Re: Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-10 Thread Ben Finney
Sven Joachim writes: > Everybody seems to do the directory → symlink conversion a little > differently, but what Colin Watson did in the libpipeline-dev package > seemed most reasonable to me, so I followed his example. Thanks, I will inspect this solution … > Arguably this problem is very comm

Bug#672430: RFS: logisim/2.7.1-1 [ITP] -- graphical tool for designing and simulating logic circuits

2012-05-10 Thread Vincent Cheng
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I'm looking for a sponsor for my package "logisim". * Package name: logisim Version : 2.7.1 Upstream Author : Carl Burch * URL : http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~burch/logisim/ * License : GPL-2+ Programm

Bug#671896: RFS: irssi-plugin-xmpp/0.52-1 [ITA]

2012-05-10 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Hi, This is looking good. Is there any way I can get a signed PGP key from you to verify this package? At least having the key from a keyserver... Thanks, A. -- We have no friends but the mountains. - Kurdish saying pgpxyiJY5YCOU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Processed: fixing severity

2012-05-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 672307 wishlist Bug #672307 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: libkaz/1.21-1 [ITP] please sponsor Kazlib upload Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' > # NEW packages should be wishlist. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me

Re: Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-10 20:06 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > On 10-05-12 01:22, Ben Finney wrote: >> Policy dictates, and ‘dpkg’ obeys, that this change is not respected. >> The result is that the existing directory remains, and is no longer >> populated in the new release. >> >> >> The package installs a du

Strange bug in Qt program after build with gcc 4.7

2012-05-10 Thread Boris Pek
Hi everyone, I have strange problem with my package eiskaltdcpp-qt. When I compile this binary file using gcc 4.6 program works fine. But when I compile it using gcc 4.7 program crashes at launch time. Full backtrace from gdb shows that segmentation fault is in Qt library [1]. Bug was also confi

Bug#672394: RFS: ipset/6.12-1 -- administration tool for kernel IP sets

2012-05-10 Thread Neutron Soutmun
Package: sponsorship-requests Version: RFS: ipset/6.12-1 -- administration tool for kernel IP sets Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "ipset" * Package name: ipset Version : 6.12-1 Upstream Author : Jozsef Kadlecsik * URL : h

Re: Migrating doc directory to a symlink

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Ben and mentors, On 10-05-12 01:22, Ben Finney wrote: > Policy dictates, and ‘dpkg’ obeys, that this change is not respected. > The result is that the existing directory remains, and is no longer > populated in the new release. > > > The package installs a duplicate documentation directory co

Bug#670851: RFS: plotter/2.2-1[ITP]

2012-05-10 Thread Benoît Knecht
Ralf Jung wrote: > > I took a look at your package; here are a few comments: > Thanks a lot for your detailed review! You're welcome! > > - In debian/copyright, you have a license paragraph called "GPL-2" > > that states: "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) > > any lat

Re: RFS: pidgin-privacy-please

2012-05-10 Thread Stefan Ott
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Stefan Ott wrote: > Dear mentors > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Stefan Ott wrote: >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "pidgin-privacy-please". >> >>  * Package name    : pidgin-privacy-please >>  Version         : 0.7.1-1 >>  Upst

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Olе Streicher
Thibaut Paumard writes: > Have you tried debuild -tc? It ought to call debian/rules clean before > unapplying the patches. IMHO, it should be the default. I agree. Since debuild [...] debuild clean is recommended in the docs [1], I would think it is a bug. Cheers Ole [1] http://www.debian.o

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 10/05/12 15:18, Olе Streicher a écrit : > Thibaut Paumard writes: >> Can you not override clean to be a no-op or at least not trigger >> autoreconf if the patches have not been applied? > > Overriding with no-op doesn't help since then my directory is still > cluttered with all the trash from

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Olе Streicher
Thibaut Paumard writes: > Can you not override clean to be a no-op or at least not trigger > autoreconf if the patches have not been applied? Overriding with no-op doesn't help since then my directory is still cluttered with all the trash from the build. To me, this problem sounds like a bug in

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 10/05/12 14:47, Olе Streicher a écrit : > Hi Thibaut, > > Thibaut Paumard writes: >> If you use a patch system, you should use it to do the patching > > OK, so I created a small shell script what creates/updates a file > in debian/patches. > > However, now I have another problem: when I run

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Olе Streicher
Hi Thibaut, Thibaut Paumard writes: > If you use a patch system, you should use it to do the patching OK, so I created a small shell script what creates/updates a file in debian/patches. However, now I have another problem: when I run debuild debuild clean I get an error since "debuild clean

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2012 13:18:42 +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > I have the same problem in another package: here, an executable is going > to be renamed, and therefore also the manpage. Additionally, the manpage > needs a patch. Since the manpage is renamed, unpatching it after build > fails. Not sur

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 10/05/12 13:41, Thibaut Paumard a écrit : > That said, I really don't get why dpkg--after-build does not call > debian/rules clean. It also causes breakages to my packages. I'll > investigate that someday. Hi, self and Ole, Have you seen the -tc option of dpkg-buildpackage? Regards, Thibaut.

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Hi Ole, Le 10/05/12 13:18, Olе Streicher a écrit : > Gergely Nagy writes: >> The patch in debian/patches will be large, possibly complicated and >> whatnot, but you can explain how it is created in debian/README.source, >> and live happily ever after. >> >> There are cases where a bit of ugliness

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Olе Streicher
Gergely Nagy writes: > The patch in debian/patches will be large, possibly complicated and > whatnot, but you can explain how it is created in debian/README.source, > and live happily ever after. > > There are cases where a bit of ugliness is acceptable. This is one such > case. I still do not se

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Gergely Nagy
debian-de...@liska.ath.cx (Olе Streicher) writes: > Dear Mentors, > > For a package [1], I have to patch one file (Makefile.am) twice: once > from debian/patches, and the other times from debian/rules. The patch in > debian/patches is needed to bring allow the use of a standard automake > (upstrea

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Olе Streicher
gregor herrmann writes: > Maybe try to move the second sed call from _clean to _autoreconf > directly after the dh_autoreconf invocation? I've tried this -- this triggers a re-creation of Makefile.in with the original names, which are then errornously used to build the package. Cheers Ole --

Re: (un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:22:46 +0200, Olе Streicher wrote: > 8<- > override_dh_autoreconf: > sed s/libast/libstarlink_ast/g -i Makefile.am > AUTOMAKE="automake --foreign" dh_autoreconf > > override_dh_clean: > sed s/libst

(un)patching patched files

2012-05-10 Thread Olе Streicher
Dear Mentors, For a package [1], I have to patch one file (Makefile.am) twice: once from debian/patches, and the other times from debian/rules. The patch in debian/patches is needed to bring allow the use of a standard automake (upstream uses a patched version), while the patch done from debian/ru