Computing d/control "Provides:" line

2011-11-21 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Dear mentors, I would like to know if there is an easy way to fill in the "Provides: " line in a d/control file ? Here is the situation, one of my package is activiz.net a C# binding to a C++ library VTK. VTK 5.8 was uploaded to unstable today. I need therefore to transition from activiz.net

Re: How to maintain a large symbols file of a C++ library

2011-11-21 Thread Thomas Weber
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:32:22AM +0100, bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Le Tuesday 8 November 2011 23:47:56, Thomas Weber a écrit : > > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:21:16PM +0100, roucaries bastien wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Thomas Weber wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm in the

Re: splitting packages: trouble with overwriting/replacing files during upgrade

2011-11-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* IOhannes m zmoelnig , 2011-11-21, 22:21: i'm currently in the process of splitting a package i'm co-maintaining into several sub-packages. unfortunately i experience some problems with test upgrades, which i would like to solve. the original package "gem" has been split into "gem" and "ge

Re: multiarch and lintian (was: most_5.0.0a-2.1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2011-11-21 Thread Simon Paillard
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 10:54:09PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Simon Paillard , 2011-11-21, 22:29: > >>most: lintian output: 'binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/most > >>/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu', automatically rejected package. > >It seems to me it is a lintian false positive regarding multi

Re: multiarch and lintian (was: most_5.0.0a-2.1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2011-11-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Simon Paillard , 2011-11-21, 22:29: most: lintian output: 'binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/most /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu', automatically rejected package. most: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag. It seems to me it is a lintian false positive regarding multia

Re: multiarch and lintian

2011-11-21 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2011-11-21 22:29, Simon Paillard wrote: > Hi, > Hi, > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:48:12PM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: >> Reject Reasons: >> most: lintian output: 'binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/most >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu', automatically rejected package. >> most: If you hav

Re: Re: RFS: owncloud

2011-11-21 Thread Thomas Müller
Hi Ben, thank you for your response to my RFS. I got our point about the package description - thanks. What about: cloud storage for files, music, contracts, calendars and many more Thanks, Thomas PS: Please CC me - I'm not subscribed to the list - THX -- Thomas Müller E-Ma

multiarch and lintian (was: most_5.0.0a-2.1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

2011-11-21 Thread Simon Paillard
Hi, On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:48:12PM +, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > Reject Reasons: > most: lintian output: 'binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/most > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu', automatically rejected package. > most: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag. It see

splitting packages: trouble with overwriting/replacing files during upgrade

2011-11-21 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, i'm currently in the process of splitting a package i'm co-maintaining into several sub-packages. unfortunately i experience some problems with test upgrades, which i would like to solve. the original package "gem" has been split into "gem

Re: splitting packages: trouble with overwriting/replacing files during upgrade

2011-11-21 Thread IOhannes m zmoelnig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2011-11-21 21:58, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote: > hi all, > > > i'm currently in the process of splitting a package i'm co-maintaining > into several sub-packages. > > unfortunately i experience some problems with test upgrades, which i > would like

RFS: gobiblecreator (attempt 2, after 18 days)

2011-11-21 Thread Teus Benschop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gobiblecreator". * Package name: gobiblecreator Version : 2.4.1-1 Upstream Author : Copyright © 2008-2009 CrossWire Bible Society * URL : http://code.google.co

RFS: bibledit-gtk

2011-11-21 Thread Teus Benschop
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bibledit-gtk". Package "bibledit" has been in Debian for a long time: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome/bibledit Upstream, that is me, changed the name from 'bibledit' to 'bibledit-gtk'. * Package name: bibledit-gtk Version

Re: RFS: php-pecl-http - extended HTTP support for php5

2011-11-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/11/2011 05:53 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my new package "php-pecl-http". > > * Package name: php-pecl-http >Version : 1.7.1+dfsg.1-1 >Upstream Author : Michael Wallner > * URL : http://pecl.php.net/package/pe

Re: RFS: libdancer-session-cookie-perl

2011-11-21 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/19/2011 08:06 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Alex > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 01:03:48PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "libdancer-session-cookie-perl". >> >> * Package name: libdancer-session-cookie-perl >>

Re: RFS: bibtexconv

2011-11-21 Thread Benoît Knecht
Hi Thomas, Thomas Dreibholz wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "bibtexconv". > > * Package name: bibtexconv > Version : 0.8.0 > Upstream Author : Thomas Dreibholz > * URL : http://www.iem.uni-due.de/~dreibh/bibtexconv/index.html > * License : G

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai (updated package)

2011-11-21 Thread Neutron Soutmun
>> All changes are already uploaded to mentors, please review again. > > Uploaded to ftp-master. Thank you so much :) Best regards, Neutron Soutmun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

RFS: celery

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Fladischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "celery". * Package name: celery Version : 2.4.2-1 Upstream Author : Ask Solem * URL : http://celeryproject.org/ * License : BSD Section : py

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai (updated package)

2011-11-21 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: > All changes are already uploaded to mentors, please review again. Uploaded to ftp-master. Cheers, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

RFS: django-celery

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Fladischer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "django-celery". * Package name: django-celery Version : 2.4.2-1 Upstream Author : Ask Solem * URL : http://celeryproject.org/ * License : BSD Sectio

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai (updated package)

2011-11-21 Thread Neutron Soutmun
>> I am looking for a sponsor for new version 1.09-4 >> of my package "xiterm+thai". > > debian/copyright: > - Upstream-Name: is for project name, not maintainer's name. > - Upstream-Contact: should list both name and e-mail address >  for upstream contact. Changed. > - License text for GPL-2, wh

Re: RFS: xiterm+thai (updated package)

2011-11-21 Thread Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Neutron Soutmun wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for new version 1.09-4 > of my package "xiterm+thai". debian/copyright: - Upstream-Name: is for project name, not maintainer's name. - Upstream-Contact: should list both name and e-mail address for upstream co

Re: Running some commands with another uid from debian/rules?

2011-11-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Cédric Boutillier writes: > For this package, I would need to run an instance of postgres server to > be able to run the test suite of the package. Contrary to mysqld, > postgres refuses to be run as root. I tried to use su/sudo but I get > some error when I try to build the package (with git

RFS: xiterm+thai (updated package)

2011-11-21 Thread Neutron Soutmun
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for new version 1.09-4 of my package "xiterm+thai". It builds those binary packages: xiterm+thai - X terminal program with Thai languague support To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.n