf upstream has already considered parallel configure. My impression of that dicussion is that there's just no way it will

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

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Light ro...@atchoo.org writes: I think it's more like 100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first because anything after that is different. Nope. Used svk first, then arch, then used bzr extensively for a while, and then learned Git and switched everything else over to it as soon as

Re: RFS: xplanet

2011-10-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ruben Molina rmol...@udea.edu.co, 2011-10-19, 20:57: Your package doesn't respect DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt. Please consider using dpkg-buildflags to fix this issue. :) Thanks. I added dpkg-dev to Build-Depends, included /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk, and addded a DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS=1 in

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jakub Wilk wrote: * Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2011-10-17, 23:49: | Unfortunately one cannot even get lucky and find the symbol from | liblzma2 used from time to time: versioned symbols take precedence over | unversioned ones when resolving unversioned references. As far as I can

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com, 2011-10-20, 05:38: Resolution of unversioned symbols seems (though I haven't found time to check carefully yet) to happen on a first-library-mapped-wins basis. [snip] In the cases where the actual result is v2, v2 instead of one implementation being used

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

2011-10-20 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Roger Light ro...@atchoo.org writes: I think it's more like 100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first because anything after that is different. Nope. Used svk first, then arch, then used bzr extensively for a while, and then learned Git and

Re: RFS: fadecut

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
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Re: RFS: jabber-querybot

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
Le vendredi, 14 octobre 2011 11.40:16, Marco Balmer a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a my new debian package: * Package name: jabber-querybot Hi Marco, and thanks for this new package, indeed probably useful to have in Debian ! Now on for the review: * the

Re: RFS: aspsms-t

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
Le vendredi, 14 octobre 2011 11.31:25, Marco Balmer a écrit : Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for a my new debian package: * Package name: aspsms-t Hi Marco, and thanks for this new package, indeed probably useful (too) to have in Debian ! So here's my review: *

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

2011-10-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 07:34:31AM +0100, Roger Light wrote: I think it's more like 100% of people prefer the DVCS they use first because anything after that is different. False. I started off with Bazaar, used it happily for a couple years, then moved everything to Git because I liked it

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

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Not getting into any war, but it seems 90% of everyone thinks Git is a way better than BZR, and that the 10% that remains are BZR extremists. Since VCS is all about sharing your sources (unless you don't care about others and sees it as only a

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

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: I also think that Bazaar is easy enough to learn for both experienced and inexperienced developers/dvcs users.  I can't think of a single contributor to e.g. GNU Mailman or python-mode.el that has told me they won't contribute just because

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

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Paul Wise wrote: I think people tend not to contribute at all to projects using a VCS they don't like. I still contribute to Python wink. For example I might stop putting off the Mailman stuff I promised to work on (porting the Indymedia patchset to mailman 3) if

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

2011-10-20 Thread Alex Chiang
* Barry Warsaw ba...@python.org: On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Paul Wise wrote: For example I might stop putting off the Mailman stuff I promised to work on (porting the Indymedia patchset to mailman 3) if it wasn't using bzr. That does make me sad. If you contribute in general to open

Re: RFS: fadecut

2011-10-20 Thread Didier Raboud
Le jeudi, 20 octobre 2011 17.30:40, Marco Balmer a écrit : Thanks Didier for checking my package. Make test (testing suite) runs not proper at the moment. I disabled it and re-uploaded the package: http://mentors.debian.net/package/fadecut Thanks; uploaded ! Cheers, OdyX signature.asc

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

2011-10-20 Thread Gergely Nagy
Alex Chiang achi...@canonical.com writes: The lowest common denominator is patch(1). So all you really need to know how to do is use the upstream's tool to obtain the source: git clone bzr branch svn co etc. Even better, at least in Debian's case, there's

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

2011-10-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Oct 20, 2011, at 08:48 AM, Alex Chiang wrote: The lowest common denominator is patch(1). So all you really need to know how to do is use the upstream's tool to obtain the source: git clone bzr branch svn co etc. Then, you can import the source into your favorite

RFS: gnome-pie - visual application launcher for GNOME

2011-10-20 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnome-pie. * Package name: gnome-pie Version : 0.2+gitdfdad95-1 Upstream Author : Simon Schneegans c...@simonschneegans.de * URL : http://gnome-pie.simonschneegans.de/ * License : GPL-3.0+ Section

Re: RFS: gnome-pie - visual application launcher for GNOME

2011-10-20 Thread Andrea Veri
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gnome-pie. * Package name: gnome-pie Version : 0.2+gitdfdad95-1 Upstream Author : Simon Schneegans c...@simonschneegans.de * URL :

Re: Python build dependencies

2011-10-20 Thread Guido van Steen
Sorry for being a bit unclear. Instead of: It is not completely clear to me why get this warning. Why do I do NOT need Python to build the package? Is python needed for debhelper? In that case should python not be included as a build-depend as well? I meant: It is not completely clear to

Re: Python build dependencies

2011-10-20 Thread David Paleino
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:43:35 +0200, Guido van Steen wrote: Dear list, I maintain a package called fizsh. Fizsh only depends on zsh. [..] If I build the package with dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us I get the following warning: dh_pysupport: This program is deprecated, you should

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

2011-10-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org writes: This doesn’t completely disprove your point, though. Truth is, most DVCS are no more different from one another than different imperative programming languages are, and programmers constantly move from a project using a certain language to another

RFS: fizsh (already in Debian, new upstream version 1.0.4)

2011-10-20 Thread Guido van Steen
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package fizsh. * Package name: fizsh Version : 1.0.4-1 Upstream Author : Guido van Steen (myself) * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/ * License : Modified BSD License Section : shells To

watch file when url is raw text not in a link.

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Elliott
Is it possible to write a watch file for a case when the url is raw text in the web page but not in a link, that is, no href? This web page contains the pointer to the file: http://www.openastro.org/?Download which is

Re: RFS: xz-utils (updated package)

2011-10-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Sorry for the delay. Jakub Wilk wrote: Thanks, this is consistent with my understanding. Could you please update the patch header? [... two other nice suggestions snipped ...] I've put up an uploaded package incorporating your suggestions at -

Re: watch file when url is raw text not in a link.

2011-10-20 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Paul Elliott pelli...@blackpatchpanel.com wrote: Is it possible to write a watch file for a case when the url is raw text in the web page but not in a link, that is, no href? This web page contains the pointer to the file: http://www.openastro.org/?Download

RFS: cherrytree (2nd try)

2011-10-20 Thread Vincent Cheng
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package cherrytree. (I haven't gotten a single reply in a week since my first RFS request, so I'm sending this out again.) * Package name: cherrytree Version : 0.23.1-1 Upstream Author : Giuseppe Penone gius...@gmail.com * URL