Re: WNPP Update Package source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2021-10-06 at 13:50 +0900, notebook wrote: > When I asked for the package source back then, I was referred only to > the debian tarball. I.e. I was not aware of anything else existing. The package source and the upstream source are two different things. When creating a fork of an existing

Re: WNPP Update Package source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread notebook
Thank you for the lot of input! (I wish I had it a year ago when I started developing.). Is there is a particular reason you used the Debian tarballs instead of the old upstream CVS repository when creating the new upstream git repository? When I asked for the package source back then, I was

Re: WNPP Update Package source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 7:06 AM notebook wrote: > I'm working on the "Gjiten" package ([1]). It was kind of abandoned and used > Gtk2. > I upgraded it to Gtk3 and did some further development on it (see [2]). > > I'd like to get the new codebase into the debian repos. If I understand > correctly,

Bug#995591: RFS: minidb/2.0.5-2 -- simple SQLite3-based store for Python objects

2021-10-05 Thread Maxime Werlen
Hi, I've deleted the previous superficial test. A new version is on mentors. Thanks for your patience. Regards, Maxime On 5 October 2021 09:40:26 CEST, Jeroen Ploemen wrote: >On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 21:19:28 +0200 >Maxime Werlen wrote: > >> Is it really interresting to keep such basic test ? It

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread notebook
[Geert Stappers] Willing to sponsor gjiten That would be awesomely awesome! My hopes are, that if I get help the first one or two times, I'll get an easier grasp on things and will be able to do it myself in near future. [Matthew Fernandez] the review process [...] surfaced many packaging is

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 08:27:37PM +0900, notebook wrote: > > > > > > As the package is already in Debian, you need to contact its current > > > > > maintainer(s) (though I see you already filed #982343). > > > > > > > > I contacted the current maintainers. They are too busy to do any work > > >

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Matthew Fernandez
> On Oct 5, 2021, at 03:27, Tobias Frost wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:35:34PM +0900, notebook wrote: >> [Me] It looks like becoming a maintainer requires 40+ hours to go through all the "must read" articles and becoming accustomed to every procedure and guideline.

Bug#995761: RFS: xbyak/6.00-1 [ITP] -- JIT assembler for x86(IA32), x64(AMD64, x86-64)

2021-10-05 Thread Andrea Pappacoda
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "xbyak": * Package name: xbyak Version : 6.00-1 Upstream Author : MITSUNARI Shigeo * URL : https://github.com

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread notebook
As the package is already in Debian, you need to contact its current maintainer(s) (though I see you already filed #982343). I contacted the current maintainers. They are too busy to do any work in this regard. Did you get any response? Better question: How were those contact attempts do

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:41:09AM +0200, Tobias Frost wrote: > Hi Chris, > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:25:44PM +0900, notebook wrote: > > Hello Andrey: > > > > Thank you for your reply! > > > > > As the package is already in Debian, you need to contact its current > > > maintainer(s) (though I

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Tobias Frost
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:35:34PM +0900, notebook wrote: > > > > [Me] > > > It looks like becoming a maintainer requires 40+ hours to go through all > > > the "must read" articles and becoming accustomed to every procedure and > > > guideline. > > > [Andrey] > > Actually, even providing a source

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:35:34PM +0900, notebook wrote: > > > > [Me] > > > It looks like becoming a maintainer requires 40+ hours to go through all > > > the "must read" articles and becoming accustomed to every procedure and > > > guideline. > > > [Andrey] > > Actually, even providing a source

Bug#983146: 983146 RFS: bung/3.1.1-1 [ITP] -- backup next generation

2021-10-05 Thread Charles
To all who have contributed to this bug report: Antonio, Bart, Gurkan, Robin and Tobias Thanks for your help and your patience as I have naively struggled to comply with Debian standards. Apart from doc-base I think the package is now fully compliant. No sponsors have come forward. Please

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread notebook
[Me] It looks like becoming a maintainer requires 40+ hours to go through all the "must read" articles and becoming accustomed to every procedure and guideline. [Andrey] Actually, even providing a source package for a one-time upload requires that. Becoming a maintainer requires more, and is

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:20:11PM +0900, notebook wrote: > > [Andrey Rahmatullin:] > > If, on the other hand, you just want > > that the package in Debian uses your updated code, you don't need to (and > > can't) do anything in addition to what you already did. > > Just for future reference: > >

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread notebook
[Andrey Rahmatullin:] If, on the other hand, you just want that the package in Debian uses your updated code, you don't need to (and can't) do anything in addition to what you already did. Just for future reference: "what you did" means (1) Writing here in debian-mentors and hoping for some

Re: Best Location for Vim 8.2 Plugins?

2021-10-05 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2021-09-05 15:19:33 +1000, Jai Flack wrote: > Hello, > > What's the best place to put bundled Vim plugins now that vim82 has a > new package system? From the documentation, /usr/share/vim/vim82/pack/ > is the global directory for such plugins (and I have confirmed it works > correctly) however,

Bug#995591: RFS: minidb/2.0.5-2 -- simple SQLite3-based store for Python objects

2021-10-05 Thread Jeroen Ploemen
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 21:19:28 +0200 Maxime Werlen wrote: > Is it really interresting to keep such basic test ? It doesn't test > anything not already tested by upstream tests. Will it not be > simpler to throw them away ? In that case, doing away with this particular autopkgtest is indeed a valid

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Chris, On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:25:44PM +0900, notebook wrote: > Hello Andrey: > > Thank you for your reply! > > > As the package is already in Debian, you need to contact its current > > maintainer(s) (though I see you already filed #982343). > > I contacted the current maintainers. They

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:25:44PM +0900, notebook wrote: > Hello Andrey: > > Thank you for your reply! > > > As the package is already in Debian, you need to contact its current > > maintainer(s) (though I see you already filed #982343). > > I contacted the current maintainers. They are too bus

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread notebook
Hello Andrey: Thank you for your reply! As the package is already in Debian, you need to contact its current maintainer(s) (though I see you already filed #982343). I contacted the current maintainers. They are too busy to do any work in this regard. So I guess whatever is in place must be r

WNPP Update Package source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread notebook
Hello, I'm working on the "Gjiten" package ([1]). It was kind of abandoned and used Gtk2. I upgraded it to Gtk3 and did some further development on it (see [2]). I'd like to get the new codebase into the debian repos. If I understand correctly, I need a sponsor for that(?) Is there anyone wil

Re: WNPP Update Package source source of gjiten

2021-10-05 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 03:58:16PM +0900, notebook wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm working on the "Gjiten" package* ([1]). It was kind of abandoned and used > Gtk2. > I upgraded it to Gtk3 and did some further development on it (see [2]). > > I'd like to get the new codebase into the debian repos. If