Re: RFS: lebiniou (new upstream version 3.14)

2012-01-20 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Nicolas, On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 07:54 +0100, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote: On 20/01/2012 01:11, Olivier Girondel wrote: Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package lebiniou. Package name: lebiniou Version : 3.14-1 Upstream Author : Olivier Girondel

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 01/20/2012 06:27 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: GREAT news: I'm ready to upload my first Debian package ! Link: (source + amd64 binary) http://forum.gns3.net/post14018.html = NAME vpcs - A light-weight network virtual pc simulator. DESCRIPTION The VPCS can

RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Jasem Mutlaq
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package libqsi. * Package name: libqsi Version : 6.0.3-1 Upstream Author : Quantum Scientific Imaging * URL : http://www.qsimaging.com * License : BSD Section : libs It builds those binary

RFS: indi-qsi

2012-01-20 Thread Jasem Mutlaq
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package indi-qsi. * Package name: indi-qsi Version : 0.4-1 Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream] * URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site] * License : [fill in] Section :

Re: RFS: suckless-tools 39-1

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Stummvoll
Hi, thanks. Now i just need anybody who uploads it :) Regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f192d08.30...@stummi.org

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:59:14PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: SUMMARY === We plan to ask for the creation of a new pseudo-package debian-mentors or mentors.debian.org [3] (contact: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org) in Debian's bug tracking system (the name is still subject to

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Alexey Eromenko
These are lintian warnings which should be fixed: W: vpcs source: dh-make-template-in-source debian/vpcs.doc-base.EX W: vpcs source: format-3.0-but-debian-changes-patch W: vpcs source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.8.4 (current is 3.9.2) W: vpcs: new-package-should-close-itp-bug W: vpcs:

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: Standard lintian gives me no errors, but only few warnings: ... Why so huge diff ? pabs@chianamo ~ $ cat ~/.lintianrc info=yes display-info=yes display-experimental=yes pedantic=yes show-overrides=yes color=auto -- bye, pabs

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Alexey Eromenko
pabs@chianamo ~ $ cat ~/.lintianrc info=yes display-info=yes display-experimental=yes pedantic=yes show-overrides=yes color=auto I have copied your file, but now I get this: user@xrig:/vm/tmp/vpcs-0.3$ lintian ../vpcs_0.3-1_amd64.deb syntax error in configuration file: info=yes --

RFS: tk-table

2012-01-20 Thread Ole Streicher
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package tk-table. * Package name: tk-table Version : 2.10-1 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Hobbs j...@hobbs.org * URL : http://tktable.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Section : interpreters It builds

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: I have copied your file, but now I get this: user@xrig:/vm/tmp/vpcs-0.3$ lintian ../vpcs_0.3-1_amd64.deb syntax error in configuration file: info=yes I get no such error, hmmm. Also, you should run lintian on the .changes file so that

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 01/20/2012 10:48 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote: pabs@chianamo ~ $ cat ~/.lintianrc info=yes display-info=yes display-experimental=yes pedantic=yes show-overrides=yes color=auto I have copied your file, but now I get this: user@xrig:/vm/tmp/vpcs-0.3$ lintian ../vpcs_0.3-1_amd64.deb

Re: GREAT news: My First Debian Package ! - vpcs

2012-01-20 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 20.01.2012 10:59, schrieb Alex Mestiashvili: It seems to me that your lintian is rather old . IMO it is always better to use lintian from sid . ... or just the one from backports.debian.org Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: lebiniou (new upstream version 3.14)

2012-01-20 Thread Nicolas Bourdaud
Hi all, On 20/01/2012 09:35, Kilian Krause wrote: Hi Nicolas, On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 07:54 +0100, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote: I have not done a full review, but I think your debian/control file miss some Build-Depends like libpulse-dev or zlibg1-dev... I wouldn't see why they should lack -

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org

2012-01-20 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Arno Töll wrote: That's the plan, but again: tracking sponsor requests as bugs, and integrate mentors.debian.net into Debian are unrelated problems. Any proposal can be implemented without

Re: RFR: eegdev

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Hanke
Hi, On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:33:44AM +0100, Nicolas Bourdaud wrote: I would be glad if someone review this package. The packaging looks pretty good. There are a few things that you could take a look at. The comments at the top of debian/rules should go away -- it is no longer a sample rules

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, My apologies, I didn't mean to be rude for not replyng - I only noticed this email of yours just now. Sorry for missing it. On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:56:55 Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: However you failed to clearly articulate the requirements

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org, 2012-01-20, 23:49: But how much time and effort one can afford in order to regenerate single HTML file? Surely it wouldn't cost you more time than arguing about the issue takes. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFR: eegdev

2012-01-20 Thread Nicolas Bourdaud
Hi, On 20/01/2012 13:20, Michael Hanke wrote: The comments at the top of debian/rules should go away -- it is no longer a sample rules file. Done When I build the package on my i386 laptop (up-to-date wheezy) the build hangs in one of the tests until I kill it (reproduced every time):

Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jasem Mutlaq mutla...@ikarustech.com writes: * Package name: libqsi Version : 6.0.3-1 Upstream Author : Quantum Scientific Imaging * URL : http://www.qsimaging.com * License : BSD Section : libs dget -x

Re: RFS: indi-qsi

2012-01-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jasem Mutlaq mutla...@ikarustech.com writes: indi-qsi - INDI QSI CCD Driver. To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/indi-qsi Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: -- To

Re: RFS: tk-table

2012-01-20 Thread Joseph R. Justice
[I am not a DD, a DM, an experienced packager of any sort, or able to provide any review of this package at all. I'm just following the debian-mentors list. -- J] On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package

Re: RFS: indi-qsi

2012-01-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jasem Mutlaq mutla...@ikarustech.com writes: indi-qsi - INDI QSI CCD Driver. dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/indi-qsi/indi-qsi_0.4-1.dsc Please do use dpkg-shlibdps for library dependencies instead of listing them in d/control by hand. The package description is

Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Jasem Mutlaq
There is no license included in the upstream tarball, only a copyright notice and a disclaimer.  Where did you get the information that it is licensed under a BSD license? I contacted the company to get explicit BSD-2 clause in the COPYING file. Awaiting their reply. You do not need to

Re: RFS: tk-table

2012-01-20 Thread Olе Streicher
Joseph R. Justice jayare...@gmail.com writes: I would suggest that a more obvious and natural fit for a maintenance home for this package would be: Debian Tcl/Tk Packagers - mailto:pkg-tcltk-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org QA Page -

Re: RFS: python-x2go

2012-01-20 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Jakub, thanks a lot for taking your time on this!!! On Fr 20 Jan 2012 01:06:47 CET Jakub Wilk wrote: (I don't intend to sponsor this package.) * Mike Gabriel mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, 2012-01-19, 23:41: dget -x

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org (was: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests)

2012-01-20 Thread Justin B Rye
Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 01:07:02AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: Like I've said before, this is not about eliminating ambiguity. Every single word in every single language is ambiguous. It's simply unavoidable. It's about choosing the word with the right context for

Re: RFS: acetoneiso (same upstream, closing 2 debian bugs)

2012-01-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Nick Andrik nick.and...@gmail.com writes: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/acetoneiso/acetoneiso_2.3-2.dsc debian/control: - libqt4-dev ( 4:4.7.0~beta2) | libqtwebkit-dev, + lbqtwebkit4, This should have given you an error when building the package as dpkg-buildpackage checks

Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jasem Mutlaq mutla...@ikarustech.com writes: There seems to be no source for the PDF file in the doc/ directory. Is this recommended or mandatory? Source needs to be present for everything part of Debian. That includes documentation and files that are not shipped in the binary packages.

Re: How to warn the user with debconf

2012-01-20 Thread Stefano Canepa
Il 16/01/2012 00:19, Martin Eberhard Schauer ha scritto: Hi Stefano, in my postinst script I need to warn the user in case the script was unable to remove a non empty directory. How can I do this and have a lintian clean package? I thought to use a debconf note but lintian issues

Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Jasem Mutlaq
Source needs to be present for everything part of Debian.  That includes documentation and files that are not shipped in the binary packages. If you cannot provide the source, you need to repack to upstream tarball and remove the sourceless files. Ok, I got a confirmation from QSI that the

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

2012-01-20 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Alex Mestiashvili a...@biotec.tu-dresden.de, 2012-01-16, 20:16: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc The changelog says debian/control added DM-Upload-Allowed, but 0.4.2-1 had already this field. What do you mean by other architectures (in the

Re: RFS: tk-table

2012-01-20 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:42:52 +0100 Ole Streicher debian-de...@liska.ath.cx wrote: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tk-table/tk-table_2.10-1.dsc Depends: ${tcl:Depends}, ${tk:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} For that to work properly, you have to call

Re: RFS: tk-table

2012-01-20 Thread Olе Streicher
Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by writes: Depends: ${tcl:Depends}, ${tk:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} For that to work properly, you have to call tcltk-depends during package build process. How do I do that? Tcl manpages need to be installed within section 3tcl or 3tk, not 3.

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: For the main archive, the NEW check I think is best thought of as a spot check to ensure maintainers are doing their jobs.  The real responsibility of not uploading non-redistributable

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael van der Kolff
IANAL, etc., but how about getting some legal advice on this? It seems to me it wouldn't be nearly as cut and dried as all that; have you examined whether or not such a scheme could be set up in such a way that makes it a DMCA safe harbour? Cheers, Michael On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Russ

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael van der Kolff mvanderko...@gmail.com writes: IANAL, etc., but how about getting some legal advice on this? It seems to me it wouldn't be nearly as cut and dried as all that; have you examined whether or not such a scheme could be set up in such a way that makes it a DMCA safe

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael van der Kolff
But in setting it up in the US, don't you only have to care about US law? Cheers, Michael On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Michael van der Kolff mvanderko...@gmail.com writes: IANAL, etc., but how about getting some legal advice on this?  It seems to me

RFS: sqlbuddy

2012-01-20 Thread Medhamsh
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package sqlbuddy. * Package name: sqlbuddy Version : 1.3.3-1 Upstream Author : Calvin Lough * URL : http://www.sqlbuddy.com * License : MIT Section : web It builds those binary packages:

Re: RFS: jbigkit

2012-01-20 Thread Michael van der Kolff
OK, I've simplified and renamed the debian revision to 2.0-1 (Yeah, I know, the history went backward...) Is anything else required? Cheers, Michael On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: * Michael van der Kolff mvanderko...@gmail.com, 2012-01-19, 20:19: What

Re: proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael van der Kolff mvanderko...@gmail.com writes: But in setting it up in the US, don't you only have to care about US law? I think that because Debian itself has a legal presence (in the sense of having a bank account and therefore assets that can be confiscated in judgement) in Europe as

Re: Making mentors.debian.net a .org

2012-01-20 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Gilbert michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com writes: This should be a place for contributors to come together to collaborate and make their work better before pestering a DD about it; with minimal experienced intervention (mentoring). I'm confused as to what your referent is. When you say

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:27:08 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org, 2012-01-20, 23:49: But how much time and effort one can afford in order to regenerate single HTML file? Surely it wouldn't cost you more time than arguing about the issue takes. True, especially if you

Re: RFS: git2cl

2012-01-20 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:27:08 Jakub Wilk wrote: * Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org, 2012-01-20, 23:49: But how much time and effort one can afford in order to regenerate single HTML file? Surely it wouldn't cost you more time than arguing about the issue takes. Another argument is that

main-guide: dquilt: completion

2012-01-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: In the section 3 of the main-guide, `set up quilt', the tool dquilt is set up as an alias in ~/.bashrc (to be frank, I avoid `alias' in general): is there a simple way to make dquilt inherits the quilt completion stuff ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Jasem Mutlaq wrote: Ok, I got a confirmation from QSI that the source code for libqsi is proprietary. They grant you the right to distribute source and binary forms of the library, but not to modify the source itself. Can this be added to Debian 'non-free' ?

RFS: gcc-4.5-doc-non-dfsg

2012-01-20 Thread Samuel Bronson
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package gcc-4.5-doc-non-dfsg. It provides the manuals for GCC 4.5, including its many compilers, and paves the way for gcc-4.6-doc-non-dfsg. (Figuring out what this package will do is left as an excercise for the reader.) * Package name:

Re: RFS: libqsi

2012-01-20 Thread Jasem Mutlaq
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Jasem Mutlaq wrote: Ok, I got a confirmation from QSI that the source code for libqsi is proprietary. They grant you the right to distribute source and binary forms of the library, but not to