RFS: couriergrey (3rd)

2012-01-16 Thread Marco Balmer
Dear Gergely, debian-mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package couriergrey. * Package name: couriergrey Version : 0.3.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Matthias Wimmer m...@tthias.eu * URL : http://couriergrey.com * License : GPL-2+ Section :

uscan, dfsg and changelog

2012-01-16 Thread Olе Streicher
Hi, I have a source that needs to be repackaged due to some copyright issues. From the Mentors FAQ, I found that I should name the package foo-1.2.3+dfsg-1. So, I made a repacking script (should it have a predefined name, btw?) like: 8--- #!/bin/sh ver=$2

Re: uscan, dfsg and changelog

2012-01-16 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:12:37 +0100, Olе Streicher wrote: uscan debug: [...] -- Found the following matching hrefs: [...] http://foo.bar.edu/foo/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz Newest version on remote site is 1.2.3, local version is 1.2.3+dfsg = remote site does not even have current version --

Re: uscan, dfsg and changelog

2012-01-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 01/16/2012 02:12 PM, Olе Streicher wrote: When I now run uscan -debug -f (to check the script), I get uscan debug: [...] -- Found the following matching hrefs: [...] http://foo.bar.edu/foo/foo-1.2.3.tar.gz Newest version on remote site is 1.2.3, local version is 1.2.3+dfsg =

Packaging proprietary software

2012-01-16 Thread Ivan Reche
This is my first post in this list and I couldn't find an older post in the archives which answered my questions. I need to package a commercial application for automatic installation in a cluster, as well as not messing up the system. I want it to integrate well with the Debian environment. The

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 01:48:52PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: Hi, before this falls through the cracks I've uploaded the package to get the bug fixed. in theory I'm willing to sponsor an upload (well I did the QA upload of this package a few month ago) but I don't like people setting

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2012-01-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 01/16/2012 03:27 PM, Ivan Reche wrote: The package is just a directory with lots of binaries and it likes to install itself in /opt. Besides that, it needs to set some environment variables (similar to JAVA_HOME and friends). What is the best way to approach this? Do I change the PATH

Re: Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
before this falls through the cracks I've uploaded the package to get the bug fixed. Thank you. I'm sorry, but that was noted in comments. Feel free to drop this control field. Droped. I don't see how I can judge if you're able to handle the package or not. E.g. by looking in QA?

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Sergey, On 16.01.2012 17:28, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: Looks like DM does not make sence at all :( I'm waiting for upload for months just in case of very simple changeset (e.g. for rpaf or php-memcached). You seem to misunderstand the DM

RFS: libpam-abl , bug fix , package is already in Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Dear mentors , could you please sponsor my package libpam-abl which fixes FTBFS bug #655119 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc Thank you , Alex On 05/07/2011 04:59 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: Package name: libpam-abl License : GPL 2

Re: RFS: libpam-abl , bug fix , package is already in Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de, 2012-01-16, 19:21: Dear mentors , could you please sponsor my package libpam-abl which fixes FTBFS bug #655119 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc The changelog says debian/control added

Re: RFS: libpam-abl , bug fix , package is already in Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 01/16/2012 07:38 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de, 2012-01-16, 19:21: Dear mentors , could you please sponsor my package libpam-abl which fixes FTBFS bug #655119 http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc The

How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! How shall software be handled, when it needs - huge modifactions - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones - to be extended by custom scripts or progs when packaging it for debian? Shall the custom / replaced stuff be

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser:    - huge modifactions Get those included upstream.    - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones Make those scripts generic but configurable, send the required changes upstream and drop in a second configuration file overriding the defaults.    - to be extended

How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Björn Esser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. BR, Björn. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Re: RFS: shaarli

2012-01-16 Thread Emilien Klein
2012/1/14 Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org: * Emilien Klein emilien+deb...@klein.st, 2012-01-14, 15:56:  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/shaarli/shaarli_0.0.33beta-1.dsc Shaarli contains the jQuery 1.6.2 minified file, …for which we have no source. This is violation of

RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Stephen Kitt
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package oss-compat. The updated package adds a Multi-Arch declaration (#651335) and handles its configuration file according to policy (#649507, which is RC). The dsc is available at

Re: How mature is Pkg-format 3.0 (git), yet?

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
2012/1/17 Björn Esser: I just wanted to ask how mature Package-format 3.0 (git) became until now. It is not currently accepted by the Debian archive: http://bugs.debian.org/642801 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: shaarli

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Emilien Klein wrote: I've worked with upstream Shaarli to fix the issue with the inclusion of the minified jQuery files. Upstream has released a tarball that uses the jQuery CDN instead of the local minified files (which have been removed from the archive)

Re: Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Sergey B Kirpichev
You seem to misunderstand the DM status. I don't think so, but thank you for explanation. It is not a Debian Developer Lite. It does not mean you, as a DM, are trusted to upload any given package to Debian at any time. It just a meaningless thing for now. See below. If you got DM status

Re: RFS: couriergrey (3rd)

2012-01-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Marco Balmer ma...@balmer.name writes: Dear Gergely, debian-mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package couriergrey. Will have a look this week. Sorry for the delays. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: RFS: libapache2-mod-rpaf

2012-01-16 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Sergey, On 16.01.2012 23:57, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: For example, that was not a very first upload (of mod_rpaf) for me. But next time I should convince new sponsor and so on. That's unfortunate, but this happens. I'm sorry for you, and I

Re: RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Stephen Kitt wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package oss-compat. The updated package adds a Multi-Arch declaration (#651335) and handles its configuration file according to policy (#649507, which is RC). The dsc is available at

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alexey Eromenko
2012/1/16 Björn Esser bjoern.es...@googlemail.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi there! How shall software be handled, when it needs    - huge modifactions Modify original sources in Debian.    - scripts to be replaced by 'debianized' ones    - to be extended by

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: Yes, you should replace inside sources, and call it ~dfsg. In general it should be +dfsg not ~dfsg. ~dfsg/+dfsg should only be added when repacking for DFSG-related reasons, so not in this case. -- bye, pabs

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Ben Finney
Alexey Eromenko al4...@gmail.com writes: Yes, you should replace inside sources, and call it ~dfsg. Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a confusing choice. -- \ “Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that | `\ will not admit of

Re: RFS: oss-compat (RC bug fix)

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Paul Wise wrote: I note that the package is installable on hurd-*. AFAICT Hurd doesn't support sound or Alsa so maybe it should not depend on 'hurd' or should switch to architecture linux-any (or linux-all if that existed)? The kind folks on #debian-hurd

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Alexey Eromenko
Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a confusing choice. VirtualBox src ships with binary *.exe, which are forbidden in Debian. I don't know specific paragraphs of violations. But I'm just a Debian-student, not mentor (@_@) -- -Alexey Eromenko Technologov --

Re: Re-review request/RFS for current packaging of Red Eclipse

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Martin Erik Werner wrote: Hello again, upstream has now released Red Eclipse 1.2 and hence this is partly a RFS, partly a re-review request. ... [1] Is this motivation good enough for not using stand-alone Enet? Hmm, I don't have a good answer for that. [2]

Re: How to handle software which needs huge modification when packaging for Debian

2012-01-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:00:04AM +0200, Alexey Eromenko wrote: Is the source being repackaged for DFSG reasons? If not, ‘~dfsg’ is a confusing choice. VirtualBox src ships with binary *.exe, which are forbidden in Debian. .exe file are fine, as long as they can be rebuilt with free