Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
Philip Ashmore writes: > I've got several projects in SourceForge and I would like to add the > following to Debian, as they're reasonably mature Are they packaged for Debian now? A package sponsor helps a maintainer by taking their *already-packaged* work and confirming it's done well, then up

Re: RFS: scorched3d (fixes FTBFS #650579)

2011-12-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, "Stephen M. Webb" writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package update for "scorched3d". > This updated fixes a FTBFS and closes RC bug #650579. Your package reverts an earlier change: scorched3d (43.2a.dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=low * Team upload. * Prepare for libjpeg8 trans

Re: RFS: googleearth-package

2011-12-12 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 07:26:08AM +0100, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > If you did not find already another sponsor, I could do that. > > Let me know about it... > > Well, I'll need a sponsors for future versions of this package, so if > you're up to it I could contact you directly when I need this push

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 12/12/11 08:44, Ben Finney wrote: Philip Ashmore writes: I've got several projects in SourceForge and I would like to add the following to Debian, as they're reasonably mature Are they packaged for Debian now? A package sponsor helps a maintainer by taking their *already-packaged* work an

Re: RFS: xgalaga

2011-12-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, "Stephen M. Webb" writes: > I am looking for a sponsor for my update to the package package > "xgalaga". This update fixes a number of lintian and buildd warnings > and closes #641293. I uploaded the package. Please tag it in the team's VCS. Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
Philip Ashmore writes: > Well, it goes a bit further than being packaged for Debian. > > The v3c package includes make scripts that allow you to build Debian > packages via "make debian". A Debian package consists of a source package (able to be built using Debian's build systems into binary pac

Re: Overwriting binary files when building a package

2011-12-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Thomas Weber [111211 22:08]: > my upstream ships documentation in PDF format in the normal sources. > Upon build, I re-create those files[1]. The newly generated PDF files > differ from the originally shipped ones. So, I have a problem asserting > that "debian/rules clean" gives me the same sour

Re: RFS: googleearth-package

2011-12-12 Thread Adnan Hodzic
> Just poke me about that when needed. Awesome, thanks, On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 07:26:08AM +0100, Adnan Hodzic wrote: >> > If you did not find already another sponsor, I could do that. >> > Let me know about it... >> >> Well, I'll

RFS: chordii - ITA #607321

2011-12-12 Thread Malcolm Locke
Dear mentorists, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "chordii". This is a small set of changes to make the package lintian clean and update the standards version. * Package name: chordii Version : 4.3+repack-2 Upstream Author : Johan Vromans * URL : http://w

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 12/12/11 10:03, Ben Finney wrote: Philip Ashmore writes: Well, it goes a bit further than being packaged for Debian. The v3c package includes make scripts that allow you to build Debian packages via "make debian". A Debian package consists of a source package (able to be built using Debia

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Philip On 12.12.2011 13:03, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> Where (which URL) is the source package for the version you want >> sponsored into Debian? That's what needs to be examined and discussed >> here. >> > v3c: http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 08:36:18AM +0100, Sébastien Bertrand wrote: > > From the UNIX point of view, they are not. > > It seems that xinit behave this way, the following commands do not > give the same result : > xinit tremulous -- :1 > xinit tremulous --quiet -- :1 > xinit "tremulous --quiet" --

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Philip Ashmore
I'm editing this in Icedove - sometimes it gets the insert point wrong, so words are joined when they shouldn't be - and not the way I see them. Please bear with me should this happen below. On 12/12/11 12:52, Arno Töll wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Philip On 12.

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Philip, On 12.12.2011 14:26, Philip Ashmore wrote: > That's of course not meeting our quality standard as is. >> What changes do I need to make to the above so that it meets Debians >> quality standards? The standards version is not something s

Package descriptions on mentors.debian.net?

2011-12-12 Thread Robert James Clay
All, Is it possible to correct an incomplete or bad package description for an existing package on mentors.debian.net? Jame RJ Clay j...@rocasa.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Package descriptions on mentors.debian.net?

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Shuler
On 12/12/2011 10:41 AM, Robert James Clay wrote: > Is it possible to correct an incomplete or bad package description > for an existing package on mentors.debian.net? Those are pulled from the package, itself, so just re-upload :-) -- Kind regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Package descriptions on mentors.debian.net?

2011-12-12 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Robert James, On 12.12.2011 17:41, Robert James Clay wrote: > Is it possible to correct an incomplete or bad package description > for an existing package on mentors.debian.net? the description is determined by your binary package. Thus, if

Re: RFS: scorched3d (fixes FTBFS #650579)

2011-12-12 Thread Stephen M. Webb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/2011 04:03 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > The package now depends on gawk, but this does not mean that > /usr/bin/awk will be gawk as it is managed by the alternatives > system. You need to use gawk explicitly if you need it. Actually, the

Re: Package descriptions on mentors.debian.net?

2011-12-12 Thread Robert James Clay
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:05 -0500, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 12/12/2011 10:41 AM, Robert James Clay wrote: > > Is it possible to correct an incomplete or bad package description > > for an existing package on mentors.debian.net? > > Those are pulled from the package, itself, Even those p

Re: Package descriptions on mentors.debian.net?

2011-12-12 Thread Robert James Clay
Arno, On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 12:06 -0500, Arno Töll wrote: > On 12.12.2011 17:41, Robert James Clay wrote: > > Is it possible to correct an incomplete or bad package description > > for an existing package on mentors.debian.net? > > the description is determined by your binary package. Thi

Re: RFS: scorched3d (fixes FTBFS #650579)

2011-12-12 Thread Stephen M. Webb
On 12/12/2011 04:03 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > Your package reverts an earlier change: > > scorched3d (43.2a.dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=low > >* Team upload. >* Prepare for libjpeg8 transition and build-depend on libjpeg-dev instead > of > libjpeg62-dev. > - * Temporarily ov

RFS: nginx backport to Debian Squeeze.

2011-12-12 Thread Cyril Lavier
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "nginx". It's a backport of the package which is available on Debian Testing. * Package name: nginx * Version : 1.1.8-2~bpo60+1 * Section : httpd It builds those binary packages: nginx - small, but very powerful an

Re: Overwriting binary files when building a package

2011-12-12 Thread Thomas Weber
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:25:08PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Thomas Weber [111211 22:08]: > > my upstream ships documentation in PDF format in the normal sources. > > Upon build, I re-create those files[1]. The newly generated PDF files > > differ from the originally shipped ones. So, I h

Re: I'm looking for sponsor(s) to add my SourceForge packages to Debian

2011-12-12 Thread Ben Finney
Philip Ashmore writes: > On 12/12/11 10:03, Ben Finney wrote: > > Philip Ashmore writes: > > > >> Well, it goes a bit further than being packaged for Debian. > >> > >> The v3c package includes make scripts that allow you to build Debian > >> packages via "make debian". > > Where (which URL) is

How to remove an entire directory (and included files) with a quilt patch?

2011-12-12 Thread Emilien Klein
Hi mentors, I maintain the nautilus-image-manipulator package in Debian. N I M contains the source code for poster, which is now packaged in Debian. I thus want to make N I M depend on python-poster, and remove the copy of poster's source code from N I M's Debian package. I have to patch one file

Re: How to remove an entire directory (and included files) with a quilt patch?

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Emilien Klein wrote: > Hi mentors, > > I maintain the nautilus-image-manipulator package in Debian. N I M > contains the source code for poster, which is now packaged in Debian. > I thus want to make N I M depend on python-poster, and remove the copy > of poster's

Re: How to remove an entire directory (and included files) with a quilt patch?

2011-12-12 Thread Emilien Klein
2011/12/12 Paul Tagliamonte : >> What is the correct way to remove an entire directory and it's >> contained files with a quilt patch? > > Why not do that in debian/rules ? So you would patch the one file that needs patching, and remove the whole directory from debian/rules, am I following you rig

Re: How to remove an entire directory (and included files) with a quilt patch?

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Emilien Klein wrote: > 2011/12/12 Paul Tagliamonte : >>> What is the correct way to remove an entire directory and it's >>> contained files with a quilt patch? >> >> Why not do that in debian/rules ? > > So you would patch the one file that needs patching, and remo

isatapd review

2011-12-12 Thread Bernhard Schmidt
Hi, I've updated "my" isatapd package to switch to dh9 and fix an important bug in the ifupdown init scripts, and I'm looking for feedback before I submit a formal RFS. http://mentors.debian.net/package/isatapd http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/isatapd/isatapd_0.9.6-2.dsc Thanks, Ber

Re: RFS: python-github2

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
After talking with Github, it's indeed the case where this package will be deprecated before it's of use to anyone. I'm no longer seeking it's upload. Thanks! Fondly, Paul On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Dear mentors, > > Two notes: > >  - If you think i'd not screw up

Re: RFS: chordii - ITA #607321

2011-12-12 Thread Malcolm Locke
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:16:43AM +1300, Malcolm Locke wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "chordii". This is a small > set of changes to make the package lintian clean and update the > standards version. > > * Package name: chordii >Version : 4.3+repack-2 >Up

Re: How to remove an entire directory (and included files) with a quilt patch?

2011-12-12 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:58:18 +0100 Emilien Klein wrote: > 2011/12/12 Paul Tagliamonte : > >> What is the correct way to remove an entire directory and it's > >> contained files with a quilt patch? > > Why not do that in debian/rules ? > So you would patch the one file that needs patching