Validating user input with debconf

2015-08-09 Thread Yurkao
Hello mentors I have the following question: I want to validate user input while configuring the package and if user provides incorrect input - reprompt question until valid value is provided. Is it a good practice to do that with debconf? If it is - where should I do this ? In config script? P

Bug#792447: RFS: python-afl/0.2.1-1 -- American Fuzzy Lop fuzzy testing for Python code [ITP]

2015-08-09 Thread Daniel Stender
I've rewritten deb/control and deb/rules to build with two packages, for Py2 and Py3. Fresh mentors upload is available. New buildlog: http://www.danielstender.com/buildlogs/python-afl_0.2.1-1_amd64-20150809-2223.build Thanks, DS -- http://www.danielstender.com/blog/ 4096R/DF5182C8 46CB

Bug#793659: closing 793659

2015-08-09 Thread Afif Elghraoui
close 793659 -- The package was sponsored by Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) and is currently in the NEW queue: https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/ori_0.8.1%2Bds1-1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Bug#780935: marked as done (RFS: bakefile/1.2.5.1-1 [ITP])

2015-08-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 09 Aug 2015 16:26:24 + with message-id and subject line closing RFS: bakefile/1.2.5.1-1 [ITP] has caused the Debian Bug report #780935, regarding RFS: bakefile/1.2.5.1-1 [ITP] to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this

Re: Broken tar invocation in mk-origtargz

2015-08-09 Thread Felix Natter
Joachim Breitner writes: > Hi, hello Andreas, Joachim, mentors, > Am Sonntag, den 09.08.2015, 11:23 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: >> On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:56:41AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> > I’m missing the context of this mail, >> >> context is in the debian-mentors archive[1] >>

Bug#781927: marked as done (RFS: qemuctl/0.3.1-4 [ITA] -- control gui for qemu)

2015-08-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:54:11 + (UTC) with message-id <405245293.1452549.1439117651226.javamail.ya...@mail.yahoo.com> and subject line Re: Bug#781927: RFS: qemuctl/0.3.1-4 [ITA] -- control gui for qemu has caused the Debian Bug report #781927, regarding RFS: qemuctl/0.3.1-4 [ITA]

Re: Broken tar invocation in mk-origtargz (was: Re: uscan and missing files)

2015-08-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 09.08.2015, 11:23 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:56:41AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I’m missing the context of this mail, > > context is in the debian-mentors archive[1] > > > but if it is a work-around for > > the tar bug > > https://bugs.

Re: Broken tar invocation in mk-origtargz (was: Re: uscan and missing files)

2015-08-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Aug 09, 2015 at 09:56:41AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I’m missing the context of this mail, context is in the debian-mentors archive[1] > but if it is a work-around for > the tar bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748244 > then I’d really rather like to see tha

Bug#781927: RFS: qemuctl/0.3.1-4 [ITA] -- control gui for qemu

2015-08-09 Thread Antti Järvinen
Gianfranco Costamagna writes: > 1) there is no need to call the files under debian directory > "qemuctl.manpages" as long as you have only one binary package "manpages" is > good enough. > > (note: I'm not asking to change that) Not changed. > 2) you might find useful to remove the "debia

Re: Broken tar invocation in mk-origtargz (was: Re: uscan and missing files)

2015-08-09 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 09.08.2015, 07:35 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille: > Hi Felix, > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 10:53:39PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > > ... > > What works is this: > > > > $ cat syncterm-1.0.tar | tar --delete syncterm-1.0/3rdp/dist/cryptlib.zip > > > out.tar > > > > --> Would a p