Bug#663151: RFS: rhinote/0.7.4-2

2012-06-21 Thread Andrea Bolognani
tra to option, but this is not > documented in the changelog. I have updated the changelog to briefly explain the rationale behind the priority bump. The updated package is available from mentors.d.n, if anyone is interested. Thank you for taking a look at it! -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is fu

Bug#663151: RFS: rhinote/0.7.4-2 -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2012-06-17 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ar 08, 2012 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rhinote" > > * Package name: rhinote > Version : 0.7.4-2 >

Bug#673549: RFS: beef/1.0.0-1

2012-06-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
attle (ITP #673550), which is a dependency for Beef. Thank you. On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "beef" > > * Package name: beef > Version : 1.0.0-1 > Upst

Bug#673550: RFS: cattle-1.0/1.0.1-1 [ITP] -- Brainfuck language toolkit

2012-06-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Any takers? On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 05:23:10PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cattle-1.0" > > * Package name: cattle-1.0 > Version : 1.0.1-1 > Upstream Author

Bug#673549: RFS: beef/1.0.0-1 -- flexible Brainfuck interpreter

2012-06-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Any takers? On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "beef" > > * Package name: beef > Version : 1.0.0-1 > Upstream Author : Andrea Bolognani

Bug#663151: RFS: rhinote/0.7.4-2 -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2012-05-29 Thread Andrea Bolognani
would certainly appreciate having in a stable release. Please consider taking a look at the package and sponsoring it. Thank you. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#673550: RFS: cattle-1.0/1.0.1-1 [ITP] -- Brainfuck language toolkit

2012-05-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "cattle-1.0" * Package name: cattle-1.0 Version : 1.0.1-1 Upstream Author : Andrea Bolognani * URL : http://kiyuko.org/softw

Bug#673549: RFS: beef/1.0.0-1

2012-05-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "beef" * Package name: beef Version : 1.0.0-1 Upstream Author : Andrea Bolognani * URL : http://kiyuko.org/software/beef

Bug#663151: RFS: rhinote/0.7.4-2 -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2012-04-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
found them to be okay. Thank you for your time. On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: normal > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rhinote" > > * Packa

Re: Bug#663151: RFS: rhinote/0.7.4-2 -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2012-03-16 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi mentors, just a friendly bump so that you don’t forget the new and greatly improved version of Rhinote is still waiting for a sponsor. Please take a look at the package and consider uploading it. Cheers! On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 10:58:50PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Pack

Bug#663151: RFS: rhinote/0.7.4-2

2012-03-08 Thread Andrea Bolognani
012/01/msg00579.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/02/msg00077.html -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: notify command

2012-02-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
can the following link: > http://www.manpagez.com/man/1/notify/osx-10.7.php According to the very page you linked, that command is a shell built–in that is only available in csh. Try installing csh or tcsh. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signatur

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-02-11 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 12:42:57PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > Patches look good to me, please forward them. > > > > rhinote is not in my areas of interest, so I won't be uploading it, sorry. &

Re: Should I split off arch independant part?

2012-02-09 Thread Andrea Bolognani
e sort, chances are catdoc(1) will do a reasonable job at converting it to plain text. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

gobject-introspection’s .typelib files and Multi-Arch

2012-02-07 Thread Andrea Bolognani
-maint/cattle-1.0.git;a=summary [2] /usr/share/gobject-introspection/policy.txt [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/09/msg00958.html -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-02-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
hes. Thank you once again for that. Any takers? David again, maybe? ;) -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: creating an orig.tar.gz from a CVS

2012-02-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
our snapshot. So, in short: since it depends a lot on what upstream’s habits are, your best bet is simply asking them. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-02-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
l/main/r/rhinote/rhinote_0.7.4-2.dsc -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ion upstream. As I’ve mentioned earlier, I don’t have deep knowledge of Python, but you sure seem to know your way around it. Once again, thank you for your review. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-23 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 08:54:57PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Uploaded, thanks for your contribution to Debian! Whoa, looks like I was right: it really was a quick job for a Debian Member ;) Thank you for the upload! -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collec

Re: RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-23 Thread Andrea Bolognani
. On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:36:12PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "rhinote". > > * Package name: rhinote >Version : 0.7.4-1 >Upstream Author : Marv Boyes > * URL

RFS: rhinote (new upstream version)

2012-01-10 Thread Andrea Bolognani
owing URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/rhinote Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rhinote/rhinote_0.7.4-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. -- Andrea Bolognani Res

Re: Correct value for DEP5’s Format: field?

2012-01-08 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 09:58:25AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrea Bolognani writes: > > > I’m updating a debian/copyright file in DEP5 format, but I’m finding > > myself unable to pick an acceptable value for the Format: field. > > This is a temporary transition

Correct value for DEP5’s Format: field?

2012-01-08 Thread Andrea Bolognani
convince Loggerhead to both consider a specific revision *and* display the whole file. I think the ViewWC URI above is the most sensible choice. Any ideas? -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ts reporting an error. The last example very clearly shows why quoting makes a difference in the UNIX world, and why you can’t just put everything inside double quotes and call it a day. What you probably want to do is to call something like xinit /usr/games/tremulous --quiet -- :1 so that t

Re: RFS: anox

2011-12-09 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 11:30:38AM +0100, Sébastien Bertrand wrote: > > calling > > > > foo "bar x" > > > > is not the same as calling > > > > foo bar x. > > >From the point of view of anoX, these two commands are the same. Fro

Re: ITS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-11 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ch! A fixed package is available, as usual, from mentors.debian.net. Cheers. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ITS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-11 Thread Andrea Bolognani
and handling DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt itself, which is nice. I will talk to upstream about enabling optimization by default. The updated package is up on mentors.debian.net, let me know what you think of it. Cheers. PS: No need to CC me, I’m subscribed to the list. -- Andrea Bolognani Resist

Re: ITS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-10 Thread Andrea Bolognani
should "overrule" the > upstream ones if there are conflicts. Fixing that is left as an > exercise to the reader. ;) Can’t think of a way of doing that without patching the Makefile. But then again, patching the Makefile is no big deal. Thanks for your input, I’ll let you know

RFS: scrotwm (already in Debian)

2011-11-10 Thread Andrea Bolognani
nice day. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?

2011-10-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
uage without too much pain. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: heimdall android flasher

2011-10-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
consider sponsoring something that only does the > non-standard protocol used by Samsung. Why? We already have several tools in the archive to deal with the proprietary iPod protocol, I fail to see how this would be any different. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be ga

Re: Question about menu files

2011-09-23 Thread Andrea Bolognani
ceptable value for the section= field, at least according to the Debian Menu sub–policy (“Packages must be placed in leaf sections”). As for the command to quit wmaker… I really have no idea. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Please try expo.debian.net -- a replacement for mentors.debian.net

2011-07-27 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:08:40PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > Thus neither document too > publically how we do it nor what the exact internal versions are. I don’t think security through obscurity is acceptable on Debian infrastructure. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you w

Re: Git Package Versioning

2011-03-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
on master *after* 1.2.0 has been released, you should use +git; * if upstream is working *towards* 1.2.0, ~git is the one for you. By the way, +git seems safer to me, because upstream might change his mind (remember when GNOME folks thought 2.30 would be 3.0?). -- A

Re: ITR: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-05-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 20 May 2009 17:22:36 +0530 Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > On 09/05/19 22:27 +0200, Andrea Bolognani said ... > > On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:46:46 +0530 > > Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > > > > > - Since spawn_term uses x-terminal-emulator, you would want t

Re: ITR: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-05-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 20 May 2009 15:41:33 +0530 Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > > So we should be done now :) > > Yes we are, and hence uploaded :). Please feel free to contact me directly > for sponsorship of updates to the scrotwm package. Thanks a lot! -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance

Re: ITR: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-05-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
re provided just > > as guideline. > > Thinking a bit more, In this particular case your examples have nothing to do > with scrotwm as such so I think it is OK to leave them unpatched. On a modern system, you would probably want to use acpi instead of apm anyway. > That leaves us with just one TODO, the examples file. Please fix that and > upload a new package to m.d.n and I'll sponsor an upload. So we should be done now :) Thank you for your patience. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpPfin8SAnD5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITR: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-05-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
, I'd like the window manager to be usable right after installation without the need for further configuration. > The package looks neat otherwise, thank you for the good work :) Thank you for taking the time to review it! -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpZf1OWCMcLL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ITR: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-05-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
at the contents from within your browser, the correct URL is [1]; I haven't used this URL in the Vcs-Browser field only because Loggerhead support on bzr.debian.org is marked as experimental. [1] http://bzr.debian.org/loggerhead/collab-maint/scrotwm/trunk/ -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is

Re: RFS: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-05-17 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:48:12 +0200 Andrea Bolognani wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "scrotwm". > > * Package name: scrotwm > Version : 0.9.2 > Upstream Author : Marco Peereeboom > * URL : htt

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 14 May 2009 17:22:06 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one of my > > packages[1] has stopped working. > > > > The fix is a trivial one-

Re: Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 14 May 2009 18:11:38 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > Andrea Bolognani writes: > > > Since the upstream website has been redesigned, the watch file for one > > of my packages[1] has stopped working. > > Which leaves your package with a new bug: a ‘debian/watch’ fil

Upload just to fix a watch file?

2009-05-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
?package=beef -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpHPJ2Ti76QY.pgp Description: PGP signature

RFS: scrotwm - dynamic tiling window manager

2009-04-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
org/debian/scrotwm_0.9.2-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpenJ5oo3P2p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: file not instaled by makefile

2009-03-25 Thread Andrea Bolognani
trick; if you already have a debian/install file, however, you could just drop config-files/* etc/ into it to achieve the same result. -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpc3wWDSxKnm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: file not instaled by makefile

2009-03-25 Thread Andrea Bolognani
on't need to list the files when calling dh_install; otherwise, you have to also list the target directory, for example: dh_install -i config-files/uhjenc.conf etc/ -- Andrea Bolognani Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpvZuTJXaesx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: dagger

2008-07-27 Thread Andrea Bolognani
he short or long description is completely redundant, and as such should be avoided. -- Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpUzXuFbXc1H.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: dagger

2008-07-26 Thread Andrea Bolognani
s around the same amount of information, and doesn't clutter your short or long description. -- Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpvnOIXqRhYw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote [uploaded]

2008-03-25 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:53:51 -0400 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uploaded. Nice work. Thanks. Thank you very much for your support! -- KiyuKo Resistance is futile, you will be garbage collected. pgpBh9LUXMckR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi everybody, Rhinote was sponsored by Kevin Coyner (thanks!), but beef is still in need of an upload. The updated package, which can be obtained with dget http://www.kiyuko.org/debian/beef_0.0.6-2.dsc builds fine in pbuilder and appears to be lintian clean. The long description can be fou

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-11 Thread Andrea Bolognani
er <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:45:24PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote.. > > > So apparently the different md5sum is due to the fact the upstream > > tarball was created from a FAT filesystem, while the one in > > Debian's a

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-06 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:55:32 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 04:45:24PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote.. > > > So apparently the different md5sum is due to the fact the upstream > > tarball was created from a FAT filesystem, while

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:37:11 +0100 Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:57:33 -0500 > Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Your md5sum check between upstream's file and your .orig.tar.gz file > > do not match. This need

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 06:57:33 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your md5sum check between upstream's file and your .orig.tar.gz file > do not match. This needs to be addressed. This is quite strange. I'll check as soon as the upstream site goes back online -- there seems to be some t

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-03-03 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:13:51 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at rhinote again. Looks o.k. except for one small thing in > the debian/changelog ... Fixed. The package is at the usual location. > FYI I haven't looked at beef and don't really have the time right > now, so

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-02-28 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:10:59 -0500 Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick, minor comments on rhinote: > > debian/compat - should be set to 5, not 4 Fixed. > debian/copyright - should be properly formatted. See > http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wyrd.html > for a

Re: RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-02-27 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Pinging again, since a week passed and I got no replies on this one. On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:37:00 +0100 Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi mentors, > > since my usual sponsor is too busy to keep sponsoring me, I'm searching for > someone who can review and

RFS: beef and rhinote (new versions)

2008-02-19 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi mentors, since my usual sponsor is too busy to keep sponsoring me, I'm searching for someone who can review and upload the new versions of my packages. I'd like to find someone interested in sponsoring future uploads, but a one-time sponsorship if fine too. Here are the URLs you can use to gra

Re: RFS: mailscanner (updated package) 3rd try

2007-10-20 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:18:28 +0200 Simon Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with this package, why is no-one willing to sponsor it? > > I will orphan it soon if nobody is willing to upload new versions of > this package. Probably nothing is wrong with your package, but you have to

Re: RFS: gimmix

2007-09-30 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 12:48:36 +0200 Vincent Legout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "gimmix". > > * Package name: gimmix > Version : 0.4.1-1 > Upstream Author : Priyank Gosalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http:/

Re: RFS: A very special package

2007-04-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 01:58:54 +0200 "Pete Figh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Name of the package is popcon-with-popcorn > > licence is 3rd Draft of gplv3 > > It does exactly the same as popularity-contest in unstable, > except that it has an rm -rf / in postinstall. > So one install it, and it w

Re: extra-license-file best pratices

2007-01-26 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:00:47 + (UTC) Sune Vuorela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. Remove the file in debian/rules, *after* installing it > > I would go for 3) > > it is the easiest - and often fiddling around with upstream > (auto)make system is often worth to avoid for such small changes.

extra-license-file best pratices

2007-01-26 Thread Andrea Bolognani
I have a package in the archive (and another one I'm working on) which causes lintian to report the extra-license-file warning because of the COPYING.gz being installed in /usr/share/doc/. The file contains a copy of the GNU GPL, so it's in fact useless. Now, I see three ways I could fix this:

Re: RFS: crotch

2007-01-23 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:22:59 -0300 "Margarita Manterola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Chris! > > On 1/23/07, Chris Amthor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "crotch". > > If you look up the definition of "crotch" > (http://dict.die.net/crotch/), you come up

Re: the one-space Homepage:

2007-01-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:18:22 + Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:18:48 +0200 > Leonard Norrgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One of the reasons people use one space in front of Homepage: is > > probably because the developer reference asks the maintainer to

Re: RFS: serf -- high-performance asynchronous HTTP client library

2006-12-26 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 13:14:54 +0900 (JST) Kobayashi Noritada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "serf". Since this is my > first experience of packaging a library, I'd love to have it reviewed. > The package revision suffix "~pre.2" should be d

Re: binary files in diff

2006-11-08 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 21:01:12 +0100 Frank Gevaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to add a binary file (a png icon) to my package. What is the best > way to do this, since the "normal" .diff generation does not support > this ? If you need this icon for a menu entry, then you should co

Re: RFS: sonata - GTK+ client for the Music Player Daemon

2006-10-21 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:36:15 +0200 Michal Čihař <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sonata". I really hope someone will upload your package soon, it seems a clean and powerful MPD client. Unfortunately I'm not a DD so I cannot sponsor it mys

Rhinote and new Python policy

2006-08-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Dear mentors. I'm in the process of upgrading my package rhinote to the new Python policy, following the instruction found on the Debian Wiki. [1] Unfortunately the resulting package has some problems building: dpkg-gencontrol whines about ${python:Depends} being an unknown substitution variable.

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-05-04 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi mentors! It's been some week since I last sent this RFC/RFS. I guess it's time to send it again :) The package seems to be clean now. Please help this really useful software find his way into the Debian archive! * Package: rhinote Version: 0.7.0 * License: GPL URL: http://greyspace.letze

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-24 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi mentors! Here I am sending this RFC/RFS again. Having corrected all the bugs/wishlist items which came up here on the list, I feel Rhinote is finally ready to be uploaded. Obviously, if someone finds any other problem, I'll be happy to fix it and learn a little more :) Below is the info about

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:46:27 +0200 Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rhinote is designed to be "keyboard friendly", that is, every single action > > is bount to a specific keystroke. >

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi everybody. I fixed all the bugs and "wishlist items" pointed out by the fine folks here on -mentors. If no more problems are encountered, I'll be very happy to find a sponsor for the package. Updated info follows. * Package: rhinote Version: 0.7.0 * License: GPL URL: http://greyspace.let

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:20:21 +0800 Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some comments: [snip] > * any reason why both the png and .ico files are installed? No real reason. I'll install only the PNG icons. > * lintian gives this: > > E: rhinote: menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format > /usr/s

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-18 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:16:29 +0200 Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rhinote is designed to be "keyboard friendly", that is, every single action > > is binded to a specific keystroke. > ^^ > bound > > (I'm not a native English speaker, though) Neither am I :) I'll f

Re: RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-14 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 00:23:11 +0200 Andrea Bolognani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi mentors! I'm sending this RFC/RFS again because nobody answered to the first one. In the meantime, I've fixed the package's Depends in order to have the right version of python installe

RFC/RFS: rhinote -- virtual sticky-notes for your desktop

2006-04-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi mentors! I'm looking for sponsors (and comments) again for my new package. Here we go with the info: * Package: rhinote Version: 0.7.0 * License: GPL URL: http://greyspace.letzebuerg.org/projects.php Upstream author: Marv Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Description: virtual sticky-notes for

Re: lintian warning problem, RFS: gaupol

2006-04-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 23:54:01 +0200 Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > KiyuKo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > My version of lintian (1.23.8) doesn't give any error while checking > > lintian_1.23.16_all.deb, so if you have an up-to-date version of lintian > > it's very likely the bug is in lintia

Re: lintian warning problem, RFS: gaupol

2006-04-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:59:04 +0200 Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does "manpage-has-errors-from-man" warning mean? > After upgrading my lintian from 1.23.15 to 1.23.16 > I'm getting this warning _every_ _time_ I check a package that has a > manpage. > > Is this a lintian bug? Sh

Re: [RFH] Compiling a Gnome app / GTHREAD or XDamage error

2006-03-23 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:15:38 +0100 Laszlo Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a question: is it so poorly known that anyone can search for > package contents? I hope no. -- KiyuKo "Like Russian Rulette with six bullets loaded" pgppPxhk7vo3O.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-12 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:59:17 + Neil McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's all fine, uploaded. I personally have no problem with the use of > the word 'brainfuck' in the package description, when it's an > interpreter for the language 'brainfuck'. It's gonna hit NEW queue > anyway, so if t

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-10 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Here I am again, mentors. I just released a new version of beef, and created a new Debian package. The package is both lintian and linda clean, and builds correctly using pbuilder. * Package: beef Version: 0.0.4 Upstream author: KiyuKo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://www.kiyuko.org/beef/

Re: RFC/RFS: ...

2006-03-07 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:56:16 -0500 Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find "brainf*ck" and "b*tchx" somewhat harsh myself, and so renaming > doesn't bother me. But I think it would f'ing suck if you couldn't > apt-cache search for the package by its real name, so it makes me > happy that

Re: RFC/RFS: ...

2006-03-06 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 23:25:20 +0100 Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could follow the example that already is in the archive. I guess you mean libacme-brainfck-perl. I think there is no need to use such a trick, since the program's name does contain no offending words. -- KiyuKo

Re: RFC/RFS: ...

2006-03-06 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:16:53 + "Thaddeus H. Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a package's name and description are so crude that > decent people avoid naming the package or talking about > it, then I ask that you let the package die. Please do > not package such software for Debian. I'm

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:17:57 -0800 Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps Policy needs an upgrade here... It seems logical to me that > > you must always point to the license which is used. In case of "GPL > > version 2 or later", that is usually understood as "the latest > > version

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-03 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:23:24 -0300 "Margarita Manterola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * E: There's no "ITP". Done. > * W: You are using "compat" with debhelper 4. > * W: The program is licensed under GPL version 2. Will not fix. From the Policy, section 12.5: "Packages distributed unde

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-03 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 13:23:24 -0300 "Margarita Manterola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some comments about beef: > > * E: There's no "ITP". According to [1], you should submit your ITP > and then close the bug in the "Initial Release" line of the changelog. > Please do that. I'll do that. > * W

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:24:48 +0100 Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You really think that thing should be priority optional? I'd say > extra. The policy says Priority: extra is for packages which "are only likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have specialized req

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-02 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Hi again, mentors! I'm sending this to renew my RFC/RFS, and also to notice I moved all the files needed for beef in a new location. The new URLs are: * http://www.kiyuko.org/debian/beef_0.0.3.orig.tar.gz * http://www.kiyuko.org/debian/beef_0.0.3-1.diff.gz * http://www.ki

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 00:11:28 +0100 Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you would upload it while the previous version was in Debian, you would > need a new version. Debian doesn't support uploading a version of a package > which isn't higher than the one currently in the archive. You are r

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-03-01 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 22:04:47 +0100 Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suggest bumping the package version and making a note of > > your changes in debian/changelog when you make a change: the > > tool 'dch -i' from the package source dir will help you do > > this. > > Personally, as long

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-02-28 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:03:06 -0500 Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You included preinst/postinst/prerm/postrm scripts that do nothing. If > they aren't doing anything you should omit them. Removed the useless scripts. Files are at the same place: http://www.kiyuko.org/pool/beef_0.0

Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-02-27 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:49:04 -0500 Mike O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not able to use the above url: > > $ HEAD http://www.kiyuko.org/pool/ > 403 Forbidden > Connection: close > Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:46:34 GMT > Server: Apache/2.0.55 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck interpreter

2006-02-27 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Cheers mentors! I'd like to hear comments about this package, since it's my very first attempt and I probably missed something. I think it would be a shame if etch will be shipped without a BraiFuck interpreter. We must get one in. The package is both lintian and linda clean. You can download th