Re: New contributor to Debian

2014-05-31 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
I second Eric on that. It's good that you have a spark for contributing and I feel genuine sympathy for you as I went down that path too. However, nobody can/want/will choose the area you want to get involved with for you, the thinking and decision should come from you. It helps if you already

Re: Renaming a package and its corresponding debug package

2014-05-31 Thread Ghislain Vaillant
2014-05-30 20:51 GMT+01:00 Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org: * Ghislain Vaillant ghisv...@gmail.com, 2014-05-30, 15:45: Basically, if I install python-fftw3 and call `dpkg -i python-pyfftw.deb`, then dpkg figures out the replacement, uninstall python-fftw3 and configure and install

Re: wxsqlite3 is replaced? how do I find the new functionality?

2014-05-31 Thread Olly Betts
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:45:19AM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: Is there any way the removal of maitreya from testing can be delayed until after the new version of sqlite3 becomes available in unstable? That shouldn't be a concern - the autorm is 4 weeks off, and there are only 3 dependent

Re: Renaming a package and its corresponding debug package

2014-05-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ghislain Vaillant ghisv...@gmail.com, 2014-05-31, 10:16: apt-get install would likely figure the correct order of debs. However, apt-get dist-upgrade won't know how to upgrade the old packages. So you probably need transitional packages: https://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package A

video card for packager who must sometimes run unstable?

2014-05-31 Thread Paul Elliott
This may be the wrong list, but I am not sure what the right list is. When I package, I like to run unstable to see if the packages work. This is becomming difficult because my video interface built into the mother board, is becomming poorly supported, although it used to work well in debian 6.

Re: video card for packager who must sometimes run unstable?

2014-05-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-31 20:35 +0200, Paul Elliott wrote: This may be the wrong list, but I am not sure what the right list is. The debian-user list suggests itself. When I package, I like to run unstable to see if the packages work. This is becomming difficult because my video interface built into

Build-Deps

2014-05-31 Thread Daniel Lintott
Hi Mentors! Does anybody know if there is a way of checking whether the Build-Depends of a package would be able to be satisfied on a particular release e.g wheezy. For example: I take a package from testing to create a backport to wheezy and want to know if Build-Depends can be satisfied

Re: Build-Deps

2014-05-31 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Daniel Lintott (2014-06-01 00:00:03) I've had a look at dose-builddebcheck, but this doesn't seem to have an option for running on a single package. dose-builddebcheck is what you are looking for and it can check a single package by using the --checkonly option. cheers, josch --

Re: Build-Deps

2014-05-31 Thread Daniel Lintott
On 31 May 2014 23:02:49 BST, Johannes Schauer j.scha...@email.de wrote: Hi, Quoting Daniel Lintott (2014-06-01 00:00:03) I've had a look at dose-builddebcheck, but this doesn't seem to have an option for running on a single package. dose-builddebcheck is what you are looking for and it can

Re: Build-Deps

2014-05-31 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Daniel Lintott (2014-06-01 00:15:09) Okay... In fairness I haven't tried that as yet... But the option doesn't appear to mentioned in the manpage [0]. [0]

Bug#749929: RFS: aircrack-ng/1:1.2-0~beta3-1

2014-05-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng_1.2-0~beta3-1.dsc Some comments below. Other comments via private mail. Upstream website SSL is broken because it doesn't send CA certs along with

Bug#749929: RFS: aircrack-ng/1:1.2-0~beta3-1

2014-05-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Some comments below. More: Some bits of airoscript-ng use /usr/local unconditionally. GCC warnings: tkiptun-ng.c: In function 'main': tkiptun-ng.c:4195:11: warning: ignoring return value of 'setuid', declared with attribute warn_unused_result

Bug#749929: RFS: aircrack-ng/1:1.2-0~beta3-1

2014-05-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 9:47 AM, Paul Wise wrote: Some comments below. More: One more - the ieee-data package places the oui files in a different location to where aircrack-ng looks for them. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#750048: RFS: charmap.app/0.3~rc1-1

2014-05-31 Thread Yavor Doganov
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package charmap.app. It builds these binary packages: charmap.app - Character map for GNUstep charmap.app-common - Character map for GNUstep (arch-independent files) To access further information