Re: handling of duplicate bts entries

2005-10-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
n version x.y" mail. If you close one, you leave one of the submitters having to poll the BTS to see if it's fixed, or to learn about bug subscription (which, if he managed to submit a duplicate bug report in the first place, is quite unlikely to happen). Cheers, -- Adeodato Si

Re: PGP and GPG keys...

2005-11-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
veral keys for "Daniel Widenfalk", but the e-mail address do not match yours, and they seem standard 1024 bit DSA keys. Perhaps if you post your keyid somebody can take a look and tell you whether it's fine or not? Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó EM: dato (at) the-barrel.org | P

Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

2005-12-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
/Replaces cannot help. If there's a epoch and you remove it, users should somehow be informed that they should force the downgrade by hand. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debi

Re: Bug#342381: qterm - FTBFS: error: unknown escape sequence '\='

2005-12-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
build when all buildds have g++_4.0.2-5 installed. But you may as well proceed: it really seems it builds fine with -4 and the patch applied. (Odd.) Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFX: Gajim, a Jabber client

2006-01-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
Paixao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (http://people.debian.org/~adeodato/tmp/2006-01-12/who-uploads) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org If there is a sin against life, it consists p

Re: relibtoolizing when necessary (was: RFS: knmap -- Kde interface to nmap [uploaded])

2006-01-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
eem to be prone to depend on a plethora > of packages they don't really need for functioning due to the admin/ > subdir as shipped by kdevelop, so relibtoolizing can save a great deal > here. Are these instructions in a form suitable to make them public?

Re: dpatch vs. quilt [was: Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link]

2006-01-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
s around within the > source, and doing so with a pure patch system will result in huge and > fragile diff files (two copies of each file to be moved, which breaks if > upstream changes any of them!). No, in quilt patches are patches, not scripts. :) Why don't you move files

Re: dpatch vs. quilt [was: Re: RFS: proxycheck -- link]

2006-01-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Adeodato Simó [Mon, 30 Jan 2006 04:08:52 +0100]: > With respect to speed, (Er, sorry; this paragraph refers to dpatch, which isn't immediately clear.) > it must be that most people use it in small > trees, -- Adeodato Simó dato at

Re: debug packages?

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
reading of the manpage, this will keep debug symbols, and ship them in the _same_ package. I think what you want is: % echo 5 >debian/compat % dh_strip --dbg-package=foo-dbg HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: Re-libtooling + automake

2006-01-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
t), you should investigate what the right order of the arguments to touch is. For this, running `make -d` and seeing why things are getting regenerated helps. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFS: treeline and treeline-i18n

2006-02-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
nslations themselves, don't they?). This would mean repackaging, though. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Lighthouse Family - Let

Re: More on touch-fu (was Re: Re-libtooling + automake)

2006-02-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Zak B. Elep [Sun, 05 Feb 2006 18:24:14 +0800]: > Hi Adeodato! :) Hi! > On 1/31/06, Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then, if you insist on using touch-fu (I myself prefer it), you should > > investigate what the right order of the arguments to touch i

Re: How to dpatch a file inside a tarball inside an .orig.tar.gz?

2006-02-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
z Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Alejandro Sanz - Cuando nadie me ve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: debian/rules build/build-indep/build-arch

2006-02-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
build-indep: if [ -x /usr/bin/foo ] && [ -x /usr/bin/bar ]; then \ foo; \ bar; \ fi Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org A conclusion is

Re: Doing a proper package split (cream)

2006-03-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
endencies (like "Depends:" instead of "Suggests:") in the > future either there may well be situations where the documentation package > could have another version than the main package. If you care much about this, you could make the Suggests versioned; not t

Re: Package in new queue needs update

2006-03-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
ion number (or is there anything else to do > this)? Bump. You can only use the same one if it's been rejected, afaik. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Any life, no ma

Re: W: A binary links against a library it does not use symbols from

2006-04-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
map soname to package name (a simple regex, I think). I believe Steve Kowalik plans on removing this check. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Acaba de... Acaba de una ve

Re: executable name collision

2006-06-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
tainer to rename. If you don't get to an agreement, you both rename. This procedure is described in the first paragraph of Policy §10.1. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.

Re: Question about linux-wlan-ng-firmware in main

2006-06-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
om the ftpmaster team, the attached patch should be enough to fix RC Bug#368857 HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Amon

Re: [RFS] museek+: file-sharing application for the SoulSeek peer-to-peer network

2006-06-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
ing it without debhelper installed outside the pbuilder. ;-) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusatio

Re: RFC: quilt-el

2006-07-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
table release > 5. something else... Option (3) is the way to go if you think you're know what are doing and others don't disagree. ;-) It can get messy if further bugs are discovered by users, though, but chances are slimmer if the maintainer is a regulgar user of the pac

Re: Procedure for adopting a package?

2006-07-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
s to do the same. > But like I said, I thought there was a process regarding adoption. Confirmed. And thanks for bringing this to our attention in such a polite manner. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFC: quilt-el

2006-07-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
quilt. > at all costs I try to avoid this, because it makes hard to drop > specific patch if upstream accepts the patched feature. Uh? In the case above, you have no problems if upstream accepts either change1 or change2. -- Adeodato Simó da

Re: What to do when a package fails to build on one arch ?

2006-07-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
nce #340871 is fixed. Only, in case they provide a workaround for the bug (eg., "build with -O0 instead of -O2"), you may consider applying it for m68k only. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: pgplot5 binary package

2006-07-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
to file a wishlist bug.) But this is normally for debugging problems, and for uploads, the non-free buildd network, or porter uploads (#1), are preferred. > I have found the pages on porting and using the -B option in > dpkg-buildpackage but then is it OK to just u

Re: s390 build box?

2006-07-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
ly that it's not a *true* staging area, > since I can't promote a package that's byte-for-byte the same. Right, not byte for byte, since an extra changelog entry is needed (*). Who said it was an staging area, anyway? It's an extra distribution, just an incomplete one.

Re: changelog.Debian.gz as a symbolic link

2006-07-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
uld ^ ^ ^ and one depends on the other with (= ${Source-Version}) --| > symlink the /usr/share/doc/libpac-dev to the /usr/share/doc/libpac. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer ad

Re: changelog.Debian.gz as a symbolic link

2006-07-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
y of the changelog > with each binary package isn't large. I should also mention that the main benefit I see from linking the doc directories is not space savings, but making it easier for users to access documentation: whichever directory they enter, it's all there. Cheers, -- Ad

Re: Request for Review: libnmap-parser-perl (Already have a sponsor)

2006-08-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joshua D. Abraham [Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:53:37 -0400]: > he has requested that someone review it first. Out of interest, why? -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org One of my m

Re: RFS: feedparser -- Universal Feed Parser for Python

2006-08-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Carlos Galisteo [Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:32:50 +0200]: > Jonathan McDowell (previous mantainer) (JFTR, Joe Wreschnig.) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org The reasonable man ada

Re: Executing tests during package building?

2006-08-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
SKIP_TEST_CPUS := arm m68k s390 test: ifeq (,$(filter $(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU),$(SKIP_TEST_CPUS))) test else @echo "Slow-cpu arch detected, skipping test" endif -----8<-- Cheers, --

Re: RFS: ed2k-shutdown

2007-04-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
s.sf.net project may add in the future). Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Re: RFS: ed2k-shutdown

2007-04-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
* David Paleino [Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:22:12 +0200]: > Adeodato Simó ha scritto: > > Hi, > Hi, (Please reply to the list.) > > Please create a single source/binary package ed2k-tools that contains > > both ed2k-shutdown and ed2k-hash (and any other utilities that t

Re: RFS: proda

2007-04-25 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Charles Plessy [Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:18:30 +0900]: > About debian/rules: > - The configure rule is mandatory I've never heard such a thing, where does this affirmation come from? Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debia

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

2007-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
nd UIDs can't be removed, only revoked. Unless your key has not been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can't get rid of the comment by any other means than making a new key. If it hasn't been uploaded to a public keyserver, you can remove the UID. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: pdebuild, pycentral and gpg

2007-04-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
I don't know if this means a public server. I don't know what mentors.debian.net does (eg. if they store the key, etc.), but FYI a search for "Gudjonsson" on a couple of public servers does not yield any results matching your name. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: RFS: lastfm (updated package)

2007-05-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
itory: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable > main contrib non-free > - dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lastfm/lastfm_1:1.1.3.0-1.dsc ^^ I've seen stanzas like this in most RFS. Are they autogenerat

Re: RFS: lastfm (updated package)

2007-05-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
unnecessary, since needed directories are created by dh_install. HTH, cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Te has enfadado conmigo / porque te dejo / Es injusto No quieres volver

Re: RFS: lastfm (updated package)

2007-05-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
* John Stamp [Wed, 02 May 2007 08:50:03 -0700]: > When -2 is ready should I upload to mentors and ping you? Or would > you prefer something different? Yeah, pinging me is fine. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Dev

Re: Installation path changes in -dev package

2007-05-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
#x27;re sure all affected maintainers read the list, what you did is ok. If not, custom practice is to CC them, just in case. Good job! -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org - I&#x

Re: Rebuilding the whole archive.

2007-05-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
ckages; only, not in the normal Debian repositories because (I assume) they're not regarded as useful for non-debian.org machines. They're publicly available as well, albeit in a sort of hidden repository. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.o

Re: RFS: pastebinit

2007-05-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
contacting the Ubuntu maintainer about maintaining only one package for both distributions still apply. [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/05/msg00281.html Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es De

Re: RFS: enblend

2007-06-01 Thread Adeodato Simó
Tarrío for confirming that my ideas about this were correct. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. -- Dijkstra

Re: [RFC] Kernel module and dpkg-divert

2007-06-27 Thread Adeodato Simó
kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko ^ ^ ^ You are giving a wrong package name. It should be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@', not fuse-modules. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at

Re: include aoTuV patch

2007-07-07 Thread Adeodato Simó
rsion} substvar to > ${binary:Version} Just for the record, these two were fixed in the Bazaar branch a week ago: http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-xiph/libvorbis > +It also makes the package binNMU'able. This is not true, it already was. ) -- Adeodato Simó

Re: include aoTuV patch

2007-07-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
> http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-xiph/libvorbis > I get a blank page with just a link to the parent package. It's a Bazaar branch, so you have to retrieve it with: % bzr get http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-xiph/libvorbis Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: Change in my sponsorship requirements

2007-07-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
get different revisions as to work easily with them, but there are no lost debian revisions, which would seem undesirable for me. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

Re: Strange problem with upstream sources (needing to repackage?)

2007-07-17 Thread Adeodato Simó
that is not possible. HTH, good luck. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Lhasa - Abro la ventana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: dpatch or quilt? in maintainer guide

2007-07-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
lenny | 515 | 1393 ---|---| sid | 598 | 1505 I believe it's very appropriate to at least mention quilt in the new maintainer guide. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFS: harvestman (updated package)

2007-07-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
ovides a XML implementation, in this case /usr/lib/python2.4/xml/parsers/expat.py. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first plac

Uploaded (Re: RFS: qterm)

2007-08-02 Thread Adeodato Simó
needed debian/docs and debian/menu, and debian/*.ex * update debian/compat to 5 * change " Home Page" in debian/control to " Homepage" It would've been good to mention in debian/changelog the addition of XS-Vcs-Svn to debian/control. No need to modify the changelog

Re: daemon stop and start during upgrade

2007-09-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
your init.d script from some template that advocates returning directly the exit status of start-stop-daemon without --oknodo, that template needs fixing. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeo

Re: RFS: qterm (updated package)

2007-10-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* LI Daobing [Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:36:15 +0800]: > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 1:0.4.0-6 > of my package "qterm". Package looks good, I uploaded it. Sorry for the delay. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dat

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
owed field must be first introduced by a version uploaded by a DD. That is, you'll need 0.99+dfsg-1 sponsored, and then you'll be able to upload regularly. Make sure you use XS-DM-Upload-Allowed in debian/control, and not just DM-Upload-Allowed. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
you're correct. (Hint: you don't sign with UIDs, so dak could not care less about what the primary UID is.) Have a nice day, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org

Re: alpine_0.999999+dfsg-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2007-12-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Asheesh Laroia [Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:07:25 -0800]: > Where is XS-DM-Upload-Allowed documented? I only see DM-Upload-Allowed > documented at http://www.debian.org/vote/2007/vote_003 . If you have a look at #453400 and Policy 5.7, and you should get the picture. :) Cheers, -- Adeodat

Re: RFS: gift-gnutella (updated package)

2008-02-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
Your message is encrypted, please don't send encrypted mail to mailing lists. :-) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tir

Re: How to correctly handle different lib trunks

2008-04-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
a meta-package has been put in place, after determining that there was no ABI breakage on mipsen. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Russian roulette in bash: ((RANDOM%6)) || rm -r

Re: building package with different libs

2008-10-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
-mpich-dev or > libhdf5-openmpi-dev. Is it still possible to build package > meep-mpi-hdf5serial, > meep-mpi-hdf5mpich and meep-mpi-hdf5openmpi at the same time? If the different implementations conflict among them, I don't think you can build all three SL{1,2,3} binary packages f

Re: building package with different libs

2008-10-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
pache2 packages. > However, the build mechanism has to be a bit complicated... Care to ellaborate? I don't think in that case the build-dependencies conflict, OR they are built from the same source package. -- Adeodato Simó dato

Re: RFS: bzr-diffstat

2008-10-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
7;ll find > some time to consider it and make the right decision. I think packaging involves some similar decicions, in particular one should try to avoid packaging crap. As for non Unix-y stuff, it should be up to packages who care, IMHO. :-) Cheers, -- Adeodato Sim

Re: Different suggests/recomends according to architecture

2008-10-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
d pull in type-handling on all !i386 arches. There is no point at all in doing that for Recommends, though: you want psyco just not installed, not random crap pulled in. :-) HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: RFS: fex (2nd attempt)

2008-11-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
so I'd urge you not to let yourself get demotivated because of it. For extra points, you can ask other DDs you already know for their opinion, and work with that. Good luck, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: Question regarding package dependance

2008-11-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
after lenny is > released when such bugs are found? (It makes the package mostly unusable). Is > there a relevant how to? I've looked in maintainer's guide and in developer's > reference but I didn't find anything related. Packages stay in unstable by

Re: Question regarding package dependance

2008-11-08 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Stefanos Harhalakis [Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:51:28 +0200]: > On Saturday 08 November 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > In my opinion, you should just invoke the configure script with the > > paths of all programs as they are found in Debian, eg.: > > % ./configure --wit

Re: GPG Keys

2008-11-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
parts (subkeys) are equally valid than if they'd be done with the main key. It is true that AFAIK you won't be able to put more than key in the Debian keyring, should you become a DD or a DM. HTH, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.

Re: debconf questions

2008-11-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Tscharner [Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:31:42 +0100]: > If I execute the .config file, the expected screen (it's a note) is shown Hm, I thought you're not supposed to use debconf to display notes, and that NEWS.Debian is preferred. -- Adeodato Simó

Re: RFS: libmsn

2008-11-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
bmsn0.1', 'libmsn0.2', etc packages in the near > future. In that case, maybe you should only package the static library until the ABI stabilizes. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeo

Re: RFS: libmsn

2008-11-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Pau Garcia i Quiles [Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:39:45 +0100]: > Should I rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make > tamper-checking more difficult, or not rename the directory in the > .orig.tar and make tamper-checking easier? You should not, dpkg-source copes well enough. -- Adeo

Re: repackaged .orig.tar.gz (was: RFS: libmsn)

2008-11-18 Thread Adeodato Simó
* gregor herrmann [Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:15:07 +0100]: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:01:30 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > > Should I rename the directory in the .orig.tar and make > > > tamper-checking more difficult, or not rename the directory in the > > > .orig.tar a

Re: repackaged .orig.tar.gz (was: RFS: libmsn)

2008-11-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
evel directory, period. No matter if what doesn't match is the version part, the name part, or both. Said that, your source package name should still be "libmsn" even if the binary package is named "libmsn0.1", bacause when you bump the binary package to "lib

Re: RFS: libmetalink

2008-11-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Michal Čihař [Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:56:47 +0100]: > - Vcs-Bzr: lp:libmetalink ... is this standard way of specifying bzr > repositories? It is Launchpad-specific but, alas, the launchpad plugin is included in bzr core, so anybody who does `bzr branch lp:libmetalink`, it will work. -- Ad

Re: RFS: taglib-rusxmms, librcc, librcd

2008-11-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
uren A. Chilingaryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://rusxmms.sourceforge.net/ > * License : GPL > Section : libs Hello ivan. Please remove me from the Uploaders field of this package, I keep receiving mail about uploads to

Re: RFH: How to get latest moc into Lenny (Bug#489804)

2008-12-31 Thread Adeodato Simó
, so you need not mail -release this one time. Thanks, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Listening to: Javier Álvarez - Septiembre -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: RFS: remote-hellanzb-gui

2009-01-03 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Arnaud Fontaine [Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:09:46 +0100]: > You could get rid [...] of debian/docs as cdbs already installs the > files listed. «Explicit is better than implicit.» (Maybe not on -mentors, but surely on -python. ;-) -- Adeodato Simó d

Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
r) as Piotr Ożarowski suggested. So, I get that we have developers that really fancy this scheme. Okay, we have more worrysome differences within Debian. But it would be more okay if these developers would reckon (in their daily doings) that many (?) of us don't agree this should be, by any

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
/usr/lib`, fixed > now", or rather just fix it silently? ^^ In case there were any doubts, with "under that scenario" I meant to imply that such botching of debian/rules had been introduced in the current version, not in an

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Meredith [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:05:11 +]: Hey Martin, > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > * history: I haven't seen this argument fly be in (this and other > > instances of) this discussion, but the answer is that the pro

Re: Bypassing mentors http/ftp area durng sponsorship (was: Re: Introducing spurious revisions ... )

2009-01-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
ken) (This is a bit off-topic on this thread, but pristine-tar is precisely about that: giving you the extra bits needed to ensure that the reconstructed tarball will be bit-by-bit identical to the original one.) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es

Re: What to do if the original tarball contains a debian subdirectory

2009-01-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
, and there are other DDs who think different. Me, I believe having a readable diff.gz is motivation enough as to repack the tarball.) Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer

Re: exception and RFS: unionfs-fuse - fix RC bug

2009-02-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
ed two other changes? Unblocked by Luk. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org I promise you. Once I enter into an exclusive relationship, I sleep with very few people. --

Re: 3.0 Quilt packages

2009-03-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Andreas Hoenen [Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:21:18 +0100]: > This link might be of interest to you: http://bugs.debian.org/457345 > Looks like it will need some more time :-( Take a look again by reloading it in your browser. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó d

Re: 3.0 Quilt packages

2009-03-04 Thread Adeodato Simó
the Date: line in (#60) is somewhat misleading. Raphael's message was initially sent to debian-...@lists.debian.org, and later bounced to the bug report. -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at

Re: best practice for updating inetd.conf with a user-chosen port?

2009-03-11 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Giacomo A. Catenazzi [Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:56:20 +0100]: > how to had new services in /etc/services database? By filing a bug like #353835 (against netbase). -- - Are you sure we're good? - Always. -- Rory and Lorelai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Which package cacher to use?

2009-03-12 Thread Adeodato Simó
I’d recommend approx. > * Is it able to cope with multiple architectures? > * Can it support multiple distributions? Supporting Debian, Ubuntu and > other non-official repositories would be really handy. > * Does it keep a directory hierarchy neatly organized like the Debian > archive? Yes,

Re: debian/control

2009-03-15 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jaromír Mikeš [Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:57:40 +0100]: > Hello, > I am not sure what to fill to "Section" in control file for my new package I > am building. > Program is small easy CLI utility generating sound (pink and white noise) Section: sound sounds appropriate to me. -- - Are you sure we'r

Genericly-named debian.net domains for private use (was Re: Point to semi-official backported packages?)

2009-03-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Paul Wise [Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:35:44 +0900]: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > (And yes, I know about backports.d.n; maybe I'll get 'round to submitting > > or maintaining stuff there at some point, but for the present it is > > a bit easier for me to keep it all in a

Re: override a package dependency (without rebuilding package)

2009-03-28 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Jérémy Lal [Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:52:49 +0100]: > Hi, > is there a way to change a package dependency without rebuilding it ? > For example, gimp2.6 depends on libwebkit-1.0.1, and i want latest > libwebkit-1.0.2 > installed. I don't really care to break that dependency since gimp will work > wit

Re: How to depend on 32bit libs on amd64? (and what to do with ia32-libs)

2009-03-30 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Goswin von Brederlow [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:33:32 +0200]: Hello, [-mentors only Bcc'ed to drop it from the discussion] Executive summary: concerns about ia32-apt-get raised, lesser hack proposed for comments. > before Lenny ftpmaster asked us (ia32-libs maintainers) to do > something about t

Re: "out of date on mips: siege (from 2.66-2)"

2009-04-06 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Tristan Greaves [Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:53:53 +0100]: > Hi all, > Could someone please explain the above Excuse for me? (I understand the > _what_ but not the _why_ in this instance). > https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=siege > My package has successfully built on the other architect

Re: dante: libc6 dependency: can't migrate to testing?

2009-04-10 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Peter Pentchev (Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:27:06 +0300): > Hi, Hello, Peter. > I've been seeing this for the past two weeks: > http://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=dante > libdsocksd0/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: libc6.1.1 (>> 2.9) > libsocksd0/alpha unsatisfiable Depends: libc6.1.1 (>> 2.9) >

Re: Properly obsoleting old subpackages

2009-04-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Mikhail Gusarov (Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:42:06 +0700): > Hi, Hello, Mikhail. > I've got source package (pyinotify) with 3 binary packages built from > it: python-pyinotify, python-pyinotify-dbg and python-pyinotify-doc. > In new upstream release author dropped the binary module (hence there is >

Re: Properly obsoleting old subpackages

2009-04-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Mikhail Gusarov (Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:59:48 +0700): > AS> You should just stop building them, and the old versions will get > AS> removed from the archive semi-automatically. > Ok, I will just drop the -dbg package. Given it depends on > python-pyinotify (= ${binary:Version}), will it be remov

Re: cgal build failure on alpha and hppa

2009-04-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Joachim Reichel (Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:05:21 +0200): > I understand that libgl1-mesa-glx and libglu1-mesa are not available on > hppa in the required versions (>= 7.4). But what is the problem on alpha? That libglu1-mesa 7.4 became available on alpha only very recently, and the buildd machine did

Re: Questions about the changelog file

2009-04-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Laurent Léonard (Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:42:52 +0200): > Hi, Hello, Laurent. Thanks for your interest in writting good changelog entries. It’s an inquietude I’d like to see more often in our maintainers. > Is there a standard or a recommendation for the content of the changelog > file ? As other

Could somebody upload this? TIA. (was RFS: quick-lounge-applet (updated package))

2009-04-22 Thread Adeodato Simó
It’d be great if somebody would take a look into uploading this package, since it’s needed for the gnome-desktop transition. Many thanks in advance! + Diego Fernández Durán (Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:17 +0200): > Dear mentors, > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.12.5-6 > of my packag

Re: Could somebody upload this? TIA. (was RFS: quick-lounge-applet (updated package))

2009-04-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 15:42, Adeodato Simó wrote: > >> It’d be great if somebody would take a look into uploading this package, > >> since it’s needed for the gnome-desktop transition. Many thanks in advance! > >> + Diego Fernández Durán (Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:36:17 +020

Re: Could somebody upload this? TIA. (was RFS: quick-lounge-applet (updated package))

2009-04-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Diego Fernández Durán (Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:28:39 +0200): > About the cowbuilder error, I successfully compiled 2.12.5-6 package with > pdebuild. I don't know exactly what is failing. When you sent your initial RFS, gnome-desktop 2.26 hadn’t been uploaded to unstable yet, that’s why succeeded.

Re: RFS: ripit (updated package)

2009-04-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
Neil, I am writing to let you and the list and all sponsorees who may be reading this thread know that I don’t agree with most of what you’re saying, and that I don’t like the tone in which you are writing your thoughts, and that I think you are a harmful influence regarding these matters in parti

Uploaded (was: RFS: ripit (updated package))

2009-04-26 Thread Adeodato Simó
+ Elimar Riesebieter (Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:04:15 +0200): > Dear mentors, Hello, Elimar. (Elimar is one of our capable ALSA maintainers, by the way.) > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.7.0~beta20090329-1 > of my package "ripit". > It builds these binary packages: > ripit - Te

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